Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands - Part 32 - Vault in the Wound

Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands continues, as we head underground to investigate the rest of the Capital Wasteland's vaults, where we might just be able to piece together who's really to blame for the Super Mutant problem...
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[@jeffreymarksworld534]

32 parts in and still hasn't even started any DLC's for the first game. This series is going to be like 200 parts and I'm all for it

[@GoodBoyGoneDad]

It gives me something to look forward to every Sunday night.

[@Huddle_House56]

Sadly he’s said this is going to be mainly fallout 3 and trips to NV are just for fun or gambling. I don’t think he’s going to do any NV questlining.

[@jeffreymarksworld534]

@@Huddle_House56 I could have sworn he said 100% both games. Why call it "Tale of Two Wastelands" if he's just playing 3?

[@eldritchsun40]

@@jeffreymarksworld534 Nah he did say that, his reasoning being he's done many NV playthroughs and the in-depth analysis he's giving here has already been given in his JSawyer series.

[@jeffreymarksworld534]

@@eldritchsun40 alrighty then

[@AgentofChaos315]

I do like how the hallucination's blood stay on the walls after the hallucination ends

[@ianmiller6040]

Maybe it was more real than we thought.... Ooooh.

[@SkaterBlades]

It's wild to me that this series has been going on for 7 months and we're still only in fallout 3. There's so much to do

[@TheRedRobin96]

And there's still a ton left to do. That's the crazy part.

[@Conradical316]

Jon's been to New Vegas to make some early game money but yeah, it could be 3 wastelands too if they include Frontier

[@berenhamilton3321]

He has said before that the series will mainly be a Fallout 3 series. Trips to NV I think are gonna stay like spinoff episodes.

[@ZacharyDangerStewart]

This is like peak Jon for me w/o all the stress and high blood pressure of YOLO

[@donovanfaust3227]

​@@berenhamilton3321 yeah and there's a good reason for it too. He's already done this kind of series for NV when he played through the JSawyer Director's Cut mod. It was the exact same format where he covers all the intricate little things about the game along with what was restored/added by the mod. Jon doesn't like to retread water so NV will just be spin off episode like you said. I think it's a series most people don't know about or have forgotten because I keep seeing this sentiment as if he hasn't already done this for NV.

[@MravacKid]

I remember playing Fallout 3 with Fawkes as a companion and just walking through the wasteland getting notifications of XP going up as he wanders around killing every enemy in sight (or beyond it) :)

[@MartynWilkinson45]

Yeah, he's like Boone in new vegas. They're both a little overtuned as companions.

[@hudsonkettering6668]

I remember having Fawkes and he told me that I'm too weak to go get the GECK you stay here I'll get it and I was like Fawkes are you alive or did you die Fawkes, I was like shit he can't hear me and right when I went to go check he scared the shit out me because he just somehow teleported in front of me and I was WTF how did you but you were, ok you got let's go.

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

I always thought it was a shame that the horrifying mutant corpse in Vault 87 was only used once. The model is incredibly well-made so I wish there was some enemy somewhere that looked like that.

[@CHFafard]

I think there's a mod that adds a "failed mutant" that uses the model. Forget what the mod is, though

[@TheRedRobin96]

@@CHFafard Monster mod I believe, it's been a while since I've modded Fallout 3 but I'm pretty sure that's the one.

[@andrearossi6564]

There's also one of them in the vault 22 overhaul mod for nv

[@rcblazer]

The Failed FEV Experiments are a variation of Super Mutant that are encountered in the New California mod for New Vegas.

[@CHFafard]

@@rcblazer that's the one

[@blackmoon8459]

Ive found that, as Jon says while exploring vault 106, that a lot of Fallout 3 makes so much more sense if you mentally set it happening about 20 or so years after the bombs fell, instead of the 200 that Bethesda eventually did. The super high rad areas that would have decayed to near non-existence after 200 years would still be insanely hot at 20 years. Places like the white house or the normal entrance to vault 87. (Edit: Rad decay based on the relative safety of the most contaminated location in our world, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster site. The current rads around the elephants foot, while certainly very high, are not instantly lethal like they were mere years after the accident. And we are what, less than 50 years since then?) The idea that getting clean water to the wastes is such a huge deal makes way more sense if the game is set within a couple decades after the war, instead of a couple centuries. Heck, you can even explain the BoS more easily too, since the time required to walk across the US, from lost hills CA to Washington DC is about 1 year, assuming about 8 hrs/day walking, and some of the slight diversions that would have to be made. After all, sending a contingent to the Military HQ of the USA makes more sense within the first few years post war, instead of, again, 190-200 years. Plus, young Maxon is canonically what, 9 or 10 at this point? I’m just saying, looking at the major plot points and plot locations, it makes way more sense for the game to have been planned to be at 20-ish years post bombs, than 200. To the point that I suspect the 200 year thing was, while maybe not an 11th hour change, at best a 10th hour change.

[@TheLazyFinn]

There's stuff like this in many episodes but also Fallout radiation is completely different from our world, high rads and barren wastes I can easily accept, lore pot holes are harder.

[@GluttonyReaper]

It would also explain the skeletons everywhere that apparently no-one has bothered to move in 200 years

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

yeah, i agree to that, lots and lots of things doesnt make sense if The Capital Wasteland is 200 years after the war, that 200 years thing is probably rushed in after the game is mostly developed judging by the looks of it

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

Even after 20 years ground zero of a nuclear bomb wouldn't be "kills-you-in-1-second" radioactive like Vault 87.

[@shikasta123]

I always thought that it wasn't a violent uprising in vault 106 that killed the people inside of it. They just did what the terminals said and sit there in ecstasy and die while drugged up. Probably with no one able to turn the gas off they just starved to death with just a few of them turning mad.

[@Braxgar]

"if you kill them, they just disappear naturally enough because they were never here in the first place" He said ignoring the bloodstain on the wall.

[@tybraker27]

(Insert Jon -1 Perception joke here)

[@GoneFishingAmalgam]

I don't know about you but when I black out on hallucinogens and start murdering my illusionary father there are usually still blood stains on the wall when I come out of it...

[@furiousapplesack]

@@GoneFishingAmalgam I feel like this is a reference to "It" and I love it.

[@docette2015]

Okay, the bits with the broken terminals in Vault 106 were pretty brilliant -- I love how you can argue with yourself against the gas's influence through them. As for the survivors -- since they have raider haircuts, I'm going to say that they're raiders who got in somehow, and their reaction to the gas involved them starting to believe they were vault residents. Good enough timeline patching for you? :p

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

The story of Mercia's boyfriend sounds just like an action movie, right up until the point that you realize he completely misread the situation and, far from being an action hero, he unintentionally doomed the whole wasteland on a quest for revenge that was never justified.

[@tekkitbros8251]

id watch that movie, especially if the movie covers part of the fallout of the event, but doesnt mention that in trailers, so its advertised as a regular action movie

[@PlayingGilly]

If you guys are unaware, Tim Cain is on KZbin now and is giving incredible insights into the development of OG Fallout.

[@melt26bb89]

It's super cool that he has recorded journals for all his old Interplay onward endeavors. Hearing about all the old Fallout 1 details is super cool. Him and his artist friend going over the details in a podcast fashion is super worth listening to.

[@coelacanthart]

Honest question, was he the early fallout dev that had the call outs happen a few years back?

[@zurcus7224]

@@coelacanthart No lol, pretty sure that was avellone

[@TheLazyFinn]

@@zurcus7224 I hope it didn't ruin his career as those were seemingly baseless accusations that have been settled now

[@JJ-M]

​@@TheLazyFinnHe filed a SLAP lawsuit and won. That's not the win you seem to think it is.

[@Mobysimo]

I like that if you call Fawkes a Supermutant he says how much he hates the term. Its a nice detail that he dosent like the term thats been associated with those who abused him

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

I like that your profile pic is Chespin. Super cute.

[@jameshowarth91]

Corpse hammock had me dying. Bravo Jon

[@ianmiller6040]

Excellent band name.

[@elinagel-bennett344]

At 3:15 you say you ‘wish that in Fallout 5 we go back to a world that just got…’ and get cut off by the random event. What were you intending to say there?

[@CaptainJZH]

the world may never know...

[@METALFREAK03]

pretty sure he's talking about the fact they go back to the lore and the landscape making sense historically. (like terminals about different vaults etc or lore books that are released alongside the game) He often says it in his videos that details are often missed or rearranged. But not sure what he would say to follow on, I don't think he picked up on the thought later neither

[@LordRunolfrUlfsson]

(6:20) Fallout 4 makes it clear that having a working Pip-Boy gives you at least some potential to open a vault. If there are people inside, they can stop you, but if the vault is unoccupied, it seems that a Pip-Boy will get you in.

[@clankcrimson9413]

God I love Fawkes. I haven't played FO3 since I was a kid but Fawkes was always a badass in my opinion. Even named my first Minecraft World after him

[@officialtibby]

god vault 106 was the most terrifying part of my first fallout 3 playthrough. such an effective horror section

[@antisocialjusticecourier9156]

It was terrifying to me because I thought it was a sign that my Xbox 360 was about to die. I felt much better after realizing my character was hallucinating.

[@tomhathaway2556]

Dropping a stealth boy and pickpocketing a live grenade is the best way to take out the overlords. The old Shady-Sands Shuffle. Kills in 1, no matter how much health they have.

[@BraxtonHoward]

Would the overseer's computer be different if you checked it while hallucinating?

[@MissManday]

Best part about Sundays!

[@benjamingrant5970]

You spelt "Monday mornings" wrong!😉

[@Murderous-Lord]

Fingers crossed that bug where Fawkes doesn't spawn outside of Raven Rock if you retrieve the GECK yourself doesn't happen

[@officialromanhours]

TTW comes with bug fix patches pre installed so we should be good

[@Murderous-Lord]

@cactus moment that adds hope... but then we did see in this episode that they broke the radiation on the vault entrance so...

[@TheLazyFinn]

@@Murderous-Lord It should be working normally, things happen sometimes.

[@BumroyV2]

I'm kinda mad Bethesda changed the chronology of Fallout 3. If the game took place must closer to the bombs dropping, so many plot holes would be fixed. The Enclave wouldn't have already been destroyed in Fallout 2; Little Lamplight would make slightly more sense; the undisturbed nature of all the pre-war buildings would make sense, etc. As it stands, 200 years is a bonkers amount of time for the little development that Fallout 3's societies have seen.

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

The premise underlying your statement is that civilization has not collapsed in 200 years. We could be viewing a rebuilding civilization, which would explain the amount of destruction still on the capital

[@GoneFishingAmalgam]

I was always under the impression that a person's exposure to radiation prior to FEV exposure was the main determining factor in if you get a smart super mutant or a dumb one

[@seprithlicastia463]

That is certainly true for The Master's strain of FEV, but in both the Vault 87 strain (at the start) and the West Virginia strain, they were primarily infecting pure-strain, pre-war people. No radiation, or minimal at least. West Virgina has no higher intelligent Super Mutants, and the Capitol Wasteland has two.

[@Arcade_Cat_]

I was playing Fallout with a friend sitting next to me watching and it was WILD when I got to Vault 106. When the hallucinations and color filters started happening I was like "Uhh, did you see that?"

[@MDRHokage]

I have a theory about Vault 106. The reason the original residents are still there is because they aren't the hostile ones, you are as the player. These survivors would be attacking each other if the gas affected them, but they aren't. These dwellers must be immune, and you perceiving them as red dots is a side effect of the gas. You know you are suffering from the gas because of the hallucinations.

[@primusofcatarina4910]

3:15 That's my favorite aspect of fallout 3. The game shows you the consequences of your actions in game instead of an ending slide show like the other games. It makes everything feel a lot more real. If you convince them to open the vault without destroying it you can encounter Susie Mack in the wasteland and she will tell you everything is great and give the player purified water. If you destroyed the vault you can find her corpse or those of other vault dwellers in a random event instead.

[@yorkshirebhoy4049]

Oxhorn: I create indepth videos about fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. John: Hold my egg carton.

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

I wonder if we can assume that gas pumped into vault 106 is supposed to be the same gas we find in the Hallucinogen building in fallout 4 since they have similar effects on google and then there’s the vault tec DLC?

[@kyleellis1825]

Love it.

[@seprithlicastia463]

The Hallucigen gas drove people into a violent rage. The Vault 106 made people very mellow and sedate. That is quite literally the opposite effect.

[@JoeDeRosasMainDitch]

Please tell me he finished his thought on what he wants in Fallout 5 before he was interrupted by Amata!

[@PerfectTangent]

It could be compass pips?

[@peytongonavy]

@@PerfectTangent *laughs in Hbomberguy*

[@LoreRevolution]

I wonder where Amata goes if you follow her after that random encounter... She'd be hard to keep alive, but what's her destination, anyway?

[@seprithlicastia463]

She has none. She just randomly walks around that area. Each random encounter spot has a fixed zone region; unless the random encounter was designed for them to wonder around (like Outcast patrols) the characters just wonder around within that zone.

[@areacua95]

Something I really like about Vault in Fallout 3 it's that there's never clear answers. They give lore and information about what happened in the vaults, but never enough for you to have the full picture, often letting the player come to fill the blanks and come to their own conclusions

[@mateobonavento3939]

Boooooo, they nerfed the Vault 87 entrance radiation! That was the cool thing about it, that it was very difficult to even make it there. I don't think you can survive long enough to leave the high radiation area, unless you are literally swimming in Radaway and keep mashing the hotkey button like it was a Mario Party minigame to try to offset the insane radiation gains. Seeing Jon just chilling there after a single dose of Rad-X felt super wrong.

[@shiggythegreat]

Maybe Amata, not being able to handle the wastes, searches for another vault to maybe survive in. She instead finds Enclave investigating a vault they had found and tries to enlist their help and they then just try and shake down another vault location out of her before killing her. At least in this instance :p

[@donovanfaust3227]

Talk about leaving it up to the readers imagination.

[@Taolan8472]

Its a classically ambiguous fallout scene.

[@forskinshredr]

I have enlisted in the army and am leaving in just a few hours. I can honestly say that coming back to a year's worth of backlog of MATN videos is going to be one of the highlights of ny return 😭

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

Good luck bro!

[@Lucas-gt8en]

Best of luck!

[@alphamorion4314]

Good luck, man

[@CaptainJZH]

Ad Victoriam!

[@Taolan8472]

You'l get your phone back once you get through basic, unless you're in an OSUT environment. Good luck. Follow instructions! Remember to breathe! Both eyes open!

[@Nerdnumberone]

Presumably, Butch's hallucinations would be different, so he wouldn't be shooting a copy of himself.

[@shorewall]

He's shooting the Lone Wanderer, and then goes...wait.

[@AmanKumar-ug8cb]

The upside down vault room is actually in the vanilla fallout 3 too. I also found out about it like a year ago or smthn.

[@guy_autordie]

I remember seeing that at the time

[@rainestar6781]

"...What? Another version of myself? Pfft c'mon, I see that every time I look in a mirror!" - Butch, probably

[@CommissarMitch]

I do love the idea that any time the Player's Brain is always angry towards them

[@shadowneko521]

there's an easy explanation for why the FO1+2 mutants are more consistent - they were fully dipped in the fev, fev that had the master's people actively trying to maintain high results. If I remember right, there are a few terminals in 1 that basically say any other form of exposure is both inconsistent and much more likely to warp the subject's mind (thus why they needed people from vaults - no pre-exposure to FEV, so better results). On top of that, if I remember right the master had a certain expectation of quality, and had no problem eliminating unacceptable results, ie there were less dumb dumbs cause they had no problem culling the results. There were some pretty dumb super mutants, sure, but the ones not even capable of understanding basic orders were considered worthless rejects.

[@seprithlicastia463]

That... actually makes sense, yeah. All the Super Mutants are from the same FEV base, but the skill of scientist them is the key factor, and Gray was smart. Yeah, that fits really well.

[@shawnwilburn5382]

Vault 106 seems like they must've cut out almost half of the content in there. That dead end probably was going to lead into the caves, and the notes were probably going to be found down there.

[@davidday6822]

I always thought the GECK was like a low yield version of the Genesis Devise from Wrath of Kahn

[@ellaisplotting]

That's what it seems to be- leaning quite heavily on the 'indistinguishable from magic' clause, they've even got essentially the same biblical name.

[@seprithlicastia463]

About how I pictured it, too. I think I read an interview once that said, "A GECK does what we need the GECK to do" with the in-universe explanation being, "The miracle of a GECK is not what it does, but that it works at all".

[@phylwx]

Oh shit! This series making tangible advance in the main plot is filling me with dread of it ending in the near future!

[@gileswhitaker9656]

Did anyone else see the auto-generated English subtitles: "Good Afternoon, ladies jumping on Jon"!!! I want to make a joke about this, but it is already too funny on its own!

[@Malefactor]

Fawkes here: "You're a fool to go into that radiation to retrieve the GECK when I'm here and can do it no problem." Fawkes at the end with Broken Steel: "You're a coward for asking me to go into the radiation to activate Project Purity, you should have died like your father."

[@CaptainJZH]

i thought that was Ron Perlman criticizing us for not dying like our father, not Fawkes lol

[@bhicks76]

I'm thinking they got the idea for the geck from star trek

[@ellaisplotting]

It's a bit on the nose, the names are even very close 😅

[@jcoutelier]

I often wonder what your companions see if you take them to Vault 106 with you. I mean RL-3 obviously nothing - he's a robot. Don't know if ghouls or super mutants would be affected either. Jericho I will guess something involving Teddy Bears - if you visit his house in Megaton he seems to have a weird thing with stabbing them.

[@awordabout...3061]

37:00 - Fawkes, apparently, is quite a ventriloquist! His mouth never even moved!

[@galacticknight55544]

I think those people in the cave were trying to blow their way out of the vault instead of going up like you said because the upper levels of the vault were overrun by crazy people.

[@MarkoDash]

I think the reason the vault 106 experiment went off the rails is that the delivery pipes were leaky (you see the gas coming out of pipes that have no vents) so a much bigger section of the population than intended got gassed. Vault 106 also reminds me of the Pax from the Firefly movie Serenity, where it made most people content, non-aggressive, and lethargic. but a few people had the opposite effect, becoming canibalstic hyperaggressive murder hobos.

[@seprithlicastia463]

I concur on your leaking pipe theory. That was how I always saw it, too.

[@Blue_Kraken_Gaming]

I always assumed the GECK was like the Genesis device from Wrath of Khan

[@jennaheiser625]

The fact that I couldn’t TURN ON A COMPUTER with Science 100 and needed a child to run and do it for me still infuriates me!

[@TheSimmr001]

Science 100 means nothing if the kids "Turning the computer off" was stealing the power cord. And you know this world would make them proprietary

[@timbus2]

I guess that’s what getting old must feel like…

[@Drosera420]

I'm imagining the G.E.C.K. to be something akin to Star Trek 2's 'Genesis device'.

[@j-roll2264]

There was also the name Jason on the first page of list who was tagged UD000 and Jason was the name of the kid, meaning experimentation was also carried out on children maybe unless there were other Jason's in the Vault

[@seprithlicastia463]

Oh, damn! I just went back and checked the video for this. You are right! Both first and last name: Jason Stevens. I never noticed that before. Good catch!

[@SpikedKirby]

37:47 Fawkes mastered the art of ventriloquism

[@ham8426]

That second intelligence check with fawkes might be restored content, I've played 3 a few times and only remember seeing the first check, never heard that second set of dialogue

[@stagnudemorte9191]

i found a weird quirk with the operation anchorage DLC. if you help the outcasts and talk to defender sibley, but don't talk to the next guy that he says he'll take you to, Sibly will occasionally catch up to you to tell you again that he'll take you to Protector Mcgraw. he just slowly walked up behind me when i was taking out super mutants and just joined in taking them out.

[@LifelessTooth]

Those first two overlords after freeing Fawkes had me in tears. You shot the Chinese assault rifle out of the first one's hand then kept knocking down the 2nd one as #1 got back up. #1 picks up his gun and shoots at Fawkes a little before running over and stealing #2's laser rifle like "you don't need that anymore, I'll take it lol"

[@bwcbiz]

Knowing Vault-Tec, the final experiment in 106 may not have gone wrong at all from their POV. They could easily have set protocols so that the gas never switched off despite the overseer's settings.

[@CaptainJZH]

It's simple, Jon. The previous GECK vaults just got a crappy one and this vault got the actually fully functional one

[@getem3345]

Hi Jon, I just wanted to say thank you for all the effort you put in these videos. I only have one suggestion regarding a potential new stellaris series like your Megacorp run. I really enjoyed that gameplay even though I know it may not be in your best interest as a content creator. -a fan

[@Nerathul1]

Isn't it part of fallout 1 that the master is looking for Vaults because unirradiated humans are the ones who become smart mutants? Or at least do so in greater numbers?

[@seprithlicastia463]

It is, yes. And the Master's strain of FEV supports his hypothesis. But the Vault 87 and West Virginia strains initial batch of victims were as pure-stain as you can get -- all pre-war. Yet those stains seem to produce even stupider Super Mutants than the Master's worst standard grunt.

[@tbotalpha8133]

43:55 Fun fact: there's a region right inside that last doorway where there are no rads. Notice your rad growth disappeared for a second as you walked through. It's a neat place to stand while the GECK containment structure opens, leaving you completely safe from radiation. I believe it saw some use in Fallout 3 speedruns at one point, though it's been a while since I checked so current routes might not need it.

[@dajosh42069]

The G.E.C.K. in FO3 is essentially wants to be "The Genesis Device" from Star Trek. Just breaks down all life and matter in favor of it's new matrix, reforming an area (planet) into a lush, green, habitable M-Class pla... erm, Clean water source with...plants.. I guess?

[@jennaheiser625]

The amount of writing that went into Vault 87 gives me hope that Fallout 5 might still be great!

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

I'm sorry. But even Fallout 4 was bad.

[@jennaheiser625]

Writing-wise, it was a mixed bag. There was some good environmental stuff, while the story writing was absolute trash. But I hold out hope that they’ll look back to the older games!

[@kupokinzyt]

@@JoshuaKevinPerry stand up and show the court where it touched you

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

@@JoshuaKevinPerry fallout 4 wasn’t bad

[@seprithlicastia463]

Sadly, Bethesda only really seems to be good at writing environmental story-telling anymore. I actually liked Fallout 76's story until they added NPCs because their environmental stories were so good! But their regular stories... eh, I will pass.

[@witheredoceans2535]

For anyone wondering, in the original Fallout 3 outside of TTW, the radiation actually is a ton worse. On one playthrough of mine I made it a point to discover all locations, including Vault 87. I prepped for that with a radiation suit and 100+ radaway from trading tech for radaway from that guy in the Outcasts at Fort Independence, and some rad-x. Even then, I was getting 100-200 rads/sec, and the max before death is 1,000 rads. Fun times.

[@wheresmymuffins]

you know that moment w the enclave being right outside of vault 106 is an example of how I think random encounters actually elevate the storytelling of the game? Because like Jon said, maybe the enclave don't realize they're right next to 106, which is an ironic bit of storytelling in its own right-or maybe they caught amata here because they just left vault 106, while amata was headed there hoping the vault would still be functional and take her in. obviously none of this is technically canon, but it's still fun to think about (and *technically* none of it isn't canon either, I mean, it's in the game). To that end, actually, some of the places I've found Meridia's beacon in Skyrim actually lead to some crazy lore theories, like one time it was in the final treasure chest of some vampires, so like it kinda makes sense why *they* would have it what with their aversion to light and such, and another time in some chest I think in one of the other daedric realms? so it was like the other daedra lord or their minions stole it, hinting at some conflict between them (I really don't remember which, it might've even been cc content but still). I think one time it was literally in a spider egg sac, like.... did a frostbite spider "lay" Meridia's beacon like an egg 0.o? tldr radiant/random encounters and item locations *can be* really cool sometimes and lead to fun and fresh stories in the background of the world

[@HelFrostKara]

Hmm yes Fawkes thinks you're silly for going in to the hella radioactive area when he was was able to help... Interesting... But what if it was your "destiny" to be that stupid? elemayo

[@MrSensical]

10:46 yeah Raiders moving into a Vault and wearing vault suits? Couldn't happen 😉

[@radaroreilly505]

31:27 - the 2nd person on the list (Jason Stevens) is the child of the father who eventually broke down and "created" Lamplight. So the 2nd person they experimented on was a child. At 25:48, I also find the line "Now all this work seems pointless" to be telling. What work is he referring to? My guess is the father was an experimental scientist who ended up killing his son. First, his mental breakdown makes more sense if he has a guilty conscience. Second, "this work" probably refers to Vault Tech's experiment. Third, he went to a doctor with an issue and actually got medical help instead of becoming the next experimental victim; surely this treatment is only reserved for important people.

[@markmckenna7403]

I feel like this your magnum opus. Fallout 3 is my fav game ever and I’m loving this. Knowing there’s a new vegas to come too really gives me that security that my favourite Sunday and only consistent form of media isn’t ending anytime soon. Love you John. Keep on keepin on

[@Gureiseion]

Thanks to aTTW, this won't be the last time we argue with our brains!

[@AerodynamicBrick]

If you let Amata take over the vault, you can actually find here asking for help with the Enclave in sexy sleepwear. Saving her just have have her saying "Don't talk to me" I'm guessing when they were having their mini Civil War, they damaged critical systems. Amata wanted to help the vault, saw the notes about the Enclave and somewhere she decided that dressing up in a sexual manner to ensure she would get the help.

[@FatherKahzooq]

Been playing new vegas all day and now i'm watching fallout videos before i sleep 👍 Thank you for reigniting my love for fallout john ❤️

[@ottostiefel4907]

I love the voice acting for Fawkes.

[@_Faw_]

Wild that the front door to vault 87 is locked behind a key instead of the usual [Inaccessible] prompt. That and it leads into the test labs, wonder if console commands would open it, and where it would go.

[@seprithlicastia463]

That is a change from this mod. In the original game, it was simply unaccessible. But from within the Vault, it led into a normal Vault entrance, but if you tried to go out the entrance, you fall through the floor and respawn outside Fawkes' cell.

[@Ellanion]

Why would Butch hallucinate Butch? All we know is that YOU see companion Butch fighting hallucination Butch. We don't know if companion Butch is seeing Butch or someone/thing else entirely, let alone that companion Butch is even there and not another hallucination.

[@Ellanion]

FEV affects people differently depending on their initial level of radiation. That's why The Master is looking for vaults. He wants to make smart, functional mutants from relatively clean human stock. The super mutants in the capital wasteland are grabbing wastelanders and expose them to FEV. Far be it from me to defend Beth lore, but this one they've got down.

[@xJavelin1]

I knew all about the Vault but had no idea that those pipes pumping gas were there in the first room. Fallout 3 is a lot deeper than I had thought.

[@seprithlicastia463]

The game is filled with tiny details like this. Environmental storytelling in this game is great. You can trace a group of immediate post-war unnamed doctors/patients all the way from the hospital to the Germantown refugee camp -- all without notes or anything.

[@JB-xl2jc]

Fun fact, the river in The Pitt is even more heavily irradiated than the Vault 87 door. I believe it was 1800 rads/s!

[@FreddyVanHalen5150]

No Jon was right, the vault 87 door is the most irradiated in the entire game and franchise. The wiki lists it at 4000 peak rads in the centre and 3600 peak rads at the door.

[@JB-xl2jc]

@@FreddyVanHalen5150 Huh, I guess I wasn't testing in quite the right spot using console commands.

[@MissManday]

Re: raiders in vault suits. Maybe there were extra suits that the raiders started using?

[@seprithlicastia463]

You can actually find a lot of Raider equipment in the chest in Vault 106. Combined with the Raider-like appearance of the Survivors, and them being former Raiders "staying in the blue" is a pretty good theory.

[@weekendguy100]

I can’t wait to learn more about new Vegas, I don’t know nearly as much about the game, and Jon has done a great job exploring 3 so far! Also, love fawkes!

[@Keleigh3000]

As described in Fallout 3 the G.E.C.K. sounds like a briefcase version of Star Trek II's Genesis Device.

[@seprithlicastia463]

Agreed.

[@peckneck2439]

I don't know the survors can't possibly be raiders because they would need a working pipboy to open the vault to get in so either in Fallout 3 you don't need really a pipboy to open the vault or somehow raiders came across a vault dweller and took the pipboy from them both possibilities being rather unlikely to be a thing.

[@seprithlicastia463]

The real kick is that, in Fallout 3, Pip-Boys are medically attached to a persons arm and cannot be transferred. But we can kind Raider armor in the chest in Vault 106, so the theory just keeps bouncing around.

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

3:40 Wow, its really interesting that they took the time to add this into Fallout 3.

[@DNero13]

Started the series when part 31 had just came out. Am now up to date ffs

[@Ratich]

You should go for handloader due to how good handloaded ammunition is

[@Usernamewhatever1443]

3:08 this statement is broken up at the perfect moment to leave you wondering what it was supposed to be

[@ThePensiveWalrus]

He hopes in Fallout 5, we go do back to a world where the compass only has tick marks on it. In some of his other videos Jon mentioned disliking the compass in fallout 4, which had icons indicating what type of location was ahead of you. Fallout 3/NV just has a tick mark when you're near a named location, you have to actually go there to figure out what it is. It makes the game much more interesting to explore, guiding players towards interesting locations without spoiling the discovery.

[@howlsfire69]

Just binged this entire series when it didnt go to the next episode i was shocked! Cant wait for more this ones special ❤

[@alexwatts1064]

BELETHOR, LEAVE AMATA ALONE!

[@battlemageblitz82]

DoOoOo come back.

[@rcblazer]

Somebody at Bethesda was watching Star Trek when they redesigned the G.E.C.K. for Fallout 3, since it's become a copy of the Genesis Device.

[@SirRoderickThunderbottom]

best way to deal with overlords is to reverse pickpocket an explosive. all the HP and DT in the world does little to the 1-hit Kill animation from a grenade down the trousers...

[@BarbarianGod]

12:25 but they do leave blood stains funnily enough

[@alexanderhammil6754]

Finding out that Fallout 3 was at one point intended to take place at roughly the same time as Fallout 1, or even earlier, makes so much sense. Shame they didn't go with that - that would have improved a loooooot of the worldbuilding weirdness of F3 and F4.

[@seprithlicastia463]

I cannot agree with that, at least when looking at the final product. Beyond Jet making even less sense, the Brotherhood (as they are written) already being in D.C. makes no sense and the Enclave should be at the Oil Rig, not attempting to play power politics in D.C..

[@alexanderhammil6754]

@@seprithlicastia463 Yes, there'd definitely be some stuff that would need to be reworked or removed, but personally all of the connections to the west coast games didn't add much. like, the east coast brotherhood is so different than the west coast version that you might as well call them something else; the us military was spread throughout the country, so it's entirely reasonable that multiple pockets of survivors exist and form their own communities. the enclave likewise: having multiple competing "presidents" in the aftermath of total societal collapse doesn't cause as many conflicts as trying to maintaing the continuity with the earlier games does.

[@Safetytrousers]

I saw the food being wheelbarrowed in for the African hunting dogs at London zoo, and it looked exactly like the contents of a gorebag.

[@zuzoscorner]

Awesome episode as always -tips hat-

[@John_Raiyder]

Im on Vacation in Italy this Week, but still the Best thing all week

[@TheGrinningViking]

Most GECK are just seeds - but this is the FEV GECK. It makes everthing HEALTHY and GREEN.

[@jaygamings6888]

Jon's reading of that note makes me want to just have an entire video where we listen to him reading. He has the perfect voice for it.

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

Another piece of evidence that Vault 87 wasn't "supposed" to be overrun by mutants - Vault-Tec bothered to issue them a G.E.C.K., which wouldn't make sense if they expected the Vault to fail. It's very plausible Vault-Tec genuinely thought Vault 87 was going to work and produce useful scientific data they could harvest later regarding a super soldier program.

[@randomguyblank1616]

Ok Jon just a quick explanation, there are 2 types of GECKS, the fallout 2 type 1GECK is just the box of seeds, advice, soil samples, and a cold fusion reactor. The type 2 GECK in fallout 3 is the magical matter transmutator that makes a green paradise. Imo the GECKS are symbolic of the game design philosophies of Bethesda and interplay/Obsidian, one simply provides the tools needed and just lets you go wild, while the other one kinda dumbs things down a lot and though it removes a good chunk of frustration, it isn't as thought out in some areas.

[@willgilmore3]

Day #11 of asking Jon to play Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Fun fact: 11/10 is how I would rate my happiness the day he finally covers the game (even though I am well aware that he has a ton of other games he covers, so we will likely not get a full series of the game. Though, personally, I would love to see 20 4-hour livestreams of the game).