why are there no working cars?

[William Afton]

just wondering if there is a lore reason or just that it's not possible on the creation engine. They have working vertibirds which are arguably more advanced, so why no cars?

[Jason Wang Dang ✅]

cause fallout 4 would be weird if you can drive a car

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

Someone modded Fallout New Vegas to have cars, but I've never ever tried it to be honest. I don't think it fits the theme of the game well and honestly, the roads are far too poor and clogged up to be of much use.
EMP's from nukes, especially bad with high-air bursts, knock out all POWERED electronics (not unhooked ones), and scramble circuts. So they wouldn't work, even if the car had no ECU the battery would still be shot.
After 200 years, it's done, it's not going anywhere, it's a rusted out hulk.

[Ficelle]

Lore wise, no real reason i can think of
Perhaps, roads in bad shape could be objected, but offroad cars / motorbikes should work just fine
Making an old tech vehicule from scratch with oil / alcohol engine shouldnt be that hard either


I think it is mostly because, for drivable cars, you need to code cars and driving physics + interaction with environment
This is quite a huge amount of work

Also, speed + being on floor is much more taxing to render than being on air with low res textures as decorum
Game has to run on consoles

They could work as fast travel, but we already have that, so...


So, technical / financial limitations more than lore

[Ricardo]

well actually black isle fallouts had cars into.

dont know if there's a lore bs to justify the lack of vehicles in fallout 3 - and later on. my guess is engine limitations and design mostly.

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of corse there's cars just not in 4...the one in 2 is called the highwayman....in tactic there's a hummer , buggy and rubbish truck apc

[Yhwach]

Why?

Game Engine: Cars and Vehicles would suck on gamebryo, modders have "attempted" it but to no avail and they all look, control, and are terrible from most perspectives.

Lore: Have you seen any that actually have wheels on them?
Plus, most of the interiors are thrashed, and the only car that has been shown to work, and operational in any main fallout game is 2 and only one of them.

Map Design: The game world is too close-quartered, and isn't open ended enough to support a motorcycle or even a smaller car like Fallout 2 had, where 2 had the luxury of having a wide open space and wasteland where as Boston does not.

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the gigiahorse [imortal joe's car from fury road ] was ment to look like the highwayman ..it's two coup de vills stuck together on top 2 chevy big blocks [ truck engines].

[Imyo]

Like many things in open world games, because it would break the game way too much, there might be a real explanation, i mean, an ingame explanation, but at the end of the day its just because it wouldnt fit in the game, there is actually a mod that lets you ride a bike if i remember correctly, and its fun for a few hours and then you realize you missed half the game by riding it.

[NecroMaster]

Well if a car sits for years and years without being used the battery’s die for good.

And with no one making new battery’s there’s no way to run a car.

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Wilson the Gentleman Scientist.:

Well if a car sits for years and years without being used the battery’s die for good.

And with no one making new battery’s there’s no way to run a car.

The cars in fallout run on nuclear energy and not electricity, fyi.
Which is also why they blow up even after 200 years.

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Originally posted by Wilson the Gentleman Scientist.:

Well if a car sits for years and years without being used the battery’s die for good.

And with no one making new battery’s there’s no way to run a car.

lol you shouldn't call your self a scientist ........first thing u only need them to start electric starter mottors witch can eazly be replaced by jumper motor like ww1 plane......secondly battery's can be made ........google bagdad battery

[Lil Puppy]

The vehicles in the fallout universe are nuclear powered and made of heavy steel. After 200 years these cars are not structurally sound enough to drive and the fuel rods shouldn't have lasted this long anyway (they only last 20 years normally in large scale, a few months in small scale like cars).

Without finding a centrifuge and practical amounts of radioactive material you couldn't make another fuel rod for the engine so it wouldn't be possible to power the vehicle.
Converting it to use the power cells of the power armor is a possibility if all the primitive electronics in the car aren't corroded to oblivion. But even then, a vehicle tire 200 years removed from its manufacturing date means that it isn't useful. The tire would be brittle, you couldn't pump it up as it would just fall apart.

[badchad71]

It's simply a gameplay issue. They want us exploring on foot in their game. I'm sure they didn't even want to put in fast travel but knew it would mean less sales for them.

Cars and motorcycles and bicycles would all fit in this game. They have vertibirds and power armor for god's sake. Of course it's feasible.

[josephdw106]

i am certain at one point in the games future as long as they make sequels to this game eventually one person story wise will have a running car and take you somewhere in it possibly as they devoted their life to restoring a car in a wasteland future as basically thats what it would take to have a car that runs after 200 years as you can see in the game all cars have been scrapped out by people long ago as without any manufacturing the common person just doesn't have what it takes to move large objects by ones self in a dangerous setting. heck most people would rather scrap out a working car in this setting as having the bits would be more valuable then a working car as a working car would make you too much a target for hostiles over say trying to convert engines to run things or build armor.

[leadmecca]

Just the engine. You could make some reasonable working hover transport or bike, Mama Murphy was originally suppose to be riding a hover chair. You could also reasonably create a life size working GiddyUpButtercup and have it with a beam cannon mouth like Skyrims mounts, but that would take true imagination, and they could run at x1.5 sprint speed and not take anything away from "exploration". In fact, it would imo be a very unique quest to build a bike, or hover bike, or working mount / rideable robot chasis tank besides power armor. Also, you have plenty of power cells of varying type and can make everything.

It's just the engine, lack of time or desire to program, and/or imagination. That's all. There is even a car in the game in pristine condition presumably in working (noneplay) condition just for laughs.