+1 Fan service
+1 to opening up the areas of possiblity (area 51)
+1 Kickassedness

thoughts?

This does not make much sense. What is the Highwayman?

It was a car that appeared in FO2 which you could drive.

That sounds cool. Has this been confirmed to be in FNV? Your topic title is a little mis-leading.

i understood it.

i guess he should probably explain more for people who haven't played fallout 2

Or the PC could just walk.

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Better explain myself.
The DLC could add a fast-travel marker to a sign on the border of the map which says "[insert DLC area/town name] 5 miles".
Then you click that sign and you are asked if you want to travel there.
Then our characters simple walk over there. (During a loading screen of course, not like we have to walk the actual 5 miles)

I just don't think we need to have some form of vehicle to get to places.
The old protagonists didn't. With the exclusion of the Oil Rig of course.
(And Highwayman in the old games were optional to take, it wasn't necessary and we did not really need it either.)

Well his point is this. IN the Q&A someone asked if Area 51 would be in F: NV but the bethesda answer was that it is a bit too far outside the mojave wastleand to include.

I'm betthing the OP is saying "use the car so it makes it possible to get there".

I still don't see why we need a vehicle, be better with a sign at the border of the main map.
Or hell, even just have a transparent red on the ground by the border.
That would be an even better homage to the old games than the Highwayman.
Besides, adding the car would make a crapload of people whine about that they can't actually drive it.

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Why I feel this way is because I don't understand why it's so impossible for The Lone Wanderer (And maybe even The Courier) to actually walk somewhere while Vault Dweller and Chosen One had to walk for months.

On the other hand I do agree it's a very functional mechanic and that if we do need a vehicle (<_<) then this would be for the best.
Cause it's better (Convenient) with one vehicle to use to get outside of the map than several on different locations.

I don't have a problem with the Highwayman standing in map where I would activate travel to the DLC zone... Seems like a nice way to include the car without having to add drivable vehicles...
As a bonus I would suggest that the trunk of the car be usable as a storage container, like the cooler at Point Lookout, or the mailbox before the Pitt.

I did mean to use the car as a hub to travel, the addition of the trunk would be nice, especially in instances like in the pitt where you had so much gear you had to lug back and forth between the main game and the dlc area. Drivable vehicles are a no no, it'd ruin immersion and feel half assed in the game. The Highwayman could also be the reason why you can fast travel, it'd kinda be like old school fallout, you'd take your car everywhere, even run into (literally) random encounters with your car.

With around 200 locations I hardly think they'll be able to set a parking space for each location.

Oh I know, i mean the game has gone gold, just wishful thinking, haha.

Special fast travel points for cars, then?

Large locations like settlements and key building sites (Super-Duper/Vaults/Dunwich Building/etc) could include a parking location... The fast travel markers are indentified by a different color... :shrug: I dunno.... I'm a pretty big ol'school fallout fan, and I think the inclusion of the car in that kind of way would make me happy.

Yeah but how does it work then?
When we fast-travel from a location that doesn't have our car at it does it somehow magically get delivered to the location that does have a parking space?
Or do we have to go to the location that has our car, click on it and then fast-travel?

i hope area 51 is in the game i mean they could add a car and it wont be far out of the line im mean they have [censored]in aliens and mothership zeta maybe the aliens could come back and get all their lost crap and what not idk but i know there will be a mod haha

That one... Additionally to the alternate color locations that signify "parking" there could be a visual indication on the map for where the car is currently parked. You wouldn't HAVE to use the car to fast travel, it would be an additional way of going between key locations VERY quickly... Or you could just leave it parked in front of your favorite settlement to be used as a storage container.

Hey bud your trying to read to much into it i think it would be a cool reference or mabye a old highway man dealership would be funny with ghoul salesmen

I don't think the Highwayman would show up just to drive people to a DLC location. I bet there will be some train line that will be added to take people to far off locations (DLC) or a caravan. Van Buren was to have rail lines with working trains. NCR building the rail line is why there are Powder Gangers.

Okay, I'd like that.


I'm an old Fallout fan, what did you expect.

Heh ditto bud

And as you can tell by my name when i found the car in FO 2 it was a big moment

I kinda like that guys train idea tho i thought the ncr had them running again at least it could take us someplace from the orginals unless theyve got the tracks running to denver or someplace else that hasnt been used like i dunno washington (state) or the wiki said that salt lake city was covered in giant praying mantis

I would really like the inclusion of limited use vehicles. The idea that a location is 175 miles down the road and you can take a vehicle, or book passage on one, to get there is both plausible and sensible.

(and 100% do-able!)

There is nothing in Fallout 3 (nor likely FO:NV) that is even close to the GLOW quest of Fallout 1. It takes weeks to travel out into an irradiated nowhere and requires you to have equipment that you don't always haul around ~and might not have; and

it was a real risk, and a real adventure (with a real viscous sense of humor).

We saw a subway (Working!) in one of the many vids. We only saw about two seconds though.

I haven't seen that yet. But I have a working http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nxZUeAe0w in my own game :laugh:.

Awesome Great work on the model too.

I would like to voice my support for the Highwayman. But as long as it just takes you to the dlc destinations automatically, and that you can't drive it around where ever you want just to whatever area the dlc may be in.