The Smallest Creatures in Fallout 

They're kind of cute imo

Dude. I was playing last night, and I was gonna frag the nest. One of them hit me, while I had the 'nade in hand. It made me end up dropping it. Having a crippled leg, trying to dance around to get those damn things in the target zone, REALLY sucked! 🤣🤣

@@user-dq9pq8uv4e I feel ya. I play mostly survival or Very Hard, and those kinda of fumbles are the worst. Am I right in that they ALWAYS come at the worst possible time too. Like you haven't saved in an hour because you have been so into the zone. And you've been "wakin' bakin'" all day :)

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Rad 😎

Three aren't enough?

@@dickdastardly4236 no.

theres an irish bird in fo4

*sees a giant vulture fly towards the mountains* Yeah I’m good with the little birds we know of. I don’t think we need more giant flying creatures appearing.

birds aren't real they are drones lol just look at the Institute Crows that are actually synths

Justice for wind brahmin

Possums got screwed over by nature, just in general. IRL their eyesight is _terrible_ and they're very near sighted. Add in that they are incredibly _slow_ . And that they carry their young on their backs. Which means that this slow moving, half blind animal, has babies on board, when that car comes barreling along. It is, however, both extremely cool, and kind of creepy... to see them sleeping upside down, hanging from their tales. I saw one doing this from a fence gate once.

@@user-dq9pq8uv4e Yeah, once one ran in front of my car even though it saw me coming! I personally feel it actually wanted to die. At least they are better off than other animals that somehow aren't extinct.

@@venator-fb7yy Squirrels do that too! About running in front of cars. I honestly can't argue with what you said about it wanting to die. Just based on squirrels, I think those nutters have a suicidal tendency wired into their brain!

​@@user-dq9pq8uv4e babies can hang from their tails, but likely won't unless posed by people. Adults weigh too much and shouldn't be picked up by their tail or it could hurt them

​@@venator-fb7yy 70 million years with minimal change worked out pretty good for them

The common cold that wastelanders deal with could probably take out half the irl planet

​They technically already do. There are a few unique bacteria around pripyat/Chernobyl. ​@@ManD0wnthis might seem like nitpick but it's not because you're right about wasteland disease being hardcore but colds and flu are viruses. Arguably if it wasn't for the reduced population and each location being reasonably far from each other our modern day diseases could wipe out the remainder of humanity. Edit: bare in mind that humans seem to come up against an unseen virus with the ability to wipe out huge swathes of the population roughly every 100 years it's surprising that the blue flu is the only major disease mentioned in fallout.

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It's kind of... I dunno if it's cool, or it's corny... maybe both... that Bethesda put this roll on birds. There's all kinds of real world legends, myths, superstitions, about Crows and Blackbirds being the devil's eyes and ears. Or the servants of witches, as spies and messengers. Or even as servants of the god Odin.

It would be extremely lucrative for media companies to flip out and create a fake controversy so they could make money.

I believe they spawn if you destroy a pile of mantis eggs. And yes, they're small enough that they can be killed simply by stepping on them.

They’re found in Nuka World :)

@@daisyprayers Thank you so much Daisy! Much appreciated! I want to see them in the game now, since I did not know that they were in there!

Correct, one of the shocking secrets in Fallout 4 are they are spies for the Institute, have met players with well over 1K hours who never discovered it. You learn of this from a computer in the Institute.

@@StacieMMeier If you know how to, you can crack open the game files to view the image files used for those video screens. And yeah... the camera angle on them proves that they're from a higher up angle. Such as a bird's perch.

I always wished this was one of those things that stayed just a theory. The fact that they have these watchers as long distance spy gear that they basically do nothing with only further makes The Institute look like a mess of faction(lore wise and from a game design standpoint).

This wasn’t very fun

You're an idiot

Even in the US it's a problem. One person I know got a tick. She went to get tested just to sure. Test said negative. . .guess what happened two days later.

Thats horrible considering treatment is just general antibiotics. The EU considers it one of the biggest dangers to its citizens health.

@@chadharger9323 in Australia they refuse to even test for it, people have to go overseas to get a test just to make sure that it is their red liquid being tested and not some other creature's

Not true, Insects were once very large on Earth. And some ants that were tiny during the Dinosaurs are bigger (You know them today as Carpenter Ants). We dont know why insects got smaller over era's. Some say gravity played a part, but gravity hasnt changed much on Earth. Climates, is one, that some claim has caused it. But climates change on Earth all the time over period's in Earth's history. Oxygen levels, Oxygen levels change on Earth all the time. IN the time before Dinosaurs it was very high, we know this because Earth has a natural oxygen level buffer, it is called fire. Great fires were taking place all the time and still does. Only Human's now made it worse by stopping many. But, higher oxygen levels would have allowed for much larger creatures. While the debate continue, many flying insects were the size of birds and even much larger at one time. Why this happen is debated and many scientists disagree on the subject. But gravity wouldnt stop them from getting larger, history and fossil records show this. Remember also, that insects that didnt fly also were large at one time... EDIT: One other theory I forgot why Insects got much smaller. Birds. Birds didnt exist in the period of the very large flying insects. But birds (Those that came from Dinosaurs did exist up to the point of the meteor hit that helped destroy the Dinosaurs. By this time Mammals and Birds were competing with few surviving Dinosaurs (They were going extinct before the meteor, it just helped make it faster) and they were faster and some of both were able to fly (Both birds and some limited mammals), I always thought that because of this insects were forced to be faster and smaller to survive. However, birds are limtied in fallout universe and thus some of the insects wouldnt need this anymore. So, they got much bigger again. But it is theory, like the rest, nobody is certain why they became smaller.

Chad, you make a really good point. I'm gonna include an exclusion to what you're talking about tho. Which is the roaches. They do not have a hardened shell. It's rather pliable, and flexes, gives, and flattens out allowing them to get into some extremely small spaces if they decide to crawl into such a space. Off topic, but a very, very sick thing about roaches is that it takes them 2 weeks or more to starve. And if you cut the head off of one, far enough down the body, it will stay alive, until it starves. 🤢

@@user-dq9pq8uv4e Now I got an idea for something that may be worse than a centaur or Master. A bunch of radroaches grouped together and gassed with with undiluted FEV. Mutant sized in height(getting around the gravity problem) with a whole bunch of radroach heads all over its body. Normally it crawls along the ground like a regular roach. But if all the heads are destroyed it can stand up meaning round two. After all the heads are destroyed the body moves on its own and keeps walking against the first obstacle it reaches like a wall. Think it can be put out of its misery? Nope! This is FEV after all plus the 'roaches can survive anything' trope. The body is unkillable by any FO weapons. The body will continue for a couple of weeks before it finally shuts down and dies.

@@chadharger9323 That is awesome! Creative as all hell! 👍 Maybe, mayyyybe... even give it a few extra torsos linked together, for a psuedo centipede effect. Yikes. That is one hell of an awesome idea, but I wouldn't play it! I *like* being able to sleep after gaming without nightmares! 🤣

I think the real issue is lower oxygen levels in the atmosphere. Massive insects could exist but their respiratory systems are so crappy that they need a much higher oxygen concentration to survive. That's just the major limitation with having an exoskeleton and lacking a true circulatory system. Humongous lobsters and clams exist.

Relatable

Intelligent Deathclaw. And Snuffles.

most all of them would just be from fallout 2 😭

They're sort of formidable at low levels. I know Bark Scorpions irl are small scorpions but if they made bigger variants in the Mojave, while keeping their speed, they'd be better. If I recall a mod adding cloaked scorpions, adding them to even populated city areas like Freeside, that was a pretty fun mod.

Domesticated and feral turkeys can't fly cause we bred the ability out of them like with chickens. True wild turkeys are capable of flight, with top speeds of about 55mph.

@GunFuiChi my bad I didn't realize that. I live in a rural area with dozens of wild turkeys. At my old house I literally saw them every morning and have never seen one take flight. So I assumed they couldnt

@jordyDarko613 that's fair, I only know cause I remembered a story from the chicken soup for the pet lover's soul that I read many years ago. It described how nervous the researchers were cause the ability to fly was basically the only way to distinguish between wild and ferals back in the day, and while they can fly, they definitely prefer to be grounded.

@@GunFuiChi well thanks always good to learn something new

@@GunFuiChi We raised chickens on our farm. This is not to argue, but it kinda depends on the breed, of chickens. Some chicken breeds do have a very limited amount of flight. Tho it's much more akin to a "jet assisted long leap". We had a rooster that could throw himself about 5 or 6 feet with that tactic. With a height of about 2-3 (sorry typo) feet.

Easily liberty prime

I say robo scorpion 😅

Does the scorpion get the first shot

If it did and aimed for primes knees I think it could cripple it 🤔

@@jordyDarko613 well it’s melee is not the issue

Because the creature was in a different place and it had been a little more aggressive and rare and so then the creature had to go or something like that. I think the other one is a little different but the one that was in the same spot was the separate..

if you can’t actively kill them in game it wouldn’t qualify for this list

No lol that was a radstag behind a tree

@@LiterallyAnaoh, you are right

I don't know about German roaches. But I do know that the ones we have here in this area of the US don't have those banded midsections like they do in the game.