Sat, Apr 19, 2008 | 10:33 BST
Fallout 3: Baseball fields and roadside diner encounters revealed
Speaking to videogaming247 in London yesterday, Bethesda marketing boss Peter Hines spoke for the first time about a newly added instance involving some post apocalyptic sports fans.
There’s stuff like baseball fields, just little places to come across that you would normally find if you were out exploring a DC suburb,” he said.
“There’s old roadside diners that you can find, and just different stuff like that. The baseball field is one we haven’t talked about, but you’ll find guys out in the wasteland with baseball bats that’ll attack you.”
Hines showed us both outdoor and “dungeon” style encounters in buildings, and confirmed that the two will be treated differently.
“The outdoor is seamless, so the entire world is non-loading: it’s just one big world to explore,” he said. “The indoor environments we treat separately, so whenever you enter buildings or locations you get a load screen.”
The number of encounters is yet to be fixed, however, and it sounds as though there’s still plenty of “fiddling” going on.
“I don’t actually know how many [encounters] we’ve got, partially because we’ve been adding them and moving them around, and like, this area feels too cluttered, this area needs more stuff to do,” he said.
“We came up recently with new types of random locations to put in the world, just different stuff to come across… The number’s still a bit fluid, but all told there’s just a ton of different locations to find and places to explore.”
Fallout 3 ships for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this autumn.
7 comments
#1
Tonka
18/04/08, 1:43 pm
What is the fighting like? I haven’t really grasped the “real time Turn Based” bit they seem to be doing.
#2
Blerk
18/04/08, 1:46 pm
And when do we get the previously advertised ‘demo impressions’ post?
#3
patlike
18/04/08, 2:04 pm
When the news avalanche stops
I’ll do it over the weekend, I guess. There’s no way it’s going to happen today.
#4
patlike
18/04/08, 2:21 pm
The combat’s third/first-person shooting with a drop-in action queuing system called “VAT”. It’s very clever, from the look of it. Sorry for the lack of update on this. I will get it done at the weekend.
#5
Hero of Canton
18/04/08, 11:23 pm
I went to see it today. Placeholder voice acting for the win!
#6
Briosafreak
19/04/08, 11:23 am
It’s V.A.T.S., the Vault Tec Assisted Targeting System.
More info about it on The Vault (fallout wikia) or on the Official Fan Interview.
#7
Hero of Canton
19/04/08, 8:36 pm
The VATS looks more interesting than the real-time combat to be honest, which might not compare too favourably to a lot of FPSes.