Fallout 3 Spaceship crash- exept I'm not near the crash site?

Gideon Lorr · 27 Oct 2010 at 23:29

Just been playing Fallout 3, heading out almost straight west from Megaton, to explore. Got over the hill under which Vault 101 is roughly situated, towards a farm building with mines placed on the ground floor. Died, stupidly, reloaded, and headed back to the farm.

This time however, something flew overhead in the distance, going westwards, and made an explosion sound in the distance. Suddenly, I notice an alien ray gun on the floor, and bits of ammo for it.

Googled it and discovered that you can still see a crashed alien spaceship, even without the Mothership Zeta DLC. Yet I'm no where near the crashsite? Can anyone explain how I came across the weapon? A random but lucky glitch caused by mods?

Alex74 · 27 Oct 2010 at 23:32

Might just be a glitch. Had many occurrences of deathclaws randomly flying off into space myself when I played through, hilarious to watch

SiriusB · 27 Oct 2010 at 23:34

I had this happen to me.. was outside and I hear something blow up above me. Found a gun and ammo for it scattered all over the show. Trying to remember where it was, but was a long time ago and I was exploring.

Fenris · 27 Oct 2010 at 23:40

It's a random event for the Firelance, it has nothing to do with the actual crash site location, it can happen in a number of locations which can trigger such events.

Best place to trigger events in a dilapidated building near Tenpenny Tower, save at Tenpenny or somewhere a reasonable distance from the building, approach it for a random event, reload when finished and you can essentially farm it for a specific event. There are a few events that only happen in certain places as well.

Calm · 28 Oct 2010 at 09:00

Alex74 said:
Might just be a glitch. Had many occurrences of deathclaws randomly flying off into space myself when I played through, hilarious to watch

I'd have loved to see that, i hate those bloody things!