I just took a look at my achievements on Steam and most of them are for not completing end missions for other factions, but the one that I think will be the last one I'll be able to get is Desert Survivalist...very time consuming. I haven't won 30 hands of Caravan yet, but I understand the game fairly well(a lot better then most of the people posting on this thread anyway). Caravan has become a lot more difficult since the last patch, but I've beaten No-Bark and apparently he's the most difficult player in the game. There's also Artful Pocketeer, play the slots ten times and discover all of the Snow Globes, but none of those should be too difficult. The rest are just find all the warheads in the Divide, the GRA challenges and, like I said before, missions.

hard would depend on the player. before GRA came out, I had every single achievement except the caravan and casino ones. I think the most boring was pocketpicking.

No bark is the hardest in the game? I beat him without knowing the rules

i would like to do hardcoe mode, but i agree with you, i can see myself turning it off half way through

If you just want to get it over with, I recommend Armed for Bear, Pro Deathclaw Hunter, and Man Machine Interface. You can literally kill officers standing next to people if you have stealth. You can use any weapon to knock down a deathclaw's health, before finishing them off with a required weapon. And robots o' plenty can be found respawning at New Vegas Steel every three days.

If getting them 'legitimately', the worst has got to be Crackerjack Timing. I just can't do it. It's friggin' impossible for me.



I said 'high'. As in 9 to 10.

I can't recall exactly when, but I think it was between 8 and 9 when the game seemed to effectively 'collapse' in a way, and I was winning almost every hand of Blackjack and round of caravan. I can't vouch for slot machines and such, tho. I never really played them.



I was excited at the prospect because I had always wanted eating, sleeping and drinking to mean something in Fallout 3. So much so that for hundreds of hours of play, I went through Fallout 3 pretending it *did* matter, and always sleeping at night, and eating and drinking three times a day.

When I started NV, I automatically went with hardcoe. Although intimidating at first with the 'gradual effect' stimpacks, it was (and still is) ultimately a piece of cake. But I'm not sure if it's because it's easy, or because I inadvertently 'trained' myself for it.

He seems to have become one of the most difficult post patch. He now uses jacks and kings on your side as much as possible. It gets extremely annoying when he just keeps layering kings onto your ten, I once had 89 in one row.

Already Got the Legion one actually on my NCR playhthrough [Assaulted the Fort with Boone using my Ranger Sequoia]. Did not know that you only had to finish them off with the weapons listed, that'll make it a lot easier. Deathclaws respawn at Dead Wind Cavern, right? Either way, thanks, you've been quite helpful already with that bit of info haha

Also, harcore mode isn't nearly as bad as people think. I've never played New Vegas without hardcoe mode on, and I doubt I'd be able to go back to FO3 because of the lack thereof.

Be advised! They have to be advlt deathclaws, but some do not work. Regular advlt Deathclaws in the following locations do *not* count toward this challenge: Outside or inside the Dead Wind Cavern, outside Vault 19, in Gypsum train yard, or in the Deathclaw promontory.

The easiest way is to go to the Thorn, ask for matches between yourself and a deathclaw, and in five fights you're done. They loiter in the cage before emerging, giving you plenty of time to knock their health down before finishing them off.

Quarry Junction advlts count. The blind deathclaw at Primm Pass counts. An alpha male deathclaw and the deathclaw mothers at the Deathclaw Promontory count towards the challenge but an ordinary advlt deathclaw does not. A deathclaw mother & legendary deathclaw in Dead Wind Cavern count towards the challenge. Blind deathclaws at Gypsum train yard count towards the challenge, but regular advlts do not.

Wow, that's Lame. I'll keep the Thorn thing in mind since I've already cleared Quarry Junction.
Seriously, thanks. Can't imagine trying this without this info, would've gone to Dead Wind and just wasted time since I cleared that out once already too so it wouldn't have either the Legendary or the Mother.

For me, probably Blast Mastery and the hardcoe one. I don't enjoy Energy Weapons and I'm not a fan of hardcoe mode.

I actually got Blast Mastery on a non-energy weapons character just doing Old World Blues and then screwing around with a Flare Gun hahaha

I was actually kind of surprised how easy the hardcoe thing was to get used to. I was expecting it to have a unforgiving learning curve with me dying without knowing why. It ended up being the complete opposite. And blast mastery I got in a few days after literally spamming the Laser RCW. To this day, I still only use the RCW when I feel like using an energy weapon for some reason

The 100 caps you win with each deathclaw victory at The Thorn doesn't even pay for the ammo used to kill it.

I got an annoyed chuckle out of that!

Huh, I do have an unnecessarily high amount of stealth boys. What's the melee weapon you can use for it?

By my experience, a chainsaw will kill npcs instantly when stealthed.

I did it to several NCR officers, with npcs standing literally right next to the victim, and they did not notice or react.

I always thought that automatic weapons svcked as effective stealth killers, if you don't kill them with the first shot then they notice you.
(I personally consider the chainsaw to be an automatic melee weapon since it attacks many times a second)

The achievement where you have to heal 10k of damage with food. Still haven't got it.
The 30 games of caravan is easy, you just need to sit down and play it for an hour with frequent saving.

If you don't want to mess with it longer than you have to, you don't have to actually heal 10,000 damage. You can just drop your health below 100%, and if theoretically available, eat 10,000 HP worth of food at once and pop the achievement (if you're not in hardcoe mode, don't use water - it heals instantly). It's getting that much food that's difficult. Once you have it, dive beneath water, remove your rebreather, drown to near death, put the rebreather back on. Eat a bunch of food to heal, then use the wait function right after to cut down on time waiting.

General tips:

1.) Just remember that soda and water that isn't bottled doesn't count toward the achievement (bottled water does, but see above). The 188, Westside Co-Op, Follower's safehouse fridge, Nellis Mess Hall, and Sharecropper farms seem to have a proportionally-high amount of food, so try to include them every time you make 'the rounds' with merchants.

2.) Bump your survival skill, at least with a Lad's Life, before eating if you can.

3.) Arcade Gannon will increase the amount you heal from food, if he's your companion.

4.) You get 600 HP from a wasteland omelet (the Gourmand in the Ultra Lu sells them), at only 1 pound. Meat and crafted dishes in general give you much more HP overall as opposed to dropped items.

5.) Pip-Boy > Data > Misc > Challenges (Y) will track your progress.

6.) Watch your radiation levels if eating low-quality food and then 'waiting' to cut down time. It could kill you.

Yeah desert surv

I also thought that Desert Survivalist and Caravan Master would be the most difficult. I'm now up to 20 games won with No-Bark thoroughly beaten and now with your advice I won't have to devote an entire playthrough to healing myself with nothing, but food.
Damn...after looking at my Steam achievements I just realized that Artful Pocketer is going to be dull.

If you just want to get it over with, here's two ways to do it.

1.) The Vault 21 shopkeeper has a pack of bubblegum on her that never goes away. You can steal it repeatedly from her, making one stealth boy go a long way.
2.) One bullet counts as one item. You can pick pocket somebody, and take one bullet at a time (you must back out of the screen each time).

If your sneak isn't high enough, it will automatically take all the bullets. Read ?La Fantoma! to be boost your skill before the attempt, if available.

Thanks for the advice. With these three taken care of the rest should be a breeze.
Note: I won't need to use ?La Fantoma! since a stealth boy already comes with +100 to sneak.

So, it kind of seems like what Deathclaws count is random chance. I fought 6 Deathclaws around the Vault 19 area. 1 was a Young Deathclaw so I just sniped it from a distance. One died because a Legion Hit Squad came out after I got it's health down to 40, but before I was able to kill it. But the other 4 I killed with either the Switchblade or Dynamite.

I now have 2 of the 5 Deathclaws killed.
I'd be alright if none of them counted. But 2 of them counting filled me with a false hope that kind of bummed me out.

Take another look at the earlier response I made. Some of them do, and some of them don't depending on locations....

Yeah, but it was in the middle of the night, couldn't remember what you said, and computer was too far away. So I decided to check myself. If the first one wouldn't have counted I would have spent a lot less time there trying to fight 2 Deathclaws at once with a switchblade because if I shot them with either of my normal guns they would've died haha.