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For the Honest Hearts perk, see Eye for Eye. |
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Eye for an Eye is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.
Quick walkthrough
NCR walkthrough
| Side Quest: Eye for an Eye | |||||
| Find general intel on Legion troop movements. | |||||
| Find intel on Legion raids. | |||||
| Plant the NCR bug. | |||||
| Reward: 200 or 250 caps, 500 or 1000 XP and NCR fame. | |||||
Legion walkthrough
| Side Quest: Eye for an Eye | |||||
| Talk to Astor about Cottonwood Cove. | |||||
| Agree to help him plant the bug and find legion intel. | |||||
| Turn the bug over to Aurelius of Phoenix. | |||||
| Give old intel to Astor. | |||||
| Reward: 200 or 250 caps, 500 or 1000 XP and Legion fame. | |||||
Detailed walkthrough
After discovering Cottonwood Cove, go visit First Sergeant Astor (who patrols around Camp Searchlight). You can initiate a dialogue about Cottonwood Cove and Astor asks the player to travel to Cottonwood Cove, collect some intel on Legion troop movements, collect intel on raids, and plant a bug in their radio.
- The Legion raid intel is in a filing cabinet to the left of buggable radio (left while looking at the radio) on the first floor Command HQ building. The intel on Legion troop movements is in the desk on the second floor. Because taking both intel documents is considered stealing, this will give you negative Karma (Fallout: New Vegas).
Returning to Astor with the intel provides 500 XP, and the player gets an additional option to wipe out all Legion forces from Cottonwood Cove. This provides NCR fame, 250 caps, Legion infamy (if they spot you in the act), and 1000 XP. When you receive the option to wipe out the Legion fort, Astor calls you "crazy" but believes you can pull it off. To get the most fame with the NCR, locate the red truck hanging precariously off the cliff at Cottonwood overlook over the Legion camp. Your geiger counter will show radiation leaking from the truck when you get close. Go to the back of the truck, and select the door. The option to open the door becomes available (50 lockpick required), dropping several radioactive barrels into the camp, effectively killing the Legion the same way they killed the NCR forces at Camp Searchlight. Astor is quite pleased with this outcome.
Note: It is best to wait for all the barrels to fall into the camp before fast-traveling to talk to Astor. If you open up the truck but fast-travel to Astor too soon, then the game doesn't realize you've killed the legionaries using the radioactive waste. In addition, if you watch and wait until the entire camp has been killed (it can take a few minutes while the soldiers the furthest out run back to the barrels in the camp to investigate) afterwards you can loot all the soldier's bodies with no Karma penalties. Be sure not to forget the Centurion officer's body which is in or around the command building.
Quest stages
Notes
- The talk option to start the quest, "I found a Legion camp at Cottonwood Cove" will only be available once you discover Cottonwood Cove.
- Completing the quest with Craig Boone as a follower will earn you history points towards triggering Boone's companion quest, I Forgot to Remember to Forget.
- If you've already razed the camp, you will automatically complete the quest by speaking with Astor, you can simply break the news in a conversation with him. You will receive NCR fame, 200 caps, 1000 XP, and Astor will also call you a "beast." If the courier is a woman, he will comment on how a lone woman wiping out the entire camp is "priceless" and that it will make Caesar's troops reconsider how they treat women. There is no option to plant a bug and steal intel afterwards.
- If you tip the radioactive barrels into the cove before freeing the slaves, you'll fail the quest Left My Heart. The Weathers can be found in a locked pen behind the storage building. They are wearing slave collars that need to either be safely removed, maliciously detonated or provided the key in which case they'll unlock themselves and escape. However, Anders, who needs to be freed as part of Aba Daba Honeymoon, is far enough away not to be harmed by the radiation.
- It is possible to complete this quest and eradicate the entire camp without incurring Legion infamy; if the courier wears Caesar's Legion armor, makes Boone wait at Ranger station Echo nearby, and utilizes the radioactive barrels to eliminate the Legion soldiers. You will incur no reputation loss for dropping the barrels on Cottonwood when [HIDDEN].
- If you stay after dropping the barrels, you can observe most of the non-unique Legion troops running up to the barrels and dying in a group. The named ones will simply die on the spot.
- If you kill everyone normally, and then release the barrels you will still get the extra fame.
- If you decide to drop the barrels on the Legion forces at Cottonwood Cove, you will still be able to use the ferry to reach Caesar's camp. The Legion ferryman, Cursor Lucullus, will now be wearing a radiation suit and will still grant you access to The Fort.
Behind the scenes
"Eye for an Eye" is a phrase dating back to the Babylonian Empire which expanded and thrived under the rule of Hammurabi. Hammurabi created a set of laws called Hammurabi's Code which stated that any crime would be punished by means equal to the crime perpetrated.
Also a principle found in the Bible, in Exodus 21:24: "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."
Bugs
Sometimes dropping the radioactive barrels will not kill all the legionaries. They will remain standing in front of the barrels without ever succumbing to the radiation. Four legionaries line up at the base of the cliff while the barrels roll right through them. However, the objective is still marked as complete in spite of the fact that the survivors can still be killed, targeted through V.A.T.S., and otherwise interacted with. [verified]- The truck door isn't always locked, making the quest much easier. [verified]
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