Shadow of the Wastes,
Check the previous discussions on the topic of the Super Mutants and the Enclave organization, hell check the canon of Fallout 1 and 2.
There were only two places in North America that had FEV and FEV2, one was the West Tek research facility which was turned into a big smoldering crater when the Chinese nuked it to ensure that whatever it was would not come to haunt them.
Then there is Mariposa base, a military research facility that was exclusively re purposed for the goal of manufacturing, researching and testing FEV and later FEV2 with the goal of creating super soldiers.
And all of this happened just years before the War, no way in hell that the US government and military would trust a civilian corporation with FEV.
(despite what the manual says FOBOS/FOPOS makes it clear that the researchers at the Secret Vault were researching a cure for sterility caused by mutation, not experimenting with FEV they got from the government)
Even the Enclave had to come to back to California and excavate the ruins of Mariposa in order to find a sample of FEV for their scientists, rather than going to some other facility that might still be standing.
The Enclave wasn't a super organization spanning the entire continent.
It was a small bunch of hardliners and their followers who believed themselves to be the 'true America', even when the USA was still around.
They didn't operate an army that was in the thousands.
Their biggest asset was the Poseidon oil rig and its manufacturing facilities with a number of smaller outposts for recon and research on the mainland, that was it.
When they lost the Poseidon oil rig it was over because the Enclave was centralized to much, most likely because they were worried about dissent and perhaps uprising amongst their own people if they had been spread out across the country.
All that is left of them are broken remains, some soldiers, technicians and scientists who operate from what is left of former Poseidon Energy and other corporate labs and facilities that once belonged to the Enclave's major corporate allies.
And at best all they could do was wage some pathetic attempt at war.
Not go all across the country and start all over again, making yet new variants on Power Armor and fleets of vertibirds.
The BOS is not like that, their primary mission is survival, anyone who wants to go out and become some kind of hero, or whatever other goal that the BOS does not pursue leaves the Brotherhood.
The Midwest BOS was more willing to be more active in Wasteland affairs but they were far from being the heroes of the wasteland.
They protected settlements only in return for supplies and recruits and those under their protection have to follow Brotherhood rules.
They set out to locate Vault Zero because it would give them an edge in technology and knowledge, changing the mission to taking out the Calculator only because they realized that eventually the Cyborg AI would turn against them and overwhelm their bases with massive robot armies.
Even the Texas Brotherhood (though non canon for most) wasn't an example of virtue.
Rhombus might have been more virtuous to find out what the remainders of the Super Mutants were up to, but only to make sure they would not become a threat to the BOS again.
The BOS leaders expected the player characters to die or at least not come back when they send them to find out what happened to Rhombus and his team.
Not exactly 'knights of the wasteland' is it?
What would be the point of that?
Part of Fallout's strength is its base in Americana, the pop icons, the grim fantasies of 50's B movies and science fiction pulp.
That barely existed in the rest of the world.
Then you might as well put yourself down as a fanboy as you act quite butt hurt that not everyone embraces the brilliance of Bethesda.
Check the previous discussions on the topic of the Super Mutants and the Enclave organization, hell check the canon of Fallout 1 and 2.
There were only two places in North America that had FEV and FEV2, one was the West Tek research facility which was turned into a big smoldering crater when the Chinese nuked it to ensure that whatever it was would not come to haunt them.
Then there is Mariposa base, a military research facility that was exclusively re purposed for the goal of manufacturing, researching and testing FEV and later FEV2 with the goal of creating super soldiers.
And all of this happened just years before the War, no way in hell that the US government and military would trust a civilian corporation with FEV.
(despite what the manual says FOBOS/FOPOS makes it clear that the researchers at the Secret Vault were researching a cure for sterility caused by mutation, not experimenting with FEV they got from the government)
Even the Enclave had to come to back to California and excavate the ruins of Mariposa in order to find a sample of FEV for their scientists, rather than going to some other facility that might still be standing.
The Enclave wasn't a super organization spanning the entire continent.
It was a small bunch of hardliners and their followers who believed themselves to be the 'true America', even when the USA was still around.
They didn't operate an army that was in the thousands.
Their biggest asset was the Poseidon oil rig and its manufacturing facilities with a number of smaller outposts for recon and research on the mainland, that was it.
When they lost the Poseidon oil rig it was over because the Enclave was centralized to much, most likely because they were worried about dissent and perhaps uprising amongst their own people if they had been spread out across the country.
All that is left of them are broken remains, some soldiers, technicians and scientists who operate from what is left of former Poseidon Energy and other corporate labs and facilities that once belonged to the Enclave's major corporate allies.
And at best all they could do was wage some pathetic attempt at war.
Not go all across the country and start all over again, making yet new variants on Power Armor and fleets of vertibirds.
The BOS is not like that, their primary mission is survival, anyone who wants to go out and become some kind of hero, or whatever other goal that the BOS does not pursue leaves the Brotherhood.
The Midwest BOS was more willing to be more active in Wasteland affairs but they were far from being the heroes of the wasteland.
They protected settlements only in return for supplies and recruits and those under their protection have to follow Brotherhood rules.
They set out to locate Vault Zero because it would give them an edge in technology and knowledge, changing the mission to taking out the Calculator only because they realized that eventually the Cyborg AI would turn against them and overwhelm their bases with massive robot armies.
Even the Texas Brotherhood (though non canon for most) wasn't an example of virtue.
Rhombus might have been more virtuous to find out what the remainders of the Super Mutants were up to, but only to make sure they would not become a threat to the BOS again.
The BOS leaders expected the player characters to die or at least not come back when they send them to find out what happened to Rhombus and his team.
Not exactly 'knights of the wasteland' is it?
What would be the point of that?
Part of Fallout's strength is its base in Americana, the pop icons, the grim fantasies of 50's B movies and science fiction pulp.
That barely existed in the rest of the world.
Then you might as well put yourself down as a fanboy as you act quite butt hurt that not everyone embraces the brilliance of Bethesda.
(i been here longer than it looks).
