What If You Didn't Go To The Vault Before The Nuclear Strike in Fallout 4?

Have you ever wondered what would happen if, before the nuclear strike, you didn't go to the vault at the beginning of Fallout 4 but instead wandered around Sanctuary Hills? I decided to test it out. So, I started a new game, created my character, and waited for the Vault-Tec representative. When he arrived, I also wanted to see what would happen if I watched TV and didn't open the door for him. Surprisingly, the TV just played the same news repeatedly with no changes, but at least, you can spot a reference to Fallout 76. After a while, I opened the door, provided all the necessary information, and began waiting for news about nuclear explosions in the United States. Upon hearing the required information in the news, I simply sat on the couch and continued waiting.

[@SzajKornik]

Imagine a secret ghoul mode

[@monkeynavyseal3958]

There is one that actually starts up just like this where the nuke goes off and it skips to the same time where you would’ve left the vault but now you’re a ghoul

[@SportAndThings]

@@monkeynavyseal3958how do I do

[@Mahd018]

​@@SportAndThings I think he's talking about a mod

[@Raooka]

screen fades to black. slowly fades in and you're on a cart being wheeled to boston. you hear a ghoul voice "oh hey. you're finally awake"

[@BABYFACEBEASTIE]

And then you have to wait 200 years in real time before you look for Sean!

[@VOIDWALKER_333]

Nuke goes off… black screen… and then you hear the sound of hooves on cobblestone… the creaking of a wooden cart… and then… “hey you, you’re finally awake”

[@hulk5006]

Underrated comment 😂

[@lockl00p27]

God… dammit

[@qwart22]

Goddamnit Todd Howard you beautiful man, you’ve done it again, you’ve released the glorious Skyrim for everyone to experience for the fifth time!

[@samiversart]

Best comment on any video ever 😂😂😂

[@user-cs9up1sl3b]

That's crazy

[@xcalicojack]

"What happens when I dont hide from a nuclear explosion?" .... *dies in nuclear explosion* "oh."

[@Boss0Leeny]

Really

[@DominicBenson-de9mz]

No way

[@canmertinyo]

Waos

[@DeepakGautamX]

Dude was expecting free pizza

[@joseanaya342]

"The main character is trying to leave the simulation...take him out" nuke goes off 😂

[@impostrous]

tranquility lane

[@EtherealGoddess_Ent]

DEEP

[@jonathanfoster8475]

"The TV just played the same news repeatedly with no changes". That's actually pretty realistic. Good job Bethesda.

[@weswolever7477]

I thought video games were an escape from reality

[@Ghostshrimp1533]

@@weswolever7477 Video games are a form of entertainment, they don't have any rules.

[@tigerwoods373]

@@Ghostshrimp1533yeah but you play them to escape this hell we call earth and do cool stuff. Cause god forbid people can actually afford to do anything these days.

[@chimaerejade5090]

Reminds anyone of "The Truman Show"? :D

[@Death_Vail666]

​@@weswolever7477 well it is different, they only talk about the same news for a little bit but in real life they'll stretch something for months to git in there and really give it a ringing till there's absolutely nothing left to tell ever again and everyone has already been tired of hearing It way back when they kept on talking about it in the first week.

[@KrotowX]

They proved that in case of nuclear attack you must stay in home and must not respond to strangers.

[@anasshahid224]

😅

[@DrCruel]

*The Hikikomori Gambit:* If you refuse to engage with anyone, nothing bad has a chance to happen. You become ageless and immortal.

[@Sniperbro9191]

And now it’s 1k likes

[@derpkilla]

@@DrCruelthat’s a good shout tbh

[@Hasjasja]

​@@DrCruel Okay so basically my life.

[@taco10lex]

i love how this is the first and only fallout that lets you die from the great war

[@Craigfenty]

So it's not a mod LMFAOOOOOOOOO THATS CRAZY. All these fallout vids is making me wanna play it again 😂😂😂

[@taco10lex]

@@Craigfenty def go play it again

[@kevlarvest7375]

Makes me want to play it finally... I only preordered it 🤷

[@taco10lex]

@@kevlarvest7375 it's very worth playing just dont expect the total freedom of fallout 3 and new Vegas it's more linear for it's story

[@kevlarvest7375]

@@taco10lex That's what I heard. I bought it preorder, Pipboy edition and all, but never got past character customization; NV set the bar too high after I created myself accidentally

[@MCCaradon]

Id like to see a Fallout game where in the tutorial if your character doesnt enter a vault, you can play a hard mode where you are a ghoul.

[@UnknownPersononGoogle]

Ghoul would be easy mode it would be extremely hard to die.

[@MCCaradon]

@@UnknownPersononGoogle risk of going feral

[@jacobgeiger4589]

@@UnknownPersononGoogleI imagine your special stats would be capped (ghouls are more preserved than still developing) and stimpacks would work at 40% efficiency though you have a minor passive heal over time but it’s only a set amount per real minute, resting more than 5 hours makes any damage full heal. I also feel like you’d be restricted in that certain factions would start off hostile to you and you would have to either work to gain their trust or in the case of the brotherhood be hunted down regardless. Certain vendors would refuse to sell to you and/or some would charge you extra. I think it could be done well but it would take a lot of balancing, though a unique ghoul ending would be cool too (ex. Re-bomb the commonwealth lol)

[@142doddy]

​@@UnknownPersononGooglewhy would it be harder to die?

[@spiddy1335]

​​@@142doddymakes me wonder too since all the sentient ghouls have drastically lower health pool than normal humans. Maybe the only ghoul that guy met was a high level character.

[@renatabronka5353]

I expected an invisible wall.....and i got a nuke, gorgeous! DO YOU HEAR ME STARFIELD?!?!

[@Happy_Gunner]

Fallout does have invisible walls tho lol

[@Uncle_Smallett]

Nope, it doesnt hear you. Sound cant travel through space vacuum.

[@jessifer23f]

He said here though. Maybe that's why. @@Uncle_Smallett

[@renatabronka5353]

@@Uncle_Smallett damn.....gotta find another way

[@LetsFightingLove123]

Hear*

[@mad_quack]

I wandered off the trail once by accident because I was looking at the sky and the bomb dropped right as I realized I had walked away from the path 🤣

[@DarkArachnid666]

I did that too!

[@lazylurkerbro9855]

I didn't wander off the trail, but I did dawdle too much and died one time lol

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206]

565 angel numbers

[@S-S-Stonecold]

There are mods that will allow you back into the prewar area after the intro of the game, so I used it to go past the points where the bombs automatically drop if you pass them. After a certain point past the Red Rocket, it’s basically an unrendered/untextured mess iirc

[@pesokpesok]

i remember someone on YB testing this exact thing years ago and there was a way to survive the nuke while being outside the bunker

[@EnergyLiteHDChannel]

you can turn on god mode but at that point you soft lock the game

[@porcupineracer2]

There should be a secret mode: you wait for bombs to fall instead of going to vault, bombs fall, hole in ground opens up and you fall in, you ghoulify but are stuck for over a hundred years, finally you emerge as a ghoul and are greeted by codsworth, you scream at codsworth who never noticed you down there despite passing by the hole and making comments about it

[@GypsyDanger514]

Dude you should turn that into a mod

[@davidedemurodominijanni9889]

@@GypsyDanger514 As a modder myself that was my exact same thought. Definitely valid mod's material!

[@samado_]

then you get a tutorial and complete a few quests and possiblely a major quest before finding your dead wife/husband and everything goes the same way expect radiation heals you and some people treat you differently.

[@user-dc2is4hl2g]

and you wouldnt be able to side with the brotherhood

[@xblackxabyssx1983]

there has been a alternate starting mod for a long time wonder if it would be possible to get this idea added in as one of the possible starting points

[@trueblaze84]

So the vault tec guy is directly responsible for the nukes dropping. Never talk to him and they never drop Edit: lol the new series caused this comment comment ot really blow up XD

[@Art3mis-Cane]

Isnt it canon that Vault-Tec is directly responsible for the war?

[@GrossoPro]

😂

[@tigerwoods373]

Correlation equals causation

[@josephantone1243]

Door to door salesmen are scary.

[@krzosu]

Well nothing will happen until YOU talk to him - thus it is you (a player) who is at fault here :D it is your action not his that trigger the events :D

[@niceguyofgames9490]

“You’re gonna play the game how we made it and you’re gonna like it!”

[@FalandraAoC]

This video feels like that meme where you try to get your word count up and explain the most unimportant things in the most detailed way possible.

[@amazingspidermew]

That’s how you end up in Skyrim 😂

[@maximumdon7637]

“Hey you… you’re finally awake…”

[@Bloodyack]

Caught trying to pass the border.. Of Sanctuary Hills!

[@averagetag86]

@@maximumdon7637"you were trying to cross the border right? Just like that horse their over there"

[@maximumdon7637]

@@averagetag86 “Walked right into that imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.”

[@theshadowbehindyou9631]

You have to pass through star citizen first

[@Derekzparty]

So as long as you never run from a nuclear attack it won't happen. Very valuable information to have!

[@flopus7]

Nukes can sense fear

[@ViniSocramSaint]

That comment is accidentally historically/politically accurate in so many levels ^_^

[@Mastercheif5332_gaming]

Nate:I want to bring some nuka cola with me into the vault Bethsda:we will not allow it

[@st4rfallnight10]

ever wondered what it'd be like driving that vaultec van, or any of the cars. I have every time I play Fo4.

[@tripolarmdisorder7696]

I followed the Vault Tec guy away from the vault, and we triggered it together near the bridge.

[@PistolPete21294]

True definition of friendship

[@oujimandias6485]

​@@PistolPete21294 They were... good neighbors

[@koshermal]

Nice breakdown showing where the trigger points are. I'm pretty sure most of us only wondered thst when we started up our second playthrough!

[@sintechofficial7170]

I died in my home, just sitting on the couch it took a while doe....

[@anasshahid224]

Facts

[@remissivo4616]

When i did this for myself a while back, I was disappointed that there wasn't an achievement for it.

[@TA-zh9rg]

You need to let it run idle for multiple days without answering the door to break it.

[@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodl6206]

In Real Life days or ingame days?

[@TA-zh9rg]

Real life days, maybe months or years even.

[@nightviperone]

What if that wasn't a reference to Fallout 76, but all of Fallout 76 is a giant reference to that one moment in Fallout 4? Hmmmmmm...... 🤔 💭 🤔

[@owenhockley9124]

Bethesda always puts hints towards games they want to make read some of the books in oblivion a lot of them have story’s of Skyrim and read the books in Skyrim they tell hints of hamerfell

[@bowsreal7079]

​@owenhockley9124 in eso there are also always hints to the next chapter dlc at the end of the last one

[@RobotWithHumanHair.]

What was the reference to 76

[@BlakeSmith17]

it's not really - reference though. it's a foreshadow. If it's a reference than 76 would have had to come out before Fallout 4.

[@redneckroy8947]

​@@owenhockley9124and all of the books reference Arena. Almost as if all of the games are a series, Genius.

[@marcromain64]

Somewhere on a Chinese sub ... "Missiles for Concord ready, fire on my mark. Wait for it... Wait..." "Sir, all others fired their missiles four days ago!" "Yes, but there's this one guy watching TV and he haven't tried to leave Sanctuary Hills yet, so WTF am I supposed to do? We wait!"

[@Zeknif1]

Imagine having A NUKE with your name on it!

[@k1er4n544]

But sir we must commence attack! God dammit he has been taking a dump for past half hour we wait until he has washed and left the building......

[@Zeknif1]

@@k1er4n544 My head canon is that the sub commander and Nate fought each other in Alaska where Nate managed to humiliate the sun commander, who then sought to command a sub for the sole purpose of firing a nuke at Nate when the conflicts finally went nuclear.

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

I just turned off hit detection(PC ftw) and walked through the walls of my house out into the neighborhood. Tried to go see the Red Rocket outside Sanctuary Hills. Wanted to see it pre-war. Actually jumped when the bombs dropped and killed me. Turns out the rest of the world map outside Sanctuary Hills simply doesn’t exist pre-bombs dropping. Good times.

[@Chris-nn3vu]

npc

[@Iwanhunt4181]

I got caught up in the nuclear blast my first playthrough cause i didnt realise that section was timed and i was just looking around at ore war sanctuary

[@kennethkelly2471]

You should have been able to tell the guy no who go away. At that point, hang around with your family for a while. She cooks dinner. You can help her. You gather your son or daughter For Dinner sit around the table Then the news goes off tells you about the nuclear Warning Then it's too late. Shows your whole neighborhood going up in flames. Or gather your family up. And go to the vault. They tell you you're name is not on the board. And you die in front of the gate And then the Credit roll

[@joshuamiller9186]

Every 13th playthrough your name isn't on the list and you just die Like the mod in Skyrim where Alduin just doesn't show up and you lose your head

[@99baking]

How to watch this guy's shorts: skip to the last 5 seconds

[@RMMSAKaustavBindu]

"You are unable to escape scenes in Fallout 4 ...." -The Game Developer

[@ForburyLion]

The pre-Nuclear Strike Fallout world would be quite interesting to explore, Maybe if you have to live in that world and complete quests to earn a place in a vault, maybe recruit a team to join you? Maybe some kind of multiverse portal where you're quest is to end the game by tweaking the past to create a non Fallout timeline, Could then jump between worlds like Zelda 3 (or any more recent game that does that).

[@Vikiorn]

This was the first thing I discovered in the game… I never take games seriously 😅

[@williammuldrow2165]

I'm the same guy. I love to "test" them by sitting still to see what dialogue the NPCs have if I don't do something, and so on. "Come on, man. The door's right there." Stuff like that.

[@HunterTheBozo]

There's a reference to vault 76 in Fallout 3 in one of the Citadel computers.

[@gundamdude8351]

Wait really even tho we all know its a prequel to all the fallout lore wise but never knew or noticed been long sinds i played 3

[@SproingBoing]

Can confirm, it's listed with several other Vaults in a small archive when you're tasked with locating which one was supplied with a G.E.C.K. ​ It would've been funnier to find a terminal in FO4 that tells us WV nuked itself into a crater because of these mythical "Scorch Beasts" 😂 @@gundamdude8351

[@100GTAGUY]

Wasnt there some obscure Fallout reference in portal 2 involving vitrified vaults? A poster in a cracked door or something?

[@ChewableTrash]

Wish I had 30s of my life back

[@MLI0369]

I did this yesterday lol but it’s because they deny the vault tech guy and he runs away. At first I thought “oh he is going to a different vault, so I followed him to see where he went

[@The_DC_Kid]

I wondered so I tried running down the road as did you, and going outside the fence at the Vault entrance. Same thing. Maybe next time I'll try disarming the guards waiting near the Vault.

[@WeazelGamingHI]

I just wish we actually had a Fallout where we experience the nuclear strikes firsthand and then somehow magically survive. Thus segueing in the main game.

[@sparrowhawk8539]

You got it dude. This was the first fallout game where you experience the nuclear strikes and miraculously survive with only seconds between you and death. If you are asking for another game it wouldn't be bypassing the main game, that would be the game. If they did make that game you would have to become a ghoul to survive the fallout. A man turning in to a ghoul in a radioactive dust cloud and massive fresh destruction doesn't sound like a great game to me.

[@DaraGaming42]

Yeah same, im kinda hoping for a Mad Max reality, no more work and rules , great

[@ajaakola2]

Its also the first game to have a mod about surviving and living in it, its really hard

[@killiandowney3319]

Might be the funniest Charlie video in a while, this was such a trip

[@lylewolfe8154]

Wish it would let you become a ghoul

[@wootlegion]

"voltec"

[@davidistakinganap]

Damn so the mc of fallout 4 just had the power in the palm of their hand the whole time. And because they decided to do stuff the nuke dropped but if they had just stayed in their house everyone would’ve been chilling.

[@joshnizzle]

I have done almost all the things in your videos myself but still really love watching them and seeing them play out for you. Awesome stuff! 👍

[@MrJaspett]

Literally the first thing I ever did in Fallout 4.

[@Ossi-1986]

All aboard this railroad, with no deviation possible

[@robertkarp2070]

No because you get nuked and are dead. One of the skeletons that some other person that emerges from the vault to find. Maybe Valentine comes along and kicks your skeleton around.

[@spudmajic]

@@robertkarp2070 and furthermore your son never gets taken, the institute is without a prewar child to groom and use. gen 3s never get developed and possibly the institute even collapses.

[@saturnalia91]

You beat the game before you even started. 🤣​@@spudmajic

[@richs.7373]

"The only way to win is not to play" 😂

[@darmstrong9353]

all these years and so many playthroughs and I have never thought of ignoring the vault lol

[@Racstacko]

This was literally the first thing I tested when playing fo4😂

[@sirtainlee8725]

What if the Vault-tec guy is killed or delayed?

[@VladimirDemidovIllusiveMan]

Most likely nothing: looping news. When he is triggered, the next dialogues are triggered, which in turn triggers the bombs. Everything's scripted.

[@mchammer5592]

Dude I would love it if there was a secret OTHER vault you could run to.

[@CPT85]

Most of us explored this already. We already know about the nuke going off if you don’t get to the vault.

[@GavinMakesVideos-xm7dd]

I can only imagine a nuke going off while I was going on a morning jog and suddenly being launched through your neighbors house at Mach 10

[@jarvistoasty]

Here’s a video idea: the side quest Short Stories entails you telling the story of the deathclaw from Concord alongside the Minutemen to the kids in the classroom in Vault 81. But what if you never fight the deathclaw?

[@briansalk3233]

Roll credits. For the price I paid, that game was less fun than expected.

[@brosephbroman7564]

Aww someone can't handle the wasteland. Back to Roblox for yew

[@ernie8401]

Rip Nora your thickness won’t be forgotten

[@Freddyplush12]

I didn’t know how to play at first so I died over and over again

[@Headcase0570]

"Have you ever wondered?" Dude, there's no Fallout player that hasn't done it at this point in time.

[@stargazer99]

I haven’t done it. Mostly because I was spoiled of what happens so didn’t see any point in trying myself~

[@Uncle_Smallett]

Nah, never interested. It is intro, man, you cant really PLAY it and you come to game not to play intro, which placed hundreds years before actual gameplay. I played Fallouts 2, 3, NV and DLCs, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. What do you think i could hope to find at new Bethesda clone of Arena in Fallout universe intro? GTA-X?

[@Rumblefancy]

I love this game

[@Markus_Andrew]

Me too!

[@billymagin8529]

Vault 76 is also mentioned in fallout 3 at the brotherhood base it found in one of the terminal around liberty prime also in fallout 4 vault tec building has some mention vault in a terminal as well

[@chedeherrera3800]

I personally love every track from this era, along with all of the morgues music

[@chaseroberts2697]

What if you went to the root cellar behind the neighbors house?

[@AA-bz1pr]

I dont think it spawns

[@bradreeder7635]

Guess what else? Water is wet, and the sky is blue.

[@tigerwoods373]

I think technically that's not true, it's just perceived

[@jamescandlish7097]

I got lost and died from the nuke on my first time playing this.

[@PaNDaSNiP3R]

This was actually the first thing that happened to me in this game when it came out. 😂

[@Willchannel90]

The goes like Spongebob style to get Gary to the tub.

[@YeensWrath]

Is anyone interested by what was life before the bombs? Maybe like a small DLC on the new Fallout where you get to experience Pre-War and stuff

[@carumsarene]

That's called 'going outside'.

[@Random-xw3qc]

​@@carumsarene But the cars and houses are different and there isn't a codsworth in sight!!!

[@YeensWrath]

@@carumsarene You're funny

[@viktorvondoom9119]

Tranquility Lane

[@NickDoddTV]

This video was about a minute longer than it needed to be

[@Joose2005]

There is actually a vertiberd past the bridge if you go further with freecam.

[@majinnbuu9363]

so you found the earliest point of a game over. (I only did it once just to see it happen) Also someone had a video that "neighborhood" is the only thing that's pre-war the rest so only what you can see from there is pre-war, as they went way up and showed that past where you can see it's already nuked so they didn't have to make two maps, just had two zones in that location.

[@DaraGaming42]

How do u get out of bounds ?

[@SariennMusic73]

​@@DaraGaming42 pc only. You'd need to go into console commands (iirc it's the key above the caps button) and then go into NC (no clip) and then fly up to see the whole map below.

[@Weedocto]

Do a video about kremvh’s tooth pls

[@zillasbaby8878]

mf sturges had my kremvhs in his inventory smh

[@gaelen5868]

The news. The news never changes.

[@MrJuicekrew]

As you sit you suddenly take an arrow to the knee

[@supremebrogamez4307]

You named him Albert huh

[@skywalker7778]

Always run towards the bright light. Those who survive a nuclear event will pray they rather didn't.

[@maxshep2829]

That's my plan! 😂

[@douglasalexander4005]

The Fallout equivalent pf the DM raging and going "rocks fall everyone dies"

[@MortimerJones99]

Dan Swerdlaw was so fucking funny, that video was done dirty with the matchup

[@bashkillszombies]

Fallout 4 was probably the last video game that didn't shove black in your face as every single main character.

[@JesusChrist-ck2sf]

I tried 2... i got blew up.

[@anasshahid224]

Thanks for doing this video, great to see so many hidden details added by Bethesda they would have been missed by many.

[@marcelinekuznetsov]

I wanted to explore on my first playthrough and I thought the nuke was checkpoint locked lol

[@NorthernChev]

Eeeyup. I did the same thing on my very first playthrough. I just ran around the town sightseeing, and eventually they pop you with a nuke.

[@theonefrancis696]

Imagine the communits waiting on their chairs like "is this guy ever going in? We wasting hours here"

[@the_real_MeepKingdom]

this happened to me because I didn't know were the vault was

[@sweetpain8277]

I think we've all wondered and thus, have all tried this.

[@cryochick9044]

Its easy to port through walls in fallout 4 vr You can explore freely with that and it's really cool

[@snaketanker]

Bro forgot to grab the milk and nuclear war wasn’t gonna stop him from getting it

[@Astriix115]

to think people used to make this into a 30 minute video somehow is beyond me, thank you for a quick explanation for a rather quick topic

[@brockstyron7311]

Yo that stat lay out was insane tho 🤣🤣

[@lawrencemitchell3024]

Great minds do indeed think alike. I restarted my game a few weeks back as i had messed up my first game. I did the same but when i did go outside, i headed straight for the cars on the right. I almost shouted NO! at my phone when i saw you were about to die. (Shoulda checked the bunker a few house down)

[@pc617]

Oh, so you just die from the bomb? I'm not really sure what I expected.

[@fpvDRE]

am gonna stick the kettle on get out the biscuits when the strikes hit lol

[@endless013]

This happened to me twice, once I went the same way as this the other time I went to the vault entrance and waited you get a good view up there just before death

[@adriansparrow4554]

Even though I've done this all myself already I still klickt on the video

[@uzaautumus]

my guy done F'ed around and literally became Coop from the FOtvs 😂

[@CivilizedWarrior]

Codsworth: “Bring out ya dead! Bring out ya dead!”

[@grahamhawes7089]

Dad life means there’s no time for hot-side but suddenly there’s plenty of patience cold-side. 😂

[@pjdava]

NukeSnippets, I can't get enough of your content, so I subscribed!

[@Xxbwachamp445xX]

I actually did this trying to explore everything I could. Glad I’m not the only one lmao

[@Jakepf]

I've never played fallout, any of them, yet and I am considering it.

[@Jaker21]

*Player sitting on the couch* Nuclear Strike: "Let's wait for him" People: "Alright"

[@PhoenixBlacke]

Yup same thing happened to me last week, when I made a new game and tried to explore