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!
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The matter energy converter mentioned in the Geck sounds like the same technology within the Sierra Madre vending machines tbh.
Where the Fallout Universe is concerned, I'm becoming more and more suspicious it's not "our world but a timeline change and some sci fi", but "our world if it had different physics".
There's several real world arguments that even if an alien civilization could spot us, it'd never reach us. Yet the Fallout Universe features two different alien species.
Or what of Fusion Cores, very specifically, Fallout:NV's hyper breeder, which is essentially a perpetual motion machine, and yet it doesn't explode.
I'm not even calling these "unrealistic plot holes in the fabric of reality", in fact, I'm fascinated at the implications, even radiation works quite differently than how it does here.
As to a nomination for OP tech, I'd say the under skin armour you can have implanted in NV, sure it's subtle, but it's incredible.
Is it possible the holograms in Sierra Madre are a sort of wireless energy manipulated by a ai the laser they shoot looks more like electricity from a Tesla canon
Don't really care for liberty prime hey has no real world counterpart and might as well just be the iron giant never played fallout 3 so can't really comment on that robo scorpion again there's no counterpart so I don't see why you would include that at all Pam is a fake Pam was confronted with information she cannot correlate and in order to get the answer she wanted she calls the Great War she became the self fulfilling prophecy not in her quest that you do they're simple enough and she'll predict the outcome because she's cheating may providing a pathway to the answer she wants to give you not once has she ever given an answer that was contrary to what she expected and if she does and she dismisses it out of hand the best robots are the assaullttrons and the Mr gutys
14:20 not only did PAM and Mr House predict the nukes, but so did the rich Fredrick Sinclair who wasn't a scientist or a super computer robot, and most of US citizens were already fearing the war and could feel the tensions rising as so did the missiles.
So… Vault-Tec made geck? Where is Vault-Tec? if they are in space or on the moon, are their motive to Terraform Earth because of the scarcity of materials etc? Did they start the war just to easier Terraform earth?
Small note, researchers actually have turned energy into matter. But it takes a lot of energy and you don't get much matter out of it and nothing like is seen in Fallout. But it is a real thing that has been done. sm
Liberty Prime is quite literally an anomaly in the Fallout world. There's no reason for him to exist beyond being a plot hole flex tape, his existence effectively nullifies the use of strategical nuclear warheads, and there's no reason that everyone in the Wasteland isn't trying to make their own or steal that one or similar pre-war models.
If I remember correctly scientists were able to change lead to gold, the story went that a nuclear reactor was going under repair so the whole thing was shut off, scientists asked to run a test when they turned everything back on, tossed in a chunk of lead, and after the reactor was turned on and they got the lead out the lead went from 100% lead to 99.99999% lead 0.00001% gold, so yeah it takes a Metric Fugg ton to change an element
27:34 So, a little theory about this one. Photonics seem to be one of the futures in computer hardware. Involves quantum mechanics. What if the emitter projects a CPU in the body of the simulated guard? Maybe it "is" the CPU? Given lightwaves are the input of these guards, both "internal" (from the projection) and external (seeing the world and the intruder) and it seems have potential for electric power (the beam weapon it discharges) this could potentially be feasible?
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'd have to suggest the existence of various sci-fi series which back up the tech with real theory. The existence of vending machines are sound science in a sci-fi world where nuclear power, or better, is the main energy source. I'd recommend reading the Spinward Fringe series. It explains the theory behind things.
Colter's armor is similar to modern-day active/energized armor, of which the general principle is that a large electric discharge can overload a [projectile]'s mass energy, vaporizing (part of) it and rendering it nearly useless. However, this sort of active armor is for large land vehicles/ships with the capability to support the energy needs. Seeing it on a(n im)mortal man is very sci-fi.
the REAL overpowered tech is your trusty old Pip Boy, slows the users time, Locks on your weapon to specific parts of your enemies bodies, and allows you to kill dozens of people in less than a second
The hologram projectors could be creating constructs of photon-based crystals; robots made of light, essentially. Which would be incredibly impressive. Basically creating a robot which then establishes a wifi connection with its projector, and then sustains itself via said wifi connection. And then of course, the projector is the only one that it can be keyed to rather than some central projection unit for redundancy and security purposes.
So, the raider power armor from Nuka-World, it makes a plasma arc around the surface of the armor plating. The plasma arc seeps from an under layer of plating, and the outer layer of plating has an opposite charge, so the incoming ballistic is charged and deflected by EM repulsion.
id just like to think the arc based weaponry launched a highly conductive bolt, albeit small in size but highly potent for the tesla based weaponry, but thats something id like to think, xD would need proof of some kind of physical damage or bullet impact mark
My bet is the tech used to reinforce Colter's power armor with the bumper car grid was probably stolen or created at gunpoint by someone with the know-how. Either that, or the colorful bunch of maniacs in Nuka World are smarter than they look: they definitely aren't your average Raider gangs. Heck, they probably discovered the tech by accident for all I know: maybe there was more to Colter than we knew, before he turned to raiding. The theories go on.
Big MT continues to be one of my favorite locations in any Fallout game and that's with Point Lookout, Zion, Enclave Bunkers, Mothership Zeta, and many others to contend with: I was a kid a candy shop going through the labs. That said, I am thinking a bit about some of the stuff we see there: the "Virtual Reality" chamber in one of the facilities seems to have means to create boxes and weapons from seemingly nothing similar to the matter recombiners in the Sierra Madre vending machines. Though we don't see it in action, since it was destroyed before the War.
It's why I love Fallout so much: tech that is sometimes indistinguishable from sorcery is the best tech.
The holograms could be made from extremely tiny dust-like nano machines or excited metallic particles controlled by the transmitters through remote magnetic effects. This would allow it to have some kind of physicality to it, and perhaps the material itself generates light when under the control of these fields. This could explain its physicality and it's ability to selectively channel directed energy. As for the senses they have this could actually be a function of hidden cameras around the area informing the projector which direction to point the hologram. If the hologram is made of manipulated nano machines then they could possibly coalesce into small sensory units. There's also the recent revelation that through Wi-Fi signals you can track people's location and even bodily position within their home. An effect like this might be the way that the projector can determine your position in order to determine whether or not you are a security risk.
Given how versatile the list of things is that the chips can be used to make, perhaps that "meager" pay was better than it seems at face value. Then again, larger items, like furniture, become a whole other issue. The machine could produce food, water, and other small-scale necessities, but it couldn't spit out a bed, a sofa, or pay for someone's rent or mortgage. If the employees lived in provided housing, it would solve many of these issues, but it becomes very much a mining town type scenario. Company housing and amenities, and provisions bought from the company store using credit only viable at the company store.
Some of the "force fields" are virtually identical to what's known in our world as invisible fences. The radar fence and pulse field seem to be very similar applications, but perhaps using different types of emissions. Real world invisible fences use sensors to detect when they've been crossed by a certain device, which is attached to a shock collar. It's used as negative reinforcement to keep animals (usually dogs) from running loose by training them to stay within the confines of the detectors. Understandably considered cruel by many, the use of invisible fences is rather controversial.
First time I met colter I was a level 1000 I loved big guns and power armor I walked In the door popped him with the squirt gun and mowed him down in one volley second time I walked in forgot the squirt gun and spent 5 minutes sneaking nades in his drawers gages face lol
To add to how impressive the Vending Machines are, there's actually an argument to be made that the chips aren't actually needed at all. When you first investigate a vending machine in the Madre, the text says the coin slot looked like it was added after the fact. There's a chance that the only thing the chips do is act as keys to allow you to use the machine, and that if you knew how they were made you might not need anything at all to use the machine.
I once built a Tesla Cannon like weapon. The core was of course the Tesla Coil however to direct the arc I had to use a laster TUBE(anything else will self destruct in the EM cascade) that ionized the air. I did around 2006.
When you make comparisons between the 2 teleportation techs. They are very similar. They both have radio signals used. And while the big MT never explains it. It’s more than likely to work the same way as the Institute’s radio
Both can teleport to set locations from anywhere. With the Big MT version simply having an extra location with both the Sink and the satellite
And both require an extra tool to facilitate the teleportation. With the transportalonder and the courser chip
I honestly feel like the devs used NV to help set the rules for how the relay works. Which, honestly, isn’t that surprising
I see a bunch of comments about how Fallout tech is impossible in general, but I think everyone is forgetting they had actual fusion power. And the whole handheld nuke thing. My point is, they were pretty advanced!
The matter energy converter mentioned in the Geck sounds like the same technology within the Sierra Madre vending machines tbh.
Where the Fallout Universe is concerned, I'm becoming more and more suspicious it's not "our world but a timeline change and some sci fi", but "our world if it had different physics".
There's several real world arguments that even if an alien civilization could spot us, it'd never reach us.
Yet the Fallout Universe features two different alien species.
Or what of Fusion Cores, very specifically, Fallout:NV's hyper breeder, which is essentially a perpetual motion machine, and yet it doesn't explode.
I'm not even calling these "unrealistic plot holes in the fabric of reality", in fact, I'm fascinated at the implications, even radiation works quite differently than how it does here.
As to a nomination for OP tech, I'd say the under skin armour you can have implanted in NV, sure it's subtle, but it's incredible.
Is it possible the holograms in Sierra Madre are a sort of wireless energy manipulated by a ai the laser they shoot looks more like electricity from a Tesla canon
Don't really care for liberty prime hey has no real world counterpart and might as well just be the iron giant never played fallout 3 so can't really comment on that robo scorpion again there's no counterpart so I don't see why you would include that at all Pam is a fake Pam was confronted with information she cannot correlate and in order to get the answer she wanted she calls the Great War she became the self fulfilling prophecy not in her quest that you do they're simple enough and she'll predict the outcome because she's cheating may providing a pathway to the answer she wants to give you not once has she ever given an answer that was contrary to what she expected and if she does and she dismisses it out of hand the best robots are the assaullttrons and the Mr gutys
14:20 not only did PAM and Mr House predict the nukes, but so did the rich Fredrick Sinclair who wasn't a scientist or a super computer robot, and most of US citizens were already fearing the war and could feel the tensions rising as so did the missiles.
So… Vault-Tec made geck? Where is Vault-Tec? if they are in space or on the moon, are their motive to Terraform Earth because of the scarcity of materials etc? Did they start the war just to easier Terraform earth?
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Small note, researchers actually have turned energy into matter. But it takes a lot of energy and you don't get much matter out of it and nothing like is seen in Fallout. But it is a real thing that has been done. sm
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Fun fact, Prime in fallout 4 he pick up a behemoth like a toy and throws him.
Liberty Prime is quite literally an anomaly in the Fallout world. There's no reason for him to exist beyond being a plot hole flex tape, his existence effectively nullifies the use of strategical nuclear warheads, and there's no reason that everyone in the Wasteland isn't trying to make their own or steal that one or similar pre-war models.
Despite playing it all the time I was confused when Fallout 4 came after New Vegas, thinking they weren’t even in the same series
If I remember correctly scientists were able to change lead to gold, the story went that a nuclear reactor was going under repair so the whole thing was shut off, scientists asked to run a test when they turned everything back on, tossed in a chunk of lead, and after the reactor was turned on and they got the lead out the lead went from 100% lead to 99.99999% lead 0.00001% gold, so yeah it takes a Metric Fugg ton to change an element
27:34 So, a little theory about this one.
Photonics seem to be one of the futures in computer hardware. Involves quantum mechanics.
What if the emitter projects a CPU in the body of the simulated guard? Maybe it "is" the CPU?
Given lightwaves are the input of these guards, both "internal" (from the projection) and external (seeing the world and the intruder) and it seems have potential for electric power (the beam weapon it discharges) this could potentially be feasible?
The GECK.
A chemical laser was so large it took an entire Boeing 747 to be housed in to make a system it could be used in.
31:26 what the fuck is that accuracy
The roboscorpions are very similar to a monster in the undermountain dungeon from dnd2e
I'm sure that Brahmin milk is available in Fo4 from the Slocom's Joe CC.
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
The stimpak man, literally the most useful item
I'd have to suggest the existence of various sci-fi series which back up the tech with real theory. The existence of vending machines are sound science in a sci-fi world where nuclear power, or better, is the main energy source. I'd recommend reading the Spinward Fringe series. It explains the theory behind things.
Colter's armor is similar to modern-day active/energized armor, of which the general principle is that a large electric discharge can overload a [projectile]'s mass energy, vaporizing (part of) it and rendering it nearly useless.
However, this sort of active armor is for large land vehicles/ships with the capability to support the energy needs. Seeing it on a(n im)mortal man is very sci-fi.
I mean, you essentially teleport when you fast travel, so…
Wait, what about stealthboy that makes you literally invisible?
thinking prewar, how does Codsworth not burn the carpets and furniture with his thruster?
the REAL overpowered tech is your trusty old Pip Boy, slows the users time, Locks on your weapon to specific parts of your enemies bodies, and allows you to kill dozens of people in less than a second
The holograms are probably nano machines powered remotely from the projector
The hologram projectors could be creating constructs of photon-based crystals; robots made of light, essentially. Which would be incredibly impressive. Basically creating a robot which then establishes a wifi connection with its projector, and then sustains itself via said wifi connection. And then of course, the projector is the only one that it can be keyed to rather than some central projection unit for redundancy and security purposes.
So, the raider power armor from Nuka-World, it makes a plasma arc around the surface of the armor plating. The plasma arc seeps from an under layer of plating, and the outer layer of plating has an opposite charge, so the incoming ballistic is charged and deflected by EM repulsion.
id just like to think the arc based weaponry launched a highly conductive bolt, albeit small in size but highly potent for the tesla based weaponry, but thats something id like to think, xD would need proof of some kind of physical damage or bullet impact mark
Yet at the same time, in some parts of their era (the pre-nuke-it-out era of their Past's) Not so 'overpowered'.
especially on the more 'wider range' parts of our Real Life Human technological capabilities
My bet is the tech used to reinforce Colter's power armor with the bumper car grid was probably stolen or created at gunpoint by someone with the know-how. Either that, or the colorful bunch of maniacs in Nuka World are smarter than they look: they definitely aren't your average Raider gangs. Heck, they probably discovered the tech by accident for all I know: maybe there was more to Colter than we knew, before he turned to raiding. The theories go on.
Big MT continues to be one of my favorite locations in any Fallout game and that's with Point Lookout, Zion, Enclave Bunkers, Mothership Zeta, and many others to contend with: I was a kid a candy shop going through the labs. That said, I am thinking a bit about some of the stuff we see there: the "Virtual Reality" chamber in one of the facilities seems to have means to create boxes and weapons from seemingly nothing similar to the matter recombiners in the Sierra Madre vending machines. Though we don't see it in action, since it was destroyed before the War.
It's why I love Fallout so much: tech that is sometimes indistinguishable from sorcery is the best tech.
The holograms could be made from extremely tiny dust-like nano machines or excited metallic particles controlled by the transmitters through remote magnetic effects. This would allow it to have some kind of physicality to it, and perhaps the material itself generates light when under the control of these fields. This could explain its physicality and it's ability to selectively channel directed energy. As for the senses they have this could actually be a function of hidden cameras around the area informing the projector which direction to point the hologram. If the hologram is made of manipulated nano machines then they could possibly coalesce into small sensory units. There's also the recent revelation that through Wi-Fi signals you can track people's location and even bodily position within their home. An effect like this might be the way that the projector can determine your position in order to determine whether or not you are a security risk.
Given how versatile the list of things is that the chips can be used to make, perhaps that "meager" pay was better than it seems at face value. Then again, larger items, like furniture, become a whole other issue. The machine could produce food, water, and other small-scale necessities, but it couldn't spit out a bed, a sofa, or pay for someone's rent or mortgage. If the employees lived in provided housing, it would solve many of these issues, but it becomes very much a mining town type scenario. Company housing and amenities, and provisions bought from the company store using credit only viable at the company store.
Some of the "force fields" are virtually identical to what's known in our world as invisible fences. The radar fence and pulse field seem to be very similar applications, but perhaps using different types of emissions. Real world invisible fences use sensors to detect when they've been crossed by a certain device, which is attached to a shock collar. It's used as negative reinforcement to keep animals (usually dogs) from running loose by training them to stay within the confines of the detectors. Understandably considered cruel by many, the use of invisible fences is rather controversial.
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First time I met colter I was a level 1000 I loved big guns and power armor I walked In the door popped him with the squirt gun and mowed him down in one volley second time I walked in forgot the squirt gun and spent 5 minutes sneaking nades in his drawers gages face lol
My great gpa fought in the pacific front and was allowed to take home the sniper rifle of a soldier that killed his friend even brought a box of ammo
Thank you
To add to how impressive the Vending Machines are, there's actually an argument to be made that the chips aren't actually needed at all. When you first investigate a vending machine in the Madre, the text says the coin slot looked like it was added after the fact. There's a chance that the only thing the chips do is act as keys to allow you to use the machine, and that if you knew how they were made you might not need anything at all to use the machine.
We all dream of a day where we see things like the laser and plasma weapons in real life
I once built a Tesla Cannon like weapon. The core was of course the Tesla Coil however to direct the arc I had to use a laster TUBE(anything else will self destruct in the EM cascade) that ionized the air. I did around 2006.
you cant combine fallout 2 and 3 geck lore… 3 retconned it / now we have to pretend there are two different kinds of gecks due to 3.
When I played Fallout 3, I once got stepped on by Liberty Prime, and was instantly killed. Lol.
When you make comparisons between the 2 teleportation techs. They are very similar. They both have radio signals used. And while the big MT never explains it. It’s more than likely to work the same way as the Institute’s radio
Both can teleport to set locations from anywhere. With the Big MT version simply having an extra location with both the Sink and the satellite
And both require an extra tool to facilitate the teleportation. With the transportalonder and the courser chip
I honestly feel like the devs used NV to help set the rules for how the relay works. Which, honestly, isn’t that surprising
It raises the question of how did the pre war military know of radscorpions. They then commissioned the making version of them as robotic weapons…
I see a bunch of comments about how Fallout tech is impossible in general, but I think everyone is forgetting they had actual fusion power. And the whole handheld nuke thing. My point is, they were pretty advanced!