Started Fallout 3 - I have questions

1) Ammo is scarce, but that's part of the fun. Eventually, you'll be rolling in ammo. Just save up and scavenge every place you can. It adds up.

2) This is normal. There are some people/creatures who will whip your arse in the beginning if you confront them. You've gotta be strategic when you fight, or when/where you travel for that matter. The more you level, the better you'll be at fighting, but so will the enemies.

3) I always leveled my bartering a good deal and guns (and energy weapons. Comes in handy later). You'll spend hours trading for supplies and bulking up your inventory. Pick about two perks that you don't think you'll use. For example, I never leveled up my melee or unarmed. It allows you to beef up the other areas.

Also, pay attention to which perks you pick. Make sure they benefit you in the long run.

Hope this helps.

Oh how I miss when raiders were exciting to kill and I would be excited when they dropped 25 Caps

Then It moved up to loving getting those sexy power armors from the Enclave soldiers... Then I beat the game

Learn to love the hunting rifle.

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Use the swift learner perk, and the educated perk as early as possible.

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I'm using both of these perks - first two I picked. I feel like I'm getting nowhere though. Running into super mutants on da reg is not very fun right now. I can't fast travel to my next location because I haven't discovered it yet and it sucks. I think I've died 20 times trying to finish this quest.

Also, don't feel like you have to shoot everything. I wasted a lot of ammo early in life until I realized I could holster my weapon and just kick those radroaches/non-fire-breathing ants/other smaller enemies. Or go at them in VATS with a baseball bat. Same effect - dead critter, no ammo waste, little harm to yourself.

There is definitely an early ammo crisis. However, you do eventually get over this unseen "hump" and should be fine after that. There's also a perk you can take that will make more ammo pop up... think it's called Scrounger. Also, seemed to me like there was more ammo available for small guns (basically, all non-energy weapons), so definitely use perks in that category as well.

As far as enemies, yup, you will run across some that will own you for a while. Just the way it is until you get stronger. If you see a giant dinosaur-looking creature on the horizon, do yourself a favor and run like hell away from it. Don't really want to play with Deathclaws for a while. However, tip for them - make yourself a dart gun and cripple the legs.

Now, if anyone has a better tip than "spray and pray" between cover for Super Mutant Overlords, I'll gladly take it. Those guys are a mofo to bring down, don't care what level you are.

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I think I've died 20 times trying to finish this quest.

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Then whatever you do, stay away from Downtown until you rank up some.

Save your mini nukes


Don't visit the mall either until you've leveled

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Ammo scarcity? It seems like I'm running out of ammo a lot.

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Keep playing. The first part of the game you are mostly just trying to make money and buy ammo, later on ammo is no longer a concern, neither is money.

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Enemy levels - as I'm doing a quest, I've ran into a few enemies I can't come close to killing. Do you run into this often?

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Fallout 3 has enemy level at certain areas, for example, a certain area will have level 5 enemies. If you are level 2 there is no way you can get to that area, if you level up to level 7 -you can clear that area out easily. If you are dying a lot at one spot, You aren't leveled up enough to get to those places.

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It feels like there's not enough to level you up early on, but I'm pushing through it. What's some tips on speeding up the leveling?

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Don't rush through it. Take your time, stick with the main missions at first, you'll get there eventually.....and explore as much as you can. The reason I say there's no rush is because you have a level cap at 20. Once you reach level 20, there is no more leveling up. (Unless you have the game of the year edition, it's level 30)

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About 7 hours in, and I really like the karma concept and the open world. Pretty dark and twisted, fits my sense of humor.

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You're barely into it. I put in over 125 hours....I totally agree, most RPGs are dungeons and dragons type games, this one is dark, with zombies, super mutants, nuclear weapons, and killer robots.

And if you plan on putting in lots and lots of time into this game - take the comprehension perk. Skill books give you +2, instead of +1. Doesn't sound like much, but after level 30 those skill books are the only way to add to your skill score.

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I'm using both of these perks - first two I picked. I feel like I'm getting nowhere though. Running into super mutants on da reg is not very fun right now. I can't fast travel to my next location because I haven't discovered it yet and it sucks. I think I've died 20 times trying to finish this quest

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Educated perk is great, swift learner perk is a total waste. I used that perk too when I first played, right after I used it I realized there is a level cap so I went back to an old save and used a different perk.

Try different missions if you keep dying at one.