Ingame Globes - Bodies of water intentionally colored as land, or just an oversight?

[KnorKater]

I just had a look at the ingame globes and noticed that several areas are color coded for land, where as in our timeline there are bodies of water. For example the great lakes in the US, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Persian Golf.

 

Is this intentional, as in "Before the war there was a global water crisis of some sort, maybe even starting it", or just an oversight? I mean, it certainly does look like the one responsible for the texture did a sloppy job by just using a filling tool once for the oceans and ignoring the rest. Never associated the Fallout Universe with some sort of global water crisis.

 

Well, if it really is an oversight, then someone's OCD will most likely result in a fix. :P

[montky]

@FUNS

while extrinsically its possibly a 'lazy texture'...

I doubt it.

 

look at FO2's Enclave Oil Rig, FO3's RavenRock, FO4's The Switchboard and K21b...

the maps are all very similar throughout.

look at the 'game art' for the game, it certainly seems an intentional decision.

(any excuse to look at the work of Adam Adamowicz hehe)

 

ostensibly the former "this is intentional exegetical in-game-universe' lore.

 

 

The fallout timeline diverges from our own 'real-world timeline'.

so, there might be different plate-tectonics and continental drift from pangea onwards etc.

the great lakes were silted up, (cover to drain that freshwater underground for projects,

remember they were at war with Canuckistan prior to the annexation.)

but post2077, they connect to the Atlantic Ocean hehe.

 

"^{_{Never associated |Post-apocalyptic| with water crisis}}"

really? because, as MatPat"GameTheory" discusses in his "how much is a cap worth?" fallout themed vid,

he discusses how water in-game from FO1 through FONV was worth more than it's weight in gold...

FO3 in particular mentions the scarcity of clean safe drinking water. Project Purity and all that.

 

It also depends how damaged the atmosphere is in Fallout from pre2077 industrial activity,

and the events of 2077 itself. There's strong indication the atmospheric composition was altered,

and many locations are inhospitable to life as we know it.

 

those globes are also post2050 in-game lore,

the Enclave had a great propaganda machine pre 2077...

 

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the cardboard embossed globes ^{_{are all one color}} - cardboard.

folks can color it in, or have topological decals and all.

 

 

 

that said,

of course I'll never turn down more awesome mods!

if folks can make different globe textures and all, that'd be awesome!

[KnorKater]

Wow, didn't expect that. So it really is lore, that's very interesting. Thank you for the clarification! :)