Going Off-Map at Searchlight Airport

[jmf2525]

Has anyone else gone off the map by climbing on top of the fuel tank then jumping over the fence? I've seen very little discussion about this anywhere. The off-map space is HUGE. It took me many, many hours but I was able to completely circumnavigate the FNV map. Just curious.

[JDC UK]

Some people claim that there are areas outside of the map that look like they were meant to be used for something. I've not seen any real evidence of it, though there are a few points of interest that you might want to check out.

The area around Searchlight Airport, as you already mentioned.
A bomb crater in the hills south of Nellis.
A road between the Legate's Camp and The Fort.
Seemingly unfinished mountain paths to the west of Red Rock Canyon.
West of Dead Wind Cavern there's a rocky outcrop. More about that here.. http://steamcommunity.com/app/22380/discussions/0/522728269007192954/

If you want to explore the outer parts of the map you should make things easy for yourself and use the console commands
tcl (for toggle collision)
setgs fmoverunmult 30 (30 gives a decent increase in speed, though you can go higher,
you also need to crouch and uncrouch for the speed boost to kick in)

I'd also recommend you use NVAC, as speeding around the map like this is guaranteed to crash the game.

[talgaby]

There are a few invisible wall remover mods (Ultimate Invisible Wall Remover is probably the most well-known and most complete), and the one around the world map can be disabled even in the game's INI files. So I think a lot of people went OoB with the help of those, but never saw anyone say they circumnavigated around all four sides of the world map.
What I never tried was saving out in the middle of nowhere and try to load: to see if OoB map data can be saved in any manner, or it crashes the file, or just puts you back to the closest subcell.

[jmf2525]

I made several OoB saves and took lots of screenshots which I can post (am on vacation and don't have access to them at the moment). This is how I got off map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQvccc_Nw8. The guy who made the video was playing on an XBOX but it worked fine for me on PC. It took a few tries to get on top of the tank but once there it was easy.

Among other things I was able to circle around behind The Fort and lob grenades in; follow the elevated roadway that goes past Nellis for at least a kilometer to its end; approach the Mojave Outpost from the other side of the barrier then walk a very long valley on the other side of the mountians and Jacobstown and approach the other side of the end of the road with the trucks in the carter near Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch; walk beneath and around the crashed alien ship; walk far to the east of the Lake Mead--there are at least two additional valleys separated by mountains in that direction. All this without ever having to return to the established FNV map. In every direction you can walk a least a couple of kilometers until you reach the real end of the FNV world.

[jmf2525]

Here is link to a set of screenshots I took showing how very far off the FNV map you can actually go: http://1drv.ms/1ARuAvl