Fallout 3 Glitches

Hey, y'know, is it just me, or is Fallout 3 a freakin' treasure trove of glitches? Medaf plays it a lot, and I watch him play it from time to time, and I notice a lot of really whacky things going on. To list a few:

• It was sunrise, and when Medaf looked at the horizon, red lights were spewing out of it in all directions. It was like a laser show. Nothing seemed to fix it; whenever he looked in the general direction of the horizon, it was like a red seizure-tastic light show. It didn't go away until after morning.
• Pretty common one: he turn around, and a chunk of the world just... disappears! You move away, and it eventually reforms, but it's pretty bizarre.
• While Radroach hunting, I guess one of his targets just wasn't quite ready to die, because after its HP was all done and gone, it's leg was still dancing around on the floor. Nothing stopped it -- not walking over it, shooting it, cutting it -- nothing!

It's very strange, and these were only the glitches we noticed today. Anyways, ITT, list weird glitches in Fallout 3; they never cease to amuse me and I love hearing about them.

This post has been edited by Mrs. Aforcer on Jul 25 2009, 08:20 PM

I sniped the Megaton guard once and he turned into a giant spider type thingie and was flying above me.

Today I met President Eden. Coolest guy ever. I can't wait to use this FEV.

My guy in game looks like Commisioner Gordon.

Oh yes...another intriguing "glitch"...although I'm not sure if its a glitch or not..

is that you can take both the Lawbringer and Contract Killer perks, allowing you to effectively be rewarded for killing everyone in the wastes.

Oh, God, that reminds me -- on Medaf's games he's found so many levitating enemies. It's very strange -- they're just hovering there and not really doing anything.

He was reading over my shoulder, and said, "Oh yeah, that was a Deathclaw. Oh, and once I was fighting two other Deathclaws and they just... shot up into the air."

Ha ha, oh Fallout.

You think that's wacky? There's so much broken **** in this game it's not funny.
NPCs getting stuck in town worldspaces when the intention was to make them to go somewhere outside the town.

I used to be able to crash the game pretty easily by walking into the enclave radio thing outside megaton, pushing it around.

Well, one time I was wondering the wasteland and it spawned a Super Mutant Behemoth RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME

I was not in the cities either I was a little away from arriving at getting to Megaton.

No I did not just start the game I just beat the game when it happened.

Oh yeah I get the cannonlaunch enemies

It's great when the fall damage just kills them

finding a dead scorpion on a satellite tower balcony is hilarious



Also I get some resolution flashing glitch that I can't really explain

Oh and let's not forget NPCs randomly dying even before you meet them.

Especially in megaton.

I thought they had learned their lesson from big head in SI but such was not the case.

This post has been edited by DJ Elly on Jul 25 2009, 08:28 PM

Deathclaws look like Minotaurs.

ask Meda what he named his guy.

also ask if he looks like anyone famous.


some other good glitches would be the fact that there are wastelander bodies in Vault 87. This does not make sense considering the rads are too high for them to have come from outside and the lamplighters would have shot them before they could even reach the vault.

His guy character's name is "Taylor," and he's just a big buff black guy. He just made a new account, too, and it's a pink-haired Asian woman named Coraline (doesn't look anything like the girl from the movie, though -- in fact, it looks more like an older Stephanie from Lazy Town).

You know Fallout 3 was one of the few games I actually played as a male character when I had the option not to.

Actually I think that's just the game engine loading the world.

well considering it looks like it's based off the oblivion engine and knowing that had a few bugs.

they should test games for bugs more thouroghly.

It IS the same engine and the same developer. Also I'm sure there are mods that fix the glitches as there were in Oblivion, though I played through through the game without jack.

It's just how the Havoks Physics Engine works, similar stuff happens in Oblivion because they both use the same engine.

Lol you have no idea. Oblivion was/is a mess.

I got stuck in rocks quite a few times.


I also once had a dead body start spazzing out and growing super stretchy.

So far I haven't seen any game breaking glitches, so what are you talking about?


And Oblivion is a mess, yeah, but it sure is fun to mess around in it!

I also once had a Death Claw take off into the air like a rocket, straight up. Never came back down.

Charon is an amazing sidekick, he can wear Power Armor which is pretty cool.