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CaptainGhost

Posts : 10 Join date : 2017-02-25
 | Subject: Something To Think About Fri Apr 14, 2017 8:52 am | |
| Anyone ever wonder why are the roads in New Vegas so damaged? I mean I know there was an Nuclear War and all but come on, whole chucks of asfalt?
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Wertologist

Posts : 1185 Join date : 2015-09-10 Age : 26
 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 3:11 pm | |
| You also have to factor in the decades of no maintenance and the constant mayhem happening on them. Raiders are pretty common and they do carry explosives. |
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Pre-Workout

Posts : 151 Join date : 2016-08-01 Age : 23 Location : United States
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 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:11 pm | |
| You have to figure that there were vehicles driving on the roads even after the nukes dropped. I know driveable vehicles aren't cannon to Fallout gameplay but they're clearly in the lore. I figured that the damaged roads would get to their current state like they do today: no maintenance and use of cars. _________________ "You know what, Trigger? Why don't you lead and I'll follow."  |
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XxAKINCIxX

Posts : 83 Join date : 2015-07-09
 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 7:34 pm | |
| I mean in normal life if a road doesn't get maintenance by the government or something they look way worse than they do in fallout new vegas so I think it's probably not an exaggeration |
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Hoppyhead

Posts : 1253 Join date : 2014-02-24 Age : 41 Location : Behind You...
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 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:05 pm | |
| Yeah it's been 200 years, so with the constant expanding and contracting the roads crack and crumble, so with no one maintaining them they get like that. _________________  |
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Crash244

Posts : 784 Join date : 2016-04-15 Age : 28 Location : Las Vegas
Character sheet Name: Barrabus The Grey Faction: D.D.D. Level:
 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:19 pm | |
| Fucking roads are like that in Guatemala and Mexico! Going to the countryside is so bad! Motherfucker has to do circle eights! _________________  |
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IRORIEH

Posts : 864 Join date : 2015-04-09 Age : 24 Location : UK
Character sheet Name: Booker Faction: The highest bidder Level: 21
 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 9:41 pm | |
| Well, as far as poor maintenance like people have mentioned already, it goes a little deeper than that. The elements alone do a lot more damage to roads than people realise. Things like ice can crack tarmac wide when it thaws, rain can cause corrosion over long periods, then the fact that people were likely still using them to some degree as well probably doesn't help. There's a reason road maintenance is so important. There are roads only laid out 20 years ago that all screwed up because of that. When you factor in nuclear fallout, the quakes that were caused by the bombs, nature and humans neglecting or in some cases intentionally destroying old world structures then yeah, it's real easy to wind up with a this. _________________ Muwahahahahahahaha!!!What do you mean evil laugh!? This is how I always laugh! - Bow Down:
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superpele

Posts : 192 Join date : 2015-05-14 Age : 30 Location : Latvia
 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:38 pm | |
| I think most roads, at least on the West Coast wouldn't even be visible, being buried under the desert sand, especially after two centuries. Don't know how asphalt would react in hot, arid climate though since here in Latvia you need a single winter to destroy any road that has a single crack in it. _________________ My mods for New Vegas:  |
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Pre-Workout

Posts : 151 Join date : 2016-08-01 Age : 23 Location : United States
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 | Subject: Re: Something To Think About Sun Apr 30, 2017 2:00 am | |
| - @superpele wrote:
- I think most roads, at least on the West Coast wouldn't even be visible, being buried under the desert sand, especially after two centuries.
That's actually a very interesting point. I actually feel like it would be pretty cool to see a New Vegas mod where most of the roads are buried just to make travel seem a little more dangerous and confusing. |
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