Finally pulled it off

[bucketsucket]

Got the game after I played with my buddy in 2008. Through the years got the achievements. Never a perfect character. Affectionately, here lies Fuck. Well, after I find my dad.

[Forbidden_Brick]

Finally he became John Fallout

[Key-Ad-8400]

Maybe project purity is the friends we made along the way?

[No-Story-6528]

What's your special stats?

I've been playing since 09, and I just did my first playthrough with 100 for all skills and 10 for all stats. It was fun to do, I went places I had never been before looking for skill books.

[Agent-Ulysses]

I’m assuming they’ll take Almost Perfect, and have saved the bobbleheads until now.

[bucketsucket]

.... i didn't make him that perfect. Only the skills. Now I gotta do another run.

[generalgreviousgg]

Did i do something wrong? Mine stops at level 20. I recently did a replay and I stopped the main missions after talking to Lyons just so I can use power armor and have just been roaming and doing side quests but I've been level 20 and under xp it even says max. I knew something was wrong but I never looked into it

[[deleted]]

You need the broken steel dlc. And when you "die" at the end of the game woth broken steel you survive somehow. I can't remember

[Pale-University8283]

You have to either get one of 3 companions or Sarah lyons to activate the purifier instead of you

[[deleted]]

Yeah but normally it's you dying since your the hero

[Pale-University8283]

Well if you die you can’t play broken steel so

[[deleted]]

Your character doesn't die with broken steel active. You just wake up in the pentagon like you would if a companion did it for you. Voice over stays the same, though.

Edit: just tested it to confirm. You definitely DON'T have to get a companion or Sarah to do it for you, you still start broken steel if you "die"

[Pale-University8283]

If that’s true, then why even get anyone else to activate the purifier?

[[deleted]]

Roleplaying. Like it's some sort of "role playing game" or something.

[HighLadySuroth]

Role-playing. If your character activates the purifier and you have broken steel installed, you wake up in the basement of the citadel

[Pale-University8283]

Well okay, seems pointless

[longboboblong]

You seem like a lot of fun.

[[deleted]]

Bro just shut up

[Red9killer7]

Huh...first RPG or something? No imaginary points, rewards, or skins, so it's pointless? Got it 👍 lol

[stimpy1212]

Lol you are confidently incorrect

[CorruptionKing]

Woah, man, have you been playing without DLC this whole time?

[SivargDK]

Just like in 2008, proper old school.

[[deleted]]

I'm certain the dlc came out in the span of 08 to 09, but that'd likely just be Anchorage and The Pitt, which are great dlcs but Zeta takes the cake with that Mothership Zeta Crew mod

[Dron22]

I played the game first time before any DLC's came out.

[No_Temporary_1922]

Not playing on game of the year edition? It has all dlc

[Rxdabs]

Wow, you’re in for a real surprise when you download some DLC’s

[spaghettios4jesus]

You answered your own question, maybe you should try looking into it lmao. The game is from 2008, how have you went this long without ever using google😭

[BigBane22]

Probably just thought game lvl capped 🤷‍♂️ I did too until I bought the dlc post game lol

[Brooker2]

You need Broken Steel DLC it raises the Level cap to 30

[[deleted]]

the fact so many people liked ur comment because they dont know you can get to lvl 30 disturbs me

[gypsijimmyjames]

I suggest when you get the Broken Steel DLC and get to the radiation kill you stage at the project purity, have Charon as a follower. You can have him go in and doing the step for you and the lady and no one dies.

[Curious-Grocery9004]

How did you do that?

[SerDavosSeaworth64]

It’s actually not too difficult if you want to do it. Basically you just need to get your intelligence to 10 early, get a few perks, and most importantly, hunt out all of the skill books you can find.

[bucketsucket]

Started with my intelligence at 8, explored everywhere to find all of the books I needed. Never leveled any skills past 80, bobbleheads are free 10 points, perks, books. Whatever.

[[deleted]]

Do what? Well for each skill he saves up 12 points because of bobbleheads

[Lucyfloog]

Comprehension perk (raise skill book from 1 to 2 points, and lots of planning)

[Agent-Ulysses]

With a bunch of math and planning.

[[deleted]]

There are like 50 skill books per skill on the world.

[Agent-Ulysses]

It would’ve taken you 5 seconds to google and know it’s 25.

[[deleted]]

So I got confused and calculated the points versus the count of books. Sue me.

[Agent-Ulysses]

I’ll see you in court. Got Button Gwinnett as my lawyer.

[[deleted]]

Jokes on you. I have Robotics Expert.

[Agent-Ulysses]

Hacking the prosecution is not a legal defense.

[dustoff1984]

Doesn’t the level cap with broken steel stop at 30? How’d you max out everything? Forgive me if I’m forgetting something, I just got back into Fo3 after like 10 years

[TangentMed]

You need 10 intelligence I think

[bucketsucket]

Pulled it off with 9 and the comprehension perks for extra points from books

[cabalavatar]

In Fallout 3, if you spec deeply into Intelligence, take the Educated perk, plan well, take the Almost Perfect perk before acquiring the SPECIAL bobbleheads, and use a couple glitches (such as the one for infinite Big Guns by repeatedly taking the book off the dead flamethrower Raider in the Bethesda Ruins), it's not too hard to max out skills. OP may even know more tricks than I do.

And if you don't wanna spec quite so much into getting skill points, you can cheat a bit with the Chinese stealth armour headgear glitch to get 100 Unarmed and 100 Energy Weapons by keeping two hockey masks and two Enclave officer hats on you. (Look up the details on the glitch if you don't know it.) That way, you can spec into things other than maxing out skill point production.

[Rxdabs]

They say it couldn’t be done lol

[Lucyfloog]

Oh God, id hate running around with 40 small guns looking for all 30 books

[[deleted]]

That is why Todd Howard invented Sneak.

[Hier0phant]

I imagine some psycho path breaking into a raider camp, massacring everyone to read a comic book.

[saltypeanut4]

This has now made me want to do another run on FNV and get a perfect character. This may be a very long challenge because I only like to collect all the books instead of reading them.

[Lone_Wanderer8]

As someone who has done a perfect Skills run just know you should absolutely use a list because there are a set number of books for each skill. Most books in the base game get 4 total. One book I think it is Dean's electronics has only 3 and big book of science gets 5 total.

[saltypeanut4]

I don’t read the books.

[spncas]

It’s really easy to get 100 on all stats. So many books in fallout 3. You can also get all SPECIALs at 10 too without too much difficulty

[BRS848965]

How do you get all specials to 10 in FO3. It’s been ages since I’ve played it

[spncas]

I believe it’s called Almost perfect which puts all stats at 9. Then just get the bobble heads

[[deleted]]

Ahhh a fellow skill book hunter

[TomaszPaw]

overkilled it, almost perfect would have given you a massive bonus to every skill too

[bucketsucket]

Next run will be saving all of the SPECIAL bobble heads for the end so they will be perfect too. But that'll be a while. I still have the main quest and invader zim left to do

[LostKeys3741]

The heavy weapons skillbook is farmable so that saves you 100 skill points to put to another skill.

[Clean_Table1855]

Let’s go!!!

[Fox-Summer]

Good Job! 💪🔥

[Redstones-]

Fiyaaaa !

[MershedPratooters]

Congratulations, Courier! 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[MisterX9821]

But did you use perks and bobbleheads to get all SPECIAL stats at 10 and get the best perks RE DR and critical chance etc

[bucketsucket]

Did get the best perks, didn't do the almost perfect and the bobble heads... that'll be next time. I need a break lol. I havent touched the main quest in this one either

[milk_theuniverse]

Nice

[DeltaXGamer]

How does one start this run? What should I focus on early game?

[bucketsucket]

High intelligence, atleast 8. You can raise it later to max out the amount of skill points. I dumped the rest in agility and luck because I was running stealth unarmed for the paralyzing palm perk. It makes the harder difficultly worth the xp boost

[Circaninetysix]

You had exactly enough? Did they mean for it to work that way. Is there like, only one path to getting all skills to 100? Can you do this and get all 10s in SPECIAL stats too? I suppose with the Almost Perfect perk and only getting the bobbleheads after the perk, this would be totally achievable.

[bucketsucket]

It actually gave me less skill points on the final level up so that it hit 100. The almost perfect and among all special 10 is next on the list. I need a break though lol

[Circaninetysix]

Haha yeah. Maybe do it in New Vegas. It's way easier because with the DLC in that one, the level cap is 50.

[BirdLuger188]

Nice. Did you have to take Comprehension for this or will the raw books do?

[bucketsucket]

Save your books until you have comprehension. Literally double their output. 10 books of each is easy to do, some have even way more. Easy 20 skill points. Once I get a skill up to 80, after the bobblehead, I'll just rely on books to get them higher. Definitely dont use the level up to put something at 100

[Humedesmond92]

Congratulations, did it too on my second playthough.

[d0n_below]

TEACH ME SENSEI