How would you design a Pip-Boy for the next Fallout?

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Atomic Postman

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If it were up to you to design a pip-boy for the next Fallout game, what would your design be? what would be different?

Just give me details as best you can.

I personally would have a sort of cross between the Pip-boy 2000 and this concept for the 3000

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Maybe without the handle.

I'd probably also have unexplored areas of the map be completely hidden, and as the player walks through an area, the resulting "map" will be revealed, location discovery obviously remaining as it is now.
 
woops!

Well, still,my point still stands, I like that design, and I think if it were to include features from the 2000 it would look really cool.
 
Anything is better than that stupid gauntlet in the beth era games. How is that meant to be practical? It even stops the wearing of a rad suit!
 
I wouldn't have any problem wth the FO3/NV vanilla pipboy if it didn't interrupt the model of the armors. Not only breaks logic with things like the Hazmat Suit and Power Armors, but it takes away from wearign certain suits and the like. If they had just added a Sleeve sliding aniamtion, or something it would've been okay.
I prefer a Pipboy that the player stores in a pocket or bag.
I will draw a design idea later.
 
Walpknut said:
I wouldn't have any problem wth the FO3/NV vanilla pipboy if it didn't interrupt the model of the armors. Not only breaks logic with things like the Hazmat Suit and Power Armors, but it takes away from wearign certain suits and the like. If they had just added a Sleeve sliding aniamtion, or something it would've been okay.
I prefer a Pipboy that the player stores in a pocket or bag.
I will draw a design idea later.
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Like a mobile phone / tablet sort of thing?
 
Kind of like a Tablet, but a little bulkier (like an old Cell phone) Maybe with a little power unit on the PC's belt or something. I am gonna let sleep organzie my rambling ideas.
 
Upgraded PipBoy 2000.
Less bulky with better graphical interface.
I'm fed up with frikin' text based inventory. Take a loot at Wasteland 2 inventory screen! Now that's more like it!
 
I like the 2500, it seems more practical.

Maybe with a little power unit on the PC's belt or something
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That would also open the door to explain how it senses your status. There's portable heart monitors you can wear on your belt (forgot what its called). You could say the power pack has EKG leads or something along those lines that sense heart rate/BP/pulse ox, and other basic physical statuses. I never could figure out how the gauntlet is supposed to be sensing all these things about you. That and how it stays powered. The belt mounted unit you could always explain running on SEC's.
 
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