The thing about London is that it would be the highest populated nuked area in a Fallout game to date, 8 million people, just imagine all the ghoul descendants who were on the Underground alone. :cold:

The highest populated nuked area when would be Moscow. Having nearly 10 million people living and huge underground metro system with hundreds utilities and goverment installations.

Why not change Explosives to Chemical weapons. That way it can include all explosives, but also flame based weapons as well as acid, thermite and liquid nitrogen based weapons, just to name a few.

Wouldn't plasma count as a chemical weapon?

And I'd rather have Explosives stay as it's own skill.
It will be more balanced after the patch.

That's nice except explosives shouldn't be balanced it should be incredibly destructive the way real explosives are but have the same drawbacks and propensity to blow oneself to Mars with mistakes

I would buy a DLC replacement for combat mechanics (that brought it in line with the rest of the series proper).

(One that includes decent support for it, and that does not "nerf" the game balance)

You mean Turn-based or the damage resistance things and hit-rolls?
(I don't know much about the technical stuff)

My idea is......................FALLOUT IN CANADA!

Although that would not make much sense.

That's what I meant.
With the Chemical skill it would mean that one would have the really powerful aoe weapons and the close combat weapons, flamers, which would make the skill too powerful.
Which is why I dislike the Chemical skill idea.

Wouldn't plasma count as a chemical weapon?

And I'd rather have Explosives stay as it's own skill.
It will be more balanced after the patch.

On a completely different note, I was wondering if hardcoe mode players would like to see the effect of freezing on their character in a Fallout game based in the North/Canada.

Think of it like this
Wearing the right clothes increases you resistance to the cold
Staying in a properly heated shelter decreases your Frostbite counter
As does eating/drinking something hot and you can find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermos_bottle to carry it around/create your own food and drink (and once empty, the bottle is returned to you as an empty bottle)

While the location of the next Fallout game has ranged from Canada to South America to China/East Asia, I have my own ideas on the theme of Fallout 4. First some assumptions on the game:

1.) It will take place at least a generation or two from the previous game, so say 75-125 years, making it roughly 2400 AD. This is in keeping with the pattern of previous games.
2.) The assumption that the story of the game is loosely based on 'good' outcomes of previous games, i.e. the Capital Wasteland is thriving under the East Coast BoS, the NCR controls the west coast and most of the Mojave, the West Coast BoS has a strong presence in the Mojave, all but extinct on the coast. The splintered factions of Caesar's Legion remnants control most of the Great Plains, the rest divided amongst The Khan Empire and other factions. Other factions along the Eastern Seaboard exist, such as the Commonwealth.
3.) The game will be released on the next generation of consoles, enabling a much larger game world, perhaps through expansions later on.

The general plot of the story is that of the world slowly coming into renewal. The West and East coasts of the former US are fairly stable under the governments of the NCR and the Commonwealth of Steel (the various factions of the Eastern Seaboard united under the dual leadership of the East BoS and the Commonwealth). Due to the Vault 22 research and Harold's Seeds, these regions have turned from wasteland to spreading flora and fauna. The Post-War transcontinental railway, running from Vault City to Megavault (the city that grew from the combined communities of Megaton and Vault 101), is about to be completed, and the two railways are about to meet in the neutral Khan Empire town of New Canaan. During the ceremony in which representatives of all the groups are about to sign a peace treaty, the BoS guard suddenly open fire on the delegation and drag their delegate away. In the chaos, a nuclear bomb goes off nearby, destroying New Canaan. You witness the massacre and run into a nearby Pulowski Preservation Shelter, but the door doesn't close all the way and a bright lights fills the capsule as you lose conciousness...

You wake up in a hospital bed, where an Khan doctor says that you are lucky to be alive, although your radiation burns and other injuries required extensive surgery (this is the character creator portion of the game). The next few months recovering (and setting your initial stats) are interspersed with news reports of negotiations breaking down and the BoS taking the blame for the assault. War is on the horizon...

The first half of the game takes place in the Great Plains to the Great Lakes mainly, with smaller maps of other regions visited in previous games such as The Hub, Vault City (the NCR Capital moved there), Megavault, New Vegas Strip, and San Francisco. As the mystery deepens, the protagonist travels to hidden locations and learns of lost truths from before the Great War that threaten to finally destroy all of humanity.

This speculation is in favor of taking Fallout in a new direction by providing new environments aside from the wasteland settings of previous games, such as the potential of forests, grasslands, semi-restored urban areas, other new locations. The conspiracy plotline is also a way to explore the lore of the world more deeply by introducing new factions and exploring countries like China or Europe, albeit in limited capacity, although if technology like that used in Rage can be adapted to create multiple large environments on next-gen hardware, we may see actual drivable vehicles become available in Fallout for the first time (the car from Fallout 2 doesn't count as you don't actually steer it in a driving environment).