I did a lot of stupid things my first time, but the stupidest was probably trying to shoot the armory guard in Megaton with the Fat Man. :facepalm:

Number 1 and Number 2 i do on almost all my playthroughs.....
but anyways
1. drink all quantums before learning of the quest
2. not knowing what the compass arrow was so i was over by paradise falls looking for megaton
3. thought the silenced 10mm pistol was the coolest thing ever, so only used it
4. sold the lincolns repeater to the slave guy in the lincoln memorial
5. always hid behind cars.... :facepalm:


the list goes on and on...

Try to kill my way into Meresti with my 10mm, then Robert's 10mm smg and a crappy sawed off shotty and like 5 mines.

I was at level 3 or so, and didn't know there was a Quest line, and didn't have 100 caps, so I just went for it.



I think I died 10 or 12 times before I finally gave up.

Oh, and I somehow made it all the way to Rivet City without noticing that RED LETTERS indicate that you're stealing something. So I was down in the busy market place and reflexively looked in a trash can, and, Hey! A Pack of Cigarettes! I take it and toggle back to the world and all hell breaks loose. Someone yells, "THIEF!", grownups and kids scatter running, and every armed advlt in the place -- which is most of them-- opens fire on me. I didn't even have a chance to draw before I was watching my character die in slow motion. Pretty funny.

Spotted a tripwire below me in a stairway in the Statesman and found no option to disarm so I backed up a few steps and shot the line...only to discover that the mine/trap was on my side of the tripwire. I also fired on and blew up a car to kill the raider or mutant next to it. That worked like a charm, except that I, um, underestimated the blast radius.

Took the perk 3x that gives you 10% bonus to XP! Level RACE! :facepalm:

Went to some huge boat I found and talked to every scientist there w/o going to Moriarty's or GNR.... :wacko:

Got stuck in vault 106. Don't shut the door behind you...fyi.

Ran out of bullets ALL the time because I didn't know vendors sold them.

Old Olney...thought it must've been a retirement community. :bolt:

Misjudging the blast of a Nuka-grenade. In the same vein, drinking tons of Quantum before I knew I could make those awesome grenades!

I honestly had so many failures...I love this game! :fallout:

Lets see:

1. Tried to talk to everyone including raiders and muties
2. Kept falling off hills backwards.
3. Trying to run from a bear... (still cant spell it)
4. Didnt know about fast travel so walked everywhere and died a great deal.
5. Kept drinking dirty water didnt know about rads

ah those were the days...


Oh yea... something I kept doing .. must been a mental block.. hiding behind cars... sheesh!

Didn`t know about the wait feature. Felt incredibly stupid when I found it. Thought Craterside was always closed for some reason because I always came to it at night.

I know what you mean.

I'm in a firefight with enemies, moving back and forth and firing..... and suddenly will notice the car...right next to me....oh crap......WHOSH!!!!

1. paid 120 caps to sleep with the hoker in Megaton
2. didn't know what sneak attack critical was.....so I didn't invest in sneak.
3. got lost in every building
4. drank all the Nuka Cola Quantums I looted....lol
5. didn't know what Skill Books or Bobbles were for
6. didn't know how to pickpocket

Came out of the vault and promptly walked off the cliff. Oops. :facepalm:
Hid behind cars in firefights. Also tried to get out of reach of Grayditch's ants by climbing on top of a car. :shakehead:
Took skill-boosting perks (Gun Nut, Daddy's Boy, etc.) :shrug:
Sold the Lincoln's Repeater :facepalm:
Accidentally repaired regular weapon with the unique version. Specifically the Xuanlong Assault Rifle. :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

Walked right up to the Fire Ants with the sawed off shotgun...that was fun
Paid 120 caps to "sleep" with Nova in Megaton...[censored] just lays there...I get that from my girlfriend
First time a shot is fired, I jump behind a car like I'm in a John Wu movie
I think I've steped on, or triggered every trap in the game
First time going to Minefield, I just walked right it...got nailed by the first mine, and then another, and another, and another, and then...I died..
Skipped GNR, and went to Rivet City first
And lastly, got Dogmeat killed like twenty times before I relized the that mutt will run into any fight.
I'd be holding back, usally behind a car, and dumdumdum, there goes superdog into the frey...
This idiot ran up into a house with about six, or seven super mutants in it. He did kill two of them though.

Same here. Actually knew about the fat man because they kept saying to pick it up. Just couldnt find the damn thing. Ran around the first half of the battle looking for it and the second half of the battle was running away from the behemoth that was chasing me while fireing of a shot from my hunting rifle every once in awhile.




Ditto. Cant remember my exact level, maybe 8th or so. Saw a "super mutant" charging me ....... and he just kept getting bigger ...




That actually made me laugh out loud for real, I could see myself doing that.


Still, all that was better than when I activated a toilet thinking it'd be funny :yuck:

Well, it was funny. Just not for you. Then, there's the wired toilet that'll give you a nasty shock - I forget where it is.

Wasn't I surprised when I wanted to get out

Ignoring bottle caps and thinking pre-war money was the currency <_<

LOL! that's frickin' hilarious. :laugh:

Oh, forgot one.
I was 17th level on my first play through before I figured out how to turn the pipboy light on :facepalm:

I know what you mean...I was around level 12 before I discovered the 'wait' feature. :rolleyes:

Other stupid things I've done -

- Trying to kill a radscorpion with a baseball bat at level 2
- Using the .32 pistol
- Using VATS for everything.
- Breaking into the Megaton Armory and wondering why I wasn't so popular anymore.
- Relying on the autosave, rather than permanent save. The full drawback to this was revealed when I accidentally stole something in the Ninth Circle in Underworld and, panicking, exited via the door, causing the autosave to make this permanent. Every reload lasted about 1 second (not enough time for a stimpack) before dying, so I lost about 1 1/2 levels of progress in one stupid move.

not too many mistakes other than ignoring all the Pre-war books I came across and not obtaining a Dart Gun sooner.....oh and siding with Roy Phillips in the Tenpenny quest.......

In my first playthrough, I massacred every town, trader, and Caravan in the game, except for rivet city. I also used a Near-Broken laser pistol as my only weapon with My energy Weapons skill at fifteen. Yeah... I just recently got into Rpg's :turtle:

That's not necessarily a stupid thing to do, although that does depend on a given character's RP.

I actually didn't really do anything stupid on my first playthrough, since playing the first two Fallouts had prepared me to save constantly as well as to be careful what I said and who I picked fights with early on.

That said, this would almost certainly qualify:

During the siege at GNR, I picked up the Fat Man as instructed and fired at the Behemoth at long(ish) range. My Big Guns skill being low I missed and he was able to close in, so I retreated to the doorway I had come out of. So, he reaches me and starts in with the Hydrant Mace, and I fire the Fat Man at point blank range... :nuke:

...let's just say that didn't end well.

I had no idea that Friendly Fire was enabled since FO3 was my first Bethesda game. I probably should have assumed it was, since the first two games had it, but this being a different developer I didn't know one way or the other.

I also turned in the component Victoria Watts gave me... :banghead:

In all fairness, there was no way to know I was getting shortchanged by doing so, since such actions often are the 'best' choice.

Taking the Here and Now perk.

holy [censored]! :mellow:

Well, I killed all the caravans, and...yeah.

It was a hella of a time...

Backstory - Trying to leave the Vault

*Running up against the vault door spamming A*

"Why isn't the door opening?!?!"

Took me roughly 5 minutes to give up. A couple of hours later I told myself it was a bug, made a new game, and found the controls.

:facepalm: