Fallout 3 is a great game but it's also extremely massive which makes it prone to have lots of glitches. Most of these glitches aren't bothersome, but occasionally there some unlucky players who get stuck. Apocalypto online. I'm on the final mission and I can't continue because of a darn glitch. I would suggest leaving Rivet city through different exits.

So I turned off all autosaves, as recommended for this (and Fallout NV IIRC). And am playing along, getting into the game, and of course forgetting to save for three friggin hours.

I'm at Rivet City in the Muddy Rudder picking up all the stuff you're allowed to pick up (stuff highlighted in green, not red which indicates stealing) when I of course get quick with the buttons and pick up (STEAL) a beer. One damn beer and instead of them just taking the beer back and calling me a thief, everyone in the place attacks me.So I kill them.

Except for the couple that ran instead of attacking. And I leave the Muddy Rudder and am attacked by Rivet City Security.So now I'm basically hated by Rivet City I guess???/ This means I can never visit/trade there anymore???? If I have to I'll go back to that old save and lose those several hours I forgot to save but man that sucks.

Jeebus, what's the penalty for stealing a crap load of caps, multiple deaths?? They kill you and resuscitate you and kill you again????Jeebus. And now I'm an evil Capitol Crime Lord. Realkman666: Do you know what these people have endured? They've had loved ones tortured and eaten by Super Mutants, they were infested with Rad Sorpions, were chased by Deathclaws, and they still managed to establish a bastion of humanity so close to the wasteland. They opened their hatches to you and you stole from them.

Man I wanted to mark this as the solution to give you the five rep points because it made me LOL but since I still am not sure whether or not I need to restart from my previous save if I want to continue visiting/trading there I'll just have to +1 you instead.Great answer though!!!! OldFatGuy: Man I wanted to mark this as the solution to give you the five rep points because it made me LOL but since I still am not sure whether or not I need to restart from my previous save if I want to continue visiting/trading there I'll just have to +1 you instead.Great answer though!!!! LOL I don't remember if you can just do good deeds elsewhere to clean your reputation with them. I think it works for some groups but not others. Either way, playing a Bethesda game without using the F5 is a very dangerous thing. OldFatGuy: So I turned off all autosaves, as recommended for this (and Fallout NV IIRC).

And am playing along, getting into the game, and of course forgetting to save for three friggin hours. I'm at Rivet City in the Muddy Rudder picking up all the stuff you're allowed to pick up (stuff highlighted in green, not red which indicates stealing) when I of course get quick with the buttons and pick up (STEAL) a beer.

One damn beer and instead of them just taking the beer back and calling me a thief, everyone in the place attacks me.So I kill them. Except for the couple that ran instead of attacking.

And I leave the Muddy Rudder and am attacked by Rivet City Security.So now I'm basically hated by Rivet City I guess???/ This means I can never visit/trade there anymore???? If I have to I'll go back to that old save and lose those several hours I forgot to save but man that sucks. Jeebus, what's the penalty for stealing a crap load of caps, multiple deaths??

They kill you and resuscitate you and kill you again????Jeebus. And now I'm an evil Capitol Crime Lord. Tyndale bible commentary free. As far as I remember, the people in the settlements stop being hostile after 24 hours. Depending on who you killed, though, you might miss out on some quests.

Not the main quest line, though.BTW, there's another situation in Rivet City that can mess things up good. The Market has pretty strict business hours. Just try to stay in there after hours and get creeped out as every single person in there gangs up on you, telling you to leave NOW and following you everywhere, until they eventually turn hostile. Klumpen0815: Did it occur to you that. Killing all those people might have had a bit more of a negative impact on your reputation than the beer?;) Yeah, but after that it occurred to me that killing all those people was a direct result of them attacking me for picking up, err, stealing a single beer. So, picking up, dammit, I meant STEALING a single beer led to me being a NOW VERY EVIL Capitol Crime Lord. When I get old in prison and my grand children come and visit me and ask how it was I became such an evil crime lord, I can (truthfully) tell them that it was all because I stole a single bottle of beer.:)And BTW, have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE THIS GAME before?

This has to be at least my sixth or seventh play through, and I'm still finding stuff and doing stuff I never did before.With the locating and 'liberating' of the Declaration of Independence Quest (whatever it's officially called I can't recall right now) I ALWAYS, every time, turned down Sydney's help at the beginning of the quest and continued on alone. This ALWAYS led to an encounter later in the game where she was, uh, pissed off, and attacked me, and I would kill her and obtain her special Sydney's Ultra 10MM Machine Gun.So this time to change things up I accepted her help and off we go. But doncha know she died before we even got down into the cellar. Those damned Super Mutants killed her within 10 minutes of us starting off. Terrible shame. But at least I ended up with the Sydney's Ultra 10MM Machine Gun, much earlier in the game than I ever did before.Oh well, what are you gonna do???

I mean, it wasn't my fault I froze up and just left her on her own to battle those Super Mutants. I was scared. I'm human, even if I am a sick fuck. Just rotten luck she died so quick.What a great game. OldFatGuy: Yeah, but after that it occurred to me that killing all those people was a direct result of them attacking me for picking up, err, stealing a single beer.

So, picking up, dammit, I meant STEALING a single beer led to me being a NOW VERY EVIL Capitol Crime Lord. When I get old in prison and my grand children come and visit me and ask how it was I became such an evil crime lord, I can (truthfully) tell them that it was all because I stole a single bottle of beer.:)And BTW, have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE THIS GAME before? This has to be at least my sixth or seventh play through, and I'm still finding stuff and doing stuff I never did before.With the locating and 'liberating' of the Declaration of Independence Quest (whatever it's officially called I can't recall right now) I ALWAYS, every time, turned down Sydney's help at the beginning of the quest and continued on alone. This ALWAYS led to an encounter later in the game where she was, uh, pissed off, and attacked me, and I would kill her and obtain her special Sydney's Ultra 10MM Machine Gun.So this time to change things up I accepted her help and off we go.

But doncha know she died before we even got down into the cellar. Those damned Super Mutants killed her within 10 minutes of us starting off. Terrible shame. But at least I ended up with the Sydney's Ultra 10MM Machine Gun, much earlier in the game than I ever did before.Oh well, what are you gonna do??? I mean, it wasn't my fault I froze up and just left her on her own to battle those Super Mutants.

I was scared. I'm human, even if I am a sick fuck. Just rotten luck she died so quick.What a great game. You sound like the kind of guy who would save Megaton just so you can keep them guessing about when you'll decide to blow them up.