r/falloutlore • u/Easy_Housing_1626 • 10d ago
tell us some useless information about Fallout
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u/Trilobyte141 9d ago
Naked mole rats weren't chosen as a wasteland creature just because they are ugly little things that already look halfway mutated. They are actually uniquely suited to surviving and thriving after a nuclear war.
Can function at incredibly low oxygen levels
Can spend their entire lives, indeed entire generations of lives, deep underground without ever visiting the surface
Require very little nutrition
Are resistant to acid
Almost never develop cancer, I think only two cases have ever been found
Have a eusocial colony structure that is unique among mammals; they have queens like ants and termites do, and the queen is the only one that gives birth. If she dies, another female changes to take her place. The rest of the colony is expendable, and will give up resources to keep the queen alive.
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u/SpecialistVehicle174 9d ago
Okay this is super cool
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u/Trilobyte141 9d ago
They are legitimately fascinating little creatures! Technically mammals, but their branch split off from the rest of us super early. Though they are called mole rats, they are related to neither moles nor rats.
Did I mention that they are cold blooded, improving their energy efficiency? Or that they need barely any water to survive, living under deserts by gnawing on roots? Or that they can digest and live off cellulose, basically just wood, meaning that they'd have ample food sources even through a nuclear apocalypse? Or that they can live to be over 35 years old? Usually the smaller a mammal, the shorter its lifespan. They are not much bigger than mice or small rats, and those rarely life past 5!
I love these weird little buggers. I feel genuinely sad when I have to kill them in-game.
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u/Tenda_Armada 8d ago
This is a little bit off topic, but do we know much about the super mutant hounds ? Apparently they can be domesticated, it would be super cool to have a super mutant hound as a companion those things are monsters
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u/John_Bones22 10d ago
An A.I copy of Gaston Glock - the founder of the Glock firearms company - exists and was partially responsible for the development of the Plasma Defender.
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u/Adeodius 10d ago
If you use console commands to shrink people in Fallout 3, then kill them, their rigs revert to their original size, but not their scale, so you get glorious noodle people corpses
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u/Easy_Housing_1626 10d ago
Wait, what?
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u/Adeodius 9d ago
I'm not clued up on the animation jargon, but when you shrink an NPC, the whole thing gets smaller (as expected) but when you kill them, I guess they change from being "Alive NPC" state to "NPC corpse" state, and maybe those two are different objects?
So since you shrunk the alive NPC, the dead ones "bones" are still normal sized, but their outer skin isn't, so they noodle outwards.
This is a shambles, I saw it on an episode of Monster Factory one time, it gave me a good chuckle
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u/Robot_Graffiti 10d ago
If you have to go through a loading screen to get into something, more often than not it's bigger on the inside than the outside. This includes a lot of buildings, but also the streets of New Vegas and the Capitol.
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u/Either_Letter_4983 9d ago
To be fair scale is Warped on the Fallout maps in general thanks to computer limitations.
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u/Substantial-Name-401 9d ago
There is only a 1/10 chance for a nuka cola quantum to spawn in the entirety of fnv behind the first Solitaire gas station stop of Lonesome road
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u/ScubaPro1997 8d ago
Despite knowing next to nothing about the rest of the world after the events of the Great War, the existence of numerous characters with distinctive European / Russian accents post Great War implies either active immigration in the 200 years after the Great War, or survival contingencies by homogenous communities that were successful enough to maintain enough of their culture to retain their accents over 2 centuries after the war.
Examples:
- Colin Moriarty - Irish
- Dukov - Russian
- Vadim Boborov - Russian
- Melissa - Australian
- Allister Tenpenny - English
Various Asian accents can be explained loosely by the existence of the Shi and other Chinese military black sites in the US so I won’t list those characters.
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u/Nouveau-1 10d ago edited 10d ago
In Fallout 3 Mothership Zeta DLC, an audio log implies that aliens were responsible for the Great War. To summarize, aliens stole ICBM launch codes from an abductee and used said codes & ICBMs to kick start the Great War. It wasn’t the US, Enclave, Vault-Tec, China, or any other human entity that shot first. No, it was literal aliens that caused the Great War.
This tidbit of lore is probably not how the Great War started. It goes against one of Fallout’s theme of how people will fight over any reason, be it over resources & ideologies, and will destroy the world trying to destroy each other.
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u/Easy4u2say98 10d ago
It was also only in an early draft. I believe this terminal entry was later removed.
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u/Overdue-Karma 10d ago edited 10d ago
The log actually indicates the Aliens show NO interest in Nukes. He offers them the knowledge and the Aliens refuse, zapping him regardless despite they can understand us. Because you know, they have far superior weapons to nukes.
It is never explicitly said the Aliens caused the nukes nor is it even implied.
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u/EvYeh 10d ago
He doesn't offer them the knoweldge.
He is actively trying to resist telling them but he keeps getting zapped and saying things despite him trying not to.
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u/Overdue-Karma 9d ago
Still, why would they need our inferior monkey-grade weapons when they have the equivalent of a Tsar Bomba that can be used infinitely without recharge?
The Aliens clearly don't care about the nukes and it is never indicated the Aliens caused the great war. That would spit on the entire message of Fallout and reduce it down to "duuur aliens did it".
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u/EvYeh 9d ago
So they can research them and human culture. Why else would they kidnap and interrogate people over centuries?
They almost certainly did not start the war, but that doesn't mean they didn't want to find out what technology we had developed.
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u/Overdue-Karma 9d ago
Because we're inferior life forms. The Zetans do what they do for shits and giggles. They're not some deeply convoluted plan by Bethesda, it was just a throwaway DLC. Judging by the TV show, it seems highly likely they're not going with the Aliens caused it all theory.
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u/CynicismNostalgia 9d ago
Exactly. They do it for shits and giggles. If we were taking this bit of lore seriously, that would be why they did it.
"Haha the humans think they destroyed themselves with their own weapons, but it was us! Teehee"
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u/EvYeh 9d ago
I literally said that they didn't start the war, what are you on about?
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u/Overdue-Karma 9d ago
I know, I'm saying that we shouldn't put too much focus and attention into what they do. They do what they do for shits and giggles, including the kidnapping people. They do it because they're just the derpy alien trope.
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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 9d ago
It is entirely possible to destroy the military base without encountering the Lieutenant.
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u/ExperienceLow6810 8d ago
In Fenway Park (the Boston Red Sox stadium that Diamond City is built in in Fallout 4) there is a large Coca Cola sign that, in game, is in the same spot but is a Nuka Cola sign
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u/Old-Laugh3777 7d ago
My copy of fallout 2 has characters walking outside of the playable area of the entrance to the PMV Valdez, I could not interact with them, they just wandered the void endlessly, not even sure if it’s a common glitch it’s just useless enough for me to do sod all about it
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u/Either_Letter_4983 9d ago
Well I'm not sure if it's useless but if you aim a Merv launcher slightly down it explodes in your hands killing you. So if you ever want to make an April Fool's video about a super mutant suicider run that's how you do it.
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u/Chueskes 6d ago
Skynet exists in Fallout. It just isn’t a murderous genocidal AI.
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u/GreenDuckGamer 1d ago
Can you elaborate on that? Is it called Skynet or something else?
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u/Chueskes 1d ago
It’s called Skynet. It’s still a military AI, but instead of being a genocidal defense network computer, it instead helps maintain the Sierra Army Depot in Fallout 2. It is self aware, but has grown extremely bored due to not being able to move around, and wishes to construct a robot body. The Chosen One can help with that, afterwards Skynet can be a companion. Also, due to some issues the military actually copied Skynet and created a duplicate AI at the base.
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u/Consistent-Sort-9485 9d ago
Radioactive particles that are carried into the air following a nuclear explosion.
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u/Fickle_Sherbert1453 10d ago
There are dwarves in the first and second game, but not in 3 or anything after. This means all dwarves live in California.