Fallout Tactics Ending.

[Quagmire69]

Which one did you go with and which one do you think should be considered cannon.

My opion is that the Barnaky ending is obviously cannon ending. Its tragic, its not nice, its fallout, and it sets up a sequil. It really would not make sense if you had the ending were the calculator takes over and everyone gets along and thiers peace at long last in the wasteland. It also makes sense storywise given hes your boss, and given that you have to find the holotape to change his mind, kind of lilke how I assume that its cannon that the vault dweller persauded the master to destroy his own base.

 

[Surf Solar]

None of it should be considered canon, as it is irrelevant.

 

[Yamu]

Tactics is currently considered semi-canon, as many major plot points and setting details invalidate or directly contradict what had already been established as fact in previous entries in the franchise. That said, considering that some (unspecified) plot points are held as canon by Bethesda, I'd wager that the most likely official ending would be the one in which the Calculator was destroyed. Considering that Tactics takes place three or four decades before Fallout 2 (and thus, give or take 80 years before the "present" in-game timeframe), any of the endings involving someone fusing with the calculator would've had noticable effects on the gameworld by the time F3 rolled around. In the ending where the calculator is allowed to die, though, life proceeds pretty much as it had before the calculator was discovered. The Midwestern Brotherhood gains a new base and a storehouse of old-world knowledge at the expense of indefinitely delaying their re-establishment of relations with the original BoS. Sounds about right.

If nothing else, due to the fact that Caesar's Legion has control of the (formerly fragmented tribal) lands directly East of the Colorado, I think it's a fair assumption that there was no one with power armor, a sizable army of robots, and 80 years of prep time there to stand in their way.