RobCo PIP-Boy 2000
We will try to go to a minimum in the history of the pip-boy, and focus on the essence: Pip-Boy 2000. However, it turned out that we have created a variant which causes many confusion emotions, so first we shall understand in one sick nuance for some people. We’re all have seen him in the game. Well, more precisely, its front panel, and its alone. And all game interfaces, as stylized as it. It looked like this:
Or with attachments leaf, on which was written every day changing the number of days until the end of stocks of water in your own refuge first part of the game character. But who sits directly behind the game when it comes to the detailed guidance on whole 122 pages (you can open it or download it here: http://hydra-media.c...lout_manual.pdf). Precisely, "Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide". Many of them even keep it on their hard drives or on the bookshelf like an expensive book of true game fan. He’s sure to open the page 60 4-21 (if cover is the 1st) and reads the first sentence. And it’s clearly written here:
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The RobCo PIPBoy 2000 (hereafter called the PIPBoy), is a handy device that you wear on your wrist.
Oh, this isn’t a lamp brick, which is worn in a bag, but a portable device, which is worn on arm. Maybe Выходец broke it, dug out of the case and put in another improvised body, making it brick? No problem, we also have the manual[/url, with more comfortable paged content. We need THE HOLY ROBCO PIPBOY 2000 article, on page 57, and finish up the second paragraph. And it begins with the words:
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The PIPBoy (as it is commonly called) is a handy device that you wear on your wrist.
Means that the Chosen One still got the old beaten PIP-Boy 2000 in its original form. That is, worn on the arm. As well as reading holodisks, what else Miss Stepleton told his grandfather in Hub library.
Referring also to the extant materials of the canceled Fallout 3. Specifically, the Van Buren project. There was a supercomputer ZAX, dialog with which we are interested in. When the Prisoner talks with it, it learns from the information about the Pip-Boy, what kind of device is it, where it takes the map and that it is possible to even play games:
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A RobCo 2000 PIP Boy is a Personal Information Processor, a personal data device developed by Vault-Tec designed to be worn on the wrist.
What a shocker. It turns out that the original PIP-Boy 2000 was the wrist device. But where the information about “warm brick” was taken, except for players’ speculations from Russian Vault-Wiki, specifically, namely an article about PIP-Boy 2000, which is the misunderstanding from the first lines? We got the answer on that question too, in the more competent sources The phrase that "Pip-Boy 2000 was a hand-held device, but were released a special version, dress up the hands which unofficially were called PIP-Boy 2000 +" appeared thanks to Joshua Eric Sawyer and his board game, which was made in 2004 (7 years after the first Fallout). Items were were categorized and described in their own wiki project Here’s the copy of the description the one of categories. In addition, when someone wants to prove that, they often provides the render of the supposedly real PIP-Boy 2000 Here’s this render:
But it’s not the official model, like everybody think! It’s the “simple” creation made by fan with nickname equilerex, who works as a modeler in the fan-projectFallout: Mutants Rising, who also did not carefully examine the subject or who redone the PIP-Boy 2000 in some specific purposes.
Thus, it turns out that the information, which is not shown to the players on the screen many times, walked past them and so furious denial of the ‘wristness” of this device is nothing but a manifestation of the “baby duck syndrome”, along with the original ignorance and fantasy, which has gone the wrong way or is simply not come down.
But back to our PIP-Boy. Ever since the very beginning of the project was the desire and the need to make PIP-Boy 2000. Firstly, it was a miserable retexture of the standard PIP-Boy 3000, but fortunately, this idea died before being developed. Then we thought of something like a remake of the same model, but this situation was the same. Then, with the arrival of the [b] AnOneTwo [/ b] in the team, the idea began to transform. First, as some guesses and proposals like the adaptation of the pre-existing concept of any PIP-Boy other models:
Then it was the concept of PIP-Boy 2000, which was made on the broken graphic tablet:
Now the front panel has been considered the front panel, we’re invented a "lamp" lamp for lighting, speaker and some more details. According to this concept, we’re made the first model of PIP-Boy 2000, which now lies and, it seems, will remain without textures and sweep.
It so happened that after its production we all took a major break from work, and then the model had to be postponed until better times. Time passed, the model was lying. And finally the time has come. It has come with the release of some E3 videos of the Fallout 4, where the protagonist finds the PIP-Boy (where did he lose his own?) and puts it on his hand. It was decided to make PIP-Boy 2000 better than 3000 new MK4 considering simple fastening at hand. And the process has begun.
However, we had to get rid of database with an alarm clock in order to free himself from the task of synchronizing them with in-game time. Instead of them were installed device buttons for reading holodisks, which are located in the lid just above them. The lamp has moved a little to the rear side, and the design of the rest of the body has become more similar to the 3000Mk4 model and more integral to the front panel, which we’re always observed. Geiger counter showing how much the keeper is irradiated was placed to have a place, but do not affect the original front panel. Here, of course, many will remember that the Geiger counter in Fallout 2 was a separate device. We, too, will make it a separate one, equipped on your character. But for a slightly different purpose. It will show how the radiation is now around the character. Without it, you will hear the crackle of the maximum, until you feel bad and worse.
A little earlier it was worth to note that the monitor dimensions based on the available in-game Pip-Boy 3000 model, which is contrary to the original 3x4. Well-well, there's nothing we can do about it. The firmware will also be similar model for this right is a switch tabs and scroll, and three operation buttons have changed its functions under the option available. The first work was the complex information about character as being, the second--complete catalog of equipment, and the third carries all of the information, whether the map of the area, notes and recordings from holodisks or quests and reputation.
And to the previous date the PIP-Boy 2000 model is completed, to the delight of many, and to the frustration of some. Now it has been transferred to the subsequent configuration in the game. You can watch this big render lower, compressed version here Вконтакте and its full version in our the gallery and on the [url="http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/images/97827/?"]Nexus (by the way, there is the best option, as the site is reflected the colors slighty, made it faintly.
Well, now pay attention to the additional devices, which you can wear on the arm. Next article will go directly to the appearance of these devices.