No More Exploding Cars

Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:57 am

I have yet to find an exploding car. It was my favorite tactic to lure a few baddies next to a car and shoot the gas tank. BLAMO!
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Sami Blackburn
 
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:25 pm

Really? I haven't tried yet. Every time I blew up cars in Fallout 3 my game froze so I stopped.
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SiLa
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:54 am

There are exploding cars, I found one outside of the REPCONN Facility and if I went looking for cars I'm sure those would explode too. Much like Fallout 3 you need to shoot that car several times before it starts burning then shoot it a few more times for it to explode.
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Chelsea Head
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:18 am

I guarantee there are exploding cars.
I finished off a giant radscorp from a distance thanks to an exploding car, and took out a pair of Jackals thanks to another.
My character would have faceplanted both times had it not been for the exploding cars... so I raise my glass to them. :foodndrink:
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Lori Joe
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:30 am

Yeah, there are exploding cars.

Most of the car litter placed is already exploded cars though, which makes sense. 200 years after they were left there, if they were going to explode, they would have by now.
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Devin Sluis
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:25 am

The cars with engines and trucks like in Fallout 3 found in this game don't explode. I shot them several times, threw grenades, nothing.
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Charles Mckinna
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:55 am

You have to look at the car a car that can and can not explode look differently, they have a different skin. I havent tried it yet since I been just following the story first. I did how ever learn the hard way that ED-E + ants in a power plant/munition factory = bad news. Dont know how many times ED-E hit a un detonated shell making half the side of the room go up in flames.
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Alyesha Neufeld
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:15 am

I was actually hoping they had removed the exploding cars. You know... I hoped they had done their homework and learned how nuclear reactors actually work and the ways they do fail. Don't get me wrong; shooting a car with a nuclear reactor would be bad, but it wouldn't mushroom cloud. At the very least, it would start leaking contaminated water around the area. An active one or one that goes on the fritz to pull the control rods to full power would start venting streams of super-heated highly pressured steam that would slice limbs and strip flesh from bone. Then once the actual clean water is vented, the heat would build inside the reactor until the super-heated reactor water pressures cause the reactor chamber containment to fail. This would release an explosive force (this is what happened at Chernobyl) that would destroy the vehicle and send shards of contaminated metal into the vicinity... Up to a mile away. At the same time, a burst cloud of super-heated steam would flash broil the flesh off anything within the immediate area and then the neutron particles released from the uncontrolled fission of the fuel would rain down into the internal cavities of anyone not behind some kind of shielding. These particles would get trapped inside the internal cavities of the unfortunate people in the area, bounce around inside (they have enough force to get through, but not enough to burst out... like a .22 round to the skull) to shred internal organs to mush.

So, instead of the mushroom clouds... ya'll could have had your enemies hole punched with radioactive metal, their skin broiled off, and their last moments spent lying in a pool of their own evacuated, liquefied organs with the area made highly radioactive for another 100+ years. But ya'll wanted cartoon mushroom clouds. ;)
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Vicki Gunn
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:18 am

In New Vegas, exploding cars find you.

They do explode. I forgot that feature and was hunkering down behind one when I got blown completely away.
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yessenia hermosillo
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:58 am

I see them all the time. There are less of them than in FO3 though.

Personally, I consider that a good thing. No more unnecessary limb damage due to taking cover behind a car that can explode.

If you can't find any, just remember to look for cars that still have the hood in-tact.
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:49 am

Rename your character 'Chuck Norris', then just stare at the car. It will promptly explode.
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Emma
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:05 am

hahaha
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Anna Watts
 
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:19 pm

I was actually hoping they had removed the exploding cars. You know... I hoped they had done their homework and learned how nuclear reactors actually work and the ways they do fail. Don't get me wrong; shooting a car with a nuclear reactor would be bad, but it wouldn't mushroom cloud. At the very least, it would start leaking contaminated water around the area. An active one or one that goes on the fritz to pull the control rods to full power would start venting streams of super-heated highly pressured steam that would slice limbs and strip flesh from bone. Then once the actual clean water is vented, the heat would build inside the reactor until the super-heated reactor water pressures cause the reactor chamber containment to fail. This would release an explosive force (this is what happened at Chernobyl) that would destroy the vehicle and send shards of contaminated metal into the vicinity... Up to a mile away. At the same time, a burst cloud of super-heated steam would flash broil the flesh off anything within the immediate area and then the neutron particles released from the uncontrolled fission of the fuel would rain down into the internal cavities of anyone not behind some kind of shielding. These particles would get trapped inside the internal cavities of the unfortunate people in the area, bounce around inside (they have enough force to get through, but not enough to burst out... like a .22 round to the skull) to shred internal organs to mush.


Sure, but how many people know it would do that? Nuclear reactor + damage = :nuke: may not be realistic, but it is simpler to implement and understand, and makes for better gameplay.
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CArlos BArrera
 
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:26 pm

Neutron radiation melting people isn't realistic either, but it could look good in the game.
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Ricky Rayner
 
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:58 am

Sure, but how many people know it would do that? Nuclear reactor + damage = :nuke: may not be realistic, but it is simpler to implement and understand, and makes for better gameplay.

Too right. It just looked cool. If I'd had a grav gun a la HL2 / D3 RoE in FO3, I'd have spent many happy hours stacking cars up, whilst giggling. :laugh: As it was I just took pot shots at them as I journeyed from A to B sometimes. :)
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Post » Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:29 pm

I was actually hoping they had removed the exploding cars. You know... I hoped they had done their homework and learned how nuclear reactors actually work and the ways they do fail. Don't get me wrong; shooting a car with a nuclear reactor would be bad, but it wouldn't mushroom cloud. At the very least, it would start leaking contaminated water around the area. An active one or one that goes on the fritz to pull the control rods to full power would start venting streams of super-heated highly pressured steam that would slice limbs and strip flesh from bone. Then once the actual clean water is vented, the heat would build inside the reactor until the super-heated reactor water pressures cause the reactor chamber containment to fail. This would release an explosive force (this is what happened at Chernobyl) that would destroy the vehicle and send shards of contaminated metal into the vicinity... Up to a mile away. At the same time, a burst cloud of super-heated steam would flash broil the flesh off anything within the immediate area and then the neutron particles released from the uncontrolled fission of the fuel would rain down into the internal cavities of anyone not behind some kind of shielding. These particles would get trapped inside the internal cavities of the unfortunate people in the area, bounce around inside (they have enough force to get through, but not enough to burst out... like a .22 round to the skull) to shred internal organs to mush.

So, instead of the mushroom clouds... ya'll could have had your enemies hole punched with radioactive metal, their skin broiled off, and their last moments spent lying in a pool of their own evacuated, liquefied organs with the area made highly radioactive for another 100+ years. But ya'll wanted cartoon mushroom clouds. ;)


Fallout wasn't really about realistic physics. It's about duck-and-cover propaganda physics :).
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Post » Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:54 am

Rename your character 'Chuck Norris', then just stare at the car. It will promptly explode.


Sorry, for this playthrough, my character's sticking with the name "LaGrange Calvert"
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