The ending

[Drezar]

I was dissapointed when i finished the main story line, and it just gave me a cut scene and sent me back to the menu... is there an option to choose at the end of the game to continue it or does it end no matter what you do with the purifier?

[EmilB]

u get other story with one of dlc ,broken steel.
buy all for more fun.

[Sovereign]

The Broken Steel dlc extends the main quest line by several more hours, gives you a better ending (imo), allows you to play forever, increases the level cap and adds new gear, perks & enemies. I'd say it's pretty much mandatory when playing this game.

[Drezar]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

The Broken Steel dlc extends the main quest line by several more hours, gives you a better ending (imo), allows you to play forever, increases the level cap and adds new gear, perks & enemies. I'd say it's pretty much mandatory when playing this game.

i have all DLC including broken steel, but it still ended the game. is there anything i need to do to activate it in game? i already activated them in the data files.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by KaminoClone:

Originally posted by Sovereign:

The Broken Steel dlc extends the main quest line by several more hours, gives you a better ending (imo), allows you to play forever, increases the level cap and adds new gear, perks & enemies. I'd say it's pretty much mandatory when playing this game.

i have all DLC including broken steel, but it still ended the game. is there anything i need to do to activate it in game? i already activated them in the data files.

That's strange. Did you see a pop-up for each dlc when you exited Vault 101?

[Baby_Cookie[WOLF]]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Originally posted by KaminoClone:

i have all DLC including broken steel, but it still ended the game. is there anything i need to do to activate it in game? i already activated them in the data files.

That's strange. Did you see a pop-up for each dlc when you exited Vault 101?

what this guy says
as soon as you start the game should activate all dlc's if you enabled them

( this should even be done so poorly that they even interupt your birth opening scene to the piont you have to click pointless notification boxes during it :p )
( if it didn't do that then the datafiles weren't recognised forsome reason )

other then that

broken steel is weaved into the game and you'll run into it if you explore enough ( pretty much unavoidable )
the other ones require you to go to a specific place on the map to activate them ( trough a dedicated box asking your permission to do so )( you pretty much also can't miss these if you explore enough )

another way to see if they activated ..
do you have specific radiosignals that guide you somewhere
and do you have a quest that indicates something about point lookout ( this one is given right from the start of the game and shoves it in your face over the actual tutorial quest thingy ( you have to manually unselect it or the game keeps shoving it in your face :p )


in short
the dlc's are rather hard not to find :p

[Caboose]

did you end up killing yourself in that chamber? if yes it's your fault to not have anything else to play. Send Lyons to death to continue your journey

[Drezar]

I ended up re loading a saved game and I did the ending again, I did all the same things except this time after the cutscene at the end "2 weeks later" popped up and broken steel started. it might have just been a bug but thanks everyone for the help!

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by KaminoClone:

I was dissapointed when i finished the main story line, and it just gave me a cut scene and sent me back to the menu... is there an option to choose at the end of the game to continue it or does it end no matter what you do with the purifier?

Only if you get the Broken Steel DLC.

They fixed the, frankly, screwed up ending in that. You'll notice that in FO3 *without* BS, no matter what you do, no matter who you have as a companion (and there's one that's immune to radiation and one that's *healed* by it) YOU have to go press the button. And that kills you.

BS allows you to have someone else do it or makes it so you can survive doing it yourself.

[Incunabulum]

Originally posted by \ T / Caboose:

did you end up killing yourself in that chamber? if yes it's your fault to not have anything else to play. Send Lyons to death to continue your journey

In the base game you can't do that.

[Sovereign]

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

Originally posted by \ T / Caboose:

did you end up killing yourself in that chamber? if yes it's your fault to not have anything else to play. Send Lyons to death to continue your journey

In the base game you can't do that.

Actually in the base game you can send Sarah into the chamber.

[鶸鸟偷腥图谱]

1.start the game
2.don‘t click ’play‘
3.click 'date field'
4.choose 'brokensteel'
5.enjoy the story after the end

[BondageSpider]

Originally posted by Sovereign:

Originally posted by Incunabulum:

In the base game you can't do that.

Actually in the base game you can send Sarah into the chamber.

Yes, and if you're not using Broken Steel that *still* ends the game, no matter who you send. It just changes the ending cutscene to show that someone else sacrificed themselves instead of you. You still get dumped back to the title screen after the credits.

[Hank Hell]

I would say it is better for the story as it adds more of a feeling of impact to your choices when you see the way your factions you've aligned with ended up after you died. In Fallout 4 nothing is changed and the only difference after the story is done is that some soldiers on your side will patrol around the map.

[shadowguy61]

short answer: vanilla ending isn't real ending, broken steel ending is real ending.

[NecroMaster]

I kind of find it stupid you get called a selfish hero if you get a friend who cant die from radiation activate it.

Thats not being selfish thats just not being stupid. Why does the game want me to die when theres a way noone has to die.