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I'm sorry dude but that intro was way too long and boring, I spent nearly a minute waiting for the video to start and by the time it did, I lost interest in watching a full 23 minute video.
@@dnrspdr03canadian95 I think if a “whole minute” crushed your attention span, you have a greater issue that I cannot tackle. I’m not trying to be shitty, just honest. Reading would help this.
An observation I’ve made is that crossings that lack pre war markings are built over the road while the ones that do have markings are a little more flush with the road. I think some of these crossings are examples of where the NCR laid new tracks, the powder gangers mentioned that they were brought in to work on restoring/laying new tracks.
@@crybernetics9007. I can't imagine they would use 19th Century Canadian gauges or anything else so standard gauge would be the only real option given the lack of information.
@@crybernetics9007 The NCR seem a pragmatic sort, so using existing gauge would make sense (if they're using existing rolling stock, at least, which the Barstow Express seems to hint at).
10:26 This bit of unintentional comedy, cutting to the ghoul being nothing but a pile of gore without so much as a mention of its existence is why i love fallout.
I live in Utah while my parents live in Southern California, so I’m rather familiar with the highways of Nevada. Playing New Vegas is always such a treat because of all the effort the devs put in, as the game almost perfectly lines up with its real world counterpart.
That makes it even better being directly familiar with the area. When I have visited Vegas I can tell I know a bit about the layout from playing this game which feels strange.
@@nvRangersame thing happened to me when I played Vegas and then went there myself, I knew where I was roughly an yet first time....like.... now where have I seen that before.........
And since it's an alternate timeline all the way back to around the 40s or 50s and the bombs drop in 2070's, any discrepancies can be chalked up to just different contruction plans or societal needs as Fallout's world is very drastically different to ours. Advanced technology, but advanced stylisitically divergent from our advancemant.
I like that the lore you can get from dialogue checks out with the world building. Never even noticed how new the machines at the quarry were until you said something. The trains run to realistic locations and seemingly unimportant spots actually carry story significance if you take the time to pay attention to details. I like how the map parallels real world sites as well. Makes the world feel alive.
A channel named "TheArmyOfOtters" made a video 3 days ago titled "The Unexplored Mojave: The Mojave Railroad" which is almost the exact topic of this video it seems. Funny coincidence.
I saw that while I was in the process of editing this together and was like, "DAMNIT!" Hopefully they are different enough, I'll have to check theirs out later.
@ as someone who’s watched just about every fallout lore video in general, I really love your videos! I’ve been binging them the last couple of days whenever I have a few moments. Many thanks for the entertainment :)
3:45 whats really cool about the railroad going to and the train being from Barstow is that the Hub (from Fallout 1) is Barstow, so the NCR is likely to be transporting supplies from the Hub to their holdings around Vegas.
I wonder if the train that fell into crescent canyon was theirs. I was thinking when making the video that they should be working to fix that broken bridge.
@@nvRanger honestly it makes sense, especially since the legion is really close to that location. maybe vulpes inculta was also ordered to sabotage the bridge?
It would've been so cool for a dlc where you take a train to the hub and see how far it has come since the events of fallout 1. If someone made a mod of that I would download it instantly.
People complained about how "broken" and "buggy" New Vegas was upon it's release. But when you consider the dev team only had like a year and a half to put it together, the sheer volume of detail they were able to put into it is nothing short of miraculous. What a gem :)
You didn’t play it on release. It was an absolute mess. That was par for the course for an Obsidian release for a long time. KOTOR 2 was literally unable to be played at release. There was a huge disconnect between the suits making deadlines and the dev teams. Bethesda was helping the devs by teaching them how to work in the engine, but the people negotiating with Bethesda just said yes to 18 months instead of doing actual negotiation.
@@surprisedchar2458 They were given around 16 months to finish kotor 2 lol. Bethesda was not going to negotiate, they would not let the game release close to skyrim. Silly to think. Taking the side of the corps over the small dev team is an odd stance
Yah, the game is a masterpiece, but alot of it's problems are simply from the time crunch they had to do. And it's forgivable when you see how they still managed to make a solid and still very fleshed out and detailed world despite this.
This is the content I need. I recently found Any Austin and it's similar content, just "boring" explanations for minor stuff in great video games. Inject it right into my veins.
I’d love a series of “post-game” content for NV that shows all these developments take place. I know there’s that old (broken) mod for the independent playthrough where you basically become an ancap president, but I’d like one that focuses on the Mojave politics and infrastructure. It’d be neat to have a functioning rail system and a rebuilt Nipton and Boulder City.
I was thinking the same while working on this project. I think a mod of that scale would be very hard to pull off and remain stable. Imagine a remake in Fallout 4's engine that allows for something like this with the settlement building system.
@@bobskywalker2707 The Bison Steve one? I have that one, same with Rebuild Nipton. I also have Run the Lucky 38. I feel it’d be cool and make the world feel more alive if there was some sort of connective tissue between mods like these.
@@Chinchilla2310 There's also claim the mojave for a more recent one. I don't think you can rebuild rail lines but at least you can build new stuff in places you clear out.
So, I noticed during one of the shots of the side of the locomotives that they read "Barstow Express AT&SF". The AT&SF, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (most well-known as just the "Santa Fe"), was a real railroad company. But strangely enough... They didn't have tracks to Vegas. The closest they ever got appears to be off the bottom of the NV map. Although, while I am unable to confirm whether it was an AT&SF subsidiary, there was a company that branched from their lines through Ivanpah and nearly to Primm. The real company that goes through Vegas is the Union Pacific, who are also the origin of that shield design on top of the station in Freeside at 15:36, although that may be down to nvRanger's mod, I'd need someone to confirm. The Union Pacific got control of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, who had originally built the line through Vegas. The LA&SL met the AT&SF off the bottom of the map, however, at a junction in Daggett, appropriately enough, near Barstow, bringing us in somewhat of a chaotic information loop back to the name on the engines (which appear to be EMD E-Units, either E7, E8, or E9s, probably E8s for both statistical and AT&SF historical reasons) in game. Thanks for reading that wall of text, to those that do.
The station in frreeside does get its design from the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. You can access Fallout 3 by taking the train inside the station. Perhaps the devs of that mod are familiar with the rail lines of the area. Great information, someone else mentioned some similar info (not exactly the same). I find it really cool, but I don't know much at all about it. Perhaps the NCR is resonsible for bringing those locomotives into the region. I should mention that I do not believe the one at calville bay has the Barstow branding in vanilla. It may in a shot or two of mine due to a retexture mod (my fault).
New Vegas was clearly rushed but you can tell they poured love into the game and built a world first then filled that world with as much content as they could given the time they had, rather than just throwing a bunch of stuff together without any forethought. It’s really quite sad because you can feel a little bit of that touch in fallout 4, but it feels like instead of fleshing everything out at some point they just decided to slap a bunch of interesting areas into the settlement system, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but doesn’t exactly entice players to ever go back except to juggle resources around before you unlock that one perk that lets you establish supply routes which isn’t exactly fun. Then you move to starfield and you have like 2 locations you’d ever want to go. I think I’ve revisited a base I made like once. It’s just so barren it’s actually physically annoying
It’s funny because the Fallout 4 settlement gets a lot of heat because of the other lacking elements but I would love that system in new vegas to build upon the world after you beat the game.
Great video! I'm still baffled how much attention to detail went into a game developed in 18 months, like it would be fair and excusable if the railroad didn't make sense, but it would be absolutely practical after being restored (tho I wouldn't recommend making a hole through the walls of Vegas lol)
It's funny, just the other day I was playing New Vegas and I too was mapping the railroad. My friend walked in and asked what I was up to and I just responded: "I want to know where it ALL goes."
I've had this headcanon for a while that the second railway tunnel you mentioned (the one that leads to nipton) could potentially connect to Big MT. Big wall of pure mountain leading south, Big MT's train tunnel heading north through an equally large wall, and so on. If the Divide was a major roadblock to the north, it'd make sense for the Big Empty to be an equally large roadblock to the south... that, and the crashed satellite is very close to that train tunnel.
Another banger video! Love this style of video and the premise Additionally those opening shots were excellent. Music added great atmosphere. Really set the mood
This would be a great layout plan for any current or future model railroaders. The buildings, terrain and track plan could easily be replicated. The roll of the railroad would be just as you said would, restoring freight and passenger service to the area, with security forces on board to clear out death claws and other undesirables. Bill of ladings (assembling the train with the correct rolling stock) would be randomly drawn from cards, with delivery locations on a timetable. Random encounter cards could be drawn at certain locations with locals and enemies. A roll of some dice would indicate success or failure with the reward or consequence. Enjoyed the video, thanks.
Awesome, I would love to see a model railroad recreation of New Vegas. Might even get into the hobby one day and try and do it myself. That'll be a long time from now though so hopefully someone beats me to it
One cool thing I’ve noticed is the locomotives have AT&SF marked on the roundel at 3:57 - Also known as the Santa Fe railroad. Irl ATSF Merged with the Burlington Northern to form the BNSF, so ig we can infer that in fallout that merger never happened
@ quite a bit before New Vegas! iirc the merger happened in 1995. Also of note, The Union Pacific mainly operates the track in Vegas, and the BNSF runs along I-40 into Barstow irl. Not unheard of to see a BNSF loco in Vegas tho, but it is rare.
Very cool, thanks. Someone else just mentioned the Union Pacific and it seems the TTW mod used something approximating their logo for the station in Freeside. I love the detail and context that you guys can add to this given your knowledge on the subject.
Great video very in depth. On one of my many playthroughs I was legit curious to see where the tracks go. I remember that I would follow tracks to be met by a dead end and always wonder what's beyond that. Crazy to see that attention to detail.
Boulder City! Such an amazing place! With... one really nice, but completely empty bar. And one guy standing outside. And only one easily-skippable quest. It would have been a great little place to have some sort of power vacuum without the support from the NCR trains coming and going, mysterious crimes going on, the cement mixing factory trying to make ends meet, traders trying desperately to survive and considering either becoming caravans, or dealing with the Crimson Caravan...
Great vid!! discovered your channel today and ive binged it a bit, awesome stuff dude! and imagine what the ncr would pay for this map should they win against the legion lol
Less than 1 minute in, and I'm already in love with your editing. This is fabulous, great job!! And a little over 20 mins later and I agree with my initial thoughts, the editing is so good. The map construction details are great that you've put together, and the ghoul humor at around 10:25 is just perfect fallout cheek. Fantastic work here 👍
This makes me want a quest to clear the tracks and get a functioning train to take you across the Mojave btw I used this mod www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/83902 by Spifferino for the base map I built upon!
The way I’d do this would be to make the quest givers The Followers. Maybe the group in the railway tower is there to find a full map of the rail lines of Nevada. The introduction quest is to go and find the rail map, maybe in one of the rail stations. Once you give them the map they then task the player with working with clearing teams. The motive for The Followers could be to establish a trade relationship with the Boomers, once done the rail line is then operational and you can take a train from the Boomers in the north to the tower in the centre(ish) then down to near the Mojave Outpost. Then throw in a few side quests about clearing other disruptions to open more stops and help maintain the railway. And a couple of scavenging quests to find parts! That’s how I would structure the quest line anyway.
The only difficult part would be the animations to be honest, it wouldnt be too difficult to get everything else in. Even more so if you skip the animations and make it essentially fast travel points
@UlyssesCrab the scavanging quests could be one of those repeatable ones where you earn little bits of xp and money or maybe discounts on travel fees, something too make use of unused scrap items in the game.
First video I've watched on your Chanel, your into and music choice is more then enough for a like, sub, n my comment. Big fan of FNV content so plz keep it up!
I would imagine that it has to do with different designers working on different areas and trying to keep things a bit streamlined in a cluttered section of the map. I also imagine that they try and give unique identity to each neighborhood with the quests involved in them. It would be hard as players to distinguish them if we were just going all over the place for the relevant quests. Its a good question though, one only the devs could answer.
@@joshanderson9391 that's exactly why Freeside is split up into 2 (technically 3 if you count the Old Morman Fort, which I do) areas. Triangle City has a nice breakdown on the development of New Vegas, if you haven't heard of him, I highly recommend giving it a watch when you're not too busy
10:26 My thinking has always been that these crossings with no visible signage or markings and where the gravel of the railbed goes over the road were NCR repairs to the railroad. Just a thought anyways
Very Interesting Video. Thank you. FO NV was my favorite of the series, primarily because I was born and raised in the Mojave Desert, thus aliened myself with it on a real and fictional level.
@@nvRanger I've already watched it lots of times. When I first clicked on this vid I really wasn't expecting that and was really taken aback, in a good way. The camera motion and cuts synchronised to music are fantastic, with Mr House gradually creeping in. Very impressive, great work.
Awesome, it really started with me finding that song and wanting to work it in. It’s clear beats made it simple to time cutting different shots together with.
Great video! There's an old quest mod called New Vegas Railroads that touches on this part of the NCR.. Maybe It's time for some modders to revive NV trains!
Thanks! I saw that when looking for some mods to support the video. I'm afraid to put it in my load order and break my game so I'd definitely love an updated iteration
While Repconn does have a guided tour, I think a lot of the employees might also be using the train station. The Rock Crushing plant might have originally be used for crushing limestone to be used at a concrete plant, or for crushing other stones into gravel, possibly for cement (mix of concrete, sand, and gravel) or train track ballast. Or for crushing ore-bearing stone to be used at the steel plant. In any case it seems like a useful place given that it's near a trainline with such things. Just something to keep in mind if you do get into office for the NCR. As for the train wall, I guess I shouldn't underestimate the capabilities of a large quantity of weirdoes tripping on hallucinogens, stimulants, and synthetic steroids.
Good point about employees who might be using public transit as locals. I hope I don't get into office for NCR, I think being a TH-camr would be more fun😅
I imagine the freight car wall was originally on the rails and the way the fiends, or someone else before them, manage it was to tip them over using a lever and fulcrum, which can output immense force with little input. however, what I can't explain is how they managed to stack two lines of freight cars on top of each other
Is it Hyce? Is the mystery employer Hyce? _Is it the Talyllyn Railway_ ? Pretty neat video! I'm surprised I never went following tracks when I was playing XD
12:40 Random thing, but I think the rock crusher plant is important because you need sand and gravel of specific roughness (not desert sand) to produce concrete together with cement (which requires limestone).
Hell yeah another banger. Love watching your vids while playing Fallout, makes it double the Fallout lol. Quick question: what HUD/UI mod are you running in this vid? Looks clean af
@@MrMclovin1995 great set of options available, and if you're using MO2 just right click the mod and reinstall to bring the fomod back up and change it
@@nvRanger. I do wish the NCR would have used something closer to steam locomotives, though, rather than what appear to be EMD diesel units; They're far more versatile (Being that, as long as you can get something to continuously boil the water, you're all good) and they'd also fit the NCR's WW1-esque vibe in New Vegas exceptionally well. (That and also fitting California's own history; Plus, who doesn't love a classic steam engine?)
That's a great idea, I don't . I'm no artist, not even a particularly good map maker, but perhaps down the line I'll try and compile everything in a data base of some sort.
It just goes to show just how important the rest of the infrastructure of New Vegas was to the NCR, not just the Hoover Dam. Hell, the entire reason the Powder Gangers are as prominent as they are is because the NCR had to rely on the inmates to rebuild tracks, with their attention split between policing the Strip, protecting caravans and fighting the Legion, I'd be surprised if the Powder Gangers weren't successful in their riot/revolt. Had the Legion not have become as big of a threat as soon as they did the NCR could've probably rebuilt Vegas. It's possible that their previous victory against the Mojave Brotherhood got to their collective heads and forgot just how spread thin they actually are. As it turns out, train infrastructure can be used as a narrative device. First video of yours that I've watched and enjoyed it. I think I'll check out some more vids. :)
Awesome thank you. Yea its interesting to consider what the NCR could do with Vegas without the Legion getting involved. They were cleaning up the Mojave and whats left of the BoS. From what the game seems to indicate, this is the end of that easy expansion period. The Legion is poised to win the second battle and I don't know how much of that infrastructure they will put to use.
I love a video that digs into the lesser seen parts of video games that developers put work into. The channel AnyAustin has done a few similar videos related to fallout games
I'm filing this in my reasons why I can make an Independent New Vegas thrive. We get the railroads working, plenty of jobs, trade, food and water, building material, and safe supply lines.
Rest of the video aside, that opening. A little more narrative and less random and that would be a solid NV tribute. It's got the light melancholy with just a touch of brewing evil.
Excellent video. Don't feel bad, I've gone tits up on abandoned railroad tracks with no pants more times than I will admit to...I mean if such railroad tracks even exist, I can't confirm or deny if I was tits up nor can I confirm or deny, if I had no pants if they ever existed. Err...I can't confirm or deny...
The comments around the area of new vegas is interesting because games rarely make settings where its actually a world thats a shadow of its former self, when that was quite a common experience in post roman history and elsewhere in world history. The city of Rome had 1 million people in 100 AD, then only 50,000 for large parts of the middle ages. Living in new Vegas, looking on the trains and old buildings, probably feels a lot like a Roman walking through the overgrown coliseum.
U forgot one train track 😢 the one that leeds from ranger station charlie towards the back of gibson scrap yard toward helios one But the important part where does the tunnel leed to on that specific train track bc its a fresh track they ar building it it looks like
7:10 yo nvRanger! Where'd you get that RPG mod from? I've been looking for an rpg mod for a while now. Also great video, super informative as always, keep it up man!
Wanted to give a shout out to you nvRanger! Excellent video, so informative and really professional. My video isn’t nearly as polished. Hope to not steal any of your thunder, you deserve it. Cheers to all of those making New Vegas content 🍻 🦦
Ayyy my man, enough room for the both of us, no doubt. Appreciate the kind words. Onwards and upwards to both of us! Might need to commision your army of otters to get this rail line back up and running.
Btw this video reminded me of the cartography series of radking but for NV (i know he did some for NV but ngl those are just sum of thr game's main quest and some side quests instead of actually looking at the map and analizing the enviromental lore)
Awesome video I love the railroads of fallout! I was fascinated reading about fallout 4's trains, and how they had functioning freight lines just before the events of the game! I hope we'll someday finally be able to see trains (or any terrain vehicle for that matter) in action in a fallout title (^_^)
Thanks!, I'll have to look into 4's train situation. Work love to do a similar video for that game. Definitely agreed, train travel through Fallout (or metro) would be particularly fun
@@nvRanger. 4's railroad tracks don't have as many junctions from what I remember and most of the associated locations like Oberland Station aren't particularly useful, though there are, naturally, some exceptions. (There's also ZERO indication that the railroads in that game have ever been rebuilt or restored to operation, which makes sense for both 4 and 76 as there's probably not a lot of people left who even know how to operate a train, let alone maintain the tracks.)
I never noticed the UP shield on top of the Vegas depot. 😅 Union Pacific and Boston and Maine are Fallout cannon. Btw it’s just a locomotive. Cars are what the locomotive pulls. 😊
Yea are conductor earlier in the comments corrected me on the locomotive thing, thanks. The UP shield I believe is only there because of the tale of two wastelands mod. Not there in vanilla unfortunately
I would have split minor and major disruptions. Lot of the minor ones could be cleared in a day or so (week max) without heavy equipment, where as the major ones would be a much more expensive and time consuming to clear.
But what about the rails near NoVac? :) But I only remembered them from the Otters video and they also dont make alot of sense. The railsystem seems to be very functional, Fallout just has a habit of making them steep as rollercoasters in places :)
I think the steepness has to do with the scaled down map. What is a gradual decline become a steep one when condensed. I forgot the Novac rail line tbh. Couple others have mentioned the same. Not sure it’s relevant to the main anyway. Seems to be a product of cut content.
@@nvRanger. In part, yes; However, they tend to be pretty hands off for better or worse so either Bethesda would do such a project or a smaller team within Obsidian. (Who are currently busy with Avowed and Outer Worlds 2.)
Will have to be a different video. I know Old World Blues has some. I don't think Dead Money or Zion does, and I honestly can't recall if Lonesome Road has any
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i LOVE ,TTW. AWSOME MOD. been a long time though.
Think you could do this for like old world blues or something? I'm not sure how much railroad stuff is in the DLC, but I feel it could be interesting.
@@meepfanmeepster8620 for sure, i'll check it out at the very least
I'm sorry dude but that intro was way too long and boring, I spent nearly a minute waiting for the video to start and by the time it did, I lost interest in watching a full 23 minute video.
@@dnrspdr03canadian95 I think if a “whole minute” crushed your attention span, you have a greater issue that I cannot tackle.
I’m not trying to be shitty, just honest. Reading would help this.
An observation I’ve made is that crossings that lack pre war markings are built over the road while the ones that do have markings are a little more flush with the road.
I think some of these crossings are examples of where the NCR laid new tracks, the powder gangers mentioned that they were brought in to work on restoring/laying new tracks.
Another person just mentioned a similar theory, I like it. Think you're onto something
This is making me wonder if the NCR copied the prewar railway gauge or their trains are incompatible with any ruined railways
@@crybernetics9007. I can't imagine they would use 19th Century Canadian gauges or anything else so standard gauge would be the only real option given the lack of information.
@@crybernetics9007 The NCR seem a pragmatic sort, so using existing gauge would make sense (if they're using existing rolling stock, at least, which the Barstow Express seems to hint at).
10:26 This bit of unintentional comedy, cutting to the ghoul being nothing but a pile of gore without so much as a mention of its existence is why i love fallout.
i can't stop laughing at it, don't know why it's so funny
@@femed1283 Like Hold Up, gotta slap this ghoul, be right back after the cut
I don't notice this, but now I can't stop laughing
I'm more fond of the phantom brahmin double take at 11:31 lmao, but that ghoul cut is genuine comedy ghoul'd
I live in Utah while my parents live in Southern California, so I’m rather familiar with the highways of Nevada. Playing New Vegas is always such a treat because of all the effort the devs put in, as the game almost perfectly lines up with its real world counterpart.
That makes it even better being directly familiar with the area. When I have visited Vegas I can tell I know a bit about the layout from playing this game which feels strange.
@ yeah, it’s weird knowing how to get around a location without ever going there before
@@nvRangersame thing happened to me when I played Vegas and then went there myself, I knew where I was roughly an yet first time....like.... now where have I seen that before.........
And since it's an alternate timeline all the way back to around the 40s or 50s and the bombs drop in 2070's, any discrepancies can be chalked up to just different contruction plans or societal needs as Fallout's world is very drastically different to ours. Advanced technology, but advanced stylisitically divergent from our advancemant.
I like that the lore you can get from dialogue checks out with the world building. Never even noticed how new the machines at the quarry were until you said something. The trains run to realistic locations and seemingly unimportant spots actually carry story significance if you take the time to pay attention to details. I like how the map parallels real world sites as well. Makes the world feel alive.
Absolutely spot on. The attention to detail in new vegas is kinda crazy. Dialogue, world design, writing all come together very well.
A channel named "TheArmyOfOtters" made a video 3 days ago titled "The Unexplored Mojave: The Mojave Railroad" which is almost the exact topic of this video it seems. Funny coincidence.
I saw that while I was in the process of editing this together and was like, "DAMNIT!" Hopefully they are different enough, I'll have to check theirs out later.
Lol, I just watched that then see this and was like, "Ah, hell yeah! More railroad content!"
Double dose
I saw this title first, algorithm gods have heard his plea
@@d159inu I do a dance and shake every night to the Algo so I may be a blessed one
I love it when TH-camrs talk about video game railroads
its pretty fun, ngl. I have never really sat down and thought about the railroad in this game before
Real world infrastructure topics in video games is a strange niche of content that I never thought I’d like, but can’t get enough of lol great video!
I’m glad others seem to enjoy it. Thanks 🙏
@ as someone who’s watched just about every fallout lore video in general, I really love your videos! I’ve been binging them the last couple of days whenever I have a few moments. Many thanks for the entertainment :)
@ Awesome of you to say, thanks for watching and commenting. Really helps out the channel
I desperately need someone to do this for STALKER 2. The logistics of the map seem so thought-out and I want to see someone interpret it.
@@malaizze I have played only about 30 minutes of that and 15 minutes of another stalker game. I know too little at this point, so maybe down the road
3:45 whats really cool about the railroad going to and the train being from Barstow is that the Hub (from Fallout 1) is Barstow, so the NCR is likely to be transporting supplies from the Hub to their holdings around Vegas.
I wonder if the train that fell into crescent canyon was theirs.
I was thinking when making the video that they should be working to fix that broken bridge.
@@nvRanger honestly it makes sense, especially since the legion is really close to that location. maybe vulpes inculta was also ordered to sabotage the bridge?
Yes! That would have been an awesome little side note to add to his character and the problems he has caused to the NCR through sabotage
It would've been so cool for a dlc where you take a train to the hub and see how far it has come since the events of fallout 1. If someone made a mod of that I would download it instantly.
13:31 I'm imagining Motor Runner getting his fiend buddies together, saying " What if we took the trains, and pushed them somewhere else?"
lmao
People complained about how "broken" and "buggy" New Vegas was upon it's release. But when you consider the dev team only had like a year and a half to put it together, the sheer volume of detail they were able to put into it is nothing short of miraculous. What a gem :)
Absolutely, I would love nothing more than form them to get the chance to flesh the game out as they wanted with a modern remake.
You didn’t play it on release. It was an absolute mess. That was par for the course for an Obsidian release for a long time. KOTOR 2 was literally unable to be played at release. There was a huge disconnect between the suits making deadlines and the dev teams. Bethesda was helping the devs by teaching them how to work in the engine, but the people negotiating with Bethesda just said yes to 18 months instead of doing actual negotiation.
@@surprisedchar2458 They were given around 16 months to finish kotor 2 lol. Bethesda was not going to negotiate, they would not let the game release close to skyrim. Silly to think.
Taking the side of the corps over the small dev team is an odd stance
The game works better than Fallout 4.
Yah, the game is a masterpiece, but alot of it's problems are simply from the time crunch they had to do. And it's forgivable when you see how they still managed to make a solid and still very fleshed out and detailed world despite this.
Would love to see what your "five-year plan" would be for the region if the courier does a yes-man ending, think it would be a fun video.
Someone recommended something similar for Mr. House. I like the idea, thanks 🙏
@@nvRanger It might be too big a scope but what do you think would be the 5 year or so plan for each faction?
I might need to break that down for a video per faction but idk what would go into that kinda project until I start working on it
These are my comfort videos great video the first minute intro was beautiful
I love that, kind of you to say. Thanks
This is the content I need. I recently found Any Austin and it's similar content, just "boring" explanations for minor stuff in great video games. Inject it right into my veins.
Awesome, I enjoy his stuff as well. Probably the only gaming related videos I still make time for. It’s a fun niche
@@nvRanger based!
I’d love a series of “post-game” content for NV that shows all these developments take place. I know there’s that old (broken) mod for the independent playthrough where you basically become an ancap president, but I’d like one that focuses on the Mojave politics and infrastructure. It’d be neat to have a functioning rail system and a rebuilt Nipton and Boulder City.
I was thinking the same while working on this project. I think a mod of that scale would be very hard to pull off and remain stable. Imagine a remake in Fallout 4's engine that allows for something like this with the settlement building system.
There’s a mod that lets you rebuild Primm.
@@bobskywalker2707
The Bison Steve one? I have that one, same with Rebuild Nipton. I also have Run the Lucky 38. I feel it’d be cool and make the world feel more alive if there was some sort of connective tissue between mods like these.
@@Chinchilla2310 There's also claim the mojave for a more recent one. I don't think you can rebuild rail lines but at least you can build new stuff in places you clear out.
Have you played claim the mojave? Sounds very cool, I have had it installed, but never actually got around to engaging with it
So, I noticed during one of the shots of the side of the locomotives that they read "Barstow Express AT&SF". The AT&SF, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (most well-known as just the "Santa Fe"), was a real railroad company. But strangely enough... They didn't have tracks to Vegas. The closest they ever got appears to be off the bottom of the NV map. Although, while I am unable to confirm whether it was an AT&SF subsidiary, there was a company that branched from their lines through Ivanpah and nearly to Primm. The real company that goes through Vegas is the Union Pacific, who are also the origin of that shield design on top of the station in Freeside at 15:36, although that may be down to nvRanger's mod, I'd need someone to confirm. The Union Pacific got control of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, who had originally built the line through Vegas. The LA&SL met the AT&SF off the bottom of the map, however, at a junction in Daggett, appropriately enough, near Barstow, bringing us in somewhat of a chaotic information loop back to the name on the engines (which appear to be EMD E-Units, either E7, E8, or E9s, probably E8s for both statistical and AT&SF historical reasons) in game.
Thanks for reading that wall of text, to those that do.
The station in frreeside does get its design from the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. You can access Fallout 3 by taking the train inside the station. Perhaps the devs of that mod are familiar with the rail lines of the area.
Great information, someone else mentioned some similar info (not exactly the same). I find it really cool, but I don't know much at all about it. Perhaps the NCR is resonsible for bringing those locomotives into the region.
I should mention that I do not believe the one at calville bay has the Barstow branding in vanilla. It may in a shot or two of mine due to a retexture mod (my fault).
New Vegas was clearly rushed but you can tell they poured love into the game and built a world first then filled that world with as much content as they could given the time they had, rather than just throwing a bunch of stuff together without any forethought. It’s really quite sad because you can feel a little bit of that touch in fallout 4, but it feels like instead of fleshing everything out at some point they just decided to slap a bunch of interesting areas into the settlement system, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but doesn’t exactly entice players to ever go back except to juggle resources around before you unlock that one perk that lets you establish supply routes which isn’t exactly fun. Then you move to starfield and you have like 2 locations you’d ever want to go. I think I’ve revisited a base I made like once. It’s just so barren it’s actually physically annoying
It’s funny because the Fallout 4 settlement gets a lot of heat because of the other lacking elements but I would love that system in new vegas to build upon the world after you beat the game.
Great video! I'm still baffled how much attention to detail went into a game developed in 18 months, like it would be fair and excusable if the railroad didn't make sense, but it would be absolutely practical after being restored (tho I wouldn't recommend making a hole through the walls of Vegas lol)
Thanks! Yea I was amazed to see how it passes industrial work sites as well. Something I hadn't noticed in years of playing.
You could probably make a gatehouse
The algorithm reached me and knew I needed more New Vegas content. Love the internal lore man. I can’t wait to see you go from 13k subs to 200k subs.
That would be pretty neat. Thank you and thank the algorithm!
Interesting idea for a video. Would be cool to see one on 3, 4, and 76’s trains
Definitely on list 👍
You get these videos done fast and it doesn't affect the quality, keep pumping them out, I love the channel !
@@Scoot12321 hard at work, appreciate that. Will do 🫡
You deserve alot more subs for vids like these keep up the good work! 👍
appreciated, I will 🫡
It's funny, just the other day I was playing New Vegas and I too was mapping the railroad. My friend walked in and asked what I was up to and I just responded: "I want to know where it ALL goes."
You’re ahead of the game then.
I've had this headcanon for a while that the second railway tunnel you mentioned (the one that leads to nipton) could potentially connect to Big MT. Big wall of pure mountain leading south, Big MT's train tunnel heading north through an equally large wall, and so on. If the Divide was a major roadblock to the north, it'd make sense for the Big Empty to be an equally large roadblock to the south... that, and the crashed satellite is very close to that train tunnel.
I like that theory but I thought Big MT was closer to the divide. I definitely could just be assuming that, not sure where that idea comes from.
imaginary wife wake up, another banger just dropped
you'll get her one day king 🫡
Another banger video! Love this style of video and the premise
Additionally those opening shots were excellent. Music added great atmosphere. Really set the mood
Thanks a lot, appreciate the kind words and feedback!
This would be a great layout plan for any current or future model railroaders. The buildings, terrain and track plan could easily be replicated. The roll of the railroad would be just as you said would, restoring freight and passenger service to the area, with security forces on board to clear out death claws and other undesirables. Bill of ladings (assembling the train with the correct rolling stock) would be randomly drawn from cards, with delivery locations on a timetable. Random encounter cards could be drawn at certain locations with locals and enemies. A roll of some dice would indicate success or failure with the reward or consequence. Enjoyed the video, thanks.
Awesome, I would love to see a model railroad recreation of New Vegas. Might even get into the hobby one day and try and do it myself.
That'll be a long time from now though so hopefully someone beats me to it
One cool thing I’ve noticed is the locomotives have AT&SF marked on the roundel at 3:57 - Also known as the Santa Fe railroad. Irl ATSF Merged with the Burlington Northern to form the BNSF, so ig we can infer that in fallout that merger never happened
Interesting. Do you know when the merger happened? Was it post New Vegas or long before. Definitely could be an aspect of the alternate timeline
@ quite a bit before New Vegas! iirc the merger happened in 1995. Also of note, The Union Pacific mainly operates the track in Vegas, and the BNSF runs along I-40 into Barstow irl. Not unheard of to see a BNSF loco in Vegas tho, but it is rare.
Very cool, thanks. Someone else just mentioned the Union Pacific and it seems the TTW mod used something approximating their logo for the station in Freeside.
I love the detail and context that you guys can add to this given your knowledge on the subject.
Great video very in depth. On one of my many playthroughs I was legit curious to see where the tracks go. I remember that I would follow tracks to be met by a dead end and always wonder what's beyond that. Crazy to see that attention to detail.
Thanks! Dangerous trail to follow as well. Definitely could of half-assed it and many people wouldn't have noticed, but they went the extra mile.
@nvRanger exactly and that's what I appreciate about the devs.
Thanks for getting me into TTW again, listening to yours and triangle city videos in the background. Would be nice to see some more FO3 areas covered.
working on a Fallout 3 video now
@@nvRanger Thanks so much.
This was not what i was expecting when you said you had some stuff coming up but im all for it. Keep it up
Thanks. Gotta change things up from time to time.
First time seeing your channel. I love the editing, narration, and the overall content. Keep it up
Thank you very much, will do 🫡
What about the "orphan" railway? The one that goes from (more-or-less) Helios to end at that tunnel entrance near Dead Wind Cavern?
Couple people have mentioned it. I completely missed it. Tsk tsk
I find it crazy how much new vegas youtube content there is ❤
I love it, saw MutantMods uploaded minutes after me. We gotta keep the community around this game alive.
@nvRanger the core fanbase is always out looking for more new vegas
Boulder City! Such an amazing place! With... one really nice, but completely empty bar. And one guy standing outside. And only one easily-skippable quest.
It would have been a great little place to have some sort of power vacuum without the support from the NCR trains coming and going, mysterious crimes going on, the cement mixing factory trying to make ends meet, traders trying desperately to survive and considering either becoming caravans, or dealing with the Crimson Caravan...
Now how about a mini continuation about the railroad lines in the big empty in old world blues?
I’m definitely interested, I’ll add it to the list of projects
Great video and an awesome intro!
Appreciated 🙏
Loving these videos. Glad the algorithm suggested this channel 😁
Praise the mighty algorithm 🙏 thanks for the kind words
Great vid!! discovered your channel today and ive binged it a bit, awesome stuff dude! and imagine what the ncr would pay for this map should they win against the legion lol
Thanks! and yea I’m holding on to it till we see who wins 💰
Less than 1 minute in, and I'm already in love with your editing. This is fabulous, great job!!
And a little over 20 mins later and I agree with my initial thoughts, the editing is so good. The map construction details are great that you've put together, and the ghoul humor at around 10:25 is just perfect fallout cheek. Fantastic work here 👍
Thanks 🙏 kind works really go a long way. That ghoul had it coming
This makes me want a quest to clear the tracks and get a functioning train to take you across the Mojave
btw I used this mod www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/83902 by Spifferino for the base map I built upon!
Needs to be a mod
I know, right? A mod that adds functioning trains would be gold!
The way I’d do this would be to make the quest givers The Followers. Maybe the group in the railway tower is there to find a full map of the rail lines of Nevada.
The introduction quest is to go and find the rail map, maybe in one of the rail stations.
Once you give them the map they then task the player with working with clearing teams.
The motive for The Followers could be to establish a trade relationship with the Boomers, once done the rail line is then operational and you can take a train from the Boomers in the north to the tower in the centre(ish) then down to near the Mojave Outpost.
Then throw in a few side quests about clearing other disruptions to open more stops and help maintain the railway. And a couple of scavenging quests to find parts!
That’s how I would structure the quest line anyway.
The only difficult part would be the animations to be honest, it wouldnt be too difficult to get everything else in. Even more so if you skip the animations and make it essentially fast travel points
@UlyssesCrab the scavanging quests could be one of those repeatable ones where you earn little bits of xp and money or maybe discounts on travel fees, something too make use of unused scrap items in the game.
First video I've watched on your Chanel, your into and music choice is more then enough for a like, sub, n my comment. Big fan of FNV content so plz keep it up!
Very kind of you to say, thank you. Will do 🫡
One question I want asked is why dosent freeside/north or west have any connection to each directly and almost no crossover quests?
I would imagine that it has to do with different designers working on different areas and trying to keep things a bit streamlined in a cluttered section of the map.
I also imagine that they try and give unique identity to each neighborhood with the quests involved in them. It would be hard as players to distinguish them if we were just going all over the place for the relevant quests. Its a good question though, one only the devs could answer.
Might also be due to console memory issues. That’s why the Strip is split into 3 seperate parts so maybe that also occurred in Freeside
@@joshanderson9391 that's exactly why Freeside is split up into 2 (technically 3 if you count the Old Morman Fort, which I do) areas. Triangle City has a nice breakdown on the development of New Vegas, if you haven't heard of him, I highly recommend giving it a watch when you're not too busy
Amazing that Osidian craeted this dense and detailed world in such a short time, and we still find details in or worry about so many years later :)
very true, I'm regularly amazed and surprised at how many new things I find each year since 2010
10:26 My thinking has always been that these crossings with no visible signage or markings and where the gravel of the railbed goes over the road were NCR repairs to the railroad. Just a thought anyways
I like that theory, definitely could be
Very Interesting Video. Thank you. FO NV was my favorite of the series, primarily because I was born and raised in the Mojave Desert, thus aliened myself with it on a real and fictional level.
Thanks, yea that’s gotta be crazy to have a game that recreates the area you’re from. Very cool.
The opening to this is incredible. Absolutely magic.
Thanks 🙏 very kind to say
@@nvRanger I've already watched it lots of times. When I first clicked on this vid I really wasn't expecting that and was really taken aback, in a good way. The camera motion and cuts synchronised to music are fantastic, with Mr House gradually creeping in. Very impressive, great work.
Awesome, it really started with me finding that song and wanting to work it in. It’s clear beats made it simple to time cutting different shots together with.
That intro was soooooooooooooooo good I loved it!
Thanks for saying 🙏
That one really nicely modelled train at boulder city, the highlight of the game for a train nerd. 😂
Just been checking out model trains recently. Couple of enormous exhibits in my area. Such a cool hobby, the attention to detail can be incredible.
Great video! There's an old quest mod called New Vegas Railroads that touches on this part of the NCR.. Maybe It's time for some modders to revive NV trains!
Thanks! I saw that when looking for some mods to support the video. I'm afraid to put it in my load order and break my game so I'd definitely love an updated iteration
@@nvRanger It works fine. Not very in depth, though. Cool new loc, some interesting quests, but It's worth looking into at least once
Got it, appreciate the rec
Absolutely loved this video, I’m advid Railway fan. I’m hoping you do one for both 4 and 76
Thanks! Definitely gonna check them out at some point.
That intro will live in my dreams. Your videos are incredibly high quality. Incredibly comforting. Perfect to fall asleep to. Keep grinding king.
Love to hear it, I will no doubt 🫡 thank you!
While Repconn does have a guided tour, I think a lot of the employees might also be using the train station.
The Rock Crushing plant might have originally be used for crushing limestone to be used at a concrete plant, or for crushing other stones into gravel, possibly for cement (mix of concrete, sand, and gravel) or train track ballast. Or for crushing ore-bearing stone to be used at the steel plant. In any case it seems like a useful place given that it's near a trainline with such things. Just something to keep in mind if you do get into office for the NCR.
As for the train wall, I guess I shouldn't underestimate the capabilities of a large quantity of weirdoes tripping on hallucinogens, stimulants, and synthetic steroids.
Good point about employees who might be using public transit as locals. I hope I don't get into office for NCR, I think being a TH-camr would be more fun😅
@@nvRanger Just for that, I'm voting for you anyway.
I’ll take it. My platform is “Trains”
Intro is fucking epic you sir earned a follow
thank you 🙏
I imagine the freight car wall was originally on the rails and the way the fiends, or someone else before them, manage it was to tip them over using a lever and fulcrum, which can output immense force with little input. however, what I can't explain is how they managed to stack two lines of freight cars on top of each other
Is it Hyce? Is the mystery employer Hyce?
_Is it the Talyllyn Railway_ ?
Pretty neat video! I'm surprised I never went following tracks when I was playing XD
😅idk who Hyce is tbh
@ I think if you look up K37 Kitchen you can find out pretty quickly :P But it was him or Train of Thought who came to mind first XD
This video is amazing I love it really good keep it up
thank you, will do 🫡
12:40 Random thing, but I think the rock crusher plant is important because you need sand and gravel of specific roughness (not desert sand) to produce concrete together with cement (which requires limestone).
Interesting, I’m not sure it was included in the NCR’s operations before but based on that, it would be going forward.
Hell yeah another banger. Love watching your vids while playing Fallout, makes it double the Fallout lol. Quick question: what HUD/UI mod are you running in this vid? Looks clean af
Thanks! That is M.U.X. Check my mod list for a link or just type that in the nexus
@@nvRanger sick appreciate it dude. might actually use the fo1/2 one!
@@MrMclovin1995 great set of options available, and if you're using MO2 just right click the mod and reinstall to bring the fomod back up and change it
Imagine the people of the Vegas region seeing the NCR pull up for the first time in a full LOCOMOTIVE.
For real. They could tell something big changes were coming. Fun to think about
@@nvRanger. I do wish the NCR would have used something closer to steam locomotives, though, rather than what appear to be EMD diesel units; They're far more versatile (Being that, as long as you can get something to continuously boil the water, you're all good) and they'd also fit the NCR's WW1-esque vibe in New Vegas exceptionally well. (That and also fitting California's own history; Plus, who doesn't love a classic steam engine?)
Do you ever post your maps? I love daydreaming about building up fantasy locations and having the map would be really cool for that!
That's a great idea, I don't . I'm no artist, not even a particularly good map maker, but perhaps down the line I'll try and compile everything in a data base of some sort.
@@nvRanger that would be awesome!
Can I just say this is exactly the sort of work that would get a special bonus from Mr. House? Given the initial premise.
that's what I like to hear
What an awesome intro! I love this game man
Thanks dude! Lookin forward to add some more NCR territory to my game
That intro was beautiful
Thank you
It just goes to show just how important the rest of the infrastructure of New Vegas was to the NCR, not just the Hoover Dam. Hell, the entire reason the Powder Gangers are as prominent as they are is because the NCR had to rely on the inmates to rebuild tracks, with their attention split between policing the Strip, protecting caravans and fighting the Legion, I'd be surprised if the Powder Gangers weren't successful in their riot/revolt. Had the Legion not have become as big of a threat as soon as they did the NCR could've probably rebuilt Vegas. It's possible that their previous victory against the Mojave Brotherhood got to their collective heads and forgot just how spread thin they actually are.
As it turns out, train infrastructure can be used as a narrative device.
First video of yours that I've watched and enjoyed it. I think I'll check out some more vids. :)
Awesome thank you. Yea its interesting to consider what the NCR could do with Vegas without the Legion getting involved. They were cleaning up the Mojave and whats left of the BoS.
From what the game seems to indicate, this is the end of that easy expansion period. The Legion is poised to win the second battle and I don't know how much of that infrastructure they will put to use.
I love a video that digs into the lesser seen parts of video games that developers put work into. The channel AnyAustin has done a few similar videos related to fallout games
AnyAustin is awesome, love his stuff. Very interesting niche, I’m glad others enjoy it.
13:23 "I have no idea how they pulled this off".
First of all, through the power of Buffout all things are possible, so jot that down.
yea, that definitely had to be involved. Maybe some psycho too
I'm filing this in my reasons why I can make an Independent New Vegas thrive. We get the railroads working, plenty of jobs, trade, food and water, building material, and safe supply lines.
Yea it helps the case for such. Lotta work to do, but not impossible.
No way one of the first things I learn about Fallout from this channel regarding the original games is that the Hub is an actual location???
Yes, its placement is a bit off due to how they organized the locations in game, but it is meant to be Barstow via the Official Survival Guide
Rest of the video aside, that opening. A little more narrative and less random and that would be a solid NV tribute. It's got the light melancholy with just a touch of brewing evil.
fair enough 👍
Railfans: Heavy breathing
i love the fervor
The visual of a bunch of whacked out fiends moving a rail car Amish style gave me a pretty good chuckle.
😅
Excellent video. Don't feel bad, I've gone tits up on abandoned railroad tracks with no pants more times than I will admit to...I mean if such railroad tracks even exist, I can't confirm or deny if I was tits up nor can I confirm or deny, if I had no pants if they ever existed. Err...I can't confirm or deny...
😂I’m not sure what you’re talking about but I got a chuckle out of it. Thanks
Damn buddy your on a roll
Thanks, we gonna keep it going 🚂
The comments around the area of new vegas is interesting because games rarely make settings where its actually a world thats a shadow of its former self, when that was quite a common experience in post roman history and elsewhere in world history. The city of Rome had 1 million people in 100 AD, then only 50,000 for large parts of the middle ages. Living in new Vegas, looking on the trains and old buildings, probably feels a lot like a Roman walking through the overgrown coliseum.
Great parallel, I haven’t considered that angle before.
Honestly beautiful introduction
Thank you
U forgot one train track 😢 the one that leeds from ranger station charlie towards the back of gibson scrap yard toward helios one
But the important part where does the tunnel leed to on that specific train track bc its a fresh track they ar building it it looks like
Big AnyAustin energy. Big ups.
Big appreciation. Big comparison.
7:10 yo nvRanger! Where'd you get that RPG mod from? I've been looking for an rpg mod for a while now. Also great video, super informative as always, keep it up man!
That is from a recent release with tons of great explosives www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/89503
Appreciate the kind words, thanks.
13:28 the fiends ripped their entire stash of psycho in one go to muster the strength to move the train cars 😂
thats a solid theory, psycho and buffout mix to get that hulk strength.
Love the music at the beginning of the video man I love FNV wish they would remaster or remake it on newer hardware
thanks! completely agreed, we need a proper remake
Wanted to give a shout out to you nvRanger! Excellent video, so informative and really professional. My video isn’t nearly as polished. Hope to not steal any of your thunder, you deserve it. Cheers to all of those making New Vegas content 🍻 🦦
Ayyy my man, enough room for the both of us, no doubt. Appreciate the kind words. Onwards and upwards to both of us!
Might need to commision your army of otters to get this rail line back up and running.
Btw this video reminded me of the cartography series of radking but for NV (i know he did some for NV but ngl those are just sum of thr game's main quest and some side quests instead of actually looking at the map and analizing the enviromental lore)
I haven't seen those but I'm sure they'd be up my ally. The devs put in so much work to create an authentic Vegas region.
My theory I’ve always had was the rock rubble laying around the tracks to the south and the just past the I-15 crossing was powder ganger sabotage.
Definitely a sensible theory. They’re all over the area and we know they go from Sloan to Nipton. Might walk the rail line for travel
Awesome video I love the railroads of fallout! I was fascinated reading about fallout 4's trains, and how they had functioning freight lines just before the events of the game! I hope we'll someday finally be able to see trains (or any terrain vehicle for that matter) in action in a fallout title (^_^)
Thanks!, I'll have to look into 4's train situation. Work love to do a similar video for that game.
Definitely agreed, train travel through Fallout (or metro) would be particularly fun
@@nvRanger. 4's railroad tracks don't have as many junctions from what I remember and most of the associated locations like Oberland Station aren't particularly useful, though there are, naturally, some exceptions. (There's also ZERO indication that the railroads in that game have ever been rebuilt or restored to operation, which makes sense for both 4 and 76 as there's probably not a lot of people left who even know how to operate a train, let alone maintain the tracks.)
Subbed for the intro ❤
thank you, glad you liked it
It's going to be interesting to see how Fallout Season 2 is going to treat the area around NV.
It's gonna be wild in either direction. Good or bad, I imagine I'll be saying "holy shit"
I never noticed the UP shield on top of the Vegas depot. 😅 Union Pacific and Boston and Maine are Fallout cannon.
Btw it’s just a locomotive. Cars are what the locomotive pulls. 😊
Yea are conductor earlier in the comments corrected me on the locomotive thing, thanks.
The UP shield I believe is only there because of the tale of two wastelands mod. Not there in vanilla unfortunately
I added the 1000th like :) Great video!
Satisfying, thank you very much
I would have split minor and major disruptions. Lot of the minor ones could be cleared in a day or so (week max) without heavy equipment, where as the major ones would be a much more expensive and time consuming to clear.
Fair enough
You should collab with AnyAustin
Always wished someone would make a mod that brought back the trains and even let the npc travel from location to location
Would love something like that
I love the opening music
Good stuff, link in the description if you’re interested
And Barstow is the hub I believe right? So that first railroad line goes to the hub?
Yea I put a note in right around that point saying Barstow is The Hub. Very cool little detail connecting New Vegas to the original Fallout
Now this is content
🙏
But what about the rails near NoVac? :) But I only remembered them from the Otters video and they also dont make alot of sense.
The railsystem seems to be very functional, Fallout just has a habit of making them steep as rollercoasters in places :)
I think the steepness has to do with the scaled down map. What is a gradual decline become a steep one when condensed.
I forgot the Novac rail line tbh. Couple others have mentioned the same. Not sure it’s relevant to the main anyway. Seems to be a product of cut content.
the amount of views that these new vegas videos get in such a short span youd think that bethesda would try to revive it
Maybe if we keep at it that will be the result
It'd be up to Obsidian, really; Bethesda's main involvement would have been through their publishing branch: Bethesda Softworks.
I think it’d be up to Microsoft at this point
@@nvRanger. In part, yes; However, they tend to be pretty hands off for better or worse so either Bethesda would do such a project or a smaller team within Obsidian. (Who are currently busy with Avowed and Outer Worlds 2.)
Aw man, we are missing the DLC railroads!
Will have to be a different video. I know Old World Blues has some. I don't think Dead Money or Zion does, and I honestly can't recall if Lonesome Road has any
@nvRanger yeah, just OWB so it would have fitted here hahaha, still, that's for the future :)
Yessir 🫡
I wonder what a fully realized map like a fully working new Vegas map a day before the nukes dropped would look like? Have modders done that already?
Would be awesome but no, no mod as far as I know has attempted that. Would be a huge project
@ I would love to see it though
The intro was amazing. Made me want to go back and start my 15th play through 😂
Hell yea, thanks for saying!