NCR Emergency Radio

NCR Emergency Radio is a miscellaneous item in Fallout: New Vegas.

Location
The NCR Emergency Radio is acquired when the player has earned a minimum of an (Accepted) reputation with the NCR. If you move to the first stage of bad reputation, you will not get the radio. This can be as simple as killing the merc in Camp Mccaran for beating you in Caravan or completing Cass's mission hostile towards the Crimson Caravan company. The player will be randomly interrupted by an unnamed NCR Ranger and will be given the radio.

Characteristics
In the Aid tab of your Pip-Boy 3000 you may select the NCR Emergency Radio. You will see a menu with options to: Call for NCR Supply Support, Call for NCR Trooper Support, Call for NCR Ranger Support, or Cancel [No Support]. This option is only available in certain NCR approved areas.

Calling for Supply Support
Starts the quest Emergency Radio, and drop an NCR Supply Crate with random ammo, and/or armor. Sometimes an NCR Ranger will run to you after completion, and go through the same dialogue as when you recieved the radio. Note: You will not be given another Radio.

Calling for Trooper Support
Causes an unnamed NCR Trooper to run to your location. They cannot be controlled by the companion wheel but they will follow you until their death and fight hostiles. They will follow you while fast traveling. The Trooper is always equipped with NCR Trooper Armor and a Service Rifle. He has 50 Hit Points and a guns skill of 46.

Calling for NCR Ranger Support
Causes an unnamed NCR Ranger to run to your location. They cannot be controlled by the companion wheel but they will follow you until their death and fight hostiles. They will follow you while fast traveling. The Ranger will always be equipped with NCR Ranger Patrol Armor and a Cowboy Repeater. She has 220 Hit Points and a guns and unarmed skill of 100.

Both the NCR Trooper and NCR Ranger can be dismissed by simply selecting the radio again, and then selecting Dismiss.

The radio can be used every 24 hours. A message saying 'Your follower has died!" will appear when the Ranger or Trooper is killed. Your Ranger may be killed by the Securitrons guarding the gate leading into The Strip. If at all possible, use the Monorail to gain access to New Vegas.

If you lose your reputation with the NCR, you will no longer be able to call in support until you once again raise your reputation. You will also lose this ability if the NCR finds out you're doing missions for their enemies (like Mr. House); however, you get warned about this during the game.

Bugs

 * Calling for support in the Mojave Outpost (to the east, close to the edge of the outpost) may result in either the Trooper or Ranger dying.


 * It has been found that for some users, the radio will never recharge after use and many aspects of the radio seem to function poorly.


 * Calling for a supply drop in certain areas may lead to the cache not spawning at all, or spawning underground or in non-accessible areas, leading to never being able to get supply drops again. On the PC this can be resolved by using the command code 'CompleteQuest 0015FB7C'.


 * If you have an NCR Trooper or Ranger following you, they will be shot at by the Securitrons guarding the gate to the Strip, as they most likely do not have clearance to enter. Note: this does not cause the Securitrons to be hostile towards you.


 * Ranger or trooper may stop following you or just disappear when entering a building.


 * Occasionally after a fight a Ranger may freeze in their position. They will not move until attacked but may freeze again the moment the danger has passed


 * If the player has a bad reputation with the Gun Runners, and goes to the Gun Runners shop, the Ranger or Trooper following becomes hostile and reputation with NCR is lost if the follower is killed even if not by the player.


 * Sometimes if called for support, the reputation with both the NCR and the Legion will reset to Neutral. They will still attack the player if he/she has done bad deeds for the faction.


 * Player may lose all reputation with the NCR when having a trooper following and doing certain missions such as Booted.


 * If you have two companions with you and use the radio, the NCR ranger sometimes gets wedged in a door when going inside. Going back through will fix it.


 * After the NCR ranger dies, returning to the location several days later, the player can find that the Ranger is alive again, and upon speaking to her, she will follow the player again.


 * Upon eating all aid items quickly, by rapidly pressing A, sometimes the Radio is eaten and disappears from the inventory.


 * When having NCR trooper or ranger armor equipped, it says your reputation is too low to call support.


 * Sometimes, when initiating the "Call of Supply Support" option, the drop will happen as usual. However, upon searching the drop, the container will have nothing inside it. You will still complete the quest and another NCR Ranger will give you another Emergency Radio.


 * Sometimes the ranger will not move when you call one in. Just dismiss them and they will run up to you and say "ranger at the ready".


 * There is an infinite exp glitch where if you call for NCR Ranger support and shoot them before they can reach you, your companions will kill the Ranger who will then repeatedly spawn. You get 50xp for every kill and this does not cause reputation loss with the NCR or negative karma.