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Anyone here know or remember the Wanamingos from Fallout 2? Those buggers were tough. Interesting creatures as they were the pure creation of life (rather than the mutation of) from the corruption of nuclear radiation. I wonder if they'll show up in any of the upcoming expansions. I hope so. I have a good feeling that there'll be more expansions for Fallout: New Vegas considering they'll be releasing the next three all over this spring/summer. The soon releasing of Skyrim shouldn't affect Fallout: New Vegas as it's Obsidian and not Bethesda (directly) that's developing the game. IIRC.

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Ok thats terrible .to much public enemy.On topic wanamingos seem like they could be an ok addition.

Fallout Bible says they're extinct.
So it's unlikely they will show up again.

They went extinct thanks to the Chosen One killing their queen

I'm wondering where you got your Spontaneous generation theory from?
according to the fallout bible


and

I have the collector's art book from the Collector's Edition of Fallout 3 for PS3. They have a sketch in there for a Wanamingo but they never used it in the game. It was different than the one from Fallout 2 as it didn't have the tentacles but did have the large mouth and legs (but were like arms).

If it is harder to kill than a death claw of behemoth I'd like to see it. So far each one I've fought has nothing on explosives, nor mini-nukes (sadly their rare now in FNV).

Perhaps your kidnappers in OWB are trying to create a new breed of Wanamingos? Maybe the option to team up with your kidnappers is due to an "Accidental" outbreak of them, having to try and eradicate them before they make it into the wastes - again.

Has potential.

Personally, as they're dying out and/or extinct, it might be interesting to see a new, if not similar pre-war genetically engineered monstrosity. They're too cool a creature to just kill off completely. But maybe I just wanna see Wanamingo Facehuggers.

This I would like to see tho weve been over this before slightly in a topic I think it was Super Mutants DLC or somesuch

Extinct my ash. Just that colony of Wanamingos on the west coast would be extinct. Look how the Deathclaws spread. Nature, no matter how repugnant, always finds a way... and it certainly found a way to create Wanamingos in the first place (with man providing the necessary ingredients to create such abberations).

Besides, this is all immagination. Anything's possible. So why not a different breed of Wanamingos?

I'm guessing there could be some Wanamingos locked up in OWB. Being "extinct" as far as the Wasteland is concerned doesn't mean the Big Empty didn't produce them originally and keep some.

so why not Goris a don't know i personally i'm all for it has OWB is suposed to be a pre war big sience facility and it's on the west cost so who knows if the damn things wheren't created there

As cool as they are and as much as I'd love them to be in the game, I do believe they're extinct. For those of you who don't know what that means, it means COMPLETELY WIPED THE [censored] OUT, according to the bible. It's a damn shame though, those things would be sick.

There was one queen, The Chosen One killed it.

Unless the Shi brought them back and undid the genetic count down clock as a weapon for their "Empire." Shi have he tech and the know how to do such a thing and they are in the heart of Wanamingo country.

I'd like to see what the Shi are up to and How the Hubologist launch went

That would be interesting to find out I would honestly laugh if it took off and went face first into the ground but it would be interesting on the prospects of space exploration after the bombs fell and such.

well.. you didn't "have" to kill them in the game. I believe they were totally optional. In fact I think I completely missed the quest the first time through. Don't know why they couldn't be around. That's the thing about the fallout timeline I don't really like.... sure does have a lot of things in there that I didn't do or did differently.

that was the cool thing about Black Isle (over bethesda's braking the dragon) is they set in stone the events of each game after they geared up for a sequel

so there is a Canon ending for both Fallout 1 and 2. something I doubt we will ever see from bethesda (although they could surprise me ) but in the Canon ending of Fallout 2, the Chosen one wiped out the Wanamingos

(much easier to build a story if you have a set background)

Kinda want to see more of the mutants from vault 22 or....floaters? I think. IIRC they traveled with SM's. All I can remember about it. If Wanamingos are extinct, thats it. Would be interesting to see a dead one laying around (Like the FEV rejects from F3) in OWB being experimented on by your captors to attempt to revive the race or some such.

I still don't find this "wanamingos are extinct" thing to be very compelling. There's really no reason there can't be wanamingos in the Big Empty, especially if that could be where the creatures were created. The Chosen One killing a queen in California wouldn't have any affect on creatures locked in a secure facility hundreds of miles away.

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 would easily fit in with the setting for old world blues

You are right Gabriel, good that you paste the Fallout Bible Part.
This Battle in the Mine is still on my Mind, was awesome. (tuff wannamingo bastards)
But now their Sun has Set. Sad but true.
Bringing them back, make not much sense.