I hear ya, not much hope for ppl live near big cities. And don't forget going have to survive fallout after the blast. Just hope your town not in direction of winds. The game not much or at all help if we ever have one. I guess it would at least let you now think or try to prepare yourself for one. My family here are hunters, and most of us know how to survive off the land. I'll say I have pretty good chance of surviving one. I guess living in the sticks is good in someways. hahaha :mohawk:

No way. o_o
My idea of self-defense is Googling what to do if I'm ever in the situation to use self-defense; and knowing me, I'd Google it when I was in that said situation where I'd... You know, need to know about self-defense. Without the Internet, I'd be doomed. D:

Reasons why most people would not.

First take into consideration exactly how long after the bombs drop will you be on the earth. Radiation would be by far the worst part of it.

In every fallout game we have the pip boys. These have the rad meters, maps, etc. However a normal wastelander wouldn't have a pipboy to tell him when he is in a radiation field. Ontop of that disease and what not is not exactly concentrated on in the game. seeing how most people, especial in freeside, have terrible hygiene, germs would be on a rampage and disease would prbly be rampart. Doctors would be hard to find since education will be a rare thing in the wasteland. Also i believe ammo and guns would be much harder to find then portrayed in the game.

Interms of wasteland dangers, most of it is BS except the raiders and what not that humans formed. I dont think we will be seeing deathclaws or anything of that nature any time soon.

So in short the greatest dangers that we would face would be problems with the radiation (mostly food. Some physist said that if fallout were to happen in real life, the radaition would get into our crops and food supplies causing 2/3 of the worlds population to die out) and radiation poisoning that would kill us and the other biggest danger would be ourselves. We would most likely start to form gangs like the fiends and kahns and others will try to bring order by forming Military organizations such as the Enclave and the BoS and the NCR and these gangs would still fight each other and the wastelanders who are no affiliated with any of them will be caught in the middle of the fighting.

Great points Deified.

Survive? Heh. Oh yeah, http://www.newvegasnexus.com/imageshare/images/899612-1289282631.jpg (a bunch of her friends) and I will be there - and you won't want to meet me if you have anything I need. :chaos:

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You make very great points Deified but I don't think this thread is serious.

After playing Fallout 3 and NV? Sure.

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I seriously doubt that would ever happen, in any circumstance. Sure there might be some fighting, squabling over food e.t.c. But nothing on that scale.

That's one of the biggest fallacies I've noticed in post-apocalyptic fiction. The idea that people would turn on each other. If anything it would be the exact opposite.

Maybe, but i think it depends on situation. I mean look at the old Indian tribes and stuff. These people would still fight each other over herds of food and land. Infact we still do the same. The thing that we have an advantage as today is our ability to communicate fast and travel long distances. In the fallout universe every1 seems to walk on foot and use radios that take advantage of the already present radio towers. So if a nuclear war were to happen, as an example, the states in the united states would most likely lose connection because most of our government might die out. Then people will start to form gangs, and recruit other people. They could force people to join them as Ceaser does and try to expand.

I mean a nuclear war would catapult us back in time in terms of how we treat each other. Medieval ages and how kings fought with each other, tribes ( as stated above) and how they fought each other. Sure with time we might start to unite. But in the early stages of the post apocalyptic world, unity will be something that would be rare to find.

Realistically? The show Jericho got it down pretty well.

Watch it. It was a great show.

X2

Playing the game has done little to help my survival chances other than making me think about it more than I normally would have.

Whave gives me my best chance of survival is:

- I have a lot of food stocked up (I buy in bulk to save $$).
- I am armed to the teeth (I collect weapons) and I have a pile of ammo.
- I am a Veteran with skills in the combat arena. I can shoot well, know how to hamstring my enemy and I make really cool boobie traps etc.
- I know first aid and then some. I can stop bleeding, treat for shock, splint a broken bone... I even know how to handle a svcking chest wound.

BUT... even with all of that my chances are slim. Why?

- Even though I am skilled at hunting and fishing most of the game animals will be radioactive corpses
- Sooner or later my cans of food will run low and then its either scrounge or start planting. If the ground is covered in Alpha from fallout, planting is useless for years. So it is time to start walking way north or way south to get out of the irradiated areas. What are the odds of not getting killed by hungry folks on the way?

Despite this, since I'm prepared, I seem to have pretty good odds of survival (compared to most folks who will die from panicked stupidity or lack of educaation in the first week)
What svcks is that I am diabetic. I'm dead no matter what. Once my supply of insulin is stopped...

Too bad.
My poor wife is going to have it rough. Maybe she can barter guns and canned goods for protection... for a while.

All fine points. A proficiency with firearms would be a major bonus though. It would give you the advantage of being able to easily defend yourself and your family.

In that sense... Big city folks would be screwed as well as states like California (where guns are heavily regulated but criminals get them anyway).

Indeed it was one of my all time favorite shows, until they cancel the show. :cryvaultboy:

I was on the site of a CBS morning show shooting and was able to talk to one of the higher-ups there. Let's just say I voiced my disappointment.

You said boobie...

Now that thats out of the way do I think I could survive in a fallout'ish' apocalypse?
That is compaired to if I was born after the bombs fell or before.
If the great war happened now and I lived past the bombing... odds are not long.
I have a soft heart, and unless I fell in with some real badasses I don't think I would make it.
That being said my best friend is a cop.
Cops stick together... I could think of no better 'force' to know a man on the inside after an apocalypse .
I do collect guns, and shoot rather well at a range.
However I have no idea how I would do shooting at people...

Nice, was you on there any special reason?

No, I don't think these games would help us survive the apocalypse. But if I survived it I believe I have a better chance of having the survival skills needed to survive and I had those before I played the very first Fallout.

I lived in Roswell, New Mexico and CBS was doing their morning show (The Early Show?) on the 4th of July. I was in the crowd and bumped into the lady I was talking about. She was rather defensive.

I think fallout butters up the thought of a post apocalyptic future.

Think about it, it would take years for a real group to form. The first few weeks so many people would die... no law would create chaos. The U.S. army would be overrun no matter how hard they tried to create some order.

Everyone would kill everyone. How sure can you be to trust strange people to let into your base when you can really only trust family?

I said yes cause I know for a fact that my city wont get hit by a bomb and theres mountains near me so i would have a good chance of living there and always having fresh water. i just need to stock up on guns and im good.

I voted no but I guess it really depends on what you're asking.

I could probably survive just fine in the core NCR territory, I wouldn't even have to give up that many of my modern comforts. They have pretty much everything we do except automobile transportation. You can even watch movies (as long as it's porm, they only have porm).

The mojave area would be tougher but I could handle it in a city, as long as it didn't get raided by legion or Fiends.

The capital wasteland would definitely svck, I might die of radiation poisoning or kill myself from having to eat 200 year old food constantly.

As someone in the wasteland trying to accomplish something, hell no


- OR - If you're asking about the war, I'd survive the bombs since I live in the middle of nowhere, but who knows if I survive the resulting aftermath. I have guns in my house so that might help.

Anybody interested in a rather more realistic idea of what to expect after a full-out nuclear war, check out the excellent (read: horrifying, depressing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads (this is not a movie for your kids, folks).

Lol that sounds cheery.

I need to check that out...

Also you can read the Alas, Babylon. Its very realistic. Heck the man even went on to write pamplets on how to survive post nuke for the gov.
The only downside is its a touch slow, and it was written in the 50's so its a bit dated.

Yup. You know it's a good movie when all your named characters die horribly.

(Well. One survives. Kind of.)

I started saving up a stash of bottle caps a long time ago. If it happens, I'll be the richest guy around.

I wish I were kidding.