GNR Building Plaza (Fallout 3)

As part of the main story, the player is sent to GNR after finding out that James visited Three Dog.

Location

 * Galaxy News Radio building and GNR Plaza is located in the Chevy Chase district.

Directions to Galaxy News Radio
You must go through the Tenleytown/Friendship Station, which can be reached through the Farragut West Station maintenance tunnels. Once in the station, make your way through to the Chevy Chase North access. Outside you will see the Brotherhood of Steel fighting Super Mutants in a bombed out building. Once the Super Mutants are killed (by your hands or the Brotherhood of Steel), follow them through the alley to a Super Mutant infested building. On the way to this building you should notice a dead Brotherhood of Steel soldier laying on a bed on the ground; he will have a Power Armor and some Energy Cells that you can take (the body only appears if encountered during the Following in His Footsteps quest). The last stop in this battle will be the plaza in front of the GNR building itself, where you will battle the final group of Super Mutants. During this battle with the Super Mutants, a Super Mutant Behemoth will break through and attack. There is a Fat Man on the body of a dead Brotherhood of Steel soldier. This can be used on the Behemoth if it is preferred.

Notable Loot

 * Big Book of Science located in the GNR Studios near a red chair. This book must be stolen.

Trivia
Using the PIP-Boy 3000, you can find a picture of the building under notes. This may have been a possible reward in Megaton.

Bugs

 * If you manipulate the quest to find Dad by going to Rivet City or straight to his location in Vault 112, and later return to the GNR Building Plaza, it is possible that no Brotherhood of Steel NPC's will spawn, except the door guards. Immediately upon discovery of the actual plaza, the Super Mutant Behemoth and Super Mutants will attack. Alternatively, the mutants in the courtyard will spawn dead, and just the Behemoth will attack you. This makes life much harder for low levels who wanted to go to see Three Dog. There have also been reports of difficulty entering GNR after Raven Rock.
 * A note to the above glitch, having tried entering it after arrival at the Citadel the glitch occurred, meaning I got totally wiped when I tried to head downtown by the Super Mutants; only realistic way to do this is to leave any followers in the ruins, twitch out to trigger the behemoth then go back in the ruins, run across to the building, the guard will say it's clear and let you in if the Behemoth is not in view, go in quicksave and go out before the behemoth kills your follower, it will now be in the courtyard on patrol, and if you stand behind the sandbags where the guards were you can pepper him down without retaliation (He tends to get stuck going between you and your companion in the building, or get stuck on lamposts, further note, no free Fat Man so be prepared with 20 odd rockets and a fully upped launcher.
 * In the PS3 version, if you trigger the Behemoth occurrence after triggering the events listed above, THEN retreat a distance until the AI turns non-aggressive, you can sometimes return and enter the GNR building WITHOUT killing the Behemoth. The intercom will assess the combat as over even with the Behemoth standing right outside; however, this may not last, and later visits may cause the area to revert to its normal state. (X360)
 * If you have to face all the super mutants, including the Behemoth alone. However, you can run straight to the door without killing any of them, and the intercom will say that everything looks okay.
 * Unsure if this is rare or not, but in Three Dog's room, when attempting to reverse pickpocket the head wrap from him, Dogmeat may appear, near where Threedog sleeps.
 * If you exit GNR, you cannot re-enter because it will need a key, and the Intercom says the door its open, (confirmed on PS3 and 360) one way to enter GNR again is lockpicking one door of the building (Very Hard).
 * If you blow up the citadel the BOS troops outside GNR may be friendly but the guys inside are not.

Related Quests

 * Following in His Footsteps
 * Galaxy News Radio
 * Caching in with Three Dog

Galaxy News Radio