Fallout series

[Ruin]

In fairness, they did leak a lot of info about Fallout 4 years before it was announced, such as the player character, the intro dialogue, and Preston Garvey. Of course, that stunt ended with them getting blacklisted by Bethesda, so who knows how accurate their info about 76 is, especially given how vague it is.

I'm split on this because on one hand it's Kotaku but on the other hand spitting in the faces of their longtime fans and making a micro transaction riddled online Rust clone with the Fallout name slapped on it sounds exactly like something Bethesda would do.

 

[Derp Potato]

I'm actually torn on whether or not I'll even think about getting 76. I wasn't too thrilled with FO4 and the building "feature"

Would it be cool to finally do and see shit before the mutants, ghouls, raiders, factions, etc? Fuck yeah. Lets finally get the Enclave going.

But, knowing current year gaming industry, I expect shit to suck and I'm really hoping there is no online portion of it.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Is there any significance to be assigned to the fact that the first four or so seconds of the music are NOT from the John Denver song, but from Happy Trails by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans? Seems like kind of a strange lead-in.

Sorry to sound all Alex Jones, but I watched a couple of videos analyzing the trailer and nobody seemed to notice this. I'm sure others have noticed this, but I haven't noticed them noticing this, if that makes any sense.

edit: Just so people know what the hell I mean...

Fallout 76 Trailer - time stamp 17 seconds

Roy Rogers Happy Trails - 17 seconds also

Original Version - John Denver

 

[Eldritch]

Is there any significance to be assigned to the fact that the first four or so seconds of the music are NOT from the John Denver song, but from Happy Trails by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans? Seems like kind of a strange lead-in.

Sorry to sound all Alex Jones, but I watched a couple of videos analyzing the trailer and nobody seemed to notice this. I'm sure others have noticed this, but I haven't noticed them noticing this, if that makes any sense.

edit: Just so people know what the hell I mean...

Fallout 76 Trailer - time stamp 17 seconds

Roy Rogers Happy Trails - 17 seconds also

Original Version - John Denver

I think it's supposed to sound like the openings to all the Ink Spots songs they've used (because every Ink Spots song starts exactly the same). On my first watching, I instinctively thought it was going to play "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" or "Maybe".

It may just be a fake-out to set the mood.

 

[Piss Clam]

Well seeing as people are speculating WVA.

The GreenBrier is located there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greenbrier

There is also a large piece of WVA that is located in the "quiet zone"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

I wonder how bad off West Virginia is compared to DC, I have to imagine pretty terrible.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

I wonder how bad off West Virginia is compared to DC, I have to imagine pretty terrible.

Probably a pretty lateral move in the Fallout universe. Less raiders, mutants, and robots and more yao guai, radstags and deathclaws. Less repairable infrastructure and population but better survivors among the population. If Communist China was reasonable about their nuke targeting it's unlikely most of the state even got direct hit, and the major cites upwind (westward) of it are pretty much fly over country tier (St. Louis, Cincinnati, Lexington) and are unlikely to be carpet nuked to the same extent as DC or New York

 

[Piss Clam]

I wonder how bad off West Virginia is compared to DC, I have to imagine pretty terrible.

It's actually mountains, woods, and streams. Would be more a survival against nature type thing.

Only state that is fully in Appalachia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia

 

[Vault Boy]

I wonder how bad off West Virginia is compared to DC, I have to imagine pretty terrible.

West Virginia isn't as big of a target as DC, so it probably wouldn't be completely glassed. Given the year the game takes place, however, it likely hasn't recovered like the Commonwealth or the Mojave did, so issues like radiation and general anarchy (raiders and lack of major settlements) will be more prevalent.

My guess, the game will be about stabilizing the region to help society reestablish itself.

 

[Piss Clam]

West Virginia isn't as big of a target as DC, so it probably wouldn't be completely glassed. Given the year the game takes place, however, it likely hasn't recovered like the Commonwealth or the Mojave did, so issues like radiation and general anarchy (raiders and lack of major settlements) will be more prevalent.

My guess, the game will be about stabilizing the region to help society reestablish itself.

There isn't anything to hit in WVA other than National Guard bases. Most of the airbases are transport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_National_Guard

 

[Hengeyokai]

Wait, isn't Vault 76 in DC? Why is everyone thinking WV?

 

[Piss Clam]

Wait, isn't Vault 76 in DC? Why is everyone thinking WV?

Because the song 'take me home, country roads' is about WVA.

Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads

All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye

Country roads, take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads

I hear her voice in the morning hour, she calls me, the radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads

Country roads, take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads

Take me home now, country roads
Take me home now, country roads

 

[Hengeyokai]

Because the song 'take me home, country roads' is about WVA.

So Vault 76's going to be magically transported to WV? Anyway, there was a song about Texas in NV.

 

[Piss Clam]

So Vault 76's going to be magically transported to WV? Anyway, there was a song about Texas in NV.

Was it in a teaser trailer?

You asked why people are speculating WVA. That's the answer.

Also DC is two hours from WVA. You can walk from DC all the way up to cumberland maryland on the C&O towpath. It's all groomed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Canal

 

[Hengeyokai]

Was it in a teaser trailer?

You asked why people are speculating WVA. That's the answer.

It was pretty obvious from my post that I was asking how they were reconciling V76's location with WV. Unless the entire map's going to stretch from 76 to WV which seems a bit massive for a *single* player map.
Or maybe the fast travel from the original fallouts will make a return since the old pipboy's back.

EDIT: Damn I didn't realise they were that close.

 

[ICametoLurk]

https://gear.bethesda.net/products/fallout-76

They already have pre-orders despite not having anything about it. loooooooool

 

[millais]

https://gear.bethesda.net/products/fallout-76

They already have pre-orders despite not having anything about it. loooooooool

I'm not sure what to make of this. If it really is a cheap multiplayer survival clone, this is the level of shitty, no effort cash-in merch I would expect to see. If it is a full fledged single player, the merch would be much better quality and have more selection. Like the hoodie should at least have the yellow stripes in the right thickness and places to kind of make it look like a Vault suit.

 

[SiccDicc]

https://gear.bethesda.net/products/fallout-76

They already have pre-orders despite not having anything about it. loooooooool

Strike 2, Señor Howard. Your Avellone can only protect you so much.

 

[Ponderous Pillock]

My guess is it's going to be around Martinsburg, WV. That has a decent sized city, bit of an area, a river and the I-81 (if we're to take some of the salt-pinch that the rumours say its on a highway). It's also nice and "clear" for the heavy settlement building schtick that's likely to happen. It's also far enough away from the (at the time) dumpster fires of The Pitt, D.C and Boston so there could still be a functioning "Murica" out there somewhere. The Control Vaults, from the looks of things, are in relatively isolated areas (Vault City was miles from fucking anywhere).

Likely retconning is that West Virginia might swap commonwealths, as originally WV was in the Eastern Commonwealth, and not Columbia, which was the one D.C was in.

 

[Medicated]

My guess is it's going to be around Martinsburg, WV. That has a decent sized city, bit of an area, a river and the I-81 (if we're to take some of the salt-pinch that the rumours say its on a highway). It's also nice and "clear" for the heavy settlement building schtick that's likely to happen. It's also far enough away from the (at the time) dumpster fires of The Pitt, D.C and Boston so there could still be a functioning "Murica" out there somewhere. The Control Vaults, from the looks of things, are in relatively isolated areas (Vault City was miles from fucking anywhere).

Likely retconning is that West Virginia might swap commonwealths, as originally WV was in the Eastern Commonwealth, and not Columbia, which was the one D.C was in.

Currently the rumor is, it's going to be an online survival crafting open world game, akin to Rust or DayZ.

Bethesda are looking to make a new online service game after the success of ESO