yes broken steel enables you to stay alive though normally you are put outside the purifier. I'm not sure why you are still in there though :/ possibly a glitch.
the broken steel expansion continues after the purifier final quest on the original game, you can level to 30 without completing the main questline.
Try re-booting your console and if that doesnt work take it to a game shop to get it repaired. (or it might not have loaded)
you have to sacrafice Sarah from the brotherhood(you have to do the main story line) to go into purifier and you will get knocked out it will look like the game is ending but its not you will wake up two weeks later and you will be talking to Elder Lyons
I'm pretty sure it all depends on if you have Broken-Steel downloaded. If you don't, ignore this. I thought that they just ended up in the room you were in after the purifier was activated when Lyons wakes you up.
All you have to do is beat the regular main storyline where at the end u go into the purifier or send someone in and the game ends but instead youll wake up in the citadel and can start playing again and get the new broken steel quests
Fallout 3, Fallout 3: Game of The Year Edition, Fallout 3: Broken Steel/Operation Anchorage/Mothership Zeta/The Pit/Point Lookout
u either download it or get a special edition fallout 3
Broken Steel was released on May 5th 2009
not if you get the broken steel add on pack
Yes, the character known as Dogmeat, who was originally in the first Fallout game and can be a companion in Fallout 3, is also in Fallout 2. There is a hidden room in Junktown in Fallout 2 inside the Cafe of Broken Dreams, where you'll find him.
Fallout 3 Broken Steel - 2009 VG was released on: USA: 5 May 2009 (Xbox 360 version)
No you can play on afterwards.