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Note: I didn't state that Big MT tech wouldn't be enough to take the Mojave out of anarchy. I stated that, per the canonical description of the Independent ending, the Mojave would remain in an anarchic state while New Vegas (particularly the Strip) prospered.

The effect of Big MT tech being distributed into the Mojave on the anarchic state of the region is never mentioned in the official ending slides. So discussions about it must rely on interpretation or fanon and not what's outright told to us.

The ending slides make it very very clear that New Vegas (again, particularly the Strip) is the ultimate winner of the Independent ending. It's in the name: Independent ending. The rest of the Mojave is left ungoverned, and depending on the faction or location in a generally worse state than under the NCR or even House. I don't see any issue on discussing how the independence of New Vegas is a boon to the Wasteland, but more often than not discussion instead focuses on the fanon that the Mojave as a whole prospers (which, per the ending slides, it does not).

I prefer the 76 one. Enclave have always been a faction that is as fashionable as they are evil. And the 76 cosmetics for them showed that off so well.

Love the stories, world building.

He really needs to go

Minutemen, according to what we actually see in-game.

Sure they aren't realistic. But that's not how they got written.

Pretty sure achievement tracker starts tracking the moment you boot up the game. So if you open the game then decide you don't want to play it, it counts towards the percentage.

And DSR is on Game Pass, which means there is no negative side to deciding not to play it if you start.

I'd be down for this.

Bud, it already got explained why your Moldaver/Enclave/NCR restoration theory is not supported by what we're shown and told.

At this point you even said you think the creators are wrong and you are correct? That's just not how this is.

The NCR wanted to claim the Mojave as their next, sixth state. Moldaver did not turn the NCR into a military dictatorship. The NCR is still alive.

^From the game guide, "The NCR government's aim is to annex New Vegas as the Republic's sixth state." What the securitron tells you when you enter New Vegas, "Welcome to Vegas, capital of the sixth state of the New California Republic." And Sallow says when he tells you why he wants Kimball dead, "They keep being told that victory is right around the corner, that Vegas will roll over, become the sixth state of their little union. It's President Kimball who's been telling them that. When he dies, the enormity of his lies will come crashing down, the punchline to a bad joke."

I think it is very safe to say that when/if the NCR wins the Mojave Campaign, it is the sixth state that gets added to the country.

New Reno and VC probably will secede, that would not be a surprise at all. They don't really respect the NCR and Shady Sands getting annihilated likely generates enough chaos that they can do it with minimal push back.

As for Moldaver: that is not the case. Moldaver was the leader of a group of NCR military remnants active out the of Shady Sands ruins/surrounding area. She is not the last leader of the NCR or even technically a leader of the NCR at all. The NCR still exists, as confirmed by Todd Howard when he was asked about it's status and he said it was never their intent to imply the NCR is gone. In the show it is also suggested a new govt is already in place, as Shady is specifically referred to as the "first capital". If we were to even just step back and look at the fact that the NCR was a representative republic with a mildly decentralized leadership, it is impossible that the destruction of the seat of govt (regardless of its political or social importance) actually would have wiped the entire thing out. But I suppose we won't know any more details for sure until more content comes out

I'd recommend just playing around a bit with builds. 76 is very forgiving when it comes to trying out playstyles or changing your character's stats whenever you need.

Doing challenges is a good way to earn rewards. After a few weeks you should be able to nail down exactly the best places for doing each type (like kill 50 super mutants? Grafton; collect 100 fungus? the Forest).

Jfc, that would not surprise me.

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Chameleon, bull, panther, snake, I think gator was the other one. Possibly more. There is an implication that multiple genetic strains were made but the games themselves barely get into deathclaw lore. Most that we know is from dev interviews/blogs.

Deathclaw steak.

Curious which animal it tastes most like, or being a genetic monstrosity it is some weird fusion.

Alternatively, the NCR successfully annexed the Mojave as its sixth state like they intended. And then the destruction of Shady Sands caused havoc across the new state.

We know that the NCR still exists, minus their original capital, but you'd imagine that the center of administration suddenly not existing would push the refugee and energy crises even farther. And then, by extension, the unwillingness of the natives to put up with the NCR causing renewed struggle.

By the events of F4 (2287) it's described as being the largest settlement in the Wasteland. Not much else is given but we do get a glance in NV and the TV show what the real successful postwar communities out west look like, so the Hub should be something like that.

The Fallout tabletop game is set to receive a brand new expansion later this year set in eastern NCR/Mojave Wasteland. Fingers crossed it gives us some great art of the West's cities.

Watch it! "Fallout is Elder Scrolls but with guns" is what brought like 60% of us to this series back then 😂

Yeah, in consensus with the others.

If the option existed that would be cool. Still naming mine Dogmeat though.

The Obsidian getting Fallout discussion tends to overlook two details.

1. Bethesda got the IP because Tim Cain (one of its creators) forced the sale of it. His initial intention was to buy it himself but he was happy it went to Bethesda because his employees got paid. But if Bethesda never got it then the sale would have to clear the Cain hurdle before Avellone/Obsidian.

2. Obsidian was largely failing as a company (financially) before their acquisition by Microsoft. The team there was a sliver of its original self and by the time that New Vegas was in development only a handful of the original Fallout devs were in the company.

It's my opinion that Obsidian becoming the inheritors of Fallout, while something that would be a popular development, is more of an ideal than a feasible reality.

If Obsidian got Fallout the likely result would be the exact same thing which happened to Interplay: repeated attempts at creating a new game until it is sold off to another company. Obsidian in the mid 2000s and even partly 2010s did not have the force necessary for keeping Fallout alive on its own.