Unlike Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, New Vegas
has a reputation system that keeps track of how the factions like the NCR, Legion, and
White Gloves feel about your character. Most people pick a faction to side with and do
whatever’s necessary to keep them happy. But what if them being happy wasn’t enough?
What if you wanted every faction to worship you like a god? Can You Beat Fallout New Vegas
While Being Idolized By Everyone? There are more than a dozen factions in Fallout
New Vegas but only 11 of those matter for this challenge, only 11 appear within the
Reputation tab in your Pip-Boy. Each faction in this list has a range of emotions they
can feel towards your character, all dependent on how you’ve acted towards them as a people,
how you’ve treated the individuals in that community, have you stolen anything, have
you helped those in need, have you eaten dead people in broad daylight, Do good and you’re
awarded with Fame. Earn enough Fame with a faction and they’ll Like you, then they’ll
Accept you. Push through the love stage, into worshipping territory and you’ll become
Idolized. The amount of fame required to be Idolized varies from faction to faction. But,
becoming a respected member of a community is not enough. On top of needing to amass
Positive Reputation points with each faction, I have to not do anything to piss them off.
Each faction will tolerate some amount of reckless behavior before they start letting
the insults fly. Any amount of Negative Reputation Points, Infamy, is a death sentence. Killing
a member of a faction and being caught for it is a 30 infamy, getting caught stealing
is 2. Knowing anyone in the world sees me as anything less than perfect, my heart couldn’t
take it. You can’t undo Infamy, those points don’t go away. If you’re idolized by Googsprings
and get caught stealing a potato, the towns people will never look at you the same way,
you’ll be a Good Natured Rascal forever. With that in mind, let’s see the factions: The Boomers require 50 Positive Reputation
Points, Fame, to be idolized by them. The Brotherhood of Steel need 20 points. Caesar’s
Legion needs 100 points to be idolized. The Followers of the Apocalypse need 50 points.
Freeside needs 70 points. Goodsprings need 15 points. The Great Khans need 30 points.
The New California Republic require 80 points. Novac needs 15 points. The Powder Gangers
need 30 points. The Strip needs 40 points. And lastly, the White Mittens themselves,
need a heart stopping 10 points to become idolized. As for SPECIAL Stats and, you know, the game,
I went with maxed out Intellect for skill points, 9 in Luck for critical shots and good
fortune when gambling, spread out the rest, picked Speech, Guns and Lockpick as my skills,
Skilled and Wild Wasteland as my traits introduce the Wasteland to its new best friend. Everything
in up for grabs in this playthrough. Any exploits can be used, the only thing I can’t do is
use console commands. I began with Chet, as one does in a normal playthrough, and let
the bullsh*t out of the pen by utilizing the first of many tricks I have stuffed up my
sleeve. Dynamite is a special explosive. If you drop a stick on the ground you can blow
it up by shooting it and if that dynamite happens to kill someone, the game has nobody
to blame because the dynamite’s gone so your reputation suffers no consequences. Couple
downsides. Dynamite doesn’t play well with quick saves, if I drop a couple sticks to
take a few guys out, quick save, and the explosion doesn’t killing them, reloading the qucksave
eats my dynamite. Every time. Another downside to this exploit in general, it’s not exclusive
to dynamite, is the explosion needs to kill everyone it touches. If an NPC takes damage
they’ll know you did it and that gives Infamy. Goodsprings is the first town to feel my loving
wrath. Not a lot to this town, do the tutorial quest with Sunny Smiles for 4 points, Cheyenne
dying to a rogue Colonel Autumn didn’t harm me at all, fix Trudy’s radio for 2 more
points, and a fork in the road appears. The Powder Gangers and Goodsprings are locked
in a cold war and Ringo’s gonna be the deciding factor. You can’t complete Ghost Town Gunfight
and Run Goodsprings Run in the same playthrough. Ringo lives in one quest and dies in the other.
Can’t be Idolized by Goodsprings if Ringo dies, can’t be Idolized by the Powder Gangers
if he lives. So, that’s it. You can’t beat Fallout New Vegas while being idolized
by everyone. But we can all agree not every faction is
as important as the others. Goodsprings, god bless em’, they just don’t matter. They
live isolated lives. Nobody in Goodsprings, aside from Yes Man who splits the second you
wake up, matters in any quests. The Powder Gangers are involved with the NCR, siding
with them gets me more benefits than siding with Goodsprings. To be as shallow and pedantic
about this as possible, I used the dynamite method to dispose of Ringo and lined up Joe
Cobb and his boys for my home run swing. By talking to Cobb and telling him I’d shake
down the townsfolk for supplies in the upcoming war for Goodsprings but killing Cobb and his
family before beginning the shakedown, the quest has nowhere to go, you can hit the skill
check over and over again. Each time it rewards you with 30 xp, 30 9mm ammo, a suit of leather
armor, and Powder Ganger fame making them the first group I became idolized by. I spammed
the enter button for a long time. I didn’t have an exact level in mind to stop at, i
just went on and on until I felt I had skills high enough to conquer the wasteland. Speech at 100 lets me talk my way out of a
dry paper bag and all my other skills being above 50 ensures there are only handful of
skill checks throughout New Vegas I cannot pass. And with that, at level 32, I left town
to begin my quest of making 9 other factions worship me. Pretty much every faction’s
major quest line will have to be completed at some point in the future, the order’s
not too important. I went south towards Mojave Outpost to aid the NCR. Ranger Ghost and Ranger
Jackson have two easy to complete quests. Murder a family of insects for Jackson and
check in on Nipton for Ghost and you’ve got yourself 6 out of 80 points needed for
the NCR. While I was in Nipton I played with Vulpis. He’s one of Caesar’s most trusted
allies, a future quest giver and a furry, surely killing him will not come back to bite
me in the ass. It can’t. My explosives weren’t enough to do anything but kill his backup
helmets and I lacked the dynamite reserves to throw a bunch of attempts at him. I continued
on to Novac. They’re among the easiest to please of all the factions. A measly 15 points
will make one Idolized. The large quest with the uggos in the rocket factory are the big
ticket item, nobody in town cares about Boone’s wife. Solving a mystery for Dusty McBride
can award the few other necessary points. He’s a cattle rancher farming brahmin and
sometimes, in the night, at around midnight, he hears one of his brahmin cry out in pain
as one of them are dragged away into the darkness. I sat in the pen to ambush the thief. Another
brahmin died in the skirmish as I surprised the Nightkin. There’s 4 points for what
I did, a possible 2 more for redoing it and keeping all the cows alive. F*ck it, 4’s
enough. All Manny wants is for the ghouls in REPCONN to be cleared out. How I do that
doesn’t matter. I sent them to the great beyond and it wasn’t enough. 12 + 4 is not
16. Where did I go wrong? Was it the Jason Bright? One rocket thruster, one set of pipes
primed for landing later, I sent the Bright Boys up towards the stars, became Idolized
by the town of vacancies, and headed to Red Rock Canyon to make love to the Great Khans. They’re the first major faction we’ve
encountered requiring 30 points to fully please but it’s not too bad. Deliver a couple special
packages to a guy in the Crimson Caravan, a gangster down in Vault 3, teach Jack all
about how to optimize his drugs and refuse payment because knowledge is a disease best
spread with love, and with that they’re already quite fond of me. For Idolization,
I’d have to convince Papa Khan, the king Khan, to take his ball and go home. This is
their home and he needs to leave. Talking Papa into kill his tribe takes some effort,
mostly from reaching Melissa and showing her the light. Khans are strong believers in Caesar’s
Legion but the Legion doesn’t believe in women, women are in the Khans, you see the
disconnect. Getting Melissa to back me up when I spit in Papa Khans face will go along
way towards keeping my face attached to my skull. She’s out by Sloan, up the road a
ways, around the bend, neck deep in hell. Back beyond the Deathclaws is where she got
herself trapped, right by the crane. She always said she wanted to be a crane, i just thought
she had something different in mind. The Deathclaws died, it’s in their name, I let Melissa
know what would happen to her if she didn’t do exactly as I said, and let Papa in on the
truth. He wouldn’t stand for deceit in his house, he turned off Karl right then and there,
vowed to take the Khans from the Wasteland, I became their idol and went North to the
Boomers. The Boomers are a joke. They require 50 fame to be idolized by. Sounds like a lot
of work. Let’s find out. Pearl is a boomer, be nice to her, offer to work for free and
she’ll be nice back, it’s just that easy. With high skills, a bunch of fame can be gained
without leaving the camp or harming a soul. Listen to the boomer in training recite his
propaganda, amuse him with various facts about the history of his people and you’re at
8 points. The nearby medicine hut got 3 soldiers inside. Two soldiers appear to be injured
and the 3rd is injured as well. Perform a some red rock voodoo magic on the bunch of
them for another 21 points, then you hand over all your scrap metal to Jack to blast
into the land of idols. Some factions including the Boomers have someone who will take donations
and give items and usually fame in return. It’s easy to abuse. I’ll make a joke about
this later. For now, I’m the Brotherhood of Steel. You
think you know what’s coming with them, you probably have a general idea seeing as
I can’t blow up their bunker. Whatever you’re conjuring up inside that head of yours is
wrong. The only way to become idolized with the Brotherhood of Steel is to complete the
last quest in Lonesome Road. Including all the side nonsense like rescuing dead bodies,
purging viruses from their database using a gooey interface and a little bit of shellshocked,
you max out at Liked. I could’ve jumped straight to Lonesome Road, gotten the fame
for the Brotherhood then came back to interact with the mole people as little as possible. I didn’t do that because many quests in
New Vegas are intertwined. Scribe Lorenzo sends you out on a mission to search the vaults
of the Mojave Wasteland for parts for their air compressor. This is where my predeterministic
abilities come into play. I thought ahead. I did my due diligence and had a general plan.
See by going to Camp McCarren before entering Vault 22, I can kill two birds and seriously
injure a third with one stone. Doctor Hildern at McCarren wants info on Vault 22’s plant
infestation, one of the Brotherhoods pieces is down there, and vault suits can be found
down there. I’ve told you all about quests and helping people, but what I haven’t told
you about is how you can use donations and the act of charity to scam people out of their
emotions. Sarah runs the Vault 21 gift shop on the Strip. You can donate vault suits to
her store and in return she’ll give you fame for the Strip. Check your notes, the
required fame for the Strip is 40. New Vegas has 5 vaults, gather suits from each for easy
fame plus a few quests and we’re well on our way towards literally having my name up
in lights. That’ll be a great day for all of us. I tried it with a single string of
Christmas lights but couldn’t pull it off. My cursive always sucked. After successfully
saving Vault 22 and reporting back to Hildern, I let the Brotherhood simmer and did a large
mission for the NCR. Return to Sender, go to 6 different NCR ranger stations to upgrade
their radios, tell someone, then go back out to 3 more to check on animal attacks they’ve
recently gone through. Why not use the new radios to ask? Why not ask when I was there
at each camp initially? Busy work, mostly. Obsidean only had 18 hours to make New Vegas,
it’s amazing they accomplished what they did. Turns out, those attacks on ranger stations
were a load of fiction. Chief Hanlon had been falsifying reports for weeks, supplies could’ve
gone to a better place. That won’t stand, I ran to tattle on him. In the time it took
to find another ranger, he locked the door and put a tunnel in between his ears. I promised
his corpse that I’d look after his gun until the end of time, gained some NCR fame for
that suicide, funny how that worked itself out, and set off down the Lonesome Road. So,
uh spoilers kinda, nothing here matters, I’m level 45, I’m gonna skip almost everything
from this DLC. See I’m already at Ulysses Temple and max level. Being the max level
with multiple skills maxed out, having NCR fame and Legion fame let me pick the right
set of options to force Ulysses to abandon his plan to nuke both factions. In trying
to reach the temple, I started using the ammo exploit to create the win button with Red
Glare and 10s of thousands of 9mm rockets. I sacrificed ED-E for fortune and fame just
as I said I would, fled the Divide, become Idolized by the Brotherhood, my fame with
the Followers of the Apocalypse went up as well, I repaired Helios One, split the power
between the Strip and Camp McCarren and searched around Camp Light for something to do. In addition to the main objective of being
idolized by as many factions as possible when the game ends, I’d also like to be idolized
by everyone before I get the Platinum Chip just to see if there be any changes. What
happens if you meet Caesar after you’re idolized by the Legion? I say that because
Captain Astor at Searchlight wanted me to get revenge on the Legion for what they’d
done to Searchlight by wiping out Cottonwood Cove, all of it. He’s insane. I’ll come
back for Camp Searchlight later, for the time being I handed over all my Rad-X, Radaway,
and Fixer to Julie Farkas in the world of mormons. The Followers are another faction
who you don’t necessarily have to do any work for. It’s 50 points to be their idol
and 39 of those points can be gained by donating drugs to Farkas. She needs 9 doses of each
happy substance for 33 points . 6 more points come from pushing more onto her, she doesn’t
get to stop now. I, however, did stop when I ran out of drugs to give her. Enraged, I
turned to the Legion for support. At Cottonwood Cove I found the big wig and turned all my
NCR Dogtags into Hooked on Phonix for Legion fame. These Roman wanna douchebags are the
sole members of the centurion club, they’re the only faction who need 100 fame to be idolized.
Including murdering Caesar, there are like 5 things to do with the Legion, this is fine. No it’s not. I’ve danced around this topic
for long enough, the pool doesn’t look very deep but I’m gonna dive in headfirst anyway.
The Legion take NCR Dogtags in exchange for fame. There are other factions like that and
they include: the Boomers who accept Scrap Metal as you’ve already seen. Powder Gangers
have that Goodsprings exploit for free fame. Freeside can be bought for a couple thousand
caps. And donating Vault Suits to Sarah gives Fame for the Strip. The remaining factions
have no easy way out. It’s nothing but the straight and narrow from here on out. Starting
with the bug sneaking into a tower every Tuesday night and ending with the monorail exploding
because I failed to stop the explosion. No harm done, nobody’s gonna be thinking about
the train today. Later that afternoon, after the train died, I started taking out as many
NCR Soldiers as I could find. Sneak attacks negate any negative faction affects that come
from outright murder. My sneak is at 100, I’ve got a silenced handgun and a stealth-boy.
See what I’m gettin at? Everything I do in this game is trivial now. Outdrinking a
washed up caravan worker? Easy. It’s the small things that trip me up like going to
the Gun Runners and flying into orbit. I gained more NCR fame after stripping the money factory
for its parts and more Legion fame by dropping off about 2 dozen dogtags, taking me to Liked
by the Legion, rambled around some more using my god-tier skills to kill almost every NCR
trooper I found. I bought the medical supplies from the doctors in my way. Stimpaks to stuff
in my bullet holes and chems for the freeside doctor. My rampage against the NCR continued
to make big waves in their population pool. After the Strip attack and the monorail attack
I let happen and Camp McCarren, I returned to Cass’s home turf to kill one soldier
for every whiskey she’d drank in her life. Then I took her with me to show the almost
Legate what I’d did. I’d become Idolized by the Legion, taking my idol count up to:
the Boomers, Brotherhood of Steel, Caesar’s Legion, Freeside, Great Khans, Novac, Powder
Gangers. We’re getting close now. The Strip’s close, she’s teetering on
the edge, she just needs a little push to send those heels to the ceiling. I’m not
the man for this. I just took pictures out in the pasture where the last woman to truly
get me lost her life. The pictures were for the town agrophobe, Michael Angelo. He’s
trying to bring style and grace back to the Strip. It’s not much in the way of points,
but it’s honest work and it helps out a loser. Speaking of losers, I searched Sarah’s
vault for more suits to donate. None were found down there which is great for me. I
did Plan B first. I came into the store with 19 vault suits. To ensure I get the most points
possible, it can be finicky with mass donations, I dropped the suits and handed them to her
one at a time. The suits were not enough. But there is another faction I haven’t met
yet and oddly enough they require the fewest points of any faction. They are the White
Glove Society. Gloves because of the digits on your hand, 10 points for the white gloves
and you’re idolized. How this is accomplished is entirely up to the player. You will do
the Beyond the Beef quest and you will like it. Outside of opening fire on them or other
common petty crimes, doing that quest is the only way to change your reputation with the
white glove society. Kinda sh*t, kinda not. Beyond the Beef is beyond annoying to complete,
it doesn’t come with a full serving of humor. You can’t see the dislike button anymore
i’m free to use a higher level of humor than your accustomed too. Completing Beyond
the Beef is one thing, but finishing it with the outcome of maximum White Glove fame and
Strip fame in mind makes it far more convoluted. For write the history book with this story,
I sweet talked Morty to get access to the basement where I used VATS to scan the sauna
for naked NCR troops I could assassinate for their dog tags. Since the beginning I haven’t
had the sneak indicator on screen, not by choice I just didn’t feel like disabling
individual mods to see which was causing it because as I could and did work around it.
That problem, like all festering problems you ignore, extended to pretty much anything
involving the E key late in the game. So like you walk up to an NPC and their name to talk
to them doesn’t show up. Immersive, neat, just not a great feature for this run. Down
in the basement I used my knowledge of the human noodle to talk the chef into talking
a mental health break, while he was off weeping, I used my wasteland survival skills to fake
a meal that tastes like human flesh, let the head chef take it away, waited in the shadows
for Mortimer to go on an execuberant rant to all his fellow gloves about a return to
form. they’re eating ted gunderson, son of heck gunderson, who the heck is heck gunderson
you’re right to be asking, he’s the meat supplier of the largest meat supplier in the
Mojave. There in lies the trick, keeping the White Gloves happy, getting Ted out alive
and convincing Heck to continue supplying meat to the casinos and Strip. As Mortimer
brags about everyone consuming what takes like Ted Gunderson, I bring out the real ted,
reveal the real truth, the audience gasps as mortimer less. I didn’t so much as go
after him as much as I did follow him towards the entrance where Ted’s father is. Now
idolized by the White Gloves, the only remaining faction are the Strip and NCR, both of whom
Like me. I had a few vault suits to give for some last minute fame, and out of stubbornness
I turned to Cottonwood Cove to boost my NCR fame. I pulled out Greased Lightening crouched down
and force fed a couple knuckle sandwiches to the Legion without anyone hearing it. I
relied on quick saves and luck to sneak attack them all. No way to know if they’ll detect
me until I attack. I managed to wipe them all out without raising the alarm, including
the guy I sold my NCR souls to for Fame. It did not matter for the slaughter of Cottonwood
Cove I became idolized by the New California Republic and with 4 points for the Strip guaranteed
for meeting Mr House and leaving the Lucky 38, I saw no reason to not take the easy way
out and confront the big man in the tower. I hadn’t the chip yet, all there was to
do was increase my payment. I didn’t have the chip, no fame, what a shame. I went back on my primary objective and ran
for the Tops, met Yes Man, Swank gave me my guns back and I approached Benny. His guards
knew their place and didn’t say a word. Benny of course ran his mouth, I went up to
his special place and blew him apart with the most powerful gun I had to my name. With
the Platinum Chip in my possession all my transgressions against the Legion had been
forgiven, they love me there’s nothing for them to forgive. I went to the Fort and introduced
myself to Caesar. His reaction wasn’t what I expected. Apparently I’d been a pain in
his ass since I regained consciousness. Despite the conflicting information, most of the experts
agree that the evidence points towards him being wrong. Upgrading the robots in the underground
bunker pleased both Caesar, the big idiot thought the rumble was destruction, it was
the opposite the sounds of construction as I upgraded the Securitron army. He gave me
my Chip back, House showed me his entire hand, I didn’t believe him so I looked for myself.
Blowing him up with dynamite only gives negative karma, there’s no reputation loss from his
demise. Now that he’s out of the way the NCR started making their moves. They wiped
my negative record just as Caesar did, and I took very careful steps towards the end
of the game. I’ve met all the factions, done quests for them all and become about
as loved as I can. From here on out, it’s all about maintaining a balance between all
the factions. I’m as coordinated as a drunk swan on a teeter totter, my balancing act
may be unorthodox to some. I didn’t want to take the Yes Man way out, I chose the NCR
was my playthings. Things That Go Boom is my quest, its a pun, it’s the sound their
hips make when they fall down the stairs. I’ve already done their job. Kings are next.
My reputation with Freeside supersedes the but it doesn’t afford me any special treatment.
Not fair, I paid good money for that reputation. In retaliation I spiked Pacers pillow with
Psycho for Ambassador Crocker. For the Republic Part 2 took me to Hoover Dam to see Cass’s
Mother. Her job for me was erasing the Great Khans. Been there, done that. Caesar just
now caught wind of what I’d done to his puppets. Turning in that quest knocked my
Legion reputation down from Idolized to Good Natured Rascal. Siding with the NCR isn’t
an option. My choices have narrowed. I’d been friendly with the Fiends in Vault 3 up
until now, theirs is the last vault I haven’t pillaged for Vault Suits. Anders was there
too. Was being the biggest word in that sentence, thematically. Anders tripped off the stairs
and died, I didn’t find any more suits. No way around it now, I sided with Yes Man.
House is MIA, I’ve familiarized myself with all the players on the side of the field,
that quest is complete. Bet you didn’t know Caesar has ears everywhere. Working against
him gave me a few negative reputation points, lowering my status with them to Good Natured
Rascal. In another life I tried to side with Mr House,
upon getting my orders to investigate Gomorrah for any funny business my reputation with
the Legion dropped. Lemme run you through the end game real quick, there’s meeting
the factions, President Kimballs address, the El Dorado Substation, and Hoover Dam.
Ignoring Goodsprings, you can’t get through the meeting the factions portion of New Vegas
without taking a few negative reputation points with some group, probably the Legion, those
fake italians ruin everything. Back in real life, I kept on siding with Yes Man, ate the
Legion Infamy like a good little boy, and headed into Gomorrah looking for a laugh.
Cachino, after being swayed by my persuasion tactics of breaking into his room, reading
his diary and blackmailing him with it, told me about his bosses plans to f*ck up the Strip
when the war breaks out. I blew up their guns and tricked the bosses into opening fire on
each other, becoming idolized by the Strip in the process. Next I went back to Hoover Dam and did a quick
sweep of the area to prepare for President Kimballs arrival. The son of a senator stubbed
his toe, the President’s coming to give him a medal. I almost caught the repair man
running away from the bird the big cheese rode in on. What I could do that I usually
can’t is de-rig the explosive device to prevent it from exploding, which would happening
not long after the Legion sniper tried to take him out from the tower and the maniac
rushed him with a knife. The President was safe and sound, I didn’t get any fame but
I didn’t lose any either. The finishing touch is here: El Dorado Sub station. What
a f*cking nightmare. NCR soldiers stationed there, maybe 5 of them,
guarding that outpost like God himself commanded them to but I didn’t remember giving them
any orders. I sneak attacked one, ran around the back for another, missed, waited until
night, and the trouble began. They’re inside the station and going inside antagonizes them.
You wanna do a hated by everyone run? Come here for the NCR. Stand inside and you’ll
be vilified in under 30 seconds. The trouble was them being inside, they would not come
out no matter what I tried. I waited there for them, I used the wait feature to pass
the days, I waited at Hidden Bunker I waited at Goodpsrings and there I remembered the
Stealth Boy in the safe Sunny Smiles told me about after I was born. I took my clothes
off, popped the stealth boy, snuck through the station was quickly as I could and left
before I knew what and of a hit my reputation took. It wasn’t what I expected. Caesars
Legion thinks I’m a wild child and the NCR still idolizes me. Good news, I didn’t trespass
for long enough to change my reputation status with the NCR. Bad news, the Legion: that happened
after winning a side bet with Yes Man. We’re at the end now. The 2nd Battle for Hoover
Dam. Let’s see where we stand: Boomers, Brotherhood of Steel, Followers of
the Apocalypse, Freeside, Great Khans, NCR, Novac, Powder Gangers, the Strip, and the
White Glove Society all idolize me. Goodsprings accepts me for who I really am, they saw me
for who I really am, and the Legion sees me as a Wild Child. I’m an extremist, Wild
Child comes from both 100 fame and 100 infamy. The best of both worlds, really. I didn’t
check but I’m almost positive doing anything other than siding with the Legion will get
you 100 infamy. After all the work to get here, it’s surprisingly easy in the home
stretch. Although I did have to go back and ditch Cass. She’d opened fire on the Legion
and I wasn’t looking for any more negativity than I already had. They attacked me, that
didn’t change, this was for me. I ran passed the heavy troopers, installed yes Man, exploded
the generators, and made it back up top where the Boomers rained down pretend bombs from
above. You already know I talked my way out of the Legate fight, I changed things up by
using Barter instead of speech, Oliver arrived, I talked him down too and did not beat Fallout
New Vegas while being idolized by everyone.
