History WMG / Fallout76

The experiment is to let loose a bunch of disparate probably egotistical and maybe slightly misanthropic people into the wastes, give them nukes and see what happens. Will this group actually come together, cooperate and build a civilized community? Or will they [[{{Griefer}} grief each other]] till everyone is obliterated?

Similar TES: Online, players will have the opportunity to visit other unvisited locations in the lore, which will serve to establish the east coast America further. Possible locations are

* USAMRIID in Fort Dietrick Maryland, where an infectious version of the FEV lurks.
* Fort Meade Maryland where you must take control of the last surveillance satellite America has in orbit, and use it to solve an ethical conundrum.
'''Confirmed''' with the launch of the ''Expeditions'' game mode, but the locations above are all '''Jossed''' so far; the first location to be introduced outside of West Virginia is The Pitt (previously featured in Fallout 3), and Bethesda has confirmed the next Expedition location will be a city never before seen in the series, later announced in the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase to be Atlantic City.

** '''Confirmed''' in the form of the Old Guard. In addition, the Appalachian chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel was originally an elite Army Ranger unit known as Taggerdy's Thunder.

* Pirates of Piedmont. Head to the Piedmont area to destroy a ruthless gang knoWn as the River Reavers - only to find out that all isn’t what it seems.

All '''Jossed''' so far; the only location to be introduced outside of West Virginia is Pittsburgh in ''Expeditions: The Pitt'', and Bethesda has confirmed the next Expedition location will be a city never before seen in the series.

** '''Jossed;''' no human Vault-Tec personnel aside from Vault 76's Overseer and your fellow Residents appear, though several Mr. Handy robots appear at the Vault-Tec Agricultural Research Center in Flatwoods and Vault-Tec University in Morgantown, as well as a single Mr. Handy sales representative at the Shelters Claim Center near Vault 51.

** All '''Jossed'''; they're called "The Resident" (though some of the [[NonPlayableCharacter NPCs]] do nickname the Vault 76 residents "Seventy-Sixers".

All '''Jossed''' so far; the only location to be introduced outside of Appalachia is Pittsburgh in ''Expeditions: The Pitt'', and Bethesda has confirmed the next Expedition location will be a city never before seen in the series.

[[WMG: Eventually, West Virginia will be turned into a barren wasteland due to vault 76's war against the Scorchbeasts]]

** Confirmed, except they were called “Responders”

* The Vault 87 Super Mutants - {{Word of God}} states that the Vault 87 muties were released from their Vault in 2078, so it'd make sense for them to possibly appear.

** Confirmed.

** Confirmed.

** Partly-Jossed. Factions ''had'' formed in Appalachia after the war, but all of them were killed off prior to Vault 76 opening. You can still get quests from them however, following up information you get from holotapes and robots you discover.

* Confirmed at Bethesda's E3.
[[WMG: The use of Nukes in the story (multiplayer or otherwise) explains why no-one talks about West Virgina in the earlier games.]]

* Confirmed, with Isaac Garrahan's several pet sloths surviving the Great War and escaping their enclosure in the Garrahan Estate, with their mutated kin living in the Mire.

* Todd Howard actually confirmed real-time VATS in a post E3 interview

** Confirmed.

[[WMG: The Scorch Beasts have a massive nest in the Ash Heap]]
The Scorch Beast appear to be giant mutated bat dragons, and where do bats live? In caves, and mines. Ergo the Ash heap would be the perfect place for the Scorch Beasts to reside.

West Virginia is not mentioned in later games, which is unusual considering that such a green and lush region would attract a lot attention. Point Lookout is another similarly untouched region and it is swarming with fortune seekers. The simple explanation is by the time of Fallout 3, West Virginia has become just as harsh as any other wasteland. It's canon that vault 76 inhabitants use nukes to trap the Scorchbeasts underground. Perhaps the Scorchbeasts spread much faster than vault 76 could have predicted, leading them to rely more and more on nukes to stand a chance. Eventually, the entire region is rendered completely desolate due to constant nuke use.

[[WMG: The leader of the Vault 87 Super Mutant will be revealed in this game]]

''[[VideoGame/Fallout3 Fallout 3's]]'' main plot revolved around the Vault Dweller's discovery of his father's project to create a device that would cleanse the polluted, radioactive waters of the Potomac. Even though the Capitol Wasteland was created by DC getting nuked to hell during the war, the waters of the Northern Potomac begin in Fairfax Stone State Park in West Virgina, which is well outside the Wasteland and theoretically clean. But if ridding ''Fallout 76's'' Scorchbeasts involves nuking their underground lairs, as has been implied, then that might be enough to permanently poison the water table where the Potomac emerges, irradiating everyone who drinks from it downriver. Cue a mass MyGodWhatHaveIDone by the players, as Ron Perlman's ending narration informs them of the consequences of their actions.
* Jossed. Water in the area is radioactive already when you leave the vault.

[[WMG: The Scorch was caused by whatever was on that fallen space station.]]

[[WMG: The residents of vault 76 end up forming the backbone of The Enclave seen in fallout 3]]

Due to the purity of the vault dwellers and the nature of their selection process the enclave would desire to bolster their ranks with vault 76 stock. So the enclave show up, court them with trade and help them with the scorched. The enclave would be the first living people outside of the vault they would encounter so it'd be easy for the enclave to swoop in and help with the intention of getting new recruits. The residents of vault 76 are interested in restoring america and so are the enclave so the goals also align.
** Vault 76's residents regularly enter the Wasteland, so after a few generations they will be no genetically purer than the average Wastelander. Even if they are somehow still pure, there is no guarantee that the Enclave won't just turn everyone into lab rats as they did with vault 13.

They are from the Old World, which was, for all intents and purposes, a hellhole based upon ultraauthoritan patriotism. They don't see nukes as horrifying deathbombs - they see them as tools of America to wipe out their enemies. Of course they would be in awe with such a power, they could wipe out the Chicoms and the Bullykovs of the world!

The holotape recording and quill-skewered skeletons in the Toxic Valley picnic spot proves that Sheepsquatch have been around since before the bombs dropped. We also know that the US Government was conducting experiments in bio-engineering living weapons (see: Deathclaws, Wannamingo), and in particular that West Virginia was home to an [[SyntheticPlague F.E.V]] reseach facility, which had produced the creatures now called the Grafton Monster and the Snallygaster prior to the bombs dropping. There are even hints that some of those first production pseudo-cryptids had escaped and were roaming the West Virginia wilderness prior to the bombs. So it makes perfect sense that Sheepsquatch could have been another such experiment GoneHorriblyRight.

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They are from the Old World, which was, for all intents and purposes, a hellhole based upon ultraauthoritan patriotism. They don't see nukes as horrifying deathbombs - they see them as tools of America to wipe out their enemies. Of course they would be in awe with such a power, they could wipe out the Chicoms and the Bullykovs of the world!