NCR dogtags are a miscellaneous item in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics
These military identity tags are carried by NCR soldiers. Generic troopers will always have their tags in their inventory, but named characters will not.
Uses
- Dogtags are used to make the dog tag fist.
- Quartermaster Mayes at Camp Forlorn Hope will accept NCR dogtags. His tent can be found to the right of the Command Tent. He will reward with NCR fame and 2 caps per tag.
- At Cottonwood Cove, passing a Barter check of 35 with Aurelius of Phoenix grants the opportunity to turn in dogtags for Caesar's Legion fame, and a reward of 10 caps each. Tags then can also be traded with Decanus Severus for ammunition and supplies, without being vilified by the Legion, in which case Severus may acknowledge it but will not trade.
Locations
- NCR soldiers carrying dogtags may be found fighting Fiends south of Camp McCarran, and near The Basincreek Building and Allied Technologies offices.
- 11 dogtags can be found on the fallen soldiers in the Camp Guardian caves. A further tag may be taken from private Halford in the caves. There is no Karma or NCR reputation loss for killing him.
- A dogtag may be found on a dead NCR soldier in the hills northwest of the California Sunset Drive-in, near the Canyon wreckage.
- 4 dogtags can be found on the dead NCR soldiers in the Nipton Hotel, located to the west of the Nipton town hall. These 4 corpses will de-spawn if the player has entered the Nipton Hotel before.
- Many NCR soldiers can be found inside Camp McCarran, Camp Golf, and on the New Vegas Strip.
- Troops called with the NCR emergency radio carry dogtags.
Three dogtags can be found on NCR corpses inside the Collapsed overpass tunnel.
Notes
- Almost all NCR personnel carry dogtags prior to being killed. As they are weightless, they can be pickpocketed with little chance of failure.
- There are about NCR 50 dogtags which can be picked from unnamed NCR soldiers in Mojave Outpost, Camp McCarran, New Vegas Strip and Las Vegas Boulevard station.
- Note that giving a large quantity of dogtags for Aurelius or Severus will net more Legion's fame totally than giving the same amount of tags but in small quantity in many times. For example, with a reputation with Caesar's Legion at 0, giving them 30 dogtags at a time will net a Liked reputation with the Legion, but giving them 6 times each with 5 dogtags will not.
- At 0 reputation with the Legion, giving them 20 dogtags at a time will raise the reputation rank to Accepted, alternatively giving them 30 dogtags at a time will raise the reputation from 0 to Liked. When Accepted by the Legion, only 20 dogtags have to be given to raise reputation to Liked. However giving them more than 30 dogtags at a time at 0 reputation will not raise the rank from neutral to Idolized, it will always raise to Liked rank only. At Liked reputation, they need to be given no less than 30 dogtags at a time to be able to be raised from Liked to Idolized reputation.
- The tags are weightless and count as quest items, making them impossible to remove without console commands.
- They are identical in appearance to their Brotherhood of Steel counterpart.
Bugs
- Most troopers and named soldiers at Camp Forlorn Hope are set up to receive a set of dogtags when killed, this in addition to the dogtags most already carry, meaning corpses of Forlorn Hope personnel will frequently be found with two sets of dogtags. [verified]
- It is sometimes possible for known corpses carrying NCR dogtags to be found alive. This is an issue with the Gamebryo engine. If the player attempts to kill the non-player character who has been found alive, it will result in the usual Karma/reputation penalties as with killing any other non-player character. [verified]
- Skirmishes between the Legion and NCR soldiers between Camp Forlorn Hope and Nelson may not occur, forcing the player to look elsewhere for dogtags. [verified]
