Dead Money DLC- How to Get all 37 Gold Bars? [tutorial]

[The Zohan]

So far I found out that there are 2 ways to get all of them:

1) before entering the safe, place explosives on the stairs where Father Elijah would come from. After having his dialog in the safe you inmediately start walking out of the safe (with the 37 gold bars) and head to the blue barrier door where Elijah woud come from. Keep walking against the blue barrier. It will open for a split second when Elijah would come your way. Somehow you get glitched inside while Elijah is on the other side of the blue barriers getting destroyed by your placed explosives. And you just head out with out of care to the exit and the DLC ends.

2) (no need for explosives) After having his dialog in the safe, head out quickly to the big container close to the exit on your right from the safe and hide with all the golden bars. you place all the bars close to it on the ground and watch when Elijah is coming your way. The second he gets passed your exit, quickly go to him and sort of bodypush him as close as possible to the blue barrier door. The second he reaches his gun you kill him. Now his body is laying close to the blue barrer door. You then quickly get all of ur golden bars and put it in Father Elijah's inventory. (Quick save)
Now you run your a$$ off back to where you came from, past the holograms and such. Move quickly, avoid everything, Time is of the essence! Once you arrived near the exit go to Father Elijah's body (whos now on the other side of the blue barrier) and go into 3rd-person and grab his loot and ofc all of the golden bars. And head quickly to the exit.

There is also a 3rd option, but this is for when you have a: Stealthboy equiped + have a 100 STEALTH.

3) (no need for explosives) After having his dialog in the safe, head out quickly to the big container close to the exit on your right from the safe and hide with all the golden bars. Equipe the stealthboy and hide from Father Elijah. Once he's close to the door at the safe and just when hr's about to raise his hand to open the vault then you quickly go to the exit. Not only do you got all 37 golden bars and you get the achievement of locking Father Elijah in the safe.
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Edit:

I tried option 3 and it worked!
Thanks everyone for the replies and help!! I was able to get all 37 golden bars...but with a huge cost.

After I exited the bunker and get my weapons back I noticed that something was wrong. All, but I really mean ALL my unique weapons have disappeared! The Esther, the minigun from 'the devil's throat', the energy weapon from 'crashed vertibird' and even my grenade launcher from the cave where the Legendary Deathclaw is located. Some of them were even equiped at Ed-E. All gone, nowhere to be found.
Ahwell, gain some you lose some I guess ^^

[Vyvyvn]

The problem is you're still too close to Elijah. Exiting the vault door:

Head to the round dome-thing stcking out of the floor on the left that's directly opposite the shielded door. Hide beside it directly opposite the barrier Elijah will walk through on.

As soon as Elijah is just passign the turrets THEN make a beeline towards the barrier which should still be down.

Sitting next to the door, even with 100% stealth will never work. NPCs can see in a 180 degree arc which INCLUDES a little bit behind them to each side.

[psychotron666]

I do option 3 all the time with less than 20 stealth. You gotta stay behind that generator to the right as soon as you exit the vault , and as Elijah passes, you move to the other side to stay out if line of sight.

Also before confronting Elijah you have to activate security and kill all the turrets.

And when you book it through the door way that gets the shield, you have to wait until Elijah moves his hand out to activate the terminal before you "run" through it ( by run I mean walk as fast as you can cus you're over encumbered

[Grendalcat]

For option 3, you want to make your move to the door when Elijah has gone around the wall and starts accessing the terminal outside of the vault. It doesn't really matter how stealthy you are, as long as you stay crouched in [SNEAK] as you go to the door.

You need to stay out of sight, and move as little as possible, until he gets to the terminal.

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Also before confronting Elijah you have to activate security and kill all the turrets.

ONLY if you are going for the violent solution and not attempting to lock him in there which negates the need to sneak, Really.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Vyvyn Von Cruxxe:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Also before confronting Elijah you have to activate security and kill all the turrets.

ONLY if you are going for the violent solution and not attempting to lock him in there which negates the need to sneak, Really.

Maybe it's the jsawer mod because if I don't destroy the turrets, Elijah won't walk through the door and will wait forever until I get spotted or walk to close to the door

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Originally posted by Vyvyn Von Cruxxe:

ONLY if you are going for the violent solution and not attempting to lock him in there which negates the need to sneak, Really.

Maybe it's the jsawer mod because if I don't destroy the turrets, Elijah won't walk through the door and will wait forever until I get spotted or walk to close to the door

Like I said, You need to hide behind the LEFT dome in front of the vault door, Not the right one. (With the vault door behind you) The right one it will say [HIDDEN] but you really aren't.

IF you hide by the dome closest to the barrier he comes through he'll ALWAYS go aggro the moment he crosses the vault threshold. He doesn't seem to glitch that way on the left one.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Vyvyn Von Cruxxe:

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Maybe it's the jsawer mod because if I don't destroy the turrets, Elijah won't walk through the door and will wait forever until I get spotted or walk to close to the door

Like I said, You need to hide behind the LEFT dome in front of the vault door, Not the right one. (With the vault door behind you) The right one it will say [HIDDEN] but you really aren't.

IF you hide by the dome closest to the barrier he comes through he'll ALWAYS go aggro the moment he crosses the vault threshold. He doesn't seem to glitch that way on the left one.

I've never had him aggro me when I was behind the right generator. Just that he won't come through unless I destroy the turrets first or let myself get spotted (thus not being able to escape the short way with the Gold)

But the way I do it behind the right generator, always results in the way where you trap him in the vault, unless I put c4 or something by the computer and blow him up after I get through the door . I just make sure to kill the turrets before I talk to Elijah on the computer

[Sinnroy]

tgm

[Vyvyvn]

Originally posted by zachery:

tgm

TGM doesn't help you sneak.

[red255]

would be easier just to TCL if we were consoling our way thru there.

I was thinking we take a corpse and cut it in half, leave one half near the exit and one half we drag into the vault. load the corpse up and unload it after we leave. unfortunately the only corpse we could fill up is Elijah's since the corpse down below is just a skeleton and locked to the pipe

now I suppose we could try to get a ghost person to chase you thru the various doors and get its corpse down there for this trick.

but beating dead money I have high luck and I clear out the casino of its chips. which can turn into pre war money, so each chip is worth around 8 caps. and weighs nothing.

so I'm hiking out of there with 30,000 pre war money, maybe 240,000 worth in caps.

I'm getting 8 bars or whatever and leaving the rest. I don't actually need them for anything.

Its about letting go.

using chips for weapon repair kits on Automatic rifles as I go thru the DLC and selling them to vendors for pre war money.

you should be rich, leave the bars, they are pointless.

[The Zohan]

Thanks everyone for the replies and help!! I was able to get all 37 golden bars...but with a huge cost.

After I exited the bunker and get my weapons back I noticed that something was wrong. All, but I really mean ALL my unique weapons have disappeared! The Esther, the minigun from 'the devil's throat', the energy weapon from 'crashed vertibird' and even my grenade launcher from the cave where the Legendary Deathclaw is located. Some of them were even equiped at Ed-E. All gone, nowhere to be found.

:(

[Grendalcat]

So how exactly did you get the 37 gold bars?

[Lord Wormy]

Implant GRX level 2 is an option also or if you have the chem extend perk

[Alex Helders]

Youre missing the whole life lesson of the dlc which is said at the start: Finding it isnt the hard part, its letting go.

[Spartan Delta 27]

Originally posted by PARALYSIS:

Youre missing the whole life lesson of the dlc which is said at the start: Finding it isnt the hard part, its letting go.

Indeed, I was planning on saying the same thing... Although probably with a sarcastic joke tagged in.

The real treasure is the Sierra Madre Complementary Voucher you get every few days for bankrupting the Sierra Madre Casino. With those chips, you can have all the food, stimpacks and Med-X you could possible want.

... I mean, that is not exactly letting go either. But I tend to take at least one bar as a souveneir regardless, so I am probably not the best example of material sacrifice. Heh