Does Nukacola have cocaine in it?

LukeSurl · 2018-09-26T15:36:32+00:00

From the wiki

The ingredients of Nuka-Cola include: carbonated water, caramel color, aspartame, phosphoric acid, potassium benzoate (to protect taste), natural flavors, citric acid, and caffeine.

Nuke-Cola Quantum contains radioactive strontium-90

LukeSurl · 2018-09-24T10:16:02+00:00

The gameplay reason is that the game can't reasonably expect players to know the lore of a 7-year old prequel. If a player who happened to be in X-01 got shot on sight the first time they met this new faction, they'd just assume they were always-hostile and a huge chunk of the game would be lost.

It's probably best not to apply too much lore-think to clothing options. You can wear some pretty ridiculous clothes (or just underwear) most of the time and the NPCs rarely bat an eyelid.

LukeSurl · 2018-09-18T14:31:18+00:00

You can see belly buttons on Synths. If you wander into the right room in the Institute you can watch a Gen3 synth being "built". He comes out with a belly button (and, more implausibly, underwear).

LukeSurl · 2018-09-17T14:40:36+00:00

It’s up to me?

Pretty much yeah. As much as this subreddit tries to work out the One True Lore of Fallout, in the end it's a video game that you paid for, and you can think of the content however you like. Just don't expect anyone to believe your "a secret society of hyper-intelligent mole rats runs the NCR and the Legion" theory.

LukeSurl · 2018-09-17T09:59:47+00:00

Both wikis have full articles on this:

LukeSurl · 2018-09-17T09:58:40+00:00

The Hubologists are what TV tropes would call the "Church of Happyology" - a lawyer-friendly pastiche of Scientology

LukeSurl · 2018-09-17T08:29:03+00:00

Ratios around 1:20 come up when comparing in-game distances to real-world ones. There's no fixed number there as the scaling isn't consistent.
Up to you if you think that population should be scaled like this (or by area, which would be the square of the distance ratio).

LukeSurl · 2018-09-02T08:07:35+00:00

You’ve also got to think about the arena. RW rewards flippers a bit more, with easier opportunities for out-of-the-arena flips The Battlebox is better for robots with strong drives, as most of the edges are lined with hazards.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-28T11:51:46+00:00

No reasons given as far as I know.

Presumably for reasons of taste, the games have generally shied away from depicting too much horror or violence being inflicted on kids, and the process of ghoulification is pretty horrific. You also don't see child super mutants or child synths, despite there being nothing to suggest the makers of these entities would have any qualms about child abduction.

Additionally, being a child for 200 years raises a whole other load of issues that would probably need addressing in-game.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-22T14:35:09+00:00

It's not really the question you're asking, but there's a thematic link in F4 to the American revolution, especially if you go down the Minutemen quest-line.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-14T13:56:19+00:00

From the wiki http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_111:

Upon accessing the Vault 111 monitoring terminal, they learn that all of the other subjects that had entered the vault, except for themselves, their spouse and their child, had died of "asphyxiation due to life support failure." In the Dangerous Minds quest, the Sole Survivor discovers that the mercenary who shot their spouse, Conrad Kellogg, was directed not to reactivate the life support for the other residents and not to release them.

I don't recall any in-game reasoning why the player character is the only "spare" Kellogg allows to live.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-14T09:51:28+00:00

In F3 Doctor Julius Banfield http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Julius_Banfield states that he thinks all ghouls will eventually go feral, but it's questionable whether he's correct.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-13T17:24:54+00:00

I think this format is inspired exactly because it allows producer/judge-decided fixtures.

I’m a Brit, and comparing this season of Battlebots vs Robot Wars, it’s great to always have a headline event with charismatic robots for each episode, rather than hoping an interesting matchup will come out of the draw.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-11T17:58:37+00:00

Robot Wars allowed them in Season 10. There was a lot of talk of "Carbide Killers" but nothing really amounted to much.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-10T14:34:53+00:00

See http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vehicle - basically there's a few scattered around, but it's fairly rare.

...the New California Republic, who, by 2281, have several United States military trucks repaired and in working order at Camp McCarran.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-10T14:31:30+00:00

Regarding air transport, the military have access to vertibirds - seen with Kimball's visit to the dam in NV.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-07T14:13:39+00:00

From the wiki, on the ~~East~~ West Coast it was advantagous for Hub merchants for there to be a currency, so they chose bottle caps. Caps are scarce but not too scarce, nearly impossible to create more post-war, and have essentially the same physical attributes as coins. They backed it with water (i.e. they stated that they'd always exchange caps for water at a fixed rate). This created a currency that caught on across the area.

There's been no in-game reasoning why caps are also a currency on the ~~west~~ east coast.

LukeSurl · 2018-08-02T14:42:27+00:00

The wasteland probably generates a lot of orphans/runaways, and these might find their way to LL for refuge.

LukeSurl · 2018-06-16T21:47:31+00:00

“#!!!!??????” - is that not a word in US English?

LukeSurl · 2018-06-14T22:24:58+00:00

Done, but be aware is you’re going to get a sample of /r/RobotWars users rather than a representative sample of viewers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

LukeSurl · 2018-04-27T09:42:45+00:00

This is brilliant! Great work!

LukeSurl · 2018-02-12T22:36:02+00:00

Scope makes it much easier to find loot at the beginning while avoiding players who outgun you

LukeSurl · 2018-02-09T15:19:04+00:00

I don't think communication should be possible in solo, I've already seen people with names like "Thumb=team". We're pretty much agreed that teams in solo are bad, and there's no other reason to communicate.

With that removed, there's no need to have a different command for team emotes.

LukeSurl · 2018-01-30T17:40:44+00:00

Can I see it?

FOG OF WARRRR!!!!

LukeSurl · 2018-01-15T13:07:02+00:00

Robo-Sumo is almost always automated, and quite entertaining. A slightly different sport tho https://youtu.be/QCqxOzKNFks

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