Considering what happened to the Vault-Tec salesman, it seems logical that others in that area had a similar fate. They could have lived in the houses for years before turning completely feral.
With all the Army paraphernalia (the folded flags, etc) it's safe to assume that Sanctuary Hills was a community for Veterans and families of War heroes. Communities for service families is and was an actual thing. This would explain all the well off homes and cars. Would also add context to the use of the word SANCTUARY. The war is over...for now.
That would add more context to Vault 111s cryogenic experiment. Why bother to release the unwitting participants later? Because most likely have combat/medic/leadership experience that would enable them to survive for at least a little while. Combined with their 'pure' DNA, you got a good chance of establishing humanity again.
@@zenkim6709 You probably don't want to do something like that. CRTs are vacuum tubes and if there's a breach in the glass envelope, atmospheric pressure would crush it rapidly and in an explosive manner. That would produce an intense amount of shrapnel.
You've never built behind the houses? Lol there's also a chem station behind one of the houses too so you basically have all the crafting stations straight up out of 111
@@NearlyH3adlessNick I have like a max height 6 floor settlement building, all the top level market stands ,every single usable trash-branch removed, walls, cannons, lasers, etc. How I missed it is beyond me...
@@maan7715 it's right next to some wild mutfruits you most likely scrapped then haha I've never built a settlement that high before, I should try it. I always sprawl my people out give them space in the houses with backyards and shit. I waste alot of time xD
@@NearlyH3adlessNick Not sure if the whole building function was worth it, I built that whole building but the settler limit is what, 16? So It's a huge empty building basically, not enough people to use the whole thing.
@@maan7715 mods help with that haha that, and sim settlements (plus add-ons if u want) make settlements into cities without alot less effort than normal building. Usually ends up much better than hours worth of building too
Dalvest Streaming mabye it was painted yellow then painted over with blue and the bloatflys ate the paint or something or something from the blast stripped the first coat of paint
@@boktorinator693 Yes. Some hoodie in a stolen Sierra Cosworth was vandalizing the remains of homes, until he got jumped by raiders and picked clean by feral ghouls
I thought something along the same line, that perhaps a chemical reaction with the nuclear fallout and the paint changed the paint color, chemistry you know and stuff haha
@Turok Hilsen This was my favorite thing about fallout 2. Everything above ground was picked over, and many of the guns you find were most likely made after the war. The only "loot" was found in dangerous caves or abandoned shitholes in locked containers.
I thought the little red car moving twenty feet "because of the blast" was totally understandable, except for the 30 seconds before where he had a problem with plastic flamingos not enduring a nuclear blast. What?
Basically the world is right out of 1950's movies of how the future would look like. People then thought by 2000 there would be gizmos, gadgets, robots and flying cars.
@@ReflectionOfPerfection if the bombs never dropped MAYBE. maybe by the 2140s the microprocessor chould of been made leading the universe to finally have things we had already gotten by the 90s
it doesnt make sense that they can invent plasma weapons, teleporters, power armor, AI, androids, lasers, portable fusion power. But they couldn't invent semiconductor components?
Considering the only reason the bombs dropped in the first place was because of a war which was in turn caused by depleted resources on Earth, I’d say they wouldn’t have gotten much further regardless.
17:30 - No, fission fuel shortages were a thing too. The lore clearly states that they were running out of Plutonium and Uranium. Fusion was the big breakthrough that would have averted The War... Had it matured just a few years earlier. I can easily see Fission-Fusion car mods being a thing among enthusiasts. In theory it should be a slightly more complicated process than switching a truck from Fossil Diesel to BioDiesel.
"Where are the bodies of the people that were standing at the fence?" 200 years of open exposure to elements and scavengers? It's more surprising to find anything at all.
I mean sure but in Fallout logic skeletons stay where they died. Hell people die a lot mid-task. You’ll see skeletons around computers for instance, or near objects implying they were using them.
@@DeathnoteBB Yes but the explicitly pre war ones are usually inside at least. The "logical" explanation would be the skeletons came after the war from people trying to get into the vault but let's not give them too much credit.
Yup, also the actual blast could’ve vaporised the skeletons at the part of the fence facing the clearing where we see the mushroom cloud as there was little to nothing there to protect their bodies from the fire that burned the trees around
It is moronic to use our real life logic to video games like fallout where this video clearly explained what happened. In fallout, people's bodies stay where they died. This builds lore.
Hey Ox, maybe I’m reading into it too much, but maybe the model was using stimpacks to dehydrate herself so she looks thin for modeling? Since in survival mode they dehydrate you with each use.
The answer is in the name I think, Stimpak. They're stimulants, which are often used as diet aids IRL. Presumably in the Fallout verse they heal you by greatly increasing your metabolic rate which would burn up a bunch of calories. Models are notoriously addicted to dieting.
I think they meant BDSM or something, and I think that is what Ox was thinking as well since he usually tries to stay clean and child-friendly (or at least advertiser-friendly).
I don't understand why everyone gets so upset about typos in terminal entries. Typos in the game, yeah it is kind of irritating. However, typos in a terminal entry written by a human being is just immersive. It's incredibly unimmersive that every single human being in this world spells everything perfectly or they spend the time to edit every single one of their terminal entries, even the personal ones that no one cares about. I don't even like it when random post-war terminals have perfect spelling in them when logically the people would have had very limited educations. I think with the dogs and the xcell it's the fact that it boosts all of your stats by 2, making the dogs more dangerous. I think that's the issue he takes. "You guys want to do drugs, I can supply you, but don't give dangerous drugs to your dogs so that they become a danger to the entire neighborhood. You take drugs and die, I have to live with that. You give drugs to your dogs and they kill children in the neighborhood, we all have to live with that."
Yeah, from an exposition perspective perfect grammar and spelling is useful. But from an environmental story telling perspective it makes entries feel more like what you'd see real people do.
It should be noted that the Vault Tec Rep says he stayed in sanctuary for a year after the bombs fell. Some of the movements and adjustments around the town could have been him. Especially the ones in the workshop house where it's implied he was staying.
For the different colors, I think they used to use a high lead based paint, and they just made a new safe paint, some things got painted over with new paint that evaporated in the blasts. Leaving the old lead paint.
I remember encountering them during the mission to find Kellogs hideout by following Dogmeat, they were among the Ghouls which ambush you across the bridge just before the destroyed assaulttron.
I can't seem to get enough of these Fallout videos. They're so captivating and immersive, like stepping into a whole new world. The attention to detail and the storytelling in this franchise are just incredible. I could spend hours watching these videos and still not get tired of it. It's like falling in love with a game all over again, every time!
Thing is EMP's absolutely screw up electronics to an irreparable extent, you'd have to buy a completely new terminal, let alone new lights and wires and other electronic infrastructure, EMP damage is irreversible, but EMP's disappear faster than that.
Well they started of the game with shoddy special products thats they lied about and got into trouble as it was found they give real items to the press and little plastic bags to buyers, also that and it took over year of updates by the community to acutaly bring it to a playing level, as he says hes playing with mods infact no one plays the game bethesda makes, they all play fan made community content.
Given as how over 200 years people forgot what baseball was, I theorize its possible that people 100 some years later forgot what Halloween was and put them up as a deterrent for raiders. Quite possibly thinking the decorations had powers to repel evil not dissimilar to halloweens real world origins
_Heaven knows_ what the people of the _Fallout_ world remember, really. The people of Boston don't remember the rules or even the _nature_ of _baseball,_ America's "national pastime", played in its more-or-less modern form from around 230 years before the bombs fell until likely the instant the bombs went off, yet _somehow_ they know not only the _name_ but even the _spelling_ of _Publick Occurrences (Both Forreign and Domestick),_ the country's first multi-page newspaper, that ran for _one single _*_solitary_*_ issue_ in _1690,_ 387 years before the bombs fell and _497_ years before the main events of _Fallout 4._ What's up with that?
Michael Scarpo but the vechiles next is that for theory I think the missing vechils and the red car were from scavengers who were looting but he raiders who killed the guy with the pipe pistol were killed by the 10 scavengers who then exited sanctuary hills had the red cars blasted by a almost dead raider who was able to to blast the red car then the raider died and then the 6 remaining scavengers got out of Sanctuary putted all the body’s in the river but the one guy who got led and that’s why we find som raiders are at the sanctuary lake
The house could have been painted over and when the bombs dropped the paint scorched off. And as for the Rosa family they could have been visiting some neighbors
I love how you always touch on every detail, and theorize, and elaborate on the stories Bethesda laid out for us to explore, and your voice is like easy listening. I always come back to your videos.
The discrepencies between the colors of houses and decorations, etc., between the pre-war Sanctuary and the post-war ruins could be taken as proof that Dima is right. Nate/Nora is actually a synth given memories of the day of the bombs but the Institute didn't do their research and got details wrong.
When you meet synth Shaun and Father, Father says they are working on emotional reactions to extreme situations (or something like that). We are led to believe he means synth Shaun, but maybe he also means the protagonist.
OMG thats WHO those ghouls are!? I've always encountered them in different places in Boston but couldn't understand where they came from. Thanks once again to Oxhorn for uncovering this mystery. I hope you do another video on Far Harbor, love the music there
I first encountered them while bringing Billy, the kid in the fridge, home. I thought they were Billy's neighbors, not mine. It was really just great timing.
In case you guys didn’t know (this is kinda lore) far harbor is a town in maine, except it’s called bar harbor, far harbor is based off of fishing, so is bar harbor, the town square almost looks identical to the one in bar harbor. It’s literally bar harbor.
I wonder if maybe the fusion thing was something that was a new tech that Rosa had heard of and that was NOT actually something that she could have acquired for her car?
Actually, an addon or a pre war section for the next fallout game would be amazing. This fifties futurist utopian-dystopian world with rocket cars with nuclear reactors, but still everything clean, green, I would love to explore that world. It was a good idea to include this pre war part at the beginning of F4, but I really wanted to see more. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wished to leave Sanctuary hills and see more of that still intact world!
Damn, a hundred likes. I guess others also like the prewar lore. I personally liked the prewar section and the early game. It's all so mysterious and you don't know stuff. Nick's companion quest is also very interesting because it involves prewar lore and history that is long gone.
The first Fallout mentions in the opening scene that uranium was a focal point of the Resource Wars, along with petroleum. With that in consideration, I can see why Mrs. Rosa would want to convert the Corvega from a fission reactor to a fusion reactor.
This, Sir, was magnificant! I just started FO4 today and I stumbled thru sanctuary and didn't even get a small part of the details. Even tho I played the whole Fallout series up and down, this teaches me to keep my eyes open.
I did what I could to build up Sanctuary to become a small city with 4-5 story buildings everywhere. This was an interesting video, especially after spending a small chunk of my life meticulously building there. This game and location holds a special meaning to me and it helped give me extra hope for the future.
Very well done on this one, Oxhorn! The bit about the Ghoul random encounter was especially hard hitting. I recognized the Rosa name (and thus concluded they must all be from Sanctuary Hills) but never made any connection with the others. Makes that whole thing so much more... somber. Also never noticed Codsworth's line about the "Halloween costume" before.
I never knew about the random encounter. I just assumed with the Vaulttec guy's fate and the lack of bodies, the kid was turned into a ghoul and the mom couldn't bring herself to put him down (so she just locked him in the closet or something and left).
I know this is a year old but I found it VERY pleasant to find out what happened. Thank you very much! Also yes sanctuary was my main settlement all boarders were sealed off the only entrance was the bridge
It's so sad that a lot of the neighbors went feral. Wonder if they all went feral immediately upon ghoulifaction. They all stuck together even after 210 years, so it's possible they didn't, but stayed together as a group, because they were all each other had and even as ferals they just flocked together. It would have been crazy had the sole survivor came out of the vault and all of their neighbors were still living in sanctuary as non feral ghouls. I can't imagine that they would be happy to seem them simply because they would still be as youthful and healthy as the day they went in the vault. And the fact they they even got in the vault. Sure, they all would have died had they made it in like the other residents did, but I doubt they would give the sole survivor a chance to explain any of that or believe them. They very likely would have been extremely bitter.
The vault is very easy to get in, just tap button and walk in the door the sole survivor opened. He could show them, and they would probably be like HOW THE FUCK DID HE NOT DIE? WHAT THE FUCK? Instead of HEY LETS KILL THIS FUCKER!
My explanation for the blue house turning yellow, so I like to imagine that the family just couldn't face the fact that the world ended, so they tried to cary on with their plans such as Halloween and painting their house yellow. Idk this might be stupid but the idea that a family drove themselves crazy denying the apocalypse is kinda cool.
I turned sanctuary into a city with elevators, tons of shops, houses, hotels, offices, great guarded walls and towers, almost 200 points of electricty and still building onto it, i made a little central market area which is 4 giant walled platforms stacked on top of eachother, complete with shops, bars, and all sorts of decorations as well as little houses here and there around the platforms with elevators and walkways + catwalks surrounding the entire thing. Even put up a little outside area on the top floor complete with chairs, and a camping van i turned into a shack home.
Sanctuary is for noobs. Building 20-story monstrosities at Abernathy Farms or turning Spectacle Island into a concrete maze is where the real fun begins.
Hey Ox, the issue with fissible material in the FO universe is that it was also becoming really scarce. The US was the only country implementing fusion technology and didn't want to share it with the rest of the world, Especially not with China which was still dependend of fossil fuels and uranium. The decline of aiding China with fusion tech was the last drop which led to the ressource war. Pre War US produced more energy than they could ever use up. Thanks to fusion tech. But most civilians still used cars using petrol or fission.
Which can be analogous to the US trade sanctions for Japan prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Prior to WW2 Japan relied on the US for much of it's resources, especially oil, and cutting that off was one theoretical reason why Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, thus bringing the US into WW2. Keep in mind prior to Pearl Harbour, Japan was mainly fighting in China.
This also could be compounded by the military restricting civilian access to fissable materials due to wartime need- all in-game missile warheads and munitions seem to be fission-based (tiny yield with high level of radiation) and the use of depleted uranium for ammo (even of the common kinds like 50cal) manufacture is canon. And since the US had sites capable of mass-manufacturing new nukes like those in appalachia, that'd imply they were stockpiling...
Why does this make me sad? I almost cried at 33:55. WHILE AT WORK! 🤣 Yeah, I messed up my Fallout 4 files earlier so I’m here watching others play it. I’ll have to reinstall it later. 😭
it scares me he knows all of the car's official names. watched this 2 years ago and now rewatching this because i miss Fallout 4 lore; there might be none to cover, but i still miss it.
I think I said this before but after this (I never made the connection with the ghouls) I'm even more sure Vault Tec and the Military had something to do with who lived in Sanctuary Hills and got into Vault 111. Think about it there is a lot of evidence that many of the people who lived there were veterans or their families (I have a feeling Mrs. Rosa was a war widow and the people who were likely the Parkers lived in the house with the barricade almost certainly were) or professionals Dr's, Lawyers etc. and that their genetic background was somehow known to the Government and Vault Tec. If you look at the Pre-war Sanctuary it looks brand new. None of the trees have matured much and it doesn't have a lot of the things you'd expect from a long established community. There is much more to the people and events at sanctuary than meets the eye.
There’s potential proof that the government kept records of its people. When you go to the USS Constitution a Mr. Handy greets you and searches his database to verify your identity. You could assume that maybe the Sole Survivor visited there before when the bombs dropped, hence why the robot can recognize you, but your ID it gives you is a lengthy serial code and it knows your occupation as well. Seems to me that the robot has access to a government database (since it works at a federal monument) that can match a person’s ID with just their face and body.
There is also the drug dealer that, in one of his terminal entries, talks about how he has a friend in the military. Perhaps he met him whilst serving in the military
What I'm interested in: Where is the military car and the vertibird/ the soldiers (especially the ones in Power Armor) later? The bombs were also EMPs I think that made cars basically useless. So where are they?
Well the vertibird is probably the one at the museum of history, we know power armor is precious so it was probably looted and most ground military vehicles (especially IFVs and APCs) can survive through EMPs so the IFV that’s in the pond by sanctuary is probably the one that was there in the road
I remember in my time play there was a apc and a vertibird somewhere cant remember rn but it had a suit of power armor and supplies so maybe that was them?
I'm so happy I subbed to this channel. I love Fallout lore, and it's great seeing someone as dedicated as you to connect all the dots. Keep up the great work! You deserve all the followers you have.
I understand codsworth's programming not allowing him to clean up other yards or houses, but it really irritates me that your house isn't really nice and clean inside because it really should be. He's had two hundred years of cleaning. Why does my house still look like this?
@@TheImapotato I expect there to be rust where rest would be. However, after 200 years why does the floor still look unswept and the furniture is still a mess, repairs not done to the house. What a terrible investment. Lol the coffee machine doesn't even work.
@@iloveyourunclebob I can understand the coffee machine not working, Codsworth doesn't have general mechanical or electrical repair skills, simple. However I do agree there shouldn't be any litter inside the house, the toys should have been put away, etc.
@Josh Coulson Codsworth says things like 2 people wrote his dialog, and they weren't talking. He talks about the car rusting, but there are things in that universe that have never rusted. Him, as an example. What has been maintaining Codsworth? At Greygarden you see that the robots there maintain themselves, but there is no evidence that Codsworth maintains anything. A missing thing is the insulation between the interior and exterior walls. Did someone strip it out and then just rebuild the houses?
Wow, the first thing comes into my mind in the beginning of the video was the developers didn't mind re-create everything regarding skeletons next to the fences because it was irrelevant and mirror thing speaking from a casual player perspective and I thought it's just because of that developers didn't place mirror things how it was before the war. But after this video, I realised that developers are geniuses, that actually crafted every aspect of the game. And you Sir, author of the video I would like to thank that you investigate this every single aspect of the mirror things of the game which I find very very interesting. The reason I bought the game and started to play is just that randomly pop-ups your videos into my recommendation list and now I'm very interested in Fallout lore. Well done and very interesting lore
Does people become ferals straight way? Pehaps they became ghouls and stayed at Sanctuary for while, trying to live their lives as they were before, until they couldn't do it anymore. Since we find them wandering together as ferals, it's most likely that they spend a lot of time together as a group, loosing members along the way.
I'd say that the yellow paint on the blue house is probably because before the war it used to be a yellow house but they painted it blue and the detention was so powerful that it burned of the blue paint and set it back to yellow
Codsworth just always hated how they clashed and repainted them. He said he went to concrod at least once and this is the real reason Abbot at the wall is having a hard time finding yellow/blue paint.
I look at what happened here this way. The bomb you see go off as you're going into Vault 111 was a ground burst several miles off, think of what we call the Glowing Sea. No one was vaporized at Sanctuary Hills, and the wind, while sudden, was probably not enough to do much, if any, damage. Afterward, some people came, some left, in vehicles, no less. People had come from Concord and perhaps Lexington to try to get into the Vault. The disposition of any vehicle may or may not have been where that vehicle was when the bombs dropped. Radiation might have been a threat, but fallout would have been a bigger one. It's doubtful that the damage to the houses happened all at once, and much of it may be exposure to time, not radiation or a shock wave. The collapsed houses may have been due to damage from subsequent people (raiders, etc.). Think about it, you have over two hundred years to consider. Some things strike me as funny, though. The anomalies Oxhorn notes about the various houses seem the result of two development teams that didn't talk to each other. How hard would this have been to coordinate? I wouldn't have been worried about some of the things on the Rosa terminal, had it been included. Discussing cars with my friends, I'm surprised at the way some people think cars work. Add nuclear power to the equation and it has to get strange quickly.
Actually I think I have a slightly good explanation for why Sanctuary is like this. The lack of dead bodies means a few of the people at the gates might've became Ghouls who got rid of the bodies so they wouldn't have to remember the dead faces of their neighbors whenever they came to the gates, and they only missed a few. It's also possible that whoever lived at the house at the makeshift bunker might've allowed some others to go into the bunker and they only came out after food began running low. It's possible the Rosa Family might've also survived, and after creating the workbench and power armor station and stuff they claimed the house had their own by putting their name on the mailbox. For the blue house turned yellow, whoever lived there might've turned into Ghouls and decided to try and keep their lives as normal as possible by painting their house and setting up decorations
Hello Oxhorn. I thoroughly enjoy your Fallout 4 videos, especially those that cover various aspects of the lore. Thank you for taking the time and bringing to light things I never would have considered or realized while playing the game. It’s people like you that keeps people like me playing a game that’s now almost 8 years old. Cheers from Australia!
What if the vault tec rep or codsworth put up the decorations And if I remember correctly the rep even says that he stayed at sanctuary for a while and that he finds codsworth annoying
@@markshaw270 Well, taking the neighbor's decorations to use for your own house could be considered stealing and Codsworth is too polite to borrow things without asking.
17:50 a fission reactor usually uses materials like uranium, to produce energy, which in the fallout universe are as scarce as oil, a fusion reactor can use hydrogen, present everywhere, thus making the engine potentially infinite, congratulations on your videos, literally the best with regards to the Fallout lore
@@wonghenry8731 Fusion was just being implemented before the war. By then the US and China and everyone else had been fighting for years, and even if the energy crisis might have been solved they just hated each other by that point.
Shaun is also a Sanctuary survivor. It never made sense to me why Nate is called the Sole Survivor. There are other pre-war Sanctuary residents wether they be a 60+ year old man or feral ghouls.
" was she..? Did she..? You know what, perhaps its better if i didnt speculate on this one. Moving on." I cracked up when i heard that. Mostly because i was RIGHT there whith you, almost word for word lol. Another great lore vid 👍👍
Honestly the only thing I can think of that would fall under the category of profane doesnt make much sense to me. What exactly do you think she was doing?
Maybe it was supposed to be a online/ co op thing, like they say they always make an online element in their games just to see how it pans out, hence why the cryo pods you wake up in the pod with your mates and then play co op and that's why there is building feature but it didn't work so they just made this whole where is Shaun story line
Oxhorn, busy day, I don't have time to read other comments so someone below suggested this already I apologize for duplication. Is it possible the survivors didn't turn feral all at once? Much like some of the ghouls at nuka world. The survivors may have been the ones that decorated, moved nameplate signs around because they moved to different houses after the bombs dropped, and maybe even did decide to paint a house or two. Decorating for Halloween might be a little macabre humor on their part, since they do look like they're wearing Halloween costumes. Just a thought.
They may have ghoulified and eventually went feral after being attacked. That one pack of neighbors is found far from home and we find Raiders and all kinds of bad creatures near Sanctuary. It's possible that, after a time, it became dangerous to live aboveground and they were the group that stayed in the neighbor's underground shelter? They eventually fled and along the way, turned feral? It could explain some missing cars.
To all of the people saying “Oh they died”, that’s not the point. The point is to understand the what was going through their minds as it happened. What were they doing. Just like fairline estates. We know they all died, we just wanted to know what happened.
Thank you! Most Pre-war Fallout stories can be short-handed with "and then they died" but that was never the point. The moments leading up to their deaths are important, too. Whether it be 1, 2, 3, 4, Tactics, New Vegas, or (yes, even) 76, the stories are interesting. Even if we know they are already dead.
@TheMysteriousMan - A good point that also explains one the reasons I like Fallout 76. It's not about whether anyone died, but HOW they died. The journey, not the destination.
1:33 oh this is just wonderful. In this timeline they haven't just progressed from the 50s technologically, but socially as well. Because those are very clearly lesbians. If nothing else, that is my headcanon. Have a wonderful day.
I can't believe there was a root cellar! I don't know how many times I went around Sanctuary but I never found that! Man do I feel stupid for not catching that...
I swear, I never once saw that in my multiple playthroughs of fallout 4. But to be fair I never really throughly searched around sanctuary like that. But I'm ought to check it out next time I play!
0:36 I have the perfect explanation, remember looking up from the elevator and seeing the blast as you entered vault 111? That blast, blasted people miles away from the vault
Could have incinerated people completely, also it's been 200 years, anything could have happened to the bodies. Animals could have dragged them away, people could have moved them, some could have become ghouls...
I always console command in more V111 suits and make everyone in Sanctuary wear them. I just give a Lab coat to Sturges, Marcy, and Jun and say they're the Vault Tech Staff who let us out.
I think the Halloween decor is there from before the bombs. The bombs fell in October 27, so many places had their Halloween decorations but Bethesda dint bother to put those details in prewar Sanctuary because it wasn't meant to be explored.
Wow Ox, this was a fascinating video. I didn't know that there was so much pre war story to be told here. This is why I love your channel! I enjoy finding the lore myself in game but I always seem to miss pieces that make the story complete. Oxhorn: "A weaver of dreams at the loom of the mind".
"We don't know the names of most of our neighbors."
Same here.
That's what's sad. My 86 year old aunt would tell me stories about everyone where we live, now I only know 2 of my neighbors out of 20+... :(
benjbk I litterally know none of my neighbours at my mums
Right!, I don’t know the names of most of the people in my neighborhood
Same
Accurate.
Husband: "The bombs are dropping"
Wife: "We're all gonna die!"
Husband: "You grab the yellow paint I'll get the Halloween decorations,"
Lol
Big boomer energy: nuclear war has begun = perfect time to prepare for halloween and repaint the house
sand0decker it will dry quicker
lol
@@saxgod3266 and no one will mess it up while it drys
“Codsworth everyone’s dead!”
“FLOORS ARE CLEAN THOUGH”
umm no they're not. I see dirt leaves and rubble everywhere. You okay cogsy?
@@Not-an-Alien HOW DO YOU POLISH RUST
I love Codsworth honestly, haha. Seems a lot of people find him annoying.
@@Potato_tomato47 THE CAR, THE CAR
@@germanscience7246 OH, AND THE CAR!! THE CAR!!! HOW DO YOU POLISH RUST!?!?
Considering what happened to the Vault-Tec salesman, it seems logical that others in that area had a similar fate. They could have lived in the houses for years before turning completely feral.
Good theory
ya. that might explain the Halloween decorations, as a way to embrace their ghoul deformities that would happen over the years.
They did you can find ferals named after neighbors
Stevee John Or they just depressingly celebrated a holiday back when the country was in its former glory.
It’s a sad though to be honesr
Codsworth deserves a hug. For all those years he spent alone and for trying to comfort the sole survivor
Yeah, i bet he did go a bit insane during the 210 years tho
He deserves a trillion dollars
@@Wasteland_raider caps*
Forreal! I love codsworth. Seems like a lot of people hate on him, but I appreciate that character/companion a lot. 💙
Where'd he get the fuel for his jets?
With all the Army paraphernalia (the folded flags, etc) it's safe to assume that Sanctuary Hills was a community for Veterans and families of War heroes. Communities for service families is and was an actual thing. This would explain all the well off homes and cars. Would also add context to the use of the word SANCTUARY. The war is over...for now.
Good Analogy dude.
Lift your hands towards the sun.
That would add more context to Vault 111s cryogenic experiment. Why bother to release the unwitting participants later? Because most likely have combat/medic/leadership experience that would enable them to survive for at least a little while. Combined with their 'pure' DNA, you got a good chance of establishing humanity again.
@@micmen1496 Yes, it's no mere convenience that our main character and his/her family are given such a prestigious opportunity.
@@jaymills1573 Thank you.
The F block under Shaun’s crib is Bethesda paying respects to Shaun
I made a grave for Shaun complete with his lab coat and a institute flag
i thought it was referencing the F in Father as his latter character name but you have changed my mind
@@megaoof1379 i made a grave for him, too.
it was a giant irradiated hole in the ground beneath CIT.
Got em
Oh my godd
Lets take a moment to realise how strong terminals are like my monitor breaks in 1 punch but they survive a NUKE
think of it like a nokia phone and modern day i phone
CRT were indestructible
Why were you punching your monitor?
Trust me, if U try to punch an old-school CRT monitor w/ your bare fist
...it's not the monitor that's the most likely to break.
@@zenkim6709 You probably don't want to do something like that. CRTs are vacuum tubes and if there's a breach in the glass envelope, atmospheric pressure would crush it rapidly and in an explosive manner. That would produce an intense amount of shrapnel.
oh my god I made a huge settlement there, I have over a 100 hours in the game, but I had no idea there was a root cellar-bunker there. Jesus.
You've never built behind the houses? Lol there's also a chem station behind one of the houses too so you basically have all the crafting stations straight up out of 111
@@NearlyH3adlessNick I have like a max height 6 floor settlement building, all the top level market stands ,every single usable trash-branch removed, walls, cannons, lasers, etc.
How I missed it is beyond me...
@@maan7715 it's right next to some wild mutfruits you most likely scrapped then haha I've never built a settlement that high before, I should try it. I always sprawl my people out give them space in the houses with backyards and shit. I waste alot of time xD
@@NearlyH3adlessNick Not sure if the whole building function was worth it, I built that whole building but the settler limit is what, 16? So It's a huge empty building basically, not enough people to use the whole thing.
@@maan7715 mods help with that haha that, and sim settlements (plus add-ons if u want) make settlements into cities without alot less effort than normal building. Usually ends up much better than hours worth of building too
Wife:Oh no the bombs dropped!
Husband:Let's do what we waited for all our lives...
Wife:Paint the house yellow?
Husband:Yes?....
No HOA in the wasteland, at least
Dalvest Streaming mabye it was painted yellow then painted over with blue and the bloatflys ate the paint or something or something from the blast stripped the first coat of paint
@@pw1277
The second coat of paint must of been crap.
Gg
They also stringed up some Halloween decorations
makes me wonder about the guys in power armor , I always imagine running into a feral in power armor lol
*sees feral in power armor*
Me: Aw hell no
They'd be protected from the blast, and radiation. They probably got in their APC and fucked off.
@@ChannelNotFound but wouldnt they melt cause of the metal
Santi Cheeks *Laughs In 76*
@@santicheeks1106 i mean, dance takes a jet engine to the face at point blank range and is fine, so...
Gotta love how Ghoulification and even going Feral didn't split those neighbors up!
Tbf Ghouls do travel in packs
And then the ranty neighbor from 200 years ago came up, and murdered them all!
Amazing how there community was
Maybe they sought out the sole survivor.
@@failedabortion1493 I know what tbh means but what dose tbf
I have a theory about the houses that changed: codsworth
The engine tuning company?
@@boktorinator693 lol. pretty sure he meant 'codsworth', your robo-butler
No it was the vault tec rep remember he lived and stayed there for a year after the bombs fell
It’s a very viable theory
@@boktorinator693 Yes. Some hoodie in a stolen Sierra Cosworth was vandalizing the remains of homes, until he got jumped by raiders and picked clean by feral ghouls
I've encountered with those ferals many times, never realized they were the sole survivor's neighbors.😱
I saw that they had names and kinda made the connection
7:04 - "... Don't find much..."
DUCT TAPE, Oxhorn, DUCT TAPE. Adhesive is like sticky gold in this game.
Hahahahahaha
You can literally MAKE adhesive at a cooking station. Out of common food items.
Never understood this I find adhesive all the time.
K-9 no joke that’s what you get by scrapping duct tape
Adhesive is a very important material for modding guns and armor. Which makes it very valuable to Gun Nuts and Armorers
What if the house was actually yellow, but was recently painted blue before the bombs dropped, and the explosion blew the paint off?
Charlie54 Gaming there’s 2 things you should paint before.. rain.. and nuclear explosions.
I'm thinking the paint wasn't cured properly on the metal/fiberglass siding, and the heat/rads from the blast bleached it of it's color.
I thought something along the same line, that perhaps a chemical reaction with the nuclear fallout and the paint changed the paint color, chemistry you know and stuff haha
210 years of decay will ruin dodgy paint, or more likely bugthesda
Charlie54 Gaming makes sense
Sanctuary Hills' Citizens: "Oh God, what if there's a nuclear attack? What are we going to do?"
China: "So anyway, I started blasting"
One of the neighbors: House painting!
@@Lexilove2016 the nuke could have had chemical reactions or it was recently painted and had the paint blown off
@@monokumagamingalt1638 Codsworth painted them all blue immedietly after the bombs fell.
It was not China
Frank Reynolds would make a fantastic Minute Man
4:45 No, it's not F for Father or Foreshadowing
The block is just paying respects.
Lolololol nice one
Yes F for Shaun
That’s was a good one😂
you smooth bastard you beat me to it
Shut
Oxhorn: "is this foreshadowing?"
Game: Let's get an F in the chat for shawn
Menames Fuff frick you
Menames fuff and don't make me use use my big iron.
Buch:u got to help my ma she's gonna die
Me:nah
Runs away laughing
@Menames Fuff But wouldn't that cause a wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?
@Menames Fuff hi menames fuff
iam dad
War war never changes....
But it does change paint colour
You aren't supposed to go that far in the intro sequence to notice colour changes. The bomb drops by the time you get anywhere.
XD
That gave me a genuine chuckle, thanks.
Lol
@LemonBoy XD I love it
Anyone get goosebumps from the fallout 4 intro “war never changes”
IRL, I'm quite like the lone wanderer. And you're right. War never changes.
NO
i think it’s because it hits home. it makes it feel real because i’ve heard multiple veterans in my family say something like this.
What Happened to the People of Sanctuary Hills?
They died or become ghouls.
*applause*
@@somm150 lol I accidentally read that as Apocalypse
Clap Clap Clap clap
I'm 72 years old, and I've never had sex before
It's ruining my life
@@walnutsandbeastiality866 ummm
"How much pain were these kids in to need Med-X?"
*completely ignores that a Raider could've left that within 210 years.*
@Turok Hilsen This was my favorite thing about fallout 2. Everything above ground was picked over, and many of the guns you find were most likely made after the war. The only "loot" was found in dangerous caves or abandoned shitholes in locked containers.
I ain't complaining. Those Fusion Cells really came in handy 😁
Wait. A literate Raider? Wow! What a concept!
I thought the little red car moving twenty feet "because of the blast" was totally understandable, except for the 30 seconds before where he had a problem with plastic flamingos not enduring a nuclear blast. What?
@@CentralNexusPrime I feel like all the literate super mutants were a weirder concept but to each his own
Could you imagine how advanced the fallout universe would have been if the bombs didn't stop
Basically the world is right out of 1950's movies of how the future would look like. People then thought by 2000 there would be gizmos, gadgets, robots and flying cars.
@@ReflectionOfPerfection if the bombs never dropped MAYBE. maybe by the 2140s the microprocessor chould of been made leading the universe to finally have things we had already gotten by the 90s
it doesnt make sense that they can invent plasma weapons, teleporters, power armor, AI, androids, lasers, portable fusion power. But they couldn't invent semiconductor components?
Considering the only reason the bombs dropped in the first place was because of a war which was in turn caused by depleted resources on Earth, I’d say they wouldn’t have gotten much further regardless.
World: *being destroyed*
Oxhorn: *taking pictures of every single home in the neighborhood*
Xd true
Oxhorn: Hmm... I Should Make A Video Of This?!
@@killdozer7062 do what ever you want lol
Trippie Bredd But it was just the end of America because the Chinese only bombed there
@@MrGetty-kh1ch dumbass the whole world was affected
Game: *Shows male character*
Codsworth: "... Mum? ..."
Me: *Visible Confusion*
Same here xD
When?
2:57
Lol
I noticed he playing two different characters in the video explaining codsworth saying mum lol
17:30 - No, fission fuel shortages were a thing too. The lore clearly states that they were running out of Plutonium and Uranium. Fusion was the big breakthrough that would have averted The War... Had it matured just a few years earlier. I can easily see Fission-Fusion car mods being a thing among enthusiasts. In theory it should be a slightly more complicated process than switching a truck from Fossil Diesel to BioDiesel.
"Where are the bodies of the people that were standing at the fence?"
200 years of open exposure to elements and scavengers? It's more surprising to find anything at all.
I mean sure but in Fallout logic skeletons stay where they died. Hell people die a lot mid-task. You’ll see skeletons around computers for instance, or near objects implying they were using them.
@@DeathnoteBB Yes but the explicitly pre war ones are usually inside at least. The "logical" explanation would be the skeletons came after the war from people trying to get into the vault but let's not give them too much credit.
Yup, also the actual blast could’ve vaporised the skeletons at the part of the fence facing the clearing where we see the mushroom cloud as there was little to nothing there to protect their bodies from the fire that burned the trees around
It is moronic to use our real life logic to video games like fallout where this video clearly explained what happened. In fallout, people's bodies stay where they died. This builds lore.
Hey Ox, maybe I’m reading into it too much, but maybe the model was using stimpacks to dehydrate herself so she looks thin for modeling? Since in survival mode they dehydrate you with each use.
The answer is in the name I think, Stimpak. They're stimulants, which are often used as diet aids IRL. Presumably in the Fallout verse they heal you by greatly increasing your metabolic rate which would burn up a bunch of calories. Models are notoriously addicted to dieting.
One word: masochism
I think they meant BDSM or something, and I think that is what Ox was thinking as well since he usually tries to stay clean and child-friendly (or at least advertiser-friendly).
I'm pretty sure you can get addicted to stimpacks as well in survival mode, so maybe she was an addict?
I believe all the possibilities are why it says that the guys imagination runs wild.
I never left Sanctuary Hills, I'm still there looking for Shaun
Lol nice
Mr. Waffentrager delete that
@@mr.waffentrager4400 stop it
@@negativespace8358 OK done....but the game is like 5 years old
@@mr.waffentrager4400 he was joking you total moron
I don't understand why everyone gets so upset about typos in terminal entries. Typos in the game, yeah it is kind of irritating. However, typos in a terminal entry written by a human being is just immersive. It's incredibly unimmersive that every single human being in this world spells everything perfectly or they spend the time to edit every single one of their terminal entries, even the personal ones that no one cares about. I don't even like it when random post-war terminals have perfect spelling in them when logically the people would have had very limited educations.
I think with the dogs and the xcell it's the fact that it boosts all of your stats by 2, making the dogs more dangerous. I think that's the issue he takes. "You guys want to do drugs, I can supply you, but don't give dangerous drugs to your dogs so that they become a danger to the entire neighborhood. You take drugs and die, I have to live with that. You give drugs to your dogs and they kill children in the neighborhood, we all have to live with that."
Yeah, from an exposition perspective perfect grammar and spelling is useful. But from an environmental story telling perspective it makes entries feel more like what you'd see real people do.
I agree, but I'm sure some typos were accidental.
@@jothamheystee exactly
@@jothamheystee but, if it's a REAL typo then that adds to the immersion. :D
People make typos all the time. They aren't that hard to figure out. I agree is makes it more immersive.
It should be noted that the Vault Tec Rep says he stayed in sanctuary for a year after the bombs fell. Some of the movements and adjustments around the town could have been him. Especially the ones in the workshop house where it's implied he was staying.
For the different colors, I think they used to use a high lead based paint, and they just made a new safe paint, some things got painted over with new paint that evaporated in the blasts. Leaving the old lead paint.
that's what I came up with too :DD
The ghoulified neighbors is easily my favorite random encounter. Such a great but morbid detail.
SlayerGhaleon yeah but unfortunately it happens multiple times
I remember encountering them during the mission to find Kellogs hideout by following Dogmeat, they were among the Ghouls which ambush you across the bridge just before the destroyed assaulttron.
Which encounter is this?
Maybe I found them, but I never noticed they were my neighbors ._.
Maybe a quest would be better?
I found them by accident near Croup Manor on the way to Nahant research centre. Killed them all and as was looting bodies they all had names !!
I can't seem to get enough of these Fallout videos. They're so captivating and immersive, like stepping into a whole new world. The attention to detail and the storytelling in this franchise are just incredible. I could spend hours watching these videos and still not get tired of it. It's like falling in love with a game all over again, every time!
Nuke:uses emp
Terminals:still work
Nuke:am I joke to you
Most of terminals that work we see are in doors.
i'm no scientist but EMP's will go away after a few days not permanent maybe last up to a few weeks like in the movie The Day After.
Thing is EMP's absolutely screw up electronics to an irreparable extent, you'd have to buy a completely new terminal, let alone new lights and wires and other electronic infrastructure, EMP damage is irreversible, but EMP's disappear faster than that.
Given how much R&D was poured into nuclear tech, it wouldn't surprise me if a fair amount of stuff in Fallout is equipped to handle such things.
*ONEBLUEBIRB* Fallout computers still use stuff like vacuum tubes so they’re much more resistant to EMPs.
Just started playing Fallout 4 on survival difficulty.
I now know what pain is.
Try playing FNV on Hardcore
@Benosoar true man
@@pmk-es1rw I have played Vegas as hardcore. Not nearly as hard.
@@pmk-es1rw FNV Hardcore is far easier than F4 Survival IMO
Wyvernblue when you’ve got good stuff and stacked with water it gets ridiculously easy
God this game has so many amazing details in it. Idk what people were talking about, this game is amazing
Well they started of the game with shoddy special products thats they lied about and got into trouble as it was found they give real items to the press and little plastic bags to buyers, also that and it took over year of updates by the community to acutaly bring it to a playing level, as he says hes playing with mods infact no one plays the game bethesda makes, they all play fan made community content.
Oxhorn:A family terminal!
Also Oxhorn:oh wait it’s just a mod
:DDD
Actually it's cut content added by a mod
Asher you just got
r/woooshed. Probably.
Asher technically it’s cut content in mod
Given as how over 200 years people forgot what baseball was, I theorize its possible that people 100 some years later forgot what Halloween was and put them up as a deterrent for raiders. Quite possibly thinking the decorations had powers to repel evil not dissimilar to halloweens real world origins
no people still remember halloween. diamond city puts up halloween decorations when its halloween
Still an interesting theory
@@yoitzshrek76 there are people who remember baseball too but look at Moe
Baseball....baseball....isn't that the game were they players beat each other up with bats?
_Heaven knows_ what the people of the _Fallout_ world remember, really. The people of Boston don't remember the rules or even the _nature_ of _baseball,_ America's "national pastime", played in its more-or-less modern form from around 230 years before the bombs fell until likely the instant the bombs went off, yet _somehow_ they know not only the _name_ but even the _spelling_ of _Publick Occurrences (Both Forreign and Domestick),_ the country's first multi-page newspaper, that ran for _one single _*_solitary_*_ issue_ in _1690,_ 387 years before the bombs fell and _497_ years before the main events of _Fallout 4._
What's up with that?
“At this point The value of our car is the least of our concerns”
I dunno man. I would have loved a working car on survival mode 😓😂😂
Ikr.
What if the sole survivor was the “military contact” hawthorn was talking about?
PLOT TWIST
Why is no one talking about the mayor of good neighbor being a ghoul named Hawthorne
Hancock. His name is Hancock.
To top it off, he’s not even pre-war. He’s, like, 50.
Michael Scarpo but the vechiles next is that for theory I think the missing vechils and the red car were from scavengers who were looting but he raiders who killed the guy with the pipe pistol were killed by the 10 scavengers who then exited sanctuary hills had the red cars blasted by a almost dead raider who was able to to blast the red car then the raider died and then the 6 remaining scavengers got out of Sanctuary putted all the body’s in the river but the one guy who got led and that’s why we find som raiders are at the sanctuary lake
Brian Stabile wut?
The house could have been painted over and when the bombs dropped the paint scorched off.
And as for the Rosa family they could have been visiting some neighbors
That seems possible if the paint was crap or recently painted
@@wildman510 maybe it was chemical reaction from all the nuke stuff
I love how you always touch on every detail, and theorize, and elaborate on the stories Bethesda laid out for us to explore, and your voice is like easy listening. I always come back to your videos.
The discrepencies between the colors of houses and decorations, etc., between the pre-war Sanctuary and the post-war ruins could be taken as proof that Dima is right. Nate/Nora is actually a synth given memories of the day of the bombs but the Institute didn't do their research and got details wrong.
Ooo, interesting
Meh! Dima's just there to help along players who want to RP as synths.
Or Codsworth painted the houses and moved the decorations
When you meet synth Shaun and Father, Father says they are working on emotional reactions to extreme situations (or something like that). We are led to believe he means synth Shaun, but maybe he also means the protagonist.
Oh dang thats pretty clever
There are graves behind one of the houses on the left at the circle in the road
I never saw it!
More behind the house there’s a river with a dead skeleton with a dress on (girl?) who’s fishing🤔🤔 and on the other side a bathtub and a corvega
“Perhaps this block was foreshadowing what Shaun would become”
It was just paying respects
OMG thats WHO those ghouls are!? I've always encountered them in different places in Boston but couldn't understand where they came from. Thanks once again to Oxhorn for uncovering this mystery. I hope you do another video on Far Harbor, love the music there
They might be feral, but there is some dialogue or flavor text that tells you who they are...don't remember which it's been a while since I played 4.
The ghouls are all named, that's how you know.
I first encountered them while bringing Billy, the kid in the fridge, home. I thought they were Billy's neighbors, not mine. It was really just great timing.
In case you guys didn’t know (this is kinda lore) far harbor is a town in maine, except it’s called bar harbor, far harbor is based off of fishing, so is bar harbor, the town square almost looks identical to the one in bar harbor. It’s literally bar harbor.
@@Willy-ke9ww I think that was the whole point.
Thanks for touching on the lore of the Sanctuary residents. I find that lore from the prewar era of Fallout 4 very interesting.
I wonder if maybe the fusion thing was something that was a new tech that Rosa had heard of and that was NOT actually something that she could have acquired for her car?
Actually, an addon or a pre war section for the next fallout game would be amazing. This fifties futurist utopian-dystopian world with rocket cars with nuclear reactors, but still everything clean, green, I would love to explore that world. It was a good idea to include this pre war part at the beginning of F4, but I really wanted to see more. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wished to leave Sanctuary hills and see more of that still intact world!
mdkd99 Vault 101 likes.
First Order Ball 103*
Damn, a hundred likes. I guess others also like the prewar lore.
I personally liked the prewar section and the early game. It's all so mysterious and you don't know stuff. Nick's companion quest is also very interesting because it involves prewar lore and history that is long gone.
This guy: "dogs are more acceptable guinea pigs than humans"
The internet: "who is this guy talking to?"
I’m sorry sir did the cigar fumes get to you. I’m still looking for a mod to give dogmeat his own power armor
the dog survives the nuclear blast so are dog invincible to nuclear blast? or blast protection?
All the inconsistencies could be chalked up to the "sole surviver is a synth with implanted memories" theory.
That or a weird coma dream.
Or Bethesda just fucking up 😂
Or Bethesda being Bethesda.
i feel dumb, after all my playthrought, i never saw that fallout shelter behind the house with the bag on the roof o.o
morgothz0 you’re not a good scavenger then
I just started playing recently and I haven’t seen it either
K K you ready for mw2 multiplayer beta
Same and I went through the whole place looking for cool places
It took me a while before I discovered it.
Over the 210 years codsworth must have learned a lot abt the neighborhood
That makes sense
The Rosa family came from another house because the little boy was probably at his friends when the bombs dropped 👬
Or he tried to escape in the car that they were working on.
@@twistedyogert no that car is in atom cats garage
Fallout 4 is dark
Along with the others
The first Fallout mentions in the opening scene that uranium was a focal point of the Resource Wars, along with petroleum. With that in consideration, I can see why Mrs. Rosa would want to convert the Corvega from a fission reactor to a fusion reactor.
This, Sir, was magnificant! I just started FO4 today and I stumbled thru sanctuary and didn't even get a small part of the details. Even tho I played the whole Fallout series up and down, this teaches me to keep my eyes open.
How’s FO4 or FO76 treating you
I did what I could to build up Sanctuary to become a small city with 4-5 story buildings everywhere. This was an interesting video, especially after spending a small chunk of my life meticulously building there. This game and location holds a special meaning to me and it helped give me extra hope for the future.
Very well done on this one, Oxhorn! The bit about the Ghoul random encounter was especially hard hitting. I recognized the Rosa name (and thus concluded they must all be from Sanctuary Hills) but never made any connection with the others. Makes that whole thing so much more... somber. Also never noticed Codsworth's line about the "Halloween costume" before.
Hey by any chance are you related to proctor ingram
I never knew about the random encounter. I just assumed with the Vaulttec guy's fate and the lack of bodies, the kid was turned into a ghoul and the mom couldn't bring herself to put him down (so she just locked him in the closet or something and left).
I know this is a year old but I found it VERY pleasant to find out what happened. Thank you very much! Also yes sanctuary was my main settlement all boarders were sealed off the only entrance was the bridge
...and then painted their house yellow.
LOL "Bethy" prob thought nobody would notice
@@SwedishEmpire1700 Or the developers threw it in on purpose for diehard fans to "catch" :)
Maybe yellow was the original color and when the Bombs dropped the blue paint was vaporized.
skullpull 101 😂😂 “also why is my hair falling out”
It's so sad that a lot of the neighbors went feral. Wonder if they all went feral immediately upon ghoulifaction. They all stuck together even after 210 years, so it's possible they didn't, but stayed together as a group, because they were all each other had and even as ferals they just flocked together. It would have been crazy had the sole survivor came out of the vault and all of their neighbors were still living in sanctuary as non feral ghouls. I can't imagine that they would be happy to seem them simply because they would still be as youthful and healthy as the day they went in the vault. And the fact they they even got in the vault. Sure, they all would have died had they made it in like the other residents did, but I doubt they would give the sole survivor a chance to explain any of that or believe them. They very likely would have been extremely bitter.
The vault is very easy to get in, just tap button and walk in the door the sole survivor opened. He could show them, and they would probably be like HOW THE FUCK DID HE NOT DIE? WHAT THE FUCK? Instead of HEY LETS KILL THIS FUCKER!
My explanation for the blue house turning yellow, so I like to imagine that the family just couldn't face the fact that the world ended, so they tried to cary on with their plans such as Halloween and painting their house yellow.
Idk this might be stupid but the idea that a family drove themselves crazy denying the apocalypse is kinda cool.
Considering what happens in the real world right now, that explanation doesn't sound too farfetched.
Its possible. Some other comments said the houses turned yellow due to the radiation and fallout
I turned sanctuary into a city with elevators, tons of shops, houses, hotels, offices, great guarded walls and towers, almost 200 points of electricty and still building onto it, i made a little central market area which is 4 giant walled platforms stacked on top of eachother, complete with shops, bars, and all sorts of decorations as well as little houses here and there around the platforms with elevators and walkways + catwalks surrounding the entire thing. Even put up a little outside area on the top floor complete with chairs, and a camping van i turned into a shack home.
@@At1asTheProto OH MY GOD HE HAS CHAIRS
@@At1asTheProto same here now I think about my settlement doesn't even has chair's
stof flexing
i made a really cool sanctuary, too. it's a shame my settlers don't use it because they'd rather stand around in the street doing nothing.
Sanctuary is for noobs. Building 20-story monstrosities at Abernathy Farms or turning Spectacle Island into a concrete maze is where the real fun begins.
Hey Ox,
the issue with fissible material in the FO universe is that it was also becoming really scarce.
The US was the only country implementing fusion technology and didn't want to share it with the rest of the world, Especially not with China which was still dependend of fossil fuels and uranium. The decline of aiding China with fusion tech was the last drop which led to the ressource war.
Pre War US produced more energy than they could ever use up. Thanks to fusion tech. But most civilians still used cars using petrol or fission.
Which can be analogous to the US trade sanctions for Japan prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Prior to WW2 Japan relied on the US for much of it's resources, especially oil, and cutting that off was one theoretical reason why Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, thus bringing the US into WW2. Keep in mind prior to Pearl Harbour, Japan was mainly fighting in China.
This also could be compounded by the military restricting civilian access to fissable materials due to wartime need- all in-game missile warheads and munitions seem to be fission-based (tiny yield with high level of radiation) and the use of depleted uranium for ammo (even of the common kinds like 50cal) manufacture is canon. And since the US had sites capable of mass-manufacturing new nukes like those in appalachia, that'd imply they were stockpiling...
Why does this make me sad? I almost cried at 33:55. WHILE AT WORK! 🤣 Yeah, I messed up my Fallout 4 files earlier so I’m here watching others play it. I’ll have to reinstall it later. 😭
Yes yes yes a fallout 4 video
Ikr
The channel is back to life every time Ox posts a Fallout 4 video.
😏...Was so good too!!
Strange things happen due to radiation like bigger mutant animal mutated humans and colour changing buildings
Don't forget that Robots suddenly gain infinite amounts of fuel/energy and thus never shut down due to a lack of power.
@@thegreywardenherald8923 Rules of the wasteland, try to keep up 😉
@@viperck2428 ...Now I have to go rewatch the Senile Scribbles Fallout 4 parody, as well as his Skyrim parody. Thanks a lot!
@@thegreywardenherald8923 You're welcome
Shh they don't know that
it scares me he knows all of the car's official names. watched this 2 years ago and now rewatching this because i miss Fallout 4 lore; there might be none to cover, but i still miss it.
I think I said this before but after this (I never made the connection with the ghouls) I'm even more sure Vault Tec and the Military had something to do with who lived in Sanctuary Hills and got into Vault 111. Think about it there is a lot of evidence that many of the people who lived there were veterans or their families (I have a feeling Mrs. Rosa was a war widow and the people who were likely the Parkers lived in the house with the barricade almost certainly were) or professionals Dr's, Lawyers etc. and that their genetic background was somehow known to the Government and Vault Tec. If you look at the Pre-war Sanctuary it looks brand new. None of the trees have matured much and it doesn't have a lot of the things you'd expect from a long established community. There is much more to the people and events at sanctuary than meets the eye.
There’s potential proof that the government kept records of its people. When you go to the USS Constitution a Mr. Handy greets you and searches his database to verify your identity. You could assume that maybe the Sole Survivor visited there before when the bombs dropped, hence why the robot can recognize you, but your ID it gives you is a lengthy serial code and it knows your occupation as well. Seems to me that the robot has access to a government database (since it works at a federal monument) that can match a person’s ID with just their face and body.
There is also the drug dealer that, in one of his terminal entries, talks about how he has a friend in the military. Perhaps he met him whilst serving in the military
What I'm interested in: Where is the military car and the vertibird/ the soldiers (especially the ones in Power Armor) later? The bombs were also EMPs I think that made cars basically useless. So where are they?
There is a crashed vertibird in concord, perhaps the power armor was looted.
@@kaylabroome4217 emp affects transistors . vacuum tubes are extremely resistant to emp.
Theres a crashed vertbird near that Robotics Disposal Ground and an APC on a small island in the lake around Sanctuary.
Well the vertibird is probably the one at the museum of history, we know power armor is precious so it was probably looted and most ground military vehicles (especially IFVs and APCs) can survive through EMPs so the IFV that’s in the pond by sanctuary is probably the one that was there in the road
I remember in my time play there was a apc and a vertibird somewhere cant remember rn but it had a suit of power armor and supplies so maybe that was them?
You missed the two graves in one of the backyards.
Wait there are graves
@Riley Bleathman go to the circle road in santuary. Check the backyard of the houses on the left.
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I understand codsworth's programming not allowing him to clean up other yards or houses, but it really irritates me that your house isn't really nice and clean inside because it really should be. He's had two hundred years of cleaning. Why does my house still look like this?
Allyson Wonderland ASMR it’s hard to clean nuclear fallout
@@TheImapotato I expect there to be rust where rest would be. However, after 200 years why does the floor still look unswept and the furniture is still a mess, repairs not done to the house. What a terrible investment. Lol the coffee machine doesn't even work.
@@iloveyourunclebob I can understand the coffee machine not working, Codsworth doesn't have general mechanical or electrical repair skills, simple. However I do agree there shouldn't be any litter inside the house, the toys should have been put away, etc.
@Josh Coulson Codsworth says things like 2 people wrote his dialog, and they weren't talking.
He talks about the car rusting, but there are things in that universe that have never rusted. Him, as an example. What has been maintaining Codsworth?
At Greygarden you see that the robots there maintain themselves, but there is no evidence that Codsworth maintains anything.
A missing thing is the insulation between the interior and exterior walls. Did someone strip it out and then just rebuild the houses?
@@TheImapotato coke
Wow, the first thing comes into my mind in the beginning of the video was the developers didn't mind re-create everything regarding skeletons next to the fences because it was irrelevant and mirror thing speaking from a casual player perspective and I thought it's just because of that developers didn't place mirror things how it was before the war. But after this video, I realised that developers are geniuses, that actually crafted every aspect of the game. And you Sir, author of the video I would like to thank that you investigate this every single aspect of the mirror things of the game which I find very very interesting. The reason I bought the game and started to play is just that randomly pop-ups your videos into my recommendation list and now I'm very interested in Fallout lore. Well done and very interesting lore
Does people become ferals straight way? Pehaps they became ghouls and stayed at Sanctuary for while, trying to live their lives as they were before, until they couldn't do it anymore. Since we find them wandering together as ferals, it's most likely that they spend a lot of time together as a group, loosing members along the way.
Maybe in their mushy brains, they think they've left Sanctuary to look for supplies, and that's why they hang together as a group.
Very well done. It didn't occur to me that about the feral ghoul herd were former sanctuary residents.
I'd say that the yellow paint on the blue house is probably because before the war it used to be a yellow house but they painted it blue and the detention was so powerful that it burned of the blue paint and set it back to yellow
Codsworth just always hated how they clashed and repainted them. He said he went to concrod at least once and this is the real reason Abbot at the wall is having a hard time finding yellow/blue paint.
I look at what happened here this way. The bomb you see go off as you're going into Vault 111 was a ground burst several miles off, think of what we call the Glowing Sea. No one was vaporized at Sanctuary Hills, and the wind, while sudden, was probably not enough to do much, if any, damage. Afterward, some people came, some left, in vehicles, no less. People had come from Concord and perhaps Lexington to try to get into the Vault. The disposition of any vehicle may or may not have been where that vehicle was when the bombs dropped. Radiation might have been a threat, but fallout would have been a bigger one.
It's doubtful that the damage to the houses happened all at once, and much of it may be exposure to time, not radiation or a shock wave. The collapsed houses may have been due to damage from subsequent people (raiders, etc.). Think about it, you have over two hundred years to consider.
Some things strike me as funny, though. The anomalies Oxhorn notes about the various houses seem the result of two development teams that didn't talk to each other. How hard would this have been to coordinate?
I wouldn't have been worried about some of the things on the Rosa terminal, had it been included. Discussing cars with my friends, I'm surprised at the way some people think cars work. Add nuclear power to the equation and it has to get strange quickly.
Actually I think I have a slightly good explanation for why Sanctuary is like this. The lack of dead bodies means a few of the people at the gates might've became Ghouls who got rid of the bodies so they wouldn't have to remember the dead faces of their neighbors whenever they came to the gates, and they only missed a few. It's also possible that whoever lived at the house at the makeshift bunker might've allowed some others to go into the bunker and they only came out after food began running low. It's possible the Rosa Family might've also survived, and after creating the workbench and power armor station and stuff they claimed the house had their own by putting their name on the mailbox. For the blue house turned yellow, whoever lived there might've turned into Ghouls and decided to try and keep their lives as normal as possible by painting their house and setting up decorations
Hello Oxhorn. I thoroughly enjoy your Fallout 4 videos, especially those that cover various aspects of the lore. Thank you for taking the time and bringing to light things I never would have considered or realized while playing the game. It’s people like you that keeps people like me playing a game that’s now almost 8 years old. Cheers from Australia!
What if the vault tec rep or codsworth put up the decorations
And if I remember correctly the rep even says that he stayed at sanctuary for a while and that he finds codsworth annoying
He does.
and then he painted the house to match his coat! that honestly would make the most sense.
@@markshaw270 yea they probably didn't paint the houses but I do think that codsworth or the vault tec rep put up the Halloween decorations
@@markshaw270 Only if they owned them. Maybe you just didn't have any?
@@markshaw270 Well, taking the neighbor's decorations to use for your own house could be considered stealing and Codsworth is too polite to borrow things without asking.
17:50 a fission reactor usually uses materials like uranium, to produce energy, which in the fallout universe are as scarce as oil, a fusion reactor can use hydrogen, present everywhere, thus making the engine potentially infinite, congratulations on your videos, literally the best with regards to the Fallout lore
Wouldn't that solve the energy crisis? Then why would the Great War happen?
Little Lu Ran out of time to issue that kind of power all over the world
@@wonghenry8731 Fusion was just being implemented before the war. By then the US and China and everyone else had been fighting for years, and even if the energy crisis might have been solved they just hated each other by that point.
Shaun is also a Sanctuary survivor. It never made sense to me why Nate is called the Sole Survivor. There are other pre-war Sanctuary residents wether they be a 60+ year old man or feral ghouls.
" was she..? Did she..? You know what, perhaps its better if i didnt speculate on this one. Moving on."
I cracked up when i heard that. Mostly because i was RIGHT there whith you, almost word for word lol. Another great lore vid 👍👍
Time stamp?
W M 30:17
What WOULD she be doing with those, though? I'm unsure.
Honestly the only thing I can think of that would fall under the category of profane doesnt make much sense to me. What exactly do you think she was doing?
@Scott Logan which is ironic because canonically, stimpaks make you more hungry/thirsty
I wish the people in Sanctuary had survived. I feel it would have given a better intro to the settlement system.
I have a weird feeling that’s what was originally supposed to happen. But for some reason they replaced it with the whole minutemen bullshit
At best, they'd be Ghouls.Or their Offspring would be here
You can find them out in the waste as ghouls
Well, some of them did, technically ;)
Maybe it was supposed to be a online/ co op thing, like they say they always make an online element in their games just to see how it pans out, hence why the cryo pods you wake up in the pod with your mates and then play co op and that's why there is building feature but it didn't work so they just made this whole where is Shaun story line
Nuclear Bomb: *destroys everything
Comic Books: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
Oxhorn, busy day, I don't have time to read other comments so someone below suggested this already I apologize for duplication. Is it possible the survivors didn't turn feral all at once? Much like some of the ghouls at nuka world.
The survivors may have been the ones that decorated, moved nameplate signs around because they moved to different houses after the bombs dropped, and maybe even did decide to paint a house or two. Decorating for Halloween might be a little macabre humor on their part, since they do look like they're wearing Halloween costumes. Just a thought.
They may have ghoulified and eventually went feral after being attacked. That one pack of neighbors is found far from home and we find Raiders and all kinds of bad creatures near Sanctuary. It's possible that, after a time, it became dangerous to live aboveground and they were the group that stayed in the neighbor's underground shelter? They eventually fled and along the way, turned feral? It could explain some missing cars.
the vault-tec guy became a ghoul and you can find him in the game and talk to him
To all of the people saying “Oh they died”, that’s not the point. The point is to understand the what was going through their minds as it happened. What were they doing. Just like fairline estates. We know they all died, we just wanted to know what happened.
Yeah, they think they're so clever. HOW did they die? If 'they died' is enough for you, why are you even watching this? And why bother to comment?
@Austin lol incorrect to the furthest degree
Thank you! Most Pre-war Fallout stories can be short-handed with "and then they died" but that was never the point. The moments leading up to their deaths are important, too. Whether it be 1, 2, 3, 4, Tactics, New Vegas, or (yes, even) 76, the stories are interesting. Even if we know they are already dead.
@@seprithlicastia463 Or to put it another way, what did they do in their lives before they died?
@TheMysteriousMan - A good point that also explains one the reasons I like Fallout 76. It's not about whether anyone died, but HOW they died. The journey, not the destination.
I think the blue house was once yellow but it got painted over. The blast knocked the blue right off.
The Rosa family could be further down because maybe they were visiting friends or something? Or some kind of consult with a person about a car?
I met this rando encounter with everyone (the neighbours)
By Lexington... god I didn’t even realize why those ghouls specifically had names....
I always see them near Fallon's department store.
1:33 oh this is just wonderful. In this timeline they haven't just progressed from the 50s technologically, but socially as well. Because those are very clearly lesbians.
If nothing else, that is my headcanon. Have a wonderful day.
15:30 , you got that mixed up I believe, Cryslis is the company, corvega is the car series
Woops, you're right, i swapped them.
@@oxhorn Easy to do since there is a Corvega assembly plant in game.
I can't believe there was a root cellar! I don't know how many times I went around Sanctuary but I never found that! Man do I feel stupid for not catching that...
I swear, I never once saw that in my multiple playthroughs of fallout 4. But to be fair I never really throughly searched around sanctuary like that. But I'm ought to check it out next time I play!
@@bigchapo1725 The root cellar is safe for storage because it never resets, which makes Sanctuary the best base of operation at the start of the game.
Wait theres a root cellar
For me it was the dufflebag on the roof
BoS: can fix Vertibirds, and can build giant robots.
Also BoS: bro wtf is a car.
0:36 I have the perfect explanation, remember looking up from the elevator and seeing the blast as you entered vault 111? That blast, blasted people miles away from the vault
Except they went towards the blast
Could have incinerated people completely, also it's been 200 years, anything could have happened to the bodies. Animals could have dragged them away, people could have moved them, some could have become ghouls...
I really wish one person that got frozen survived with you and became a companion
Theres a mod for that
I always console command in more V111 suits and make everyone in Sanctuary wear them. I just give a Lab coat to Sturges, Marcy, and Jun and say they're the Vault Tech Staff who let us out.
I think the Halloween decor is there from before the bombs. The bombs fell in October 27, so many places had their Halloween decorations but Bethesda dint bother to put those details in prewar Sanctuary because it wasn't meant to be explored.
Wow Ox, this was a fascinating video. I didn't know that there was so much pre war story to be told here. This is why I love your channel! I enjoy finding the lore myself in game but I always seem to miss pieces that make the story complete. Oxhorn: "A weaver of dreams at the loom of the mind".
they died.
do I win
Yes
Some of them became feral ghouls.
they became ghouls, and then they became feral
Wait this isent tranquility lane. omg their all gone.
@@heyrosiebee Yeah but most of em died