FiniteBanjo 35 points 3 months ago

For the unaware, the entirety of FO:NV development could be considered "crunch time" because the studio, Obsidian, got royally screwed on the contract to make the game instead of the main Bethesda studio(s).

The result is that the game originally had some plan for vehicles, most of which never made it past concept, but never got implemented. So, in order to make a moving Tram to ride into vegas from the south, if you somehow manage to complete an obscure and somewhat buggy sidequest to stop it from getting blown up, they just made the Tram an NPC which physically runs along the track. It works surprisingly well.

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Dagobah 37 points 3 months ago

The tram was originally in Fallout 3, the broken steel expansion, not NV. The tram hat was used because of limitations in the engine. I assume the obsidian Devs just copied the existing solution for NV. Also more fun, it wasn't an NPC, it was you, the player character and the tram wasn't a hat it was a technically piece of shoulder armour.

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FiniteBanjo 1 point 3 months ago

TY I was clearly misremembering

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ummthatguy 27 points 3 months ago

Always loved this piece of trivia. Another creepy game workaround is Skyrim's Dead Body Cleanup Cell.

The Dead Body Cleanup Cell is a cross-shaped room where most characters encountered will appear when killed.

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FiniteBanjo 8 points 3 months ago

I encountered this weird room in the creation kit but it didn't have a pile of corpses so this is the first time I'm learning what it was for lol.

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ummthatguy 11 points 3 months ago

Bonus: It wasn't the game that stripped them.

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itsjustachairmary 10 points 3 months ago

When I try to console command my way there late in the game, the whole thing just freezes. I assume there are too many bodies and the collisions kill the engine lol.

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FiniteBanjo 8 points 3 months ago

If you're trying to res a specific NPC you might be able to use commands to move the corpse to you rather than going to it.