Hi I bought Fallout 3 GoTY from D2D and was wondering how do we use the expansion packs or do they kick in after a certain level I just need a little help.

Thanks

What platform are you playing on?

Same problem here. I'm on PC version. I installed Fallout 3, then installed the DLC using the 2nd DVD. Then ... nothing. No additional menu in game, or shortcut, or update to the program group. The manual is also not mentioning anything. Either I have missed something obvious, or the people assembling the GOTY version are not very didactic.

I'm on 360.... but have read of where you guys on PC need to mark checkboxes for your latest installs in your windows blah blah manager. After you install successfully, all the extras, are integrated in the game. You will receive messages that you must click to make go away, alerting you to new radio stations, quests, and the like. You can use your non-GOTY saves with the GOTY game.

The check boxes are in the data files menu which is an option you can go in when the game first boots up (instead of clicking play), just check them and all the DLC will kick in after you exit the vault.

ok, I have indeed a shortcut in my Fallout 3 folder named FalloutLauncher-MCE

When I use it, I have a menu with 'DATA' as a sub menu, I can click on it and I can check the name of each extension. So what after that?

Doing New Game is the standard new game, how can I play an added content? Or are added contents locations on the Fallout 3 'vanilla campaign' that must be reached through the game?

I also don't have any confirmation that my current game is beneficing from added content.


Again, thanks you guys. But I wonder, should Bethesda not have a tech forum somewhere? I must not be the sole player who gets problems with that... There is no doc, no reference, just an unreferenced launcher in the game directory! If I were not working in the IT, imagine, Joe average user with this problem... You don't expect him to open the folders of his game etc.

Is Bethesda one of these big companies without actual tech support?

I will ask that this be moved to the tech forum.

Ok, it seems to work now. So I have the extra content. Let me summarize the situation though, for a grand moment of bad merchandising:

a) Bought PC Version of GOTY. Made of one DVD, Fallout 3, and one DVD for the 5 expansions.
b ) manual is standard Fallout 3 manual. No mention on how to install the expansions.

Then, you are smart, so you figure you have to install the 2nd DVD. The DLC installers does it jobs, but that's it. You still don't have the expansions, in game.

What you must understand, is that you must open the folder where you installed the game, and then launch a shortcut named 'FalloutLauncher-MCE'. And then, as you are smart, you click on the checkboxes naming the expansions.

I think someone in the marketing department has not done his job. At the very least, I would have expected a flyer in my DVD box explaining that too me. A chance I'm fiddling with PC since DOS 3.2. I wonder how Joe average user, who got accustomed to PC with Vista or even XP will find how to install the expansions himself. Good luck.

Now, on to more pleasant matters, Fallout 3 and its expansions. All is ending well, after all, for me ...