Fallout's Biggest Scam 

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It'd be sick if in Fallout 5 you'd be able to go into a vault and find his corpse with a diary saying that he indeed made these shelters to make money to reserve a spot in an actual vault

Oh sweet sweet karma

And the Experiment of the Vault, is that they are given days in the vault by doing good deeds for others. But everyone there are scam artists and self interested people.

How would Pulowski make money from these until after the bombs fell? He would have needed someone to go around collecting the coins (exact change only) and that wouldn’t have been possible until the radiation levels dropped.

@@berren86 The same way vault-tec made money - the federal and local governments likely paid him to build the shelters.

fridges were built different back then. I believe it.

They were Lead lined it's why Indy managed to survive in Crystal skull

​@@ilomilo6825 I wouldn't say "back then".

@@Crazycoyote-we7ey if you enable wild wasteland in fallout new vegas you will stumble on a indiana jones fridge reference

One of the absolute dumbest things ever in a Fallout game and really set the tone for the god awful writing of that entire game. They miss their son so much that they couldn't find him screaming 100 yards down the road for 200 years? Survived with no food or water, even ghouls gotta eat. I know it's an Indiana Jones reference but even that was done better in New Vegas

Not a fair test, the pod was likely compromised from wear over 210 years. :)

That would have been such a cool feature for survival mode if that actually worked

@@Yung-plague Fortunately there's a mod for that

@@Yung-plague I'm pretty sure they don't work on purpose. If you go into a building while still being in an outside cell (like one you would make at a settlement) they do protect you from the radiation. Not completely but more than the Pulowski shelters.

​@@JanusVesta which makes absolutely no sense. Even if the shelters aren't air tight, they're still better coverage than buildings with busted windows and holes in the walls.

That’d be hilariously awesome, actually.

@@liquidbismuth1044 right lol a 180 from the usual vault tec storyline

Laugh about me but i would love thst kind of F5. It would be right from the start and so hilarious

FO2 level tonal shift lol

Wouldn't mind if there was another prequel fallout game that took place during the early events of last days of civilization.

I found one the same way. The dead body inside was clutching a mininuke

Lol

@@TheStuckNorristhat’s fucking hilarious, last possession being the very thing that trapped you there

could be a sort of a last testament propaganda "America is strong enough that even a nuclear war won't bring down our way of life" sort of thing, like German and Japanese 1945 propaganda showing random people surrounded by destruction still waving the flag and showing support for the regime

I think they just wanted to squeeze some extra cash out of these. They wouldn't advertise for free after all

"Pulaski, Nuclear Protection On A Budget!" That's pretty much burned into my brain by now

Why else would you put change into them? Lol

Slocum Joe’s is eternal

Yeah, that IS the joke

but you dont get radiation from tha shelter if a ghoul is inside. What would be that ?

@@Therake2602 game design so you don't get suspicious before opening the shelter

@@tankredcaza Curius. Because there was a glowing ghoul and i died by radiation when i opened this XD. Is super rare find a glowing ghoul is a shelter ? Because i noticed that it always was a normal ghoul or sicke brown ghoul with super strenght but a glowing ghoul was a surprise days ago.

Realistically, you'd just need to avoid the initial radiation outburst, then wait 7-15 days with an air filtration system until the dust settles and you can try leave and find help, or wait until help arrives. I'm not sure about the air filters, but just with a water dispenser and a small toilet, you'd definitely be able to survive for like a month or two until help arrives or you leave by yourself. These where just not built for the apocalypse, just a normal nuke or two going nearby, they didn't assume no one's coming, nor could build this thing much better for what it is... The lack of toilet and water and some other design oversights are probably just Bethesda not doing their homework,as usual.

I think because this thing only just invented late before nuclear bombing. So people still thinking to buy this but its to late

NIMBYs man

I just don't buy that. When it's life or death the body becomes far more willing to risk death as desperation sets in. If you've ever seen stories of people lost in wood or trapped in caves. They will do utterly unbelievable things to try and stay alive. There's nothing keeping a person in those shelters they can be opened from the inside. The only reasonable explanation is they suffocated and passed out or the shelters don't actually keep radiation out. Otherwise a person would become hungry or thirsty enough to take the risk true hunger and thirst is an uncontrollable survival instinct.

Definitely got hot cooked alive inside.

I guess at first, people (in both company and government) think that national guard will come and picked up those in shelters. However, no one expected 3 following things happened: - 1: China used a lot of dirty bombs on the strike, those irradiated the large area for up to 200 years (the ground zero st vault 87 still more dangerous than Nedusa foot at Checnobyl even though 200 years passed). So basically its high chance that entire city/residents be irradiated on the surface up to years before the level reduced to acceptable to travel. - 2: National Guard tried, but failed. In FO3, the terminal at the police station on missio. Little trouble in Big town revealed that National Guard suffered a lot from overwhelming refugees, injured and even desertion and lost due to radiations and raiders (the women in charge of her units lack a large amount of cancer treatment medicine, her troops slowly be grind down be raiders and every member sent to find medicine all vanished, her last logs revealed that she also got radiation sickness but now forced to go outside and find medicine because she only has 3-4 personels left. In Fallout 4 the logs of vertibird on top of museum of freedom revealed that soldiers waited but no rescue to contacted found, so when the fusion core ran out he exit his power and AWOL. - 3: The strike location. In both fo3 and fo4, the strike was close or directly to dense populated area. In FO3 since its a capital of US, Washinton DC received barrage of nukes, 2 got through defense systen and only 1 detonated. However its enough to decimated entire region. In FO4 the strike targeted Sentinel site, in which a production and storage of nuclear warhead. The strike with dirty bomb release a first wave of radiation to entire region, then all toxic wastes waitting to be reprocess to collect Plutonium be freed from barrels and created Glowing sea, release a constant stream of radiation. Facing such a massive heat and radiation, even Vault door in some cases cannot hold against.

they're just a literal scam. The powalaki shelters are theater. They weren't made with actual radiation shielding. They were basically just a metal tin.

@@Darthquackius I got vaporized in one while playing 76 for fun I was near a nuke sight and thought why not and with certainty they are 100 percent a scam lmao.

Yeah but also, I think bethesda will likely retcon the whole "Billy the fridge" quest anyway. This'd only work if they used the lore from that specific quest. Also, wouldnt it really only work if it was a spin-off thats a week after the bombs drop or something? Feel like no one would be able to sit in those things for hundreds of years without becoming a feral ghoul or just, yknow, dying.

@@jimbo2947 Maybe. But the Fallout protagonists have always been pretty much superhuman. Becoming stuff of legends.

@@northernnightmare7986 "your skin may be as smooth as a baby's bottom, but internally you are as ghoul as they come (heal when in the presence of radiation)"

how the hell do you pass out and wake up after hundreds of years?

might as well say you stood directly underneath a nuclear bomb and turned into a superman

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Like the ones near the robot farm in FO4? All 6 available and not one reached safety.

I imagine since everyone was fearing nuclear war the doomsday preppers would probably have set aside stuff to grab and run to a pod or vault including a coin bag with exactly the right amount to enter

It's like the suicide booth from Futurama, but no one knew that's what they were using.

More likely a few bucks instead of quarters, given the inflation in Pre-War America.

There is that fundamental problem with their business model, yeah. It does seem they sold ad space to local businesses though. My own guess is that they would have subsidized by local businesses and governments but not for really corrupt reasons. They're just there to show the people that they're "doing something" even though they rationally knew that there's not really much of anything they *could* do. You know, just like what happens in real life. Think of it as the nuclear war version of the plastic straw thing. All that being said, I think this video is kind of full of crap and they're not as bad the author makes them seem. Those tubes look to me to be more than an inch thickness of solid steel. You're probably going to burn inside of one of those before they buckle from a blast. As far as all the corpses in and around them goes, it has been more than two centuries since they were built. They have seen some serious crap. Those corpses could have shown up at any time since the war for a huge variety of reasons. The lack of a geiger counter isn't as big of a deal as he thinks either. The practical reality of those devices is going to be - you get inside and ride out the blasts. Stay in as long as you can bear, then try and get out of the area as quick as you can. The really big problem with them though is their numbers. There's just not enough of them to do much of anything for a city.

They were clearly planning to bank in on the fear with the assumption the war would never happen it seems they made most of their money from advertising and local tax payers money who wanted these installed in their towns, which is big money usually, they probably cost nothing to make and had massive installation costs

the profit is charging way more than they cost to build, collecting the tax payer money

they get sold like vending machines - that's where money is made. it's just like how the bills you put into a vending machine at an office go to the company but not all of it goes to the machine manufacturer.

@@thebluehat6814 You're missing the point. Let's say we own an office building. We might put some vending machines in the lobbies, waiting rooms, break rooms, etc. If we do, we would do so under the assumption that these machines will turn a profit. In other words, they get stocked with snacks. The snacks get sold. We collect some percentage of those sales. Restock with more snacks. Repeat. Why would we ever invest in a vending machine that gets used once, in the worst case scenario, were we will never be able to collect the revenue from that single transaction? For starters, we're probably too dead to collect. If not, we're rich enough to be in a vault and we're not coming out. If our great, great, great, great grandchildren come out of the vault and collect a few dollars worth of coins, will that payout be worth our initial investment?

Instead of lead they used uranium

*Grouch mode INITIALIZED* "This is MY trash can! Go find your own!"

@@peytongonavy *Unsheathes Samurai Sword*

Yeah they block bullets just fine

@@l33tsamurai true

They also would have made great public toilets or phone booths.

Nah, he was only in that fridge for a short time.

He was still ghoulified tho. He would have lived had he not been in the fridge. The whole point was that these shelters would protect you from the radiation, until it "cleared"

Yeah… I wouldn’t really consider any of fallout 4 to be cannon. :/ that game had so many lore breaks. And 76 was way worse in that regard

Yeah, Fallout 4 isn't exactly lore friendly. Everything after Brotherhood of Steel (besides New Vegas) isn't concurrent with the lore and is a result of Bethesda just making shit up. They had no interest in staying true to Black Isle's vision for the Fallout Universe, they just wanted to cash on in the name.

Ever wondered why Bobby didn't react to the surrounding wasteland, his wrecked home or his parents beeing ghouls? Only explainable by bad Bethesda writing, huh?

This is a really good point. Bethesda should have put piles/trails of skeletons outside each of these things.

Exactly what im thinking. otherwise this scam would be a waste of money for everyone involved

You see, the change is just the icing on the cake. What Pulowski made money from is the machines themselves. Whoever was in charge definitely chose to lease the design to the local governments instead of building it themselves. That probably explains why the ones in the Capitol are different from the ones in the Commonwealth.

Like hostile design for homeless people. Except kind of the inverse.

Reminds me of masking, or double masking in general. The governments 'feel-good' solution for keeping plebs from rioting, while maintaining the perceived competency of government leadership.

The one niggling question being, who did they envisage collecting the cost of entry to the Shelter? Its very much a single use case purchase rather than recurrent income. Got be exclusively security theatre for the local governments that implemented it with the classic capitalist cruelty of Fallout.

Blast, and whatever fell on them. Now getting out might be a problem but that's what the con opener is for.

Having them lift up and down would have made them actual functional shelters :/ Always made me agrivated.

they should have had a mini bunker in like a certain mod in fo4 does it creats a keycard scanner and a keycard and when tou use it it loads you in a "bunker"

they should have had a mini bunker in like a certain mod in fo4 does it creats a keycard scanner and a keycard and when tou use it it loads you in a "bunker"

Yeah I thought that too.

Something they don't do in-game both 3 and 4 they were a scam through and through.

Even if this thing worked as advertised you'd need to be in one of those for at least a few months. I'm normally not the kind of person to get stir crazy easily but if I was forced to live in a phone booth sized box for a few months I'd probably go completely bonkers after a few days.

@@twistedyogert not really, after a nuclear airburst detonation(which is the type of detonation used by nukes generally), most radiation clears within 2 weeks

@@berbtheherb still 2 weeks

@@sofhie5110 more than doable

To be fair, its 250 year old mementos at this point. Dont think any spirits would mind.

@@jimbo2947 Wouldn't it be hilarious if you ended up getting followed around by a ghost 'companion' that's always bugging you because you took their harmonica or something?

One man's treasure is another's trash lol

Same. In Fallout 3, maybe.

Wow! who could have seen that coming?

That could just be because they were playing fallout 76, if you’ve played it you know about the detail, 16 times the amount we got in fallout 4

@@jimmortalman7709 Lolololol

​@@jimmortalman7709The shelters also don't protect against radiation in 3 or 4 either. It's not a oversight the Preservation Shelters don't actually protect from nuclear fallout.

That would have been a great side missing to go on a small trail to either see if... he died in one was a coward and ended up a live in a shelter Or was a Goul

Since The Wanderer has so many Permadeath series, the video is "The Lyon's Pride - Fallout 3: Vicious Wastes- Permadeath #8"

I love how in new Vegas you don't have to kill any mutants, they don't deserve it

I’m about to watch this video you speak of. Hope it’s worth it

@@brandonroach2152 I hope you enjoyed it. I was just playing the TTW mod that merges Fallout 3 and Fallout NV. I found a booby-trapped Pulowski shelter that had a pressure plate in front with a bouquet of grenades inside. I cleverly disarmed the plate and stepped inside to grab the grenades... forgetting that the FO3 Pulowski shelters auto-close once you step inside. The door bumps me into the grenade bouquet, knocking it to the floor. With my last breath, I curse you Pulowski!

Kinky (i think), also you might be able to get another person inside but space would probably be tight af in there.

Ah yes, the PortaNaughty

Thats what i mean too, the creator overreacting by ingame lore ans physics. There are also many buttons we dont know the use of, and honestly itd normal some lf them failed couse nothing can handle a close atomic hit.

@@corruptedmember2568 That still doesn't solve the problem of starving to death or running out of water. Especially since it takes radioactive fallout 3 to 5 weeks to dissipate. The creator didn't "overreach". These things were a scam, and there's holotapes in the game that prove it if the obvious shitty nature of them isn't good enough for you.

@@Seoul_Soldier Look, those things where not designed for what you talk about, to life weeks, or even months in it: They was there to give you an chance of survival of the initial blasts and fires and a time to make you think where you run to survive the coming fallout. You survive, after a few hours you run home to your basement if you can, so you might survive, thats all. And for those porpuse, they was more then enough. Thats all, not more not less, so it is not a scam. What you think is like to make comparisons from Toyota Camry into a Mercedes S-Class, even it was never designed to be on same level of usage or comfort. This kind pot was only a cheap and direct salution for the couse of survival, so not in any comparison to an acutal vault- so please dont compare apples with peas.

@tarnished hollow bro, let me explain by this: You might use a car which has airbags right? But even with airbags your not 100% immune to death. So are airbags a scam too? No, of course not. The only promise this thing does is a short time protection for a atomic blast which is not a directly hit. Thats all. Not more, not less.

@@kennydoggins1712 not in the world of Fallout though. You could use it just to avoid the heat and debris from an initial blast. I think the fact that we DON'T see any of them crushed by debris suggests they're good for that much at least - but that level of protection you can get from any nearby building of substantial construction and you wouldn't have to have exact change to get in a building. But the number of skeletons found inside them suggests to me that they're not very good (or possibly not ANY good) at protecting from actual fallout. Anyone who TRIED to wait inside one for the radiation to die down only ENSURED that they took a solid dose from the surrounding environment. They died inside holding mini nukes, overdue library books, guns, ammunition, food, first aid kits, and more, but they all were wearing just normal clothes. So what did they die of? Flying debris? I think we'd SEE holes in them if that were the case. Suffocation? Possibly, but as noted the design does at least appear to incorporate some manner of airflow, whether filtered or not. Did they starve to death? That takes WEEKS - even longer if you're not even using energy because you're in a space small enough to be counted as torture if you were there against your will. Dehydration? That takes only a few days - but at about the time you're most desperate for water, the invisible phantom of radiation will surely seem like it's become the lesser worry, so people aren't going to just stay inside and DIE OF THIRST. Pretty much leaves only two other options. Dying of injury sustained _before_ entering (because as noted, once you're in one, nobody else is able to open it from the outside to hurt you), or you die of radiation poisoning while waiting for the radiation level outside to die down. Since they would have been paid for by public funds, no matter how you slice it, they are a scam - a waste of money that would have been FAR better spent some other way. There's no in-game evidence they did even a single person any good - but LOTS of evidence that people in them died just as easily as anyone outside them.

Or someone must have put it there

@@SoulKitsuneyt I like my version better.

He was doing maintenance. 👨‍🔧

@@SoulKitsuneyt why the hell would a starving wastelander drag around a bigass robot into a metal circle thing? for the lulz? c'mon, man.

@@atomic_bomba There are some sickos in the wasteland. And not just raiders on chems, but pretty nasty people. Or the guy with the invisible motorcycle.

I wonder if this will work for the quest, Death from Above.

@@VaultWeasel It will not, but its mainly because of how Nukes work. When taking damage from the artillery, you recieve the damage from either the explosion, or direct impact. A nuke however, doesn't have a hit box, it simply applies sort of like a death barrier around the entire zone, meaning yhat if your in a nuke zone, inside a preservation chamber, ull be disintegrated.

@@kevenblackworks1906 Good to know.

Yeah but 76 is a terrible game that nobody cares about.

@@TehButterflyEffect Nice comment. I bet your sorry ass felt the need to go out of your way, to a video of a small content creator, that plays a game that you don't like, just to be an asshole. Why don't you do the world a favor and go off yourself, fcking asshole.

(Basing this off of my own real life knowledge about nuclear weapons and actual real life places designed & built to withstand nuclear attack to some extent(some of which I've visited, a few I've actually worked in) About the only thing they would be good for in a short term capacity is for anyone that survived the initial bombing, and then needed to take shelter during the initial fallout period (where the radioactive particulates are falling back down to the ground) Then move from there to a longterm shelter (assuming you were let in by passing whatever entry requirements they setup). Anything beyond 1-2 weeks of use, I would assume those shelters (if they even provided any protection at all) were essentially going to start becoming coffins for anyone that remained inside of them for whatever reason.

Aren't they using sliding doors though? The doors would open, it would be getting out that's the issue depending on how much rubble is blocking the exit.

Frankly they are almost reasonable for the first stage of fallout. Every hour dramatically increases expected survival rates as the fallout settles and immediately begins to fade in potency. If that can is actually a thin plate of steel sandwiching a good chunk of lead, that might actually help... course a basement or concrete building would be about as good, but sealed ventilation is hard to find!

Nah. Their whole point is to survive the initial blast radiation burst, then the radioactive dust settling, probably while you wait for help to arrive. Actually if there was a filtrated water dispenser, which isn't hard to do, you could wait out the initial 7-14 days of the dust settling that are the most critical (most people can survive on water alone for 3-8 weeks), and then it'd be si safe to try leave to seek help or escape the blast zone. And that's realistically, I'll remind you fallout is kind of unrealistic, silly and cartoony, so your chances would probably be even better in that universe

This was also a concern with many real fallout shelters built into the basements of civil buildings, and many large structures. If the building collapsed from the nuclear shockwave, the doors could be blocked by debris & the inhabitants inside could be trapped.

Would rather they work and have at least a slim chance I survive.

They're probably not a scam, just not enough is known and the idea is not fully thought through, because Bethesda is lazy af. Realistically, you'd just need them to be airtight and leaded, with a filter system to avoid the initial radiation outburst, that ALREADY boosts your odds greatly. Then you'd wait for help, so they weren't built for a full in apocalypse, but you CAN'T build this kind of little can for the apocalypse anyway. Anyhow, you survive the blast radiation and debree, and even if help isn't coming, if there's a water dispenser, you CAN wait out 7-14 days at which point it's somewhat safe to leave by yourself to seek help or evacuate the contaminated area. So yeah, they could DEFINITELY be effective for what they're built for, the guy just doesn't know what he's talking about, also he's assuming full realism which fallout is anything but.

@@mkzhero or, they are a scam, and your lazy attempt at “Bethesda bad” is just copium. Stop pretending your head cannon matters 🙂

@@jebalitabb8228 Go check out some protocols behind small civilian shelters in case of various events... Also idk how the fuck you can say Bethesda is anything but shit after 76, you rabid fanboy coper

thats why there is often a gun in them

I learned this fleeing a band of Super Mutants. Unfortunately, I had more mutants than bullets, and only delayed the inevitable... much as these shelters did in their original form.

yeah, however it is also important to remember that when used as intended, who is going to collect the change from the machine? I'm not showing up to work the day after the bombs drop to collect quarters from the preservation chambers, that's for sure. I think the real money is made when the pods are installed, and the requirement of exact change is just to prevent people from using them pre-war for incredible amounts of time. you can think of the change as a toll for each time the door closes. opening is free, closing costs money. so you can stay there as long as you want, but then if you want the door to close after a bathroom break that's more money. prevents people from squatting in the pod. if you want to sleep in an oversized tin can, you should at least pay rent, this is America!

$1000 coins maybe? Pre-War money is pretty vague anyway

@@arcanealchemist3190 just a reminder the IRS plans on still collecting taxes in the event of nuclear strike.

@@turtleofpride4572 good luck getting my hard earned dollars I would beings pulling a U.S. president in a nuclear war, meaning not fighting and hiding somewhere going to tax my gold, seeds and hydroponics farm

That's the funny part. Unless they have like armed taxmen roaming around how they gonna do it?

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Just recently opened one to see just a skull wearing a hat and that made me laugh out loud. Been playing forever but haven’t seen that one before!

The soldier holding onto a mini nuke is great. Dedicated to keeping a dangerous weapon out of the wrong hands even if it meant a suicide booth would be his tomb. How the ferals you find in Fallout 4 don’t suffocate or decay to bare skeletons like the others I have no idea unless they’re more recent occupants somehow.

@@Otterdisappointment maybe they are dumb creatures that lock themselves in there hehe

I got jump scared by one, it had a legendary glowing ghoul spawn

I remember accidentally causing that parking lot to blow when I got into a fight with a protectron. It crashed the game.

Young, dumb, and full of... bad ideas

Could've used those 3 seconds to gtfo by fast-travel, provided no enemies were nearby... I figured that out quick when I blew up that car-fort on the bridge! Hoo boy what a fireworks display...

I have a somewhat similar experience. I was in Cambridge in Fallout 4 and I hid in one so I could reload my gun and take a small breather from the Ghouls, and when I opened it back a a Super Mutant Suicider was waiting for me. I closed the door again and blew up.

@@Warlordalexi that a smart idea I was just learning how to play so I was severely crippled and over encumbered so I was stuck in my grave

200 years of storms, rust, and radiation, they work well, too.

Ironically they outlasted most of vaults which were a million times better...

@@thegermanfool8953 Nobody in Fallout verse is a prepper? Like nobody made a single underground Bunker that isnt Vaults? Wth

@@nickalex4235 there is a ton of prepper-bunkers all over the US in Fallout (there is even 1 in Sanctuary, right next to a Vault). The Pulowskies can usually be found in urban centers. They are basically for when you are out and about without the time to reach a vault or your own shelter, while the vaults are communal bunkers for the (often) affluent.

@@thegermanfool8953 The only reason the Vaults failed was the fact that the American leaders were utter retards and decided that it was a good Idea to play god and experiment upon people living in them. If they were just a normal shelter, they would have all worked pretty well. Everyone would've still be alive and enough artists, scientists and people of other roles would have survived to revive the country. But no, let us try to turn it's inhabitants into super soldiers for a war that is being fought on nuclear weapons. Instead of simply making more missiles

You can find a mod that actually fixes it, I think it was a Dev oversight Personally

@@dnakatomiuk It was not. Even in fallout 3, it doesn't protect you.

Definitely not an oversight. The whole point of these things is that they don't work.

@@SirMegaManNeoX buildings in fallout 4 do protect you a bit though, while the shelters don't at all., which is an oversight due to the basic fact that the shelter is by far less open than than ruined buildings. I'm saying that they should at least protect you in the same manner as building do if the devs intended for the mechanics to represent their actual radiation protection, meanwhile they prolly just didn't think anybody would care about them beyond checking for loot.

@@tylermech66 Nope, it was intentional.

You need lead. Just sheets of lead to cover the whole thing.

That’ll be pretty cool but I’d imagine you need power armor or a hazmat suit for the entire game and I would like to see how humans survived the early years after the bombs fell maybe underground like the metro series

If you have a PC that can run FO4, and have the GOTY edition on Steam, try Fallout: Frost. The dude who made DUST made it

Lmao, that's my first thought when I played Fallout 4. When I got in the vault I thought "Ah, I bet there's some things they need to do outside and I'm gonna have to be the one who does them." Then my wife was shot

Well, most of the mutants and other factions wouldn’t exist, but keeping the story a human story about survival and morality in the face of the apocalypse. I imagine most of the enemies will be Chinese soldiers/spies and desperate scavengers.

@@saturn21207 Sorry for the "loss" of your wife.

The show did it.

the fallout 3 quest "Those!" starts with a kid, bryan wilks, hiding in a pulowski shelter. though granted he wasn't trapped in it like billy, just hiding

even then, right near a nuclear bomb? The only way these things would work is in the outskirts of the blast, like in Walden and such. Even then, 10-20 minutes in that scorching radiation infested area, you'd already get rad poisoning. It'd be like the glowing sea but, literally everywhere. Especially if you were inside the city. If these things can protect you from a nuclear blast, you might as well just go into the various metal and concrete buildings, you'd have a vastly better chance then these things for what you're stating is the purpose, short term protection from a giant nuclear blast and then booking it.

@@jimbo2947 well even actual shelter aren't expected to survive ground zero of a nuclear blast, but if you're still in the shock wave area it might help. Chances are slim, but it's better than nothing.

@@Nickallsopp92 I agree, it was always a 'better than nothing' sort of thing. I dont think anyone expects to live out the radiation in there. They'd spend a few hours/days at most

Maybe, but given the number of skeletons found inside those things a lot of people probably ended up trapped inside unable to open the thing once the actual bombs fell.

@@immortalfrieza or they were too scared to leave and ended up dying of dehydration or starvation. There's a lot of explanations for the bodies inside, some of them probably died at some point long after the bombs fell.

This is a very fun idea

Yeah, in all honesty, I can’t fault them on the idea, even if there’s some obvious… _issues_ with the design. Something is better than nothing, and it’s not like the money from people entering the machines would be spendable by the company

True. Studies showed that the only difference between victims of Hiroshima/Nagasaki in a certain radius from the impact who died within two weeks and those who survived was that they were standing behind a tree or a thin wall when the donation happened.

@@khosrowmaybe the Pulowski was just meant for the first moment blast and the radiation blast and then you needed to escape somewhere safe and the ones who died had nowhere safe to go so they just stayed there.

What's the name of the mod??? Is it the one called "Pulowski VIP Shelters" ?

@@jeal0us539 yup...an my favorite part is they all have working ammo benches

@@robertjackson5925 yeah

I was gonna comment about this mod but yeah I think it was a pretty solid idea

@@Rudinn_Ranger I like that there in different condition to some clean others trashed

Radiation doesn't turn everyone into a ghoul. Only some people are genetically predispositioned to turn into a ghoul. The rest would just die normally from radiation poisoning. That's why you find some ghouls in a few but mostly skeletons.

You can find skeletons inside every pullowski shelter. Ofc they weren't safe

@@FDDFGGSHORTS Yeah. Given the setting of Fallout- a hypercapitalist America that never left the Red Scare- it's completely logical that the shelters were never meant to actually protect anyone, just get some money from the wallets of the poor fools who bought them while deluding themselves into believing they would be safe. And honestly? I'm willing to bet all of the bigwigs in Pulowski who could afford it went ahead and bought spots in an actual vault for themselves, leaving the rest of their workers to die in hot nuclear fire... or the radiation that followed.

@@FDDFGGSHORTS Who knows if that are the people who used them during the bombs or just people coming in later. And if the people died from bad shelters or later. I can totally see raiders open one of them, kill and rob the person inside and just leave the body there. I mean, even "normal" people in the post apocalypse have skeletons in their closets, and kitchens, and living rooms.

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@@R-YR29 Pew Pew wasn't offered by the Sunset Sarsaparilla Company. All they offered was the horseshit story, and a badge

Nah, that was in good intentions and geared toward children. People over time simply took it too far and made it legend. Pulowski really was a scam. Hell, in 76, Hiding in one doesn't keep the Nuclear fire out in any kind of way when you Launch one. It's been tested.

@@timothyharris1125 Well, fair. And they just said an award. Never said it would be a good award.

Mwahahaha, 1000 hours of playing, and I never collect them all! *BECAUSE I HATE FUCKING "COLLECT X SHIT" IN ANY GAME WHO THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO CREATE SUCH STUPID QUESTS SHOULD STAB THEMSELF WITH 250 RUSTY NEEDLES THAT I HIDE SOMEWHERE IN COLORADO*

As long as it was made of lead or lead lined. Steel doesnt help against radiation very well.

Wouldn't you still cook in them though?

@@Sneakyboson If you’re in the fireball zone, you’re fucked no matter what you do, so that’s not particularly important. Most of the shitshow will come from Firestorms, radiation, and infrastructure devastation. Obviously the insulation and heat shielding is likely not top notch in the Shelters, but they still keep out toxic fumes from burning rubber

@@Sneakyboson if the nuke is right on you you're dead no matter what

Mod name!?

@@tk-5268it’s called vip shelters

I believe the things required change because they made money off of them Before the bombs. The old overseers terminal mentions that that week there were 5 drills which was unusual but still implies that having the sirens go off was a event that happened multiple times a week. And that's not the only time in the series that it was mentioned that day of, many intended vault residents didn't show up or didn't make it on time.

maybe they could have some explosive bolts on the top that makes the top portion shoot out like a projectile clearing any debris

The microwaves would cook you before the heat reached you.

@@TehButterflyEffect Yah, that's a very good point . I didn't think of that . I agree

@@TehButterflyEffect That is not how microwaves work. The metal of the shelter would absorb most radiation (just like the metal grid behind the glass of a microwave oven). But the heat created by that absorbtion would heat up the shelter, and cook you anyway.

@@AmryL yeah very good point. That's true or else every time you use the microwave at home you'd end up heating up everything else in the kitchen like the fridge or something

Blown away by the blast

@@HappyBeezerStudios Or eaten by scavenging wildlife.