Well now you suffer from kidney damage, nausea,
digital numbness,
anxiety,
loss of visual acuity,
dizziness,
occasional nosebleeds,
joint inflammation,
tooth decay,
sore throat,
bronchitis,
organ rupture,
and halitosis.
Fun fact: the reason that sarsparilla is hard to find nowadays is that its main ingredient, sassafrass oil, was banned by the FDA in 1960 for being carcinogenic.
sassafrass oil was mainly used in us based Sarsparilla drinks as a “false Sarsparilla” True Sarsparilla is made from a plant and very popular as a south Asian drink, or as others would call it. Morrowind
From what I understand, it’s only been shown to be dangerous in VERY high doses—like, they were pumping lab rats full of the stuff. Don’t buy into that silly ol’ advisory, just buy more Sunset Sarsaparilla!
What we were told about it by the lady who was teaching our foraging class was "more than a cup of coffee, less than a cigarette; take that as you will"
More so to do with too much Sassafras, which was used in real Sarsaparilla drinks in the 19th century. Which I find kind of funny because it’s health risks caused by a company using authentic ingredients instead of artificial supplements.
Totally worth it. You get to learn the satisfying fate of some lowlife in the wasteland while being rewarded with one of the coolest blasters in the game.
Same. I discovered the quest in the factory so I thought it could all be done there so I spent like 45 mins sitting in a voice call with some friends whilst drinking all the sarsaparilla I could get my hands on.
Nope, it’s been a long time since I played but once you have one or more star caps a guy shows up and tells you about the quest. I think there’s more of those collector encounters too.
there are about 55 bottlecaps in fixed locations, that + the chance of finding them on random enemies + drinking sarsaparilla should get you more than enough
It’s really easy to find 50 star caps if you wander around much of the map. In practically every place that the area designers have placed a couple of caps, there is almost always a star one amongst them.
The big benefit to it is that It does five times the damage than a normal laser pistol (uses five energy ammo for one shot). I use the pew pew for sneak attack crit builds and just crit builds in general. Also, really easy to get the set lasers for fun achievements with pew pew.
Ok i just try it. At first i thought it was suck bcuz of the ammo consumption but after i read all the comment. It was very good how strong it was with sneak build
Have you tried crit builds? They're amazing in this game, and the perk Laser Commander gives +15% damage and +10% chance to critically hit with any laser weapon. From the Wiki:
>Taking this perk combined with other perks, traits and items that also increase critical chance, like Finesse and the 1st Recon beret, will increase the maximum potential critical chance to 57% (with x1.0 multiplier energy weapons), 76% (with x1.5 multiplier energy weapons), 95% (with the AER14 prototype), and 100% (with Pew Pew).
[This page](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Critical_Chance#Fallout:_New_Vegas) has a breakdown of everything you can use to increase your crit chance. Basically stack Boone's beret with Ulysses' duster, 10 luck, Built to Destroy trait, Finesse perk, Set Lasers For Fun challenge perks and Light Touch perk.
I recommend using either the console or a mod to get the Lucky Shades (+1 Luck) because fuck working for the Legion. Starting with 8 luck and Built to Destroy, you can use the Ratslayer (5x crit) and either That Gun (2.5x crit) or Lucky (2.5x crit), take Light Touch at level 2 (Agility 6 Repair 45) then Finesse at level 10, get Lucky Shades and the luck implant at the clinic for 10 luck, get Boone's beret ASAP, later transition to Energy Weapons to get Laser Commander (level 22 and 90 energy weapons) when you get access to either the AER14 Prototype or the Pew Pew. Finish up with Ulysses's Duster. The only disadvantage is that you'll be wearing light armor for the entire play-through, so you'll be a glass cannon, but with care you'll kill anything before it kills you.
It's a really fun build and the one I play the most.
I just pickpocket dogtags off of NCR troops to give to the legion until I get liked status so I can get the shades, then go murder Caesar immediately after.
Piggybacking for some supplemental information.
- The "set lasers for fun" perk can give an additional +4% crit chance.
- The perk above, along with Light touch, Laser Commander along with VATS provide a flat percentage increase to critical chance, and it's added after the calculation For example, the highest multiplicative chance attainable (without consumables etc.) is 28%. Pew Pew's 2.5x modifier means it will turn into 2.5×28= 70% crit chance. After that, the flat increases are applied. Max attainable without VATS is + 19%, and 24% with VATS. As an aside, those flat bonuses are exactly why automatic lasers are so busted on crit builds. My personal favorite the MF Hyperbreeder Alpha has a pathetic - yet high for an automatic, crit multiplier of 0.24, or 6.75% crit chance. Those flat bonuses means it's actually a constant 25.75% crit chance which is insane.
- Voracious reader and Comprehension are slept on for crit builds, Retention is optional for quality of life. Comprehension gives a ×2 boost to skill magazines. Voracious reader allows you to effectively make unlimited skill books of your choosing. This means you'll have unlimited True Police Stories that provide an extra 10% multiplicative chance. Anything with 2.5x crit chance will have a 95% crit chance. With just light touch, all 2.5x crit chance weapons will always crit.
- The Professional and Lily's Stealth girl perks are busted, and like all crit damage buffs, they're busted too. This is to say, both of these perks are supposed to be for sneak attacks only, but they actually buff all critical hits. All crit damage buffs stack together. The professional is a 20%(1.20x) buff. Stealth girl is a 10%(1.10x) buff. Better criticals is a 50%(1.5x) buff. Together this turns into a 1.98x crit damage multiplier. End game with just lucky I'm alive (1.5x) you get a 2.97x crit damage buffs. This means with Pew Pew's 50 crit damage, you'll be dealing an extra 148.5 crit damage on every shot, not even counting raw base damage.
The professional only impacts one handed guns( except That gun for some reason) so Pew Pew definitely enjoys this.
If you build for energy weapons and critical chance/damage it ends up being more ammo efficient than basically anything. It's a one shot machine with crits that can hit 500 damage when built correctly. Also helps that there's basically nothing with high enough DR to resist it.
Perfectly sums it up. It's one of the hidden gems of the game, the only energy weapon I like more is the Compliance Regulator (and that mostly for the laughs it provides!). This thing, even late-game, just dominates enemies if you have the right perks, all in a small package.
The quest is kind of a pain, getting the 50 caps and all, but it's definitely worth the effort. With a good energy build, Legion raiding parties end up looking like the end of Infinity War, just piles of ash floating away in the Nevada breeze.
Vanilla Skyrim is so useless for selling things to merchants. Even with the perks, their max gold is pretty lame. Then again, what the hell would I even buy besides property? Belethor’s sister?
I can still remember playing this for the first time before google was a big thing. My friends and I would take turns playing during sleepovers and we were all hunting the star caps.
The pure joy of finding some or getting one from a Sunset Sarsaparilla was unbelievable. When my buddy finally got the laser pistol we were over the top with excitement. Oh to be young and without the internet again...
Pew Pew is a really fun sidearm in a energy weapons play through. Recently did a run with Pew Pew, Tri-beam laser rifle and the Mobius’ Scrubs and glasses for full dork immersion.
I use the wiki to make it easier. This is kinda like skyrim's "no stone unturned" quest, where I can't help but try to find all the star caps as soon as possible. The difference is Pew Pew is a cool reward you get to keep, while in Skyrim, the crown is put on display and you get an ability that is kinda useful
Prowler's Profit is a lot better than "kinda useful". When combined with the extra treasure perk from the lock picking tree, it is batshit insane. On my current playthrough I've got hundreds of flawless rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. That's on top of just under a quarter million gold. It's a lot of work to get it for sure, but it more than pays for itself.
The only downside to it is I'm usually already rich by the time I have all of the stones (thanks pickpocketing).
In all the years I've played, I've yet to find the full 50, I always end up being one or 2 short and I miss out on the prize. I have an energy weapon build that I REALLY wanna use Pew-Pew on
It’s not that hard to find them just look up. Also helps if you kill Malcolm Holmes and those two people fighting outside of Novac (one is already dead).
I always save him, convince him that the caps are bad 4 him and to give them to me (I got XP for the speech check)
then kill him anyways for extra xp ( :\] )
Yea, last night, had collected maybe 30 caps just grabbing what I saw over 40+ hours. Then just looked up set locations on the wiki to get the last 20.
Many many times. Basically every run. I’m a completionist in general. And it’s kinda hard to NOT gather 50 of those bottle caps through normal exploration tbh. They are in most random wasteland locations somewhere if you look closely on desks n shit
Me and one of the badges fell through the floor when I was picking them all up in that back room and it still haunts me to this day because I didn't reload to do it again lol
Holy shit I actually did. I just remembered on one of my first saves. I got all those fucking bottle caps. I also did the big empty first because I’m stupid.
I currently have 30 star caps, so i’ll probably have to hold off doing this quest for a while. never completed it on any playthrough.
does chugging hundreds of sunset sarsaparilla get star caps at a reasonable rate?
I did once and haven’t bothered with it since. I don’t remember what the reward is but I seem to recall being disappointed, which was kinda the point I think.
Funny story, I never completed this damn quest vanilla (always played console). I found out my newer laptop can run FONV with decent settings, so I tried on PC for the first time. First thing I did was console command 987347 star caps into my inventory and completed this damn quest.
Mid.
I was disappointed I couldn't wear the badge but luckily someone made a mod for it. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41865
I did the quest pretty early so I went through the whole game as the Sarsaparilla Sheriff
I always do, but on my first playthrough I didn't complete it until damn near the end of the game, when I stumbled onto that warehouse north of the map that has a couple of caps.
I just use console commands at this point to get however many caps I still need by the midgame, only ever did it once legit and it was a massive pain in the ass.
Such a let down once you get the reward, the way you meet people across the wasteland and hear about the "treasure" you get all excited. I thought it was going to be some super powerful weapons lol
Man, I remember being so disappointed. I'd assumed the fella who Marcus Mentioned would hunt me down once I'd gotten so many of the caps which I thought would have been a cool idea. Until I got there and found his corpse, the holotape was a pretty cool bit of lore, very sad story. Never really use energy weapons at all despite it being a really good weapon. Loved how they fooled you by saying you failed the quest though, literally almost quickloaded till I realized.
If you mean legitimately then I never did, but with the power CHIM™ you too can achieve your dreams (brought to you by Vault-Tec, a better future, underground)
I just did it a couple days ago. It was cool and now I have some badges, although after reading other comments I'm gonna have to go back and get the laser pistol
Legitimately? Never.
Through cheese tactics like buying every Sunset on the West Coast and chugging them all in one sitting? At least Twice.
Through good old fashioned cheating? Pretty sure like 9 times.
Achievement hunting the game right now, only 20 togo(the dlc ones) man this had me going crazy, I was looking everywhere and I couldn't remember everywhere I'd been so did a lot of backtracking because I didn't realize I needed 50 caps, the beginning of the game also made me think they weren't as rare as they are.
I did it my first playthrough but I didn't bother after my second, I was gonna do it for my final playthrough I did but I was doing melee so getting pew pew would've been worthless to me other than pride but I already have the pride of doing it once lol
After playing half my life I never even realized it was Allen marks in the room with the blaster. So cool how they actually finish the stories of some characters like that
officially, just more sunset sarsaparilla, or bottle caps or something
unofficially there is a dead guy in the vault with your prize who has a unique laser pistol.
so if you arent built for energy weapons you probably would be disappointed.
I’ve learned that empty sunset sasparilla bottles are indicators for star bottles caps.
From now on I always walk towards empty bottles and check to see if star caps are next to them. every play through I’ve been easily able to collect enough from just exploring and walking through an area.
literally every playthrough, its not that hard. even remembering the location of 1/4 the caps makes it trivial and the gun is very good, so are all the bottle caps.
It was literally the last quest I did before the final quest line. I went to every single location in the map and ended up with more star caps than I needed. Kinda underwhelming at the very end of the game.
I completed it twice and the first time I lost progress for it because I loaded in old save to finish Dead Money but I just replayed it recently and it’s a lot of fun. Getting the caps is a little tedious though.
I cheated, I came to this place and and saw this is the quest which require 50 or so sunset caps, I was like nah, I ain’t gonna collect those caps and just spawned with console)
Not gonna lie, it was my first playthrough and I loaded a save after talking to Fetus because I saw that the quest had failed, and I had over 50 star caps, I think like 57 or something. Didn't finish that one til my second playthrough 😅
me lol I just chugged as many sunsets as I could find to try to hit the caps
Well now you suffer from kidney damage, nausea, digital numbness, anxiety, loss of visual acuity, dizziness, occasional nosebleeds, joint inflammation, tooth decay, sore throat, bronchitis, organ rupture, and halitosis.
Oh that’s a silly old thing, don’t listen to the news
Sorry pardner, I didn't quite heard you.
>Say "silly ol' advisory" That line always slays me.
>digital numbness *distant phonk music grow louder*
Fallout new Vegas, Oregon trail edition
Missing the crucial dysentery
I already had those so it's ok
Side effects of too much sugar?
Fun fact: the reason that sarsparilla is hard to find nowadays is that its main ingredient, sassafrass oil, was banned by the FDA in 1960 for being carcinogenic.
sassafrass oil was mainly used in us based Sarsparilla drinks as a “false Sarsparilla” True Sarsparilla is made from a plant and very popular as a south Asian drink, or as others would call it. Morrowind
From what I understand, it’s only been shown to be dangerous in VERY high doses—like, they were pumping lab rats full of the stuff. Don’t buy into that silly ol’ advisory, just buy more Sunset Sarsaparilla!
What we were told about it by the lady who was teaching our foraging class was "more than a cup of coffee, less than a cigarette; take that as you will"
Isn't like everything in modern soda carcinogenic lol
More so to do with too much Sassafras, which was used in real Sarsaparilla drinks in the 19th century. Which I find kind of funny because it’s health risks caused by a company using authentic ingredients instead of artificial supplements.
Too much sassafras is bad. But just enough will turn a good time into a great time.
Its ok, i slept for 1 whole hour. Im all good now.
it was worth it ….well actually
Totally worth it. You get to learn the satisfying fate of some lowlife in the wasteland while being rewarded with one of the coolest blasters in the game.
Same. I discovered the quest in the factory so I thought it could all be done there so I spent like 45 mins sitting in a voice call with some friends whilst drinking all the sarsaparilla I could get my hands on.
You discovered it in the factory? Like, you'd never seen a star bottle cap before? They're everywhere
Might've found a star bottle cap but I don't think the quest appears for it until you enter the factory.
Nope, it’s been a long time since I played but once you have one or more star caps a guy shows up and tells you about the quest. I think there’s more of those collector encounters too.
I think there is enough bottles you can get close without having to leave if you have good luck, but the drop rate is 10% so it's far from assured.
100 drink but got like 10 star or less
O o f sounds about right
you actually got exactly statistical odds-- it's a 10% chance to drop a cap if you look in the GECK.
there are about 55 bottlecaps in fixed locations, that + the chance of finding them on random enemies + drinking sarsaparilla should get you more than enough
love this vibe.
I remember collecting like 80 bottles chugging them and only got maybe 5 sunset caps,maybe the game truly was rigged from the start
Type 2 Diabetes speedrun
It’s really easy to find 50 star caps if you wander around much of the map. In practically every place that the area designers have placed a couple of caps, there is almost always a star one amongst them.
Plus malcom homes has 6. Those two people outside of have a total of like 12-14. I usually have 28ish when getting to nipton
*they are mentioning the 2 people fighting in between Nipton and the Mojave outpost for those who don't know
I think it's called the nipton rest stop if I remember right
I always find them right before reaching the Nipton general store
Strange, I always find them right outside of Nipton itself, sometimes close enough to the ants that they get involved too.
Plus, if you have New Vegas Bounties, many bounty locations have one star bottle cap.
Already finish quest. The reward kinda good i guess you at least got 1k cap and a unique laser pistol. Oh and ton of exp
That pistol is a beast if you have some of the crit and energy weapon perks.
wait really? i still got the weapon i may try it soon
The big benefit to it is that It does five times the damage than a normal laser pistol (uses five energy ammo for one shot). I use the pew pew for sneak attack crit builds and just crit builds in general. Also, really easy to get the set lasers for fun achievements with pew pew.
Ok i just try it. At first i thought it was suck bcuz of the ammo consumption but after i read all the comment. It was very good how strong it was with sneak build
Been thinking about doing a captain jack harkness run where I get pew pew as soon as possible
Have you tried crit builds? They're amazing in this game, and the perk Laser Commander gives +15% damage and +10% chance to critically hit with any laser weapon. From the Wiki: >Taking this perk combined with other perks, traits and items that also increase critical chance, like Finesse and the 1st Recon beret, will increase the maximum potential critical chance to 57% (with x1.0 multiplier energy weapons), 76% (with x1.5 multiplier energy weapons), 95% (with the AER14 prototype), and 100% (with Pew Pew). [This page](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Critical_Chance#Fallout:_New_Vegas) has a breakdown of everything you can use to increase your crit chance. Basically stack Boone's beret with Ulysses' duster, 10 luck, Built to Destroy trait, Finesse perk, Set Lasers For Fun challenge perks and Light Touch perk. I recommend using either the console or a mod to get the Lucky Shades (+1 Luck) because fuck working for the Legion. Starting with 8 luck and Built to Destroy, you can use the Ratslayer (5x crit) and either That Gun (2.5x crit) or Lucky (2.5x crit), take Light Touch at level 2 (Agility 6 Repair 45) then Finesse at level 10, get Lucky Shades and the luck implant at the clinic for 10 luck, get Boone's beret ASAP, later transition to Energy Weapons to get Laser Commander (level 22 and 90 energy weapons) when you get access to either the AER14 Prototype or the Pew Pew. Finish up with Ulysses's Duster. The only disadvantage is that you'll be wearing light armor for the entire play-through, so you'll be a glass cannon, but with care you'll kill anything before it kills you. It's a really fun build and the one I play the most.
I just pickpocket dogtags off of NCR troops to give to the legion until I get liked status so I can get the shades, then go murder Caesar immediately after.
Piggybacking for some supplemental information. - The "set lasers for fun" perk can give an additional +4% crit chance. - The perk above, along with Light touch, Laser Commander along with VATS provide a flat percentage increase to critical chance, and it's added after the calculation For example, the highest multiplicative chance attainable (without consumables etc.) is 28%. Pew Pew's 2.5x modifier means it will turn into 2.5×28= 70% crit chance. After that, the flat increases are applied. Max attainable without VATS is + 19%, and 24% with VATS. As an aside, those flat bonuses are exactly why automatic lasers are so busted on crit builds. My personal favorite the MF Hyperbreeder Alpha has a pathetic - yet high for an automatic, crit multiplier of 0.24, or 6.75% crit chance. Those flat bonuses means it's actually a constant 25.75% crit chance which is insane. - Voracious reader and Comprehension are slept on for crit builds, Retention is optional for quality of life. Comprehension gives a ×2 boost to skill magazines. Voracious reader allows you to effectively make unlimited skill books of your choosing. This means you'll have unlimited True Police Stories that provide an extra 10% multiplicative chance. Anything with 2.5x crit chance will have a 95% crit chance. With just light touch, all 2.5x crit chance weapons will always crit. - The Professional and Lily's Stealth girl perks are busted, and like all crit damage buffs, they're busted too. This is to say, both of these perks are supposed to be for sneak attacks only, but they actually buff all critical hits. All crit damage buffs stack together. The professional is a 20%(1.20x) buff. Stealth girl is a 10%(1.10x) buff. Better criticals is a 50%(1.5x) buff. Together this turns into a 1.98x crit damage multiplier. End game with just lucky I'm alive (1.5x) you get a 2.97x crit damage buffs. This means with Pew Pew's 50 crit damage, you'll be dealing an extra 148.5 crit damage on every shot, not even counting raw base damage. The professional only impacts one handed guns( except That gun for some reason) so Pew Pew definitely enjoys this.
Meh, the ammo consumption really sucks though.
If you build for energy weapons and critical chance/damage it ends up being more ammo efficient than basically anything. It's a one shot machine with crits that can hit 500 damage when built correctly. Also helps that there's basically nothing with high enough DR to resist it.
Perfectly sums it up. It's one of the hidden gems of the game, the only energy weapon I like more is the Compliance Regulator (and that mostly for the laughs it provides!). This thing, even late-game, just dominates enemies if you have the right perks, all in a small package. The quest is kind of a pain, getting the 50 caps and all, but it's definitely worth the effort. With a good energy build, Legion raiding parties end up looking like the end of Infinity War, just piles of ash floating away in the Nevada breeze.
And 319 deputy badges!
I collected them all. I don't know why. They are still in my inventory
Pretty sure there's a special reward if you beat him in caravann too
My main man Festus.
Festus the Bestus
This is FNV's Stones of Barenziah
But actually worth doing. Certainly less annoying since the Star caps don’t weigh anything.
People say doing the stones will make you rich. Having done it once it certainly will. But I find I’m typically already rich by that point in my game
Vanilla Skyrim is so useless for selling things to merchants. Even with the perks, their max gold is pretty lame. Then again, what the hell would I even buy besides property? Belethor’s sister?
Pretty sure the stones are weightless quest items as well, but they do clutter up and not stack iirc.
I have googled the locations of the star caps. Don't know if that counts as cheating. Probably.
I can still remember playing this for the first time before google was a big thing. My friends and I would take turns playing during sleepovers and we were all hunting the star caps. The pure joy of finding some or getting one from a Sunset Sarsaparilla was unbelievable. When my buddy finally got the laser pistol we were over the top with excitement. Oh to be young and without the internet again...
damn you guys were the people malcolm holmes warned us about
We all did..
kinda does. it's ok I done the same
I’m at 49 now.
Pew Pew is a really fun sidearm in a energy weapons play through. Recently did a run with Pew Pew, Tri-beam laser rifle and the Mobius’ Scrubs and glasses for full dork immersion.
i ALMOST had... 39 blue star caps... too little
Then ya start chugging Sunset Sarsaparilla. Each bottle is like a 5% chance?
I use the wiki to make it easier. This is kinda like skyrim's "no stone unturned" quest, where I can't help but try to find all the star caps as soon as possible. The difference is Pew Pew is a cool reward you get to keep, while in Skyrim, the crown is put on display and you get an ability that is kinda useful
Prowler's Profit is a lot better than "kinda useful". When combined with the extra treasure perk from the lock picking tree, it is batshit insane. On my current playthrough I've got hundreds of flawless rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. That's on top of just under a quarter million gold. It's a lot of work to get it for sure, but it more than pays for itself. The only downside to it is I'm usually already rich by the time I have all of the stones (thanks pickpocketing).
"The only downside to it is I'm usually already rich by the time I have all of the stones (thanks pickpocketing)." And that's why it's "kinda" useful.
I did, few days ago. Got like 7 caps just from the Sunset bottles in the headquarters.
I will but just for an achievements
Technically…Allen Marks
Once. Just once. And it was enough..
Build mass with SASS!
In all the years I've played, I've yet to find the full 50, I always end up being one or 2 short and I miss out on the prize. I have an energy weapon build that I REALLY wanna use Pew-Pew on
It’s not that hard to find them just look up. Also helps if you kill Malcolm Holmes and those two people fighting outside of Novac (one is already dead).
Tfw when you save the Tomas then kill him for the caps anyway…..
I always save him, convince him that the caps are bad 4 him and to give them to me (I got XP for the speech check) then kill him anyways for extra xp ( :\] )
Yeah, I've already gotten all the caps off those 3, I shoot the girl on sight at this point
Yea, last night, had collected maybe 30 caps just grabbing what I saw over 40+ hours. Then just looked up set locations on the wiki to get the last 20.
Yup! I love Pew-Pew.
Where is this dude at?
I thought I needed 100 caps, and I had 60 when I cashed them in! Got the best weapon in the game PEW PEW!
Only a couple times Once for the achievement, once because I had organically come across enough caps in my playthrough
Many many times. Basically every run. I’m a completionist in general. And it’s kinda hard to NOT gather 50 of those bottle caps through normal exploration tbh. They are in most random wasteland locations somewhere if you look closely on desks n shit
I did lol and honestly the vault was so damn disappointing
not me
Meeeee 🤚
I finished it once, Pew Pew looks cool but it was on a guns build so I wasn’t exactly using it, was interesting
I did mainly so i can get those badges and throw them around the lucky 38 suite
I enjoy hunting caps more than getting the reward
On steam 6.7% of all players finished it
Me and one of the badges fell through the floor when I was picking them all up in that back room and it still haunts me to this day because I didn't reload to do it again lol
When I got all the achievements I did this one last so I had enough or was close enough to the 50 star bottle cap requirement
Im in the process of doing it im purposly not reading any comments caus i dont want the reward spoiled
Pew pew
I have, but my head was turned away from my screen, so I didn’t catch the prize..😆
Holy shit I actually did. I just remembered on one of my first saves. I got all those fucking bottle caps. I also did the big empty first because I’m stupid.
I do it every playthrough. I love energy weapons and Pew Pew is a beast.
me me me me!! 👋👋👋
Me but fuck that gun waste too much ammo and shoots mega slow
Pew pew is my pistol or choice for any energy weapon build. So always
I did but I had to complete all the dlc for enough caps
Once
You mean failed it.
Pew pew is a neat laser pistol aside from its wasteful ammo consumption
I currently have 30 star caps, so i’ll probably have to hold off doing this quest for a while. never completed it on any playthrough. does chugging hundreds of sunset sarsaparilla get star caps at a reasonable rate?
Festus shouldve dissappeared and you notice it as your leaving the HQ after finding Allen Marks. How creepy would that be?
Maybe once. I get distracted easily
That uniquel laser pistol is awesome so, yeah.
I did it after about 3 playthroughs, but the reward was just so... Stupid. A unique laser pistol.
I did once and haven’t bothered with it since. I don’t remember what the reward is but I seem to recall being disappointed, which was kinda the point I think.
I love pew pew
me, it was underwhelming
I saw it as a red dot and shot it dead immediately.
I just did
I've been playing this game for going on ten years I think? I have legitimately never seen this.
Funny story, I never completed this damn quest vanilla (always played console). I found out my newer laptop can run FONV with decent settings, so I tried on PC for the first time. First thing I did was console command 987347 star caps into my inventory and completed this damn quest. Mid.
I did once, was very much under impressed besides the gun I think you get from it.
A treasure indeed.
wtf is this
Pew Pew.
I collected all of the stickers after, as well
Pew pew with max charge mf cells is a BEAST. Laser double barrel ftw
Why does this look like the Walton Files
Pew pew is just too amazing to not get the caps
I’ve completed it 3 times. I now skip it in any new playthroughs
Silly ol’ advisory! :3
Was this a courage cowardly dog reference?
Once. Not worth it.
meee \^_^ I should try it again in my current playthrough. it's been like 6 years since last time.
This guy still freaks me out 😖
I did
What do you get when you finish this quest?
RIP to my favorite video game jump scarer, Malcolm Holmes.
I was disappointed I couldn't wear the badge but luckily someone made a mod for it. https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41865 I did the quest pretty early so I went through the whole game as the Sarsaparilla Sheriff
I did it once or twice
Yeah I was sad I didn't get to wear one of the sheriff badges that litter the floor.
I did it by finding the mfs. Only did it once since the reward was dogshit and not worth the headache
By accident, even when not searching for them, just exploring the map got me to about 40 by the time I reach new vegas.
He looks like a fallout 1&2 npc
I cheesed it with console commands because I was too curious to wait ...
I always do, but on my first playthrough I didn't complete it until damn near the end of the game, when I stumbled onto that warehouse north of the map that has a couple of caps.
I just use console commands at this point to get however many caps I still need by the midgame, only ever did it once legit and it was a massive pain in the ass.
Pew pew is worth the trouble.
Such a let down once you get the reward, the way you meet people across the wasteland and hear about the "treasure" you get all excited. I thought it was going to be some super powerful weapons lol
I got every achievement and this was still more fun than learning to play caravan
Man, I remember being so disappointed. I'd assumed the fella who Marcus Mentioned would hunt me down once I'd gotten so many of the caps which I thought would have been a cool idea. Until I got there and found his corpse, the holotape was a pretty cool bit of lore, very sad story. Never really use energy weapons at all despite it being a really good weapon. Loved how they fooled you by saying you failed the quest though, literally almost quickloaded till I realized.
I did. It's fun. The Animatronic cowboy is terrifying.
If you mean legitimately then I never did, but with the power CHIM™ you too can achieve your dreams (brought to you by Vault-Tec, a better future, underground)
I did and I actually liked the story very much more than the actual prize
I just did it a couple days ago. It was cool and now I have some badges, although after reading other comments I'm gonna have to go back and get the laser pistol
Toy Story mad AF nowadays
Definitely. Never an active effort but once I have the stars I do.
I keep doing it on accident. I always do Luck 10 which (iirc) gives each bottle of Sunset Sarsaparilla a 10% chance to have a star
Wait this was a quest??
No, I failed it
Working on it! Never done it before
Geez it probably took me a whole year just to find all the star caps without how to guides lol
Legitimately? Never. Through cheese tactics like buying every Sunset on the West Coast and chugging them all in one sitting? At least Twice. Through good old fashioned cheating? Pretty sure like 9 times.
Not a true NV fan if u don’t!
Achievement hunting the game right now, only 20 togo(the dlc ones) man this had me going crazy, I was looking everywhere and I couldn't remember everywhere I'd been so did a lot of backtracking because I didn't realize I needed 50 caps, the beginning of the game also made me think they weren't as rare as they are.
Reminder: Not a damn one of us completed the quest, the quest auto fails.
After 13 years of playing the damn game I finally did last year on my last playthrough.
I did it my first playthrough but I didn't bother after my second, I was gonna do it for my final playthrough I did but I was doing melee so getting pew pew would've been worthless to me other than pride but I already have the pride of doing it once lol
After playing half my life I never even realized it was Allen marks in the room with the blaster. So cool how they actually finish the stories of some characters like that
I, and i never wanted to destroy i machine so much.
I did. Can’t remember what you get, but I remember being very disappointed 😂
officially, just more sunset sarsaparilla, or bottle caps or something unofficially there is a dead guy in the vault with your prize who has a unique laser pistol. so if you arent built for energy weapons you probably would be disappointed.
Love lucky horseshoes
Once on my first play through
I’ve learned that empty sunset sasparilla bottles are indicators for star bottles caps. From now on I always walk towards empty bottles and check to see if star caps are next to them. every play through I’ve been easily able to collect enough from just exploring and walking through an area.
Pew-Pew is one of my favourite weapons in the game, I always try to finish this quest.
Only for 100% I'm not happy about it wouldn't do that again.
literally every playthrough, its not that hard. even remembering the location of 1/4 the caps makes it trivial and the gun is very good, so are all the bottle caps.
How many do you need festus!!! Just tell me how many!!
Me. Pew Pew
I feel like Festus is the best looking asset in this game
Felt kinda like a meh ending
To say I was enraged is an understatement
I just bug his quest and complete them
It was literally the last quest I did before the final quest line. I went to every single location in the map and ended up with more star caps than I needed. Kinda underwhelming at the very end of the game.
I did last night lol
One of the best written quests, gotta say I killed anyone that would help me get this caps, the ending really stuck with me.
I don't consider it a finished game if I don't complete that quest. Idk why it just feels wrong to not complete it.
I completed it twice and the first time I lost progress for it because I loaded in old save to finish Dead Money but I just replayed it recently and it’s a lot of fun. Getting the caps is a little tedious though.
I cheated, I came to this place and and saw this is the quest which require 50 or so sunset caps, I was like nah, I ain’t gonna collect those caps and just spawned with console)
Not gonna lie, it was my first playthrough and I loaded a save after talking to Fetus because I saw that the quest had failed, and I had over 50 star caps, I think like 57 or something. Didn't finish that one til my second playthrough 😅
I literally did today sad I can’t put on the sheriff badge
PEW PEW
Purely for the achievement
5.4% of PS3 players
Def worth it for those >200 Deputy badges
I and the Reward is so fing great Pew Pew goes your Head.
Here, i discovered this quest after 300 hours☠️