Fallout New Vegas Challenges
184 Challenges
A complete and up-to-date searchable list of every Fallout: New Vegas challenge, with what each one requires.
Challenges are optional objectives that grant XP (and sometimes perks) when completed. This list covers the base game and all DLC.
Kill enemies using Unarmed weapons.
Score Critical Hits with one-handed pistols.
Cripple enemy torsos.
Cripple enemy heads.
Kill Abominations.
Inflict damage with Explosives launchers.
Saved All Companions.
Apply mods to weapons.
Kill Mutated Animals.
Kill anything (and pretty much everything).
Pick Pockets.
Recruited Dean Domino, Christine, Dog... and what's inside Dog.
Achieve Speech failures.
Alerted Sierra Madre Holograms 20 times.
Built a robot bent on destruction.
Inflict damage with rifle-grip Energy weapons.
Used Sierra Madre Vending Machines.
Do damage with Energy weapons.
Kill Mutated Insects.
Recovered X-13 cardiac regulator sneaky suit!
Confronted Father Elijah in the Sierra Madre's Vault.
Killed Cazadores in the Big MT.
Killed more Cazadores in the Big MT.
Killed even more Cazadores in the Big MT.
Do damage with any submachine gun, the light machine gun, or minigun.
Launched the nuclear missile from the Ashton silo.
Score Critical Hits with rifle-grip Guns.
Craft items at a Workbench, Campfire, Reloading Bench, or elsewhere.
Craft more items at a Workbench, Campfire, Reloading Bench, or elsewhere.
Score Critical Hits with rifle-grip Energy Weapons.
Use addictive chems.
Collected Sierra Madre Cards of the Dead Man's Hand. (Ace and Eight of Clubs and Spades + Queen of Clubs)
Found Dean's Secret Suitcases.
Kill Robot enemies.
Heal with food.
Inflict damage with Unarmed weapons.
Eat more corpses.
Eat corpses.
Disable mines.
Completed the X-8 Basic Testing Program.
Completed the X-8 Advanced Testing Program.
Completed the X-8 Testing Program...with Nightstalkers!
Play blackjack.
Use doctor's bags.
Find all of ED-E's upgrades in the Divide.
Discovered all the locations in the Divide.
Kill enemies with Energy Weapons.
Created an Abomination!
Use Turbo.
Find all of the RALPHIE the Robot posters in the Divide.
Find Vault 11.
Find Vault 19.
Find Vault 22.
Find Vault 3.
Find Vault 34.
Repair items in your inventory yourself.
Kill enemies using Unarmed weapons.
Use Rad Away.
Cripple enemy heads with Unarmed weapons.
Killed 10 Harvesters.
Killed 10 Seekers.
Killed 10 Trappers.
Inflict damage to enemy heads with Unarmed weapons.
Inflict damage with mines and thrown grenades.
Disable enemy torsos with Unarmed weapons.
Hack more computer terminals.
Completed the Sierra Madre Gala Event.
Mysterious Stranger appearances.
Hack computer terminals.
Heard the entire history of the Sierra Madre.
Completed Lonesome Road.
Cripple enemies' right arms (or equivalent).
Kill enemies with one-handed Melee Weapons.
Kill enemies with one-handed Guns.
Take more chems.
Dismember limbs.
Inflict damage with shotguns.
Scouted the Zion Valley for signs of the White Legs.
Use any large two-handled weapon to kill enemies.
Kill enemies with Explosives.
Kill more enemies with Explosives.
Used Poisons.
Dressed in a complete set of Dr. Klein's clothes.
Knock down enemies.
Lose at Caravan.
Win at Caravan.
Win at Caravan.
Do damage with Guns weapons.
Score Critical Hits with one-handed Energy Weapons.
Score 100 Critical Hits with Unarmed weapons.
Cripple limbs.
Play roulette games.
Pick locks.
Destroyed All Companions
Kill anything.
Kill anything (just more of it).
Do damage with Explosive weapons.
Pick locks.
Inflict damage to enemy heads with automatic rifle-grip Guns.
Had an experiment go horribly awry.
Made up your mind... about your brain.
Reactivated all of the Sink's robotic assistants.
Discover more Locations.
Evacuated Zion.
Become addicted (over and over).
Miss Fortune appearances.
Dressed in a complete set of Dr. Mobius' clothes.
Kill more enemies with Energy weapons.
Uncovered all 6 references to the past of Courier 6... your past.
Visited every location in the Big MT.
Do damage with Melee weapons.
Found all journal entries in the Divide.
Kill enemies with thrown weapons.
Use any shoulder mounted weapon to kill enemies.
Crushed the White Legs.
Do damage with Unarmed weapons.
Play slots.
Dared to venture beyond the Big MT's perimeter... more than once!
Completed Old World Blues.
Complete Quests.
Use Rad-X.
Resupplied Daniel and the Sorrows.
Acquired all upgrades for the Divide's signature weapon.
Saved Father Elijah in the Sierra Madre's Vault.
Damage enemies with one-handed laser weapons.
Kill enemies with Guns.
Kill enemies with Guns.
Inflict damage to enemy heads with one-handed Guns.
Collected a lot of Sierra Madre Chips.
Collected Sierra Madre Chips.
Achieve Speech successes.
Recovered X-8 vertebrae-pulse-de-sensitizer frequency!
Heal damage with stimpaks.
Use stimpaks.
Kill Super Mutants.
Discovered all six of the survivalist's hidden caches.
Inflict damage with rifle-grip Guns.
Dared to venture into the Courier's Mile.
Kill enemies with rifle-grip Guns.
Listened to Companions' and Elijah's stories.
Heard where your travels might take you in the future... all the way to the end of the road.
Score Critical Hits with one-handed Melee Weapons.
Have your own limbs become crippled.
Inflict damage with two-handed Melee Weapons.
Discovered all about Ulysses' past.
Kill enemies with Melee Weapons.
Kill enemies with Melee Weapons.
Complete challenges.
Completed the X-13 Basic Infiltration Test.
Completed the X-13 Advanced Infiltration Test.
Completed the X-13 Robot Compliance Test.
Discover locations.
Detonated all of the warheads in the Divide.
Disable enemy limbs with two-handed Melee Weapons.
Arrive at Zion.
Killed 10 Yao Guai in the Zion Valley.
Damage enemy heads with non-automatic Guns rifles.
Sell items through Barter.
Inflict damage to enemy heads with Energy Weapons.
Disintegrate enemies with laser weapons.
Inflict damage with Unarmed weapons.
Drink water items.
Explode enemy pants.
Kill Mr. House with a 9 Iron or Nephi's Golf Driver.
Kill any named Legion members with Hunting Revolvers, Ranger Sequoias, Brush Guns, Service Rifles, Hunting Rifles, or Cowboy Repeaters.
Kill any named NCR Ranger or commissioned officer (Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Colonel, General) with Machetes, Rippers, Chainsaws, Throwing Spears, or Ballistic Fists.
Kill Robots with 5.56mm Pistols.
Kill Mojave Wasteland Cazadores with Tin Grenades, Long Fuse Dynamite, and Time Bombs.
Cause damage with unique Mojave Wasteland weapons.
Kill adult Mojave Wasteland Deathclaws with .22 Pistols, Switchblades, Boxing Tape, Recharger Rifles, or Dynamite.
Kill members of NCR or Legion hit squads with weapons affected by the Cowboy perk.
Cripple Caesar's head with Throwing Spears.
Kill Caesar with a Knife or Combat Knife.
Kill Mojave Wasteland Mr. Gutsys and Sentry Bots with Brass Knuckles, Spiked Knuckles, Tire Irons, and Lead Pipes.
Do damage with Gun Runners' Arsenal (GRA) Weapons.
Cripple Right Arms with Shotguns.
Kill Chairmen, White Gloves, or Omertas with any submachine gun, light machine gun, or minigun.
Kill Animals with any Fat Man or Fat Mines.
Kill President Kimball with any One-Handed Pistol.
Kill Benny with his own gun, Maria.
Kill Feral Ghouls with Maria, Gehenna, and Holy Frag Grenades.
Kill Super Mutants with 5.56mm Pistols, Plasma Defenders, Plasma Grenades, Power Fists, Rippers, or the Bozar.
Kill Fiends, Vipers, or Jackals with Tire Irons, Baseball Bats, Lead Pipes, Machetes, .44 Magnum Revolvers, or Sawed-Off Shotguns.
Kill Abominations with Katanas, Dynamite, Machetes, Throwing Spears, Throwing Knives, and Throwing Hatchets.