In my current game I have become vilified by NCR and they don't attack me on sight. Why did the NCR think it was a good idea to give convicts dynamite and to send a felon from their jail in California that is known for using explosives to commit crimes to the Mojave jail that was undermanned? Some think that the reset of reputation is caused by committing an infamous act towards a faction while wearing that faction's clothing. If one follows the I Fought the Law questline, they are given the chance to storm the base with the NCR or help the Powder Gangers defend it against the NCR. Reputation will probably have reset from neutral to the proper standing. Flatter Caesar by asking how to serve "the mighty Caesar" further when talking again after dealing with the, Teach Decanus Severus at Cottonwood Cove how to make, Defeat the two slaves in the arena during. Quest scripts themselves rarely grant Infamy towards factions, but there are a few which do: A town's reputation determines the player character's treatment by the townsfolk. Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. What's the point of being fanatical about something that's overall trivial if the attitude is going to be "Y'know, you should be as obsessive as I am as well as know and remember everything I do." You Have Been Warned. Since he is not part of the Powder Ganger faction, he will not attack even if the Powder Gangers in the room become hostile. Positive reputation yields the following: The military order is quite a bit demanding when it comes to establishing one's reputation with them. I didn't realize that was necessarily a bug. Think of it as wanting to get an inside "recon" of the NCRCF before joining the NCR on an assault of the prison. The following is based on Fallout: New Vegas cut content. I recently started a new play through of Fallout New Vegas, and i wanted to do some of the powder gangers quests because i had never done them before. Cookie Notice The prison has one main entrance, which is guarded by a Powder Ganger named Dawes. -spoilers-. Similar to this, one can "sit" in one of the outhouses in the southwest corner from outside the fence, effectively teleporting them inside the facility. A state-of-the-art subreddit from Vault-Tec. Maybe if they hadn't bothered to design the Prison Uniforms or hand place a bunch of empty whiskey bottles around the NCRCF facility they could have deleted the little part in the file that makes ash piles never go away, or they could have improved pathfinding for companions. I think with the NCR what people are saying is right: Shunned isn't enough for them to shoot on sight. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. As part of the first quest mentioned above, an NCR hit squad will approach and warn to improve reputation with the NCR within three days. The NCR is an equal opportunities employer. Valve Corporation. Telling Marjorie that the player "eat[s] people, too" (-1). Lie to Heck Gunderson about who took Ted Gunderson when taking him back to Heck (+12). He is a mild-mannered ex-sheriff who will engage in conversation with the player character. I rerolled and did a not so nice guy however. Even if they are hostile to you. Exterior I tend to have the same problem with the Legion as well. He helped the gangers take the town and "received rep with the gangers" which promptly disappeared. Be violent enough and fit right in. In the table below, these are colored green, black, and red respectively. Not only are they the lowest level of raider, they get [censored] over the fastest. However, Carter and the Powder Ganger bodyguards in the warden's office will still be hostile. All rights reserved. I think that may be by design. Community Forum Software by IP.BoardLicensed to: Nexus Mods. One of the boxes always produces a random skill magazine. Turn in all 3 supply caches and pass the Science check for the irradiated supplies (+2). In other words, while it is possible to move from 'Hated' to 'Sneering Punk', then 'Unpredictable', then 'Dark Hero' by doing more and more good deeds while avoiding bad ones, there is no permanent way to move from 'Hated' back to 'Neutral' or from 'Hated' to 'Idolized.' #2 Silverio Dec 29, 2014 @ 5:10am Thanks for the quick response. Local map You can always try to wear a PG outfit and sneak in that way to the prison and talk to the leader in the Admin building. If you help the Powder Gangers you get an easy source of explosives and reloading powder, a safe road to Primm, several easy starting missions to get you some caps, a discount in the Good Springs store, easy access to Meyers, etc. Not undermanned. What is the advantage of helping Good Springs? ), So I've always sort of helped Ringo out in this mission but this time I decided to help the Powder Gangers. Plenty of things to do in good ol' Novac to impress the locals. 5. Press J to jump to the feed. Funny / Fallout: New Vegas Analysis Awesome Characters FanWorks Fridge Funny Headscratchers Heartwarming Laconic NightmareFuel Quotes ShoutOut TearJerker Trivia VideoGame WMG YMMV GameBreaker Haiku VideoExamples Create New They're dogs. This happened to me when I was vilified. If you managed to get yourself vilified, you out of luck. A Powder Ganger wearing a guard uniform stands by the door. He can either be convinced to "move on" with 30 Speech skill or killed. Krystal Wilson. You have Chet and Trudy as vendors for that part of the map. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews . This location is ideal for player housing, particularly during. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Scout Primm and learn of the NCR's plans (+1). It worked for me. I don't think that "Shunned" is enough for them to attack on sight. I've been able to pickpocket the key from the dude at the front gate of the prison (and enter Hidden) then go talk to the guy who would then go to Primm (forgot name) without having to fight the gang, but I did not shot any of them or fight them at Goodsprings, so default rep with them I guess, and no disguise. Support items like the NCR Emergency Radio will also become useless, and faction privileges like the McCarran monorail will be lost. This was changed in the December 14, 2010 update. The unlocked room next door has a copy of Lying, Congressional Style on the desk. 2 MauiWowieOwie 1 yr. ago shamelesscreature 2 yr. ago. Blew up the monorail and succeeded in framing a scapegoat to secure Ronald Curtis' cover (+12). It is possible to pickpocket the key from him to avoid the fee. There are mods who bring back that cut content and it involves Meyers giving a speech to some previous Powder Gangers who help him defending Primm and bringing back the law. Contents 1 Background 2 Organization 3 Relations with the outside 4 Technology 5 Interactions with the player character 5.1 Quests 5.2 Effects of player's actions 6 Members 7 Notable quotes 8 Endings What happened was is I sided with good springs at the beginning and killed all the other guys, then after being vilified I used console commands to set my rep with them to neutral and when that didn't work, idolized. That way you keep the bonuses of both, more or less. You're browsing the GameFAQs Message Boards as a guest. The powder gangers residing at the prison just want freedom and to be left alone while the NCR want control. Bribe him with powder ganger disguise on you. If you complete Ghost Town Gunfight without personally killing Joe Cobb, I believe the reputation hit is mild enough not to turn the NCRCF permanently hostile. Worsen the condition of an injured Boomer at the. If you don't kill any you don't get vilified. It's true that Powder Gangers are very useless. If Veronica had never been interacted with before becoming. I did the same when I reached novac and got shunned and now everyone attacks me on sight. Let or help the NCR wipe out the Great Khans without persuading them to release the hostages first (+4). Camp Forlorn Hope morale was rebuilt decently before agreeing to stage the attack on Nelson with Major Polatli (+4). This tip can be useful however if one needs to gain access to the NCR Ranger safe house or to use the monorail, or for additional help during the. What do I do now? Because of that you can still do the Powder Ganger quests. NVCE changes their appearance. The Brotherhood of Steel will give the player character a key to the, They will replenish an ammunition crate next to, Lucius will teach the player character the special, The Legion will also provide various items within boxes outside of, Allows the player character to convince the mercenaries in, Allows the player character to convince each camp in, Required along with a Speech of 50 to trade with. Get enough of it and they'll start to attack on sight, but wearing faction-armour will disguise you (just be aware some NPCs can see through it). However, any faction that was hostile towards the Courier will remain so, despite the change. I think that the game would have been much better suited if they had replace all the Powder Gangers with random raiders, Eliminated their two missions or at least the option to side with them, and then spent the extra time fixing glitches in the game. If any neutral (black in table above), but at least one instance of positive reputation had been gained, or better, Additionally, one can be granted access to the. I killed some. It is also possible to position the player character on the cliff at the southeast side of the facility and perform a running jump over the fence to avoid the entrance fee. Warden's terminal 2023 GAMESPOT, A FANDOM COMPANY. Reputation in Fallout: New Vegas is a measurement of how the different factions in the Mojave Wasteland perceive the player character. I never saw much reforming around here, myself. Map There is no real way to fix this on consoles, apart from either restarting or reloading an earlier save, confirmed to happen on both casual and hardcore play modes. Short of either eliminating them entirely or using console commands, probably not. Once the Boomers are turned hostile via combat (even after completing Volare! I think with the NCR what people are saying is right: Shunned isn't enough for them to shoot on sight. you can beam yourself inside the prison by using an outhouse inside (from outside) that you can see from the south part of the prison. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Even if the player character's reputation is neutral, if they have sided with the. If loading a save is not an option, there are only 3 quests which let you gain Novac fame in order to get back to neutral or positive standing. Doing Cooke's quests also nets fame, but no rank up. They tell me to get lost most of the time, but if being vilified by NCR meant attacked on sight, you pretty much would have to stay away from civilization altogether. Try it, its a broken quest btw even if you complete it and kill eddie at the last quest thingy "i fought the law" the quest will stay unresolved.. meyers will bug out and the radio message will say you failed :\. People will shoot at you if they see you stealing regardless of Reputation, but if it's just that they should return to normal after three in-game days (so you can just come back later or wait it out). Mister Holdout will sell weapons to the player character at an inflated price. Unless provoked they will not attack you yet. So I am now more or less around Novac, the NCR has been put to the task of keeping Primm in check and I have unfortunately missed out on going to the NCRCF before handling the Powder Gangers at Goodsprings. Mayor is the only one who don't want to take part in any crime because he himself was a crime fighter, get put to the jail because he's too hardcore. Helping them is way better than help good springs. The Powder Gangers is a dead end. I swore that this time around I wouldn't kill any of them, except in the Goodsprings thing, but I just can't help myself from killing every single one of them. Also, be aware that karma is largely irrelevant in New Vegas and that it is infamy with specific factions which gets you shunned by them. Once the dialogue is complete, check the Pip-Boy. The minimum reputation required for each range are: There is no way to remove reputation points from either scale, except for the NCR, Legion, and Freeside: Beyond that, any positive or negative reputation with a given faction cannot be removed, only offset by a larger Fame or Infamy value. Assignment is the defense of New Vegas. This is because the Courier's reputation with them will drop to the lowest rank possible (like Idolized to Wild Child or Liked to Soft-Hearted Devil). [Non-game 1] However, as the war with the Legion escalated, more and more prison guards were redeployed to the Colorado River despite the warden's objections. You currently have javascript disabled. It is affected by positive and negative deeds that affect the faction in question, such as completing quests or killing members, respectively. or having Idolized reputation), they will never become friendly to the Courier again. AnotherGuy18 6 yr. ago. Is this how it should be? There is only one person known by the name of Joe Cobb in association with the word "gang", and that is Joe Frank Cobb (a.k.a. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Killing members of any faction from a [HIDDEN] state will not cause one to gain Infamy as long as the weapon is considered silent and the target dies with one attack, or if one uses Mister Sandman. NCR Correctional Facility appears only in Fallout: New Vegas . My game is unlucky enough to be severely bugged when it comes to the Powder Gangers so Im real weary now when it comes to something to do with my . Negative reputation can be earned by things such as killing members of a group, being caught stealing, lying, being rude or treating people poorly, or completing quests for the opposite side. Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. I say steal the key from the door guard, run in wearing the disguise, and then try to talk to Eddie about doing the quest. Powder Ganger Simple: A simple t-shirt and jumpsuit combo. I thought being "shunned" toward a faction would result in them attacking me on site? If you need to kill them, do it while hidden. At the beginning of the game, i sided with the Town Of Goodsprings against the powder gangers and everytime i try to go to the NCRCF i get shot at and i cant ally with them. [1][2] The Powder Gangers became a scourge on the inhabitants of the region, attacking caravans along Interstate 15 and stealing supplies from settlers and workers. I only start in Goodsprings occasionally. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. Also I tried a disguise but it didnt work. Both types of reputation are tracked separately, the combination of which determines one's reputation with any given faction. Refusing to participate in this quest, as long as it is done politely, will still earn Fame, albeit much less (+1). (So they wouldn't fall off cliffs). Five of the six towers have Powder Gangers posted at the top, and each contains minor stealable loot, consisting of mostly ammunition and healing items. and they're playing poker! Not all convicts are evil and malicious they just happen to be on the wrong side of the law, misguidance or they were setup and or given an unfair trial by corrupt and or incompetent governing. I end up shunned or hated, but I can still enter the NCRCF and do Eddie's quest. You can get infamy with the Powder Gangers, and if have a mod that fixes the bug where the Powder Gangers faction wasn't given evil karma, you can steal from them without a karma penalty. They can kill him without incurring the wrath of the other gang members and enter the facility. During the same scenario as above, it is confirmed that he will propose a truce, in which the player character stays away from the gang outposts and the gang leaves them alone. First time through if you shot at me you died so obviously I wasnt friendly with the gangers. A possible solution is to travel to the Mojave Outpost, put on non-faction clothing/armor, go to where Major Knight is located, save and then speak to Major Knight; select the Speech option asking if there is anything the player can do to help. Shunned basically means they don't want anything to do with you, but not more than that.