The mutated wolverines would really svck. We would also have mutated mountain lions to worry about.


On the other hand, the Mountains have plenty of nice trails, and would make semi decent cover.

Depends where in the prairies. Manitoba's hydro-electric capacity would be a target, as would Canada's largest bio lab located in Winnipeg. Saskatchewan's oil capacity could also be a target. That's not even mentioning the massive beating North Dakota would take in an attempt to take out American capacity, and the fallout that would come north because of it. The prairies would not be as safe as you might think.


Plus mutated beavers, those little [censored]s are angry enough as it is!


(I'm originally from the Canadian prairies)

I would survive and form my own Children of Atom colony.

this..

I live next door to Tinker AFB.. Maintenance wing for KC-135, AWACS, B-52, B1 and B2.. I'm done!

I figure Baltimore would be pretty much as it is, albeit perhaps with a little less racism, drugs, and murder. (Joke. I love Baltimore, warts and all.)

Always bummed Fallout 3 never had a DLC based at Fort McHenry.

Dunno, probably not do well, but a decent chance of living through the initial bombing. Nearest military base is 70 miles away, Whidby Island Naval, and it's not a huge one.

Being centered North of Seattle and south of Vancouver and inland a bit, I'd be more concerned about radiation and everything. There are oil refineries that dot the Puget Sound coastline but these could be taken out easily with non nuclear ICBMs, while leaving the farmlands usable for future use by invading forces. "What's a little fallout, eh????"

My dad was a B52 navigator and I worked at NORAD (Cheyenne Mountain) and I have to agree. Fallout's world seems to use much smaller nuclear weapons and a lot fewer of them. Enough to kill most people and destroy civilization but not on a scale we could manage now (or during the Cold War).


As I live near Atlanta, GA I suspect I'd be toasted pretty effectively. Of course would Atlanta be any MORE of a target then Boston or Washington DC? So maybe I'd just die of radiation.

*Shudders* As if they need it!

I'm a survivor but in a radiation, poisoned food and water situation...not so much so I'd likely be a raider and come for what you have

for a little side question to real world bostoners (or people who know it well):

never been there, and i wonder, if you live there: do you recognize it in game?

can you navigate game-boston from what you know from real one?

and does it, you know, look & feel anything like the actual boston?

(and if yes to all the above, how's it feel to see your city like that?

Rad Roos

but if you had a Rad Roo as companion.. already has a pocket to carry your stuff!

yeah, and it could deal punches to kick a rabid deathclaw back to nevada

Except people. But if you live in a town with say less than 1,000 pop. Then yeah, your safe. My town has a little over 40K pple. So I don't know if that would count as a secondary or third target. I'm assuming whoever firing the nukes would have them programmed to target cities with over 100,000 pop. Then move down to 50-75k pop. If I get vaporized. That would svck but at least I don't have to pay for health insurance or my taxes anymore.

I would definitely not be near a direct target, but since I am in the United States, I would be impacted by the wind bringing the fallout to me.

My location will definitely be a head start to get somewhere safe in a nuclear apocalypse before the winds bring the fallout - most likely somewhere indoors; underground is much better though.

True enough... I think mutated moose would be pretty crazy too. They would be a lot larger than radstag and hostile upon approach.

So many prairie dogs, skunks, and porcupines too.. How scary would a mutated porcupine be if it was hostile? o.o

A 6 foot tall [censored], it would be like I never left work

Ok, so I live in Colorado and because of all the mountains, the Vault-tec would have a lot of room to make plenty of vaults. We also have Cheyenne Mountain Base which is a perfect place for many people to survive in after a nuclear fallout. Colorado is full of people who love to go hunting so it would have a lot of guns so any group trying to attack us in Colorado would have a lot of armed citizens although not as many armed citizens as Texas. Also because of our altitude we have a lot of people who have basemants and there are plenty of people that are doomsdays preppers who live in Colorado. Also, because we are in the middle of the country there would be less nuclear warheads that would make it to Colorado, so we wouldn't have as big of a radiation problem as say the east or west. So in other words, Colorado is the perfect place to be in for a nuclear fallout. Oh, and since we legalized Majaruana we would have plenty of chems.

I live in Colorado as well, and I definitely agree.

which you could mod into a deep pocketed rad roo

Good luck with that one. I would expect Cheyenne Mountain to have been targeted with multiple high-megaton ground bursts.

Not only that, but like anyone is getting in once its sealed up. Also with the US Air Force academy not too far, that area is done.

Nah it's nothing like the real Boston. I mean there are landmarks which are represented of course like the Freedom trail and what not, but it's not as if it was designed to be an accurate representation of the Boston we know. Lots of businesses that of course don't exist, and the street layouts aren't akin really to anything familiar, but that's to be expected considering everything has to be scaled down for game purposes. However there are games out there that have recreated actual swaths of real world cities like LA Noire (granted it's in the 1950s) but again, due to necessary scaling it wouldn't be accurate to navigate it like one would in the actual world. Lastly you have to take liberties with some of the building placements since I imagine you can't show actual businesses and things like that without individually working out legal permissions which probably isn't feasible or cost effective.

thx, just was wondering. i figured the scale wouldn't quite match of course , but i thought they might have like, you know, left the "fat lines" of the city map the shape they were and filled the blanks with downsized, well, rubble and such

it'll largely depend on the type of game i guess,

1:1 scale for a beth style rpg, pretty hard to imagine due to manpower alone (not even asking how much it'd take to _loot_it_all_

for like a racer though where you'd never enter an interior - not la maybe, but something the size of smaller european capitals should work i think...

i don't think you can require a legal permission for your building layout. for photographs (and actual company logos etc of course) yes, but for rebuilding the layout in a computer game? i'd say if you can depict it on a map, you can build it.

South Australia...doubt we'd hear of a nuke in our region of the world.

I really want it just sort of blithely mentioned that some random island never got nuked and is pretty much doing just fine. Or at least as fine as they could be.