Gameplayer Australia previews Fallout 3 (new screenshot)

syllogz said:
hi guys,

I have a little problem with this 'extracting the virus from blood' idea... <snip>
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That is only true for certain types of virus, because you're assuming that the mutations occur directly as a result of viral recombination ino the genome.

Think about examples such as HPV; highly infectious, easily isolated, but causes mutations as a result of viral oncogenes.

Also, you're assuming that the virus will necessarily have the same effect on every cell type. Remember that viral latency may depend upon a reservoir of the virus that is independent of the integration of the viral genome into host.
 
I think FEV-II can't replicate in the supermutant body - a subject needs to be submerged in a vat of FEV for quite some time, until the virus eradicates the original DNA and replaces it with the improved one.
 
It is diverged Fallout world. It is Bethesda's game for youngsters. The FEV explanation (if any), will be easy and very likely pseudo-scientific (sorry doctors).
 
Any explanation should be pseudo-scientific.

Fallout is retro-50's, which means Science! takes precedence over science.
 
Brother None said:
Any explanation should be pseudo-scientific.

Fallout is retro-50's, which means Science! takes precedence over science.
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Sure enough, but scientists still like to pontificate about what is and isn't possible; it makes us feel brainy...

All they really need in Fallout 3 is for somebody somewhere to have found a canister of FEV - which I believe is the standard unit of commodity of biologicals in pulp sci-fi. Alternatively, somebody might have a formula, because we all know that such a thing allows one to magically pull any complex technology out of ones arsehole...
 
SCIENCE! or otherwise, I hope that, if nothing else, it doesn't involve words like "dohickey" and "thingamabob" or "glowing thingy"... or for that matter, the word "thingy" used by anyone or anything authoritative, Harold/Bob excluded.
 
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