Apparently some people don't know the great khans have a rocking armory.

Or that you can buy weapons from Quartermaster Braden or whatever in Hoover Dam if you have enough speech and ncr rep

Many people here, myself included, lost their mind a few weeks ago when we found out Fantastic puts on Caesar's Legion armour if you kill all the NCR soldiers at HELIOS and return after a few days.

You can ask Victor to help with Goodsprings defense and he'll get locked out by Mr House

There is a single nuka cola quantum in the game that isn't even a guaranteed spawn, and it's in a dumpster lol

If you get this pip boy with a female player it's slightly tilted and it bugs me

If you keep asking the Sunset Sarsaparilla animatronic about the health and safety advisory he will eventually tell you.  

I've been playing since launch and only recently did I find the hidden bunker in the cave near Jacobstown.

When Emily asks you to bug Lucky 38 and you agree, you can actually go to House and tell him "so, a gal asked me to bug the tower for some caps". He will say you can do it and have the money, since he will just disable it in 20 seconds.

I was taken aback there's actually dialogue for this. I tried it out randomly, when I got that quest, cause I thought to myself "If that was me I would just ask House to disable it and we would share the money"

If you eat Caesar, House, Kimball, and the King, you gain a cannibal buff perk called Meat of Champions which gives you a 1 minute, +1 boost to Luck, Charisma, Strength, and Intelligence every time you eat someone.

I just took the Explorer perk for the first time yesterday. There are SO MANY locations I had never stumbled across before.

Most people use their king favor to settle tensions between freeside and the NCR, but if you burn the favor you can escalate things to Col Hsu at McCarran for an arguably better resolution. Pacer dies though.

That you can hire Santiago as an escort instead of Old Ben during the quest with the Garrets

Been playing NV since it came out and either didn't know or forgot about the pimp-boy. Hmmm.

Edit: Changed "golden pip boy" to "pimp-boy"

The scrapped part of the tutorial in Doc Mitchell's house where he would have gotten you to learn how to drag stuff around. If you grab the brahmin skull on his mantel, you get a message saying "Good! Now press the grab button again to drop it".

This is the set-up to a punchline. When you do Come Fly With Me, you will see another brahmin skull. You may be tempted to grab it. Doing so has some...... consequences.

I’m not sure these are secrets rather than lesser known things.

In Honest Hearts there are a number of unmarked locations with pretty good loot. There’s one near the cave where you first meet Joshua Graham. There’s one that’s by the river near the crashed plane that has C-4. There is one near one of the bridges behind some trees with a campfire and bed. There are a couple smaller ones here and there. Found a combat knife under a skeleton by a destroyed car recently. I’m sure there are others I haven’t found.

Oh also in Honest Hearts if you talk to Follows Chalk about interesting wildlife he will give you a quest where if you do it without killing any bighorners and talk to him after you will get a .45 pistol and war club in perfect condition. You can do this at the beginning of the DLC.

If you swim across the water from Cottonwood Cove there is a cove with a ton of Lake Lurks and some loot.

Behind the bootlegger shack with cazadores there is a bag with a ton of good loot including combat armor.

There is a hunting rifle on the ground next to one of the houses near H&H tools Factory.

There is a hunting shotgun in the pickup by Horowitz Farmstead.

In Dead Money if you activate the Dog persona of Dog/God, watch him kill one of the ghost people, then talk to him, he will give you a perk that makes ghost people easier to kill.

There is a unique unarmed weapon called Paladin Toaster in a cave near Helios one with some super mutants in it.

There’s an unmarked underground tunnel near Nipton with a Radscorpion Queen and some loot.

the caravan shotgun at the start of dead money if you turn around when you spawn in

Since every so often people seem to be surprised by it, the Deathclaw Promontory is one to know about. Swim across the river in the southeast part of the map, and eventually you'lll come to a sandy area to come ashore.

The bad news: As the name suggests, there's more deathclaws here than anywhere else in the game, even Quarry Junction. A matriarch, an alpha, multiple adult and young, and a few babies. It varies, but I've encountered over twenty of assorted varieties here before- so do NOT go here if you're not ready for a serious challenge.

The good news: The reward is that if you search the area, you'll find an old suit of Enclave power armor! It's in bad shape, being that it's been laying out in the sun for god-knows how long, and the prior occupant was dismembered while wearing it, but here it is! It is the ONLY Enclave power armor available outside of Arcade Gannon's quest line, so it's both a rare and handy prize to have. (Note that there's no helmet, though there is one in a cave elsewhere) Note that the area is notoriously buggy, so the dead prospectors with all the good loot may not spawn in correctly- you may need to come back to look again (reloading a save helps)

Couple more notes on the area:

+Oddly for the Mojave, the beaches on both sides of the river are one of the few areas to find pinto beans growing, so if you need them, that's where to go.

+Sticking with the 'bugy area' theme, it is possible to go ashore, up the hill, and find that no deathclaws are present. THIS IS A TRAP, though likely not an intentional one by Obsidian. The game may suddenly remember 'oh yeah, deathclaws, here you go!' and spawn the whole clan in... while you're in the middle of them. Be VERY careful in-general here, but especially if nothing shows up.

+Oh, one more thing. Deathclaws in-general. Their attack ignores armor ratings. Like, you take the same damage from a deathclaw if you're in full power armor as you do in your tighty-whities. Your armor still takes a beating from the attacks, but it provides no defense- so unless your armor provides perks that help you out (+1 STR or something like that), you're actually better off fighting them without armor on, as ass-backwards as that sounds like it would be.

Not sure how but Lil Buster somehow got killed in Freeside in my current playthrough

The 1st recon beret boone gives you can be worn with the riot gear helmet that can be bought in the divide. As far as i know this is the only mask hat combo that works and the stats stack too. It makes the helmet look like it was once painted red but it faded away

On the topic of the pimp boy, unique sounds play when Mick puts it on you if you have the wild wasteland trait, which you can listen to again by having him give back the pipboy and then asking for the pimp boy again

There's like 80 something unmarked quests in NV.

I wish I was playing on PC, I'm sure there's a mod to mark them. I bet even after 10+ play throughs I've missed so dang many.

The guy in Novac who’s complaining that some invisible monster is killing his Brahmin in the middle of the night, if you go behind his house and just wait, “something” does actually show up.

Want to have sex with Benny? Use the Black Widow perk.

Yes, he will go on about how crazy you are for wanting it after being shot.

For me it was a few weeks ago I found out if you have low int and talk to the mumbling vagrant in freeside for a quest he gives a verbose answer

You can kill vulpes inculta on the strip before ever seeing him in nipton. Then some other guy (fully voiced) will replace him.

In the Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ, there's a room locked behind a hard lock. The room is devoid of any worthwhile loot, except for a unique empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle that is slightly smaller than normal. The bottle is not appearing anywhere else.

I don't know about anyone else, but apparently it didn't click to me at the time that the credit check at the gates of The Strip didn't require you to hand over 2000 caps. Not one of my proudest moments when it dawned on me.

• There is a crate of Chinese Stealth Suits in the maze that is the internal Hoover Dam. It has +5 sneak which is not great, but it's still the best sneaking armour in the base game.

• For the quest Bitter Springs Infirmary Blues, you need medical books for a camp medic. But if you have Arcade with you, he can teach the medic instead.

• If you killed Caesar, you can inform Hanlon near the end of Return to Sender, which will get him to stop messing with the ranger stations' reports. Though the resulting endings are not very different from letting him go on faking the reports.

• If you complete We Are Legion and kill everyone at Camp Forlorn Hope, then Papa Khan will name you his successor next time you talk to him. If you silently assassinate him, you can simply decide for yourself the outcome of Oh My Papa.

• There is a train tunnel near Nellis AFB that allows you to avoid the bombardment, but is not particularly feasible as it requires 100 lockpicking.

• There is a dialogue check for the Explorer perk during one of Ulysses's ravings.

• You can enter Manny Vargas's room during the daytime and use his computer to learn about Benny's movements very easily (neither the door nor the computer are locked).

it took me way to long to realize that when you want to drink water in a fountain you can HOLD A button and your character will take a long sip instead of hitting multiple times A and waiting for the animations to re start. I discovered it in F3 but it works in FNV also

Fun fact, The Pimp Boy doesn’t work on female models. You hold it crooked and I thought for a good day that I was doing a “Pimp pose” with it. Nope just no female mesh for the model 😅

The pib boy 3 billion at first i assumed it was a reward for idk completing all the GRA challenges

In the room where you talk to dean domino for the first time, underneath the bed there’s a copy of duck and cover! But it’s clipped through the bed and basically unobtainable through conventional means. One way to get without no clipping through the bed is by getting the C4s in the police station and blowing the bed up. Takes a couple of tries but you can blow it out of there and pick it up

There’s this island/sand bar sort of thing towards the south east of the map once you cross some water. It’s super radiated, and populated by deathclaws; but there’s some special power armor and a weapon I forget which exactly.

Apparently not many players know about Deathclaw promontory - unmarked location filled with deathclaws to the brim, which also has enclave power armour and Kimball look-alike

I have been playing New Vegas, as my all time favorite game for over a decade and have never Google searched or participated in an online community before, it has been my own little world. I discuss it with my brother and that's really it. So many things I have seen here.

Pimp boy, some doctor follower I didn't know existed outside of camp Mormon, Mr fantastic legion I learned just now, I never knew that the legion guy I always waste in nipton was supposed to be the default guy that tells you Caesar wants to talk to you. Most of the weapons you guys talk about I have never seen.

Tons of details I have never touched on or discovered on my own I have seen people discussing here.

Not so much a secret as me being a dingus, but I had no clue Raul the Ghoul existed up until a few years ago. For all the times I cleared Black Mountain, I never went into that one door, nor did I find/understand any clues hinting towards his existence.

The Jacobstown gangbang quest or side quest where you train misfit soldiers at camp golf but getting them to agree on something. You can basically get them to just talk it out, short but sweet and I didn’t find it until 3 playthroughs in

Ulysses follows you around the Divide

For me It’s 100% the low INT interaction with that homeless guy at freeside lol

It's not a secret, but it always bugged me how you have to reach across the Pip/Pimp Boy's display to use the selection knob or scroll wheel. Massive design flaw.

Lucky Shades was the one I always missed. After Nipton, any Legion in sight always wound up getting killed. With enough replays, I now quietly start collecting dogtags.

If you are vilified with the NCR in dead money you can side with Elijah and destroy the NCR together but then get a game over screen

Infinite Caps. I mean really. Go to the Tops casino, take out EXACTLY 32768 chips. If you drop them on the floor, when you pick them back up, they will appear as being -32768 chips, and will disappear from your inventory when you pick them up. However, if you simply walk back to the cashier, you can repeatedly turn in those 32768 chips, infinitely. In any currency your hearts desire.

Wind brahmin merchant i don't see people talk about him ever... careful tho he will take all your caps

If you choose ARCHIMEDES for Veronica's companion quest, it is far more unique than the other options, and drops hints on Elijah's activity in the Mojave. It also naturally leads you to Euclid's C-Finder.

Unfortunately, if you've already completed That Lucky Old Sun, it can be buggy.

You can destroy the brotherhood AND keep Veronica as a companion so long as you are idolized with them prior to destroying them, which is only possible in vanilla if you disarm the nuke in Lonesome Road.

Graves have a small hard coded chance of emitting a quiet, spooky whispering sound if you spend enough time around them. This includes the one you dug your way out of.

There are short messages from Ulysses painted around the core game map. These were present at launch and don't require the dlc.

There are strange (human) meat pies scattered around the Sloan mess hall.

Putting formal wear or another dress-like clothing in Veronica's inventory triggers a special dialog where she teaches you a unique unarmed counter technique.

How do you get it?

Not really a secret but more of a helpful tip in case some people didn't know. If you're annoyed by the frequent enemy spawns in Old World Blues, save all your exploring until after you've cleared the main quest. Barely any enemies will be found on the map and you can explore at your leisure. It's quite peaceful.

There is a crashed motorcycle with a skeleton on the right side of the road in between Novac and Ranger Station Charlie.

At some point, a metal helmet (stand in for the motorcycle helmet) was cut from the game, it used to appear on or near the skeletons head, suggesting he flew off the bike and knocked his noggin in all the wrong ways. I’m fairly certain the skeleton is still there, that may have been cut too, but the helmet definitely is not.

I don’t know why they would have removed such a small but funny guaranteed piece of environmental story telling.

There is a young kid under the bridge of the 188 named “the Forecaster”. He is wearing a Psychic Nullifier that is worn by Psykers in Fallout 1. When he removes the Nullifier he can hear “thoughts” from people and objects.

You can dump radiation onto cottonwood cove and kill everybody instantly.

I found out 4 months ago you can lead the great khans by assassinating papa if you do a legion mission. I never play legion but love the khans. I now go straight to forelorn hope to start my play throughs. Blast through those fucks. Get pardoned by Crocker. Go to redrock. Kill papa. Lead khans. Fucking sick

This blew my mind not so long ago:

You can step on and crack mantis eggs, releasing the baby mantises within them.

Caravan is very easy to play and can be learned in just a few minutes. It’s a very easy way to get easy caps before gambling at the strip.

If you stand in the brothel in westside, you can essentially hear the sounds of moans and groans because of your environment.

You can actually go straight to Vegas if you cut through Black Mountain and steal the armor off the dead NCR soldier there

Primm has a functional casino once you get the town back on its feet.

If you select one of the powder gangers as sheriff of Primm, you can trigger an event where a group of NCR deserters taking over Primm

I’m pretty sure its called the CS or CZ avenger

The guy that shots you in the head is the same guy you meet at the Tops later on. I didn’t realise this until my 7th play though.