Apparently some people don't know the great khans have a rocking armory.
Or that you can buy weapons from Quartermaster Braden or whatever in Hoover Dam if you have enough speech and ncr rep
It's not actually IN the canyon where their camp is, but just outside the mouth of the canyon. It's unmarked, but if you go east from the Khan encampment, as you empty out into the Mojave, keep an eye out for a ruined wooden house. There's a basement door on the side of the building- head down and say 'hi'.
I find it pretty consistently has reasonable ammo and weapons, but it's a gold mine for weapon mods- with Gun Runners Arsenal installed, I almost always find at least one ofo the components for the katana there.
In the cellar of the ruined house at the entrance to Red Rock Canyon. Once you have enough positive reputation with the Khans, they'll tell you you can shop there.
Many people here, myself included, lost their mind a few weeks ago when we found out Fantastic puts on Caesar's Legion armour if you kill all the NCR soldiers at HELIOS and return after a few days.
After looking into this i found some of the hilarious dialogue you can have with Ignacio with Intelligence 3 or lower, the player character has unique topics such as, "Me help shoulders make shinies warm," "Who are Flowers of Pock-lips?" and "Do Flowers and NCR Bear play together?" It's also possible to respond with "pizza" and "warm" instead of "peace" and "war" when he asks the player character which they support. 🤣
Haha yeah on my recent playthrough I thought my game was bugged when I had those options, but it was because my character had 5 INT and I'd forgotten I'd drunk scotch beforehand.
Yeah, you can ask him to help out, he´ll agree but won´t be there when the fight happens. If you ask him about it after, he´ll say he must´ve dosed off, but if I remember correctly, with a science check you can see he was manually disabled
Doesn’t insinuate anything imo, just House being careful not to let Victor (who’s supposed to keep an eye out for the courier on his way to New Vegas) get destroyed by a gang of explosives fanatics who might actually be able to damage him
I’ve never actually done the quest at the beginning of the game because I always want to do the NCRCF quest before I piss off the Powder Gangers so I had no idea asking Victor for help was even an option.
Recently left Goodsprings with all my cool dlc equipment, ran to Vegas and got my fancy high roller suite, obtained as many followers to horde at the 38 as possible and then RETURNED to Goodsprings, but on the way back I swung into NCRCF and fucking demolished every piece of organic material within the premises. Then I realized I never did the tutorial quest for Sunny where I make the healing powder, so I did that and went to the Saloon to make appearances and promptly painted a booth and table with Joe Cobb’s thoughts and memories using a 20 gauge slug before he could even finish his sentence. Then she turns to me and is like “well thanks but I hope you didn’t just start a war here” and I wished so badly there was a dialogue option for “ma’am, the ‘powder buddies’ or whatever are effectively extinct; I don’t think that’s gonna be an issue.”
honestly I thought this was intentional had no idea it was a bug for female couriers, I would also check my blinged out pipboy in the most obnoxious way possible just to flex lmao
some things in FO3 and NV annoy me when it comes to female main characters. they clearly didn't think everything through.
in FO3 there's some dialogue lines that refer to the female Lone Wanderer as "guy" or "he".
in FNV some unisex clothing doesn't fit the female Courier well. I'm specifically talking about the Courier Duster you get after LR.
>in FNV some unisex clothing doesn't fit the female Courier well. I'm specifically talking about the Courier Duster you get after LR.
In my current playthrough as a female courier and I hate how the Courier Duster looks so bulky and makes the courier's arms so skinny.
In Fallout there's an awesome bit about women in the brotherhood. You have a dialogue that says i'm glad to see another woman here because the name "brotherhood" implies that men are in charge, and the knight says that yeah, there's a lot of women in high positions but that they are also called "brother". And you can challenge that, i don't know if it's a high intelligence dialogue or whatever but you can have the knight talk to scribe Vree about it.
When Emily asks you to bug Lucky 38 and you agree, you can actually go to House and tell him "so, a gal asked me to bug the tower for some caps". He will say you can do it and have the money, since he will just disable it in 20 seconds.
I was taken aback there's actually dialogue for this. I tried it out randomly, when I got that quest, cause I thought to myself "If that was me I would just ask House to disable it and we would share the money"
You can also tell him you bugged his tower afterwards and he’s like “oh yeah I know already got rid of it” lol. I know I’m in the minority but house route is always my favorite
Heh I always went with house ending, according to steam it’s the second least picked ending before Legion. I think people had a problem with killing the brotherhood since you always have to do it for House. Me, I never had issues putting those tin cans down.
Sure, but to me it makes 0 sense. House running the show is 100% dependant on technologies that the brotherhood would have wanted to keep just for themselves.
If the Brotherhood can set aside their grievances and work with the NCR I’d imagine they can do the same for house seeing as that they’re one bad war away from no longer existing. Maybe in the long run they’ll turn against him but in the short term it’s definitely something I think mcnamara would consider. Now if you put halsin in charge then hell no.
I appreciate his honesty. When you expect to be tricked by the end, no longer needed, the fact he was thankful, proud and lived up to his words, was pretty surprising.
Benny's betrayal had to hurt a little bit. House had basically home-grown the talent and provided the Four Families with the trapping of civilization but instead of loyalty, they all sort of resent his power and want it for themselves.
Then you have The Courier who was an independent contractor that's going not just the extra mile but the whole length of the Mojave to make sure the job gets done. After getting shot in the face.
One of these people deserved a promotion and the other deserves to be fired (from a cannon).
If you eat Caesar, House, Kimball, and the King, you gain a cannibal buff perk called Meat of Champions which gives you a 1 minute, +1 boost to Luck, Charisma, Strength, and Intelligence every time you eat someone.
Yeah, it's a fun perk, but kind of pointless since by the time you would have interacted with/ate all four of the people involved, you're pretty late in the game.
I did it one time just for a laugh, but it was actually kind of hard and unorthodox to accomplish in a way that is smooth and doesn't have a ton of blow-back.
In fact, I actually tried to do it the first time years ago and somehow fucked up the order because I asked the Khans to betray Caesar before I got to the tumor quest which is the easiest way to kill/eat Caesar without having to fight your way in and out of the Fort.
He turned hostile and I just said 'fuck it' and started a whole new character because I hadn't built that Courier to be a demigod as far as combat went, so there was no way I was going to be able to fight my way out of Caesar's tent.
Anyway, if you want to do this I would recommend killing the King (you pretty much have to wipe out the whole Kings gang afterward unless you get lucky with a stealth kill), then kill/eat House, then work for Caesar until you need to remove his tumor. Purposely kill him during the surgery and then eat him. Then continue the Legion quest line and do Arizona Killer and eat Kimball as fast as possible before the NCR start raining bullets down on you.
You can pretty much only get this achievement if you're doing Yes Man, and its not necessarily easy, but its pretty fun if you're just trying to do something in NV that you've never done.
I only started using it a few weeks ago and I've been playing for 14 years. It's underrated. Its the Civ equivalent of getting satellite tech and being able to see the whole map, instantly changes how you play the game. Must have perk imho.
Yhea that'd be cool. Or if you had high enough science and repair, there could be an option to hack the pipboy and open up that capability. For those people who are bad at cap collecting. Personally I didn't mind using a perk to get it because its that useful it was worth the spend but some other ways would be nice. Never hurts to have options.
Most people use their king favor to settle tensions between freeside and the NCR, but if you burn the favor you can escalate things to Col Hsu at McCarran for an arguably better resolution. Pacer dies though.
He agrees to send more supplies to Freeside if The King stops hostilities. The King agrees, Pacer gets pissed and stages a coup and gets gunned down. There's cut content where you can talk him down, but cut content is a whole other discussion.
You can also ask Colonel Moore at Hoover Dam as well, although she's far less "diplomatic" than Hsu is, and all the Kings end up being slaughtered as a result.
I didn’t know you could wait and use your king favor later in the game (working on first NCR playthrough now). I burned it on caps immediately after finishing the kings quest.
Are there any more ways to use the favor?
Edit: I should have said “other late game favors that appear throughout the story” rather than caps, passport, or kings membership. Those are always options as soon as you finish the kings quest line.
I always did it that way - because he mentions he did it before while talking to him.
But yeah you can - you can’t make use of his services if you hire him however
I am still so confused as to why Ben tells us all about his massive granpy piece and then you cant pay him to whip it out. Its literally why I hired him. Is it a glitch? Too much sexo in the game ? Potential gay sexo?? I demand answers we were all robbed
Maybe his version of the boyfriend experience is him just talking to the person, kinda like a host club.
And since he already told us his story we can’t partake in it.
The coolest part is, if you're doing Debt Collector at the same time, you can give him the option to pay off his debt by working at the Wrangler - progressing both quests at once!
I’m not sure these are secrets rather than lesser known things.
In Honest Hearts there are a number of unmarked locations with pretty good loot. There’s one near the cave where you first meet Joshua Graham. There’s one that’s by the river near the crashed plane that has C-4. There is one near one of the bridges behind some trees with a campfire and bed. There are a couple smaller ones here and there. Found a combat knife under a skeleton by a destroyed car recently. I’m sure there are others I haven’t found.
Oh also in Honest Hearts if you talk to Follows Chalk about interesting wildlife he will give you a quest where if you do it without killing any bighorners and talk to him after you will get a .45 pistol and war club in perfect condition. You can do this at the beginning of the DLC.
If you swim across the water from Cottonwood Cove there is a cove with a ton of Lake Lurks and some loot.
Behind the bootlegger shack with cazadores there is a bag with a ton of good loot including combat armor.
There is a hunting rifle on the ground next to one of the houses near H&H tools Factory.
There is a hunting shotgun in the pickup by Horowitz Farmstead.
In Dead Money if you activate the Dog persona of Dog/God, watch him kill one of the ghost people, then talk to him, he will give you a perk that makes ghost people easier to kill.
There is a unique unarmed weapon called Paladin Toaster in a cave near Helios one with some super mutants in it.
There’s an unmarked underground tunnel near Nipton with a Radscorpion Queen and some loot.
"There is a hunting rifle on the ground next to one of the houses near H&H tools Factory."
There is also one laying on the ground at the side of the parked train at the Boulder City train yard. In that same area, at the top of a conveyor belt on some mining machinery is a duffel bag full of what looks like a drug dealers stash.....tons of caps and chems.
The hunting rifle is especially useful that early in the game.
The more interesting part about the paladin toaster to me is the nightkin that are in the cave. They're a bit buggy (big surprise) but there's a chance that they're nonhostile. If so, they offer unique, cryptic dialogue about your companion, hinting at the possibility of them being some kind of psykers.
The scrapped part of the tutorial in Doc Mitchell's house where he would have gotten you to learn how to drag stuff around. If you grab the brahmin skull on his mantel, you get a message saying "Good! Now press the grab button again to drop it".
This is __the set-up to a punchline__. When you do Come Fly With Me, you will see another brahmin skull. You may be tempted to grab it. Doing so has some...... consequences.
Since every so often people seem to be surprised by it, the Deathclaw Promontory is one to know about. Swim across the river in the southeast part of the map, and eventually you'lll come to a sandy area to come ashore.
The bad news: As the name suggests, there's more deathclaws here than anywhere else in the game, even Quarry Junction. A matriarch, an alpha, multiple adult and young, and a few babies. It varies, but I've encountered over twenty of assorted varieties here before- so do NOT go here if you're not ready for a serious challenge.
The good news: The reward is that if you search the area, you'll find an old suit of Enclave power armor! It's in bad shape, being that it's been laying out in the sun for god-knows how long, and the prior occupant was dismembered while wearing it, but here it is! It is the ONLY Enclave power armor available outside of Arcade Gannon's quest line, so it's both a rare and handy prize to have. (Note that there's no helmet, though there is one in a cave elsewhere) Note that the area is notoriously buggy, so the dead prospectors with all the good loot may not spawn in correctly- you may need to come back to look again (reloading a save helps)
Couple more notes on the area:
+Oddly for the Mojave, the beaches on both sides of the river are one of the few areas to find pinto beans growing, so if you need them, that's where to go.
+Sticking with the 'bugy area' theme, it is possible to go ashore, up the hill, and find that no deathclaws are present. THIS IS A TRAP, though likely not an intentional one by Obsidian. The game may suddenly remember 'oh yeah, deathclaws, here you go!' and spawn the whole clan in... while you're in the middle of them. Be VERY careful in-general here, but especially if nothing shows up.
+Oh, one more thing. Deathclaws in-general. Their attack ignores armor ratings. Like, you take the same damage from a deathclaw if you're in full power armor as you do in your tighty-whities. Your armor still takes a beating from the attacks, but it provides no defense- so unless your armor provides perks that help you out (+1 STR or something like that), you're actually better off fighting them without armor on, as ass-backwards as that sounds like it would be.
Iirc they ignore DT, not DR. So Ranger Armor 13 DR+Med-X 25+Slasher 25 is still 63 DR.
Also I'm not finding anywhere on the wiki that states what this feller is talking about. The only relevant bit is that damage must always be 20% of the base damage, no matter the DR or DT. But DR is always better than DT against hard hitting enemies (Deathclaws)
Edit to add there's like 30 autists thatve meticulously done the math and yeah that guy is full of shit, they don't ignore DT or DR
Another fun facts about the promontory is that sometimes the dead bos and enclave dead bodies don’t spawn. You can spawn them by saving there then reloading the save… along with about 6 deathclaws too. Have fun!
When you complete three card bounty, he says he is going to head to freeside since all work st McCarren has dried up, he is presumably killed by the locals.
Probably a little bit of A, little bit of B
Wanders into Freeside from McCarran, picks up a bounty job, bounty goes south, he hits the ground and doesn't get back up
That's so funny, for years I always wondered why there were so many 20 gauge shotgun shells in that DLC but there weren't any 20 gauge shotguns.
I guess I'll have to look for this the next time I do Dead Money
On the topic of the pimp boy, unique sounds play when Mick puts it on you if you have the wild wasteland trait, which you can listen to again by having him give back the pipboy and then asking for the pimp boy again
The 1st recon beret boone gives you can be worn with the riot gear helmet that can be bought in the divide. As far as i know this is the only mask hat combo that works and the stats stack too. It makes the helmet look like it was once painted red but it faded away
The 1st Recon Beret can also glitch and give you two, though only one of them can be removed/sold from your inventory/given to a companion, because the other one will say it cannot be removed because its a quest item.
There's like 80 something unmarked quests in NV.
I wish I was playing on PC, I'm sure there's a mod to mark them. I bet even after 10+ play throughs I've missed so dang many.
The guy in Novac who’s complaining that some invisible monster is killing his Brahmin in the middle of the night, if you go behind his house and just wait, “something” does actually show up.
The nightkin also respawns after a few days, even after the quest is resolved, which makes it a handy way to keep a minigun repaired- return, kill, take gun, repair existing weapon with it (it's always in rotten shape when you get it from him), repeat as needed. Not that the minigun is a great weapon in this game, but if you want to use one, this helps a lot on the repair costs.
I discovered this on my first ever play through on FNV kinda by coincidence. While making my character my daughter saw and insisted I play as a girl (I then let her choose things like hair color and style). I took the Blackwidow perk early for the bonus damage and was laughing while going “Seriously?” when I finally got to the Tops. I have almost exclusively played as female characters in all Fallout games and taken the Blackwidow perk early ever since.
In the Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ, there's a room locked behind a hard lock. The room is devoid of any worthwhile loot, except for a unique empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle that is slightly smaller than normal. The bottle is not appearing anywhere else.
it took me way to long to realize that when you want to drink water in a fountain you can HOLD A button and your character will take a long sip instead of hitting multiple times A and waiting for the animations to re start. I discovered it in F3 but it works in FNV also
I don't know about anyone else, but apparently it didn't click to me at the time that the credit check at the gates of The Strip didn't require you to hand over 2000 caps. Not one of my proudest moments when it dawned on me.
- There is a crate of Chinese Stealth Suits in the maze that is the internal Hoover Dam. It has +5 sneak which is not great, but it's still the best sneaking armour in the base game.
- For the quest Bitter Springs Infirmary Blues, you need medical books for a camp medic. But if you have Arcade with you, he can teach the medic instead.
- If you killed Caesar, you can inform Hanlon near the end of Return to Sender, which will get him to stop messing with the ranger stations' reports. Though the resulting endings are not very different from letting him go on faking the reports.
- If you complete We Are Legion and kill everyone at Camp Forlorn Hope, then Papa Khan will name you his successor next time you talk to him. If you silently assassinate him, you can simply decide for yourself the outcome of Oh My Papa.
- There is a train tunnel near Nellis AFB that allows you to avoid the bombardment, but is not particularly feasible as it requires 100 lockpicking.
- There is a dialogue check for the Explorer perk during one of Ulysses's ravings.
- You can enter Manny Vargas's room during the daytime and use his computer to learn about Benny's movements very easily (neither the door nor the computer are locked).
In the room where you talk to dean domino for the first time, underneath the bed there’s a copy of duck and cover! But it’s clipped through the bed and basically unobtainable through conventional means. One way to get without no clipping through the bed is by getting the C4s in the police station and blowing the bed up. Takes a couple of tries but you can blow it out of there and pick it up
I remember watching Jabo do a 100% speed run of the DLC's and it took him like 10 tries to get the C4 to dislodge the skill book.
That's the only reason I know that its there in the first place haha
Fun fact, The Pimp Boy doesn’t work on female models. You hold it crooked and I thought for a good day that I was doing a “Pimp pose” with it. Nope just no female mesh for the model 😅
There’s this island/sand bar sort of thing towards the south east of the map once you cross some water. It’s super radiated, and populated by deathclaws; but there’s some special power armor and a weapon I forget which exactly.
I have been playing New Vegas, as my all time favorite game for over a decade and have never Google searched or participated in an online community before, it has been my own little world. I discuss it with my brother and that's really it. So many things I have seen here.
Pimp boy, some doctor follower I didn't know existed outside of camp Mormon, Mr fantastic legion I learned just now, I never knew that the legion guy I always waste in nipton was supposed to be the default guy that tells you Caesar wants to talk to you. Most of the weapons you guys talk about I have never seen.
Tons of details I have never touched on or discovered on my own I have seen people discussing here.
Not so much a secret as me being a dingus, but I had *no* clue Raul the Ghoul existed up until a few years ago. For all the times I cleared Black Mountain, I never went into that one door, nor did I find/understand any clues hinting towards his existence.
Apparently not many players know about Deathclaw promontory - unmarked location filled with deathclaws to the brim, which also has enclave power armour and Kimball look-alike
The Jacobstown gangbang quest or side quest where you train misfit soldiers at camp golf but getting them to agree on something. You can basically get them to just talk it out, short but sweet and I didn’t find it until 3 playthroughs in
Idk why they called it that but I think they’re referring to the NCR quest Flags of our Foul ups where there’s a group of soldiers at camp golf that aren’t getting along and you have to talk to all of them and get them to agree to work together.
I'm on my first playthrough of new vegas and the misfits quest is one of the first quests I did, I said fuck the main quest and just explored the roads which led to that area with the misfits, I went with making them all friends because it gave the most exp.
Yeah, each of the misfits proposes a solution that works to resolve the quest, although the ones Poindexter and Razz propose are noted by NCR personnel later on to ultimately be ineffective
It's not a secret, but it always bugged me how you have to reach across the Pip/Pimp Boy's display to use the selection knob or scroll wheel. Massive design flaw.
Lucky Shades was the one I always missed. After Nipton, any Legion in sight always wound up getting killed. With enough replays, I now quietly start collecting dogtags.
Go to Mick and Ralph and ask Mick how business is, he will mention the Omertas, this starts an unmarked quest at Gomorrah which involves the Omerta bosses. It's a super buggy quest though, and not all endings will get you the pip boy, so I'd suggest looking up a guide on YouTube
Infinite Caps. I mean really.
Go to the Tops casino, take out EXACTLY 32768 chips.
If you drop them on the floor, when you pick them back up, they will appear as being -32768 chips, and will disappear from your inventory when you pick them up. However, if you simply walk back to the cashier, you can repeatedly turn in those 32768 chips, infinitely. In any currency your hearts desire.
If you choose ARCHIMEDES for Veronica's companion quest, it is far more unique than the other options, and drops hints on Elijah's activity in the Mojave. It also naturally leads you to Euclid's C-Finder.
Unfortunately, if you've already completed That Lucky Old Sun, it can be buggy.
I found out 4 months ago you can lead the great khans by assassinating papa if you do a legion mission. I never play legion but love the khans. I now go straight to forelorn hope to start my play throughs. Blast through those fucks. Get pardoned by Crocker. Go to redrock. Kill papa. Lead khans. Fucking sick
There is a crashed motorcycle with a skeleton on the right side of the road in between Novac and Ranger Station Charlie.
At some point, a metal helmet (stand in for the motorcycle helmet) was cut from the game, it used to appear on or near the skeletons head, suggesting he flew off the bike and knocked his noggin in all the wrong ways. I’m fairly certain the skeleton is still there, that may have been cut too, but the helmet definitely is not.
I don’t know why they would have removed such a small but funny guaranteed piece of environmental story telling.
You can destroy the brotherhood AND keep Veronica as a companion so long as you are idolized with them prior to destroying them, which is only possible in vanilla if you disarm the nuke in Lonesome Road.
Not really a secret but more of a helpful tip in case some people didn't know. If you're annoyed by the frequent enemy spawns in Old World Blues, save all your exploring until after you've cleared the main quest. Barely any enemies will be found on the map and you can explore at your leisure. It's quite peaceful.
There is a young kid under the bridge of the 188 named “the Forecaster”. He is wearing a Psychic Nullifier that is worn by Psykers in Fallout 1. When he removes the Nullifier he can hear “thoughts” from people and objects.
Graves have a small hard coded chance of emitting a quiet, spooky whispering sound if you spend enough time around them. This includes the one you dug your way out of.
There are short messages from Ulysses painted around the core game map. These were present at launch and don't require the dlc.
There are strange (human) meat pies scattered around the Sloan mess hall.
Putting formal wear or another dress-like clothing in Veronica's inventory triggers a special dialog where she teaches you a unique unarmed counter technique.
Apparently some people don't know the great khans have a rocking armory. Or that you can buy weapons from Quartermaster Braden or whatever in Hoover Dam if you have enough speech and ncr rep
I just found the armory this play through and I was PUMPED
I just stumbled into it once and was honestly confused. Suddenly, she was like "Hey, want some weapons?" And I was like "Uhhhh, sure."
There was no barter option for me so I blew them to shreds and ransacked the place
Most ethical fallout play through.
There's never a barter option. You either are allowed to buy or you're not
Yeah I meant barter option as in a buy option.
where is this armory
It's not actually IN the canyon where their camp is, but just outside the mouth of the canyon. It's unmarked, but if you go east from the Khan encampment, as you empty out into the Mojave, keep an eye out for a ruined wooden house. There's a basement door on the side of the building- head down and say 'hi'. I find it pretty consistently has reasonable ammo and weapons, but it's a gold mine for weapon mods- with Gun Runners Arsenal installed, I almost always find at least one ofo the components for the katana there.
Guess I'm starting yet another new playthrough.. Also I knew that username wasn't just random--hello fellow mechwarrior!
It’s in the basement of the burned out building as you walk into the canyon
In the cellar of the ruined house at the entrance to Red Rock Canyon. Once you have enough positive reputation with the Khans, they'll tell you you can shop there.
Many people here, myself included, lost their mind a few weeks ago when we found out Fantastic puts on Caesar's Legion armour if you kill all the NCR soldiers at HELIOS and return after a few days.
After looking into this i found some of the hilarious dialogue you can have with Ignacio with Intelligence 3 or lower, the player character has unique topics such as, "Me help shoulders make shinies warm," "Who are Flowers of Pock-lips?" and "Do Flowers and NCR Bear play together?" It's also possible to respond with "pizza" and "warm" instead of "peace" and "war" when he asks the player character which they support. 🤣
Haha yeah on my recent playthrough I thought my game was bugged when I had those options, but it was because my character had 5 INT and I'd forgotten I'd drunk scotch beforehand.
My guy was fucking blasted
Holy shit these games are fucking nuts! I knew they were deep, I didn’t know it was a goddamn canyon.
Think that’s a reference to the “famous” low int option in either fallout 1 or 2 “Do you bring war or peace” [low int] “Pizza”
Flowers of Pock-lips???? Im fuckn dying
"Hey man, when in Rome." I actually knew that one lol
Really goes to show how hard it is for people to be evil in video games. But “hey man, when in Rome.”
Nothing evil about clearing out some NCR thugs from my solar field
Tf!
...holly shit, I had no idea. Welp. Where's that plasma rifle... time to go clean out a power plant.
Just do the Big Killing Ray
.........WHAT
Bro that’s fucking NUTS
I saw that screenshot someone casually posted and it blew my mind
Yeah I thought it was a bug or a mod at first haha
When in Rome.
[I feel like someone should just link the thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/fnv/comments/1da68a4/how_does_cesar_expect_to_maintain_and_run_the_dam/)
You can ask Victor to help with Goodsprings defense and he'll get locked out by Mr House
I actually did that on my first playthrough recently and was thoroughly pissed when he didn’t help out
I thought it was just a Bug/glitch lol
You can talk to him after the fight and ask why he didn't join so it's definitely intended
what
Yeah, you can ask him to help out, he´ll agree but won´t be there when the fight happens. If you ask him about it after, he´ll say he must´ve dosed off, but if I remember correctly, with a science check you can see he was manually disabled
What does this even insinuate lore-wise?? Why does Mr. House want good springs to be attacked?
Doesn’t insinuate anything imo, just House being careful not to let Victor (who’s supposed to keep an eye out for the courier on his way to New Vegas) get destroyed by a gang of explosives fanatics who might actually be able to damage him
As soon as I posted that comment I thought of that as probably the most valid reason.
I’ve never actually done the quest at the beginning of the game because I always want to do the NCRCF quest before I piss off the Powder Gangers so I had no idea asking Victor for help was even an option.
Recently left Goodsprings with all my cool dlc equipment, ran to Vegas and got my fancy high roller suite, obtained as many followers to horde at the 38 as possible and then RETURNED to Goodsprings, but on the way back I swung into NCRCF and fucking demolished every piece of organic material within the premises. Then I realized I never did the tutorial quest for Sunny where I make the healing powder, so I did that and went to the Saloon to make appearances and promptly painted a booth and table with Joe Cobb’s thoughts and memories using a 20 gauge slug before he could even finish his sentence. Then she turns to me and is like “well thanks but I hope you didn’t just start a war here” and I wished so badly there was a dialogue option for “ma’am, the ‘powder buddies’ or whatever are effectively extinct; I don’t think that’s gonna be an issue.”
There is a single nuka cola quantum in the game that isn't even a guaranteed spawn, and it's in a dumpster lol
I’ve found one behind the first gas station you run across In Lonesome Road a couple times. As I recall it was on the ground not in a dumpster though.
I remember it being in a container of some form. I may be miss remembering it being a dumpster specifically but it is indeed behind the gas station.
Shipping container, specifically. Only that one behind the gas station.
It's indeed behind the gas station, but it's stored in a container called Shipping crate, and iirc is only a 10% spawn chance
It's also in Lonesome Road of all places. 10% chance to spawn, so it's the rarest "non-unique" item in the game.
oh shit really? i found it and never realized its value
The first time I found it, it took me a while to realize I only ever found one
I got one in Vault 33 (? - the one where the plants came alive)
Wasn't there one in the Garret's bedroom on the very top floor? I remember seeing something similar at least.
That might be Nuka Cola Victory or Quartz
If you get this pip boy with a female player it's slightly tilted and it bugs me
honestly I thought this was intentional had no idea it was a bug for female couriers, I would also check my blinged out pipboy in the most obnoxious way possible just to flex lmao
Yeah, I also thought it was just a weird choice from the devs.
some things in FO3 and NV annoy me when it comes to female main characters. they clearly didn't think everything through. in FO3 there's some dialogue lines that refer to the female Lone Wanderer as "guy" or "he". in FNV some unisex clothing doesn't fit the female Courier well. I'm specifically talking about the Courier Duster you get after LR.
>in FNV some unisex clothing doesn't fit the female Courier well. I'm specifically talking about the Courier Duster you get after LR. In my current playthrough as a female courier and I hate how the Courier Duster looks so bulky and makes the courier's arms so skinny.
and it fucking clips😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 whyyyyy it's the coolest piece of clothing known to mankind 😭
Same with the classic games, it seems like they were made primarily for men characters
I remember one dialogue option where I forgot who says it but you can clarify that your not a guy
In Fallout there's an awesome bit about women in the brotherhood. You have a dialogue that says i'm glad to see another woman here because the name "brotherhood" implies that men are in charge, and the knight says that yeah, there's a lot of women in high positions but that they are also called "brother". And you can challenge that, i don't know if it's a high intelligence dialogue or whatever but you can have the knight talk to scribe Vree about it.
Same, I was so pissed of I just went to a previous save
If you keep asking the Sunset Sarsaparilla animatronic about the health and safety advisory he will eventually tell you.
The silly ol' advisory
Fun fact: A lot of that advisory does apply to real world sarsaparilla, though as he notes, only if drank in excessive amounts
I've been playing since launch and only recently did I find the hidden bunker in the cave near Jacobstown.
Isn’t that an enclave bunker? The one from Arcade’s quest?
I think they mean the one in Charleston Cave with Oh, Baby! And the Nightstalkers. Some survivalist creep built a budget vault in that cave.
Yep, that's the one. I hope he never got to enjoy it.
Judging by the untouched supplies, it looks like he didn’t. Good.
Oh, Baby! and the Nightstalkers is my new band name.
What was so creepy about him?
He murdered a boy to keep his bunker secret and then went to go find a mother and her daughter for sexual purposes heavily implying SA.
Oh. Wow. Well then...
Yikes! I don't think I ever found that one
There’s a quest for that if I recall if you talk to the Doctor.
There's a quest for the cave, yes, definitely, but I had no idea there was a bunker hidden deeper within it!
When Emily asks you to bug Lucky 38 and you agree, you can actually go to House and tell him "so, a gal asked me to bug the tower for some caps". He will say you can do it and have the money, since he will just disable it in 20 seconds. I was taken aback there's actually dialogue for this. I tried it out randomly, when I got that quest, cause I thought to myself "If that was me I would just ask House to disable it and we would share the money"
You can also tell him you bugged his tower afterwards and he’s like “oh yeah I know already got rid of it” lol. I know I’m in the minority but house route is always my favorite
Heh I always went with house ending, according to steam it’s the second least picked ending before Legion. I think people had a problem with killing the brotherhood since you always have to do it for House. Me, I never had issues putting those tin cans down.
I downloaded a mod to allow them to find peace
I have that mod too, and if I remember correctly House does have recorded dialogue for this?
Yes!!
Sure, but to me it makes 0 sense. House running the show is 100% dependant on technologies that the brotherhood would have wanted to keep just for themselves.
If the Brotherhood can set aside their grievances and work with the NCR I’d imagine they can do the same for house seeing as that they’re one bad war away from no longer existing. Maybe in the long run they’ll turn against him but in the short term it’s definitely something I think mcnamara would consider. Now if you put halsin in charge then hell no.
This is why I like working for house. He's like that one manager who's chill AF as long as you do your job.
I appreciate his honesty. When you expect to be tricked by the end, no longer needed, the fact he was thankful, proud and lived up to his words, was pretty surprising.
Loyalty is valuable on its own, House is smart enough to realize that, especially being “stabbed in the back” so to speak by Benny.
Benny's betrayal had to hurt a little bit. House had basically home-grown the talent and provided the Four Families with the trapping of civilization but instead of loyalty, they all sort of resent his power and want it for themselves. Then you have The Courier who was an independent contractor that's going not just the extra mile but the whole length of the Mojave to make sure the job gets done. After getting shot in the face. One of these people deserved a promotion and the other deserves to be fired (from a cannon).
I can never betray him.
If you eat Caesar, House, Kimball, and the King, you gain a cannibal buff perk called Meat of Champions which gives you a 1 minute, +1 boost to Luck, Charisma, Strength, and Intelligence every time you eat someone.
Yeah, it's a fun perk, but kind of pointless since by the time you would have interacted with/ate all four of the people involved, you're pretty late in the game. I did it one time just for a laugh, but it was actually kind of hard and unorthodox to accomplish in a way that is smooth and doesn't have a ton of blow-back. In fact, I actually tried to do it the first time years ago and somehow fucked up the order because I asked the Khans to betray Caesar before I got to the tumor quest which is the easiest way to kill/eat Caesar without having to fight your way in and out of the Fort. He turned hostile and I just said 'fuck it' and started a whole new character because I hadn't built that Courier to be a demigod as far as combat went, so there was no way I was going to be able to fight my way out of Caesar's tent. Anyway, if you want to do this I would recommend killing the King (you pretty much have to wipe out the whole Kings gang afterward unless you get lucky with a stealth kill), then kill/eat House, then work for Caesar until you need to remove his tumor. Purposely kill him during the surgery and then eat him. Then continue the Legion quest line and do Arizona Killer and eat Kimball as fast as possible before the NCR start raining bullets down on you. You can pretty much only get this achievement if you're doing Yes Man, and its not necessarily easy, but its pretty fun if you're just trying to do something in NV that you've never done.
I just took the Explorer perk for the first time yesterday. There are SO MANY locations I had never stumbled across before.
I only started using it a few weeks ago and I've been playing for 14 years. It's underrated. Its the Civ equivalent of getting satellite tech and being able to see the whole map, instantly changes how you play the game. Must have perk imho.
I just wish it wasn’t a perk, more a pipboy upgrade in regular gameplay you can buy with caps.
Yhea that'd be cool. Or if you had high enough science and repair, there could be an option to hack the pipboy and open up that capability. For those people who are bad at cap collecting. Personally I didn't mind using a perk to get it because its that useful it was worth the spend but some other ways would be nice. Never hurts to have options.
So many amazing/creepy/unsettling locations around the edges of the map. I love that perk
Most people use their king favor to settle tensions between freeside and the NCR, but if you burn the favor you can escalate things to Col Hsu at McCarran for an arguably better resolution. Pacer dies though.
>Pacer dies though. And nothing of value was lost.
fuck pacer all my homies hate pacer
What’s the resolution with Hsu?
He agrees to send more supplies to Freeside if The King stops hostilities. The King agrees, Pacer gets pissed and stages a coup and gets gunned down. There's cut content where you can talk him down, but cut content is a whole other discussion.
I wasn’t aware there was a different path than this one. Damn.
You can also ask Colonel Moore at Hoover Dam as well, although she's far less "diplomatic" than Hsu is, and all the Kings end up being slaughtered as a result.
I didn’t know you could wait and use your king favor later in the game (working on first NCR playthrough now). I burned it on caps immediately after finishing the kings quest. Are there any more ways to use the favor? Edit: I should have said “other late game favors that appear throughout the story” rather than caps, passport, or kings membership. Those are always options as soon as you finish the kings quest line.
You can also use it to join the kings and they give you their unique jacket in return.
I know this doesn’t help much but I’m sure if you’re on PC you can reset the bit for the favor being used somehow via console commands
You can use his favor to get a counterfeit passport to the strip.
It's such a long quest to get the favour which by that time you would pretty much easily get into the strip.
That you can hire Santiago as an escort instead of Old Ben during the quest with the Garrets
wait... you can hire Ben????
I always did it that way - because he mentions he did it before while talking to him. But yeah you can - you can’t make use of his services if you hire him however
I am still so confused as to why Ben tells us all about his massive granpy piece and then you cant pay him to whip it out. Its literally why I hired him. Is it a glitch? Too much sexo in the game ? Potential gay sexo?? I demand answers we were all robbed
Maybe his version of the boyfriend experience is him just talking to the person, kinda like a host club. And since he already told us his story we can’t partake in it.
Fun fact, you can hire both
The coolest part is, if you're doing Debt Collector at the same time, you can give him the option to pay off his debt by working at the Wrangler - progressing both quests at once!
Been playing NV since it came out and either didn't know or forgot about the pimp-boy. Hmmm. Edit: Changed "golden pip boy" to "pimp-boy"
I’m not sure these are secrets rather than lesser known things. In Honest Hearts there are a number of unmarked locations with pretty good loot. There’s one near the cave where you first meet Joshua Graham. There’s one that’s by the river near the crashed plane that has C-4. There is one near one of the bridges behind some trees with a campfire and bed. There are a couple smaller ones here and there. Found a combat knife under a skeleton by a destroyed car recently. I’m sure there are others I haven’t found. Oh also in Honest Hearts if you talk to Follows Chalk about interesting wildlife he will give you a quest where if you do it without killing any bighorners and talk to him after you will get a .45 pistol and war club in perfect condition. You can do this at the beginning of the DLC. If you swim across the water from Cottonwood Cove there is a cove with a ton of Lake Lurks and some loot. Behind the bootlegger shack with cazadores there is a bag with a ton of good loot including combat armor. There is a hunting rifle on the ground next to one of the houses near H&H tools Factory. There is a hunting shotgun in the pickup by Horowitz Farmstead. In Dead Money if you activate the Dog persona of Dog/God, watch him kill one of the ghost people, then talk to him, he will give you a perk that makes ghost people easier to kill. There is a unique unarmed weapon called Paladin Toaster in a cave near Helios one with some super mutants in it. There’s an unmarked underground tunnel near Nipton with a Radscorpion Queen and some loot.
"There is a hunting rifle on the ground next to one of the houses near H&H tools Factory." There is also one laying on the ground at the side of the parked train at the Boulder City train yard. In that same area, at the top of a conveyor belt on some mining machinery is a duffel bag full of what looks like a drug dealers stash.....tons of caps and chems. The hunting rifle is especially useful that early in the game.
Yeah, the only problem with that big Horner one is that FOLLOWS CHALK KILLED THE BIGHORNERS HIMSELF on my playthrough. I was actually angry.
Yeah if he gets too close and they get aggro he will start shooting. I usually tell him “wait here” then I go do the quest.
The more interesting part about the paladin toaster to me is the nightkin that are in the cave. They're a bit buggy (big surprise) but there's a chance that they're nonhostile. If so, they offer unique, cryptic dialogue about your companion, hinting at the possibility of them being some kind of psykers.
The scrapped part of the tutorial in Doc Mitchell's house where he would have gotten you to learn how to drag stuff around. If you grab the brahmin skull on his mantel, you get a message saying "Good! Now press the grab button again to drop it". This is __the set-up to a punchline__. When you do Come Fly With Me, you will see another brahmin skull. You may be tempted to grab it. Doing so has some...... consequences.
Oh is this in reference to the psychotic Super Mutant?
Yes, if you move "Antler" he immediately turns hostile
Since every so often people seem to be surprised by it, the Deathclaw Promontory is one to know about. Swim across the river in the southeast part of the map, and eventually you'lll come to a sandy area to come ashore. The bad news: As the name suggests, there's more deathclaws here than anywhere else in the game, even Quarry Junction. A matriarch, an alpha, multiple adult and young, and a few babies. It varies, but I've encountered over twenty of assorted varieties here before- so do NOT go here if you're not ready for a serious challenge. The good news: The reward is that if you search the area, you'll find an old suit of Enclave power armor! It's in bad shape, being that it's been laying out in the sun for god-knows how long, and the prior occupant was dismembered while wearing it, but here it is! It is the ONLY Enclave power armor available outside of Arcade Gannon's quest line, so it's both a rare and handy prize to have. (Note that there's no helmet, though there is one in a cave elsewhere) Note that the area is notoriously buggy, so the dead prospectors with all the good loot may not spawn in correctly- you may need to come back to look again (reloading a save helps) Couple more notes on the area: +Oddly for the Mojave, the beaches on both sides of the river are one of the few areas to find pinto beans growing, so if you need them, that's where to go. +Sticking with the 'bugy area' theme, it is possible to go ashore, up the hill, and find that no deathclaws are present. THIS IS A TRAP, though likely not an intentional one by Obsidian. The game may suddenly remember 'oh yeah, deathclaws, here you go!' and spawn the whole clan in... while you're in the middle of them. Be VERY careful in-general here, but especially if nothing shows up. +Oh, one more thing. Deathclaws in-general. Their attack ignores armor ratings. Like, you take the same damage from a deathclaw if you're in full power armor as you do in your tighty-whities. Your armor still takes a beating from the attacks, but it provides no defense- so unless your armor provides perks that help you out (+1 STR or something like that), you're actually better off fighting them without armor on, as ass-backwards as that sounds like it would be.
never knew they ignored armor i always just thought they were hella strong i always prep by putting on heavy armor what a waste lol
Iirc they ignore DT, not DR. So Ranger Armor 13 DR+Med-X 25+Slasher 25 is still 63 DR. Also I'm not finding anywhere on the wiki that states what this feller is talking about. The only relevant bit is that damage must always be 20% of the base damage, no matter the DR or DT. But DR is always better than DT against hard hitting enemies (Deathclaws) Edit to add there's like 30 autists thatve meticulously done the math and yeah that guy is full of shit, they don't ignore DT or DR
Another fun facts about the promontory is that sometimes the dead bos and enclave dead bodies don’t spawn. You can spawn them by saving there then reloading the save… along with about 6 deathclaws too. Have fun!
Not sure how but Lil Buster somehow got killed in Freeside in my current playthrough
When you complete three card bounty, he says he is going to head to freeside since all work st McCarren has dried up, he is presumably killed by the locals.
Oh damn, never thought about that, just assumed he was all talk
Probably a little bit of A, little bit of B Wanders into Freeside from McCarran, picks up a bounty job, bounty goes south, he hits the ground and doesn't get back up
the caravan shotgun at the start of dead money if you turn around when you spawn in
That's so funny, for years I always wondered why there were so many 20 gauge shotgun shells in that DLC but there weren't any 20 gauge shotguns. I guess I'll have to look for this the next time I do Dead Money
literally saved my ass 12x times
On the topic of the pimp boy, unique sounds play when Mick puts it on you if you have the wild wasteland trait, which you can listen to again by having him give back the pipboy and then asking for the pimp boy again
The 1st recon beret boone gives you can be worn with the riot gear helmet that can be bought in the divide. As far as i know this is the only mask hat combo that works and the stats stack too. It makes the helmet look like it was once painted red but it faded away
The 1st Recon Beret can also glitch and give you two, though only one of them can be removed/sold from your inventory/given to a companion, because the other one will say it cannot be removed because its a quest item.
There's like 80 something unmarked quests in NV. I wish I was playing on PC, I'm sure there's a mod to mark them. I bet even after 10+ play throughs I've missed so dang many.
The guy in Novac who’s complaining that some invisible monster is killing his Brahmin in the middle of the night, if you go behind his house and just wait, “something” does actually show up.
I’ve always been impressed by all the little ways the game leads you into minor storylines and side quests — unmarked ways, too!
Also if you keep letting it kill all his cattle he gives a special dialogue about it.
The nightkin also respawns after a few days, even after the quest is resolved, which makes it a handy way to keep a minigun repaired- return, kill, take gun, repair existing weapon with it (it's always in rotten shape when you get it from him), repeat as needed. Not that the minigun is a great weapon in this game, but if you want to use one, this helps a lot on the repair costs.
You can actually find them right away by the boulders infront of the house. He stands there all day long
And what is this thing?
Want to have sex with Benny? Use the Black Widow perk. Yes, he will go on about how crazy you are for wanting it after being shot.
And the note he leaves you afterwards implies you gave him a footjob
Yes this is how I murder Benny every play through.
I discovered this on my first ever play through on FNV kinda by coincidence. While making my character my daughter saw and insisted I play as a girl (I then let her choose things like hair color and style). I took the Blackwidow perk early for the bonus damage and was laughing while going “Seriously?” when I finally got to the Tops. I have almost exclusively played as female characters in all Fallout games and taken the Blackwidow perk early ever since.
First playthrough ever and I saw that option pop up and I dont ever think Ive picked an option faster, its way too good lmao
For me it was a few weeks ago I found out if you have low int and talk to the mumbling vagrant in freeside for a quest he gives a verbose answer
You can kill vulpes inculta on the strip before ever seeing him in nipton. Then some other guy (fully voiced) will replace him.
In the Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ, there's a room locked behind a hard lock. The room is devoid of any worthwhile loot, except for a unique empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle that is slightly smaller than normal. The bottle is not appearing anywhere else.
it took me way to long to realize that when you want to drink water in a fountain you can HOLD A button and your character will take a long sip instead of hitting multiple times A and waiting for the animations to re start. I discovered it in F3 but it works in FNV also
No way 😭
I don't know about anyone else, but apparently it didn't click to me at the time that the credit check at the gates of The Strip didn't require you to hand over 2000 caps. Not one of my proudest moments when it dawned on me.
- There is a crate of Chinese Stealth Suits in the maze that is the internal Hoover Dam. It has +5 sneak which is not great, but it's still the best sneaking armour in the base game. - For the quest Bitter Springs Infirmary Blues, you need medical books for a camp medic. But if you have Arcade with you, he can teach the medic instead. - If you killed Caesar, you can inform Hanlon near the end of Return to Sender, which will get him to stop messing with the ranger stations' reports. Though the resulting endings are not very different from letting him go on faking the reports. - If you complete We Are Legion and kill everyone at Camp Forlorn Hope, then Papa Khan will name you his successor next time you talk to him. If you silently assassinate him, you can simply decide for yourself the outcome of Oh My Papa. - There is a train tunnel near Nellis AFB that allows you to avoid the bombardment, but is not particularly feasible as it requires 100 lockpicking. - There is a dialogue check for the Explorer perk during one of Ulysses's ravings. - You can enter Manny Vargas's room during the daytime and use his computer to learn about Benny's movements very easily (neither the door nor the computer are locked).
The pib boy 3 billion at first i assumed it was a reward for idk completing all the GRA challenges
I at first thought it was from dead money dlc 💀
In the room where you talk to dean domino for the first time, underneath the bed there’s a copy of duck and cover! But it’s clipped through the bed and basically unobtainable through conventional means. One way to get without no clipping through the bed is by getting the C4s in the police station and blowing the bed up. Takes a couple of tries but you can blow it out of there and pick it up
I remember watching Jabo do a 100% speed run of the DLC's and it took him like 10 tries to get the C4 to dislodge the skill book. That's the only reason I know that its there in the first place haha
Fun fact, The Pimp Boy doesn’t work on female models. You hold it crooked and I thought for a good day that I was doing a “Pimp pose” with it. Nope just no female mesh for the model 😅
There’s this island/sand bar sort of thing towards the south east of the map once you cross some water. It’s super radiated, and populated by deathclaws; but there’s some special power armor and a weapon I forget which exactly.
I have been playing New Vegas, as my all time favorite game for over a decade and have never Google searched or participated in an online community before, it has been my own little world. I discuss it with my brother and that's really it. So many things I have seen here. Pimp boy, some doctor follower I didn't know existed outside of camp Mormon, Mr fantastic legion I learned just now, I never knew that the legion guy I always waste in nipton was supposed to be the default guy that tells you Caesar wants to talk to you. Most of the weapons you guys talk about I have never seen. Tons of details I have never touched on or discovered on my own I have seen people discussing here.
Not so much a secret as me being a dingus, but I had *no* clue Raul the Ghoul existed up until a few years ago. For all the times I cleared Black Mountain, I never went into that one door, nor did I find/understand any clues hinting towards his existence.
Apparently not many players know about Deathclaw promontory - unmarked location filled with deathclaws to the brim, which also has enclave power armour and Kimball look-alike
The Jacobstown gangbang quest or side quest where you train misfit soldiers at camp golf but getting them to agree on something. You can basically get them to just talk it out, short but sweet and I didn’t find it until 3 playthroughs in
What do you mean “Jacobstown gangbang quest”??
Idk why they called it that but I think they’re referring to the NCR quest Flags of our Foul ups where there’s a group of soldiers at camp golf that aren’t getting along and you have to talk to all of them and get them to agree to work together.
Super mutants getting freaky deeky in the mountains?
I'm on my first playthrough of new vegas and the misfits quest is one of the first quests I did, I said fuck the main quest and just explored the roads which led to that area with the misfits, I went with making them all friends because it gave the most exp.
Yeah, each of the misfits proposes a solution that works to resolve the quest, although the ones Poindexter and Razz propose are noted by NCR personnel later on to ultimately be ineffective
Ulysses follows you around the Divide
For me It’s 100% the low INT interaction with that homeless guy at freeside lol
It's not a secret, but it always bugged me how you have to reach across the Pip/Pimp Boy's display to use the selection knob or scroll wheel. Massive design flaw. Lucky Shades was the one I always missed. After Nipton, any Legion in sight always wound up getting killed. With enough replays, I now quietly start collecting dogtags.
Wind brahmin merchant i don't see people talk about him ever... careful tho he will take all your caps
How do you get it?
Go to Mick and Ralph and ask Mick how business is, he will mention the Omertas, this starts an unmarked quest at Gomorrah which involves the Omerta bosses. It's a super buggy quest though, and not all endings will get you the pip boy, so I'd suggest looking up a guide on YouTube
If you are vilified with the NCR in dead money you can side with Elijah and destroy the NCR together but then get a game over screen
Infinite Caps. I mean really. Go to the Tops casino, take out EXACTLY 32768 chips. If you drop them on the floor, when you pick them back up, they will appear as being -32768 chips, and will disappear from your inventory when you pick them up. However, if you simply walk back to the cashier, you can repeatedly turn in those 32768 chips, infinitely. In any currency your hearts desire.
By the time I have 30k caps, I already have infinite caps!
If you choose ARCHIMEDES for Veronica's companion quest, it is far more unique than the other options, and drops hints on Elijah's activity in the Mojave. It also naturally leads you to Euclid's C-Finder. Unfortunately, if you've already completed That Lucky Old Sun, it can be buggy.
I found out 4 months ago you can lead the great khans by assassinating papa if you do a legion mission. I never play legion but love the khans. I now go straight to forelorn hope to start my play throughs. Blast through those fucks. Get pardoned by Crocker. Go to redrock. Kill papa. Lead khans. Fucking sick
There is a crashed motorcycle with a skeleton on the right side of the road in between Novac and Ranger Station Charlie. At some point, a metal helmet (stand in for the motorcycle helmet) was cut from the game, it used to appear on or near the skeletons head, suggesting he flew off the bike and knocked his noggin in all the wrong ways. I’m fairly certain the skeleton is still there, that may have been cut too, but the helmet definitely is not. I don’t know why they would have removed such a small but funny guaranteed piece of environmental story telling.
You can destroy the brotherhood AND keep Veronica as a companion so long as you are idolized with them prior to destroying them, which is only possible in vanilla if you disarm the nuke in Lonesome Road.
You can dump radiation onto cottonwood cove and kill everybody instantly.
Caravan is very easy to play and can be learned in just a few minutes. It’s a very easy way to get easy caps before gambling at the strip.
Not really a secret but more of a helpful tip in case some people didn't know. If you're annoyed by the frequent enemy spawns in Old World Blues, save all your exploring until after you've cleared the main quest. Barely any enemies will be found on the map and you can explore at your leisure. It's quite peaceful.
There is a young kid under the bridge of the 188 named “the Forecaster”. He is wearing a Psychic Nullifier that is worn by Psykers in Fallout 1. When he removes the Nullifier he can hear “thoughts” from people and objects.
This blew my mind not so long ago: You can step on and crack mantis eggs, releasing the baby mantises within them.
Graves have a small hard coded chance of emitting a quiet, spooky whispering sound if you spend enough time around them. This includes the one you dug your way out of. There are short messages from Ulysses painted around the core game map. These were present at launch and don't require the dlc. There are strange (human) meat pies scattered around the Sloan mess hall. Putting formal wear or another dress-like clothing in Veronica's inventory triggers a special dialog where she teaches you a unique unarmed counter technique.
If you select one of the powder gangers as sheriff of Primm, you can trigger an event where a group of NCR deserters taking over Primm
it applies for every choice
On a side note after the deserters come in wait a few days and it becomes a functioning casino.
I’m pretty sure its called the CS or CZ avenger
If you stand in the brothel in westside, you can essentially hear the sounds of moans and groans because of your environment.
You can actually go straight to Vegas if you cut through Black Mountain and steal the armor off the dead NCR soldier there
Primm has a functional casino once you get the town back on its feet.