Ant Misbehavin'

 is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Required objectives

 * Kill all the ants in the generator room.
 * Restart the 2 array generators, then reset the main breaker.

Optional objective

 * Get the sonic emitter from Loyal, place it on the ant mound.

Required objectives
''Note: These ants will explode and cause massive damage to the player if killed with most weapons including explosives, energy weapons, the ballistic fist, or the chainsaw. Regular ammunition guns appear to be fine. A high sneak character may find it easier to use a sneak critical to cause a chain reaction, blowing up multiple ants without being nearby.''
 * Kill all ants in the generator room.
 * Restart the two array generators, then reset the main breaker.

Begin by talking to Raquel to receive the quest. She'll inform you that there is an ant infestation in their communications array building.
 * Walk to the Nellis Array near the Eastern side of the base.
 * Using the key Raquel gave you, enter from the West side
 * Take the first left and go down into the basement through the stairs
 * The first room of the basement, kill all the ants
 * In the second area, flip the two array generator switches on the East wall, and kill any ants
 * Flip the final switch on the stairs that you descended to get to the bottom floor
 * Once you have flipped all 3 switches and killed all ants, return to Raquel to complete the quest

Optional objectives

 * After receiving the quest from Raquel, talk to Loyal (in the barracks or hangar). If you can pass a Speech (50) or Science (50) check, you can ask him for the Sonic Emitter.
 * Locate the ant's nest, in the second area of the building (the dirt pile against the corner almost due south of the doorway and entrance ramp).
 * Place the sonic emitter on the ant's nest (don't forget to activate it!)

''Note: Ant Misbehavin' will not be available once Volare! is completed (the only speech option you'll have afterward is "See you later"). Afterward, this quest is impossible to trigger, and you cannot enter the building without the key.''

Behind the scenes
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a 1929 song written by Thomas "Fats" Waller. It is featured in the musical of the same name.

Bugs

 * Warning! Killing the ants has the possibility of dooming the rest of your game to experience severe performance problems. Whatever you do, save before killing any exploding ant. As a work around, you can go to the ants, bring up the console, click on them and type "disable", though this will break the quest.  To finish the quest console:  followed by . Though untested, disabling the ants after you kill them might also work.


 * When completing the quest, the terminal near the solar panels seems to magically disappear leaving no trace whatsoever.


 * After completing Volare! Raquel's only dialogue option may be "Goodbye" making the player unable to start the Ant Misbehavin' quest. Using the resetquest command to reset Volare! fixes Raquel, but most likely will leave Pearl with dialog bugs.


 * It is also possible that before returning to Raquel after you activate the generators, you can get infinite XP by aligning the solar panels through the terminal at Nellis Array.


 * When clicking on the 2 generators, you are suppose to use the last switch at the stairs to turn on the power but if you activate the 2 generators then use the sonic emitter you will be unable to complete the quest. The switch will become untargetable 4 out of 10 attempts.


 * When speaking to Raquel after completing all objectives, the only available option available may be "Goodbye", making it impossible to complete the quest.


 * Occasionally none of the Ants will appear in the generator room. If this happens you may need to leave the building and come back a few times before they spawn.


 * On occasion, the main circuit breaker switch will not register being activated. The switch will move up and down, but the quest will not advance.  Using  gets you past this.

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