Maybe a somewhat good reason why DC looks firebombed?

[berlin1945]

it looks like the chinese used nukes limitedly, to cripple key infrastructures. the rest of the country they would invade and occupy with conventional troops. in dc, anyway. yet they glassed the suburbs. maybe they were genocidal.

fallout 3 really should have had no standing prewar buildings.

 

[Dr Fallout]

it looks like the chinese used nukes limitedly, to cripple key infrastructures. the rest of the country they would invade and occupy with conventional troops. in dc, anyway. yet they glassed the suburbs. maybe they were genocidal.

fallout 3 really should have had no standing prewar buildings.

Fallout 3 shouldn't exist, or if it should heavily changed. DC would have been heavily destroyed due to a vast missile rain. IT HAS VARIOUS ICONS AND IS THE NERVE CENTER OF THE US!

 

[Big No]

I just presume that nukes in the Fallout universe are "nerfed" compared to what they should do in real life, thus explaining why DC is so intact for a place nuked so hard. That would also kinda explain why New Vegas is still standing even though Black Mountain got hit which would've devastated Vegas from that distance if the nukes were used realistically.

 

[berlin1945]

it looks like the chinese used nukes limitedly, to cripple key infrastructures. the rest of the country they would invade and occupy with conventional troops. in dc, anyway. yet they glassed the suburbs. maybe they were genocidal.

fallout 3 really should have had no standing prewar buildings.

Fallout 3 shouldn't exist, or if it should heavily changed. DC would have been heavily destroyed due to a vast missile rain. IT HAS VARIOUS ICONS AND IS THE NERVE CENTER OF THE US!

 

[Dr Fallout]

it looks like the chinese used nukes limitedly, to cripple key infrastructures. the rest of the country they would invade and occupy with conventional troops. in dc, anyway. yet they glassed the suburbs. maybe they were genocidal.

fallout 3 really should have had no standing prewar buildings.

Fallout 3 shouldn't exist, or if it should heavily changed. DC would have been heavily destroyed due to a vast missile rain. IT HAS VARIOUS ICONS AND IS THE NERVE CENTER OF THE US!

What? One bomb in comparison to what would be seventy or more? Not a fair comparison.

 

[berlin1945]

it looks like the chinese used nukes limitedly, to cripple key infrastructures. the rest of the country they would invade and occupy with conventional troops. in dc, anyway. yet they glassed the suburbs. maybe they were genocidal.

fallout 3 really should have had no standing prewar buildings.

Fallout 3 shouldn't exist, or if it should heavily changed. DC would have been heavily destroyed due to a vast missile rain. IT HAS VARIOUS ICONS AND IS THE NERVE CENTER OF THE US!

What? One bomb in comparison to what would be seventy or more? Not a fair comparison.

is hate all you do on this forum? do you not think i know that only one bomb fell in hiroshima, and that many fell in fallout? do you not see how i am showing what one bomb can do, and that such destruction is the very least of what dc should look like in fallout? is hate all you do on this forum?

 

[zegh8578]

is hate all you do on this forum?
do you not think
i know
that only one bomb fell in hiroshima
that many fell in fallout?
do you not see
how i
am showing what one bomb can do
that such destruction is the very least
of what dc should look like in fallout?

is hate all you do on this forum?

Beautiful poem

 

[Walpknut]

DC should basically be a giant Glass Bowl. Just imagine such a view, that would've actually made for an impactful Locale, instead of the "Capital Wasteland" it would just be "The HOLE". It would be a place that would make the Divide look like Zion. That would make the Glow look like a kiddie pool.

Dr Fallout, you need to pipe down a notch, he was agreeing with us, you don't need to be agressive all the time.

 

[Chromevod]

I like that idea, of it just being a glassed crater. If they were still really insistent on starting in a vault, it could even still be done. Imagine if you left the vault to find basically a sheer drop on the other side of the cave. Maybe you left the vault because something happened to the Vault's reactor, and it's about to explode taking the Vault and everyone inside with it. The game would start with you and the other Vault dwellers evacuating. You could be forced to have to choose whether or not to lock down various portions of the vault behind you to try and buy yourselves some time at the expense of those who were too slow, or try to keep them open just a little bit longer and risk death yourselves. The horrible realization of the entire thing is that you're evacuating from a soon to be flaming vault is that the irradiated literal Hellhole that was once Washington D.C. is the better of the two options given the circumstances. The first portion of the game would be about you and the other few dozen Vault dwellers that made it out trying to get out of that glassed crater.

 

[Dr Fallout]

it looks like the chinese used nukes limitedly, to cripple key infrastructures. the rest of the country they would invade and occupy with conventional troops. in dc, anyway. yet they glassed the suburbs. maybe they were genocidal.

fallout 3 really should have had no standing prewar buildings.

Fallout 3 shouldn't exist, or if it should heavily changed. DC would have been heavily destroyed due to a vast missile rain. IT HAS VARIOUS ICONS AND IS THE NERVE CENTER OF THE US!

What? One bomb in comparison to what would be seventy or more? Not a fair comparison.

is hate all you do on this forum? do you not think i know that only one bomb fell in hiroshima, and that many fell in fallout? do you not see how i am showing what one bomb can do, and that such destruction is the very least of what dc should look like in fallout? is hate all you do on this forum?

Sorry, it's just that after arguing on Sugarbombedd you get a bit edgy. They use every fucking little apology and it can get annoying.

Again, sorry about that.

 

[Walpknut]

Why are you even goign to Sugarbomb anyway? I don't like those dumb kids coming here to bitch about people not buying games blindly so I leave their hug box forum alone.

 

[frajaq]

I like that idea, of it just being a glassed crater. If they were still really insistent on starting in a vault, it could even still be done. Imagine if you left the vault to find basically a sheer drop on the other side of the cave. Maybe you left the vault because something happened to the Vault's reactor, and it's about to explode taking the Vault and everyone inside with it. The game would start with you and the other Vault dwellers evacuating. You could be forced to have to choose whether or not to lock down various portions of the vault behind you to try and buy yourselves some time at the expense of those who were too slow, or try to keep them open just a little bit longer and risk death yourselves. The horrible realization of the entire thing is that you're evacuating from a soon to be flaming vault is that the irradiated literal Hellhole that was once Washington D.C. is the better of the two options given the circumstances. The first portion of the game would be about you and the other few dozen Vault dwellers that made it out trying to get out of that glassed crater.

Yeah that doesn't sounds very fun to play/explore actually

 

[Walpknut]

Too much thought required right?

 

[Big No]

Why are you even goign to Sugarbomb anyway? I don't like those dumb kids coming here to bitch about people not buying games blindly so I leave their hug box forum alone.

I've seen Sugarbomb. I dunno, they seem not to bad, they argue their points decently, not any of that "Dudebro" nonsense. Some of them even like NMA since we argue effectively and brutally.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Why are you even goign to Sugarbomb anyway? I don't like those dumb kids coming here to bitch about people not buying games blindly so I leave their hug box forum alone.

Like Big No said, they're not all bad and they can argue decently, it's just that being one of the only non Fallout 3/4 fans can use a lot of energy.

 

[Chromevod]

@frajaq

I would like it better than what I got. It wouldn't even need to change the map that much, just have the city portion of the Capital wasteland be an irradiated crater with a few surviving bunkers and vaults filled with pre-war goodies. The rest of the wasteland would be more built up around the crater. The Brotherhood could still even have a presence there, but closer to their original role from the west. The cities that had sprung up around the area would be more self sufficient, and if they'd lasted that long by the time the vault was destroyed, there would be some sort of civilized power established for you to explore. The conflict could have been between the Brotherhood and the local powers, perhaps due to the Brotherhood's desire to gather pre-war tech from the crater much like they did from the Glow in Fallout 1, but because of being in proximity to the crater, the local people have developed a taboo about ANYONE going into the crater. It could even cause some friction between the Vault dwellers and the powers due to the Vault being located within the crater. Perhaps the Children of Atom are a fully fledged religion, and the crater is considered a place so holy that trespassing is forbidden. There's a lot of ways to make it work as a game and still actually be more consistent with the lore.

 

[Walpknut]

There could even be an entire Survival Exploration element to the crater that would require you to stock up on the supplies needed to survive it, from things like Rad X, antivemons, ammo and special armors to even needing special oxygen masks like in the Metro games. Maybe have some underground facility under the Crater, turn the metro tunnels into an optional dungeon with much more going on for it, maybe even have a cave in that connects to natural underground tunnels, mines and such, where you would find deadlier critters and such, maybe even find other scavengers, adventurers and just opportunists in your excursions. You could even find safe spots or alternate access routes where you could set camp to continue exploration and being able to restock without having to restart is every time. There is a lot that can be done with it.

 

[Dr Fallout]

Great ideas! But instead we get... Fallout 3.

 

[Chromevod]

@Walpknut

I like that, it even gives a reason to keep the metro systems and not have to redesign the map THAT much. A major quest could even be about trying to find where certain historical landmarks USED to be, in order to get to the facilities that may have survived beneath them. The difficulty being just getting there, and the fact that their exact location has been lost to both time, and the fact that in the crater you have almost no point of reference when moving around inside of it.
@Dr Fallout
Rub salt in the wound why don'tcha...

 

[Dr Fallout]

Hehehe... mods might be able to solve that. But they'd have to be big.