I have been playing fallout 3 and i have been investigating the vault tec vaults and i was wondering . Has anyone figured out what really went down in each vault ? I know that vault 92 was used for the White Noise mind control system and it completly backfired causing the vault 92 residents to go crazy. has anyone else located clues to what happened in the other vaults? I am wondering what else vault tec had been up to .

Theres a wiki on all the vaults and their historys. In all previous FO's Fallout 3 And some vaults that were just created for story purposes that never appeared in any of the games..

(Yet)

Im still waiting on walking into a vault with dead people everywhere and a panther laying at the top of some stares licking at a leg bone =P

Here's the http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vaults#Known_Vaults.

You and me both. I love vault 43! I can't wait.

Where is vault 43 ? I broke into vault tec headquaters and downloaded the vault locations but i don't think i got that one. Were there any vaults that were not inthe mainframe computer that i can investigate?

The only vaults in FO3 are the ones you find on the computer terminal.

It's location is unknown. I gave you a link in post 3 of this thread that has all the info on all the known vaults that exist. Most of them aren't in the game of course. There aren't any vaults to investigate other the ones on the vault tec mainframe.

Most of them dont exsist, Just storys to get you more into the game.

Im sure some of the better ideas will be showing up in fallout 4 though.

thank you for the help . i am trying to get the 100 location acheivement for the xbox 360 and i am searching every corner of the capital wasteland . only problem i have is i keep running into those talon merecenary morons . It changes everytime i play but that remains constant . Those morons don't seem to get the message that to aggavate me is to court death . what annoyed me the most is what they say the first time you meet them ." Hey if is is'nt the little saint from the vault." that makes me kick their but back into the stone age every time the appear and try to kill me.

When you reach level 20, you can get the Explorer perk which will reveal every location in the game. That could help, if you want to go that route.

I might do that . But do you always have to deal with the talon mercs? or is that only based on karma levels?

Yeah when you are about to hit level 20 make a save. Then take the explorer perk and make a seperate save. Then reload your save from right before you hit level 20 and take a meaningful perk. Then you'll have that save to look at anytime you want to find a location. Or you could print out a map but all the maps I've seen blow ass. Even without doing any of that you shouldn't have a problem finding 100 out of 165 or so locations. I found all but Le Enfant plaza and La Enfant south. You'll find them.

As said, most vaults are either just canon vaults (read: not in any game), or in the preceding versions of Fallout 3.

Fallout 3 has 5 vaults, and possibly a sixth depending on the future DLC.
Fallout 1 had 3 vaults and one experiment vault, Fallout 2 had.. Umm, I guess two vaults (both of which appeared in FO1, too).

Tactics also has a vault, Vault 0.


EDIT: Talon Company assaults only good characters. But explorer perk has no connection to Talon spawns, they are scripted to usually near metro stations and spawn when you fast-travel there or exit the metro.

Talon mercs will attack you regardless of your karma. I think of them as more organized, more well equipped Raiders. I'm currently picking through the Arlington section of DC with my scavneger character, and it seems like everytime I round a corner I see those guys. I must have killed 6-7 groups of them so far.

Groups of them that sneak attack you when you come out of a building or metro tunnel only do that if you're a good karma character. Other ones that are out in the wastes like at the capital building or at fort bannister will attack you on sight regardless of karma.

Wrong, Fallout 1 had 4 vaults (Vault 13, Vault 15, Vault 12 and the Master's Vault) and Fallout 2 had 3 (Vault 8, Vault 13, Vault 15).

Van Buren had one vault (29) with another being part of the backstory (70).

Too bad that panthers don't live 200 years+....

Good point. Whoops. Well, well maybe it's a super panth...forget it.

The Master's Vault was the experimental Vault Pistolero was talking about.

I'm surprised at you of all people for this oversight, Ausir

I somehow missed the experimental part. Anyway, he was still wrong about Fallout 2.

Anyone think of a history of Vault 76? Seems to me that if it WAS in the Wasteland, it's covered up now...

By the way, the DC has a ridiculous amount of vaults. There were only 120 vaults for the whole 50 states, and the DC (one city!) had 5 or 6, compared to California, which despite being the most populous state got the same number?

If DC got that many, how many did Chicago get? I mean seriously, these Vaults couldn't hold much more than 1% of the populus...

I gotta ask, now that were talking about vaults and the history, seeing as how only 1 vault was a "control" vault and it succeded very well, why didn't they make more "control" vaults?

What do you mean "control Vault"? Do you mean one that was to seal itself, re-open after ## years, just as Vault-Tec advertised? There were way more control Vaults than that. I haven't played Fallout 3, but from the first two games we had:

Vault 8 - From Fallout 2. Opened in 2091 and the residents used their Garden of Eden Creation Kit to create Vault City, which is visited in the game.

Vault 13 - From Fallout 1. This Vault was supposed to open at a set date, no panthers, no 99-women-to-1-man ratios, no Mormons. However, it was opened ahead of time because the Vault Dweller (the protagonist of Fallout 1) had to set out to find a replacement Water Chip.

We also had the "Demonstration Vault" located in the Boneyard (present-day Los Angeles) from Fallout 1. It was just a demonstration, but it was probably fully functional since it's being used by The Master and the Children of the Cathedral...

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Ausir - yeah, I agree with you. Maybe Bethesda was feeling uncreative or they overdid it when trying to recreat the "Fallout" feel. :facepalm: