32. A lot of folks may already know this one, but it bears pointing out and reinforcing. In Fallout: New Vegas, you can eventually coax the former NCR soldier companion Boone to reveal his tragic backstory, which includes a pregnant wife kidnapped by Legion and taken to Cottonwood Cove to be auctioned off as a slave. If you visit Cottonwood Cove, just outside is a place known as Sniper’s Nest, where you can get the Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle with 100 Lockpick skill. This sniper rifle isn’t just any sniper rifle–it’s Boone’s. And it’s the gun he used to mercy kill his wife (and unborn child) as she stood on the slave auction block. Yup, that sniper rifle you’ve been using the entire game was Boone’s and it was used to kill his family, from that very spot.
No wonder he’s so quiet.
