Female brains are slightly smaller than male brains. In turn, female brains have more folds.
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One, there is only one kind of FEV. Sorry, MCA couldn't write or support that either.
As for the lacking intelligence with many of the super-mutants, it is caused by trace amounts of radiation damage that result in lowered intelligence after the dip, read Richard Grey's journal. In fact, Grey only assimilated clean specimens into himself to form The Master. Hence why he had telepathy and such. His journal really describes the effects of the mutation as well as the effects on his experiments.
You know, it helps to have played Fallout 1 instead of just posting up...ugh. The FEV does increase intelligence with clean specimens, harming them when they are radioactive as I have stated before.
That aside, there are two other virii in Fallout's universe, the Phase Shifting Virus and the Gamma Cyclotronic Virus, both from the Great War and were the primary reasons why the FEV was created. The effects of both have not really been documented to any real amount.
No.
In particular, the FEV testing experiments holodisks and Vree's experiment tape both point out many flaws in your uh..."hypothesis". Yes, it is just a game, but it does have a setting and points about its universe that can't just be shuffled around whenever convenient.
As for the lacking intelligence with many of the super-mutants, it is caused by trace amounts of radiation damage that result in lowered intelligence after the dip, read Richard Grey's journal. In fact, Grey only assimilated clean specimens into himself to form The Master. Hence why he had telepathy and such. His journal really describes the effects of the mutation as well as the effects on his experiments.
Jarno Mikkola said:
You know, it helps to have played Fallout 1 instead of just posting up...ugh. The FEV does increase intelligence with clean specimens, harming them when they are radioactive as I have stated before.
That aside, there are two other virii in Fallout's universe, the Phase Shifting Virus and the Gamma Cyclotronic Virus, both from the Great War and were the primary reasons why the FEV was created. The effects of both have not really been documented to any real amount.
No.
In particular, the FEV testing experiments holodisks and Vree's experiment tape both point out many flaws in your uh..."hypothesis". Yes, it is just a game, but it does have a setting and points about its universe that can't just be shuffled around whenever convenient.
I'd just like to add that in the Fallout universe there is a "cure" for radiation. Why didn't the Master take radiated specimens and just give them Rad-away?
I'm pretty sure the Unity was using something called "FEV-2" which was an improved version of FEV created by the Master. Could have been a pipe dream tho.
The Enclave's killer virus is claimed to be FEV-based as well, AFAIK, which would support the "radiation+FEV=deth"(sic) thesis.
Other than that I remember something about an airborne version of FEV, but that may have been taken from the Bible, which has been pointed out as inconsistent and largely non-canon several times.
DDD:
While RadAway reduces the rad count, it propably doesn't do anything about the genetical damage that results in fatalities.
EDIT:
MASTER.msg calls the FEV "FEV-2" once, so I didn't make that up. I can't find any mention of its origin tho.
The Enclave's killer virus is claimed to be FEV-based as well, AFAIK, which would support the "radiation+FEV=deth"(sic) thesis.
Other than that I remember something about an airborne version of FEV, but that may have been taken from the Bible, which has been pointed out as inconsistent and largely non-canon several times.
DDD:
While RadAway reduces the rad count, it propably doesn't do anything about the genetical damage that results in fatalities.
EDIT:
MASTER.msg calls the FEV "FEV-2" once, so I didn't make that up. I can't find any mention of its origin tho.
Ashmo said:
It doesn't make sense for it to be used like that, when you can pretty much take out any non-mutant with some of the Great War virii. The construction and behavior of the FEV just doesn't conduct well towards an airborn pathogen, either.
That was purely MCA's "FEV explains why everything happened in the Fallout universe" despite his ignorance about the FEV. One, radiation does not affect the FEV in any form; it can't, FEV has better cell shielding than any cockroach. Two, FEV is not airborn in any way. So for the Glow to be nuked, to mutate and spread FEV all over to make little radscorpions, etc., you would have to ignore everything you know about FEV from Fo1, as it was just a time that MCA forgot to take his medicine, much like when he came up with New Reno.
FEV was designed to be as the last, great defense against the biological weapons used in the first Great War, and it's success came a bit too late with mixed results given the soldier-scientist relations at Meriposa, resulting in the possible savior of the Great War to be the terror of the wasteland - THAT was Fallout's greatest dark irony.
I stand corrected about one part. I went back to look at the info and there was a bit of alterations done OF NOTE with the gene sequencing of FEV for the dog tests, which ties with Major Barnett's involvement with taking the FEV from a device of protection into a super-human project - which explains why further test subjects and others dipped in FEV also tended to be a bit psychotic and sociopathic. That could be reasoned as a second strain, though all through the testing they were changing the characteristics of FEV, and the first is only represented by the missing talking raccoons, which could have explained why they were designed to be pacifists. Too bad that "ancient mystery" fully focused upon and used to more effect, and it only becomes apparent when you really look at it in depth. e first indication and hint of the background plot for why FEV has a more sinister possibility than what was reported in the experiment logs from The Glow.
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Yes it does, and so does reading from here the FEV Experiment Disk. There were several patches of FEV before the war, and the enclave tried to make one that would kill every one in F2, but you released it to the oil rigs air conditioning ducts and all the unprotected civilians dyed. To support my claim I bring a few extracts from the FEV Experiment DiskRoshambo said:
"10-011 of panimmunity virion, which has been renamed FEV","With batch 11-011,... We have infected 53 raccoons with the new strain.", and "We have spliced several new gene sequences, supplied by Major Barnett's advisory team, into FEV. With batch 11-101a"...Jarno Mikkola said:
Which I am fully well aware of. What I am interested in, is in what connection the different viral forms experimented with BEFORE the Great War has to do with the later forms of FEV that were extrapolated from the finished FEV virus - which were made after the Great War. You make this leap in logic, I am wanting to know the connection in some other way that doesn't make Fallout 2's writing seem outright talented in comparison.
As for the "releasing the modified FEV into the air ducts", that was something that destroyed in-game continuity and can't really be considered canon. Many parts of FO2 ignored basic parts of the setting, including the basic facts of FEV, for unsupported reasons other than the developers were staring at a huge pile of coke for Feargus' SLAM DUMP! of Fallout 2. MCA and the rest took what little they knew about virii in one hand, took their keyboard in the other, and mentally masturbated a load of garbage. It is one thing to write something into the fiction, but when they didn't even bother to write in an explanation when they write in garbage, then it isn't canon.
Claw said:
Probably. CA was quite busy trying to explain everything with FEV because he completely ignored the concept of radiation being the "magick" of the 50s.