Fallout 3

[FrostyBoy]

They'll release the tools soon. They always do.

Guess it's time for me to get back to modding. This game is the first game since Civ3 that I have felt is worth it.

I'm planning on a NZ, Australia post apocalypse theme.

Some great images for inspiration:

Not really sure if vegetation will be around, anyone?

edit: Images removed, too large (forum rules, only 800w pics allowed)

[EternalSpark]

Not really sure if vegetation will be around, anyone?

I picked up the book The World Without Us the same day as I picked up Fallout.

Realistically, unless the barrage somehow glassed the entire planet, the world would be extremely green about a decade after the Great War.

The Fallout art book actually mentioned this aspect of it. They tried to create a look that semi-accurately reflected that 300 years had past since the Great War, but kept running into reality: that after 300 years, there wouldn't be a nuclear-blasted desert wasteland.

So they had to, essentially, ****** the game world's development. It works thematically - it should be shocking that 300 years after the Great War humanity has not tried to improve itself by much - and keeps the central concept of the 50s-style nuclear aftermath (that humanity would be screwed and nothing could restore it).

[FrostyBoy]

The radiation wouldn't cause a problem for plant life?

[FrostyBoy]

This page is interesting: http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
The radiation wouldn't cause a problem for plant life?

If humans can survive it plants can thrive. Look at the land around Chenrobil, it still isn't safe to live there for several decades but the trees and grass are quite green and fulrishing.


Also in F3 it has been 200 years since the war. But the scenery looks more like 20 years so I just pretend the people have gotten the time wrong because of post nuclear mass madness.

[FrostyBoy]

What about the theory where the sun is blocked by the coverage of clouds? I forget the term.

[Quillan]

Nucular Winter, as our current President would say?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Maybe the Chinese in Fallout 3 had a Doomsday Device, which could easily be constructed by even the smallest nuclear power - all that it requires is the will to do so. A series of underground bombs, jacketed in Cobalt Thorium G, is then linked up to a network of computers. When one wishes to bury bombs, there is no limit to the size involved.

Detonating this would create a radioactive Doomsday shroud that would encircle the Earth and blot out the sunlight for 93 years, ending all human and mammalian life on Earth.

All is not lost however. Radiation would never penetrate down into the deepest of mine shafts. Residents could be selected to form a core of human survivors, selected on their strength, intelligence, and importance to government. Females would have to be selected on their sexual characteristics and a ten-to-one female-to-male ratio would be indicated for repopulation.

The ambassador thinks this is a very good idea, but we must move quickly. We cannot allow the Chinese to develop a Mine Shaft Gap.

[snoopy369]

If you're planning an Aussie version, read Sean McMullen's series for inspiration I don't recall the name off the top of my head, but he has a very interesting fantasy/sf series based on a post-nuclear holocaust set in Australia, where advanced tech is prohibited (prohibited via orbiting battleships set up by the pre-holocaust folks).

[EternalSpark]

Originally posted by FrostyBoy
What about the theory where the sun is blocked by the coverage of clouds? I forget the term.

Nuclear Winter. According to the Fallout Bibles (which I believe Bethesda said they looked at and made use of), the concept of Nuclear Winter only became popular and well-known in the 1980s, plus the concept only applied to then-modern nuclear warheads. Bombs from the 1950s wouldn't have blocked the sun for very long, if at all.

Secondly, it goes against the concept that Fallout is what someone from 1955 would think a post-nuke world was: a vast stretch of desert.

So basically, nuclear winter never happened in Fallout's world. The bombs dropped, everything became a radioactive desert wasteland, and nothing grows anymore.

Now, can FrostyBoy edit those images so they aren't so frickin' huge?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Or maybe post a link to them somewhere.

They're so big it brings tears to my eyes.

[Boris Godunov]

The NYC picture is absurd.

[Grandpa Troll]

I bought the PRIMA Guide, hope this gives me as much help as you kind folks have.

We have 4 of our grandchildren this evening, so no way Im playing it

/me advises all non parents once a scary image appears, you get 4 bed boarders shivering

[EternalSpark]

Have you see the Collector's edition of the guide? That thing is a tome. Hard cover, more than an inch thick... it's extremely welld detailed.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by EternalSpark
Have you see the Collector's edition of the guide? That thing is a tome. Hard cover, more than an inch thick... it's extremely welld detailed.

Mine is as well

*464 Pages

*A Skills Quick Reference card exclusive from Gamestop

* A HUGE map pullout in rear of manual/guide

One side has Capital Wasteland

Other side has D C Metro Interio

Freakin Awesome!!

Gramps