Restoring Hope

 is a quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick walkthrough

 * Travel to Camp Forlorn Hope.


 * Speak to Major Polatli in the Command Center and ask what he needs help with.


 * Speak to Quartermaster Mayes in the Quartmaster's Tent south of the Command Center.


 * Inform Mayes that Polatli sent you to help.


 * Travel to HELIOS One and speak to Lieutenant Haggerty about the supplies.


 * Travel to the location marked by the GPS obtained from Haggerty.
 * Location is northeast of the Southern Nevada Wind Farm, west of Camp Forlorn Hope.


 * Search the Camp Forlorn Hope Supply Crate and defend from an ambush by Caesar's Legion.


 * Return to Camp Forlorn Hope and speak with Mayes to return the supplies.


 * Speak with Polatli to complete the supplies portion of the quest.


 * Walk to the Medical Center and speak with Dr. Richards to help him with his patients. Lying or a Medicine of 20 is required to continue.


 * Examine each of the three patients in the Medical Center and treat them accordingly.
 * Patient 1 suffers from machete wounds. A Medicine of 35 is required to treat him or a Med-X, Whiskey, and a Surgical Tubing is required for treatment.
 * Patient 2 suffers from a leg injury. A Medicine of 50 is required to treat him or a Medical Brace, Med-X, and a Bonesaw is required for treatment.
 * Patient 3 suffers from close range blast trauma. A Medicine of 75 is required to treat him or a Tweezers, Med-X, and a Super Stimpack is required for treatment.


 * Speak with Dr. Richards and then return to Major Polatli.


 * Go and meet Cooper in front of Nelson, in the center between Nelson and Hope you will be ambushed by 3 Legion Recruits with machetes.


 * Infiltrate Nelson with Cooper, you can choose acces via the north or east.

Bugs

 * Unable to complete quest during the "Help Dr. Richards with his patients" section due to "diagnose patients" bug. After talking to the doctor and getting permission to treat the patients hitting E (or the use button) on the patients does nothing. You can bypass this by telling the doctor you are unqualified to assist. However, you should be able to diagnose patients as the quest notes suggest. I guess it has something to do with dr. Richards staying here somehow.

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 * If during the That Lucky Old Sun quest at Helios One you decide to go for the (optional) "Arm Archimedes security system", there's a possibility that your contact during the "Restoring Hope" quest is nowhere to be found. It seems there is a possibility to bypass this section of the quest if can find the lost supplies somewhere en-route to Forlorn Hope but this is still unconfirmed.


 * I have confirmed the bug from arming Archimedes during the Restoring Hope quest. Below is an image of where I found the Camp Forlorn supply crate.

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 * Another possible bug is encountered if you proceed to kill off the Legion at Nelson, by yourself, the quest will never be completed. Major Polatli will thank you but no quest dialogue is given in his menu to finish the quest. To start the quest speak to Major Polatli first or the only thing able to discuss with Mayes is the about fallen NCR dog tags. Also note that when you find the supply crate you will be attacked by legion troops as an ambush.


 * If you have previous killed most of the Legion at Nelson and haved released the 3 NCR troopers who were hanging from poles, when you go back with Sgt. Cooper, if you try to enter the building were the remaining Legionaries and the commander are located, the game will lock up. Having both quests initiated at the same time may also cause the same bug to occur.


 * I did the quest properly and still, there is no way I can finish it. Around 10 troops were helping me out, now most of them are stuck near the fireplace(at Nelson, running around). Quest log says I need to speak to Polatli that we have taken Nelson...however the dialogue won't let me finish the quest simply because there is no option to say anything about victory. Something is bugged:(
 * The newest patch solves this problem.
 * I have the latest patch, but the bug is still here - no option in dialogue.
 * If the problem persists, use the command: "setstage 001214aa 200" or maybe "setstage 001214aa 160"


 * If for some reason during the Restoring Hope quest, you do not get ambushed by the Legionaires upon finding the supplies and the dead NCR soldiers in the Quartermaster Hayes quest, you can temporarily solve this by using command setstage 001214AA 50.


 * Major Polatli in Forlorn Hope Camp won't let me initiate the "assault Nelson" quest. I've already cleared the camp and freed the hostages but I can't do the "let's do this" line. I saw it first time but wanted to save before proceeding and now the quest is stuck. Anyone know the setstage command to let me get to the "good work" stage of the quest so I can clear up my questlog? Note: it is important to also kill Dead Sea and the two other Legionaries inside a building in Nelson; make sure you've done that.


 * For some reason, whenever I approached the area where the supply crate is found, I would fail the quest. I got around this by not talking to Haggerty prior to fetching it.