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Best of Three is a quest in the Fallout 4 Creation Club content "Tesla Cannon."

The quest was later integrated into Fallout 4 for free as part of its next-gen update.

Quick walkthrough[]

Side quest: Best of Three 
Listen to the Vault-Tec distress signal
Investigate the distress signal coordinates near Somerville Place
Search the Gunner for evidence of what happened
Pick up the Gunner holotape on the body. 
Access the Gunner's Pip-Boy. 
Investigate the Gunner Pip-Boy coordinates. 
Investigate the next signal's coordinates. 
Listen to the Gunner Signal Remnant.
Follow the Gunner Signal Remnant. 
Kill Caroni and pick up his Tesla cannon
Reward: Tesla cannon 

Detailed walkthrough[]

After leaving Vault 111 for the first time, the Pip-Boy will pick up the Vault-Tec distress signal. Listening to it will activate a quest marker just to the south of Somerville Place, close to the boundary of the Glowing Sea in the southern area of the Commonwealth. At the marked spot, one will find a dead Gunner with a Gunner holotape on the body, which will have only the Instructions for Crane entry, revealing that the Gunners occupying Vault 95 have worked out how to hack Pip-Boys and intend to use them to locate and raid more vaults in the Commonwealth. Accessing the dead Gunner's Pip-Boy (via a third button-press option when looking down at the corpse) will bring up a menu with several corrupted options and one timestamped option which will point to a second Gunner's Pip-Boy and the coordinates for it.

The new map marker leads into the southeastern corner of the Glowing Sea, to the Hopesmarch Pentecostal church where the next dead Gunner is strewn over the pulpit in the main chapel. If coming here for the first time, the room will be heavily infested with feral ghouls. Accessing the second Pip-Boy and checking the timestamped entry will lead to another set of coordinates to the southeast, at the Relay tower 0DB-521. Here, the dead Gunner is slumped against the terminal block. Upon accessing the Pip-Boy and checking the timestamped entry, however, the body will explode as at least five bloatfiles will spawn and attack.

Instead of coordinates and a new map marker, the Pip-Boy will pick up a Gunner Signal Remnant, acting similarly to the "courser signal" during Hunter/Hunted. Tracking it will eventually lead to the site of Skylanes Flight 1665 to the southwest. The signal will end at the center section of the wreck, surrounded by burning ash piles all containing Gunner apparel and fusion cells. The third and final corpse is in-between the seats in the separated section. Accessing the third and final Pip-Boy will cause Caroni to spawn, attacking with a Tesla cannon. Once he is killed, loot the body and pick up the weapon to complete the quest.

Quest stages[]

Quest stages
StageStatusDescriptionLog Entry
2 Listen to Vault-Tec Distress SignalI've received a Vault-Tec Distress Signal on my Pip-Boy. Listening to it will reveal more.
5 Investigate the distress signal coordinatesI've heard through a distress signal that someone is in danger, and received coordinates to their location. Perhaps if I reach there, I can save them.
6 Search the Gunner for evidence of what happenedI've found a dead Gunner, but I don't know who attacked him or why. Maybe if I search his body, I can find out what happened to him.
7 Access the Gunner's Pip-BoyThere was a holotape on his person, revealing that Gunners can now access Pip-Boys. Perhaps if I access this Gunner's Pip-Boy I can find out more
10 Investigate the Gunner Pip-Boy coordinatesThe person who made the distress call was a Gunner from Vault 95. I arrived too late to save them. However, I've received a similar call from deep within the Glowing Sea. If I journey there, I might be able to find out more.
15 Investigate the next signal's coordinatesI've found two Gunners who were part of an expedition deep into the Glowing Sea. I'm not sure what they were after, but it looks like the mission hasn't gone as planned. Following the next signal might tell me more.
20 Listen to the Gunner Signal RemnantThe Gunners were trying to acquire a Pre-War weapon known as the Tesla Cannon. They managed to acquire it, but inner turmoil amongst the mercenaries led to much of the squad either being killed by the creatures of the Glowing Sea or separating. A Gunner known as Caroni had the Tesla Cannon last. I wasn't able to download the next signal, but the remnant of something has appeared on my Pip-Boy.
22 Follow the Gunner Signal RemnantThe signal is weak, but it grows stronger depending on my position. Perhaps as it strengthens, it will lead me to the Tesla Cannon - and Caroni.
25 Defeat CaroniThe Sergeant and the remnants of the Gunner squad managed to restrain Caroni. However, he broke free of his restraints, and finished off the rest of the squad.
30Quest finishedPick up Caroni's Tesla CannonCaroni is dead, and the Tesla Cannon is now free to pick up.

Behind the scenes[]

The quest was designed by Richard Edwards, who used to work on an unofficial remake of Fallout 3 called Capital Wasteland.

Bugs[]

PCPC Removing all items from the bodies of the dead Gunners may cause their bodies to disappear. They can still be interacted with but they are not visible. Interacting with their Pip-Boys before removing all items seems to prevent them from disappearing.[verification overdue]

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