When not in the player characters party, Dogmeat fights for the NCR. Dogmeat will remember the Vault Dweller from Fallout and join the PC. He can be recruited by the Chosen One, by simply showing their Vault 13 jumpsuit (in other words, undress) and speaking to the dog. Inform who you want, youll have a 3-way fight that is very action-packed no matter. Dogmeat can be found in the special encounter, Café of Broken Dreams. We'll have fuller impressions of this morning's demo in due course. It seemed there were more fighters present when informing both factions.

It's coming out for PC, PS3 and 360 this autumn. 'It's an homage to the original game to have a memorable dog that you can have with you, and it's a way to give you a companion.'įallout 3 looks amazing, whether your dog's dead or not. Luckily, our canine friend isn't necessary to the plot. So you've got to be smart about where you send him off.' 'If you're attacking a Raider camp, or something, and you're running low on ammo and you say, 'Go find me ammo,' and he goes running through a bunch of Raiders, they can shoot and kill him while he tries to do what you told him. 'So obviously you have to be careful about where you send him foraging for stuff,' said Hines.

Speaking to videogaming247 at a Fallout 3 demo in London this morning, Bethesda marketing head Peter Hines has confirmed the unthinkable: if you don't look after Dogmeat the dog, don't go crying to mother when he doesn't come back for bath time.ĭogmeat can be sent to find ammo, food, stimpacks, and so on, but if you don't think about what you're doing with him he's not going to last very long, from the sound of it.

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