quick Fall Out 3 question

bigjimmyauk · 17 Jun 2010 at 10:49

just been comparing my console version to the pc version is there anyway to hotlink weapons and pick up dead bodies on the pc like there is on the console version

orderoftheflame · 17 Jun 2010 at 10:59

Z to move them around by default. Can't remember off the top of my head exactly how you can bind weapons. But it can be done.

Neil777 · 17 Jun 2010 at 11:05

Do you mean like in a regular fps where the number keys correspond to a different weapon?

bigjimmyauk · 17 Jun 2010 at 11:05

orderoftheflame said:
Z to move them around by default. Can't remember off the top of my head exactly how you can bind weapons. But it can be done.

thanx for that if you find out will you let me know as i get sick of trawling through the menu to pick my weapons mid fight

bigjimmyauk · 17 Jun 2010 at 11:06

Neil777 said:
Do you mean like in a regular fps where the number keys correspond to a different weapon?

yeah that kinda thing on the 360 you use the D-Pad to quick select upto 8 items but can't find a hotkey option on the pc on the X box i think you hold RB then push the corresponding D-pad you require

Neil777 · 17 Jun 2010 at 11:07

bigjimmyauk said:
thanx for that if you find out will you let me know as i get sick of trawling through the menu to pick my weapons mid fight

I guess that answers my question in which case from the weapon menu hold down the key you want to use and a box will appear then right click on the weapon.

Marky · 17 Jun 2010 at 11:14

I've not tried this in Fallout 3 - but I know in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - when you look through your inventory - if you hold down a number (Such as 1) and then click the weapon - it hotkeys the weapon to that number. Give it a go

orderoftheflame · 17 Jun 2010 at 11:19

Marky said:
I've not tried this in Fallout 3 - but I know in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - when you look through your inventory - if you hold down a number (Such as 1) and then click the weapon - it hotkeys the weapon to that number. Give it a go

This is it. Same in Fallout 3

bigjimmyauk · 17 Jun 2010 at 12:14

orderoftheflame said:
This is it. Same in Fallout 3

yup just tried it thx guys makes it a lot easier now mid battle instead of having to go into the pip boy

Marky · 17 Jun 2010 at 12:17

bigjimmyauk said:
yup just tried it thx guys makes it a lot easier now mid battle instead of having to go into the pip boy

You can swap weapon mid-fight in Fallout 3? I tried this yesterday in Oblivion and it wouldn't let me

digitalis · 17 Jun 2010 at 16:31

Marky said:
You can swap weapon mid-fight in Fallout 3? I tried this yesterday in Oblivion and it wouldn't let me

In Oblivion you can't swap while attacking someone - need to back away from them first.

S.

Marky · 17 Jun 2010 at 16:36

digitalis said:
In Oblivion you can't swap while attacking someone - need to back away from them first.

S.

Ahh right thanks

Meridian · 17 Jun 2010 at 17:11

digitalis said:
In Oblivion you can't swap while attacking someone - need to back away from them first.

S.

FO3 has similar limitations, but less obvious. The most annoying one is that you can't swap weapons once reloading has started: bear that in mind when using single shot weapons like the rocket launcher (and the gauss rifle if you have the Operation Anchorage add-on) where reloading happens automatically after you fire. The same applies to any other animations, like banging on the weapon as the condition gets low.

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Destination · 17 Jun 2010 at 22:54

The banging on the weapon is to clear a jam, it make ssence that you can't switch or fire without clearing the jam first.

Can't beleve I've played FO3 so long and didn;t realise the oblivion 1-8 linking actually worked, whoopsie me, I kept tabbing.

Evilsod · 18 Jun 2010 at 00:16

Meridian said:
FO3 has similar limitations, but less obvious. The most annoying one is that you can't swap weapons once reloading has started: bear that in mind when using single shot weapons like the rocket launcher (and the gauss rifle if you have the Operation Anchorage add-on) where reloading happens automatically after you fire. The same applies to any other animations, like banging on the weapon as the condition gets low.

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The weapon system is broken enough as it is. You unload most a weapon, switch, unload half that weapon, switch back and your first weapon has miraculously reloaded itself on your backpack.

Meridian · 18 Jun 2010 at 06:23

Hikari Kisugi said:
The banging on the weapon is to clear a jam, it make ssence that you can't switch or fire without clearing the jam first.

Actually it makes no sense at all. In real life you have a monster bearing down on you and your your weapon jams. Do you a) spend five seconds banging on the mechanism to free it, or b) spend two seconds grabbing another weapon and sort the first gun out afterwards?

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