There Are No Ladders in Fallout 3 Because of the AI
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While playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas, you may or may not have noticed that there are no ladders. This is surprisingly because of the game’s engine.
This was revealed by the game’s producer, Tom Howard, back in 2010 whe (during a panel at Quakecon) he said:
“Play our game; find a ladder that you can use. We don’t have them.”
Fallout 3′s AI kept encountering problems when they came across ladders. Tom Howard explained that the ladders were eventually cut because:
“One day, we tried to figure out why we wanted ladders so bad because we don’t really need them. It just felt like we’re game development pussies because we can’t do ladder.”
