During the summer steam sale fallout 3 was five dollars. I figured I'd just port my retail over. Nope, steam rejects the retail key. I hear they allow retail keys for fallout: new vegas, so I was confused.
I emailed bethesda support, and they claimed that the two versions of the game were incompatible.
So I dropped the six bucks. But I decided to try an experiment. I tracked down the folder where steam installs fallout 3. it's
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\fallout 3 goty
for me.
Then I grabbed everything in the bethesda fallout 3 folder.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks\Fallout 3
Dumped it in the steam folder, and fired up steam. Miraculously it claimed that fallout 3 was fully installed!
So Bethesda lied to me.
I'm rolling the maximum skill guide this time, and that ramps early difficulty up something fierce. I usually invest heavily in stealth and lockpick, and steal everything I need. I can still be sneaky, but I have to put more work into it with the lower skill. I'm at level 17 and it's just now starting to level out.
As to the infamous Teddy Bear factory, all those poses are intentional. You'll find small things like that throughout the wasteland. In the robco factory, you can find a voyeur with a camera, who was attempting to get toilet pictures. You can also find a robot on a toilet, who has crapped out scrap metal.
In the Chryslus building, you will find lawn gnomes in toilets, holding protest signs.
In Seward Square there is a man who has blown his own head off in a freight truck. Be careful, as he has booby trapped the location.
Almost forgot. If you pickpocket the weapons you sell to Protector Casdin, they are fully repaired. I took in 11 laser pistols, 30 rifles, and 2 plasma rifles. They're all at 100%.
