How do you even complete the President Kimball quest while on Yes Man's side?

[Mr.Bullshitter]

Seriously, he says it like it's a mission you have to agree on, but the only options make you fail the quest immediately. There is not even a ''goodbye'' option so you can go do the quest.

[Doctor Go-Go]

Finish a president? Get a high powered rifle and be like BEUW! I don't know, I'm not sure what you mean.

[lizardmang]

You need positive relations with NCR, and installing the override chip at the El Dorado substation first will make you unable to accept the quest.

[Mr.Bullshitter]

Originally posted by Doctor Go-Go:

Finish a president? Get a high powered rifle and be like BEUW! I don't know, I'm not sure what you mean.

I mean protect him not game end him

[ghoulishrimp]

it's... pretty much impossible to really save him. you can out the legion spy in the crowd and kill the sniper, but theres still a bomb on his vertibird. want to disable the bomb? good luck, the sniper has now beat you and already murked kimball. I usually just head straight to the substation since this quest is so obnoxious to actually complete lol.

[lizardmang]

Originally posted by suckjins:

it's... pretty much impossible to really save him.

It can be a little finicky depending on what exactly you do and when, but there are several ways to do it with little effort.
- Disable the bomb, and report it to grant. The sniper will miss his shot, and the engineer won't attack.
- Disable the bomb without reporting it, then kill the sniper. The engineer won't attack, thinking the bomb is still in place.
- Pickpocket the failsafe detonator from the engineer, and give it to grant. The engineer will be killed by a ranger, and the sniper won't get a chance to shoot.

[Mr.Bullshitter]

Originally posted by suckjins:

it's... pretty much impossible to really save him. you can out the legion spy in the crowd and kill the sniper, but theres still a bomb on his vertibird. want to disable the bomb? good luck, the sniper has now beat you and already murked kimball. I usually just head straight to the substation since this quest is so obnoxious to actually complete lol.

It ain't on NCR side, just kill the sniper first then run back to the Vertibird and defuse the bomb. Im not saying how you complete the quest in general, how do you get the quest to trigger while on Yes Man's side.

[Danny]

Sneak your way onto the tower and kill the sniper, then with maxed out sneak and a stealthboy disable the bomb on the vertibird.
In my experience the engineer won't try any thing after that, and even if he does the veteran rangers will kill him before reaching the president.

[ball_sniffer34]

is it possible to meet president kimball if you are doing the ncr missions like making the boomers and khans side with the ncr?

[55zanaris99]

Originally posted by ball_sniffer34:

is it possible to meet president kimball if you are doing the ncr missions like making the boomers and khans side with the ncr?

should be, since you'd be raising your rep with them

[Danny]

Originally posted by ball_sniffer34:

is it possible to meet president kimball if you are doing the ncr missions like making the boomers and khans side with the ncr?

I mean, you meet him by listening to his speech.
But no interview or even one on one talk.

[Amelia]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.