How Many Headshots Does It Takes To Kill Somebody In Fallout 3?

Ripten: "I haven't played Fallout 3. But please, somebody who has, please tell me: do all the NPCs have bulletproof adamantium skulls? I understand every action in the game is determined by stats and behind-the-scenes dice rolls, and that the game isn't an action game or a shooter, but this is pretty ridiculous, and if it's not totally indicative of what actually goes down in the game, well, it's at least funny.

32 headshots. Ouch. Hit the jump and see it for yourself."

[omodis420]

This is the one thing that has bugged me a little about Fallout 3. The previews and demonstrations showed you just being able to go to VATS and kill the *bleep* out of everything. I am trying to get to a high level before I make a final judgment. But I have only gotten in like to head pop offs in 8 hours.

[PirateThom]

Have you got the Bloody Mess Perk?

I would get that. I get head pop-offs and body explosions almost every fight.

[Bazookajoe_83]

As piratethom said get the blody mess perk and you will see head poping arms blown of and leg dissmemberment in every fight. This is truly a masterpiece of a game :-) My only complaint is the friend log in and of from psn that will freeze the image for a sec. Hopefully fixed in a patch in the future..

[The Matrix]

Meh, this guy is just being hard-headed. ;S

[kwicksandz]

Even though it looks like an FPS it has an RPG underneath and combat is decided as such, not with how mad your sniping skills are.

[r2kcipher]

if you the scope on the sniping rifle. they come down with one shot to the head, and its usually messy. it may depend on the difficulty too.

[JsonHenry]

For some reason not getting a one head shot kills 95% of the time in other games bothers me. But it has not bothered me while playing Fallout 3.

[Proxy]

Right before I finished playing I shot a raider in the neck (a missed head shot), one hit kill, his dead bodied tumbled backwards over the edge of a bridge and into the water. :D I was using a laser pistol, definitely not the most powerful weapon.

[vhero]

yeah the head shot thing is a god damn joke sometimes it shouldnt take so much god damn rounds to kill somebody when hitting in the head

[gameplayer]

This is clearly an early level character using one of the weakest, least accurate weapons in the game taking on a Caravan NPC, a fairly strong opponent. If anyone can't understand why it takes forever for a low level character with a weak weapon a long time to take out a relatively strong character... well let's just say you should go back to your instant gratification mindless shooter and leave all that hard math stuff to the adult gamers.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Thus the reason why I dont wanna buy this game. They should have just made a new Oblivion. Now I hear they are making FAllout 4. Great,, good for you guys.

[dachiefsman]

for the love of god get some tissues man!

all you do is b***h and moan about this game.

[ArmrdChaos]

If what I saw was correct (haven't played the game) he basically just selected the head and then kept rattling off rounds which automatically connected each time. This most likely intentional...if you could just simply target the head and one shot everyone every time then that would mess with the game balance. Now if they would have made more NPCs with some kind of head armor they would be able to make this more realistic and allow head shot kills to those without head armor.

[SIX]

I keep hearing about bad bugs and glitches. Are they as bad as what everyone is saying? I'm so conflicted if I should pick this up after Resistance. I hear the graphics are kind of bad too.

[TheExecutive]

I am about 4.5 hours into the game and its a little slow and repetitive. That is not to say that the game isnt good but i havent really been drawn into the game or the character. The game never really has you identify with the main character. I bet my thinking of the game will approve with time because, well, with RPG's it usually does. I would rent it first, its all about taste.

[EastCoastSB]

There are a lot of minor graphical bugs and glitches, but it is nothing that'll make throw your controller in frustration. Except maybe if you have it for PS3 and you have a million friends signing in and out. I haven't experienced anything major that'll wreck the game.(I'd say I'm about halfway through the main quest too)

The graphics aren't that great compared to other games out now, but you have to remember just how big this game really is.

[Dino]

but i find this game fun and more fast paced.

[0verdrive]

if you havent played the first two, your in for a treat. but i think if you played and liked the first two this one will be a bit of a letdown. it kinda is for me, i loved the first two.

the character creation is a little bit more limiting than the first two, and it puts a heavy emphasis on using guns. not a problem for most, but the first two gave you a lot more freedom in how to structure your character.

i really dislike how they did the vats this time around. there is a underemphasis on action points and the actual rpg element, more on action and fps. they also took away the ability to aim melee attacks, which makes the vats pretty useless.

im playing a melee character right now, and it really does remind me of oblivion, especially because the vats, the biggest part that separates the two, does nothing for a melee character.

sorry i kind of turned this into a "what i dont like about fallout3 rant", but bottom line is -

the games pretty fun. i dont agree with some of the gameplay choices that they made, but it definitely is a rich experience that you will be rewarded by playing. the atmosphere and story are very unique that your not going to find anywhere else. also, the ps3 version is not as buggy as all teh 360 fanboys claim, ive been playing all week and i havent really run into any bugs or glitches worth mentioning.

[SIX]

I think I'll get this game. Thanks again.

[Arcturus]

sometimes 4-5 shots to pop off a head

[TheExecutive]

yep, the assault rifle will do it in about 4

[zalifer]

I found loads of one hits in vats. 2-3 shots in normal (zoom aimed) shooting. Question is what is his small weapons skill? he could have gimped it for the vid, or he could be an FPS guy, who just clicked random stats. And dismemberment is glorious in this game!

*psssst* bethesda? please patch dismemberment into oblivion!

[saphiron]

Im not a fan of this game.. want elder scrolls instead!

[Skyyo]

Yes

Thank you!!!

more oblivion!!!

or a new map!!

[Keele]

A new Oblivion?

STOP ACTING LIKE THIS GAME IS A COPY OF OBLIVION.

BECAUSE, IT'S NOT AND YOU WON'T KNOW EITHER UNTILL YOU ACTUALLY PLAY IT.

Oblivion, Oblivion, Oblivion...

JUST BECAUSE BETHESDA WORKED ON THE GAME INSTEAD OF BLACK ISLES AND THE ENGINE IS THE SAME DOESN'T MEAN IT'S A DAMN CLONE.

It plays different therefore IS different.

You should be glad anyway. If black isles did work on this game I highly doubt it'd even reach console release.

[marionz]

i played this game for a wee bit, and hated it, its ugly brown and grey bland graphics and stupid question and answer gameplay bored the hell out of me

[Keele]

Great, give yourself a medal. People like me though, people with a BRAIN will enjoy this masterpiece of a game.

[Kleptic]

there are a lot of things very similar between the two though...NPC AI and behavior is nearly identical...the combat system is also extremely similar, as this video illustrates...

I am not saying that is a bad thing though...I loved Oblivion, so thats good for me...I just simply don't have any time to be playing fallout 3 right now with all the other ridiculously great games out and coming...the glitches and problems with Fallout 3 are keeping me away from it currently...

[Keele]

You're wrong. The combat is completely different.

You don't go into some area and whack someone with a sword or a spell repeatedly untill he/she dies.

The game uses something called ''VATS Mode''. Go figure out what it is.

[Old Snake]

Ya this really bugs me. I had high hopes for this game, but it is buggy as hell, with a ton of pop in and little sh!t like this that just make it an ok game.

[Lord Vader]

Really ? I guess I'm lucky, I've had no problems... what an awesome game...

But for me, Mass Effect was better in Graphics, Story, & Gameplay IMHO.

[Rob_212]

1.)the game tells the guy his gun's in a bad shape (that gun's not much of a damage dealer anyway...)

2.)we don't know any of his perks, stat points, etc.

3.)we DO know his level is somewhere between 2 and 3, so he clearly shouldn't be taking on an enemy this tough (which also tells us his perks and stat points aren't that good, either)

[omodis420]

I have not had any of these bugs you all talk about. Just pure fun gaming. I am taking my time doing side missions, building my character and just having fun.

[Premonition]

My character pretty much killed the whole megaton by accident because I went in to the armory shack and this robot tried to kill me, the next thing i know i get out and the whole place is after me, so I hide in my house and my house bot helped me out a little but died in the process, now the whole place is pretty much a ghost town lol, but since i dont like it like that im going to have to load from the last hard save point i did, cause sometimes the quick save and get you in trouble :(

[Premonition]

It depends on how you build your character, and what weapons your stronger with. Some times it takes a few shots sometimes it can take one shot.

[Adamalicious]

That's pretty silly any way you slice it. Made me laugh anyway.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

I am level 20. Nothing survives the awesome power of the gatling laser. Guess what guys n gals. It's a VIDEO GAME!

[mettalhead70]

Does anyone here know the difference between an RPG and an FPS?

How many headshots does it take to kill someone in Final fantasy 12?

If fallout 3 was like call of duty 4 then it wouldn't be much of an rpg would it?Depending on your skill with certain weapons and if your in sneak mode and your luck and also the power and range of the weapon depends if you get a 1 hit kill or not.I've gotten plenty of 1 hit kills with a stealthy character with a hunting rifle but not with a combat character with the same weapon.

IT ALL DEPENDS ON YOUR SKILL.

[keanerie]

lemme unload twenty clips on dis guy here...

alright the bullets magically whizzed past his head even tho i pointed the reticle directly on him

okay that's cool there are dice rolls in the back

okay let's try VATS

okay this doesn't work either

f this

[keanerie]

PLAY STALKER INSTEAD

[Wolfmoonstrike]

I use a shotgun most of the time (unless they are far off then I use a sniper rifle or a scoped .44 mganum) And I love to either get close or shoot the gun out of the enemies hand so they rush me ( I hate it when they run away but that's the fun of shooting the legs) And when the rush Vats plus head shots equals yumm. Nearly always head burst them or if using a rifle or pistol it's fun to sever there head from there body lol

[RoseSapphire]

The Caravan Guard he was attacking is probably about 10 levels higher than him. He was also using a 10mm pistol, the weakest gun in the game, which was also at an extremely low condition, giving it a damage of five.

Considering the enemy probably had HP of 200+ or even more and adding in that headshots do more damage than a normal attack, that is still quite a few shots.

So really, once you understand that this is a roleplaying game and not a first person shooter, you see why this video is stupid.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Boy:"Mr.Owl, how many bullets does it take to get to the center of of the human skull?"

**Mr. Owl pulls out a gun**

Mr.Owl: "Lets find out."

**Mr.Owl begins firing**

Mr.Owl:"1...2...3!Hmmm 3!

Announcer's Voice: "How many bullets does it take to get an effective headshot? The world may never know.."

[PS360PCROCKS]

lol. side note anyone think the little character that is in this game looks kind of like the character in Bioshock when you get new plasmids (commercials for plasmids)?

[0verdrive]

they are similar

but the character is the same as the one they used in fallout and fallout2, and those games are from the 1990s. when i played bioshock i noticed that, too. but then again i never played systemshock, and i dont know if they had the character in it. hell, i dont even know what systemshock was published, so i have no idea who ripped off of who.

just a thought.

[PS360PCROCKS]

lol ok as long as it's not only me.

[keanerie]

both games draw inspiration from 50s/60s american popular art, little cartoon dudes like that were pretty common back then

[devotee]

All of those shots were clearly not at his head. Also your stats on small guns must be very low and your weapon you used popped up with a repair warning which means the damage done is reduced. All this adds up!

[GameForFame]

I will admit it's a bit ridiculous...shooting someone in the head multiple times when they don't have any type of helmet/head protection is ridiculous...but then again this does have that RPG feel to it and so here ya go...