Dead Money: How many gold bars did you escape with?

[ElfShotTheFood]

Damn, those things are heavy. :(

I got out with three, after much dropping of items I deemed replaceable and devouring any consumables that weighed more than one pound. Using Buffout allowed me to carry 315 pounds of stuff without being overloaded.

I'll probably sell two bars and put one on the bed at my home base as a souvenir.

[Dolus]

You can get all of them, though its tricky.....

[Gropax]

all of them i just opened the console and typed player.modav carryweight 2500 then after i got them to my house i did player.modav carryweight -2500 to fix it back.

[DragonSamurai360]

Originally posted by Gropax:

all of them i just opened the console and typed player.modav carryweight 2500 then after i got them to my house i did player.modav carryweight -2500 to fix it back.

Or use tgm (toggle god mode).

[Incunabulum]

OK OP - you probaly should have specified 'without using the console or mods to increase carry weight or reduce the weight of the bars'.

Hell, if you want to go the console route, I got out with 300% of the gold bars - I just player.additemed them in.

Unfortunately, as I'm sure you found out once you got out, they aren't worth anywhere near as much as you'd expect. A big thing is made about taking or not taking them and running and then you find out how much gold trades for in the wasteland . . .

[butterfingers158]

With 100 barter they sell for 9kish caps each, of course most vendors don't carry that much money

[profit by frog]

Mission bugged out, so I used the console to teleport out and cry myself to sleep.
So...Basically 0 gold bars.

[hghwolf]

None. Because that`s the entire point of Dead Money.

[ElfShotTheFood]

There's no rule saying you can't take any of the gold bars.

[곽달호대위]

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Don't have to stealth boy. You just walk

[hghwolf]

Originally posted by ElfShotTheFood:

There's no rule saying you can't take any of the gold bars.

No, but the point is to let go. With the whole sequence up to this point being focused on getting into the vault and robbing it of whatever may be inside, the most poignant end is to leave the gold untouched.

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

I take one as a souvenir; a momento of my journey to the Seirra Madre. I'm not hurting for caps at that stage. I always imagine a good-aligned courier sitting and telling stories to his grandkids with a little show-and-tell.

[Genjinaro]

All of them. My character was a hoarder, most of the carry weight perks & weight reduction perks were on my character.

They were right, the hardest part was letting go............ Until I got to the Gun runners to sell them for 8000+ caps, wait a few days, rinse & repeat. By then it was really easy

[SnackSnatcher]

Like 3 or 4. If you were smart you should of racked up thousands of pre war money by winning at the casino. Most shops don't carry the amount the gold bars sell for and money isn't that hard to come by.

[ElfShotTheFood]

I did take some other souvenirs, namely a couple of weapons, Vera's outfit, armor, bogus slugs, and a few leftover casino chips. I found out afterwards that there's a snow globe in the Villa; wouldn't have minded gettting that too. Next time. ;)

FWIW I felt kind of bad for taking anything, but at the same time I felt like I deseved something for all that I went through.

[con artist]

37. Drop behind forcefield, make it out by skin of your teeth.