5 MORE of Fallout's Greatest Mysteries

[@sonicninja3434]

I listened to this while doing dishes, drinking coffee, and meal prepping my 2 day slow cook beef stew. THANKS!

[@jeffdroog]

Noone asked.THANKS!

[@internetscaredboi4910]

​@@jeffdroog Bro shut up

[@salemmnm]

​@@jeffdroogjeff u are alone

[@jeffdroog]

@@salemmnm I wasn't aware this comment was specifically requested.Sorry,I suppose.

[@darksaber230]

What is your recipe for your 2 day slow cook beef stew?

[@KefkeWren]

First one's not a mystery to anyone who's actually played the game. You can meet another former Vault 13 resident, Talius, who will explain that he too was sent out to look for a replacement water chip before becoming horribly mutated. The fact that your character knows who Ed is, and that there has been time for Talius to settle into a new life, indicates that Ed is yet another person sent for a water chip who either never made it out of the cave, or wasn't let back in after returning empty handed and left to die at the entrance. In all likelihood, the reason he is a skeleton is simply that the rats in the cave picked his carcass clean (just as you too can get a bad ending where the scavengers reduce your remains to bones).

[@nekipeh7373]

And there are also dead previous Vault explorers in Necropolis, Gun Runners and The Glow probably being sent to help the Vault. So yeah, its not a big mystery

[@Bug-Intercourser]

7:05 it's quite clear that gods or god-like beings do exist in Fallout generally, especially 4, so Graham's devotion being the thing to save him very much makes sense

[@Anyone00TZ]

It was not decomposition that rendered Ed's remains as a skeleton: it was the rats. You also meet Talius later on so your character was at best the third person to be sent out about the water chip. Vault-Tec was likely just a front for one aspect of the Enclave (with some members of Vault-Tec probably hatching their own plans independent from the Enclave). I think in the Fallout Bible (which I understand is not considered canon but can be taken as a guide) it's mentioned that both Europe and the Middle-East were already nuked a fair time before the great war.

[@Dodge_this]

The fallout Bible suggests "limited" nuclear contact so probably more like Hiroshima and Nagasaki esc events rather than complete nuclear destruction

[@TY-km8hj]

​@Dodge_this idk about Europe ut I'm pretty sure they confirm the Middle East was nuked and made an uninhabitable wasteland due to nations wanting the resources there

[@ElValuador]

For me the biggest mystery is why fallout 5 and elder scrolls 6 are taking so long.

[@FeloniousPunk-w4z]

At least we have fallout 76 and Starfield. (Said no one ever)

[@ThinkOutsideOfTheIdiotBox]

@@FeloniousPunk-w4zNot sure if you’re being serious or that’s meant sarcastically. Lol.

[@CyborgCharlotte]

Well, they’re probably going to end up being pretty damn big, so…..

[@heyli2197]

@@ThinkOutsideOfTheIdiotBoxare you illiterate

[@itselizauwu]

The truth that I’m not quite ready to accept yet, is the fact that both of those games will probably suck

[@Starfighter-nk4mo]

On the topic of the fallout world outside of the USA, it would be cool to see a mod in Australia in the vain of Mad-Max. Rusted out V8’s, etc. But honestly, the country is so huge, it’s believable some places had some good fusion and robot tech, and got hit with no nukes. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some cities mostly intact. You could tell a great story of a city not affected much by the Great War, at least for a while, working on amazing tech, and a nomad gang of muscle car using thugs coming for them.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

Though it's assumed most degraded back to a feudal society where. ehem, "old world values" were practiced. If all the bad things the Capital Wasteland had, other countries would be worse ten folds.

[@RickSlick-n7o]

Nice, Nice video once again personally I listened to this while shoplifting from Walmart, checking the BP gas station ashtrays for half cigarettes, and finally using some thing the guy at the convenience store refers to as an oil burner but it don't even take oil! I love not falling asleep to these videos 😬

[@seanmurry6903]

Must be Louisville 😂

[@markriley7299]

Joshua Graham survived because Victor saved him maybe even took him to doc Mitchells

[@IkeFanBoy64]

In terms of what other nations were destroyed, I like to imagine that most of the world was leveled, but Africa was largely unscathed. Just feels like that'd be the case.

[@DPRoberts-kr8eu]

Which raises the question, would you rather live in the wasteland or Africa?

[@IkeFanBoy64]

@@DPRoberts-kr8eu Probably Africa. I feel like there would be less things to worry about

[@sswitchblade03]

October 23rd is my birthday and I love it so much because of fallout

[@theratking013]

Mine too.

[@sswitchblade03]

@@theratking013 birthday twin!

[@theratking013]

@@sswitchblade03 And the fallout World ends at our Birthday. Makes me wonder if iam still around in 2077..i would be 92Years old.

[@sswitchblade03]

@@theratking013 oh hey I'll be 74!

[@devins6954]

Happy birthday! Lol

[@chadharger9323]

My theory about the rest of the planet- majority of coumtries, especially minor ones, were able to weather the great war. They took one look at USA and China and said, 'Screw them both!" and left them both to their own fate.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

They have some screwed up weather and a lot of refugees, but ultimately intact.

[@ladybeavanerdventures]

Ed's Dead is just an easter egg from Pulp Fictions of "Zed's dead" famous line like many popculture references in the games this is pretty much it

[@Avan21907]

I do vaguely remember in New Vegas, Raul told the Courier about the horrible state Mexico City was left in after it got hit by several bombs, and if I recall correctly, we have a little bit more lore on Mexico’s condition than Canada, the other occupied territory of the US. The NCR also had Baja California occupied too I think

[@video-luver769]

I believe he said the bombs caused several nuclear reactors in Mexico City to go prompt critical and enter meltdown. So Mexico City was apparently devastated.

[@mariawhite7337]

I like to think Mexico city still has that cactus it was built upon and it was revealed during the war and now acts as a form of worship.

[@JackKenton]

It's simple: Ed is dead, don't be like Ed.

[@SerialSpiller]

😒A cryogenic congressman?.. That's like freeze drying a blackened banana.

[@MrMeatHook]

The answer of when Ed left the vault is even more complicated by the fact that since a cave is generally MUCH cooler than outside the cave, it would have likely greatly slowed decomposition. But also, the cave is full of rats, and a dozen rats can probably pick a human clean pretty quickly

[@mmerkley402]

Ed shows that nobody is allowed back in the vault.

[@alexmcgee6962]

Ed’s meat well could have been eaten by the rats, so could have been sent not too long prior to protagonist journey

[@myoptik3x103]

All them rats love to Eat Ed’s Meat!

[@krystiankrewniak]

Ed wasnt fast enough to go i to combat mode, and shoot the Overseer😋

[@dot2562]

Bethesdas penciled in fallout7 for 2077

[@mentalshatter]

9:10 Yeah, sounds about right.

[@gulagmike7252]

TBH I don’t think the date matters that much. Basically it was something that was just escalating further and further until the bombs fell. You can take ww2 as an example, it was just an amalgamation of many things happening all at once and it just kept escalating until Germany invaded Poland and the Allie’s declare war on Germany. Another thing is that I believe that vault tec could have drop the bombs themselves. They were involved in so many corners of the government, like the fact that vault tec had access to the gold reserve of the country in a vault kinda tells you how trustworthy they seemed to the government. Another thing to take into account all of the companies they were involved with that also had deep connections with government/military higher ups like Robco.

[@hyalu438]

If you think about it, these mysteries can be either genuine mysteries that Bethesda purposely made, or just they forgot to continue something they worked on and just let the community make their own assumptions

[@SuperFan02]

Probably the latter lol

[@DaGreatBrandonie]

You're assuming Ed was decomposed into a skeleton and not picked completely clean by the rats in the cave.

10:50 That's the beauty of Fallout - for all we know the rest of the world does not exist. Fallout is so America-centric that nothing else matters.

[@seanmurry6903]

A fairly American outlook😂

[@TeknoSmoki]

There was a cool commercial about road rage after your video lol

[@N_orte]

Lol

[@magicpyroninja]

15:30 somebody's birthday and they wanted to have the biggest firework show in the history of the world

[@magicpyroninja]

Oh and it was. It was so big people were dying to see it😅

[@lostbutfreesoul]

One of the benefits of old graphics, it is hard to make out the number on that jumpsuit. Would it surprise you that Vault 13 kept people of other Vaults locked out? Though an older issue being fixed by a lone wanderer who is then left out to die once the overseer finished with them.... Foooooooreboding.

[@sgtmarcusharris4260]

In van Buren lore the canyon was filled with radioactive material and if that's true in new Vegas lore my theory is that he was mutated by the material using 1950s comic book super science into a low end superhuman which allowed him to heal from his injuries.

[@thomaswillard6267]

Except we know that's not true in New Vegas Also I'm pretty sure he directly states that he was already mutated, that drugs don't really impact him and he's always had a higher than average endurance

[@seanmurry6903]

​@@thomaswillard6267he's mutated?

[@inductivegrunt94]

Joshua Graham really is just built different. Faith and willpower carried him out of the Grand Canyon and back home to the loving embrace of New Canaan.

[@loka7783]

Ed may have also been thrown out of the village. Evidence? The fact that he was left just outside the village gate, clearly within eyesight and left to rot/ been eaten. No one cared enough to collect his remains for burial or whatever the custom was. It also may be a spoiler for the end of the game Given how the people treat the Lone Wanderer at the end.

[@crakkbone]

“Sometching entirely else” is a crazy use of the language lol

[@EvilJ069]

I always assumed Ed was killed by the rats and his remains were skeletal because of them chewing on him

[@Dalocklear73]

Love the videos bro!

[@Jibb3rs]

5:20 for anyone confused on the pronunciation of Caesar here its because its a respect thing. His devoted call him Caesar (See-zar) where as his enemies call him Caesar (Ky-zar). I believe thats why it has two pronunciations in the game but i could be wrong

[@seanmurry6903]

I really think it was an Over sight. Probably they had different engineers on deck for each V.O. capture session. So no one caught the different pronunciations

[@Gripen1974]

I understand that Russia, Europe and Middle east was taken out many years before the great war in the resource war maybe a decade or more before. also biological and chemical weapons was used in middle east and central Europe. But i cant find any sources to it so it could be a Mandela effect.

[@video-luver769]

This was all mentioned in the Fallout Bible. So it's not HARD canon, but it does fit into the lore still so it cannot be entirely dismissed.

[@newlagoon]

Edd is exactly what the burnt man was, part of the games.

[@TimeofRagnarok]

How long do you think it takes for the human body to decompose to bone? Left out in the elements with no protection it can take as little as 2 weeks.

[@andybennett3181]

My birthday is Oct 23rd. Which I love sharing with the Fallout world. I think the date has a connect to the next day. Oct 24th United Nation Day. The Charter came in effect for the United Nations on Oct 24th, 1945. I think the war starting and ending the day before the anniversary of a organization created to stop a World/Nuclear War is just Fallout Irony.

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

An exposed body, depending on a multitude of conditions, can be reduced to bones in as little as nine days, or over several months.

[@spikedwk]

Wasn't Joshua a Mormon before casers legion?

[@KibuFox]

Regarding the "Burned Man", Graham was a Mormon BEFORE Caesar burned him. In fact, the Lore tells us that in 2246, when Edward Swallow (who became Caesar) met him, Graham was a Mormon missionary and tribal specialist from New Canaan.

[@thomaswillard6267]

Yeah, but it is fair to say that while he was a missionary that he was not entirely faithful, given the quick turn to militancy. Only after he was burned did he seem to begin framing himself as an instrument of god directly.

[@Bigvenomsnakeboss]

​@@thomaswillard6267 Tbf the u.s. government declared war on Mormons irl if I remember correctly maybe inspiration for that aspect?

[@KibuFox]

@@Bigvenomsnakeboss Yeah. I agree. There's also the Mountain Meadows Massacre, where the Mormon militia killed some 120 settlers who were in a wagon train trying to traverse the Utah Territory. So they're not exactly 'peaceful' people as is assumed.

[@seanmurry6903]

​@@Bigvenomsnakebossthat'd be bc the Mormons wanted 1/3rd of the west u.s. as their own land. Deseret was the proposed name. They felt they were growing too fast, and were a cultural threat, I guess? Church and state have always fought tooth and nail here.

[@ineptitude]

About the 5th mystery: Tim Cain was interviewed by mantis a few months back and there’s a really funny bit when he’s asked about it. Tim walks through a pretty prcise scenario of who launched the bombs & exactly why, but when he learns from mantis that fans love to debate the topic online he walks it all back. “I have no idea. It’s just a big ol’ mystery, gang!” *winks at the camera* I think that shows he is a game dev first, wanting to give people fun stuff, and a storytelling second. 🤔

[@JTheCodMan]

Ed forgot to Tag unarmed

[@S0ulGh0st]

Bro, if you're gonna use the tesla canon, add some points to big guns!

[@TheMedicOfficer]

Rats in the cave could have eaten Ed

[@pinkypuffs7488]

hell yeah

[@johnholohan2767]

" Z ed's dead" pulp fiction

[@Whitewing89]

The bomb in Megaton has a vaultec logo on it. Seems a stunt to boost their stock prices whent too far.

[@seanmurry6903]

We've known for years. The show confirmed it. S1E8 during the board meeting scene

[@themangledwither]

Old lore that isn't cannon anymore had China launching first after finding out two months prior that we were working on the fev and they demanded we stop. We officially did but they found out we still were working on it so they launched and with some of the hints Bethesda has been giving out such as a couple of months before the war our president went dark makes me think they are going with this idea

[@jtu2434]

The enclave is 100% the us goverment remnants and you are weird for saying otherwise.

[@seanmurry6903]

Wrong, they were former govt member that formed a violent coup to take power from the remaining govt. So they aren't EXACTLY the US govt. Just made of folks from it. It's not like they said hey let just call ourselves enclave instead, that was after the coup killed anyone who wasn't in line with their beliefs. So.... yeah not REALLY the govt, as a whole and constituent

[@devins6954]

Not me watching this on 10/23 😳

[@petepeskan1842]

I wanna know who “Bagman” was and who the Sickleman from 76 is

[@fmpentertainmentmedley3338]

Its Ed from Ed Edd and Eddy

[@mattguy1773]

6th mystery Where black knight paint job that was the coolest part of the Fortnite crossover and I’d love to see it in an actual fallout game

[@charliemurphy6457]

I say Ed was kicked out

[@existencehurts94]

Or the rats ate ed....

[@NovelaMeier]

The rest of world had gone into a 3rd World state by time of nukes. Europe had turned on themselves and even used nukes before Fallout, making mainland Europe unlivable in most of that are. However, a couple managed to come out well. The UK managed to not suffer as badly as did Ireland and Spain (London was nuked before Fallout, however). We dont know what happened to Australia but because they were allies of both UK and USA it is likely they were hit hard. Japan is not known, but like Australia likely got hit hard. Rest of Asia, we know not, but since China was also in a state of decay before nukes and losing badly to the USA, when USA invaded China, it is likely that China wasnt in any great shape (In Fallout 4 we get a hint it is likely highly radiated and destroyed as said by the sub Captain, he assumes this because he got automated orders not Human ones, this also hints may have Vault Tec sent it). We dont know anything about Africa or even South America, although most of world was in a 3rd world state without resources, we must assume they are in bad shape before Fallout. And finally, Middle East suffered during the resource war with Europe, it is assumed much of area is like Europe, unlivable. Russia sided with USA when China launched nukes as China invaded Russia.

[@samable7724]

Sounds pretty accurate to the American government no? 9:10

[@TheZayroen]

Ain't the govn freeze themselves in 76?

[@xxrise_of_venusxx3760]

Fallout 76 has government ppl

[@Wiiuboi]

🥇

[@poorlydrawnwizard]

I think that Ed was most likely someone who wasn’t given access to the vault and died shortly after the war. After leaving Vault 101 in Fallout 3 you can see graffiti outside the vault screaming to let them in. Ed probably tried the same but died from radiation poisoning or starvation

[@Zyxyea]

but he had a vault suit

[@ElectricheadPt1]

You thinking the existing US government isn't already as evil and self serving as the Enclave is really funny.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

They're as evil as they can get away with, any restraint isnt ethical its only practical.

[@courier6932]

6th Fallout Greatest mystery: Can Bethesda actually write??

[@Intr0vertical]

Sometimes

[@courier6932]

@@Intr0vertical Just enough for you to want more

[@porfiriotomas70]

i mean...they wrote Fallout 3, 4 and 76 (even tho nobody cares about 76) so my guess would be...yes they can write

[@azorith6779]

They're great with mysteries and a heroic protagonist. Starfield is just a space mystery, Elder Scrolls is a fantasy adventure mystery, Fallout is an action mystery. I like that they allow you to think about them and come up with thoughts yourself, much akin to LotR lore.

[@airrider-jk9ik]

yes, yes they can

[@coopernut]

I think that the Vault 13 skeleton is just a random guy. A reference even. But Bethesda be like "it's the Lone Survivor"

[@WastelandChef]

I just know we need a Fallout Canada or Alaska

[@archerthecreeperkiller636]

it's a crime that you're not more popular

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Two things I would like to see in later games: 1) The revelation that the president who blew up the world is alive, either as a ghoul or a Master-like abomination. 2) The revelation that Brazil and India are global superpowers that have largely ignored the ruined United States while having their own Cold War. Bonus points if Brazil and India have gone so far as to colonize the Moon and Mars as the US, China, and USSR continue to rot.

[@azorith6779]

With the final theory, the show outright told us that it was Vault Tec's plan.That scene was the deciding point of the war shift into mass destruction. Currently I think they are pointing at that with the past involvements between the corporate style of Lucy's vault, The Ghoul's spy methods and the possibility of the bombs dropping because of his and Moldaver's involvement in stopping Vault Tec in the past. The ending credit scene of Fallout TV last episode hints at this as well with the location that was chosen. The most protected place from the destruction of the old world.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

Too bad its not in a fallout game.

[@seanmurry6903]

​@@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballzthat isn't enough to make it "non canon" though and Bethesda soft was clear; the shows lore is HARD CANON. so.. vault boy dropped the bombs. Not a Mexican standoff over FEV

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

@@seanmurry6903 I violation of lore is, however, enough to make it non-canon. Its bad fanfiction at best.

[@ghostz2802]

Maybe Fallout 5 will be set in china ? That’ll be cool 😊

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

Yeah, and Chynah will just allow their country depicted in a ruinous state similar to how many zombie films are made about Chynah (which there are none).

[@gasmaskwilliam3352]

For I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me -Phillipians 4:13

[@notthisyourlight]

I have seen what i can only describe as a shadow of my own charakter over 2 hours of gameplay My game crashed and my disk was fucked Now i play fallout though download anf it doesnt crash