Evil walkthrough

[EolSunder]

Well with summer coming up and time off i'm going to play through fallout 3 goty again and this time do an evil walkthrough. Figured if anyone has any suggestions or have done something similiar give me a shout on things to do. I've played through the game many times so i know most stuff but usually most people don't do the evil things since fallout 3 isn't really focused on bringing out a real evil character. I'll tell you what im starting and going to do so any more help is always appreciated.

Going to be a girl character, stats 5/6/5/1/10/7/6. With 10 intelligence don't need perks like comprehension or educated, etc will still max skills by level 30. Also don't need stat raising perks since level 30 you'll get "almost perfect" raising everything to 9/9/9/9/10/9/9 and then pick up bobbleheads to get all to 10. Level 30 comes only like 1/3rd of the way through the GOTY so very easy to max everything with the GOTY.

Now, will be visiting bethesda ruins and vault 106 early gameplay for lockpick/science bobbleheads, going to max those 2 skills pretty early so you can open/hack anything in the game early on, probably by level 10. Then can just raise up everything else playing normally without worrying about coming back for stuff due to not being able to get into anything. Focusing on unarmed early (3 levels iron fist) for easy killing of stuff even with unarmed or basic unarmed weapons (brass knuckles, etc). First 2 perks are 10% exp and black widow (nothing else to pick since you don't need skill or stat perks with GOTY).

Trying to hit most evil things in the game to do, blow up megaton, work with paradise falls slavers, steal everything, etc. Going to be plenty of dropping grenades in pockets, sniping, looting, killing, bla bla bla.

Now as for perks, there are evil perks such as cannibal and sandman, etc that for atmosphere are nice, but really aren't useful other than that. You will get much more out of perks ignoring those 2, but some might think an evil character might want those 2 perks just for playability. Me, i want combat perks that lets me kill stuff easier over "roleplay" perks, but thats what suggestions are for. All the rest of the perks are going to be based on fighting since well, thats the only hard part of the game really. 3 levels iron fist, paralyzing palm, 3 levels explosives, pyro, cyborg, endomologist, finess, bloody, sniper, criticals, you get the idea.

So just wanted come comments on if you think i should really take roleplaying perks for better "evil" feel or just stick with the normal combat ones. Im thinking after the dozenth time eating someone with cannibal i'm going to go "what a waste this takes way to long to gain back 25 hps lol, i can just drink from this sink), or with sandman it gives nice exp but most of the game you won't be using it and when you do it seems to get revealed way to much for some reason due to the animation or positioning or something. I also think after a few times i'll go mm rather just sneak punch someone to kill them instead of the dumb sandman thingie again.

[srsface]

The "Almost Perfect" will actually lower a stat at 10 to 9. Not that it matters because you'll have 100 in every skill anyway, so the only meaningful stats end up being strength and luck.

I've never bothered with almost perfect as a result. Stats just don't do a whole lot so you can max the ones worth taking while minimizing the others, if you really want to. There are so few perks actually worth taking in this game. If it just raises stats, it's useless, and if it affects radiation, it's also useless. 9 Int to start so I can bobblehead to 10, strength 6, luck 7. Everything else at 5. By the time you bobblehead all your stats, you can take any perk worth taking.

If you want to go Evil, Contract Killer is a pretty cool perk because you should have no qualms about murdering Brotherhood of Steel people, and now you get rewarded for doing so. Also, Paradise Falls should be one of the first places you hit up. Enslaving people is a fantastic way to make caps early, and the Mezzer gun is great in general for when you want to loot the heck out of someone without killing them (even on an evil playthrough, that happens a bit.)

[EolSunder]

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almost perfect won't lower 10 down to 9
contract killer is a roleplaying perk only same as cannibal and sandman, it only gives 5 caps per kill so basically not useful.

no need to do the int 9 and run to rivet city trick with GOTY. You'll max skills and specials by level 30. the rivet city run is good for the regular game but not useful for GOTY where you'll max out 1/3 of the way through the game. And slaving will be part of the evil walkthrough yes, but it loses its luster pretty fast since you'll make tons of caps anyway and nothing to spend it on but more stims and ammo. Doing the quests and then a few slaving is good but it does get boring fast.