I have been getting killed instantly and in random places by some sort of explosion.

I have the step lightly perk.


Walking into the tent where the doctor sleeps at Camp Forlorn Hope, not outside the tent, just inside the entrance. There is nothing on the ground. Step, Dead.

Fast traveling to Primm, soon as I appear, boom. Reload and fast travel again, no boom.

Following the edge of the mountain area south toward Mohave Outpost, in the middle of nowhere, boom. Reload, head back the same route, nothing there.



Instant kill, no rhyme or reason for it.

Are you on PC?
Do you have mods?
If on Xbox do you have the DLC.
What are you wearing? ( Ohhh err missus. )
What effects are displayed on your PIP BOY effects screen tab?

DUDE, that happened to me too. I'm walking around Nellis array and them all of A sudden I get blown up and it shows me outside of camp McFadden dead

On PC.

A player house mod (adds a big house with connected vault in Goodsprings)
XFO with only level cap removed and perk every level.

Dinner first..then I *might* tell. *grin*. Merc Adventurer outfit

No effects.

Have you been to nellis or had the explosive collar put on you by the BoS.

If not, try a fresh game to check it's not across the board, then try loading up the game without your mods.

I've looked at the Wiki, the only mentions to random explosions are due to Nellis.

"That'll teach you to mess with the powder gangers"

I have a ton of mods enabled and I've never experienced anything like that. Try loading your mods one at a time to see which, if any, causes it.

Have not seen this issue, so it has to be related to Mods or a game save corruption.

1. Load an earlier save, if you still have the issue, then:

2. Start a new character just to see if this is a persistant issue, if it is then:

3. Start the new character again, this time with no mods, if there is no issue, then load the mods back one at a time until you find the offender. Remove that mod and try your current save file with the new mod mix.

Hmmm, random indeed :confused:

HAHA omg you've made my day good sir!! But say that anymore and I'm liable to stick you with my stickin knife! Ol' sticky feelin mighty stickin today...

Since the deaths are random, tracking it down will be very time consuming at the least. Since these random death-by-blowing up seem to happen in and around NCR areas, I am going to put it down to them just being vindictive because although I am accepted by them, I am not now, nor planning to, join them. Not joining the Legion either and I am neutral with them but, at least they are civil about it.

Try doing it with god mode enabled.

BoS Explosive Collar?

Still can't figure it out, started a brand new character. It has happened twice tonight. At first, I thought it might be the dynamite I was looting from dead powder gangers as I exploded shortly after looting some. Reloaded the game, dropped all explosives off in storage, played another couple of hours, then, standing just off the RR tracks north of Nipton, Boom, instant dead. No red marks on the compass (I have 10 PER). No reason at all for it to happen. I was standing in place just looking around, must have been there 3 or 4 minutes real time so it couldn't have been any sort of timer explosive.

Explosions seem to be limited to blowing off my legs, almost like a reverse pickpocket of a grenade or mine but, with instant death. ED-E was my only companion and when asked, he beeped innocently. I am out of ideas now.

Wow. I've never experienced this either and I'm on my 7th playthrough.

You're still getting this w/ the mods disabled?

I would do a full delete/reinstall of the game and try again w/o adding mods at first. You can copy your current save files over to another directory, try the clean install w/ a new character just to see if you're still experiencing this. If not, then add your mods again and try the same. If all is good, then you can use your old saves and continue.

Best wishes. What a terrible bug.

I think it is delayed Archimedes II....

Put in another 2 hours with godmode enabled. Of course, nothing happened.

It has to be an explosive charge that has spawned or fallen beneath the ground mesh, I am just stumped on the no 'beep beep beep' noise before it blows up.

It's the only 'logical' explanation that makes sense.

It's not mod related as I had both of them (house mod, level cap/perk every level) disabled and extensive reading on them showed nothing even remotely able to cause this.

Ok, the instant kill is a bit of a mystery. I have never died by an obvious mine, dynamite, etc

Still scratching head.

I *think* I figured it out. Reinstalling game now. The only thing that kills you instantly is dehydration, starvation and sleep deprivation. I think I am being killed by a hardcoe option even though I am not in hardcoe mode. I think the explosions were just the game's way of saying, 'you have died from Sleep Deprivation and I don't know how to compute that since you aren't in hardcoe mode'.

I am 99% sure of it after loading an older game and turning on hardcoe and watching myself die when the meters hit 1000 a dozen times.

After using the "Fallout Heroes" mod on nexus I experienced something like this, but it was a mini nuke explosion, and if I had god mod on the pc just froze completely. (In all fairness it was very rare thing)

still, wouldn't recommend it. :shakehead:

Ok. Really starting to not enjoy playing anymore. I have been randomly killed 4 times since reinstalling by absolutely nothing. It has happened so many times, I have had time to study the actual death. I have had what looks to be a high powered shot to the chest, head blown off; leg or arm blown off. Each time, it is an instant death, no crippling, no second chance. Just dead.

There are no enemies anywhere around. I have 10 PER, ED-E and most times, Boone so enemies sneaking up on me just doesn't happen. I have been killed just outside Red Rock Canyon, just outside Goodsprings, outside Mohave Outpost, in the middle of camp Forlorn Hope, standing on the tracks just north of Nipton. Even just outside Sunny Smiles house in Goodsprings.

Even Deathclaws can't kill me that instantly. Often times, I am already dead before I hear the *crack* of whatever it is that is killing me or they come at the same time.

Mods, no mods, reinstalling game. Restarting with brand new characters, Nothing prevents it.