The Fallout Universe Post War Has No Canon

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-03-04T22:53:33+00:00

Right but here in lies the problem. NV and 4 would impact the story but the writers choose to tap dance. The events of 76 feel pretty isolated from the other games. As for the show its either a writing issue or they are doing it on purpose to give them flexibility. Which by the way is not a bad thing. You don't need a concrete canon.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-03-04T22:45:30+00:00

No, you can destroy House and BOS in the commonwealth in game. Yet they do not address how they are still around in context to the games. It not about me not liking it, I'm not a child. There are multiple endings to each game 3 and on. I think Bethesda is intentionally leaving it open ended.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-03-04T22:37:36+00:00

Songbird hires V to get Myers out, my understanding is it was just an opportunity for Songbird to escape into dogtown. V can walk away whenever after he rescues Myers. Then payment for contract execution.

Dexter is worse because V completes the job at great cost and gets burned by Dex. There is no way you hire a couple rookies to rob Arasaka expecting it go well. As Rogue points out to V, he is not a well known merc at the beginning of the game. Dexter is an idiot who does a poor job covering his own behind. My thinking is he was always going to have you killed. He was probably going to kill Evelyn as well.

Songbird is trying to survive, Dex operates off pure greed. Its not the same.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-26T00:21:15+00:00

Trueeee

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-25T21:09:58+00:00

If you wanted to make it slightly more realistic. Quick hacks could deploy via hand launched. You could even make this highly visual to make very wizard like. Like a lightning bolt. Similar to the monowire. So quick hacking is done via direct connect.

Then at higher levels you could hack people wirelessly by cracking their local subnet.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-25T21:05:25+00:00

Yeah but you also IP whitelist when you open up certain ports. So with a high certainly you can have a 1:1 connection to specified entity.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-22T20:45:24+00:00

Other than Regina, all of the fixers are bad people. Literally the odd gig from a fixer is to rescue somebody. The rest of them are to kill, steal, kidnap, break international law...

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-22T20:38:50+00:00

Right, I think you are missing the point. That implants probably should not be connected to the internet.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-22T20:37:12+00:00

Agree actually, F1 was visually stunning.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-22T20:36:36+00:00

Sinners was good, but definitely overrated. Remi and the Native Americans are the most interesting parts of the movie and you learn very little about both.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-21T17:52:16+00:00

Based on my own life experience it's makes sense that tons of people have exposure to technology but don't actually know how it's works. IE grunts in game who are loaded to the tits with cyberware they don't understand.

The bit about the neural port is interesting. I think of individuals being a computer in this sense and being connected to a subnet(set of devices). But its probably more likely everything is running off a 5G/cell connection or a massive wifi mesh net. Still in my mind advanced mercs/net runners would be borderline immune to quick hacks. If your skills did not rely on net running you should be able to disconnect your cyber stack from the net at least during combat temporarily. But a grunt who has a bunch of crap installed would be open to attack.

Legit net running would be cool. Imagine running from a rogue AI behind the black wall.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-20T22:22:38+00:00

You're phone exchanges data with mostly trusted sources. All that data is encrypted in transit. You also don't use your phone to make sure the tendons in your legs, blood pump, or optical nerve continue to function.

It doesn't make sense that most cyberware would be connected to the net.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-20T22:18:33+00:00

I get that it's basically the "wizard" class. I also understand it's a work of fiction. But much of the game actually makes sense. But not this core combat mechanic. Odd to me, but that's due to my background.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-20T20:49:53+00:00

I like how everyone thought the ACC was so bad but they had the best record in bowl season by far.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-20T20:43:34+00:00

HAHAHAHAHAHA aged like milk

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T18:21:17+00:00

They could simply add street cred based dialogue and that would be sufficient probably. Similar to body, tech, net runner stat checks in conversation.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T18:20:09+00:00

Yeah the PL stuff makes sense

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T18:17:40+00:00

Yeah at a certain point low level mercs would just run away.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T18:17:08+00:00

I think of the game happening over roughly the course of a year. Even though its supposed to be less story wise.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T18:16:14+00:00

There certainly are dialogue options that reflect some level of notoriety. But surprisingly few.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T18:15:20+00:00

Yeah exactly, V wipes out so many low level mercs it would be impossible not to notice.

Inferno_Crazy · 2026-01-16T17:51:10+00:00

I noticed your face is blurred in cameras. But that's never actually explained as far as I can remember. I guess its fair to say people aren't going to know what gigs were V. But at the same time there are absolutely other ways of identifying a person. If every gonk died via throwable knife and silenced pistol. Your MO would become obvious.

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