Sightseeing in Fallout: New Vegas

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GamesRadar US publishes the sightseeing article from OXM US, taking us through New Vegas landmarks, describing and showing Dinky the Dinosaur, Black Mountain Radio Tower, The Strip and Helios One.<blockquote>
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Black Mountain Radio Tower

At the center of the New Vegas desert sprawl is Black Mountain, aptly named for its scorched ground. It was hit more directly by a nuclear blast than other areas (such as The Strip), so it’s populated almost exclusively by the Geiger Counter-lovin’ Super Mutants.

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The Strip

You might not see a beam of light shooting skyward from the tip of a pyramid, but the main hub of New Vegas will still be hard to miss from wherever you are.</blockquote>Sightseeing in Fallout: New Vegas
 
Is super mutants liking radiation a Fallout 3 thing or is OXM just making stuff up again? Also, the radio tower hardly looks like it's survived a nuclear blast
 
AFAIK, Super Muties can withstand lots of radiation - that is coming from Fallout 1's BoS holo-disk. BoS' paladins found a corpse of a SM in a heavily-irradiated area (and he died of wound, rather than radiation). So no making up stuff, at least here.

All in all, the only new thing is the Black Mountain and yeah, it's kinda retarded it's still so intact.
 
UncannyGarlic said:
Is super mutants liking radiation a Fallout 3 thing or is OXM just making stuff up again? Also, the radio tower hardly looks like it's survived a nuclear blast
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Either making stuff up or not having a clue what they are talking about. Aren't SMs immune to radiation? So what better place to keep those peskie Normals at a distance then a Radioactive dossed location?
 
Ravager69 said:
AFAIK, Super Muties can withstand lots of radiation - that is coming from Fallout 1's BoS holo-disk. BoS' paladins found a corpse of a SM in a heavily-irradiated area (and he died of wound, rather than radiation). So no making up stuff, at least here.
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"Like" is the wrong term though. As with ghouls, it makes sense of Supermutants to crowd in radiated areas since it makes an extra natural defense against humans. But whether or not they like it? Eh.
 
I think they are pretty indifferent to it, but like some others said, it at least makes sure humans never become interested.
 
UncannyGarlic said:
Also, the radio tower hardly looks like it's survived a nuclear blast
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Your enemies would naturally target major structures – military bases, cities, etc. Most out of the way buildings wouldn’t even be considered valuable enough to warrant an “atomic bomb”. But if they were situated close to a major target, well that’s another story. But are the “atomic bombs” of the Fallout world based on the megaton yield of the 1950’s – and considerably smaller compared to contemporary weapons.
 
Black Mountain Radio Tower

At the center of the New Vegas desert sprawl is Black Mountain, aptly named for its scorched ground. It was hit more directly by a nuclear blast than other areas (such as The Strip), so it’s populated almost exclusively by the Geiger Counter-lovin’ Super Mutants.
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If it's been hit "more directly" then it should look it. I assume someone has been doing upkeep on the radio tower but the NCR, BoS, and Enclave are really the only existing groups that make much sense doing so.

Also, I hope that isn't a nuclear bomb crater in the center of that picture...
 
^^^^

You are right, if that is the blast crater, everything around it should be leveled or at least toppled down the further you get from the impact zone.
 
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I really love this concept picture. And I hope even more they do make something close to it in game, lots of people, buildings, alleys, crap, lights and darkness, smoke... Like a leveled, crappy and sandy version of the Blade Runner LA.
 
Isn't that guy in the dinosaur's mouth one of the Megaton townsfolk? What's he doing all the way out in Vegas?
 
UncannyGarlic said:
Is super mutants liking radiation a Fallout 3 thing or is OXM just making stuff up again? Also, the radio tower hardly looks like it's survived a nuclear blast
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The former I presume, "liking radiation" is far from the word choice of "being immune to radiation and thus able to dwell in radiated areas for increased securtiy".

For comparison, just because Silicoids in MOO were immune to hostile environments didn't mean that I preferred to conquer Radiated worlds instead of nice 100 mil pop Terran ones ;)
 
Right, I was just wondering if I missed them making Super Mutants enjoy being around radiation like Glowing Ones in Fallout 2 seemed to and I'm glad that's not the case.
 
UnidentifiedFlyingTard said:
I don't see why you guys care that much about the visuals, the graphics look fine to me.
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Oh I dont care about the visuals over story or gameplay (hence why Fallout 1 + 2 remain to be one of my top rated games to this day)

But the engine is now showing its age in my opinion.
 
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