If you're in the middle of something as serious as the Great War, flying around a prototype is a liability when it's not ready for active field use.

Ohhh ok, I see you what you meant. I thought you were talking about the different promotional poster boys that TES and Fallout had.

Prototype weapons do get field testing in live combat situations you know?

That's kinda how they get a lot of the data needed to make it finished/standard issue.

You can't "push out" prototypes. Prototypes exist in numbers fewer than 10 with no production lines set up for them.

That's probably because the way they described the Commonwealth made it sound too much like the Capital Wasteland outside of The Institute. Every Fallout game should have its own unique world, and shouldn't feel too much like a retread of a past one.

They were in the Tactics intro, but they've never been seen or talked about outside of that until now.

Okay, so the fortification at 1:50, I think that's the entrance to the "Diamond City" we see in the next shot, which is a very baseball themed settlement. A post-apocalyptic city inside of a baseball stadium! That's awesome!

Diamond City is fenway park, that would be interesting and make sense

Because Bethesda. You should know this by now.

As a huge NFL fan, if we can get to Foxboro in the game, I would laugh myself silly if we get some sort of Deflate-gate easter egg

Well now they are?

Maybe the museum's label for the Vertibird was out of date, or perhaps they were misinformed of the craft's development. The pre-war government wasn't exactly a paragon of integrity.

Yes I think the technology exists still. It might be a consequence of Lyons' recruiting people outside the brotherhood. Leaks for technology do happen. Plus there are tons of dead paladins all over the wasteland. Not every suit of armor is recovered successfully. The geniuses at the institute could have had time to reproduce it.

If that is indeed the protagonist, wow, he looks incredibly generic. He's almost a copy of the Pip boy, if not for the dark hair.

In real life I can't remember if it's in India or Vietnam, but there is a guy who is immune to burns and fire. He can place his hand in a pan filled with burning hot oil, cooking oil that is not oil as in petroleum and he can't get burned. In India there is a guy immune to electricity he can touch electrical cables from phone lines and not die he does not wear chain mail gloves at all he can put a light bulb in his mouth and turn it on.

So there could be a genetic mutation that lets your body be resistant to fire and radiation.

It doesn't matter in the end I guess. I'm not going to suddenly hate Fallout 4 over something so trivial, it was just merely a headscratcher, that's all. If Lonesome Road is anything to go by, the Pre-War world DOES have helicopters as a building has a helipad circle on it.

The moment I heard the guy speak and one glimpse of him basically confirmed that the kotaku leak was 100% genuine, and that shit is the writing of Fallout 4. This is what walking in on your parents fvcking doggystyle must feel like for 10 year old kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtntTvuv8Aw

The original Vault Boy actually did have dark hair. He looks incredibly similar to the protagonist.

"Well I'm not Tony Stark."

Of course the promotional protagonist would look like the Vault Boy. And of course it doesn't mean we can't customize our character; think of the promotional protagonists for any of the Elder Scrolls games. I'm indifferent towards a voiced protagonist in Fallout 4: as long as I can make him a good-karma jerk that looks like Frank Zappa, I'll be pleased. And of course, Wasteland Don Quixote for my second playthrough.

And the Institute can build freaking androids. I'm pretty sure they can engineer their own power armor.

Surely you mean Vault Boy. The protagonist doesn't look like http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/d/dd/Pipboy-screen.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120522143107&path-prefix=pt.

That's probably just a preset they used for the trailer. No way they'll take away character customization.

Lmao I'm totally buying this. At least it got levitation. Just hope Deus Ex 4 doesn't eat it alive.

Yes, now they are, but the fact that they weren't referenced at all in either Fallout 3 or New Vegas makes me think that they're a fairly recent phenomenon. Something like that wouldn't have gone unnoticed - especially since it would make travel from one side of the country to the other much easier.

Just because Tactics' intro had airships doesn't mean that the Midwestern Brotherhood actually used them. We don't know what about that game is actually canon.

Yes, Vault Boy!

I'm almost convinced there will be no character customization,the players seems to have a set backstory and even a voice.

Everyone freaking out about the protagonist's looks and I'm just sitting here think what the female will look like and if the Customization will be like ESO (bust size , shoulders, stomach, ETC).