Fallout: New Vegas - The Low XP Challenge 

Jon: we are going to be needing to steal anything not nailed down Me: so your normal play style? lol

"Look at all of these fantastic locations that I'll be avoiding like the flipping plague!"

"I've killed every NPC" Now, Jon, you missed a couple DLCs worth of NPCs in your NV Kill Everything! Still hoping and waiting for NV Kill Everything remake.

"Perception, we will be getting rid of all of that, won't be needing any of that nonsense"

"I've killed every NPC" "Hello I'm Dr kemp"

" i don't like his groin pump." so we're not getting a groin pump challenge?

Jon, this has been bothering me for years. You always buy a shovel, but there's a full condition shovel right next to one of the wells at goodspring source.

If you never saw that Doctor before, then you didn't kill everything in that playthrough 😱.

Watching a super drugged crazy woman trying to uppercut Lenius while he slides away in fear, MAY be the funniest imagery that this channel has created.

I can think of one way of reducing the amount of XP you get: sympathetic explosion. If I remember correctly, an explosive going off due to a nearby explosion doesn't count as you killing them as long as it's the second explosion that finishes them off. So your extremely Looney Tunes attempted kill on a Deathclaw might be useful at the very end (or in cases where the death of someone would be useful)

This is a playthrough of a man that has played a game so many times it has basically become his second life

Jon seemed convinced that NCR would shoot him on sight and Legion would spawn assassins when NCR reputation was neutral and Legion reputation was non-existent.

When I think that Jon has done everything with Fallout: New Vegas...he has yet another brilliant idea! :D

How did I know he was going to forget to put his armor back on.

You forgot to mention you also once beat the game with one health bar. Guess it ain't that big of a deal.

56:50 "the world's slowest speedrun." Oh Jon, always so quotable.

59:00 "Time to start doing the drugs." -Jon, 2019

What an excellent way to end off my Birthday. I'll never grow tired of New Vegas.

Can you imagine what that interaction must have been like for the BOS? A woman walks into their bunker, steals their key, walks back out, and starts shooting.

It only took 4 years but Jon finally used the skilled leaving goodsprings glitch after denouncing it's use in don't starve. Truly this is the speed run sequel we deserved.

"I've never built a character like this" That's a thing I have really been enjoying in these games lately. I have always built a smart speech craft character in the past, so I decided my most recent run to make a hard core boxer. Basically nothing but unarmed weapons and no armor (but armored clothings are ok, I was a little liberal on this basically allowing stuff like Khan leathers and the duster) It was just such a wildly different experience not being able to talk your way out of a lot of things and having a bunch of lesser known speech checks for things come up. Hell I ran into missions I've never done before cause I had managed to talk myself around them before.

now that you found a new npc, a remastered kill everything run is in order.

I love how Jon tries to Disarm a power fist wielding Legion soldier. Jon, it's called Unarmed combat for a reason. 🤣

Man, it takes a lot of experience to make these challenge runs!

Over an hour of new MATN New Vegas content on a Sunday night? Yes please!

Could you do a video with the most obscure/interesting ways you can fail quests? After your GRA video I have an itch for this kinda thing.

This would be a lot easier if Obsidian actually put in the ending where you ignore the Mojave, and just head back to the NCR through the outpost. I think one of the developers thought it up as a joke, but they didn't do it.

40:14 You can dodge the fast travel location at nellis air force base. If you stay near the left side of the road you can trigger the guards without triggering the fast travel location.

I like Jon's NV videos so much because rewatching him talk about an explain a game he knows so much about is utterly fascinating. Then he plays the game in unorthodox ways that make him learn more odd tidbits. Good job, Jon. I appreciate your work.

Jon, I've always wondered why you don't use items to set off traps- like dropping a pool cue on the ground and 'holding' it and pushing it into bear traps... Like a minesweeper.

You missed the chance to say "i have a single single shotgun"

I never picked up on how snarky Yes Man can be. I always did all of the optional objectives when I did the Yes Man route, and I guess I happened to have not killed the robot army in that playthrough. Jon's challenge runs are the only reason I've even heard the dialog lol, good stuff as always.

Everytime I watch, I learn something new, I didn't know skilled can stack twice.

I live for Jon playing Fallout NV runs. Love these vids! Also had no clue after my thousands of hours in this game that the Khans had a secret armory o.O

As a fellow New Vegas junkie, I found this thoroughly entertaining. About what you said at the end with the speech check to fight Lanius one on one, you'd need Good Karma for that. As far as I'm aware, there are no ways to gain karma without also gaining xp, since you need to finish quests certain ways or kill fiends/ghouls without them attacking you to have positive karma. So I'm pretty sure you're almost exactly at the xp floor Jon :)

Since I'm only watching your The Outer Worlds playthrough episodes after I have completed the same parts of the game for myself I can't find words for my appreciation of your New Vegas content to enjoy inbetween. God bless you, Jon!

John, your New Vegas videos are my absolute favorite videos in the world. I never get board of them and I've rewatched the John Sawyer playthrough entirely 7 times now.

If you want another challenge or atleast different way to play, try going for the worst possible endings for all factions you can without straight up killing half the factions, see how bad you can make the Mojave

22:13 So does that mean you didn't kill everyone in your last run?

I've never done this kind of run, but I used to experiment with finding the fastest way to Vegas so I could get to the clinic and get an implant at the lowest level. It involved looting Goodsprings, heading north to loot Chance's grave for the unique combat knife, then doing a non-stop run north past cazadors and fire geckos, hanging a right through fiend territory to get to NCR territory, taking the monorail inside and selling the snowglobes to finance the first implant.

I love the way yes man was voiced, literally so perfect

I don't think I'll ever tire of these FNV challenge runs. Serious kudos to you and Mitten Squad for doing all the things I'd never have the combined patience and know-how to do myself in this amazing game.

The leveled lists in Nelis have lower-level requirements, Combat armor is the "worst" armor on that list.

The comments are begging for evil jon to return jon, hear us jon!!

Mix Turbo's effect with the Rushing Water campfire recipe item (1 jet, 1 pure water, w/50 survival = +50% atk speed) and anything becomes possible

thanks jon for always being consistent definitely my favorite youtube channel

I love all your fallout videos, but the new vegas ones are always my favourite and despite how old kill and no kill are I've re-watched them at least ten times each. Thank you for all these videos (every video you make is exceptional).

All these years later, and I still wait for the return of _Evil Jon,_ in some way or another.

John definitely needs to do a no kill/kill everything run on the Outer Worlds. It's a perfect fit for it.

I find it ironic that only a super experienced New Vegas player such as Jon can actually complete a minimal XP challenge run.

The end slides say goodsprings prospers, while at the same time the powder gangers are terrorising the area. We know goodsprings are a prime target for the powder gangers and without the player's help they will have a tough time defending themselves. So it doesn't really make sense for both of those to be true.

The combat armor in the barracks isn't scaled to level, it's always there. You didn't break the game. Even if you show up at level 50 it will still be basic combat armor

Jon is slowly becoming the Ceave of Fallout :P next Can you complete new vegas while crouched, going backwards, only jumping no walking and without collecting any caps! :P

Ah yes, Caesar's top Legate, Lah-Nay-Us.

I would like to see a "Kill Only Muggy" playthrough.

Jon and New Vegas go together like tea and biscuits

Is low XP anarchy ending a form of Anarcho-Primitivism?

I love how you decided to make the hardest bit *harder* because you were disappointed it was that easy.

Since I see the similarities to a speedrun, I kinda want to see this as a category with a time penalty per experience. The room for optimization is there.

You might be able to get lower XP on the NCR path. The quests produce more XP, but you're able to completely avoid confronting Benny, so you might end up ahead overall.

man john you have been killing it with the fallout videos lately. keep it up!

the whole time i was thinking "why didnt he put any points into melee?"

I bet you could kill the Legion folks with dynamite on the ground like you did to the Deathclaws in your Gun Runner's Arsenal Challenges video to avoid the XP gained. And anyone else that you might need killed as well. Maybe you could spec in stealth and grab a few stealth boys, pop them once you're in The Fort, drop all the dynamite, then kite all the guys right on top of them.

After 35:00 I now really want to see Jon try and do a proper speedrun of New Vegas using all the weird tricks they have like the reloading dash and broken leg speed boosts.

32:05 you can tell by his enthusiasm that those charlies were REALLY nice...

I always pick skilled you still max your level well before the end and it gives you a bunch of points so worth it.

Never thought I’d see this game again and I couldn’t be happier

I didn't know how badly I wanted to see you doing this run.

Wonder if you could get out of some kill xp by blowing lanius up with a dropped mini nuke or dynamite. I don't think the game gave Jon the xp for the first deathclaw he blew up that way in the GRA challenge video.

I don’t know if you will see this, but it might be possible to complete New Vegas with less Xp by doing the NCR ending. Unlike every other ending the NCR does not require you to interact with Benny at all. Just go into the lucky 38 and talk to House to get the courier to spawn. After that, you can fail things go boom, King’s gambit, and You’ll know it when it happens without getting off the NCR ending. Completing the game with 3 quests completed. There are a couple extra skill checks by doing this path, for example the 75 science terminal to kill house. But overall it should be less xp. Also, like some other people have mentioned you can kill legate lanius with lots of dropped dynamite, potentially reducing the amount of xp needed even further.

I just never get tired of these runs. You do you Jon!

Never clicked on a video this quickly i fucking love new vegas

Funny seeing the slides for factions / people you've never met (i.e. The Kings).

This is quite an achievement! Well done Jon.

9:53 Deathclaws to the left of me, Super Mutants to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Alternative title - Jo's Bizzare Adventure

MATN + Fallout: New Vegas = Me happy. Thanks Jon.

Skilled is one of my favourite traits tbh Always wanted to do a Logan's Loophole run, maybe soon xD

I love how, when you apply a rule to a run, you do so, literally. I probably would have taken a different route and used the Stealth Boy. So now I have to wonder. What is the lowest score and will this be a world record?

what happens if you snipe benny and kill him before meeting him? would that be less exp? or use stealth boy to pick pocket him and hide then sneak up to his room and yes man

I also discovered Dr. Kemp for the first time the other day. New Vegas truly is the game that keeps on giving

Jon, I've seen you buy a low condition shovel in several of these playthroughs, and it doesn't really make much of a difference when you're just using it to dig up graves, but did you know that you can find one with 100% condition for free propped up next to one of the water pumps Sunny Smiles asks you to clear out? That's always been my go-to graverobbing shovel.

That was pretty awesome. I knew the doc was at McCarran since I explore every inch of each settlement. I hardly use melee or unarmed if ever.

0:58 God creates Jon

Jon you could have pickpocketed La Longue Carabine from stealing by pickpocketing his amo and then entering and exiting the terminal so he unequips his gun so you can pickpocket it. With luck 10 you have almost %100 win chance in the casino. with a couple of reloads you should be able to win a couple thousand from jackpot on the slot machine, another 1500 from blackjack, and a couple thousand from roulette.

Jon! I've been subbed for a few years now, and I love your content. NV is a welcome sight back on the channel.

Does the ycs186 camp have an actual location? If not that is pretty easily the best gun you can get without finding any locationa

That Lanius moon walking at running speed while a legion gangbang is happening was just gold.

Love these challenge runs of new vegas! Great work my good man

studying the range of location revealing on places ive never been to in my first blind playthrough

Going from watching Jon's 9 year old videos to this I noticed just how much deeper his voice sounds, like it's not a huge difference, but it is there

Dude, this the best challenge yet. Don’t know how you could possibly top it.

Anyone remember he forgot the doc Mitchell run

"Now, this is going to be extremely unusual. We're not going to building a usual character here at all. So Perception, we'll want to be getting rid of all that. Won't be needing any of that nonsense." This joke practically writes itself.

Mitten Squad and Jon REALLY love this game. I've still not finished a single game yet could watch these guys play all day.

My god I nearly gave myself whiplash clicking on this video

The year is 2178, the disembodied head of Jon is completing a no kill run of Fallout New Vegas using only a cornish game hen.

Can we get a Fallout Stealy special where you just run around stealing things from everyone, murdering anyone who gets in your way, then you sit in a safe room and show off all the valuable things you stole (perhaps within 2 hours)?

you seem to have forgotten about the trading terminal in the lucky 38 suite.

"That was a good idea till it wasn't." - Best quote 2019