Fallout: Hartford

[SirDanest]

People don't usually think of Connecticut when they think of post-apocalyptic survival (Unles we're having another bad winter.) ;) But Hartford has in my opinion some pretty interesting architecture. The highway bridges are almost maze of multi-level criss-crossing bridges. And a stilt building for some reason. There's a "welcome to hartford" tunnel that made me want to start building a scrappy settlement in there.

Colt is or was in Hartford... imagine if in 2077 only the robots in the factory were left running the place. I see shenanigans and a faction right there.

The wadsworth atheneum looks like a medieval castle, battlements on the towers.

In modern day real life hartford, there's already a taxidermied two-headed calf. Pre-war brahmin!

And I think there should be ornery giant radmoose... moosen... mooses. Yes, _giant_ moose!
if I could knew how to do architecture.... or moose... :)

[Rabbit1251]

I would like to see Fallout London or even Fallout Beijing. That last one was the reason we ended up in such a mess in the first place and probably has suffered the same as we got. Not that I really have anything against the Chinese it's just that my chances of ever seeing these countries is through a video game.

 

 

The Rabbit

[SirDanest]

It would be interesting. Almost nothing is known about China in 2077. Do they also have the strange 1950's aesthetic of the Americas, a sort of black-and-white-era Leave-it-toBeaver with a fatman nuclear catapult? Was their technology stunted in some places and advanced in others, as was the US? Is there the same certain bizarre not-always-very-serious-tone to the world that fallout has? What does "retro" imply in China?

Edit: Are there public domain model and texture (safe, legal to use) resources for buildings and maybe even... a moose, that can be put into a mod? Animation might be complicated, but a static building model... maybe.

The buildings of Fallout 3/NV might be better resources for Hartford than fallout 4, and Casinos are already a fully functional concept in NV.

I think there's also a bottling factory in Hartford. Such a thing might even be a threat to the economy if some enterprising individual were to try to get it running again, post-apocalypse.

Whomever had control of the Colt building would be formidable as well. There's a statue of a rearing horse with a gun or two. I can only imagine what wastelanders would think of that.

Edited March 16, 2018 by SirDanest

[SirDanest]

Don't know if I should post twice, maybe nobody is looking anymore.
But I'm also considering looking into implementing _deep_ snow. Connecticut is quite capable of deep, fierce blizzards, and I can't think of any games that have done this. Skyrim has snow, but it's basically white terrain.
A world without snowplows, covered in three feet of wildly blowing, drifting, foot-sinking, freeze-your-beard-solid, snow sounds like an apocalypse all of its own.
The Frontier mod sounds like it's going to have cold affects like SKyrim's frostfall, but I don't know if "everything is buried in snow" has been attempted in a game yet. I think it's a good idea for an apocalypse setting, at least.

[Rabbit1251]

There's a statue of a rearing horse with a gun or two. I can only imagine what wastelanders would think of that.

 

That's just Quick Draw McGraw. He likes to get his picture taken there whenever he's in town.

 

The Rabbit

[TripleJWDog]

I'd love to see Connecticut in Fallout. I always thought that the Sub Base, Electric Boat, and the Coast Guard Academy would be cool places to explore in the Fallout universe. I'd imagine that the USCGB Eagle and the USS Nautilus would be perfect for quests. Mystic, Essex, and Hadlyme would also be interesting places to visit, given the Seaport Museum, Essex Steam train, and Gillette Castle. And I just realize that I sound like a travel brochure for CT :tongue:

Edited April 1, 2018 by TripleJWDog

[SirDanest]

I was at first just thinking of Hartford. But I suppose the Mojave and Commonwealth both compressed a large geographical real-life area into a much smaller game world so Connecticut could too.
Maybe the Nike Missile Defense base in Meshomasic forest (Forest of the Great Snake) was never shut down in the Fallout universe. And of course, it wouldn't be called Forest of the Snakes/Great Snake for nothing in the post-apocalyptic Fallout universe.
I can't believe there's no snake monsters in Fallout.
Castle Craig and Gilette Castle and the Wadsworth Atheneum would no doubt be being used by some faction or other as actual castles.
Whomever controlled the Colt facility might end up like the Gun Runners of the west.