» Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:15 pm Even if there were wannamingos at BE they would still have died from their internal clocks.
"They were designed as FEV-tailored weapons for waging war on other countries and they escaped into the wastes."
- Wanamingo's
FEV, as we know, was only suppose to exist at Mariposa, West-Tek and Vault 87.
"The eggs you see in Fallout 2 are the last generation of Wannamingoes to exist in the wasteland; the young Wannamingoes seen in F2 will perish in five years, and their parents a few years before that - an internal genetic clock will simply stop ticking, and they'll fall over dead. The Wannamingoes are a vicious mutant breed that had their moment in the sun, and now their sun has set.
To put the tombstone on their extinction, the largest known nest of Wannamingoes were wiped out when the Great Wannamingo mine was reclaimed by Redding with the help of a traveling tribal. The mother was killed, and the last remaining eggs were hunted down, stepped on, and then the remains were examined by local scientists and doctors who came to the extinction conclusions mentioned above. "
- Bible 0
"It is possible that the wannamingoes were old Enclave experiments (or even experiments from before the Great War), and if this is true, then it's likely their genetic/biological deadman's switch was purposely engineered to keep them from breeding past a certain generation. "
- Bible 0
It'd be a bad idea to just go back on this and say "Oh, but there was another queen at Big Empty!".
That's just bad writing just to include them for the sake of including them for fanservice. (And not even good fanservice at that as it'd break/bend lore)
Lore says that they became extinct: "The eggs you see in Fallout 2 are the last generation of Wannamingoes to exist in the wasteland."
Chris Avellone who wrote the bible and is the lead designer/project director/whatever on OWB, out of all people I'd figure he'd be the last one to break it's lore.
It says they became extinct throught the wasteland, not just extinct in the core region, but completely extinct.
So we'll see whether Chris is going to hold true to the bible or if he's going to discredit it completely.
"They were designed as FEV-tailored weapons for waging war on other countries and they escaped into the wastes."
- Wanamingo's
FEV, as we know, was only suppose to exist at Mariposa, West-Tek and Vault 87.
"The eggs you see in Fallout 2 are the last generation of Wannamingoes to exist in the wasteland; the young Wannamingoes seen in F2 will perish in five years, and their parents a few years before that - an internal genetic clock will simply stop ticking, and they'll fall over dead. The Wannamingoes are a vicious mutant breed that had their moment in the sun, and now their sun has set.
To put the tombstone on their extinction, the largest known nest of Wannamingoes were wiped out when the Great Wannamingo mine was reclaimed by Redding with the help of a traveling tribal. The mother was killed, and the last remaining eggs were hunted down, stepped on, and then the remains were examined by local scientists and doctors who came to the extinction conclusions mentioned above. "
- Bible 0
"It is possible that the wannamingoes were old Enclave experiments (or even experiments from before the Great War), and if this is true, then it's likely their genetic/biological deadman's switch was purposely engineered to keep them from breeding past a certain generation. "
- Bible 0
It'd be a bad idea to just go back on this and say "Oh, but there was another queen at Big Empty!".
That's just bad writing just to include them for the sake of including them for fanservice. (And not even good fanservice at that as it'd break/bend lore)
Lore says that they became extinct: "The eggs you see in Fallout 2 are the last generation of Wannamingoes to exist in the wasteland."
Chris Avellone who wrote the bible and is the lead designer/project director/whatever on OWB, out of all people I'd figure he'd be the last one to break it's lore.
It says they became extinct throught the wasteland, not just extinct in the core region, but completely extinct.
So we'll see whether Chris is going to hold true to the bible or if he's going to discredit it completely.
Given that the FO2 Wannamingoes are only the "...last generation to exist in the wasteland" that doesn't really cover a sealed Pre-War facility that still functions. If wannamingoes were created at Big Empty, there's no real reason the facility's AI can't simply create more, unless there is a reason, and we simply find some dead creatures. I'll leave it up to Chris and his team to decide, rather than declare it bad writing as if my opinion matters.
