At the E3 conference they said they weren't talking about the story, but you get into the vault, events transpire and 200 years later you emerge into the wasteland, the sole survivor of vault 111. Not sure about you but to me, given that most of the vaults are experiments of some kind, this screams stasis accident.
Is it just me, or does it look like this game takes place significantly earlier than previous Fallout's? Especially if the protagonist starts off before the nuclear holocaust.
At the E3 conference they said they weren't talking about the story, but you get into the vault, events transpire and 200 years later you emerge into the wasteland, the sole survivor of vault 111. Not sure about you but to me, given that most of the vaults are experiments of some kind, this screams stasis accident.
Although you were apparently still outside when the bombs fell in the vicinity but still got into the vault which seems like...odd procedure. This must be a massive security risk, opening the vault door while the outside is getting irradiated and taking in people that might turn into ghouls. Fallout 3 had skeletons with signs like "Let us in, we're starving" outside of Vault 101 so while people were outside there nobody ever opened the door, which seems like the correct protocol.
Except if this was maybe intentional but I'm not sure what's to gain from that.
Mind you it's Fallout nuclear weapons, they seem to be somewhat different from the real world equivalent. Remember how Black Mountain in New Vegas looks like? Nuclear missiles fell right on there, make a thirty meter crater but the entire summit is flooded with radiation 200 years later? Or the White House is one crater of rubble while the buildings next to it are still standing.
I feel like Fallout's nuclear bombs are much more nuclear and much less bombs.
And Moira apparently turned into a full blown ghoul the second you detonated the Megaton bomb so apparently if you're close enough it might happen really, really quickly.
Effects of ~20 kT bomb:
400 kT is A LOT.
The biggest problem I have with the fallout universe is that 200 years after the war, everything is still charred and destroyed.
Nature would reclaim the world in 200 years.
But I understand that Bethesda had to stick with the franchise they bought and couldn't just remake it from scratch...
Pripyat:
50,000 people used to live there.. now it's a ghost town.
This is my greatest complaint about the Fallout series. it's really unfortunate, but I guess they couldn't convey the nuclear apocalypse by making everything green
The biggest problem I have with the fallout universe is that 200 years after the war, everything is still charred and destroyed.