Old World Blues (add-on)

Old World Blues is the third add-on for Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks.
==Narration==
==Synopsis==
In Old World Blues, the Courier is abducted and experimented upon by the Think Tank, a group of pre-War scientists that have replaced their aging bodies with machines. Learning that the Think Tank has removed and subsequently lost the Courier's brain, the Courier aids the Think Tank scientists in fighting Dr. Mobius, the rogue scientist currently in possession of their missing brain. Exploring the Big MT facility, the Courier rediscovers lost technology and fights off lobotomites, robo-scorpions, and more.
Finally meeting Dr. Mobius, the Courier learns that he is not actually evil, but has messed with the Think Tank's memories and constantly threatens them in order to keep them from experimenting on the entire wasteland. By stealing the Courier's brain, Dr. Mobius was preventing the Think Tank from using the brain's unique properties to move their own brains into host bodies and escape the crater. After choosing what to do with Mobius and reacquiring their brain, the Courier returns to the Think Tank and can choose to either convince them to stay in Big MT or to kill them.
==Characters==
==Creatures==
==Robots and computers==
==Factions==
* Think Tank
* Circle of Steel
==Items==
===Armor and clothing===
===Consumables===
===Schematics & recipes===
===Weapons===
===Weapon mods===
* K9000 mod - Mentat chow
* K9000 mod - Resla roil
* LAER mod - auxiliary recharger chip
* LAER mod - prismatic lens
===Other items===
===World objects===
==Locations==
==Quests==
The XP that is rewarded for quests are based on the player character's level upon the quest's completion. The total experience points available for the main storyline quests is anywhere between 3,000 (for levels 1-4) to 22,000 (for levels 45-50). The experience points gained from the side quests range from 75 to 500 per quest.
==Challenges==
==Perks==
==Traits==
==Achievements/Trophies==
==Notes==
* The facilities inside the Big MT crater seem to be where Father Elijah found and gathered most of his equipment prior to Dead Money, such as the bomb collars and the holorifle, although Elijah claims he invented the holorifle.743.00Hz ULF radio signal: "Wish I... still had that damn Holorifle. Spent forever making it... need to find it when this is all done." There is also evidence Christine Royce and Ulysses both visited Big MT around the same time as Father Elijah.Patient log: Y-17.9
* Like all New Vegas add-ons, Old World Blues raises the level cap by 5.Honest Hearts screenshot, DLC out May 17 - Bethesda Softworks Forums (archived). The add-on also offers new traits (and gives you the opportunity to change your own traits if you've already chosen them) including one called Logan's Loophole that will allow you to cap your level at 30 and give you additional bonuses regarding chems.
* Old World Blues can be difficult for low-level player characters. Before going in, the game advises that Old World Blues is recommended for Couriers of Level 15+. Some enemies in the Big Empty can offer a challenge even for a Courier at level 30+. Old World Blues enemies pose a much larger threat for Couriers at Level 40+, however, as many enemies level with the player character.
* Equipment will not be stripped from the player character at the beginning of the add-on, and it features an open-world setting. There is also no limit to the amount of equipment that can be taken into the add-on.Is there anyone that DOES like having their gear taken away? - Bethesda Softworks Forums - Page 3 (archived)
* Like all New Vegas add-ons, companions cannot accompany the Courier to the new land. However, there is one temporary companion in the add-on, a cyberdog named Roxie who has her own ending if she is created.
* There is an upgradeable housing (via completing quests), called The Sink, in the add-on,Jason Bergman on The Sink (archived) complete with a few robotic appliances which have individual personalities and different voices.
* In addition to providing free basic healing services (restoring HP, repairing limb damage, removing radiation and drug dependency), the Sink Auto-Doc allows the player character to alter their looks, hairstyle and, for one time only, their traits. If gathered, the auto-doc can also integrate implants that give permanent attributes to the player character.
* There is a new radio station added to both the Big Empty and the Mojave. It plays 3 new jazz songs, along with 2 songs from Radio New Vegas. The song Begin Again by Vera Keyes is also heard.
* Once the add-on is completed, the player may return to the Big Empty via the Big Mountain Transportalponder!. They cannot, however, use the item while in the inside, in a combat situation, or in Freeside, The Fort, Camp McCarran or the Strip. The player can, however, use it in Higgs Village, outside of the houses.
* Completion of the add-on does not close off side quests that are as yet uncompleted, even if these quests have not yet begun.
* In Ulysses' Point, the player character "gets a taste" of Ulysses by listening to holotapes left in the Big Empty. Patient log: Y-17.9 also gives a statement referring to Lonesome Road.
* Christine Royce and Father Elijah from Dead Money are also involved in Old World Blues, although they do not appear in the add-on. There are holotapes of Christine speaking, along with her weapon and her armor. Father Elijah's weapons can also be found in his hideout, Elijah's Watch, along with his notes compiled while in Big MT.
* If you play Christine's holotapes in front of her during the Dead Money add-on, she will not take any notice.
* The Sierra Madre poster can be seen in Big MT.
* The Courier's brain, spine, and heart are removed by the scientists and held as leverage. At the beginning of the add-on, the spine and heart can be found in The Sink, and after completing the main questline, the brain is placed among them.
* The sound from the speakers in Dead Money can also be heard at the end of the trailer and from the speakers in the Little Yangtze prison camp.
* Some areas contain hanging dolls on a string like in the X-13 research facility. These are the same as the swamp totems in the Fallout 3 add-on, Point Lookout.
* Unlike Dead Money or Honest Hearts, all achievements or trophies can be earned in one playthrough without replaying.
* When in Hardcore mode, the sleep meter stays at zero unless the Courier sleeps. There may be a delay before the sleep meter starts.
==Behind the scenes==
* The Big Empty was a location that was scrapped from Black Isle's canceled Fallout 3 (Van Buren).
* At one point prior to release, Chris Avellone set his location on his Twitter profile to "Big MT, Mojave," placing the Big Empty as a location within the Mojave Wasteland and thus teasing its possible appearance in a future Fallout: New Vegas add-on.
* According to Joshua Sawyer, Old World Blues was born out of Chris Avellone's desire to make a "humor-oriented" DLC where one of the main objectives was to make the players laugh.Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream Part 3 (reference starts at 42:25)Joshua Sawyer: "I feel comfortable saying this - Chris wanted to make a humor-oriented DLC. He wanted to make a DLC where the focus was actually like, 'no, we're just going to try to be funny.'"
* The add-on contains many homages to the science fiction B-movies of the 1950s. There are many references to these types of movies throughout the add-on, and both Dr. Mobius and Dr. 0 mention them directly.
* Old World Blues was nominated for Best DLC Award at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards. It was the only one of the Fallout: New Vegas add-ons to be nominated.
* The add-on's main quest shares many similarities with the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz in that the Courier searches for their brain (Scarecrow), their heart (The Tin Man) and their spine (courage for the Lion) after initially being unconscious after entering Big Mountain (as Dorothy was knocked unconscious in order to enter Oz). Additionally, Dr. Mobius is initially portrayed to be malevolent or sinister, much like the Wizard of Oz himself, only to have it revealed that he is quite misunderstood. The Big Mountain Transportalponder! acts as the Ruby Slippers, taking the Courier back home. Dr. Mobius mentions this subtly, though he refers to the three main characters of the film as a "band of murderous thugs."
* Several concepts from Old World Blues such as the proton axe and the robo-scorpion are inspired by Wasteland, the 1980s game which is considered to be Fallout's predecessor.
==Bugs==
==Gallery==
OldWorldBluesCover.png|Original issue of the cover
FNVOWB_Cover_Landscape.png|Landscape orientation
Old World Blues labs.jpg
Old World Blues roboscorpions.jpg
Old World Blues Dr Klein.jpg
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OWB MuggyF.jpg
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OWB DowntheSightsF.jpg
Owb-map-markers.png|Old World Blues map markers
BigEmptyMap.png|The Big Empty
Think tanks line up.jpg|The 5 scientists
==Videos==
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==References==
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