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Fallout 3 Game Add-Ons (DLC) Hints

Reach the engineering core of the ship.

  • 1 of 15: After doing the "Retrieve your equipment" objective, leave the side room and go through the big western door.
  • 2 of 15: Go through the door to the Steamworks area, then move up to Sally and wait for her to talk to you about the aliens ahead.
  • 3 of 15: Go north along the passage until it turns west into a very long corridor. There are several aliens in that corridor, and they all have atomizers. (If you're high-level enough, they'll also have energy shields and disintegrators.)
  • 4 of 15: Go through the door past the long corridor to find two more aliens to fight, then search the room's container before moving on.
  • 5 of 15: At the other end of the passage is an alien ceiling turret over a door. Start blasting the turret before it sees you, and maybe it won't get off very many shots at you. (Sneaking up on it can help with this, especially if you get sneak-attack bonus damage.)
  • 6 of 15: Past the door, watch for an alien guard and a healing archway on the left, then move on to another large pipes-and-steam room.
  • 7 of 15: Fight your way over to its east side, then go up the stairs and blast aliens (and look for a container) as you head around to a room with another alien ceiling turret.
  • 8 of 15: Go through the healing archway past that and down some stairs, then on to another large pipes-and-steam room.
  • 9 of 15: Let the aliens in the room see you, then retreat so they'll have to charge you one at a time, and you can give them some point-blank head shots with an alien disintegrator. (V.A.T.S. can help a lot with this.)
  • 10 of 15: When they're all dead, enter the room and look to the left to see (and zap) a ceiling turret that's up on a higher level. After it's toast, go through the north door and up the steps to reach the higher floor.
  • 11 of 15: Kill the aliens past the top of the stairs to get Sally to run out through a nearby door, then go through the door and check her room to find two containers, a healing archway, and some shelves with alien biogel, alien crystals, and alien power cells (the kind used with the alien blaster and Firelance).
  • 12 of 15: Check the walkway's side rooms to find some minor items on tables before going through the door to the Engineering Core area.
  • 13 of 15: Follow Sally up the first set of stairs, then look around for supplies before following her up the second set.
  • 14 of 15: Follow her along until she runs into the large circular core room, then stop just past its entrance and check the shelves on the left for alien epoxy.
  • 15 of 15: Follow her all the way to the south room, then talk to her to finish this quest.