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. Originally scheduled for release in July 2011, Lonesome Road was delayed and subsequently announced for an August release. It was later announced that the add-on had been delayed a second time. It has been announced that it will be released simultaneously on all platforms on September 20, 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 the main storyline. In his transmission, Ulysses promises the answer as to why, but only if you take one last job - a job that leads you into the depths of the hurricane-swept canyons of the Divide, a landscape torn apart by frequent earthquakes and violent storms. This is the fabled location of the battle between the Courier and Ulysses (after completion of the Dead Money add-on). 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
 * Dr. Whitely
 * Dr. Howard
 * The Dad
 * The Kid
 * Trooper Gleason

Armor and clothing

 * General's overcoat
 * Ulysses' outfit

Weapons

 * Rocket's Red Glare
 * Electrical gun (unofficial name)

Creatures

 * Lizard Man (unofficial name)
 * Blood man (unofficial name)

Behind the scenes

 * The phrase "Lonesome Road" appears in-game at the canyon wreckage, 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.
 * 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.