Gabban The Legionary

[The Suave Gambler]

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gabban

How is it possible for Vulpes to die before the cleansing of Nipton? To my knowledge he doesn't appear anywhere other than Nipton that early in the game...

 

[Lexx]

My guess: You don't visit Nipton at all, but progress in the storyline enough to see Vulpes in New Vegas.

Like most places in New Vegas, Nipton is not a must-see place. You can pretty much ignore everything in and around there.

 

[Four Suited Jack]

Unless you want to go on a suicide run North of Goodsprings, who the hell does not stop in Nipton?

 

[Walpknut]

You can just walk past it not talking to Vulpes at all, Gabban only replaces Vulpes if you meet him in the Strip before meeting him in Nipton.

 

[Four Suited Jack]

You can just walk past it not talking to Vulpes at all, Gabban only replaces Vulpes if you meet him in the Strip before meeting him in Nipton.

I suppose but it seems very unlikely unless you made it a point to avoid Vulpes.

 

[Lexx]

Well, but you can and this is the point. You probably most likely will not on your first playthrough, but what about the second, third,.... And in this case, you will not end in a story dead-end.

 

[ViewedCloth]

He was only put there to replace Vulpes (I think) if he somehow died before you could reach him

 

[RogerMaxson37]

Unless you want to go on a suicide run North of Goodsprings, who the hell does not stop in Nipton?

I didn't stop by Nipton in my first two playthroughs. In my first playthrough, I killed Oliver Swanick, but I didn't enter Nipton. In my second playthrough, I went straight to Novac from Goodsprings.

 

[Stanislao Moulinsky]

Unless you want to go on a suicide run North of Goodsprings, who the hell does not stop in Nipton?

I didn't stop by Nipton in my first two playthroughs. In my first playthrough, I killed Oliver Swanick, but I didn't enter Nipton. In my second playthrough, I went straight to Novac from Goodsprings.

So you didn't go to the Mojave Outpost and/or avoided on purpose the quest that has the Courier going to Nipton?

 

[ramessesjones]

On my most recent time playing through the game, I skipped Nipton by going to Vegas early through Hidden Valley and Scorpion Gulch. There are a few other ways of bypassing Nipton as well such as the path with the falling rocks and bear traps near Neil's Shack or Primm Pass. I didn't kill Vulpes when I met him in Vegas though, so I didn't meet Gabban, however Vulpes did have a pretty funny comment when I eventually did run into him in Nipton about how we met before, but that he wasn't wearing a dog on this head that time.

 

[RogerMaxson37]

Unless you want to go on a suicide run North of Goodsprings, who the hell does not stop in Nipton?

I didn't stop by Nipton in my first two playthroughs. In my first playthrough, I killed Oliver Swanick, but I didn't enter Nipton. In my second playthrough, I went straight to Novac from Goodsprings.

So you didn't go to the Mojave Outpost and/or avoided on purpose the quest that has the Courier going to Nipton?

I went to the Mojave Outpost (on my first playthrough, didn't go there until about 10-15 hours into the game on my second). On my first playthrough I didn't like the game too much at first so I was trying to go through it quickly.