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The 1.6.3 hotfix, which came out yesterday, adds fast travel
capability from safe zones and hubs, just in case anyone was put off
by the lack of it while researching this game.

I do think it's odd that a feature like that would go into a "hot fix"
point release like this... maybe that's because I am in the software development business, where colloquial use of the term "hot fix" means something specific......
....specifically, "oops we fucked that up here's a quick patch for
something that passed our QA somehow but was still broken". Having
fast travel or not is kind of a big thing in an open-world game. Ah
well... I guess the game is good enough that we can overlook such transgressions.

I've wondered why it was missing, although it seems they did a good
job of designing the map and missions such that a lack of it is not a
deal breaker even without it -- sometimes you see your next
destination and it looks far away, but the way your character moves
across the environment (not to mention vehicles, some of the
situations you'll encounter while along the way on foot) makes
traveling part of the fun, it's all very immersive.

For busy people [raises hand], fast travel is definitely a welcome
addition. As much as I do enjoy moving from one location to another,
the reality is that I prefer to finish the main campaign of a game
like this with less than or approximately 20 hours of total gameplay
when possible. This one I've already spent a bit more than that
simply because I enjoy it, but history has shown that there is always
a practical limit to how long I should spend before something else
takes me away from it and then I dread coming back because I don't
want to re-learn what function I have re-key-mapped to what, etc.

Main thing to know about fast travel is you don't just see it on the
regular map. You have to find the map on the wall of a safe zone or
hub.. video on the subject here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmoTqJS2iwQ

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I should also probably mention, fast travel is not just available to
anywhere you've been before, like some games. It's more like curated
fast travel eligibility, which is probably a smart design decision.
The world in this game and navigating through it is one of the reasons
to play at all.
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Rin Stowleigh <nospam@nothanks.com> wrote at 23:16 this Thursday (GMT):

I should also probably mention, fast travel is not just available to
anywhere you've been before, like some games. It's more like curated
fast travel eligibility, which is probably a smart design decision.
The world in this game and navigating through it is one of the reasons
to play at all.

Fast travel in general should be a part of navigation, rather than just skipping it, IMO. My favorite kind of fast travel is when its limited to certain "stations" that you have to physically go to, since it feels
more tactile than just activating something from a menu. It also makes
it way easier to contextualize it in the world as a boat ride or tram
system or such. For larger worlds though, I think having an "escape
rope" type item that just teleports to the nearest town is a good
compromise.

I haven't played a lot of super open games, so my thoughts might be
completely wrong tho
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On 4/23/2026 9:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Rin Stowleigh <nospam@nothanks.com> wrote at 23:16 this Thursday (GMT):

I should also probably mention, fast travel is not just available to
anywhere you've been before, like some games. It's more like curated
fast travel eligibility, which is probably a smart design decision.
The world in this game and navigating through it is one of the reasons
to play at all.

Fast travel in general should be a part of navigation, rather than just skipping it, IMO. My favorite kind of fast travel is when its limited to certain "stations" that you have to physically go to, since it feels
more tactile than just activating something from a menu. It also makes
it way easier to contextualize it in the world as a boat ride or tram
system or such. For larger worlds though, I think having an "escape
rope" type item that just teleports to the nearest town is a good
compromise.

I haven't played a lot of super open games, so my thoughts might be completely wrong tho

I still prefer fallout 1 & 2's way of handling travel. When you want to
go somewhere you go out to the world map, and you click somewhere, you
can click on any point, even empty points. You then travel at like an
hour a second on that map and if you encounter something you get dropped
into a local map. Or if you just end up at a point with nothing in it,
you can still drop to a local map with little to nothing where you can
camp etc.

I hate the 'open world' which makes everything both feel further away in
real time, but amazingly cramped otherwise.
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Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote at 16:37 this Friday (GMT):

On 4/23/2026 9:40 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Rin Stowleigh <nospam@nothanks.com> wrote at 23:16 this Thursday (GMT):

I should also probably mention, fast travel is not just available to
anywhere you've been before, like some games. It's more like curated
fast travel eligibility, which is probably a smart design decision.
The world in this game and navigating through it is one of the reasons
to play at all.

Fast travel in general should be a part of navigation, rather than just
skipping it, IMO. My favorite kind of fast travel is when its limited to
certain "stations" that you have to physically go to, since it feels
more tactile than just activating something from a menu. It also makes
it way easier to contextualize it in the world as a boat ride or tram
system or such. For larger worlds though, I think having an "escape
rope" type item that just teleports to the nearest town is a good
compromise.

I haven't played a lot of super open games, so my thoughts might be
completely wrong tho

I still prefer fallout 1 & 2's way of handling travel. When you want to
go somewhere you go out to the world map, and you click somewhere, you
can click on any point, even empty points. You then travel at like an
hour a second on that map and if you encounter something you get dropped into a local map. Or if you just end up at a point with nothing in it,
you can still drop to a local map with little to nothing where you can
camp etc.

Yeah, FO1/2 had a cool middle ground there.

I hate the 'open world' which makes everything both feel further away in real time, but amazingly cramped otherwise.

Cramped towns with too much space between them?
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