why doesn't anyone use bicycles/tricycles in this universe?
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why doesn't anyone use bicycles/tricycles in this universe?
why doesn't anyone use bicycles/tricycles in this universe?
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Why would you ride a bicycle across an open desert in a universe where bot flies have evolved to fire their young at you like a projectile?
>Why would you ride a bicycle across an open desert in a universe where bot flies have evolved to fire their young at you like a projectile?
You can bike faster than run away from threats.
You can get shot in the head with a bloatfly maggot and fall off your bike at speed.
As opposed to what? Matrix dodging it?
As opposed to not falling off of a moving vehicle at, I dunno the max speed of a bike, 30mph? You'll get worse injuries.
>bloatflies can hit targets moving at 30mph
Not leaving your little encampment. Caravans go with escorts, goodsprings to primm was already a sketchy trip solo even before the events of the game.
>be on bike
>get shot in head and die
VS
>be not on bike
>get shot in head and die
>be on bike
>get shot in head and die
>people who find your corpse know you were a bike riding homosexual
I'll walk, thanks.
plus they get your bike too and their total happiness increases and you become a bike cuck
Yeah I literally thought about that. Any post-apoc setting is going to be filled with horses and bicycles.
Horses are extinct in this one.
How big was the great war? They must've nuked every square inch of the world the wipe out horses entirely.
It was a strategic total exhange scenario, i.e. pretty fricking big.
And in the aftermath, humans and FEV boosted horrors wiped out even more ordinary animals like cats.
?
>OP asks why people dont use bikes
>post a screenshot of a prewar factory that made kids tricycles
Are you ESL or just fricking stupid?
you were so eager to call out this anon that you didn't even have time to read the op
The all got phased out with nuclear cars, which means no bike lanes in the future.
Because it'd be fricking lame to be in a gritty setting with your gun, your drugs, and riding a fricking bike.
Better to walk and maintain a bit of dignity at least
It's game engine limitations. They have power packs, and a Dam to infinitely recharge them, so there's no lack of power. Jury rigging a bicycle into an e-bike would be child's play in that world. There's vehicles in use in the lore of new Vegas: NCR supply trucks, and motorbikes. The engine can't support it.
The engine can support a fully functional electric car yet it can't support bikes? Sounds like bullshit to me.
the GAME engine, moron
Yes, I did indeed mean the game engine, you moronic Black personhomosexual.
I think he was talking about the engine gamebryo.
Oh I'm sorry I thought we were talking about Fallout.
What
The engine of Fallout can handle a fully functional electric car, why wouldn't it be able to handle bikes?
What electric car homie? You mean that mod made a decade after release?
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Highwayman
Look at the roads, they're full of holes. Stay out of them and you find yourself in seas of sand and very uneven dirt paths filled with critters bigger than yourself.
You'd go faster and safer by foot, plus a bike also needs certain level of maintenance.
I think it's just technical limitations, which are very forgivable. Even if you could get the NPCs to work, you still need the player to be able to use it. If you don't, then you have to explain why Deathking of the Wastes can't get one.
Fallout is an obvious universe for vehicles and Bethesda are idiots for not having them:
>normal bikes: cheapest
>e-bikes: upgrade
>Motorcycles: next step
>cars: next step
>trucks and SUVs: next step
>IFV or APC: last step
Because it's gay.
Same reason movies don’t have bicycles (unless a child is riding)
because gamebyro cant handle it without shitting itself
It's America. There's no transportation outside of cars.
Fallout takes place in America. The cyclists would get run over. Even if they used the bike lanes.
>at the side of a shattered highway a hundred years after the world ended, the Vault Dweller slowly pulls up a refurbished mountain bike
>checking carefully right and left and seeing literally nothing all the way to the horizon, he carefully mounts it
>the air is immediately filled with angry horns and the rush of huge objects rushing by with inches to spare
>scared out of his mind at this strange phenomenon, the Vault Dweller decides walking is the safer option
gamebyro cant into vehicles
god just imagining a fallout game with mad max cars and shit
The engine already struggles with horses.
op here i haven't played/read fallout lore in a while so did they completely retcon the highwayman's existence in the new (fallout 4) lore? i know that there's a wrecked highwayman in nv that's implied to be the chosen's but that's the last i've heard of it in the series
Bethesda stabs fresh new holes to be raped into the series with each new game, nothing unusual.
it's set in america
They'd get stolen by rowdy teens.
>wake up at 5am
>I HECKING LOVE MY DEMOCRACY
>climb onto my bike to deliver rations to the chem-addicted freesiders
>on the way to the strip a horde of fiends attacks me
>unlike them, I'm not insecure so I'm not carrying weapons
>"uhm, actually, I don't consent to being robbed"
>one of them magdumps an entire 9mm drum into my chest
>bleed out on the ground as they discuss on how to pimp their armor with the bike parts
>die happily knowing my efforts to lower CO2 emissions will allow the noble NCR brahmin barons to ride ventbirds more often
the bike had absolutely no impact in this scenario
>Meta reason
You'd have constant pop-in because the engine doesn't load in assets fast enough. See also the slow horse in Skyrim.
>In-setting reason
Main limiting factor is the rubber tires. Rubber requires either vast plantations of rubber trees or the ability to produce synthetic rubber, both of which will be in short supply in the wasteland.
You can produce bicycles without rubber tires of course but it is a far more unpleasant ride.
Also I guess this begs the question of how Mr. House's securitrons still have their tires intact.
what is it with bethesda games that attracts the most autistic fricking homosexuals to them?
They probably do its just really fricking anal to make a working bicycle in the games