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- Ignoring engine limitations, how common are vehicles in the wastes?
- Abandoned Military Convoys in West Virignia
- So in Fallout 1/2, what is the Pipboy? Wrist-mounted or is it more akin to a tablet?
- Does a Mr. House victory kick the NCR out of the entire Mojave? Or just the New Vegas area?
- Are televisions still able to work, receive "signals"? And do TV stations exist at all in any form?
- What is flamer fuel made of? Is it napalm?
- Vault Tec Security Ranks?
- airplanes in the sky as the bombs dropped
- Is there any creatures that didn't mutate after the nuke
- Final question: How many repaired places // clean is there to be known, i.e Cabot house, whitesprings, institute.
- How are the robots in the whitesprings able to clean and repair it without the ability to actually use most tools?
- What are the known "nations" in the fallout universe?
- Which aspects of Tactics are canon?
- Mr. New Vegas' identity
- Why aren't there any of Elvis songs in F:NV?
- Do the IP owners always decide what is canon?
| Ignoring engine limitations, how common are vehicles in the wastes? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 06:34 PM PDT Here's my version of the perennial vehicles thread. There are a lot of threads that have previously discussed vehicles (listed below), but I'm interested in the question of just how common vehicles (land vehicles, in particular) are in the wastes, ignoring game engine limitations. With cars lining the streets of major areas in recent games, what factors prevent them from being more commonly used? Some initial thoughts: Scarcity: Nuclear powered land vehicles were on the market before the war, but the prevalence of gas stations seems to imply gas guzzlers are still around. For gas-powered cars, lack of fuel could be a concern. Red Rocket stations indicate that nuclear vehicles need coolant, which may also be hard to come by. On the other hand, as the BoS fields vertibirds which undoubtedly require such supplies, it is surprising that they don't use land vehicles. For both types of cars, engine maintenance is a challenge, but certainly one that larger factions could deal with. Risk: Vehicles could also make the user a target - a working car is loud and valuable, so it may attract the wrong kind of attention from raiders. Unless you're driving a makeshift tank, a car can be blocked in or have its tires popped. It's a bit easier to stay out of range in a flying vehicle. Even a seasoned driver in a well-equipped vehicle could expect potshots which would be a pain to repair. Road Conditions: In-game evidence suggests cars are not uncommon in NCR territory but are far rarer on the east coast. The urban rubble making up most of the environments in Fallout 3 and 4 would not be ideal for ordinary cars. On the other hand, the NCR has dedicated resources (such as rail crews) to rebuilding infrastructure, so it wouldn't be surprising if they rebuilt roads too. The Vegas area appears to be on the fringes of the NCR's infrastructural reach, so cars may have not yet reached the playable area in large number. When it comes to the east coast, vehicles simply may not be suited for early-stage societies. Demand: While fast-moving vehicles would certainly make life easier, settlements on the east coast appear, at least ingame, to be closer in proximity. As such, there may be little need for vehicular transport. When the situation requires it, rapid response military deployments are done using vertibirds. When it comes to long-distance trade, throughput is more important than speed, so slow high capacity brahmin trains are more practical than using trucks. Some previous threads of interest:
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| Abandoned Military Convoys in West Virignia Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:09 AM PDT So my question comes from my exploration of WV after the wastelanders update. As I'm going around I have noticed there are lots of military convoys with tanks and APCs that are just abandoned. I have yet to come across anything in game about these but it just baffles me. Why would troops abandon fully functioning tanks and armored vehicles? [link] [comments] |
| So in Fallout 1/2, what is the Pipboy? Wrist-mounted or is it more akin to a tablet? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:39 AM PDT |
| Does a Mr. House victory kick the NCR out of the entire Mojave? Or just the New Vegas area? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:33 PM PDT If Mr. House wins the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, are the NCR kicked out of the entire Mojave? Or just New Vegas and the surrounding areas listed in the Order of Withdrawal? (Camp McCarran, Hoover Dam, Helios One, and the El Dorado Substation) [link] [comments] |
| Are televisions still able to work, receive "signals"? And do TV stations exist at all in any form? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 09:55 PM PDT |
| What is flamer fuel made of? Is it napalm? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:17 AM PDT I mean during a fuel crisis I would think napalm and flamers don't fit the whole conserving oil bit. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:17 PM PDT Query: What are/were the vault tec security ranks? If I remember from FO3, 101 security had everyone as just officer. [link] [comments] |
| airplanes in the sky as the bombs dropped Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:16 PM PDT Just curious if there's any indications about what happened in the sky as the bombs fell and how planes did or didn't land. [link] [comments] |
| Is there any creatures that didn't mutate after the nuke Posted: 29 Apr 2020 06:21 PM PDT |
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| What are the known "nations" in the fallout universe? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:00 PM PDT |
| Which aspects of Tactics are canon? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:28 AM PDT I wanted to get some idea what's not accepted so as to understand the ramifications the game's event might bring to future games. I'm really curious about the Midwestern BoS... [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2020 06:56 AM PDT I don't know if spoiler tag is necessary but when I played new vegas I didn't know that he was AI. Is there any dialogue or terminal entry/holotape that tells us Mr. New Vegas is an AI? Because on wiki there were links to interwievs and I do not remember seeing anything on this topic in the game. [link] [comments] |
| Why aren't there any of Elvis songs in F:NV? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 05:27 AM PDT I mean, he probably was really famous before the war and there's also an impersonation school of his in freeside, did the kings not find any of his songs in there just how to act like him? Did his songs just vanish from the world after the war? I can't recall if there's an explanation to this, but if there is, what is it? [link] [comments] |
| Do the IP owners always decide what is canon? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:22 AM PDT Could previous authors, for example Tim Cain add some canon lore? Could the current IP owners suddenly decide the previous installments lore is not canon I.E Fallout 1 & 2? [link] [comments] |
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