X-8 Data Retrieval Test

X-8: Data Retrieval Test is a side quest in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Old World Blues.

Synopsis
Three student files are stored away within the X-8 research center's test facility and the goal of each test is to retrieve them.

Walkthrough

 * 1) Start and complete the data retrieval test.
 * 2) Read the terminal above Gabe's lair.
 * 3) Switch the cyberdogs with the unusual specimens.
 * 4) Replay the data retrieval test.
 * 5) Go to the test terminal to get the data results.

Bugs

 * After releasing the "Unusual Specimens" and starting the "Institutional Data Retrieval Test (Basic)/(Advanced)" the terminals to retrieve the student records will not appear causing the player to be trapped and the rendering the quest impossible to complete. Renabling the terminals via the console will allow the quest to be completed. To do this, use the following series of commands;, , . Repeat this for , and ; the xx should be replaced by the position of OldWorldBlues.esm from your load order.
 * This bug doesn't cause you to fail the quest, but it can go to an infinite loop of finished/unfinished quest pop-ups.
 * After initiating the "Institutional Data Retrieval Test (Basic)" and choosing the "Unusual Specimen" option from the Kennel terminal, initiating the "release cyberdogs" option may cause the quest to be completed, but will show the "Institutional Data Retrieval Test" and "Unusual Specimen" options as uncompleted on your quest task list, basically showing on your completed tasks list that you never actually fulfilled the requirements to complete the test. The bug appears to come from the map-marker as it doesn't move from Kennel terminal to the X-8 Test terminal after "Unusual Specimen" is chosen confusing the player by the map-marker. Initiating only the "Unusual Specimen" option on the X-8 Test terminal and starting the Basic Test and Advanced Test at the same time, will finish the quest.