Broken Steel
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Broken Steel is the third add-on for Fallout 3, developed and published by Bethesda Softworks.
| “ | Continue your existing Fallout 3 game and finish the fight against the Enclave remnants alongside Liberty Prime. Broken Steel moves the level cap for your character from 20 to 30, allowing you to experience even more of the game, including new perks and achievements. | ” |
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[edit] Release
Broken Steel was initially released exclusively as downloadable content on Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live on May 5, 2009. After difficulties with the initial download for PC users it was re-released for Games for Windows Live on May 7, 2009. It was made available for PlayStation Store on September 24, 2009. For Xbox 360, download codes for Xbox Live are also available in retail. The add-on costs 800 Microsoft points or $9.99.
For PC and Xbox 360, Broken Steel is available as a disc version as part of the second Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack, released on August 25, 2009. The pack also includes Point Lookout and costs $19.99.
Like all add-ons, Broken Steel is included in the Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, released on October 13, 2009 for all platforms. It costs $59.99 for PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as $49.99 for PC.
[edit] Overview
In this add-on pack, the player joins the ranks of the Brotherhood of Steel to rid the Capital Wasteland of the Enclave remnants once and for all.
In addition to amending the game to let players continue their adventures after the end of the main quest and raising the level cap to 30, Broken Steel's quest line is of the same length as the ones of Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt. In order to access the new story content from Broken Steel, the player has to have finished the main storyline from the base game. However, the level cap expansion will take effect upon installation of the add-on, so players previously stalled at level 20 will once again accumulate XP even if they haven't finished the main storyline.
Broken Steel also adds a couple of new side quests, most of which have to do with escorting freshly processed clean water across the Wasteland and protecting it from raiders. Broken Steel takes about five hours to complete and side missions could take up to an hour to finish.
The third add-on for Fallout 3 adds new enemies including Albino Radscorpions, Feral Ghoul Reavers, Super Mutant Overlords, and Enclave Hellfire Troopers. These are equipped with new armor and weaponary that the player can acquire. Broken Steel also adds several new perks to cover the additional 10 levels as well as new encounters. (see Broken Steel encounters)
The player's actions throughout Fallout 3 are woven into some of the quests in Broken Steel. For example, if the player decides to infect Project Purity with the modified FEV, it will affect how the Capital Wasteland looks as well as the interactions with the local inhabitants.
[edit] Story
Broken Steel alters the ending of the original Fallout 3 to allow continued play after the end of the main quest line. This means that when it is time to go into the reactor at the end of Take it Back!, you can still go in yourself or you can send one of three side characters. However, even if you go yourself, you do not die. Instead, you survive the ordeal and wake up two weeks later at the Citadel. If you allow the Purifier to explode, the game will still end. Elder Lyons will inform you that you and Sarah Lyons were knocked unconscious by an unknown energy spike. Sarah will still be in a coma.
The new content starts about two weeks after the events of Fallout 3's main quest and begins when you regain consciousness inside the Citadel's clinic. The battle between the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave is still ongoing. You are then tasked with aiding a Brotherhood of Steel assault on a secret Enclave base located Southwest of the map. The attack goes horribly wrong as the Enclave use a devastating orbital strike, to great effect, in destroying the previously indomitable Liberty Prime. Tasked by Paladin Tristan to find the origin of the attack, you find only an encrypted code. While the Scribes are puzzling over the code back at the Citadel, you must find a component to create the Tesla Cannon, a new, more powerful weapon for the Brotherhood. Once you have retrieved the Tesla Coil needed to create the Tesla Cannon from Olney Powerworks, an old power plant that was experimenting with alien technology before the war, you travel to Adams Air Force Base via the Presidential Metro. Upon assaulting the Air Force Base you find a massive Mobile Enclave Crawler. Boarding it, you fight through a number of Enclave soldiers to the center computer terminal. From there you will find several targets which have been primed for attack by orbital bombardment. If you choose to destroy the Citadel, you are deemed a traitor by the Brotherhood of Steel and they will attempt to kill you. However, if you choose to bombard the Mobile Crawler instead you are rescued by Lyons' Pride, in a captured Vertibird, and are returned to the Citadel to be heralded a hero of the Brotherhood of Steel.
[edit] Characters
- Atom's Champion
- Badger
- Bigsley
- Carl
- Connelly
- Curie III
- Davis
- Dunbar
- Edwards
- Gerard
- Griffon
- Hoover
- Jensen
- Kidd
- Lepelletier
- Lorin
- Novice
- Project Purity Scientist
- Rosa
- Sanders
- Sparky
- Split Jack
- Stiggs
- Sun of Atom
- Tristan
- Vallincourt
- Wint
[edit] Enemies
[edit] Creatures
[edit] NPCs
- Armory Master
- Bandit
- Enclave Hellfire Trooper
- Enclave Squad Sigma
- Enclave Sigma Leader
- Ghoul Guard
- Lag-Bolt
- Security Officer
[edit] Additional encounters
[edit] Items
[edit] Armor
- All-Nighter Nightwear
- Composite Recon Helmet
- Enclave Hellfire Armor
- Lag-Bolt's Shades
- Lag-Bolt's Combat Armor
- Police Hat
- Wig
- Lab Coat
[edit] Weapons
- Callahan's Magnum
- Heavy Incinerator
- Precision Gatling Laser
- Rapid-Torch Flamer
- Slo-Burn Flamer
- Tesla Cannon (Tesla Cannon (Beta) - cut)
- Tri-Beam Laser Rifle
- Mark VII Turrets
- Mark VIII Turrets
- Discharge Hammer (cut)
- Lightning Gun (cut)
- Grenade Launcher (cut)*
* There are two versions of this weapon. One uses the Explosives skill, the other uses Small Guns.
[edit] Other items
- Aqua Cura
- Aqua Pura
- Deathclaw Control Scrambler
- Holy Water
- Main Fuse
- Senate Employee ID
- Super Mutant Blood Sample
- Tesla Coil
[edit] Locations
- Adams Air Force Base
- Holy Light Monastery
- Museum Authority Building
- Olney Powerworks
- Presidential Metro
- Satellite Relay Station
- Hank's Electrical Supply
[edit] Perks
| Name | Level req | Other requirements | Ranks | Description | Code |
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| Almost Perfect | 30 | 1 | All SPECIAL stats are raised to 9. | xx004c4b | |
| Deep Sleep | 22 | 1 | You get the Well Rested benefit of +10% XP for eight hours no matter what bed you sleep in. | xx003213 | |
| Devil's Highway | 24 | Karma not equal to Very Evil | 1 | Karma is instantly set to Very Evil. | xx004c6d |
| Escalator to Heaven | 24 | Karma not equal to Very Good | 1 | Karma is instantly set to Very Good. | xx004c6f |
| Karmic Rebalance | 24 | Karma not equal to neutral | 1 | Karma is instantly set to Neutral. | xx004c6e |
| Nerves of Steel | 26 | AG 7 | 1 | Action Points regenerate faster. | xx0011c2 |
| No Weaknesses | 24 | 1 | All SPECIAL stats lower than 5 become 5. | xx00108e | |
| Nuclear Anomaly | 30 | 1 | Whenever your health is reduced to 20 or less, you will erupt into a devastating nuclear explosion affecting enemies and allies alike. | xx004c6c | |
| Party Boy/Party Girl | 28 | 1 | You no longer suffer the withdrawal effect from alcohol addiction. | xx0011bf xx0011c0 | |
| Puppies! | 22 | 1 | If Dogmeat dies, you'll be able to get a new canine companion from his litter of puppies. Just wait a bit, and you'll find your new furry friend waiting outside Vault 101. | xx003211 | |
| Rad Absorption | 28 | EN 7 | 1 | Radiation level slowly decreases automatically over time. | xx0011bd |
| Rad Tolerance | 26 | EN 7 | 1 | No effects from minor radiation poisoning. | xx0011c1 |
| Quantum Chemist | 22 | Science 70 | 1 | Every 10 Nuka-Colas you acquire are automatically converted into a Nuka-Cola Quantum (Ice-Cold Nuka Colas do not count) | xx004c71 |
| Warmonger | 26 | IN 7 | 1 | All custom weapon types become available to you without the schematics. | xx0011be |
[edit] Quests and achievements
[edit] Main quests
| Name | Location(s) | Given by | Reward | Achievement points | Trophy | Quest ID | Image |
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| Death From Above | Citadel Rockland Car Tunnel Satellite Relay Station | Owyn Lyons | 1300 XP | 30 | Silver | xx000802 | 
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| Shock Value | Citadel Old Olney S. Wilson Building Olney Powerworks | Paladin Tristan | 1400 XP | 30 | Silver | xx000afd | 
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| Who Dares Wins | Citadel Presidential Metro Adams Air Force Base | Paladin Tristan | 1500 XP | 30 | Gold | xx0011ad | 
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[edit] Side quests
| Name | Location(s) | Given by | Reward | Quest ID |
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| Holy Water | Jefferson Memorial Megaton Holy Light Monastery | Scribe Bigsley | 100 XP, 300 caps | xx004c75 |
| Protecting the Water Way | Jefferson Memorial Rivet City Wilhelm's Wharf | Scribe Bigsley, Officer Lepelletier | 100 XP, Enclave Power Armor, Enclave Power Helmet, Gatling Laser, Plasma Pistol, Electron Charge Packs, Energy Cells | xx003b42 |
| The Amazing Aqua Cura | Museum of History Jefferson Memorial Museum Authority Building | Griffon | 100 XP | xx003b67 |
[edit] Unmarked quests
| Name | Location(s) | Given by | Reward | Repeatable |
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| Fatal Attraction | Presidential Metro La Maison Beauregard | Sorry, My Darling holotape | All-Nighter Nightwear, Lag-Bolt's Combat Armor, Lag-Bolt's Shades | no |
| Some Assembly Required | Citadel | Scribe Rothchild | 100 caps, 25 XP per Camera 75 caps, 10 XP per Sensor Module | yes |
| Mutant Blood Samples | Citadel | Paladin Tristan | 50 caps, 10 XP per sample | yes |
[edit] Karma achievements
| Name | Requirement | Achievement points | Trophy | Image |
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| Devil | Reached Level 30 with Bad Karma | 20 | Bronze | 
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| True Mortal | Reached Level 30 with Neutral Karma | 20 | Bronze | 
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| Messiah | Reached Level 30 with Good Karma | 20 | Bronze | 
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[edit] Gallery
 Enclave vertibirds fly towards Adams Air Force Base. |
 The Presidential Metro, White House terminal. |
 Liberty Prime and Brotherhood Knights attack. |
 Fighting at Adams Air Force Base. |
 Liberty Prime attacking. |
[edit] Videos
[edit] Trailer
- Broken Steel Trailer [1]
- Trailer at official site
[edit] Other videos
[edit] Bugs
[edit] See also
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