The outside world building is crucial for New Vegas in particular since it is such a hub of commerce in the region. People come from hundreds of miles around to gamble, drink, and patronize brothels. Obsidian had to establish where all these people where coming from, and what the backstory of those places where
Ulysses sounds like kid who got bullied in school and stayed in his room listening to old Slayer records without ever learning how to start a lawnmower
@@nobilisartorivsterrible take. He’s upset with a guy with amnesia because he delivered a detonator without knowing what it was. You know mailmen aren’t supposed to open their packages right?
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Before the amnesia, the Courier could have been aware that they were carrying something important or dangerous. Maybe they saw markings, got a warning, or just had a gut feeling that it wasn’t an ordinary package. But even if they knew, they likely didn't understand the full consequences-just that it was a high-priority job. They weren’t choosing to wipe out Hopeville, they were just delivering a package. That’s where Ulysses' grudge feels a bit misguided. He treats the Courier as a symbol of inevitable destruction rather than just someone doing their job. It’s an interesting moral question: does ignorance excuse responsibility, or does being the one to set things in motion make you accountable no matter what? Would you forgive someone that was an essential instrument that killed your family even if he didn't know so? Highly doubtful.
As a kid I was always fascinated by unreachable places, like I didn't understand I was playing inside a skybox. When I was a map developer for Half-life 2 Deathmatch and Counter-Strike: Source I ALWAYS added excess details and unreachable interesting areas to my maps, to facilitate that same fascination in young players joining my server.
Love that other people get what I am talking about and that's awesome you worked on both of those games and took the time to do that. When I was younger I was always intrigued by what was going on outside the playable area, now that I am older I am impressed someone took the time to put detail into those areas.
I have never vibed with an opening statement more in my life! Out of bounds areas have always been fascinating to me! I’ve always wondered “what’s over there?”.
A fun Easter egg in the original Fallout game is you can actually find New Vegas on the map, you just can't actually explore it. It's listed as city ruins but it's location is exactly where Vegas would be situated a little northeast of the Hub
@@nvRanger also the hill up from Mercury, NV is most likely where the Sierra Madre is supposed to be; given the vicinity to The Divide and Big MT and that in early development it was meant to be found in the map. EDIT: Big MT is broadly in some place southwest of Pahrump and north of Baker
We are made a lot of work with Core Region cartography, and make some much detailed maps. Just find "Полная карта мира Fallout Alex6122" and find fandom. Unfortunately, the blog text is not translated into English, but the maps were originally made in English.
man ive been watching through your catalogue and i have been absolutely LOVING your videos. to be honest i can see you becoming as big as other creators like radking or epicnate, the way you're able to connect the game to real life and your own experiences are amazing, and your narration and the way you edit and write your vidoes is very high quality. i can see this channel getting big, keep doing your thing!
I really need to know where Filly and Shady Sands are. Previously Shady was in Death Valley but now it seems to be close to Hollywood, not sure i like it. What does it mean for the locations of Vault 13 and 15, what about Junktown, the Hub and of course, the Boneyard. (I imagine the Boneyard is in southern LA) also how the hell did the Master not find Vault 33 or 4!? They are very clearly advertised and the Cathedral was very close to Santa Monica
Great idea, I’d really need to familiarize myself with LA. I have the same confusion as eagleowl, looks like Shady Sands was moved to the Boneyard in the show based on the skyscrapers in the background.
@@eagleowl833 The show changing Shady Sands to a settlement built from the ruins of LA, ruins the foundational history of the NCR for me. Having the NCR grow from a empty patch of desert using a GECK has so much more creative life to it compared to another settlement forming in the ashes of the old world.
@@eagleowl833 If my opinion counts for anything as an LA resident, The cathedral is not as not very close to Santa Monica. I've been wondering why NOONE in the show mentions the name Boneyard! So I looked at a couple maps and used some wikis to see if what I remembered was true; I'd place the Cathedral In South LA , which is closer to Long Beach than Santa Monica. If the cathedral is in Southgate (thats being generous, looking at locations from Fallout 1 pip) then it is 20+ miles to The third street promenade, which is SEEN in walking distance once Lucy leaves the vault. Boneyard refers to Los Angeles as a whole, but in the first game, the locations are closer to dtla proper, and even some of westho. Adytum is stated to be in Southern Boneyard, close enough to know about the Cathedral. BUT!! The library that the followers use is in West Boneyard,, so towards modern-day hollywood. As for Filly? I instantly had an idea as soon as I saw it, LA national forest: only part of 'LA' that looks like that, and could have vegetation like that. I thought it could've been thousand oaks, but the mostly barren/desert landscapes they see right after, makes more sense, as the direction behind LA forest is Lancaster, Bakersfield, Barstow etc.... Okay sorry for the whole monologue, West Coast Fallout has just always interested me, esp Fallout 1, and well ig now the show, because I live here!!!!!! Its surreal seeing this stuff adopted more recently in Fallout. Obvi its existed, but seeing Bethesda remember (possibly not remember correctly lol) is just very surreal. cheers
This channel is going to blow up brother 🙏🏾 themes and topics are fantastic, excellent lore coverage. Was just looking for your page and this popped up in my recommendations
Hear me out, a Fallout New Vegas remaster where we’re introduced to New Vegas, but it’s no longer the epicenter of the game, but rather it’s introduced in RDR2 style where armadillo (New Vegas) was the original hub of the game and later transformed into just another location you can visit in the second, much larger, game. I’d love to be able to travel to places like the hub, new Canaan, and areas east of the Colorado.
8:45 (The Hub) "What might have changed, how far have things come and what does it look like now?" Judging by recent events, its either an abandoned ruin or a crater.
Really been enjoying these! The music fits so well too with the somewhat bleak and mysterious feel of New Vegas and some of it’s lore. I hope you continue to make more videos!
I recently found your channel and I gotta say I love your lore videos. I’m a sucker for any type of lore, and since Fallout is one of my favorite series, I’m hooked! Great job.
Nicely done on this video! One thing, though; I was watching this on a TV and the old film effect you used extensively throughout this video was cranked up way too high. It was especially tricky with anything with small details, as they became completely indecipherable. It's not an effect I would ditch entirely, just dial back the jitter within the effect's settings (it may be called something else) so that the visuals are still worth looking at. It also creates some flashing on the blue border, but I haven't seen any video editing program with that effect have a setting to ignore the alpha channel so the layer beneath stays as intended. It could probably be done with a cookie cutter effect, but doing a custom cut for every single clip adds an unreasonable amount of editing time to a video, so no worries there. I hope you find continued success whether my advice is helpful or not!
Thanks a bunch, really appreciate the feedback. Luckily, some others shared your opinion and made similar recommendations. I think after this very video I cut out that effect entirely while editing and swapped it for something far less aggressive. Thanks also for pointing out the difference while using a TV. Not something I view videos on but it’s worth noting for viewers.
The hub being called that and being a center of commerce has real world inspiration as well, if you didnt know. Growing up I rode on the semi truck with my grandparents, most loads they took into CA in later years(90s) went to Barstow, They were dropped there to be distributed within Cali by a separate company.
Honestly it would be cool to see Laughlin it’s a casino town so if the ncr took over Laughlin I think they could make great use out of the many buildings there and bullhead has an air port that could be an interesting place in the world of fallout I live in bullhead i wish we were in the game it would’ve been so cool
Very fascinating video! Never a topic I would have thought about normally, but a very interesting look into how game devs decides to dress up the boundaries of their maps! :D
Man this sucks, we will never visit one of the old fallout 1 and 2 towns because Bethesda doesn't want to civilization exist in their games. I would love to see reno for example and how it changed
Cascadia region in general. Ofc we get Arroyo and the tribals but that's about it. After the collapse of the California Enclave at Navarro we get absolutely nothing about North California, Washington, and Oregon. It makes me kinda sad
Legates camp further into colorado i wish we couldve charged further in and if we nuked legion Territory we could see fires in the distance and clouds still in the air we were meant to go about wanna say 10 some odd miles into legion lands to finally strike and i wouldn't doubt a massive fight against the best veterans
i would say southwestern virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, but thats going to be a reality soon in the new 76 update. cant wait to explore that beautiful area
In Vegas we went to find a fortune, from Vegas we left and lost our soul, yet we still dream of this wonderland, it's beauty like non other in the world.
@@nvRanger of course man, richly deserved. As others have said, you've got what it takes to make a living out of this. The only in-game location I've been to in real life is Vegas itself (a few times) and it bears almost no resemblance to the game, especially the scale of it. It's a very surreal place though, just barren desert and then boom! Huge towers shooting out of the ground. Let me know if you're going and I'll join in haha. First lap dance is on me.
I love irl Vegas and I don’t gamble a bit. You’re right tho, not like New Vegas, just a cool lively area with good food. Big fan of the natural area around it as well. Been to Red Rock, Hoover Dam, Zion, Flagstaff, few others I’m probably forgetting.
@@nvRanger oh wow I thought you hadn't been for some reason. Yeah I was always there for work (I used to coach professional fighters) but even when the work was done I might sit at the penny slots or something just to get free drinks. These days I don't even hardly ever drink. I never loved it, but my site seeing was admittedly limited. Love the game though haha
I loved your first line about unreachable places being the most interesting. so many times theorizing and wondering what if? Great video, well presented, and I learned a lot.✌️
Knowing that these are real world locations and where the roads lead to irl gives a hint where things would lead before the great war. We obviously know where the western roads lead, Fallout 1 and 2 are set there. But Obsidian took some liberties, like how the Nevada-California border is not right at Nipton, but at Primm.
When I was younger, I was very impressed with the True Crime games giving off the illusion of a world outside the playable areas with freeway exits to cities outside the map. They were blocked off, but cool.
1:30 I feel that statement SO much. In Mario 64 the area outside the castle; I wanted to get past the hills that block you in SO BAD. It just looked like the world could continue. as a child I figured if I could get past the invisible walls, there would surely be more game that’s kept secret!
Absolutely one of those games that's captured a lot of young imaginations. AnyAustin has covered that game over similar topics if you haven't seen those videos.
In my own mod while developing the custom Searchlight Campaign between NCR and Legion forces, I actually explored Bullhead City a little. Part of the NCR's Negligence has lead to the Legion crossing the river and causing a major battle to rage in that area with formally small towns now apparently major NCR forts. My Idea was that Aurelius of Phoenix hopes to secure the Searchlight area, once through all the NCR locations such as Firebase Henry Knox Bunker (Custom location overlooking a highway) and RS Charlie and Echo, they were gonna unite two invasion forces at the Airport and push out through Nipton and towards and through Novac and Helios one to cut off the NCR before the Battle of Hoover Dam But through your actions the plan goes wrong and Cottonwood Cove as well as Aurelius lost. Presumably, something also goes wrong with the other force too.I decided to make this little change because the Mojave Campaign is considered unimportant to the wider NCR and a Legion crossing the river and attacking the Frontier near the Mojave seems like a perfect kind of distraction as well as the Barons soaking up resources for their own interests from vanilla lore. It also made the Legions actions in the area make even more sense given Caesar is dedicating to not repeating the same mistakes as the first battle of Hoover Dam where the Legion focused only on one attack Vector.
11 views in 5 minutes, Ranger fell off. (I appreciate the effort you put into these, and how frequently they're produced. Youre awesomesauce, keep it up)
I don't think it could've been implemented into the game in a realistic, normal way like Zion Canyon and the Divide were, but I wish we could've seen (or at least heard) more about Caliente and the Eighties tribe.
I do not have a video for that, I honestly have not tested this modlist very much at all. I do however have the map for ya: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
You mean the map? Here it is, and thanks for the kids words. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
I wish there was a game set in the NCR. Obviously it would reduce the scale of any conflict but I would love to see what a full post-post apocalypse looks like.
Now here’s a guy who needs to play the Old World Blues mod for HOI4. He clearly loves maps and fallout lore, but doesn’t seem to know about the potential fun and lore involved.
@@nvRanger CD Keys for HOI 4 aren’t all too bad. I play multiplayer with a group of people, it’s a blast. Currently trying the Crusader Kings 3 AtE fallout mod, about to fire it up now. Just found your content this morning and it’s making me want to play all of the Fallout mods
Glad the content has you getting into Fallout related gaming. I actually own HOI4, just need to eventually make the time to play some fallout mods on it.
I found you yesterday and i just tried ti see if you had a discord server, but slightly disappointed thay you don't. Wish you did, would be nice to talk with a community of fallout fans x3
Actually living in this region must be so cool. I'm moving there and already I'm thinking of it as the fallout map, thinking welp I'm living in the frontier and my friend is in the boneyard.
I did my research of the areas Northeast along the Colorado and if you take the highways North of Nellis you will eventually be around the Valley of Fire State Park, or at least on the other side of the mountains, crossing them is Moapa Valley and if you continue with the highway instead of crossing the mountains you will end up in a junction I believe where Jackson stands, just a town. These locations are literally East of Caliente ,very close to each other. I wonder if the place is simply tribals and raiders since no info on it is ever handed to use. Judging by how Caliente is I'd say the highways must be full of highwaymen.
Yea that’s probably the case but I suppose it’s open to change. I’ve been to the valley of fire state park, cool place out in the desert with caves and rocks structures that have etchings and or paintings from the native society that used to live there.
I know the reason the roads leading away are barren is coz there’s no reason two put time in them, but man they are just filled with unimaginable melancholy like the sierra madre. I both can’t stand it and also love it
Great video with some very good points. The devs doing their research that fills in the gaps and makes sense of the world is what separates Obsidian from Bethesda in my opinion. I do have to protest at the use of that screen shake effect, though, it hurts my eyes something fierce.
I'm not sure to be honest. The opening to Van Buren, (the canceled Fallout 3 that was to be made by Black Isle before Bethesda bought the series) has a train car roll onto the screen of the main menu. So, trains might be a thing in the fallout universe, especially in the more developed areas of the NCR.
@@nvRanger Compared to cars, trains would be more efficient for the NCR, considering most major settlements have connection to a rail network, and the larger quanity of materials needed to be transported.
I can't believe that even though you have lonesome road quotes in the video, you didn't talk about how I-95 north goes into Ashton and, more importantly, The Divide. I-95 goes through Ashton, them south to Ridgecrest, what is now Junktown, making it one of the most important caravan routes into Vegas before it was destroyed.
You know something I always wondered where exactly the sierra madre was all the information we get is that we can get from the abonded bos bunker to their but that doesn't help much as well I've wondered if it's in Arizona since fortification hill and it both have that red tint but thats just the cloud at work so yeah it's weird how it's not actually said where it is
Buddy... the northwestern road leads straight to Shady Sands. I don't know if it's mentioned as such in the game, but look at the map. From my triangulation based on the quite accurate Fallout 1 map, I can say Shady Sands lays somewhere around real life Bonnie Claire, Nevada.
Another one worth noting, Fallout sure likes calling things "New" New Vegas, New Reno, New Jerusalem, New Canaan, New California Republic. Its a very "New" wasteland
As a ne ohio resident. Id love to see the erie stretch as mentioned in the pitt dlc. I can a imagine a atomic naval war between Detroit and Buffalo with Cleveland stuck in the middle with a little Canadian lore to the north.
Here you go, hopefully you get a closer look as to what's over the hills www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
they kind of messed up the map of fallout 1, but they claim necropolis to be northeast east of the boneyard, and east of the hub, while also being based in the ruins of bakersfield. but thats northwest. this puts necroplis right about where barstow is, where you say the hub is...
@@nvRanger this one "The bridge is located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, and carries Interstate 11 and U.S. Route 93 over the Colorado River" the bridge open in 2010 . . . so maybe because its newly build bridge obsidian not include it in the game or fallout universe.
7:38 "the developers went to this length ..." Yea, developers who actually care about making games, respecting the lore (of their creation), and are creative or smart people totally unlike bethesda.
Here is a video on the Capital Wasteland as well, if you're interested: ruclips.net/video/pCJQ3CDDPHc/видео.html
The outside world building is crucial for New Vegas in particular since it is such a hub of commerce in the region. People come from hundreds of miles around to gamble, drink, and patronize brothels. Obsidian had to establish where all these people where coming from, and what the backstory of those places where
great point
they had 13 years of lore to expand upon, and were able to salvage aspects of their treatment for a 'fallout 3' story
Ulysses sounds like kid who got bullied in school and stayed in his room listening to old Slayer records without ever learning how to start a lawnmower
I tell ya hwat, the boy ain’t right
Ulysses has better motives than any F4 character, he is complex and interesting. Idk why he gets so much hate lol
Bro quit describing me
@@nobilisartorivsterrible take. He’s upset with a guy with amnesia because he delivered a detonator without knowing what it was. You know mailmen aren’t supposed to open their packages right?
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Before the amnesia, the Courier could have been aware that they were carrying something important or dangerous. Maybe they saw markings, got a warning, or just had a gut feeling that it wasn’t an ordinary package.
But even if they knew, they likely didn't understand the full consequences-just that it was a high-priority job. They weren’t choosing to wipe out Hopeville, they were just delivering a package. That’s where Ulysses' grudge feels a bit misguided. He treats the Courier as a symbol of inevitable destruction rather than just someone doing their job.
It’s an interesting moral question: does ignorance excuse responsibility, or does being the one to set things in motion make you accountable no matter what?
Would you forgive someone that was an essential instrument that killed your family even if he didn't know so? Highly doubtful.
As a kid I was always fascinated by unreachable places, like I didn't understand I was playing inside a skybox. When I was a map developer for Half-life 2 Deathmatch and Counter-Strike: Source I ALWAYS added excess details and unreachable interesting areas to my maps, to facilitate that same fascination in young players joining my server.
Love that other people get what I am talking about and that's awesome you worked on both of those games and took the time to do that.
When I was younger I was always intrigued by what was going on outside the playable area, now that I am older I am impressed someone took the time to put detail into those areas.
You're so cool for building an outer world and and outside area unreachable but able to appreciated by players. Thanks.
Shame we won’t get to see Area 51 with all the zetan bodies, reverse engineered ships and tech
Area 51 seems like such a layup for the devs of this game that they just decided not to cause it was too easy
@@nvRangerI think we get that with Big MT, at least all the weirdness that may have been covered by an area 51 questline
Big MT is awesome. OWB is top tier DLC
@@nvRanger they shouldve added it as a rare random encounter is fallout 2
Oh... my God.
Area 51 is just East of vault 15's location. It actually IS on the map, just not as a location.
I have never vibed with an opening statement more in my life! Out of bounds areas have always been fascinating to me! I’ve always wondered “what’s over there?”.
A fun Easter egg in the original Fallout game is you can actually find New Vegas on the map, you just can't actually explore it. It's listed as city ruins but it's location is exactly where Vegas would be situated a little northeast of the Hub
I need to check that out next time i boot up the old thing
The Northwestern road leads more or less to the divide and, past that, Shady Sands.
Right, I wanted to leave the Divide out for its own video. Interesting history there.
@@nvRanger also the hill up from Mercury, NV is most likely where the Sierra Madre is supposed to be; given the vicinity to The Divide and Big MT and that in early development it was meant to be found in the map.
EDIT: Big MT is broadly in some place southwest of Pahrump and north of Baker
It would have been wild to see the Sierra Madre with the main world space.
We are made a lot of work with Core Region cartography, and make some much detailed maps. Just find "Полная карта мира Fallout Alex6122" and find fandom. Unfortunately, the blog text is not translated into English, but the maps were originally made in English.
man ive been watching through your catalogue and i have been absolutely LOVING your videos. to be honest i can see you becoming as big as other creators like radking or epicnate, the way you're able to connect the game to real life and your own experiences are amazing, and your narration and the way you edit and write your vidoes is very high quality. i can see this channel getting big, keep doing your thing!
That’s awesome of you to say. All the kind words mean a lot and definitely push me to go in that direction. Thank you. 🙏
Got a challenge for you. Speculating and drawing a map for the Fallout TV show based on real world Los Angeles.
I really need to know where Filly and Shady Sands are. Previously Shady was in Death Valley but now it seems to be close to Hollywood, not sure i like it. What does it mean for the locations of Vault 13 and 15, what about Junktown, the Hub and of course, the Boneyard.
(I imagine the Boneyard is in southern LA) also how the hell did the Master not find Vault 33 or 4!? They are very clearly advertised and the Cathedral was very close to Santa Monica
@@eagleowl833 Yeah, I pointed that out too. Honestly, I just think Bethesda and Amazon really didn’t care to look back at the older games.
Great idea, I’d really need to familiarize myself with LA.
I have the same confusion as eagleowl, looks like Shady Sands was moved to the Boneyard in the show based on the skyscrapers in the background.
@@eagleowl833 The show changing Shady Sands to a settlement built from the ruins of LA, ruins the foundational history of the NCR for me. Having the NCR grow from a empty patch of desert using a GECK has so much more creative life to it compared to another settlement forming in the ashes of the old world.
@@eagleowl833 If my opinion counts for anything as an LA resident, The cathedral is not as not very close to Santa Monica. I've been wondering why NOONE in the show mentions the name Boneyard! So I looked at a couple maps and used some wikis to see if what I remembered was true; I'd place the Cathedral In South LA , which is closer to Long Beach than Santa Monica. If the cathedral is in Southgate (thats being generous, looking at locations from Fallout 1 pip) then it is 20+ miles to The third street promenade, which is SEEN in walking distance once Lucy leaves the vault. Boneyard refers to Los Angeles as a whole, but in the first game, the locations are closer to dtla proper, and even some of westho. Adytum is stated to be in Southern Boneyard, close enough to know about the Cathedral. BUT!! The library that the followers use is in West Boneyard,, so towards modern-day hollywood. As for Filly? I instantly had an idea as soon as I saw it, LA national forest: only part of 'LA' that looks like that, and could have vegetation like that. I thought it could've been thousand oaks, but the mostly barren/desert landscapes they see right after, makes more sense, as the direction behind LA forest is Lancaster, Bakersfield, Barstow etc.... Okay sorry for the whole monologue, West Coast Fallout has just always interested me, esp Fallout 1, and well ig now the show, because I live here!!!!!! Its surreal seeing this stuff adopted more recently in Fallout. Obvi its existed, but seeing Bethesda remember (possibly not remember correctly lol) is just very surreal. cheers
This channel is going to blow up brother 🙏🏾 themes and topics are fantastic, excellent lore coverage. Was just looking for your page and this popped up in my recommendations
The algorithm is doing its job. Thanks man, means a lot.
Hear me out, a Fallout New Vegas remaster where we’re introduced to New Vegas, but it’s no longer the epicenter of the game, but rather it’s introduced in RDR2 style where armadillo (New Vegas) was the original hub of the game and later transformed into just another location you can visit in the second, much larger, game. I’d love to be able to travel to places like the hub, new Canaan, and areas east of the Colorado.
Ohhhhhhh lawd do I want that. Don't tease me! I couldn't think of a better way to do a remaster/sequel/prequel.
@@nvRanger broooooo😭😭😭
@@nodder-k2ydon’t tease em
Bethesda is not capable of such writing.
A good example of a game like that is the Horizon series.
8:45 (The Hub) "What might have changed, how far have things come and what does it look like now?"
Judging by recent events, its either an abandoned ruin or a crater.
Toddslop isn't canon, sweety.
@@conner4547Neither is your headcanon, sweetie
How does it feel to be human cattle?
@@conner4547sadly it is man
@@conner4547blame Nolan not todd
Really been enjoying these! The music fits so well too with the somewhat bleak and mysterious feel of New Vegas and some of it’s lore. I hope you continue to make more videos!
Definitely the plan. Thanks 🙏
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
So I’m from a small town called needles and I always wondered what happened in the fallout universe with that town
If small towns like Goodsprings can get the Fallout treatment there’s always hope.
Gotta say all the intros to your videos always go hard keep it up
Appreciate that, some of my favorite parts of the video to edit.
There's tons of weird stuff out of bounds. From the "Colorado Basin" as I call it to that weird lake that phases water in and out of existence.
Lake Mead? Or the one at Camp Gulf, Lake Las Vegas is it?
I recently found your channel and I gotta say I love your lore videos. I’m a sucker for any type of lore, and since Fallout is one of my favorite series, I’m hooked! Great job.
Thanks, good to hear the positive feedback 🙏
This channel is amazing dude. Been watching your videos these days as I'm trying to start a fallout pnp campaign with some friends :)
Glad you like it, what is pnp if you don’t mind me asking?
@@nvRanger pnp just means pen and paper. Like tabletop fallout
@@Niteshutter Awesome, never done something like that.
@@nvRanger Yup. There is a bethesda-licensed game system, but there are many game free, older systems you can find online
Amazing job keep them coming your getting better and better with each video
Thanks homie, appreciate your comments
@@nvRanger your welcome also can I ask you something
Here we go…
@@nvRanger how are you doing today
lol, lovely. Hbu?
Nicely done on this video!
One thing, though; I was watching this on a TV and the old film effect you used extensively throughout this video was cranked up way too high. It was especially tricky with anything with small details, as they became completely indecipherable. It's not an effect I would ditch entirely, just dial back the jitter within the effect's settings (it may be called something else) so that the visuals are still worth looking at. It also creates some flashing on the blue border, but I haven't seen any video editing program with that effect have a setting to ignore the alpha channel so the layer beneath stays as intended. It could probably be done with a cookie cutter effect, but doing a custom cut for every single clip adds an unreasonable amount of editing time to a video, so no worries there.
I hope you find continued success whether my advice is helpful or not!
Thanks a bunch, really appreciate the feedback. Luckily, some others shared your opinion and made similar recommendations.
I think after this very video I cut out that effect entirely while editing and swapped it for something far less aggressive.
Thanks also for pointing out the difference while using a TV. Not something I view videos on but it’s worth noting for viewers.
The hub being called that and being a center of commerce has real world inspiration as well, if you didnt know. Growing up I rode on the semi truck with my grandparents, most loads they took into CA in later years(90s) went to Barstow, They were dropped there to be distributed within Cali by a separate company.
I had no idea Barstow was a hub itself. That’s even better, thanks. Fallout just appears more and more well made as time passes.
I mean, it would make sense for the Legion the hold control over a city named Bullhead City.
It’s too fitting
Honestly it would be cool to see Laughlin it’s a casino town so if the ncr took over Laughlin I think they could make great use out of the many buildings there and bullhead has an air port that could be an interesting place in the world of fallout I live in bullhead i wish we were in the game it would’ve been so cool
Keep up the work. Recently found this Channel and it’s become a go to while I play fallout
Awesome, thank you
Very fascinating video! Never a topic I would have thought about normally, but a very interesting look into how game devs decides to dress up the boundaries of their maps! :D
Thanks for saying that. Gotta be some unique video ideas out there for this nearly 15 year old game.
Love the effort and quality of these videos. More please
Imma keep working away. Kind words help, thank you
Man this sucks, we will never visit one of the old fallout 1 and 2 towns because Bethesda doesn't want to civilization exist in their games. I would love to see reno for example and how it changed
Which location was close enough to the borders of a Fallout game that you wish was included, but the Devs left out?
Cascadia region in general. Ofc we get Arroyo and the tribals but that's about it. After the collapse of the California Enclave at Navarro we get absolutely nothing about North California, Washington, and Oregon. It makes me kinda sad
New vegas was ones bigger so some places saddly gone now
Legates camp further into colorado i wish we couldve charged further in and if we nuked legion Territory we could see fires in the distance and clouds still in the air we were meant to go about wanna say 10 some odd miles into legion lands to finally strike and i wouldn't doubt a massive fight against the best veterans
A good portion of the map of Fallout 1 map.
i would say southwestern virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, but thats going to be a reality soon in the new 76 update. cant wait to explore that beautiful area
what a great video, such a satisfying watch
appreciate you, thanks
The lore and world-building of Fallout is something to behold. 👍
Nah fallout 4's highways actually make no sense new vegas is just that game
@@rythegoat784 Even though I didn’t say it, I was referring to the original games and New Vegas. 😉👍
@@rythegoat784Fallout 4 ? do you mean brotherhood of steel is that the 4th game
I would sacrifice TES VI just to get more Fallout games in the west coast by the New Vegas team.
@@nvRanger Honestly, I agree. 👍
In Vegas we went to find a fortune, from Vegas we left and lost our soul, yet we still dream of this wonderland, it's beauty like non other in the world.
Excellent presentation, Ranger! Thanks!
And thank you for the kind words 🙏
I've "walked" around Goodsprings on google earth street view and it's wild.
Fucking great video. Please keep it up, this is awesome.
I really want to travel around the Vegas area and hit all the irl in game spots I can. Thanks for the kind words.
@@nvRanger of course man, richly deserved. As others have said, you've got what it takes to make a living out of this.
The only in-game location I've been to in real life is Vegas itself (a few times) and it bears almost no resemblance to the game, especially the scale of it. It's a very surreal place though, just barren desert and then boom! Huge towers shooting out of the ground. Let me know if you're going and I'll join in haha. First lap dance is on me.
I love irl Vegas and I don’t gamble a bit. You’re right tho, not like New Vegas, just a cool lively area with good food. Big fan of the natural area around it as well.
Been to Red Rock, Hoover Dam, Zion, Flagstaff, few others I’m probably forgetting.
@@nvRanger oh wow I thought you hadn't been for some reason. Yeah I was always there for work (I used to coach professional fighters) but even when the work was done I might sit at the penny slots or something just to get free drinks. These days I don't even hardly ever drink.
I never loved it, but my site seeing was admittedly limited. Love the game though haha
No way, been doing mma/boxing for about 8 years now. Crazy.
I loved your first line about unreachable places being the most interesting. so many times theorizing and wondering what if?
Great video, well presented, and I learned a lot.✌️
Awesome man, thank you 🙏
These are the videos i come to youtube for, awesome channel keep up the good work!
working hard my man, thank you
great video man, loved it
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Appreciate you 🙏
Very good work, concise and informative!
Appreciate you 🙏
Knowing that these are real world locations and where the roads lead to irl gives a hint where things would lead before the great war. We obviously know where the western roads lead, Fallout 1 and 2 are set there.
But Obsidian took some liberties, like how the Nevada-California border is not right at Nipton, but at Primm.
Right, so it teaches us a bit about how the alternate universe US was slightly different or vastly different based on the instance.
When I was younger, I was very impressed with the True Crime games giving off the illusion of a world outside the playable areas with freeway exits to cities outside the map. They were blocked off, but cool.
exactly the thing that inspired the idea for this video
1:30 I feel that statement SO much. In Mario 64 the area outside the castle; I wanted to get past the hills that block you in SO BAD. It just looked like the world could continue. as a child I figured if I could get past the invisible walls, there would surely be more game that’s kept secret!
Absolutely one of those games that's captured a lot of young imaginations. AnyAustin has covered that game over similar topics if you haven't seen those videos.
@@nvRanger I’ll check that out!
Nice thxn i waited for a vid like this sinds i was like 14 years old now 25 and still very happy with a vid like this about vegas
Glad you enjoyed, been on my mind and I figured others have considered the same thing.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish for a swim at the enclave oil rig
1st time reading los angles in new vegas on a road sign i was like need to go there
That always blew my imagination up even before I knew about the Boneyard and the og Fallout. Small details go a long way
5:30 Also the river could have moved in 200 years. They do that
fair
In my own mod while developing the custom Searchlight Campaign between NCR and Legion forces, I actually explored Bullhead City a little. Part of the NCR's Negligence has lead to the Legion crossing the river and causing a major battle to rage in that area with formally small towns now apparently major NCR forts. My Idea was that Aurelius of Phoenix hopes to secure the Searchlight area, once through all the NCR locations such as Firebase Henry Knox Bunker (Custom location overlooking a highway) and RS Charlie and Echo, they were gonna unite two invasion forces at the Airport and push out through Nipton and towards and through Novac and Helios one to cut off the NCR before the Battle of Hoover Dam
But through your actions the plan goes wrong and Cottonwood Cove as well as Aurelius lost. Presumably, something also goes wrong with the other force too.I decided to make this little change because the Mojave Campaign is considered unimportant to the wider NCR and a Legion crossing the river and attacking the Frontier near the Mojave seems like a perfect kind of distraction as well as the Barons soaking up resources for their own interests from vanilla lore. It also made the Legions actions in the area make even more sense given Caesar is dedicating to not repeating the same mistakes as the first battle of Hoover Dam where the Legion focused only on one attack Vector.
Absolutely wicked work bro
Thanks 🙏
Guys all roads leads to rome
Average*
11 views in 5 minutes, Ranger fell off. (I appreciate the effort you put into these, and how frequently they're produced. Youre awesomesauce, keep it up)
Lmao I haven’t gotten on yet to have fallen off. Thanks, I’m tryna keep em coming.
Laughlin and bull head huh finally some buddy gave us some recognition
I’ve been, beautiful place right on the Colorado. Would love to see it in a Fallout game.
I don't think it could've been implemented into the game in a realistic, normal way like Zion Canyon and the Divide were, but I wish we could've seen (or at least heard) more about Caliente and the Eighties tribe.
agreed, the 80's are regarded as a greater threat than almost any other raider group in game. Cool ass name too
Do you have a video featuring your mod list for New Vegas? Is the map you were using to reference locations available somewhere?
I do not have a video for that, I honestly have not tested this modlist very much at all. I do however have the map for ya: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
Great video! Fallout's world building is very good and these small details help with immersion
Anyway, which website did you use for the video?
You mean the map? Here it is, and thanks for the kids words. www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
@@nvRanger Thanks bro!
Welcome
I wish there was a game set in the NCR. Obviously it would reduce the scale of any conflict but I would love to see what a full post-post apocalypse looks like.
It would be so cool, and then the show had a chance to show us and blew it up 😂
Wow a beautifully made video. Ulysses voiceover was great.
Thanks 🙏 appreciate the kind words
Ulysses be like: roads, flags, bear, bull, long 15
Now here’s a guy who needs to play the Old World Blues mod for HOI4. He clearly loves maps and fallout lore, but doesn’t seem to know about the potential fun and lore involved.
Haha I have heard about that from so many people at this point it is an inevitability.
@@nvRanger CD Keys for HOI 4 aren’t all too bad. I play multiplayer with a group of people, it’s a blast. Currently trying the Crusader Kings 3 AtE fallout mod, about to fire it up now. Just found your content this morning and it’s making me want to play all of the Fallout mods
Glad the content has you getting into Fallout related gaming. I actually own HOI4, just need to eventually make the time to play some fallout mods on it.
I found you yesterday and i just tried ti see if you had a discord server, but slightly disappointed thay you don't.
Wish you did, would be nice to talk with a community of fallout fans x3
That's a good idea, I honestly never use discord so its not something I am familiar with. Would love to offer that up to people at some point.
@@nvRanger sounds good ^-^
"Howitzer Artillery Guns" roughly translates to "gun gun guns".
that's my low intelligence dialogue
Well, not necessarily. Howitzers are a type of artillery which is a type of gun.
That's why it's fun to expand this even further if you have Hearts of Iron IV and can cross the nation in the Old World Blues mod
A lot of people have mentioned that mod and it sounds awesome. Definitely gotta play it sometime.
Actually living in this region must be so cool. I'm moving there and already I'm thinking of it as the fallout map, thinking welp I'm living in the frontier and my friend is in the boneyard.
That's awesome. I would love to move to the sourthwest some day. The natural world around Vegas is really underrated.
I did my research of the areas Northeast along the Colorado and if you take the highways North of Nellis you will eventually be around the Valley of Fire State Park, or at least on the other side of the mountains, crossing them is Moapa Valley and if you continue with the highway instead of crossing the mountains you will end up in a junction I believe where Jackson stands, just a town. These locations are literally East of Caliente ,very close to each other. I wonder if the place is simply tribals and raiders since no info on it is ever handed to use. Judging by how Caliente is I'd say the highways must be full of highwaymen.
Yea that’s probably the case but I suppose it’s open to change.
I’ve been to the valley of fire state park, cool place out in the desert with caves and rocks structures that have etchings and or paintings from the native society that used to live there.
I know the reason the roads leading away are barren is coz there’s no reason two put time in them, but man they are just filled with unimaginable melancholy like the sierra madre. I both can’t stand it and also love it
Agreed, it’s really strange to look out into the endless chasm.
Great video with some very good points. The devs doing their research that fills in the gaps and makes sense of the world is what separates Obsidian from Bethesda in my opinion.
I do have to protest at the use of that screen shake effect, though, it hurts my eyes something fierce.
I’ve stopped using the effect after this video. Appreciate the feedback 🙏
I’m surprised the Davis Dam is never brought up anywhere.
You should really start adding the songs you use in the background to the description of the video.
Its cool that Barstow is a trading hub considering it has a massive rail yard, albeit it's probably not useful now.
I'm not sure to be honest. The opening to Van Buren, (the canceled Fallout 3 that was to be made by Black Isle before Bethesda bought the series) has a train car roll onto the screen of the main menu.
So, trains might be a thing in the fallout universe, especially in the more developed areas of the NCR.
@@nvRanger Compared to cars, trains would be more efficient for the NCR, considering most major settlements have connection to a rail network, and the larger quanity of materials needed to be transported.
For sure, would be a cool alternative to fast travel as well if they added that in game.
I've been watching some of your videos, keep cooking bro
I’ll be in the kitchen, thanks man
That's why I love the modders they can make the places.
These games benefit so much from mods. Current one expanding upon Legion territory in Arizona that looks great.
I can't believe that even though you have lonesome road quotes in the video, you didn't talk about how I-95 north goes into Ashton and, more importantly, The Divide. I-95 goes through Ashton, them south to Ridgecrest, what is now Junktown, making it one of the most important caravan routes into Vegas before it was destroyed.
Divide will likely get its own video in the future.
Hey good content you have a good voice for this you should do a lot more stuff around New vegas and even New vegas mods.
Thanks, I’ll keep at it. Appreciate the kind words.
You know something I always wondered where exactly the sierra madre was all the information we get is that we can get from the abonded bos bunker to their but that doesn't help much as well I've wondered if it's in Arizona since fortification hill and it both have that red tint but thats just the cloud at work so yeah it's weird how it's not actually said where it is
Yea I’m fascinated by it. Maybe a future video is in store to dig into that mystery
If you go north west you will hit Beatty NV. My dad was stationed for the Nevada bombing range
Cool, it’s a military base? What kinda bombing, nuclear?
@@nvRanger radar near three for the Nellies nuclear bombing range. It’s many military outposts
Hey what map are you using for these? Would I be able to look at it for modding purposes?
Here ya go: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
@@nvRanger thank you my good man
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Subscribed just for the Aphex Twin intro music.
Let’s go Richard
Is there any reference to The Hub being located in Barstow?
From what I can gather from the map, it is closer to the Kramer Junction out West.
Buddy... the northwestern road leads straight to Shady Sands.
I don't know if it's mentioned as such in the game, but look at the map. From my triangulation based on the quite accurate Fallout 1 map, I can say Shady Sands lays somewhere around real life Bonnie Claire, Nevada.
Route 95 actually leads right to Shady Sands.
Im sure if new vegas had a normal amount of time to develop, there owuld be some inclusion of these twin cities whether in DLC or base game.
Would have been an awesome setting to have Bullhead and Laughlin. Lotta story potential
Would you please be able to post a link to that finished map of all the locations? Im currently working on a project and it would be very useful!
Here you are: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
@@nvRanger Thank you so much, this is very helpful!
Glad to help
@vegas ranger, i was wondering what website you used for the map of this video, it is really cool and i would love to look at it in detail, thanks
Here ya go
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
Love this video.
Thanks 🙏
New Reno is up the NW HWY95, albeit hundreds of miles and 7.5 hours @ 70mph
Another one worth noting, Fallout sure likes calling things "New" New Vegas, New Reno, New Jerusalem, New Canaan, New California Republic. Its a very "New" wasteland
Interplay/Obsidian passion vs Bugthesda half-assing things
There’s very clearly a wide gap in writing and world building.
might be a silly question, but what software do you use for your map?
2:19 What did you use to do this part?
here you are www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
@@nvRanger thanks
Np
Do you have a link to the map at 2:45 ??? Great video btw
sorry for the late response
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
As a ne ohio resident. Id love to see the erie stretch as mentioned in the pitt dlc. I can a imagine a atomic naval war between Detroit and Buffalo with Cleveland stuck in the middle with a little Canadian lore to the north.
I don’t recall that. Is it perhaps referring to Lake Erie?
@@nvRanger ruclips.net/video/LKSArTotrlI/видео.htmlsi=_DN-8wk8mJ9r-fTV
Its the little nuggets the let our imaginations run wild.
@TrashPanda-2112 amen, I definitely need to replay fallout 3 and it’s dlcs. Been too long
awesome video.
Thank you 🙏
Oh fuck. Is that a question about Fallout I've never asked? I better watch this.
I'd love so Fkn much to see how the Hub looks like.
Same, wish we could get a game that expands the surrounding area of New Vegas and let's us cross into NCR/Legion territory
I think we all feel the same about wondering whats in the other side of the hills in fallout. What is that map you're using?
Here you go, hopefully you get a closer look as to what's over the hills
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
Can you do fallout 3 next?
I am running a tale of two wastelands mod list rn so it’s down the pipeline. Not quite next tho.
I would love a link to the edited map ur using
ask and you shall recieve
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
What's the map with all the factions you are using called?
here ya go www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
Freeing Laughlin from the Legion would make a good DLC
Use the hero from FNV as NV leader and have them give the quest
Maybe you can choose to side with them and clear the NCR out of Bullhead too
they kind of messed up the map of fallout 1, but they claim necropolis to be northeast east of the boneyard, and east of the hub, while also being based in the ruins of bakersfield. but thats northwest. this puts necroplis right about where barstow is, where you say the hub is...
wait Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is don't exist in new vegas or this bridge is destroyed ??
I’m not sure where you’re referring to
@@nvRanger this one "The bridge is located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area approximately 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, and carries Interstate 11 and U.S. Route 93 over the Colorado River"
the bridge open in 2010 . . . so maybe because its newly build bridge obsidian not include it in the game or fallout universe.
Yea I think your theory is probably right.
Interesting. Maybe if they had more content on the other side of lake Meade it would have been used.
Where did you find that map with the locations from Fallout on it? I need that for a TTRPG Fallout game I'm running for my friends.
Here ya go, www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
@@nvRanger Thank you so much! You've added so many more locations to my TTRPG Fallout game with this resource. 😆
@@BinkDeadpool For sure man, glad to help.
What map do you use in the video?
sorry for late reply:
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?hl=en_US&mid=1puuQVpbfh4ofYflJxJPB6iul6JQ&ll=39.63153139886184%2C-84.77711362140184&z=6
@@nvRanger Thanks!
7:38 "the developers went to this length ..."
Yea, developers who actually care about making games, respecting the lore (of their creation), and are creative or smart people
totally unlike bethesda.