Lore is fine people there couldn t get in done on the same level as the west coast.
See after a apocalypse of some type most people will kill you for 2 crackers. Bad people like radiers would be more powerful than NPC scrubs. Look at NO after Katrina people killing and [censored] and stealing, and there was even still some law around.
Most people that come out of those vaults won t run into nice people that want to help build a city. They ll run into groups of people that are just waiting for that vault door to open so they can [censored], pillage, and kill.
Interplay lost the game Bethesda desides how people would act now.
And make no mistake there will be many more that would kill u for some purified water that help you build a city.
They don t want you help they want you stuff then they want you dead, because that s how they came up.
So since Bethesda owns the franchise, they can totally screw the older Fallouts and destroy any sense of human progession and nature?
What you described is 100% accurate, for the first year or so after the bombs. People don't live, svck, and die from raiders. People defend themselves. People expand, grow, and thrive. Humans are incredibly adaptable and can thrive even under the harshest of conditions.
Take for instance, the pioneers in the west. When the Indians came, did they sit on their asses and let them be shot to death with arrows? No! They fought back with guns!
If raiders came to a group of people, the people would fight back, build walls to protect themselves, grow food to feed themselves, expand, thrive. Not everyone in a wasteland is a raider. Its Human nature to be in a group, and people would group up to protect themselves.
This is where Bethesda failed with FO3. They said, "Oh, [censored] human nature, lets use cool [censored]!"