The Wasteland... areas beyond the city

[Garrison72]

Hmm. So, here's a possible map for GTA V, as a point about wastelands/outside city space investment.

This MAY OR MAY NOT be accurate, but isn't considered totally unreasonable, given previous GTA wilderness for San Andreas.

Thoughts?

Too much wilderness not enough city.

 

[wisdom000]

Too much wilderness not enough city.

For Night City yeah... city needs to take up at least half the available lands space, for San Andreas, looks about perfect.

Of course, according to whats been said, GTA5 is supposed to have a bigger map than all the other GTA's out there, bigger than RDR... so we need to take scale into consideration here...

 

[Decatonkeil]

Hmm. So, here's a possible map for GTA V, as a point about wastelands/outside city space investment.

This MAY OR MAY NOT be accurate, but isn't considered totally unreasonable, given previous GTA wilderness for San Andreas.

Thoughts?

First thought that I have to get out: I hope the "Episodes from San Andreas" give us the rest of the map.

Second thought: i think it's cool. I don't think it's too much... countryside for the surrounding areas of LS. I like that there's still small villages sprinkled about it. But yeah, I see this isn't a leaked final map. It's kind of choppy and unclean, but it gives an idea of how the real deal might be.

 

[wisdom000]

I am still bummed we never got a San Andreas Stories...

 

[blank_redge]

Even though the map of Fallout 3 was a big "box," for the most part, I was fine with the conceits for hiding the barriers of the map (ever-increasing steepness for mountain ranges, inaccessible rubble blockages, etc.)

The "giant island" can break immersion for me. It's a bit disconcerting when I can traverse the entire circumference of the game map in a matter of minutes.

I don't mind the "giant island" model, as long as travelling around the perimeter of the map FEELS like travelling, rather than a quick jaunt (or even 10 minute jaunt) around the block.

 

[whipblade]

I was against the idea of a wasteland until I read this:

Would that not be cool? See Night City from above, at night, gleaming and glittering, the AVs flying around, landing lights flashing, the railway spinning about the buildings? Or to see it from some hills ten miles outside the city, the great highway feeders pumping their neon -and-LED lit cars and trucks into the city's heart?

Yup. Sounds awesome. So... I guess my only question is - do we get to customize our vehicles with armor and guns to Mad Max it up out there?

 

[wisdom000]

These are my hopes...

 

[chriswebb2020.736]

So... I guess my only question is - do we get to customize our vehicles with armor and guns to Mad Max it up out there?

We REALLY want this.

Then again, we REALLY want a lot of things from '77....

 

[Lolssi83.811]

How much guns are there in vehicles inside Night City? I'd assume it's heavily restricted on better areas? So you can't just cruise through city with your Mad Max car?

 

[wisdom000]

None really.... drive around with a gun attached to your car anywhere but the combat zone, and you will get a block before every cop in the city descends on you...

In the Zone or the wastelends its more common, but even then it is usally restricted to manual crewed turrets, and more often on larger vehicles.... and almost always in an easily removable mount, because state laws differ, and most cities outlaw such things entirely. They are really there for defense against Raffen Shiv, other gangs, or other hostile forces.

 

[Sardukhar]

We REALLY want this.

Then again, we REALLY want a lot of things from '77....

So goddamn true. HOPES HIGH.

 

[wisdom000]

I had a dream last night... a dream of leaving the glittering city, of going out intot he desert, to a nomad encampment much l like Megaton, there was a thunderdome there, and people played Jugger games,..... then I went beyond that, was attacked on the open road by raiders... in retribution I hunted raiders down to their nests, like the outlaw hideouts from RDR.... and I ruthlesslessly slaughtered them, freeing their captives...

The I found an factory, where corporations were doing factory things, perhaps an oil refinerey... flames spouted from large pipes, and the sky turned grey above it...

Choked off I fled further, where corporate farms grew genetically engineered crops, and rowas of herd animals were stacked in boxes, intravenously fed, awaiting the slaughter...

I dontinued to run... I found a small private farm, an oasis if you will.... a desperate lone family trying to hold on against the bullyingand oppression of the corporate machine who wants their land, and doesn't want their competition...

I headed back, finding my place within a large nomad caravan, and things went smoothly until hi-way pulledus over, demanding tribute, 10 times the normal amount... I smoked that swine and took his car... a v-8 monster, armored, mean, aggressive... faster enough to keep up with the raffen shiv and border jumpers it was designed to stop.... I looked down, there was a dog beside me....

I was the road... but it was time to return, I headed back to the city, leaving the fresh clean air behind me. Embraced by the soulless steal and glass of the gleaming towers. Angry eyes stared at me from their neon lit streets.... they would never know, they would never dare leave their gilded cage. I stepped out of the car, brushed the dust from my leather... and walked in, It was time to work, and Arasaka pays well...

 

[blank_redge]

...you need to drink less before going to sleep. =p Or more, depending on who you talk to.

But yeah; that sounds AWESOME. =) Good imagery.

 

[Sardukhar]

You took his CAR? You fuck. Also, how'd you get past the security locks? Kind of important no one else can run HiWay cars or they'd get ambushed constantly.

Nomad trash. I'll see you on the Road!

 

[wisdom000]

Thanks guys.... ooops I piked... Sard isn't the only Max-tac any more...

 

[blank_redge]

Thanks guys.... ooops I piked... Sard isn't the only Max-tac any more...

Worst. 2000th post. Evar. =p

 

[Sardukhar]

Hey, so true.

Well, now we are Cop brethren. Anyway, can't talk, have to check up on that farmer family, see what I can do for 'em, make sure they are okay. After you, you know, left them to go kill some cops.

 

[wisdom000]

Worst. 2000th post. Evar. =p

Dude... we are still waiting for you to hit 1000.... you got ten posts, think of something cool to outdo me...

Hey, so true.

Well, now we are Cop brethren. Anyway, can't talk, have to check up on that farmer family, see what I can do for 'em, make sure they are okay. After you, you know, left them to go kill some cops.

Cops wanna stay alive on the road, they have to respect the road.... all nomads expect to pay a bribe, but this asshole wanted my hunting rifle... so I gave it to him.

And I got a toy I picked up last time I was in Night City that helps me get around those pesky cop security systems... the bronze drive mean machines man...

 

[chriswebb2020.736]

I think I found a picture of Wisdom...

 

[Sardukhar]

I think you did. Only, see how dusty and messy his car is? Can you imagine Wisdom driving around in that? Also, those pants TOTALLY clash with that finish!