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I was struggling to understand ths until I noticed you are from Finland. And having been educated solely by mkreku in this respect I am convinced that Finland essentially IS the wh40k universe.

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You'd think that a horse would be the preferred mode of transport in a post-apocalyptic environment. But the only mounts I recall were the trader's pack animals. Maybe bicycles then...

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I'd prefer hoverboards.

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You'd think that a horse would be the preferred mode of transport in a post-apocalyptic environment. But the only mounts I recall were the trader's pack animals. Maybe bicycles then...

Maybe, like cats, horses don't exist in Fallout. Good eatin'. :p
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You'd think that a horse would be the preferred mode of transport in a post-apocalyptic environment. But the only mounts I recall were the trader's pack animals. Maybe bicycles then...

Maybe, like cats, horses don't exist in Fallout. Good eatin'. :p

 

Yeah, according to the Fallout Bible they're extinct. I don't think there's any info concerning that in the game, not that I remember at least, but at this point, considering more or less all the Fallout games have depicted a world without horses, it might be better to just keep rolling with it.

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"Thanks Chip, News Nomad 6 reports a brahmin pile up on I-95.  Traffic is stop and go as raiders are on the way to loot the merchants."

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You'd think that a horse would be the preferred mode of transport in a post-apocalyptic environment. But the only mounts I recall were the trader's pack animals. Maybe bicycles then...

Horses couldn't survive in the Mojave in reality without human intervention and the investment of significant resources and logistics of the kind nonexistent in a post-apocalyptic world. It's not like any Vault had records on how to tame and train wild horses (assuming they still exist in the Fallout universe, or at least the general region of the southwest, which is unlikely given the fact that it's mostly desert.) A horse can't subsist on Death Valley borax and the most parched Earth in the US. "Mounts," as a term and general concept, can stay in World of Warcraft.

 

All of this is disregarding the combination of iffy Gamebryo engine mechanics and the fact that the game world in NV is far too small to justify a motor vehicle. The car in Fallout 2 worked because the region was full scale (the F3 and NV maps are basically scale models, you sure as hell can't see the Appalachians from anywhere in DC, Maryland or the Eastern half of Virginia,) and even by Highwayman it took days to traverse distances that take a couple of hours at most in reality with paved roads.

 

And the idea of bicycle travel is just silly. Mountain/offroad biking isn't more energy efficient than walking, and it would leave you more vulnerable to attack. A cyclist can't outrun a car moving 2-3x as fast, how can a cyclist outrun bullets travelling 50-100x as fast?

 

Walking is the most efficient form of transportation for humans, both in reality and in fiction, unless humans in fiction are powered by jet fuel. The NCR's railroads are honestly the most believable rapid/long distance transportation solution given the setting.

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Wonder how much effort would be required to import the horse-riding code and Deadly Reflex mounted combat mod from Oblivion into New Vegas, that way I can say this to Vulpes on meeting him in Nipton while mounted on a steed with a Cold Single Action in one hand and a lever-action carbine in the other:

 

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Wonder how much effort would be required to import the horse-riding code and Deadly Reflex mounted combat mod from Oblivion into New Vegas, that way I can say this to Vulpes on meeting him in Nipton while mounted on a steed with a Cold Single Action in one hand and a lever-action carbine in the other:

 

"I aim to kill you in one minute! Or see you hang at Camp Golf at Chief Hanlon's convenience! Which'll it be?"

Be sure to remember to buy the horse armour DLC before you do that though.

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Wonder how much effort would be required to import the horse-riding code and Deadly Reflex mounted combat mod from Oblivion into New Vegas, that way I can say this to Vulpes on meeting him in Nipton while mounted on a steed with a Cold Single Action in one hand and a lever-action carbine in the other:

 

"I aim to kill you in one minute! Or see you hang at Camp Golf at Chief Hanlon's convenience! Which'll it be?"

It's a different engine. And horses still suck in TES. And how would Oblivion melee/magic/bow&arrow mods apply to guns?

 

Also it's Colt, not Cold.

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Wonder how much effort would be required to import the horse-riding code and Deadly Reflex mounted combat mod from Oblivion into New Vegas, that way I can say this to Vulpes on meeting him in Nipton while mounted on a steed with a Cold Single Action in one hand and a lever-action carbine in the other:

 

"I aim to kill you in one minute! Or see you hang at Camp Golf at Chief Hanlon's convenience! Which'll it be?"

It's a different engine. And horses still suck in TES. And how would Oblivion melee/magic/bow&arrow mods apply to guns?

 

Also it's Colt, not Cold.

 

What if he refrigerated the revolver, though?

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