Mothership Zeta (add-on)

Since the Cryolator was cut before Fallout 3 release I think it’s a missed opportunity how Bethesda didn’t reimplement it into Mothership Zeta, just like how the Cryo mines and Cryo grenades were almost cut from the final game but were reintroduced in MZ. I don’t know maybe someone can turn this into a mod.

We all got some habits, but do you have any when playing any of the Fallout games?

I’ve noticed whenever I play through both Mothership Zeta and Lonesome Road, for whatever reason the only videos I listen to whilst playing both DLCs are Chris chan videos. Literally, only videos about the internets most famous lolcow.

Been playing through Fallout 3 and it’s DLC’s for the past month and currently almost near the end of the game. As the title says I’m currently on Mothership Zeta trying to get all the unique loot that come with the DLC. I’m having a hard time trying to pickpocket the samurai armor from Toshiro Kago but I don’t want to kill him. Any advice? Like, what piece of apparel should I put in his pockets to make it easy to take his armor and at what condition?

Operation Anchorage

•Jingwei’s Shocksword

The Pitt

•Metal Blaster

•Infiltrator

•Perforator

Broken Steel

•Callahan’s Magnum

•Tesla Cannon

•Precision Gatling Laser

Point Lookout

•Backwater Rifle

•Ritual Knife

•The Dismemberer

•Double-Barrel Shotgun

Mothership Zeta

•Alien atomizer

•Alien Disintegrator

•Captain’s Sidearm

•Destabilizer

•Paulson’s Revolver

•Samurai Sword

I played through the Mothership Zeta dlc a few days ago and boy i was hyped to what the aliens are hiding up in their starship, but.... Nothing worthy. Was totally disappointed. No really challanges in combat, no speech, repair or science checks (other than a few health restoration machine).

Just shoot, shoot and shoot 'till all dead and destroy a generator, so you can go to the next level, so you can shoot some more. Zero interesting exploration, the same three enemy all around.

After an hour i found myself just running to the next quest task up until i finished the dlc and i was actually happy when i could finally leave that boring place.

How did you feel about Mothership Zeta? Was it really this boring or did i just miss something?

My theory is that Nate, the male Sole Survivor, is actually the protagonist of both Fallout 4 and Operation Anchorage.

As you probably already know, Nate was a veteran of the Alaskan conflict, and had retired with honor sometime before the bombs fell. This is confirmed in various sources, including the intro of the game, as well as the crew of the U.S.S. Constitution, who provide another key detail: Nate served in the 108th Infantry Regiment.

Meanwhile Operation Anchorage takes place in,well, Anchorage. It sees you become a war hero by accomplishing 4 tasks, Taking out the mountain artillery, taking out the Chinese tank depot, taking out a Chinese listening post, and taking back an oil refinery the Chinese are using as a HQ. The details have been skewed a fair bit, according to some terminal entries inside the military bunker, some of which was cut from the game. However at least some of the events are true.

Finally the third piece of the puzzle(the crucial linking bit) comes from Mothership Zeta, where you get to meet a group of soldiers, including Elliot Tercorien.(who I totally thought was a woman) Elliot and his fellow soldiers are Anchorage-era soldiers, combat medics that are from, wait for it, The 108th Infantry Battalion.

Now you may be thinking, but wait, that's a completely different unit right? Wrong. Truth is, apart from 3 digits being exactly the same(which would be a huge coincidence) a Battalion and a Regiment are actually similar sizes. So we could actually have met one of Nate's war buddies there. Bethesda probably just goofed up the name of the unit in Fallout 4, especially since it's an IRL unit... From New York, which isn't even in the same Commonwealth as Massachusetts in Fallout's USA.

Now the real tough question is, what did Nate actually do in Anchorage? He can't have done it all, since the story had been heavily edited in the training version. I believe the true answer is that Nate took out the Chinese Listening Post.

It can't be the Chimera Depot, since Chimeras are said to probably have been made up in one of the terminal entries.

It can't be the Artillery cannons, because that would be a job for Airborne troops(speaking of which what the hell is Benji, a Marine, doing there?)

And finally it can't be the Refinery, since you, a random grunt, a mid level officer at best, get singled out by Jingwei in a duel, which really makes no sense and is obviously a boss level for the training VR system.

Anyways that's my theory. Now that I've typed it out Elliot's role seems kinda trivial, but just treat it as more foreshadowing for F4 I guess. After all Broken Steel pretty much set up F4s Commonwealth.

So, recently I started playing Mothership Zeta. Great Dlc but that’s off topic. I was listening to the captive logs and I noticed something that may be a reference. In particular, log 15. I think log 15 may be a reference to the first transformers movie from 2007, when agent Simmons is taken prisoner briefly. I may be completely wrong about this, but it’s a neat reference if it is. Any opinions, my fellow Wikians?