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Mothership Zeta (add-on)
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Mothership Zeta is the fifth and final add-on for Fallout 3, developed and published by Bethesda Softworks.
“ Defy hostile alien abductors and fight your way off of the massive Mothership Zeta, orbiting Earth miles above the Capital Wasteland. Mothership Zeta takes Fallout 3 in an entirely new direction – outer space. Meet new characters and join with them in a desperate bid to escape the aliens’ clutches. To do so, you’ll wield powerful new weapons, like the alien atomizer, alien disintegrator, and drone cannon, and deck yourself out in brand new outfits, like the Gemini-Era spacesuit and even samurai armor.” —Official description |
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Release and availability
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Mothership Zeta was initially released exclusively as downloadable content on Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live on August 3, 2009. It was made available for the PlayStation Store on October 8, 2009. For Xbox 360, download codes for Xbox Live are also available in retail.
Like all add-ons, it is included in the Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, released on October 13, 2009 for all platforms.
For Steam users, Mothership Zeta, along with all the other Fallout 3 add-ons, is available, released on July 16, 2010.
OverviewEdit
In Mothership Zeta, the aliens have returned and they are not happy. An alien mothership abducts the player, making the whole add-on take place onboard the alien ship in orbit around Earth.
Onboard the Mothership, the quest line is not completely linear and features some exploration. The player's character will walk outside the ship into space and meet other abductees whom the aliens have captured over time.
The player is able to return to the ship and use it as a "home-base" of sorts once the main quest is completed, although most of the ship will become inaccessible.
StoryEdit
You receive an unintelligible radio transmission which leads you to an alien crash site. On approaching the wreckage, you are "beamed up" into the alien mothership, Mothership Zeta, where you will meet other prisoners who have also been abducted over the centuries. You must work together to escape.
After being beamed aboard, you get to be the subject of an alien medical experiment. In the cutscene, you pass out during this procedure and awaken in a cell with another abductee named Somah. She explains that all of their equipment has been taken. She comes up with a plan of escape - staging a fistfight so that the alien guards will intervene, then overpowering them. Somah and the player soon come across Sally, a little girl who was abducted soon after the Great War, who asks them to help her escape by destroying the reactor in the room. After freeing her, she explains that she knows a lot about the ship and will aid you in turn.
Sally leads you to a room with several cryo-tubes, so that you can acquire a spacesuit from one of the frozen abductees, an astronaut (unfortunately, he did not survive the "thawing" procedure). The suit is needed for a spacewalk outside the ship to access a teleporter; first, however, you must destroy the generators in three other areas of the ship in order to provide a distraction. Three of the abductees will offer to follow you through each of the generator areas: Elliot Tercorien will follow you into the Cryo Labs, Somah will follow you through the Robotics Factory, and Paulson will join you in the Hangar.
After you have enabled the teleporter, the survivors are beamed to the upper section of the Mothership, where they witness a demonstration of the ship's Death Ray as a threat to scare them into surrendering. You must then fight your way through several portions of the second saucer section which consists of a weapons laboratory, biological experimentation lab, and Biological Research. At the conclusion of this journey, your companions can again join you by means of the transporter from the Observation Deck. Then you will go to the Death Ray control center, living quarters, and finally, the bridge. There, you and the rest of the abductees must defend the bridge from aliens attempting to re-take it, while at the same time using the ship's weapons to defeat an attacking alien vessel similar to their own.
Upon defeating the ship, the abductees celebrate and Sally or Elliot (whichever gets to the player first) reports that in the midst of all of the chaos on the bridge, Elliot and/or Sally pushed a button which dropped a beacon on the surface near the Recon Craft Theta crash site. This beacon allows the player to return to the Capital Wasteland or teleport from there to the Mothership (though much of it is now inaccessible).
CharactersEdit
EnemiesEdit
ItemsEdit
Armor and clothingEdit
WeaponsEdit
AmmunitionEdit
EdiblesEdit
Other itemsEdit
LocationsEdit
- Alien homing beacon
- Mothership Zeta
- Biological research
- Bridge
- Cargo hold
- Cryo lab
- Cryo storage
- Death Ray control
- Death Ray hub
- Decompression chamber
- Engine room
- Engineering core
- Experimentation lab
- Hangar
- Holding cells
- Living quarters
- Maintenance level
- Observation deck
- Research lab
- Robot assembly
- Space walk
- Steamworks
- Waste disposal
- Weapons lab
PerksEdit
| Name | Level req | Other requirements | Ranks | Description | Code |
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| Xenotech Expert | - | completion of the raider firing range where you obtain the Destabilizer | 1 | +20% damage with alien weapons | xx00abb0 |
Quests and achievementsEdit
Main questsEdit
| Name | Location(s) | Given by | Reward | Achievement points | Trophy | Quest ID | Image |
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| Not of This World | Alien Crash Site Holding Cells Steamworks Engineering Core | Notification | 300 XP Spacesuit | 20 | Silver | xx000802 | 
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| Among the Stars | Mothership Zeta | Sally | 300 XP | 20 | Silver | xx000803 | 
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| This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough... | Mothership Zeta | Sally | 600 XP Captain's sidearm | 40 | Gold | xx000804 | 
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Other achievementsEdit
| Name | Requirement | Achievement points | Trophy | Image |
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| Alien Archivist | Collected all Alien Captive Recordings | 20 | Silver | 
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GalleryEdit
ScreenshotsEdit
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Trailer screenshotsEdit
VideosEdit
BugsEdit
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