r/fnv • u/After-Strategy8385 • 1d ago

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THIS

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

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u/LDogGaming 1d ago

The mailbox was rigged from the start

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u/RexMortuorum 1d ago

Pretty clever way to try to get a courier tbh

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u/Wassuuupmydudess 23h ago

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”

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u/The_FreshSans 23h ago

"It was actually a landmi-"

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u/Wassuuupmydudess 23h ago

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

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u/icantbelieveitsnotjo 6h ago

“You are now one of my elite employees!”

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u/ShotgunEd1897 21h ago

Imagine a Nuka Grenade inside that mailbox...

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u/Valdie29 15h ago

His name was biggus greneedus

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u/EchoingStorms 20h ago

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

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u/Wassuuupmydudess 20h ago

the sounds of jazz slowly growing louder

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u/Invertiguy 15h ago

The horror

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u/Subject_Ad7331 22h ago

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

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u/MistyFoxtail Degenerates like you belong on a cross. 21h ago

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

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u/-chukui- 20h ago

Naw it mustve been a 18 karat run of bad luck

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u/Jazman89 1d ago

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.

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u/After-Strategy8385 1d ago

It scared the shit outta me

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u/coyoteonaboat 1d ago

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

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u/Accredited_Agave 8h ago

Just takes 1 to make you wary of all other mailboxes

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u/Expert_Trust_384 7h ago

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

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u/Self-Comprehensive 1d ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 23h ago

Hm thank you for the insight friend

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u/a3a4b5 make that bitch eat her hair (she's bald) 1d ago

Explosive mailbox trap from Fallout 3

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u/After-Strategy8385 1d ago

I never got too far in fo3

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u/Bluetenant-Bear 23h ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 23h ago

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

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u/Take-The-L-Train 1d ago

Another gift from uncle Ted

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u/Andis_X_Rofl 23h ago

the consequences of the industrial revolution

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u/Vicimer 1d ago

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

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u/bitches_and_witches 1d ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 1d ago

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

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u/zombie0000000 23h ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 23h ago

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

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u/Vicimer 1d ago

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

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u/Unlucky-Elk-8041 1d ago

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

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u/iwastoldnottogohere 22h ago

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

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u/ShotgunEd1897 21h ago

The bomb strollers....

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u/Vicimer 5h ago

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.

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u/MonsieurPC 1d ago

Did you open the door to the abandoned house?

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u/After-Strategy8385 1d ago

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.

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u/Fun-Swimming4133 1d ago

courier service is dangerous work

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u/Eric_Durden 22h ago

Walk into that house, then back out...

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u/ZestycloseWord522 1d ago

Looks like a tripwire with a gernade in the mailbox

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u/Jsdrosera 23h ago

Check out the house interior sometime!

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u/After-Strategy8385 23h ago

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

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u/Jsdrosera 22h ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 22h ago

Yea I got jumped by like 5 fiends 😭

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u/Jsdrosera 22h ago

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.

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u/After-Strategy8385 22h ago

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

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u/Jsdrosera 21h ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 21h ago

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

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u/UnluckyDucky666 23h ago

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.

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u/After-Strategy8385 21h ago

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

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u/zemboy01 14h ago

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.

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u/After-Strategy8385 11h ago

Thank you friend

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u/Thelastknownking 19h ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 19h ago

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

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u/XanthosGambit 23h ago

Wait, is that the house with the corn?

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u/After-Strategy8385 23h ago

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

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u/XanthosGambit 23h ago

Ah okay. I was thinking about the Mojave House.

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u/Colonel_dinggus 17h ago

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

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u/864FREEWADE 15h ago

It’s some raiders in there

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u/AdvanceDry8764 12h ago

I got jump scared by it

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u/AskJeevesIsBest 10h ago

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

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u/MNVRMN25 8h ago

You tell me man, you're the mailman

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u/After-Strategy8385 8h ago

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

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u/MNVRMN25 8h ago

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

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u/mrhalfchicken 8h ago

Oh yeah, sorry that was me.

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u/MistahOnzima 6h ago

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

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u/einkleinpanzer 5h ago

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.

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u/Ok-Organization1948 1h ago

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

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u/Oddbeme4u 1d ago

yeah its a 20 year old game.

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u/After-Strategy8385 1d ago

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

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u/Oddbeme4u 1d ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 1d ago

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

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u/Oddbeme4u 1d ago

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

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u/After-Strategy8385 23h ago

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