Fallout Would you want Tactics to be canon?

[Lurker47]

In an alternate universe, Fallout somehow lands in the hands of people who legitimately care about world-building. Would you want Tactics (I'd say most people share the same opinions on the status of 2, BoS, 3, NV, and 4 unless you're an absolute purist) to be considered a part of the main game continuity?

Very specific topic but I want to get a broad consensus.

 

[Bester]

The only Fallouts I know are 1 and 2. No idea what you're talking about.

 

[Falksi]

Och. I can-on say wee laddie!

 

[Lurker47]

If no, I'd like to hear why.

 

[Mikeal]

After cutting few things here and there yes.

 

[Ismaul]

Fallout Tactics had a great engine and brought many good ideas in the gameplay department. As for the setting and story, only Fallout 1 is of consistent high quality.

 

[Lurker47]

In an alternate universe, Fallout somehow lands in the hands of people who legitimately care about world-building. Would you want Tactics (I'd say most people share the same opinions on the status of 2, BoS, 3, NV, and 4 unless you're an absolute purist) to be considered a part of the main game continuity?

Very specific topic but I want to get a broad consensus.

What did I spell incorrectly

 

[Ismaul]

BoS is spelled PoS

 

[deuxhero]

I'd be fine with the general idea of some Brotherhood members traveling east to locate some important technology they feel the need to control. I'd even accept that they wiped out some raiders and recruited grateful villagers as manpower for searching (but not giving anything more advanced than a slugthrower and basic medical supplies).

 

[howlingFantods]

What did I spell incorrectly

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

The only Fallouts I know are 1 and 2. No idea what you're talking about.

Lose the 2 and I might give you a brofist. Might.

 

[Adidas-Clichèd Cringe]

Tactics had a great atmosphere, looked really good and the equipment progression was nice as well. Major downsides were Vault 0 and some other things not fitting with earlier lore, and the actual combat mechanics feeling shitty, especially if you were familiar with Jagged Alliance 2. Not being able to right click to alternate between movement and shooting was infuriating.

Edit: The writing was still better than anything Bethesda cooked up. Remove some things and I would have been fine with it.

 

[Bester]

The only Fallouts I know are 1 and 2. No idea what you're talking about.

Lose the 2 and I might give you a brofist. Might.

So how many Fallouts do you acknowledge? About 0.7?

 

[DalekFlay]

Anything outside of 1, 2 and New Vegas is pretty fucked, continuity wise, so I doubt it matters.

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

I'd like tactics to be cannoned to death.

 

[Lurker47]

I'd like tactics to be cannoned to death.

That's just inhumane.

 

[Lurker47]

Interesting how even the poll has gotten.

 

[RickOmbo]

Yeah, the game is a great addition to bethesda's canon.

 

[normie]

the only Fallout game I know is Tactics, no idea what you are talking about

 

[luj1]

Fallout Tactics is better than all the Bethesda ones.

 

[Kalin]

Yeah but it's still shit and so are you.

 

[the_shadow]

The story is Tactics was OK, I guess it doesn't hurt to have another branch of the storyline to build on for future games if the other ones get stale.

 

[Lurker47]

Yeah but it's still shit and so are you.

Not nice.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Sure it looked best of all true Fallouts games (Bethpizda abortions need not to apply), had nice ideas like BoS turning onto Feudal society of powered plate donning Neo Conquistadors leading the army of conscripted peasants, Beast Masters were nice addition and I don't mind the Boss and end opponents being rouge AI. From what I remember the combat was not as great as JA2 was sure but it was still above original Fallout's I wished Exile would licence the Fallout Tactics Engine and assets and use them instead of going onto the bland Unity 3D garbage.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

All Tactics needs is a bit of dusting and re-arranging here and there, and it can fit easily within Fallout canon. Lemme remember the issues:

- Canon story issues like "BOS came from Military Vault", "The Master messed with Deathclaws"*, Vault 0 and its not fitting within the Vault experiment, they can easily be dealt with.
- The Aesthetics are not retro enough, not gonna lie.
- All the real-world guns need to go and get name/appearance changes. Its bizarre that a game in the post-apoc future is littered with WWI, WWII and Cold War era weaponry, most of which should't even have existed post-divergence, anyway. I would keep only a few - the M2 Browning, the AK47, the Pancor Jackhammer**, maybe the M1 Garand. Anything else, give it slight art-lifts and a new name.
- Change the Hummer and APC to more Fallout aesthetics and names as well.
- The whole storyline works in the Fallout world. All the groups and factions (Midwestern BOS, Beastlords, Reavers, Gammorin's Army) make sense and work in the Fallout universe.


*this is actually their original origin, but it got changed later on. I think the Fallout walkthrough (written by one of the designers) references it, which is how it got in FOT.
**Because its too damn cool not to and FO universe seems like the universe where the Pancor Jackhammer would get the green light. Desert Eagle is a 70s gun and it still exists despite the divergence.

BoS turning onto Feudal society of powered plate donning Neo Conquistadors leading the army of conscripted peasants

Yeah that was done pretty well. In a way, I feel it shows why the Brotherhood has their strict code and what happens when they start shedding it, first ideologically and then out of desperation during the war. Its pretty clear at the end of the game that even as the Brotherhood is winning the war, its becoming more and more of a brutal dictatorship. Dudes had Internment Camps and Inquisitors by the end. They won a war and saved humanity, but were clearly on the way to become techno-fascists.