if you could make your own mutated animal what would it be.

I would make a mutated shark.

I want to see those squirrels they eat. Very few animals survived but the squirrels are common fare. Must be ground squirrel since there's no more trees and grounds squirrels would have burrows to protect them from a lot of the radiation. They're probably small as we don't emcounter them as we do mole rats. They either spend a good deal of time underground to avoid the preds we and probably make up a large portion of their diet as there aren't enough humans to eat. I'd like to think they're either big squirrels or their cousins ground hogs who are more like badgers or small wolverines to face the Wasteland.

We also know Wastelanders eat iguana. Iguana aren't native to the east coast . They're either misnamed indigenous animals or escaped pets, not too much a stretch consitering how popular and common they are in our world. The Wasteland seems to be a warm, dry climate so certain iguanas could be at home. As with the squirrels they may be small but vicious and also burrowers.

Let's see, we have bears and mole rats and imported scorpions. I would love to see (from a distance) mutated bobcats and cougars! A cougar the size of a tiger that hunts deathclaws! A direcat.

I want to see a mutated cat, but all cats probably died shortly after there weren't humans to take care of them.

Hoisted by their own petards! They trained the humans so well they themselves could no longer care for themselves!

How about diamondback rattlers the size of anacondas? Silverfish that are an actual threat rather than a nusiance. I figure mutated sewer alligators would use mirelurks as food

And, finally, kick-ass foxes that don't take no sh*t from mutated coyotes anymore!

mutant bats would rock.
there bigger in size, very fast, and come out in the day.
some even hunt in packs.

http://coltmonday.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/sharktopus.jpg?
Also: Talking raccoons! Finally!
And they don't taste like chicken. Play Fallout 1.
Nope, people went for Chinese food when the bigger domestic animals went scarce. Word of the creators.

If I recall correctly there's a quest in Fallout 2 where you talk to a girl about the pet cat she had as a girl. Cats are actually the most self-sufficient of domesticated animals. House pets might not survive but any farm boy knows there are plenty of semi-feral barn cats that never need feeding. It's just that cats aren't really that intimidating so they make poor enemies from the gaming stand point. You'd hardly want an achievement like Kitten Killer. And with limited ability to implement art work in a high graphics game like Fallout you aren't likely to see any critters added just for the ambience.

What I would like to see are brahmin bulls. The idea that only brahmin cows that survived (mommy cows have udders daddy cows don't;) ) raises a whole 'nother kind of science fiction to Fallout;) (but again limited art work problem).

Mutant alligators though would be in keeping with the B movie science fiction theme of Fallout.

"Democracy is the worst form of government... except for every other that has ever been tried."
Winston Churchill

I'd like to see mutated birds, you see them in Fallout 3 flying about like they own the place. I wonder how birds managed to survive in the Fallout world when the bloody radiation was airborne for so long. I wanna shoot some birds already :spotted owl:

Mutated Gerbils, think about it, now your once tiny cute and cudly Gerbil is the size of a cow, and best of all, can be domesticated, plus big claw and teeth, we could use them like brahmin, but they would be faster, amd more adaquate

Prob mutated lizards that run in packs and are cannibals. They couldn't find any bugs to live off of so they started eating meat and they didn't evolve in size because the lack of new prey/more resistant to radiation. PLUS it would make for an awesome hand grenade !! just imagine if you pulled the pin on that svcker and just watched a pack of raiders claw themselves to death....

mutated elephants? or mutated jaguars?

But what would own everything would be.........MUTATED CHIWAWA !!! They would just own......




ps. I never had any Chiwawa, I had a toy poodle...

I want sharks with laser beams in their eyes...

Oh wait, you said mutant?

How about mutant squirrels, six foot tall, with teeth that will chew through metal.

Well I was reading a fanfic by Nett in the Fallout fanfic section titled The Long Road to Vegas

In it he made up a creature called a Jackal Rabbit, play on words with the Jack Rabbit

Its a giant gnarly bunny rabbit with patches of grey fur, it hunts in packs and will eat its own kind.

Oh how cuddly!!!! :cheat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_deer (something like http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com/art/Nuked-Moose-13972754?q=gallery%3AKeithwormwood%2F12274305&qo=35 maybe?)

Fallout 3 (and New Vegas for that matter) need some more passive animals.

Mountain Lions pl0x.
Not mutated or ghoulified, just plain mountain lions.
(Not everything has to mutate into a monster y'know)

I want to see rabbits. I love rabbits. Not mutated ones just normal ones that can talk.

Hmm, one thing to keep in mind though people.
Stuff don't mutate into monsters without special conditions.

Super Mutants turned into what they are because of FEV.
Deathclaws and Molerats were genetically created in the pre-war using FEV.
Molechs and Gehenna's can be created by having humans trapped in... Oil mines? Or was it tar mines? Anyway, in some sort of mine, with lethal doses of radiation.
Trogs can be created by having humans reside in caves under many generations without leaving the caves and having a constant small flow of radiation seeping in.
Ghouls can be created by long lethal doses of radiation.
Moria was a special case with that.

So remember, for something to mutate into a monster it needs special conditions.
Stuff don't mutate because of simple radiation.
All it does is give slight mutations, like brahmin or NCR's two-headed bear.

Try to keep lore and canon in mind when creating something.

Mutated shark... Haven't seen any mutated fish yet so I have no idea what the airborn mutated FEV strain did to sharks.
But I imagine... Land-sharks.

Pigeons...
I love pigeon in wine and shallot sauce.. hmmmm.

Mutated Monkeys

Well, that's certainly one use for flying rats. Personally, I'd like to see crows. Nothing like feeding birds in D.C, by the Vietnam memorial, when a crow shows up to eat up the food and scares 'em off. Then a duck shows up and it turns into a fight.

:rofl: I would have paid extra for FO3 if that was included as a big random encounter.