Meurzh
Spurs that Jingle Jangle
Probably like a mess because Bethesda doesn't really want civilisation to come back in any way. They'd rather have people living in tin cans built around active atom bombs.
What will DC look like in ten years?
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How is that even possible, don't they know how many goddamn super mutants we killed over there, during FO3!? D:
We did nothing BUT kill super-mutants and raiders and talon company, goddamnit, the place should be fucking sterilized by now!
Dr Fallout
Centurion
So... we should believe a liar who usually lies?
you can always call him out when he lies, and when he says that line, its in response to fighting Children of Atom.
He makes the comment that the Capital Wasteland exports clean water, some good tech, and crazy cultists. Hes seemingly being very honest.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Wouldn't the cultists impede tech and water trading?
T
TorontoReign
Guest
The Children of the Atom appear to be radicalized in Fallout 4 so you never know.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Ask that question to the various Muslim radicals.
They only seem to attack people who enter their areas, and the ones inside the glowing sea are pretty peaceful.
Nothing indicates they go on raids of others. I've never had the CoA attack a settlement or anyhting.
Irwin John Finster
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
In Fallout 3, Children of Atom deliberately stole water shipments to settlements (Megaton) and irradiated the water presumably to spread the great gift of Atom.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
I like to think that the BOS destroyed Megaton because they were idiots with a nuke in the middle of their town.
Uhh no, they didn't.
The people who stole water were The Apostles of Eternal Light, a splinter faction that the LW stopped in one way or another.
Irwin John Finster
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Ah, you are technically correct. It was a group founded by a Child of Atom member.
Nevertheless, it explains why people from Child of Atom might draw the same conclusion and do similar things.
True, it happened once, so it could happen again.
But nothing states it is happening again during the time of Fallout 4 IIRC. The CoA just seem to be hostile to anyone entering their holy grounds.
Sn1p3r187
Carolinian Shaolin Monk
By 2287. DC doesn't change everyone's still standing in the same place.
ZigzagPX4
The Swiftness of the Ranger
Under Bethesda's viewpoint? It will probably look mostly the same. A couple new farmlands thanks to the "what do they eat" video, and maybe more purified water and a couple of new settlements, but not much more.
Under Obsidian's viewpoint, if they return to the series? It would probably be vastly different, under the impression that canonically, the Lone Wanderer completed all the quests. It might even be much more civilised than when it was by the end of Fallout 3.
Under Obsidian's viewpoint, if they return to the series? It would probably be vastly different, under the impression that canonically, the Lone Wanderer completed all the quests. It might even be much more civilised than when it was by the end of Fallout 3.
MercenarySnake
Kept you waiting huh?
It would still look like a dump with no progress since all the citizens are so bored out of their minds that they would prefer to do things like exploding bombs in the middle of towns(yeah like that was very smart to begin with), making a survival guide(a bit too late for that huh?), warshiping bombs and making cults for that purpose(why?!), and other bizarre things that don't make much sense.
ZigzagPX4
The Swiftness of the Ranger
This is more Bethesda's fault, than the world itself. I think that in terms of logic, the Capital Wasteland is progressing upwards in terms of rebuilding society. Rivet City is a functioning settlement with armed guards - they could easily spread outwards into their south. Little Lamplight would presumably ditch their unsustainable ideology eventually and combine with Big Town, at which point their only problem would be the super mutants.
Megaton and Tenpenny Tower are the big questions - considering they were both destroyable as part of side quests, what would be the canonical result? If we're going with Megaton's survival and Tenpenny's collapse, and that Vault 101 was repaired and restored under Amata's rule, then I suppose the area there would flourish eventually. Then we've got Oasis and Project Purity, which combined could give the wasteland back some life. The Brotherhood who did not leave the Capital with the Prydwen are still in control of the Citadel and Adams Air Force Base - most regions would remain relatively stable from that point forward.
Finally, we have the super mutants and raiders themselves. I'm assuming BoS patrols, expanding settlements and the work of the Lone Wanderer would have pushed their numbers down and cast them out, in which case DC would become a better place in general.