Can You Beat Fallout 3 As A Nuclear Anomaly?

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There are a lot of perks in Fallout 3. The majority of them just provide small bonuses to various skills: +5 to Repair and Medicine, +15 to Barter, +10 to Speech, that sort of thing. But there’s one perk that actually gives you a new way to attack enemies. Can You Beat Fallout 3 As A Nuclear Anomaly?

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Can You Beat Fallout 3 As A Nuclear Anomaly? (in text form)

Uh… probably not. Nuclear Anomaly is a perk you can’t get until you reach level 30, which also happens to be the max level in Fallout 3 even with all DLCs installed. In this challenge, the only way to attack an enemy is with that perk. So could you somehow reach level 30 in Fallout 3 without attacking anything? I highly doubt it since there are no XP farm “exploits”, if you want to call them that, like there are in Fallout 4, at least not that I’m aware of. Which means there are 2 ways for me to get this perk and both involve cheating, but we’ll get to that in a bit.

Inside Vault 101, I named myself Adam Bomb, and started assigning SPECIAL Points. I drained Strength, Charisma, and Intelligence because they had no value to me, maxed out Perception and Endurance to be able to take a couple important perks, and put the rest in Agility and Luck. Looking back, Luck was probably a waste, I think I would’ve been better off putting those points in Strength. The bonus to all skills is negligible and I have a hard time believing Critical damage applies to the walking Nagasaki perk. I did kill the roach during my 10th birthday party only so that I wouldn’t have to play the game as a baby or as a child, escaped the vault without attacking anything as I’ve done many times, and stepped outside ready to leave the world of mortals behind and take my place among the stars.

I used the reward xp command to give myself enough experience points to get me to level 30, and began the process of assigning skill points and picking skills. In an effort to not become too overpowered, because I’d be at level 30 and would have a bunch of perks by the time this was over, I spread out my skill points evenly amongst all skills as I leveled up. I think this is a fair way to balance things out. Almost half of the skills - Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Explosives, Melee Weapons, Small Guns, and Unarmed - are worthless since I can’t use any of those weapons. Doing it this way kept me from maxing out only the skills I’d be using, like Medicine or Repair. I’m not going through all the perks I picked, there isn’t time to talk about 30 different perks.

The big ones were Explorer which marked all locations on my map, Rad Tolerance to slap Minor Radiation Poisoning back to where it belongs, Rad Absorption to turn my sweat into a cool neon green color, Devil’s Highway to set my Karma to Very Evil, Toughness which was a dumb move on my part, No Weaknesses to raise all SPECIAL stats lower than 5 up to 5, and Nuclear Anomaly. With this perk, any time your health is below 20%, you erupt into a devastating nuclear explosion causing big damage to everyone and everything near you, including your armor and your limbs.

All Comments (21)
  • @TheBeehawk
    Literally never heard someone say “a third of a dozen” instead of “4”
  • @zmatt007
    "My life left my body around the time I died." Write poetry please
  • @friccle_
    The ending didnt even kill him, he just awoke with 40% of his health back and he cried as death stared him in his ginger mustached face, and said “ew no”
  • @xZippy
    "I'm the big joke, and my body is the punchline." Beautiful.
  • @sammijunes
    Im starting to think this guy is actually insane playing the same, like, two games and yet finding new challenges every week
  • @Compi-Compean
    "I broke both my legs by accidentally jumping off a bridge on purpose" Not gonna lie that made me think longer that I'm proud to admit.
  • @madeline3832
    1:34 "...ready to leave the world of mortals behind and take my place among the stars." i was. not ready for that :( rest in peace paul
  • @gravytrainn
    Raider: Will you just stand still!! Paul: is standing still
  • @Garrett7789
    Hey just for future reference, if you keep placing and immediatly disarming a mine next to an npc before it blows up, will give you XP
  • I like how there’s no middle ground with Mitten Squad’s videos. He’s either an indomitable force of nature or raiders take like 2 minutes to kill
  • @feybrandt40533
    Rest in Peace Mitten Squad, You'll be forever missed. :(
  • @JayAyeY
    “By accidentally jumping off a bridge on purpose”
  • @delgeveus7506
    When he say “The perk is like my air conditioner”, I remember the legendary duel between a drunk man and his strange sounding air conditioner.
  • @nickjames1576
    “I know a guy who knows a guy that can help me. Both of them are me”
  • "I went shopping for dead bodies. They weren't in stock, but I know a guy who knows a guy who can help me out. Both of those guys are me." I'm stealing this line
  • @hamjaro2920
    Raider: "Will you just... stand still!" Mitten squad: "Well yes, that's my entire attack plan."
  • @JagerLange
    "My Eruption Can Actually Kill Me" sounds like one of those weird medical documentaries.
  • @eulbko
    Mom :”stop playing so many games” MittenSquad: “I only play one game, fallout.”