[creepy]

Yeah, I know, I'm a few years late to this party, but I finally picked up FO3 and I'm having a great time playing it. But I have a problem that is hindering me and I didn't want to ask for help but I can't find the answer to my question online so I'll ask for help.

I'm taking my sweetass time playing through this as it's just huge with so much shit going on and I've hit the level 20 cap before doing hardly any of the main mission. So I bought the Broken Steel add-on to get to extend the leveling up experience to 30 but it will not work. Between loads it says I just started level 20 and level 21 is next, but I don't get experience for anything and it still says I'm maxed out on experience. I dl'ed BS and installed it (twice) but I'm still not getting any experience. Is there something I'm not doing? Do I have to turn something on in the game? I haven't found anything anywhere that says anything about turning anything on.


I figure maybe Stu or (Solly?) or BFG or Gator or Deadly or someone might be able to help. Punker would probably know but I think PunsHouse put up its own border fence because he doesn't post here anymore. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Or is this just a glich of some sort? The only thing else I can think of is I can't update the game to the newest version because my wi-fi is a shittard. I can dowload stuff and install it, but I can never seem to update the software. On a related question that might alleviate this problem, if I run a cable splitter between my DVR and PS3, will that screw up anything or give me lag on either one? I don't want to run my second bedroom cable all the way into here for a couple of different reasons, but I need to do something. It's cool having multiplayer games and some friends around the U.S. to play them with, but I can't even update my software to even try to do anything.

Ehhhhh, I'm done throwing a hissy fit about video game connectivity while people around the world starve to death and get blown up because "My God is better than your God" and stuff.

[Habs]

I say your problem probably lies in the fact that your clearly don't pray to to right FO3 god.

[Deadly]

Hmm, it should work...

Broken Steel was the second expansion for Fallout 3. I know plenty of folks who downloaded it first and then went back to play Operation: Anchorage (the first DLC pack) solely just to raise the level cap.

The only thing I can think if is that maybe you have to reach a certain part of the game before it'll allow you to level. That's just a complete shot in the dark, though. Otherwise, it sounds like it just may be glitchy.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Oh, and creeps, I'm glad you're enjoying Fallout 3. It's one of my favorite games of the last few years.

[creepy]

It's a lot of fun. I usually don't buy games when they first come out because I used to get burned years ago. And I don't like playing used games like Gamefly (one used game screwed up a console years back) and we no longer have a video store on the Island since Ike. I just recently bought Dragon Age (the delux version with all the add ons) FO3 and Oblivion (yep, I finally got Oblivion). Haven't played Oblivion yet but DA was pretty fun. The first time I played through it, I didn't use any of the extra content so I plan on playing through a few more times with it.

Yeah, Dead, I thought maybe I have to go see somebody to bypass the level 20 cap, but I haven't heard anyone say that yet. Every place I've seen online just says it works, so I dunno. I'll keep looking.

[Stu]

I looked up the bugs listed on the fallout wiki, and it posts something similar to this as a common bug, so it seems it's not meant to do that. Don't know about any fixes there could be.
I don't think it's really a game breaker though. You'll be denied some of the perks you could have gotten otherwise, but at the same time, the difficulty won't get any higher(harder enemies spawn at higher levels), so you might not really need them as much.

[creepy]

Thanks, Stu. I just like leveling up and making my dude stronger. Sounds like I just need the update, but I reset my wifi and now I can't even get it to try to update it. I'm just going to have to get that splitter or run a cable. Such is life.

[Stu]

Broken Steel also extends the game indefinitely. On it's own, once you do the final story mission, the game ends, and so if you wanted to play everything, you had to put finishing the main quest off, but Broken Steel keeps it going after that and you can just have fun with that. One hobby I've taken up is finding as much pre-war money as I can and dropping it all in a big pile in the corner of my house, which is decorated with vanquished Enclave Helmets and cool weapons I don't have equipped.

[creepy]

That's awesome. I knew about the game ending as soon as the main quest finishing, that's why I put off everything until Im done exploring.

I just went and got a 50 foot Ethernet cord and hooked it up. System update took a little bit and then the FO3 update took literally 1 minute. Broken Steel's on and now I'm good. Thanks again for pointing me in the right directions, guys.