CK needed, Vehicular transport?

[Maelstrom100]

Ok sure this is kind of a thing thats been said many a time but i just wanted to make a new topic putting my opinion out there on the whole take on how it would work (and ask for it!)

 

seeing as there are so many vehicles around the commonwealth its surprising warring factions haven't tried to repair and make any form of vehicular transport, like there should be a way for you to capture a military truck, repair an old bike (like pedal bike) or even make your own motorcycle, Im actually surprised taming and riding wild ragstags isin't a thing expecially since this engine is based on skyrims and they had horse transport (basically ragstag give or take a few heads), im also surprised that you can't learn to pilot a vertiberd like you could with power armor in previous games (aka requireing special training, a perk)

[Flowerguy360]

I suggested something like this some time back, and the reply I got was basically that the map is too small.

 

Hopefully with the CK that will change.

 

I think it would be very plausible to make some great post-war modular vehicles using the power armor system, fueled with fusion cores. I mean, basically that is what power armor is - a human-shaped vehicle.

 

Also, with how robots are now modular with Automatron, I think this makes sense. I don't see any reason we couldn't go about making armored buggies with bouncing wheels physics to cover the uneven terrain. Even combat wouldn't be too implausible with a first-person HUD similar to what we see in power armor.

 

Take too much damage? Vehicle blows up and takes you with it (unless you get off/out of it).

 

There is no valid reason I can think of why this should not work. I mean, if we can have a mod for crafting vertibirds, something to make modular vehicles out to be possible. Just put a limited selection of Vehicle Frames into the world and let people find it.

 

It will require the CK, but it would be pretty much the best mod ever. And, again, I'd like to emphasize the modular aspect, because I think it would really drive (pun intended) the immersive value of such a mod in the post-apocalyptic world.

[minngarm]

duplicate the setup for power armor, add spell effects that increase speed/flight and so on.

[Flowerguy360]

duplicate the setup for power armor, add spell effects that increase speed/flight and so on.

But it wouldn't be a Corvega.

 

Or a tank.

Or motorcycle.

Or the Commonwealth Dunebuggy.

 

Or, my favorite, a vehicle that is part wood, part rebar, and all Death Trap - mounted with a fat man (a raider's body, not the weapon) and a bad attitude...

 

...Or something like that. >.>

 

:D

 

Edit: Okay. Let's be real. I'm not talking about a raider - I'm talking about myself. *sigh*

Edited April 26, 2016 by Flowerguy360

[Flowerguy360]

Going to double-post here, but I'd just like to clarify what I think this would require (a LOT of work, but worth it):

 

Duplicate the power armor system.

Create the model/mesh, etc. for the Vehicle Frame.

Create a new First Person HUD for while inside Vehicle Frame.

Create a new animation for entering/exiting Vehicle Frame.

Create a new bouncy animation/physics for wheels of Vehicle Frame.

Create a new Workbench (Garage) for crafting with Vehicle Frame.

Create new models/meshes for Vehicle Body Modules to go onto Vehicle Frame.

Create new models/meshes for Weapon Modules to go onto Vehicle Frame.

Add effects like speed, headlights, etc. to said modules.

Test, test, test.

 

Release. Enjoy accolades.

 

 

Edit: After that, optionally...

 

Add Vehicle Frame to select locations in the Commonwealth.

Add some minor side-quests to gain blueprints for crafting different modules.

 

Wait for my marriage proposal so you can soundly reject me and crush my ego.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Flowerguy360

[Maelstrom100]

come on can't someone create this? like the ck's out now this should be possible but this post is likely gonna get ignored it seems
ah well i can hope atleast

Edited May 5, 2016 by Oileme

[PoppaSmirk]

I'd like to see a Quest Mod where one of the ...scientists ... ( don't want to say their names ), gets recruited to help on a project to restart a ground transport system, either a train/monorail (but probably a train since most the monorail tracks have major issues now), and play it up with the enthusiasm of the effort to complete the original Transcontinental Railway; stressing that it would bring the people of the Commonwealth together, allow food and medical supplies to be delivered faster yadda yadda yadda. Enable the rebuilding of the Commonwealth by sending materials to where they are needed for construction etc. et cetera et cetera, and after going through a lot of hoops, the darn thing won't work...BUT as a way of thanking the Vault Dweller for their help a special side project is gifted to He or She; a prototype car, made using some of the tech that the Vault Dweller helped to be put together. The Scientists says there are still problems to be worked out before mass production can begin, but at least this way --- with the Vault Dweller driving the car around, it will stir up interest from word of mouth by people of the Commonwealth seeing the car driven.

 

lol.. Now, just need someone to create this ------------ a flying car. Basicly a fusion cell powered hovercar, capable of riding 3 feet off the ground ( to help avoid those sudden potholes that might spring up due to mutated molerats or radscorpions digging up the roads).

 

I figure the backstory explains why the Commonwealth isn't suddenly flooded with vehicles, since really there isn't yet a manufacturing chain to support the mass production of anything, but it does serve as inspiration of what CAN be accomplished, that the human race --- well the American people aren't all washed up after nuclear armageddon. Of course you can retain some game balance by making the hovercar expensive to operate (It is a prototype afterall), maybe make it require 4 fusion cells to operate and the car eats through them at an alarming rate.

 

 

This is how I picture the 2289 Freedom Coupe :smile:, Man the Atom Cats are gonna be soooo jealous !! LOL

 

http://i67.tinypic.com/iqgf9z.jpg

Edited May 5, 2016 by PoppaSmirk

[Maelstrom100]

i really do like this idea ^^^ !!!! however its not exactly impossible that some old vehicles survived expecially if the brotherhood had 1 or maybe two military trucks on hand. i mean vertiberds survived so why not a truck?

also you should be able to use ragstags to travel like seriously! like imagine riding around on a freindly ragstag to get around and then maybe seeing a few raider gangs doing the same

i really really do like the idea of riding around on a small motorbike though, like it maybe a rare find taking a huge ton of questing to get too but in survival mode having a motorcycle to ride around the map would be a godsend

[Flowerguy360]

i really do like this idea ^^^ !!!! however its not exactly impossible that some old vehicles survived expecially if the brotherhood had 1 or maybe two military trucks on hand. i mean vertiberds survived so why not a truck?

also you should be able to use ragstags to travel like seriously! like imagine riding around on a freindly ragstag to get around and then maybe seeing a few raider gangs doing the same

i really really do like the idea of riding around on a small motorbike though, like it maybe a rare find taking a huge ton of questing to get too but in survival mode having a motorcycle to ride around the map would be a godsend

 

A heavily modified, special edition, Giddyup Buttercup instead of a RadStag. <.<

[astantos]

I was just about to put up a post myself about this! I too would absolutely love to have some sort of vehicle other than the vertibird signal grenades...

 

But really, could someone AT LEAST fix up the vertibirds? Holy crap, they are the most useless piles of oil and metal I have ever seen, and the pilots who fly them must have failed grade school, they can't even fly to somewhere you haven't been. Lorewise that just makes 0 sense since its a HELICOPTER ... YOU FLY IN A STRAIGHT LINE.

 

Also the very first time you ride in a vertibird as part of a mission *cough* spoiler *cough* you aren't kicked out of the vertibird as soon as the wheels touch the ground (and in some rare cases, BEFORE the wheels have even touched the ground). You get an opportunity to use your minigun to sweep the area, which makes sense. If someone could add that to ALL the vertibirds, that would be amazing.

 

Now, I just have to go figure out why I'm getting a bug where my minigun disappears mid flight and stops me from shooting at all (well, the gun isn't there, so its just me standing on the deck with an empty mount...)