After seeing how much people liked New Vegas in the classic Fallout perspective, I thought I'd give Fallout 3 a go too.
I tried doing the Mall, but every entrance faces east, so it didn't work, and I also tried doing Megaton, but it's too dense, so you couldn't even see the the ground clearly.
People seemed to like the New Vegas pic I made to look like classic Fallout, so I went back and did some other locations. These are the exact angles the original games had with north in the top left. I even fixed the original Goodsprings one so that it was facing the correct way. Hope you guys like them.
Inspired by a post on another sub, I was curious what New Vegas would look like with Fallout 1's perspective, so used the GECK to do just that. What do you guys think? Would you play it in this perspective? Imagine a Fallout game that let you choose. Are there any locations from FO4 you'd like to see in this POV?
If you want to try it yourself, you just need to change to Orthographic perspective (zero key) and then turn the camera (hold shift) until the angles are roughly 37/14 degrees from horizontal.
I've seen a few posts lately about the teddy bears that are set up in fun ways, so went about taking screenshots of all the ones I could find in the base game. Did I miss any? Are there any you haven't seen before? Two of them aren't even in accessible locations, I had to use no-clipping to get to them, so I'm guessing very few people have seen those. I only knew they were there because I found them in Creation Kit first.
P.S. I didn't realise Reddit had a 20-image limit, so there's actually 3 missing. Two are in cardboard boxes on the water with a rudder and a bottle of rum between them, like the last one here, and the other is at Warwick Homestead. I'm guessing everyone's seen that one anyway.
I was taking a video of the sunset over Boston and couldn't help but laugh when I saw the moon rise shortly after. Did the nukes knock the moon into a backwards orbit? haha
I was creating a 360-degree panorama and saw that the app had a "Little Planet" preset, so gave it a go and thought the result looked cool, so thought I'd not only share, but also ask if anyone had any suggestions for other locations that might suit the style. You get the best results from an area that has some level of verticality to it, but it doesn't need to be as extreme as this one. I'll make a new group-post of any I do.
Why did I make this? Who can say? Just curiosity, really. But regardless, this is every outdoor skeleton in the base game. Because the combined map just looks like confetti, I've also included each type on its own.
What are your thoughts? (Besides "This guy's lost it"... because I'm already aware of that)
I was talking to someone about the game maps the other day, and I said you could drop me anywhere in NV or 4, and without moving, I could instantly tell you where I was. However, I knew I couldn't do the same for 3. I'm curious if others can though, so I've come up with a simple test: Can you figure out where this 360-degree panorama was taken? I'll post the answer later.
These are Chinese ghouls in a radio tower bunker on the west of the map. I don't get why they're dead, aren't ghouls meant to be immortal?
Someone on r/Fallout said they hope that Rivet City is a single interior in the remaster, and I created this map to show them why it couldn't be... and then realised you can't post images in replies. Oops. So instead, I'm going to post it here because you guys are more interested in FO3 anyway. I find these sort of "discrepancies" fascinating, so I hope at least a few people here will too.
I got curious how big the in-game Diamond City was compared to the real Fenway Park, and when I did the measurements... it's practically 1:1. Even measuring from the big stadium lights, the measurements are pretty damn close (only a 4m difference N-S and 8m difference E-W), so the surrounding structure is the same. Did you all know this? I just assumed it was scaled down like everything else in the game.
I've been going through a phase of using the Creation Kit to plot out various game elements and my latest was Deathclaws. Seeing as they're so popular, I thought I'd share the map for the sake of conversation. Are there any I missed? Are there any you haven't encountered? Which is your favourite encounter? Are there any other items, objects, or enemies you’d like to see plotted?
I was surprised at Fallout 4's size when I scaled it to real-world measurements. Both of these maps are scaled exactly the same. Logan International is apparently 9.65km² in area, while the area of Fallout 4 within the boundaries is 9.9km² so pretty damn close.
I've been remapping the roads of Fallout 3 and after I got them all drawn, I overlayed my map over the pip-boy map and was surprised at how many of the roads don't even exist in the game. What is interesting though, is how some seem to partially match, like they were remnants from a previous build, like that one little isolated stretch 4 squares down from the top-right. There's also the skyway that comes in from the center-north and then just ends.
I played FO4 when it first came out on console, and again recently, but never knew the dolphish exploded. I installed a Windows partition on my Mac, so have been having fun playing around with Creation Kit (I'm the one who posted about the number of skeletons and cars), and I saw that some of the dolphish are tagged as "explodable", which was a shock to me. I guess I just never randomly shot them to see what would happen haha
As a follow-up to my previous post about the number of skeletons in the game, I started looking around for other interesting counts. I ended up landing on vehicles. So...
How many cars (and motorcycles) do you think there are?
Answer:
If anyone's curious about other forms of transport, here are a few others I checked:
I didn't count Vertibirds because I think those are spawned, so wouldn't be accurate.
Oh, and there's also 16 cars and 1 motorcycle in pre-war Sanctuary. Interestingly, the Vault-Tec vans are the only ones that can be blown up.
I want to ask an Any Austin type question here:
How many skeletons you think are in Fallout 4?
I recently started playing around with Creation Kit, and after seeing a recent post about a couple of skeletons sitting by the lake behind Mystic Pines, I got curious if a person could journal every single skeleton's fate in the game. After seeing the number, I'm going to say "no" haha
Because I'm asking the question, I'm going to spoiler-tag the answer so people can have fun guessing...
I don't know if these will interest anyone, but for the longest time I've been wanting to look at the height maps for the Fallout games (I'm a map nerd). For whatever reason though, New Vegas was the only one I could find with a Google search. Anyway, I recently got my hands on a Windows computer, which meant access to GECK and Creation Kit, so I was able to create my own. I figured I'd share them so that anyone else looking for them in the future won't go through the same hassle I did, and who knows, maybe someone else out there might find them as interesting as I do haha For instance, how many locations can you pick out from terrain alone?
If you line up the maps of Fallout 1 and 2 with real-world terrain, Fallout 1 places Shady Sands along I-95, NW of Vegas, whereas Fallout 2 places it closer to Fresno. The potential real-world Mariposa base is down near Monterey, so you could easily shift Shady Sands to Fresno itself. I'm curious which of these locations do you think fits the lore better?
