Fallout: New Vegas - Become a master criminal using just a magic bucket and a loophole

All you'll need is a common-or-garden bucket. Because buckets in Fallout: New Vegas, it seems,have mystical properties. They turn your crime invisible allowing you to get away with the most blatent and surreally amusing crime in all of Nevada.

Simply find one of said multi-purpose recepticles, carry it to the scene of your chosen heist, and fill it with what you want. Thenjust drag thebucketaway. It's that simple. Apparently the people of New Vegas can only register one item you're carrying at a time, and have no qualms with whatever you might want to do with your very own cylindrical metal pot. Here's the proof:

Glitch, loophole, or radiation-derived brain-failure? Only Bethesda and Obsidian know for sure. But either way, you'd better start hoarding now in case of bucket-nerfing patch.

Oct 28, 2010

David Houghton
Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.