Forum:Dead Money "Duck and Cover !"

This is what the WIKI says, Is stuck underneath the bed in the same room where you first meet Dean Domino. It is possible to retrieve the book by placing C4 and frag mines on the right side of the bed. After doing so, throw a grenade (for good measure) at the explosives and take cover. After the explosion, the book should be sticking out on the left side of the bed, and you can take it. After 6 tries I got it to stick out on the room side of the bed enough to see it but my character could only see the bed. I play in 1st person. I did this by getting the C4 to fall between the bed and the wall. Am I suppose to blow it to the wall side of the bed ? Can someone who has retrieved this book elaborate on how they got it to stick out enough to grab ? Squalor 12:50, April 12, 2011 (UTC)

I just chucked a nade to the wall and it flew out to the stairs area. and from what i noticed mines and c4 are harder to place and dont do the job...

The method that has been most sucessful for me was to save, toss a grenade behind the bed to get the book moved to the right side front of the bed below where the pillows would be and where I could see it poking out. On PS3 it would never quite make it all the way out for me with a grenade alone, even when using the third person teqnique. Next I dropped 6+ throwing spears thru the hole the book fell thru. Again imagine pillows on the bed and drop your spears between them 1 at a time, until they fall all the way thru and again saved the game. Next I placed 4 frag mines/explosive charges behind and all along the left side of the bed and again saved. Now with the mines behind the left side of the bed, the spears under the middle of the bed and the book under the front right side of the bed I threw a grenade behind the bed again. The resulting explosion, plus flying spears usually dislodged the book. But I agree with your statement below. Why do they keep putting books, cards, etc outside of containers where they can clip thru beds, the ground, etc? Considering this clipping issue was present in FO3 one might think it was intentional. XxSylphxx 15:55, April 27, 2011 (UTC)

Thanx for the reply but I have already given up on that book. I have about 20 hours of gameplay in since leaving and will not load a previous save to go from 80 to 84 in explosives. The developers should have put the book in a better place. Squalor 15:20, April 22, 2011 (UTC)

and may I ask what is your base stats b4 you started to get books? At first mine were all 80 to get them to 100 but since there is gonna be more books in the future dlcs... i droped them down to 68.

64 ? I got the other 4 Explosive books in the game.