I just killed father Elijah, and escaped the vault before my collar exploded, but I never got any of the gold bars and the whole thing of ammo. Can I go back into the vault and get all of that or am i screwed?

Nope. It's permanently closed forever now. (unless you reload your save).

There is a glitch I encountered that enables you to go back into the vault. If you simply delete all your patch data, when you go to use the escape elevator, you'll be back in the Executive Suites, instead of in the Sierra Madre courtyard. You can then go back down the elevator and collect some goodies, as the timer on your collar resets. However, you'll want to preemptively places items near the beginning, like using the gold bar/forcefield glitch to put your gold bars near the beginning/exit. Also, when you enter the Vault area for the first time, there should be a toolbox on a shelf to your right that you can put your extra goodies into if they're weighing you down. Then, during your escape, leave the gold bars at their location, and the items in the toolbox and go into the elevator. Then just go back in and casually stroll to the toolbox and gold bars and save and quit right in front of the exit. Reinstall the patches, load up the game and use the elevator. Voila! Tons of awesome stuff/No exploded head.

NOTE: I tested this on PS3, but it should work on Xbox. All you're doing is deleting the patch(es) that made the core game compatible with Dead Money, which is disabling all quests, meaning the game won't kick you out of the Casino since that's a quest triggered event. It should work on the 360.

That's the second big exploit I've found in Dead Money! :cheat:

how do u trap him in the vault in dm?

No matter, I game on pc and there was no way i was going to leave 37 gold bars worth 10720 caps each in some vault, along with 2000 rounds of 357 ammo, and a ton of other crap. So i took all the bars and ammo and opened the console to the player.moveto command. Yea I know cheating ruins the game, but honestly would you just leave all that in a vault that you can never return to?

No, I would take it, without cheating.

how do u trap father e in the vault in dm?

As soon as you ask him to come down, leave the vault the same way you took to get there, simple.

Actually you can grab all the gold, and escape, while trapping Elija in the vault without cheating. You have to exploit the AI's general stupidity, and a game mechanic. Grab all the gold, drop it next to the vault door, talk to Elija, then grab the gold again, walk toward the holographic barrier that Elija will come through. Before he gets too close, drop the gold on the ground and hide. If you have a stealth boy, you can just sit some two feet away, wait for Elija to step over the gold, before grabbing the loot and high tailing it through the door.

If you don't have a stealth boy, then you need to just duck out of the way until Elija moves toward the computer, then you make a run for the gold, grab it, and make the agonizingly slow walk toward the elevator. I suggest saving before you start any of this because it might take more than one try to get the timing right.

That may work but the way I did it(got every gold bar there is)
1) Using a stealthboy(with all the gold bars and ammo you want)
2)Hide behind the generator (the one -----> right of the vault entrance)
3)When father Elija approaches the generator(turn 180 degrees around the generator so your out of sight from him)
4)Then you can make(remember,your overweighted so it may take a few trys) your way to the exit and you'll escape with all the gold,ammo, gun,and etc you want.
5)Once your back into the BoS bunker, store all your equipment in the storage locker by the entrance.(all I did was bring all the gold I can carry back to the Lucky 38 and kept it in a desk) and repeat until you have all your gold back in safe storage back in the Lucky 38.(Unless you have the perk that allows fast travel while over weight.
6) You have about 300,000+ of caps value in those gold bars now =)

Yes, I did.

Yeah, the whole theme is letting go.

Agreed. I got 7 or 8 bars out and trapped Elijah. Was satisfied with that.

Like war, greed never changes for some people....

I just picked everything up used a stealthboy then walked to the other forcefield the one he doesnt come through and went through that one
it took a few tries tho cause he kept seeing me and you cant crouch to get there cause it takes too long but you can do it that way

In my most recient run of DM i got out with 5 bars, a police revolver, an automatic rifle, two of Vera's dresses, and that was about it. The idea as suggested was letting go. I was able to let everything go but Christine which as far as the gold went i would have left it all behind if i could have taken her back to the real world. Elijah was trapped both times i played in the vault, i figured this was the most poetic of all the endings for him, Elijah i left you all but 5 bars of gold i hope you and it are eternally happy.

Asai

I 'let go' of my inhibitions and just took everything.

It's actually very easy. Before entering the vault plant some C-4 at the bottom of the steps Elijah comes down. Go in, grab everything, talk to Elijah. The second he logs off, walk to the force field. It doesn't matter if he sees you or not. With your knowledge of Science! you know the forcefield is going to go down for a second, right? Just push against it. When he comes in you will fall through. He'll go on the attack. As soon as he's in range (he may wander for a while), detonate the C-4.
Now just stroll leisurely to the elevator.
No stealth required.

Blah, took all the gold. Then in a "sense", napalmed him back to the B.O.S., we'll just say hes the new Burned Man.

Can you go back into the Casino after the last mission, but before you return to the Mojave?

Yes but you can't get back into the Vault.

At least I couldn't.