Unique weapons or armour will tell you where, or who, it came from and what makes it 'unique'.ĮDIT: Above paragraphs are from the description page of the Nexus. Notes or scrolls or other items that should tell you something,will. Additionally the icons themselves will have some descriptive text attached to add to the data you need to survive. Well no more, using DIFF (Descriptive Icons for Fallout 3), means every item found in the wasteland will now be shown in your PipBoy as it appears in the Or after receiving some weapon or armour that looks just like every other piece of armour you have, you have to examine the details to determine if it is worth keeping or not.

Or you see a note but nothing about the contents is shown or anything to indicate what the note actually says. We've all been there, scrolling through the list of items in our inventories when, although your PipBoy tells you what it is, it gives you a picture of 'junk', as though it's saying 'why did you pick that up?'. Yet on many occasions it seems to make judgement calls about what is, or isn't, of use as you try to survive in the wasteland. Your PipBoy is supposed to be the one tool that provides you with ALL the vital information about the world you find yourself in.

Fallout 3 misc items