How do you think the pipboy app will sync with your player character? Will you be able to run multiple PCs with the same app? Will the app update your inventory automatically, or will you need to manually. Maybe it'll do something similar to bungie net's system? I mean, they did hire a bungie guy a while back.

Since it appearantly uses the same coding as the in game pip boy I think that, as much as possible it will work exactly like the in game pip boy, so you be able to change gear, use items, select radio station and read notes, scroll the map and select fast travel points, etc.

I know that, but how will it sync with your in game pipboy, if it does?

Most likely it doesn't, since there be no good way to tell the game, so everything is real time, no pip boy up in game.

I could see it having an inventory management system tied to your steam/live/psn account's game files, maybe.

I dont think so, its just gonna be linked to the game directly, real time, when ya dont play the game the app doesn't work.

How do you think that would work?

To quote Todd "it just works"

Yeah, pretty sure it links to your PC or console through local wifi or bluetooth and connects real-time to the game. I don't think you'll be able to do anything with the app when you're not in-game. (At most you might be able to see the state of your Pipboy when you last exited the game.)

Todd mention WiFi at E3, I suspect thats for the pc version, while the two console ports will use Bluetooth.

Other games second screen apps have used WiFi and were real time. I rememeber when X1 first came out and a buddy and I were playing Battlefield. I was using the second screen as the "commander" and he was fighting. It all worked in real time to do stuff I was doing on the second screen. Bombing here and there, sending people to one spot, tagging snipers

Some are thinking the pip boy useage is also done in real time like a lot of other mechanics now are. If that's the case it may be feasible to have the app up to switch items/ heal during a fight

Would be cool to have the app always displaying the map so you could quickly glance at it, and use the ingame Pipboy for everything else.

I was under the impression it works real time with the game, so you can use the pipboy on your wrist to use the pipboy in the game.