Fallout has incredible technology, but some of it is just downright OP. These are my picks for the most over powered examples of Fallout's amazing tech!
a little note, the Roboscorpions data drainer was just a means to wirelessly download data from various computers around the facility. They didn't actually drain the intelligence of those they hit. but Mobius just played on that fear of what the think tank thought they did.
I do seem to remember though, that when playing with the Wild Wasteland pek, after getting hit by a Robo Scorpions Laser, your Intelligence would be lowered by 1 Point for 5 Seconds or so... might have been a Mod as well though :D
The freaking pipboy. That thing operates with just some lousy 100 or so kilobytes of memory power. Yet it is more advanced than our tech. It has Geiger counter, motion tracker, GPS tracker and mapping device, holotape player/recorder, hacking device, V.A.T.S. and on more than one occasion it helps the player to calculate some pretty hefty equations, lite the trajectory of the Reppcon space rockets for example.
popular theories suggest Vault Tek had help from the Zetans or at least reverse engineered their technology, in Fallout 4 it states VATS is a long lost technology available to vault dwellers
The ability of the Pip-Boy to solve complex math equations would be inherently part of the V.A.T.S. because it’d need to have a robust ballistics calculator that can adapt to any form of projectile. But that’s just one part, it’d also need sensors to detect weather conditions, it’d somehow have to have a camera that can detect range and elevation (unless they’re canonically physically inputting the range and elevation which would make its effectiveness in the middle of battle laughable “hold on a second I need to calculate the trajectory I need to kill you”), and would need to have a database of ballistic trajectories of all the ammunition types and barrel lengths you could have. And although there are scopes that have most of that functionality aside from having that database for versatility, they’re scopes, they’re directly aligned with the rifle and the only other function some of them have is the ability to link up with helmet mounted devices to allow soldiers to shoot while having their body behind cover which isn’t all too complicated. If you made V.A.T.S. separate from the Pip-Boy, it would be way more OP than the Pip-Boy.
The pipboy was my first choice, it's a device that can literally stop space time, detect enemies, detect weak points, hack into devices, can store matter by the ton, runs almost forever, can survive a nuclear attack, works as a wallet, can also be upgraded to let you teleport, detect radiation, detect the wearers life signs and medical problems, it's almost unlimited in what it can do.
@@zsewqthewolf1194 Except a database for every known projectile’s ballistics properties as well as an almost unlimited room for more entries that can be made for projectiles only used in post-war guns. Also let’s not forget the ballistics calculator itself which is also way too complicated to fit into that storage space. There are a decent amount of features on the Pip-Boy that don’t take too much computing power or data storage, but there’s others that way more than make up for them. If you separated out everything V.A.T.S. involved into their own features, more than half of the Pip-Boy’s features would take up at least like a hundred megabytes each. It’s nowhere near just as simple as health functions, holotapes, radio, and other menial things if you actually look into the Pip-Boy’s full function rather than at face value.
The decades immediately following the war are described in a lot of games as being nothing short of hell on earth. Constant gunfire and explosions, massive amounts of radiation, and all around chaos. It was like war never ended, the combatants just changed. Instead of soldiers fighting soldiers it was everyone fighting everyone. A complete free for all. It took a bit longer for the fires of the old world to finally burn themselves out and for civilization to take once more.
The GECK and Sierra Vending machines use actual matter manipulation. It has the ability to convert any form of energy/matter into any desired form with no functional limitations. The GECK is like a sledge hammer and the Vending machines are a scalpel, they both preform the same thing. I also would have mentioned stimpaks, even in survival mode they can fully heal a human body of any injury in less then 15 seconds. Auto docs are impressive for treating conditions but conventional medical care just requires a stimpak.
Stimpacks usually need several doses to fully heal someone - the exact amount depending on the game and difficulty - and each dose might only heal a portion of 1/5th of someone's body(how it even determines whether to heal the entire body or just a single body part is beyond me), but yeah it's some DBZ level tech. Broken bones? Fixed. Fatal venom? Outpaced. Literal head trauma? Gone.
@@christiancinnabars1402 Injected into the muscle tissue? Fixed limb. Injected into the bloodstream? Spread throughout the body. Why? Nanites or some crap. To paraphrase the man, Fallout science might as well be black magic. I'm more concerned about why the corrugated metal and wooden plank shanks have survived in some cases a couple of centuries.
Two things - 1) It's established in F2 that the US Govt. has experimented with captured alien tech (i.e. Skynet from Sierra Depot). That research, and more, has worked its way through the Military/Industrial Complex, until that technology is used in every day life. So that helps to explain the generally widespread advanced tech that seems like Sci-Fi to our sensibilities in 2022. 2) And that's the other thing - the War happened in 2077 - 55 years ahead of now. Think about how much technology has advanced in our world in 55 years. Now imagine that tech has been given a hefty boost from research on alien tech. It's no wonder the science of Pre-War seems like 'black magic'.
Plasma weapons are pretty much confirmed to be derived from Alien weapons somehow. Those blue blobs the atomizer and disintegrator shoot do look a lot like plasma
55 years ago was the late 1960's. Just think how far technology has come from since then. 55 years from now, we will definitely see some crazy technology.
Indeed. 50 years ago computers were nearly only for big businesses and military/government compounds due to how expensive and big they were. It just wasn't all that viable for the average person to have one, and even in the 80s/90s people were calling the internet a fad. Now we have all for f humanity's Intel in our back pocket and have ai that's slowly reaching human levels and can modify our base DNA and genetics with things like crisper, something that som one back then would think is madness and black magic. In 50 years we could be living on Mars for all we know, or have the ability to directly upload our brains into computers to live out our fantasies as we see fit
@@reallyoriginalname1221 As someone who was there, nobody was calling the internet a fad in the 80's (lol) or 90's. I mean, I'm sure one or two people did that, but literally EVERYONE saw the potential, there.
@@iami3rian394 i might be thinking of around the 70s. I remember seeing some newspaper articles around those times saying that people thought the internet was just as fad
Honestly, the Gamma Gun is incredibly underrated lore wise. In the game it's eh... But it'd take out most unprotected people out incredibly quickly. It's a shame it's pretty worthless.
@@aaronbrown8377 I swear the game only gives me Ghoul or Mutant Slayer legendary ones purely out of spite. There are other equally worthless ones but I only remember the ones that feel spiteful.
Worth noting Sinclaire wasn't trying to scalp his workers. He wanted to wean them off money since he also so the bombs coming. Which is also why the machines can eat cigarettes, people had plenty but would need to get rid of them since they couldn't get more.
Dude literally had an entire city built in the desert for people to survive and thrive in. EVERYONE stabbed him in the back, and got themselves killed. Fuck Dean Domino, he inadvertently killed so many people because he just couldn't stand how strong Sinclair's will was.
He was an ideologue that’s for sure. I think he saw drugs as more of a weakness that was impractical for the body in general, and didn’t want the vending machines to produce them as a result. They produce Buffout, Med-X and even Alcohol so I doubt they couldn’t produce a processed tobacco product like chewing tobacco. Morphine is opiate derivative and is from a plant origin so it can definitely produce products made from organic materials. Really makes you wonder what’s in those chips, and what the machines could do without the limitations Sinclair had installed.
Assuming that Sinclaire unlocked something like cold fusion, he could turn mixtures of elements into other elements, and even use the waste energy to split atoms into smaller parts and power the machines. It's most certainly magic tech, but theoretically cold fusion fits the bill for creating new elements from some sort of precursor without having sun's core levels of heat involved.
@@astolfofansunny4047 every element is made of atoms. Say they found a way to use just atoms and fuse them just like the big bang and stars used lighter elements to create heavier elements, like hydrogen to carbon it would be simple to replicate anything. Seeing as its a video game its not hard to make it work without explaining it.
@@astolfofansunny4047 Reminds me of the printer in Prey (2017) that collects raw materials like rubber, steel, organic material, etc. and prints out weapons and ammo from thin air, like a 3D printer lol
This man could make a 1 hour long video on the different types of rocks in the fallout universe and I would watch the whole thing. Great vids, keep up the good work.
Idk why he's so good but you're absolutely right. I've been playing fallout for like..19 years and I just found his channel. Damn, anyway. It's so fun and cool to learn new things about games I thought I knew mostly everything about
Technically, we do have a modern-ish analog to plasma weapons. In the 90s, there was project MARAUDER which was meant to develop the concept of toroidal plasma weaponry. In '93 MARAUDER had it's first test-fire, and after recording that it produced a significant EM pulse on contact with the target, it was Classified and it's been a Black Project in the DoD ever since.
@@memeshort7189 wdym nukes don't get used? We still making them to this day man, and just waiting for the end of the world when 2 Super Country clash. We ain't even trying to stop their production, *except when their the enemy* .
The Sierra Madre’s Vending Machines are, from what I can tell, miniature Particle Colliders that have become far more advanced than the ones in our world. The Vending Machines Particles Colliders are so advanced to the point they are capable of changing one element into another element on the regular. Considering that things that seem impossible at the surface level are common in the world of Fallout, my theory is that since the Transistor was not invented in 1949 like in our world, but in the Fallout world, the Transistor was instead invented in 2060. Therefore I think it is safe to say with an educated guess that the scientific effort that was dedicated to our world's transistor was in Fallout’s world likely instead dedicated to advancing the fields of chemistry, synthetic materials, atomic energy, atomic physics, chemical refinement, and quantum physics. The exchange of the invention of the transistor for these fields is, to me, the most plausible explanation for fallouts in more advanced technologies in many fields. The first good example is the creation and everyday application of artificial materials and elements, notably Saturnite and the synthetic composite used by Cambridge polymer labs to create that one unique power armor piece from Fallout 4. This also explains why electronic-based technology advanced exceptionally quickly after the transistor was invented in 2060, achieving computer miniaturization equivalent to the end of the 1980s in our world, which took ten years in Fallout but 40 years in our world. This, combined with the significant leaps of achievement in chemistry, synthetic materials, atomic energy, and atomic physics, explains why the creation of electronics with significant proficiency in storage, communication, and ability to handle and utilize energy as possible. This also explains why despite terminals being on the same level as late 80s home computers, these same leaps also enabled the invention of practical Robotics and their everyday applications to become possible very soon after Fallout’s transistor was invented in 2060. The advancements in chemistry, synthetics, and chemical refinement would also explain why power armor can resist the kinetic forces from jumping from the top of a skyscraper to the ground, as the armor likely uses an unspecified synthetic material or artificial element that is capable of absorbing and nullifying excessive kinetic energy when caused by an excessive application of gravity on to the material. Fallout’s significant Advancements in atomic energy, atomic physics, synthetics, and chemistry is almost certainly why the Mainstream use of Fission and Fusion became not only possible but also why it was achieved with incredible levels of seemingly impossible miniaturization seen in Fusion Cores/Microfusion Cells and Mini-Nukes. Not to mention the countless energy weapons, especially the Plasma weapons, as to use Plasma Weapons in such regularity, you likely need a tiny power source capable of generating extreme titanic amounts of energy but also a material optimized to be used in the creation of plasma as a weaponized projectile.
I thought those vending machines in Sierra Madre were delivering items using "teleportation" technology from a storage room located somewhere in that place, which meant for me that those items were in limited quantity
@@yaroslavm9898 No, because it does not require any form of feedstock. It's just need something that can be fissilized like heavy metal for nuclear reaction in this day (Uranium, Polonium, etc) but apparently any objects will do so long you got the right code.
@@cool06alt But that doesn't make sense. Why would a pre-war vending machine produce food that is already "bad" and radioactive like the food found in the wasteland after the war? What if those vending machines are actually replicators?
@@yaroslavm9898 Because pre-war food being irradiated are not that weird if we judge by how Nuka Cola give you some radiation. What else do you think the possibility of such long term preservation and the whole "never expire" food came from? Chemical preservation or some short intensity radioactive isotope? Beside if you want to argue, we got some irradiated food list for actual food that have been exposed to nuclear fallout.
If I could add anything to this list it would be the the Cloning Machine under Safari Adventure in Nuka World. That device could create an infinite food supply and much more.
I took it to be purposeful from the writers that the very same fusion technology they developed for Power Armor to fight a war for oil was ironically the very same technology that would end their dependence on oil.
Imagine how scary that word is….post scarcity. Even thou it would have brought major changes for everyday people you think a CEO would allow such a world to bloom
I think you missed the cybernetic implants, either like the ones Kellogg had done by the institute or the sub dermal ones from new vegas that you can get from the followers of the apocalypse or from the auto doc at big mountain The idea of enhancing humans to make them live for up to hundreds of years with tiny modifications done to their bodies is fascinating and honestly it's my favorite technology in Fallout Imagine the possibilities! Letting crippled people walk again or for the first time enhancing their legs and their brain functions Cyborg soldiers that can brave any kind of environment, it's food for thought definitely Great video as always!
@@zzxp1 synths are basically 3d printed via stem cells so baring maybe one or 2 parts are fully organic ergo the same way a normal human brain stores data
Kudos for remembering P.A.M. exists. P.A.M. has become a Fallout robot that's interested me lately - partially because of her adorable characterization, but moreso of how she is perceived by the game's factions. It's as if everyone who didn't help in her development holds the idiot ball when she's the topic. Pre-war U.S. military officials ignored her evidence of possible large-scale stealth technology, due to not getting a concrete answer... from a *PREDICTIVE* machine. Deacon needed to be convinced to not mothball her because of having them "run strange ops for data" - as if data isn't how she does what she's designed to do. In a Brotherhood ending, Proctor Quinlan just keeps her in his room and has her help with trivial things on the Prydwen, then has the utter gall to call her a "useless piece of rusty scrap," while kicking her leg like she's a Protectron, and not a unique pre-war technological relic. Yeah - real *Brotherhood* behavior. The Institute doesn't even bother trying to do anything with her, and just kills her on the spot. What, do they think they can make something like her? They can't even make an obedient slave.
It's a robot, and the synths fleeing are programmed to flee. Synths are nothing more than programmed robots. The real robots that can be called human are synths and robots in wasteland series. That is what i call an human mind. The ones in fo4 are just Programmed to think like that and act like that. Artificial intelligence not human.
The Brotherhood thing isn’t out of place. They don’t necessarily use all the tech they find, they just hoard it so that no one else can. You can offer them a trio of extremely powerful and useful technologies in New Vegas and they want nothing to do with any of them. Unlimited food? Who cares. An orbital laser? So what. A pulse gun that can easily destroy any electrical system? Not interested. The BoS being shortsighted and focusing far too much on things like power armor and laser rifles to the detriment of everything else is part of their society’s DNA. Their modus operandi is to preserve technology (that they think is interesting), not use it.
In all honesty, for all the retro future tech, I actually thought the pre war government would've done something wacky like keep the G11 in production. Make it a mainstay, you know? If you were to tell me to think about boxy, chunky designs that is the first gun to come to mind with me. Regarding most sophisticated technological piece, it's a really tight tie with me. Big MT itself, anything within it, or the GECK. A terraforming device in a carry out case.
A counterpoint for the G11 would be that military industrial concerns favored energy weapons. Especially considering Posiden Energy having deep connections to the pre war government. They may have steered military procurement towards a market they could dominate and away from ballistic weapons.
Having read an after report of the ACR program the HK G11 wasn't a significant improvement over the M16, in fact out of all weapons in the trial the one that came up top was actually just an M16 modified with an optical sight which was actually part of the control group with the Colt ACR as a close second.
the g11 is in fallout two and is used by enclave light infantry there is also a minigun chambered for the caseless ammo, so those two things seem to indicate that the g11 was in production for quite a while and until fallout 2 might have still been in such in a limited manner
@@2Potates oh I'm aware! As a means for a conventional weapon and review, the G11 was relatively dog water when put side by side with its competition. But the weirdness and odd design of it just makes it really stick out as one of those things of its era to me.
@@MediumRareOpinions A very good and very fair counterpoint! Something that I do admit I often forget. Energy weapons were indeed the next step in the ranged weapon timeline in FO.
For the Vending machines, I'm pretty sure they came from Big Mt. In the dlc, there is a location, the Y-0 facility, that has a terminal about the Vending machines and the Sierra Madre
@@DovahFett One small remark all tech have been delivered before the war, and by ironic coincidence only assassin armor from the same place after all this time. Cristine found it in BM or Ulysses gave it to her, is's prototype of stealth suit, she lost all her equip in BM and it can be found there.
I would have made a dedicated mention of micro fusion. The majority of technologies on this list could not exist without having a megawatt power source the size of a can of soda.
If i recall correctly, somewhere lore wise it states the Geck is more meant to be a corner stone to rebuilding society and not the sole device. Like, it has seeds, water purification abilities, a small reactor for power etc etc, but it's mean to give you a solid foundation with which to build upon. You get a basic area down THEN start rebuilding bigger and better things to take over, not just rely on the GECK.
those machines could "just" split atoms in order to make new elements, but amounts of energy it would create and require would make them more dangerous than nukes
Pretty sure the lab at Big mountian where they built the intial vending machines is a vaporized ruin and something removed the mountain part of big Mt probably the matter replicator
11:37 Let's also not forget in Fallout 4, when on his way to the Institute, he picks up an ambushing Super Mutant Behemoth by its head, breaks its neck with a simple hand flick, then tosses it to the side. The body of which will very likely get stomped on by Prime, splattering it. It's hilarious to watch, but it again proves that Liberty Prime is no joke lol
For me FO tech is just black magic. That timeline never invented semiconductors and still uses vacuum tubes, yet they manage to run sentient AI and molecular relays on that low end hardware.
Semiconductors did exist in the FO universe, but never gained popularity over vacuum tubes, the most notable example would be House using them for his life pod or whatever you'd call it
26:40 - Not to mention the fact that the Sierra Madre holograms are also capable of interacting with the physical world: hologram bartenders and hologram dealers give you drinks and casino chips, respectively. How does that work? How does a group of light particles in the shape of a human have the ability to hold physical things much heavier than light particles are? It is amazing technology. Really, all the technology and equipment at the Sierra Madre is incredible.
I'm trolling the comments looking for anything about the holograms/transmitters and what people think about em. Your thought here was my first thought into just how these things could possibly work. We've had holograms IRL for a decent amount of time now. Hell, I remember when the first hologram Michael Jackson concert happened and how everyone was amazed by it. Just isolating the interactions alone and ignoring the line-of-sight not being needed, it's like if your Bluetooth earbuds PUT THEMSELVES IN YOUR EARS lol how would the particles interact between the hologram and our physical objects? Maybe the casino chips have some kind of... receiver or something like a magnet that would facilitate movement or even easier playing cards could be manipulated with something like static charge but how are the bartenders moving glasses and bottles and things? Grabbing, say, lemon wedges? Or cutting those wedges?
A few thoughts: No mention of the stimpack? A small portable device that heals any wound, repairs limbs, etc. Also, I wonder how you are meant to activate the GECK without it killing you. Lastly, I thought the various cars were actually fission powered, with manufacturers simply substituting in the word "fusion" if they thought it sounded good...
I think stimpaks are less miraculous when many of the afflictions it can heal are also fixed by drinking water repeatedly. I always felt the doctors bag was a good inclusion in FNV as a nod to earlier games because it makes limb damage more permanent since a doctora bag is ineffective with a low medical skill prompting you to look for a doctor if you're limping around the wastes.
@@SineN0mine3 Maybe my version of FNV is broken, because I always saw doctor's bag healing limbs to 100% even with low medicine skill. On other hand, Hydra barely even heals limbs.
41:36 you just experienced the most annoying bug with Euclid's C-finder. If you try to fire it, and it fails, fast travelling will sometimes trigger the beam spontaneously...on your position. Usually the strip gate triggers it most for me.
7:27 In fallout 3 the aliens did have the ability to teleport back and forth between places outside the ship. An easy example would be the beacon that gets you back to the capital wasteland
I initially thought you were talking about OP in game and expected the stealth boy. Particularly in FO1. But the direction you decided to take was more interesting.
I'd point at the humble plasma pistol. Here, have something that's as powerful as a fraction of the sun, that you can hold in your hand, shoot someone and they literally melt. As for the holograms, they might be using light bees, or holographic bees. Basically a tiny hovering drone that relays information to and from the projector. It's essentially the core of the hologram, which gives it a tether, a physical presence, and would explain a reduced need for direct-line-of-sight. You could literally daisy chain a bunch of light bees to extend the range. Or they could just have mirrors or fibre optics built into the walls, to bounce signals around corners, using drastically cheaper and easier technology. Overboss Coulter has a force field built onto his armour. You literally talk about force fields right after, but that's the technology you're describing The GECK was changed drastically. The original version was a briefcase with seeds and a generator. Then in 3, they changed it into the genesis device from Star Trek.
Really, the tech from the Big Mountain facility paired with the stuff from the sierra Madre could terraform the planet back to a balanced ecosystem. Plus you can leave your brain to run things while your backup runs around the planet fixing crap. Oh and if your not hating on mothership zeta dlc from 3, it’s beacon can setup “teleportation” spots all over.
The thing is the stuff from the Sierra Madre IS Big Mountain tech. You can find terminals showing Sinclair allowed Big Mountain to test experimental stuff (among them the replicators, red cloud and hazmat suits) in exchange for funding the casino.
I've always thought that stimpaks were overpowered. They basically turbocharge the body's ability to heal itself. Making it possible to heal everything from mere cuts to bullet wounds and broken bones in mere minutes.
@@calebbarnhouse496it's clearly said "microfusion breeder" as ammunition type, that means they use some kind of breeder reactor, which is literally pistol size
@@kkrg413 no it doesn't, that is so people understand what it does, in lore it was made for space use when resupply isn't an option, there would be no point to that if it was just a mini reactor in it, it's a perpetual enery machine
I think you are overestimating the raider power armor. To me, that isn't amazing tech, because that is just lore accurate. They described power armor as one-man tank that captured Canada and anchorage. I honestly think that is what power armor is supposed to feel like. Well, no damage from non-critical fatmen shots is a bit too far, but they are supposed to be terrifying in a way that is lost in game.
@@adrianalicea6704 I stand by how close to lore his tankieness was. Power armor makes each soldier a human tank. Making it nearly impossible to kill by normal means. Yes the raider had a force field in the game. But that is closer to what lore accurate power armor would be like, compared to the normal weak in game version.
It's kind of surprising that neither the BoS or Enclave have teleporters, we know the military had them to some extent as there are site-to-site teleporters in the Mariposa base.
Regarding the holograms, it may be all well and good having an armoured emitter for a nigh-invincible laser ghost, but they are highly susceptible to stealth. I don't think it would be as much of a war winner as people like Elijah make them out to be, especially with the existence of stealth boys and suits.
Perhaps instead of relying on them, they could be used to supplement existing forces. They're perfect for defending a position, and the stealth shortcomings can be neutralized by having sentries (human sentries) on hand. In a sense, they're a force multiplier, like any weapon. Throw one down in the middle of a battle, and as long as the emitter isn't damaged there is no defence against it.
It would be a rush to find the Emitter before you are caught and if put them in a building and defend it, you got a unstoppable killing machine that you will have to rush through and find the emitter to break it... assuming you actually knoe what to even shoot.
You could also have the emitters be powered off until an attack happens. If you hide them well enough then you could basically instantly flank an intruding squad.
The Sierra Madre vending machine reminded me of the replicators from star trek. In star trek there are only 3 technologies that are pure magic to us, the transporter, the replicator and faster than light travel. (Apparently in the lore, the same tech that allows the transporter works lets the replicator work) but if I were to wish one technology to bring to our world, it would be the replicator. Such a technology would put us into a post-scarcity society/economy. Which would completely change our lives, for the better I would think. I think that the vending machines/replicators work by having a scanned model of an item, scanned down to the placement of where every molecule is placed. I would then think that if the object had access to a large storage of basic hydrogen atoms, it could then fuse those hydrogen atoms into large and more complex molecules and atoms. Problem is that would give off massive amounts of radiation, being that I just described nuclear fusion. Star trek gets around that by A) being magic and B) saying they can instantly transfer energy into any from of matter.
Well matter and energy are supposedly interchangeable. Light something on fire. You're changing matter into energy. Light, heat, maybe other forms. It's going in the other direction which is God-like. Besides, with my limited understanding I don't think we could get it to work. With the wonkyness of quantum mechanics, and in particular, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Changing energy into matter or changing one form of matter into another would seem unobtainable. However, it HAS been done. Whether by "God" or other unknown forces. So, I suppose, theoretically it's possible.
Replicators still require energy, which depending on the amount and form can be quite hard to get a hold of, so I wouldn’t say they are post-scarcity since energy production would simply become the new bottleneck. When you are a federation of thousands of stars and planets, this isn’t much of a problem, but it could be if the scale is smaller and the energy sources available to you are far more limited. There’s a theory that the region of space that the Federation occupies is unusually dense with stars, which gives it a leg up over the other powers in terms of energy production, which is why they have a replicator on every ship while in other parts of the galaxy famines are still a very real threat.
Very interesting. I believe you’re the first channel that tackles this topic in such a complete and concise manner. I always look forward to your uploads haha
It is entirely possible that the Roboscorpions never drained intelligence, rather it is made up by the scientist [i think 0 or Dala] who examined them, as an excuse to why they can't figure them out. Also something you missed in the melee weapons video is the fact, that Saturnite knives were so sharp, that according to a note, they could chop off the fingers of it's wielder without them even noticing it.
Dunno if anyone will read this, but I have an idea on how the vending machines and the holographic tech works. What if every building including the sierra madre casino itself is designed in a reactor style to generate the necessary energy for the vending machines and one of the unforeseen consequences was the cloud that now looks more along the toxic waste of a reactor. It would allow the entire complex to basically have fallout’s version of Wi-Fi, but holographic. The cloud…it could either be an unintended consequence of big MT or something similar to toxic waste due to the design being something like a reactor. *I AM SPECULATING. This is pure conjecture. If I am right, that’s awesome. I also have a few ideas on how the LAER can be created as well with upcoming tech being released in the near future. One final thing, fallout energy tech isn’t that far away. In fact, you can find working portable gauss rifles being tested on CZcams! Still a prototype, but working!
The explanation to colters power armor is that its built as a faraday cage protecting its user from the electricity but constantly feeding electricity to stop incoming attacks
I suppose the Sierra Madre chips for the Vending Machines could be considered like stem cells. With the right programming and schematics, they can become nearly any other form of material, just as stem cells can become different cells in the body.
But can Stem Cells being fed to produce another Stem Cells in perpetual state? Can the organs be reverted to Stem Cells or any kind of multipotent cells that produce excess biomass that then being rearranged to produce Stem cells? Because Sierra Madre Vending Machine can be made into consuming minimum amount of energy through smart "Molecule Breeder" scheme if we judging how Fission Battery can be used to induce bunch scraps of metal to power the machine. Then in theory you can then make more "acids" same as in fission battery to make another chips along with any scrap of metal. Heck, It's not even a picotech feedstock, you don't even need electricity. You just need the right code so that can activate...whatever inside the Vending Machine to peform their atomic reaction. This show that the code for voucher can grant you 1000 chips despite being presumably, contain nothing but memory for the data. A cartoon of tobacco and some pre-war clothing apparently have molecule energy too, because they got a code to convert those to chips.
I think the sierra madre holograms are a tesla based energy being. If that makes sense. So instead of the projector beaming light to a spot it instead fills the area with enough energy to form a holographic image anywhere it wants. So the projector is a pseudo robot that can only use the hologram to interact with the world.
They basically had star trek tech but because of panic and greed none of the technologies were utilized properly. That and I think the whole fallout universe was started to remove the rights of all people to start deep space testing on the populous. All the vaults are situations that can happen on a generation ship.
The scientists at BIG MT were off their rockers by the events of Fallout: New Vegas, and were a few survivors out of all the people working at BIG MT. If that doesn't cause insanity nothing does.
The fact that the tech is so advanced is impressive considering that computers remained as large unwieldy items unlike our own light and compact computers. Though i would be interested to see this world's fair that had one of the miracle Vending machines where shone to the public. Though where it may likely be it would be interesting to see fallout's equivalent to Walt Disney (probably who ever drew Vault Boy) have their own EPCOT city. Just saying Bethesda setting for a fallout spin off game right there.
The Walt Disney surrogate is John-Caleb Bradburton, the creator of Nuka Cola. He was incredibly rich, built a multi-media empire, and tried to stop himself from dying by putting his own head in a jar. Just look at Nuka World, it is Disney World.
I pretty sure the machine use energy from the chip to made the items rather than using materials from an external source considering Elijah grab one and put it in his bunker
I love these videos. Not only are they well thought out and researched, but they are very entertaining, You have a great voice. I hope you were able to send your hard drive to where it could bask in Atom's light and glory.
the most OP tech in fallout is VATS. seriously, or jist the entire pipboy in and of itself. if you are a wastelander and you see someome with a pipboy. run. run and hide. or just leave the entire region. go someplace else, because that pipboy will turn your region upside down
My guess is that the holograms are very similar to Halo's Hardlight material; light manifesting itself in the physical form, with the projector needed only to keep its shape. Their beams are them literally blasting you with light.
Photons can be used to exite solid objects, meaning that intense light could push something. Mabye the holograms use UV, microwaves, infrared light or other invisible forms of radiation to exite the atoms of their surroundings in order to appear to be tangibly interacting with solid objects.
You’re forgetting the most OP tech and industry in the pre war world. Ink and banners that can be exposed to the elements for 200+ years and still be intact and legible.
43:30 that's true, tried Datura once, nearly went blind for 3 days (couldn't read for shit but could work out rough shapes in the distance). Really, takes either strong balls not to go to the hospital, or sheer stupidity during that time. Needless to say my vision was not impaired at all after the effects subsided and I do not currently wear glasses. Was one hell of a trip, totally worth it.
I’ve seen a few people compare the vending machines to the GECK’s ability to “produce matter”, and given the world’s fair origin I wouldn’t put it past vault/future tec to have put some research into that avenue for their own purposes. And since neither is completely ubiquitous throughout that world it’s hard to get a good sense of how much they might’ve overlapped in those abilities but I still like the possibility of a connection between them in at least the intended functions of creating necessities.
7:47 Or what that could have done for the UNSC's war effort were it implemented before the war and likely increased in effectiveness since the UNSC is a multi stellar space opera faction with hundreds of worlds, immense energy generation capacity, tens of billions of people, and far larger and more stable industrial and logistical capacity than a bunch of college nerds in their basement. Seriously, picture prowlers teleporting shiva's inside places the covenant would rather you didn't and understand how broken this ability could be if pursued with even an iota of the funding that went into the earth ODP array.
I was hoping you'd touch on the fallout's universe ability to produce and store energy, the fact that they cracked fusion so early on and that they've perfected nuclear technology in a way that allows them to store it in small packs like a fusion core, micro fusion cells or fission batteries is amazing and i think the back bone of most technological advancements in the fallout universe
I'm disappointed personally that's what they went with in the show. Really kinda ruins the whole ending of Fallout 4 and stuff with Mass Fusion making it interesting. I thought it was cool that fusion was made literally right before the great war but now it was around much easier and cheaper for months? Years?
I also think the vending machines are able to do something similar to nucleosynthesis where elements are broken down into nothing more than atoms and then reassembled into whatever you want using only energy and literally object with mass which means in theory you could cram the thing full nuclear waste and get out nuclear fuel having nothing more than energy and more mass. However unless they figured out some kind of infinite energy source this thing breaks several laws of thermodynamics.
I feel the most unbelievable thing is that caravans still walk those roads. My local grocery store has a dirt side entrance and it's not taken care of at all. Because of that so many people drive next to the road that the road keeps getting wider.
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A note about teleportation, if a person can be broken down to yhe molecular level, then there could be a way to get rid of harmfull cells during the teleport, people could be healed from all sorts of disease
The Nuka-Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla vending machines also likely act like those of the Sierra Madre, but only for a single product. This would explain why bottles are still found even two centuries later. Many of the symptoms that Festus Discussed (Other than the obvious symptoms of extreme sugar consumption) point to radiation sickness, which means that bottles dispensed from these machines are somewhat radioactive. Small price to pay for literal transmutation.
@@syndicalistcat3138 The Courier: "Where can I find more of these caps?" Malcolm Holmes: "All over the place. The easiest place to find them is unopened bottles of Sunset Sarsaparilla. You'd think they'd all have been picked clean by now, but somehow new bottles keep appearing in the machines." Sure, maybe after 200+ years there are still unlooted machines. Or more likely, the vending machines themselves produce more bottles...like those of the Sierra Madre.
@@syndicalistcat3138 The factories likely supplied grocery store chains and other retailers/events...a scale of which single vending machines couldn't keep up with.
@@enclave1014 You just lost it dude, the Sierra Madre vending machine technology was unique, this is one of the bigest plots in Dead Money, they were ordered by Sinclair from the Big MT scientist, no one else used it.
I have more real world examples: 1- Using quantum entanglement atoms have been teleported over small distances. 2- there is a experiment where a small ball of plasma have been shot a few centimeter in the air. 3- A big part of illumination is done through reflection, it is possible to use weave interactions to crate something, probably. Also in quantum computers light interact with itself through quantum tunneling. 4- The same weave interaction is used with sound, creating a sort of sound barrier that can lift objects and function as a wall. 5- Crispr, bacteria, virus and prions, artificial use and natural ability to do genetic engineering it's kinda like an FEV.
Surprised there's no mention of the Imposter Sheepsquatch. Essentially the same deal as Colter's armor, but requiring three people as conduits to short the shield. Add the typical Assaultron armanents, hulking size and cloaking tech _(as well as a protocol to acquire more Assaultrons to create Imposterlings,)_ and you got something pretty OP for being made by a few dudes in a basement.
@@Slop_Dogg An Assaultron created by a small part of a mining company (if memory serves right,) tasked to kill inhabitants of and terrorizing the populace of Lewisburg into selling off the town, which had deposits of Ultracite beneath it.
@@Slop_Dogg Also, that's a little dismissive of 76, don't you think? Although it blatantly and shamelessly misuses Fallout iconography, it does actually have some decent, original lore as well.
I got a weird one.. Weapon Repair Kits... what kind of space tech is in there that lets anyone fix up their guns like that? Stripping parts off another and if you are crazy smart, close enougj firing types would atleast make sense but.. seriouslh what in a Weapon Repair Kit?
For the vending machine- I only thought of this because it came after the teleportation part of the video, but I'd say it's a lot more practical for the vending machines to have a teleportation beacon in them like the downed satellite and be tied to a now inaccessable storage area that has all those things they can spit out, so that the chips are providing the energy for the teleportation rather than for the transfiguration of matter.
A.Autodocs SHOULD be on the list. B.how about (if sci-fi,as go full mounty) nano-bots as the means of making G.E.C.K be able to clean/repair/restore???
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Something that is insane is I’ve seen over the last couple years people talking about technology that exists now, or is being worked on that makes most of these things in fallout now possible.
Indeed, Fallout-Tech is damn far ahead and it is kind of sad, that we don't have a lot more technological gadgets to play with, like say a recon or combat drone (Fallout tech can easily make something like a Predator or Reaper drone!) or spider-mines or homing grenades. Hell, with all that tech you can run wild, you could have a portable hologram-projector (either for a decoy to draw fire or for an attack hologram...note: There's a mod for Fallout New Vegas that gives you that and frankly, while "Overpowered" (it is a single-player-game, so why shouldn't there be fun and overpowered tools?), it is fun to see a Starlet Hologram chase around Legionaires (even more funny because the Legion is a group of fucking tech hating luddites!))...also some tools like a grappling-hook too climb buildings etc. it is all possible with fallout tech, hell, we have a real-life-super-hero-costume in Fallout 4, but sadly they didn't give it gadgets like allowing us to glide (like Batman!) etc. :( )
I would say one OP technology of fallout is the stealth technology. Because The Chinese stealth suit can let you walk through laser grids shown in the waste Lander update during the vault 79 raid for the settlers.
Those Sierra Madre vending machines are really the only thing keeping the player alive in Hardcore mode. the fact you can win a voucher for the abandoned BoS bunker to receive a thousand Sierra Madre Chips, plus a couple hundred free ones every 3 days, that one machine provides around 25 servings of food and alcohol alone...assuming that consuming a whole bottle of scotch, whiskey, or wine is 1 'serving' which I would not doubt in the Mojave. The vending machines, assuming they have all of the blueprints we can find, can dispense food, medicine, ammo, and repair kits. with enough chips and machines they really could bring supply shortages to a halt, or at the very least, offset the shortages a considerable amount. Elijah was so close to doing something good were he not so obsessed with control and revenge on the NCR, he really could have taken those machines and brought the wastes back into something close to Pre-War standards of living. I'm sure if the machines could dispense firearms as well, then there would be no reason to use anything else due to how easy it seems to be able to replicate chips. (not like you cant just write down a small 'how-to' guide in universe either, only the rules of the game stop you from doing that.) One thing they did which I understand is a nitpick, but with how those machines work those food items the machines make would be neither irradiated, or over 200 years old. They would be made fresh, because WHY would the machines be programmed to account for how much time has passed since the bombs fell? those Salisbury Steak dinners would be ready to heat up and eat...probably taste about as good as the frozen dinners today, which does not say much, but still leagues better than what they likely do in Post-Apocalyptic America.
The part where you talking about Fusion vs. Cold fusion Fusion takes temperatures similar to that of a core of a star where is Cold Fusion can be done at room temperature
2:43 I can actually personally attest to teleportation, even in limited capacity, being a startlingly potent logistical advantage in wartime, through my playthroughs of the game _Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth,_ a civilization-builder set on an alien world that advanced himans are trying desperately to move to and colonize after earth is ruined to near-uninhabitability by climate change, war, resource scarcity, and the widespread gradual societal collapse such events would cause. The technologies you can research in this game are vast and varied; from genetically-engineered titans to levitating warships and robots large enough to march through shallow seas, but also includes an orbital teleportation platform; a satellite you can deploy which allows any unit stationed within a city to teleport to the seven hexagonal tiles beneath the satellite. This allows deployment of entire armies nearly instantly to any areas you have orbital coverage in, which can be expanded by orbital signal relay sattelites, or certain ores. Even without the expanded range options, the orbital coverage provided by your cities allows you to teleport as many troops as you have space for and resources for the satellites for along any warfront, and sometimes even behind enemy lines, allowing the extremely rapid deployment of entire invasion forces before your enemy can even prepare the beginnings of a counter-offensive, and taking your enemy's cities one by one allows you to deploy more satellites and fresh troops as often as you can build the troops and satellites, allowing your enemy no time to regain ground or prepare defenses for your next strike into their territory. TL:DR; Through use of a sci-fi civilization game and war simulator that involves limited teleportation options, I can say that even limited teleportation is a drastic, near-overpowering strategic advantage in wartime.
My favorite thing on this list is Liberty Prime. When approaching the first energy barricade the Enclave set up between the Citadel and Project Purity, not only does Liberty Prime not hesitate, he analyzes and measures the energy composition, strength and construction of the barrier, then determines the threat level of the obstacle, and destroys it, *all in real time* , while stating, “probability of mission deterrent: ZERO PERCENT” The most badass line of any Fallout game imo. Not to mention that Liberty Prime itself must be a supercomputer of almost unrivaled intelligence to do that all so fast with such confidence.
a little note, the Roboscorpions data drainer was just a means to wirelessly download data from various computers around the facility. They didn't actually drain the intelligence of those they hit. but Mobius just played on that fear of what the think tank thought they did.
I do seem to remember though, that when playing with the Wild Wasteland pek, after getting hit by a Robo Scorpions Laser, your Intelligence would be lowered by 1 Point for 5 Seconds or so... might have been a Mod as well though :D
@@TheHardcorelauch considering what happened to your brain in that DLC, it might be best to leave it as Science Fiction
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Well, your brain is being replaced by tesla coils by that point, So data drain makes sense there.
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So this man is out here threatening people with a WiFi router
The freaking pipboy.
That thing operates with just some lousy 100 or so kilobytes of memory power. Yet it is more advanced than our tech.
It has Geiger counter, motion tracker, GPS tracker and mapping device, holotape player/recorder, hacking device, V.A.T.S. and on more than one occasion it helps the player to calculate some pretty hefty equations, lite the trajectory of the Reppcon space rockets for example.
popular theories suggest Vault Tek had help from the Zetans or at least reverse engineered their technology, in Fallout 4 it states VATS is a long lost technology available to vault dwellers
The ability of the Pip-Boy to solve complex math equations would be inherently part of the V.A.T.S. because it’d need to have a robust ballistics calculator that can adapt to any form of projectile. But that’s just one part, it’d also need sensors to detect weather conditions, it’d somehow have to have a camera that can detect range and elevation (unless they’re canonically physically inputting the range and elevation which would make its effectiveness in the middle of battle laughable “hold on a second I need to calculate the trajectory I need to kill you”), and would need to have a database of ballistic trajectories of all the ammunition types and barrel lengths you could have. And although there are scopes that have most of that functionality aside from having that database for versatility, they’re scopes, they’re directly aligned with the rifle and the only other function some of them have is the ability to link up with helmet mounted devices to allow soldiers to shoot while having their body behind cover which isn’t all too complicated. If you made V.A.T.S. separate from the Pip-Boy, it would be way more OP than the Pip-Boy.
The pipboy was my first choice, it's a device that can literally stop space time, detect enemies, detect weak points, hack into devices, can store matter by the ton, runs almost forever, can survive a nuclear attack, works as a wallet, can also be upgraded to let you teleport, detect radiation, detect the wearers life signs and medical problems, it's almost unlimited in what it can do.
You be shock on how half of those things don’t need high end computer power a lot of those things are done on the c64
@@zsewqthewolf1194 Except a database for every known projectile’s ballistics properties as well as an almost unlimited room for more entries that can be made for projectiles only used in post-war guns. Also let’s not forget the ballistics calculator itself which is also way too complicated to fit into that storage space. There are a decent amount of features on the Pip-Boy that don’t take too much computing power or data storage, but there’s others that way more than make up for them. If you separated out everything V.A.T.S. involved into their own features, more than half of the Pip-Boy’s features would take up at least like a hundred megabytes each. It’s nowhere near just as simple as health functions, holotapes, radio, and other menial things if you actually look into the Pip-Boy’s full function rather than at face value.
It is shocking to me that society didn't bounce back in less than 50 years after the Great War with this technology
The decades immediately following the war are described in a lot of games as being nothing short of hell on earth. Constant gunfire and explosions, massive amounts of radiation, and all around chaos. It was like war never ended, the combatants just changed. Instead of soldiers fighting soldiers it was everyone fighting everyone. A complete free for all. It took a bit longer for the fires of the old world to finally burn themselves out and for civilization to take once more.
@@DovahFett That makes sense. Nevertheless I think the timeline should be condensed so that FO3 is within 25 to 100 years since the bombs fell
@@LucasDimoveo wouldn't that mean the institute would make perfect synths in only 25 years?
Most of earth would still be irradiated
@@JohnDoe-hj9fh They needed access to the FEV virus and Completely pure human DNA to create the perfect synths.
The GECK and Sierra Vending machines use actual matter manipulation. It has the ability to convert any form of energy/matter into any desired form with no functional limitations. The GECK is like a sledge hammer and the Vending machines are a scalpel, they both preform the same thing. I also would have mentioned stimpaks, even in survival mode they can fully heal a human body of any injury in less then 15 seconds. Auto docs are impressive for treating conditions but conventional medical care just requires a stimpak.
Stimpacks usually need several doses to fully heal someone - the exact amount depending on the game and difficulty - and each dose might only heal a portion of 1/5th of someone's body(how it even determines whether to heal the entire body or just a single body part is beyond me), but yeah it's some DBZ level tech.
Broken bones? Fixed. Fatal venom? Outpaced. Literal head trauma? Gone.
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@@christiancinnabars1402 Injected into the muscle tissue? Fixed limb. Injected into the bloodstream? Spread throughout the body. Why? Nanites or some crap. To paraphrase the man, Fallout science might as well be black magic. I'm more concerned about why the corrugated metal and wooden plank shanks have survived in some cases a couple of centuries.
I remember a shoddycast video about how stimpacks would fill you with so many nutrients and so on that you’d like...immediately shit your drawers
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat to be fair, it would be preferable to dying
Two things -
1) It's established in F2 that the US Govt. has experimented with captured alien tech (i.e. Skynet from Sierra Depot). That research, and more, has worked its way through the Military/Industrial Complex, until that technology is used in every day life. So that helps to explain the generally widespread advanced tech that seems like Sci-Fi to our sensibilities in 2022.
2) And that's the other thing - the War happened in 2077 - 55 years ahead of now. Think about how much technology has advanced in our world in 55 years. Now imagine that tech has been given a hefty boost from research on alien tech. It's no wonder the science of Pre-War seems like 'black magic'.
Plasma weapons are pretty much confirmed to be derived from Alien weapons somehow. Those blue blobs the atomizer and disintegrator shoot do look a lot like plasma
55 years ago was the late 1960's. Just think how far technology has come from since then. 55 years from now, we will definitely see some crazy technology.
Indeed. 50 years ago computers were nearly only for big businesses and military/government compounds due to how expensive and big they were. It just wasn't all that viable for the average person to have one, and even in the 80s/90s people were calling the internet a fad. Now we have all for f humanity's Intel in our back pocket and have ai that's slowly reaching human levels and can modify our base DNA and genetics with things like crisper, something that som one back then would think is madness and black magic. In 50 years we could be living on Mars for all we know, or have the ability to directly upload our brains into computers to live out our fantasies as we see fit
@@reallyoriginalname1221 As someone who was there, nobody was calling the internet a fad in the 80's (lol) or 90's.
I mean, I'm sure one or two people did that, but literally EVERYONE saw the potential, there.
@@iami3rian394 i might be thinking of around the 70s. I remember seeing some newspaper articles around those times saying that people thought the internet was just as fad
Honestly, the Gamma Gun is incredibly underrated lore wise. In the game it's eh... But it'd take out most unprotected people out incredibly quickly. It's a shame it's pretty worthless.
I still remember my first (and dumb) time using a gamma gun against ghouls
Depends on dosage might take weeks to kill
Properly upgraded, especially with a legendary effect, it can obliterate humans.
@@aaronbrown8377 I swear the game only gives me Ghoul or Mutant Slayer legendary ones purely out of spite. There are other equally worthless ones but I only remember the ones that feel spiteful.
to make the Gamma Gun even more useless, I found one with the legendary effect "Ghoul Slayer" on it.
Worth noting Sinclaire wasn't trying to scalp his workers. He wanted to wean them off money since he also so the bombs coming. Which is also why the machines can eat cigarettes, people had plenty but would need to get rid of them since they couldn't get more.
Dude literally had an entire city built in the desert for people to survive and thrive in. EVERYONE stabbed him in the back, and got themselves killed. Fuck Dean Domino, he inadvertently killed so many people because he just couldn't stand how strong Sinclair's will was.
He was an ideologue that’s for sure. I think he saw drugs as more of a weakness that was impractical for the body in general, and didn’t want the vending machines to produce them as a result. They produce Buffout, Med-X and even Alcohol so I doubt they couldn’t produce a processed tobacco product like chewing tobacco. Morphine is opiate derivative and is from a plant origin so it can definitely produce products made from organic materials. Really makes you wonder what’s in those chips, and what the machines could do without the limitations Sinclair had installed.
Assuming that Sinclaire unlocked something like cold fusion, he could turn mixtures of elements into other elements, and even use the waste energy to split atoms into smaller parts and power the machines. It's most certainly magic tech, but theoretically cold fusion fits the bill for creating new elements from some sort of precursor without having sun's core levels of heat involved.
@@astolfofansunny4047 every element is made of atoms. Say they found a way to use just atoms and fuse them just like the big bang and stars used lighter elements to create heavier elements, like hydrogen to carbon it would be simple to replicate anything. Seeing as its a video game its not hard to make it work without explaining it.
@@astolfofansunny4047 Reminds me of the printer in Prey (2017) that collects raw materials like rubber, steel, organic material, etc. and prints out weapons and ammo from thin air, like a 3D printer lol
This man could make a 1 hour long video on the different types of rocks in the fallout universe and I would watch the whole thing. Great vids, keep up the good work.
Hmmm I hope he does a rock video 🪨
@@t2av159 there's hollowed out rocks in new Vegas lol he could make a CZcams short
I'm gonna use this line when I tell anyone about RadKing lol this sells it perfectly.
Idk why he's so good but you're absolutely right. I've been playing fallout for like..19 years and I just found his channel. Damn, anyway. It's so fun and cool to learn new things about games I thought I knew mostly everything about
Technically, we do have a modern-ish analog to plasma weapons. In the 90s, there was project MARAUDER which was meant to develop the concept of toroidal plasma weaponry. In '93 MARAUDER had it's first test-fire, and after recording that it produced a significant EM pulse on contact with the target, it was Classified and it's been a Black Project in the DoD ever since.
Its illegal to use plasma weaponry as they emit huge amounts of deadly radiation.
@@memeshort7189 that stops no one
@@memeshort7189 that didn’t stop us using nukes, so I doubt it’ll stop plasma weapons when we get there.
@@joshwist556 what?! Nukes don't get used. They got used before there were laws against them but now no one uses them.
@@memeshort7189 wdym nukes don't get used? We still making them to this day man, and just waiting for the end of the world when 2 Super Country clash. We ain't even trying to stop their production, *except when their the enemy* .
The Sierra Madre’s Vending Machines are, from what I can tell, miniature Particle Colliders that have become far more advanced than the ones in our world.
The Vending Machines Particles Colliders are so advanced to the point they are capable of changing one element into another element on the regular.
Considering that things that seem impossible at the surface level are common in the world of Fallout, my theory is that since the Transistor was not invented in 1949 like in our world, but in the Fallout world, the Transistor was instead invented in 2060.
Therefore I think it is safe to say with an educated guess that the scientific effort that was dedicated to our world's transistor was in Fallout’s world likely instead dedicated to advancing the fields of chemistry, synthetic materials, atomic energy, atomic physics, chemical refinement, and quantum physics.
The exchange of the invention of the transistor for these fields is, to me, the most plausible explanation for fallouts in more advanced technologies in many fields.
The first good example is the creation and everyday application of artificial materials and elements, notably Saturnite and the synthetic composite used by Cambridge polymer labs to create that one unique power armor piece from Fallout 4.
This also explains why electronic-based technology advanced exceptionally quickly after the transistor was invented in 2060, achieving computer miniaturization equivalent to the end of the 1980s in our world, which took ten years in Fallout but 40 years in our world. This, combined with the significant leaps of achievement in chemistry, synthetic materials, atomic energy, and atomic physics, explains why the creation of electronics with significant proficiency in storage, communication, and ability to handle and utilize energy as possible.
This also explains why despite terminals being on the same level as late 80s home computers, these same leaps also enabled the invention of practical Robotics and their everyday applications to become possible very soon after Fallout’s transistor was invented in 2060.
The advancements in chemistry, synthetics, and chemical refinement would also explain why power armor can resist the kinetic forces from jumping from the top of a skyscraper to the ground, as the armor likely uses an unspecified synthetic material or artificial element that is capable of absorbing and nullifying excessive kinetic energy when caused by an excessive application of gravity on to the material.
Fallout’s significant Advancements in atomic energy, atomic physics, synthetics, and chemistry is almost certainly why the Mainstream use of Fission and Fusion became not only possible but also why it was achieved with incredible levels of seemingly impossible miniaturization seen in Fusion Cores/Microfusion Cells and Mini-Nukes.
Not to mention the countless energy weapons, especially the Plasma weapons, as to use Plasma Weapons in such regularity, you likely need a tiny power source capable of generating extreme titanic amounts of energy but also a material optimized to be used in the creation of plasma as a weaponized projectile.
I thought those vending machines in Sierra Madre were delivering items using "teleportation" technology from a storage room located somewhere in that place, which meant for me that those items were in limited quantity
@@yaroslavm9898 No, because it does not require any form of feedstock. It's just need something that can be fissilized like heavy metal for nuclear reaction in this day (Uranium, Polonium, etc) but apparently any objects will do so long you got the right code.
@@cool06alt But that doesn't make sense. Why would a pre-war vending machine produce food that is already "bad" and radioactive like the food found in the wasteland after the war? What if those vending machines are actually replicators?
@@yaroslavm9898 Because pre-war food being irradiated are not that weird if we judge by how Nuka Cola give you some radiation. What else do you think the possibility of such long term preservation and the whole "never expire" food came from? Chemical preservation or some short intensity radioactive isotope?
Beside if you want to argue, we got some irradiated food list for actual food that have been exposed to nuclear fallout.
@@cool06alt Yeah, I forgot about that. That makes those machines the ultimate OP survival pre-war tech that can also work with forfeit chips.
If I could add anything to this list it would be the the Cloning Machine under Safari Adventure in Nuka World. That device could create an infinite food supply and much more.
That's a good one for sure, beef for all!
till some one creates a chicken vindaloo monster
@@acrazedtanker1550 I thought the same thing 😂😂
@@125pheonix but we could also make unlimited 4x strength lagers to take it down fired from a Nuka cola vending machine 😂😂😂 classic red dwarf !😊😂
But it’s not THAT big of a stretch since cloning is a thing being worked on (or atleast something similar) in real life
It is interesting to note how close the Fallout world was to being post a scarcity society.
I took it to be purposeful from the writers that the very same fusion technology they developed for Power Armor to fight a war for oil was ironically the very same technology that would end their dependence on oil.
It's terrifying how close they got to solving all the worlds problems but failed because of their own selfishness and hatred of each other
Imagine how scary that word is….post scarcity. Even thou it would have brought major changes for everyday people you think a CEO would allow such a world to bloom
@@seanpfister993 I think so, you could make a lot of money in a world like that. To quote
"A wise man can hear profit in the wind."
@@seanpfister993 no
I think you missed the cybernetic implants, either like the ones Kellogg had done by the institute or the sub dermal ones from new vegas that you can get from the followers of the apocalypse or from the auto doc at big mountain
The idea of enhancing humans to make them live for up to hundreds of years with tiny modifications done to their bodies is fascinating and honestly it's my favorite technology in Fallout
Imagine the possibilities! Letting crippled people walk again or for the first time enhancing their legs and their brain functions
Cyborg soldiers that can brave any kind of environment, it's food for thought definitely
Great video as always!
Nanomachines! -Old Snake
We have been working on using Cybernetics for prosthetic limbs for the past few years.
Also there's implants in first 2 fallouts, at brotherhood and in Vault 8
Forget that, how are they able to make synthetic humans? Where do they store the processing unit of the robot when their computers are so huge?
@@zzxp1 synths are basically 3d printed via stem cells so baring maybe one or 2 parts are fully organic ergo the same way a normal human brain stores data
Kudos for remembering P.A.M. exists.
P.A.M. has become a Fallout robot that's interested me lately - partially because of her adorable characterization, but moreso of how she is perceived by the game's factions. It's as if everyone who didn't help in her development holds the idiot ball when she's the topic.
Pre-war U.S. military officials ignored her evidence of possible large-scale stealth technology, due to not getting a concrete answer... from a *PREDICTIVE* machine.
Deacon needed to be convinced to not mothball her because of having them "run strange ops for data" - as if data isn't how she does what she's designed to do.
In a Brotherhood ending, Proctor Quinlan just keeps her in his room and has her help with trivial things on the Prydwen, then has the utter gall to call her a "useless piece of rusty scrap," while kicking her leg like she's a Protectron, and not a unique pre-war technological relic. Yeah - real *Brotherhood* behavior.
The Institute doesn't even bother trying to do anything with her, and just kills her on the spot. What, do they think they can make something like her? They can't even make an obedient slave.
It's a robot, and the synths fleeing are programmed to flee. Synths are nothing more than programmed robots.
The real robots that can be called human are synths and robots in wasteland series. That is what i call an human mind. The ones in fo4 are just Programmed to think like that and act like that. Artificial intelligence not human.
The Brotherhood thing isn’t out of place. They don’t necessarily use all the tech they find, they just hoard it so that no one else can.
You can offer them a trio of extremely powerful and useful technologies in New Vegas and they want nothing to do with any of them. Unlimited food? Who cares. An orbital laser? So what. A pulse gun that can easily destroy any electrical system? Not interested.
The BoS being shortsighted and focusing far too much on things like power armor and laser rifles to the detriment of everything else is part of their society’s DNA.
Their modus operandi is to preserve technology (that they think is interesting), not use it.
Poor PAMie 😨😨😨😨😨😭😭😭
P.A.M. is a real underestimated character and it's neat to see someone else see the uniqueness here.
the food preservation tech is something else
In all honesty, for all the retro future tech, I actually thought the pre war government would've done something wacky like keep the G11 in production. Make it a mainstay, you know? If you were to tell me to think about boxy, chunky designs that is the first gun to come to mind with me.
Regarding most sophisticated technological piece, it's a really tight tie with me. Big MT itself, anything within it, or the GECK. A terraforming device in a carry out case.
A counterpoint for the G11 would be that military industrial concerns favored energy weapons.
Especially considering Posiden Energy having deep connections to the pre war government. They may have steered military procurement towards a market they could dominate and away from ballistic weapons.
Having read an after report of the ACR program the HK G11 wasn't a significant improvement over the M16, in fact out of all weapons in the trial the one that came up top was actually just an M16 modified with an optical sight which was actually part of the control group with the Colt ACR as a close second.
the g11 is in fallout two and is used by enclave light infantry there is also a minigun chambered for the caseless ammo, so those two things seem to indicate that the g11 was in production for quite a while and until fallout 2 might have still been in such in a limited manner
@@2Potates oh I'm aware! As a means for a conventional weapon and review, the G11 was relatively dog water when put side by side with its competition. But the weirdness and odd design of it just makes it really stick out as one of those things of its era to me.
@@MediumRareOpinions A very good and very fair counterpoint! Something that I do admit I often forget. Energy weapons were indeed the next step in the ranged weapon timeline in FO.
For the Vending machines, I'm pretty sure they came from Big Mt. In the dlc, there is a location, the Y-0 facility, that has a terminal about the Vending machines and the Sierra Madre
If I remember right sinclair request them from the big mt they gave it to him as well as the cloud
All of the tech in Sierra Madre came from Big Mountain. The hazard suits, the assassin armor, the holograms, the vending machines. All of it.
@@DovahFett One small remark all tech have been delivered before the war, and by ironic coincidence only assassin armor from the same place after all this time. Cristine found it in BM or Ulysses gave it to her, is's prototype of stealth suit, she lost all her equip in BM and it can be found there.
I would have made a dedicated mention of micro fusion. The majority of technologies on this list could not exist without having a megawatt power source the size of a can of soda.
Hrm.
'old one era/(and/or with or without their Sirius era's yet) Humankind: "yes...."'.-
If i recall correctly, somewhere lore wise it states the Geck is more meant to be a corner stone to rebuilding society and not the sole device. Like, it has seeds, water purification abilities, a small reactor for power etc etc, but it's mean to give you a solid foundation with which to build upon. You get a basic area down THEN start rebuilding bigger and better things to take over, not just rely on the GECK.
those machines could "just" split atoms in order to make new elements, but amounts of energy it would create and require would make them more dangerous than nukes
Pretty sure the lab at Big mountian where they built the intial vending machines is a vaporized ruin and something removed the mountain part of big Mt probably the matter replicator
11:37 Let's also not forget in Fallout 4, when on his way to the Institute, he picks up an ambushing Super Mutant Behemoth by its head, breaks its neck with a simple hand flick, then tosses it to the side. The body of which will very likely get stomped on by Prime, splattering it. It's hilarious to watch, but it again proves that Liberty Prime is no joke lol
For me FO tech is just black magic.
That timeline never invented semiconductors and still uses vacuum tubes, yet they manage to run sentient AI and molecular relays on that low end hardware.
Semiconductors did exist in the FO universe, but never gained popularity over vacuum tubes, the most notable example would be House using them for his life pod or whatever you'd call it
Radiation and science are the TES magic of Fallout.
Semiconductors and transistors were invented in fallout... in the 2060's.
They also managed to turn human brains into processing cores, so it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke.
"Science without results is just witchcraft"
26:40 - Not to mention the fact that the Sierra Madre holograms are also capable of interacting with the physical world: hologram bartenders and hologram dealers give you drinks and casino chips, respectively. How does that work? How does a group of light particles in the shape of a human have the ability to hold physical things much heavier than light particles are? It is amazing technology. Really, all the technology and equipment at the Sierra Madre is incredible.
magnets.
"Light particles" i.e. photons are purely energy. That said, a very smart man once explained how energy and matter are the same thing. M=E/c^2 mate.
I'm trolling the comments looking for anything about the holograms/transmitters and what people think about em. Your thought here was my first thought into just how these things could possibly work. We've had holograms IRL for a decent amount of time now. Hell, I remember when the first hologram Michael Jackson concert happened and how everyone was amazed by it.
Just isolating the interactions alone and ignoring the line-of-sight not being needed, it's like if your Bluetooth earbuds PUT THEMSELVES IN YOUR EARS lol how would the particles interact between the hologram and our physical objects? Maybe the casino chips have some kind of... receiver or something like a magnet that would facilitate movement or even easier playing cards could be manipulated with something like static charge but how are the bartenders moving glasses and bottles and things? Grabbing, say, lemon wedges? Or cutting those wedges?
A few thoughts: No mention of the stimpack? A small portable device that heals any wound, repairs limbs, etc. Also, I wonder how you are meant to activate the GECK without it killing you. Lastly, I thought the various cars were actually fission powered, with manufacturers simply substituting in the word "fusion" if they thought it sounded good...
I think stimpaks are less miraculous when many of the afflictions it can heal are also fixed by drinking water repeatedly. I always felt the doctors bag was a good inclusion in FNV as a nod to earlier games because it makes limb damage more permanent since a doctora bag is ineffective with a low medical skill prompting you to look for a doctor if you're limping around the wastes.
@@SineN0mine3 Maybe my version of FNV is broken, because I always saw doctor's bag healing limbs to 100% even with low medicine skill. On other hand, Hydra barely even heals limbs.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 He means in earlier games it did that
Tbh lore wise stimpacks probably work by just stopping bleeding and pumping enough drugs to make you feel ok
The geck kills you to use you as organic fuel to get it going
41:36 you just experienced the most annoying bug with Euclid's C-finder. If you try to fire it, and it fails, fast travelling will sometimes trigger the beam spontaneously...on your position. Usually the strip gate triggers it most for me.
Thank you I was very puzzled by this
7:27 In fallout 3 the aliens did have the ability to teleport back and forth between places outside the ship. An easy example would be the beacon that gets you back to the capital wasteland
I initially thought you were talking about OP in game and expected the stealth boy. Particularly in FO1. But the direction you decided to take was more interesting.
4's water purifiers better be on there, those shits can remove any amount of radiation from water, and they're just made of trash
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All of this, and they still couldn't make TVs with color...
I'd point at the humble plasma pistol. Here, have something that's as powerful as a fraction of the sun, that you can hold in your hand, shoot someone and they literally melt.
As for the holograms, they might be using light bees, or holographic bees. Basically a tiny hovering drone that relays information to and from the projector. It's essentially the core of the hologram, which gives it a tether, a physical presence, and would explain a reduced need for direct-line-of-sight. You could literally daisy chain a bunch of light bees to extend the range. Or they could just have mirrors or fibre optics built into the walls, to bounce signals around corners, using drastically cheaper and easier technology.
Overboss Coulter has a force field built onto his armour. You literally talk about force fields right after, but that's the technology you're describing
The GECK was changed drastically. The original version was a briefcase with seeds and a generator. Then in 3, they changed it into the genesis device from Star Trek.
If they had drones in them to extend range then explosive weapons would harm them, which they don't
so apparently a plasma pistol outputs a trillion trillion watts. ok bugthestard
@@Blox117 i think he meant how the sun is made of plasma
@@planetmaker3472 you’re a bugthespard.
“throwing tactical nukes like footballs” that’s the best way to describe liberty prime
Really, the tech from the Big Mountain facility paired with the stuff from the sierra Madre could terraform the planet back to a balanced ecosystem. Plus you can leave your brain to run things while your backup runs around the planet fixing crap. Oh and if your not hating on mothership zeta dlc from 3, it’s beacon can setup “teleportation” spots all over.
The thing is the stuff from the Sierra Madre IS Big Mountain tech. You can find terminals showing Sinclair allowed Big Mountain to test experimental stuff (among them the replicators, red cloud and hazmat suits) in exchange for funding the casino.
I've always thought that stimpaks were overpowered. They basically turbocharge the body's ability to heal itself. Making it possible to heal everything from mere cuts to bullet wounds and broken bones in mere minutes.
Also radaways are great.
In my fanfiction series, the Sierra Madre vending machines have been reverse engineered and made portable for deploying turrets borderlands style
Cool where can I read it ?
Ew
@@bsherman8236 why ew?
Robot technology as a whole is ridiculous op. They made Codsworth live like 200 year with out any engineer maintainnance without any additional power.
I think the recharger rifle belongs on this list, maybe at the bottom but nonetheless.
No, recharger rifle takes a few seconds to reload a magazine from just sunlight, without a solar panel
@@calebbarnhouse496 Uhh, make no sense since you can use it indoor and at night. As far as I'm concern is just Bethesda magic.
@@leitodamien3835 lore and gameplay are different things
@@calebbarnhouse496it's clearly said "microfusion breeder" as ammunition type, that means they use some kind of breeder reactor, which is literally pistol size
@@kkrg413 no it doesn't, that is so people understand what it does, in lore it was made for space use when resupply isn't an option, there would be no point to that if it was just a mini reactor in it, it's a perpetual enery machine
I think you are overestimating the raider power armor. To me, that isn't amazing tech, because that is just lore accurate. They described power armor as one-man tank that captured Canada and anchorage. I honestly think that is what power armor is supposed to feel like. Well, no damage from non-critical fatmen shots is a bit too far, but they are supposed to be terrifying in a way that is lost in game.
Uh... did you not see the electric forcefield attached to it? That's what he's talking about, not just raider power armor
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I stand by how close to lore his tankieness was. Power armor makes each soldier a human tank. Making it nearly impossible to kill by normal means.
Yes the raider had a force field in the game. But that is closer to what lore accurate power armor would be like, compared to the normal weak in game version.
BoS watching the sole survivor teleport to their base: 👀👀👀
It's kind of surprising that neither the BoS or Enclave have teleporters, we know the military had them to some extent as there are site-to-site teleporters in the Mariposa base.
Regarding the holograms, it may be all well and good having an armoured emitter for a nigh-invincible laser ghost, but they are highly susceptible to stealth. I don't think it would be as much of a war winner as people like Elijah make them out to be, especially with the existence of stealth boys and suits.
Perhaps instead of relying on them, they could be used to supplement existing forces. They're perfect for defending a position, and the stealth shortcomings can be neutralized by having sentries (human sentries) on hand. In a sense, they're a force multiplier, like any weapon. Throw one down in the middle of a battle, and as long as the emitter isn't damaged there is no defence against it.
It would be a rush to find the Emitter before you are caught and if put them in a building and defend it, you got a unstoppable killing machine that you will have to rush through and find the emitter to break it... assuming you actually knoe what to even shoot.
You could also have the emitters be powered off until an attack happens. If you hide them well enough then you could basically instantly flank an intruding squad.
Instalk infrared detection
@@dragonfell5078 Why not just put the emitter inside a forcefield...
The Sierra Madre vending machine reminded me of the replicators from star trek.
In star trek there are only 3 technologies that are pure magic to us, the transporter, the replicator and faster than light travel. (Apparently in the lore, the same tech that allows the transporter works lets the replicator work) but if I were to wish one technology to bring to our world, it would be the replicator.
Such a technology would put us into a post-scarcity society/economy. Which would completely change our lives, for the better I would think.
I think that the vending machines/replicators work by having a scanned model of an item, scanned down to the placement of where every molecule is placed. I would then think that if the object had access to a large storage of basic hydrogen atoms, it could then fuse those hydrogen atoms into large and more complex molecules and atoms. Problem is that would give off massive amounts of radiation, being that I just described nuclear fusion. Star trek gets around that by A) being magic and B) saying they can instantly transfer energy into any from of matter.
Well matter and energy are supposedly interchangeable.
Light something on fire. You're changing matter into energy. Light, heat, maybe other forms. It's going in the other direction which is God-like.
Besides, with my limited understanding I don't think we could get it to work.
With the wonkyness of quantum mechanics, and in particular, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Changing energy into matter or changing one form of matter into another would seem unobtainable.
However, it HAS been done. Whether by "God" or other unknown forces.
So, I suppose, theoretically it's possible.
Replicators still require energy, which depending on the amount and form can be quite hard to get a hold of, so I wouldn’t say they are post-scarcity since energy production would simply become the new bottleneck. When you are a federation of thousands of stars and planets, this isn’t much of a problem, but it could be if the scale is smaller and the energy sources available to you are far more limited.
There’s a theory that the region of space that the Federation occupies is unusually dense with stars, which gives it a leg up over the other powers in terms of energy production, which is why they have a replicator on every ship while in other parts of the galaxy famines are still a very real threat.
Very interesting. I believe you’re the first channel that tackles this topic in such a complete and concise manner. I always look forward to your uploads haha
It is entirely possible that the Roboscorpions never drained intelligence, rather it is made up by the scientist [i think 0 or Dala] who examined them, as an excuse to why they can't figure them out. Also something you missed in the melee weapons video is the fact, that Saturnite knives were so sharp, that according to a note, they could chop off the fingers of it's wielder without them even noticing it.
the zeta motherships better be in here or ill be disappointed
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Wow Radking! This video is amazing. Thanks for everything you do for the community!
Dunno if anyone will read this, but I have an idea on how the vending machines and the holographic tech works.
What if every building including the sierra madre casino itself is designed in a reactor style to generate the necessary energy for the vending machines and one of the unforeseen consequences was the cloud that now looks more along the toxic waste of a reactor. It would allow the entire complex to basically have fallout’s version of Wi-Fi, but holographic.
The cloud…it could either be an unintended consequence of big MT or something similar to toxic waste due to the design being something like a reactor.
*I AM SPECULATING. This is pure conjecture. If I am right, that’s awesome. I also have a few ideas on how the LAER can be created as well with upcoming tech being released in the near future.
One final thing, fallout energy tech isn’t that far away. In fact, you can find working portable gauss rifles being tested on CZcams! Still a prototype, but working!
The explanation to colters power armor is that its built as a faraday cage protecting its user from the electricity but constantly feeding electricity to stop incoming attacks
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I suppose the Sierra Madre chips for the Vending Machines could be considered like stem cells. With the right programming and schematics, they can become nearly any other form of material, just as stem cells can become different cells in the body.
But can Stem Cells being fed to produce another Stem Cells in perpetual state? Can the organs be reverted to Stem Cells or any kind of multipotent cells that produce excess biomass that then being rearranged to produce Stem cells?
Because Sierra Madre Vending Machine can be made into consuming minimum amount of energy through smart "Molecule Breeder" scheme if we judging how Fission Battery can be used to induce bunch scraps of metal to power the machine. Then in theory you can then make more "acids" same as in fission battery to make another chips along with any scrap of metal.
Heck, It's not even a picotech feedstock, you don't even need electricity. You just need the right code so that can activate...whatever inside the Vending Machine to peform their atomic reaction. This show that the code for voucher can grant you 1000 chips despite being presumably, contain nothing but memory for the data. A cartoon of tobacco and some pre-war clothing apparently have molecule energy too, because they got a code to convert those to chips.
I totaly agree with your placement of the geck. Of everything in the world of fallout the Geck really is black magic.
I think the sierra madre holograms are a tesla based energy being. If that makes sense. So instead of the projector beaming light to a spot it instead fills the area with enough energy to form a holographic image anywhere it wants. So the projector is a pseudo robot that can only use the hologram to interact with the world.
They basically had star trek tech but because of panic and greed none of the technologies were utilized properly. That and I think the whole fallout universe was started to remove the rights of all people to start deep space testing on the populous. All the vaults are situations that can happen on a generation ship.
Sure...the vault with the bunch of guys and a tiger.
A tiger Is something you'd most likely encounter in outer space
Remember Joe Exotic. If its for the rich you never know the eccentricities that are that of the elite.@@M4teo.
The scientists at BIG MT were off their rockers by the events of Fallout: New Vegas, and were a few survivors out of all the people working at BIG MT. If that doesn't cause insanity nothing does.
The Sierra Madre vending machines are like a precursor to replicators in Star Trek
So cool to see how far you’ve come. Keep up the awesome work.
Honestly the food Preservatives 200 years have gone by and the food is still Edible.
The fact that the tech is so advanced is impressive considering that computers remained as large unwieldy items unlike our own light and compact computers.
Though i would be interested to see this world's fair that had one of the miracle Vending machines where shone to the public. Though where it may likely be it would be interesting to see fallout's equivalent to Walt Disney (probably who ever drew Vault Boy) have their own EPCOT city.
Just saying Bethesda setting for a fallout spin off game right there.
The Walt Disney surrogate is John-Caleb Bradburton, the creator of Nuka Cola. He was incredibly rich, built a multi-media empire, and tried to stop himself from dying by putting his own head in a jar.
Just look at Nuka World, it is Disney World.
@@DovahFett you really think they wouldn't make an EPCOT stand in if they did a based florida game
I’ve wondered if the Sierra Madre vending machines have access to a larger supply of materials. Maybe the tokens keep people from wasting resources. 😃
I pretty sure the machine use energy from the chip to made the items rather than using materials from an external source considering Elijah grab one and put it in his bunker
The courier can replicate them from scrap metal I do believe.
I love these videos. Not only are they well thought out and researched, but they are very entertaining, You have a great voice. I hope you were able to send your hard drive to where it could bask in Atom's light and glory.
Always a good day with a long video from you comes out
the most OP tech in fallout is VATS. seriously, or jist the entire pipboy in and of itself. if you are a wastelander and you see someome with a pipboy. run. run and hide. or just leave the entire region. go someplace else, because that pipboy will turn your region upside down
My guess is that the holograms are very similar to Halo's Hardlight material; light manifesting itself in the physical form, with the projector needed only to keep its shape. Their beams are them literally blasting you with light.
I have also thaugt that protonaxes could be very simular to halo's energy swords
Photons can be used to exite solid objects, meaning that intense light could push something.
Mabye the holograms use UV, microwaves, infrared light or other invisible forms of radiation to exite the atoms of their surroundings in order to appear to be tangibly interacting with solid objects.
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"voodoo magic" as he scratches his head through the helmet
You’re forgetting the most OP tech and industry in the pre war world. Ink and banners that can be exposed to the elements for 200+ years and still be intact and legible.
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Cool video! Thanks for making the list. Cheers!
Your content has improved so much since last time I've seen you!
Wanna know what's an OP tech? A fully weaponized Cosworth
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Also good to see pignessman in my comments
Just saw this in my recommended, can't wait to finish it!!
43:30 that's true, tried Datura once, nearly went blind for 3 days (couldn't read for shit but could work out rough shapes in the distance). Really, takes either strong balls not to go to the hospital, or sheer stupidity during that time. Needless to say my vision was not impaired at all after the effects subsided and I do not currently wear glasses. Was one hell of a trip, totally worth it.
I’ve seen a few people compare the vending machines to the GECK’s ability to “produce matter”, and given the world’s fair origin I wouldn’t put it past vault/future tec to have put some research into that avenue for their own purposes. And since neither is completely ubiquitous throughout that world it’s hard to get a good sense of how much they might’ve overlapped in those abilities but I still like the possibility of a connection between them in at least the intended functions of creating necessities.
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Or what that could have done for the UNSC's war effort were it implemented before the war and likely increased in effectiveness since the UNSC is a multi stellar space opera faction with hundreds of worlds, immense energy generation capacity, tens of billions of people, and far larger and more stable industrial and logistical capacity than a bunch of college nerds in their basement. Seriously, picture prowlers teleporting shiva's inside places the covenant would rather you didn't and understand how broken this ability could be if pursued with even an iota of the funding that went into the earth ODP array.
I was hoping you'd touch on the fallout's universe ability to produce and store energy, the fact that they cracked fusion so early on and that they've perfected nuclear technology in a way that allows them to store it in small packs like a fusion core, micro fusion cells or fission batteries is amazing and i think the back bone of most technological advancements in the fallout universe
This hits different after the show. Cold fusion will have big ramifications, indeed. Great video.
I'm disappointed personally that's what they went with in the show. Really kinda ruins the whole ending of Fallout 4 and stuff with Mass Fusion making it interesting. I thought it was cool that fusion was made literally right before the great war but now it was around much easier and cheaper for months? Years?
@@eatham. what?
@@dillydraws what part confuses you
I also think the vending machines are able to do something similar to nucleosynthesis where elements are broken down into nothing more than atoms and then reassembled into whatever you want using only energy and literally object with mass which means in theory you could cram the thing full nuclear waste and get out nuclear fuel having nothing more than energy and more mass. However unless they figured out some kind of infinite energy source this thing breaks several laws of thermodynamics.
I feel the most unbelievable thing is that caravans still walk those roads. My local grocery store has a dirt side entrance and it's not taken care of at all. Because of that so many people drive next to the road that the road keeps getting wider.
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With so many creators covering fallout, your attention to detail and method of delivery sets you apart in a very big way and I appreciate your work so much. 🥰💞
A note about teleportation, if a person can be broken down to yhe molecular level, then there could be a way to get rid of harmfull cells during the teleport, people could be healed from all sorts of disease
The Nuka-Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla vending machines also likely act like those of the Sierra Madre, but only for a single product. This would explain why bottles are still found even two centuries later.
Many of the symptoms that Festus Discussed (Other than the obvious symptoms of extreme sugar consumption) point to radiation sickness, which means that bottles dispensed from these machines are somewhat radioactive.
Small price to pay for literal transmutation.
No they are just not looted, its for gameplay reasons obviously because its very unlikely considering how much time passed since the war.
@@syndicalistcat3138 The Courier: "Where can I find more of these caps?"
Malcolm Holmes: "All over the place. The easiest place to find them is unopened bottles of Sunset Sarsaparilla. You'd think they'd all have been picked clean by now, but somehow new bottles keep appearing in the machines."
Sure, maybe after 200+ years there are still unlooted machines. Or more likely, the vending machines themselves produce more bottles...like those of the Sierra Madre.
@@enclave1014 Believe in whatever you want. But the Sunset Sarsaparilla factory or the Nuka Cola ones you can visit, none of them are working.
@@syndicalistcat3138 The factories likely supplied grocery store chains and other retailers/events...a scale of which single vending machines couldn't keep up with.
@@enclave1014 You just lost it dude, the Sierra Madre vending machine technology was unique, this is one of the bigest plots in Dead Money, they were ordered by Sinclair from the Big MT scientist, no one else used it.
I have more real world examples:
1- Using quantum entanglement atoms have been teleported over small distances.
2- there is a experiment where a small ball of plasma have been shot a few centimeter in the air.
3- A big part of illumination is done through reflection, it is possible to use weave interactions to crate something, probably. Also in quantum computers light interact with itself through quantum tunneling.
4- The same weave interaction is used with sound, creating a sort of sound barrier that can lift objects and function as a wall.
5- Crispr, bacteria, virus and prions, artificial use and natural ability to do genetic engineering it's kinda like an FEV.
Thanks RadKing, you're probably one of the most interesting Fallout youtubers right now, right next to FroBro. Keep up the good work!
God I love this channel. Very few youtube channels write with the same degree of attention & personality as Radking. Thanks man
Surprised there's no mention of the Imposter Sheepsquatch. Essentially the same deal as Colter's armor, but requiring three people as conduits to short the shield. Add the typical Assaultron armanents, hulking size and cloaking tech _(as well as a protocol to acquire more Assaultrons to create Imposterlings,)_ and you got something pretty OP for being made by a few dudes in a basement.
wtf is a sheepsquatch. sounds dumb so it must be a fallout 76 thing
@@Slop_Dogg An Assaultron created by a small part of a mining company (if memory serves right,) tasked to kill inhabitants of and terrorizing the populace of Lewisburg into selling off the town, which had deposits of Ultracite beneath it.
@@Slop_Dogg Also, that's a little dismissive of 76, don't you think? Although it blatantly and shamelessly misuses Fallout iconography, it does actually have some decent, original lore as well.
@@a.monach7602 its lore it's so shit that It shouldn't be cannon
I got a weird one.. Weapon Repair Kits... what kind of space tech is in there that lets anyone fix up their guns like that?
Stripping parts off another and if you are crazy smart, close enougj firing types would atleast make sense but.. seriouslh what in a Weapon Repair Kit?
Maybe the matter energy replicator is the same type of technology used in the Sierra Madre vending machines.
For the vending machine- I only thought of this because it came after the teleportation part of the video, but I'd say it's a lot more practical for the vending machines to have a teleportation beacon in them like the downed satellite and be tied to a now inaccessable storage area that has all those things they can spit out, so that the chips are providing the energy for the teleportation rather than for the transfiguration of matter.
A.Autodocs SHOULD be on the list.
B.how about (if sci-fi,as go full mounty) nano-bots as the means of making G.E.C.K be able to clean/repair/restore???
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Something that is insane is I’ve seen over the last couple years people talking about technology that exists now, or is being worked on that makes most of these things in fallout now possible.
It is interesting how simultaneously ahead and behind Fallout is to our technology
Indeed, Fallout-Tech is damn far ahead and it is kind of sad, that we don't have a lot more technological gadgets to play with, like say a recon or combat drone (Fallout tech can easily make something like a Predator or Reaper drone!) or spider-mines or homing grenades.
Hell, with all that tech you can run wild, you could have a portable hologram-projector (either for a decoy to draw fire or for an attack hologram...note: There's a mod for Fallout New Vegas that gives you that and frankly, while "Overpowered" (it is a single-player-game, so why shouldn't there be fun and overpowered tools?), it is fun to see a Starlet Hologram chase around Legionaires (even more funny because the Legion is a group of fucking tech hating luddites!))...also some tools like a grappling-hook too climb buildings etc. it is all possible with fallout tech, hell, we have a real-life-super-hero-costume in Fallout 4, but sadly they didn't give it gadgets like allowing us to glide (like Batman!) etc. :( )
there are spider mines in operation anchorage if i remember correctly
I would say one OP technology of fallout is the stealth technology. Because The Chinese stealth suit can let you walk through laser grids shown in the waste Lander update during the vault 79 raid for the settlers.
love the voice in the back of the intro
i feel this video could become big
Those Sierra Madre vending machines are really the only thing keeping the player alive in Hardcore mode. the fact you can win a voucher for the abandoned BoS bunker to receive a thousand Sierra Madre Chips, plus a couple hundred free ones every 3 days, that one machine provides around 25 servings of food and alcohol alone...assuming that consuming a whole bottle of scotch, whiskey, or wine is 1 'serving' which I would not doubt in the Mojave. The vending machines, assuming they have all of the blueprints we can find, can dispense food, medicine, ammo, and repair kits. with enough chips and machines they really could bring supply shortages to a halt, or at the very least, offset the shortages a considerable amount.
Elijah was so close to doing something good were he not so obsessed with control and revenge on the NCR, he really could have taken those machines and brought the wastes back into something close to Pre-War standards of living. I'm sure if the machines could dispense firearms as well, then there would be no reason to use anything else due to how easy it seems to be able to replicate chips. (not like you cant just write down a small 'how-to' guide in universe either, only the rules of the game stop you from doing that.)
One thing they did which I understand is a nitpick, but with how those machines work those food items the machines make would be neither irradiated, or over 200 years old. They would be made fresh, because WHY would the machines be programmed to account for how much time has passed since the bombs fell? those Salisbury Steak dinners would be ready to heat up and eat...probably taste about as good as the frozen dinners today, which does not say much, but still leagues better than what they likely do in Post-Apocalyptic America.
The part where you talking about Fusion vs. Cold fusion Fusion takes temperatures similar to that of a core of a star where is Cold Fusion can be done at room temperature
2:43 I can actually personally attest to teleportation, even in limited capacity, being a startlingly potent logistical advantage in wartime, through my playthroughs of the game _Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth,_ a civilization-builder set on an alien world that advanced himans are trying desperately to move to and colonize after earth is ruined to near-uninhabitability by climate change, war, resource scarcity, and the widespread gradual societal collapse such events would cause. The technologies you can research in this game are vast and varied; from genetically-engineered titans to levitating warships and robots large enough to march through shallow seas, but also includes an orbital teleportation platform; a satellite you can deploy which allows any unit stationed within a city to teleport to the seven hexagonal tiles beneath the satellite. This allows deployment of entire armies nearly instantly to any areas you have orbital coverage in, which can be expanded by orbital signal relay sattelites, or certain ores. Even without the expanded range options, the orbital coverage provided by your cities allows you to teleport as many troops as you have space for and resources for the satellites for along any warfront, and sometimes even behind enemy lines, allowing the extremely rapid deployment of entire invasion forces before your enemy can even prepare the beginnings of a counter-offensive, and taking your enemy's cities one by one allows you to deploy more satellites and fresh troops as often as you can build the troops and satellites, allowing your enemy no time to regain ground or prepare defenses for your next strike into their territory.
TL:DR; Through use of a sci-fi civilization game and war simulator that involves limited teleportation options, I can say that even limited teleportation is a drastic, near-overpowering strategic advantage in wartime.
i have over 1000 hours in new vegas and i had no clue the sierra madre chips are octagonal! i had always assumed they were round! Great Video
My favorite thing on this list is Liberty Prime.
When approaching the first energy barricade the Enclave set up between the Citadel and Project Purity, not only does Liberty Prime not hesitate, he analyzes and measures the energy composition, strength and construction of the barrier, then determines the threat level of the obstacle, and destroys it, *all in real time* , while stating, “probability of mission deterrent: ZERO PERCENT”
The most badass line of any Fallout game imo.
Not to mention that Liberty Prime itself must be a supercomputer of almost unrivaled intelligence to do that all so fast with such confidence.