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I play this game a lot as I'm sure some of you know, and I've been all up and down this wasteland of ours since the last wipe and not once have I come across a special encounter. Could someone post some details so I know what it looks like when I see it?
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I have never gotten any (that I knew of) either, but some of them I know what they are. Two are pretty obvious encounters: One is a big tank with missiles scattered around, and the other one is a ladder hole in the middle of the map.
I am not sure about the others, but when you encounter a special encounter, it won't be a combat encounter and you won't encounter any other players, so if you ever get into a mysterious encounter that doesn't have a "You encounter... wastelander" on it, then look around for a bit.
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Ohh crap! i may have been in one then, yesterday i got an encounter but when i appeared on the map there was nothing there.
it didnt say for example you encountered this and that, just empty encounter.
Sadly i didnt explore and just ran to grid.
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It says something like you encounter a prewar bunker, or something like that, so usually even before you appear on the map you would know you got into a special encounter.
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damn that sounds awesome.
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so far it seems special encounters are going to be the bane of my existence, i wonder if any of those outdoorsmen perks help, like the one that claims youll find more special encounters on it or whatever it says.
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so far it seems special encounters are going to be the bane of my existence, i wonder if any of those outdoorsmen perks help, like the one that claims youll find more special encounters on it or whatever it says.
I already asked that on another thread concerning special encounters, it doesn't help as it would only lead to farming.
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Last time i ran into cave with old shovel and three graves in it. 10000 caps, a diamond necklace, flower. ^^
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The only thing i've met is a cannon (the same as the one in Boneyqrd merchant) with some shells. but i didn't find any interst pf it :(
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The shells are not just shells.
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i just had a dream i found a special encouter, also in my dream i healed my crippled eye with 20% doctor. i think i may need to stop playing for awhile.
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i just had a dream i found a special encouter, also in my dream i healed my crippled eye with 20% doctor. i think i may need to stop playing for awhile.
What satire humor. =)
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The shells are not just shells.
yes i've seen the 3 letters following by (a date ?) some numbers but i don't see what to do with, even if i really like enigmas.
(these letters/numbers were already there in FO 2 so i don't know if it's reliable in FOnline).
any clue ?
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Does explorer perk help finding those goodies?
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No, it's totally random.
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yes i've seen the 3 letters following by (a date ?) some numbers but i don't see what to do with, even if i really like enigmas.
(these letters/numbers were already there in FO 2 so i don't know if it's reliable in FOnline).
any clue ?
Nothing with the description.
Small hint: Science.
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Ah yes, some gunpowder (with 120)
thank you for the tip ;)
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hmmm interesting... will try it
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Never been in a special encounter and I'm sure I never willl........
By the way... If you are in a special encounter can anyone just waltz in on you?
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The shells are not just shells.
Yea i found a quest in l.a. where someone is lookin gofr some of these shells i think. I think they were called borowitzer shells or something like that.
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Howitzer Shells. And the guy who wants them is in the boneyard, at the respawn point.
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The respawn point ? so it's impossible to bring him or the point stay visible for the quest ?
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The respawn point ? so it's impossible to bring him or the point stay visible for the quest ?
Thats what I thought so I don't bother lookin for em....
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Don't nail me on this, but I think if you have the quest active and in your pipboy the location stays on the map.
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Don't nail me on this, but I think if you have the quest active and in your pipboy the location stays on the map.
Well time to jump in front of a few deathclaws then.
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Don't nail me on this, but I think if you have the quest active and in your pipboy the location stays on the map.
yes he is located at the spawn point.the one just north east of gun runners.I think a high charisma or int might be needed for getting the shells from the npc for the quest.
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ok, i've seen the guy who ask for shells but when i leave the respawn point it doesn't appear on the map anymore. Maybe convincing the NPC to craft some is enough to complete the quest (failed with CH 3 IN 8 character).
anyway, the ones we can find in a special encounters don't count.
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it worked with CH 9 and the reward is....
300 xp
and if you come back to the respawn point (after suicide, no other way) the guy will give you a wonderfull, unbelievable...
ticket for the train :D
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it worked with CH 9 and the reward is....
300 xp
and if you come back to the respawn point (after suicide, no other way) the guy will give you a wonderfull, unbelievable...
ticket for the train :D
thx for the spoiler but its not a special encounter. Wish i had some input for the subject other than it seems to be very rare for specail encounters cause i ve never even had 1and im on the move...alot.
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ys it's totally different from the shells i've found in special encounters.
For info, it was with a character without Explorer perk but he had Scout. only 3 in LK.
But If Surf Solar say t's totally random, the Explorer perk becomes totally useless then.
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ys it's totally different from the shells i've found in special encounters.
For info, it was with a character without Ranger perk but he had Scout. only 3 in LK.
But If Surf Solar say t's totally random, the Ranger perk becomes totally useless then.
Yep, feels good doesn't it? Wasting a perk...
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Is it a possiblity that special encounters are marked with a dead guy just lying in the middle of wasteland and, it didn't say any ''you encounter some brahmin shit pile'', there was just a dead guy lying, I thought there was a player who killed that guy, so I ran away.
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Is it a possiblity that special encounters are marked with a dead guy just lying in the middle of wasteland and, it didn't say any ''you encounter some brahmin shit pile'', there was just a dead guy lying, I thought there was a player who killed that guy, so I ran away.
Did he have a name and/or did he look different from the average npc???.... if so yeah it prolly was.
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i had 2 special encounters allready with one character 130%outdorsman and 9luck, first one was howitzer, second was bunker if somebody will explain how to post pics i can post some(me noob, me dont know how to this:)
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I think that just luck (in-game) and high Outdoorsman helps to find special encounters.
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i think it has more to do with luck, i have 140 outdoors and have never found one
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As said, my char who found the shells had only 3 in luck and around 105 in outdoor only. Maybe Scout perk helps event it's not written in the description as Explorer should help.
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well if there is anything that affects it theyll never reveal it, i swear, ive never beta tested a game where the developers hid information form you.
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Well i've found dead a travelers body in a cave twice, had a flamer once and a grease gun the other time.
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Any encounter where you find people with high tier weapons such as cmbt shotty, HandK CAWs, and snipers, is a "special" encounter.
No matter how nerfed those encounter's value has become now with the very high deterioration on the weapons...
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Are this encounters still in game? I walk hundereds kilometers in wasteland but I didn't find this encounter never.
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They are just hard to find :P
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Are this encounters still in game? I walk hundereds kilometers in wasteland but I didn't find this encounter never.
Gang encounters around New Reno have decent end-tier weapons like shotguns, and for the sniper and CAWs and rippers you gotta look in the caves man... THE CAVES!
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Gang encounters around New Reno have decent end-tier weapons like shotguns, and for the sniper and CAWs and rippers you gotta look in the caves man... THE CAVES!
These are no special encounters. The ones you mention are just called mountain regions and you find them all over the wasteland.
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Gang encounters around New Reno have decent end-tier weapons like shotguns, and for the sniper and CAWs and rippers you gotta look in the caves man... THE CAVES!
Those aren't special encounters... Yes there are some special caves with bluesuit body which has tesla armor in inventory...
btw caves was ''fixed'' rippers, snipers and other things from caves have now 60-80% deterioration... and I didn't asked for caves, I asked for special encounters.
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I just consider those "special encounters" because of how hard it is to find those bastards.....
1 out of ever 30 cave encounters has cannibals or mercenaries in them so I figured they were special.
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MY FIRST SPECIAL ENCOUNTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://i1031.photobucket.com/albums/y378/Michaelh139/FOnlinemyfirstspecialenc.jpg
45 2mm EC (Gauss rifle and pistol ammo)
Not Caselesss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ;D
I know it just says Ammunition but when I look at it in inventory it says 2mm EC.
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lol dude nice that was in a fucking cave? did you find anything else in that cave or did you just run around for what seemed like an hour until you suddenly saw a body in the middle of nowhere as you were about to turn around and call it a day ?
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lol dude nice that was in a fucking cave? did you find anything else in that cave or did you just run around for what seemed like an hour until you suddenly saw a body in the middle of nowhere as you were about to turn around and call it a day ?
It was in a fucking cave that I at first thought was empty and debated about leaving before i wasted my time but pressed on, found his body, and the ammo.
Basically the second one and no i did a whole scan of the cave, thats all I found. No gun..... .which doesn't make any sense.
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well remember kiddies search every inch of every cave you see to unlock all prizes!
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i know someone that found a solar scorcher once, i love looking at the mercs in the northern towns, apparently they all find special encounters. ive seen mercs with pulse pistols and bozars and gauss rifles.
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I found my first special encounter also, dont have screenie yet but soon. Got an gauss pistol, 26 ammo for it, gatling laser , 250 mfc , metal armor , combat leather
jacket, some mysterious key i couldnt find anything to fit it in, super stims , random foods and nuka cola and so on.
Was an old military bunker, so now im a happy owner of an gauss pistol.
PS. i got 1LK and 92% outdoors.
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Got an gauss pistol, 26 ammo for it
Pff 26 ammo, haha joke encounter, if there was a possibility to get 2mm ammo without special encounters (a quest, which requires a finding that special encounter atleast once by this character) then gauss pistols could be usable, because alot people have gauss pistols, but they can't use it...
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True, it was still fun to find tho. Mostly i wonder about the key, couldnt find anything to use it on.
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I found the Special Encounter 'Hidden Bomb Shelter' today.
Items Obtained:
- 1 x Gattling Laser + 250 x Micro Fusion Cells
- 1 x Metal Armor MK II
- 1 x Leather Combat Armor
And various other lame items like Fruit and Nuka Cola.
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Ohh yeah it was the bomb shelter not the military bunker. Remembered the name wrong.
Did you see the small lockers on wall tho, near the regular lockers ? thats where i got gauss pistol from.
Those were initially hard to see but there was total of 4 lockers in that room, at first i only opened 2 but then
decided to go through the place few more times.
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I found the Special Encounter 'Hidden Bomb Shelter' today.
Items Obtained:
- 1 x Gattling Laser + 250 x Micro Fusion Cells
- 1 x Metal Armor MK II
- 1 x Leather Combat Armor
And various other lame items like Fruit and Nuka Cola.
No Gauss Pistol for you :) You should have explored the shelter a bit more.
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Isn't a gatling laser an Enclave former weapon? I have seen many Enclave patrols running around with those beasts, never killed them tho, are they really special ecnounter only item?
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(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/586/screen22062010141309.jpg) (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/screen22062010141309.jpg/)
Not a special encounter imo, but at least a little bit special ;p , searched the car, found nothing.
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yeah, i meet that car all the time when i'm farming for 10mm ammo and smgs near adytum, no luck in finding anything in it though...
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yeah, i meet that car all the time when i'm farming for 10mm ammo and smgs near adytum, no luck in finding anything in it though...
You can find there 3 or 4 or 5 junks, can't remember correctly, tryed to search a car only like 2-3 times for whole life and found only once.
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Seems like the "Hidden Bombshelter" Special Encounter has been quite common these days, is that true?
I was just wondering about everyone getting this same encounter, and suddenly, I popped into one. With the same encounter rate as now, we will see many Gauss Pistols in shops in about a week.
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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ;D
according to my information, that cave should contain lots more 2mm and a vindicator minigun (maybe outside? another enterace? i dunno)
causing "FFFFFUUUUUU-" is nice experience :3
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according to my information, that cave should contain lots more 2mm and a vindicator minigun (maybe outside? another enterace? i dunno)
causing "FFFFFUUUUUU-" is nice experience :3
Well trust me I over checked that entire cave, didnt find nuthin else, I even looked right next to the walls and shit.
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I always think I've gotten a special encounter whenever I get into an encounter and it doesn't show any
"You have encountered X" message.
I get real excited and look around and there's nothing. They should put a "You encounter (Player Name) when you encounter a player : <
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I always think I've gotten a special encounter whenever I get into an encounter and it doesn't show any
"You have encountered X" message.
I get real excited and look around and there's nothing. They should put a "You encounter (Player Name) when you encounter a player : <
are you constantly getting a +5 to your exp every time that happens!?!??!?!?!??!?!??!
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are you constantly getting a +5 to your exp every time that happens!?!??!?!?!??!?!??!
No.. Do you get 5 exp on a special encounter?
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No.. Do you get 5 exp on a special encounter?
Around ncr I keep getting the lightning bolt and gaining 5 exp but nothing happens, it just stays there for about 10 seconds and then i keep on moving Idk wtf....
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Around ncr I keep getting the lightning bolt and gaining 5 exp but nothing happens, it just stays there for about 10 seconds and then i keep on moving Idk wtf....
That just means there was another player that you were about to encounter, but they left.. (Happens a lot near NCR)
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That just means there was another player that you were about to encounter, but they left..
Well then thats happening like every 5 seconds lolz.....
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Yeah I once made around 500 XP by walking at the same corner of a square somewhere between BoS bunker and Junktown, because I got lightning and some XP everytime I walked there, after getting 500 XP I just bored.
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True, it was still fun to find tho. Mostly i wonder about the key, couldnt find anything to use it on.
Whithout key u can't get in to the room whit gauss pistol.
Btw i found Hidden Bombshelter already twice - yesterday and today aswell.
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I have never gotten any (that I knew of) either, but some of them I know what they are. Two are pretty obvious encounters: One is a big tank with missiles scattered around, and the other one is a ladder hole in the middle of the map.
I am not sure about the others, but when you encounter a special encounter, it won't be a combat encounter and you won't encounter any other players, so if you ever get into a mysterious encounter that doesn't have a "You encounter... wastelander" on it, then look around for a bit.
I found the small personal vault too - with some expensive drugs, cheap food, the key, dead NPC body in blue suit in a bathroom, Combat Leather Jacket... and... Metal Armor Mark II, Gatling Laser with about 250 micro fusion cells and PPK12 Gauss Pistol with some ammo. Nice! :o (so - the location is always same with same stuff)
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How come everyone keeps getting these awesome bunker and personal vault encounters while Im stuck just getting that one 45 2mm incave encounter!? ;(
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lol a bud of mine found the bomb shelter got the gat laser and the key but couldn't find the door to unlock it, wheres that at ? btw im guessing he just missed out on a gauss pistol lol!
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how do you not find the door, the shelter only has like 4 rooms.
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how do you not find the door, the shelter only has like 4 rooms.
People get in a rush and don't think properly......
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lucky guy on tour:
You encounter: A small hidden bomb shelter
(http://thumbnails33.imagebam.com/8567/8fed2585664627.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/8fed2585664627)
jeah jeah jeah!
(http://thumbnails27.imagebam.com/8567/14f24985664628.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/14f24985664628)
I LIKE THAT!!!!!!
key was in the bathroom.
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I guess it makes it official - there's something wonky going on with the Small Hidden Bunker encounter.
If I can get it...
(http://hosting11.imagecross.com/image-hosting-39/3015Notsospecial.JPG)
Of course, I'll likely not make it to the store ( :P), but none the less...
Also, I think Michaelh139 should be put on suicide watch now. ;D
Edit: Made it to my little home on the praire in the Wasteland safely. Given that I was out pretty far from the "safer" areas (I'd take my chances with Deathclaws, Endless Walkers, and Crazies, Aliens, Floaters and Centaurs than other players, thank you very much), it was the most intense time I yet had in the game. On the way back I managed to run away from Deathclaws, Mercenaries, Floaters and Centaurs, and about four other lower-tier encounters. Given that I'm at a level where pigrats are a challenge... Yeah. Had to log off to cool down from excitement, the world would lose way too much if I popped a vein, and I try not to disappoint.
tl:dr - torturing Michaelh139. Also, the frequency of Small Hidden Bunker seems to be rather off.
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I guess it makes it official - there's something wonky going on with the Small Hidden Bunker encounter.
If I can get it...
(http://hosting11.imagecross.com/image-hosting-39/3015Notsospecial.JPG)
Of course, I'll likely not make it to the store ( :P), but none the less...
Also, I think Michaelh139 should be put on suicide watch now. ;D
Edit: Made it to my little home on the praire in the Wasteland safely. Given that I was out pretty far from the "safer" areas (I'd take my chances with Deathclaws, Endless Walkers, and Crazies, Aliens, Floaters and Centaurs than other players, thank you very much), it was the most intense time I yet had in the game. On the way back I managed to run away from Deathclaws, Mercenaries, Floaters and Centaurs, and about four other lower-tier encounters. Given that I'm at a level where pigrats are a challenge... Yeah. Had to log off to cool down from excitement, the world would lose way too much if I popped a vein, and I try not to disappoint.
tl:dr - torturing Michaelh139. Also, the frequency of Small Hidden Bunker seems to be rather off.
Everyone deserves a second chance...
WHERE IS MY WEB REDEMPTION!?!? ON JOSH.O!!??!
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so everyone (but me) has found that bunker.... what other special encounters have people found?
whats the deal... is there only the bunker, a cave and those military trucks ?
oh and btw are most people finding that bunker in between Redding and Gecko ?
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A faction meber found a bunker in the same circle as NCR armybase :-X