Fallout: New Vegas gambling guide: Everything to play ahead of Fallout Season 2

With Amazon Prime’s follow-up to the widely popular pilot season of its take on the Fallout franchise slated to come later this year, excitement for the live-action adaptation of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic franchise is through the roof. And with the stage for this one being New Vegas, it’s set in the location of one of the franchise’s greatest hits; we even saw the Fallout: New Vegas casino Lucky 38 in one of the season’s promotional images.

With Fallout: New Vegas‘ TV to look forward to, now might be a great time to revisit the 2010 classic and explore the Mojave Desert once again, and potentially brush up on your lore while perhaps indulging in a little bit of in-game gambling while you’re at it.

How many Casinos are in Fallout: New Vegas?

It might be a little over two centuries since Fallout: New Vegas’ Mojave Desert was ravaged by a nuclear war that left the place in shambles. But the land, and its people, have managed to keep things moving along in the aftermath, and the region is home to no less than 7 different casinos you can visit for a game of Blackjack, Roulette, or Slots.

While the Primm Vikki and Vance Casino is a part of the main story, the other five are ones you will need to find on the Fallout: New Vegas map. However, they’re not too hard to track down, and you might want to have them all easily accessible if you’re looking to gamble regularly during your time with the game.

There’s the Atomic Wrangler, Gomorrah, The Tops, Sierra Madre, Ultra-Luxe, and Sunset Sarsaparilla’s headquarters, and of course, Lucky 38, all of which are just waiting for you to visit. You might want to hold off on visiting Lucky 38 until you’re ready for a fight, though.

There are also various caravans out in the open world that you can find, with a unique card-based game based on decks you build from collecting vault playing cards during your travels. It’s called Fallout: New Vegas Caravan (yeah, we know) and can be quite interesting if you’re diving deep into everything it has to offer.

But for the locations we’ve listed above, Blackjack, Roulette, and Slots are going to form the bulk of your time with Fallout: New Vegas gambling.

Fallout: New Vegas Blackjack Guide

A good Fallout: New Vegas Blackjack strategy is quite close to what you would do in the real world, with the game being quite good at simulating the odds of a game. The same Blackjack rules apply to you if you’re looking to play it. You take on the Dealer and attempt to assemble a hand totaling up to 21, or get as close to it as you can.

You place bets and attempt to beat the Dealer until you decide to stay, and the Dealer stands, post which you total up your cards. If your cards have more value than the Dealer’s, you win, and vice versa. It’s one of the more traditional and engaging gambling games in Fallout New Vegas’ wasteland.

Know that each casino has specific house rules to adhere to, which are easily viewed on the card tables at any of them. You might want to visit Festus at the Sunset Sarsaparilla’s headquarters for a game of Lucky Horseshoe and the chance to win some Fallout: New Vegas caps, a useful currency to have in the wasteland.

Fallout: New Vegas Roulette Guide

Roulette in Fallout: New Vegas is as simple as it is in the real world. You simply place bets on either a single number, a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the numbers you get are odd or even. A ball travels along a spinning wheel, and you gain or lose rewards that are calculated based on the respective Fallout: New Vegas casino’s house edge, which is always relative to the amount you bet.

This would be a good point to mention that, since New Vegas is an RPG, you could push your Luck stat up to be more successful at gambling. However, Fallout: New Vegas’ Luck stat is a double-edged sword, as winning too often at gambling games can get you kicked out of a casino on the suspicion that you’re cheating somehow.

Fallout: New Vegas Slots Guide

Once again, this is an easy one. Simply buy chips at a casino of your choice (the machines typically take up to 40 chips in a single bet), and get cracking. Your payout is determined by a multiplier and the amount of chips you’ve bet.

A Luck stat of 7 can be quite the advantage here, letting you break even most of the time, tuning it up all the way to 10 can let you make a tidy sum at the risk of a casino ban.

Before we wrap things up in our gambling guide, some of you may be hoping to head to the wasteland with your buddies and gamble with them. You might ask the question, “Is Fallout: New Vegas multiplayer?”

Unfortunately, the official answer is no, and the unofficial NV: MP mod does let you bring a few friends along, but the gambling tables are not one of the activities they can participate in. Although Fallout: New Vegas’ system requirements are quite low at this point, we’d still recommend caution if you’re using unofficial mods, as they can sometimes lead to unintended consequences.

And that’s a wrap on our Fallout: New Vegas gambling guide. We hope you have as much fun playing the tables as we had making this one!