Fallout: New Vegas players cruise the Mojave in style thanks to free Halo crossover
Fallout: New Vegas is set to return with a stunning remaster in the works at Bethesda, but this Halo expansion should tide you over until its official reveal.
Bethesda confirmed work on both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters in a company update earlier this year, whilst also confirming Fallout 5 would be the next major project after The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel launches.
Fallout: New Vegas was obviously the most-exciting announcement of the bunch, as it’s the most-popular game in the series.
While we wait for additional information, you should check out the Warthog Rollin Out mod over on NexusMods, as it brings an iconic piece of Halo lore to the Mojave.
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As the name implies, it gives you a fully-functioning Warthog to drive through the game, complete with “vehicle physics, fully animated hog and crew, and engine sounds”.
While you can drive the vehicle yourself, it’s more fun to man the turret, but rather than let one of the NPCs drive for you, you can instead steer the Warthog whilst shooting its main gun.
The mod says the control scheme is similar to the Scorpion Tank from the Halo games, so you’ll probably move with the left stick and aim with the right.
You can find the Warthog at Nellis Air Force Base once you get past the Boomer’s artillery barrage, and once you’ve got it, you can summon it to your location for free.
Be careful though, because if it gets destroyed, you’ll have to pay 10,000 caps to get a new one, which isn’t a small sum unless you’ve been raiding the New Vegas casinos.
It’s an awesome addition to your arsenal, and it sure does beat walking across the Mojave. Less chance of getting mauled by a Deathclaw.
The Warthog Rollin Out mod is available now for PC users, as Fallout: New Vegas lacks official mod support on consoles.
Fallout 5 should follow the above example and build off Starfield
The next Fallout game isn’t due for many, many years, which means Bethesda has plenty of time to hone its ideas and deliver the best game yet.
One way it can do this is by improving on one of Starfield’s best features, its vehicles. One of the biggest complaints about the studio’s newest IP was how boring planetary traversal was, and vehicles like the rover fixed that.
If Fallout 5 took a page out of Starfield’s book and let us drive vehicles around the wasteland, it’d already be leagues ahead of other games in the series. You can’t say it’d be unrealistic either. If we can get giant robots like Liberty Prime, we can get a working car too.
There’s even a joke about it in Fallout Season 2 where the Brotherhood of Steel find a preserved car and blow it up.
Vehicles would pair nicely with a bigger open-world. Fallout 5 is going to be an Xbox Project Helix and PlayStation 6 title, so the world can be even larger than Fallout 76 and still maintain its detail.
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