Operation: Anchorage exploits

Exploits are "holes" in the game programming which allow a player to do something which the developers did not intend and which alter the balance of the game in a way that benefits the player.

Infinite Skills
To do this glitch you need to have 2 Hockey masks and the Chinese Stealth Armor.

1. Play through the sim to get the stealth suit, then put it on. 2. Put on a hockey mask. 3. Select the second hockey mask while the first one is still on. Every time you try to select it your unarmed skill goes up by 5 points.


 * Warning: The game lags and freezes frequently with really high skill (30000+).
 * It may not work if the two head gears have the exact same DR.
 * The effect disappears when you remove the headgear.
 * Sometimes your head will disappear. You can usually fix this by removing and re-equipping a hat.

This glitch works with any piece of headgear that increases a skill, such as the Enclave officer hat.

"Gary 23 exploit" - bringing simulation items back to the Wasteland
In brief, bring a body into the pod with you and position yourself so that you are looking at the body. When you return from the simulation, activate the body before the game has fully loaded the real world again. You will be able to transfer your simulation inventory to the body. Once you exit the body-container screen, the game will finish loading and giving you back your real-world inventory. The body will keep the simulation inventory, which you are now free to loot.


 * Save often when attempting this exploit. It's tricky, and you may have to start over several times.
 * Also note that the player should not have started the simulation already. This exploit requires setup prior to entering the simulation. Also note: the player can just simply delete the Operation: Anchorage add-on, load your save, quit, reinstall, and you will be able to repeat the quest.
 * The exploit will work with any dead body. Gary 23's body is just the one at hand.

Note: All weapons and Armor from the simulation have extremely high health and thus seem to never degrade.
 * 1) After you equip the Neural Interface Suit, open the simulation pod but do not sit down on it yet.
 * 2) Go into the locked room where Gary 23 is (the room is across located next to the simulation room) and then drag his body back into the pod room. Position him in the pod such that you can interact with him while sitting on the chair.
 * 3) * It is most important here to be looking at the body when the simulation starts - as if you were going to search it. The option to search it will be unavailable at this time.
 * 4) Play through the quest. At the end, General Chase will send you out of the simulation back to the Outcast Outpost.
 * 5) During the loading screen, keep tapping the activate button with your view pointed down. If it works, you will have activated the body like a container, and your simulation inventory is now transferable to the body. If you were too late, your real-world inventory will appear, and you will have to try again.

Obtain all requisition weapons
This glitch allows you to get all of the weapons that you requisition from the Quartermaster.


 * 1) Get one of the tapes for a set of weapons, and get the weapons from the Quartermaster.
 * 2) Go back to the command tent and get another tape.
 * 3) Go outside again, drop your guns and talk to the Quartermaster again. He will give you the new set of weapons that you ask for. A message will then appear saying your other set of weapons were removed, but they will still be where you dropped them earlier.
 * 4) Keep repeating until you get the desired packages/weapons.


 * Talking to any NPC will reset your inventory and interrupt the exploit.

Obtain a minigun
It is possible to obtain a minigun which is otherwise not available to the PC. After the T51b's with the Fatmans are at the front door (before fighting Jingwei), two do not enter. In their inventory is a minigun which you can pickpocket. Furthermore, the ammo dispenser actually provides the character with 480 rounds of 5mm ammunition. Also if you shoot the fatman in their hands they drop it and you can pick it up. This also works with the super sledges that the power troops have.

Obtain a Pre-war Chinese assault rifle
It is possible to obtain a Chinese assault rifle (after guns of Anchorage) to do this you will need a gauss rifle, obtained by the quartermaster in the field camp by passing a speech check. Then go find a chinese soldier, enter V.A.T.S. and aim for the gun. After some tries the soldier should be knocked down, then run up to the soldier crouch, then pickpocket the soldier, steal the ammo and replace it with a 10mm pistol (any gun will do) and ammo. The soldier will change his weapon and unequip the chinese assault rifle. Now you just have to knockdown the soldier again by doing the previous steps, but when you pickpocket the soldier he should have a chinese assault rifle in his inventory, steal it. Now you got the Pre-war chinese assault rifle. And by using the Gary 23 exploit you can take it with you to the Capital Wasteland. Using this method on a chinese inferno unit will also work getting you a pre-war nearly infinite condition flamer. Strangely ammo dispensers will give you 120 flamer fuel if you do this.

Obtain three Winterized Combat Armors
It is possible to obtain three copies of the Winterized Combat Armor by first removing your armor as soon as the simulation starts (it will need to be 100%), and when you get to the command area reverse pickpocket the armor onto the Quartermaster (you will notice that he now has two in his inventory), now kill him and when you search him do not take them one at a time, use the "take all" option.

Obtaining Smoke Grenades
Much like the Tesla Cannon (Beta) in the Broken Steel add-on, the smoke grenades cannot be obtained under normal map conditions but can be obtained by doing a series of jumps in between the point where one of the pipes and the rockside meets, as can be seen in this video. thumb|left|300px

Unlimited ammunition


It is possible to drop your ammo, replenish, and then pick your original ammunition up again, bypassing the simulation's built in ammo cap. This allows for infinite ammo.
 * The actual maximum number of ammo you can pick up at once is 32,768. (Binary code is based on powers of 2 and 32,768 is 215 power. The ammo was set up as a 16 bit signed integer, where the high bit (216) controls if the number is positive or negative. So once you reach 216, the game interprets it as -(215).)
 * By dropping ammo in bundles less than 32,768 (and leaving that same amount or higher in your inventory), you can repeat this glitch over and over again.
 * This can be useful with the Gary 23 glitch as you can take back all the ammo and use or sell it. If you have The Pitt installed you can take the ammo to the ammo press and get whatever ammo you want, e.g. 30,000 .308 caliber rounds and change them into 30,000 .44 magnum ammo, or to 450,000 5mm rounds which sell for around 1 cap each
 * If you pick up an extra weapon of any type that would normally give you extra ammo (for instance a second Chinese assault rifle would be converted into 5.56mm rounds) then all the extra ammo you acquired through the glitch will disappear

During the fight with Jingwei
You can get over 1000 XP per minute of "Very Hard" difficulty.

During the fight with Jingwei in the courtyard, there is a Chinese sniper on some very large metal crates. At the back of those crates are 4 barrels, two of which are close to the crates. Jump on the barrels then onto the corner of the lower crate. The location will shield you on all sides except the side facing a door out of which continually spawn Chinese commandos.

Stay in position and shoot unlimited enemies to receive unlimited xp.

Killing your own robot teammates

 * 1) First, you will need to recruit a Strike Team that has only one robot in it. (Benjamin Montgomery will be in your team by default, but do not assign any other NPCs to your squad while attempting this glitch because they will make it more difficult.)
 * 2) Hide behind Benjamin Montgomery, and then sneak attack the robot.
 * 3) Once the robot is destroyed you can request another from Benjamin Montgomery. Within seconds, another will appear nearby. Repeat.

Xbox 360 only
Disconnecting from Xbox Live causes all items and quest progress specific to Anchorage to be deleted. After you complete Anchorage, simply disconnect, reconnect, and replay. Rinse and repeat for as much exp as you want.