PREFACE

Your essential guide to Fallout's Preface section. Learn the optimal routes for quick games, full completion, and discover variations for karma, evil, and pacifist playthroughs.

Hey there! Welcome to Fallout. This guide is designed to help you breeze through the game, even if you're aiming for a quick playthrough where you won't grab the water chip but still manage to deal with the mutants with about 75 days left on the clock. Don't worry, though – I've included the parts you'll need if you *do* decide to go for the water chip.

We'll be hitting up a bunch of key locations. Here's the general route we'll be taking for a faster game:

• Vault 13
• Shady Sands
• Vault 15
• Shady Sands (again, to snag Tandi's quest)
• Raiders (to free Tandi)
• Shady Sands (to return Tandi)
• Raiders (to take them out for good)
• Junktown
• The Hub
• Brotherhood
• The Glow (if you struggled with those locks)
• Brotherhood (to get that sweet Power Armor)
• The Hub (to deal with those pesky raiders)
• Brotherhood (for your reward after dealing with the raiders)
• Military Base
• Brotherhood (to tell Maxson about the threat to the military base, even after you've blown it up – you'll score 1500 XP for this!)
• The Cathedral

Now, if you're looking to do absolutely everything the game has to offer, the path is a bit different after getting the Power Armor from the Brotherhood. Here’s the full-completion route:

• Same as above, up to the Brotherhood with Power Armor
• Necropolis (where you'll grab the water chip, fix the pump, and fight mutants)
• Vault 13 (to wrap up any extra sidequests and finally return the water chip)
• The Hub (to rescue the Brotherhood initiate from those raiders)
• Brotherhood (for your reward and any other operations)
• LA Boneyards
• The Cathedral
• Military Base

This guide covers mostly the good-guy quests, but I've also woven in four evil quests. Two are for cash, experience, and important items, one is necessary to take down a specific gang, and the last one is purely for grabbing some sweet loot. Plus, we'll explore three different playthrough variations: Highest Karma, Truly Evil, and Pacifist. So, get ready to dive in!