But you can't suck with them. All they require you do to is to actually try.... because for the most part the hard parts have already been done. I never touched these editors before, but from all of the videos up on youtube I can already tell it would only take a few days of tinkering for anyone to GET the editor. Creating meshes/skins and whatnot is another issue..... but as far as editing goes... it's very accessible if only you put the effort to try!

This should solve that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B98bUHDQRXg&feature=related#t=3m45s

Black Mesa

I want the portal gun in this game.

OH MY GOD

MAN, Thank you SO MUCH. This makes things so much easier!

Awesome. Now it's time for me to make some new areas. Got any suggestions?

If you were to say... make a really big dungeon that takes at least 2 hours to go through(taking time to pick up everything) I would be happy.
But really, I just want to play in a massive dungeon because that would be fun.

Also, can't ever have enough hideouts. If you figure out how to make hideouts, you should make a hideout.
I've already got three extra hideouts installed. Loves me them hideouts.
Hideout.

I'm actually trying to work with the geck, but I am slow and learning it is slow for me.

What plugins are good for this? I'm installing it now!

http://www.fallout3nexus.com/
Just go there. They got some good stuff there.
I mean, I haven't seen anything amazing but just stick to the mods and what have you that have high ratings and lots of comments.

Also, it appears that the first DLC for fallout 3 has recently come out. Operation Alaska or summat. It looks pretty cool. You have to have a Windows Live account though.

Edit:
Actually... http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=43 It fixes some User Interface stuff. It works good if you have a higher resolution and want to fit more on the screen.

There is no resolution option in this game? lol.

EDIT: nvm, I had to open it through start not steam

Is there any talk of Fallout 1 or 2 being made with the Fallout 3 engine??  That would be pimptastic.

Lots.

I got suckered into buying Operation Anchorage, I was pretty unimpressed. I enjoyed Fallout 3 quite a bit too, but this was a big disappointment. The gear you get at the end is nice (a stealth suit and a lot of other stuff) but the new content itself was tremendously mediocre. For one, the performance on the 360 was pathetic, it was regularly chugging at like 10 FPS. That and Fallout 3 is a really shitty FPS game, when you take it ONLY as an FPS game. And for some bizarre reason, Bethesda designed the entire Alaska simulation to play like an FPS. There is no exploration/roleplay stuff whatsoever, it's completely linear (as in ONE NARROW PATH the entire time), and you can't even rummage through crates and shit. Health is dispensed via machines that are scattered around the levels, and you can only interact with a very small number of predetermined setpieces. Enemies disappear when you kill them because it's a "simulation", which also means you don't take any of your own gear in with you.

Basically, it's a very craptacular 2 hour FPS game with VATS. Better than HORSE ARMOUR I guess, but shitty nonetheless.

Oh yeah, and the BUGS. I don't think it was playtested very well!! If you play it on the 360, you better complete "you gotta shoot them in the head" before you collect your rewards at the end of Operation: Anchorage, because if you don't, the quest automatically completes out of nowhere. There's a suit of Winterized Power Armour I think that triggers it, like if you pick it up at the end of the DLC questline, then the other quest is marked complete too, at whatever stage in the questline you were in. Also the elevator down to the military base where the simulation is located CONSTANTLY bugs out and traps you. Like it teleports you into the elevator room but then the elevator just doesn't move and the doors won't open. Usually you can hit the switch and it will send the elevator back to the surface, but it COMPLETELY bugged on me once and trapped me, so I had to reload. The AI totally sucks too, you ally units that you can "command" but it only entails telling them to GO TO POINT A at which point you lose control of them and they act on their own (re: badly).

Lots.

Anything official? Or is it all talk from the mod community (because that stuff never pans out).

Also, Rowain, those kinds of bugs are all too common. The worst instance for me was doing both sides of Paradise Falls before doing Tenpenny Tower. I wanted to use the speech option to have everyone live/ convinced that the Ghouls can move in with them, but one of the people you have to enslave is part of this quest too. If you enslave them their dialogue will only reflect that for the rest of the game, locking you out of everything else. Even when you rescue them and they are thankful... all they will say is "Oh.. my.. god... thank you" and that's it. The only way to finish the quest now was to help the Ghouls raid the tower killing everyone inside, or to kill the ghouls off yourself.

As for Anchorage, I was excited at first until I realized it was a simulation. The stuff you do won't carry over and it doesn't effect the storyline or npc interactions at all (except for bugging that sniper/ fort constantine quest apparently). The screenshots looked cool at first (and by that I mean different and new since it wasn't post apocalyptia brown any more) but after seeing ingame videos the only difference I saw where some screen filters and lighting effects that tinted the world blue and that was a huge turnoff.

I had a problem with "you got to shoot them in the head". I talked to Mr. Tenpenny for part of the quest or something and chose the dialogue choice for the quest, but then nothing happened afterward. I didn't get what he promised he would give me, and everytime I talked to him afterward the exact same choices were there. I haven;t even bothered looking up Fallout 3 mods, but I would totally download a Fallout1/2 mod for it.

Normally you could pickpocket the items if you started the quest already. Although I had no problems with the mooch in Riven City or Dave, I had problems getting the key from that [Russian?, ][/Russian?,] guy. Afaik those are the only items you need in order to get the suit from Fort Constantine and finish the quest.

I didn't buy Operation Anchorage, but I did play it. What was Bethesda thinking when they made this? Fallout 3 is not an FPS only game, and you CLEARLY see the difference when you play Operation Anchorage. It felt so linear, and the last scene is so dumb. Bethesda cannot make dramatic scenes at all, it's impossible for them.

In short, Operation Anchorage consists of:
No looting
Health dispensers around every corner to heal you
Being unable to bring your awesome weapons into the simulation with you
Very bad cutscenes
You can recruit soldiers but it feels really lazy and poor (they do nothing so what's the point)
Good loot at the end

I gave the Winterized Power Armor to Charon, since I didn't want it to lose quality. And the DLC ran fine on my PC as far as performance goes. I dunno if anybody noticed, but did you guys see the floating trees when you started the simulation? If you look far into the distance, there are hundreds of trees suspended in the air. It felt really cheap when I noticed that, but it could have been a bug.

They also pushed the release of the next DLC back to March. I guess it wasn't ready yet.

It helps to change your HUD and UI to blue to offset it.