100% Blind Reaction To FALLOUT's Full Timeline & Lore... 

"Nuclear power is finite because eventually you're gonna annihilate the ozone." And here comes Nux not knowing a thing about how nuclear power actually works.

saying that nuclear power destroys the ozone layer is the best way to tell people you don't know jack shit about nuclear fission/fusion without explicitly telling them those words

This was a Cliff’s Notes version of Fallout lore. They didn’t cover anything about ghouls, nothing about the Lovecraftian areas in the games, nothing about how you used the power of Elvis to fight Chandler Bing. They didn’t even cover how your brain is completely removed in one of the DLC’s and you can actually hold a conversation with it.

"What happened to Russia?" Well interestingly the USSR never collapsed in the Fallout timeline and still existed just before the war and the US and Russia had started to become friends and forge a good alliance just before the world exploded

This is not nearly enough time to cover ALL the lore. Nux you'd be here for days on just learning about every single vault exeriment...they can get...brutal

Correction nuclear power is actually one of the CLEANEST power sources has almost no green house gases

"We're doing a deep dive" its a WatchMojo video, I don't even need to watch the video to know that's a flat out lie.

Fun Fact, Liberty Prime was Voiced by Peter Cullan, the Original Voice Actor for Optimus Prime

Nux: "Yo, [the Master] looks creepy as shit" Me: "Wait till you hear him speak"

This video really glosses over the Master's death. After explaining to him that the supermutants are sterile, he realizes his life's work was for nothing and that he's a fool. He then gets super depressed over all the people he's killed, realizes that he's been the villain all along, and tells the player character to leave while they still can. He blows his base up as a form of suicide, and to make sure no one else can find the FEV and make the same mistakes he has. One of his last words is "I cannot go on continuing to have done the things I've done." This video just says "Supermutants are sterile so he blows himself up"

Nuclear power is not a toxic power source, its been made quite safe by this point Fossil fuels do suck tho We should transition to Nuclear

Talking the villain down is a time honored tradition for old school RPGs. Including it as an option, even a difficult and fiddly one, is a sign (though not a requirement) of a well crafted RPG.

I love it when he goes "Put me in!" one second later "Nevermind let me out!"

Here's a drinking game idea: Every time Nux talks so much, so fast that he misses a plot point, take a shot

Nux, I highly recommend the series "The Storyteller: FALLOUT". It does a great job of telling this story.

2:52 they didn’t figure out crystal conductors and stuck at vacuum tubes, that’s why most of the technology despite running on freaking nuclear power, still have functionality of 1980-90. There is also a theory that they actually managed to figure out crystal conductors few years before the war, and it could’ve stopped it because of how much less resources it eats, but China literally run out of fuel, and lost on Alyaska, so they decided to nuke 5:58 Soviet Union never fall apart, and they somehow close friends with USA. Also in America there few cross country camps for boy scouts and pioneers(something like Boy Scout from USSR)

39:15 from what I remember, its not that the courier got amnesia, he still remembers the package and some unique dialogue with the bachelor perk implies him remembering something from a long time ago. so its not that he forgot from being shot, but more so leaves it blank for you to build upon what kind of character the courier would be, which I honestly love a lot.

“War never changes” is such a good quote. And another one I read in a mlp fanfic “war never ends, the battlefield just moves”

Clarification on the BOS; they were originally a group of soldiers pre-war who revolted against the government when they realized that the scientists on the base they were staffing were running FEV experiments on human captives. While 76 made some uh... creative interpretations of their lore that muddle research into them, generally speaking the basic idea was that they believed that advanced technology was too dangerous for common use, that their role was to confiscate it and keep it for when humanity was ready to use it again. The BOS had varying opinions on how they should deal with outsiders, however FO3 was the first time when they were totally helpful. The main FO3 chapter basically decided that it was okay to let wastelanders have technology, but other chapters ranged from "We'll trade with you but only basic stuff and we'll also help with raiders especially if they have advanced tech" at the best to isolationist groups ambushing caravans on the road and demanding the turn over of any prohibited technology or they'd open fire at the worst. The FO3 outcasts were of the later type. Generally speaking the BOS as a whole took the view that humanity was clearly surviving and so it was more important to track down surviving nuclear weapons and rifles that would literally melt people into a pile of goop and important research that would be important in the future than it was to make sure that every single farm settlement was actively defended at all times. This was less the case in 1 and 2 since, while they were clearly dismissive of outsiders, humanity was still in a precarious spot and active intervention was necessary, but by the time of 3 the security of humanity combined with the general stagnation and isolationism of the BOS to make them largely unwilling to interfere with outsiders. In Texas and the capital wasteland (later boston) they took a very direct role, essentially establishing themselves as the local rulers but largely permitting locals to self govern. Interestingly, despite these chapters being in a minority in terms of number of chapters, their willingness to take in outsiders meant that they and their viewpoints almost certainly represented a majority of BOS members.

Nux must watch Kyle Hill’s pro nuclear series now I swear

Nuclear energy is actually quite clean.

The main divergence isn't the focus on nuclear tech, its the fact that the fallout universe never made the microprocessor. Their tech is the way it is because everything is based off of transistor tech. That ultimately killed globalism, which lead to jingoist isolationism that covers everything else.

If you want a more in-depth look into the Fallout lore, look up "The Storyteller" series. It's basically the Prepare to Cry series but for Fallout. And yes it's super dark.

12:16 Um, axshually, Vault 13 was not a control vault. The water chip was designed to fail and there were no replacement units supplied by Vault Tec.

Fallout lore is amazing it just sucks that Bethesda actively doesn't care or decides their narrative supercedes the original lore.

41:11 Fallout New Vegas had 4 main endings with several sub-endings inside each of those. It also had a seperate ending for every single faction you met, even the smallest ones. Seperate endings for each companion, each little town, even some random NPCs, everything. Somebody did the math and found out that there are 1 quadrillion different potential ending cinematics in the game if you factor all potential choices.

5:40 since when do nuclear power plants destroy the ozone layer???

Funny thing about Nuclear power is that it's closer to a gigantic steam engine; just with dangerous waste as a byproduct of depleting the radioactive elements. The only thing it releases to the atmosphere is steam as long as you follow instructions. It's ironically mire environmentally friendly and sustainable than solar panels and wind turbines. Also, about the Soviet Union: it was being taken by Maoist China because of the Kamchatka peninsula, which would lead to Anchorage, Alaska because it made invading annexed Canada way easier and more discrete. And when China lost Anchorage in 2077, they unleashed the Nukes on America, setting off a chain reaction all across the states. Some were hit harder like the East Coast - DC becoming a radioactive DMZ, and a good chunk of the West. But most of the West was protected by Mr House's defense system (which is still canon in the show, Thank God.) The USSR and America's intense rivalry died down enough to forge a fairly strong political alliance against China. And the Vaults? Funded by the no-longer shadow government called the Enclave to study human psychology to better colonize the moon. NOT because Vault-Tec wanted to conquer the world in some dumb "Capitalism Bad" message by a fan theory that Todd and Emil canonized to not piss off the CCP.

41:15 "we don't get games like this anymore, with options..." Baldur's Gate 3 is the epitome of this.

Nux, the reason they were stuck in the 50s for tech was because they never invented the Transistor. They only had vacuum tubes to work with. Granted House was dabbling in researching the transistors before the war. Also if you wanna grow crops in a wasteland like fallout, just remove the first 1-2 feet of topsoil and your at the good stuff.

The Vault-tec lore goes deep and it's very dark

What’s interesting about the Enclave that isn’t explained in this video is that their plan changed massively in the years of isolation. Their original intentions were to help rebuild America through the assistance of Wastelanders and then come out of the Shadows to reveal themselves to have been the very people that helped them do so. You can see this in Fallout 76 with the earliest iteration of the Enclave lorewise. MODUS their leader just wants to help rebuild for the most part, atleast currently, and even let’s the Wasteland version of the Red Cross live above his base of operations by telling security above not to harm them but not to let them bellow into the bunkers. Colonel Autumn is another case of this he actually didn’t know about Eden’s plan to kill the Wastelanders and you can convince him that the plan is real and he will leave peacefully with his loyalists. His plan was to rebuild America with the help of the Wastelanders and thus to hear Eden planned to kill them all wasn’t something he could support. He wanted the Water Purifier so he could rebuild America in the Enclaves vision with the aid of Wastelanders, as it was suspected your dad was an Ex Enclave Scientist thus it was the Enclaves plan all along.

Nux, if you want more details you, could you watch Shaddycast fallout lore series.

Nuclear is actually green energy. Nuclear is not finite and it is clean.

This video has got to be the worst explanation of the fallout timeline and lore I’ve ever seen, they can’t even get the beginning right, the main thing that separates real life and game history is in fallout they never invented the semi-conductor.

Bro no mention of Frank Horrigan I’m pissed

Nux should watch the part 2 to the Kirby lore video he watched.

if Nux wants something in the SCP lore to dive into once hes interested in it again I highly recommend "There is no anti memetics division"

It is surprising how often the Fallout universe solves problems by using the answer: "Its just one more Nuke. Not like everyone is gonna try this again."

You didn't hear of that right in fallout 3. The outcasts left the brother hood of steel because they wanted to follow the original mission and didn't want to help people.

In the fallout universe 5:10 , they basically created the strongest power source, before they even fully understood the danger behind faulty constructions. But real nuclear power is nothing like in the fallout games lol

"Fallout lore isn't too complex." Don't let Nate hear that.

You joke about it being wendigo territory, but there are wendigos in 76

I would love to see Nux dive into all the vaults lore, vault tech is so messed up that they even ran experiments on their attractions ride in a theme park

Fallout New Vegas is my absolute favourite from the franchise and love most of the games plus only saw the first episode so far but like what I saw with that classic music to go with it.

"Vegas survived, because that's where all the high rollers are!" Actually, that's closer to the truth than you think. Mr. House was a billionaire, and uses the Vegas strip to squeeze every penny out of it's residents.

Nux nuclear power doesn't destroy the ozone layer, in fact it is a very clean source of energy, I suggest research because its also pretty interesting. 5:46

Glad to see you doing more video game lore dives. Might I recommend the lore of the metroid saga. The shenanigans that Samus Aran had to deal with are intense.

@nuxtaku if you want deeper moments of lore on the "experiment" vaults, I think the best place to check would be Oxhorn's channel. he is game play centric a lot, but covers a lot of plot elements, branches, and has some of the most detailed dives for fallout three I have seen so far. Otherwise, you could just play the games on kick or something.

I’m honestly pleasantly surprised by the amount of people who know nuclear energy is a very clean alternative. It was some stuff you only knew if you researched it a few years ago, now everyone’s pretty much in the know

I hope Nux watches a video about the Vaults in the game. The ones mentioned in this video are truly vacation spots compared to others.

Basthesda really did me dirty by making the bombs drop on my birthday

Let's go boss!!! Congratulations on 750,000!!!

Don’t try to learn the Elder Scrolls lore. It would turn into a long series of videos followed by “but none of this was from reliable narrators so Bethesda can change it”

Nux: *Sees The Master* Also Nux: ... what? Yeah that's what I was expecting Nice to see Nux reacting to some good lore

He’s literally 5 seconds in and saying “I haven’t watched yet” and I immediately think “PREWATCHED!”

For all fallout shelters lore, watch Oxhorn. His stories are great and in depth. (All the Vaults - (Work in Progress!)) playlist. They are long though.

Please, do a Warhammer 40K deep dive. Recent additions *cough* female custodians *cough* have been shit

Ceasar: "I have brought peace, justice, and security to my new empire"! "Wait, I thought we were a Legion"?

"violence solves 100% of the problems caused by violence". It's like this man was saving the wisdom of an entire lifetime for that one sentence, and didn't use any for the ones before or after it

If you want lore if all the vaults, I recommend Oxhorn (all the vaults playlist) he's really good at telling fallout stories. his full playthroughs of fallouts 1 and 2 are also great, interesting and in depth.

The Master will always be my favorite Fallout villain. He was so sure he was right, but made one fatal flaw, and once presented with it he completely falls apart.

35:59 so the lobotomy bit threw you off but the Aliens didn’t? I was like… wtf when did the aliens get here??!

basically in fallout they mastered nuclear fusion and fiscion energy tech, but when it came to digital tech they never invented transistors, moores law doesn't exist and things just got bulkier then smaller and slimmer like we have nowadays

One thing i like about fallout is it shows that just because the world is a hellscape doesnt mean we're just going to give up.

You should definitely watch a video on some of the most messed up vaults. It's like if SCP was just about torturing people.

The Enclave wanted to purge the wasteland with the modified FEV was because the wastelanders weren't "pure humans" as having spent generations in the irradiated wasteland caused mutations in their DNA. So by purging them the pure humans can repopulate and reclaim the wasteland

Yo Nux, going to Lore dump a bit: In fallout the Micro transistor was invented but never replaced the vacuum tube system, which is why electronics all look so bulky. A vacuum tube is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes. First invented in 1904, the vacuum tubes formed the base of electronics through the first half of the 20th century, before being replaced by transistor-based solid state electronics. So with transistors and later microtransistors we made more powerful machines by making the parts smaller (PC used to be the size of a house and would be worse than your modern calculator) Now we got by the standards of then Super computers in our pockets and fridges. Fallout lore is awesome.

Nux saying he hasn't played the games or watched the shows made me go "ohhhh that makes so much more sense now" to like everything else he's said so far lmao

We know two of the endings of Fallout 4 are canon because the Brotherhood of Steet on the west coast got orders from the BoS in The Commonwealth. And the Fallout TV Series takes place in 2296. 16 years after Fallout 4.

The key is that the microchip was never developed because the guy who invented it died. Vacume tubes and transistors are all they had for computing power.

“A simulation let me in” Oh boy, you’re going regret that in about 10 seconds

was actually wanting him to react to fallout lore, hyped to see what lore gets covered

I was not ready for that Smegal impression bro I'm just chilling eating my cereal I ALMOST SNOTTED IN IT also the edgy genocide line and the lone gooner line was MAUWH chefs kiss.

Nearly every vault was secretly a different experiment. 101's experiment was never letting the citizens leave

You need to check out some of the vault experiments. Some are pretty gnarly

I deeply appreciate the accurate Smeagol voice acting, that was out of nowhere but some great comedy 20:38

an important detail they don't mention in the divergence of technology during WW2 is that in the Fallout world, the transistor isn't invented until the 1990s. This is the main reason a lot of tech stayed trapped in the 50s, as they didn't have the ability to miniaturize the tech.

So as an electronic engineer I feel like Fallout puts forth a world where you did not need lower power tech. When they had so much power to use why would they make a more efficient form of tech then the vacuum tube. So on the electronics side their tech stagnated but they had all this power to work with and made some insane tech.

fallout tv show reaction when, i am here for my lord nuxanor to crawl out through the fallout

"if you wanna skip forward 10s to skip a line spoiler" Me: skips 10s straight to him saying the line.

If no one brings it up, btw, the "test vaults" are various "experiment" vaults that were set up to experiment with human preservation in a lot of various ways.

"TOdd Howard said he didnt want show to build up onto existing lore" Boy this line aged well... uh-huh.

20:19 wise fish has a video giving a description of every vault we know about

Fun fact: you cant enter vault 87 through the front, its not only the single highest concentration of rads in fallout, its locked and has no key

Put out a video now before I go to rehab, nux. I want to see your reaction. It’s fucking sick

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. The transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics, as the foundation of integrated circuits and then chipsets. In the Fallout series, one of the aspects of the divergence is the fact that transistors did not became as popular, with vacuum tubes continuing to be the dominant building block of electronics into the 21st century, and the term "chip" typically (but not always) refers to processing units using vacuum tubes, such as the water chip. The preference for vacuum tubes was a conscious choice made early in Fallout's development. Leonard Boyarsky pitched the idea to Tim Cain during the development, proposing that in the universe of Fallout, humans never went beyond transistors (i.e. the transistor was invented, but microelectronics did not catch on) and stayed with vacuum tubes. The idea originated in a proposal to feature a lot of vacuum tubes, since "everything would look cooler if it had vacuum tubes". Cain agreed, adding that vacuum tube electronics would be less susceptible to electromagnetic damage. Leonard Boyarsky recounted the story in 2018, in an interview on Matt Chat. This was not consistently implemented, as noted in June 2003 by Joshua Sawyer during an exchange on No Mutants Allowed: When a user stated that Fallout is set in a future where the transistor was never invented, he pointed out the fact that EMP grenades in Fallout and Fallout 2 are incredibly powerful against robots, which would not be the case if they were based on vacuum tubes. During the development of Fallout 3 (2008), and later Fallout 4 (2015), Joel Burgess argued with the team numerous times over the effects the absence of transistors would have not just on the basic mechanics, but also on the culture of the world. In his own words, the butterfly effect change of not inventing a transistor, "[w]hat does that say about the cultural priorities of the people who live in that world?" Burgess recounted this in 2016, in a Ubisoft livestream's closing Q&A. In Fallout: New Vegas (2011), developed under the leadership of Joshua Sawyer, the platinum chip is an incredibly capacious electronic device and key, printed in Sunnyvale, and an example of integrated circuit technology. Robert House's life extension chamber also include a brain-machine interface, which was described in concept art as mounted on the top of House's head, featuring transistors and vacuum tubes wired directly into the brain after the skull was removed. Integrated circuits and printed circuit boards are also referred to occasionally in the game and its downloadable content. In a Tumblr question in March 2019, Sawyer maintained his position on transistors in Fallout, reiterating how robots in the series are affected by EMP blasts and pointed out that "the state of technology isn’t represented consistently", in his Fallout: New Vegas included. He also noted that he believed the whole idea was secondary to the setting in his opinion, though it did push interesting ideas (citing the fact that the Soviet MiG-25 used vacuum tube electronics that would theoretically make it less vulnerable to EMPs).

2:39 "If oppenheimer was better at his job lore" More like born earlier. The whole point Nux missed is that they developed fusion and much earlier, and then blew themselves up before they invented color tv and other stuff. That's why they are stuck in the 1950s.

Nux should defiantly react to the lore of every vault, some of the vaults are very tragic.

Nux casually acting like he knows everything about nuclear power but knows absolutely nothing:

31:55 You know what they say, when the river runs red, take the dirt road hime

The biggest thing that impacted the technology of the Fallout universe was that they did not develop the transistor, at least until much much later (they started appearing later in their version of the 21st century) which left computer technology still dependent on vacuum tubes and didn't get the miniaturization that we experienced. Transistors were starting to be put into use in some tech in the years before the war but they hadn't replaced vacuum tubes universally yet.

21:31 Nux about to speak 2020 history RIP everyone.

3:00 basically the people that figured out and started the trend of making computers faster and smaller at the same time were to busy trying to put nuclear reactors in D-Batteries.

Also, Transistors weren’t invented in the world of Fallout until 2066. That further shifted tech into more 50s retro futuristic style we see in the games.

"Please tell me theres some actual lore behind this" he says after apparently having missed the part where he told him that theyre doin experiments on people

If Nux is getting into the Fallout I want to see him react to the worst Vault experiments.

Not sure if anyone else pointed out that the transistor wasn't invented, that was a major contributor to keeping certain tech from being developed.

The nuclear ozone talk is like nails on a chalkboard

The master is one of the craziest villians ive seen and the un canny valley just makes it even better