Freeside

Freeside is the main slum of New Vegas in 2281. Controlled by the Kings and the Van Graffs, the streets are dangerous and lack the luster of The New Vegas Strip.

Layout
Freeside is home to a greaser gang, known as the Kings. Freeside's North Gate and Freeside's East Gate are the only two entrances from the Mojave. The King's School of Impersonation, Atomic Wrangler Casino, Cerulean Robotics, Mick and Ralph's and the Silver Rush are all located here.

Several rough bodyguards stand near the northern and eastern gates, offering their "services" on the mean streets for a paltry sum of caps.

At Mick and Ralph's, Ralph sells a fake passport to the strip if The King gives permission, or if you have 50 Speech. The price is 500 caps, but you can Barter for a lesser price of 375 caps.

If you complete all the quests for The King he asks if you want a favor, if you choose the passport option go to Mick and Ralph's speak to Ralph and he will give you the passport for free. (Or you might want to save your favor for later on.)

A pair of children can sometimes be seen running around the streets, a boy and girl. The boy is named Max and if he is spoken to, the player can pay 1000 caps (or 20 caps with 45 Barter) for his "toy gun" ( Euclid's C-Finder ) which is a unique energy weapon that is powered by the ARCHIMEDES II satellite. Optionally, you can wait until he goes to sleep and steal if from him.

Campfires can be found up by the north gate to the New Vegas Strip (where you do the credit check to get in). As you face the gate, the fenced off area guarded by Securitrons is flanked by empty lots. In each of these lots is at least one campfire.

Related Quests
Birds of a Feather from Gloria Van Graff. Debt Collector from Francine Garret. G.I. Blues from The King. Wang Dang Atomic Tango from James Garret.

Bugs

 * In Freeside you will notice a boy and a girl chasing a giant rat, talk to them as they run and the girl has a regular voice actor as well as the boy. After killing the rat, the girl or the boy (whichever is closest) will eat the rat. When you talk to them now they share a voice actor. So the boy now sounds like a girl, or the girl a boy.


 * Sometimes after you kill the giant rat, the first boy chasing the rat will fall to his knees to take a bite but will continue to move forward at running speed despite being in a crouched position and going through the rat-eating animation.


 * If you are outside of the Vegas Strip when you update the game, but have gained access to it at another point, you can be permanently locked out.


 * Sometimes outside the Old Mormon Fort the super mutant Tabitha can spawn and become hostile; killing her results in the completion of the quest "Crazy, Crazy, Crazy" (if you have not started the quest it will add the quest to your pip-boy and just say the final bullet point).


 * If you achieve a certain level of reputation in Freeside, a Kings Gang Member will encourage you to keep up the good work and give a little present. However, sometimes those messengers keep coming in quick succession: as soon as one leaves the location, another one appears. This doesn't seem to fix over time.

>>this may be a PS3 or CD defection. this glitch has been confirmed untrue by 5 different PS3's(20GB, 40GB, 2 X 160GB, 250GB) using a total of 7 different CDs. if what you say is true, the PS3's processor is unable to handle loading this area. all PS3 processors should be able to go through the same strain, so this glitch should be across all ps3 systems. seeing as this is not so, a defective CD should be the source of this glitch.
 * This seems to be the worse locations of the game lag-wise. I can barely do anything in here without restarting the ps3 every minutes. Worse than the strip, the only trick I found to reduce the lagg and increase my chances of making it to destination was to look at the ground. This probably reduces strain on the processor. Radio is also not recommended in these parts. (confirmed PS3)


 * There is a bug where you can buy the Euclid's C-Finder gun from Max multiple times.

Appearances
only appears in Fallout: New Vegas.