Side Quests & Activities
Fallout: New Vegas offers a vast array of missions beyond the main story, categorized into Main Quests, Side Quests, Unmarked Quests, and Repeatable Quests. Side Quests are officially tracked in your Pip-Boy, providing opportunities to explore the Mojave Wasteland, influence factions, and shape the game's ending. Your choices in these quests have significant repercussions, affecting faction reputation and the overall narrative.
This guide provides details on all available quests, including main, side, and DLC missions. Fallout: New Vegas is a game where choices abound, and your actions have repercussions. Depending on how you interact with certain NPCs, how you resolve quests, and most importantly, who you shoot, you will change how different factions perceive you. Become hated by a faction and you won’t be invited to help them further their position in the Mojave. Work for one side, and their post-game fate might end up more positive. Since this game is about choice, an unconnected, quest-based walkthrough just won’t do, nor would blindly running around completing quests with no heed to their consequences or context. Instead, in this guide you’ll proceed through the Mojave in an ideal chronological order. Different quest solutions will be given, but mainly a path to cultivate good-will amongst as many factions as possible will be provided, so when it comes time to choose (a choice that will be delayed as long as possible), you will be free to shape the future of the Mojave as you wish.
It's difficult to complete every quest in New Vegas due to faction conflicts. Some quests for specific factions prevent you from undertaking others, and certain alliances can vilify you with opposing groups. Through careful planning, you might be able to navigate some of these conflicts to maximize quest completion, but you will encounter crossroads requiring difficult choices.
- Character creation strategies: Includes a run-down of SPECIAL attributes, Skills, and Perks.
- Ideal chronological order: A walkthrough designed to guide you through the entire Mojave.
- Complete walkthrough: Covers all main quests, side quests, faction quests, and endings.
- Power-gamey New Vegas Medical Center run: A strategy for a strong start.
- Factions and reputation: Information on how your actions affect different groups.
- Locations of collectibles: Includes stat-boosting Skill Books, unique weapons and armor, and collectible Snowglobes.
- Trophy Guide: Detailed information on how to obtain all game trophies.
- Old World Blues DLC: Specific guide content for this expansion.