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 upon entry will lead to the X-8 splicing facility terminal, where creatures can be spliced. The building also houses its own high school (loosely based on American High) where the sonic emitter EM Pulse Wave Upgrade can be retrieved, allowing the user to disable Big MT force fields.

Related quests

 * A Brain's Best Friend
 * Field Research
 * Sonic Emitter Upgrade
 * X-8 Data Retrieval Test
 * X-8: High School Horror!

Appearances
The X-8 research center appears only 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 created robobrain's short speech is a reference to the whale from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.


 * In the high school area there is a Wild Wasteland moment where the phrase "Wolverines" is 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, there is another Wild Wasteland moment, where a few cyberdogs will be seen through a window playing Poker, with the words "SIT. STAY. KILL." written on the wall above. 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 the Fallout Tactics special encounter Brahmin Poker.

Bugs

 * Splicing a Dog and a robot may create a goo pile under Roxie. The goo pile cannot be searched unless Roxie is killed. Trying to search the goo pile while Roxie is alive will trigger her to talk to you.
 * Splicing a lobotomite and a dog can end in a bug with a lobotomite with no torso and eyes standing over the dead dog and some scattered remains.