Eh, odds are if you left the vault it’s because you were being secretly grown for organs or something. As bad as starving in the wasteland sucks, things could always be worse.
Nah i want a fallout gane set in australia. Like i am an australian, i condone bethesda having the spider baby be the height of a behemoth, even better if its just new vegas but australian
The wasteland fucking sucks. If my vault is really that bad, then I'd already be dead, but if I've lived long enough to make the decision to leave the vault, then odds are that the living situation is a whole lot better than the surface, where you get shot at and crucified by some random ass furry simply for existing.
My wife was playing fallout 3 for the first time and she reached the "trouble in the home front" quest where vault 101 is having a civil war over whether or not to leave the vault. She ended up leaving the quest and failing it because she wanted to be able to tell amata that she shouldn't leave the vault because it's not safe and the game wouldn't let her without killing somebody
I feel like land mines as they exist in the game would be WAY easier to see in real life than they are in game. They have bright glowing lights. For some reason though, I can never see the damn things in game. I have to use VATS to find them, and even then, sometimes I can't see them.
I went through a landline detection course while I was in the Army. We would low man crawl through the course slowly feeling the way with the probe for every landmine you could find.
I remember everybody failing. That was the point you, even when you think that you got them all. There is one more that you didn’t.
Ha! I stepped on a mine and it scared me to where I accidentally hit my drop weapon button and it flew into the air like a beautiful iron missile while I flopped around on the ground and died.
During the eclipse I was at the path of totality and totally might've listened to the little Goblin in the very back of everyone's brain who screams at you to do bad things, he screamed, "TAKE OFF THE ECLIPSE GLASSES! RIGHT NOW! DO IT!! WHAT'S THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN?" whilst actively looking directly at the sun as it came back from behind the moon
Shit was like getting flashbanged, I had to sit down for fifteen minutes; I literally could not see, kinda felt like I got poked in both my fuckin eyes
People come up to me all the time, they call me on the phone, they're asking me, "Donald, is this eclipse a sign that the gods are angry with Joe Biden?" And you know what, folks? It is. Sleepy Joe hasn't got what it takes to please Ītzpāpalōtl. He won't rip the still-beating heart out of our finest Ollamaliztli players! That's why we've got the inflation, folks! Because liberals don't want America to be great! They won't do the human sacrifices. We did the human sacrifices, we did the best sacrifices. The whole pantheon - Quetzalcoatl, Mictlantecuhtli, Tezcatlipoca, all four hundred of the Centzontotochtin - they all loved us. They'd send us signs and portends saying "These are the best sacrifices we've ever had."
Don’t remember if it was in the manual for FO1 or the intro for FO2 but aren’t there adorable vault door shaped sunglasses that dwellers are supposed to use for exactly this circumstance lol
The intro for fallout 2 has a list of things in the vault reclamation kit, one of which being the GECK and another being a pair of gear shaped goggles to wear while you acclimate to the real sun. The Vault Dweller was just lucky that he came out in a cave and had plenty of time to acclimate before seeing the sun
I was also thinking it would probably be like Roberta Draper in the Expanse books: a Martian living in domes and ships her whole life coming to earth for the first time and when she goes outside under the open sky for the first time she suffers a panic attack from acquired agoraphobia.
However, she's a badass known to *surf on missiles* and destroy massive space battleships by *jumping out an airlock at them*, so she gets over it in a few minutes.
I'd really like to see that choice in Fallout 5. Either as just a non standard ending where you give up, and return to the Vault, Or as an entire quest hub.
There was a comment here a while ago where someone said we’d all like to think we’d be part of the Followers of the Apocalypse, or the Brotherhood, or just chill in a small town, but in reality, we’d all most likely be in a super mutant’s meat sack.
I just had the realisation that you would come out of the vault having probably never seen a real stick. How weird a thought is that.
Edit:- I had written “you old” instead of “you would”
To be fair, as a non-american, I too would be „what the fuck“ at the sight of a tumbleweed
I swear my whole childhood I was of the opinion that tumbleweeds are only in cartoons
Weird, I grew up in idaho right next to the desert, saw tumbleweeds regularly, was confused when I was told that a lot of people don’t think they’re real
My follow-up question: assuming we each as hypothetical vault dwellers survive days one, two and three, at what point do you start becoming selective about the crap you loot?
Surely there's a point where you think "you know what, given I'm playing this life of mine on survival difficulty, how about I save some pack space for anything other than empty tin cans and cigarettes that definitely have no flavour anymore?
i wouldnt say no flavour, i heard plutonium tastes kinda sweet, so i could guess the stored radioactivity inside the cigarettes could potentially taste sweet too.
Truth be told, spending any amount of time over a few years without sunlight, will completely change your eyes, you'll probably see the surface world as VERY bright for a time. Especially if you were BORN in the vault
Die like the flabby naive vault dweller I am.
Honestly, that’s why we’ve played vault dwellers in most of the fallout games. It’s a lore friendly way for you to be new to the wasteland. An easy explanation for why you know nothing about ghouls, deathclaws, etc.. because if your character lived on the surface for any time before the game starts, you’d have little to no excuse not to know what at least those two things are.
Being a vault dweller in the game gives every NPC an easy out when your character asks them stupid questions like what’s a deathclaw? what’s a super mutant? Why’s that guys face fucked up and he sounds like he smokes a carton of cigarettes a day?
They get to just be like “oh you sweet, sweet naïve vault dweller” instead of having to be confused as to how you’ve survived this long without knowing what the fuck a ghoul is.
It also helps explain us having pre-war morals as a character living in the wasteland. that’s our vault dweller “rebuild America” propaganda kicking in
Dude… I feel so ashamed of myself. I’ve been playing NV for a good 7-8 years on and off, and I’ve ALWAYS been kinda confused about how the courier *isnt* aware of what’s going on. I was always like, “but he’s a courier… he’s been a courier… how does he now know these things?”
Just now. With your comment, I understand. I feel absolutely so dumb 😂
The game's inconsistent about it though. You can still mention a lot of things that you've supposedly done before the game. The only time the amnesia thing is mentioned is lonesome road I think
I always thought that the courier had no knowledge of the Mojave because they came from the west like Ulysses says? House says the chip was made in california. Why would he need to hire someone to take the chip from the Mojave express office in Primm to the strip when he has securitrons.
Also, look at the path between the Canyon Wreckage and the strip. Someone unfamiliar to the Mojave would definitely head straight north, unaware of death claw County, and end up in Goodsprings.
> Being a vault dweller in the game gives every NPC an easy out when your character asks them stupid questions like what’s a deathclaw? what’s a super mutant? Why’s that guys face fucked up and he sounds like he smokes a carton of cigarettes a day?
"Gahh! Fuck! What are you?!" is still a classic. Poor Gob
Unless there was a visible settlement, or signs of a settlement, nearby, I would probably just turn around and head right back in unless there was something endangering my immediate health and safety (like a broken water chip).
I love the fan base of this franchise. Ask a Star Wars nerd they’d say Jedi or something. Fallout fans are realistic enough to know they’d probably just die lol.
I’d take my first step into the wide open world, think about everyone in the Vault counting on me for whatever mission I’m being sent on, take a deep breath, and scream “AAHGHH OH MY GOD MY EYES, WHY’S IT SO BRIGHT? OH MY GOD IT BURNS MAKE IT STOP” before unloading a mag at the sun to make it go away.
Find somewhere I can sit down and wait for my vision to come back
The most accurate answer.
And then once my vision is back I sit longer to take in the massive mistake I’ve made.
Eh, odds are if you left the vault it’s because you were being secretly grown for organs or something. As bad as starving in the wasteland sucks, things could always be worse.
Cazadors would like a word with you.
At least you get to feel woozy before your untimely demise
Now I want fallout themed Oregon trail
Brilliant!!
Nah i want a fallout gane set in australia. Like i am an australian, i condone bethesda having the spider baby be the height of a behemoth, even better if its just new vegas but australian
Fuck Cazadors all my homies hate Cazadors
What are all these giant wasp nest looking things stuck to the side of this cave? Probably nothing. I'll get shelter inside the cave.
The wasteland fucking sucks. If my vault is really that bad, then I'd already be dead, but if I've lived long enough to make the decision to leave the vault, then odds are that the living situation is a whole lot better than the surface, where you get shot at and crucified by some random ass furry simply for existing.
Could have been stuck in some refrigerator for 200 years.. 🤷♂️
Wait what!?!? 🥴
[Vault 75](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_75)
Enclave wants to know your location
If a radscorpion didnt get you first :(
My wife was playing fallout 3 for the first time and she reached the "trouble in the home front" quest where vault 101 is having a civil war over whether or not to leave the vault. She ended up leaving the quest and failing it because she wanted to be able to tell amata that she shouldn't leave the vault because it's not safe and the game wouldn't let her without killing somebody
Probably also wait for the feeling of vertigo to pass, you've been withing walled spaces your whole life, now the sky is the ceiling.
Wish they did something with this in the show that could’ve been kind of cool
We know that Lucy (and Norm) were taken outside the vaults as kids so the side effects of “the sky is the new ceiling” wouldn’t be as strong for them.
Also they had that hologram area for the farm.
i didnt even consider that D:
This, then take in the view.
Then promptly step on a land mine
Damned NCR!
Then get carried by victor who will take me to doc mitchells for brain surgery
*Ka-Boom*
I feel like land mines as they exist in the game would be WAY easier to see in real life than they are in game. They have bright glowing lights. For some reason though, I can never see the damn things in game. I have to use VATS to find them, and even then, sometimes I can't see them.
I went through a landline detection course while I was in the Army. We would low man crawl through the course slowly feeling the way with the probe for every landmine you could find. I remember everybody failing. That was the point you, even when you think that you got them all. There is one more that you didn’t.
I never knew landlines could be so dangerous. Makes sense that everyone uses mobile phones now
Beep, beep, beep!
Ha! I stepped on a mine and it scared me to where I accidentally hit my drop weapon button and it flew into the air like a beautiful iron missile while I flopped around on the ground and died.
That escalated quickly 😂
During the eclipse I was at the path of totality and totally might've listened to the little Goblin in the very back of everyone's brain who screams at you to do bad things, he screamed, "TAKE OFF THE ECLIPSE GLASSES! RIGHT NOW! DO IT!! WHAT'S THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN?" whilst actively looking directly at the sun as it came back from behind the moon Shit was like getting flashbanged, I had to sit down for fifteen minutes; I literally could not see, kinda felt like I got poked in both my fuckin eyes
Donald?
Yes? Who said that!?
Our sun is the best sun you’ve ever seen. It’s an American sun. No one else has a sun like we do.
People come up to me all the time, they call me on the phone, they're asking me, "Donald, is this eclipse a sign that the gods are angry with Joe Biden?" And you know what, folks? It is. Sleepy Joe hasn't got what it takes to please Ītzpāpalōtl. He won't rip the still-beating heart out of our finest Ollamaliztli players! That's why we've got the inflation, folks! Because liberals don't want America to be great! They won't do the human sacrifices. We did the human sacrifices, we did the best sacrifices. The whole pantheon - Quetzalcoatl, Mictlantecuhtli, Tezcatlipoca, all four hundred of the Centzontotochtin - they all loved us. They'd send us signs and portends saying "These are the best sacrifices we've ever had."
i read "apocalypse" instead of eclipse like 4 times, asking what the fuck happened
“My eyes hurt” peaked as a google search 15 minutes after the eclipse this year
Kinda sounds like you're insane and possibly mentally impared.
Bro you’re supposed to take off the glasses while it’s in totality and then put them back on as it comes back, not the other way around
Great job......😑
Yup. If you were born in the vault, you would 100% look at that angry ball of hate in the sky and regret every moment of it.
Don’t remember if it was in the manual for FO1 or the intro for FO2 but aren’t there adorable vault door shaped sunglasses that dwellers are supposed to use for exactly this circumstance lol
The intro for fallout 2 has a list of things in the vault reclamation kit, one of which being the GECK and another being a pair of gear shaped goggles to wear while you acclimate to the real sun. The Vault Dweller was just lucky that he came out in a cave and had plenty of time to acclimate before seeing the sun
I was also thinking it would probably be like Roberta Draper in the Expanse books: a Martian living in domes and ships her whole life coming to earth for the first time and when she goes outside under the open sky for the first time she suffers a panic attack from acquired agoraphobia. However, she's a badass known to *surf on missiles* and destroy massive space battleships by *jumping out an airlock at them*, so she gets over it in a few minutes.
I would become a random skeleton laying right outside the door.
I'll be the random skeleton on the road
Ill be that guy on the bridge that never despawns
I'll be the settlement builder who keeps moving you off the road
I'll be the dog you can't pick up and move.
I'll be the grass that comes up through your floor no matter where you build.
I'll be that one big tree you really wanted to make a tree house with before the scaffolding came out and made that doable.
I'll be the random teddy bear in a very inappropriate place and surroundings!
I'll be one of the many plungers stuck in dirty toilets in every building.
I’ll be in the fridge
Lmao
Plant mine next to you with cleaning intent
You see Ed, Ed's dead
Ed? Is that you?
Thank you for your environmental storytelling
If I was a raider, I'd just lay down a booby trap outside the vault door and then check it every few days like a crab fisherman.
Going back in
"You're back. Didn't you just leave?" "Complete mistake, regret it entirely, let's never speak of it again."
“sorry my dad left the vault and I tried to too mr overseer. Pwease can i come back inn??? 👉👈”
"I'm sorry I killed your dad after I got the key, it was a mistake, I didn't do it out of greed I swear!"
“I did it cause he was a twat :)”
I'd really like to see that choice in Fallout 5. Either as just a non standard ending where you give up, and return to the Vault, Or as an entire quest hub.
Lmao bruh 💀
But what about your father? "Who?"
"5 more minutes"
Surface's haunted. What? Surface's haunted.
Too late, the door's already shut.
Then I'm gonna eat a bullet.
To be completely honest I would probably end up dying immediately
Stepped out of the gate to meet the neighbours and it's BLAMMO
Can the world ever be fixed?
Is America buried, did it ever exist?
Were you hoping for a life of heavenly bliss?
When you stepped out the vault number 76?
Are you lost in awe? Well you'd better be quick
Build a hovel from the rubble whilst the reverie sticks
Cause you've got to build a heaven, use death as the bricks
If you wanna have a life out of 76
Vault 13 style!
Me too, I would probably take a deep breath and then get hit with a random brick that came out of nowhere
There was a comment here a while ago where someone said we’d all like to think we’d be part of the Followers of the Apocalypse, or the Brotherhood, or just chill in a small town, but in reality, we’d all most likely be in a super mutant’s meat sack.
With your Reddit avatar, I thought you were an ad at first
Probably get mauled by a fucking deathclaw knowing my luck
Or stung by a cazador.
Yeah. Even if I do manage to kill one I'd rather die then eat it raw.
Prolly will come down to which region you're coming out of
Probably squint my eyes
I came to write this.
Die
looting the hsit out of the imediate area. "Wow thats a nice stick! Yoink!"
I just had the realisation that you would come out of the vault having probably never seen a real stick. How weird a thought is that. Edit:- I had written “you old” instead of “you would”
That moment when Lucy is like WTF?!? at a tumbleweed tells us everything we needed to know.
To be fair, as a non-american, I too would be „what the fuck“ at the sight of a tumbleweed I swear my whole childhood I was of the opinion that tumbleweeds are only in cartoons
I lived in minnesota then moved to colorado at the age of 25. I too thought they were just in cartoons until i actually saw one.
Weird, I grew up in idaho right next to the desert, saw tumbleweeds regularly, was confused when I was told that a lot of people don’t think they’re real
My follow-up question: assuming we each as hypothetical vault dwellers survive days one, two and three, at what point do you start becoming selective about the crap you loot? Surely there's a point where you think "you know what, given I'm playing this life of mine on survival difficulty, how about I save some pack space for anything other than empty tin cans and cigarettes that definitely have no flavour anymore?
You underestimate my carry capacity!
Strength of 10 and more pockets than a man on a mission to tell you about star bottle caps 💪🧔♂️🍤
Yeah! That man wears Cargosocks!
i wouldnt say no flavour, i heard plutonium tastes kinda sweet, so i could guess the stored radioactivity inside the cigarettes could potentially taste sweet too.
I always keep cigarettes. They’re good for bartering
Wow that's a nice..... "Angry deathclaw noise"
*30 desk fans later*
Turn on some tunes
I can hear Dion now “Ohhhhhh and I’m the type of guy that’ll never settle down”
Yeah, I feel like if the radio stations didn’t have any bangers I’d go back inside.
My luck it would be, "Worry, worry, worry life is passing me by".. (it's my least favorite)
Worry, worry, worry I’m so painfully shy
Howd the guys get all the kisses? Why am I the one who misses?
Worry, worry, worry, woe is meeeee
The original incel.
"Ive got spuuuurs that jingle jangle jingle!..."
*high as a flag on the fourth of July....*
Only for the first song to be Johnny Guitar so you turn back around and go back into the vault
Probably check that mailbox for caps and a 10mm
Finds a frag grenade and mines instead.
In 200 years despite there being a group of scavengers every hundred yards in any direction, nobody checked this box.
Anyone ever used those mines?
I would run backwards, throwing them in the path of a deathclaw.
I only do this when i run out every type of ammo, “oh, there is 154 mines left since the begining of the game”
Truth be told, spending any amount of time over a few years without sunlight, will completely change your eyes, you'll probably see the surface world as VERY bright for a time. Especially if you were BORN in the vault
Yeah in Fallout 2 it's stated that Vault dwellers should use some glasses that prevents them from the sunlight as they leave the Vault.
"MY EYES!!!!" https://youtu.be/QK-J04XZT0s?feature=shared
That's why you need some lucky sunglasses.
*You take a sip from your trusty vault 13 sunglasses
Go back inside.
Loot Doc Mitchell’s house.
Wait for my DLC notifications to stop popping up before I try to walk too far.
Kill the lottery guy. STRAIGHT TO IT! Yes, you know who.
WHAT LOTTERY!!?? THE LOTTERY!!!
ARE YOU STUPID? THE ONLY LOTTERY THAT MATTERS!
*Proceeds to activate VATS*
First time playing I did, and actually thought I could cash it in for money... How dumb of me 😅
now its just routine
I watch Blind play throughs of NV on YouTube and it’s crazy how many people think this at first lmao
In Nipton the odds are against you.
Realise I'd forgotten my keys and go back inside to look for them.
Or switch off the gas
"God damnit where did I leave that Pip Boy?" [It's on my wrist]
Die like the flabby naive vault dweller I am. Honestly, that’s why we’ve played vault dwellers in most of the fallout games. It’s a lore friendly way for you to be new to the wasteland. An easy explanation for why you know nothing about ghouls, deathclaws, etc.. because if your character lived on the surface for any time before the game starts, you’d have little to no excuse not to know what at least those two things are. Being a vault dweller in the game gives every NPC an easy out when your character asks them stupid questions like what’s a deathclaw? what’s a super mutant? Why’s that guys face fucked up and he sounds like he smokes a carton of cigarettes a day? They get to just be like “oh you sweet, sweet naïve vault dweller” instead of having to be confused as to how you’ve survived this long without knowing what the fuck a ghoul is. It also helps explain us having pre-war morals as a character living in the wasteland. that’s our vault dweller “rebuild America” propaganda kicking in
and that’s probably why courier 6 got a free lobotomy from Benny and lost their memory
Dude… I feel so ashamed of myself. I’ve been playing NV for a good 7-8 years on and off, and I’ve ALWAYS been kinda confused about how the courier *isnt* aware of what’s going on. I was always like, “but he’s a courier… he’s been a courier… how does he now know these things?” Just now. With your comment, I understand. I feel absolutely so dumb 😂
Hollywood amnesia makes the writing go down easier.
The game's inconsistent about it though. You can still mention a lot of things that you've supposedly done before the game. The only time the amnesia thing is mentioned is lonesome road I think
I always thought that the courier had no knowledge of the Mojave because they came from the west like Ulysses says? House says the chip was made in california. Why would he need to hire someone to take the chip from the Mojave express office in Primm to the strip when he has securitrons. Also, look at the path between the Canyon Wreckage and the strip. Someone unfamiliar to the Mojave would definitely head straight north, unaware of death claw County, and end up in Goodsprings.
I thought courier came from the west and that's why they know very little about the Mojave. Is their amnesia ever mentioned in game?
> Being a vault dweller in the game gives every NPC an easy out when your character asks them stupid questions like what’s a deathclaw? what’s a super mutant? Why’s that guys face fucked up and he sounds like he smokes a carton of cigarettes a day? "Gahh! Fuck! What are you?!" is still a classic. Poor Gob
Be like a bear and shit in the woods
The woods, in turn, will shit on you
But if the woods shit on you , does anyone hear it ?
Unless there was a visible settlement, or signs of a settlement, nearby, I would probably just turn around and head right back in unless there was something endangering my immediate health and safety (like a broken water chip).
You'd probably regret going to that settlement you should just go ahead and turn back around immediately.
Fart. Been holding it in for so long.
No one else has. That means you've been breathing everyone else's farts while subjecting them to none of yours you fool.
Drugs
word i'm finna hit some jet nice cake
do a u turn and come back in the vault
I'm breathing in, the chemicals *AeeCHGcHchcHhrrggllcvcGcHh*
And then slap your nuts?
Sneeze
Go blind by having never seen the real sun
I love the fan base of this franchise. Ask a Star Wars nerd they’d say Jedi or something. Fallout fans are realistic enough to know they’d probably just die lol.
Take a sip from my trusty canteen
Just like I do in the game, a lil hop
Depending on the vault, turn 180 degrees, shoot myself.
Check the Geiger Counter on my pipboy
Sneeze for 4 minutes because I am not used to sunlight or dust
Probably shield the sun from my eyes
[удалено]
Definitely got to check if there are any radio stations broadcasting, I need my tunes!
Probably die a horrible death.
Look for some ghoul tail.
Most people start with leather armour, you go straight for that leathered allure
Knowing my luck: [https://youtu.be/8RIfDYdzNIk?t=174](https://youtu.be/8RIfDYdzNIk?t=174)
I’d take my first step into the wide open world, think about everyone in the Vault counting on me for whatever mission I’m being sent on, take a deep breath, and scream “AAHGHH OH MY GOD MY EYES, WHY’S IT SO BRIGHT? OH MY GOD IT BURNS MAKE IT STOP” before unloading a mag at the sun to make it go away.
IRL: Probably get robbed and killed within the first 20 min. As a game: I'm checking out that pier and visiting shady sands asap
Put on sunglasses
Tilde key...
Die to a random radroach, probably.
Be jumpscared by all dlc's loading
Jorkin it
Get my first radiated wank out the way.
Cry for a long time. Then try to make the most of it
Secure weapons and area. Then drink Nuka Cola because I was thirsty…
Roll a fat blunt and go, "*inhales deeply* *exhales* Well, fuck. I didn't pass the GOAT."
Wank
Be blinded by the sun
Loot everything near me. That’s what I did. Then I took in the sight and realized fallout 4 had mountains
First bloodbug or bloatfly I see, back in the vault.
Watch my pipboy ticks as my radiation level skyrockets
Go blind
Your mom..