Ant Misbehavin'

 is a quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Required objectives

 * Kill all the ants in the generator room.
 * Restart the 2 array generators, then reset the main breaker.

Optional objective

 * Get the sonic emitter from Loyal, place it on the ant mound.

Required objectives
''Note: These Ants will explode and cause massive damage to the player if killed with most weapons including explosives, energy weapons, the ballistic fist, or the chainsaw. Regular ammunition guns appear to be fine. A high sneak character may find it easier to use a sneak critical to cause a chain reaction, blowing up multiple ants without being nearby.''
 * Kill all ants in the generator room.
 * Restart the two array generators, then reset the main breaker.

Begin by talking to Raquel to receive the quest. She'll inform you that there is an ant infestation in their communications array building.
 * Walk to the Nellis Array near the Eastern side of the base.
 * Using the key Raquel gave you, enter from the West side
 * Take the first left and go down into the basement through the stairs
 * The first room of the basement, kill all the ants
 * In the second area, flip the two array generator switches on the East wall, and kill any ants
 * Flip the final switch on the stairs that you descended to get to the bottom floor
 * Once you have flipped all 3 switches and killed all ants, return to Raquel to complete the quest

Optional objectives

 * After receiving the quest from Raquel, talk to Loyal (in the barracks or hangar). If you can pass a speech (50) or science (50) check, you can ask him for the sonic emitter.
 * Locate the ant's nest, in the second area of the building (the dirt pile against the corner almost due south of the doorway and entrance ramp).
 * Place the sonic emitter on the ant's nest (don't forget to activate it!)

''Note: will not be available once Volare! is completed (the only speech option you'll have afterward is "See you later"). Afterward, this quest is impossible to trigger, and you cannot enter the building without the key.  Although some people have managed to trigger this after completing Volare!''

Behind the scenes
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a 1929 song written by Thomas "Fats" Waller. It is featured in the musical of the same name.

Bugs

 * Warning! Killing the ants has the possibility of dooming the rest of your game to experience severe performance problems. Whatever you do, save before killing any exploding ant.  As a work around, you can go to the ants, bring up the console, click on them and type "disable", though this will break the quest.  To finish the quest console: "completeallobjectives 1083de" followed by "setstage 1083de 10".  Though untested, disabling the ants after you kill them might also work.  !!!Problem fixed with the latest update!!!


 * When completing the quest, the terminal near the solar panels seems to magically disappear leaving no trace whatsoever.


 * After completing Volare! Raquel's only dialogue option may be "Goodbye" making the player unable to start the Ant Misbehavin' quest.

It is also possible that before returning to Raquel after you activate the generators, you can get infinite XP by aligning the solar panels through the terminal at Nellis Array.

When clicking on the 2 generators, you are suppose to use the last switch at the stairs to turn on the power but if you activate the 2 generators then use the sonic emitter you will be unable to complete the quest. The switch will become untargetable 4 out of 10 attempts.

When speaking to Raquel after completing all objectives, the only available option available may be "Goodbye", making it impossible to complete the quest.

Occasionally none of the Ants will appear in the generator room. If this happens you may need to leave the building and come back a few times before they spawn.

After you kill all of the Ants and activate the 2 generators, you are prompted to return to Raquel to inform her of the done deed however the only dialogue option you have with her is "seeya later" making this quest impossible to finish. Loyal is also no where to be seen as is jack. This maybe a possible bug or may be due to the fact once you complete Volaire this quest becomes obsolete. (Not true on ) (This is happening to me as of 11th Dec and I play it on PS3. Even with the new patch, all I can say to Raquel is "goodbye" or "I should get going" etc. I have completed Volare.)