Questions tagged [fallout]
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What buildings at the end of the Fallout TV series trailer don't exist in 2023?
At the end of the upcoming Fallout TV series first trailer at the 2:05 mark. The skyline of Los Angeles is shown during the explosion of what appear to be several nuclear bombs.
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What does a Synth component do?
We know the component isn't needed for the android to live because Harkness had his removed, and we know it's not required to program the android because the recall code still worked with Harkness, so ...
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Why didn't Harkness ever question why he doesn't look or sound like himself anymore?
In Fallout 3, Dr. Pinkerton changed A3-21's face and voice, but he didn't bother to find out how Harkness was supposed to sound or look, he just obtained a memory and put him into the android. Why ...
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Why didn't the first overseer of Vault 11 just admit the sacrifice was a lie to save himself?
In Fallout: New Vegas, there's a Vault 11 where the first overseer told everyone they needed to sacrifice somebody or else the computer would kill the whole vault. The dwellers did not take kindly to ...
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Did the power armour from the Fallout 4 intro cinematic exist?
In the intro cinematic for the Fallout 4 video game a real human is shown in a suit of power armour.
Did this power armour exist as a real world asset (instead of being a CGI element) and if so is its ...
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Why didn't "Father" use the same anti-aging treatment as Kellog?
When we first see Conrad Kellog, one of the main antagonists in "Fallout 4", he doesn't look past 40, while Shaun is just an infant. When we see both of them again, Kellog looks just like before, even ...
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Where did the idea of using bottle caps as money come from?
Being a fan of both the DuckTales and the Fallout series, I have only recently noticed that in the former there was an episode The Land of Trala La where the main characters introduce a concept of ...
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Where Fallout 3 Oasis might be in real life?
I happen to live near Bethesda MD and I've looked online to find any clue where Oasis (in Fallout 3) might be and take a visit but I haven't been able to find any solid evidence of the location in ...
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How was the pre war knowledge known?
In Fallout, much of the populace knows about the US before the nukes, but how is that possible when the destruction made the whole nation (and possibly the rest of the world) revert to the stone age?
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Are Deathclaws based on the Rancor?
The post-apocalyptic game Fallout contains a large lizard like (mutated Jackson's Chameleon) creature called the Deathclaw
Is there any evidence that the designers of the Fallout Series of games used ...
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Why don't we see more people equipped with Pip-Boys in the Fallout world?
In every game of the Fallout franchise, the player is equipped with a Pip-Boy. This is a device that is given to maybe every Vault inhabitant.
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Doc Mitchell gives the ...
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Does Vault-Tec exist outside the US?
So far, all the Fallout games I've played or watched (which are 3, New Vegas and 4) are set in the US.
The intros for the game imply that the entire world was affected by the war between the US and ...
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Who are the other "Unstoppables"?
In Fallout we can find series of comic books called "Unstoppables"
The barbarian in the middle is obviously Grognak and the guy with Tommy-gun is Silver Shroud.
Do we know what were the names of ...
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What has happened to intelligent dethclaws?
Fallout 2 introduced an unexpected twist: the dangerous deathclaws after exposure to FEV were becoming intelligent, with average intelligence level of human 8 year old (but i.e. Goris seems to be ...
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Did the nuclear war preceding the Fallout video games cause a nuclear winter in its aftermath?
In the games, the climate seems relatively normal. Did a nuclear winter come and pass, is it a really mild nuclear winter or did it not happen at all? If it didn't happen at all, why not?
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Space program in Fallout universe
So in 3 we learn about the Virgo II lander, but really not much else in the space program. What else happened? Were there space stations, probes to other planets?
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Where do the children in Little Lamplight come from?
Little Lamplight Caverns is a location in Fallout 3 that is completely populated by children younger then the age of 16.
Little Lamplight was originally founded by a group of Students who, during a ...
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Where does vault 101 get its food?
Vault 101 was originally designed never to open its doors to the outside world. The great war took place in 2077, and the events of Fallout 3 took place 200 years later (2277). We do know that Vault ...
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How many Vaults are there in Fallout game universe?
In the Fallout lore, I have gathered information that there are 112 vaults. But is that all of them or just the vaults that have been released as in-game content? Wouldn't there be other vaults in the ...
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Do the different branches of the Brotherhood of Steel ever come into contact?
In the intro of Fallout:Brotherhood of Steel it states that there was a disagreement in the brotherhood and that the minority lost and were sent East to investigate.
This effectively cut the BOS into ...
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Why is the culture in Fallout stuck in the 1950s?
All of the main Fallout lore (1, 2, 3, and New Vegas) is 1950’s-esque. The nuclear war that destroyed the world did not occur until 2077. What caused the culture to stay static for that roughly 120-...
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