Flags of Our Foul-Ups

 

Flags of Our Foul-Ups is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick walkthroughEdit

Detailed walkthroughEdit

Start the quest by talking to Sgt. McCredie.

Follow O'Hanrahan's adviceEdit

Talk to O'Hanrahan about talking to the whole troop about improving teamwork and strengthening their relationships. The Courier will need to pass a Speech check of 40 to convince Poindexter, Mags and Razz. The Courier will gain experience for each party member that is convinced.

The Courier will receive 40 XP for each of the members convinced and then 200 XP once complete (Total XP = 320) and positive fame with the NCR. Additionally, the team looks to be working well together.

Follow Mags' adviceEdit

Use Mags' advice and teach the squad. The player character will need a Guns skill of 45 and an Explosives skill of 45 to get the squad to pass the firing and grenade range. The player character will need to pass a Guns check of 25, 35 and 45 respectively for this choice. The player character will also need to pass an Explosives check of 25, 35 and 45 respectively.

The player character will receive 200 XP and additional (31+43+55)*2=258 XP (with 10% gain) while teaching the squad and positive fame with the NCR. Additionally, the team looks to be working well together.

Follow Poindexter's adviceEdit

Suggest to Poindexter that the system could be cheated. He'll give the advice to hack the terminal in the House Lodge so that the squad doesn't have to do any work.

There are two hackable computers. The one in the lobby requires no Science skill, but it must be accessed when nobody is looking. The other one needs a Science skill of 75 but can be accessed at any time.

NCR infamy will be increased and Karma will be lost when the player character alters the records, but upon completion of the quest, 200 XP and positive fame with NCR will be received.

Follow Razz's adviceEdit

Listen to Razz, who will have the squad take Psycho. The player character must talk to Jack in Red Rock Canyon to get a suspicious package.

Completing this quest gives 200 XP and positive fame with the NCR. Providing the misfits with drugs has no effect on Karma.

Quest stagesEdit

Stage	Status	Description
10		Talk to the Misfits about improving their squad.
15		Convince the Misfits to work together.
16		Return to O'Hanranhan.
17		Get drugs from Jack at Red Rock Canyon.
18		Return the drugs to Razz
20		Help the Misfits improve their shooting skills.
25		Talk to Mags about further improvements.
30		Fake the Misfits' readiness reports.
40		Help the Misfits improve their grenade skills.
45		Talk to Mags about the squad's readiness.
55		Return to Poindexter and tell him about the altered records.
65		Talk to Sgt. McCredie about the Misfits' improvement.
66		Convince Mags to respect the squad and work with them.
67		Convince Razz to respect the squad and work with them.
68		Convince Poindexter to respect the squad and work with them.

NotesEdit

• The new dialogue options are buried in conversation paths that the player character has already taken. Some dialogue will have to be repeated with Poindexter, Mags and Razz in order to obtain the new Speech options.
  • The Speech check is after the player character asks them about their squadmates, which is always the second line in the dialogue choice box.
• Once the player character starts a quest arc, another cannot be picked up; e.g. if the player character starts with Mags and does not have the skill, it is not possible to pick up the quest arc with Poindexter until the first quest arc is completed.
• If the player character chooses to train the troops' skill with weapons, they cannot do so if the squad's rifles have been removed from their inventories. If this happens, the troops will immediately go to using grenades and the quest won't be able to be completed.
• The player character can follow part of O'Hanrahan's advice, gaining experience for talking to each squadmate (40x3), then instead of returning to O'Hanrahan to finish the quest, go and complete Mags' training the squad at the firing range.
• After the quest is completed, Mr. New Vegas may be heard talking on the radio about how a "young band of soldiers shattered NCR records on a combat readiness assessment at Camp Golf." This could be none other than the Misfits finally working together.
• When the Courier begins to train the squad in grenades, Mags says that they have the dummy grenades ready, they appear to throw live grenades, but a check of their inventory shows they are coded to only do 1 damage.
• On fast-traveling to Camp Golf, a lakelurk may spawn near or at the firing range. This can lead to Misfits squad members being killed, which results in quest failure.
• If the player character travels to Camp Golf from the southwest, the Misfits can come under attack by Legionary assassins and be killed.

Behind the scenesEdit

• The title of this quest is a reference to the 2000 book, Flags of Our Fathers.

	The following is based on Fallout: New Vegas cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources.

• There is an unused objective in this quest that would have involved taking the Misfits off of an assigned combat patrol, described as a "suicide mission." The player character would have deleted mission orders from the Camp Golf mission parameters terminal, which was also cut.

	End of information based on Fallout: New Vegas cut content.

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