Fallout
Summary
word of advice ! This article moderate SPOILERS for Amazon ’s Fallout TV show and the Fallout games .
TheFalloutTV series has leave behind its mark on the canyon of the Greco-Roman telecasting game franchise , with more than a few controversial improver to the series ' lore . confirm to be securely set within the same persistence of the dear secret plan serial publication , Amazon’sFalloutshow has been met with rave reviews , impressing critics and universal audiences alike . However , many fans have contain up arms with some of the show ’s controversial clarifications and accession to the story of the games , taking the story in a new direction that some believe to be stepping on the legacy of the early game .
TheFalloutgames have always had a strange human relationship with continuity , with some of them existing in a unfixed state of canon . There exists a discrete divide between game made with intimacy by the serial ' original Lord , likeFallout , Fallout 2andFallout : New Vegas , and the more recent titles made by Bethesda ofSkyrimfame , likeFallout 3 , Fallout 4,andFallout 76.Bythe end of Amazon’sFalloutseries , a few public - shattering revelations have been made that almost retcon the events of the former .
Whether it ’s realistic character model or environmental adjustments , these mods make Fallout 4 feel more like Prime Video ’s TV series .
8The NCR Has Been Drastically Injured
If not outright removed
The New California Republic is one of the most significant post - apocalyptic governments in theFalloutgame serial . The closest thing the series has to an unequivocally good or honourable faction , the nascent governance that bob up in the wake of California ’s atomic detonation relieve oneself up a large part of the story for plot prepare on the West coast , particularlyFallout : New Vegas . Yet in the show , it seems as though their bearing has been greatly diminished , if not heterosexual person - up excrete .
Because of the destruction of Shady Sands , the NCR ’s founding city , their governance seems to have give completely , with no wasteland survivor of the show mentioning any fealty to them . While Moldaver does look to have conduct a faction of NCR remnants on the outskirts of Shady Sands ' ruins , they are almost assuredly wiped out by the Brotherhood of Steel by the end of the first season . debate the NCR is a massive multi - state imperium inFallout : New Vegasjust before Shady Sands ' destruction , it seems odd that the dying of a single city would hurt them so much .
7Shady Sands Was Turned Into A Crater
One of the most important locations in the Fallout universe now lays in ruin
Beyond being the founding city of the New California Republic , Shady Sands is intact toFallout ’s traditional knowledge . The town can be visited by the player character in bothFalloutandFallout 2 , being but renamed as the New California Republic by the events of the latter game . This think that theFalloutshow creators made the indurate determination to utterly undo the progress of the cradle of civilisation on the West coast by having the integral city reduce to a volcanic crater thanks to the efforts of Hank MacLean , the NCR a threat to Vault - Tec ’s cargo area on the waste .
Thenow - infamous chalkboard timeline of theFalloutshowinitially seemed to suggest that Shady Sands was nuked only a few year before the events ofFallout : New Vegas , despite the immense NCR presence in that game making no mention of the metropolis ’s descent . It has since been clarify that the " Fall of Shady Sands " in 2077 alternatively point to some kind of societal declension or otherwise disastrous event that limited the city ’s mien in the age conduce up to the nuclear detonation . The devastation of one of the serial publication ' most crucial location has a vast impact on theFalloutnarrative .
6Caesar’s Legion Seems To Also Have Been Wiped Out
With the NCR goes one of their fiercest competitors
The New California Republic is n’t the only entire faction toFallout ’s lore whose power has been diminish by the Amazon show . One of the most frightening banners to ever vanish over the American wasteland , Caesar ’s Legion is a monolithic nation of raiders that clashes with the NCR inFallout : New Vegas . Modeled after the ancient Roman empire , Caesar ’s Legion is a oppressive society of slave trader out of Arizona that has expanded aggressively across the Southwest , trading blows with the NCR ’s expiditionary expansions Eastward and engross the forte of multiple tribes of raiders .
Whether they were defeated by the player character inFallout New Vegasor another personnel remains to be go through .
Their biggest enemy out of the moving-picture show thanks to the action of Hank MacLean , it stand to understanding that the Legion would have continued to aggressively lucubrate Westward in the wake of the crumbling NCR.No other faction depicted inFallout : New Vegasshould’ve been numerous or powerful enough to overcome them , giving the roaming bands of legionaries essentially costless rein over Southern California . Yet the Legion are nowhere to be ascertain in theFalloutTV show . Whether they were defeated by the player quality inFallout New Vegasor another force remains to be seen .
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5The Enclave Is Back
The stubborn remnants of the American government return once again
As certainpowerful faction in theFalloutuniversequietly become extinct in the unexampled Amazon series , other farseeing - dormant organizations rear their capitulum once more . accede the Enclave , recurring villain of theFalloutuniverse that have once again made some kind of front on the West coast . The American Government ’s answer to Vault - Tec ’s secret programme of long - term survival and rule over the post - Revelation , the Enclave are a paramilitary organisation built out of the ash of the United States armed forces , known for their secrecy , xenophobia , and unequalled experimental power armor .
Yet in theFalloutseries , it seems as though the Enclave is still secretively operate in a different high-pitched - tech base somewhere in California .
The Enclave were last seen on the West coast inFallout 2 , operate out of an seaward oil rig in the Pacific Ocean . This base is destroyed by the player quality ofFallout 2 , for all intents and design , ensue in the adjournment of the faction after any survivors are trace down by NCR rangers . Yet in theFalloutseries , it seems as though the Enclave is still secretively operate in a different high - tech base somewhere in California , as the scientist Wilzig defects from the organization with sensitive knowledge of cold nuclear fusion reaction technology .
4The Brotherhood Of Steel Have Had Their Numbers Bolstered
From an isolated chapter hiding in a bunker to a dedicated fighting force
ByFallout : New Vegas , the Brotherhood is reduce to a individual small bunker maneuver out of the Mojave Desert , a far yell from their once thickly settled telephone number on the West coast . Yet by the show ’s lieu in the timeline , they seemed to have experienced a drastic resurgence , bolstering their numbers with survivor of Shady Sands like Maximus . The cause of this sudden and drastic uptick in power , imagination , and identification number continue unexplained by Amazon’sFallout , and with the Brotherhood acquiring cold spinal fusion power by the end of the first season , their dominance over the West will seem to only grow .
3Vault-Tec Is Implied To Have Dropped The First Bombs
Directly clashes with the established Fallout mythos
The crux ofFallout ’s post - apocalyptic setting is the dropping of nuclear bomb over the continental United States , the culmination of a great resource war between the U.S. and China in the serial publication ' 50s retrofuture . Previously - launch lore confirmed that China was the one to strike first , littering the American countryside with mushroom swarm after mushroom swarm and transforming the landscape painting into the twisted , irradiated wastelandFalloutfans know and sexual love . It can be assumed that the U.S. ’s retaliatory ten-strike similarly decimated China as well , if not the rest of the world .
Once upon a meter , it was merely a devotee hypothesis that it was none other than Vault - Tec themselves who dropped the first nukes , tricking the superpowers into flunk each other for draw the payoff of their prep . Now , Amazon ’s Fallout confirms this fan - theoryby to a great extent imply that it was indeed the lovable down and yellow company who spark nuclear disintegration , guaranteeing themselves a opportunity to re - shape the macrocosm at their own whims . Even if this modification straight off contradicts established lore , it sure suit within the tone and themes of the franchise as a whole .
2Mr. House’s Motivation Is Completely Different
One of the most significant figures in Fallout canon became a lot pettier
The world ofFalloutis known for its various brands of technological manufacturers , each responsible for astounding sci - fi creations . Not the least significant of which is RobCo , who created much of theFalloutworld ’s automatonlike fellow traveler and enemy , such as the Securitrons and Mr. Handy units . Their founder was the oracular Mr. House , a Howard Hughes - like figure who actually appear inFallout : New Vegas , having survived with an by artificial means - increased lifespan thanks to his fantastic engineering science .
The show collapse Mr. House a pre - war cameo at Vault - Tec ’s cloak-and-dagger group meeting with other manufacture loss leader , carry an sake in their programme to monopolize the apocalypse . This narrow - minded characterization of Mr. House ’s destination contradicts his earlier appearance . InFallout : New Vegas , Mr. House is propel not by dim-witted numbers or power , but by a real desire to transmigrate humanity as a technologically advanced gild , accept to the stars so as to find a new dwelling . It could be that Mr. House re - take Vault - Tec ’s proposal in the years following their meeting , but his appearance does denounce his original value .
1Power Armor Has A Critical Weakness
The imposing suits aren’t quite so bulletproof after all
The power armour used by the Brotherhood of Steel is one of the most iconic mickle in the entireFalloutseries , featured on the cover charge of most of the games . Fusion - powered mech suits that are entirely imperviable to minor - weaponry fire , the suits are nearly equivalent to tanks in terms of strategical grandness , single - handedly turning the tide for the United States during their intro in the Battle of Anchorage . Among theFalloutseries ' many changes to business leader armor , the innovation of a vital helplessness undermined their specialty .
The Ghoul excuse that this model had a defect that let a single hummer to pierce the mid - abdomen , which seemed to have been carried over to the late poser .
In the show , Walton Goggins ' The Ghoul reveals himself to have been a former mogul armor hustler in the United States military , get into the original T-45 model . The Ghoul explains that this model had a defect that allowed a single bullet to pierce the mid - abdomen , which seemed to have been carried over to the late models . Considering a single Brotherhood of Steel horse in king armor was said to be the combining weight of at least 15 NCR soldier inFallout : New Vegas , this critical lore component completely re - contextualizes power armor ’s grandness in theFalloutcanon .
