Can you Squint and fit Wasteland into Fallout?

Since they go to California at the end of Wasteland 2 i think it's fucked. Otherwise it might have worked.

 

You have a similar topic here with some interesting posts: http://nma-fallout.com/threads/how-well-do-wasteland-and-fallout-meld-story-and-setting-wise.201638/

 

Aren't the Arizona rangers already present in New Vegas? That would make Wasteland sort of canon.

 

I believe you could actually rewrite Wasteland 1 and change and convert certain aspects into their Fallout equivalents. You would get a very interesting new Fallout game that way. Fallout: Wasteland or Fallout: Desert Rangers.

In Wasteland 1 the apocalypse happened in 1998 and the game takes place in 2087. In Fallout the apocalypse happens in 2077 and the game takes place in 2161. If you convert Wasteland 1 into Fallout then events of Fallout: Wasteland would transpire in the year 2166, ie five years after Fallout 1.

 

Fallout Tactics would probably be the best Fallout game to mod for this anyway, since it's squad based.

You are right about the existence of the calculator being a problem if one wants to convert Wasteland into Fallout. But there are already other examples of AI:s in Fallout. Isn't there a Skynet in the Sierra Army Depot for example? So there's a possibility for other rouge AI:s in the universe.

 

Sorry for the double. Apart for the Desert Rangers actually being part of Fallout: New Vegas having been merged with the NCR Rangers there's also this page detailing the similarities between the two settings:

Spoiler: General Wasteland 1 in Fallout

• ZAX, a series of advanced supercomputers that appeared in the original Fallout and were set to return in Van Buren, are named similarly to VAX from Wasteland.
• Tycho, the Desert Ranger - the band of heroes in Wasteland were Desert Rangers. He also makes references to Wasteland, such as mentioning the Wasteland character Fat Freddy.
• Deathclaws are similar to the shadow claws, mutated iguanas found wandering the desert in Wasteland.
• Ghouls are similar to the mutated desert dweller, drool, pit ghoul, shambler ghoul, spineless ghoul, night screamer, and night terror encountered in Wasteland.

It's interesting with Tycho mentioned above since Fallout 1 would take place only five years after Wasteland 1. That means that you would probably encounter Tycho as a character down in Nevada if you converted Wasteland into Fallout.

e: It's mentioned that Gizmo reminds Tycho of Fat Freddy who is a character in Las Vegas in Wasteland 1. However it was Tychos father who told Tycho about Fat Freddy. So maybe one should let the story of Fallout: Wasteland/Fallout: Desert Rangers play out some 20 years before Fallout 1? To make it plausible that it was Tychos father who encountered Fat Freddy. I think that it's important that the Fallout lore always overwrites the Wasteland lore. Remember we are trying to put Wasteland 1 into Fallout.

Spoiler: New Vegas and Wasteland 1

Fallout: New Vegas

• In both games, Las Vegas avoided being directly hit by nukes, are in relatively good condition, have electricity, and robots are still patrolling the streets.
• A direct nod to the Desert Ranger faction in Wasteland can be seen on the Unification Monument plaque outside of the Mojave Outpost.
• In Honest Hearts, one can find Desert Ranger combat armor.
• The add-on Old World Blues features a large number of references to Wasteland, including the proton axe, Toaster, Robo-scorpion, the consumables thin red paste and thick red paste and the perk description for Them's Good Eatin': "Any living creature you kill has a 50% chance to have the potent healing items Thin Red Paste or Blood Sausage when looted."

I believe this could actually be done. Let's see the Wasteland 1 worldmap with all the locations. How would one start such a project that aims to convert the entire WL1 into the Fallout setting?


e: So this is the worldmap eh?



e: Wasteland worldmap can be found here: https://wasteland-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Wasteland_world