Where Did Fallout 3's Bombs Actually Hit?

Still playing Fallout 3, still enjoying it. I think next I’ll play GTA IV, or maybe something like Animal Well as a little breather. Support me on Patreon to help me continue taking the time to make this kind of content: www.patreon.com/any_austin

Came here to spread the word, there's a lower intestine in a toilet in the enclave base in the broken steel dlc right before the very end of the dlc implying an enclave member shit out so hard they disemboweled themselves. Noone talks about this and it's a crime. Kudos Bethesda.

My guy went into the nuke map and tested exactly what size bomb he’d need to flatten the white house. My brother, you are on so many lists.

I remember hearing an anecdote that the dev team for Fallout 3 actually tried running simulations to determine what the infrastructure of D.C. would look like following a nuclear blast. According to the simulations, there would be absolutely nothing left. So yeah, the assessment that most of the decor in the game is just set dressing to imply nuclear annihilation rather than accurately portray it is pretty much exactly correct.

3:33 I think the reason you see all these tiny craters everywhere is because in fallout the cars are nuclear powered and will explode in a small mushroom cloud, they could have most likely exploded while in the vicinity of the larger bombs, doing like chain reactions.

So the bombs in the fallout universe are much smaller than real world ones to increase the “fallout” and radiation, so a lot of bombs are considered smaller than our real world ones Thank you all, I’m literally working on a video to show you what the game itself says the size of the bombs are and if Bethesda retconned it Source: VDSG Pg 1-7 "The megaton class weapons have been largely retired, being replaced with much small yield warheads."

In the art book that was included in the special editon of Fallout 3 one of the first things they state is that the first thing they did was look at what would actually be left from a nuclear blast which turned out to be not much at all, so they took a liberty with how the bombs worked to keep the areas engaging.

Shalebridge is a quarry. This can be deduced by the fact it's literally named after ROCK, has a ram into the bottom, and distinctive ridges and layers around the supposed crater. A common thing quarries have are lake beds forming at the bottom as the hard ground and shade provide minimal escape for the rain water caught in the funnel like shape

Regarding scale. In the lore, Skyrim is supposed to be about the size of Poland, but in reality it's about the size of Lebanon, a country around 30 times smaller. That's why the "cities" feel like villages and there's like 100 houses in the entire country despite thousands of NPCs living there.

New York, Pennsylvania and My god is where the bombs dropped.

One neat detail I always liked comes from the Germantown police station that really explains all the "radiation clean up" signs and ruined vehicles, toxic waste drums, etc sitting in craters. Its just a short series of passages about how society struggled on for a few months after the war before collapsing entirely. One can imagine some attempt was made by whatever government was left to try and start some sort of clean up (by putting up signs and dumping irradiated material into areas too contaminated to be cleaned themselves) before everything really broke down and fell apart for good. Its subtle but its cool.

One thing to note is that a good chunk of the city part of Washington D.C. is out of bounds so any missing bombs and craters could be within that area.

A 1:8 scale, in 2 dimensions, means you should multiply the 12 bombs by 64 to cover the square area of the map, giving us 768 bombs!

You know I think I realized one of the things that makes your videos so naturally real is that they arise naturally. You aren't hunting for content, almost always your videos come about because you're literally in the midst of the playing the game at the moment and then have a feeling or realization. And that really comes across in the end results.

A few aspects to also remember about fallout 3’s wasteland: there are many portions of the city area that aren’t directly accessible to the player, the way we navigate the city of DC is just by accessing little pockets of the area via the metros and through some of the buildings that are stable enough to walk through. That, and we also only get a small corner of the city of DC, the rest extends past the bottom right corner of the map.

The weirdest part is that in 4 it’s kind of implied that only 1 nuke actually went off and it was an airburst that created the glowing sea, and in new Vegas it’s directly stated that only 2 bombs went actually hit, but it wouldn’t be the first time that the games are inconsistent about these things

I think the reason why DC wasn't a huuuuuge priority for the bombing when the war happened was because they were somewhat aware that the president wasn't there. It was public knowledge that he hadn't been in town for a few months at that point (when the FEV scandal broke) so they probably didn't bother throwing as much there as they would've had he been in the white house. Also the white house being a crater was a last minute decision which I find hilarious. They were starting to wrap up the world building stuff and realized they hadn't done anything with it yet. With fuck-all time on the clock they just decided to make it a hole in the ground.

Fallout 3 is also just the northwest corner of DC and the suburbs so there might be 4x the amount actually fired at the city

If you talk to the grandma lady in megaton (the one married to the enclave patriot guy, forget their names) they reveal the megaton bomb wasn’t dropped or brought there a plane crashed there and the original walls of the town was from the plane, they just didn’t know how to scrap the bomb, this also explains why the bombs at one fort have the same model both where US bombs.

Fallout 3 was the game I played when I moved out of my mom's, it was a rough time, but man I have such great memories from this game and all its DLCs.