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Well, if their goal is to rebuild America, and America hasn't been rebuilt a hundred years later, it sounds like they failed in their mission. Even if they aren't specifically mentioned, we can still plainly see that their country is far from its former glory, we don't need to be explicitly told "Vault 76 didn't fix things up as well as they wanted to" to understand that.
Yeah, but rebuilding all of the entire east coast is a pretty impossible task for a place that canonical only has 500 inhabitants. There are other control vaults in the country, and 76 is the only one we know of in the general vicinity of the east coast. "Rebuild America" is a pretty broad statement. From a technical standpoint on this wiki, the Averted Trope still applies because we don't know how Fallout 76 will play out and there is no mention.
100 years isn't a very long time to rebuild America after a nuclear apocalypse. So yeah, I don't think you could say they've failed even if we knew anything about them, which we didn't. The NCR hadn't fully rebuilt the entire country either, but had stabilized a significant portion of California, which isn't nothing. The same could be true here — the series has always left large parts of the map blank, like most RPG series. And they've never been shy about Cutting Off the Branches and retconning out elements that get in the way of the story they want to tell. The canon is pretty loose, or at least as vague as they can get away with.
If the devs want to say that Vault 76 succeeded, or at least didn't fail, I wouldn't put that past them. So yeah, it's too early to say they're Doomed by Canon.
I'm finding myself in an edit war on Fallout 76. A troper recently put the Doomed by Canon trope on the page, stating the Vault 76's mission to rebuild America in the aftermath of the nuclear war "obviously' failed based on how much of a bombed-out hell hole the Capital Wasteland of Washington D.C. and Boston Commonwealth are 185 years later.
Here's the thing though: this game is a prequel and a spinoff from the main series, but there is literally NO MENTION of the end results of Vault 76's efforts anywhere else in the entire franchise. There's no mention that it's located in West Virginia, or anything else. There's only a computer terminal in Fallout 3 that only mentions that Vault 76 exists.
According to the Doomed by Canon's own Playing With page, if something hasn't been mentioned in the main installments, then it counts as an Averted Trope, and thus should not be mentioned.
"Averted:
Or, to put it into context:
"Vault 76's efforts aren't mentioned in the rest of the Fallout franchise, so it doesn't matter what its fate is."
The game hasn't even come out yet. It'll be released in November, so nobody actually knows if the game's main storyline will address any actual results from the efforts of the players. To say that they failed because of the Crapsack World that previous (but further down the timeline) installments are with literally zero mention of this game is ridiculous.
Edited by DRCEQ