One-Man Scouting Party

One-Man Scouting Party is a Fallout 3 achievement on Xbox 360 and PC and a trophy on PlayStation 3.

It is granted for discovering 100 locations. You must literally go to the 100 locations, the Explorer perk puts all locations on your map but it does not discover them for you, once you travel to the location, the symbol on your Pip-Boy will change from and it will be considered discovered, thus allowing you to fast travel.

Strategy

 * If you have a save around late level 19, one method is to level up and utilize the Explorer perk, allowing you to have all locations revealed, once this is done, load up with weapons and ammo and head into the wastes going from location to nearest location until you get your achievement.


 * Condensed city centers such as The Mall are the best place for fast discovery as they are packed together and have many per area.


 * The game requires you to find just below 66% of the map markers. You can find a good 20 or so of these in the downtown D.C. areas by wandering through the metro lines. Around the area of Arefu, there are more than 5 places within a close walking distance of each other. Canterbury Commons is surrounded by 2 places.


 * In Playing Operation: Anchorage you will encounter a good amount of locations. You do not need to go out of your way to find them.


 * The radar in the lower left of your screen shows nearby explored locations as a solid green triangle, and nearby unexplored locations as an empty green triangle. One way to get this achievement (and find a lot of otherwise unreferenced, non-quest essential locations) is to fast travel to each location you have already discovered, spin in a circle, and walk in the direction of each empty green triangle on your radar. Note: You may accidentally skip portions of the main quest (or side-quests) if you discover certain locations too early without following the intermediate steps; if you want to avoid this, save before each exploration and reload if a quest (other than the known bug in Agatha's Song) unexpectedly jumps ahead.


 * Go to the Southwest by Tenpenny Tower there are five or six locations close together. Including the Dunwich Building which contains the Melee Weapons Bobblehead, and the F. Scott Key Trail & Campground where you can find the Deathclaw Gauntlet schematics.