Vault-Tec

The Pip-Boys are made by Vault.

No, they're not Vault-Tec.

Robco made the Pip-Boys.

I always forget that.

Yep.

He made them for, exactly.

And, of course, Cooper doesn't use a Pip-Boy because of his aversion to Vault-Tec.

And Robco a bit, too.

Personally.

I think it's one of the worst examples of the awful things that they would do in the vaults among Vault-Tec.

Vault 75 is a vault that is underneath Malden Middle School in Fallout 4.

So you go to Malden Middle School, you'll find your way down to the basement where you can get into the vault, and as you are going through this vault and exploring it, things like that, you find all sorts of terminal entries and holotapes and things like that explaining the history of this vault and what went on here.

Yes, we're talking 11 to 14.

Yeah, 11 to 14 years old.

And the Vault-Tec representatives and scientists, researchers, whatever that were operating the facility.

and so what they did with these kids was they trained them um you know various physical um training as well as mental training um to try to produce um the perfect person basically the perfect um soldier in particular you know it's that whole idea of we're gonna make like the ideal super human.

You see, we never get to see the Stranger in normal combat.

He can only be encountered in VATS, or the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System as it's called.

Why is that? Well, chances are it's just a gameplay mechanic, but maybe there's more to it.

According to the lore, VATS was some kind of advanced technology developed by the Voltek Corporation and implanted on Pip-Boys of all of their dwellers.

The exact science of VATS has been lost to history.

We're not quite sure how exactly it works or how Voltek came up with it, but maybe there's some sort of connection between it and the Stranger.

I mean, Vault-Tec was a pretty shady company known for its experiments.

It's not totally beyond the realm of possibility that The Stranger is one of their creations.

These Workshop DLCs are typically geared towards a very specific audience of players, and I think Bethesda recognizes that, so I can't imagine this DLC being anything terribly pricey.

The second DLC announced by Bethesda was known as Vault-Tec, and is set to release this July.

This DLC contains the tools to essentially build your own vault in settlement mode, as well as what appeared to be my favorite asset, and quote, "...run experiments on your dwellers," which speaks to all of our inner sadists, if you will.

I'm not entirely sure what that means by experiments on your dwellers...

Bethesda is going to lose that excuse very quickly, and in the coming months with the release of these DLCs, I think Bethesda is going to be aware that the only way they can see continued success with their DLCs is if they go bigger, more Far Harbor, Solstheim-esque DLCs, that while require more resources and time on Bethesda's part, are simply too big to be emulated or ever surpassed by modders.

All of this is not to say that I think either of the two DLCs discussed in this video will at any point be proven disappointing.

I'll probably spend hours making a fool of my Vault Dwellers with the Vault-Tec DLC, and then one of myself with the Contraptions DLC.

But overall, I'm pretty interested to see with what happens here, and how modding has kind of changed the scene for Bethesda, and is going to force them to work a little bit harder.

Oh, yes.

The Vault-Tec water bottle.

Yeah, that's from my Fallout streams.

And that to say, this is a piece of sticky paper that we printed onto.

So it's really just an O'Walla.

Yeah, it's just an O'Walla.

A Vault-Tec O'Walla.

It's weird to do.

As long as you see all the things you're familiar with.

The Vault-Tec and Robco and Automatoids and all that.

Anyway, yeah.

I hope it's good.

Nuka-Cola ran patriotic advertisements encouraging conservation while simultaneously rolling out new flavors.

Vault-Tec, so already a major government contractor for various preparedness initiatives, received dramatically expanded contracts.

The American government began investing heavily in a new program of research, a biological one conducted in the deep and classified basements of military installations, that would eventually produce something called the Forced Evolutionary Virus.

But that belongs to a later chapter of this story.

Intelligence agencies noted unusual patterns of communication, unusual movements of personnel, unusual activity at installations that had always been quiet.

The assessments that reached the desks of decision-makers in Washington and Beijing contained language that decision-makers in such positions are always reluctant to fully read.

Vault-Tec's salespeople were very busy that autumn.

The men and women in blue and yellow uniforms knocked on doors with a new urgency.