Where Did Fallout 3's Bombs Actually Hit?

#fallout3 #fallout

[any_austin]

Still playing Fallout 3, still enjoying it. I think next I’ll play GTA IV, or maybe something like Animal Well as a little breather.

[sappholopod]

I remember hearing an anecdote that the dev team for Fallout 3 actually tried running simulations to determine what the infrastructure of D.C. would look like following a nuclear blast.

According to the simulations, there would be absolutely nothing left.

So yeah, the assessment that most of the decor in the game is just set dressing to _imply_ nuclear annihilation rather than accurately portray it is pretty much exactly correct.

[slrqsmm]

Came here to spread the word, there's a lower intestine in a toilet in the enclave base in the broken steel dlc right before the very end of the dlc implying an enclave member shit out so hard they disemboweled themselves. Noone talks about this and it's a crime. Kudos Bethesda.

[DisinformationAgent]

In the art book that was included in the special editon of Fallout 3 one of the first things they state is that the first thing they did was look at what would actually be left from a nuclear blast which turned out to be not much at all, so they took a liberty with how the bombs worked to keep the areas engaging.

[jillianvalderama]

I'd like to clarify that the object at 4:15 that Austin identifies as an airplane with an unexploded nuclear bomb is actually a Delta IX rocket fitted with a nuclear warhead. You can see the original model intended for spaceflight, before the cockpit and its instruments were replaced with a nuclear warhead, in the Museum of Technology.

[krissybaglin]

Shalebridge is a quarry.

This can be deduced by the fact it's literally named after ROCK, has a ram into the bottom, and distinctive ridges and layers around the supposed crater.

A common thing quarries have are lake beds forming at the bottom as the hard ground and shade provide minimal escape for the rain water caught in the funnel like shape

[Forkuh]

My guy went into the nuke map and tested exactly what size bomb he’d need to flatten the white house.

My brother, you are on so many lists.

[bel]

You know I think I realized one of the things that makes your videos so naturally real is that they arise naturally. You aren't hunting for content, almost always your videos come about because you're literally in the midst of the playing the game at the moment and then have a feeling or realization. And that really comes across in the end results.

[social_ghost]

One neat detail I always liked comes from the Germantown police station that really explains all the "radiation clean up" signs and ruined vehicles, toxic waste drums, etc sitting in craters. Its just a short series of passages about how society struggled on for a few months after the war before collapsing entirely. One can imagine some attempt was made by whatever government was left to try and start some sort of clean up (by putting up signs and dumping irradiated material into areas too contaminated to be cleaned themselves) before everything really broke down and fell apart for good. Its subtle but its cool.

[TheWinters]

7:56 is pretty clearly supposed to be a quarry. The road leading down to the pit, the different levels. Hell even it filling with water like that is something you see in abandoned quarries all the time. The location near it having rock breaker in the name i think is also a hint to it being a quarry.

[InfiniteEscuro]

I always liked the timescale in Skyrim for helping me personally understand a little more about how big the world is in comparison to the game. For example, running with Irileth and her guards to the western watchtower takes only about a minute, but that's in-world between 30-40 minutes, due to an in-world minute passing every couple seconds. So while you can look and see it not far off in the game, in-world that watchtower is a half hour away at a steady jogging pace. It's probably a couple miles away at least, even though you can sprint there in under a minute in the video game itself.

[PhattyBolger]

Regarding scale. In the lore, Skyrim is supposed to be about the size of Poland, but in reality it's about the size of Lebanon, a country around 30 times smaller. That's why the "cities" feel like villages and there's like 100 houses in the entire country despite thousands of NPCs living there.

[courier]

A few aspects to also remember about fallout 3’s wasteland: there are many portions of the city area that aren’t directly accessible to the player, the way we navigate the city of DC is just by accessing little pockets of the area via the metros and through some of the buildings that are stable enough to walk through. That, and we also only get a small corner of the city of DC, the rest extends past the bottom right corner of the map.

[Barlakopofai]

I just wanted to point out something, and that's the fact that mini-nukes exist in the fallout universe. So yes, the area was probably carpet bombed with hundreds of nukes. It just so happens some of them are the size of a football and had an effective range of 20m. Those small puddles at the end can actually be mininuke craters, because mininukes are a thing. And when you got to 18:46. You can just straight up see that world war 1 or 2 photo you showed. That is a bunch of dunes from a carpet bombing, exactly like you saw in that picture, which confirms, very small nukes are real.

[robbertom]

A 1:8 scale, in 2 dimensions, means you should multiply the 12 bombs by 64 to cover the square area of the map, giving us 768 bombs!

[renaigh]

New York, Pennsylvania and My god is where the bombs dropped.

[MadMango_]

3:33 I think the reason you see all these tiny craters everywhere is because in fallout the cars are nuclear powered and will explode in a small mushroom cloud, they could have most likely exploded while in the vicinity of the larger bombs, doing like chain reactions.

[FreddieWoolly]

Fallout 3 is also just the northwest corner of DC and the suburbs so there might be 4x the amount actually fired at the city

[Darth_Niki]

8:18 Oh man, you missed an actual lake, formed by a nuclear explosion!
It's called Chagan and located in Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan.

[emilianozamora]

The weirdest part is that in 4 it’s kind of implied that only 1 nuke actually went off and it was an airburst that created the glowing sea, and in new Vegas it’s directly stated that only 2 bombs went actually hit, but it wouldn’t be the first time that the games are inconsistent about these things