So after playing fallout 4 for a few weeks I took a break and checked out a friends old Flickr page. He is into urban exploration which is basically going into old factories and buildings and taking pictures.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/disinteresting/page1

Talk about deja vu... there are even bits of things that look like synths on the second page... and things that look like gun workbenches ..

I was half expecting to see a cow floating 10 feet off the ground.

Those are some amazing pictures. What kind of camera did your friend use?

That gave me a good laugh, thanks.

Yeah he is a good photographer, has a naturally good eye.. He was using a Cannon EOS 5D II mostly but he uses also range of old cameras he picked up cheap from second hand shops. Urban explorer groups are pretty dedicated bunch, those places aren't the safest to be going into.

haha or Piper moving like she is on a trolly with her hands up in the air.

I saw one sideways in the air and would bend down and eat grass like it was normal. I was like "ya that is normal in a Bathesda game"

He should go to Detroit. they have places that look straight out of the game- http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/detroit-abandoned-buildings-joe-gee.jpg

ya, their is a reason they did not mention Detroit on the news at the beginning, what would nuclear bombs do to it that time hasn't already done? It would probably look better.

So true...it already has raiders and scavengers too.

wow thats pretty fallout-ish too

Cool pics, your friend does good contrast

Very cool! So many small areas of the world you just don't see

Or Chernobyl. Although the biggest visual inaccuracy of the Fallout world(s), is the lack of vegetation. The thing that strikes you first about a site that has been abandoned to nature for any period of time is how nature, and plants in particular, quickly conquer and overgrow all. Plants are far more adaptive to radiation than most animals are. The world of Fallout 3 & 4, where all the trees are still dead after 200 years and only low shrubs and grasses exist sparsely, is total BS. But most people would get hopelessly lost in a gameworld overgrown with plants, and of course the extra vegetation would kill most people's graphics capabilities.

Recommend reading One Second After, which is a short novel about how the world would look after a massive EMP attack by the North Koreans and Iranians. While the devastation of ground-based nuclear attacks is lacking, the book lays out in vivid detail how a massive EMP strike would all but destroy the U.S. and devastate its population.

We rely heavily on technology for our food, water, transportation, etc. Without it, a pretty significant percentage of the population would die off within a few months. It would not be a pretty scene.

Ill pass that on to him, he seems to be doing people more and more now, those were taken about 5 years ago

Your not wrong .. open my eyes to whats in the city we live behind the fences.

One second after would make a cool game.

Fantastic images.

Thanks for sharing.

Not that I disagree with you but if you take Chernobyl it was one spot but everything around it had healthy vegetation so it was easy for these plants to quickly come and settle in the incident area. In Fallout it seems much of the planet was devastated, so the impact would be felt on a larger scale on plants too. But yeah, probably not to the extent that is shown in the game.

Yes, vegetation come back fast, in Chernobyl you have trees inside houses.

The Detroit image looked very fallout because it had no vegitation. else you only get this in very dry areas.

However if fallout looked like Oblivion with new town and lots of overgrown ruins around it would not have the right feeling.

with the current state of the US power grid being as it is, it wouldn't even take anything too massive.



using chernobyl isn't very accurate of an example of what would happen in the case of a global nuke war.

Chernobyl has a perimeter- where seeds, pollinators, and animals from outside can re introduce life, once they come into the area. In a global nuke scenario, there isn't that luxury.

So what does this have to do with a forum for Fallout 4 ? I'm sorry is this just a general forum to talk about anything people want? Where are the moderators.

really?

I know right? Kind of tired of the bleak setting, I would love to see something else besides "oh look, dead world because nature apparently can't even do nature right, what a noob". Vines spreading rapidly within buildings, trees bursting through the cracks in the concrete, weeds and fields as high as a human, blowing in the wind. It would definitely give us a reason to have unique plant enemies such as spore carriers that ambush through camouflage and consume the player with a bite.

lol this ^