[Official] Fallout 3 - DLC for 360/PC released!

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Yeah, just buy it in a store, MS paid Bethesda a bit of money to make them use their stuff.

Yeah I'll do that :)

I need to build the rig first tho :p

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The DLC isn't available for the steam version.

http://gamerblips.dailyradar.com/article/b...ease_fallout_3/

Actually, that's just referring to Bethesda not using the DLC system that's built into Steam. You are still able to get the DLC if you bought the game via Steam (which I did, and I have played the DLC). The only issue being that you have to use the "Games for Windows - LIVE" client to purchase and download the additional content. The client should have been automatically installed with one of the game patches. If if wasn't, you can download it from http://gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Live/Page...arketplace.aspx

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Actually, that's just referring to Bethesda not using the DLC system that's built into Steam. You are still able to get the DLC if you bought the game via Steam (which I did, and I have played the DLC). The only issue being that you have to use the "Games for Windows - LIVE" client to purchase and download the additional content. The client should have been automatically installed with one of the game patches. If if wasn't, you can download it from http://gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Live/Page...arketplace.aspx

Oh, right on.

Either way, they'll prolly still release a DVD-ROM version that has the DLC included on the disc at some point in the fall, I'll get it then.

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Broken Steel, the third downloadable episode for the PC and Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3, will raise the game's level cap to 30 and remove the games ending on May 5, Bethesda announced this week.

Broken Steel will sell for 800 points and will include an entire new area outside of Fallout 3's wasteland based on Andrews Air Force Base. The new DLC will also include more weapons, enemies and perks, including one that can bring back your dog when he's killed.

Broken Steel is the third of the three downloadable episodes Bethesda has been talking about for Fallout 3. The new content kicks off at the end of the game, changing away the original title ends and extending it perpetually. Once Broken Steel is downloaded Fallout 3 has no ending, Hines said.

"Broken steel doesn't have an ending," he said. "There are no more endings, we got the message."

The game also slightly tweaks the moments leading up to the ending, adding the ability to send one of several of your companions to complete the final task of the game, instead of doing it yourself.

The new content starts about two weeks after the events of Fallout 3's main quest, opening up in the Capital Wasteland by Project Purity, which is now up and running.

"Broken Steel takes into account what you did in Fallout 3 and what the world is like now," Hines said.

In Broken Steel the battle between the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave still rages and you are tasked with discovering and helping to build a Tesla Canon, a new, more powerful weapon for the Brotherhood.

As with the original Fallout 3 storyline, there are also a number of side quests in Broken Steel, most of which have to do with escorting freshly processed clean water across the wasteland and protecting it from raiders.

"You can get a number of different quests from a scribe, which has nothing to do with the main story," Hines said. "It adds some free-form miscellaneous quests you can do in the game."

The main quest sends you to an old power plat to find the parts for the Tesla Canon.

The new area is packed with new enemies, including a super mutant overlord, a feral ghoul reaver and an Enclave hellfire trooper; new weapons, like the Tesla Canon and a projectile flame thrower; new achievements and even new perks. Hines only detailed one of the perks though, called Puppies! If you pick the Puppies! Perk when Dogmeat dies he gets reincarnated automatically as a puppy, which you can go to certain areas to add back to your group.

The new pack also raises the level cap from 20 to 30 and greatly increases the enemy difficulty level.

"Enemies are a lot tougher," Hines said. "You start seeing new enemies at level 18.

"Advancement from 20 to 30 takes a ton of experience points."

Completing the main quest in Broken Steel will also require a bit of puzzle solving, Hines said. After you've get all of the parts for the new weapon, you take it trough the Presidential Metro Line to pull off an attack on the Enclave base.

One you cear out the Presidential Metro Line you get to make your way to Adams Airforce Base where you will be given new orders, Hines said.

"Adams Air Force Base is a new world space," he said. "You sort of leave the Wastelands and go to Adams Air Force Base, it's a pretty big space."

Hines says that the main quest for Broken Steel is a bit longer than The Pitt downloadable content, coming in at about four to five hours of gameplay, and that it also adds a bunch of sidequests which each take 30 minutes to an hour to complete.

The side quests, he said, have you going all over the world and give you a chance to see how it's changed since the end of the original Fallout 3.

The one thing that Broken Steel won't beef up are the collectibles, Hines said.

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That is really a huge surprise, I figured it would be at least mid-May before we would have seen this!

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Collecting materials for the Tesla Cannon huh, sounds like the "Repairing the Imperial Orrery" plug-in in Oblivion.

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Complete info. on Broken Steel:

Broken Steel will be the third Fallout 3 downloadable content pack, to be released on May 5, 2009 for Xbox 360 and Games for Windows Live.

Story:

Broken Steel alters the ending of the original Fallout 3 to allow continued play after the end of the main quest line. This means that when it is time to go into the reactor at the end of Take it Back!, you can still go in yourself or you can send one of three side characters. However, even if you go yourself, you do not die. Instead, you survive the ordeal and wake up two weeks later at the Citadel.

The new content starts about two weeks after the events of Fallout 3's main quest and begins in the vicinity of Project Purity which is now up and running. The battle between the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave is still ongoing and the player is tasked with helping to build a Tesla Cannon, a new, more powerful weapon for the Brotherhood. Once you have retrieved the necessary parts from an old power plant and the Cannon has been built, you travel to Adams Air Force Base via the Presidential Metro Line where you are given new orders.

It has been announced that the player's action throughout Fallout 3 will be woven into some of the quests in Broken Steel. For example, if the player decides to infect Project Purity with the modified FEV, it will affect how the Capital Wasteland looks as well as the interactions with the inhabitants of Capital Wasteland.

New features:

-The Tesla Cannon

-New Power Armor

-Two Super Mutant Overlords

General:

-Level cap raised to 30

-New encounters

Locations:

-Adams Air Force Base

-Presidential Metro Line

-Olney Powerworks

Perks:

-Nerves of Steel

-Puppies!

Quests:

-Altered main quest line

-New storyline after Take it Back!

-New side and unmarked quests

Armor:

-Enclave Hellfire Power Armor

Weapons:

-Heavy Incinerator

-Tesla Cannon

-Tri-Beam Laser Rifle

Enemies:

-Super Mutant Overlord

-Feral Ghoul Reaver

-Enclave Hellfire Trooper

Characters:

-Margot

-Paladin Tristan

-Scribe Bigsley

Quests and achievements:

On April 19, trueachievements.com released a possible set of achievements for Broken Steel following an update to Fallout 3.

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Other achievements:

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Source: Fallout Wikia, Kotaku, GameZone.

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Thanks for that. I'm not used to this Microsoft distribution system. Apparently I can't just "buy" the game with my credit card directly. First, I have to buy some "Xbox bucks", or whatever they call it, with my credit card, and then use those bucks to buy the game. It sounds like a really round about way to get a game.

Why not just let me buy it like a regular person? It's the kind of thing that would drive a weaker man to steal the game from a torrent site.

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Thanks for that. I'm not used to this Microsoft distribution system. Apparently I can't just "buy" the game with my credit card directly. First, I have to buy some "Xbox bucks", or whatever they call it, with my credit card, and then use those bucks to buy the game. It sounds like a really round about way to get a game.

Why not just let me buy it like a regular person? It's the kind of thing that would drive a weaker man to steal the game from a torrent site.

1) so it's a consistent "price" across all regions

2) so you never actually know how much you've spent

3) so there's always a little left over that you either spend on something else, or leave in Microsoft's coffers.

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Finally played The Pitt. It was enjoyable. However, I still long for a DLC as extensive as Shivering Isles.

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Finally played The Pitt. It was enjoyable. However, I still long for a DLC as extensive as Shivering Isles.

Which we will sadly never see again. They commented on the DLC situation and said The Pitt/Broken Steel is where they would like to continue with in the future (size wise).

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1) so it's a consistent "price" across all regions

2) so you never actually know how much you've spent

3) so there's always a little left over that you either spend on something else, or leave in Microsoft's coffers.

1 is incorrect, the price of mspoints varies by region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_points#Pri...between_regions its a ****ty system and the one of reasons i hardly ever buy things from xbox live

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1 is incorrect, the price of mspoints varies by region http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_points#Pri...between_regions its a ****ty system and the one of reasons i hardly ever buy things from xbox live

I didn't mean it that way, I meant that no matter where you are, it's 800 points, as opposed to $15 in the US, and 10 Euro somewhere else, which may fluctuate as being fair or not weekly.

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But the price does change from region to region.

800 MS FunBux is $8.80 AUD for me, but for somebody in America it's $10 USD (which is $13.70 AUD)

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Is it May 5th yet? Can't wait. I didn't think i would every use Microsoft Funbux until this game came out and i could not resist.

can you tell i am a fan. :D

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I restarted just now and I tried to kill Burke before he killed Simms but I failed :(

Ha ha keep trying. Here I am busy decapitating Deathclaws with Man Opener and Metal Blaster in Old Olney. of course, my trusted bodyguard is always there--Fawkes. :D

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