When I met Veronica, I was like ”Yes! My first companion! Probably not that good in a fight, but it’s nice to have company.” 5 minutes later The Legion ambushed us, and as I was drawing my weapon I could only watch in awe as she slaughtered them all. After that I was much more interested in her, and watching her story unfold was one of my favorite things in this game.

when she said "its a big family" I immediately thought: its a cult isn't it

This is what happens when you kill the Brotherhood before meeting Veronica. Veronica: I had a run-in with a group calling themselves the Brotherhood of Steel. Pretty strange bunch. Do you know anything about them? The Courier: I met a group of them in a bunker west of here. Veronica: And? The Courier: I killed them all. Veronica: God, you're not lying, are you? You really did kill them. In that case, this is for them. Starts attacking the Courier.

The fact that the one Paladin was trying to keep things formal and when you comment on his helmet he actually has a slip up is so fucking amazing.

Give her a powerfist and you'll be set for the rest of the game. I've left to go use the bathroom while fighting the legion and i came back to a bloody massacre.

The guy behind Veronica when you first meet her is continuously drinking.

Veronica: "I'll encourage people to name their not ugly babies after you" me:"oh uha thanks" *looks down at pip boy for name* Pip boy: "Rooples Pooples" me: "you know what on second thought you don't have to do that"

"I was young and I needed the money" will always be one of my favorite lines in anything

Veronica is probably my favorite companion. Why? Her voice actress, Felicia Day, just puts this sort of anxious energy into the character that makes it believable.

If you have the Terrifying Presence perk, you could say to the BOS paladins "I will cast down your Codex and bask in the dying agony of those who hold it dear." and watch them cower in fear. Humorously, Veronica will ask if the Courier actually meant that. Makes me laugh that BOS paladins with power armor and heavy weapons cower in fear because of some words said by a courier.

“Which means we can use Veronica as a workbench” that made me laugh so hard

I was already a paladin of the brotherhood when I started Veronica's companion quest. It totally weirded me out that they called me an outsider despite already joining their ranks.

Veronica's story really hit me in the gut. It was my first character and I made him an unstoppable hulk of a soldier. killed Caesar in his fort along with every legionnaire, cleared countless dungeons and saved and helped everyone at every turn. Then I met one of the few characters whose problems I couldn't shoot or smooth talk. Really took me down a few pegs.

Obsidian vs Bethesda on building relationships with your companions: Obsidian: travel around with Veronica and sight see while occasionally engaging in political conversation about the Brotherhood and it's future Bethesda: Piper falls in love with you for your lockpicking skills

Veronica's reaction to getting the dress is a very rare instance of really top notch voice acting in a Bethesda game.

Well I would really like to have an option to give her a hug after the massacre in the followers' shack.

Got something for me? *IS IT A DRESS???!!*

When she said "Mr House only had 2 robot sex slaves" Victor... What have you done...

Technically Liberty prime shoot a laser from his eye

Giving Veronica that dress and listening to her gush over it was the cutest thing i have ever heard in my life

Shooting lasers from there eyes isn't exactly wrong. Somebody probably heard about Liberty Prime doing it in Fallout 3, passed down the story, and then the story got all messed up and ended up being a story about how the Brotherhood soldiers shoot lasers from their eyes

It’s what I like to call, “The free power armor mission”.

Veronica: We should recruit more people. Our foes outnumber us and we barely hold together Power armor guys: the codex does not support this action

43:26 That squeal of delight when Veronica gets a dress always manages to make me smile no matter how many times i played through the game.

A few minor details to add, if I may. Veronica certainly downplays her appearance, and has a 'thing' about her hair, as mentioned by Watkins in the Hidden Valley. However, she's remarkably beautiful. Literally, since there are places you can go like Vault 3 (if you haven't killed everyone) The Kings building and the Great Khan camp where there's unique NPC dialogue. She gets a few unsubtle invitations from Fiends, several Kings will hit on her too and some Khans will ask you if your friend is single. She also will interact with non-hostile NPC in some areas like the Mormon Fort buy chatting with them, although there's no audio. I also love her responses to certain things via the command wheel, like asking her to use ranged attacks gets you "Does jumping at them with my fists count as ranged? >sigh< Fine." and telling her to go melee gets you "Yes! Everything's coming up Veronica!" She's sarcastic, sassy, smart, sweet, strking (in both senses), somewhat scary, sometimes sombre sometimes sparkling and very special. Anyone taking her as a companion who *doesn't* fall in love with her, at least a bit, is probably dead inside. Not to mention that you have to respect anyone who lists their ambitions as "A lifetime supply of Fancy Lads Snack Cakes, revenge against my enemies, and world peace. In that order."

3:16 that bloke in the background is chugging that bottle like a champion.

i feel so bad for veronica, no matter what ending you get for her, she in someway, suffers

After listening to this video, I now understand why I always felt compassion for Veronica in all of my playthroughs. She was just a girl who just wanted to help.

when Veronica makes the choice to leave and is confronted by those Paladins, if the courier has the Terrifying Presence perk it scares the Paladins and gives a little extra dialogue for Veronica.

Two Step Goodbye + Vera's Dress = Super-powered wasteland Jesus. I gotta admit though I don't like what this mod does to her face.

"More sexual favors than you can ever count, I'm still tired from it" that killed me I almost fell out of my chair 😂😂😂

The tape might have said that Elijah was apart of the NCR the whole time and that's why he stopped at a spot while NCR took helion and disappeared

"...that means we can use her as a workbench." Oh, so she's *that* kind of companion....

0:33 +... Watch the guy in the background, he can really chug his liquor

"you can use Veronica as a work bench" Nothing about that sounds right

That guy is drinking a neverending beer.

The Brotherhood doesn't deserve Veronica.

That 95 speech check - “Ideals are strengthened by the challenges they endure. Veronica’s questioning did you a service.” - has to be one of the best dialogue line I’ve personally seen in any video game. That literally hits the spot on explaining why the world of Fallout had the Great War in the first place, how our society evolves, and why some mighty powerhouses from the past eventually met an unceremonious demise. This line is something I should remember for a lifetime, no matter who I am or whatever position I’ll get to find myself in. It’s incredible how a pastime can teach you a valuable life lesson.

Captain Maxson would roll in his grave and wipe out hidden valley bunker for this atrocity

I found the pulse gun on a random fiend. Freaked the hell out of me when it shutdown ED-E in one hit.

Veronica was always my favorite companion. It always hit hard that I couldnt do more for her. I wish Obsidian made a way for her to join the Followers.

When I first played Fallout New Vegas, I accidentally got Veronica as a follower. I had no idea what I was doing and after talking with her she joined me. I did the Followers option for her quest and it just infuriated me. It was my first taste of the Brotherhood of Steel and I will never forget how selfish and stubborn they can be.

She makes a lot of good point about the brotherhood, they really are a flawed group. Great video

She is my favorite companion. Her alongside Ed-E are a match made in heaven. Especially if you have GRA DLC and give her Two Step Goodbye. After witnessing her mistreatment by BOS I couldn't let her stay. I convinced her to leave. She'll always have Ed-E and I.

Awww her reaction to getting her dress is adorable

Omg, her squeal of happiness when you give her the dress is adorable.

Veronica is one of the characters in this game, like Boone, that I almost felt obligated to help once I knew more about them. New Vegas has a way of tugging at the heartstrings. I'm a sucker for a sad story and, being the D&D Lawful Good type that I am, I immediately dropped everything I was working on to complete her quest as best that it could be completed (Pro Tip: There's no real "good" ending). That _includes_ making sure that McNamara stays Elder, so the Brotherhood can be safely aligned with the NCR via the ceasefire, thus ensuring at least short-term survival. Keep in mind, by entering into her quest, I forged an alliance purely because I wanted her to be happy. I only found out later that McNamara was the right call for the alliance. I picked him over Hardin because McNamara felt like a less bloodthirsty option; the guy that actually wanted to work towards longevity over short-term solutions. Yes, McNamara was being secretive, but his reasoning was solid and his end goals were worthwhile. And then there's just the name of her quest, named because it holds the future survival of the Mojave Brotherhood Chapter in its palm. "I Could Make You Care." No, in the end she couldn't make the Brotherhood care, no matter which Elder was in charge. _But she made me care._ Yeah, I cried over this character a little bit. Shut up, it's good writing.

I don't know why I love this channel so much, it's probably because his voice is so calming or how his content is so entertaining

veronica needs an ending in which she acts as the courier's tech adviser in the lucky 38. there is no way the brotherhood could touch her there after the courier takes over.

Last time I was this early, Vault 34 wasn't so fucked up.

That dude's chugging his life away in the background when you first start to talk to Veronica.

Felicia dey is the perfect voice actor for this character. I've always loved her.

That there's no way to tell Veronica that you found her lover in the Sierra Madre and alive frustrates me to no end.

Veronica was the only companion I knew how to get when I got the game, literally skipped all the places past most of the mission objectives just to get her, favourite character

When you get her to leave the Brotherhood kill the ones who stop you when you leave the bunker then she can join the followers without them being slaughtered also there is a way to broker peace between ncr and the Brotherhood if you have her stay with them and do this she has a reaction as well

9:30 "although I hear the soldiers mount each other as much as they mount the women, so maybe they did keep a little something from the empire" Veronica just called the entire Legion gay, that's why she's the best companion besides ED-E.

"I'd like a large Atomic Shake and a double Brahmin burger. And easy on the agave sauce this time."

I just honestly wanted to give Veronica a hug and save her a dance on the Strip I felt so sorry for her when Elder McNamara crushed her hopes EVEN when he clearly saw that she was right ):

i was so excited when i realized that Felicia Day was the voice actress. Same with Arcade being Zachary Levi

0:30 the guy in the back is a little too attached to that whiskey bottle

Having spend a great deal of time with Veronica, all of the companions really, her story made me feel the most. When I completed the Serra Madre I literally rushed back to find her to tell her about her former lover and where she was and to try and take her back with me so we could find her again, but, no choice to even tell her, which is an absolute crime.

Love Veronica, lore-wise she's by far my favorite companion of all the Fallouts. Instantly fell in love with her character which depresses me because she never really gets a true happy ending.

I love this mission mainly because if you have low intelligence, when they confront you at the followers base, you can say “burp loudly”

*noble tone* “ I go where I am needed” Yes good lady, yes you do.

If you destroyed the Brotherhood before talking to her, and tell her you did, she'll say "This is for them" and attack you.

I like how ol Vladimir is just downing a bottle of vodka in the back round for 15 mins while oxhorn is having the conversation with Veronica

Veronica: I’ll tell people to name their non-ugly children after you I hope I find a baby named Laser Man somewhere in the Mojave

"Circuit breaker pulse gun they sound kinda similiar..." The range finder looks like something from Big MT

Cloudy with a chance of crippling depression......

Ah, Veronica. This girl right here has had my back for about 3/4 of my ~10,000 hours across 3 copies and 2 different platforms of NV. Still, give Veronica a Superheated Saturnite Powerfist, and Vera Keys' Dress, you got yourself a beautiful, hilarious, badass.

I really appreciate the fact that Obsidian put in the "You should take over" dialogue option. It's extremely rare when a game gives me an option to say something that was exactly what I was thinking

13:15 This was the moment that I looked in the background. Dude's taking a huge swig of that alchohol.

I feel like all the companions in Vegas are more badass than in fallout 4...

Funny how their creator's descendant bends the rules to make the BoS a thriving powerhouse in Boston

You may know this, but there is a second pulse gun in the armory of Vault 34. I found a second directional satellite locator too. Another kid has one. You can find him an old building upstairs where he and a friend apparently live. I gave him 20 caps for that one. Of course the one we all see is with the kid running around playing shoot em up in Freeside. I gave him 1000 caps for it. Just wanted to be nice and surprise him. It did!!

Courier: I love you Veronica Veronica: But I’m a lesbian… Courier: [Cherchez Le Femme] Yeah so am I

It was great to see her so happy to get the dress. She lost everything but she can at least have something to make her a little bit happy

13:00 * The Whole World Freezes While The Courier Has A Conversation With Veronica, While The Guy In The Background Is Drowning In His Own Beer*

I loved fallout 3 I haven't played in a number of years, my teenage children play and have all the newer versions and whatnot. I stumbled onto one of your videos by chance and now I'm addicted. Very good stuff man...

Bos paladin: you're hereby sentenced to death Me:Haha pulse gun goes pew pew

Gotta respect the fact that the lesbian character uses fisting weapons

At the end Veronica turned from a mature young woman to a giddy school girl

14 years later, I'm almost 40 years old, and I still think about Veronica. This was a well thought out character.

Imagine how effective Veronica would be with the Industrial Hand

I would really like Oxhorn to do a video just dedicated to Father Elijah (the old leader of the brotherhood of steel) his story reaches into the DLC Old World Blues and the DLC with the Sierra Madre. I know he said about learning about him in the Sierra Madre but his story reaches deeper in the DLC Old World Blues. So I think making a video putting the pieces together from everything would be really nice. His story seems really awesome. It would be a really nice way to tie up the story of the BOS. If you agree like this comment so the bearded man can see it. Anyway thank you :D

What if you uhhh... already blew up hidden valley? Edit: Thanks for all these likes gang

This is the second of your videos I have watched and, while I'm not as big a Fallout fan as I am an Elder Scrolls fan, I now find myself wanting to play a quick round of Fallout 3/New Vegas/4 thanks to your videos. The love you have for the franchise is so obvious from your narration and you present the depth of both the characters and the lore you discus within this game with what I can only describe as "reverent awe". I have finally found a creator whose videos about games are actually worth watching. Thank you.

That guy in the back really needs to stop ;-; how long is he gonna keep drinking,1:34

*I can't believe i watched almost an hour of video about a Fallout side character*

I had her join the Followers because the West Coast Brotherhood is ultimately doomed in my view much like the Legion though for different reasons. Their ironclad adherence to their doctrine makes them unable to adapt, their war with the NCR has decimated their numbers, their disregard for diplomacy won't win them any friends but will make them plenty of enemies who can fight back, and their general unwillingness to recruit outsiders (with a couple of extreme exceptions) cripples their potential for growth. That last issue is particularly problematic because even if they survive the events of New Vegas and get better at not pissing off all the other factions in the Wasteland, their limited gene pool means that sooner or later they will most likely start to suffer from inbreeding, and given how few of them are left and how long these problems have plagued the West Coast Brotherhood, I don't think it will take long. Unless the West Coast chapter adapts some of the reforms Elder Lyons made for the East Coast Chapter, they are doomed. And judging by the fact that a whole team of Paladins attempt to murder you and Veronica for merely speaking to the Elder and trying to convince him change is necessary indicates that even if some members come around to her way of thinking it could easily lead to a civil war within the Brotherhood at worst but at the very least would likely lead to a splintering like what happened with the Outcasts and the East Coast. Regardless of what happens in New Vegas, the West Coast Brotherhood is most likely doomed and no amount of Power Armor, Laser Rifles, or fanboys typing/shouting "Ad Victoriam" can change that.

"Which means we can use Veronica as a workbench!"

47:44 Dat face of the ghoul xD. I want a mod that turns their faces into that graphics glitch! :D

For the curious there actually is a solar power plant near the same place that Helios One is in the game. Its called Nevada Solar One

Veronica was a very well and interestingly written character. I thought it was pretty cool you could give her that unique dress from the Dead Money DLC too.

It's a shame you couldn't bring christine with you back to the Mojave

Funny thing, I wanted vironica to have an ending where she would leave the brotherhood but not be condemned to be a scavenger. In my attempt when the bos paladins attacked I opted to instead high tail it out of there rather then fight, the results The game gets glitchy, first you fail vironica's companion mission, second she still counts as being in your party even if you dismiss her, and if she dies after (which can be done on hardcore mode) the game dosnt register her as dead instead it registers her as dismissed and you get to keep her companion perk.

When I do the dead money dlc I'm going to make sure to bring back vera's dress for Veronica

Once scoured the wiki, weighted options, and planned an entire play-through just to give Veronica the best ending possible. I love her character and wanted good things for her. She is probably my favorite companions from any game and realizing her ending could be bittersweet, at best, was devastating.

The dude just chugging the whiskey in the background of the first dialogue is low-key hilarious

Veronica is such a sweetheart I love her voice so much it brings joy to me every time.