{"id":76912,"date":"2015-06-08T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=76912"},"modified":"2015-06-08T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:37:43","slug":"fans-reveal-fallout-4-map-and-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/76912-fans-reveal-fallout-4-map-and-locations","title":{"rendered":"Fans reveal Fallout 4 map and locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beautiful thing about the internet is that fans, especially <em>Fallout<\/em> fans, can come together for\u00a0a project which is just plain cool.<\/p>\n<p>With the reveal of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76672-fallout-4-is-coming-its-exactly-what-we-wanted.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fallout 4<\/a><\/em>, <em>Fallout<\/em> fans began cross referencing the trailer with real life maps and references to Boston.<\/p>\n<p><em><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ModI6ruq73Q\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Essentially what happened was that fans used landmarks from the trailer and figured out the game&#8217;s map layout.<\/p>\n<p>They took in-game locations such as a tower and used it as a central feature, as it is displayed throughout the gameplay footage.<\/p>\n<p>Combining this with real locations featured in the trailer, they could estimate scale and the positioning of other locations as featured throughout the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have located where the player will start, what the general size of the map will be and other details, all of which are catalogued in the video above and in this <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/lFIxR#SOFYKFg\" target=\"_blank\">gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They predict\u00a0<em>Fallout 4<\/em>&#8216;s map size will be around 30 square miles (77.7km\u00b2), which is double that of\u00a0<em>Skyrim&#8217;s<\/em> 14.6 square miles (37.8km\u00b2).\u00a0With a new engine in place for\u00a0<em>Fallout 4<\/em>, a huge open world like this could be very possible.<\/p>\n<p>If this all proves to be true, we will be immensely impressed. Think about a nuclear wasteland that size to explore, we would never leave our rooms.<\/p>\n<h4>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameranx.com\/updates\/id\/28477\/article\/fallout-4-map-layout-and-fictional-locations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gameranx<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Fallout 4 goodness<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/76770-everything-thats-wrong-with-fallout-4s-reveal.html\">Everything that\u2019s wrong with Fallout 4\u2019s reveal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76672-fallout-4-is-coming-its-exactly-what-we-wanted.html\">Fallout 4 is coming: it\u2019s exactly what we wanted<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76642-fallout-4-to-be-announced-today-probably.html\">Fallout 4 to be announced later today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wondering how big Fallout 4 is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":76914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165,1593,6316,14300,14304,14302,1969,15397,1239,1853,10065],"class_list":["post-76912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bethesda","tag-fallout","tag-fallout-4","tag-fallout-fans","tag-locations","tag-maps","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76916,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76912\/revisions\/76916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}