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

 * 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.
 * The sonic emitter upgrade 'EMP Pulse Wave' is obtained here by completing the basic institutional test. It is then available at the beginning of the advanced institutional 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.
 * Sonic emitter - Gabriel's bark at the end of the Residential test, in random digging spot.

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 speech from the robobrain after being created is 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.


 * 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 composed 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.
 * It is similar to Fallout Tactics special encounter Brahmin Poker.

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
 * When splicing a Dog and a Lobotomite, looting the Lobotomites body may cause its limbs to hover in mid air or even just doing the test could cause the Lobotomites limb(s) to hover.
 * Splicing a Dog and a robot may create a goo pile under Roxie, the goo pile cant be searched unless Roxie is killed. Trying to search the goo pile while Roxie is alive will trigger her to talk to you.