» Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:52 pm We all know there are quite a few ... call them "inconsistencies" to avoid the R-word (realism) ... that people often complain about with the game. Things that don't make a lot of sense, but when you dig a bit the answer is something like "That's how video games work." (Why does ammo have zero weight?) or "Simplification for playability" (How radiation is handled.) to a basic "Because they programmed it that way."
But here's one that struck me this morning which seems to be an awfully big mistake from a Lore perspective while having no impact at all on the mechanics of gameplay: Why are things powered by Fusion Cells and Fusion Cores when the entirety of the game's Lore is otherwise based on fission? Shouldn't they be Fission Cells/Cores?
This is especially problematic for the Pre-War Lore where we're presented with a Resource War as the reason for the Armageddon, a world with random barrels of nuclear waste peppering the landscape and where every automobile has its own pile of fissibles powering it (and still ready to explode like a mini-nuke 200 years later). None of it is based on fusion - and if it were there would have been no need for a resource war to secure access to fusion's feed stock. To a large extent, the very existence of controlled fusion as a power source obviates the rationale for the Nuclear Holocaust that is the backdrop for the whole series.
So why the Fusion ammo? Are we to believe that they were developed after the War? One of the Institute members mentions that they are still operating on 200 year-old reactors, so that doesn't make much sense.
Is it just a typo? 
