Fallout: London - Part 18 - More Bang For Your Buck

[@mid-nite_drive-thru]

You pointing out the place you met Claire is quite likely the high point of this series: I love that you had the opportunity to mesh your own life with the one you share with us. Thank you.

[@Dave001968]

Loved the slow calm conversation while half a health bar got irradiated.

[@ManyATrueNerd]

I assume Tenpenny prepared by doing some Rad-X before I arrived...

[@lurkingllama8364]

Would be hilarious if half way through the conversation Tenpenny just drops dead from Rads.

[@tony3760758956]

Not sure the view's any better either.

[@pablolamatafeliz6443]

@@ManyATrueNerd i literally got part 18 of fallout london on another tab open this is crazy,im a big fan John i love all of your total war series and right now morrowind so far has been great

[@davethompson3326]

@@ManyATrueNerd So, Tenpenny wasn't even Tenpenny, he married money and took the family name. Just another blasted counter jumper!

[@LifelessTooth]

11:15 The guard didn't disappear, he looted the armor and turned invisible, then put it back when he realized it was a chameleon piece. That's what I believe anyway.

[@THoten]

It's really lovely hearing all about Jon and Claire meeting! It's really cool having all these places, big and small, to explore. If it WAS Whittard of Chelsea tea shop where you met, then great choice!

[@dominic.h.3363]

Let's hope the queen won't have a fancy hat. Though Jon turning regicidal for a hat would be a hilarious watch.

[@Kaarl_Mills]

she did, though after she died IRL that content was cut from the final release

[@dominic.h.3363]

@@Kaarl_Mills My stance on that "cut content" bit is that: if it's in bad taste after her death, it would have been in bad taste before her death.

[@richardfarrer5616]

She is rather famous for having a fancy hat, and a few other bits of jewellery to go with it. I think you're right and this could get interesting.

[@stylesrj]

@@richardfarrer5616 Maybe the Crown Jewels, etc. are lootable items instead of having to kill someone for them?

[@romanw6636]

​@@Kaarl_MillsNo, the queen wasn't cut but you have to make certain choices to meet her.

[@marcherdman3813]

I'm sure Timmy would have been fine. I seem to recall hearing a story about a ghoul boy surviving a couple hundred years in a fridge or something.

[@XDieKillDieX]

Maybe now Timmy can go home and dance with his dad.

[@nananamamana3591]

Yeah but that's an all american refrigerator unit! Lined with yummy yummy lead to help keep your food nice and fresh! Not some limey's brick and mortar chimney. We *KNOW* for a *FACT* that brick and mortar is blown to bits by nukes! But when was the last time you saw a fridge in fallout atomized in the same fashion? I rest my case.

[@jennieswensson463]

hmmm well until it got a bit chilly and someone lit a fire perhaps? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@octavianpopescu4776]

The Tenpenny discussion should have went on like this: Tenpenny: I'll give you 1000 tickets to blow up the London Eye. Jon: No. Tenpenny: 3000 tickets. Jon: No. Tenpenny: 5000 tickets. Jon: No. Tenpenny: A hat. Jon: You had me at H!

[@davids7847]

"We had our first date in Covent Garden, but obviously, that's not where we met..." Well, look at the fancy-pants man who doesn't do online dating but meets people in the *real world*, la di da.

[@wineoneone]

Hearing their love story throughout this is so lovely ❤

[@theunfamousone2818]

I like how this mod says tenpenny didn't leave voluntarily, someone found out what he did (or tried to do) so he fled

[@Killix_Games]

Does Jon not realise that the line in Westminster are clearly a standalone secret line, just like the one Smyth had because it’s all around the most important people.

[@snowcraft-d3d]

Personally, I'd like to see a reload where you backstab Tenpenny. As much as the 'fireworks' were a spectacle, the quest to send Tennypenny to jail honestly sounds far more interesting - and cheaper in doctor's fees for all that radiation sickness. Plus, I don't think helping a kid and destroying an entire population center quite leaves your karmic standing at neutral.

[@EGRJ]

The question is, how would he get away and flee to Americ- Oh, right, he's rich.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@EGRJ Can you imagine in a post-apocalyptic world how expensive it would be to travel across the ocean?

[@ViralMag_Ravager]

Jon ... Kills entire settlement and irradiated a population, But I saved an orphan child Jon's Conclusion .... " I think we're equal on the karma scale " Oh, Jon 🤯🤦‍♂️, well, at least they didn't get juiced.

[@siri7005]

1-1, simple math!

[@davethompson3326]

That's an impressive pair of morality scales. He probably picked them out of the gutter near Downing Street?

[@Dead-EyeJuncan]

I wonder if the trains in Fallout are actually still just a guy running along under the ground wearing it as a hat?

[@derekskelton4187]

Gamers love to meme about this yet nothing enrages them more than a game taking the time to properly implement things

[@Dead-EyeJuncan]

@derekskelton4187 I learnt about the Broken Steel train from this very channel, many years ago at this point.

[@mrcheesemunch]

@@derekskelton4187 I mean it's embarrassing that Bethesda has used this engine for like more than 15 years and still can't get vehicles working, there's a reason everyone is so excited about being able to climb ladders in FOLON

[@richardtriplett88]

The talking tree is real and if you want to learn about a certain enemy in the games it’s well worth a look.

[@pudgeboyardee32]

Poaching in the kings wood, bringing harm to his attendants, approaching his majesty's residence without invitation, theft of regalia, tampering with a military corpse, and finally fleeing the scene. I'm not a barrister or anything but I feel like any 2 of those offenses probably results in a death sentence. Or has in the past at least.

[@rupertmiller9690]

John has my household saying things like. "That scared the McGibbles out of me." and "Cocking do-the-thing." We're richer for it.

[@lop90ful1]

I love that ending really cinematic. I much perfer options that dont involve mass murder but it was very entertaning to see. All Jons stories about london are also great, really funny to see him notice such detail as with the tube station.

[@aaronfrazier7159]

I'm really enjoying that part of this series as well. I can relate. I live two hours north of Boston, Mass, I've been going there all my life. When I go to a show at..say...The Orpheum Theater in Boston, I'm kind of bummed that there isn't steel caged raider death matches going on onstage....😞 Also, Bravo to the Fallout London devs for doing justice to the tube stations. In Bethesda's Fallout games, the subway stations in DC and in Boston are spot on. The T Stations in Boston are dead on in FO4. The tiles on the wall match the color of the line you are riding, they are not all blue as in FO4. Other than that, they really do look like that, albeit bigger in scale.

[@lop90ful1]

@@aaronfrazier7159 yea best part

[@rowwhite9569]

I hope hope Jon explores Westminster. Like all over Westminster every thing. I’m glad he is exploring but I want him explore it all.

[@CynicalPlatapus]

I want to see him check out the health clinic to the north

[@larrychilders6599]

Fun fact, the Queen was supposed to be a Ghoul NPC but then she died In real life so she got cut out

[@mara_jade021]

They made a beautiful homage to her

[@zuzoscorner]

not sure why i imagined a President Eden situation with Computer Queen

[@darthvaderbutwayshittier7054]

She's still a ghoul, she's just got a differet name.

[@carriesnider3209]

Her irradiated glowing corgis are still there!

[@mara_jade021]

@@darthvaderbutwayshittier7054 No, they showed up years ago the concept art and design of her model and a Charles one. Totally different from what we got. They change them when the queen died. Reason why the princess here look so generic. So no, it wasn't just a we change the names

[@timbus2]

I love Jon’s exploration of London - it reminds me of first exploring Fallout 4’s Boston and looking for all the landmarks I know.

[@born_again_torinos]

Jon, I understand fully finding a spot in a fallout game where you did something in real life. Growing up in 60s and 70s Las Vegas there are many spots in New Vegas that I can go to in the game and remember something I had done there in real life. However being raised in Boulder City, I have been the to hoover dam many times. When I'm playing New Vegas and I'm at the dam, I look at one of the over hangs on the front of the dam which is actually a bathroom. I was in the marching band in high school and It was during the bi-centennial and we were all decked out in our marching band uniforms waiting for the president of the United States to arrive. Afterward some friends and I did some exploring and I was in one of the overhanging bathrooms on the face of the dam on the nevada side and they have very small windows with bars so nobody jumps out over the dam. But there was just enough room for me to take a full toilet paper roll and hold onto one end and let the roll out the window. I held on while the whole roll unfurled and I ran outside in time to see the whole roll blowing across the face of hoover dam. I can't go to hoover dam in the game without thinking about it.

[@Epelpaj]

Somehow I don't think saving one kid makes up for that...

[@DarrenGrey]

Well, at least he didn't burn the child alive...

[@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c]

Yes, likewise ☠️👻

[@oergpoerg4658]

Saved one orphan but created many more.

[@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c]

@@oergpoerg4658 Well, it is Jon. He has to have a way of ensuring his supply of exploitable child labour 😅

[@JamieCameron-Mackintosh-z7c]

@@DarrenGrey Though there may have been some temptation there. We know what's going to happen to Timmy in the kill everything run ☠️

[@BryanWagner]

It was nice learning a bit more about the origins of Many-A-True-Claire

[@pvtread5207]

Jon not talking to the peacocks kinda hurts me in some unreasonable way lol. IT LITTERALY SAID "TALK"

[@stylesrj]

37:35 The London Eye suddenly got back up and started rolling before falling over again...

[@Orvieta]

Bethesda physics.

[@nananamamana3591]

It's a well known fact the London Eye is capable of being a bouncy castle in case of emergency.

[@Orvieta]

@@nananamamana3591 A highly radioactive bouncy castle even.

[@vampirepilot623]

This is peak Jon... Waxes lyrical about his love for London then blows it up!

[@seaderkrupp5200]

Well, seems typical. Visits Westminister and turns it into another radioactive wasteland:P

[@xtender5]

Well, let's not forget that you were also the direct cause of the decimation of the royal guard.

[@CyrilFiggis36]

Jon: "We've gotta be getting close to the heart of UK government." He says whilst seemingly stood 20m away from the entrance to the Treasury.

[@AllQuirksNoFeatures]

Now I have to install just to find out what the peacocks say if you talk to them

[@nananamamana3591]

"You stupid NI-" - Peacock Johnson's pre-patch dialog

[@texasguy-]

Jon you didn’t take the tour, you didn’t learn about the London cab system. You are in for a treat, Tenpenny is a fun questline. Chameleon and Power Armor Stealth Field Fixes on Nexus…

[@BS-nw1qr]

A cool detail is how the Gentry is walking around the sidewalks still, even with no functional cars.

[@ryanpayne7707]

25:42: So, IRL, Washington DC has a zoning regulation that prohibits high rise buildings precisely because of guys like these. Traffic in central MD is a mess thanks to DC's unneeded urban sprawl.

[@mara_jade021]

Please, Jon keep exploring I only went to London once. So see the game through your eyes and your stories are so wonderfull. My first play i was so smitten by the city that ended up signing with the Gentry.

[@Dead-EyeJuncan]

I am surprised he didn't kill that peacock and make it into a hat.

[@charlesfranks1902]

I wonder why he did not talk to the peacock.

[@Landrassa1]

That would have been quite the feather in his cap.

[@davethompson3326]

@@charlesfranks1902 Plot twist, maybe one of the peacocks sells cheap drugs and rare ammo?

[@charlesfranks1902]

@@davethompson3326 We will probably never know. He could have gotten important clues, who knows?

[@davethompson3326]

@@charlesfranks1902 So disappointing, I bet it's Tenpenny's peacock that is the ringer!

[@LifelessTooth]

Jon: "It's so cool that there's a functional train line that goes in and out of *_Westminster!_*" Jon less than 1 minute later: "Oh shame on you game, your own map is wrong, I came to Green Park from Piccadilly but this map says there shouldn't be a direct line."

[@perturbedbatman2009]

With that amount of rads, I’m surprised Tenpenny didn’t turn into that thing he hates so much.

[@rowwhite9569]

You could have done a tour the is a girl near the entrance- ginger ish hair.

[@Casually_Unskilled]

Yep. Honestly a pretty good tour, too.

[@NonexistentHomestead]

I am so glad you couldn't get in the palace or you would have walked away with the crown jewels.

[@davethompson3326]

She doesn't keep them in the attic - they ought to be in the Tower.

[@garyhart6421]

A Queen is still about --- but she is Victoria II.

[@jamesdrummond7684]

so much of fallout: london is impressive, but those opening scenes of picadilly circus are honestly gorgeous.

[@5Andysalive]

the journey from "quite liking" the London eye to be willing to blow it up wasn't a very long and difficult one... also this being a modern post bioware/Obsidian RPG, of COURSE there will be a third way to avoid any hard choice. Juts not as obnoxious as in The Outer Worlds for example, where this became depressingly predictable.

[@charlesfranks1902]

A thousand tickets is a lot of tickets. That would finance a major hat collection.

[@nananamamana3591]

@@charlesfranks1902 It's an ok amount of tickets. It's not a "ill never need money again" amount of tickets, nor is it an amount of tickets you could not achieve within 15-30~ minutes of playing the economy. Really, you do it for the pretty explosion.

[@DAFPvnk]

2:15 Jon... thats Regent Street... Piccadilly is Straight

[@shuckern7wgas622]

Jon!!!😂 I couldn't pull the pin on Megaton in 3. Shame Jon shame 😮

[@DrLipkin]

My pain is being invested in the CuteThulhu quest, but having to rely on Jon's -1 Perception to see it completed.

[@nananamamana3591]

And his -1 intelligence dictating his attention span. "Oh wow this cool! I cant wait to follow through with thi-OH GOODNES IS THAT A LONDON THING? Well we have to go check that out."

[@davethompson3326]

I was disappointed how unrelated that quest is to the rest of the mod.

[@Gbusjones]

Another riveting episode with a possible explosive ending

[@CynicalPlatapus]

Damn i really wanted to see jon get hit by a tube train, it happened to me as i didn't expect actual moving trains down there

[@Sef_Era]

2:25 I hope they update in an interior to that building, just for you. If it was up to me what would be in it, I’d add a ghoulified Jon wearing the fanciest of all hats- but what do you guys think?

[@ZeldaOdelta]

Gotta be both Jon and Claire

[@leecoldsmoke]

An egg carton!

[@stevengrant7660]

Come on John, you surely know 10 Downing Street cannot be opened from the outside…

[@Dead-EyeJuncan]

@@stevengrant7660 You just need to disguise yourself as a cat! That is how you get that door to open!

[@davethompson3326]

@@Dead-EyeJuncan Or three crates of champagne in a pandemic?

[@jamesdrummond7684]

38:55: Glass half full situation for sure

[@Rateus_Johanson]

13:23 Peacocks might be the only thing that's got less aggressive post apocalypse ;-)

[@romanw6636]

FYI those trains are real but walking is fine too.

[@Matthaagmusic]

I can’t wait to find out this is exactly what got Allistair banished from his luxury manor.

[@spcld2k]

I'm assuming taking the morally correct road of turning him in is the cannon piece that gets him exiled

[@Skycroft1000]

Hmm... since only the stops within the Westminster region are working, I think we're supposed to infer they dug a new tunnel to service only those stops?

[@Dave5281968]

I just loved how you showed an enthusiasm for blowing up the eye that made me think you were going to get a new hat as a reward for the annihilation of that town. What a hoot!

[@guy_autordie]

I love that Jon will do any thing for a good looking "couvre-chef".

[@charlesfranks1902]

The game was written for a Mr. Smythe, they did not change a couple things to allow for a female.

[@pdughi]

How did Jon miss Mister Wobbles? I wanted to see how he'd interact with Tenpenny's pet!

[@SnowyK]

Gotta love the last two minutes, is the karma scale really balanced for those two things? lol. Maybe this is also why Tenpenny moved.

[@opallise]

I think...if it were me...having SEEN the explosion...I would go back to a previous save. Just me though! 😅

[@ChristopherJudge-u7i]

You could put any chameleon pieces on Keira to help when you want to sneak

[@wolfen210959]

Sigh, you destroyed the London Eye, and probably most of the surrounding area, for 1,000 tickets, but no hat? Oh dear, I hope there are no consequences when you pass by the area again. /s

[@rcblazer]

That was one heck of an explosive. Irradiated the whole sky and started a Rad Storm! Or was that just a coincidence?

[@jamesdrummond7684]

16:20: An Englishman calling The Clock Tower "Big Ben". This is a jailable offence, I'm pretty sure

[@DemonicDaemon363]

No, that's standard. Only particularly pedantic people differentiate Elizabeth tower from Big Ben.

[@METALFREAK03]

@@DemonicDaemon363 also, he didn't specify what he was looking at when he said "Big Ben you magnificent bastard". Could still be talking about the clock. (which is why we have, in slang, boiled it down to just saying Big Ben.)

[@docette2015]

You know what, having a good half of your health taken away by rads really does feel like a fitting punishment for what you did. (Even if I'm half-convinced you just managed to time the explosion with a radstorm -- though I don't know the mod, maybe nearly dying of rads happens to everybody.) Though I guess if they really wanted to punish you, they would have taken your hat collection.

[@jennymay9793]

I had a feeling nothing good would come of blowing up the eye.

[@fogelold1332]

Wonder if Jon realises he can ride the tube..... lil side quest given to him by the Tommy at the crash site.

[@JoonasSariola]

Was John also smelling odd at Picadanny back then?

[@Darkmapper]

Cool that you solved the Tenpenny quest in this way, I went the other way so I never saw this ending.

[@neil2796]

I have been waiting for Jon to meet Tenpenny.

[@MrGetzenwithit]

I imagine the diplomats at the E.U. as a bunch of MATN clones running about managing the continent like a video game.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Well, they're not diplomats, as much as they're the heads of state and government of all the countries. It's the same people: presidents and prime-ministers.

[@Modhunter42]

Happily, it was just a random radstorm. On the other hand, Sirentrons, Explode and create a radstorm.

[@SimonMinall-Burdett]

I used to work by Piccadilly Circus, Jon. In fact the Piccadilly line I still use regularly to visit the area. I love the place.

[@LifelessTooth]

Oh by the way there was a unique record at the room you planted the bomb in that you missed

[@JetSteele]

I wish I could like this episode twice

[@queenannsrevenge100]

0:54 Synth-Shaun?? What’s HE doing here????

[@5Andysalive]

the queen they talk about isn't Elisabeth II. I think she was/is (no spoilers) Victoria 2.

[@krzemo29]

Does Big Ben show the correct time?

[@mcmeh1747]

There wasn’t even a hat involved and he committed massacre…why would I expect anything else?

[@TheGrinningViking]

Jon is so lucky there was no running trains between those two stations - thus the lack of connection on the map. It's not a literal map, it just lists train routes.

[@randalllogan7049]

I cant believe I missed the peacocks. They are so elegant looking too. Also the talking tree is not a Dryad. Its not spoilery because its Fallout if that makes sense. Cheers!

[@Orvieta]

The Ferris wheel exploded almost exactly like Reactor 4 at Chernobyl, small boom into ionized big boom into radioactive wasteland.

[@nananamamana3591]

It's a well known fact the London Eye doubles as a cold-war era nuclear reactor.

[@Orvieta]

@@nananamamana3591 Figures :)

[@Iunderstandcompletely]

I misread the title as "More Knuck For Your Buck". I bet Jon and Claire are huge Crime Mob fans.

[@SomnolentFudge]

Fallout London tube randomizer

[@kingmdalby4569]

My first reaction at 9:15: PRINCE PHILIP IS IN THIS!

[@luckyheather2807]

A magazine that most ppl miss is behind where you met Tenpenny, on the rear left dining table and a useful one to get as its for double meat off animal kills. 🙂😉

[@mattsouthworth5640]

Jon, what did you do? I thought this was a normal playthrough not evil.

[@Foxtrot369]

Was that really worth a thousand Tickets Jon..?

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I think he went to sleep traumatized by what he'd done for 1000 tickets. Although, for a hat, it would have been absolutely worth it.

[@EGRJ]

32:48 Wait a second. Has Fallout 4's engine ALWAYS made the VATS highlight an in-universe glow? I always assumed it was just an overlay.

[@shadowshots9393]

One of my favorite quest, second only to the Talking tree Quest.

[@isenal]

Talking tree might be worth it when you go melee build and want extra settlement.

[@RayneBlood]

lol he actually did it. 🤣

[@MaryMDoyle]

I hope you can reload that last quest you did, it was really wrong, I'd rather get him to sign something so he can be arrested.

[@adampb94]

One of the police officers is voiced by none other than the Military Genius CallMeKevin

[@lasse6435]

Amazing ending

[@richardfarrer5616]

That's not Big Ben, It's the Elizabeth Tower. Shame on you, Jon, for mixing up the clocktower and the bell. I trust you will make it up by talking about the things Jon got wrong.

[@misterscorbunny5524]

everyone gets it wrong lmao even brits that live in london

[@peterclarke7240]

It's basically common usage at this point. Only pendants really care any more.

[@connosaurus]

8:49 That means something very different in Canada.

[@williamvanderburg5949]

What’s that girl? Timmy’s in the well? I mean, chimney? Lol

[@Survivor-od1xy]

One question.........IS THERE A TRAIN HAT IN THIS MOD LIKE IN FO3?!