Hello,

Just wanted to share a little project I've been working on- I did a "max quests" speedrun where the goal is to get the Quests Completed counter in the Pip-Boy as high as possible. Obviously not all quests can be completed in one run because some are mutually exclusive, but my thinking was this would be kinda like the spiritual equivalent of All Quests in Fallout 3 (I lurked in progamingwithed's stream a while ago and saw him run All Quests, and that is mostly what inspired this). I'm not very skilled or well-practiced so this isn't exactly a shining example of good speedrunning, but I had a good time and actually finished a run so I thought I'd share just for fun.

I have tried and tried to get the speed cripple glitch to work and have still not been able to get it to work, so I decided it would be more fun just to do a run without it. Obviously using the speed cripple glitch would save a ton of time. But really the most interesting thing to me was puzzling out how to order things so that I had the right skill points or perks or items to do each part fast and without having to waste time backtracking to the same location a bunch of times, and I think I did a reasonably good job of that.

Here is the full video, 93 quests completed in 5:04:43 -

It's probably a long and boring watch, so here are timestamps of a couple somewhat interesting parts:

At REPCONN Test Site, you can't fast travel from the viewing area after watching the rockets take off, but you can after using quick save/quick load to get through the window: ()

Boone's companion quest, called I Forgot to Remember to Forget, has a little exploit. Normally you get "trust points" by doing certain things while Boone is your companion, and if you get to 5 trust points, Boone will ask you to go to Bitter Springs where you have to fend off a Legion attack. Nelson is one of the places you can earn trust points. There are three NCR prisoners being tortured- if you rescue them you get 2 trust points, and if you "mercy kill" them you get 1 trust point. If you save them first and THEN kill them... 3 points! ()

A few things went horribly wrong in this run- I think improving on this time by as much as 10 minutes would not be terribly difficult. I might do another run at some point to try to get under 5 hours at least.

Some of the things that went wrong: At Black Mountain, I have to use waiting to get out of combat so I can fix the robot. That's normal, and I've done that a few times before and have only had to wait once or twice, but this time for some reason I spent about a minute just waiting to get out of combat.

I had what I thought was a clever strat to get the cazador eggs for The Thorn really fast- if you hide behind the rocks near the eggs, the weird AI pathing sends the cazadors flying the other direction, and before long they are far enough away that you can fast travel. Unfortunately it didn't work this time for some reason- I think maybe one of my companions distracted the cazadors. So I fumbled away a couple minutes there.

One of the worst things was that Malcolm Holmes, who has 6 star caps to steal or loot, never spawned, or if he did I didn't see him. I resorted to a backup strat of drinking a ton of Sunset Sarsaparilla- each one gives you a 1 in 20 chance of getting a star cap.

Nothing in my route is really technically difficult- the only frustrating thing is that it's very easy to have a quest become impossible to complete, either because of a glitch or because I do something in the wrong order. This was the first complete run I finished, but I did have another run before this where I killed Alice McLafferty before turning in her last quest, and didn't notice my mistake until it was too late. So that run finished with 92 quests instead of 93. I kept the splits anyway since the mistake didn't impact the time too much, and those are the splits I was running against in the video.

And on the remote chance someone is still reading this and is interested, I did keep notes on everything while I was making the route and ended up with this giant 20-page google doc which goes over the route in more detail: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QDPx3Xr1WUjkOk0HXu4xsmkak_DKrt0z4M5flnH94kA/edit?usp=sharing