will water be irradiated? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:35 pm

if the water has radiation init, then a big plot hole has developed already
no bombs=no radiation

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:58 am

but fallout would get in the water and make it radioactive.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:54 am

Last I checked New Vegas wasn't sealed under a large dome and isolated from the rest of the world. If any water comes into the Mojave Wasteland from the outside world, and I'm sure it does, it will have radiation in it.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:13 am

The Colorado River and its tributaries cover plenty of territory in which to pick up radiation. Alleged plot hole closed.

EDIT: Two of the main primary branches of the Colorado run through Colorado Springs, home of the Cheyenne Mountain complex. Given the nature of the Great War, that location would have been hit hard and often- plenty of radiation to go around.

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» Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:21 pm

There are rivers. Rivers have a source, fallout hit the atmosphere. Fallout falls from the atmosphere. So I wouldnt doubt there to be radiation.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:09 pm

The damn series is called Fallout.
FALLOUT.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:06 pm

If bombs only hit the West coast the Est coast would still get fallout so basically there is no plot hole.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:18 pm

If bombs only hit the West coast the Est coast would still get fallout so basically there is no plot hole.

Uh, D.C. Wasteland? Both coasts got hit. And most of the planet. Given that there have been single volcano eruptions that disrupted weather patterns globally and threw up enough dust to obscure the sun over at least hemisphere-size areas, I'd say the fallout from the Great War would have been a fairly pervasive blanket of radioactive dust.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:01 am

There is also this thing called "wind". Anyways, I don't see why people give a damn about "plot holes", enjoy the story already! There are more important things than perceived inconsistencies.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:34 am

Im sure after all these years The NCR made a water purification system for the Hoover Dam.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:09 pm

Yes the water will be irradiated for obvious reasons. As the others said, fallout hits atmosphere and is carried by the wind to anywhere it blows. Also, the Mojave Wasteland has rivers, radiation can travel through the water and hit the soil as well.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:37 am

200+ years and the water is still irradiated? doubtful, the soil would have filtered it out decades ago.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:45 am

200+ years and the water is still irradiated? doubtful, the soil would have filtered it out decades ago.

I know thats the only thing I did not like fallout 3 was the fact that everyone acted as if the war happened like 3 weeks ago no one moved on radiation is like everywhere water is still dirty etc etc

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:22 am

Steps to undestanding:

1. Go to the observation deck in Mothership Zeta
2. Look out the window
3. See the world covered in radiation
4. Read a 6th grade (possibly lower) book on how weather works.
5. Understand that just about every source of water would be irradiated

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:57 am

200+ years and the water is still irradiated? doubtful, the soil would have filtered it out decades ago.

Take a look at the accident on Chernobyl, a single accident in a nuclear power plant, 24 years and there still radiation nearby.
Now, imagine The Great War, THOUSANDS of THOUSANDS of nukes destroying the whole USA.
It's just too many bombs, too many radiation, it would take much more time for nature to filter it. Radioactive dust accumulates...

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:39 pm

200 years is certainly long enough to filter out the Fallout, you can do it yourself easily.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:37 pm

200 years is certainly long enough to filter out the Fallout, you can do it yourself easily.

If that was true this game wouldn't be called Fallout; it would be called Filteredout.

Stop being realistic.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:01 pm

Uh, D.C. Wasteland? Both coasts got hit. And most of the planet. Given that there have been single volcano eruptions that disrupted weather patterns globally and threw up enough dust to obscure the sun over at least hemisphere-size areas, I'd say the fallout from the Great War would have been a fairly pervasive blanket of radioactive dust.

Like I said IF.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:56 am

condisering the severity of the war yes the world would be largly irratiated.

what about canada hey if the chinese were occuping it, it would the first place to get hit so the west and east coast were probally the chinese nukes.

there still would be radioactive dust and fallout in the air being passed on all over the globe.

if the war really happend MAYBE all the thing in fallout would happen. just not only in america

fallout stays for a very long time as far as we know hirshima is still being effectede by the nuke that was dropped and the rad levels look very consistent since WW2

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:52 am

If that was true this game wouldn't be called Fallout; it would be called Filteredout.

Stop being realistic.

IIRC, the only irradiated water sources in the previous games were Vault city and Gecko, because the Gecko nuclear plant had a leak.

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:19 pm

Sometimes! Try to think of the reference. It involves women and children...

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:47 pm

Im sure after all these years The NCR made a water purification system for the Hoover Dam.

Ah...But that would ruin the point of fallout 3. They are supposed to be difficult to make in their universe...

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:01 pm

there no real way of artifically geting rid of radiation

» Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:53 pm

if the water has radiation init, then a big plot hole has developed already
no bombs=no radiation

well im thinking hoover dam but yeah if thats got rads in theres probs a spring or lake behind some bushes thats pure but will most likely have either wild life or guards around it.

» Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:49 am

Real story: Chernobyl, Northern Ukraine. The Soviet Union hid it. The world knew about the burst because of radiation anomalies in Sweden, +1000kms away. Imagine a nuclear war now... Nothing else to say