SugarT: i think the types of creatures are dependant on what time of day it is, the Radscorps like daytime, and other things like nighttime, or dusk, so it would depend on which time of day whether or not there was a radscopr attacking anyone at the Superduper mart, ive noticed this a lot.
I think it also depends on your karma till that point in the game, as well as numerous other factors, its supposed to be random, but i think 'random' is to broad a term. Depending on your courses of action its making things go certain ways...that make sense?
I tried a God Mode cheat, and used the BBgun to kill a super muty, that was hilarious, and took like 25 minutes :P

CymTyr: I'll probably play as a good guy the second time through.

illegalyouth: i've noticed a similar bug with the people in megaton. in one game, i watched lucy west walk through the floor. she got stuck there, too. when i talked to her, she looked up towards me. when i ended the conversation, she slowly walked up out of the floor. it was a little weird, heh.

UK_John: As I read these post and others I keep thinking ' a modder would have fixed that', then I realise there is no Construction Set for Fallout 3. And with another Fallout game due in 2010 according to Bethesda, I don't see one appearing any time soon!
I also wonder about the 'randomness'. Because every video I have seen (although granted, probably console) where the player reaches the super dup mart, there is a radscorpion attacking a man. When I finally got there - nothing! If it's random, I would have thought I would have seen at least one vid with no radscorpion in front of the Super Dup!!! :)

robbiemad: i've noticed a similar bug with the people in megaton. in one game, i watched lucy west walk through the floor. she got stuck there, too. when i talked to her, she looked up towards me. when i ended the conversation, she slowly walked up out of the floor. it was a little weird, heh.

UK_John: Are you the same guy who posted on the Interplay forum about Interplay games you own? Did you notice my list on the previous page?! Looking at the thread surprising Interplay went bust! :)

Weclock: Yeah, there is a known bug with megaton, the npcs are known to fall a few feet when loading, normally it is not enough to make them die, but if they spawn at the right place at the right time, they're dead.

UK_John: Very useful info. It's just occured to me that in every vid the player threw a grenade and blew up the radscorpion, so it was all the same vid copied by people to make it seem their own!