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Myron Rolle · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 19:36 Post subject: Game Informer The Pitt interview

Game Informer's coverage of The Pitt comes with an interview. Nothing huge in there but it's the first tidbits:

GI: What’s the narrative setup for The Pitt?

Gardiner: Pittsburgh was once the industrial center of the pre-war world. The city was spared the horrors of nuclear fire, only to have its people infected by a nightmare plague of disease, infection, and mutation. The Pitt opens with the player encountering an escaped slave from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The slave, Werhner, claims that the leader of “the Pitt” has created a cure for mutations… Once inside the Pitt, the player will have to figure out how to gain audience with the raider boss. What they’ll discover could send shockwaves through the Wasteland. The Pitt is very morally ambiguous – there’s no real right or wrong, just choices to be made, sides to be chosen.

GI: What new features/creatures/weapons/locations can players expect to encounter in The Pitt?

Gardiner: Without spoiling everything, The Pitt contains all of the above! There’s an “AutoAxe,” a melee weapon comparable to the ripper but with a huge, serrated rotary blade. There are three new perks including “Auto Axpert,” which will give the player a boost in damage when they’re using the new AutoAxe. Pittsburgh itself is infected with “Trogs,” creatures that were once human but slowly devolved into scampering mutants who fear the light and fight in packs. Many iconic locations in Pittsburgh are modeled in the game; several of our developers are from the city and their first hand knowledge is on full display!

Thanks Ausir.

Ausir · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 19:37 Post subject:

The Trogs are actually originally from Van Buren:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Trog
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Myron Rolle · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 19:41 Post subject:

Wow, Bethesda's really starting to rip off Van Buren with no credit given in these DLCs, wot wot?

Can't say I love the troglodytes but they're a neat enough idea, as long as they don't become too Gollum-esque. They remind me of the cave-dwellers in Ghost Farm.
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Myron Rolle · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 20:31 Post subject:

Well, it's not like the DLC team is given a lot of time, so yeah, probably just reskins.
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Ausir · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 20:39 Post subject:

They were a lot like the Slags from Ghost Farm, only somewhat dumber, less civilized and more redneckish in Van Buren.

Looks like they've been feralized for FO3, though.
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Logan · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 20:44 Post subject:

They refer to trogs as creatures..hmm. I suspect there wont be much dialogue with them even if the Wiki refer to them as thinking creatures, like ghouls.
I probably wont be downloading the Pitt as patch 1.1 totally destroyed my game, again.
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Kanian · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 20:47 Post subject:

Since I am ever the optimist, or I try to be when not pissed off at something or other, maybe the month long delay is to refine some of the aspects.

Change behavioral patterns, as well as a reskin, after all aside from the ghoulification Trogs sound much like ferals to me. I do hope this so called "cure" doesn't really exist....

Oh snap...just thought of this, what if this "cure" will be used in the ending change....
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Beelzebud · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 20:49 Post subject:

It's bad enough that they had to turn Fallout into an action game, but the fact that they're picking the corpse of Van Buren clean just angers me.

They really don't have one original idea do they?
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M-26-7 · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 21:39 Post subject:

Bethesda: How to gain audience with the raider king eh? How...to...gain...an...audience...let's see FPS, simplification, woah ooops, jumped tracks there, just let em kill everything okay?
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