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Revision as of 09:06, 28 July 2011
Old World Blues is the third add-on for Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was released simultaneously on all platforms on July 19th, 2011.[1]
In Old World Blues, the Courier discovers how some of the Mojave’s mutated monsters came into being whilst they unwittingly become a lab rat in a science experiment gone awry. The Courier must scour the pre-War research centers of the Big Empty in search of technology to turn the tables on his or her kidnappers, or join forces with them against an even greater threat.
Plot
"The residents of the Mojave have long assumed the trackless wastes of the ‘Big Empty’ are a no-mans'-land, a desolate stretch where no living thing can survive. In Old World Blues, you discover that it is anything but..."
After being transported to the Big MT research crater, you find you're the only hope of saving the "Think Tank" – a strange group of post-human researchers who inhabit the facility. They enlist your aid to save them from their own experiments - experiments that have gone horribly out of control. As you explore the huge stretch of the Big Empty crater and it's many underground labs, you’ll confront strange mutated animals, battle terrifying new atomic robots, and discover a new home base to call your own. Recover all the weapons, armor, and tech of the Pre-War era and use them to help save all of science!
Overview
- Like all New Vegas add-ons, Old World Blues raises the level cap by 5.[2] Also, the add-on offers new traits (and gives you the opportunity to change your own traits if you've already chosen them) including one called Logan's Loophole that will allow you to cap your level at 30.
- An auto-doc in The Sink allows the player to alter their looks, hairstyle, and, for one time only, their traits in addition to providing basic healing services.
- Equipment will not be stripped from the player at the beginning of this add-on, and it features an open-world setting. Also there is no limit to the amount of equipment you can take in to the add-on.[3]
- Like all New Vegas add-ons, companions cannot accompany the Courier to the new land.
- In Old World Blues, some robotic appliances have personalities, all with different voices.
- There is an upgradeable base (via completing quests), The Sink, in this add-on. [4]
- There is a new radio added, to both the Big Empty and the Mojave. It plays 3 new jazz songs, along with 2 songs from Radio New Vegas.
- The 'Big Empty' gained its name through the phonetic contracted name of the test site, 'Big MT' (MT meaning Mountain). The name can be seen across the many crates found in the add-on.
- Once you complete the add-on, you may return to big empty via the Big Mountain Transportalponder!. Note you cannot use the item while in the interior of a building, cave, tunnels, etc.
Locations
- Big MT/Big Empty
- Big MT east tunnel
- Big MT north tunnel
- Big MT west tunnel
- Construction site
- Elijah's watch
- Forbidden Zone Dome entrance
- Hazmat testing ground
- Higgs Village
- Little Yangtze
- Loading station
- Magnetohydraulics complex
- Mojave Drive-in
- Mysterious cave
- Saturnite alloy research facility
- Securitron de-construction plant
- Signal hills transmitter
- The Cuckoo's Nest
- The Sink
- The Think Tank
- Waste disintegration platform
- X-2 transmitter antenna array
- X-7a "Left Field" artillery launch
- X-7b "Boom Town" target zone
- X-8 research center
- X-12 research center
- X-13 testing facility
- X-17 meteorological station
- X-22 botanical garden
- X-66 Hexcrete archipelago
- Y-0 research center
- Y-17 medical facility
- Z-9 Crotalus DNA preservation lab
- Z-14 Pepsinae DNA splicing lab
- Z-38 lightwave dynamics research
- Z-43 Innovative Toxins plant
- Ulysses' Point
Creatures
- Nightstalkers
- Cazadores
- Cyberdogs (Police / Military)
- Lobotomites
- Test subject 1
- Y-17 Trauma override harnesses
- Y-17 Master trauma harness
- Spore carriers
- Spore Plants
- Bloatfly
- Yangtze camp survivors
- Deathclaw
Robots
- Think tank
- Robobrain
- Protectrons
- Berserk securitron Mk4
- Damaged securitron Mk4
- Securitron Mk5
- Mister Gutsy Mk3
- Mister Gutsy Mk4
- Mister Gutsy Mk5
- Roboscorpions
- Sentry bot
- RY-589 ultimo bot
- Mister Orderly
- Crazed Mister Handy
Characters
Items
Weapons
- Big Mountain Transportalponder!
- Christine's COS silencer rifle
- Corrosive glove
- Dr. Klein's glove
- Dr. Mobius' glove
- Elijah's advanced LAER
- Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon
- FIDO
- K9000 cyberdog gun
- LAER
- Proton axe
- Proton throwing axe
- Protonic inversal axe
- Protonic inversal throwing axe
- Saturnite fist
- Saturnite fist super-heated
- Scientist glove
- Scorpion rifle
- Sonic emitter
- Sonic emitter - Gabriel's bark
- Sonic emitter - Opera singer
- Sonic emitter - Revelation
- Sonic emitter - Robo-scorpion
- Sonic emitter - Tarantula
- Spider rifle
- Sterilizer glove
- X-2 antenna
Armor and clothing
- Atomic-valence tri-radii-oscillator
- Christine's COS recon armor
- Dr. Klein's glasses
- Dr. Klein's scrubs
- Dr. Mobius' glasses
- Dr. Mobius' scrubs
- Hazmat darklight cowl
- Hazmat suit
- Lobotomite goggles
- Lobotomite jumpsuit
- Lobotomite mask
- Lobotomite mask and goggles
- Mad scientist scrubs
- Patient gown
- Scientist scrubs
- Stealth suit Mk II
- Valence radii-accentuator
- Yangtze camp jumpsuit
- followers doctor coat
Aid
Other items
- Snow globe - Big Mt. Research and Development Center
- Blank book
- Broken Detonator
- Deactivated Bomb Collar
- Gabe's Bowl
- Dried Seeds
Schematics & Recipes
- Schematics for K9000 cyberdog FIDO upgrade
- Recipes - Barter skill book
- Recipes - Energy Weapons skill book
- Recipes - Explosives skill book
- Recipes - Guns skill book
- Recipes - Lockpick skill book
- Recipes - Medicine skill book
- Recipes - Melee Weapons skill book
- Recipes - Repair skill book
- Recipes - Science skill book
- Recipes - Sneak skill book
- Recipes - Speech skill book
- Recipes - Survival skill book
- Recipes - Unarmed skill book
Quests
The XP that is rewarded for quests is variable based upon your level when the quest is completed. The total XP split between the main storyline quests is approximately 3000 XP at levels 1-4 and 22000 XP at levels 45-50, the secondary quest XP ranges from 75 XP per quest to 550 XP per quest.
Main Quests
Name | Location(s) | Given by | Reward | Quest ID |
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Midnight Science Fiction Feature! | Mojave Drive-in | Mysterious broadcast | Variable XP | xx002FCA |
Welcome to the Big Empty | The Sink | xx002FCB | ||
All My Friends Have Off Switches | The Sink | Various Sink services | xx0112E3 | |
Old World Blues | Think Tank | Doctor Klein |
Side Quests
Perks and Traits
Regular perks
Name | Unlock conditions | Ranks | Benefit | Code |
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Atomic! | Level 20, Endurance 6 | 1 | With the Atomic! Perk, you are 25% faster and stronger whenever you're basking in the warm glow of radiation. Outside of irradiated areas, your Action Points (AP) regenerate faster the higher your level of radiation sickness becomes. | xx008011 |
Mile In Their Shoes | Level 20, Survival 25 | 1 | You have come to understand Nightstalkers. Consuming Nightstalker squeezin's now grants bonuses to Perception (+1 PER), Poison Resistance (+5), and Stealth (+5 Sneak) in addition to the normal benefits. | xx009619 |
Them's Good Eatin | Level 20, Survival 55 | 1 | Any living creature you kill has a 50% chance to have the potent healing items Thin Red Paste or Blood Sausage when looted. | xx0098C9 |
Implant GRX | Level 30, Endurance 8 | 2 | You gain a non-addictive subdermal Turbo (chem) injector. This perk may be taken twice, with the second rank increasing the effect from 2 to 3 seconds and the uses per day from 5 to 10 [Activated in the Pip-Boy Inventory]. | xx009D48 |
Unlockable perks
Name | Unlock conditions | Ranks | Benefit | Code |
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Brainless | Initial dialogue with Doctor Klein in the think tank | 1 | Head can no longer be crippled, +25% resistance to chem addiction, +5% DT if your DT >= 10 or +1 DT if your DT < 10 | xx0098BE |
Heartless | Initial dialogue with Doctor Klein in the think tank | 1 | Cannot be poisoned, healing items are boosted +25%, robots have -50% crit chance | xx0098C2 |
Spineless | Initial dialogue with Doctor Klein in the think tank | 1 | Strength+1, DT+1, Torso can no longer be crippled | xx0098BC |
Big Brained | Sink Auto-Doc after Old World Blues is finished. Replaces Brainless Perk. | 1 | Head cannot be crippled, +10% resistance to chem addiction, +10% DT if your DT >= 10 or +1 DT if your DT < 10 | xx015BBA |
Cardiac Arrest | Sink Auto-Doc after Old World Blues is finished. Replaces Heartless perk. | 1 | 50% poison resistance, Healing items boosted by 50%, Robots have -25% crit chance | xx015BBB |
Reinforced Spine | Sink Auto-Doc after Old World Blues is finished. Replaces Spineless perk. | 1 | Strength+2, DT+2 | xx015BBC |
Implant C-13 | Surgery purchased through dialogue with the Sink Auto-Doc in The Sink for 8,000 caps. | 1 | Plus 10% damage to cazadores | xx009616 |
Implant M-5 | Surgery purchased through dialogue with the Sink Auto-Doc in The Sink for 10,000 caps. | 1 | Your crouched movement speed is increased by 20% | xx009614 |
Implant Y-3 | Surgery purchased through dialogue with the Sink Auto-Doc in The Sink for 12,000 caps. | 1 | Removes any radiation taken from drinking an irradiated water source. | xx009615 |
Implant Y-7 | Surgery purchased through dialogue with the Sink Auto-Doc in The Sink for 20,000 caps. | 1 | You gain bonus health and action points through the consumption of food. | xx00961A |
DNAgent | Completion of X-8 Data Retrieval Test | 1 | All damage done to nightstalkers is increased by 10% | xx009617 |
DNAvenger | Kill 2 Cazadores in Big Mt for rank 1, and another 3 Cazadores in Big Mt for rank 2, and another 5 for rank 3 of this perk. | 3 | All the damage done to cazadores is increased by 10% per rank of this perk. Works alongside Implant C-13 for additional damage bonuses. | xx00DA28 |
Traits
Name | Benefit | Penalty | Code |
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Claustrophobia | + 1 buff to SPECIAL attributes while outdoors | - 1 debuff to SPECIAL attributes while indoors | xx0133AE |
Early Bird | + 2 buff to SPECIAL attributes from 6am to 12pm | - 1 debuff to SPECIAL attributes from 6pm to 6am | xx012767 |
Hoarder | + 25 lbs to total carry weight | - 1 debuff to SPECIAL attributes while current equipment weight is below 160 lbs | xx01276D |
Hot Blooded | + 10% damage increase while below 50% health | - 2 debuff to Perception and Agility while below 50% health | xx01276B |
Logan's Loophole | Chems last twice as long and addiction rates are set to zero | Locks the level cap at 30 | xx01276E |
Skilled | Gain +5 points to every skill. | You suffer -10% from experience gained. | xx012B86 |
Achievements/Trophies
Name | Requirement | Achievement points | Trophy type | Image |
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Cardiac Arrest! | Recovered X-13 cardiac regulator sneaky suit! | 20 | Bronze | |
Make up Your Mind | Made up your Mind... about your brain. | 20 | Bronze | |
Making Friends | Reactivated all of the Sink's robotic assistants | 30 | Silver | |
Outsmarted | Complete Old World Blues | 35 | Gold | |
Spinal-Tapped | Recovered X-8 vertebrae-pulse-de-sensitizer frequency | 20 | Bronze |
Bugs
- Entering the Big Empty then saving your game, waiting, or entering doors may cause the game to freeze.
- [Platforms needed] After initiating the Institutional Data Retrieval Test (Basic) after releasing the "Unusual Specimen", the door to the X-8 Institutional Test Facility disappears.
- X-8 Data Retrieval Test quest and choosing the "Unusual Specimen" option from Kennel Terminal, do not continue initiating "Release Cyberdogs". This will make "Unusual Specimen" from the list quest to be completed by turning the "Institutional Data Retrieval Test" & "Unusual Specimen" both uncompleted with the quest unfinished. The bug appears to come from the map-marker that it doesn't move from Kennel Terminal to the X-8 Test Terminal after "Unusual Specimen" is chosen confusing the player by the map-marker. Initiating only "Unusual Specimen" option, go to the X-8 Test Terminal to start the Basic Test and Advanced Test as well, then the quest will be finished. This bug does not make the quest fail, but it can go to an infinite loop of finished/unfinished quests from the quest list. After initiating the "Institutional Data Retrieval Test (Basic)" from the
- You may not be able to leave after completing the main quests.
- After completing the quest, "Old World Blues", you are told to retrieve your brain. You may be glitched in the dialogue with your brain, repeating two lines over, and over again.
- It is possible for the Sink Central Intelligence Unit to take some of your items from you. This bug occurs when the player sell things to it and, in return, you receive no money, but the items that you were selling are, in fact, now in the possession of the Sink Central Intelligence Unit. This is similar to the glitch with Quartermaster Bardon in Hoover Dam and other locations in the main game. It can be resolved by making smaller transactions (under 10,000 caps seems to work) at a time. Waiting until the stock of items recycles occasionally fixes this problem (confirmed on PC and PS3). (note: workaround tested on XBOX360 but did not work. No caps added to inventory no matter the amount. Restarting game, restarting system, uninstalling and reinstalling DLC still does not fix problem. Going back to an old save before terminal became bugged may be only option)i found a work round fix on Xbox the Central units cap data must be messed up if it says it has 65535 [maximum value of a short integer - 16 bits] it will not give you caps so treat this a zero caps the work round is simply sell something to it or repair items so its cap amount goes over the bugged number. Then it will give out caps for your transactions. It works for me but feel free to test yourselves.
- Oftentimes, players can fall through the train tracks or pipes throughout the crater.
- [Platforms needed]Opening a storage container, taking all of its contents, and leaving, the container may not say it is empty. [verification overdue]
- When in the Sink, if an item is dropped it will disappear. However you can still pick it up. [verification needed]
- [Platforms needed]Higgs Village fountain has a bug where you can swim up it, then float out 'swimming' around the houses until you touch ground or jump
- If you have more than one humanoid follower in your party(See Veronica Santangelo or Fallout New Vegas companions section in order to learn how to have more than one follower) and you enter the Big Empty, up to 2,3, or 4 companions will come with you and will accompany you to the Big Empty but its completely random. Also note if go to the Big Empty Craig Boone can never go, Lily will rarely go if she does it limits the party to one or two people,ED-E will rarely as well, also of all followers Arcade Gannon will almost always accompany. But It is completely random who and how many will come with you so its recommended you save if you get the wrong group. Also sending followers out of your party before interacting with crashed satellite seems to affect who comes if any at all if you wanna make sure a follower accompanys then make sure you have all humanoid companions and either ED-E or Rex. (still being tested)
- a bug in Honest Hearts, while playing through the main quest, the tick marks of undiscovered locations can disappear from the compass. It's still possible to discover them afterwards though. Similar to
- Some armors may degrade very quickly while playing
- ,[Platforms needed] If you bought all three add-ons your max level still might be 40 but you can get rid of if you go on the Dashboard and reload the game.
- With this add on, the max level has been raised to level 50, the max level with all four add-ons. This has not yet been patched
- Various Casino playing cards successfully moved into a Sink storage locker disappear from both locker and pipboy when retrieval attempted.
- When talking to your brain when it reflects on the sights you two have seen together, it may get suck in a loop talking about Jason Bright and his followers and Helios One coming back online, then just loop between the two lines of dialog indefinitely.
- When you return to the Mojave, you may find your ratings with factions have diminished (ex. NCR Idolized-To-just below Neutral) when you return. Brotherhood of steel went from Idolized to neutral as well.
- When loading an autosave with Hardcore Mode turned on, your starvation and thirst meters will jump up over 200, despite those levels being low when the autosave was created.
- After collecting the dried packages of seeds, it is possible that after leaving the Sink after the White Horsenettle has grown and returning, the two White Horsenettle plants will fall through the map and keep respawning and repeating.
Notes
- In the ending of this add-on, it confirmed that "The lonesome road" add-on was going to be made with the phrase "Only the courier could go on his own lonesome road." the phrase was made by Blind Diode Jefferson
- The kidnappers are apparently remnants of a group of pre-War scientists, whose brains have been preserved in mechanical "bodies" consisting of a nutrient jar and three monitors. Two of the monitors show human eyes, the other monitor shows a human mouth.
- Some objects in the Sink have the ability to talk, including a light switch, a sink and a toaster.
- In Old World Blues the player "gets a taste" of Ulysses by listening to holotapes left in the Big Empty.
- Players are able to return to the Big Empty after completion of the add-on.
- The Courier's brain, spine and heart are removed by the scientists and held as leverage.
- The sound from the speakers in Dead Money can be heard at the end of the trailer.
- As with the other DLCs, using the 'Companion Glitch' enables the player to bring their Non Active companion into Big Empty.
- Energy Weapons, such as the Pulse gun and the Tesla-Beaton prototype, benefit from the automatic DT subtraction.
- Two terminals state that the Sierra Madre was a testing ground for multiple things such as defense holograms, Saturnite alloys, vending machines, auto-docs and also state that the Cloud that poisons all around it was put there on purpose to test the hazmat suits which the ghost people were trapped in.
- Old World Blues can be difficult for low level players. Before going in, the game advises that Old World Blues is intended for couriers of Level 15+. Some enemies in the Big Empty can offer a challenge even for a courier at level 30+.
- Unlike previous add-ons, Old World Blues added new traits. The add-on also gives the ability to switch traits, if the Courier desires, but only once
- There are no normal companions in the add-on. However, there is one temporary companion, a cyberdog named Roxie who has her own ending if you meet her.
- In Ulysses' Point, patient log: Y-17.9 gives a statement referring to Lonesome Road.
- Some areas contain hanging dolls on a string like in the X-13 research facility. These are the same as the swamp totems in the Fallout 3 add-on, Point Lookout.
- Christine Royce and Father Elijah from Dead Money are also involved in Old World Blues, although they do not appear in the add-on. There are Holotapes of her speaking, along with her weapon and armor. Father Elijah's weapon can also be found, along with notes made by him while in the Big MT.
Behind the scenes
- In Dead Money, Father Elijah describes the Big Empty as "a treasure box, a scientific graveyard of Old World misery". Additionally, mentions of the Big Empty act as a trigger for the Things to Come! challenge. *
- The Big Empty was a location that was scrapped from Black Isle's canceled Fallout 3.
- At some point, Chris Avellone set his location on his Twitter profile to Big MT, Mojave, placing the Big Empty as a location within the Mojave Wasteland and thus teasing its possible appearance in a future Fallout: New Vegas add-on. Since then, Avellone has also changed his Twitter avatar.
- J.E. Sawyer has suggested that Old World Blues will be the most humorous of the New Vegas add-ons.[5]
- "Mean Old World Blues" is the title of T-Bone Walker's 1945 remake of his 1942 opus, "Mean Old World".
- Dr. Mobius is most likely a reference to the 1976 Doctor Who story "The Brain of Morbius", in which all that remains of the titular character is his brain, in a tank. This would tie in with the brain-removal/lobotomy aspect of "Old World Blues".
Videos
Gallery
References
- ↑ Bethesda Blog - Old World Blues releasing on July 19th.
- ↑ honest hearts screenshot, dlc out may 17 - Bethesda Softworks Forums.
- ↑ Is there anyone that DOES like having their gear taken away? - Bethesda Softworks Forums - Page 3
- ↑ http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1201937-to-jason-bergman/page__st__160
- ↑ will we see more comedic items like the Pint-sized slasher mask from FO3 in future DLCs | Formspring
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