The quality and scope of AR2 was very impressive. I slaughtered the railroad, bombed the BOS, nuked the Institute ( including fake-son), and gassed the muties. Based. Not typical trash tier mod fodder at all.
The fact that Synths never age and no one ever noticed that in the 10+ years that Danse was in the Brotherhood, no one noticed he didn't age still makes me want to kick everyone at Bethesda in the nuts. Or the fact he didn't need to eat or sleep and so on. So. Damned. Retarded.
IIRC, there is a terminal in the Institute that mentions the Diamond City Mayor is a synth, and has aged and gained weight, and is a liability that has outlived its usefulness and to be terminated.
Nope, it says that the body is based on the real McDonough, so it's fat and useless for anything other than what it's doing. Also, it acts old because of the programming and a memory wipe would fix that, but there's nothing you can do about the body.
However, New Vegas set the precedent that it wasn't too late for Fallout.
Anyone who expected Bethesda to learn anything from New Vegas is overly optimistic.
I wasn't really expecting anything great I was just hoping for the best. Yes, I was naive.
I'm pretty sure they intentionally went in the opposite direction because they were butthurt over the fact that New Vegas completely overshadowed Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. When Fallout 76 was met with all the backlash, things like "at least we still have New Vegas" popped up a lot until The Outer Worlds was announced. Even then, The Outer World had "From the studio that brought you New Vegas" in nearly every piece of media. I have a feeling things like that prompted them to get involved with that TV series which absolutely wrecks that area.
It's very likely they intentionally fucked up New Vegas lore, just like how they intentionally destroyed Morrowind in the new Elder Scrolls lore because they hate how the old fanbase still clings to that game and region. So they had the entire continent destroyed in the current lore.
I'd love to see the original tweet which Pete is making a reply. I'd be willing to bet, like I said, that is has nothing to do with realism and everything to do with how they can't maintain a consistent setting.
It was something to do with the origins of Super Mutants on the east coast. That's all I can remember about it. Don't quote me on it.
Pretty sure it was Kid in a Fridge.
The kid in the fridge wasn't even as bad as people made it out to be. I always just saw it as a stupid easter egg akin to some of the easter eggs in Fallout 1, as opposed to something to rag on about being inconsistent with Ghoul biology or realism or whatever. I can easily think of 10 things from the top of my head that do a worse disservice to Fallout.
The problem with the "Easter Egg" theory is that there's a quest associated with it.
Pretty sure that people at Ghost Farm werent ghouls.
They were called Slags, but they were sealed off underground and slowly mutated from radiation over time because the seal wasn't very good. Kind of like how the vault door in Bakersfield didn't seal well. Are they typical ghouls? Maybe? Are they a stage somewhere between human and ghoul? This could be as well.
And maybe they are just humans that are sensitive to sunlight, not half ghouls.
