Fallout

[TheLegendaryTito]

I've read that the engine on Fall out New Vegas is outdated, and that made me wonder, what if it had a kickass engine. I have red dead redemption and the map is huge, so...

What would happen if Fallout New Vegas had Red Dead Redemption's engine?

[BIGSI01]

im hoping for a new engine for the next installment

i didnt have the crashing issue with fallout 3 but lots and lots with new vegas,  the patch didnt cure it

but i did notice after completeing dead money, and returning to the mojave the crashing stopped untill i started to go and find all the markers on the map, almost like it couldnt load the senery quick enough!!

current file size   9980KB lol  thats just new vegas, the higher the file size the more chance of a crash... so i have been told

[C_e_r_e_b_u_s · Accepted solution]

Bethesda's heavily modified Gamebryo engine might be old and their implementation of it lacks stability, but I have yet to see another game engine capable of handling so much incidental and interactive detail.

RDR's map is large but most of what's in it is static and can't be interacted with, and this has been the case with pretty much all the other sandbox games I've played.

If they used the RDR engine it might be more stable but you wouldn't be able to have the most impressive collection of cutlery, plates, cups, food, fruit, clothes, tobacco products, ironmongery, books, office stationary, weapons, ammo, armour, body parts, drugs, surgical equipment, teddy bears and pretty much anything else you might reasonably expect to exist within the environment.

For me that level of interactive detail added enormously to the immersion and is one of the reasons I spent over 300 hours playing Fallout 3 alone, the majority of it just exploring because there was always something interesting/useful to find. I've enjoyed RDR and other sandbox games but beyond the available missions there was little point to exploring other than sightseeing and shooting things.

[Zephon]

Well Bethesda is using a new engine for the new Elder Scrolls game so hopefully the next fallout game will use that engine and be a lot more stable. Fallout 3 was rendered unplayable for me when I downloaded the Broken Steel DLC. I'm on one of the quest lines in that expansion and I can no longer progress as I need to enter the Jefferson Memorial to speak to someone. But everytime I went to enter the building the game froze up and crashed. On the rare occasions that it didnt freeze, I spoke to who I needed to about the various things and then I went to leave it goes into an infinite loading screen. Which is one of the reasons I've not bought any more expansions for Fallout 3/NV.

Hopefully the new engine will be a lot more stable as well as having better graphics. I suppose that we'll just have to wait and see.