X-2 transmitter antenna array

The X-2 transmitter antenna array is a multi-floor tower on the southern edge of Big MT with a huge satellite dish on top. It is the first stop for many players, because Welcome to the Big Empty asks for the X-2 antenna and Doctor Klein's quest X-2: Strange Transmissions! sends you here to get it. Three upgraded protectrons guard different floors of the tower, but otherwise opposition is light. A ladder hatch at the top leads outside, and you walk along the dish's support arms to reach the antenna.

The X-2 antenna is the only usable one in the game, and it doubles as a unique two-handed melee weapon that deals bonus damage to robots and power armor. As soon as you take it, Doctor Mobius announces that his robo-scorpions are coming, and robo-scorpions spawn inside and around the base of the tower. A pair of Y-17 trauma override harnesses also tends to wander by the pipes near Higgs Village. On the bottom floor, leaning against a coffee maker, is the Sink Project: Light Switch 01 holotape for All My Friends Have Off Switches.

Blue force fields ring the dish so you do not fall through the holes, and an upgraded Sonic emitter can switch them off. The tower has two doors to the outside, one on the upper floors reached from the western cliffs and one on the ground floor reached from the north, where Ulysses painted one of his Old World flags.