Fallout 4

Altho I am from Serbia, I do enjoy the US setting in Fallout games a lot.

I'd love to explore every state in world of Fallout! Careful: shocking ignorance about politics, culture and... stuff like that when it comes to US. I'm a bit too simple when it comes to things, eh.

Edited by Dhiruxide on May 12th 2019 at 7:49:04 PM

One of my favorite parts of fallout are the various mutants, that was one of the reasons I was so excited about 76 (and was subsequently so disappointed).

??? Those mutant creatures are still there. There's more of them now actually. My fav is the wendigo. Good those things are so creepy

Not the creatures themselves but more the general quality (or lack there of) and the shifty behavior behind the scenes.

Anyway, if you were to make a fallout game taking place in your home state/country, what kind of monsters would you put in it?

Armadillos. They'd be super tanky, but not aggressive unless attacked. Alligator gar, they would be a big threat in lakes. And plain alligators of course, they'd be slower in water but can attack you on land. Maybe some wild boar... They could be really nasty. And a giant mountain lion would be terrifying. The horned lizard could be cool, give them blood shooting attacks. And some rattlesnakes or copperheads. Of course they'd have lots of mutations too and some nickname, but there's no telling where they'd go with that.

Edited by FGHIK on May 13th 2019 at 12:54:36 PM

That's actually some of the exact same things I thought of too, I was thinking of armadillos that have basically mutated into armored Megatheriums, Roadrunners that became Velociraptor-like predators, colossal red-tailed hawks with metallic feathers that shoot lightning and are named after mythical thunderbirds, giant texas redheaded centipedes, opossums that have become something resembling a mammalian theropod and mutant descendents of captive tigers (we have a surprisingly high number of those).

That's some good ideas too, I don't know how I forgot the roadrunner. Here's another idea, what about horses you can ride? Would make travel more interesting. But yeah it'd be nice to see them shake things up a bit more instead of giving every location the exact same creatures and only a couple unique ones. I mean, of course they're going to have death claws and such because they're iconic, but having the same old enemies every game is getting boring.

Anyway, I also think Texas would work well for the culture elements. The Western themes from New Vegas could obviously come back. We could learn more about how Mexico was in the Fallout verse, and their relations with the US. There's a lot of confederate sympathy in Texas to this day in our world, what's that like there? How was the economy, surely running out of oil didn't help Texas much. Was there a Dr Pepper counterpart ala Nuka Cola? That's just a few ideas off the top of my head. I'm sure there'd be great story potential.

I actually bought up mounts on a different fallout thread, I suggested a mutant horse, a genetically engendered dog and a giant lizard, perhaps even an ordinary non-mutant animal like a donkey as a Jack of All Trades beginner mount.

The lore nerd in me remembers horses being extinct in this setting but it wouldn't be the first time they changed things. If Washington DC can survive the nuking it got in the old canon, so can horses.

We've got an assload of horses and I can't think of many high priority targets to nuke.

Then I'd say it'd be an easy retcon. I'm sure there's targets on the plains and enough open territory to let some radiation clouds through, but honestly, wood products are a great insulator against radiation, so there's a good chance Texas is pulling through with minimal scarring in real life unless Mexico survives and throws a major push north for some bizarre reason. Even then I could see you guys surviving, just with more scarring after the war.

San Antonio would get pasted as it houses a major training center for a significant chunk of the US Armed Forces at Joint Base San Antonio. I can also see DFW getting the shellacking because it's a very large international airport that could serve for emergency takeoff and landing of nuclear strike aircraft.

A case might also be made for the major oil refineries/transportation hubs in south Texas, but given the petrol crisis that led up to the bombs it was probably all shuttered anyway. Though I could see China throwing some nukes in that direction as a "just in case" fuck you thing.

Edited by Cganale on May 15th 2019 at 1:33:11 PM

I think the only major nuke target in Michigan would be Detroit, assuming in Fallout-verse it wasn't a crumbling ruin already lol. A Fallout set in Michigan would be pretty neat tbh.

Man Nebraska would be a radioactive shit hole. Between SAC/STRATCOM, the airfields, major rail lines, and missile silos it would eat so many nukes the place would pre-glow. It would be an interesting location overall though.

North Alabama too. The Redstone Arsenal hosts Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, DRS, and just about every warhead and rocket designer and builder in the States.

Edited by blkwhtrbbt on May 16th 2019 at 6:06:52 AM

That could be some prime stomping ground too. I would like to see Fallout Explore Annexed Canada at one point.

Northwest Florida would also be hosed. With NAS Pensacola being the home of naval aviation and Corry Station having some kind of secret squirrel cryptology department, plus Eglin AFB only an hour to the east that is the testing site for every weapon in the Air Force arsenal, and Tyndall only an hour further where top of the line F-22 and F-35 squadrons live (or, you know, whatever Fallout equivalent), yeah, the entire panhandle of Florida would glow.

I'd like to go to space, like in Van Buren. Except instead of the final dungeon, there'd be, like, a whole space habitat up there, stranded with no way back for the past 200 years. And sure, they wouldn't have the problems with rads the rest of the world had, but they'd have own problems. Overcrowding and antigravity atrophy and bad Zetan neighbors and whatnot.

And speaking of Florida, you could have the launchpad be Cape Canaveral. Vault-Tec wanted to go to space, maybe they could've had a whole underground facility there, shielded from the bombs.

Edited by Unsung on May 19th 2019 at 10:11:49 AM

If they ever do make a fallout game taking place in Florida or Louisiana something i'd like to see would be the sapient tribal mutant alligators from the.unmade fallout tactics 2.

OH BOY AUTOMATIC EXPLOSIVE SHOTGUNS SURE ARE OP

That combat shotgun was a personal favorite of mine. Completely obliterates anything in front of you, more so if you have the Demolitions perk, since the +15 damage bonus is applied to each pellet, instead of per shot. Makes it one of the most overpowered weapons in the game.

I used console to give a laser rifle i had the Explosive effect. Then it occurred to me i could make it automatic. Then it occurred to me I could get the Beam Splitter. I once blew away a crowd of glowing feral ghouls without having to even reload. I once deepfried a mirelurk queen in two seconds. I can win a sniper duel without even seeing my enemy or looking down a scope. I don't think I'll ever roll a new character again.

So, you miniaturised a Death Star...

Or a finishing move from Power Rangers. Or a Japanese Mech Anime.

Do you shout KAM EH HAAAAAA when you fire?

These days I mostly just laugh quietly

...Yep more disturbing.