Summary
It’s tough getting around the Mojave inFallout: New Vegas. Whether it’s because the Courier got shot in the head or because they’re slugging it through an outdated Creation Engine, theycan’trun, and there are no vehicles or even mounts. Walking from A to B in the wasteland takes time—unless you turn yourself into a glitched revolver-wielding rocket—but thankfully modders are here to change that.
Fans have tried for years to get cars working inFallout, but nobody has made them a smooth ride. Even fan-made Fallout 2 remake Project Arroyo isonly including the iconic Highwayman as a fast travel station for Survival mode, rather than as a functioning car. But what about horses?
Mod maker Xilandro has painstakingly portedTES 4: Oblivion’ssteeds to New Vegas, which you’re able to see below. Bethesda’s Fallout games are jokingly described as ‘The Elder Scrollswith guns’ since they share an engine, so it fits incredibly well. However, this mod isn’t available to the wider public yet—Xilandro has their fingers crossed for it launching later this year.
How Can We Make This Horse Lore-Friendly?
There aren’t any horses in the Fallout games. Most fans assume that all we’d have left are their distant mutated cousins, not real horses. But there are a couple of ways that we can make this mod fit into the lore.
For one, there’s Great Khan graffiti of a rider on a horseinNew Vegas. It might just be referencing pre-war visuals, but it could also be depicting a ‘contemporary’ rider. In the All Roads graphic novel, we even see an NCR soldier in a flashback of the Bitter Springs Massacre on horseback (thanks,Fandom).
InFallout 4’sNuka-World DLC, several people ask what a horse was (comparing them to large dogs), so we at least know they aren’t common anymore.
Horses likely exist in the Fallout universe, but are extremely rare. Porting one from Oblivion to New Vegas was hard enough, let alone modelling a new lore-friendly mutant version, so one option is that the Courier simply found a hotly sought-after rarity in the wastes. Another option is that the horse is a Synth, suggested by Xilandro themselves. Either way, we’ll soon have a mount to explore the Mojave with.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHERE TO PLAY
Fallout New Vegas is another installment in the expansive and engaging post-apocalyptic survival FPS. Players are put into the shoes of a mysterious courier who survives a harrowing. On their journey for revenge, players will be given the choice to make the world around them a better (or worse) place.
