Big Town

Big Town is a ramshackle town of inept Wastelanders in Fallout 3.

Location
Big Town is located far north of Vault 101, near the river bend, and southeast of the Moonbeam Outdoor Cinema. You can see it from a reasonable distance: it is a small town with many houses. It is only accessible using a bridge and the town is surrounded by barricades.

Background
used to be a sprawl of suburban housing, but has been transformed into a makeshift fortress, with walls made of cars, debris and rubble. The dilapidated homes are fortified with barbed wire and sandbags. The population of Big Town comprises former residents of Little Lamplight, who were ushered into the town following either their 16th or 18th birthday (depending on the country/game system).

Big Town was glorified by those of high authority in Little Lamplight, and was made out to be a safe, comfortable area. In fact, Big Town is constantly besieged by slavers and super mutants, whilst the demoralized residents can do little to repel the invasions. When the Lone Wanderer arrives in the settlement for the first time, he/she is informed that some residents were kidnapped by Super Mutants and taken to the old police station in Germantown.

Related Quests

 * Big Trouble in Big Town
 * A Sticky Situation
 * Bittercup Runneth Over
 * Ticking Timebomb
 * Strictly Business

Important Skill Thresholds

 * With a Medicine skill of 40, you can get a positive karma boost in addition to a handful of bottle caps for healing Timebomb, who is found inside Red's house. If you talk to him after saving the town from Super Mutants, he'll reward you with the Lucky 8 Ball.

Loot
PS3 version: holotape can still be found after completing the quest. Fixed in the latest patch.
 * Red's Clinic contains a copy of the D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine, lying on her kitchen table. In the adjacent room with the clinic's back door and the door to the town, there will be a holotape on the table which helps The Replicated Man quest. The tape will only appear so long as The Replicated Man quest has been started, but not finished.
 * The Lucky 8 Ball can be obtained from Timebomb here, assuming the player meets the requirements before, during, and after Big Trouble in Big Town.
 * Near Big Town, there is also a dead slave with a message (the message talks about the Temple of the Union). To find it, go to the entrance of Big town and then go to northeast (near the left of the last house).

NPCs
Red or Shorty only appear if you complete Big Trouble in Big Town. Sticky only appears if you complete A Sticky Situation.

Scavenger only appears if you met him during a Random Encounter.

Bugs
Note: This glitch is thought to have has been fixed in the patch 1.1. Note: This does not happen on NPCs that have been killed by random encounter monsters.
 * Be careful when fast-travelling to Big Town - there have been cases when, as soon as you arrive, a random wasteland creature spawns inside the town and begins attacking you. The townsfolk will help you taking it down, but it's advisable to act quickly as they can die easily. Yao Guai, Giant Radscorpions and even a Deathclaw have been known to appear in Big Town.
 * Some players have reported that when returning to Big Town some time after completing Big Trouble in Big Town, the town was infested with Super Mutants and that all of the human NPCs were dead. This is a result of the Random Encounter system. Sometimes when the player ventures into the cell that Big Town is located in, the game will generate enemies such as Super Mutants, Deathclaws, or Raiders. Fast traveling to Big Town should not spawn these events. This may happen regardless of the player's choice to teach the townspeople about defending or hiding themselves.
 * Reverse-pickpocketing overpowered weapons and armor into all the town's residents has also been reported to result in the town defending themselves, but isn't viable long-term since the residents will run out of ammo eventually. This option requires the player to fast travel out of Big Town to allow the NPCs to equip the loot
 * Enemies may (rarely) randomly spawn inside Big Town itself, as it is not seperate from the general Wasteland map. This can even occur as you enter and exit the buildings in Big Town. (unconfirmed)
 * If this happens, Big Town is eventually doomed, as dead enemies will continue to respawn after 72 hours. You can move the bodies to stop them from respawning inside the town walls, but this only works for human enemies (i.e. Raiders) as creature corpses are too heavy to move. Creature bodies on the entrance bridge can be dropped into the water. Tested and works on Super Mutants.
 * There is a glitch to gain infinite experience in Big Town. First, talk to Bittercup. You must get on her good side for the glitch to work. After Bittercup talks to you, she will say that nobody understands her. After this choose 'Nobody understands me either.' Then talk to Pappy and choose 'You came here with Bittercup?' If not successful the first time, keep trying until a success. Keep choosing the same speech and your XP will go up slowly.(PS3) If you enter certain buildings (not the one where Bittercup is) before initiating the glitch, the glitch may not work.
 * Occasionally people in the town don't speak their dialogue, but the text stays there as if they are. This means that you have to read the dialogue yourself unfortunately.
 * Players who travel to Big Town may find that there is no-one there, including corpses.
 * If the player chose to teach the townspeople about the use of robots, sometimes the robots will remain in the town while the others have vanished.
 * There is a random occurrence that can occur in this area. On the bridge out in front of Big Town, you may discover a water caravan comprised of a Scavenger, two Rivet City guards, and a Brahmin. They will be attacked by a group of slavers who are non-hostile until you initiate combat with them. Sometimes, you will encounter the corpses of the caravan with the slavers nearby. If rescued, the caravan will often linger around Big Town, sometimes embarking on a circuit up toward Germantown and back again. Occasionally they will get into a fight with the Raiders near Big Town, though if killed, the caravan will occasionally respawn. This random encounter will only occur if you have installed Broken Steel.
 * Attempting to use the resurrect console command on NPCs that were slain dude to the player not helping them after the Big Trouble in Big Town quest will cause them to drop dead as soon as you close the console again. There is no known fix on how to resurrect them.

Большой город Big Town