Uncovering Horrors at the West Tek Research Center - Fallout 76 Lore 

I walked in West Tek, saw all those terminals and said "Nah, i'm not gonna read all these terminals, i'll wait until Oxhorn makes a video".

4:41 Oxhorn says "we can hear Super Mutants at the parking lot." Super Mutant Enforcer says "I can hear you." Lol

"Could the baby have escaped?" >baby crawling away from West Tek as musbrom clouds bloom in the distance

Fun Fact: In the original mutation system for Fallout 76, you could actually become a Super Mutant, but would be limited on your armor choice along with intelligence and charisma debuffs. In this old early stage of the game, mutations had cosmetic effects and you were limited to one mutation which had three stages with an “ultimate” stage which for super mutants temporarily turned you into a super mutant behemoth which could only use melee. This would last for a short duration before you would return to a stage 3 super mutant. Similarly you could also become a Scorched.

At 31:42 the interviewee clearly says: "What have you done to my wife?" But the text says "What have you done to my mother?". Intentional, mistake, or Freudian slip?

Oxhorn needs a t-shirt dedicated to his love of the Gauss Rifle. FO3, FO4, FO76... He’s surgical with that thing!

K117M is voiced by the same actor as the male soul survivor in fallout 4, I knew it almost immediately. Nothing wrong with this just pointing it out.

Vault-Tek: We are the most amoral unethical company in Pre-War America. Change my mind. West-tek: Hold my beer...

And they say the vault experiments were awful

After all these years of playing fallout, i just realized why it's called "mariposa military base" and damn whoever put that name is a freaking Genius. you see, "mariposa" means butterfly in spanish, and butterflys are the final evolution of a previous (and ugly specie) named Caterpillar, a butterflys needs to evolve first from a Caterpillar, into a Cocoon then the butterflys come out. In fallout happens the same thing, humans (Aka Caterpillars) are dipped into the vats (Aka cocoons) so they finally evolve into super mutants (Aka butterflys). Well thats how i see it, it's 2:00 AM and i'm sleeepy, hope yall got the point Even with my zug-zug English Lol

Fawkes: What they did to me was monstrous. Lone Wanderer: So they created a monster.

Oxhorn, did I miss it or did you skip the terminal in the second decontamination arch room? Talks about developing the neutralizing agent and when they finally cracked it waited for his boss to come and start breathing fire down his neck then having the crew up-end a barrel of FEV on him and letting him scream and cry for a minute before running him through the neutralizing arch.

"the militarized applications of PVP" this just keeps making me laugh

31:44 there must have been a scripting issue at this very moment. While thr character in the holotape says "wife", the in game subtitles said "mother."

3:48 Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge these paintings are actual real-life paintings. Most of them date back to the early 1900s, when Modernism was booming in the Western World. For those who don't know, modernism basicly is the time when people started to think, and paint, in more of an abstract way( Picasso. You can see a Kandinsky (the one with the circles) a Van Doesburg, an Vantongerloo and other well-known contemporaries. I love these little details those people at Bethesda put in their game, even for the more educated people enjoying their games.

K-117M was interesting.... it was working, he just happened to have a flashing memory of his wife that made him angry.

I'm loving the quick-paced editing of the fighting. makes Oxhorn look like a brutal killer haha

I think the Wes-Tek building in 76 is one of my fav locations. It was swarming with mutants when I got there, barely made it but after killing them I could read the lore and check everything out at my own pace. I really liked it!

I'm glad you decided to keep doing the Fallout 76 videos, Oxhorn. I have limited satellite internet here, so I wouldn't even be able to play the game. I love the lore of Fallout, and despite 76 being a "spinoff" title, it is considered canon, so... Thank you Oxhorn.

OH WOW!! Christ, you can actually investigate the facility. Anytime i go in there the server is guarantied to crash literally after 10 mins.

Huntersville and the west tech research facility redeemed Fallout 76 for me. I wish it was less buggy but the story and overall tone is EXTREMELY fitting for the Fallout franchise.

An hour of oxhorn? Don't mind if I do.

Welp there goes my job being a scientist at West Tek, might just apply for East Tek.

34:30 Oh no, they finally got old Chuck Finley. Michael's going to be pissed.

31:43 The subtitles give some additional lore...

Interesting to hear a Super Mutant Transformation from an audio tape and you notice as the aggression in her voice increases the moment she’s beginning to transform into the Super Mutant!

38:32 Only Oxhorn could tie this back to Fallout 1 AND have the game footage to boot. That one clip alone shows the insane attention to detail in these videos and there are so many other examples throughout all of Oxhorn's work. Truly the best.

Oxhorn should put out some sort of daily raffle the day before publishing a fallout 76 video so people can squad with him, function like bodyguards who clear a building while ox litterally looks at every plank, trying to find the significance behind each plank

"Charles Finley" I love that reference.

I found this location to be a good challenge and always has a 2 or 3 star legendary with legendary loot. Every now and then there's 2 inside with a chance of one or two outside as well.

"Could the baby have escaped" Like... are you suggesting the baby just walked out of there?

hands down the most terrifying thing from west tech has to be the nylon bag

So this is where all the canvas bags are stored.

They say that there is a canvas bag hidden in the facility. But truth is..... It's just nylon

Love the attention to detail of the vat room. Looks very much like the cut scenes from Fallout 1 of being dipped in the Mariposa Military Base.

31:42 "What have you done to my wife?" The subs say: "What have you done to my MOTHER?"

Thank you for continuing to make Fallout 76 vids and exploring the intriguing lore of this game. Hopefully seeing these will smooth over some people's rustled feathers and we can all go back to enjoying Fallout in peace.

My worst fear- your overcumberd you can’t fast travel

Charles Finley is a nod to Burn Notice. It’s the alias Sam Axe uses whenever he needs to use a different name.

There's another terminal by the decontamination arch upstairs that details the scientists playing pranks on each other with dark undertones.

*goes to an advanced technology facility* Oxhorn: Ooh pie!

11:47 anyone else notice how it looks like blue coffins around the words WEST TEK?

We need to know the why You're turning into Ulysses Ox

Great vid Ox. About the Flatwoods Monster, I think you missed the holotape part 2 of the Flatwoods Monster radio show thing. I never saw you pick it up. On the road up from the church, heading toward the Red Rocket, you find a house on the right with a yellow mailbox. It's inside the mailbox. It's a good listen and explains a bit about it. Cheers.

I'm starting to think Alex Jones was the one writing Fallout.

I was expecting Oasis pt2 for some reason

Dang, this just brings a whole new meaning to "must be something in the water".

Huntersville- Wow, so West Tek, what are doing doing all the way out here? West Tek- Don't worry about it.

Thank you for explaining big sciencey words, Oxhorn

Seems like there's a curse in the fallout universe where all companies with "tek" in there name seem to do unethical experiments. From med teks testing on actual live subjects for medical research,

Oh hey--excellent way to present a long gun battle. The jump cuts to kills are a far superior way of presenting that type of content. I still don't mind the longer form if you're feeling lazy, or want to pad out the runtime. But it's a better presentation with the jump cuts, if you can swing it.

At 34:20 Did anyone pick up on the Chuck Finley reference. A pseudonym that the man, the legend, the chin! Bruce “groovy” Cambell used in the tv show Burn Notice. He was an informant for the FBI and he had no real job so his job being “nothing” seems like it’s a possibility this was not just coincidence. And I quote “Are you kidding? Chuck Finley is forever!”

Would have been interesting to see a FEV Baby in a test tube or show step by step the progression of the mutation in the tubes.

What I dont understand is that they started to study FEV in Huntersville by water before they knew if the stuff works. Goes against anything proper scientific study stands for. It should go step by step: first figure out if it works and then start looking into different ways to distribute it. This shows that they did both at the same time. You cannot get reliable results that way since there is no clear continuity to studies. The explanations of cryptids is interesting at first but then it kind of takes away the mystery about them: "oh its the FEV, it did it". Those cryptids are part of the real life lore and explaining away them like that feels cheap.

31:41 You know you're in the south when the guy says "wife" but the subtitle says "mother"

So wait... wouldn't this be a different faction of the BoS if they came from WestTek Appalachia, if they ever discovered the true purpose of this lab? Wouldn't they basically be more militarized towards gathering technology, more aggressive? Like, they would actually kill anything that had advanced technology, whether they were innocent civilians or not? This research facility would also explain WHY there are Super Mutant Behemoths wandering around.

Damn was West Tek a nightmare to clear at level 25 with a somewhat modified combat rifle and a black powder rifle with no damage perks whatsoever...

I kinda want to cross check some of the info from town, dates mainly to see how long before they started FEV research, I remember that West Tek coming to town and putting in a new water system was a big deal. Did they originally put in the water system for the crops then mod it for FEV, or were there secret plans from the start to drop the plant research and test on the town? a solid timeline could give clues.

i explored West Tek at level 5 out of curiosity and good lord that is the most challenging thing i've done so far aside from fight a scorched beast for the first time by myself

Oxhorn I'm going to assume you've never heard of operation midnight climax. Look it up it was a real thing in the US during the Cold War.

I love the way you say "Super Mutant", and you say it a hundred times in this video 😆

Bethesda made a nice reference resident evil 2 with this quest in fallout 76, like west tec is the umbrella corporation, the fev is the t virus and huntersville is raccoon city.

I didn't think I'd like this because I watched you play through it a while back. But I found it enjoyable and informative. You're great at these lore vids.! Thanks Oxhorn!! Now I've gotta go back to the divide(FNV) to get those two Riot Gear suits! Again thanks!

Sometimes when I play fallout this game makes you so lonely I'm scared when I don't have a companion

31:42 probably just a small miss write but the subtitles say "where is my mother" whereas the recording says "where is my wife"

Isn't the computer entry about the o-rings, guy falling in, and diluting the FEV before leaving after the bombs dropped pulled directly from a previous Fallout (either 3 or 4)? I just swear I remember hearing the same exact thing from either one of your videos or from me playing it.

I wish west-tec just stuck to power armor. It would be cool to discover prototype mods for the T-60 or T-51. West-tec would be way different without FEV

How good are you in fallout man like you wiped out an entire super mutant camp. You’ll like a boss man

So.... PVP in Fallout 76 is really a disease?!? That makes more sense now.... ;)

Hee! The 'Charles Finley' entry at 34:26 is a Burn Notice reference--Bruce Campbell's character used 'Chuck Finley' as an alias whenever possible. The height & age are about right, as is the occupation, since Chuck Finley's occupation changed to fit the situation.

The more human abysses I see, the more I belive that nuclear apocalypse was the best thing what happend to the Fallout universe.

If you like environmental storytelling, I think you'll love the soulsborne games Ox

18:38 release the hounds

Love these lore videos. Has anyone noticed the big discrepancies in these stories? How is it that people talk about and were searching for a bunch of these cryptids long before they even existed? There's no way Shelby and especially her dad had searched for the snallygaster for years/decades prior when the thing wasn't created until just before the war. The Grafton monster didn't get transported until the day before the bombs dropped. And why would the "subjects" need to be injected with FEV when the whole town of Huntersville already turned due to drinking, cooking with and bathing in the tainted water?

At least we know who may have endorsed that experiment at Vault 87. West Tek and Vault-Tech for the win. They're literally perfect for each other.

I'm amazed how many Fallout fans I know that think our real life government likes us and doesn't experiment on us...

31:40 The subtitle doesn't match up with what's said

I wish the Appalachia mutants were more unique looking, the Commonwealth mutants were modified by the Institute hence why they looked so different. Would've been interesting if these ones had their own forced evolutionary traits.

At 31:50 the closed caption says mother while the voice over says wife. Its 1am and this is my life now

~50 minutes of FALLOUT lore by oxhorn WOOHOO !

Fallout 76 needs to add an Oxhorn NPC companion to the game that explains the invisible lore to you.

I’m a little surprised you haven’t covered the Kanawha Nuka-Cola Plant yet. I for one would love your storytelling abilities to reveal the full story behind it.

You have got to find another acronym for the Pan Immunity Virion Project. PVP has a very different connotation.

The whole concept of this doesn't sit right with me. Mariposa makes sense. Taking a population no one will miss, and subjecting them to experiments in a controlled environment. But... just dumping FEV into the water supply of an entire town? No matter how remote, there's no way to ensure operational security. People are going to notice an entire town dropping off the face of the map, and there is a horrendously high chance of your superbug getting out into the wild. Given that FEV was still in the EXTREMELY painful early stages of development, this doesn't make any sense. I mean, if FEV KILLED the populace, that'd be one thing. Town gets wiped out, there are no witnesses, you can cover that up. But if you turn an entire town into super strong, super mean super soldiers with no effective containment perimeter? With the agent getting into the local water table and spreading who knows how far? That's ridiculous even by Fallout Universe standards. This sort os unethical experimentation you save for when you've gotten some idea in the lab what this thing actually DOES.

Oxhorn your awesome I can't get fallout 76 but I still am interested in the fallout lore thanks for all that you do.

The report on AM-52 was generated on January 3 of 78, so it escaped a little over two months after the bombs dropped.

I haven't been watching the livestreams so forgive me if this is a question someone's already asked but has Ox thought about doing video like his Fallout 4 settlement videos but for Fallout 76 Camp locations and builds? Would be really helpful for settlement builders to know how viable various locations are and what kindas of builds are possible and the intricacies of the building system (like camps being built with the building floating atop a single staircase). One location I'd be particularly interested in is a possible spot for a treehouse build. In the north-east corner of the map is a compass symbol. If you draw a vertical line down from the W and a horizontal line west of the S, there's an unmarked location of a tree with ramps that let you climb the tree to an ex-survivor's refuse. It seems you can build your camp up there but what I'd like to know is how viable it is (e.g. is it easy build foundations up there? Do enemies attack it easy? Does the fact it's at a higher altitude affect restrictions on vertical build height?). I could of course try it myself but I don't accumulate resources very fast to make rapid testing easy (translation: I'm a lazy s**t).

I got excited when I though it was Fallout 3 lore...

Perfect to watch while eating dinner 😺

Is FO76 really 6 years old now? Man, time flies.

I always thought AM53 was a bit like sentient lung cancer.

WEST SIDEEEEE lol nice video Oxhorn

YIKES and people say there is no lore in this game. Uh huh.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who found the Burn Notice Easter Egg. XD Poor Chuck Finley. . .

Lol Charles aka 'Chuck' Finley from Burn Notice. Even matches up with Bruce Campbell's height.

Only 360p. Corrected just after 8 minutes, thats fast other channels take hours to do that.

Sweet, buttery, lore!

i wonder if one of the escaped ones is Grahm. you see him walking around the place with his Chally Moo Moo. hes a merchant and fun to run into.

honestly, you made me like fallout and I went and got them all. your videos are needed. you should do more deep lore games like amnesia, dark souls and others. great job on these videos.

*4:04** Weather not found!* (Seriously!? leaving painted canvases exposed to the weather for X amount of years (artist = skeleton) and the colors are crisp & the canvas is undamaged %facepalm!% )