By over 200 years after the bombs some plant life would resurface

[Boombro]

It's the style they chose and they're sticking to it.

 

Hopefully some modder will be able to do something to make it *look* more like a place where it rains 50% of the time, which it does.

 

Radiation completely doesn't work the way it does on TV, or the way people think it does. Look up Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Google Earth.

Look up the touch of green.

[CaptainPatch]

Think about it for a moment - the earth has had 5 extinction level events over is 4.5 billion year history, the last being roughly 66 million years ago and life just keeps coming back. You'd have to totally sterilise the earth, turn it into something like Venus to remove 99.99% of life here.

But keep in mind that NONE of those global events were radioactive inundations on a global scale. An asteroid impact may have blanketed the planet in a cloud, blocking direct sunlight for decades. But in such a case, most plants would have gone dormant. Once the combination of sunlight and water return, the plants can easily revive. In contrast, radioactivity sterilizes the soil as well as killing plantlife. On a global scale, the rare pockets of unaffected plantlife would take a long, long time before their wind-borne seeds could redistribute to long-term blighted areas. Unsterilized soil would also have to work its way to the surface, NOT be sterilized by residual radiation, and then be fortunate enough to be the depository of wind-borne seeds, carried from those few caches of botany NOT affected by Great War fallout.