Why are settelments so dirty?

[rodgerwilco1]

A quick vent which may have been addressed before.

Why, after 200 years, are settlers still living in dirty shacks, with crap on the floors and rusty walls?

Has man fallen so low as to not have any pride in where he lives? Doesn't anyone know how to use a broom or paint anymore?

I know it's post apocalyptic, but shouldn't the settlements at least look good, while the rest of the world can still be destroyed? It's been 200 YEARS!

 

Thank God for the mods that let you scrap all the junk and build new looking buildings. :-)

 

Anyway, just venting. :-)

 

 

[ImGlobal]

We do what we can with what we find. You dont melt down steel to make it look nice, most stuff we find we basically throw together with some tape and screws and boom, aint pretty the new world, also multiple rad storms a day will make it look "lazy"

Edited April 15, 2016 by ImGlobal

[kebsis]

Well the entire aesthetic of Fallout is more in line with what it would be like like a decade or two after a nuclear exchange, not 200. The latent radiation, still-edible canned and boxed foods, and all the buildings being in relatively good condition (everything would be much more overgrown after 200 years).

 

My advice would be to just accept it all as 'Falloutisms'.

[gamefever]

Because.

[mwhenry16]

Well, if they were in Washington, they would be covered in blackberry bushes.

[Fatalmasterpiece]

Agreed, it looks more like it's only been 5-50 years since the bombs fell, not 200. There is simply no way there would still be sitting untouched in the middle of the street a military checkpoint, guarded by a 200 year old robot for all those years. Everything would be much much more weathered and grown over by then.

 

I have no idea why they chose 200 years later but it was a poor choice when writing the background material.

[Raycheetah]

Because people keep scrapping the brooms for Wood. =^[.]^=

[minngarm]

Agreed, it looks more like it's only been 5-50 years since the bombs fell, not 200. There is simply no way there would still be sitting untouched in the middle of the street a military checkpoint, guarded by a 200 year old robot for all those years. Everything would be much much more weathered and grown over by then.

 

I have no idea why they chose 200 years later but it was a poor choice when writing the background material.

Title card.

 

Radiation fallout so that it would be safe to even be outside. Also canned foods would still be good as the counter culture movement is what sparked the renewed distrust in preservatives in the real world. So they use a number of chemicals that are out lawed IRL.

[ddavies10693]

Nuclear reactors (which are in EVERYTHING in this universe, even in Radios) would give off radiation for decades, and the big ones can leak radiation for hundreds of years, look at the real life Chernobyl for example. The radiation from bombs would not last very long (relatively speaking), and certainly not for 200 years, so some of you are correct in that regard. Its the radiation from all of these reactors that really screws the world of Fallout in terms of recovery.

[ImGlobal]

Aliens also fly by from time to time making all things in their way shitty