Dunwich Returns - Fallout's Biggest Mystery Gets Bigger 

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plz never upload 76 again ill have to unsub. amazing vids, though.

​@@cerealpeerdo it coward

@@cerealpeer guess you’ll have to cuz 76 is a cannon fallout game so he can’t really skip it

Love this comment

funny

Nothing better than hearing his calm voice

Hey guy's it going here? How Nate.

YOU FORGOT THE IT'S

I only remember another instance of that: The Poppy Playtime devs giving MatPat their goodbyes; Tough it was more emotionally impactful, I'd say this one is more impressive given its a way bigger studio and franchise

@@VJK102tough? Do you mean though?

​@@VJK102 A similar case (small studio) is seeing "IGP" in The Backrooms 1998.

​@@adamc117obviously

What was the Easter egg?

*Honks my nose* Boo

I can fill u with more than fear lmao

@@AK-sx4zp😳 …Ayo?

“You win, you get this power fist. I win, and you’re my gimp for a night” being said by supermutant who kept his “reason” comes to mind.

@@AK-sx4zp That’s a threat lmao reported

When reading this, i imagine a dev sitting in a dark room, being like: "how can i further this mystery?" And then watching a Nate video and being like: "oh, i didn't think about that, it's canon now!" Honestly, i think that is how a lot of Developers come up with continuations of mysteries, they just read, or watch fan theories.

RIGHT????? I NEVER expected Bethesda to actually reference Nate and his videos about Dunwich in-game! This is actually dope as hell

Nice

@@FourByteBurger Don't spoil it!

@@darkbooger Don't read comments before finishing the video!

@@FourByteBurger I read through the comments after watching the video

He has mentioned these in previous videos, and the second "Interloper" is actually called the Visitor according to the files. It is also dead and doesn't move, compared to the interloper, who moves.

Oxhorn covers this topic really well. I usually watch his stuff, just stumbled across this Nate fellow.

The heads are also seen pretty often on buildings around boston.

I think there was a shift in the meaning behind the metal heads between the classic games and the Bethesda games. The heads seem to be more involved with the American government at large. (EX: the ungodly amount of them in the capital), Bethesda thought they looked creepy, and it's snowballed into the whole eldritch mystery we have today. I think some of the more recent level designers for the expeditions seem to be more of a fan of the classic games to some extent. Since the areas are a lot more similar in design and aesthetic to those games.

RIGHT!?! Before I knew to check every corner and just happened to dive down there. All at once you get the sense of "oh crap, this game is more interesting than I could possibly have imagined!" Now if only the load times weren't obscene.

@@madwilliamflint what load times?

@@BxBxProductions Zoning in to the world from an instance. Even a decade later on a screaming fast gaming machine it's almost "literally unplayable."

​@@madwilliamflintIdk man, that seems to be a problem on your end. Even on a mid range pc with a ton of mods, load times are pretty quick for me.

@@madwilliamflint i'm sure your pc isn't as fast as you think it is. what influences loading times the most on modern hardware is hard disk bandwidth and latency so if you've only been upgrading the more exciting parts and neglecting that there's your problem.

_slightly "spooky" royalty-free piano bgm intensifies_

Its basically causing the area to be terraformed with the growth of plants. The climate will change and the soil too. Could ready it for something else.

The trees around Harold quite literally grow from him. He says Bob releases seeds occasionally.

@@flashpone7910 Mhm. Could be to terraform, create new forests with new forms of life. Still with radiation but in a sense "heal" the ecosystem. Maybe prepare it for a different species.

There is a vault that had its GECK sploded. That caused the lush plant mutation and growth outside the vault into the mire.

It's been some time since I played Fallout 1 and 2, but didn't Harold end up with a seed that managed to start growing in his flesh and he just didn't want to remove it? Even gave it a name and everything back when it was just a tiny sapling. Not really something Lovecraftian. Don't think it's connected in any way.

they prob put it in because he is among the few me included) that accepted starfield

he knew too much🤤❄️😎

I expect the level designer was delighted you found the ref so quickly.

The next step is to put something in there for the Data Miners to find. They will bring it to Nate and....

If they start talking about CHIM I'm leaving.

Came to comment this very thing, not gunna lie

He talks about it in the previous video he mentioned at the beginning of this one actually! TLDR: He theorizes that maybe whatever entity is behind a lot of the stuff going on took control of the surrounding plant life to raise the town into the sky. It's a great video if you have the time to watch it!

Tanagra Town was thoroughly covered in a previous video (:

I'm wondering if "Tanagra Town" might be a reference to an old ST:TNG episode called "Darmok" where the alien captain says: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

They are called distant cousins.

Isn't the term "distant relatives"?

The amount of toll roads alone in WV are terrifying enough. 😅😅 But in all seriousness, it is a beautiful place.

They are called west Virginians

I live right on the VA WVA border and can confirm Appalachia is a high activity region especially the West Virginia portion

As are all of his followers

We are canon 🎉🎉🎉

Oh cool. Nice.

Nate is the fallout 4 protag, but that seems highly targeted...

It is funny to think that both him and all of us are canon. Really weird to think about, cool though.

That's not even looking at 1&2...

There's a reason for this franchise to be perfect XD

And my friends think I'm crazy for using a vampire mod

@@lucienfate1038well technically vampires do exist in fallout 3

​@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 Can't you become one in FO3?

I hope he doesn't have his belt in hand. 😅

FACTS

I use his videos to go to sleep. I feel so comforted by him.

Aye. The first video was a fun watch - no doubt this will be as good...

Facts

Legit

Noice

I was stuck at work with a very busy night. Just kept in mind that this was waiting for me and it made my day so much better.

Who, the government?

I thought it was red because of the rust. The microorganisms are feeding off of the oxygen released from the rust.

Why do I imagine you saying “and it’s horrifying to look at!” with a big smile? lol

​@@Nick-kw9ozIt is rust. What's funny of these little fellos is that they breath iron and excrete rust.

I know of a Red River that runs thru red clay as well.

@@AngieDeAguirre could it turn out blood into rust 🤔

Bethesda "environmental storytelling" in a nutshell

​@@Nuniixookay, let's just discredit the scenes of environmental story telling with no notes in sight in FO3&4

Honestly if you pay attention to detail like that you’ll never enjoy Bethesda games. For example the skeletons posed perfectly all over the map despite the fact they should have fallen into piles long ago.

@@mikoto7693Not to mention the dead bodies that have supposedly been there for years that still look fresh as the day they were killed. Which is why suspension of disbelief is a good thing to have playing fallout.

@@Nuniixo God you guys are so pathetic, are you seriously using that to hate Bethesda, really. Again pathetic.

It would explain the Nurnroot on the Pridewin.

the art deco stuff is from fo1

Best fan theory of 2024.

Doesnt explain the evil things... unless the Daedra was able to utilize Dwarven metal as a medium.

The Dwemer most likely became the skin of Anumidium

im the co-writer, we are covering this when we cover the pylons. good taste. look up pylon v-13 on the fandom wiki. there's also another Nothing altar at a pylon in the ash heap.

also note the active quantum inverter at vault 96. further this is kinda the main theme of Night of the Moth

The heretic read in a textbook that the atom is mostly nothing.

@@user-yw8qn2is1c I'm the other co-writer and this isn't true.

I'm another co-writer and nothing in this comment thread is real

We will never have another character quite like Harold. What a legend

Not only Harold, but the Spore Carriers from Fallout: New Vegas... That's what these plant creatures remind me mostly of.

Harold honestly got it easy. He's turning into a forest, an interconnected system like the Master, if you don't kill him and he has a group of people worshipping him he can talk to even though he's stuck in one place. As @madcatusa said, the spore carriers had it far worse.

Also, the well on my property is a dried blood brown due to iron xoide and Sulphur compounds from natural strings and has been that way for 30+ years.

correct! good catch -Anachorite

And realised that he knew too much🎉

nate is dunwich monster revealed

I wonder why there isn't a video on the similarities

I guess I should have read through the comments before I posted this myself haha...

@@sallyviolet13 s’all good hahah

Kos?

@danielled8665 ehh. KOS is more human and jelly fish, but elderitch cosmic horror does goes hand in hand with deep sea monstrosities.

Could be any kind of small baleen whale really

@MrAnarchronism yeah, but as it was a reused asset it could be there to represent that sort of entity.

@FuzorFishbug never thought about it, but yeah, I guess all filter feeding whales would have a similar jaw structure.

😂

You got all the hell out of your cats? I didn’t think that was possible.

​@@UpperDarbyDetailing It only lasts for a single tick until the cat generates more.

@@jtjames79 😂

Mood lmao My cat almost scratched the living sh*t out of my face when I jumped seeing the notification lol

It's incredible how deeply Nate hits us.

Real

Nate has been a calming backdrop to some of my worst moments. Incredible how his passion for the stuff we're passionate about can be uplifting. Such a good person too.

@@LatishLynx 100%

If you actually ever play F76 there's a lot of love in it, it's clear to me the devs have always loved it and tried really hard to make something good. It's a shame the launch wasn't great but there is and was TONS of lore, and all the locations are almost all real places, for example, Helvetia, Pumpkin House, Palace of Winding Path, Morgantown, VTU, Whitesprings, which is based on a real US place in West Virginia called the Greenbrier, which IRL has a bunker underneath. They put a bunker underneath it in Fallout 76 too. There's more. It's more than abundant to me that the devs sat there and tried to make a rich map and they obviously still care with the inclusion of stuff like Organ Cave which is pretty recent. So they never really lost the passion, honestly. I would say that 76 is definitely a labor of love. Yeah they have the cash shop but you don't have to look at that stuff and it's all cosmetic. You can instead pick a section of the map and just fall down into a quest rabbit hole (Order of Mysteries is a fun one). Etc etc. It's a worthwhile game in my opinion.

​@NinjaDimes From what Ive seen, it's mostly been the higher ups directing the developers to do the stuff people haven't like. For example the devs all though having no NPCs was a bad idea but weren't allowed to do otherwise.

​@@NinjaDimes I wish that were true about it being a labor of love. But you are forced to look at the cash shop items all the time as part of the issue with 76 is that it is multiplayer and you have random instanced players with bases filled with that store junk riddled all throughout the map. In addition the repetitive missions and always annoying nukes being set off (which is super non-cannonical) hurt the immersion. I think of it as a game which you could love but for its faults caused by the developer itself. It is filled with random advertisements by way of crap fortnight adjacent emotes and cash shop cosmetics and 4th wall breaking moments which makes it hard to stay immersed (the main reason most players engage with the series of games). I tried it and disliked it even years after launch because of all this. Being able to experience the writing and environmental could help if they did not paywall a private server (offline) option as that would solve most of these issues. I wanted to love it, but just could not. I would say all this lore you have to try to hard to reach to make it worth it with all that crap in between, like reading Steven King's IT, but with magazine adverts every 6th page and Better Health non-skippable video ad rolls.

They need a better game engine for sure. Ppl want modern mechanics and animations. Stanfield proved ppl don't want loading screens in the year of the lord 2024

@@NinjaDimesI just don’t like how much it fucks with lore

They are the result of a vault tech experiment.

LMAAAAAO I'm doing the same thing. life is good

Maybe treetops?

I remember seeing that clown painting back when I played way before they added any major updates.

The Kaddath-Leng mountains touch several places and times on our world from the Dreamlands including Antartica not far from the Old Ones city.

It would be cool if Nate became an npc during the map expansion which sends you to get eldritch artifacts, and is researching the mothman culitists. Edit: It was I