Well it was leaked, and theorized, that your character is a Veteran. No one knows for sure but yes, a lot of people believe he served in Anchorage against the Chinese. He might be a soldier but being a veteran could also mean he was a mechanic but I'd say soldier because he does know how to survive, fight, use power armor, and make do with what he can get. I'm not sure though if you're still a veteran if you play as a woman though...

I agree about anchorage. Beth loves to do stuff like that

No, it's impossible. Howard stated that they've been recording dialogue for two years. So unless you believe that statement is a lie, then they have planned a male and female protagonist from the very beginning.

Yeah no... except for the claim you won't be able to play female until later on in the game; and what she/he said about the Brotherhood of Steel (which is just unconfirmed), the rest is either spot on or off just a tad bit. So unless that person completely made up everything and got very lucky on most of it, I'd say it's not a fake.

I was gonna go with field combat medic who served in Anchorage.

Hopefully the use of PA (and Vertibirds too, btw) will have perk and at least strength requirements instead of someone just giving you the training like in previous games.

The PC is most likely a veteran. He was in the military... so he would likely have power armor training already. If the PA is so important in this game... I don't think it will be linked too a perk or strenght requirements.

And you don't fly the vertibird on your own...

It was fake... Tell me some things she got right. Most of her claims are wrong. The whole story she tells don't fit into what we have sawn. She didn't say anything about pre-war etc.

Guys. Instead of jumping to conclusions such as, "Female Protagonist magically divines knowledge of Power Armor usage." Let's assume that given the fact that waiting until late-game to unlock Power Armor training in Vanilla Fo3 was really annoying, when you consider that PA in Fo3 was just some metal plating over a rubber suit, so they offer up PA Training in early game for Fo4. It's even possible that you become friends with an ex-BoS in the Main Quest and he/she teaches you. It's also possible that you use the VR Pods (that we have seen several times in the Fallout series and we actually SAW VR Pods in the concept art for Fo4) to train in the usage of Power Armor virtually, like how using the VR Pods in Fo3: Operation Anchorage teaches you how to use PA. Maybe the whole thing takes several VR training sessions before you can actually use your PA ingame. Maybe that trailer we see with the Deathclaw is just a training simulation.

Well as a veteran we know he would have been a solider, as they are asked to speak we can make the assumption they where an officer class (it would be unusual for a none officer to be asked to speak) due to the time zone we can assume they saw combat and thus probably used the power armors for that, like solider today are trained to put together there guns soldiers in 2077 would know how to assemble and disassemble their Power Armour. I imagine he did something that the papers displayed as heroic and was injured doing so and thus is dismissed with honors.

True, I forgot about that.

She said they'd announce it at E3, and while the trailer was played two weeks before, she was still right. Plus it's a known fact that game makers regularly switch dates when it comes too announcing games and showing off gameplay demo's. She was also right that it would be released THIS YEAR, she was only a couple weeks off . While quite a bit of her claims are still unproven until the game comes out, it looks like it wasn't as fake as a lot of naysayers tried to make it out.

As for the story... we haven't seen much of anything except the beginning. There could have been story changes made after she was fired, or did you ever think that it might have been Bethesda way of trying to stir up attention without actually announcing anything yet? When Kotaku released the voiced protagonist thing a year ago, everyone said BS. Not so much apparently...

I doubt a training simulation would be programmed to be set in the world after nukes, but I don't see anywhere that it was said she didn't also have a military background, just because he was asked to speak doesn't mean she wasn't also a medic or technician or something and could know how to use PA from that

Wow... a game announced at the E3?! That's shocking! Who would think that a game would be announced at the E3? And she was even false, because the game was announced before the E3... But really... to say 'The game will be announced on the E3' is like to say 'You got a present on Christmas'... And even 'Boston' as setting is nice guessed... It's not like this was guessed since FO3...

Actually... she did claim that she was the kotaku leaker. But she did tell very different things than the kotaku leaks. The kotaku leaks were earlier and are more true then heir claims. She has nothing right beside the fact, that the game is set in Boston. And that the game is announced around the E3. But everyone could guess the same... It's not shocking that games are announced at the E3... Actually she was terrible wrong in nearly all her claims.

Where does this idea that the female and male protagonists will have different stories or back-stories come from? I can think of no reason whatsoever to assume that the female protagonist needs any more of an explanation for power armor training than would the male, for example. I'm pretty sure that where the player character is concerned, whatever is true for one gender will be true for the other.

As far as I know it comes from two things: 1) the intial mirror comment, the female character says "You'll knock 'em dead at the Veteran's Ball tonight hun" which implies at the very least that HE'S a veteran. It of course does not imply that she is not. 2) Then there's a veteran's flag or whatever you call it on their shelf along with a certificate law implying that one of them is a lawyer/has some law related background. So people assume he's the vet and she's the lawyer.

And I would bet what's left of my hair that if the female had been highlighted it would have been him telling her that she would knock 'em dead at the veteran's hall, reversing the roles. Maybe it's just me, but I'm separating them into PC role, and PC spouse role rather than male and female roles. The PC role will be applied to the player character regardless of gender, and the spouse will always have the spouse role. If it's veteran and lawyer, it will be either male PC veteran and lawyer wife or female PC veteran and lawyer husband.

Sorry, but she said it would be announced at E3 in 2015, not just at E3. And again, it's a fact that game companies change the dates for when they release trailers and gameplay demo's constantly. And please remember that what Bethesda did, was a first, so obviously they changed things up and released the trailer at the start, and than the gameplay demo at their E3 showcase. So no, she was pretty much on the money. I also noticed you didn't mention a word about her saying it was going to be released in 2015... but than again, Kotaku hasn't said a word about that either.

And she was going by what she claimed she played. Chances are when she played the alpha/beta version, only the male protagonist was playable at the start and you could later on "change" into the female protagonist, which doesn't really go against what the Kotaku released, they just said that male and female protagonist were voiced. I met a Japanese game tester for Square Enix who tested Suikoden 3 at Otakon back in 2008, when he started game testing, they only had Chris available, and by the time they finished the game, the game was drastically different compared too what he saw at the start. This is what happens all the time during game development. In fact, a lot of what she said, such as releasing it on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3; save transfers (which is pretty popular in gaming); the old-school birds eye view turn based combat; and other questionable items could have seriously been considered and might have been in development early on. Whether they were axed or are still part of the game and Bethesda just hasn't said it, we won't know until they come forward or the game comes out.

If you don't believe her, that's fine. But please, stop taking what she said out of context or just omitting things so you can push your argument.

What if the CC starts with the male character highlighted though? Presumably it has to start with one or the other. And it's the first thing she says. But that can be ascribed to demo magic I guess. And what if it starts with one highlighted and the spouse says that and you switch to the other one afterwards?

Well so far they haven't been vague about his backstory at all, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did this.

Again, most likely in there mind the veteran aspect was needed to justify how our character have...well military grade weapon skills by default, since there seams to be no weapon related skills anymore, but beyond this "necessary" background I think Beth plans to leave it vague.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. I honestly think the protagonist's background and family is going to play a large role in the story, given how they want this game to be more "story-driven". They've already determined so much for our player.

To be fair, our character has been pre determined to a more or less extent since the old Fallout games, with room to fill in ourselves.

Everything the "leak" has right have been expected from everyone who pays any attention to Bethesdas development cycle. The announcement was long overdue.

The leak also claims that there will be an old-gen version(won't happen,Todd said that they could do so much more with the current-gen, why would they cut themselves like that?)

Also claims that save imports are a thing(they are not ,otherwise they would have been announced somewhere).

Also got the whole intro completely wrong.(which also disarms your argument of her not knowing about the femal protagonist because she must have played the intro)

Also claims that it will run on a brand new engine while the old-gen version would still use creation, proven wrong at E3.

Also claims that there will be a classic mode that lets you play like the old classic Fallout games(would have been announced at E3)

Also claims on how they would be announcing the game and their plans for the future are ridiculous(reveal at E3 June 2015-wrong,it was announced before that;gameplay in July-wrong-we got that at E3;"more information in August",likely at the Gamescom,but wouldn't prove the leak to be right;release in october-wrong,its november; first dlc released in december-too short for Bethesda,they always took several months for every dlc; also the claims of a dlc released in evry month until april are ridiculous,it goes completely against Bethesdas previous pattern)

Add to this that she claims to be the leaker of the Kotaku leak(which directly contradicts some of her information and has turned out to be right so far)

The story bits are pure speculation for now.

Also claims that the map would be three times the map of Skyrim which has been debunked be the almighty Todd.

Considering that the little she got right is pure speculation and that she got very major things completely wrong(like the intro), especially things that couldn't just be changed later(like the map size) and that several things are prvably wrong and completely fall out of Bethesdas comfort zone(like save file transfer and releasing a lot of DLC in a short time) i can safely conclud that the leak is fake.

If you want to believe her do that,but don't use it as an argument.

I'd also like to note as an aside, that the person seemed almost proud of having lost their job for being the supposed leak, and stating that anyone could just up and ask any of the Bethesda higher ups about her, and they'd say that she'd worked for them...

They were leaking stuff because they got fired for leaking info? sounds pretty fishy personally.