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Black =Vaults
Blue =Major settlements
Green =Metro stations
Orange =Unmarked locations
Purple =Locations added by add-ons
Contents
- 1 List of locations
- 2 High-resolution maps
- 2.1 Capital Wasteland
- 2.2 Chevy Chase
- 2.3 Dupont Circle
- 2.4 Takoma Park
- 2.5 Vernon Square
- 2.6 Pennsylvania Avenue
- 2.7 The Mall
- 2.8 L'Enfant Plaza
- 2.9 Georgetown
- 2.10 Seward Square
- 2.11 Falls Church
- 2.12 Mason District
- 2.13 Arlington Cemetery
- 2.14 Megaton
- 2.15 Tranquility Lane
- 2.16 Paradise Falls
- 2.17 Metro map
- 3 Add-on maps
- 4 High-resolution Capital Wasteland map
- 5 Behind the scenes
- 6 See also
- 7 External links
- 8 References
List of locations[edit | edit source]
High-resolution maps[edit | edit source]
Capital Wasteland[edit | edit source]
Chevy Chase[edit | edit source]
Dupont Circle[edit | edit source]
Takoma Park[edit | edit source]
Vernon Square[edit | edit source]
Pennsylvania Avenue[edit | edit source]
The Mall[edit | edit source]
L'Enfant Plaza[edit | edit source]
Georgetown[edit | edit source]
Seward Square[edit | edit source]
Falls Church[edit | edit source]
Mason District[edit | edit source]
Arlington Cemetery[edit | edit source]
Megaton[edit | edit source]
Tranquility Lane[edit | edit source]
Paradise Falls[edit | edit source]
Metro map[edit | edit source]
Add-on maps[edit | edit source]
The Pitt[edit | edit source]
Anchorage[edit | edit source]
- Anchorage - Battlefield
Broken Steel[edit | edit source]
Point Lookout[edit | edit source]
Mothership Zeta[edit | edit source]
High-resolution Capital Wasteland map[edit | edit source]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
- The downtown D.C. area in Fallout 3 was over twice the size at one point, with 26 enclosed areas rather than the final game's 12. The team decided it was too large and confusing and cut over half the zones.[1][2]
- Originally the Capital Wasteland was significantly smaller, before being expanded relatively late in development in early-to-mid 2008:[3]
“Fast forward nearly two years. We’re in alpha, and for the first time, we’re meeting Fallout 3. Up until this point, the game has been a collection of assets, tasks, code and lots of teamwork. The game is beginning to feel complete as everything comes together. We realized, however, that wandering the wasteland didn’t feel right. Something was off about that experience. What we realized was that the world felt pushed together. We simply had too much stuff, too close together.
This is because we were using the same POI density that had served us well for Oblivion. There’s no secret playbook at Bethesda that tells us what to do. We simply learn from what we’ve done before. POI density wasn’t something we really had a name for back then.
The trouble was that Oblivion and Fallout 3 are very different games. The sightlines in Fallout 3 are much larger, and you don’t have the major visual blockers of Oblivion’s forests and hilly terrain. Aside from all that, it’s a game where you’re supposed to occasionally feel lonely, and we weren’t achieving the tone we wanted.
So we made a decision. We could have pared back, but we decided to add a significant amount of new area to the North and West ends of the map. Remember that we were in alpha, and a lot of this work was supposed to be done. If you’re a producer, you should be squirming in your seat right now. This took our entire environment art and level design teams offline for the better part of two months. It was a painful decision, but we felt it was the best option to make the game what we wanted it to be.”— Joel Burgess' blog
Fallout 3 Map Expansion from Joel Burgess' GDC 2011
Fallout 3 expansion locations from Joel Burgess' GDC 2011 talk, smaller portion is original concept map from 2005.[4]
Satellite image showing the realism of the Capital Wasteland
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See also[edit | edit source]
External links[edit | edit source]
- Fallout 3 World Map at NMA
References[edit | edit source]
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