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thank you i only started the other one because the mod that closed #159 didnt start #160

and to pick up where you left off, here is a link to the site with the audio recording

http://guardianlv.com/2013/11/fallout-4-trailer-audio-potentially-leaked-reddit-questions-legitimacy/

the song is "it's the end of the world" by patti page, and at about 50 seconds in the fallout music starts. almost identical format to the fallout 3 teaser trailer with the "i don't want to set the word on fire" music

if all this is a hoax, then somebody sure has a lot of time on their hands.

Sounds "wintery", isn't it? I'm expecting snow and weather effects in the game. Maybe a freeze gun, and some kind of horrific snow-camo tunneler that ambush you from under the deep snow... Can tunnelers be this far up north?

Oh and revamped stealth, with custom camo. Sort of like Oblivion's Chameleon spell; it makes more sense realistically. And I really hope they make Stealth Boy into an apparel.

However the people who are behind all this appear to be pressingly in need to keep us interested...

I don't know about all that, though weather changes are certainly possible.

Like I said, if this is a hoax (and it may yet turn out to be) someone has a crapload of free time.

I will say... having a game set in winter would go a long way with keeping the setting bleak.

It's called "building up hype". That's even more reason to believe that an official announcement is coming, since hoaxers would not waste time and energy on such elaboration.

But if you bring up the Tumblr and the Twitter (The creators of them already came out)... Then I would say "Touche".

General rule of thumbs: Take everything besides thesurvivor2299 with a grain of salt. The website is 100% legit.

has anyone figured out what http://thesurvivor2299.com/7042299/ is for yet? I've been working on it for awhile but i haven't quite cracked it yet...

I'm not that familiar with the gaming business, but how do they intend to maintain the hype over a year so people won't get disinterested too fast once it's leaked?

First of all, Beth is gonna take a lot of crap from Skyrim "critics" for making another snowy settings.

I personally think a snow settings would somewhat be a good and accurate representation of post-nuclear war weather. I would think that living in post-nuclear war age, you would have to face a lot of hostilities from the environment itself. During the previous Fallout games, the hostile environment, which could have been a critical point, was never really emphasized. Until now, when they have the technology to do so, I got a feeling they will go all out.

So IMO, a harsh nuclear winter is a perfect settings.

Nice find. The audio file is around 2 minutes long which is the same length of FO3 and FNV's teasers.

We can expect Fallout 4 to be announced at the VGAs.

if they confirm it whenever the counter runs out, that's when more official details start being let out of the bag.
These keep the interest. Dev diaries, little pieces of concept art, faction backgrounds and the like.
people have been anticipating this game for some time, so theyll keep paying attention.
Heck, were all here posting about it.

as I said in the previous thread, an announcement about now does fit the speculated timeline. Bethesda has said they always intended to make more fallout games. they always envisioned it turning into an elder scrolls thing. second, the voice actor for three dog was allowed by Bethesda to tweet that he was going to be appearing in an upcoming game, and hinted it was to reprise his roll as three dog. Bethesda also said not too long ago that once skyrim was done that team was moving to an unannounced project that was in preproduction. and finally, on the 14 of this month Bethesda applied for a trademark in Europe for fallout 4

The Quabbin Reservoir valley was the setting for two H.P. Lovecraft novels. Bethesda loves throwing references to Lovecraft in their games. I could see them doing something similar there.

if this is indeed a viral campaign, they'll use that site to slowly leak out info about the game. they may also tie it to real world promotion. some viral campaigns will go as far as to use real phone numbers that hand out info and even call you back, and real address where people show up at a certain date and it turns into a big meet up with prizes and stuff. for example, during the dark knight viral campaign the why so serious website had Gotham PD phone numbers. if you called, some people got calls back from the PD telling them to mind their own business. in the bioshock 2 viral campaign, at one point they made a puzzle that led to latitude and longitude coordinates, and a date and time. if you went there at the correct time (it was a beach) that had bottles with stuff in them like poster on the beach like they had washed up.

i can see what you're saying, but I wasn't even thinking of actual snow. I was more thinking of leafless trees, sparse vegetation and the like. If there was snow. I would like a half melted, slushy, sludgy type

Nice catch.

If so... Lovecraft? Yes please.

What I'm getting from all this:

1. (Nuclear) winter is coming.

2. 90% Skyrim's assets reused but with guns.

3. We now know that we can track Bethesda's releases reliably by stupid arbitrary dates. Shame that we only have 12 months per year...

I was thinking of http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1259545!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/161174540mt019-massive-bliz.jpg

That's actual February snow in Boston, btw.

I put the 0321 from the institue message after Thesurvivor2299.com and got http://thesurvivor2299.com/0321

i know this is usually an error code for not finding something on pc's but why would it pop up on a site like this... with the V.T. symbol

I would hardly assume it's going to be a snowy setting based on a song clip

You're right, but that's probably just the usual 404 page. If you type crap behind the / after the domain, you will be directed to that website but it will show you the 404.

A snowy setting would be great, there's not enough winter environments in games.

But then there's the demented honking from NMA types about how its "Skyrim with guns". Euggh.