Fallout's 10th anniversary: Vault 13 Timeline

@Thorgrimm -

All fair and valid points.

Now I had a big long reply in the works, but I caught myself starting to go in circles, which I'd like to avoid. Probably doesn't help that my daughter and her friend are here for lunch from school, but anyway...

While my personal view of the Fallout universe doesn't really include a lot of large-scale missile warfare, I'm certainly not contending that the beginnings of that technology weren't available in a viable form at the time. So is it possible? Certainly. I just guess I don't like that version as much, so I'm sticking with bombers.

Mmmmm.. Bombers. ;)

-Wraith
 
Hi guys,

You are discussing nuclear weapon delivery systems now but do any of you also have any idea of what countermeassures might have been used during the War.

Well with bombers I would say jet interceptors but with missiles I am not sure.
Counter missiles? Armed satellites?
 
Probably BN ;)

But that doesn't stop governments wasting loads of money on stuff that doesn't do much good in the end :D
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Counter missiles? Armed satellites?
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Trained ninja laser cougars.

srsly

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fallout ranger said:
Yeah, the B-36 was just about the Epitome of 50's tech.

The B-58 Hustler and the Flying wing too, were unique pieces of equipment. As was the ultimate, the stillborn XB-70 Valkyrie
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The reason I like the B-36, the J version, Is that to me it screams Fallout. It has that retro (Props) futuristic (Jets) look to it. That and that beast was even bigger than the B-52 that replaced it. :D




Cheers, Thorgrimm
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Hi guys,

You are discussing nuclear weapon delivery systems now but do any of you also have any idea of what countermeassures might have been used during the War.

Well with bombers I would say jet interceptors but with missiles I am not sure.
Counter missiles? Armed satellites?
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Duck and cover :crazy:
 
Brother None said:
cazsim83 said:
What about the water chip? How did they classify that? Wouldn't it be assumed it was some form of microchip??
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But there are no transistors on the waterchip (I think). It's all, counter-intuitively, vacuum tubes and wires.

Which means the water chip is probably bigger than you imagine.
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Didn't it only weight a pound....or was that 10 lbs......
 
There were no microships in Fallout's setting... don't ever forget that.
 
Hello all,

To me the whole "There are microchips/there aren't any microchips in the Fallout universe" always has seemed to me to be a personal opinion thing, fuelled by the 50's background the game's technology uses.

I sometimes thing that Fallout gamers take it to literally "Because in that time there were no transistors, there are no transistors/microchips in the Fallout alternate future."

I rather think that technology in the Fallout simply took a different aesthetics route, not a complete different development route.
Same goes for space rockets/missile technology, they simply look different.

As for the whole vacuum tube thing in most Fallout technology? Well to beat the effects of EMP.

Just my humble opinion.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Just my humble opinion.
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If I wanted it, I would give it to you. :twisted:

Yeah, it's all speculation, but hey, what else are we gonna do 'til we can bitch a bit more about F3???
 
cazsim83 said:
The Dutch Ghost said:
Just my humble opinion.
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If I wanted it, I would give it to you. :twisted:

Yeah, it's all speculation, but hey, what else are we gonna do 'til we can bitch a bit more about F3???
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If anything, I find some of the new 'technology' incredible stupid and more borrowed from shooter games than something you would use in reality.

Ignoring the obvious 'fatman' (this is too easy and done to dead), flaming swords, junk launching 'toasters', I also heard something about a cryogenic or 'freeze' gun.

The last sounds more like something you would make for spectacular effects than being really practical.
 
That's the kind of junk that really pisses me off. I mean, using junk to make weapons. Who am I to question almighty Beth, but I would think you would have to have a high science skill just for some minor stuff. (Flaming gascan sword aside, which seems highly cumbersome for a melee weapon)
Besides, wasn't it Azrael who already had the flaming sword through a gastube idea? (Batman)
You didn't have to make your own crap in F1, 2, or tactics - they were relics/leftovers mostly from the vaults/wars/etc - I think it would be neat as an easter egg idea, but to have some of the basic gameplay rely on it?
And don't forget that Fallout never had you repair your equipment...that sounds much more like.............Oblivion..........hmm........
 
You guys are so pessimistic, you should really give them a chance. Doesn't opening a game box and not knowing what's in it make all the excitement of buying a new game?!?!?!
 
What if F3 turns out to be quite OK game?

Will you at least admit that you were whiny little bitches for no reason?
 
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