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[maximaz]

[Khan FurSainty]

[Paul_cz]

You DON'T shit where you eat.
With that said, I have no doubt that eventhough he probably saw a lot of problems with FO3, he still had fun and would classify it as a good game.

[jero cvmi]

[frosty_theaussie]

[Ausir]

And, even if we don't consider Bethesda, he probably wouldn't mention things that he doesn't like but that Obsidian won't be able to improve upon in New Vegas, since he'd be criticizing his own game this way.
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[UncannyGarlic]

[jero cvmi]

[Alphadrop]

There was a mod way back that tried to add random encounters to fast travel in F3. It showed it was possible but was incredibaly buggy.
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[jero cvmi]

Hmm, sorry i'm not being very clear. I'm not talking about adding random encounters. I meant something more like the option to always fast travel to the closest thing that would appear on your compass in the direction you're moving.

Suppose the player wants to go to the location X which is in the general direction "NorthWest".

In fallout 3, if the player turned towards that direction, several markers would appear in his/her compass according to the Perception stat, right?

Now instead of forcing the player to walk "NorthWest", the game could provide the option to try and fast travel to X.

Then it could relocate the player to the closest mark on the compass, and ask if the player wants to encounter what is there.

If the player accepted, or failed a skill check, e.g. for Sneaking, he/she would teleport to the encounter.

Otherwise the game would compute the compass again and repeat the whole process until the player got to Location X which was the initial destination.
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Fallout 3:
[Science] -Robot! Let me in!

Fallout:New Vegas:
[Science 18/80] -Robot! Let me in!

see? it wasn't all that difficult after all.

[Jet1337]

The way I could see a random enounter mod for fast traveling is like this:

1. You fast-travel ( you go along a straight invisible line from your position ).

2. The game plots the encounter point somewhere along that line if the following conditions are met:
-If the area is clear of any objects and can be accessed normally by the player
-If the random number generator lands in the game's favor ( to spawn the encounter )

3. If the above conditions are met, you will be placed a few meters away from the event when you exit the loading screen. This is to give you some room to work with if you get an encounter like the Yao Guai or other dangerous creature encounter.

[Black]

[Ausdoerrt]

Pff, if you did your walking manually in Arcanum, then I tip my hat to you, sir. And wonder how long it took to beat the game.

[Morbus]

[Dionysus]

[Public]

[jero cvmi]

[TyloniusFunk]

For me, the debate about travel is really getting at something else: a grand, overarching sense of scale. In FO1/2 you had a time sensitive mission from the outset and the time passed quickly enough on the world map so that you always felt just a little bit rushed. Every time you traveled from one main location to another. The entire game. FO3 lost this for me. I think the entire main story play through took me maybe 3-5 in-game days. (Yawner. Not epic.)
So listen up Obsidian. If you want NV to be epic, figure out how to blow weeks off the calender. Desolate years should mark the wasteland. Give us some elliptical editing. You don't necessarily need a time sensitive main mission, but give time a purpose other than the robotic storekeeper hours and video gamey day-night cycle.
(You know, the reason there's no instant travel in WoW is to make the world feel big, right? Perception(Time) = Space.)

To coin a phrase: The world's a smaller place for those with longer legs.
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[UncannyGarlic]

[Dionysus]