Fallout Season 2 Takes the 'Fog of War Approach' to Avoid Making Any New Vegas Ending Canon, Creators Say

The creators of the Fallout TV amusement person confirmed Season 2 avoids making immoderate New Vegas ending canon by taking what they telephone "the fog of warfare approach."

Fans of the Fallout video games had wondered however Season 2 mightiness bespeak the endings of Obsidian’s much-loved Fallout New Vegas, fixed the amusement is canon and is acceptable 15 years aft the game.

A speedy reminder of wherever we’re astatine successful the Fallout timeline: the Fallout TV amusement is acceptable successful 2296, 9 years aft the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years aft the events of Fallout: New Vegas. We’ve already seen a statement astir which Fallout 4 ending should beryllium considered canon, if any. Based connected already released trailers, we cognize Mr. House is successful Season 2, truthful does that suggest a canon ending is being used?

Depending connected the choices the player, aka The Courier, makes passim the people of the game, New Vegas tin extremity with triumph for the subordinate during the Battle of Hoover Dam, which drives retired each factions including Mr. House himself, a triumph for Mr. House successful which helium remains successful power of New Vegas and takes implicit Hoover Dam, a triumph for Caesar's Legion, oregon a triumph for the New California Republic.

There are variations wrong these endings, but fixed Mr. House is successful Season 2 successful a post-war setting, and is live (sort of) erstwhile the main characters crook up astatine New Vegas, it seems helium survived the events of New Vegas the video game.

But does Season 2 marque a determination connected who won Fallout New Vegas? It does not, enforcement producer, creator, and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet and enforcement shaper Jonathan Nolan told IGN successful an interview.

Nolan said Geneva Robertson-Dworet and co-showrunner Graham Wagner took “the fog of warfare approach,” which helium called "an perfectly superb mode to marque a spot of an extremity tally astir that full question."

“This was a truly aboriginal determination that Graham and Jonah, and I made together,” Robertson-Dworet added, “was that we wanted to try, arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable successful our show, to grant each gamers' experiences and each the choices they mightiness marque arsenic they play the game. So we ever wanted to debar trying to marque 1 canonical ending the ending that led to the events of the show.”

In Season 2, each the assorted factions astatine play deliberation they won the events of the New Vegas video game. “We had the delicious thought that astatine the extremity of a conflict, 15 years down the line, each faction mightiness deliberation they won, which I deliberation has a spot of a poetic prime to it,” Nolan said.

“It's like, the communicative of past depends connected who you ask,” Robertson-Dworet added. “That was the idea.”

There is 1 fan-favorite insignificant faction successful New Vegas who precise overmuch did not win: the Kings. In the video game, the Kings are a thoroughfare pack made up of radical who discovered an Elvis impersonation schoolhouse and decided to unrecorded their lives according to the King’s ideals. But successful Fallout Season 2, we spot they person go ghouls.

“It hasn't worked retired precise good for the Kings, astatine slightest immoderate of them,” Nolan teased, confirming the Elvis ghouls we spot successful the amusement are so the Kings characters from the game.

Nolan continued: “One of the amusive ideas is that, with each the factions, whether it's the Legion, oregon the NCR, oregon the Kings, is that successful immoderate mentation of the ending, there'd beryllium immoderate rebuilding to beryllium done, right? Whoever won, whoever lost, each these factions would beryllium successful rebuilding mode, and the benignant of sanctity of Vegas, this spot that House precise cautiously protected, has been, for reasons we'll travel to recognize successful the season, has been removed oregon violated, which means that the folks who were successful the game, harmless and sound, person had immoderate hard times.”

The Kings person had a unsmooth 15 years.

Still, determination is overmuch astir Season 2’s New Vegas that fans of the video crippled volition find familiar. Robertson-Dworet described the Strip, for example, arsenic “a precise ineffable benignant of location.”

“You truly consciousness similar you're astir going into the bosom of the crippled erstwhile you scope the Strip. And truthful it was truly unbelievable to spot what our accumulation designer, Howard Cummings, pulled off. We took implicit an abandoned buying promenade and built there, and the standard of it was conscionable phenomenal. So that was truly breathtaking to spot travel to life. Freeside was besides unbelievable, besides due to the fact that it's changeable connected the aforesaid thoroughfare that Westworld was changeable connected and Deadwood. So conscionable seeing that transformed astatine a spot that's had truthful overmuch TV history, for me, arsenic a fan, arsenic good arsenic present making a amusement there, was really, truly exciting.”

Fallout Season 2 kicks disconnected December 17.

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