X-8 Research Center

The X-8 research center is a location in the Big MT, to the far east of The Think Tank.

Layout

 * Walking left when you enter will take you to the X-8 splicing facility terminal where you can splice creatures.
 * The building also houses its own high school where you can get the sonic emitter EM Pulse Wave Upgrade that will allow you to drop force fields.

Notable loot

 * A duffle bag containing a jet, a Med-X, a psycho, a stimpak, and a vodka inside, can be found East, behind the facility. Next to the bag is a lot of blood, a 10mm submachine gun, and a combat knife. Be wary though, 4 nightstalkers and a military cyberdog will spawn behind you.
 * The Dog and Robot Splicing Experiment Holotape can be found in the first room to the right of the main entrance. It lies on a table in the center of the room.
 * There is combat armor and 4 proton throwing axes on the second floor of the kennel.
 * The sonic emitter upgrade 'EMP Pulse Wave' is obtained here by completing the basic industrial test. It is then available at the beginning of the advanced industrial test.
 * The upgrade schematics for FIDO are in the kennel by the terminal. The key for the kennel must first be obtained from the X-13 research facility.
 * The Robot and Nightstalker Splicing Experiment Holotape can be found on top of one of the nightstalker kennels.
 * It is possible to repeat the experiments, for example "lobotomite and dog" to get different weapons and clothes multiple times.
 * Sonic emitter - Gabriel's bark at the end of the Residential test, in a grave in a corner.

Appearances
X-8 research center appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * A terminal on level two mentions Project: Burke and Project: Hare. Burke and Hare were infamous 19th century serial killers who murdered people to sell their bodies as cadavers for anatomy classes. Project: Burke and Hare are both regarding procurement of bodies for scientific experimentation.
 * The robobrain the player can splice together from a Mister Handy and a lobotomite is likely a reference to Johnny 5 from the film "Short Circuit".
 * The speech from the robobrain after being created is likely a reference to the Whale from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
 * When you enter the facility, you can see two closed spaces where robotic hands are operating. The space on the right has a chemistry set which will display message "Children cannot use that" if activated. Console command must be used to get inside first.


 * In the high school area there will be a Wild Wasteland moment where you will see the phrase "Wolverines" written on the wall. This is a reference to the movie Red Dawn, as the Wolverines is a resistance group comprised of high-schoolers, taken from the name of their football team, after their school (and America) is invaded by the Russians in the beginning of the movie.
 * In the cyberdog training area, you may find another Wild Wasteland Moment where you will look in a window to find a few cyberdogs playing Poker. It refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. Known in Pop Culture as just Dogs Playing Poker paintings. In between the closest dog on the right and the left is an ace of clubs, just like in the painting.

Bugs

 * When loading the residential cyberdog guard test and possibly other tests, from the computer terminal to the left of the door to enter the testing facility, said door may glitch and disappear, showing a grey background and some distant objects (e.g. doors and a toolbox). the door will still be usable, and walking toward the Kennel will fix the glitch.
 * Sometimes when standing on the force field on the second floor of the library, If a cyberdog attacks you he may warp through the ground.
 * It is possible to get stuck in the coffin found in the small laboratory.
 * the front door to the facility might not load, and will prevent entrance entirely

Исследовательский центр X-8