Eye for an Eye (Fallout: New Vegas)

Eye for an Eye is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

NCR walkthrough

 * 1) Find general intel on Legion troop movements
 * 2) Find intel on Legion raids.
 * 3) Plant NCR bug.
 * 4) Clear out the Legion from Cottonwood Cove.

Legion walkthrough

 * 1) Talk to  Astor about Cottonwood Cove.
 * 2) Agree to help him plant the bug and find legion intel.
 * 3) Turn bug over to Aurelius of Phoenix.
 * 4) Give old intel to Astor.

Detailed walkthrough
After discovering Cottonwood Cove, First Sergeant Astor (who patrols around Camp Searchlight) asks the player to collect some intel on Legion troop movements and raids from Cottonwood Cove and plant a bug in their radio. The Legion raid intel is in a cabinet near the buggable radio on the first floor HQ Building; the intel on Legion troop movements is in the desk on the second floor.

Returning to Astor with the intel provides 500 XP & the player gets the option to wipe out all Legion forces from Cottonwood Cove. This provides NCR fame, 250 caps, Legion infamy (if they spot you in the act) & 1000 XP. When you receive the option to wipe out the Legion fort, Astor calls you crazy but believes you can pull it off. To get the most fame with the NCR, locate the red truck hanging precariously off the cliff at Cottonwood Overlook over the Legion camp. Your geiger meter will show radiation leaking from the truck when you get close. Go to the back of the truck, and select the door. The option to open the door becomes available (50 lockpick required), dropping several radioactive barrels into the camp, effectively killing the Legion the same way they killed the NCR forces at Camp Searchlight. Astor is quite pleased with this outcome.

Bugs

 * Sometimes dropping the radioactive barrels will not kill all the legionaries. They will remain standing in front of the barrels without ever succumbing to the radiation.[Confirmed PC] Four legionaries line up at the base of the cliff while the barrels roll right through them. However, the objective is still marked as complete in spite of the fact that the survivors can still be killed, VATS, and otherwise interacted with.
 * Sometimes if you kill all the Legionaries at Cottonwood Cove by any means other than the barrels, the quest will stay unfinished, still requiring you to kill all the Legionaries. Dropping the barrels on Cottonwood Cove fixes this.

Behind The Scenes
The title "Eye for an Eye" may be a reference to the phrase, "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" or to passages in the Hebrew Bible about the law of retaliation. (Ex 21:23, 24; Lev. 24:19, 20; Deut. 19:21)

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