#fallout travels

[beethovencool]

Dare you to finish what you said…

Also the color version of Cooper :D

[stoat-party]

How Much Territory Are the Fallout Player Characters Actually Micromanaging: An Analysis

I did some amateur research to figure out which of the Fallout protagonists (specifically 3, NV, and 4) have a reasonable area of land to constantly traverse. I used Apple Maps to find the straightest possible walking path from a point on either end of the game map, then multiplied the north-south and east-west figures to get an approximate square mileage. Since none of the walking paths were completely straight, these numbers will all be a little higher than actual. BUT the game maps also don’t completely correlate to the real-life locations, so consider these numbers to be estimates.

The Commonwealth: Around 600 square miles. This is honestly pretty manageable, especially if you’re teleporting or helicoptering all over the place. It would be exhausting, but you could theoretically get across the map in a day with time to spare for questing.

The Capital Wasteland: Around 800 square miles. Fairfax is the halfway point; very few locations on the western half of the map actually correspond to anything in real life. The exception is the cavern Little Lamplight is based on, which would make the game map 100 miles long. The map definitely doesn’t extend that far into Virginia.

New Vegas: Kind of hard to calculate at this scale, but we’re looking at a little under 3000 square miles! Through. the Mojave. Desert. The Courier is really going to have to commit to a course of action before traveling, because they won’t be coming back for about a week.

If you’re a fanfic writer, remember that you don’t owe realism to anyone. BUT, if realism is something you care about for your writing, keep these distances in mind!

(Sequel: distance from game maps to DLCs)

[lelelego]

"well, i'm guessing you're pretty mad about something"

[ss-bullseye]

What's he thinking?

[myxineye]

courier quinn visits the commonwealth! i imagine them as a companion who offers junk for the sole survivor every now and then lol

[atomicowboy]

realized the only fnv characters i’ve ever drawn are benny and vulpes so i needed to fix that immediately

[protosymphonette]

vulpes companion mod

[distractedrighter]

Absolutely wrecked thinking about that fo4 “tunnel snakes rule” maccready line because it makes it canon that LW brought Butch to little lamplight and IM NOT EMOTIONAL, YOU ARE

[dykedvonte]

Ulysses obsession with the Courier is a special type of sad to me cause the Courier’s part was so important but so unwitting. They had no idea what was in the package they delivered and neither did he. Neither had an idea of what it could’ve done and the Courier was only caring out their job (mind you the Courier could be killed via notes in the express contract if they don’t). To them it was just another regular delivery to the divide and one that they likely thought would help, just like all the ones before.

It’s so tragic for Ulysses to hold so much ire to the Courier when it really was the case of it could’ve been anyone. Anyone could have delivered that package but they did and so he focused the blame on them and it destroys what he is trying to instill in the courier on a fundamental level.

[andrevascreencaps]

[pythiart23]

[iknowwhereiare]

boone disapproves

[stoat-party]

H2’s dialogue files give us some insight into how and why synths can’t remember the Institute’s teleportation.

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Player: So you know where the Institute is, right?

H2-22: {He's talking about something he is programmed not to remember. It's a difficult subject. He tries to force himself to remember and fails.} Stockton already asked me that. I don't know. I really don't. He says no synths know.

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Which is super interesting, but it also raises a horrifying scenario: Sturges and/or Danse return from the final battle and literally cannot remember how they got in and out.

They were fighting the Institute and now they’re on a skyscraper. Preston’s like “Sturges, you were operating the relay, how do you not remember?”

Sole Survivor thinks “ok well that’s a big conversation for not right now. time to nuke my son.”

Meanwhile Danse is wondering if his power armor would let him jump off the tower without dying.

[navtastic]

Hancock & Danny bc I’m still in the fo4 zone

[farthest-harbor]

I really wish I liked traveling with Deacon more. I like what he stands for, he has an interesting backstory and the potential for a lot of complexity as a character as he struggles to redeem himself.

But he’s also a blank slate. I get that he’s made himself into a blank slate intentionally, scrapping his entire identity to play whatever roles the Railroad needs him to. And with the guilt he carries, no wonder he wants to be literally anyone else.

But he’s so blank that he’s a flat character. You can’t even talk to him like the other companions, can’t ask him his thoughts or how he feels about you. He’s a wall of deflections, and there’s only the one final affinity scene where he shows any vulnerability at all, and it feels so out of the blue because before then all he’s done is lie to you, and after that scene he just… doesn’t talk, aside from the occasional snappy background quip.

He’s distant and blank by design, and it works for his character, but that makes him no fun to befriend in my opinion. So why turn Deacon into a companion at all if we can’t really connect with him the way we do with other companions? It almost feels like they decided to make him a companion at the last minute just so there would be a companion for every faction.

But, like…. Glory is right there. Let me travel with her!!!!

[skyrim-crossing]

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