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Location
A full map of U.S. Route 50 can be found here. --Flower of Pock-Lips 15:50, November 30, 2010 (UTC)
- Where is the lonesome road in Fallout 3? --Schmitty952 21:42, December 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Apparently, it goes straight through the mall. Crimpycracker 00:42, February 3, 2011 (UTC)
- For posterity, at the time this entry was written, this article was about U.S. Route 50, which appears in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, the Nevada portion of which is known as "the loneliest road in America". --Flower of Pock-Lips 18:21, February 13, 2011 (UTC)
- Doesn't Route 50 seem a long way north of the game area? Zion NP looks to be about half the distance of the shortest route between Vegas and Route 50, and that's a 14 day hike. Granted Point Lookout in FO3 is 90 days or something, though you've got the ferry to take you there.
- Also, it seems more likely that the Mojave Outpost (because of its prominent road) or the Canyon Wreckage will be the entry point to the DLC; the only likely entry point to the north is the unnamed goop hole west of Brooks Tumbleweed Ranch, and that doesn't look to be getting cleaned up in a hurry. Hayst81
- Joshua Graham makes reference to the Divide closing off California Route 127 (see Vault article on The Divide), which if one looks at a map of the area is the entry into Death Valley off of I-15. Mind you, New Vegas takes liberties with the road layout in order to keep gameplay consistent (there is no road from Goodsprings, NV north to Enterprise/Las Vegas/NV State Route 160 in our real world, but there is one---the Cazador-infested road north from the gas station---in-game.) There may be a road through the canyon wreckage, or they may just be planning to use the Mojave Outpost as the jumping off point as in the real world. SimuLord 09:33, July 21, 2011 (UTC)
John Cassidy?
Cass mentions the divide when you ask her about dynamite. She also says that her dad left to the east and never came back. That sounds just like Veronica's Elijah foreshadowing. I wouldn't be suprized to see him show up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Serose8 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
- Him traveling east could be a reference to him upping sticks and leaving with the Chosen One. --Flower of Pock-Lips 12:25, January 8, 2011 (UTC)
- Unlikely when you consider his daughter was born in 2244 and the Chosen One's journey was in 2241.
--LordVukodlak 18:30, May 14, 2011 (UTC)
- and the developers did hint at us seeing a character from the past games. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.179.178.64 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
Well the U.S. route 50 leads through the mall,(according to Crimpycracker) the so I wouldn't be surprised to meet the lone wanderer.
For clarification, the section of Constitution Avenue in Washington that passes the National Mall is signed US Route 1. US 50 exits off I-66 about five blocks north of the Mall, roughly where Vernon Square is located. So the Lonesome Road may lead to Vault-Tec Headquarters, but you'd have to go through the Metro tunnels to get to the Mall. Minor quibble, of course---the underlying point is that indeed US 50 does lead to DC, although that's in our world, not necessarily in the Fallout world. SimuLord 09:18, July 21, 2011 (UTC)
Protected
As the article is protected and only admins can edit it, I guess suggestions for additions to the page need to be made on the talk page. We know a lot more than is currently described on this article's page, for example we know it'll take place at the Divide, and we know that the Courier will have a battle with Ulysses here under the flag of the Old World. It's also probably worth mentioning in Notes or Behind the scenes that U.S. Route 50 in Nevada is often known as the "loneliest road in the world". --Flower of Pock-Lips 17:49, January 8, 2011 (UTC)
- I would also suggest the addition of a quote to top of the page, Ulysses from Dead Money:
- "People are like couriers, sometimes never understanding the messages they bring."
- --Flower of Pock-Lips 20:01, January 8, 2011 (UTC)
More info
So according to this post, there's stuff in the Xbox BSA that hints at this DLC? Does anybody with both the BSA on file for whatever reason and the GECK check that out? --Flower of Pock-Lips 15:58, January 17, 2011 (UTC)
- What I found kind of interesting was the "Go home courier" sign, its either another one of those funny jokes or perhaps the origin of that sign will be revealed soon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TrueToCaesar (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
Please add interwiki
[[ru:Lonesome Road]]
--Alex6122 07:44, February 13, 2011 (UTC)
Song reference
Joe Bonamassa plays song with same title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelebmel (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!
- Actually it sounds more like a reference to this song, which would be thematically appropriate for a Fallout title. --Flower of Pock-Lips 18:03, February 13, 2011 (UTC)
Lonesome Road is also the name of a famous song covered by Frank Sinatra
I was doing some snooping around on here, when I found the album that Sinatra's cover of Blue Moon is on. I looked through the rest of the tracks when I found a very interesting some name. "The Lonesome Road" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonesome_Road ) is a 1927 song with music by Nathaniel Shilkret and lyrics by Gene Austin, alternately titled "Lonesome Road", "Look Down that Lonesome Road" and "Lonesome Road Blues." It was written in the style of an African-American folk song. "Lonesome Road" has been recorded in the jazz, blues, and big band music (Basically most of Fallout music).
And Frank Sinatra has a cover of the song on the exact same album as Blue Moon ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkOi4QbSjwI ). Of course most of us know that most of the quests in New Vegas are named after famous songs (Volare!, I Fought The Law, Ring-A Ding Ding, etc.) so this makes it even more obvious that one of the DLCs will be named Lonesome Road.
Just thought you might want to add that.
Canyon Wreckage
Hmattt 02:43, March 23, 2011 (UTC) I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this but if you go on the map and go to canyon wreckage, there is a lot of empty unused space to the left of it. This space can be used for a dlc and be filled with fast travel points as an extension of the map instead of going to a whole new area like dead money did. At the mojave outpost the gate that doesn't have a key also leads to that area so maybe they will both be used as dlc entrances. If you have anything else on this subject please tell me.
Speculation
In Dead Money all of the NPC's speeches talk about the battle of the divide being under the flags of the old world. I wonder if this means that the Enclave will play a role in Lonesome roads?--Gwuag 00:02, May 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Doubt it, "Flag of the Old World" is refering to the US Flag before the war. But who knows, I'm speculating that this DLC will take us back to the Core Region. However, I'm not holding my breath. 96.41.2.220 04:35, May 12, 2011 (UTC)
If It Takes Place in The Grand Canyon...
If it takes Place in The Grand Canyon then that would require going into Arizona which is Legion territory so it could get pretty interesting.
- It takes place in the Divide, which is unlikely to be the Grand Canyon. Ausir(talk) 17:19, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
Free Play After Main Quest?
"Lonesome Road brings the Courier's story full circle when you are contacted by the original Courier Six, a man by the name of Ulysses who refused to deliver the Platinum Chip at the start of New Vegas. In his transmission, Ulysses promises the answer as to why, but only if you take one last job..."
One last job sounds like a continuation of the Courier's retirement(endgame). It would be really nice if it were like Broken Steel from FO3, but with a good story. (Painterkilla 17:12, May 18, 2011 (UTC))
- Its already been stated they won't continue after the base game ending though.--Alpha Lycos 16:07, May 21, 2011 (UTC)
It's literally impossible to make a add-on like broken steel in new vegas because of all the endings
Examples
If u help mr house you will basically have hover dam run by robots (not so hard to do) If you go with yes man (pretty much the same thing as house) The NCR whould have complete control of the region every thing whould have to look more modern so on so forth The legion whould turn every one into slaves in the strip no more casinos (most likely not sure) And all the side quests you did a didn't do the main characters you kill (the people who have names) can all have a effect on the future of new Vegas so it would be to hard for bethsada and obsidian to do all of that fallout is such a immense game that it whould take a lot of money to make such a DLC and maybe a year to get out there so many more bugs could be introduced into the game (we have enough of those already) and the only thing that really happens with broken steel is that project purity is active
In conclusion I whould love for such a DLC but with all the bugs that could corrupt the game I'd rather stick to not completing the game and just run around
--Your friend, Austin 18:21, June 21, 2011 (UTC)
They could just make individual DLCs for certain quest lines
Don't be a Nonlife, play fairly. 03:59, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
Just wondering
Where did that fancy-looking picture that says Lonesome road on the top of the page come from? Did a member make it or something? User: Yugiohtipman34 07:21, June 21, 2011 (UTC)
And When They Say "The Courier and Ulysses Do Battle" what is it?
They say you and Ulysses fight. I'd pull out the Beaton Cannon and kill him easily or get the alien blaster. How hard could it be? Oh no, a tornado.....that's all that would stand in my way! Anyways, don't you think they should make the NEXT fallout in Utah or Ohio? How bout Florida? Maybe they got wiped out....IDK...
LS13
As much as i would love to have a grand sized glorious battle with 50 on 50, it's probably something more sized to the legate fight.
Trooper Gleason?
So, I guess that means the NCR is still active in the region? Or she's the only survivor?
E3 Trailer
ED-E is possibly coming to new vegas by the lonesome road seen in the E3 trailer. - July 19, 2011
Or the U.S. Route 95. In the end of the trailer you can see Mt. Charleston on the right side of The Strip.
Extra information a la Old World Blues
Old World Blues is out and there are a lot of references to the Divide and Lonesome Road and whatnot. I found that this page is lacking most of them, but, it's protected so I can't do anything about it, not a real tragedy as I can't remember most of them, but, off the top of my head, after you finish Old World Blues, Blind Diode Jefferson makes a crack about the Courier having "one lonesome road" left to travel or something of the sort (awful memory :P) and that seems worthy of a spot in the Behind the Scenes section. Also, for you grammar Nazis, I apologize for the preceding run-on sentence. --Alexms96 06:49, July 21, 2011 (UTC)
What i want to be included- DESERT RANGERS!!!!
The desert rangers were kind of undermined in the main game and dlc of new vegas even though they were said to be some elite group of fighters. Before any of you explode about the unification treaty, i still think that there were some rangers that weren't absorbed into the NCR. frankly, a lot of groups in the game aren't in favor of the NCR taking power, so why would every single desert ranger be okay with that? I want to see a small group of them in lonesome road that fled to the divide to get away from the NCR.
Confronting Ulysses
As fun as Fallout games are, you can't deny that they never were very good at creating epic climactic battles. The Master was more fun to defeat with speech or stealth than he was in straight up battle, Frank Horrigan was only hard if you had a sucky character and even then you could sick a dozen turrets on him, Fallout 3 didn't have a real big bad final boss and Lanius only appears in the last moments and is far less intimidating than simple deathclaw encounters.
Now I feel safe in assuming that there'll be an option to fight and kill Ulysses in Lonesome Road and that's kinda worrying. Ulysses' been built up with hints from everything from the collector's edition's swag to every single DLC yet... but really, if he comes at the Courier with nothing but a flagpole... yikes. And if some sort of series of scripted "can't kill him yet" encounters are used, it'd feel pretty cheap and lame. Is he going to keep his sleeve-less coat + flagpole set-up or end up decked-out in an advanced prototype power armor with a US flag paintjob while wielding a tesla flagpole that shoots lightning bolts at you?Dr. Lobotomy 16:19, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
- I'm sure there will be the option to do so, but am I the only one who doesn't want to lay a colossal beat-down on him? I know it's pretty far-off to hope for, but I'd rather take him back to the Mojave as a companion. I don't want to be forced to kill him. (Besides, your concerns are valid - it would be so anticlimactic if Ulysses came at us with a flagpole and we could shoot him down in two seconds.)--173.210.173.102 06:01, July 24, 2011 (UTC)
Fallout 3 character?
I remember an interview with one of the developers in which he said that a character from Fallout 3 would appear in one of Fallout New Vegas' DLC's, no character from FO3 appeared so far, so maybe in Lonesome Road we'll see him/her DannyK92 01:08, July 23, 2011 (UTC)
game already has an ending, why i dont believe that.
for one i heard someone say that cuze the ending tells u things way past the ending but it also questions the ending. and u and Ulysses talks about u end him ending things.
i know it probebly is true that the game ends at the dam but could they just make u able to play after it ended adding nothing except maybe the way to the devide?
- There will never, ever, EVER be a Broken Steel for New Vegas. The developers have said this time and time again. And Ulysses probably means "an ending to things" as in, one, he intends to kill you, or two, he intends to confront you over whatever you did to him in the past that made him the way he is. Either way, the Courier is walking away from LR alive. The Dam is the definitive ending. EDIT: Buh, sorry, didn't read the "just the Divide" part. I still don't think they'd do anything post-game, though, even if it were just for LR.--173.210.173.102 06:11, July 24, 2011 (UTC)
Linear! WTF!
Are they really gonna make this linear. Really why? I won't get it if it is. If I want linear i'll play CoD. FalloutJoe 01:48, July 24, 2011 (UTC)