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Broken Steel is the third downloadable content pack for Fallout 3. It was first released on May 5, 2009 for the Xbox 360 and PC, however it was re-released for the PC on May 7, 2009 due to error issues. Broken Steel will cost you 800 Microsoft Points if bought on the Xbox 360.

Plot

Broken Steel allows you to continue the main quest after Take it Back!, when you activate Project Purity both you and Sarah Lyons will knocked unconscious and you'll wake up 2 weeks later inside the Citadel clinic. Elder Lyons will explain that despite the success at Project Purity, the Enclave are still going strong and he asks you to aid him and the Brotherhood as they prepare to attack a secret Enclave base.

During the attack, the Brotherhood's most valuable weapon, Liberty Prime is destroyed by a orbital attack. Your next mission is to enter the secret base and find out more about what attacked Liberty Prime, but all you find is an encrypted code. While the Scribes at the Citadel try to figure out the code, your next mission is to head out to an power plant in Old Olney which was experimenting in Alien Technology before the war. Inside the power plant you'll find a load of Deathclaws and a Tesla Coil which you'll need in order for the Brotherhood to create an extremely powerful Energy Weapon known as the Tesla Cannon.

By the time you return to the Citadel, the scribes have tracked down the location of the orbital strike that destroyed Liberty Prime. The attack came from Adams Air Force Base which can be accessed via the secret Presidential Metro. Upon entering the base you'll find a huge Mobile Enclave Crawler, once your on the crawler, fight your way through hoards of Enclave Soldiers until you reach the Satellite Tower. Now your given the choice of setting an orbital strike on Adams Air Force Base or the Citadel.

If you decide to attack the Air Force Base you'll be picked up outside by Sarah Lyons and the rest of the Pride on a Vertibird. She'll drop you off at a nearby location so you can watch the Enlcave base go up in flames, then you're flown back to the Citadel where you'll be thanked and hailed by Elder Lyons and the Brotherhood.

If you decide to attack the Citadel, you'll still be picked up outside by Sarah Lyons, but whilst on board the Vertibird, you'll hear that the pilot has lost contact with the Citadel. Upon exiting the Vertibird you'll see the Brotherhood's main base up in flames. There are a few Paladins outside who survived the blast, they will accuse you of destroying their base and will turn hostile. After the Paladins and Lyon's Pride have been killed, head into the Citadel through the main doors to find that the Citadel Courtyard has been replaced by a gigantic hole in the ground. head down to the bottom of this hole to find the Citadel Armory.

Main Quest

Name	Location(s)	Given by	Reward	Achievement points	Image
Death From Above	Rockland Car Tunnel Satellite Relay Station	Owyn Lyons	1200 XP	30
Shock Value	Old Olney S. Wilson Building Olney Powerworks	Paladin Tristan	1400 XP Tesla Cannon	30
Who Dares Wins	Presidential Metro Adams Air Force Base	Paladin Tristan	1600 XP Access to the Citadel Armory	30

Side Quests

Unmarked quests

New Weapons

New Armor

Notes

Whether or not you chose to infect Project Purity with the Modified FEV Virus will make no difference in the story, however attempting to drink the water with the virus will result in Strength -2 and Intelligence -1, repeatedly drinking the water will result in death.

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Major portions of this page were written by: Andy