History VideoGame / FalloutShelter

* WouldntHurtAChild: Radroaches, Raiders, Mole Rats, Radscorpions, Feral Ghouls, and Deathclaws do not harm children inside the vault.

** During quests, dwellers will sometimes move around when firing weapons ''before finishing the attack animation'', lowering the damage caused.

** During quests, dwellers will sometimes move around when firing weapons, lowering the damage caused.
** Sometimes a dweller will move across the room rather than the shortest route when dealing with incidents.

Has a sequel in Asia called ''Fallout Shelter Online'' where the only main improvement is you can now partake in [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] raids of other vaults.

Has a sequel in Asia called ''Fallout Shelter Online'' where the only improvement is you can now partake in PvP raids of other vaults.

** Among the Legendary outfits otherwise, the Detective Outfit, Jobinson;s Jersey, and the outfits of the Four Horsemen, give cumulative bonuses of +16, +4 in four different stats, making them extremely useful general purpose outfits.
* ArtificialStupidity:
** Dwellers are very, very, very stupid when it comes to Emergencies:
*** Dwellers will react to threats in their rooms, but do nothing about threats in other rooms. This is particularly annoying in cases where an armed response would be appropriate: you have to rummage through all of your dwellers looking for the ones with guns while mayhem is happening elsewhere and they carry on with their normal tasks as if nothing is happening. This is definitely a pain early game, but becomes much more bearable late game, once you have explored the wasteland to collect enough guns to arm everyone and have enough people to guard every room.
*** Compounding the previous issue, if a threat moves to another room, Dwellers will not follow it. So if a Raider moves from one room to another, the high-level Bruiser with a flamethrower the Overseer moved in to deal with the threat will happily stay in the same room, not giving chase.
*** Dwellers will obey the AntiFrustrationFeatures and only so many Dwellers will be in a room at any one time. This is a huge issue if an Overseer moves a Dweller in to fight a raider, then moves another in and the initial fighter decides to go back to another room because it's too crowded.
*** The dwellers do not know how to heal themselves even if they are seriously wounded.
*** Dwellers in combat will move around the room, stack up, and generally make it harder for you to apply stimpaks to the right dweller, especially in larger rooms. This can be really bad when you have underleveled dwellers and need constant healing.
*** Even after emergencies, they have issues. If you assign a dweller to a room during an emergency (i.e a raider/deathclaw attack, fire or radroach/molerat infestation), they'll go back to their original rooms once the threat has been dealt with- and this also applies to dwellers dragged into unaffected rooms. This has inevitably left some people scratching their heads as to why the dweller is suddenly leaving the training they were put into.
*** Lastly, some dwellers actually forget to use their weapons during certain emergencies like deathclaw attacks. They just run around screaming in terror despite being equipped with guided fat-man mini-nukes and combat armor. However, this is only the character animations. Actual damage calculation with weapons and health is still being carried out during the encounter. Just because two dwellers with a Fat Man and Laser Gatling keep both running to the same spots, which results in neither of them firing off their weapons, that doesn't mean they aren't firing their weapons.
** Also, your dwellers seem to suffer from ForgetfulJones syndrome while out in the wastelands. Play a drinking game and take a swig of booze every time he or she runs into a fire ant and think they're harmless, only to be set on fire. They never learn and you'll end up hosed. The reason for this is that they ''only learn as they level up''. So they'll make the same mistake over and over until they level enough to ''not'' make the mistake.

* DumpStat: Charisma, prior to the addition of ItemCrafting. While NotCompletelyUseless, every other stat in the game is either useful in any room in the Vault (like Luck or Endurance) or helps speed up production. In the Vault, all that Charisma did was shorten the (already short) time it takes two Dwellers to have a baby, and help broadcast from the Radio Tower to get new Dwellers from the Wasteland. Naturally, if an Overseer already has a full Vault, both of these bonuses are useless at best (the Radio Tower is actually detrimental, because while it raises happiness in the vault, it also attracts Deathclaws.) In the Wasteland it does have a purpose, [[OvershadowedByAwesome but so does every other stat, except they're also useful in the Vault]]. The addition of ItemCrafting made some items depend on Charisma, and having high Charisma can significantly cut down the crafting time. We're talking 2 weeks crafting time down to 5 days, here.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: Averted, though it depends on how much you want to do in the game. It is possible to max out Vault population, unlock all recipes, themes, and production facilities, and complete all major Quests, without spending a dime. However, there are a couple things you'll have trouble getting, namely Legendary Dwellers and Mr. Handies, which are very rare, but you can buy Mr. Handies from the store and Legendary Dwellers can only be obtained from Lunchboxes, which can also be bought from the store. The flipside of that is that there's no practical reason or need for you to acquire every Legendary Dweller, and you don't ''need'' Mr. Handies to have a full, functioning Vault, they just ease some of your micromanagement. That said, the game occasionally offers Mr. Handies as quest or objective rewards (for that matter, Lunchboxes are the same), and a five pack of Mr. Handies is a one-time purchase of five dollars and that's plenty for a fair-sized Vault. Everything else that costs real money -- Lunchboxes, Pets, Nuka-Cola Quantum -- is obtainable in-game on a regular basis. In short, BribingYourWayToVictory is possible, but entirely unneccessary.

* DiskOneNuke: The game's early missions give you a few easy Lunchboxes, and it's possible to pull a Legendary outfit or weapon from them. If you're lucky enough to pull a Legendary Dweller, you just got a high-level Dweller with great stats and a powerful weapon and outfit, allowing for easy and lengthy wasteland exploration to get more supplies, and they can probably single-handedly fend off early game infestations and attacks.

** Outfit-wise, the unique Detective's Outfit and Jobinson's Jersey - both hard-to-acquire quest rewards - offer cumulative bonuses of +16 points (+4 to four stats each), which is way beyond anything else you can acquire. For comparison: the vast majority of the about 30 legendary outfits in the game boast a sum of +7 points, and the three legendary dweller outfits (Piper's, Preston's and Old Longfellow's) add up to +8.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: Averted, though it depends on how much you want to do in the game. It is possible to max out Vault population, unlock all recipes, themes, and production facilities, and complete all major Quests, without spending a dime. However, there are a couple things you'll have trouble getting, namely Legendary Dwellers and Mr. Handies, which are very rare. However, there's no practical reason to want every Legendary Dweller aside from completion's sake, and you don't ''need'' Mr. Handies to have a full, functioning Vault, they just ease some of your micromanagement. But even then, a five pack of Mr. Handies is a one-time purchase of five dollars and that's plenty for a fair-sized Vault. Everything else that costs real money -- Lunchboxes, Pets, Nuka-Cola Quantum -- is obtainable in-game on a regular basis. In short, BribingYourWayToVictory is possible, but entirely unneccessary.

** Infestations like radroaches, mole rats, and radscorpions only spawn in rooms touching dirty, including the sides of the build area. This means that it's possible to entirely insulate yourself from infestations by building your elevator systems on the edges of the build area, thus no rooms are touching the dirt. Alternatively, since infestations can only move between connected rooms, a checkboard-layout of rooms that aren't directly touching each other means they have nowhere to go and will just go away after a minute or two.

* LoopholeAbuse: A lot of the objectives follow ExactWords that follow this trope. For instance, say you get the objective "craft five rare weapons." The objective does not state you must ''keep'' those weapons, thus you can craft a rare weapon, immediately break it down to get most of the components back, and re-craft it four times to meet the objective. The same rule applies to objectives like "collect so many of this item," where if you use or sell the items afterwards you still have credit for the objective for collecting them in the first place.

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''Fallout Shelter'' is a [[ConstructionAndManagementGames vault management]] LifeSimulationGame set in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' franchise, designed for mobile platforms, developed by Behavior Interactive and Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was released after Bethesda's first E3 showcase, on June 14, 2015. The game is free to play, with in-app purchases. The game is available for the iOS, and beginning August 12th, 2015, also for Android devices with Google Play Store access (the release coincides with the 1.1.0 update for iOS). Unfortunately, the game isn't available on the Amazon App Store, thus denying folks with uncertified Android devices access to the game. The game is also available on PC, UsefulNotes/XBoxOne, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* BlackComedy: Even though it's LighterAndSofter than the main Fallout series, ''Fallout Shelter'' has this in spades. Stand-out examples include the flavor text for unlocked weapons (mostly of the "[[TheJoysOfTorturingMooks look how awesome it is to mutilate your enemies with this]]!" variety), and some observations made by a Dweller exploring the Wasteland (such as {{Snark}}ing about how the devastation "[[SarcasmMode totally isn't depressing at all]]", or suffering AmusingInjuries, [[AgonyOfTheFeet usually from being footsore from walking everywhere]]).

* DiskOneNuke: Getting a Legendary Weapon in your first Lunchbox will be this, when compared with Legendary Dweller and Legendary Outfit. They can make your initial Wasteland exploration a breeze, they also help secure your Vault from intruders, and will be absolutely helpful in quests. And you can play this trope to its literal extreme if you got a nuke-based weapon...

* ArmorIsUseless: Not completely useless per se, but unlike other ''Fallout'' games, armor offers no damage reduction. Instead, they're treated as just another piece of clothing to get stat bonuses from. So someone wearing fake pointy ears can get much better bonuses than someone equipped with Combat Armour. On the other hand, all models of [[PoweredArmor power armor]] are exclusively categorized as legendary gear with a minimum of cumulative bonuses of +4. The best ones add up to +7, so all of them come in quite handy if you're lucky enough to possess them.

* PowerUpLetdown: You can upgrade the Vault door for higher HP, which makes Raiders and Deathclaws take longer to get in so you have more time to position defenders. However, Raiders are such pathetic opponents you'll ''want'' to get them in the Vault quickly so you can kill them and get the incident over with. As for Deathclaws, well, the upgraded HP isn't gonna do ''that'' much to buy you time before they get in. Overall, upgrading the Vault door is just a waste of caps.

* EarlyGameHell: For the first while in the game, your vault will teeter on the edge of collapse from any pest infestation or raider or ghoul attack. You have a handful of dwellers with terrible stats who can't efficiently work your production rooms, you'll scrap to get enough caps to expand and upgrade your vault, your supplies are limited to whatever equipment slain raiders drop and the random spoils of lunchboxes, and you can't build crafting or training rooms yet.[[note]]and trying to rush your population up to them just gets you overpopulated and your vault won't be able to sustain itself[[/note]] Once your population begins to grow to unlock rooms and you start sending dwellers into the wasteland to scavenge supplies, all of these problems are gradually alleviated and the game becomes considerably gentler.

* HundredPercentCompletion: The game records all the weapons, armor, and legendary vault dwellers you find in the game. Most legendary vault dwellers contain a unique outfit and weapon, which may be impossible to obtain by searching the wastelands. Players who want to obtain everything may find themselves buying hundreds of lunchboxes from the market just to improve their chances. The quest update now allows you to find the weapon and outfit recipes for the legendary dwellers, but the blueprints are rare and in some of the more difficult quests.