The Known Lore of Every State In The Fallout Universe

[@wrighteousj]

“Nothing is known about Indiana” Said every person outside of Indiana ever

[@skavossis5377]

We like it that way, nunya biznizz lol.

[@scottlemiere2024]

The Colts play there.

[@dittm3r]

I live in nw Indiana and everybody pretends like they live in a Chicago suburb. Indianapolis seems to be it's own thing, but outside of that it's all confederate flags. If only we could legalize recreational marijuana like the majority of our neighbors.

[@user-ob9fi9hv7r]

@@dittm3r freal my homie lives up there and he gotta do road trips to Michigan just to get his shit

[@0oZaru_Gaming]

I actually was creating a Campaign that takes place in Indiana. Using the Tabletop rules from the winter of Adam.

[@overthinkingisbad]

"Austin seems to have survived the war but now is infested with super mutants and mutated plant life" ah so no real change then

[@imnothereman3003]

I said the same thing when he said that

[@TheLoneWanderererr]

I was imagining a super mutant Joe Rogan who was ruling an army of homeless comics based out his comedy club

[@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty]

Still the most pleasant place in Texas.

[@CunnyMuncher]

@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty >Austin, a urbanite shithole riddled with sodomy, fart huffers, and a permanent >500% markup on all items >pleasant Fucking lmao

[@ChristopherKelley100]

Keep Austin Weird

[@brianwalsh1339]

>Indiana >nothing is known about Indiana … I don’t know what I was expecting.

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Is really anything to know about Indiana IRL?

[@jordandennis6794]

​@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem Indianapolis

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

@jordandennis6794 I meant people, events, or even fun facts. Not the name of a city.

[@t84t748748t6]

could be a good place for a vault tech vault

[@treycat7629]

​@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem corn

[@BlackKnightsCommander]

"Phoenix still Exists" That hellhole would look and feel the same after a nuke as it does now, I'm hardly surprised.

[@Lasagna_Garfield_]

Hellhole filled with rocks and metal, wouldn’t change a bit

[@SpookyBC09]

I'm sure the people of Phoenix, AZ never even noticed the dropping of bombs until mutated creatures appeared and many turning to ghouls

[@BlackKnightsCommander]

@@SpookyBC09 we call em meth heads round these parts

[@therealmorf]

With the surrounding mountains unless it's a direct hit on central and Thomas I like our chances lol jk tho for reals

[@SpookyBC09]

@@therealmorf I'm just happy my city lived despite us literally living on a Plateau the Llano Estacado in fact like one of the largest Plateau's in North America, were Lubbock Texas but it's probably because we only have 300k people in population

[@damenpine]

Arkansas Arkansans: WOO there is no mention of Arkansas Arkansans: BOO

[@someoneyoudontknow6083]

I see a lot of what im assuming are Arkansas residents upset in the comments here. I feel for you all.

[@michaelscott-joynt3215]

I don't know what they were expecting. Really, it's history can be summed up in three words: cotton, racism, Walmart. It was a commodity crop state, but was too daft and greedy to diversify its economy. So, after the ahh, labor market crashed, it fell into obscurity. Without the Waltons it would just be known for Jim Crow.

[@VengefulMaverick]

Which is crazy. Arkansas has a Air force base. And it also has one of the largest ammo reserves in the U.S. for the military. Plus it has every natural resource. ​@@someoneyoudontknow6083

[@hoist8111]

You live in Arkansas, that's close enough to an irl fallout game anyway

[@nopemcnope4696]

What sucks is we actually have several major targets… we’d be blown off the map and no one would know 🥲

[@albatrossbaron4107]

I'm from Louisville Kentucky and I can safely say that because my dad is a retired nuclear missile launch command officer when that NPC mentions "what's left of Kentucky" It's because Louisville and Lexington are massive strategic targets due to the ammo factories that were located here. Not to mention Fort Knox.

[@frankhorrigan2047]

I'm from a town to the west of there (not gonna be specific) that also produced munitions for the military up until around the 60s or 70s, so I'm imagining in the Fallout timeline those factories either wouldn't shut down or would be restarted making the town a target for a low yield blast. If I had any sort of knowledge of mod-making, I'd definitely want to make a whole story mod involving factions trying to take over coal mines, raider gangs of Hoosiers coming across the irradiated Ohio fighting a gang of hillbillies, surviving small towns becoming city states and a story around either helping them form a coalition (similar to NCR), keeping them separated, or outright annihilation. Maybe throw in some folklore like a giant radioactive catfish as a nod to the Green River Monster. And of course, gotta have horses because if one state is gonna make sure horses don't go extinct, it'll be Kentucky. We'd probably build a whole vault for them before one for people.

[@99batboy]

812?@@frankhorrigan2047

[@GSUS-fc6ss]

Throw in the refinery in west of the state and multi megaton firecrackers on this fault line and sounds like nothing left.

[@masamune2984]

Hey to fellow Lul’vull citizen, from a former KY resident 🙂 (Florence and Richmond) 👋

[@buckybadger.4510]

And the bluegrass army depot

[@TheTDude]

"Nothing is known about Indiana." Damn that fits too well.

[@-GIGA-]

All the corn mutated and replaced all the corn fields with flesh fields, Yum, locally sourced humans. Gary is still a lawless wasteland no matter what though so nothing changed from prewar to postwar.

[@lockmuertos]

Is being a Boring territory in a Dangerous Post Apocalyptic world a sin ? :P

[@boperez2841]

Yes it does this place is like nothing special

[@dsaf9372]

Perfect place for an enclave hideout. I mean, it's basically a unknown state, why not hide something important there

[@Seatownrandom]

Stranger things have happened😜

[@Sushine]

For anyone curious, the mention of a "warehouse in South Dakota" said by MacCready, is actually a reference to the show "Warehouse 13". It was a show on Sci-Fi that was about this mysterious massive warehouse in South Dakota, that stored artifacts that could do weird and interesting things. Things like Pavlov's Bell, that made anyone who heard it drool. Or a guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix that casted out lightning from the person playing it. That kinda stuff. Honestly a really cool show, and I'm surprised to see that someone who worked on Fallout 4 actually knew it. As far as I knew it was pretty underground, haven't heard a lot of people talk about it at all.

[@DanDroidx]

I came here to say this.

[@MrYeahyuhhh]

That show was cool as hell haven’t watched it in years thanks for the memory lol

[@MMapes31]

This was one of my favorite shows. It was so creatively written and amazingly done.

[@AJadedLizard]

It crossed over with Eureka, which had Felicia Day as a recurring character (she played Veronica in New Vegas). I wouldn't say it's a show that isn't on Bethesda's radar.

[@mintz9782]

I love that show.

[@halfasoap1172]

You ain't from Michigan if you never built an 8,000 ton steel robot.

[@haydenshinkle9199]

“St. Louis, sadly also lays in ruin. plagued by super mutants, raider gangs, and the Beast Lords” … that sounds exactly like St. Louis in my universe

[@benpetot1515]

So, yeah..pretty much the same.

[@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I]

As a Missourian, it is in fact a post-war wasteland. This is not a joke.

[@BesolowAnims]

Im in st.louis and i agree we have irl fallout

[@Homedepotorange]

Nah Raider gangs are too organized

[@BlackShrekProductions]

"Sadly"

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

At least my state of Mississippi was mentioned, Alabama wasn't mentioned at all

[@BrotherMag]

Hopefully all the bad people mysteriously disappeared during the great war lol

[@masteroutlaw100]

We'd just be the The Pitt 2.0 because of sloss furnace

[@anonomuse9094]

​@@masteroutlaw100sure, that'd be around Birmingham right? But what about Dothan? I think there'd be a peanut themed gang of raiders, and the town I grew up in right outside of Dothan would probably have a tomato cult because of the tomato festival and whatnot.

[@YourBuddyTom01]

Mississippi gang we up

[@jdmj707]

Well north alabama is probably a wasteland as bad as DC. Huntsville is where one of our major nuclear missile defense programs are for the entire country. Northern AL would’ve been wiped off the map 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@stinky1313]

I’m from the town in Tennessee. It really is crazy that many people have no clue the Manhattan project took place here. I moved away a bit in highschool and argued with my history teacher over it. The actual history is very interesting. The town is called Oak Ridge, the guard towers are still on each end of town. The story of the prophet of oak ridge John Hindrex is a cool story as well

[@rileyallen2363]

I think Tennessee would make a great fallout like Nashville have it as a part of the main game or dlc would be pretty cool to see the kings agin and maybe some other factions who are influenced by musicians

[@zbug84]

My ex wife is from Oak Ridge, thats my only real connection to it lol

[@HeyGuy4321]

Yall only did 33 or less of it. New MexiQo. Did it all

[@jacobsweitzer3430]

​@@rileyallen2363 Nobody ever says anything about Huntsville :(

[@carlhicksjr8401]

I'm from Washington State and not many people know the role the Hanford Nuclear Complex played in the Project either... and the state and feds spend millions every year in an ongoing cleanup!

[@quinndrakon9468]

I was driving over the Potomac one day and the radio started playing the Ink Spots' "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire". It was a strange sensation.

[@Smasho8000]

Like John Denver coming on the radio right before someone dies in Final Destination.

[@SCHISM_HEAD]

When people ask where I was born I sometimes say “a ditch called Necropolis” then shortly after seeing their reaction I say Bakersfield and leave it there with no further explanation.

[@SoCon.]

Wait.. you're telling me Vault Tech built a vault in the side of Mount Saint Helens, WHICH IS AN ACTIVE VOLCANO!!

[@stevenschnepp576]

How is this in any way surprising?

[@shanon4768]

probably vault techs attempt to recreate pompeii, classic vault tech

[@pancakes8816]

Have you ever played a fallout game? That's one of the least surprising things ever

[@maturin1919]

For science.

[@dometheonlyone8936]

​@@maturin1919 Atheist ⚛️ : 🤓👍

[@BretMix]

Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but Vim soda (at 35:41) is a reference to a real-world soda named Moxie. It's from Maine, and actually did become Maine's official soft drink in 2005! The taste is... challenging. It's sweet like a normal soda, sort of like a root beer, but there's a very bitter kick on the finish provided by the root they use for flavoring. Also, I now realize I know far too much about soda and am questioning my life decisions.

[@deefable]

Moxie gang!

[@listentoyourvibes]

Mainer of 37 years, drank Moxie once, havnt touched it since.

[@midnightundead31]

You can actually find Moxie as far west as Cincinnati Ohio, actually. There's a big international market called Jungle Jim's in Eastgate that has an entire shelf near the back stocked with various sodas. Among them are classic glass bottles of Moxie, just look for a orange/blue logo of a guy in a suit. One word of caution though... it's definitely a "love it or hate it" type of drink that lives up to it's "Distinctively Different!" motto pretty well. Try it if you ever get the chance.

[@BretMix]

@@midnightundead31 I've been there! That place is nuts, LOL (if anyone's interested there's videos on KZbin). And since we're talking locations, I should mention the place I had my first Moxie: a place in Edmond, OK called "Pops." They have a cool retro looking store, the restaurant serves bison burgers, and they sell something like 600 varieties of soda (no, that's not a typo). Highly recommended if driving through Oklahoma.

[@marshallaverill3591]

Moxie taste like non-alcoholic Jagermeister... I love it.

[@jonathanself3474]

Alabama has so many military and space related industries so I'm pretty certain it would make an interesting place for a Fallout mod.

[@thegamingredneck1879]

yeah def would be also a hotspot for mutated animals bc of its high level serverity on enemy nation's list of targets.

[@evanwilliams8185]

Red Arsenal and the Space and Rocket center in Huntsville? That would be so cool!

[@CleoPhoenixRT]

The amount of DoD contracts in North Alabama are off the charts alone.

[@SamFlador]

​@@thegamingredneck1879not to mention mutant people running around thanks to 25 generations of inbreeding and a little radiation thrown in

[@Firevine]

I only recently found out about the military activities in Anniston, and it explained perfectly why Anniston is one of the weirdest places I've ever been.

[@MackAurelius-rz4mf]

You missed the biggest part of Kentucky fallout lore! President John Henry Eden in Fallout 3.

[@Teacko]

Well...'he' isn't actually from Kentucky

[@RecoveringReprobate]

True but it is still mentioned. ​@@Teacko

[@dthendrick1]

Fallout 5 should be Fallout New Orleans. The music selection would be insane, the vibes and historical references ample, and the environment perfect for a variety of mutated beasts. The Mississippi could cut through the map with two waring factions on each side. The southern part of the map could be the starting area around New Orleans, and the Northern region would be the higher level area in the crossroads of Louisiana. You could also incorporate Texas and Mississippi on the Far East and West portions of the map. You could have the antebellum south architecture, the French architecture, the Superdome, and pier and beam houses. You could have swamp biome, flatlands, and pine forest biomes. You could have swamp people, city raiders, Rednecks, and the French quarter aristocrats. Mutated Alligators, frogs, crawfish, mosquitos, snakes, and tons of other wildlife. Louisiana has so much potential and would feel drastically different from the other main line Fallout games. I'm probably biased since I was born and raised in Louisiana, but I know it would be a phenomenal Fallout game.

[@swimmerofage2148]

I've made this exact rant myself as well many times. I'd also like to point out the culture behind the Saints. Having a Raiderlike (i guess functioning like a less militarized Gunner) Faction in Black and Gold football uniforms that worship the Saints would be a great minor faction to have in the Background. Maybe a Brees pretender like the Kings in New Vegas lol Also, voodoo and Mardi Gras should be important in Fallout. Voodoo can be exactly what it is, while Mardi Gras could be a Christian Cult that believes these parades could summon God or something, but all of the floats are like, raider/mutant (make them insane killers) and instead of throwing beads, they shoot small firearms and throw a lot of grenades out of moving floats DLC could include the Gulf of Mexico, an irradiated oil spill that mostly takes place underwater and on oil rigs. Great place for the Enclave to be set at, on the rigs, with giant underwater vaults or facilities. Another DLC could be just Texas. Doesn't even have to be nuked tbh that place is already a RUST server. Lol but they've definitely got good DLC material.

[@auguststormy3096]

I always wanted them to show canada since it was annexed i wonder how it would look compared to the states. I think there 1 vault there, atleast i think the tv screen in the show that showed them showed 1 in manitoba or something since its cannon now

[@samhescott348]

I just wanna see super mutant crocodiles and alligators, giant mutated catfish, etc. probably gulpers too considering the show

[@Troopersv]

Love it

[@JC_Cali]

Having flashbacks to these exact discussions after Fallout 3 yet we got Boston and West Virginia. As a former resident of 11 years, your absolutely right. Don't know about the lore or story, but the setting and atmosphere would be the MOST epic of any Fallout media. Seeing the city possibly bombed (there's a naval base on the West Bank and generally being the mouth of Mississippi is an important economic and strategic target) BUT ALSO flooded due to pump stations not working and only the river banks and esplanade ridge still above water would be EPIC. Not to mention the inter-neighborhood wars of the Tenpenny-likd Audobon residents to the liberation fighters of the 7th Wars and keep to ourselves Algiers, I'm ready for this. Basically, hire me as a consultant 🤣

[@Gringosaurus]

Florida one seems legit. We have serious bugs and plants here without needing radiation

[@lukedrane4409]

One thing missing about North Carolina is the location of 'The Broken Banks' formerly known as The Outer Banks islands. It is mentioned by Tobar the ferryman in Fallout 3 point lookout as having been there.

[@Trotazik]

North Carolina gang where you at? 👊

[@knightofthenine5142]

Reporting for duty

[@captainkeyes1523]

We out here

[@FUBBA]

I am glad you mentioned the Broken Banks that was mentioned in 3 just like you said.

[@dannymorgan8074]

We is here

[@grigger7000]

Doing 2AM laundry, and this drops. Heck yeah man, your voice oddly enough relaxes me like watching a nostalgic show. Keep up the awesome work! ❤😊

[@vladkornienko7889]

The best time to wash some sheets!

[@mkvdean]

Fairly certain this is an AI voice. There are no breaths and the pacing and inflection are "off".

[@wongalahara8196]

How the fuck is this voice soothing at all

[@antoniomitchell8044]

As a Pittsburgh, PA resident, Everett speaking about a town named Monroeville at 29:11 is a town I often visit. It is indeed a real town which lies around 30 minutes East of Pittsburgh. It's crazy to hear about Monroeville being in a piece of dialogue given no one outside of PA really knows that Monroeville exist. Insane level of detail from this game.

[@jessestahl8418]

Same! Was looking for this comment. Shocked me when I first played back in the day!

[@flapthecrapster]

Having driven through the Squirrel Hill tunnel about a thousand times, I can see Monroeville being safe if the Burgh ever got nuked. Western PA is actually pretty mountainous and Pittsburgh is basically like a bowl. In an almost real life “Fallout” situation, my dad had to set up cots and such shit with the National Guard at the fallout shelter in Somerset PA when Three Mile Island happened. They were preparing to evacuate people from the eastern part of the state to the west. He said there was a color coded map that showed the safe zone started around Fulton and Huntington counties basically along the ridge line.

[@Mizaun74]

I remember seeing "Mt.Pleasant, Pa" in a Killzone level that also took place in said area. Though they made it as if there is nothing there in the game which I can understand I suppose.

[@Antnee659]

What a shame monroeville of all places. Thats almost like saying pitcairn survives.... and it probably would shitcairn is like a cockroach already

[@noth1ng5id]

Mentioning Monroeville could be a reference to George Romero and Dawn of the Dead

[@caninegames3238]

"Nothing known about Wisconsin" not surprised, this is the first KZbinr i've ever heard pronounce it right.

[@roman_tyrant]

19:36 The amount of voice lines Liam O'Brian did for the series is absolutely staggering.

[@forti3814]

As a guy from Arizona who isn't even from Tucson, I, too, get angry when someone says it like Two-Sun and God forbid Tucksun

[@christopherson93]

it was once the capitol, it damn well better be pronounced right lol

[@Stoned_Sparky]

Look at the captions in the game they even misspelled it lol I never noticed it till right now they spelled in tuscon in the game

[@ArnaudMEURET]

Please explain like I’m a 5 year-old French guy from Japan how locals would like us to pronounce it. I’ve toured the US southwest a few times and finally switched from saying “tac-sun” to “two-son”…

[@forti3814]

@@ArnaudMEURET you say it like Too-sawn

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

I've never heard anybody say tuck-sun.....

[@ethanjones9078]

I’m just saying a fallout Texas would be amazing lore wise

[@sponklip]

the Brahmin would be so iconic in that one

[@aarongann4630]

It would be a great continuation of the New Vegas western vibe, following those events.

[@LN031]

Could Oklahoma get in on that, we got a vault apparently 😀

[@ohnocobo]

If Texas gets in on the lore Oklahoma has to get in the action too

[@LN031]

@@ohnocobo that’s what I’m saying 😅

[@sylusVtEn]

Nerdy fun fact : The Kentucky native NPC 'Sophie' is voiced by real-life Kentucky native voice actress Marisha Ray.

[@anagramconfirmed1717]

Her husband voices Levi Ackerman in AoT. Who'd have thunk?

[@Youarekenough]

Id love to see Fallout taking place in New Orleans. Imagine a jazz-centric Fallout where people make new makeshift musical instruments after the Great War. We can see like a band that makes songs in big settlements like Diamond City. The vibe wouldve been immaculate. Like youd think people would revive music after 200 years to keep their sanity intact, right? But right now we only have Magnolia as the closest one

[@cucucanu]

As a person born and currently living in New Orleans, and new to the Fallout mythos, I would say that that would be a good idea. Mutant Mardi Gras FTW lol

[@Sinfuldeathband]

Would definitely be like Twd saints and sinners radio

[@belltolls1984]

This is a great video! Thank you so much, I didn't know all the extra lore surrounding my home of Alaska. I do wish there was more lore surrounding Nebraska; it's my favorite of the lower 48.

[@skelint]

Huh, sucks what happened to Colarado. "Utah." Okay let's see how Utah's doing. "Salt Lake City was hit by thirteen nuclear bombs." WHAT

[@aquila519]

As a Utahn who lives just an hour south of Salt Lake City, I nearly spit my food when I heard "13 nuclear bombs" lol. Shit caught me off guard.

[@vilheim4753]

Michigan is also mentioned in the mothership zeta dlc if you shoot the laser at the earth its said to have hit the detroit area

[@moappleseider1699]

There is a ton of lore about Michigan and Detroit. This guy isn't getting it all

[@in_the_vortex]

Nothing of value was lost xd

[@spudwickthrockmorton2112]

@@moappleseider1699you should hear the real life Michigan/Detroit lore

[@brosephbroman7564]

It hit the hat of America called Canada.

[@cameronjadewallace]

As a Detroit native.... Something should hit Detroit.

[@Karmascoming977]

I never knew how many insanely popular voice actors worked on fallout new Vegas, hearing and recognizing Dave Fennoy voice Jed the traveling merchant, massive representation of voice acting done perfectly in fnv💪🙌

[@OperatorMax1993]

And even on earlier games you got Ron Pearlman, Jim Cummings and Ronald Lee Ermey

[@mase5995]

Matthew Perry, Felicia Day, and Zachary Levi, Danny Trejo are in New Vegas. Liam Nelson is in Fallout 3!

[@samk844]

Kris kristofferson is chief Hanlon

[@AJadedLizard]

@@OperatorMax1993 Perlman's been in every canon game; he's the newscaster in 4 and I'm sure he's somewhere in 76 too.

[@jaidendetering8734]

He's probably in all of the Bethesda developed ones but Yuri Lowenthal too. Every time I hear his voice I think "What's Spider-Man doing here?"

[@doctorcis3510]

It's crazy that North Dakota has no mentions considering how many Nuke Silos we had there before we moved to submarines in real life.

[@Kazanflies]

"NYC recieved a direct nuclear strike by the Chinese " God I wish...

[@VexdGamer]

“Oh boy! Arkansas!” “There’s no mention or information on Arkansas.” “Oh”

[@Anno1-c3r]

@@VexdGamer I am also from Arkansas and it was sad to hear we did not have anything about us.

[@jebbroham1776]

Even in the apocalypse nobody cares about Arkansas :(

[@trhyr8923]

lol

[@shernick131]

Y'all and Delaware lol

[@seanboykin4054]

I believe in Fallout 2 in the Sierra Depot GNN transcript, it mentions that the Little Rock Saints played in the 2075 Super Bowl CXII. So there is one mention of an Arkansas city. 🎉

[@billbill6576]

Nope, never

[@trevorjolls1480]

Apocalypse or not, Arkansas would remain unchanged

[@zanesweeten2523]

“Great Bend is a town full of garbage.” As someone who lives in Hays just north of irl Great Bend, they really just kept it the same it seems like

[@MacTechG4]

Maine; as a Maine resident, it’s clear that the ‘Vim’ soda is clearly inspired by/a reference to Moxie… Moxie is the oldest soda in the US, invented in Maine, is the official state soda, and is extremely polarizing, you either love it or hate it, there’s no middle ground.

[@SilasCarter-f8j]

Came here for this the logo even kinda reminded me of it, moxie is lifeblood (also best hangover remedy)

[@demure.SH00T0UT]

I'm just surprised Fallout being a post apocalypse game has not touched the Great Lakes chain of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. Seriously the relatively small area has over 20% of the entire worlds fresh water. Plus it would be fun to see CRAM (SPAM knock off) existing in game food item HQ as it would have been created in MN. It also would not be unreasonable to assume that likely Sugar Bombs were too (General Mills).

[@eboethrasher]

I mean, Ohio hello?

[@Sillytommysadventure]

Forget ohio. Michigan and Minnesota midwest ftw

[@Sam_North15]

Minnesota: "Unfortunately, nothing is known about the state of Minnesota" Me (a Minnesotan): Fine, ill do it myself.

[@MurdochMMQCR]

Tennessee is mentioned twice in 76, once in that mothman book, and again by Trader Mirna's bodygaurds, but only in mention of a personal "incident" that happened to him in the area. Sidenote, North Carolina is mentioned so many times in the series I'm surprised we've never been there yet.

[@jeambeam3173]

Nobody cares. Its 76

[@aaronlaughter6471]

@@jeambeam3173 Something something cared enough to reply something something

[@Yxnsl]

I think in fallout 4 they mentioned Chattanooga

[@thelastvalkyrie1998]

As a Montanan I can confirm for those who are skeptical that it looks like a desert wasteland irl that around Butte it begins to open up. There’s mountains, but they become less elevated and spread out. It’s still the highest point in major cities across the state, but it definitely becomes high desert plains. Because wheat grass is one of the few plants that survive in this type of terrain, it likely dries up due to nuclear radiation, on top of the mining resources being sapped in our current timeline by the 1980s.

[@thelastvalkyrie1998]

@netherportals Precisely lmao. Delicious

[@GreatOldOneCthulhu]

True, the area surrounding Butte is pretty much a wasteland already. It also follows that Montana would be a target during Fallout's Great War, considering the fact that a sizeable portion of America's nuclear arsenal is located here - there are hundreds of nuclear misile silos practically in our backyards.

[@drybones9807]

Damn you're cute and smart! I wish there were women like you in Washington State. 😮‍💨😍😘

[@thelastvalkyrie1998]

@@drybones9807 Just gotta sift through the party girls and the OnlyFans girls.

[@Cowboycomando54]

@@GreatOldOneCthulhu It would be cool to see how the Native American reservations near the Flathead and in the northeast part of the state would develop after the great war, assuming they still existed in the universe after our timeline and fallout's diverge. As for Butte, I could see it being home to a vault due to either vault tec or another entity making use of the shear number of mining tunnels under the city. Also there might be some interesting, if not terrifying mutants created by a mixture of the Berkley Pit's water and FEV.

[@jarrett__7897]

I love how watching this and the interactions with the characters show how many larger voice actors were a part of the fallout series

[@vaulthunter7777]

That's why I'm writing a fan story about my state in the Fallout universe, no mention. Wisconsin has more to offer than people realize.

[@himbourbanist]

Man I REALLY wish that more details on Louisiana existed in the Fallout Universe, particularly New Orleans. I've always felt like New Orleans would be a perfect location for a Fallout game, like a sequel to New Vegas called Fallout: New Orleans. It's such an interesting and varied landscape, so much potential

[@pjfloyd99]

Have missions to fix the pumps in the wards

[@tvdvd8661]

And then the game ends with everyone dying to a nuclear hurricane and flood 😂

[@user-td4gh6kj2z]

They would have to do the whole state, and they would have to make the cities from Lake Charles to New Orleans accurate in street designs.Anything less wouldn't do it justice.

[@himbourbanist]

And maybe raider tribes live on constructed floatillas on Lake Pontchartrain or deep into the swamp. The French Quarter could be kind of like the New Vegas Strip. I'm thinking like, mutated gators and all sorts of stuff out there@@pjfloyd99

[@boutinboy]

I've always said if I could choose the next Fallout location, it would be between New Orleans and Detroit. New Orleans and surrounding, hopefully expansive, areas would be fantastic. The cultures and landscapes alone could fulfill plenty of storyline. Add in the various local lores, history, voodoo etc. that would make for some interesting stuff. Endless dlc opportunities with Louisiana too. Detroit and surrounding areas would serve a very different interest. An industrial setting. Maybe a game mechanic centered around building, fabricating, repairing and customizing in great detail, robots, power armor, vertibirds, lore friendly locomotives of some kind. The surprisingly expansive wilderness of Michigan could play a role too. Which could work cuz you really don't have to travel too far from the city of Detroit before you find endless woodlands. And of course there's the lakes. Ample dlc opportunities there traveling the lakes to different towns.

[@brothers_of_nod]

You put a lot of effort into this, excellent job

[@turokrambo5617]

Honestly Tennessee could be a cool pick since i heard the bombs never fell there in lore. Knowing the Manhattan Project there. And knowing the Tennessee smokey mountains and hills. Nashville Music City. The Roman Parthenon would be crazy to be filled with maybe surviving Ceaser members. Andrew Jackson home. Davy Crockett Storys and places. Civil War locations. Chattanooga. Be the perfect East forest/open lands like a Red Dead like game. And a town between Nashville and Knoxville. Cookeville. Or Cookieville you could parody.

[@UncleCroysFigures]

Then Bristol having a raider group that operate out of the Bristol Motor Speedway. Lmaoooo

[@digitalrailroader]

and of course, you would have Pockets of Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel holing themselves up at both Ft Campbell and Arnold AFB as well as trying to secure any pre-war nuclear technology lying around at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex.

[@thelurkerbel0w]

Post going around about the main hub being in Memphis with a ghoul wearing a Baldwin mask living in the bass pro pyramid

[@xlerb2286]

In the real world with all the ICBM silos we have here in ND our post apocalyptic lore would be "radioactive glass" (The Sentinel site in Fallout 4 is based on a decommissioned military facility here in ND, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are still some nukes pointed at it).

[@wittsullivan8130]

There's an actual company called General Atomics based out of San Diego. Their location in Shannon, Mississippi, just south of Tupelo, MS, developed the electromagnetic arrestor system on the Ford class of nuclear carriers. They were tasked with developing a gauss gun to eventually replace the 5 inch guns on US Navy ships. They also developed the Predator drone and it's algorithms/AI targeting systems and are working on ship and aircraft based lasers, among several other things, including cold fusion. Once they get that figured out, household and military spec robots are the next logical step. :)

[@djzapper128]

I’m surprised Tennessee barely has any lore to it, since the manhattan project took place in oak ridge. that’s where we got the uranium for little boy, the bomb that was used on Hiroshima.

[@blackphoenixfamily8477]

"that’s where we got the uranium FOR little boy, the bomb that was used ON Hiroshima."

[@djzapper128]

@@blackphoenixfamily8477 good job

[@deathbyguillotine]

I just realized Jed has the same voice actor as Lee Everett from The Walking Dead games, Dave has such a legendary voice

[@michaeledwards6683]

this would have been a great comment to come across when i was 13. used to run a walking dead game fan account on instagram with my online girlfriend.

[@edgarb2002]

I’ve lived in Tennessee all my life and somehow the fact that we headquartered the manhattan project was never told to me.

[@Alison-xk3qq]

i just discovered the existence of this video and it’s scratched a part of my brain so good idk how to explain it

[@Cramblit]

I think the next Fallout series should take place in Minnesota/Wisconsin. I think it'd be interesting to put their new game engine update to work, and have some nice denser woods, and seasonal changes that you'd get there, as well as more rolling hills and lakes. It would be a great setting to test out and put in a season mechanic for Summer, fall, winter, and spring.

[@NightmareRex6]

we need to see russia china japan mexico eta man.

[@DoomshopMF312]

Might as well make it Chicago 🤷

[@SignifiedSix]

As a wisconsinite, I agree. And fck Chicago. Milwaukee is bad enough 🤣

[@Theendman42]

Make silly whether included too, like snow followed by heavy rainfall the same day. And rain while sunny out.

[@Cramblit]

@@Theendman42 That legit just describes Wisconsin/Minnesota lol.. It can drop 4 feet of snow, and be 60 degrees the next day XD

[@sipioc]

40:59 My guess is Wisconsin didn’t change at all. Go pack!

[@garrukablaze]

The fact that Klamath Falls Oregon is referenced in Fallout always blows my mind. No one knows Klamath 😅

[@_OopsieDaisies]

I had grandparents who moved out to chiloquin so when I visited we occasionally took the drive out to the city aka kalamath falls :)

[@garrukablaze]

@@_OopsieDaisies good ol Chi town haha. I've lived in Klamath for like 25 years. 😅

[@kolbybenthin]

That is neat. I’ll be waiting for a Colton, Oregon mention the rest of my life lol

[@garrukablaze]

@ULTRAOutdoorsman because you go to Crater lake? Or?

[@KhrisBKream]

Not only that but Willamette was pronounced correctly too!

[@thedavidjscott_]

It'd be sick to see a Seattle based Fallout game. Go explore the vault where they let in a little radiation, turning them all into ghouls.

[@gtamonkey3061]

Why? It already exists but irl just walk around and you’ll see ghouls walking the streets

[@Lazyvampiire]

Never thought I’d see my hometown (Liberty, KY) get mentioned. I literally hollered at the screen.

[@onerustydatsun951]

Pretty sure a travelling ghoul merchant from Fallout 76 mentioned going through Chattanooga, Tennessee to the Foundation settlement in West Virginia. This would also suggest that I-75, I-81 and Knoxville should be somewhat safe enough to travel to, since they’re all on the path from Chattanooga

[@LeontiusInvictus]

1:36 Issaquah is my hometown, so this was absolutely shocking to hear. I had to do a double-take to make sure I heard that right. Glad to know my home becomes the center of a new empire hahahaha

[@Petra999]

I did a work project in issaquah once at a fire station. Was very pretty in the fall.

[@LeontiusInvictus]

@@Petra999 very much so! The mountains, lake, and trees are hard to beat

[@0tteru]

As a Connecticut resident; being "stuck on the freeway as the bombs drop" sounds about fucking right

[@PatDoesTricks]

What i love about the far harbor dlc, being a mainer myself, is the vim sofa reference. Maine has a real "state drink" called moxie, which honestly tastes like crap, but mainers really love it and you cant find it anywhere else unless you special order it. I dont know of anyone outside of the state that knows about moxie, so vim being a "widely unknown" version is very accurate.

[@piecheese1214]

“St. Louis, sadly also lays in ruin. plagued by super mutants, raider gangs, and the Beast Lords” What the fuck is a beast lord? Am I missing something?

[@damainman652]

Somewhat sad to know that Bakersfield, the city that I live in, becomes necropolis. I probably might live to 2077, but let’s hope no bombs will drop on October 23.

[@andrewhart8150]

Ahh yes Bakerfield, where the very best of Californias Meth is produced.

[@mikerodriguez1227]

Same here 😮

[@itsjohnnyr8560]

They’ll just drop way sooner than that

[@brosephbroman7564]

They're going to drop sooner. China's already been mobilized. Hacking our jets, boats, corporate espionage and theft of AI. 2077 is gonna be 2037 for us. Good luck and God Speed.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Ngl, I wouldn't mind being a ghoul living there.

[@Anakin_Skywalker01]

I’m extremely surprised Tennessee has next to no info on it since one of the most important radioactive projects ever took place there😂

[@Benjam311]

The Soda "Vim" from the Maine lore is most likely supposed to represent "Moxie", a Maine soda that is polarizing but many swear by it, including myself :)

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I'm dying to know if it'll taste similar if Amazon makes it. . . they're selling Nuka-Cola Quantum, but that's original so there's no IRL soda to compare it to.

[@Tyler_Gomola]

As someone from Montana, and having been to Butte many times. I can confidently say, that picture of the mine could've been taking today. Butte was once the largest city in the state, then the mines dried up and everyone left.

[@KalH1019]

I’m from Springfield, Illinois. I’m glad that such a little town that nobody not from here talks about is in Fallout lore.

[@cheeriozombie]

People like to forget it's our capital in favor of Chicago. I was surprised Quincy IL was mentioned as it's probably a 3rd the size of Springfield.

[@Myreflektion]

Want to add that due to the Brotherhoods presence in the Chicago area, it’s likely they would also be active around Gary Indiana and possibly South Bend

[@mikedawolf95]

When I have to travel to Indiana from Chicago, I pass by a ton of factories. Wouldn’t be surprised if in the Fallout world all the factories and manufacturing are up and running thanks to the war effort before the bombs dropped

[@quodguidocummensprava9560]

I doubt much would have changed about Gary after the war.

[@eboethrasher]

Nah, they al actively ignore Indiana 100%. No reason to go there whatsoever.

[@adarelreyes9729]

Cool thing about Monroe Connecticut is where the museum of the occult( museum owned by the warrens )is located I feel like had a nuclear war happened all the haunted/possessed objects would run wild in neighboring towns

[@VongolaXZax]

Nice, I always wanted to see and know about the other states in Fallout.

[@JaelinBezel]

Especially Hawaii

[@itshurtsszn]

@@JaelinBezelwould be dope to have a Fallout Hawaii where you can have a boat for transport would be awesome

[@Memememe-is1yn]

Alaska wasn't ravaged, Anchorage was. To ravage the entire state (the vast majority of which is wilderness, even in the fallout universe) would be quite a feat.

[@Zeoinx69]

There are no mentions of Wisconsin.... but inferences can be created, raider Biker gangs took up the broken streets and farmland of Wisconsin, and new forms of of beer are brewed in the remaining Wisconsin brewery still standing after the great war. Bramim cheese has also become a HUGE export for traders brave enough to travel up to the area to obtain it from the few settlements who know the secret "power of cheese making". A few hidden control vaults were built in milwaukee, one built below The War Memorial Center near the lake front. Many rivers that used to flow through the city now are massively contaminated by radioactive waste, with plees to the brotherhood of steel to bring in the water purification technology to clean the massive water way of Lake Michigan. Of course all of this pales in compare to the dreaded Wisconsin winters, that cover the land in ice storms, leading to many traders convoys being found frozen overnight as they are caught off guard.

[@aislinnmcnamar5837]

Rhode Island wasn’t mentioned so I’m choosing to imagine the state is perfectly normal and safe compared to everywhere else ☺️

[@tyrellthegodofyoutube]

No fr we just somehow avoided getting bombed

[@Jim-xm7qx]

@@tyrellthegodofyoutube The enemy forgot we existed

[@tyrellthegodofyoutube]

@@CazhTuber no fr 😂

[@1983Corolla]

Nah you know some insane people came outta Providence after getting some radiation LMAOOO

[@chrisrocco]

We're so small they missed

[@ThreeGuysOneBucket]

Hey uh, I'm from Arkansas and I'd like to point out there are mentions of Arkansas. A sniper in Fallout 3 is named Arkansas (weirdly), and a terminal in Fallout 2 mentions the football team the 'Little Rock Saints'. Little Rock is our capital. Just wanted to make sure you knew.

[@TheUnknownLegend1234]

That's cool! I knew about the sniper but not the terminal. Shame they didn't mention the Razorbacks 😅

[@justicegutierrez6847]

Bruh your Washington state pronunciations are so good I'm so used to people using them wrong I was expecting you to say "William-ette" 😭😭😭

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Yeah I pronounced that valley wrong for ages, only ever having seen it in print. When I finally heard the pronunciation I had to retrain my own, lol. But I understand, I currently live in Minnesota and the way people say many of our locations, like Wayzata, has that same cringe effect.

[@LobotomyTC]

I'm surprised there isn't more about Michigan in the Fallout Universe. The timeline diverges from ours in the 1960s, and that's when Detroit was at its peak as the industrial heart of America. Detroit was nuked, but nowhere else in Michigan, including the UP, is, so that makes me think most of the northern chunk of the state was unharmed.

[@allisonjuno7654]

35:42 this seems like its based off Moxie, Maines current state drink that is only regionally popular

[@edrollins5510]

Holy Cow! You dang near said Gallipolis correctly! I'm from there, spent a lot of years in the service. You have no idea how badly I've heard it mangled! Good on you!

[@Platinum_Jew]

Sitting between Gallipolis and Point rn on the river in a tow boat at the kanawha harbour watching this lol

[@FACM.]

I'm more into TES but the more I learn about Fallout lore the more I like it

[@Goldenroses930]

as someone from Maine I really liked the Moxies stand in(Vims) we really love it up here

[@TheeLeodraco8]

25:20 The Republic of Dave isn't in Maryland... It's in Washington DC (fallout 3)

[@dr.virus1295]

"The Known Lore of Every State In The Fallout Universe" Bethesda: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.

[@kingofravens215]

I still like to think at least parts of LI,NY survived the nukes because it wouldn’t have had a lot to hit as far as military bases are concerned

[@KnightSlasher]

What's interesting is that technically someone can learn alot about American geography using this video

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

"Unfortunately nothing is known about the State of Minnesota." There's almost a hint of politeness and respect in the way this is worded, yet it's dissapointing to learn that Minnesota wasn't mentioned in the Fallout Universe so far. That's a shame, because Lake Superior's Split Rock Lighthouse (if the game developers were to decide that it still existed) would be an interesting checkpoint for the Brotherhood of Steel.

[@mrdude88]

I feel in Alabama, after 200 years, you’ll find disfigured humans with webbed toes, 15 fingers, tiny heads and 3 arms. The city smells like pissed, decayed and in ruins. And the weirdest thing is that no battle or nuclear bomb was dropped in that state.

[@cbmazo9229]

Underrated comment

[@tbnrwolff3354]

Well I mean Europe might be like that but Alabama on the other hand not really

[@Firevine]

And that's just Montgomery.

[@BrandonStanford-f1i]

Alabama has the largest vault. And it's just the one. 12 families went in. 37 generations later, one family emerged

[@sergeantglutton4608]

Im from Arizona and its so funny when Raul got mad about how the tribes call it Two Sun instead of Tuscon just like a true Arizonan. (A lot of people call it Tucson

[@Stoned_Sparky]

It even was misspelled in the game too

[@ferrumbellatorwarsmith3342]

For anyone interested, I recommend if you have HOI4 to play the Old World Blues mod essentially it's submods. From major factions to new small nations. Alaska to Louisiana.

[@JRMelancon]

“I was born in Louisiana but I hardly remember it” is basically our state motto.

[@deniser9625]

Florida's pretty accurate radioactive mutated plants and by the looks of the art death claws mixed with crocodiles

[@AuthorSwordOfTheGods]

Is that mention of a weird warehouse in South Dakoda a reference to the show Warehouse 13? Also shoutout from Wild'n'wonderful WV, where I'm sure the Kanawha River is exactly the same even with the radiation.

[@jasonvoorheescookingchanne2869]

I'd love that show

[@willropa4226]

I wonder if the next Fallout could take place in the Midwest. Since Bethesda called out Tactics as being non-canon, the Midwest is more or less a blank canvas, other than the rogue unit of Brotherhood out there doing something other than Tactics. I'd at least like to see what's been going on in my neck of the woods, what I'd hope for are sentient plants. IDK why, but the thought of all the crops we grow here becoming sentient from mutations like that vault in New Vegas just hits that itch in my mind.

[@richardspillers6282]

I'd imagine the Midwest is less apocalyptic

[@taylorulch9871]

i wouldnt, ND has most of our nukes, so would be a target. MN has 10k lakes. 10k irradiated lakes! imagine the monsters that would come from that. not to mention lake superior, the largest land locked sea on earth. ​@richardspillers6282

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Yes please! Much of the Midwest is downwind of missile silos too, so the 10,000 plus lakes in Minnesota would be great places to explore!

[@willropa4226]

@@zxyatiywariii8 Would make a great opportunity to add some more aquatic creatures to the roster when at the moment it's mostly Mirelurks.

[@michaelnorton1427]

We do know that the Enclave had a base in Chicago from Ed-e’s logs in New Vegas

[@ericharris3414]

There's an elderly sniper fella in fallout 3 named Arkansas, he lives out in the town of minefield and i can't help but wonder if he's callin himself that because he's from there. If he is then that must mean people are still living there, hopefully thriving alright.

[@ketcherinthery5079]

i remember that old bastard... dead old bastard now

[@eboethrasher]

Nobody would have nuked Arkansas. No reason!

[@vsgfilmgroup]

So many possibilities for future plots. It's a shame Todd can't make more than one of these per decade, apparently.

[@josuearanzazu8607]

I already expected Florida to be an absolute chaos

[@CaptUnstoppable]

"St Louis is in Ruins plagued by Super Mutants, Raider gangs and Beast wars" As someone from St Louis... Doesn't seem like much has changed

[@BoostFiend_Bud]

Listened to this whole video while cleaning just waiting to hear about my state of Arkansas, it never came. Guess that means Arkansas survived unscathed and was a happy little state on it's own 🤣

[@prow_9218]

I hope so

[@PatGunn]

I'd start the video with a mention of the Commonwealth system that largely replaced states around 1970