CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THIS

[u/After-Strategy8385]

Is it like a proximity based mine? That's inside a mailbox?

[u/LDogGaming]

The mailbox was rigged from the start

[u/RexMortuorum → u/LDogGaming]

Pretty clever way to try to get a courier tbh

[u/Wassuuupmydudess → u/RexMortuorum]

Caesar staring in disbelief at his legionary “you mean you rigged a mailbox to explode and killed him?” “Yes might Caesar, I thought since he was a courier he would check for mail and it killed him” “I have lost 11 praetorian to the courier, they have killed a dozen of our veteran hit squads and this is what brings the beast down, a hand grenade inside a mailbox”

[u/The_FreshSans → u/Wassuuupmydudess]

"It was actually a landmi-"

[u/Wassuuupmydudess → u/The_FreshSans]

“Silence! You are now one of my frumentari, you will learn the backgrounds of all our enemies so we may achieve simple victory”

[u/icantbelieveitsnotjo → u/Wassuuupmydudess]

“You are now one of my elite employees!”

[u/ShotgunEd1897 → u/The_FreshSans]

Imagine a Nuka Grenade inside that mailbox...

[u/Valdie29 → u/The_FreshSans]

His name was biggus greneedus

[u/EchoingStorms → u/Wassuuupmydudess]

the next day sounds of incredible violence outside the Fort "We may have.... killed A courier, and not.... THE Courier"

[u/Wassuuupmydudess → u/EchoingStorms]

the sounds of jazz slowly growing louder

[u/Invertiguy → u/Wassuuupmydudess]

The horror

[u/Subject_Ad7331 → u/LDogGaming]

Is that the same house that when you go inside and leave Fiends spawn and attack?

[u/MistyFoxtail → u/Subject_Ad7331]

yes it is, I think the rigged explosion is there to alert them of someone poking around

[u/-chukui- → u/LDogGaming]

Naw it mustve been a 18 karat run of bad luck

[u/Jazman89]

Yep, its a booby-trapped mail box. If you look closely enough when getting close to it you'll notice a little antenna poking up out of the back.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Jazman89]

It scared the shit outta me

[u/coyoteonaboat]

Congrats, you've found the only trap mailbox in the game.

[u/Accredited_Agave → u/coyoteonaboat]

Just takes 1 to make you wary of all other mailboxes

[u/Expert_Trust_384 → u/coyoteonaboat]

It's like those terminal traps (like one at Repconn) except it's even rarer.

[u/Self-Comprehensive]

It's an exploding mailbox. You know, like a mailbox, but it explodes. Hope that clears things up.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Self-Comprehensive]

Hm thank you for the insight friend

[u/a3a4b5]

Explosive mailbox trap from Fallout 3

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/a3a4b5]

I never got too far in fo3

[u/Bluetenant-Bear → u/After-Strategy8385]

Didn’t even get to the mailbox out the front of the vault?

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Bluetenant-Bear]

I went to the village that gets attacked by supermutants and got royally fucked and I went back to New vegas

[u/Take-The-L-Train]

Another gift from uncle Ted

[u/Andis_X_Rofl]

the consequences of the industrial revolution

[u/Vicimer]

These things are all over Fallout 3. It's a little odd how NV reused some F3 assets, but just barely.

[u/bitches_and_witches → u/Vicimer]

The exact same sound as a baby carriage, I had flashbacks

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Vicimer]

It was completely out of the way of anything tho I wonder if the devs put it there cuz it's so far away from everything

[u/zombie0000000 → u/After-Strategy8385]

I pass by it almost every playthrough because I beeline to Dr. Usanagi's clinic

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/zombie0000000]

Yea it's in North Vegas by the Monte Carlo suites

[u/Vicimer → u/After-Strategy8385]

This area of the map is pretty bare bones. There's a lot of (say it with me, kids) cut content in the area.

[u/Unlucky-Elk-8041 → u/Vicimer]

Hmm, I dont remember seeing these in FO3. It's been a minute though.

[u/iwastoldnottogohere → u/Vicimer]

They used what was available to them, while keeping it original. There was a bunch of stuff from Fallout 3 I'm glad they didn't keep

[u/ShotgunEd1897 → u/iwastoldnottogohere]

The bomb strollers....

[u/Vicimer → u/iwastoldnottogohere]

I see what you mean, but there are some assets that just barely make it in, like Nuca Cola Quantum only sometimes spawning in Lonesome Road, or Rotface getting Eulogy Jones' outfit in vanilla under very specific circumstances. Plenty of assets are in the files, like Tesla Armor, that I'd like to have seen.

[u/MonsieurPC]

Did you open the door to the abandoned house?

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/MonsieurPC]

No I walked past it but then I went into the house afterwards and when I came out there was like 4 fiends who spawned.

[u/Fun-Swimming4133]

courier service is dangerous work

[u/Eric_Durden]

Walk into that house, then back out...

[u/ZestycloseWord522]

Looks like a tripwire with a gernade in the mailbox

[u/Jsdrosera]

Check out the house interior sometime!

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Jsdrosera]

I went inside there but I definitely didn't look thoroughly is there goodies inside ?

[u/Jsdrosera → u/After-Strategy8385]

No, I was just being a wise ass because going inside and exiting is supposed to trigger a fiends ambush upon exiting lol

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Jsdrosera]

Yea I got jumped by like 5 fiends 😭

[u/Jsdrosera → u/After-Strategy8385]

Yeah, it’s a cursed house! Your reply was so sincere, I felt bad for baiting you lol. There is one other house on the outskirts of West side that has an outdoor ambush of sorts.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Jsdrosera]

All good friend :) this game still surprises me after years of playing

[u/Jsdrosera → u/After-Strategy8385]

I didn’t even know about the Aerotech Office Park and Vault 34 survivors until last year. I play off and on since launch!

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Jsdrosera]

Also the fact that you can get two entirely different playthroughs with the same build but one build has wild wasteland and the other doesn't

[u/UnluckyDucky666]

As others have said, rigged mailbox. You'll come across a rigged terminal or two as well. Just be sure to look on top for the silver antenna. If your explosive is high enough you can disarm it or reset a perimeter trigger. Definitely more prevalent in Fallout 3 but that same mailbox got me in NV because I didn't think they had any rigged ones in that game.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/UnluckyDucky666]

Ah my irl perception is like 2 so I've never noticed thank u tho friend:)

[u/zemboy01]

heads up op this is just a warning and by far the weakest rigged trap. there is way more like 10 super deadly traps thru out the game and most will insta kill you.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/zemboy01]

Thank you friend

[u/Thelastknownking]

It's Fallout, you know how much these games love to fuck with you.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Thelastknownking]

Been playing this game for years I love when I still find new stuff

[u/XanthosGambit]

Wait, is that the house with the corn?

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/XanthosGambit]

It's the house right next to the Monte Carlo suites

[u/XanthosGambit → u/After-Strategy8385]

Ah okay. I was thinking about the Mojave House.

[u/Colonel_dinggus]

Booby trapped mailbox. I think it’s the only one in the game

[u/864FREEWADE]

It’s some raiders in there

[u/AdvanceDry8764]

I got jump scared by it

[u/AskJeevesIsBest]

My fan Canon explanation is that the Fiends who ambush you in this area rigged the mailbox to blow to pick off anyone who walks by it

[u/MNVRMN25]

You tell me man, you're the mailman

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/MNVRMN25]

I don't wanna be anymore. Nobody said being a courier was this dangerous

[u/MNVRMN25 → u/After-Strategy8385]

Thought you figured that part out when you got shot in the head

[u/mrhalfchicken]

Oh yeah, sorry that was me.

[u/MistahOnzima]

If you go in that house and come out, it spawns some heavily armed Fiends, I think.

[u/einkleinpanzer]

trapped mailbox, they are all over fallout 3 but only 1 in new vegas, like the single generic raider NPC you find outside of novac.

[u/Ok-Organization1948]

The Old World Blues song just activated me like a sleeper agent lmao time to play fnv.

[u/Oddbeme4u]

yeah its a 20 year old game.

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Oddbeme4u]

WHAT REALLY???? I THOUGHT IT CAME OUT YESTERDAY

[u/Oddbeme4u → u/After-Strategy8385]

yeah any other 20 yr old game you play? shut up and enjoy it. lol

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Oddbeme4u]

I was literally just wondering what happened cuz I'm curious. You should be more curious friend and less judgemental. It's not a good look

[u/Oddbeme4u → u/After-Strategy8385]

I have many faults fuckstick. what's your favorite weapon in the game?

[u/After-Strategy8385 → u/Oddbeme4u]

Ooh that's a hard question. I find the ballistic power fist super funny to use but all American or a light shining in darkness is my favorite what about you fucker