============================================================================== FALLOUT NEW VEGAS ============================================================================== COMPLETE WALKTHROUGH V 1.3 Completed 9-05-2011 Written and maintained by James Friel Copyright @2011 James Friel (jamesfriel05@comcast.net) This FAQ is solely intended for use on Gamefaq.com forum site, and may not be reproduced or duplicated without permission of myself. If you want to use or duplicate the FAQ, feel free on other sites, I really am not a greedy person, just make sure to credit the FAQ and myself when doing it. FALLOUT NEW VEGAS is a PS3 game published by Bethesda Softworks 10/19/10. Developed by Obsidian Entertainment. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TABLE OF CONTENTS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I. Revision History II. Introduction III. Walkthrough 1. Goodsprings (includes locations Goodsprings, Goodsprings Cemetery) 2. Goodsprings Source 3. Goodsprings Cave 4. The Devil's Gullet 5. Yangtze Memorial 6. Jean Sky Diving 7. New California Ranger (NCR) Correctional Facility 8. Powder Ganger Camp South 9. Powder Ganger Camp West 10. Powder Ganger Camp North 11. Powder Ganger Camp East 12. Lone Wolf Radio 13. Primm 14. Nevada Highway Patrol Station 15. Nipton Road Reststop 16. Mojave Outpost 17. Canyon Wreckage 18. California Sunset Drive-in 19. Ivanpah Dry Lake 20. Ivanpah Race Tracks 21. Nipton Road Pitstop 22. Emergency Service Railroad 23. The Prospectors Den 24. Coyote Den 25. Nipton 26. Mojave Drive-in 27. Bradleys Shack 28. Wolfhorn Ranch 29. Raided Farmstead 30. Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm 31. Ranger Station Charlie 32. Novac 33. Legion Raid Camp 34. Old Nuclear Test Site 35. Crashed Vertibird 36. Mesquite Mountain Crater 37. Mesquite Mountain Camp Site 38. Morningstar Cavern 39. Crescent Canyon East 40. Crescent Canyon West 41. Camp Searchlight 42. Hidden Supply Cave 43. Searchlight Airport 44. Searchlight East Gold Mine 45. Fireroot Cavern 46. Cottonwood Crater 47. Coyote Mines 48. Searchlight North Gold Mine 49. Broc Flower Cave 50. Snyder Prospector Camp 51. Wrecked Highwayman 52. Highway 95's Viper Encampment 53. Ranger Station Echo 54. Repconn Test Site 55. Clark Field 56. Jack Rabbit Springs 57. Walking Box Cavern 58. Harpers Shack 59. Dead Wind Cavern 60. Primm Pass 61. Gibson Scrap Yard 62. Helios One 63. El Dorado Gas And Service 64. El Dorado Dry Lake 65. 188 Trading Post 66. Smith Mesa Prospector Camp 67. Blue Paradise Vacation Rentals 68. Cottonwood Overlook 69. Sniper's Nest 70. Cliffside Prospectors Camp 71. Lucky Jim Mine 72. Southern Nevada Wind Farm 73. Cazador Nest 74. Ranger Station Delta 75. Black Rock Cave 76. Ranger Station Alpha 77. Boulder Beach Campground 78. Mountain Shadows Campground 79. Deserted Shack 80. Boulder City 81. Repconn Headquarters 82. Sloan 83. Hidden Valley 84. Scorpion Gulch 85. Cottonwood Cove 86. Followers Outpost 87. Lake Las Vegas 88. Camp Golf 89. Grub and Gulp Rest Stop 90. Aerotech Office Park 91. NCR Sharecroppers Field 92. East Pump Station 93. Vault 34 94. New Vegas Medical Clinic 95. Molerat Ranch 96. Crimson Caravan Company 97. Field Shack 98. Nellis Air Force Base 99. Nellis Hangars 100. Nellis Array 101. Raul's Shack 102. Bloodborne Cave 103. Gypsum Train Yard 104. Cap Counterfeiting Shack 105. Fisherman's Pride Shack 106. Scavenger Platform 107. Callville Bay 108. Crashed B-29 109. Lake Mead Cave 110. Bitter Springs Rec Area 111. Camp Guardian 112. Guardian Peak 113. Camp Guardian Caves 114. The Devil's Throat 115. Ranger Station Bravo 116. Gunrunners 117. Mick & Ralph's 118. Old Mormons Fort 119. Neil's Shack 120. Black Mountain 121. Vault 11 122. Camp McCarran 123. Coyote Tail Ridge 124. Bitter Springs 125. Toxic Dump Site 126. Nelson 127. Techhatticup Mine 128. Abandoned Brotherhood Of Steel Bunker 129. Camp Forlorn Hope 130. Quarry Junction 131. Great Khan Encampment 132. Makeshift Great Khan Camp 133. Tribal Village 134. Spring Mountain Ranch State Park 135. Bonnie Springs 136. Vault 19 137. Whittaker Farmstead 138. Hunter's Farm 139. Junction 15 Railway Station 140. NCR Ranger Safehouse 141. Ant Mound 142. Allied Technologies Offices 143. The Basin Creek Building 144. Samson Rock Crushing Plant 145. West Pumping Station 146. New Vegas Steel 147. El Rey Motel 148. Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters 149. Monte Carlo Suites 150. The Thorn 151. Vault 22 152. Bootjack Cavern 153. Red Rock Canyon 154. Red Rock Drug Lab 155. Jacobstown 156. Charleston Cave 157. Westside 158. Freeside North Gate 159. Freeside (southside) 160. Cassidy Caravan Wreckage 161. Griffin Wares Sacked Caravan 162. Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch 163. Ruby Hill Mine 164. Silver Peak Mine 165. Ranger Station Foxtrot 166. Durable Dunn's Sacked Caravan 167. Strip North 168. Strip Center 169. Strip South 170. South Vegas Ruins (east entrance) 171. South Vegas Ruins (west entrance) 172. Brewer's Beer Bootlegging 173. Poseidon Gas Station 174. Chance's Map 175. Nopah Cave 176. Vault 3 177. The (Legion) Fort 178. Horowitz Farmstead 179. Northern Passage 180. South Cistern 181. H&H Tool Factory 182. North Vegas Square 183. Hoover Dam 184. Cannibal Johnsons Cave 185. Remnant's Bunker 186. El Dorado Substation V. Last Words ========================================= I. REVISION HISTORY ========================================= 6/29/11 v1.0 - Walkthrough started - Added Introduction - Added Prologue - Added Locations 1-95 - Added Last Words 7/10/11 v1.1 - Added Locations 96-152 - fixed minor spelling errors 7/21/11 v1.2 - Added locations 153-184 - fixed minor spelling/sentence errors 9/05/11 v1.3 - Added in 2 locations left out of the guide idarakwebb@aol.co.uk pointed out Fisherman's Pride Shack and the Broc Flower Cave. - fixed a couple spelling errors and confusing directions [NOTE: my revision history starts at version 1.0 and each change will be noted as a .1 addition, so on the 3rd revision if it gets to that will be version 1.3] ====================================== II. INTRODUCTION ====================================== Based on many fan requests I decided to make up a quick FAQ on FALLOUT NEW VEGAS, with a general layout similar to my FALLOUT 3 FAQ. Readers have said it was easy to follow and use and liked it, so why mess with a good thing. FALLOUT NEW VEGAS is the latest addition to the FALLOUT series, taking you to the wastes around the sparkling city of VEGAS to explore, maim, kill and do what all your other FALLOUT characters have done. VEGAS isn't quite as good as FALLOUT 3, it lacks the imagination, and it basically uses the same game engine, so no improved graphics, which many expect for a new game. Same old graphics? TThhrrpt. Thankfully the FALLOUT 3 graphics were decent to begin with so its not too bad, but you'd think they would have updated them at least a little over the years. They did adjust the game to make it more difficult to make up any uber character, and changed it to tailor to a few specific types of gameplay. This Walkthrough will give you a complete walkthrough of the game, from beginning to end and to enjoy everything that you can get out of it. Things to note. The game is a first person SHOOTER. This means that combat is a lot harder than with a turn based game, because you actually have to aim and attack things manually instead of a system where your stats affect how good you hit. There is an adjusted V.A.T. combat system that helps with the popular aiming that Fallout 1 and 2 had. Sadly they didn't extend this to all weapons, so guns are the only weapons you can aim at body parts. That doesn't make the other weapons any less fun, just not as beneficial as guns. There are also FAQS which explain the combat system, stats, perks, and other things. I won't go over those here. I will simply tell you what to pick and what to do. Saves a lot of reading. Some things to remember 1) Always heal by resting if possible. 1 hours rest in a bed will heal all your wounds. Save your healing Stims for emergencies. 2) Early on use melee weapons and save ammo. Save the ammo for the harder foes. Most weaker enemies can be beaten with melee weapons easy. 3) Save often. FALLOUT NEW VEGAS has a lot of glitches, such as getting stuck in objects, lockups, etc. SAVE OFTEN. 4) Do not use any of the permenant skill books until you get the level 6 Comprehension perk which gives you +1 skill per book. A must have. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- III. WALKTHROUGH! WALKTHROUGH! WALKTHROUGH! WALKTHROUGH! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ====================================== I. GOODSPRINGS (Prologue) ====================================== You start the game by watching the Intro. You've been shot in the head and left for dead. You wake up in Doc Mitchells' clinic. This starts [AIN'T THAT A KICK IN THE HEAD] quest. ) Awaken to have Doc ask your name and check your face. You can put in your character name and face description here. Afterwards follow the Doc to the Vit-O-matic where you can pick your stats. For the starting area of Goodsprings take the following stats, you will be able to re-do your character when you leave the starting Goodspring area. STRENGTH: 4 PERCEPTION: 6 ENDURANCE: 5 CHARISMA: 10 INTELLIGENCE: 10 AGILITY: 4 LUCK: 1 ) Now follow the Doc to his couch. Sitting on it, he will give you a quick test of questions. Just answer the first one each time, afterwards you can reset and manually pick your 3 TAG skills. Pick [BARTER, SPEECH, and SCIENCE]. You will then pick your 2 traits, take [GOOD NATURED] and [KAMIKAZE]. ) Go over to the door with DOC MITCHELL and talk to him, he will give you some items and your [PIPBOY]. You are done with him for now. Head back to the medic room where you woke up and click on the [CHEMIST SET] on the table and choose to get 5 [STIMPACKS]. Now click on the [BROKEN 9MM MACHINE GUN] and repair it. Open the [SASPARILLA CRATE] and loot it. You will be using this crate to store any items until you get your hotel room later. Until then this will do fine for storing items. Loot the clinic dry, and store your extra stuff in the crate. Talking to the Doc will get you needed info, plus pass a speech check [SPEECH:30] to get 3 [STIMPACKS]. ) Exit the hospital clinic, go straight left down the road and enter the Saloon. You'll encounter SUNNY. Talk to her and get some town info but save the first option for last. You will get a lockpick book and info on picking a safe in the school house later. When finished pick the first option and start the [BACK IN THE SADDLE] quest series. Follow SUNNY outside and around to the back of the Saloon. Approaching her, she will hand you a [VARMIT RIFLE] and some ammo. Kneel and shoot 3 of the bottles off the fence. ) SUNNY will want you to continue and help her clear some Geckos from the water well. Follow her until she stops and tells you to sneak left up to the well to kill the Geckos. Run up and shoot or punch them dead. The wells have clear non-radioactive water so drink up to heal any damage. Report back to SUNNY who will want you to clear the other 2 wells. Agree then follow her and kill the Geckos at the 2nd well, then head left down the hill to the 3rd well, where the Geckos are attacking a Goodspring settler. Save her, and talk to her afterwards to get 3 [PURIFIED WATER]. Talk to SUNNY again for a reward and to finish the [BACK IN THE SADDLE] quest, and to start the [BY A CAMPFIRE ON THE TRAIL] quest. ) Fast travel back to GOODSPRINGS and enter the general store. Talk to CHET and ask about various topics to get info. Buy a shovel. Head outside then northeast up the big hill towards the water tower/graveyard. On the way you'll probably encounter a BARK SCORPION. Kill it and continue to the top, and kill the BLOATFLIES that are up there. Pick the [BROC FLOWER], take the [SNOW GLOBE-GOODSPRINGS] and other items that are about on the graves. Finally dig up the various graves for misc items, you want to get a couple [DISTINCTIVE CIGARETTE BUTTS] which are about near the open grave site. ) Go back to town, then head SW towards the red school building. Just out- side are 2 GIANT MANTIS NYMPHS. Kill them and pick the [XANDER ROOT] bulbs just near the tree trunk. Fast travel to GOODSPRINGS SOURCE and go down and talk to SUNNY. Activate the campfire, make a [HEALING POWDER]. Fast travel back to town and enter the Saloon. You'll see an argument between TRUDY and JOE COBB. Talk to TRUDY afterwards which finishes the [BY A CAMPFIRE ON THE TRAIL] quest. Milk her for all information, talk about her broken radio, then talk about how to handle JOE COBB, and you will start the [GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT] quest. ) Now repair the broken radio [REPAIR:20] and talk to TRUDY for a reward. [BARTER:20] for some extra caps. You'll level up. Raise EXPLOSIVES to 25 and pick the SWIFT LEARNER perk. Head outside, and go to the SE building where you will find JOE COBB standing. Talk to him and milk him for info, but DO NOT TALK ABOUT TAKING OVER THE TOWN. Pass the speech check for some free exp. Once done talking to JOE, crouch and hide behind him and ready your 9MM MACHINE GUN (or another weapon). SAVE YOUR GAME. Now, while hidden enter V.A.T.S and shoot him in the head. If your reputation with the POWDER GANGERS drops, reload and try again. You're going to kill JOE anyway soon, might as well do it now. You should be able to kill him from stealth without any reputation change. Loot him. ) Head up to the gas station near the Medical Clinic, enter and talk to RINGO, and get info from him. Agree to help him against the GANGERS, then loot the entire gas station, making sure to pick the safe using the lockpick book that SUNNY gave you. Return to the Saloon and talk to SUNNY who will open options to get town support for the [GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT] quest. Talk to TRUDY and pass [SPEECH:25] check for supplies. Go outside and talk to EASY PETE pass [EXPLOSIVES:25] check for dynamite. Head into the supply store and talk to CHET pass [BARTER:25] check for fighting supplies, and finally up to DOC MITCHELL for medical supplies. Return to TRUDY she should talk about JOE COBB and give you some exp (strange she doesn't talk about this earlier). ) Your all ready for the final showdown. Get what ever weapons and items you want and head up to the gas station and talk to RINGO to let him know the town is ready. Start the fight, SUNNY shows up and says the Gangers are on the way. Go outside and run down to the Saloon area, the POWDER GANGERS are heading up the road. NOTE: You can fight this battle any way you want, its not super hard, but there is a catch. If you kill any of the Gangers your reputation with them will drop all the way. We want it to only drop a little, so when you enter the fight, don't kill any of them, let the townspeople do it. You want to distract them. Equip a basic weapon (laser pistol, 9MM, etc) and run directly into their group. Attack them lowering their health but do not kill them yourself. Keep to the left so the townspeople have open shots. Switch foes, wounding them down to low health, they don't do any major damage to you, so just be the "big target". Afterwards, you'll level up again. Raise LOCKPICK to 25 and BARTER to 48. Ringo will come up and give you some caps as a reward. ) OK! Your basically done in GOODSPRINGS. Time to finish up the Prologue so we can head out into the wasteland. Start in the south of town, a house there holds a [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL] on a shelf, but you'll have steal it. Do NOT use the MANUAL until you get the perk that lets you gain the +1 boost. Outside talk to VICTOR the robot and loot his shack. In the schoolhouse you'll find some more GIANT MANTIS NYMPHS to kill, some good temp skill books about the schoolhouse. Make sure to hack the terminal in the school before you pick the safe for extra exp. In the store you can steal a [SILENCED .22 PISTOL] off the counter, and loot various mail- boxes, plants and houses/ruins in town. Enter the Saloon and when you are alone you can steal the [357 MAGNUM] off the counter, and hack the back computer terminal to open the safe. Don't get caught <grin>. ) Finish selling, gathering and storing your items. Buy what you want from the store/saloon then save your game. This will be your Starting save point. You can start any new game from here, once you leave the area you can change your character before continuing on into the wild. You will want to make sure you have.. A few types of weapons, decent REGULAR armor (you don't want to wear clan armors unless needed), A set of Powder Ganger armor (for disguise later), your temp skill books, your shovel. Your .22 silenced pistol, you will be using this for assassination attempts in many places, get very attached to your little gun. Your new character you want to have the following stats. Strength: 5 Perception: 6 Endurance: 7 Charisma: 1 Intelligence: 10 Agility: 5 Luck: 6 And TAG SPEECH, LOCKPICK and BARTER, Traits KAMIKAZE and SMALL FRAME Level 2 raise SPEECH to 30 and SCIENCE to 32, pick INTENSE TRAINING perk and raise LUCK+1 (to 7) Level 3 raise SCIENCE to 40, LOCKPICK to 40 and REPAIR to 27 As you level up, you do not want to raise any skill above 64. You will gain +16 skill points per skill using books which will reach 80, and you can read temporary skill books to raise skills +20 for certain uses. Once you reach your cap of 64 (or 80) in all skills then you can assign points into raising them more. No need for that until later. As for perks, pick these perks at these levels. Lv2: Intense Training (luck+1) Lv4: Educated Lv6: Comprehension Lv8: Strong Back Lv10: Finesse Lv12: Sniper Lv14: Commando Lv16: Better Criticals Lv18: Action Boy Lv20: Grim Reapers Spirit Lv22: TAG (Guns) Lv24: Silent Running Lv26: Action Boy (2) Lv28: Hand Loader Lv30: Nerves Of Steel Many items you find can be used to create other items, so i suggest that you try and save as many items as possible so down the road you can make cool new things out of them. Items that you can freely sell and do not need to save.. Ruined books of all kinds, including pre-war books Cigarettes and Cigarette cartons General utensils.. such as spoons, glasses, forks, plates, etc Extra weapons or clothing that you do not plan on wearing. Deco items like nuka-cola trucks, teddy bears, etc Items that you want to save for later for crafting, and other uses All "AID" items including food, healing, books, etc. All general misc found items such as machinery, wrenches, glue, that do not fit into the above "sell" category" If you dont' know, then don't sell it. Glass pitchers and empty soda bottles, used for recipes. Snow globes Weapon mod items and any ammo material (casings, powder, etc) ====================================== 2. GOODSPRINGS SOURCE ====================================== ) Fast travel to GOODSPRINGS SOURCE. Various junk litters the campsite, and a roaming man, BARTON THORN wants you to help his girlfriend who is up on the hillside trapped by Geckos. Agree to help then head up the hill to the southwest, past the small tower. Look! Cute Geckos! Die Geckos! You'll run into a bunch of them, too bad they are easy to smush. Continue NW at the intersection and head up the hill to the top, where a dead prospector lies among some loot. There are 3 bear traps you can disarm, along with a bed to rest in if needed. Once done, head back down the hill where BARTON will ambush you. Seems he's evil! Die Evil BARTON! (You'd think... why would he think he could kill you after you killed all the Geckos that he couldn't kill..guess his intelligence is below 3) ) Back to GOODSPRINGS SOURCE, and head due north towards the large hill in the distance. Stay to the left side and you'll come upon GOODSPRINGS CAVE. ====================================== 3. GOODSPRINGS CAVE ====================================== ) This small cave has a few COYOTES outside. Take them out, and just before you enter the cave, there is a big rock on the right hand side. Its hollow so check it for some loot. Enter the cave, and there are more COYOTES inside to kill. Loot the cave and the dead bodies inside. ) Heading outside you want to go around or over the big hill and just north- east is a huge sinkhole, THE DEVIL'S GULLET. ====================================== 4. THE DEVIL'S GULLET ====================================== ) This huge hole usually has a couple more COYOTES wandering about. You can go down into the hole via makeshift ramp, where some minor loot can be found. You can find a [SUNSET SARSAPARILLA STAR BOTTLE CAP] in the bottom of a crate. ) Look to the north/northeast you'll see a large white cross, head that way to find the YANGTZE MEMORIAL. ====================================== 5. YANGTZE MEMORIAL ====================================== ) This memorial gives a great view of the area, you can see NEW VEGAS not to far to the north, especially at night when its lit up. On the south side of the memorial is a hollow rock with a white peace sign. Loot it, and then get the dufflebag that's on the east side right under the small red sign. ) You can use your shovel and dig the few grave sites to get some misc items from them. Look to the north and you'll see a small red metal shed, head there and loot the inside. ) Fast travel back to GOODSPRINGS SOURCE. You want to head due east. Now is the time to equip your POWDER GANGER ARMOR, we are going to infiltrate the Powder Ganger base. Keep heading east till you find JEAN SKY DIVING. ====================================== 6. JEAN SKY DIVING ====================================== ) Approaching the small shack you will notice 2 "people" behind it. Skip the shack for now and go around back, you'll see 2 POWDER GANGERS. Since you are wearing their faction armor they are neutral to you. Its time to start assassinating. You want to hide behind them, crouch, and bring out your [SILENCED .22 PISTOL]. Once you are "hidden" V.A.T.S. shoot them in the head for a silent kill, that results in no detection and no type of reputation loss. Kill both gangers. An explosive crate is wedged in the crack of the cliff wall that can be looted. ) Enter the shack for some minor loot. On the table is the key to the locked locker, plus a [SUNSET SARSAPARILLA STAR BOTTLE CAP]. Now you have marked on your map the location of NEW CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC CORRECTIONAL FACILITY to the southeast. Head there, its just over a big hill. ========================================================= 7. NEW CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ========================================================= ) Approaching the main gate, you'll encounter DAWES. He will let you in if you pay him 100 caps. Either pay or pickpocket his key. Ignore everyone at this time, and head through the entrance building and exit in the back into the courtyard. ) To the left is the main admin building. Enter it, take a left and head upstairs to find EDDIE, the Ganger leader. Talk to him to start the [I FOUGHT THE LAW] quest. He asks for you to head to the POWDER GANGER CAMP SOUTH to "take care" of a rival CHAVEZ. Exit the NCR Facility and head south to find the camp. ====================================== 8. POWDER GANGER CAMP SOUTH ====================================== ) This small camp has a few Ganger convicts, including CHAVEZ. Talk to him why your there and convince him [SPEECH:30] to move on. You can then sneak assassinate the Ganger troops with your [SILENCED .22 PISTOL] and take them out. Loot the basic items in the camp and return to EDDIE. ) You should level up sometime soon. Raise REPAIR to 42, and take the EDUCATED perk ) EDDIE will thank you for your help and ask you to perform a 2nd mission. Head over to JEAN SKY DIVING to find a suspicious merchant hanging around. Chat with him, passing a few skill checks [SPEECH:30] or [INT:6] to find out hes a bounty hunter. persuade him about paying a toll [SPEECH:30] then when your finished, whip out a weapon and kill him, and loot. Return to EDDIE to complete this 2nd task. ) You will get EDDIE'S last task, to get information from NCR about their plans. Ignore this for now, we are going to take out the facility POWDER GANGER convicts, using of course your [SILENCED .22 PISTOL]. If you run out of ammo restock at GOODSPRINGS, or try a hand/melee weapon. The more we eliminate now, the less we have to worry about later. You can kill almost everyone in the compound if you want except EDDIE. Do not kill him. Also do not kill MEYERS in the entrance building, we will be using him in a quest later. It might be a little hard when killing EDDIE'S guards in his office, try using a [STEALTH BOY] if you have one. What i did, i stood in the small closet and took out SCRAMBLER first, the sitting guard 2nd, then i put a [CASE] and a couple dead bodies on the desk to block EDDIE'S sight, then took out the guard standing at the doorway. ) Start in the courtyard and take out any guards on the sniper towers, or roaming about in the courtyard, using your stealth-silencer method. Once all the guards are dead, enter the right Cellblock-A and Cellblock-B and kill anyone inside. [SCHEMATICS POWDER CHARGE] is inside a locked door in Cellblock-B. A [STAR BOTTLECAP] is in the entrance building on the desk. In the administration building on the second floor you will find a [LYING CONGRESSIONAL STYLE]. Again, do NOT use this book until you get the perk that gives +1 skill boost when reading. ) With all the killing in the Facility, you should level up again. Raise LOCKPICK to 50 (you can now unlock the footlocker in Cellblock-B if you don't have a book) and EXPLOSIVES to 25 ) Once the compound is cleared out of foes except for EDDIE and MEYERS, loot what you want, and then we will clear out the other 3 POWDER GANGERS camps that are about. Fast travel to JEAN SKY DIVING and head south, to find the POWDER GANGER CAMP WEST. Remember we will be killing POWDER GANGER troops while wearing Ganger armor as disguise, and in stealth/assassinate with the .22 silenced pistol. ====================================== 9. POWDER GANGER CAMP WEST ====================================== ) Careful here, there is about 4 powder charge mines about the camp. Quickly disarm and take them, and take out the 2 POWDER GANGERS. After looting, if you head southeast, to the left of the radioactive flats you'll come to a irradiated hole, and down in the back near a burned car is a sneak skill magazine and some loot. ) Fast travel back to NCR CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES then head north towards the next Ganger base, POWER GANGER CAMP NORTH ====================================== 10. POWDER GANGER CAMP NORTH ====================================== ) A little bigger than the west camp, the Ganger north camp holds 3 POWDER GANGER troops. Again careful, there are 4 powder charge mines at each of the 2 entrances (8 charges total) you can disarm and pick up. Take the charges, kill the Gangers and loot the camp. ) Fast travel to POWDER GANGER CAMP SOUTH then head due east, towards the last camp, POWDER GANGER CAMP EAST. ====================================== 11. POWDER GANGER CAMP EAST ====================================== ) Same with the other camps, careful of powder charge mines. Sneak-kill the Gangers with your .22 silencer, and loot the camp. To the south-southwest is a hollowed out rock with some misc loot. ) Fast travel to GOODSPRINGS SOURCE then head southwest up the hills. Follow the unknown location arrow until you arrive up at an abandoned trailer, LONEWOLF RADIO. You'll probably run into a gaggle of GECKOS again. ====================================== 12. LONE WOLF RADIO ====================================== ) This little abandoned trailer in the hills holds a [WASTELAND SURVIVAL GUIDE] and [STAR BOTTLE CAP] near the bed. Not much else here except a boatload of radio equipment. Somebody has been busy. ) Head southeast, you'll be running into some regular GECKOS now, a little tougher than the youngsters you were playing with before, but no major trouble. You might also find a small watering hole with many [BROC FLOWERS] and others about. Continue down the hillside to the main road, heading south to our next major town, PRIMM. Go ahead and put on your regular armor, we will encounter NCR soldiers don't want them confusing us for Powder Gangers hehe. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** Break time. Eat dinner. At this point in the game you should be level 5 and have a decent amount of loot, caps, and basic weapons and armor. Your skills should be close to.. Barter: 23 Energy weapons: 18 Explosives: 25 Lockpick: 50 Medicine: 26 Melee weapon: 16 Repair: 42 Science: 40 Small guns: 16 Sneak: 16 Speech: 31 Unarmed: 20 As you can see, doing ok with minimal weapons skills, it doesn't take much skill to get up close to a target and shoot it in the head, or V.A.T.S smack it with a melee/unarmed weapon. Close to this point, I leveled up to 6 approaching PRIMM (killing GECKOS). Raise SPEECH to 40 and BARTER to 31. Take the COMPREHENSION perk, and now you can read any permanent skill book you find. Go ahead and use up your books that you have stored up (3 i think by now). *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ====================================== 13. PRIMM ====================================== ) PRIMM is divided into 2 sections, the west side where a small group of NCR troops have occupied the ruins, and the east side, where main buildings are. (The Hotel, Casino, houses, etc). Approaching PRIMM you are greeted by a NCR trooper informing you of the area situation. ) Stay on the right (west side). You can steal from many ammo containers in the NCR ruin's side. Find the tent housing LIEUTENANT HAYES. You want to stealth and pickpocket the [MILITARY ORDERS] off him successfully. Make sure to read the orders. Talk to HAYES and chat about the NCR troopers retaking the NCR CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. He will let you help with the raid and tell you to meet up with SERGEANT LEE near the facility. ) Fast travel back to NCR CORRECTIONAL FACILITY and head south to meet up with SERGEANT LEE. Talk to him to start the assault. Good thing you have already cleared the complex. Run down the hill through the now blown-up fence hole, and proceed to the administration building. Entering it, a half dozen NCR troops arrive and storm upstairs to kill EDDIE. go ahead and rush up with them and take EDDIE down. Once hes dead, wait around for a few minutes for LEE to show up and talk to LEE to finish the quest. You can also sneak-assassinate the NCR troopers without losing reputation and loot them also. Wait until you talk to LEE first then assassinate away. I would leave LEE alive though, but the rest are just generic NCR troopers. ) Fast travel back to PRIMM. We are going to clear out the town first. There are a couple CONVICTS in the main town square, and a couple around back up around the rollercoaster tracks. In the town south homes there is a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] in one house and a locked safe behind a bookshelf in another one. The mailboxes might hold temp skill magazines. In the Sheriff office shack are a [COWBOY REPEATER] rifle and ammo. ) Outside the MOJAVE EXPRESS BUILDING is a dead courier with a courier note. Enter the building and loot what you need, there is a broken companion robot on the counter, ignore it for now. Exit and enter the VIKKI AND VANCE CASINO, and talk to JOHNSON NASH. Take a while and chat all his speech options, you'll get a few quests out of it [ED-E MY LOVE] and [THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY]. Head out of the casino. Its time to clear out the Hotel. ) Prepare for fighting and enter the BISON STEVE HOTEL. This is a 3 level building filled with CONVICTS. Clear out the first level. There is an elevator you can fix [REPAIR:35] but gives no exp. DEPUTY BEAGLE is a prisoner in one of the back rooms, leave him for now. There are a couple hard locked items [LOCKPICK:75] but you can't get those yet. A [TALES OF A JUNKYARD VENDOR] lies on the ground next to a locked safe. [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on a end-table near the sofas. Head upstairs once the ground floor is clear and clear it of enemies. Loot it and climb the rubble up to the third floor area and clean it out. You should level up to 7 soon. Raise LOCKPICK to 55 and SCIENCE to 52. ) Go talk to DEPUTY BEAGLE and pass a [SPEECH:40] check to get some info on the guys you are hunting. Release BEAGLE and pass a [SPEECH:25] check to have him be a companion in the BISON STEVE HOTEL only. Head outside and talk to BEAGLE again, inquiring about finding a new sheriff. Go inside the casino and talk to JOHNSON NASH again, talk about finding a sheriff. Talk to the robot PRIMM SLIM. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MAKE PRIMM SLIM THE SHERIFF. Talk about everything else, including the display gun. Check the display then tell PRIMM SLIM its missing, pass a [SCIENCE:50] check and open his hacked display file. NOTE: You can activate the companion robot ED-E in PRIMM if you want, I do not simply because he can get lost during adventuring and its sometime a pain to get him back/find him, thus not completing his quest. But if you really want him you'll need to use a temp science book to pass a [SCIENCE: 65] check, then a [REPAIR 35]. I suggest leaving him till later when we will pick him up farther along in the game. NOTE: There are 3 hard locked [LOCKPICK:75] items in PRIMM that we can get back to later when our skill is better, for the exp. If you have a temp lockpick book you can get some of those now (will boost your lockpick from 55 to 75). If not, we will come back later, i will tell you when. 1) Safe first floor BISON HOTEL 2) Door first floor BISON HOTEL 3) Safe VIKKI AND VANCE CASINO ) Exit the casino, and fast travel to NCR CORRECTIONAL FACILITY to enter the entrance building and talk to MEYERS about becoming the sheriff of PRIMM. Agree to help make him sheriff, but you need to get a pardon for him. He will be waiting for you in PRIMM. Fast travel back to PRIMM then head out the complex and continue south. You will encounter maybe a couple CONVICTS on the road south, and soon you'll arrive at a small building on the right the NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL STATION. ====================================== 14. NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL STATION ====================================== ) Just outside this building are some JACKAL GANG members, probably a leader also. Take them down and loot. Heading inside the building you'll run into a couple more gang members, and a few GIANT MANTIS NYMPHS. Kill and loot the building. You'll find a [GUNS AND BULLETS] on a desk, [STAR BOTTLE CAP] and 100% [BRASS KNUCKLES] in the jail cell by the dead prospector. ) Exit the building and continue south. Youll see a broken underpass ahead, and if you head to the right (southwest) you'll see a gas station with a blue sign. There are some RADSCORPIONS about, tougher than their young counterparts. Head up to the NIPTON ROAD RESTSTOP once they are dead. ====================================== 15. NIPTON ROAD RESTSTOP ====================================== ) This small reststop has some minor loot inside, a [PUGILISM ILLUSTRATED] on a shelf, a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on the counter, [MAYOR STEIN'S JOURNAL 2/2] on a counter. Outside there is misc loot in the garage bay, and a body lies at the bottom of the Nipton road sign with loot. ) Continue travelling south along the main highway, stopping at the many abandoned trucks to loot a few misc items. Follow the road to the right (southwest) up the very steep hill with the ruined vehicles. At the very top you'll find the MOJAVE OUTPOST. ====================================== 16. MOJAVE OUTPOST ====================================== ) A couple tacky giant Ranger statues mark the entrance to the outpost, you can't miss them. The outpost consists of 2 main buildings (barracks and administration). Misc crates and boxes are spread about around the 2 buildings so clear the area then head into the administration building. ) Talk to MAJOR KNIGHT at the desk. Get all the info you can. He can do 100% repair service on items, but it costs a lot. Talk to him into pardoning MEYERS to become the sheriff of PRIMM [SPEECH:30]. ) Talk to RANGER JACKSON, the NCR outpost leader. You can get various useful info from him. Ask about work and he will give you the [CAN YOU FIND IT IN YOUR HEART] quest. Search and steal any useful items you see in the building. ) Go and enter the barracks building. A few stealable items about. [DUCK AND COVER] below the bar, [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on the bar counter, 3 [ICE COLD NUKA COLAS] on a upper shelf, plus misc items in the building. Talk to CASS at the bar, who you can get info from plus start the [HEARTACHE BY THE NUMBERS] quest of hers. ) Head to the barracks roof and talk to RANGER GHOST and get info from her. Ask about work and she will give you the [KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE] quest. Finish looting the buildings of what you want. ) Fast travel back to PRIMM and talk to MEYERS who is now the town sheriff. This finishes that quest. Wait a while, and the townsfolk will head out of the Casino and back into town. You can go in and loot the Casino of any items that might interest you. Head into the MOJAVE EXPRESS and now JOHNSON NASH will trade with you with awesome prices. You want to sell your items here when you can, great sale value now. ) Fast travel to NIPTON ROAD RESTSTOP and make the [CAN YOU FIND IT IN YOUR HEART] quest active. Head east to the broken underpass and you'll have to kill a half dozen or so giant ants there. Once finished, fast travel back to the MOJAVE OUTPOST and talk to RANGER JACKSON to finish his quest. You should level up to 8 sometime soon. Pick the STRONG BACK perk, and raise LOCKPICK to 60, SCIENCE 55, SPEECH 50, EXPLOSIVES 28 ) Time to do some more exploring. Sell, repair, etc then fast travel to PRIMM. Head west out of the city and up the hills you'll run into a small playground. A [TRUE POLICE STORIES] temp book is on a picnic table and a [LAD'S LIFE] book is by the campfire. There will be some COYOTES about. Continue up the path northwest, a semi-trailer has some crates with a half dozen or so [FRAG GRENADES]. Keep going up the ill to find the CANYON WRECKAGE. ============================================== 17. CANYON WRECKAGE ============================================== ) A small pile of junk and wreckage block the path up ahead. From here, head to the southwest hugging the right cliff and you'll find a small cleft in the hill where some minor loot and a NCR trooper body lies. Kill any COYOTES you may encounter. ) Head back down the hillside past the playground and drop down into the CALIFORNIA SUNSET DRIVE-IN. ====================================== 18. CALIFORNIA SUNSET DRIVE-IN ====================================== ) Not much here, and no movies playing! Darn!. You might run into some radscorpions about. There are 2 [STAR BOTTLE CAPS] near the screen mixed in with some empty bottles. Search the various trashcans for minor loot. ) We will now head west-southwest out of the Drive in and up the hill, into ghoul territory. They are a little tougher than your basic foes you have encountered so far, and much faster. Make your way up the hill heading in the general direction of the "unknown location" marker on your radar map. NOTE: This next part is a bit tricky, so I'll explain it here. Read before you go further up the hill. Half-way up the hill towards the marker you will see a small camp against the rock wall, with a motorcycle. This is a scripted event site. There is a [FRAG MINE] that is under- neath the red safety cone. A COYOTE is scripted to walk down the hill to your right (north) and enter this area and blow up, scattering the camp items all around. You want to kill the COYOTE before it gets close so you don't have to search around for the items. Since the mine is under the red cone, its very very hard to disarm and pick up, but its doable. Hug the rock wall on the right side, so you stay out of range of setting off the mine, and you'll be at the back of the camp near the bedding. There is a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] in the small wooden box. There are 2 temp skill books, one sits on top of the motorcycle, and the other on the ground under some ruined books. Save your game here, getting the mine is tricky and you might have to reload a few times. What I did was take out a gun and shoot the red cone to move the graphics a little bit so the mine is exposed. You might also try picking up the barrel nearby and letting it roll over the cone. Try and quickly disarm the mine, maybe crouching, etc. Re-load until you get it, then loot the camp. ) Do not continue up the hill, there are tougher ghouls further up and you aren't quite ready to fight GHOUL RAVAGERS or others. You can if you want but we will come back later when we are stronger. Fast travel to NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL STATION and head east-southeast into the IVANPAH DRY LAKE. ====================================== 19. IVANPAH DRY LAKE ====================================== ) There is not much here except a little hill. You might run into numerous GIANT ANTS about the area, feel free to take them out. Continue south- southeast through the lake bed into the main ant territory, IVANPAH RACE TRACKS. ====================================== 20. IVANPAH RACE TRACKS ====================================== ) This old go-cart race track has a bunch of GIANT ANTS around the area. Take a little time and take out all the ants for easy experience. ) There is a dufflebag just south of the finish sign flag. Continue south towards some distance house ruins. Careful, there will be a bunch of JACKAL gang members so don't get in over your head, take your time and take out all the JACKAL bandits in the camp and head into the NIPTON ROAD PIT STOP. ====================================== 21. NIPTON ROAD PIT STOP ====================================== ) This small abandoned housing spot was a camp for the JACKAL gang. There is a grenade and mine box, and a hidden dufflebag against one of the ruin walls. Some sleeping mats are here if you need to rest up. A lot of JACKAL bandits laired here. ) Now look to the southwest, you'll see a big crashed plane not to far away. Those mines and grenades you just got will help, head towards the plane and you'll encounter a gaggle of radscorpions, including a GIANT RADSCORPION. These are tough armored tanks, hard to take down. My method was to fall back dropping the [FRAG MINES] in its path to weaken it some. Then since the radscorpion is about as fast as me, i just fell back and shot it as i went with a gun, going into V.A.T.S. as it replenished. ) Once all the radscorpions are dead, search the plane for a single ammo container (we didn't come here for this, we came for the experience from killing radscorpions hehe) ) Head east down the road heading towards NIPTON. About half way there you should hear and encounter a gun fight between 2 people, JACKLYN and THOMAS, who are fighting over some [STAR BOTTLE CAPS]. A) If JACKLYN wins, she will say that THOMAS attacked her. She actually killed THOMAS for his 7 [STAR BOTTLE CAPS]. Search his body for his note and she will attack you. Kill her and loot. B) If THOMAS wins he will tell you that JACKLYN was trying to rob him. You can make a [SPEECH:30] check and [SPEECH:50] to convince him to give the caps to you. ) Do not continue to NIPTON. Fast travel to POWDER GANGER CAMP SOUTH. You want to head south following the train tracks. You might encounter a BIGHORNER herd ahead, they are excellent for both food and experience, so take them down. Continue SE, and you will run into a small train stop the EMERGENCY SERVICE RAILYARD. ====================================== 22. EMERGENCY SERVICE RAILYARD ====================================== ) This small railstop has a few misc loot spread about, and 2 [STAR BOTTLE CAPS] sit on a mattress on the platform. ) Continue south, and look right up on the large hill you will see a small power tower. Climb up there and on the north side of the hill it sits on, is the body of a BRIGHT follower. Loot it, and then head east back to the railroad. ) Continue south, and on the right side you will see a small path heading southwest/west through the hills. Follow the path and you'll run into a couple JACKAL gang members. Kill them, and approach THE PROSPECTORS DEN. ====================================== 23. THE PROSPECTORS DEN ====================================== ) This home of some Prospectors has been taken over by the JACKAL gang. When you enter the cave, there will be a couple JACKAL members standing over the bodies of a half dozen prospectors. Kill the JACKALS and loot all the bodies. ) Enter the Prospector building, and you'll encounter a few more JACKAL members so take them out. Finish looting the prospector building. The first room has a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on the chessboard, and the second room has a TUMBLERS TODAY on the floor. You should level up to level 9 near this point. Raise REPAIR to 55, and SPEECH to 54. ) Exit the cave, and head east back to the railroad tracks. Continue south and you'll see a empty rail cart on the right, and probably a COYOTE on the tracks. Kill it and continue on, and just before the ruined truck on

the left is a small alcove in the hill, the COYOTE DEN. ====================================== 24. COYOTE DEN ====================================== ) This small alcove has a variety of COYOTES guarding it, probably a DEN MOTHER also. After killing the COYOTES there is the body of a BRIGHT follower at the back of the alcove. ) Continue south and you'll see the town of NIPTON. As you approach, you'll see the watertower up on the ridge. You want to head to the right of the watertower and continue that way. There is probably another heard of BIGHORN buffalo you can kill. Also a few harvestable plants. Swing around and you'll approach the entrance to NIPTON. ====================================== 25. NIPTON ====================================== ) Near the entrance a nutty guy, OLIVER SWANICK will run up to you talking about winning the lottery. Indulge him and he'll finish and run away. ) You'll enter the town on the far side of NIPTON HALL where the LEGION soldiers are. You will want 1 [MED-X] upon entering the town so make sure you have one on you. Stay away from NIPTON HALL for now, explore this side of town first and clear out the buildings/area. ) Enter the GENERAL STORE on the left and talk to BOXCAR. Giving him a [MED-X] and he will chat with you telling you what happened to the town, and starting the [BOOTED] quest. A [SALESMAN WEEKLY] is suppose to sit on the counter but it usually glitches under so you cannot get it. There is a [MILSURP REVIEW] upstairs on the big rug. ) Back outside, next door is a house with sandbags outside. This house is heavily trapped so be careful. There are 3 [FRAG MINES], one in each room. Both doorways into the 2nd and 3rd room have trip wires/gun traps. A pressure plate in the 3rd room opens the scorpion cage, so go ahead and pick the cage before hand and kill the scorpions. ) Clear out the other couple buildings on this side, plus the trailer park behind them and mailboxes. Now we want to head to the other side of the town, where the LEGION soldiers await. Do not approach too close. There are 4 LEGION soldiers, 2 LEGION MONGRELS and VULPES INCULTA. The street heading to them is lined with crucified POWDER GANGERS. We want to sneak- assassinate the MONGRELS and Soldiers first. Take a wide arch and get behind the group, near the NIPTON HALL. Sneak-kill them with your silenced weapon, switching sides to get the others, leaving only VULPES INCULTA. We don't want to kill him. Loot the dead troops. ) Go talk to VULPES. He will give you the [COLD, COLD HEART] quest when he tells you what happened to the town, and to spread the word. Make sure to pick option 2 or 3, praising his methods to gain reputation with the LEGION. VULPES will leave afterwards, we will meet him later in the game. ) Enter the NIPTON HOTEL nearby to find 4 dead NCR troops. Loot their bodies and the few items around the room. ) Clear out the 2 houses beside the crucified lined main street, and on the east side of town 2 houses, one holds a MR GUTSY robot and good loot. ) Finally we can clean out the NIPTON HALL. The HALL is a 3 level building and contains more LEGION MONGRELS. Also many areas have [FRAG MINE] traps so go slow and disarm and pick them up 1) First floor. You'll find a [WORN KEY] to the right behind the counter, which will unlock the basement 2) Second floor. Not much here, more LEGION MONGRELS 3) Top floor. [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE] on the Mayors desk, a few skill magazines about, and other random loot. 4) Basement, holds some basic loot ) Once you are done with the town, fast travel back to MOJAVE OUTPOST and talk to RANGER GHOST on the barrack roof to complete her quest. Head all the way north by the main locked gate and talk to SGT. KILBORN to complete VULPES'S quest. (I think you can actually talk to any NCR troop to do it). You will level up around this time to 10. Raise SURVIVAL to 41 and pick FINESSE perk. ) Fast travel back to NIPTON, and head south out of the city. Keep going southwest until you reach the MOJAVE DRIVE-IN. ====================================== 26. MOJAVE DRIVE-IN ====================================== ) There is not much at the Drive-in. Some JACKAL raiders might be here, if they aren't they are further up the mountain. Head south out of the Drive- in and you'll reach some train tracks heading south up to a closed train tunnel. At the door of the tunnel is a [LOTTERY TICKET]. ) Now head east up the hills, hugging the mountainside. After a small hike you will reach BRADLEYS SHACK. ====================================== 27. BRADLEYS SHACK ====================================== ) This small mountainside shack might have some JACKAL raiders outside. They tend to wander between the shack and the Drive-in. You might not even run into them. Enter the shack, and DO NOT MOVE once you do. There is a trip wire at your feet. Disarm it and the gun trap. ) Loot the shack, grabbing the [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on the floor next to the ammo box. Exit the shack, and there is a hollowed out rock you can search straight ahead against the left side of the path. ) Continue heading due east and you will run into another small shack, the CAESARS LEGION SAFEHOUSE. You cannot do anything here yet, just get it on your pipboy map. Fast travel back to NIPTON and now head out the town heading down the east road. ) As you pass the railroad crossing signs you will see a blue overturned trailer up ahead on the road. STOP!. There is an ambush waiting ahead, and a dangerous one at that. There are 4 raiders waiting ahead, one on a hill up on the left, one on the road past the trailer, and 2 up on the hills on the right. The right side is the deadly part, one raider has a grenade launcher. ) There is a path to the right of the blue trailer, sneak up that path and try and spot the raider on the left hill and on the road ahead. You might be able to sneak-shoot them, even at this distance. The main goal is to take out the 2 raiders on the right hill. Usually this means just rushing them and trying to take out the grenade gunner as fast as possible. You probably will take some damage doing this, grenades hurt. Wipe out all 4 raiders and loot them. NOTE: There are 3 orange safety cones on the road also, there is a [FRAG MINE] under each. If you want try and circle them to see the mine and try to deactivate/take them. In the back of the blue trailer is some loot, and a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on top of the crate. Continue up the road north. ) Near the top of the hill you will see a windmill up on the right hill. Go up the hill towards it, and you'll see a spotter position. Loot and follow a small bridge path northwest to a observation post, you can dig up the grave here for loot. ) Head northeast down into WOLFHORN RANCH. ====================================== 28. WOLFHORN RANCH. ====================================== ) Outside you can see a few plants that can be harvested if you wish. ) Inside the shack, you'll find [TUMBLERS TODAY] on the floor and a unique cleaver, [CHOPPER] on the stove. Loot the shack then exit. ) Now head southeast out of the ranch. You will go over some small hills and see a metal trailer ahead. Head for the RAIDED FARMSTEAD. ====================================== 29. RAIDED FARMSTEAD. ====================================== ) This is a VIPER gang trap. Once you actually enter the trailer, VIPER gang members will start spawning and approach the camp. The easiest way to deal with them is to just stay in the trailer and kill them as they enter. A good machine gun would work, I personally used my spiked knuckles and punched them as they entered, out of V.A.T.S. ) Once the VIPERS are dead, loot their bodies and the trailer/farmstead. A [STAR BOTTLE CAP] is in the broken fridge. ) Leave to the south, you'll see a burned house and a couple big barns. Go up there to the MATTHEWS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY FARM. ====================================== 30. MATTHEWS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY FARM ====================================== ) Head to the burned house first, to find a skeleton and a [DIARY PAGE 4]. Just outside the house is a pickup truck, in the back is [DIARY PAGE 2]. There are 2 graves outside the house you can dig up and search. ) Head up to the barns next and search them. The [DIARY PAGE 1] is on the steps of the Bighorn barn, and [DIARY PAGE 3] is in the Brahmin barn on the top level, along with [STAR BOTTLE CAP] and [WASTELAND SURVIVAL GUIDE] also. ) Go ahead and kill all the animals about, free exp, and free food. Its not like anyone is taking care of them anyway. Fast travel back to WOLFHORN RANCH, rest if you need, then head out north towards the overpass, and go due north up the road. ) At the first billboard sign on the left, there is a BRIGHT follower body you can loot. ) Continuing north, you might encounter a couple MOLERATS. At the second billboard sign on the right, is a VIPER raider ambush. Kill and loot them. Look to the west you will see a power tower and in the distance a train tunnel entrance. Head towards the tower and another BRIGHT follower body is against the rocks. ) Go up to the train tunnel entrance to fight a half dozen VIPER bandits. When finished head back down to the road and continue north. Soon you will see 2 LEGION soldiers on a ledge on the right. They are up to no good! Probably spying on the NCR camp. We will stealth-kill them. Now, LEGION soldiers are a little tougher, you might not be able to stealth kill them so easy with silenced weapons. Instead, try basic melee or unarmed weapons which work good. Spiked knuckles, bladed gauntlets, power fists, etc. Once the 2 LEGION soldiers are dead, head down north to RANGER STATION CHARLIE. ====================================== 31. RANGER STATION CHARLIE ====================================== ) This small NCR outpost is composed of a gaggle of travel trailers with a few NCR rangers that occasionally scout the area. The outpost is in the sights of the LEGION armies, and soon will be destroyed. ) Inside the small building RANGER STEPINAC stands guard over 3 mis-shipped [MEDICAL KITS]. You can question him on them, noting that they were shipped here by accident and he won't give you any. ) We are going to clear out this outpost, since its going to be raided anyway, we might as well get the items and experience. Start off by sneak assassinating all the NCR troopers, so you don't lose any reputation. Loot the complex making sure to steal any items out of the 3 [MEDICAL KITS] because the LEGION will take them. ) When finished, continue up the road to the north heading towards the next town of NOVAC. You will notice as you are approaching, there is a huge dinosaur in the middle of town, obviously about to start rampaging. ====================================== 32. NOVAC ====================================== ) AH! We are finally here, our second main base of operations. There is much to do, much to get ready, and NOVAC will be our home for the next part of the game. Lets get going! ) Head towards the "big dinosaur" and at the No Vacancy sign, enter the motel FRONT DESK lobby. Talk to JEANNIE MAY CRAWFORD the manager for information, and to get your motel room for 100 caps. If she isn't here simply wait a few hours until she shows up. While here break into the floor safe and get the incriminating [BILL OF SALE] ) Head up to your room, the first one up the stairs. This will be your new safe house where you can store your items. DO NOT PUT ITEMS IN THE TRASH CAN or SUITCASE, but you can use any other item to store stuff. You want go gather up all your stuff from Goodsprings, or where ever it is and stash it here for easy access. ) Head to the DINO-BITE GIFT SHOP inside the big dinosaur. CLIFF BRISCOE runs the store. Chat with him and drop JEANNIE's name. When CLIFF is not in the store you can steal what you want from the shelves, and pick the storage door and take the [THAT GUN] on the shelf (or you can buy it from CLIFF when hes in the store) ) In the courtyard search CLIFF BRISCOE'S BUNGALOW, not much in it though. There is a trip wire in the center of the room you can disable. ) Enter RANGER ANDY'S BUNGALOW. A [DC JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE] is stealable on the bed and his gun locker is up on a shelf, and contains [TRAIL CARBINE] gun. You want to find and talk to RANGER ANDY to get info, and you can convince him hes still useful with a [SPEECH:30] check so he will teach you the RANGER TAKEDOWN ability. More conversation with ANDY will start the [ANDY AND CHARLIE] quest. ) Fast travel to RANGER STATION CHARLIE which is now destroyed. In the main building are dead NCR bodies you can loot, and 2 [HOLOTAPES] near the desk. Careful, there are 2 [FRAG MINES] hidden under bodies, and a trip- wire leading to the left room. Listen to the 2 [HOLOTAPES] and return to RANGER ANDY in NOVAC, who will ask what happened. Do NOT use the speech check option its actually less useful, just let him know what you found. ) Climb the stairs to the sniper next. There are 2 snipers in the town, one will be on duty at all times. You want to talk to both of them, they are either here or in their rooms. MANNY VARGAS. Get what info you need from him, and agree to help him, which starts the [COME FLY WITH ME] quest. You can find and loot MANNYS motel room, and make sure to use the TERMINAL in the back to progress your quest. CRAIG BOONE. Find this sniper when hes out of his room. BOONE will become your first traveling companion. Start talking with him and learn all you can get from him. A [SPEECH:41] check will get more info. He will ask you for help with a problem finding the person responsible for his wife's disappearance and gives you a [BERET]. Go find JEANNIE MAY CRAWFORD and lure her out in front of the dinosaur when BOONE is on duty, then put on the [BERET] and BOONE kills her. Go back to BOONE with the [BILL OF SALE] and finish the quest. Talk to BOONE again and pass a [INT:6] check to have him join you as a companion. You should level up soon at this point to 11. Raise MEDICINE to 43. NOTE: CRAIG BOONE is a great companion, but you do not ever want to take him into areas with LEGION soldiers, as they both will become instant foes no matter what your reputation is. If you encounter LEGION random troops while wandering and loose reputation when BOONE kills them, simply reload, we don't want bad reputation with them yet. Now that you have BOONE, its time to do some areas that a little extra firepower helps in. Talk to him and exhaust all conversation choices, then fast travel to WOLFHORN RANCH and head northeast. Once past the overpass, have BOONE wait, you need to do the next part alone. Continue northeast and you will find a campsite of LEGION soldiers, LEGION RAID CAMP. ====================================== 33. LEGION RAID CAMP ====================================== ) This Legion raiding camp has 4 tents and a half dozen LEGION soldiers on the 2 levels. 2 POWDER GANGER's are prisoners (Those taken from the BOOTED quest). Take your time, we want to sneak-assassinate all of the LEGION troops so only the 2 prisoners are left. Loot the area and dead bodies. ) Once they are all dead, go get BOONE and bring him to the campsite with the prisoners. Untie and release both prisoners who run off, and BOONE will start talking. Talk to him, and you'll have a new conversation option to get info from. Not much, but its a start. Releasing these prisoners progresses his storyline. ) Fast travel to MATTHEWS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY FARM and head southwest. We will be entering ghoul territory, so the extra firepower of BOONE helps especially against RAVAGERS and GLOWING ONES. Continue southwest to a large fenced in area by a truck, a small shack sits inside. This is the OLD NUCLEAR TEST SITE. ====================================== 34. OLD NUCLEAR TEST SITE ====================================== ) A small shack is the only structure left in the area. Inside you can find [STAR BOTTLE CAP] near chemistry set, [HUNTING SHOTGUN], [NIKOLA TESLA AND YOU], some diary notes, and the dead body of TRASH. ) Clean out the site fast and exit the building. Fast travel back to NOVAC and find DR. STRAUS, who roams the town with a bodyguard. You will be visiting DR. STRAUS often, she will cure your radiation for 100 caps, very cheap especially when you are radiated at high levels, as you will be often. ) Fast travel back to MATTHEWS ANIMAL HUSBANDRY FARM and this time head south slowly sloping up the hill. After a little trek you will run into a large crater and a CRASHED VERTIBIRD. ====================================== 35. CRASHED VERTIBIRD ====================================== ) A large Vertibird has crashed into the hillside here. FAQS state that some different types of enemies might spawn in this area, robots, sentrys, ghouls, but I have played through the game twice, i have never encountered any foes here the first time visiting. If there are foes, you and BOONE can take care of them. ) In the crater made by the Vertibird is the [TESLA-BEATON PROTOTYPE] energy weapon. ) Fast travel to CALIFORNIA SUNSET DRIVE-IN and head west-southwest out of the camp, up the path we went earlier in the game. Ghouls about for target practice. Head all the way up the hill and you will run into a radioactive marsh area, the MESQUITE MOUNTAIN CRATER. ====================================== 36. MESQUITE MOUNTAIN CRATER ====================================== ) This small radioactive pond area is the home for a few tougher ghouls, usually GHOUL REAVERS, maybe even a GLOWING ONE. Head to the back of the pond area and enter the ROTSON lab shack. ) Inside the shack is a CRAZED MR HANDY robot who will attack. There might also be a ghoul. Kill them and loot the building. [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on a table, a [DC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE], and the dead body has a [WASTELAND SURGEON OUTFIT] that gives +5 medicine bonus. ) Finish up and head out, continue heading south through the hillside. You will come up upon a few tents in the distance, the MESQUITE MOUNTAIN CAMP SITE. ====================================== 37. MESQUITE MOUNTAIN CAMP SITE ====================================== ) We have some tough GIANT RADSCORPIONS and a few other radscorpions around the camp site. Take your time and take them down. ) One tent has a [WASTELAND SURVIVAL GUIDE] and the other a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on a metal box. ) Head southwest and further up the hills you will find 3 gravesites you can dig up for misc loot. ) Fast travel to the NIPTON ROAD PIT STOP (kill any raiders that have respawned) and head out southwest up to the small mountain ahead. You will head up towards the MORNING STAR CAVERN. ====================================== 38. MORNING STAR CAVERN ====================================== ) Just outside the cavern entrance you will run into a pack of NIGHTSTALKERS who will jump you. There is a hollowed-out rock nearby also you can check for items. ) Enter the cavern and you'll run into more NIGHTSTALKERS, including a DEN MOTHER. Kill the DEN MOTHER first and chances are the rest won't attack you that easy. Finish off all the NIGHTSTALKERS and loot the cave. ) Leave the cavern area and head south-southeast. You will come to a long plateau area that has a large gully on the south side. Stay up top for now we are entering GOLDEN GECKO area. You and your buddy BOONE can roam about and kill the GECKOS on the plateau. You will finish up on the far side of the gully. The gully is radioactive so prep ahead of time. Head south and enter the gully from the east, CRESCENT CANYON EAST. ====================================== 39. CRESCENT CANYON EAST ====================================== ) The Crescent Canyon runs east to west and is filled with radioactive barrels and GOLDEN GECKOS. At the east entrance there is a hollowed-out rock you can loot before you head in at the bottom of the hill. ) Heading in, you'll find an armor case near 2 ruined cars. There is a chance to find [COMBAT ARMOR] inside. Continue west to find [ADVANCED RADIATION SUIT] inside a container case by a truck. ) Near the west end there is another hollowed-out rock near a overturned car. A [LOTTERY TICKET] lies on the ground. This west side registers as CRESCENT CANYON WEST. ====================================== 40. CRESCENT CANYON WEST ====================================== ) You should level up around this time, raise BARTER to 52 and pick the SNIPER perk. ) Since we have our nice new radiation suit, we might as well get some use from it right? Fast travel to the RAIDED FARMSTEAD and head east down the road. Make sure you have a decent supply of [RAD-X] and [RAD-AWAY], and follow the road east until you come to a small NCR base near a town, the town of CAMP SEARCHLIGHT. ====================================== 41. CAMP SEARCHLIGHT ====================================== ) You will run into a small NCR troop camp west of town, and FIRST SERGEANT ASTOR will meet you as you approach. The town of CAMP SEARCHLIGHT is highly radiated, and you will take radiation damage each second you are in the town. NOTE: Remember that curing your radiation poisoning is as simple as fast traveling to NOVAC and going west(usually) and finding the wandering doctor who will cure it for 100 caps. So, go ahead and get as radiated as you want (don't die) curing it is as simple as a couple fast travels. ) Talk to FIRST SERGEANT ASTOR and get all the information from him that you can and agree to help him finish off his old troops. This will start the [WE WILL ALL GO TOGETHER QUEST]. Leave BOONE at the camp, its too much of a pain to worry about radiation and him at the same time. ) Head into town and go clockwise around the outskirts of the town killing any ghouls you find. There are usually 2 at each checkpoint, along with a a gun turret. A computer terminal is near each turret that you can hack (except one which is 100) for exp. Do not turn on the turrets, you can destroy them if you want for more exp. Circle the entire town and kill all the ghouls and turrets. ) Half way around the town is the EAST CHAPEL, empty except for a trap door that leads down into a small room with a couple GOLDEN GECKOS. Kill them and take the 2 [MINI-NUKES] on the table, and [CHINESE ARMY TRAINING MANUAL] on the floor. ) In the southern side is a home you can enter. Inside is the ghoul NCR trooper PRIVATE KYLE EDWARDS. Chat with him a while, but don't worry about getting his dog tags we will get those later. Get all his options also that he has no where to go and won't leave. ) Continuing all the way around, you'll get to the WEST CHAPEL which also has a trap door basement. Enter and meet up with LOGAN in the NCR Storage area. He needs you to hack his terminal to find out the location of some [RADIATION SUITS] that he needs. Hack it for the information and talk to him to get the [WHEEL OF FORTUNE] quest, pass a [SPEECH:50] to get extra loot. ) Fast travel to NIPTON. There probably will be some BARK SCORPIONS and CENTAURS in the street, kill any foes about. Enter the NIPTON STORE and talk to BOXCARS to get the info on where the radiation suits are. You should level up soon to level 13. Raise SPEECH to 60, SCIENCE to 60, and GUNS to 32. ) Fast travel to COYOTE DEN, and then its just a short run up the hill SE to the HIDDEN SUPPLY CAVE. ====================================== 42. HIDDEN SUPPLY CAVE. ====================================== ) Just outside the cave to the right is a hollowed-out rock with a rocket painted on it. ) Pick the [LOCKPICK:50] lock to enter the supply cave. Inside you will find a [GROGNAK THE BARBARIAN] on top of a box, a [LOTTERY TICKET] and a [RADIATION SUIT]. In one of the footlockers is the [RADIATION SUIT BUNDLE] you need. ) Exit the cave and head up that little steep hill on the left. There is a small VIPER bandit camp on the other side of the mountain, swing around and clear it out, loot the dead VIPERS. ) Fast travel back to CAMP SEARCHLIGHT and go north to meet up with ASTOR. You can turn in the 9 [IRRADIATED DOGTAGS] now for some exp and caps. Talk to him about PRIVATE EDWARDS and he will eventually tell you that there is a Ranger station nearby that has ghouls. Sounds like a plan. Grab BOONE while your here, you'll need the extra firepower. ) Head to the SW home and talk to PRIVATE EDWARDS, mention you want his dog tags and pass a [SPEECH:60] check to get them. Tell him about the Ghoul Ranger Station and he will thank you and run off. Loot any items in his house you might want. ) Go into the WEST CHAPEL NCR storage and talk to LOGAN to turn give him the [RADIATION SUIT BUNDLE]. Freely loot the room if you want (or do it later). He will get ready with his men, and he will want you to loot out the POLICE STATION first for parts. ) Head to the POLICE STATION in town in the NE. There are now enemy GHOULS in the town also, clear them out and enter the POLICE STATION. There are a few GHOULS in here also. Totally search the station, looking for "NCR" tagged items. They are also in desks, etc. Talk to LOGAN when finished and head out to the FIREHOUSE. SAVE YOUR GAME BEFORE YOU ENTER THE FIREHOUSE. ) Entering the FIREHOUSE, we will be in a tough fight with a RADSCORPION QUEEN. This is not tough for you, but you have to keep LOGAN alive and he isn't wearing armor. Go toe-to-toe with the Queen and try and draw her attention while you attack. If LOGAN dies, reload and try again. Once this floor is clear, grab the 2 [FIRE AXES] on the wall and head upstairs. Again, look for "NCR" tagged items and parts. The unique Fire Axe [KNOCK- KNOCK] is in a bathroom stall behind a skeleton. A [STAR BOTTLE CAP] is on a table. ) Talk to LOGAN again when you find all the parts, he will thank you and attack. Silly since he's still not wearing armor. Kill Logan and loot. Finish cleaning out the building, exit, and fast travel right back to CAMP SEARCHLIGHT (quickest way out). Go north and finish talking to ASTER and turn in your last [DOGTAG] to finish the quest. ) Fast travel back to NOVAC. Take a break, rest up, sell, restock, etc. While you are here, have BOONE wait in your room while you search the 3 rooms on your motel level. The 2nd room has BRUCE ISSAC, a singer who you can chat with and freely loot his room. The 3rd room has DAISY WHITMAN, an ex-Enclave pilot. If you have any [ATOMIC COCKTAILS] bring a few with you, the fire resistance will be needed. ) Fast travel back to CAMP SEARCHLIGHT and head south, staying out of the town radiation aura. You will see an airport tower in the distance to the southeast. Ahead is a radioactive camper ground, with a few misc loot in it. Pass through and enter the SEARCHLIGHT AIRPORT through the large tunnel. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** Break time. Take a Nap. At this point in the game you should be level 13 and have a decent amount of loot, caps, and basic weapons and armor. Your skills should be close to.. Barter: 52 Energy weapons: 22 Explosives: 32 Lockpick: 68 Medicine: 51 Melee weapon: 20 Repair: 55 Science: 60 Small guns: 32 Sneak: 26 Speech: 60 Unarmed: 22 *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ====================================== 43. SEARCHLIGHT AIRPORT ====================================== ) A snipers dream here, a huge flat airport tarmac with some RADSCORPIONS on it. Maybe a couple GIANT RADSCORPIONS. Between you and BOONE you can kill most of them long before they get close to you. ) Not much at the airport, a couple caps boxes near the terminal and at the south side near an abandoned airplane a few boxes of misc loot. ) Exit the airport via the tunnel and head to the northeast, staying away from the radioactive town. You will reach some cliffs and you are looking for the SEARCHLIGHT EAST GOLD MINE, which is kinda hidden among the cliff rocks. ====================================== 44. SEARCHLIGHT EAST GOLD MINE ====================================== ) The gold mine is the lair of some VIPER gang members (I thought this gang was suppose to be weak, they seem to be EVERYWHERE.). Be careful and use cover/sniping, they like to carry [GRENADE RIFLES]. ) When you wipe out the first group of VIPERS in the cave, and reach the back area, 4 more VIPERS spawn at the cave entrance, so be careful heading back. Loot their bodies. ) There isn't much in the cave. Exit and head to the southeast, towards two "undiscovered location" arrows. We will be heading into FIRE GECKO territory, so keep an eye out. They aren't much harder than GOLDEN GECKOS except they breathe fire when close. Snipe and kill what ever you can see and make your way down to a small cave entrance of FIRE ROOT CAVERN. ====================================== 45. FIRE ROOT CAVERN ====================================== ) There is a hollowed-out rock next to the path leading to the cave. This is a good place for one of those nice [ATOMIC COCKTAIL] for fire resistance against the FIRE GECKOS. ) Inside the cavern is a radioactive pool pit with more FIRE GECKOS. Kill what you can from the ledge. There is also a LEGENDARY FIRE GECKO, who is about twice as strong as a regular one. Too bad the regular ones aren't super strong, I can kill them with my 9mm LOL. ) Once the cavern is clear, search it for some loot. A dead body in the back of the pool area has a [COMBAT HELMET] and a dufflebag near it. At the T-junction leading down to the pool, under a big leave is a [EVIL GNOME]. ) At the T-junction head right and out of the cavern into COTTONWOOD CRATER. ====================================== 46. COTTONWOOD CRATER ====================================== ) Once you exit the cavern into COTTONWOOD CRATER, you will be attacked by a half dozen GOLDEN GECKOS. Kill them and loot their golden dead bodies. ) The only thing in the CRATER is a dead body of a prospector, who happens to have a [FATMAN] launcher, and maybe other good loot. NICE! And here you are with a couple fatman shells and no fatman to use them with. Now you have one! NOTE: If you haven't fired a [FATMAN] before, save your game and shoot a couple rounds off. You won't be disappointed. Re-load and continue on. I leveled up around this time to level 14. Raise LOCKPICK to 75 and EXPLOSIVES to 42. Take the COMMANDO perk. ) Fast travel to PRIMM, we can hit the 3 [LOCKPICK:75] locked items in the town we missed earlier. Inside the BISON HOTEL on the right is a locked door with some loot behind it. The first room on the left has the locked safe, containing the unique revolver [LUCKY]. Finally the VIKKI and VANCE casino has a locked safe in the back. NOTE: There is a chance a group of deserter THUGS will appear claiming to have taken over the casino. Convince them with a [SPEECH:30] check to give up their goals. Insult them and kill them and take their stuff LOL. ) Fast travel back to CAMP SEARCHLIGHT and head around the north side of the town, heading northeast (to the left of the water tower). Continuing up staying on the ridgeline and you'll see a small shack ahead. A few GHOULS might be about. Discover the COYOTE MINES. ====================================== 47. COYOTE MINES ====================================== ) The COYOTE MINES are in 2 parts, the top shack and the actual mines. ) Enter the shack, there is much loot to sort through. [STAR BOTTLE CAP] is on the table. ) When done head outside, and north to the actual mine entrance and enter. Not much but basic loot. Head outside, and start walking southwest. Very shortly you will find the SEARCHLIGHT NORTH GOLD MINE down the hill. ====================================== 48. SEARCHLIGHT NORTH GOLD MINE ====================================== ) A hollowed-out rock is left of the mine entrance up on a small ledge. ) The mine has a few GHOULS inside, including GLOWING ONES. Left has a locked gate and loot is about the mine. A [STAR BOTTLE CAP] sits on a crate down the right path. Like the COYOTE MINES some [DYNAMITE] about. ) From the mine head northwest and up the hill a ways you will find the BROC FLOWER CAVE. ====================================== 49. BROC FLOWER CAVE ====================================== ) Outside of the cave are many [BROC FLOWERS], and a hollowed-out rock is at the base of the path. ) Entering the cave, the left path leads to some minor loot. You'll need some radiation resistance about due to irridiated areas. Heading back you will take the right fork into the main area. Rabid Rats infest the cave. ) The main chamber area has a right path leading up to a encaged room, you can find the [RATSLAYER] unique great Varmit Rifle. Other misc loot lie about. ) Exit the cave and head east/northeast towards some billboards where across the road you will find the small SNYDER PROSPECTOR CAMP. ====================================== 50. SNYDER PROSPECTOR CAMP ====================================== ) This small camp has some minor loot about, and a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] sitting on some books ) Continue northwest, you should see a BIGHORNER herd. Take them out.. eating time! Might be a BLOATFLY or 2 also. You should level up sometime soon to level 15. Raise SURVIVAL to 50, EXPLOSIVES to 50, and GUNS to 40. ) Keep going northwest to find the WRECKED HIGHWAYMAN. ====================================== 51. WRECKED HIGHWAYMAN ====================================== ) A small group of BLOATFLIES is about. The Highwayman has a stash of loot in its trunk, including a [STAR BOTTLE CAP]. ) Keep going northwest towards a tall billboard sign. You will run into the raider camp HIGHWAY 95 VIPER'S ENCAMPMENT. ====================================== 52. HIGHWAY 95 VIPER'S ENCAMPMENT ====================================== ) Wow, more VIPERS? A small group of VIPER raiders will attack. Take them out and loot the 3 small sheds that they live in. A [STAR BOTTLE CAP] is in the west on the bedding. ) Fast travel back to COYOTE MINE and head east and then northeast around the hill, heading to the RANGER STATION ECHO icon location that's on your map. NOTE: Save before you head out, sometimes BOONE gets "lost" heading down the hill and its a pain to find him. Just check on him while heading to RANGER STATION ECHO. ====================================== 53. RANGER STATION ECHO ====================================== ) This small Ranger outpost has some NCR GHOUL troops, you don't see that every day. You should also see PRIVATE EDWARDS here if he survived his trip. ) Talk to RANGER ERASMUS and COMM OFFICER GREEN for some area info. ) Fast travel back to NOVAC, sell, repair, etc. We are going to search and clear out the town. Start and go north we will start there. ) Enter NO-BARK'S shack, disarm the gun on the left. Talk to NO-BARK for some town info. Head down to the next house which you can freely loot, there is a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on the counter. ) The next house down is closed, but 2 graves are next to it you can dig up. Swing west to the next house of JEANNIE MAY CRAWFORD, items are read but you can take them with no karma loss. ) The house next to JEANNIE's has both stealable and regular loot. The last house is the MCBRIDE house. Enter and talk to DUSTY and ALICE MCBRIDE to start [THE SCREAMS OF BRAHMIN] quest. ) Exit the house. The creature killing the brahmin behind the house is a cloaked NIGHTKIN supermutant. During the night you can enter V.A.T.S and target it. During the day, you can check west of town behind a boulder where it might be hiding. Kill it and return to DUSTY MCBRIDE for your reward, then take the food out of the refrigerator. ) We are now going to do a very long quest, so rest, sell, etc and get set. Make the [COME FLY WITH ME] quest active and head west out of NOVAC heading towards the REPCONN TEST SITE. ====================================== 54. REPCONN TEST SITE ====================================== ) The road leads west past some FERAL GHOULS and GLOWING ONES. A couple dead NIGHTKIN lie about, they were in a battle with the BRIGHT followers. ) You will follow the west road and it leads into the REPCONN TEST SITE facility valley. A cool dome is up on the mountain on the left, too bad you can't get there. Continue up to the large building with the rocket in front. There are FERAL GHOULS about the area. Around the stairways you can find various bodies of Ghoul BRIGHT followers to loot, including numerous ammo containers. ) Enter the REPCONN TEST SITE 1st floor. A dead NIGHTKIN has a [STEALTH BOY] next to him, you'll have to pick it up. The REPCONN building is a multi- level building with a ton of loot about, especially building items such as [WONDERGLUE], [SCRAP METAL], etc. Its also inhabited by FERAL GHOULS so you want to clear them out. ) Save the BASEMENT area for last, go ahead and clear the main and upper floors of the REPCONN building of GHOULS and items that you want. A voice from a nearby intercom tells you to come upstairs. After you have cleared the first couple floors you want to try and head to the northeast section of the building. There you'll find a large container room with metal stairs leading up to a locked door to the top RESEARCH LABS. ) You'll encounter CHRIS HAVERSAM, who tells you to keep going through and talk to JASON BRIGHT. JASON will tell you why the BRIGHT followers are there, and needs help cleaning the NIGHTKIN out of the BASEMENT. He gives you the [BASEMENT KEY]. ) Head to the BASEMENT. Go through the entrance room and into the hallway and take a left. At the 2nd passage turn right, down a short hall and into a room with DAVISON. Chat with him but NOT about his Brahmin skull, agree to help him find shipping orders. He gives you the key to HARLANS room. Leave the room without touching anything. ) Head out and take a right down another short hall to a door with a dead NIGHTKIN in front of it. Unlock it and enter to talk to HARLAN. Agree to help him find out what happened to his friend. Again, leave the room with- out touching anything. SAVE THE GAME HERE. NOTE: There are 4 NIGHTKIN in the basement hostile to you. You MUST leave one of them alive to complete DAVISON's quest. One will attack you near DAVISON'S room, you have to kill the NIGHTKIN JAILER, that leaves only 1 more you can kill. That is what the save game is for, so you can try again if you fail. ) Head back up the hallway all the way and turn left. Follow the hallway straight and down, until you get to a right turn. Turn right all the way down and it will take you to the NIGHTKIN JAILERS room. On the way you should encounter a 2nd NIGHTKIN to kill. Enter the JAILERS large room and kill the JAILER to get the prison key. A couple side rooms have loot, and the center room across the way leads down to the bottom level. ) At the bottom level there are some side rooms with loot, and one room in the second area has the body of HARLANDS friend. Search it and take the robe and report back up to HARLAND. He thanks you and leaves the building. CAREFULLY search HARLANDS area, there are many traps.. 1) BEAR TRAPS, about a half dozen.. easy to see 2) 2 trip wire traps, 1 on the left ground floor, 1 in the back by fake computer terminal. 3) 1 jury-rigged computer terminal 1st floor, disarm it in back. 4) Multiple disguised ground mines. VERY hard to see they are a small dome matching the floor. About a dozen. The top level holds a computer terminal holding the information that DAVISON needs. Search all options then return to DAVISON, hopefully he will not be hostile and finish the quest. If he turns hostile, reload and try again. After the quest is finished you can kill him when he goes to leave for some extra exp. ) Return up to the REPCONN RESEARCH LAB top level and talk to JASON who will move his people through the BASEMENT and into the launch facilities at the other side. You can steal what you want in the Lab area then head down through the underground passageway (past DAVISON'S room) and through the tunnels to the Launch room. Talk to JASON and agree to find the missing parts to the Rockets. ) Now talk to CHRIS HAVERSAM to continue with the quest. You can pass a [SPEECH:50] check to convince him hes human. Persuade him that hes still a good person and he will let the GHOULS continue with their trip. He will give you 2 tasks to complete. Choose the 2nd task to get Rocket Fuel. ) Fast travel to HIGHWAY 95 VIPER ENCAMPMENT, probably killing the re-spawn VIPER raiders. Head due east across the road, and into CLARK FIELD. ====================================== 55. CLARK FIELD ====================================== ) This small chemical plant area is slightly radioactive, so pop a [RAD-X] and throw on your protective gear if you want. The plant houses a group of GOLDEN GECKOS so first enter the plant and clear them all out. ) On the north side of the plant is a body in a [RADIATION SUIT]. Loot it for the needed [ISOTOPE-239 IGNITING AGENT] and [MR.RADICALS JOURNAL] ) On the south side of the plant is a body of a dead pack Brahmin, loot it and any items that may be on the ground ) Fast travel back to REPCONN TEST SITE and head to the southwest and re-enter the quick access hatch down to the launch room. Talk to CHRIS HAVERSAM to turn in the launch fuel, then pick the next quest choice to find the [THRUST CONTROL MODULES]. ) Fast travel to PRIMM, its time to pick up ED-E. Enter the MOJAVE OUTPOST and access ED-E. First use [SCIENCE:55] skill to reroute his circuits the [REPAIR:35] to fix him and activate him. Make him your companion, and let him follow you. You now have 2 companions, ED-E and BOONE. Since we have a nice full party, lets hit a couple harder areas. Rest up, etc and get your most powerful weapons along with any mines [POWDER, FRAG, BOTTLE CAP] and lets head out. NOTE: Remember on regular game mode your companions won't be killed, they will just be rendered "unconscious" if "killed" and after a minute or so will get back up. This makes them great shields against hard foes since they won't die. ) Fast travel to THE PROSPECTOR'S DEN and take a quick run over the hills to the southwest into JACK RABBIT SPRINGS. ====================================== 56. JACK RABBIT SPRINGS ====================================== ) This large radioactive waste dump is the home for a few CENTAUR creatures, along with your target foe, a SUPERMUTANT MASTER. Keep on your regular armor (don't put on a radiation suit) and pop a [RAD-X]. ) Find the SUPERMUTANT MASTER, who is armed usually with a heavy gun (and maybe backed up by other SUPERMUTANTS) and take him down. With me and my 2 companions, he usually doesn't last long. Hunt down and kill any other CENTAURS in the area. ) Fast travel to WOLFHORN RANCH. Now start heading to the northwest across the main road and up into the hills. You should quickly see a group of red enemy arrows (ED-E gives you enhanced radar perception perk) to the northwest. They are a group of NIGHTSTALKERS. Kill them and proceed NW to WALKING BOX CAVERN. ====================================== 57. WALKING BOX CAVERN. ====================================== ) There is a hollowed-out rock near the cavern entrance. ) This cave system is home to 2 groups of NIGHTSTALKERS, each in their own little cul-de-sac. Each area has a dufflebag you can loot for random items. ) When finished head north, and prep yourself, we are entering DEATHCLAW territory. NOTE: DEATHCLAWS are hard foes, they are very fast and very deadly in melee range. In a group i like to take out the small ones first since even they can injure you good, and they are easier to kill. When outside in the wilderness, with BOONE and ED-E you can see them far ahead of time, giving you a chance to sneak-snipe a little before you have to fight them close up. Also, a great tactic is to keep your companions behind, sneak ahead and drop a bunch of MINES to lure them into. MINES are great vs DEATHCLAWS. ) Still heading north you will come upon DEAD WIND CAVERN. Sometimes there will be DEATHCLAWS by the entrance, sometimes not. Kill them if there are. Do not go in the cavern yet, we will come back. Continue north and you will see a small shack. Go to it and discover HARPER'S SHACK. ====================================== 58. HARPERS SHACK ====================================== ) HARPER'S SHACK has a bed so is a nice place to rest up if needed. (You usually need it in DEATHCLAW territory). Loot the shack, there is a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on a table. You should level up to 16 sometime soon. VERY IMPORTANT. 16 is the magic number, if you aren't 16 yet, hunt some foes in the wilderness, etc until you are. It gives a good boost to your fighting ability, which is needed vs DEATHCLAWS. Raise GUNS to 57, and pick the BETTER CRITICALS perk. Now that you have the great BETTER CRITICALS, head shots, head shots, head shots LOL. ) Fast travel back to DEAD WIND CAVERN, noting that doing so may spawn you in the middle of a deathclaw group. Always be prepared for combat. In V.A.T.S always go for the head with your strongest weapon, then switch to what ever you like until your AP's recover. When you are ready, enter the DEAD WIND CAVERNS. ====================================== 59. DEAD WIND CAVERNS ====================================== ) Combat is going to start right at the entrance. There are 2-3 DEATHCLAWS close by, so get ready to fight. Do not be afraid to use [STIMPACKS], or chemical boosts [PSYCHO, BUFFOUT, etc] since DEATHCLAWS are hard foes. If an ally falls, finish off the enemies in the area then wait for them to get back up. ) After clearing the initial entrance, head left into an alcove room, making sure all foes are cleared that direction. Now head back to the entrance and follow the path right. The large cavern up ahead has many DEATHCLAWS in it, some younger ones and regular ones. You can stay back in the hall and stealth-shoot them one at a time to lure them to you so they don't all attack together. ) When ready venture into the main cavern. There are about 3 foes wandering the main cavern. From the main cavern, there is a small cavern to the west (top left) on your map that is a small room containing a MOTHER DEATHCLAW and some young. Once these foes are dead, its time to hit the last, deadliest northeast cave. ) The last cave area, to the northeast on your map (top right) is the lair of the LEGENDARY DEATHCLAW. A small passage runs from the main cavern back to the northeast area. Just before the passage is a body with a dufflebag. In the LEGENDARY DEATHCLAW area is a BROTHERHOOD trooper body wearing [T-45d POWER ARMOR and HELMET]. A unique grenade launcher, [MERCY] lies next to him. NOTE: How i finished this room. I left ED-E and BOONE in the main cavern and stealthed into the small passageway and laid a good minefield, so when

I lured the DEATHCLAWS out of the room BOOM!. The LEGENDARY DEATHCLAW was not able to enter the passage (bug? intended?) so with him i just stood there and blasted his head with a rifle until he was dead. ) Exit the cavern (remembering that you might run into DEATHCLAWS outside) and head north-northwest up the mountain path, which will lead you to PRIMM PASS. ====================================== 60. PRIMM PASS ====================================== ) This small pass is a quicker route that leads between the PRIMM wasteland area and the land around NOVAC. It is not intended for starting players to use due to the dangerous foes about. ) There is a BLIND DEATHCLAW guarding the Pass. In the center pass area is the body of a BRIGHT follower. A hollowed-out rock is on the west side of the pass. ) Fast travel back to NOVAC and release BOONE. We are done with him for a while, his hatred for LEGION soldiers might mess up some quests. Head out of town heading north, and you'll see just north of town a small junkyard, this is the GIBSON SCRAP YARD. ====================================== 61. GIBSON SCRAP YARD ====================================== ) OLD LADY GIBSON usually sits on a chair just outside her house and the scrap yard. Go up and talk to her, and get some info on her background. This will activate a speech memory with ED-E. Ask to buy the [THRUST CONTROLLER MODULES], and then pass a [SPEECH:30] or [BARTER:30] check to get them for 250 caps. ) OLD LADY GIBSON also has a unique sawed-off shotgun BIG BOOMER. In order to get this, we need to 1) Pickpocket the shotgun shells off OLD LADY GIBSON 2) Enter (or exit) her shack and back, and the BIG BOOMER will now be in her inventory to pickpocket. A [STEALTH BOY] always makes this easier. ) Fast travel to REPCONN TEST SITE and re-enter the launch facility through the southwest access hatch. Talk to CHRIS HAVERSAM and turn in the rest of the rocket parts. They now prep the rockets for final launch. ) Head back to the top floor of the REPCONN facility, and exit the door marked REPCONN TEST SITE. This puts you on a small viewing platform. On the right are the TRAJECTORY CONTROLS. Access them and view the trajectory data, your [SCIENCE:55] will allow you to adjust them to make the flight path 12.5% more effective. Now push the launch controls and watch the show. ) Fast travel back to GIBSON SCRAP YARD, search it if you want, only some basic loot around. Head north and northwest towards the large array towers, and find HELIOS ONE. ====================================== 62. HELIOS ONE ====================================== ) Approaching the front door of HELIOS ONE solar plant, LT. HAGGERTLY will stop you. Say that you just saw the building and decided to visit, then lie [SPEECH:30] and that your brother was stationed here and you will be let through. ) NCR troops staff the building. Go ahead and loot through it, checking all the rooms. a [DC JOURNAL OF MEDICINE] is upstairs lying on a bed. Also scattered about are some temp skill books, even [PULSE GRENADES]. Check one of the computer terminals and get all its info, and a new map marker will be put up. ) In the back of the complex you will find a science lab staffed by 2 techs that you have to talk to. Each one will give you a PANEL CODE (you need both). You can also find the codes in other places. NOTE: Before talking to anyone, with ED-E present wait 9 days (wait with your [PIPBOY] so that ED-E's 2nd recorded speech will be activated when you talk to IGNACIO RIVAS. FANTASTIC, a dumb tech. When you first meet him say that your there to replace him, you can [SPEECH:25] check to get 100 caps bribe to not take his job. He will give you one code to the Solar tower array. IGNACIO RIVAS, the smart tech. Pass a [SPEECH:30] check to dissuade his curiosity and the reason you are there. He will suggest you turn the power station to help everyone, and give you the second passcode. You should level up sometime soon. Raise REPAIR to 60 and UNARMED to 36. ) Head out the nearby door into the rear mirror yard. Roam about the yard, there are about 5 salvageable solar panels on the ground, plus 2 terminal areas that you need to input the 2 codes. The west terminal area is booby trapped, the east one has guard dogs. Also misc loot in the NCR tents. ) After entering the codes enter the door to the SOLAR COLLECTION TOWER. Tell ED-E to wait, go down and lure the MR GUTSY robot around to the hall and kill it. Run across the room through the door and stay on the right side. There are 4 [FRAG MINES] that you can disarm and take, plus in the back is a terminal that lets you turn off the 3 turrets. You only get 1xp for killing them so ignore them and turn them off. ) Go get ED-E and head downstairs in the first room to fight a SENTRY BOT. Loot the area and head up and over to the next room area, down a tunnel and into a 2nd SENTRY BOT. Continue on to a multi-level room where another MR GUTSY awaits. Finally you will enter a small group of hallways where 5 PROTECTRONS will attack. ) Clear out the area, and take the elevator to the OBSERVATION LEVEL. There is a broken generator you can fix using 1 [SCRAP METAL], then program the mainframe to provide power to the FULL REGION. Do not pick the FULL REGION (emergency output level). Also after choosing FULL REGION, do NOT activate the ARCHIMEDES Plant Defense System. ) Head upstairs and activate the PYTON repair robot [SCIENCE:45]. You don't need it, but its free exp/items so kill it once it is activated. Exit the nearby door onto the OBSERVATION TOWER, go down and when its full daylight ( 9AM-3PM ) flip the switch. The tower activates. ) Head back to IGNACIO RIVAS who will reward you with a [BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE] and some Followers of the Apocalypse reputation gain. Exit the building when you are finished with everything. ) Wait 2 days on your [PIPBOY]. You will get an incoming broadcast message from the BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL. A marker on your map shows up. ED-E seems popular for some reason. ) Outside you want to head due east towards the main road, and then north- east towards a big billboard sign. There are 3 VIPER raiders behind the sign, probably with grenade launchers, take them out. You can see the small blue gas station just northeast. Head there to EL DORADO GAS AND SERVICE. ====================================== 63. EL DORADO GAS AND SERVICE. ====================================== ) This small gas station doesn't old much, some minor loot and inside a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] near the register. ) Looking to the west-northwest you can see a huge dustbowl of flatland. Head into the EL DORADO DRY LAKE. ====================================== 64. EL DORADO DRY LAKE. ====================================== ) ANT CITY BABY! This huge expanse is the home of a bunch of FIRE ANTS of various sizes. They spawn a lot, they spawn fast. This is a snipers dream ants are slow, view is long, killing is easy. If you want even more fun get a group of ants chasing you and chuck some [DYNAMITE] into them and watch the flames fly. ) There isn't really any loot about except for some harvestable plants. Head back east to the main road then follow it north. Just past EL DORADO DRY LAKE the road turns northwest, right into an overpass. Here is the 188 TRADING POST. ====================================== 65. 188 TRADING POST. ====================================== ) AH! Our next victi... I mean companion! The 188 TRADING POST is a nice little location, it has various merchants of all types, that sell weapons, mods, food, ammunition, repairs, and more. A great place to visit often. ) There is a [STAR BOTTLE CAP] on the bar where SAMUEL is at. ) Here we will pick up your next companion, VERONICA SANTANGELO, a unarmed combat expert. She hits fast,