how would you survive obviouly there are no vaults in real life so where would you go to try and survive the bombs? I think I would hit the London undeground possably hide in a train and hope for the best.

I'd just go to Yuma. It's about two hours from where I am currently.

Nobody's going to bomb Yuma.

Duck and cover!

Best way to avoid nuclear catastrophe

Yep, do this and you'll be fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

As I live in a mostly countryside area I wont have to worry about the blast itself but I just go take shelter in the big supermarkets/mall a few miles away and live there.

Well I'd be dead probably. I live right between the USA Naval Academy and the No-Such-Agency headquarters which would be high on the list of targets.

Actually those that die in a nuclear hollocaust could be considered the lucky ones I would say ...

Hide in a fridge, obviously.

Yeah, I live out in the middle of the damn desert.

Right next to a major metropolitan area and there are a few military installations nearby. If a blast didn't kill me the fallout probably would. Or maybe I'd turn into a ghoul. My chances of survival are not good.

I don't see why anyone would nuke Norway, I would be fine. Ghouls are cooler anyways.

Yup, there are no vaults, thats just an urban legend, don't waste time looking for them, specially when you got a fridge where you can hide =P

If the fallout setting happened in real life it would not be anything like the games if radiation covered almost the whole of america there would be a lot more dead people and animals more then half of the population would become sterile think of the metro 2033 environment. A real life fallout wouldnt be fun.

Being near a major city, I'd probably be a casualty.

Being in a northern Wisconsin town of 3,000 and declining, I have nothing to fear, being a good 40-50 miles from any small city of any significance what-so-ever.

I'd either head ot a secondary target or somewhere to jump off. You don't want to be one of the unfortunates. The radiation, climate change and collapse of society and our way of life it would be hell.

If you're not able to get in to a nuclear bunker or you live in siberia it's best to die in the blast.

Italy: safe oasis

Everyone knows pizzaland is atomicproof. Like, who would even want to nuke such a great place?

There are no "vaults" in real life? Ever heard of a nuclear fallout shelter? They are littered all over the United States, whether they are Cold War era federal buildings or other facilities. Even my university had two nuclear fallout shelters that were built long ago for fear of a nuclear holocaust. Are they as sophisticated as vaults from Fallout? No. However, Fallout got its ideas from actual real life "vaults" in existence.

Surviving the initial blasts would be the easy part. Staying alive afterwards would be downright miserable.. Since I don't want to have to wander about and try to survive after everything has been annihilated, i'd most likely go to the closest location a nuke is going to hit and try to catch it.

Probably pretty safe around Blackpool England can't imagine that being much of a target in real life even Hitler wanted the place left alone (Not sure if that is a fact though),

Only problem would be the aftermath, Being England finding a gun for protection would be a problem, Let's be honest a gun would be a must in the situation there would be no law anymore, Food not a problem we have Vesta curries I am inclined to think those would survive an apocalypse with no difference in flavour.

If your country was ever invaded by Germany during WW2 you'll have plenty of bunkers and underground bomb shelters. Ima call up my pre-selected zombie apocalypse team and we'll all head to the shelter. Then the ghoul slaying begins

Well I live in virginia beach and we have a huge navy base soooo I imagine we'd get some serious damage.

If we're talking real life nuclear bombs then the explosive payload will result in a firestorm that will choke the entire northern hemisphere in smoke and cause massive destruction to the majority of the developed areas in the world. Brazil becomes the new world superpower.

But these are Fallout bombs, which traded out the firestorms for greater radiation yields. This is why all of the ruins you see in the series are still somewhat standing, and not just a ash pit. Personally, living in the most populated part of Canada I'd be assured a radiation death since I wouldnt be able to make it out of the populated bits southwestern Ontario to make it to the vast and untouched wilderness out in the north. I'm sure in the Falloutverse a lot of the Inuit/Native communities in Northern Canada have thrived, and I could see the Canadian Rangers helping out with that prosperity. But yeah, for the majority of the Anglo's and Franco's in the populated southern bits its radiation deaths for us.

Now, if I did have a few days to prepare that would be a bit different. Steal myself a rifle, secure camping supplies and food, haul it all up north and find some seculded place to ride out the storm. Maybe even see if there's some isolated farm in the middle of nowhere that I could shelter in, even if the owner is cooperative or not. Then it all just depends on if the fallout comes my way and if I die a radiation death that way.

Either way, probably a casualty. If I do survive, when I run out of food its probably the end for me not knowing any bushcraft. The Great Northern Confederation of Tribes, however, would be a worthy match for the rising military power of Ronto.

I'm about 20 miles outside DC so...I'm planning on being a non-feral Ghoul. Please don't shoot. I'll tell you stories and give you a few quests.

Best survival strategy ever =)