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Fallout season 2 settles a longtime fan debate over vehicles (the games need them)

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29.01.2026

Fallout season 2’s finale edges closer, and with it, the answer to several questions that have plagued fans ever since season 1. However, what surprised me the most about the latest Fallout episode is how much it kick-started an old desire of mine: drivable vehicles in future Fallout games.

In Fallout season 2 episode 7, Hank MacClean (Kyle MacLachlan) and his daughter Lucy (Ella Purnell) are on their way to reverse the brainwashing machines Hank’s cooked up at the Vault-Tec office in New Vegas. Instead of walking to the mainframe, however, he suggests they take the golf cart.

Viewers will remember Hank’s been using the cart to go back and forth to the lower reaches of the vaults to grab mice for his experiments. Having been around during the Pre-War times, he handles the cart with the ease of riding a bike. Lucy, on the other hand, almost drives straight into a wall and struggles to distinguish between acceleration and braking. It’s a fun scene that highlights how the father and daughter were raised in their respective worlds.

It’s also a scene that served to remind me that, outside of being used as set dressing while players explore the Wasteland and being objects that you........

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