Teleports to other planes of existence/places/times

[kevin.granade]

Fundamentally I’m just not buying the, “ragtag group of survivors reassembles an interdimensional portal” story. It just doesnt fit.

Repair and reacivation of an existing one? Sure.

This just seems like a way to do it.

Thats totally backwards. I’m completely against the game trope of using superscience for trivialities like fast travel.
We can do fast travel right without inconviniencing the player, adding teleportation as a convinience is just lazy.

[nameless_survivor]

I was under the impression that fast travel with vehicles was not going to be practical?

[kevin.granade]

No, its totally doable, itll just require some work.

[Entity]

How about the Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues item you get from the Think Tank called the Transportalponder, which teleports you to and from Big Mountain, essentially giving you your own home right in your pocket to instantly travel to.

[TheZoneWizard]

You aren’t a Terminator fan are you? >;P

You pretty much summed up the entire franchise lol

[Mantar]

You mean the resistance who break into Skynet’s compound, then capture and use its prototype time machine? Or something that was added in the lousy post Judgment Day sequels/TV shows?
'Cause they didn’t move or reassemble the time machine, they just fought their way in after the Terminator was sent back to kill Sara Connor.

[TheMurderUnicorn]

I’m interested in this topic but don’t have a lot to add. I think that portals as a means of ‘fast travel’ is an error.

I think that teleportation/portals should lead to new game content, exploring a foreign land a la Half Life’s Xen. Or zen. Or Xan (or was that the unreal tournament guy?) Or whatever it was called. Little snatches into another world thereby creating ‘new’ content.

[TheZoneWizard]

Little “snatches” into another world.

Perhaps the most unique vag reference I’ve heard in a long time lol

But yeah. I would agree to other world jumps. Would be interesting to explore messed up planes.

[nameless_survivor]

The only reason I proposed fast travel via portals was because I was under the mistaken impression that it was not going to be possible to make vehicles do it, from reading older posts elsewhere. Since it WILL be possible, I definitely agree with Kevin on the “superscience for trivialities” issue. Its completely unnecessary.

As for portals to other worlds/planes:YES PLEASE! Maybe there could be resources or something that you can only find on other planes.

I would love to launch an invasion of the netherworld or homeworlds of the Fungus or Triffids for the purposes of extracting alien oil/minerals or something. Or even just to cause havoc. Set a mininuke, then drop my power armor greaves and moon the mi-go or whatever tentacled gribblies are running around, and walk back through the portal before it goes off.

[Wayticus]

Better run back through that portal, hop in your car and floor it, since the portal goes both ways. Unless the portals use the terminator logic, in which case getting that mini nuke through in the first place is going to be a major pain in the ass.

The recent red overlay bug give ideas on ways of the other-side looking different, without having to make entirely new tielsets for it.

[nameless_survivor]

Well, it depends if the “portal” is unidirectional or omnidirectional.

If its unidirectional like in Stargate for example, I’d just go back through to earth and get BEHIND it, since the ensuing shockwave and pulse of hard gamma and x-ray radiation would be directed away from me. I mean, you would still need to get a little distance away to not get baked by the heated air, but it would be significantly more survivable than being near a nuclear detonation.

For an omnidirectional portal, yeah, you better book it.

[AskaHope]

I would love to launch an invasion of the netherworld or homeworlds of the Fungus or Triffids

Don’t forget the Lovecraftian Dimension. How many shots would it take to kill Cthulhu? I dunno, I JUST WANNA GO THERE!

[TheZoneWizard]

Dark corners of the Earth style or maybe something else we discuss and add to our little game? =)

Lovecraft was a crap writer. But his ideas were great

[Bobdole44]

The true endgame would be finding a one use portal that takes you about 60 years into past. Effectively turning the end game into the most in-depth version of The Sims to date. lol

“Congratulations, you managed to die of old age before the Cataclysm started.”

[Erk]

More like “congratulations, you managed to be captured by the government for experimentation since you’re a bizarre cyborg squid man who suddenly appeared in new england in the eighties”

[Bobdole44]

Diffrent folks diffrent strokes “You’ve managed to detonate multiple mini nukes in downtown New York. Congratulations, you’re the worst terrorist in American History”

[Bobdole44]

BTW, what you said, that would be a great Dark Mirror episode.

[Darkfirephoenix]

Inb4 you yourself are the CAUSE of all that research in the first place

[Wasylus]

That would actually be a cool ending if Cataclysm DDA was a story-driven game. Too many of those have happy endings for my tastes. It would be a classical paradox loop in time travel when the effect turns out to also be the cause. Still, Cataclysm is a sandbox so that’s probably not going to ever happen.

[dissociativity]

I’d honestly make them a lab special that requires a mini reactor and other components to get working, but equipment is already there and ready to open.

Possibly with some kind of computer skill/hacking required.