Am I the only one who thought that the Vault-Tec salesman seemed slightly nervous at the beginning of the game? Part of me wondered if he somehow knew about the impending bombs, but at the same time I sure as heck wouldn't be out there if I knew the bombs were gonna drop. Thoughts?

He probably knew the Vault was a scam/science experiment, and knew you were selling your soul to Vault-Tec

It might be more sinister than that. As far as I know, every single vault that we know of was inhabited, and yet from the looks of it, they were still recruiting for test subjects. It makes me wonder if the PC agreeing to enter the vault was the trigger for the first bomb to drop. It seems too coincidental for the Great War to begin almost immediately after vault recruitment ended.

he did & did you see his hands they looked plastic.

He wasn't recruiting, he came to confirm the details of their already existing reservation in the vault.

I did notice the Salesman seemed a bit...twitchy. Odd since there's definitely a time gap between the time he leaves and the time Codsworth calls you into the living room to see the news broadcast.

Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but would you sign up for a spot in a fallout shelter and then forget about the company?

Same way the courier delivered packages for years in NCR territories, yet forgot who the NCR was.

Same way the Dragonborn has lived in Tamriel their whole life and doesn't know about the Great war, the Dominion, or the White Gold concordant.

Every RPG ever made does this same stuff, its considered an excusable fiat in order to give people information they may not have if its their first time playing a game in the series or w/e.

My thoughts on this is that he probably knew that the bombs were about to drop.

How often do people forget Bethesda is owned by Zenimax?

Or like mentioning "Macintosh" and someone holding a iPad with a iPod and a iPhone asks "What?"

I think he was just nervous that he wouldn't meet his quota, and wouldn't get his company-sponsored place in the local vault. Oh, if only he knew .

Seriously, though, if you have a secret to keep, the best way of keeping it is to not tell anyone. Including the people you hire to go door-to-door filling in forms for a late check on who has suddenly decided to move away from built-up areas to avoid the risk of getting bombed (instead of hiding underground), or (giving the stats he was collecting) which demographic they've over allocated and have to exclude due to 'administrative error'.

Like others have said it sounds like he knew they were coming. Did anyone else notice the Vault-Tec truck outside the PC's house, wonder what that implies? Did the Salesman leave his truck because the bombs were falling? Or did he head to the vault as soon as he was done working because he knew they were going to fall?

Actually there was a cut in the scene... we don't know how much time has passed.

I just looked at the gameplay again. The salesman never said that he had a reservation, just that he was cleared for entry and that they needed to verify some info. But my main point is that the timing was impeccable. He knew something was up. I'm thinking that maybe the Enclave set up an initial bomb scheduled to drop immediately after filling all the Vaults, and that 111 was the final one needing verification.

The vault-tec representative sounded like Paul Eiding, who was the voice actor for these 19 characters in Fallout 3......

Nathan Vargas / Abraham Washington / Tree Father Birch / Evan King / Arkansas / Daniel Littlehorn / Dr. Zimmer / Walter / Father Clifford / Mister Lopez / Dr. Julius Banfield / Herbert Dashwood / Irving Cheng / Harris Smith / Breadbox / Tinker Joe / Officer Taylor / The Preacher / Bill Steward (voice)

Must be a voice actor shortage in the world.

Which means they had to have signed up for a spot in the Vault beforehand to get a clearance check, aka, they already had set up a reservation.

As for why it happens so soon, because its a game, and they cant have you spend like 6 weeks or w.e just dikeing around pre-war.

It is the same guy, and hes just a voice actor Beth has basically on speed dial. He was in Skyrim also I believe.

The end of the world was coming at any moment, clearly everyone must've suspected as such or the Vaults would never have been created in the first place. It wasn't a matter of IF it was going to happen, but WHEN. You'd be a little shaky too. I mean, put yourself in his shoes. The end of all humanity is, perhaps days, if not HOURS away and you've got to get enough people verified for the Vaults as well as try to save yourself and possibly your own family.

It's a wonder we didn't open the door to see him curled up to his knees rocking back and forth in the front lawn sobbing to himself.

There's no way some salesman/Vault-tec Rep knows bombs are literally about to drop, and there's no way the character signing his name on a piece of paper is the launch codes for the nukes.

If everyone who went door to door regarding Vaults knew the bombs were hours or even a day off from dropping you can bet no one would be going door to door.

I think it's more of a case of knowing that they'll inevitably drop so its a twitchy subject.

Not at all. The PC is affiliated with the military in some fashion, and Vault-Tec has close ties to the Enclave. Them having info on the PC makes sense. As for why it happened so quickly, they could have had a cutscene or something to show events leading up to the day of the Great War. Chronologically, this all happened within at most a few hours, and at least ten minutes. It also strikes me as interesting that he hightailed it to the vault, going so far as leaving his truck behind in the street.

It may something about our character, before the war.

We're a Veteran that's doing speeches. Perhaps a Anchorage hero?

I agree 100%. If he knew exactly when the bombs were going to fall, why would he be OUTSIDE going door-to-door when he could be shoving himself and his family into a Vault? It's more of twitchy nerves for understandable reasons. The end of the world is coming and there's little to nothing he can do about it.


He probably figured the vault was close enough that he could haul on foot rather than take a truck that would be abandoned anyway.

Unless he's a Chinese spy I doubt it's anything more than a coincidence.

Unless the PC was in The Enclave, no, it doesn't really make sense that he would have a Vault slot unless he did so himself.

I think it was just his stupid looking face. Most salesmen I've met, who've come to my door, have a stupid looking face. Personally I think he looked rather excited, not nervous. Maybe he was shaking because he was so excited from meeting his sales quota? Maybe the stupid faced looking salesman just had his day made? But it luckily ends soon enough.

It could be that as well. Be super-duper happy and charismatic and all that.