ĭogmeat adopted the Vault Dweller on December 30, 2161, and as his loyal canine companion soldiered with him across the wasteland, surviving the encounter with the super mutants at the Necropolis that claimed Ian's life and helping him find the water chip. The poor Junktowner and his partner had to sleep rough for over a month until the Vault Dweller arrived. Dogmeat didn't take to it too kindly and chose to vent his frustrations by laying claim to Phil's doorstep. The intimidation tactic turned into a killing, as the traveler broke his neck and died. Unfortunately for him, when he tried to interfere with Gizmo's business, as protagonists are known to do, the crime boss had his thugs beat him up and throw him from the casino roof. The traveler was tall, dark-haired with graying edges, wore black leather in the desert and carried a shotgun - in a word, he was the archetypal protagonist of a post-apocalyptic story. What is known is that he came to town with a leather-clad traveler that came from the eastern deadlands (or so he claimed). 2 Interactions with the player characterĭogmeat's origins before he became a pox upon Phil's house are shrouded in mystery.We'll have fuller impressions of this morning's demo in due course. It's coming out for PC, PS3 and 360 this autumn. "It's an homage to the original game to have a memorable dog that you can have with you, and it's a way to give you a companion."įallout 3 looks amazing, whether your dog's dead or not. Luckily, our canine friend isn't necessary to the plot. So you've got to be smart about where you send him off." "If you're attacking a Raider camp, or something, and you're running low on ammo and you say, 'Go find me ammo,' and he goes running through a bunch of Raiders, they can shoot and kill him while he tries to do what you told him. "So obviously you have to be careful about where you send him foraging for stuff," said Hines.
Speaking to videogaming247 at a Fallout 3 demo in London this morning, Bethesda marketing head Peter Hines has confirmed the unthinkable: if you don't look after Dogmeat the dog, don't go crying to mother when he doesn't come back for bath time.ĭogmeat can be sent to find ammo, food, stimpacks, and so on, but if you don't think about what you're doing with him he's not going to last very long, from the sound of it.