I cannot find the key to the Overseer's office, or the utility terminal that I've found the password for, or a way to open the armory doors. I wandered around that vault for what may have been an hour of real time, finding nothing that would allow me to proceed. I ended up just leaving, having wasted a ton of Radaway, 12 gauge shells, and time.

Someone please give me some directions?

This video should explain it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue9zPK-5Jpo

having a follower really helps in there, there's two underwater spots, a bit tricky to find, go to the lower levels and you'll find em and get BOTH of the passwords one from each dead ghoul underwarter, two seperate locations, after you get both keycodes from the dead glowing ones, then head back up to i think its right near the armory door before you go into the armory ,there is a pc terminal in a room, and you need to get on the pc and empty out the water from the lower section, once you do that you need to go back to where the water use to be and there is another pc terminal you access that opens the overseers office, once the overseers office is open, head to it and kill the ghouls there and the overseer, he's a reaver , the overseer has a password you need to open the armory, there is a pc terminal right next to the overseer, once you open the armory you're all set, but just be ready to kill lots more ghouls, don't forget the guns skill book in the armory area section that has the pool table,

Spoiler forum...sigh.

But yeah, can be really confusing in there at first.

i also had some trouble finding this but all that time, ammo, and rad away is worth it once you get in that armory :hubbahubba: :thumbsup:

Thanks guys, I got it, along with all the armory loot!

EDIT: besides the pulse gun; I'll come back for that.

My bad, didn't think about this being a spoiler.

FYI - if you're looking for a hint for the game, then the proper forum would be the "Fallout: New Vegas Cheats, Hints, and Spoilers" board. Because, by virtue of providing help about specific aspects of the game, it's going to tend to involve spoilers at some stage.

As a general rule - if you're in doubt as to whether or not a thread is going to verge into Spoiler territory, your best bet is usually to post it in the Spoilers forum.

No worries, though - I've moved it there, so problem solved.