just wondering what you think caused the cloud

i reckon that sinclair filled the casino with so much gold some of it was eroded off into the ventalation system and then into the air

I think it's mentioned in the game, maybe the wiki, that it was fumes from the casino and since it is of course unique these fumes would not be found anywhere else.

I think its all the toxic waste that gathered from the construction of the villa and casino, and it all meshed together creating a great smelling perfume that kills the moment you sniff.

no just was thinking what you though it is

From what I gathered, it was created by Sinclair to preserve the Casino and the surrounding Villa. That's why there's such a concentration of it in the Vault.

Ghost people farts.

It's a 50/50 explanation. Some of it is explained, some isnt. The Ghost People were explained as having been workers exposed to the corrosive material in the cloud by running into a pipe of it, but the cloud corroded the locks on the people. The same dust is also explained as what has prisinely preserved the Sierra Madre as a whole. However, we're never really given a full explanation of it's origins. This is likely done to add to the horror mystique of a gone wrong utopia gone wrong feeling it posesses.

What he said

I remember a God comment: "Is that smell copper or Old World gold?"

I think the OP mightbe right about the gold in some way. Maybe a few bars or so somehow helped create the cloud, with the help of the poorly constructed villa made of cheap material and such.

i think sinclair put it there to keep looters away....

golds one of the most stable metals.....not buying it......maybe copper ... like god hinted to

A corrosive copper based gase mixed with a spore like material. We've already seen something like it in the vaults.

My guess is the ventilation was so efficient at supplying fresh air that when the radiation came it filtered radiation into a cloud maybe?

No the cloud protected the area from the bombs, but it also traqed everyone.

How did it protect anything if it kills you =3

It preserves the town. That was its purpous.

Bad purpose if it killed everyone in it :flamethrower:

M'aiq thought this was a discussion on cloud gaming not Sierra Madre; M'aiq guess that they are one of the same.

Like its be stated before, it was explained partially in game. There was an issue with the ventilation system. The workers kept experiencing "explosions" inside the ventilation system. The "puffs" of cloud the came from the ventilation system was corrosive. They ordered "suits" so they could investigate the cause further but found that the cloud corroded and ate away their suits and many of the workers got sick from it.

I believe the Ghost People and Seekers are the workers in their suits who have mutated from the cloud. But again, I'm probably way off base but that's what I gathered from all the notes laying around the place. I've found 5 of 8 notes so I don't have the whole picture yet.

They did say it in the game, though I don't remember were. Elijah will tell you though, I'm sure on that.

! of the great things about gold, is it never erodes or rusts or anything, 1000 year old gold might have stuff on it, but it will weigh and look the same as it did the day it was minted, and be as bright and shiny as it was on day1 !