Fallout 3's 'Mothership Zeta' DLC beams down in August, priced at $10

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 14th 2009 11:25AM

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The next piece of Fallout 3 DLC leaves the Capital Wasteland and goes a few miles ~~north~~ up. Mothership Zeta will allow The Lone Wanderer to be abducted by aliens on August 3 for 800

($10, 500 bottlecaps, 20 fingers or 5 Ultra Jet) for Xbox and PC.

Zeta will have players fighting their way to the bridge of a giant alien craft in hopes of escaping and stopping whatever the The Galactic Wanderers are there for. New weapons include the "Alien Atomizer" and the "Drone Cannon." Players will also be able to ally with "an unexpected array of characters," including some from "Earth's past." So help us if we can fight side by side with Abraham Lincoln! "I emancipate you from this mortal coil, alien scum!"

Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta DLC

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Tags: bethesda, Bethesda-Game-Studios, bethesda-softworks, fallout-3, fallout-3-dlc, Microsoft, mothership-zeta, RPG, Xbox-360

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And the DLC just keeps coming.

Heres hoping MW2 gets the support that Bethesda puts into their games.

With them steadily pumping DLC like this the games staying new for months after the release. If more games took this model you could end up playing your favorite game for 1 or 2 years until the full sequel comes out...

GENIUS

FYI, this is the last planned Fallout 3 DLC.

Wtf? Am I wrong? Is there more stuff on the way later?

@Platinum_Skeet, funny how that rather excellent strategy is working well for Bethesda and not so much for Valve.
*insert Burnout Paradise praise here*

Wait...where the fuck did the aliens come from?

Fucking hell, I need to go buy this game again.

Maybe you got voted down because they don't want to believe Zeta is the last DLC. : )

I don't think Bethesda has said anything, I had assumed Broken Steel was the last DLC but nope.

I think you might be right, Desi.

From http://fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/home/home.php?fbid=UYRhyCRvQxl:
"We’ve released the first screenshots for our upcoming DLC, Mothership Zeta, as well as info on what you can expect from our 5th and final DLC for Fallout 3. Mothership Zeta will be released August 3rd on Xbox Live and Games for Windows Live for 800 points, and will be released at a later date for PlayStation 3."

the aliens came from space obviously, Cpt Planet. Also there's an unmarked crash site in the regular game where you can find a destroyed ship, a radio signal from it, a dead alien, and a very powerful alien gun and some ammo. There's also a random encounter where a ship crashes out of the sky and explodes in midair spewing another alien gun named Firelance and ammo all over

Bethesda rocks, I don't care what anyone says.

They are some of the best devs out there but i would really like to see some motion capture in their games. Their third person animations are worse than the ones on Mario 64, a games that while was ahead of its time, still came out 13 years ago.

Certainly! I find it odd that most of the DLC takes place far outside of the area the game is based in, though. Granted, something may be flying right over my head, given that I've only played the game for a few minutes.

Legend has it there is a crashed space ship out in the waste somewhere...

Yeah, the animations in their games are.... well they are awful, but I can forgive them for that considering everything else they get right.

Would be nice to hear someone from Bethesda explain why they let the owners 12 year old daughter do all the walking animations...

They got everything else right?

Bethesda couldn't design a GUI for PCs if they had an instruction book in front of them.

Fallout like Oblivion is "console friendly" which means "Dumbed down for PCs" - type the size of billboards, barely any information is given about items, no way to see your inventory without endless button presses, a scroll wheel that can't be mapped for anything useful ... the list is so long it's easier to read the user mod release notes that people have to create to fix Bethesda's lazy porting.

Fingers crossed for Elvis.

I came here to post this.

I hope they don't include Chuck Norris. His roundhouse kick would automatically kill all the aliens, making for some rather short DLC.

dicks crossed for Micheal Jackson. Is it too soon?

@jxc
It's always too soon to say dicks crossed. Wtf?

Hell no, MJ.

I wouldn't be surprised if we found Michael Jackson moonwalking somewher in the ship

Is it weird I assumed you were talking about Elvis from Perfect Dark instead of Elvis Presley

@EasterSmoot
I has the same thought myself lmao.

Next DLC should explore the West Coast setting in Fallout 1 and 2. Please? : )

Something like that wouldn't be DLC, but more than likely a new game altogether. We'll have to wait and see what Fallout: New Vegas brings :D

That, and this is the last DLC they are doing

Yeah, Fallout: New Vegas will also be developed by some of the Fallout 1/2 staff so I'm very excited to see what happens. : D

Why the hell were you downvoted?

Off-topic:
@Nerdy Desi: I read one of your post, and I was just wondering why you didnt play any games online... at all...?

it's likely to be a president, like Lincoln. The whole game runs with those types of characters. The game's timeframe disallows Elvis or any huge musicians.

Fallout 3 takes place in a post-apocalyptic, retro-futurist Washington D.C. and parts of Maryland and Virginia in the year 2277 after a world war over resources which ended in nuclear holocaust in 2077

How does that disallow Elvis?

C'mon, Ian. We all know that Elvis HATED nuclear fallout. Duh.

The point of convergence was the late 1940s from out timeline where art, architecture and music basically locked into a constant. Hence vehicle, building and music selections. Elvis came after this and his style of music never became popular, leaving him with a likely short and completely unknown career. The same goes for other performers after that period. It is unlikely groups like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Motorhead, (thankfully) boy bands or most other post-WW2 music styles ever developed.

But, as these are aliens, it doesn't prevent them from kidnapping Elvis from an alternate timeline where his existence does make sense and spreading his majesty across the policosm.

NO ZEPPELIN?

it really was a hell hole then...

@LaughingTarget: Actually, the Fallout series is meant to be a "world of tomorrow" looking from about the mid fifties. Rock and roll existed, but it was frowned upon by the older generation who preferred jazz. It was also thought improper: Rock 'n' Roll was the "negro term" for sex. Rock 'n' roll was more of a baby boom thing from the late fifties onward. Listen to any internet radio fifties station, and you'll hear lots of jazz and blues and very little rock.

So yes, we could conceivably see Elvis.

Story wise, no. Game play, I would say so.

I've yet to play any of the DLC. Has any of it been worth buying yet? Have they got all the glitches sorted out yet?

The best way I've heard it summed up.

The Pitt-Totally worth it, good new atmosphere, neat stuff.
Anchorage- Skip, basic boring squad shooter
Broken Steel- Level 30 dude, plus its pretty fun.

Have not played point lookout yet, but apparently its pretty good.

This is my question as well. Approximately how long is game play for each of the DLC packs?

Anchorage is only a couple hours long, and it's ok for what it is. It's really good when you're starting a new game and you're only a couple hours in, cause you can do it (since it's a sim, there's no gear requirements) and when you finish you walk away with badass armor and a Gauss rifle. Really helps make the beginning easier.

The Pitt is a bit longer than OA, but it doesn't give you much in terms of new stuff. It's a decent DLC though.

Broken Steel is obviously the best. New weapons, 10 levels, perks, new end game content. It's about 5-7 hours

Point Lookout gives you a whole new land with quite a bit to explore. Lasts about 5-7 hours and it feels like the main fallout game in terms of exploring new areas. Not much in terms of new weapons or gear though.

The two are such different styles of game, it would be hard to compare them. They are both top-notch experiences though, so give them a try. Mass Effect should be the cheaper of the two right now, but both can take 50-100+ hours to finish if you decide to do everything each game has to offer.

This is game by far, one of the best games (not just RPGs) ever made. It's immersive, creepy, action-packed and just pure fun/ Every single DLC has it's own merits and flaws, but the pros far outweigh the latter.

I'm currently working through Broken Steel ('Anchorage was interesting, The Pitt was very cool) and I can't wait to play Point Lookout, and then finally 'Zeta).

Fallout 3 has kept me going since Christmas, and has far-outlasted Fable II.

I hope there's a giant city in the ship or something, cause it doesn't seem like it'll be that big. Anyway I'm still excited for it, but I'm hoping the next DLC lets us go to the Commonwealth or even Rockopolis (think that's what it's called).

You can go to Rockopolis. There is a bobble head there.

Yeah but you can't get inside the city since the leader isolated his land from the Wasteland. It would be nice if they made a DLC where for some reason he re-opens the city to the outside.

I thought point lookout was the best dlc they released, very atmospheric,and it got quite difficult with those damn tribals,grim reapers sprint really saved my skin in the mansion at the start,otherwise i would have been dead really fast.

I'd love to go to the Commonwealth and get some of that "advanced technology"...

they said this is the last DLC for fallout 3. so sadly, no.

It took me about 35 hours to do 100% on Mass Effect my first time through, but unless you're achievement whoring or really really interested in everything about the world, there's really no reason to explore every planet. The side missions are painfully boring.

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Fallout 3's 'Mothership Zeta' DLC beams down in August, priced at $10

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