How do I continue playing after finishing the main story?

[twr.]

From the looks of it, my only choice is to load my last save and avoid completing the last main quest if I want to keep playing. Is there any way for me to keep playing the game with the main quest finished??

[Dutchcrazygamer]

Originally posted by Freaty Clalk:

From the looks of it, my only choice is to load my last save and avoid completing the last main quest if I want to keep playing. Is there any way for me to keep playing the game with the main quest finished??

I think there was a mod but i forgot the name of it.

Edit: oh crap i thought this was the fallout new vegas discussions. The comment below explains it.

[BondageSpider]

If you have the Broken Steel DLC enabled the game continues after the main quest, with a new questline about the Brotherhood/Enclave war. If you're not using Broken Steel, the game ends.

You just need to make sure it's enabled in Data Files from the launcher when launching the game.

I can't remember if you need to load a save from before your character enters the part of the Memorial with the Project Purity control room or not.

[twr.]

Thanks! Didn’t know I had to enable the dlcs myself ;)

Originally posted by BondageSpider:

If you have the Broken Steel DLC enabled the game continues after the main quest, with a new questline about the Brotherhood/Enclave war. If you're not using Broken Steel, the game ends.

You just need to make sure it's enabled in Data Files from the launcher when launching the game.

I can't remember if you need to load a save from before your character enters the part of the Memorial with the Project Purity control room or not.

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by Freaty Clalk:

Thanks! Didn’t know I had to enable the dlcs myself ;)

Originally posted by BondageSpider:

If you have the Broken Steel DLC enabled the game continues after the main quest, with a new questline about the Brotherhood/Enclave war. If you're not using Broken Steel, the game ends.

You just need to make sure it's enabled in Data Files from the launcher when launching the game.

I can't remember if you need to load a save from before your character enters the part of the Memorial with the Project Purity control room or not.

Exactly as Bondage said but you dont need to load a previous save. Just activate the purifier,then go trough the ending and afterwards it will automatically say 2 weeks later and you start the DLC itself.

[bunni]

if you didn't enable the dlcs yourself, you now have 4 new adventures to go through, too!

[Hollow_Spam]

I may be wrong, but I do belive that the ending itself also changes how it works, for example if you have someone other than yourself go in to activate it (such as sentinel Lyons) then there may be an issue with continuing with your original character, as canonically they would be dead via radiation poisoning.

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by Spicy Memeboi:

I may be wrong, but I do belive that the ending itself also changes how it works, for example if you have someone other than yourself go in to activate it (such as sentinel Lyons) then there may be an issue with continuing with your original character, as canonically they would be dead via radiation poisoning.:2018ship:

The story is just a massive bs tbh. still a forever nostalgic game and a great one,but the storyline is just meh....i mean the player caracther should die if they choose to activate the purifier for themselfs but somehow they survive,however all other humans that do it die. Power Armor should protect you long enough...but no. Also in several playtroughs i sent fawkes or charon when they were my companions and the game continued fine afterwards,you still get knocked out and go for the ending and you wake up in the citadel sometime later.

[Jurassic Fart 1]

Originally posted by BondageSpider:

You just need to make sure it's enabled in Data Files from the launcher when launching the game.

Man, I sure am glad I read this, else I would have totally missed out on the DLCs that I bought. They should TELL you this stuff when you install the game.

[NecroMaster]

Your playing game of the year right?

With broken Steele installed the story should continue for you.

[Jurassic Fart 1]

Yes, I got GOTY for something like nine bucks.

[biawakmalas]

Oh so if i have broken steel dlc and i complete the main quest i still can continue playing the game? Forever?

[[LYF]Levi o Lusitano]

Originally posted by biawakmalas:

Oh so if i have broken steel dlc and i complete the main quest i still can continue playing the game? Forever?

Yep thats pretty much it

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by Freaty:

From the looks of it, my only choice is to load my last save and avoid completing the last main quest if I want to keep playing.

You need the Broken Steel DLC.

Originally posted by LYFLevi o Lusitano:

the player caracther should die if they choose to activate the purifier for themselfs but somehow they survive

In the original game that's exactly what happened. At the end you sacrifice yourself for the salvation of all mankind. Not exactly a new story, but an actual story with pedigree. See the New Testament or The Omega Man for examples. Next you got an epilogue describing how your actions in the game ended up affecting all your companions.

But all the unwashed heathens demanded otherwise, so they made Broken Steel. And they haven't managed a decent story or ending since.

[Steve]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.