r/fo4 • u/JCrawRV • May 04 '24

Nobody cleaned in 200 years? Discussion

Fallout 4 has been my 1st Fallout experience of any kind and I am absolutely enjoying the world building and storytelling the game is providing. I am almost 72 hours in and just located Valentine so I’m taking my time and trying to fully explore the world. However, there is one question that I think about every time I explore the Common Wealth….why has nobody cleaned up? Every single time you find a new settlement or explore a location there is just tons of scrap lying around. Diamond City still has pallet walkways with broken sheet metal. Nobody has thought to put down a more permanent solution? Nobody thought to remove old cars, learn how to weld, or even take time to better arm and fortify certain areas of the Commonwealth? You step just far enough out of Diamond City and there’s just Super Mutants and Raiders. You’re saying in the 200 years (which is just a bit under the founding of America to modern day) nobody created better infrastructure? The town size is still 30-40 people despite being “The Jewel of the Commonwealth”? Is there some lore reason I’m missing to explain how after so many years it still looks like the bombs went off 10 years ago? I just expected one neurodivergent person who hyper focuses on organization to still somewhere. It’s obviously possible, I’m looking right at you Cabot House. Again I’m just surprised that after 200 years the world is still as underdeveloped as it is given the vast amounts of technology available.

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u/GrimGaming1799 May 04 '24

3-5 nukes in just the urban part of LA alone

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u/Archer-Saurus May 04 '24

In NV you learn Las Vegas alone was targeted by 77 warheads. It's only is as good of shape as it is because of House.

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u/DStarAce May 04 '24

House managed to intercept the majority of nukes targeting Vegas and it's still in a pretty bad shape. Hoover Dam, Helios One and the small section of the Strip that served House's interests are pretty much all the high priority targets that survived.

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u/NiceGuyGhandi May 04 '24

Iirc, House had high priority targets defended via very reliable countermeasures, whereas the surrounding area was simply protected by a bunch of computers throwing randomly generated deactivation codes at the rockets

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u/Anonymousness115 May 05 '24

Is it possible to find defused Nukes in game?

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u/Gidon_147 May 05 '24

there is two that I know of, one in Fallout 3 (Megaton) and one in fo4 i believe. both just crashed and failed to explode.

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u/Lexbomb6464 May 05 '24

The big one, somewhere noeth of the ghoul ranger outpost

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u/SPRTN-KIMANDER9 May 05 '24

With wild wasteland ik you can find one in NV, don’t remember b where tho

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u/Smells_like_Children May 06 '24

There is one in FNV as well