Lonesome Road

""People are like couriers, sometimes never understanding the messages they bring.""

- Ulysses

Lonesome Road is the fourth add-on for Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. Unlike Dead Money and Honest Hearts, it is scheduled to release simultaneously on all platforms in July 2011.

Plot
Lonesome Road brings the Courier's story full circle when you are contacted by the original "Courier Six", a man by the name of Ulysses who refused to deliver the Platinum Chip at the start of New Vegas. In his transmission, Ulysses promises the answer as to why, but only if you take one last job, one which leads you into the depths of the hurricane-swept canyons of the Divide, a landscape torn apart by earthquakes and violent storms. The road to the Divide is a long and treacherous one, and of the few to ever walk the road: none have ever returned.

Locations

 * The Divide

Characters

 * Ulysses

Behind the scenes
The phrase "Lonesome Road" appears in-game at the canyon wreckage, it is written in close proximity to other graffiti reading "The Divide", "You Can Go Home Courier", several figures resembling a backwards '6', and "Courier 6?", "Courier Six" apparently being the designation assigned to the player character by the Mojave Express.

The Divide also receives a mention in possible endings for both Dog and Christine Royce in Dead Money.

The second courier referenced in Christine's ending is stated earlier to have "worn the flag of the Old World on his back" when he rescued Christine from the Big Empty. This fits the description of Ulysses, a companion who was cut from the final game.

Chris Avellone has recently changed his location in his Twitter bio to "Lonesome Road, the Divide".

"The Lonesome Road" is the name of a 1927 song by Nathaniel Shilkret and Gene Austin, which has been covered by several musicians who should be familiar to fans of the Fallout series, including the Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Eddy Arnold, Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Sid Phillips, Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra, and Kay Kyser.