Wouldn’t he look the same after 50 years

his secret couldn’t last forever

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When Shaun took over the Institute Gen 3 synths weren't even a thing yet, they were the shitty robotic gen 2s.
At least, that's a safe assumption, it's not like the writers give a shit about the implications of synth replacements anyway, it's just a funny thing you discover when you loot someone.

Fallout 4 is not a well written game

the whole plot point of the survivor being 200 years old feels very last minute because it never feels like she actually is
so much dialogue implies a max time skip of 50 years, the progress of the world is like 20 years after the fallout, etc
fuck bethesda

Child in fridge lmao lole xd

He's been mayor for just 5 years

I killed Piper because she was trying to cancel the mayor.

Didn't Game Theory or some similar fag make a video that 200 years after nuclear bullshit, the world would be much greener and far less mutated?
Like, look at Chernobyl, it's only been a few decades and that place is basically a big forest.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are also practically normal already, although the japs have left a few ruins to remember the bombs.
Nature doesn't stay this fucked 200 years later. If I remember correctly, Fallout 76 is pretty accurate and you already have trees and greenery there.

It couldn't be that last minute, the presence of the Brotherhood at all necessitates the game taking place after Fallout 3.

remember that fallout had deadly virus unleashed alongside nukes

Ummmmm... COVID only lasted 2 years not 200 LOL

Nukes work differently in Fallout

Radiation works different in Fallout, even NV established this

Unless it's a virus that attacks all living beings, that's completely irrelevant. I'm talking about vegetation here, not humans

That's a great copout
>this doesn't make sense in any realistic way
>i-it's j-just m-magic okay???

NO WHY

It all depends on the total amount and power of the nukes used. If we consider that America and China used up all of their nuclear arsenal in the conflict, the world would be fucked for centuries . Hiroshima and Nagasaki were low-yield bombs that barely contaminated the dust from the explosion, causing little to no fallout. Chernobyl was also an isolated incident, which couldn't affect the climate around it. If we have thousands of high-yield warheads detonate in the US, the climate would be absolutely fucked, causing a nuclear winter, which would kill all the greenery that wouldn't get immolated by the initial strikes. Sure, for the first 20 years rural America would look like F76, with lushing forests and lots of survivors. In a hundred years, though, the landscape around America would uniformly look a lot lite the original Fallouts -- a wasteland of dust, sand and death.

not interested in discussing radiation in a game with radiation and nuclear wastelands

>lore is now a copout
cope harder

Changing realistic, established properties of physics to fit a narrative is a copout, yes
>hmm it makes no sense that Officer ShitMcFly punched through that wall. Oh well, men just possess enormous strength in our universe, they can do that, it's L O R E :^)

Saving gen3 synths would've made more impact if they couldn't live forever and not age a single day, it would make more sense if their lifespan was shorter and wanted to live the rest of it being free.

In Fallout 76 only 20 years have passed since the Great War and West Virginia wasn't even hit that hard by nukes. The arid desert and dry dead foliage is Fallout 1 and 2 setting because they're in California but Bethesda kept it like they kept The Brotherhood, Supermutants, Deathclaws, Rad Scorpions and many other things that don't belong on the East Coast.

The damage to the ecosystem caused by a nuclear war wouldn't actually be the result of the initial bombing, but rather the nuclear winter that followed after. All the radioactive ash launched into the atmosphere would block out the sun, send global temperatures plummeting and linger for decades afterwards. Without access to sunlight, and with decreasing temperatures across the planet, the ecosystem would collapse as plantlife dies off, the topsoil eroding away and vast swathes of land would become more arid. Even after the clouds of black carbon dissipate, there would still be radiation in the atmosphere that would poison the soil when the sunlight returns.

The locations of Fallout 1 and 2 were already arid prior to the Great War, it just became worse due to the effects of the nuclear winter. 3 specifically said that Washington was hard hit by nukes and that certainly explains the arid, lifeless terrain present there. Areas like Zion and Appalachia weren't as hard hit and thus could feasibly recover quickly once the first clouds began to dissipate, as seen in-game. You can make the argument that The Commonwealth should indeed look more green than it is, but it also has to deal with frequent radstorms coming in from The Glowing Sea, which is not only the spot of a direct nuclear hit (nukes in the Fallout universe are much 'dirtier' and thus leave more residual radiation than ones IRL) but is also the location of an exposed reactor core, which is constantly leaking radiation. So while there certainly should be a lot more greenery in F4 than there is, you can understand why the ecosystem has a hard time recovering when it has to constantly deal with poisonous clouds that block out the sun and spread lethal radiation as a regular weather phenomenon in the region.