Fallout: New Vegas
75 Achievements
1655 XP
60-80h
The Legend of the Star
Complete The Legend of the Star.
20 XP
0.7%
How to unlock the The Legend of the Star achievement in Fallout: New Vegas - Definitive Guide
Here's a list of all the cap locations - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Star
Once you have 50 starred caps in your inventory head back to Festus and talk to him. It will then say you failed the quest, but give you a new quest called "A Valuable Lesson" follow the marker and get your reward for finding the caps, which will complete the quest and give you your achievement.
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There are 6 star caps on Malcolm Holmes; the man who tells you about the challange. So after randomly encountering him, trail him, kill him discretely and take them. Then while traveling around the wastes a predetermined random encounter will have you be approached by a women named Jackyin, who will ask you to help her kill a deranged friend who will be nearby. Don't do this, instead help the man kill her. She will have 2 star caps on her. Then the guy will say she was after his neclace which he made of strange caps. Tell him it's dangerous to wear them and you'll take it off his hands, that's 7 more easy star caps, so you're now up to 15. The rest you have to find using a guide, but I would also like to point out that every time you drink sunset sarsperella, there's a 5% chance you'll get a star cap. This is slighty higher with a good luck rating. So whenever you find one of the bottles of it, drink it there and then, and hope for a star cap. getting star-caps this way easily earned me another 10 by the time I was almost done with the game, and I had found another 10 that were scattered throughtout the game. By the time I actively started working towards the 50 star caps, I only had 9 more to go so I recommend you hold off til late in the game to try the grinding methods, until then, work on the other achievements, and by the time you're done with most of those, this one will be cake.
The woman who approaches you is called Jackyln and she only approaches male couriers, female couriers will instead be approached by Tomas.
The base chance to find a star cap when drinking Sunset Sarsaparilla is actually 5%.
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Let me first start by saying "Luck" may have a factor in how often you win a Star Cap so keep that in mind.
If you go inside of the Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters and immediately turn left you can start the first quest in this achievement "The Legend of the Star". If you play a game with Festus and win you can sometimes win a Star Cap. So you could just turbo the "A" button while playing the game with him and increase your Star Cap count when not by your Xbox. After you have 50 Star Caps talk to Festus and "The Legend of the Star" will fail and you must complete "A Valuable Lesson" to get the achievement which is given to you by Festus as well. All you must the do is go pick up the Holotape that was behind the sealed door and the achievement will unlock.
A quick walkthrough on how to finish "A Valuable Lesson" taken from the fallout wiki:
"The final destination is marked inside the factory. To get there, follow these instructions:
Starting from Festus, head through the north door and carry on across the hall to the room with the hole in the roof.
Walk up the wreckage to the 2nd floor.
Take your first left and then right. You should see a very long corridor.
Walk straight to the end of that corridor and you should then be in the room with the hole in the floor.
You'll know you're in the correct room, as it has a wall safe at the back, and a 'Broken Personal Assistant'.
The hole then leads to the prize room"
Location of the Sunset Sarsaparilla HQ:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sunset_Sarsaparilla_Headquarte...
I personally did not do this but I do own a Horipad EX 2 turbo controller (which I bought for Seriously 2.0) and I recommend it or if you are in the UK you could probably buy a Datel Wildfire 2. Just check Amazon.
*I know I might get Downvotes but please keep in mind this is only a solution for people that want to get the Star Caps and have a Turbo controller and don't mind doing this. It doesn't mean you have to down vote because of you think this is a shameful solution.*
I have however found a surefire way to get the Star Caps, I heard it mentioned on another site (Can't remember which one) and I can confirm that it works, simply stock up on Sunset Sarsaparillas and save it, when you drink them you get about a 10% chance that the Bottle Cap that comes off of it is going to be a Star Cap, if it is them immediately save it and keep going, if not just reload your previous save and try again. In the space of about 10 minutes I'd gotten 12 Star Caps out of 12 Sunset Sarsaparillas.
Hope this helps!
Here's a list of all the cap locations - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Star
Once you have 50 starred caps in your inventory head back to Festus and talk to him. It will then say you failed the quest, but give you a new quest called "A Valuable Lesson" follow the marker and get your reward for finding the caps, which will complete the quest and give you your achievement.
Here's a list of all the cap locations - http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_Star
Once you have 50 starred caps in your inventory head back to Festus and talk to him. It will then say you failed the quest, but give you a new quest called "A Valuable Lesson" follow the marker and get your reward for finding the caps, which will complete the quest and give you your achievement.
but +1 as it was actually very helpful advice.
This achievement is a little misleading. You can gain The Legend of the Star quest when you head into the Sunset Sarsparilla Headquarters. Inside, you'll find Fetus. Fetus is a robot-greeter, who gives the player information on Sunset Sarsparilla, and the rare, Star Bottle Caps. When you find 50 of these bottle caps, you can return and claim your prize. After you've done so, the mission will fail. However, afterward, another mission will pop up, where you claim your prize. Head to its location inside the Headquarters, and the achievement will unlock.
Check here for locations of all Star Bottle Caps.
This mission is a side quest received at the Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters when you talk to Festus, the robotic cowboy mascot in the lobby but don't shut him down, else you will void the quest and miss out on the trophy.
You need to collect 50 Sunset Sarsaparilla Star Bottle Caps to complete this quest. There are 100 in the game that are in set locations, as well as a 10% chance of getting a star cap randomly when you open a bottle of Sunset Sarsaparilla. Finally there are random encounters with collectors which could yield additional caps. A collector named Malcolm Holmes may approach you to discuss the caps, who you can pickpocket or kill for his collection. You may also randomly interrupt a fight in the wasteland between Tomas and Jacklyn who have a number of caps between them. Once you have 50 caps, return to Festus for your "reward".
Don't panic when the quest "fails". Talk to Festus again to get your real prize and you'll get another quest called "A Valuable Lesson". Complete this second quest by going to the prize closet and picking up the holotape, and you'll get the trophy. Make sure to pick up the unique weapon Pew Pew while you're here!
You probably met a wanderer at the very beginning of the game who warned you about a crazy cap collector. This is exactly what needs to be done. We find 50 caps with a star from "Sunset Sasparilla". There are tons of caps, lying around almost everywhere where there are simple caps and a bottle of Sunset Sasparilla. In general, the task is not difficult, just look around and under your feet.
We give away 50 caps, listen to an interesting story, and suddenly realize that we have been deceived. The quest failed, but that's how it should be. We beg Festus for a normal reward. We get the next quest. Then he says that we need to go to the previously closed room, supposedly there the robot will give us a trophy.
We go into the room (you need to go up to the second floor, then go down into the hole in the floor, next to the safe), we find a bunch of badges there, there are 150-250 caps in the Sunset Sasparilla boxes. There is a corpse in the corner, next to the Pew-Pew laser pistol. We take the note next to the corpse, the quest is completed, the trophy is yours.