I killed Fawkes. Fallout 3 Options

[ethandrul]

Ok, so I beat the game with The way over powered super mutant side kick. After doing the main story of the broken steel add on, I decided to kill Fawkes...to see if I could.

Ok, so i'm in the Citidel in an area with lots of unkillable NPCs. I kick Fawkes to the cirb- I tell him to get lost. Then I shoot him from stealth mode with my Gauss rifle to knock him down. Then I keep shooting him. He pops up and starts attacking the brotherhood of steel- and they attack back ( but since they don't die who cares)
Now every shot of the gauss does about 100 pts of damage, I have beefed up my energy weapons and small arms to 100, and I do tons of damage on a crit.
needless to say he doesn't get to attack very often.

We lay down a layer of fire thicker then a 1970's porn starlets bush.
There is :
Me
Lyons (both of them)
Tristan
Gallows
and another guy.

It took us literally 53 minutes to kill him.

I tried different weapons too- mini nukes? nothing to him
bottlecap mines? he didn't set them off.
reverse pick pocketing? immune.

so, it came down to hard work and perserverence.
But in the end-

I killed Fawkes

[Stahlseele]

Did he drop anything good?
How much XP did that net you?

[ethandrul]

50 XP on normal difficulty. He only dropped the stuff I had given him and a Gatling Laser

[Maelstrome]

im guessing you were a high level. ive had her die in the cross fire a handful of times at lower levels.

[ethandrul]

yeah level 25. but i had fawkes since like 18- and i decided he was immortal

[Stahlseele]

And if all of those together took 53Minutes to kill him, he IS basically immortal . . Well, at least for game purposes . .
I would love to pit him one on one against a death claw
or one of those really big super mutants. Or maybe Liberty Prime.

[ethandrul]

I took him into the deathclaw sanctuary he killed 2 at the same time by himself- i was busy with a few of my own- I loooooove the gauss rifle

[Stahlseele]

Yeah, that Thing is TEH UBOR!
Also, i can FINALLY play my Fallout3 again . .
Having figurred out, why it crashed every some minutes . .
Believe it or don't, they more or less removed multi core support with the versiojn 1.1 Patch . .
And it did not get better with the 1.7 Patch and/or the DLC's either.
But as soon as i manually edited it back into the .ini, it worked without crashing again . .

[StealthSigma]

Fawkes is invincible when you first encounter him....

That's how I managed to get his Super Sledge. It either got damaged or another Super Mutie shot it out of his hand, so I picked it up. Fawkes continued to clear the rest of Vault 87 barehanded. I just stayed stealthed in my Chinese Stealth Suit.

And Stahl, I wonder if that may be why I have performance issues on the PS3 version. The PS3 is natively a multi-core system, so if they disabled that config in the updates that may explain my game freezing issues.

[Stahlseele]

if you can hand edit the ini files, you can bring it back up to speed.
i'll look upwhat i did, when i get home tonight.

[StealthSigma]

if you can hand edit the ini files, you can bring it back up to speed.
i'll look upwhat i did, when i get home tonight.

Oh, I know how to fix it on the PC. The problem is I don't know of any way to get at the config files on the PS3 version (they did the same thing on Oblivion).

[ethandrul]

I challenge you all to find the fastest way to kill him...without resorting to leaving him in Megaton and blowing the place up.

[StealthSigma]

I challenge you all to find the fastest way to kill him...without resorting to leaving him in Megaton and blowing the place up.

My initial guess is to reverse pickpocket a grenade or mine on him. IIRC that's supposed to be scripted as a kill command rather than heavy damage.

[Stahlseele]

initial posting said he was immune to reverse pickpocketing.
Let him go up against the Ant-Queen Thingies. Or the BIG supermutants.
See how that works.

[ethandrul]

I bet he can't breathe underwater.
or survive being pushed off a satellite tower.

[Stahlseele]

i would not bet on that.

[StealthSigma]

How about roasting him while he's in his holding cell in Vault 82. Does that work?

[Stahlseele]

If he does not heal faster than he burns.
and it's still going to take HOURS to kill him that way.

[StealthSigma]

If he does not heal faster than he burns.
and it's still going to take HOURS to kill him that way.

I'm pretty sure that is a scripted event that issues a kill command....

[ethandrul]

and it doesn't count if he isn't your follower when you kill him

well, upon further experimentation- it seems that shooting him off a satellite relay so he falls to the ground kills him. BUT if you shoot him off of one of the walkways below the relay, he doesn't die. he takes 2 bars of damage.

[Dumori]

MIV him in VATS sao your imortar the you shuld be able to finish him off works best in a very small area with space to flee to later. After pick a nasty weapon like vengence and let rip It shoul tak e him down. Or if you can one more VATs MIV shot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) .