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When it arrives on 5th May, Broken Steel will be the third piece of DLC released into the wilds of Bethesda's irradiated Washington. You'd think by this point the development team could have found the time to include that appearance by the mutated cast of the West Wing (chirpily arguing over seatbelt legislation or bludgeoning vagrants with radioactive trinkets) I've been requesting for so long now in the rambling handwritten letters I've sent them daily, but once again they've chosen to look elsewhere for inspiration.
Luckily, even if Bethesda isn't listening to me it has been listening to everyone else. The result is the game's latest care package has at least one feature everybody will be pleased with.
It's always a shame when a good thing comes to an end, particularly when that good thing is a game so stuffed with side-quests and distractions it's inconceivable to reach the conclusion without a few threads left hanging. So when Fallout 3 reached its abrupt finale, banishing the protagonist from its wastelands in a haze of reactor smoke, a lot of players felt miffed.
DLC to the rescue. Broken Steel reverses Bethesda's original decision before the first gunshot's been fired, flinging the doors to the Capital Wasteland open again. The action kicks off two weeks after the end credits originally rolled as you wake up back in the Citadel.
Matthew Perry really likes Fallout, apparently. Could that be any more of a mutant?
Even more promisingly, unlike Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt, the narrative doesn't then send you off on a parallel plot. Nor does it set you rummaging through old simulations in order to find you something to do. Instead it dumps you back into Washington itself, where old rivalries are still brewing and fresh mysteries await.
In some ways the city's changed since you've been away. Project Purity is now up and running, and offering a range of side-quests that see you distributing clean water to the outer reaches of the wastelands.
In other ways it's business as usual; the main storyline zeroes in on the ongoing fight between the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave. Liberty Prime wasn't enough, it appears, and the Brotherhood has a new mission for you: tracking down the pieces needed to build an entirely new weapon. Titled the Tesla Cannon, it's designed to turn the tide once and for all.
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mrmonkey101
21/04/09 @ 15:06
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Havnt got round to playing Fallout 3 yet, am i better to wait for this before i start it?
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YobRenoops
21/04/09 @ 15:09
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Blaine is the truth.
Blaine is the truth. What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck, and that is the truth. Blaine is the truth. You have to watch Blaine all the time, Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth. I'm pretty sure that Blaine is dangerous, and that is the truth. |
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metalangel
21/04/09 @ 15:27
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At long last my game can resume and then, I presume, conclude properly. Based on the achievements, I suspect it involves some kind of communications dish... To call in help from the West Coast, or perhaps from an orbital weapon like the BOMB-001 that was meant to be in the original Fallout 3. And yet the game still assumes I want to help the BoS and not the Enclave.
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Bloodhunter
21/04/09 @ 15:38
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"this will recifty the problems people had with the ending to Fallout 3"
fallout 3 shouldve ended with this but instead i have to pay £7 to finish my game off |
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@Bloodhunter
Fallout 3 could've ended abruptly with a picture of Bethesda shitting on your Nan and you'd still have had more of an experience in that game than you would in most others released over the past five years. Fallout 3 is excellent value for money whichever way you look at it, and this is better DLC for the money than most other developers are providing. Power to them (although a little more money to their bugtesting department wouldn't go amiss). |
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Personally rather liked the fallout 3 ending, as the story was based from birth to death so felt like a good place to end.
Fiqure they should have made the last 5-6 levels a lot harder to achieve, as i can understand people being pissed with it once theyd hit max, as it was too easy to get to that point compared to the old fallouts. |
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kangarootoo
21/04/09 @ 16:17
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"fallout 3 shouldve ended with this but instead i have to pay £7 to finish my game off"
There is always one isn't there. |
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"there's a range of new perks, the only one revealed so far being Puppies, which allows you to collect a fresh (and identical) relative of Dogmeat whenever you're careless enough to let him get killed"
Sorry, what? I couldn't in good conscience continue my save if Dog Meat dies and just pick up another dog. I mean ffs. >:/ I don't even take doggie with me most of the time in case he dies. Seriously, this would have been a good opportunity for Bethesda to release doggie armour for free or as part of the Broken Steel DLC. |
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MisterCraig
21/04/09 @ 17:26
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So already we know it's 'more important' than the pitt and anchorage... yet it costs the same. Why weren't the other two put together? or made cheaper? Were getting up to 20 quid for DLC! Madness!
This last DLC seems to be the most worthwhile, at least. And I second the doggy armour! It was instant reload if dogmeat became dogmeat for me, too. Edit: Maybe a pistol attached to the head would work?
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makeamazing
21/04/09 @ 18:49
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All sounds great, now just need it on a special edition CD for PS3... dont want to get it for PC
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Snakehips76
21/04/09 @ 20:52
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Can't understand the hate in some of these messages.
Fallout has proven (as Oblivion did before, albeit not to the purist taste) that DLC is the way forward. I don't like having to wait until part 3 to get the lvl cap but hey ho life goes on. DLC is here to stay. My sons generation will be amazed that people had to queue for games and that (to me) means advacement and technology. personally I cannot wait for BS - 3rd character from scratch in the total world that was foreseen - I just pray that TES5 is an advancement on FO readily looking forward to 05/05/09 - phsycic holiday planning ftw!! |
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metalangel
21/04/09 @ 21:24
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Instead of puppies, why not have the robodogs from Fallout 2?
"Whirrrrr.... I am... not... a ... daggit" |
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Want, I like the idea of it using a lot of the same locations from the main game. Gives more depth to the original world.
That's why I liked knights of the nine so much in oblivion, almost all of it took place in the main game's maps. I liked shivering Isles too, so hopefully broken steel is the equivalent of knights of the nine and we are yet to see a shivering isles sized bit of dlc for fallout 3? (maybe that's what 'fallout: new vegas' is). |
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jack_klugman
22/04/09 @ 09:04
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Three paragraphs in and you're handing our plot spoilers with no warning? Very professional, Donlan - thanks a bunch. Some of your readers may be interested in downloadable content for a game they're still in the middle of playing, y'know.
I'm genuinely very annoyed about this. Any chance we can get an edit, retraction or warning? |
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metallicorphan
22/04/09 @ 13:00
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@imephisto
just save the game somewhere when you are level 29 good,get your level 30 good,reload start killing people but not too many to get neutral...get your level 30 neutral,reload and kill some more until you are very evil,and go for the level 30 again...then reload and be good for the rest of the game ;) |
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MisterCraig
22/04/09 @ 13:59
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@ jack_klugman
Hey man, I feel your pain even though I've finished the game myself. Particularly because it is such a long game. To be fair though, there isn't really much in the way of spoilers there. I wouldn't panic, you'll still get plenty of compelling stuff out of the story. Even though the ending itself isn't all that great, this will hopefully make a nice change! On another note, I'm not a big fan of the 'reach level X good evil and neutral' achievements either. It all seems slightly lazy to me. Anyway, who out there has bought the last two DLC packs? If you have, how would you honestly rate them? I still have so many areas to look through in the game, but I don't feel the urge to sinse I maxed 20 so early in the game (played on hard mode). Upping the cap to 30 would encourage me to get back out there. |
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