Can You Beat Dead Money Without Taking Any Damage?

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Published on April 22, 2019 8:34:39 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajPXlbIOBs

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Fallout: New Vegas (2010)

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It’s an objective fact that Fallout: New Vegas is the best Fallout game to be released in 2010. While the story is thought by some to be better than Fallout 3 or 4’s, there’s more to the story of the Courier than what’s in the vanilla game. Can You Beat Fallout New Vegas’s Dead Money DLC Without Taking Any Damage?

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Can You Beat Fallout New Vegas’s Dead Money DLC Without Taking Any Damage? (in text form)

This run is different than any challenge I’ve done so far for a very simple reason that you probably already knew: it’s downloadable content. It’s meant to be played during or after you beat the main story, which means you’re not expected to do it as soon as you leave Doc Mitchell’s house. Because the challenge isn’t to beat the DLC at Level 1, I did something that may be controversial. I used console commands to level me up to 20, which is the minimum level suggested for starting Dead Money. In an effort to keep things somewhat fair, rather than dumping all my points into Skills that I’d rely on like Speech, Sneak, or Guns, I decided to get every skill up to 40, then I put the 9 leftover points into my tag skills: the skills I just said I’d normally rely on. You’re probably wondering about Perks. Well, I chose Confirmed Bachelor, Fortune Finder, Lady Killer, and Intense Training, with Educated being the last perk I chose so that I’d get its effects going forwards. Then, to try to balance things out again, which in retrospect didn’t matter, like, at all, I removed Confirmed Bachelor and Lady Killer via console commands. The entire point of this was to go into Dead Money with an as average character as possible.

Alright, into the game. I started out by making my way to the Abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker to begin the DLC. I did get sexually assaulted by a group of Cazadors on the way there, but the DLC hadn’t started yet so it doesn’t matter. I went down a ladder, got attacked with gas, and woke up in front of a fountain with a collar around my neck and an old man giving me orders. Pudding, uh, Bill Cosby joke. Yeah, I got nothing.

My mission was simple: find and recruit three others to help Daddy Elijah get into the Sierra Madre Casino. There are only a few problems: 1) the thick cloud of poisonous gas 2) the collar around my neck that will explode if I take a step in the wrong direction and 3) the Ghost People who, just like almost every other monstrosity to grace the Mojave Wasteland and its nearby areas, are a result of experiments done by brains in jars in a giant crater. I also have almost no armor, a laughably small amount of weapons to work with, and no healing items. Oh, and there’s the whole “any damage of any kind kills me because I set my max health to 1” thing. So, not the worst situation I’ve found myself in.

With the extra damage inflicted from stealth attacks, the Holorifle is taking out a Ghost Person with a single shot. After I found out I wasn’t completely out of hope, I picked up some Chuck E Cheese tokens from a fountain, entered the Villa Police Station, and exploded for the first time. The beeping collar is significantly more annoying than the red cloud, but it’s present throughout the entire run so I’m not gonna be a little whiner and complain about it anymore.

I continued searching the Police Station for a way to free the God Dog, found a helmet which was irrelephant [faint elephant sound] since I couldn’t take any damage in the first place, picked up a Police Pistol that would allow me to save my Holorifle for tougher foes, went down to the basement, looted more stuff, got the Dog Command Tape, cautiously approached the holding cell, played the tape, and initiated dialog with the beast.

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