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Do you guys ever play Fallout like THIS?


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Point Lookout:

 

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Panorama from the Blackhall Estate

 

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The Calvert Mansion from the Oceanside

 

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The Cathedral from Point Lookout

 

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The Cathedral in Close up (tree popup effect for comparison)

 

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The Overgrown Churchyard Cemetery

 

I was hoping to evoke the wild, pastoral, even peaceful feel you get in this Point Lookout. In the swamp it gives a Deliverance vibe, instead of a Gothic one, and I'm all for it. But the differences aren't nearly as dramatic than from the Pitt.

 

 

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About the arguments on the first page, no that's not realistic, or you don't know what a nuclear winter is. There is a big difference between a single nuclear explosion like Chernobyl and a nuclear war

 

Also as previously mentioned, two hundred-odd years since AND the sheer resilience of nature. Certainly not saying the world would have reverted to an unspoiled state but, as a certain person once said, "Nature .... will find a way."

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What could 200 years represent after the explosion of thousands of nuclear nukes? Nothing. Even the vanilla universe isn't realistic. There is not only the effect of nuclear winter that would kill almost any kind of ecosystem, but also the radiations that can't disappear in 200 years. Nature will find a way, but not before hundreds, maybe thousands of years and there is no way the human kind would survive, not even in vaults like in Fallout because it's likely the Vault would start deteriorating before the world becomes livable once again. Edited by Valmorrowind
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That is utter bunk, as is the concept of nuclear winter as understood in popular culture. As mentioned in previous posts on this thread, not even the Czar bomb (50 MT) achieved stratosphere penetration. Not even the last explosion of the Yellowstone Caldera, one of the earth's largest, could do so. When Tambora blew its top in 1815, creating the Year without summer, it was one, ONE year of crop failure, only north of the Mason Dixon Line, and then it was fine. Tambora blew with 800 MT in the area reserved for a single Hiroshima blast radius (20kt blast). This was more powerful boom than Humanity has ever attempted, blew more ejecta into the atmosphere than a full scale nuclear strike, even in 2077 style coating of all urban areas, and did so by several orders of magnitude. ONE. BAD. SUMMER. Yellowstone is a Toba style VEI-8, at least 10X Tambora, and there was no mass extinction when it blew 600,000 years ago.

 

However, this matters not a wit: because in the Lore, by international treaty all the nukes used in the conflict were 100 kt or less, although a lot more were built as a result. Most, like the one in Megaton is a 20-25kt model. It was specifically stated this would produce no nuclear winter whatsoever, but would make one hell of a bad FALLOUT. And in Honest Hearts, you have a log of it: The Black Rain: 2 solid months of highly radioactive rain and dust storms. Even that is a stretch: the noticeable radiation from nuclear fallout dissipates in 14 days. Nuclear Winter as a mass extinction device, an ice age causer is utter bunk, but it explicitly didn't happen because of the nature of the Strike.

 

I don't need Nicholas Cage with his hair as a bird: Your argument is invalid.

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