I just got a quick question about Boone.

After being busy with school, moving, and a load of other things, I finally have some time to play New Vegas. It's been about 8 months since I last played, and I had ED-e and Boone as my companions, and I started doing their personal quests, but I know that I missed a few "history points" (as the wika calls them) and I wasnt sure if I'd be able to complete the stuff for Boone.

Now that I do have the time to play agian, I was gonna go with what my old playthrough was (Side with NCR, Boone and EDe as my companions, make the NCR friends with the Brotherhood, Boomers, Khans, etc) and I checked out the wiki so I could read more about Boone's personal quest, and I noticed 2 things that I just want to verify.


1. According to the Wika, there is a bug involving killing Vulpes (which gives you a "history point" with Boone) it says "The game will crash if you kill Vulpes Inculta before completing Boone's "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" quest in which Vulpes is set to spawn. The game still crashes even with Vulpes alive. Using the console, type setstage 001349A7 40 to skip the stay at Coyote Tail Ridge" So, does this mean that I can't really Kill Vulples and get his history point as credit towards this quest? My plan was to go from Goodsprings to Primm, from primm to the outpost where you get the quest to check out Nipton, but I was going to head to Novac and recruit Boone, THEN head to Nipton and kill Vulples, but if I read this note right, I need boones quest done before I kill vulples (to avoid the bug) but a way to get a history point and get closer to Boone's quest is to kill Vuples.

2. According to the Wikia (agian) you were able to get a "history point" when you found out who was going to the control tower at night and relaying those ambush messages to the legion (it took place at Camp Mccarran, forgot the name of the quest) by either kill that Curtis guy, or just going to disarm the bomb on the tram (keeping him alive) Now, I read that "With the 1.4.0.525 patch, disarming the monorail bomb no longer gives a history point if you kill Curtis, regardless of which method is used to disarm it or if it was disarmed before killing Curtis. The point will only be granted upon completion of the quest if Curtis isn't dead, at which point killing Curtis is no longer an option.'

Since I've been away from the game for so long, I just wanted to check and make sure that these notes are true and up to date. I wanna try to avoid using the console commands and dont want to mess up my playthrough.

If anyone else has Boone as a companion and has some other tips, or hints concerning Boone, I'm all ears, I'm still a noob!

Thanks!

-Rob

I can't comment on #2, but for #1 I recently killed Vulpes with Boone as a companion and didn't experience any issues. This was before starting "I forgot to Remember to Forget", it was actually the "history point" that triggered the quest for me.

I'm playing on PS3.

There is no issue with killing Vulpes - except for the one that you should be helping the Legion.

There never was an issue when dealing with the monorail mission so you should be fine doing either way as long as Boone is with you - though you should be helping the Legion.

Thanks for the help fellas, apprecite it!

and sorry, I dont like the Legion NCR all the way!

Quick update (sorta)

I checked back on the Wikia and it turns out both these bugs are on the PC ONLY. Anyone who plays on the PC able to confirm / deny these bugs, and if they are true any wayto get around them (short of using console commands)?

Agian they are:

The game will crash if you kill Vulpes Inculta before completing Boone's "I Forgot To Remember To Forget" quest in which Vulpes is set to spawn. The game still crashes even with Vulpes alive. Using the console, type setstage 001349A7 40 to skip the stay at Coyote Tail Ridge (I was going to get Boone BEFORE I did the quest to check out Nipton, and kill Vulpes there, does that mean I can no longer do that?)

and

With the 1.4.0.525 patch, disarming the monorail bomb no longer gives a history point if you kill Curtis, regardless of which method is used to disarm it or if it was disarmed before killing Curtis. The point will only be granted upon completion of the quest if Curtis isn't dead, at which point killing Curtis is no longer an option.

Thanks!

-Rob

bump?

I killed Vulpes and recruited Boone afterwards - later I completed Boone's quest without a single bug (PC).
I also didn't have any problem with Curtis - I confronted him in the tower and then disarmed the bomb, history points were earned normally.

Ok then, like I said my plan was to get boone, then head and kill Vulpes for the first "history point" I guess I can wait until later to kill him then.

He appears on the Strip later, doesn't he? I cant recall when exactly he'll approach you (If I'm playing for the NCR side)

Thank you Lopo!

-Rob

E: also, confronting Curtis meaning you killed em, yeah?

Dunno why the hell those are listed as bugs. I regularly defuse the bomb to please Boone after confronting Curtis in the watchtower, I always get the history points. (I rescue the powder ganger hostages, rescue the Nelson hostages and do the monorail bomb: just enough points to activate his quest and it always works)

Yes, I killed Curtis.
It's nice that bugs are listed on Wiki, but it should also say if they are common or rare.I guess this is very rare, I've never encountered this bug in any of my playthroughs.

Yeah it seemed odd, it said you would still get the history point when defusing the bomb, just as long as you didnt kill Curtis.

I'll probaly do what you did; Saving the hostages in Nelson, the Powder Gangers, and defusing the bomb.

I guess I'll spare Vulpes for now, I'll just smash his face in as I go to kill Caesar!



Thank you for the help fellas!

-Rob