The 'Real' Fallout Map

T

Tage

First time out of the vault
I believe this was discussed in the Fallout Bible somewhere, at least for one city in Fallout, but I was curious. How many of the Fallout locations from Fallout 1, 2 and Fallout Tactics exist?

San Fran goes without saying, and I've heard that the location of all the vaults are presidential safehouses in real life.
 
well i know for sure that Reno, Klamath, and Seirra Army Depot exists. Also the city of 'Broken Hill' is real but it's in Austrailia (where they filmed mad max 2).
 
I looked under the Easter Egg section for Fallout 2 on the NMA site, but I dont recall seeing any references to actual locations aside from the Broken Hills/Road Warrior one.
 
The Glow is really close to a bombing range in Arizona, can't remember the name though.
 
Somewhat related:

Is there somewhere anyone has combined both the Fallout and Fallout 2 (possibly Tactics too) maps into one big hunky map? It'd be cool.
 
I've tried combining the maps themselves, as in copying them from the game and trying to synch them up in Paint, but they simply dont match. The distances between the Military Base, Shady Sands/NCR and Vault 13 vary too greatly from one map to the other.

On the other hand, if I could find a good unlabled map of California, it should be relatively easy to achieve.
 
"Real" locations include , apart from, obviously, San Francisco and Reno, Redding ; Klamath was supposed - and is, on the city map - called "Klamath Falls" as Klamath lies on the Pacific shore. There is no town of Modoc, but there is a Modoc Plain. And Broken Hill, where uranium is mined, exists - in Australia.


Necropolis was supposed to be Bakersfield - however, Bakersfield is to the opposite side of Sierra Nevada Mountains , near the Lost Hills where the BOS bunker is located. Mariposa is a real name too. Hub seems to be located in the same spot as the town of Boron.
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
Try NEVADA, neophyte. Big state located to the right of California. Perhaps you've heard of it? :D
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Hey, that picture on that site actually has a striking resemblance to that ending screen in Fallout 2, doesn't it? Nice link, Saint_Proverbius. Didn't know that at all. :D
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
Try NEVADA, neophyte. Big state located to the right of California. Perhaps you've heard of it? :D
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Unfortunately, not :oops: .... of the town that is. Maybe because it;'s a ghost town, not an actual populated town

Nevada? California? USA? What sort of backwater shitholes are you talking about? :twisted:
 
I took a topographical map of California and started marking off Fallout locations.. Then I realized things started to stretch into Nevada. God damned US of A. :twisted:
 
Well, Reno is also in Nevada, and Broken Hills is East of it.

Modoc is also a county in California. I've never heard of Modoc Plain, though. Modoc County is in the North Eastern most edge of California which would put it right smack dab where the town is in Fallout 2.
 
Come to think of it, Nevada seems to be quite popular with the post-apoc genre: Wasteland, Fallout, Sthephen King's "The Stand" was set in Boulder and Las Vegas...
 
I guess it's because of all the nuclear testing that went on there, before. That and the surrounding desert is already pretty desolate as it is, so it's a good place to see how a Post-Apocalyptic wasteland would be.
 
If you look at the older games such as "It Came From the Desert". You can see the feel of radiated settings pretty much are set in Nevada and Clifornia border areas. "Wasteland was the same. It is fun camping out there. You never know what you might find in most of those areas. Once I found a sack of 1856 coins in an old box crate buried in a dune. We also came across an old armor traning column which broke down and got covered in sand. :D
 
Heh. I once bestowed a half-buried battle tank upon my players when mastering a post-apoc role-playing session, so that they could fire at the raiders who were chasing them, and I wondered what the odds for such an encounter would be. Good enough it seems :)
 
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