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Fallout creator Tim Cain has continued his insightful video bid connected the improvement of the archetypal Fallout game, this clip focusing connected lore with a fig of amusive reveals that person got fans talking.
Cain, the creator, producer, pb programmer and 1 of the main designers of Interplay’s 1997 post-apocalyptic role-playing crippled Fallout, released a video successful which helium talked astir lore successful the archetypal Fallout that the squad assumed was existent but was ne'er straight stated.
This “non-expository Fallout lore,” arsenic Cain calls it, is lore from the archetypal crippled only, lore the archetypal squad discussed among themselves and decided was true, and past made the crippled based connected that. “None of this was written down” by immoderate 1 of the 15 halfway radical who developed Fallout, Cain said.
As a result, it is “not canon.”
“This is worldly that was existent successful the archetypal game, but due to the fact that it doesn’t beryllium successful a plan papers anywhere, Bethesda is escaped to invent antithetic reasons that the things that are successful the crippled exist,” helium prefaced. “I’m not canon, not anymore. You’re not canon conscionable due to the fact that you played the crippled oregon similar it a lot. Bethesda’s canon. You don't person to similar that. You don’t person to similar that water’s wet. I don't similar that achromatic cocoa exists, but it does. So determination we go.”
Why China nuked first
Top of the database is the mentation for wherefore China nuked first. This is successful notation to Fallout’s Great War, which took spot connected October 23, 2077 (Bethesda present hosts showcases connected October 23 each year, aka Fallout Day). Cain had already said China nuked archetypal successful a erstwhile video, putting to furniture decades of instrumentality speculation. But successful this latest video helium explained wherefore China nuked first.
“This is not canon, but fto maine explicate what I mean and wherefore we thought that,” helium began. “In the archetypal crippled we had established FEV (Forced Evolutionary Virus) and that the U.S. was doing bio-weapons research. We weren’t expected to. In fact, we had signed a UN pact saying we wouldn’t bash that, and I deliberation you tin find that retired successful the game. China discovered that we were doing it. How did they observe it? Espionage. But they recovered retired we were doing it, and we went, ‘Oops our bad, we won’t bash that anymore.’ But we kept close connected doing it, we conscionable moved the probe to different base. It was the hidden basal that’s successful The Glow, wherever you yet observe ZAX the supercomputer.
“When China recovered retired we were inactive doing it and we had conscionable moved, good they had already tried diplomacy and espionage and nary of that was working, truthful they conscionable nuked us. They nuked us. We nuked back. Other countries nuked due to the fact that each we saw, each anyone saw, were missiles flying.
“China technically started it by firing the archetypal nuke. But you could reason that the U.S. technically started it by doing amerciable bioweapons probe and past lying astir it aggregate times.”
And what of Russia’s involvement? Cain went connected to explicate that the improvement squad assumed Russia successful the ‘90s (and truthful successful the ‘50s projected aboriginal successful the Fallout alternate past timeline), had breached up to go “a clump of small bickering states.” The EU had unified, and the U.S. had annexed Canada (a prediction not mislaid connected Cain fixed existent events). “But anyway, we were benignant of connected affable relations with Russia successful the Fallout universe,” helium added.
This is wherefore 1 of Fallout’s pre-made characters is Natalia, the granddaughter of a Russian diplomat. “Obviously, we were affable capable with the Russian embassy that they got immoderate of their diplomats into 1 of the vaults, the vault you're in,” Cain explained. “So, obviously, this wasn't a state we were astatine likelihood with.”
The Vault 13 lottery
So, that explains the unspoken lore down wherefore China nuked first. But Cain had a batch much lore to reveal. It turns retired that the 3 pre-made characters the subordinate could take from were successful information selected via a lottery by the inhabitants of Vault 13 — a lottery that was rigged.
“We had 3 pre-made characters successful Fallout,” helium went on. “There was Max, who was the large dumb idiot combat guy. There was Natalia, who was the dextrous thief benignant of character. And past determination was Albert, who was the creaseless talking manipulator talkie guy.
“If you look astatine those 3 characters, you whitethorn go, that's the champion the vault had to offer? No, the vault did a lottery. They fundamentally drew straws. They knew they had to nonstop idiosyncratic out. So they had radical gully straws and whoever drew the abbreviated straw had to spell retired into what was presumed to beryllium a radioactive wilderness that would termination them. But hopefully they would get backmost earlier the radiation killed them with a h2o spot replacement.
“This was conscionable assumed. The pre-made characters enactment it. I judge there's immoderate dialog present and present that benignant of supports that no-one chose, particularly if you play Max, no-one chose for that quality to go. That wasn't their archetypal choice. That wasn't adjacent their champion choice. That wouldn't adjacent been anyplace adjacent the choice.
“Except 1 happening we besides talked astir and laughed astir arsenic besides perchance being existent was that the full lottery for who leaves the vault was rigged. And that would explicate those 3 characters. You person this feline who's an idiot. Why would you nonstop him out? Well, gets him retired of the genepool. Then you person Natalia who's stealing everything. Probably had pissed radical disconnected due to the fact that she had stolen different people's stuff. She's gone. Albert was ever trying to manipulate everybody due to the fact that he's specified a creaseless talker. He's gone. So getting escaped of these characters was astir apt precocious connected someone's list.”
Cain said that each this is hinted astatine by the corpse wearing a vault suit you spot arsenic soon arsenic you measurement retired of Vault 13 astatine the opening of the game.
“They'd already sent idiosyncratic out,” helium said. “That besides explains wherefore they didn't person overmuch to springiness you. They astir apt had supplies for doing outer exploration, possibly a radiation suit, possibly amended weapons oregon whatever. But you're not the archetypal idiosyncratic they sent out. You person grounds of that the infinitesimal you measurement out. Whoever that feline was, I deliberation we said his sanction was Ed, which means you knew him oregon you knew his name. Ed stepped out. Ed got attacked by rats. Ed died. All that's near is Ed's bones and a raggedy aged vault suit. So, there's grounds that yes, determination was a lottery for and and you were not the archetypal idiosyncratic sent out.”
Vault suits are 3D printed from a machine
Here’s a amusive spot of ‘Non-Expository Fallout Lore’: the series’ iconic vault suits aren’t made of cloth, nor were they sewn together. There wasn't a warehouse country afloat of them determination successful the vault. Rather, vault suits were extruded. Yes, that’s right... the vaults had a instrumentality that 3D prints the vault suits.
“I cognize this was thing we had due to the fact that 1 of the vault ideas we had was the vault suit extruder was broken, truthful everybody successful the vault was naked,” Cain revealed.
“The reason, though, we wanted to bash an extruder was archetypal of all, that vault suit was tegument tight. It was evidently highly tailored, but if this vault was expected to beryllium closed for hundreds of years, there's nary mode you could person capable suits successful determination for everybody due to the fact that there'd beryllium multi-generations. Suits would deterioration out. People travel successful each shapes and sizes, particularly if you propulsion kids into the mix. So, determination was nary mode they could perchance banal vault suits for everybody, oregon adjacent cloth to marque each those suits for everybody.
“So, we conscionable said, ‘Oh, determination was immoderate benignant of extruder.’ You know, you typed successful measurements, you stood successful beforehand of a scanner oregon whatever, and past a vault suit expressly for you was extruded. And that's wherefore they were each tegument tight. That's wherefore they each had the numbers connected the back. That mode they didn't person to marque vault suits, a antithetic vault suit for each azygous vault. When it extruded, it added your vault's fig connected the back.
“So, we utilized to ever presume that was going to beryllium true, but past it ne'er ever came up again. But if you bash look successful vaults, you ne'er find, astatine slightest not successful the basal game, you ne'er find boxes and boxes of vault suits.”
What the hellhole is Harold?
Next up is fan-favorite Fallout quality Harold, a presumed unsocial FEV mutant who was erstwhile a benignant of ghoul, but had go a benignant of histrion thing. Harold appeared successful Fallout, Fallout 2, and adjacent Bethesda’s Fallout 3, wherever helium is worshipped arsenic a deity astatine Oasis, but we're ne'er rather definite what helium is oregon wherefore helium is successful the authorities he's in.
According to Cain, each the developers were trying to bash with Harold was make a quality who intelligibly wasn’t normal, idiosyncratic who hinted astatine what mightiness beryllium imaginable beyond the confines of Fallout’s Southern California mounting and each the horrible things that radical were exposed to beyond the realm of the archetypal game.
“People called him Harold the ghoul successful the hub, but we didn't needfully hold that helium was a ghoul,” Cain said. “I benignant of thought helium was a ghoul. Other radical connected the squad thought helium was FEV. Other radical thought helium was immoderate premix of ghoul and FEV, adjacent though FEV wasn't expected to enactment close connected radical who had been radiated.
“Harold was weird. That's what we each agreed on. Harold was our illustration of, there's immoderate weird worldly retired here. You privation to spot an illustration of that? Look astatine Harold. We don't cognize what Harold is. Harold doesn't cognize what helium is.”
Why Sugar Bombs?
And finally, Sugar Bombs. For the uninitiated, Sugar Bombs are the Fallout franchise’s sugar-drenched cereal aimed astatine children contempt being wholly unhealthy for anyone. Sugar Bombs didn’t really marque it into Interplay’s Fallout games, but were picked up by Bethesda for Fallout 3 and beyond (we adjacent spot them successful the Amazon Fallout TV show). But Cain remembered however helium came up with the idea, pointing to his obsession with the regular American comic portion Calvin and Hobbes.
“We designed Sugar Bombs,” Cain said. “I recovered notes wherever I mentioned Sugar Bombs. I was a immense Calvin and Hobbes fan. I had the container set. It was designed, but it was ne'er added. We talked astir it. We ne'er added it. And it was purely I loved Calvin and Hobbes, truthful of people Sugar Bombs are successful 1 of my games.”
So determination you person it: wherefore China nuked first; the lottery that decided who near Vault 13; vault suits being extruded; Harold not being a typical… anything; and the root of Sugar Bombs. That’s rather the treasure trove from Cain, a postulation of things that were a portion of the archetypal Fallout but were ne'er described directly.
But remember, nary of this is canon. As Cain says: “This is conscionable for fun.”
Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].
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