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Arizona Killer

Arizona Killer

Complete Arizona Killer.

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How to unlock the Arizona Killer achievement in Fallout: New Vegas - Definitive Guide

This quest tasks you with killing President Kimball, given to you by Caesar toward the end of the Give Unto Caesar questline.

Upon receiving the quest from Caesar, you are told to meet up with Cato, who can be found just west of Hoover Dam. Go to the waypoint on your map, speak with Cato and he will have you wait until the next day.

Upon waking up, speak with him and tell him you are ready. He will then give you a NCR disguise to put on, do so and follow him to the Dam. When you get to the Dam, avoid the Ranger patrols at all costs, as they will immediately see through you disguise and start shooting at you. Instead, sneak around them and speak to Cato in the crowd.

You will now have several options to perform the assassination:

50 Explosives - Speak with Cato about rigging a bomb on the Vertibird

50 Science - Shoot the aircraft down as it arrives, with Cato's help

50 Repair - Rig the AA gun to explode via the terminal just east of the Visitor Center door.

lobsterparty adds:
If you want to either use the 50 science or 50 repair you have to use the electronic box up the stairs.

Or you can always just shoot him in the head and make a break for it, likely to survive only on the easier difficulties however.

After the president is killed, run from the Hoover Damn until you are able to fast travel back to The Fort to talk to Caesar.

Credit to Chunder Dragon for pointing this out:

BE SURE TO TAKE OFF YOUR DISGUISE BEFORE ENTERING THE FORT!

Quest Complete!
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25 Oct 2010 17:53

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And don't forget to take off the NCR disguise like i did. I got blasted when I fast travelled back to the Fort with it on!
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By IQwz on 04 Nov 2010 03:56
Thats why i keep dieing when i get back to the fort. i thought i did something wrong xD
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By Neko Pounce on 01 Dec 2010 11:49
Yea I did it twice before I realized it lol.
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By Full Primal on 01 Dec 2010 22:57
You should add in that if you want to either use the 50 science or 50 repair that you have to use the electronic box up the stairs. If I would have known this I would have saved myself 7 hours of trying to find ways to level up to get my explosives up to 50.
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By LobsterParty on 28 Oct 2010 19:25
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(POSSIBLE SPOILERS)
I found the easiest way of killing the President without needing any high skills or needing to go near the Ranger patrols at all was by way of the sniper's tower. If you've played the mission to save Kimball for the NCR, then you know that one of the primary threats is a Legion sniper in the nearest service tower who dons Ranger armor after taking out the guard. When Cato nears Hoover Dam, just break left, and stay far away from all of the crowd, and prepare a silenced or melee weapon. When you are nearing the tower, there will be a spot to hop the high wall, and make your way toward the tower, sneaking, and climb to the top. If you go through the inside, you're safer, but it takes a bit longer. If you go by ladder, the Ranger atop will spot you, but this won't alert anyone on the ground, you just have to fight an aggressive Ranger.

After a few seconds, Kimball will arrive in his Vertibird, and make his way toward the stage. Prepare your best ranged weapon, and be sure that it is something that you can handle (something without a lot of drift on the pin). Crouch for better accuracy, take aim on Kimball's head, and take the shot. One shot should do him in, and then back away from the wall, head down the hatch, and wait in the tower until you work yourself down from danger. The shot alerts the ground troops, so you get a [DANGER] status, but they won't ever move toward you, so you'll lose this pretty quickly. When you return to [HIDDEN], remove your NCR disquise, and you should be able to immediately fast travel to the Fort, as the NCR troops are far away.
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07 Nov 2010 15:28

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+1, exactly what I did. I used a silenced/scoped Varmint Rifle and I managed to kill every single NCR troop without changing from 'Hidden' status :D
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By RadiantViper on 10 Nov 2010 02:00
I like this method. I used a scoped hunting rifle and dropped him like a sack of taters as he was walking up...then disappeared through the hatch. Not sure, but I think you need to talk to Cato (I did anyways) to start the arrival of the prez.
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By SadBloke on 14 Dec 2010 18:37
A very easy way to kill the President is to program the anti-aircraft gun at Hoover Dam to shoot down the vertibird before it even lands.

The video below shows two ways to kill the President. The first is just the "traditional" sniper assassination.

The second way (starting at 2:00 minutes) shows how it's done by programming the anti-aircraft (You need 50 science to do that).

(credits for the video go to youtube channel DarkSoldierPT1993)
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04 Nov 2011 20:11

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The video link's broken
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By GodLike499 on 05 Apr 2019 02:50

This quest is the inverse to You'll Know It When It Happens; here you have to kill the president. I would suggest simply sniping the President when he lands, but here you can find some more stealthy approaches.

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This is a main quest mission, and only available if you are on the Caesar's Legion ending path. This trophy and You'll Know It When It Happens are mutually exclusive.

The mission is to assassinate President Kimball while he's making his speech at Hoover Dam, depicting the opposite side of "You'll Know It When It Happens". You're given a NCR Trooper uniform and told to infiltrate the crowd. Avoid any NCR Rangers or officers who will see through your disguise if you approach too closely. Depending on your character's build, there are several options available to assassinate President Kimball (aside from shooting him yourself).

My recommendation for this trophy is to hack the terminal in the Visitor's Center (Science 50) and update the vertibird control settings. Once the President takes off, Bear Force One will crash and look like an accident if you're maintained your cover. You can watch from the safety of the crowd, then disperse once the vertibird goes down.

Other options include:

- Explosives 50 - When Cato informs you of the plan, you can ask if there's anything you can do to help. The option will come up for you to plant the bomb on the vertibird instead.

- Explosives 50 - If you have some C4 and a detonator, you can approach Pvt Watson near the stage and help him find his helmet. It's on a table near the bottom of the stairs to the observation deck. Plant the explosives on the helmet and bring it back to him.

- Science 50 - On the observation deck near the radio is a set of gun controls which you can use to reactivate the gun and set it to shoot down the vertibird.

- Direct assault (not recommended).

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You will receive this mission while completing tasks for Caesar. Once you receive the mission, go to the meeting place with Cato Hostilius, he can give you some advice on completing the mission. After he runs to the meeting place of the President, you need to wear NCR clothes so that you will be accepted as one of their own. Go to the Hoover Dam goal, you will see the entrance to the building on the right. Wait until the dog and the guard move away from the entrance, otherwise the dog will smell something unclean :). Enter this bunker and go up the spiral staircase to the second floor, then exit through the door to the landing (Door to Hoover Dam). Immediately turn right and go to the gun control panel. Select Activate the anti-aircraft gun, go to Cato Hostilius, he is standing on the platform (dressed in a tuxedo), where a lot of people are waiting for the president. Tell him everything is ready. Run away while you still have time. As soon as the ship with the president flies up, the gun will shoot it down. The trophy is all yours.
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23 Nov 2010 08:53

There are actually a lot of options. In addition to the option with an anti-aircraft gun, you can just as easily hack into the computer in the lobby and change the helicopter’s firmware, you can get/steal dynamite from your partner and mine the helicopter (with stealth and crawling up the stairs), you can kill the president in stealth mode with a sniper rifle with a silencer from -behind the Nika statues right next to the entrance to the dam, you can get confused and climb onto the tower and kill from there with a sniper, or you can just run up and shoot something in the head in WhatsApp mode and then run away. If you run away, just run to the hole in the road at the beginning of the dam and jump down, and the enemies will be led around them while you escape through fast travel around the map =)
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19 Jan 2011 14:22