Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:48 Episode 1: The Fall 11:31 Episode 2: The Cloud 20:36 Episode 3: The New Vegas Rebels 31:28 Episode 4: The Road to Hell 41:29 Episode 5: The Forgotten Legion 51:37 Episode 6: The Courier 1:02:18 Episode 7: The Trives Of The Divide 1:13:24 Episode 8: The Horrors of Zion 1:25:29 Episode 9: The Wendigo 1:37:10 Episode 10: The Stories End 1:46:15 Credits 1:46:56 ???
I used to do the in game cinematics and post editing for Shoddycast's Fallout Storyteller back in the day. Needless to say, this was extremely well produced and a more than worthy homage to the original Storyteller. I miss working on that show even after all these years, so it's always really nice to see fans still carrying on the spirit of the series even to this day.
“I miss working on that show” - sir do I need to dig up all of our chat logs? Jokes aside, I still too also reminisce on our time working on Storyteller 🙏
@@Directinator303May I ask what happened to the Storyteller series? More so the Skyrim one than Fallout. I've always wondered why the Skyrim series was so short.
@@dagothur2666 the channel was bought from the original creators by two nerds who simply killed the channel because of their incredibly inane "content". The backlash from the fnv community was brutal for many months afterwards.
One of the more disturbing bits about DUST is how the residents of North Vegas' sewers literally preyed on people's desperations by offering promises of food and shelter. When the survivors would go down into the sewers and away from the exit, they would find nothing but a horde of rabid cannibals waiting for them. The few that are able to get away from the initial onslaught make their way back to the entrance they came from, only to find that the ladder leading to freedom has quite literally been torn from its sockets out of the wall to prevent them from escaping. They must have had only a minute of facing this horrible reality before the cannibals broke down the door blocking them from their next meal
based off what I understand from the mod the courier got the darkest endings for each DLC specially Nuking at least the NCR in the Lonesome Road, Defending Zion and letting Joshua regress to his old ways in Honest Hearts, and Siding with Elijah in Dead Money, and since apparently no one could contact House after the second battle most likely Wild Card Ending
I think its more likely that he locked elijah in the vault and then he broke out, considering elijah wanted to cover the entire mojave in the cloud, also im fairly certain archimedes was never activated in DUST.
One part of the mod that I personally love was the author's attention to detail regarding the Lonesome Road DLC. If you spare and fight along side Ulysses, after the end of the main quest he delivers lines stating that both the storms and tunnelers of the Divide will destroy the Mojave Wasteland in the next twenty years. I just loved that the mod author somehow nailed the "it's the apocalypse, but it's about to get worse." feeling that the official developers implied.
@@SableLeaf Yeah, him being Legion makes it even worse, because he was tribal before. So that really screwed his mind around old world, bull, bear, and all that shit.
I mean.. even the 'good endings' still spell catastrophe for the rest of the Mojave. Doing an independent vegas run, either under House or Yes Man makes an enemy of the only major nation-state in the entire series. Your arm is twisted over and over, making it clear that this is the 'best' option for the people living in the region. However, it's told time and time again that the NCR presence in the Mojave is only a fraction of their forces. Once you gain their undivided attention, any foe of the NCR can simply be drowned in men and materiel. Just needs a good marketing spin and politicking to get the population angry, which they're quite skilled at. If the entire population of the NCR truly wanted Caesars Legion eradicated, it would be an easily achieved goal. Vegas is weaker than the Legion, but holds social and political sway. That's the only reason they were ever allowed to remain independent in the first place. Now I wanna cover the DLC endings. If Honest Hearts is completed morally, you end up with the Sorrows, Dead Horses, and any New Canaanite refugees being highly militarized and territorial to the north of the region. A militaristic tribe of people can cause endless struggles for any power structure. House cannot simply buy them off like the chairmen, nor can he truly wipe them out without great attrition. So the north is effectively hostile to expansion. Furthermore, the couriers inattention of the spore plants and human carriers of the contagion doomed the idyllic valley to ruin. The once-managable infection of zion was left to fester instead of being purged. The courier could come and go to the valley as they pleased, but simply chose to do nothing. It would have taken slightly more than the minimal effort spent collapsing the yao-guai cave, but nothing was done. Conflict was inevitable. If Old World Blues is completed morally, you leave both Mobius and the other scientists of the Think Tank alive. They make it clear that they'll continue to exercise their twisted ideas of science. From dialogue, they're clearly on the cusp of re-discovering the outside world that they were forced to forget by programming. It just takes a little more self reflection, and they'll be able to leave this place, just like in the 'worst' ending, which is actually a failure condition that requires a re-loading of a save. If you don't kill the scientists, they WILL get out and cause absolute havoc on their new petri-dish; the American southwest. If you complete Dead Money morally, everyone stays alive. Father Elijah is trapped in the vault and will die of dehydration in 3 days or so. Christine, Dean, and 'God' will survive to either haunt the casino or walk the wasteland. Failing to send securitrons or nuclear weaponry to this place almost guarantees that the precarious hazmat situation they have brewing would inevitably escape the complex. Even ignoring 'the cloud', the place has an active nuclear reactor supplying power. It will need maintenance and coolant or you have a small-scale chernobyl event happening. Combine that with the cloud, and it's borderline apocalyptic. Last but not least is The Lonesome Road. If you do this morally, either the Legion gets nuked, or none are fired. Either way, the courier is directly responsible for the destruction of Ashton and Hopeville. Therefore the courier is also directly responsible for the tunnelers and the dust storms. Nothing they do during this campaign rectifies anything they caused. The storms will spread and so will the tunnelers. This will always happen no matter what. Again, I say, failing to send securitrons or broken-arrow strikes with nuclear weapons shows a massive underestimation of the danger uncovered there. Through even the good endings of the game and DLCs, you easily create the conditions for 'Dust'. Any one of these threats could have stretched New Vegas' military capabilities to the breaking point. But one was not enough. The courier created or ignored severe threats and expanding badlands on every single border of the Mojave. Like House, they're a great arbiter of change, but I don't think they're good leadership material. Too goal-oriented to sit back and look at the big picture. Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😅
@@Grimpy970 i always wondered if the Dead Money ending where you side with elijah could have caused the events of Dust. At least the fog relataded one. But this makes sense too.
To be fair, I think it would be better for factions to decline into different states, not just renamed enclave For example, it makes sense for the remains of a fascist USA (In fallout universe USA is basicly openly fascist) to turn into even more militaristic and fascist state And while a unstable republic like the NCR can turn into a fascist militaristic state, I think a more intresting option would be for them to turn into more soft power based autoritarian regime, where money and influence can get you anything you would want, and everything is kept toghether by a idea of status quoe, and not necesary military power Meanwhile for the Legion, it would make more sense if it turned into a war lord state, based on few clans and tribes that would constantly try to prove their worth by conquering land, and humiliating their internal rivals I think it is resonable that BOS would turn into a militaristic state of some sorts, but instead of it being a open dictatorship, it could be a regime simular to the starship trooper, where service in military gives you the option of actually taking part in the political structure I just think that factions should be able to turn into something different than enclave 2
IMO, a more fitting way that could’ve Elijah survived wasn’t through a partnership with the courier. Instead the courier, needing someway to fund his pipe-dream of an independent Vegas, snuck out of the vault with all the gold and trapping Elijah inside. Elijah then found a way to access all the technology he could dream of from that vault. The Courier, not being able to let go of Vegas, doomed it to the same fate of the Sierra Madre. Forever preserved with red mist and hate.
Yeah I'm pretty it's meant to follow/inspired by the Cut Post-Ending encounter from Dead Money, where if you did the "Seal Elijah Alive" Ending you could get a Random Encounter in the Mojave roughly a week later where Elijah escaped, gathered some robots, and followed your Pip-boy's signal to get his revenge. This is why I always prefer to help Elijah "Let Go" of his head and use it to easily drag all the Gold Bars to the elevator.
I always wondered if the ending where you side with Elijah and release the fog on the mohave could actually lead to the events of Dust? In some sort of alternative timeline.
honestly I never got how being trapped in that bunker is definite. A resourceful genius like Elijah would just reverse program the terminal or jury-rig the sierra vending machine into a high-powered blowtorch to get out. If anything you'd just be detaining him long enough to hopefully drag a bag full of gold back to Vegas.
When I first got into Dust I had a weird relationship with it. It felt so very alien to me, you said it in an earlier video about Dust, that it like seeing something cartoonish from your childhood exposed to very adult themes. Nothing in this mod captures that like what happens to Joshua. I'll be dead honest, I'm a sucker for the character, and he immediately became my favorite when first played the game. Playing Dust and going through Zion, learning who the Wendigo was hit me hard. My biggest criticism of this mod is that you can't kill Joshua, to put him out of his misery. 10/10 mod, would go insane again.
Totally with you on that one. He's definitely my favourite character in F.N.V without a doubt. For a few different reasons. I'm not even religious though. It's not about his religion for me. Though I realise he draws on it, to cultivate his own wisdom,inner strength and path etc. I get that much. Though it's him , himself at end of the day. He's a living demi god. A god of war, tempered through hellish experiences. And a deeply spiritual, righteous man with a need for redemption. He's a guardian angel of his flocks of tribals. His tribals he seeks to protect and seek redemption through. I just don't think such an icon of a Fallout character and a warrior could be taken down by some sh#tty spores or toxic dust clouds as easy as it apparently happens .He's to smart and fast and determined to become an easy victim to such things. As cool as I think Dust is,for the most part. The fate of Joshua just does not sit right with me in this mod. I'm just glad its not officially canon. Joshua is the light in the darkness. A survivor and defender. He needs to stay a living legend in Fallout, and progress his story in it, far as I'm concerned.
@@colddaze6680I feel like his fate makes sense, you can kill him in the base game, and anyone can fall to a sickness. He, however, lived through it, and became unkillable. Of course, there is not much of his past self left other than his strength and persistence. But the one thing that still haunts him is the one thing that turned him into the monster that he is now.
@@The-S-H3lf-Eater His fate in Dust doesn't make sense to me. Or feel justified, or deserved at all. Why it doesn't sit right with me. Sure, you might feel it does., you seem to have reasons. I never tried to kill him in Honest Heart's. A man betrayed by the man who turned him into a soldier for his cause.Joshua was right to be filled with rage at that, and want revenge. Joshua literally burned to learn the meaning of redemption. He's still finding it, for all his killing, in the past. He's still one of most honest and righteous characters in the game. Still so much they could do with him. And he deserves to outlive Caesar and the Legion. I'm just glad Dust is not cannon.
The Divide is about 270 miles away from Zion national park. How does the "long dark" exist, a tunnel that runs from one end to the other? I highly doubt the Sorrows/Dead Horses walked from Zion to the divide, got attacked by the dust walkers, then walked back through the tunnel to Zion to find it collapsed.
Look, Vault Tec made a bunch of Vaults with the express purpose of finding new and innovative ways to commit crimes against humanity and nature, they can make a giant ass tunnel from Zion National Park to the shithole that is the Divide.
ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! Great job and great homage to Shoddy. Can’t imagine how much work this was, but thanks for such an awesome video. Looking forward to hopefully more if you do!
God this was some top tier fallout content. I absolutely love this style of storytelling, it just makes you feel immersed in the world. I am definitely going to play Dust now.
Try to get the jeans sky diving start unless you want to be eaten within 5 minutes. Watch out for tunnelers, get a fire weapon to scare them and other nasties away. It's brutal but there's ways around.
@@brokentribal4321 "How dare you bring RobCo tech in here! What, are you showing off? How great Robert House and his biiiig company are? Oh! We can make Securitrons better than any robot those geniuses at Big MT can make, and they'll last a thousand years! Rrrr! You're lucky I don't have hands to tear that Dip-Boy off your arm - or feet to stomp on its stupid metal guts! Ooooo, damn RobCo!"
Hi! I just want to say that your original series inspired me to play dust on my own, and while absolutely, it was hard as hell, it was the best experience I’ve had in a while (probably because it was new) Thankyou so much, and I hope you have nothing but success for your YT career! I’ll be here
I have done it, 80 years and not a single nut bust. Thanks to my incredible goal i have obtained an iq of 156 which i have used to build a pc that deletes system 32 when it loads any type of NSFW.
Very strong Storyteller vibes off this one and thats very much a compliment! I've missed this format of lore content since they stopped doing it on ShoddyCast. Keep at this mate! You've got the storytelling chops and the voicework for this kinda thing, keep it up! ^^
I think it is implied that the narrator here is the Storyteller from Shoddycast's Lore series. They have the same end phrase "story for another day" But it could also imply it's the same character in an alternate universe, where Shoddycast's Storyteller was a BoS Historian and this one is just a survivor of the Mojave.... maybe even Courier 8 because he witnessed all of Courier 6's feats without being directly involved
I liked the securitron in The Courier section with the blacked out screen, almost could hear Yes Man saying "Where am I! I'm glad you brought me here! 😊"
Coming back to this after hearing of Jason Damron's passing, and while that still weighs heavily, I like to think this is a good honor to his work and his life (despite coming out almost a full 1.5 years after his passing).
While its not technically canon, i do wonder if you'd be interested in doing an addition of this talking about the Dust Expansion Project. Its *huge,* and vastly undocumented right now, but it opens locations and characters and expanded lore from all over that blows my mind to find on the regular. Favorite rn is Old World Blues, but I'm still working my way to the other DLCs. The Divide door is open from the Mojave!
@@Dupingsandcream I thought this was a bug! I had a feeling he was scripted to return to Novac if you cleared it out, but he does it... fast. He wasn't there when the Cannibals were, but I walked around exploring a bit, and went back to the dino to grab smth I dropped, and there he was on the stairs. Wild.
Its pretty fun, be sure to get the expanded mod if you want to encounter the companions and a ton of other things. Walking into novac and getting your head blown off by a certain sniper is an experience Theres also a courier companion mod
@@shadesofslay the best version of the courier companion mod is the expanded one, because it removes his voice lines and adds so many new things such as dialogue when you enter the divide
House's original goal was to turn the entire Mojave affair into "one man's misadventure", making scapegoats out of Oliver and Kimball. If NCR citizens believe their tax dollars were wasted on a vanity project, the sheer resentment would theoretically prevent an9ther invasion. Proof is present in one of Hanlon's endings, as he can use the anti-war sentiment to become a senator and vote against the more militant interests. That said, House also drafted a treaty dealing with the distribution of clean water and electricity, and that was likely a major factor in pacifying the NCR. This Independent!Courier likely did not think that far ahead. Even if he did, the sheer number of bad decisions needed to set up Dust probably leaves him little resources to make good on the treaty.
This was fantastically well made, you can really feel the love that went into this, there were a few times where I honestly thought I was watching a Shoddycast video, very well done sir, very well done indeed.
The part about them trying to make a cure for rads feels so much like early COD zombies lore, while the scientists made breakthroughs in teleportation, the higher ups wanted to use their research for weapons and zombies, so they needed to compromise
Fallout: Dust is to Fallout New Vegas as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly is to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Both turn both survival games into true survival suffering, and the end result is something beautiful.
I was sure at the end you were going to reveal that the narrator - this, 'Historian' - was in fact The Forecaster. You surely teased it. But, regardless, I absolutely loved this. As a huge fan of DUST, I try to get people to play it wherever I can, and most brush it off. I'm glad at least that I can now show them this, in place of them playing it - or to help finally convince them to brave the horrors and Begin Again.
I just watched your video essay on Dust and loved it so much that I thought I'd give this series a look. Thanks for combining it into this "film" as you're calling it.
This is why choices that affect an ending are so important. The world building for Dust was all there, just another hand played or a toss of a dice. Interested in doing the same treatment for Frost?
Damn bro this shit was the best fallout lore compilation I’ve heard in actual years, like god damn I thought what knew what Dust was about but now I really know, imma have to recommend you to my friends cause you explained it in such a way I really enjoyed, thanks for making this!
I choose to believe that in this universe, the actual storyteller died while trying to get as many survivors to the east towards the capital wasteland. The historian only refers to him as an old friend because while scavenging the desert, he came across the storytellers' holotapes and listsned them almost constantly as a way to combat isolation.
I think the best thing of this is how this CAN MAYBE PROBABLY NOT fit into the main timeline of fallout. Fallout 4 is only 6 years after and you could explain the Radiation storms in Nv with the Radiation sand storms that came from the divide in dust. Idk I just would like a fallout 4 dust.
Definitely a trickier mod than dust, just being anywhere outside irradiates you, you have to basically stay underground to be safe, kinda like the metro series
considering that I only know of dust from the mike burn fire, zack hazard playthrough And during their run, they tried their best to figure out what happened, but Even with all of their exploring, they couldn't make heads or tails of the whole scenario and neither Could I. This greatly helps.
Loved this entire series, its unfortunate it didnt get the views it deserved, but i hope that wont make you turn away from content creatio, i really like your style of videos and i am certain that if you continue and pick some interesting topics, then one day you will be at the top! Best of luck and i am looking forward to your next video!
Loved this video, the presentation style, and the way the descriptive storytelling was well translated into a single video-essay type format. I'd love to see one of these done for Naugrim's other mod FROST, which has similar detailed and well-executed storytelling, as well as official community expansions incorporated into its' canon. Most importantly, it shares the same overarching lore and themes of DUST, especially Letting Go, though in a little bit different of a sense.
I feel like deciding to be a historian in this kind of setting is to decide to be the hardest fucker around so you can stick around to see the cool shit happen
This is simply a story of a man. A man who believed he was doing what was right and what was just. However, he bit off more than he could chew. Now the Mojave suffers because of his actions and there is nothing left here. from trying to save some tribals to giving independence to the strip. There is just no hope left for these residents. Like the world before, opposing views and goals were what eventually ended the old world. After all... war never changes
I personally believe all of DUSTS story is so incredibly written with the exception of the Zion story. As much as it’s still a good story, it doesn’t with Joshua Graham’s already established character, I mean yes, he falls down the same dark path in the ending that was chosen for DUST but I feel he would never betray or cast out Danial, despite he newfound military power he still is and extremely accepting character as long as you aren’t evil.
@@ampersandyyy I doubt someone would live in such a dumpster that we're shown though we do see small settlements around the Vegas, there are people for sure
Dude this video has got me hyped, Please make this into a story like the storyteller giving a story about living in the mojave with this character that you have just made
Amazing narration and fucking callbacks to The Storyteller?? I might just make another account to give you an extra sub, I love this shit keep it up man.
The dust walkers are idiots tho. Like, OF COURSE whoever goes out of the tunnel is going to shoot you if you start shooting first. I'm sorry but in their case, no guilt lost.
@@insomniagobrrr5542Very late, but still, they could at least have scouts? Maybe send an emissary? Anything but immediately slaughter even a single person coming through.
Yeah, no we dont, sure dust is cool, but its also an edgy fanfic using the saying of "if something can go wrong, it will go wrong", its cool as a non canon thing, but it certainly shouldnt be made canon.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:48 Episode 1: The Fall
11:31 Episode 2: The Cloud
20:36 Episode 3: The New Vegas Rebels
31:28 Episode 4: The Road to Hell
41:29 Episode 5: The Forgotten Legion
51:37 Episode 6: The Courier
1:02:18 Episode 7: The Trives Of The Divide
1:13:24 Episode 8: The Horrors of Zion
1:25:29 Episode 9: The Wendigo
1:37:10 Episode 10: The Stories End
1:46:15 Credits
1:46:56 ???
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Thank you!!
So DUST basically all hypotethical situations that could go wrong in New Vegas, did go wrong....damn that's tough.
I personally prefer something like this than the standard canonical goody-goody two shoes endings most games have.
Yup that's the point. Father Elijah "wipes the slate clean" by exposing the cloud to the entirety of it. Tunnelers ravage the wasteland
Dust is what would happen if father Elijah won and fucked everything up(except no holograms)
@@hollowheaded9319 bros a broken sigma🥶🥶
@@hollowheaded9319 soo sigma male!!!!😮😮😮
Everytime a speedrunner completes a playthrough of fnv a new world of dust is created.
Lol
Lmao, I like that.
Dust is the canon result of a Speedrun 😆
explains why all the stuff from the madre and the divide are there, heavy use of glitches teleported it all to the mojave
Imagine mittensquad's dust worlds hes created
@@flipthegrid8809rip to him
I used to do the in game cinematics and post editing for Shoddycast's Fallout Storyteller back in the day. Needless to say, this was extremely well produced and a more than worthy homage to the original Storyteller. I miss working on that show even after all these years, so it's always really nice to see fans still carrying on the spirit of the series even to this day.
“I miss working on that show” - sir do I need to dig up all of our chat logs? Jokes aside, I still too also reminisce on our time working on Storyteller 🙏
@@Directinator303May I ask what happened to the Storyteller series? More so the Skyrim one than Fallout. I've always wondered why the Skyrim series was so short.
Seriously? Got any advice for making machinimas?
I still miss shoddycast
@@dagothur2666 the channel was bought from the original creators by two nerds who simply killed the channel because of their incredibly inane "content". The backlash from the fnv community was brutal for many months afterwards.
One of the more disturbing bits about DUST is how the residents of North Vegas' sewers literally preyed on people's desperations by offering promises of food and shelter. When the survivors would go down into the sewers and away from the exit, they would find nothing but a horde of rabid cannibals waiting for them. The few that are able to get away from the initial onslaught make their way back to the entrance they came from, only to find that the ladder leading to freedom has quite literally been torn from its sockets out of the wall to prevent them from escaping. They must have had only a minute of facing this horrible reality before the cannibals broke down the door blocking them from their next meal
This is basically Ukrainians in UK
@@darkcheakerWhat the fuck?
based off what I understand from the mod the courier got the darkest endings for each DLC specially Nuking at least the NCR in the Lonesome Road, Defending Zion and letting Joshua regress to his old ways in Honest Hearts, and Siding with Elijah in Dead Money, and since apparently no one could contact House after the second battle most likely Wild Card Ending
I think its more likely that he locked elijah in the vault and then he broke out, considering elijah wanted to cover the entire mojave in the cloud, also im fairly certain archimedes was never activated in DUST.
The Cloud would have prevented the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, so no, he (Courier is a male ghoul as of DUST) didn't side with Elijah in Dead Money
make sense, I was mainly guessing due to if you lock him in the vault the lock could not be disengaged and remote access is cut off, but I'm not sure.
Agreed with everything except I think NCR ending instead of Wild Card, because the NCR is still there and seemingly in power
Nevermind, you're right. 54:40
One part of the mod that I personally love was the author's attention to detail regarding the Lonesome Road DLC. If you spare and fight along side Ulysses, after the end of the main quest he delivers lines stating that both the storms and tunnelers of the Divide will destroy the Mojave Wasteland in the next twenty years.
I just loved that the mod author somehow nailed the "it's the apocalypse, but it's about to get worse." feeling that the official developers implied.
I'm still agressively ignore Ulysses rumblings. Man's just salty about his sweet dream town getting nuked.
@@joby5838Dumb comment
@@joby5838 To be fair, anyone'd be almost (if not equally) as salty if they lost something that deeply mattered.
@@SableLeaf Yeah, him being Legion makes it even worse, because he was tribal before. So that really screwed his mind around old world, bull, bear, and all that shit.
wasn't the storm created by Big MT or something?
If the Brotherhood survived the war, that means the House went bust
But the House always wins.
@@AsymmetricalCrimes not here, no one wins in DUST.
Brotherhood hold up in camp searchlight, ever since the ncr irradiated hidden valley, shockingly searchlight has no rads.
@@crimsondynamo615 Which no sense. It's like that rads just shifted settlements.
@@notgeorge8387The brotherhood wouldn’t go to searchlight if it had rads. Its been 20 years since new vegas so things have changed there
it feels to me like the courier of dust just got almost all of the worst endings for things and it just spiraled from there :(
Makes sense, actually.
I mean.. even the 'good endings' still spell catastrophe for the rest of the Mojave.
Doing an independent vegas run, either under House or Yes Man makes an enemy of the only major nation-state in the entire series. Your arm is twisted over and over, making it clear that this is the 'best' option for the people living in the region. However, it's told time and time again that the NCR presence in the Mojave is only a fraction of their forces. Once you gain their undivided attention, any foe of the NCR can simply be drowned in men and materiel. Just needs a good marketing spin and politicking to get the population angry, which they're quite skilled at. If the entire population of the NCR truly wanted Caesars Legion eradicated, it would be an easily achieved goal. Vegas is weaker than the Legion, but holds social and political sway. That's the only reason they were ever allowed to remain independent in the first place.
Now I wanna cover the DLC endings.
If Honest Hearts is completed morally, you end up with the Sorrows, Dead Horses, and any New Canaanite refugees being highly militarized and territorial to the north of the region. A militaristic tribe of people can cause endless struggles for any power structure. House cannot simply buy them off like the chairmen, nor can he truly wipe them out without great attrition. So the north is effectively hostile to expansion. Furthermore, the couriers inattention of the spore plants and human carriers of the contagion doomed the idyllic valley to ruin. The once-managable infection of zion was left to fester instead of being purged. The courier could come and go to the valley as they pleased, but simply chose to do nothing. It would have taken slightly more than the minimal effort spent collapsing the yao-guai cave, but nothing was done. Conflict was inevitable.
If Old World Blues is completed morally, you leave both Mobius and the other scientists of the Think Tank alive. They make it clear that they'll continue to exercise their twisted ideas of science. From dialogue, they're clearly on the cusp of re-discovering the outside world that they were forced to forget by programming. It just takes a little more self reflection, and they'll be able to leave this place, just like in the 'worst' ending, which is actually a failure condition that requires a re-loading of a save. If you don't kill the scientists, they WILL get out and cause absolute havoc on their new petri-dish; the American southwest.
If you complete Dead Money morally, everyone stays alive. Father Elijah is trapped in the vault and will die of dehydration in 3 days or so. Christine, Dean, and 'God' will survive to either haunt the casino or walk the wasteland. Failing to send securitrons or nuclear weaponry to this place almost guarantees that the precarious hazmat situation they have brewing would inevitably escape the complex. Even ignoring 'the cloud', the place has an active nuclear reactor supplying power. It will need maintenance and coolant or you have a small-scale chernobyl event happening. Combine that with the cloud, and it's borderline apocalyptic.
Last but not least is The Lonesome Road. If you do this morally, either the Legion gets nuked, or none are fired. Either way, the courier is directly responsible for the destruction of Ashton and Hopeville. Therefore the courier is also directly responsible for the tunnelers and the dust storms. Nothing they do during this campaign rectifies anything they caused. The storms will spread and so will the tunnelers. This will always happen no matter what. Again, I say, failing to send securitrons or broken-arrow strikes with nuclear weapons shows a massive underestimation of the danger uncovered there.
Through even the good endings of the game and DLCs, you easily create the conditions for 'Dust'. Any one of these threats could have stretched New Vegas' military capabilities to the breaking point. But one was not enough. The courier created or ignored severe threats and expanding badlands on every single border of the Mojave. Like House, they're a great arbiter of change, but I don't think they're good leadership material. Too goal-oriented to sit back and look at the big picture. Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😅
@@Grimpy970 i always wondered if the Dead Money ending where you side with elijah could have caused the events of Dust. At least the fog relataded one. But this makes sense too.
@@Grimpy970 ya made a lot of good points that I didn't consider but I'm really still just sad about the courier, man got a raw deal
To be fair, it's bit too much.
I like how every major faction in Fallout eventually just becomes the Enclave in all but name.
Ikr, the Enclave might as well join the dance.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
It seems like the Followers at least have stuck to their initial principals.
To be fair, I think it would be better for factions to decline into different states, not just renamed enclave
For example, it makes sense for the remains of a fascist USA (In fallout universe USA is basicly openly fascist) to turn into even more militaristic and fascist state
And while a unstable republic like the NCR can turn into a fascist militaristic state, I think a more intresting option would be for them to turn into more soft power based autoritarian regime, where money and influence can get you anything you would want, and everything is kept toghether by a idea of status quoe, and not necesary military power
Meanwhile for the Legion, it would make more sense if it turned into a war lord state, based on few clans and tribes that would constantly try to prove their worth by conquering land, and humiliating their internal rivals
I think it is resonable that BOS would turn into a militaristic state of some sorts, but instead of it being a open dictatorship, it could be a regime simular to the starship trooper, where service in military gives you the option of actually taking part in the political structure
I just think that factions should be able to turn into something different than enclave 2
It makes Enclave right too lmao
20:35 GODDAMNIT ZACK THIS IS WHY YOU WERE ONLY A SMALL ARMS REPAIRMEN. WE ALL KNEW YOUD PULL THIS SHIT
This is why he needed those cabinets more than you high speed
High Thpeed, Imma need those nukes now. They'll look mighty fine in my office.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvusgotta put them hum-V parts somewhere
Coming back to this after the news of the Storyteller's VA's passing really hits different
What a great homage to the Storyteller series. Dust is a special mod. Anyone who loved New Vegas should try it out
IMO, a more fitting way that could’ve Elijah survived wasn’t through a partnership with the courier. Instead the courier, needing someway to fund his pipe-dream of an independent Vegas, snuck out of the vault with all the gold and trapping Elijah inside. Elijah then found a way to access all the technology he could dream of from that vault. The Courier, not being able to let go of Vegas, doomed it to the same fate of the Sierra Madre. Forever preserved with red mist and hate.
Yeah I'm pretty it's meant to follow/inspired by the Cut Post-Ending encounter from Dead Money, where if you did the "Seal Elijah Alive" Ending you could get a Random Encounter in the Mojave roughly a week later where Elijah escaped, gathered some robots, and followed your Pip-boy's signal to get his revenge.
This is why I always prefer to help Elijah "Let Go" of his head and use it to easily drag all the Gold Bars to the elevator.
now that the dust has settled and all is clear, maybe it’s time for things to get cold and frosty…
T H E R E I S N O G O D I N
P O R T L A N D
@@owenwagner463 I think he meant Fallout 4 Frost not The Frontier
Isn't FROST technically before DUST?
Almost makes you wish for a nuclear, well you know…
@@Orlando_FuriosoYes, Frost takes place in the nuclear winter directly after the war
Daniel is a real one for trying to put joshua to rest even after all he did to him
It was a vain effort but he gets credit for trying
So how did that go exactly. I'm genuinely interested in that piece of lore
@@colddaze6680 he got killed by the Wendigo
@@GoodmanEldwin Im glad DUST isn't officially canon, all I can say. .
@colddaze6680 the fallout TV show ending:
WE MAKIN’ IT OUT THE MOJAVE WITH THIS ONE 🥶🗿🗣️🔥🗣️🗿🥶
Thank god
Bro is NOT making it out the Mojave
AND THE TUNNELERS GO FERAL 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Even Joshua graham didn't feel this heat🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I WOKE UP IN A NEW MOJAVE 🔥💯🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
I always wondered if the ending where you side with Elijah and release the fog on the mohave could actually lead to the events of Dust? In some sort of alternative timeline.
there would be no 2nd battle of Hoover
I think the Courier locked Elijah away and somehow Elijah escaped
it could be similar,just maybe more cloud and holograms defending certain locations
honestly I never got how being trapped in that bunker is definite. A resourceful genius like Elijah would just reverse program the terminal or jury-rig the sierra vending machine into a high-powered blowtorch to get out.
If anything you'd just be detaining him long enough to hopefully drag a bag full of gold back to Vegas.
check out the mod called Masters of the Madre ;)
I'd been meaning to watch the parts in order but never had the time to binge, this is perfect.
When I first got into Dust I had a weird relationship with it. It felt so very alien to me, you said it in an earlier video about Dust, that it like seeing something cartoonish from your childhood exposed to very adult themes. Nothing in this mod captures that like what happens to Joshua. I'll be dead honest, I'm a sucker for the character, and he immediately became my favorite when first played the game. Playing Dust and going through Zion, learning who the Wendigo was hit me hard. My biggest criticism of this mod is that you can't kill Joshua, to put him out of his misery.
10/10 mod, would go insane again.
Totally with you on that one.
He's definitely my favourite character in F.N.V without a doubt. For a few different reasons. I'm not even religious though. It's not about his religion for me. Though I realise he draws on it, to cultivate his own wisdom,inner strength and path etc. I get that much. Though it's him , himself at end of the day. He's a living demi god. A god of war, tempered through hellish experiences. And a deeply spiritual, righteous man with a need for redemption. He's a guardian angel of his flocks of tribals. His tribals he seeks to protect and seek redemption through. I just don't think such an icon of a Fallout character and a warrior could be taken down by some sh#tty spores or toxic dust clouds as easy as it apparently happens .He's to smart and fast and determined to become an easy victim to such things. As cool as I think Dust is,for the most part. The fate of Joshua just does not sit right with me in this mod. I'm just glad its not officially canon. Joshua is the light in the darkness. A survivor and defender. He needs to stay a living legend in Fallout, and progress his story in it, far as I'm concerned.
@@colddaze6680I feel like his fate makes sense, you can kill him in the base game, and anyone can fall to a sickness. He, however, lived through it, and became unkillable. Of course, there is not much of his past self left other than his strength and persistence. But the one thing that still haunts him is the one thing that turned him into the monster that he is now.
@@The-S-H3lf-Eater His fate in Dust doesn't make sense to me. Or feel justified, or deserved at all. Why it doesn't sit right with me. Sure, you might feel it does., you seem to have reasons. I never tried to kill him in Honest Heart's. A man betrayed by the man who turned him into a soldier for his cause.Joshua was right to be filled with rage at that, and want revenge. Joshua literally burned to learn the meaning of redemption. He's still finding it, for all his killing, in the past. He's still one of most honest and righteous characters in the game. Still so much they could do with him. And he deserves to outlive Caesar and the Legion.
I'm just glad Dust is not cannon.
The Divide is about 270 miles away from Zion national park. How does the "long dark" exist, a tunnel that runs from one end to the other? I highly doubt the Sorrows/Dead Horses walked from Zion to the divide, got attacked by the dust walkers, then walked back through the tunnel to Zion to find it collapsed.
Yeah that's my only hangup unless the tunnelers created it. Wish it wasn't a highway tho. Makes less sense
It’s a Fallout mod. Give it a break it’s doing its best.
Look, Vault Tec made a bunch of Vaults with the express purpose of finding new and innovative ways to commit crimes against humanity and nature, they can make a giant ass tunnel from Zion National Park to the shithole that is the Divide.
90% of this makes no sense if you think about it at all just like Disney fan fic Star Wars shows/movies
Loading screens are a powerful thing lol
ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! Great job and great homage to Shoddy. Can’t imagine how much work this was, but thanks for such an awesome video. Looking forward to hopefully more if you do!
God this was some top tier fallout content. I absolutely love this style of storytelling, it just makes you feel immersed in the world. I am definitely going to play Dust now.
Try to get the jeans sky diving start unless you want to be eaten within 5 minutes. Watch out for tunnelers, get a fire weapon to scare them and other nasties away. It's brutal but there's ways around.
Fallout dust makes you good at video games
Alright, I'm siding with House. Get us the hell off this planet, Mr. TV Man. I got some brains in jars that can help you out.
I'm right there with you. 👍🏻
The big mt hates mr house
@@brokentribal4321 "How dare you bring RobCo tech in here! What, are you showing off? How great Robert House and his biiiig company are? Oh! We can make Securitrons better than any robot those geniuses at Big MT can make, and they'll last a thousand years! Rrrr! You're lucky I don't have hands to tear that Dip-Boy off your arm - or feet to stomp on its stupid metal guts! Ooooo, damn RobCo!"
@@brokentribal4321I thought it was just Dr. Ø
@@Daud-ix4tm yes it is just O being O
I really appreciate the old shoddy cast approach you took for this video its so refreshing and nostalgic
Take a shot each time he mentions "lucky 38" or "rebels"
Dont forget "cloud"
Hi! I just want to say that your original series inspired me to play dust on my own, and while absolutely, it was hard as hell, it was the best experience I’ve had in a while (probably because it was new)
Thankyou so much, and I hope you have nothing but success for your YT career! I’ll be here
I have done it, 80 years and not a single nut bust. Thanks to my incredible goal i have obtained an iq of 156 which i have used to build a pc that deletes system 32 when it loads any type of NSFW.
Very strong Storyteller vibes off this one and thats very much a compliment! I've missed this format of lore content since they stopped doing it on ShoddyCast. Keep at this mate! You've got the storytelling chops and the voicework for this kinda thing, keep it up! ^^
I think it is implied that the narrator here is the Storyteller from Shoddycast's Lore series. They have the same end phrase "story for another day"
But it could also imply it's the same character in an alternate universe, where Shoddycast's Storyteller was a BoS Historian and this one is just a survivor of the Mojave.... maybe even Courier 8 because he witnessed all of Courier 6's feats without being directly involved
This took me back to my first days getting into UA-cam and fallout watching “The storyteller” and hanging on every word.
Amazing job 🥂
amongustheblueballs
I liked the securitron in The Courier section with the blacked out screen, almost could hear Yes Man saying "Where am I! I'm glad you brought me here! 😊"
“May your woes be many and your days few” -Gabriel
I wish you luck for more to come
Who’s Gabriel
Coming back to this after hearing of Jason Damron's passing, and while that still weighs heavily, I like to think this is a good honor to his work and his life (despite coming out almost a full 1.5 years after his passing).
While its not technically canon, i do wonder if you'd be interested in doing an addition of this talking about the Dust Expansion Project. Its *huge,* and vastly undocumented right now, but it opens locations and characters and expanded lore from all over that blows my mind to find on the regular.
Favorite rn is Old World Blues, but I'm still working my way to the other DLCs. The Divide door is open from the Mojave!
One of my favorite parts is that you can find boone in novac just chilling
@@Dupingsandcream I thought this was a bug! I had a feeling he was scripted to return to Novac if you cleared it out, but he does it... fast.
He wasn't there when the Cannibals were, but I walked around exploring a bit, and went back to the dino to grab smth I dropped, and there he was on the stairs. Wild.
@@DruCart he actually only shows up at night weirdly enough, and i mean the "NCR Veteran" boon
@@Dupingsandcream Ofc, ofc. Weird, but still neat.
Hadn't heard of that mod, might try it out
Just stopping by - watched this the other night and I absolutely loved it. I haven't had the courage myself to try Dust yet, but ... the urge grows.
Its pretty fun, be sure to get the expanded mod if you want to encounter the companions and a ton of other things. Walking into novac and getting your head blown off by a certain sniper is an experience
Theres also a courier companion mod
@@Dupingsandcream Noted! Thank you for this! I do think the companion aspect would add yet another emotional element to it all...
@@shadesofslay the best version of the courier companion mod is the expanded one, because it removes his voice lines and adds so many new things such as dialogue when you enter the divide
Found this on an old Pip-Boy 3000, labeled "Logs". Its helped me surive. Thanks.
so to stop the dust we need to throw general lee oliver from the dam
House's original goal was to turn the entire Mojave affair into "one man's misadventure", making scapegoats out of Oliver and Kimball. If NCR citizens believe their tax dollars were wasted on a vanity project, the sheer resentment would theoretically prevent an9ther invasion. Proof is present in one of Hanlon's endings, as he can use the anti-war sentiment to become a senator and vote against the more militant interests.
That said, House also drafted a treaty dealing with the distribution of clean water and electricity, and that was likely a major factor in pacifying the NCR. This Independent!Courier likely did not think that far ahead. Even if he did, the sheer number of bad decisions needed to set up Dust probably leaves him little resources to make good on the treaty.
In short, yes
I just started my first DUST playthrough so it's a pleasant surprise to find this series. Great work!
Can’t believe this became canon, Bethesda clearly got to play this mod
Bethesda: "Alright, you guys can't make any ending canon for Fallout: New Vegas."
Fallout Show Writers: canonize Fallout Dust instead
they should have just made this the tv show!
This was fantastically well made, you can really feel the love that went into this, there were a few times where I honestly thought I was watching a Shoddycast video, very well done sir, very well done indeed.
The part about them trying to make a cure for rads feels so much like early COD zombies lore, while the scientists made breakthroughs in teleportation, the higher ups wanted to use their research for weapons and zombies, so they needed to compromise
Fallout: Dust is to Fallout New Vegas as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly is to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Both turn both survival games into true survival suffering, and the end result is something beautiful.
Also holy shit that Courier ghoul voice was spot on.
Sadly just not as popular
I literally just said the same thing yesterday on Reddit lol
Dust did not ruin the face of fallout the same way anomaly (especially GAMMA) did with stalker
Holy mother of God! This was amazing. I hung on every word and didn’t want it to end. So dark yet so good
I just love how this feel both a intro of Fallout (Not 4 or 76 ones), and with the bit of "The StoryTeller"
I was sure at the end you were going to reveal that the narrator - this, 'Historian' - was in fact The Forecaster. You surely teased it. But, regardless, I absolutely loved this. As a huge fan of DUST, I try to get people to play it wherever I can, and most brush it off. I'm glad at least that I can now show them this, in place of them playing it - or to help finally convince them to brave the horrors and Begin Again.
It would be super cool to have a full mod following the Fall of New Vegas and have scripts that lead into Dust.
I love the homage to the Storyteller. I, too, miss Shoddycast.
Yo Scott, you are the G.O.A.T. making an amazing lore series like this! Absolutely amasing.
This was great. I felt nostalgia like it was my first time watching shoddy cast while learning about fallout. Thanks for the great work
I just watched your video essay on Dust and loved it so much that I thought I'd give this series a look. Thanks for combining it into this "film" as you're calling it.
This vidoe hits a little harder now that the Storyteller VA just recently died..rip Storyteller 💔
I have tried intentionally to create the worst possible ending in New Vegas before and I don't think it was nearly this bad.
Wow this was amazing. I have never been interested in dust before but after watching this I'm going to be downloading it this evening
Good luck! It's a great mod. Fallout 2 has some grear mods too
This is why choices that affect an ending are so important. The world building for Dust was all there, just another hand played or a toss of a dice.
Interested in doing the same treatment for Frost?
Thank you for your Dust series! What an excellent lore series and great tribute to that mod author and heck the whole Fallout franchise. Cheers
Damn bro this shit was the best fallout lore compilation I’ve heard in actual years, like god damn I thought what knew what Dust was about but now I really know, imma have to recommend you to my friends cause you explained it in such a way I really enjoyed, thanks for making this!
Thank you for making this it was very good and I loved the Fallout Machinima feeling
I choose to believe that in this universe, the actual storyteller died while trying to get as many survivors to the east towards the capital wasteland. The historian only refers to him as an old friend because while scavenging the desert, he came across the storytellers' holotapes and listsned them almost constantly as a way to combat isolation.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
For once, I agree with you guys.
I love how you paid homage to the Storyteller from shoddycast I applaud you sir your storytelling is very excellent keep up the good work
I think the best thing of this is how this CAN MAYBE PROBABLY NOT fit into the main timeline of fallout. Fallout 4 is only 6 years after and you could explain the Radiation storms in Nv with the Radiation sand storms that came from the divide in dust. Idk I just would like a fallout 4 dust.
Best youll get is frost, but its a prequel
@@Dupingsandcream a prequel to dust or a prequel to New Vegas?
@@gamertrask9153 a prequel to every game technically, it takes place a few years after the great war
Frost is a fo4 mod
Definitely a trickier mod than dust, just being anywhere outside irradiates you, you have to basically stay underground to be safe, kinda like the metro series
I love the tie in with the storyteller one of my favorite characters ever created
1:44:05
I would LOVE if he roleplayed through Fallout Dust, in that voice and in that Character!
“A story for another day” I loved this so much
considering that I only know of dust from the mike burn fire, zack hazard playthrough And during their run, they tried their best to figure out what happened, but Even with all of their exploring, they couldn't make heads or tails of the whole scenario and neither Could I. This greatly helps.
Loved this entire series, its unfortunate it didnt get the views it deserved, but i hope that wont make you turn away from content creatio, i really like your style of videos and i am certain that if you continue and pick some interesting topics, then one day you will be at the top! Best of luck and i am looking forward to your next video!
Loved this video, the presentation style, and the way the descriptive storytelling was well translated into a single video-essay type format. I'd love to see one of these done for Naugrim's other mod FROST, which has similar detailed and well-executed storytelling, as well as official community expansions incorporated into its' canon. Most importantly, it shares the same overarching lore and themes of DUST, especially Letting Go, though in a little bit different of a sense.
Al Chestbreach has a hilarious playthrough from years ago of Dust but i never paid attention to the lore nice video.
father elijah would be proud of the courier
At this point the courier seems the least insane, most of the NCR are mad scientists and unruly soldiers
Im so looking forward to this I love me some fallout lore
I feel like deciding to be a historian in this kind of setting is to decide to be the hardest fucker around so you can stick around to see the cool shit happen
I was just thinking about the shoddycast series yesterday and the algorithm brings me this video today!
Can’t get over how incredible this series is and so many years after the first time I was introduced to this mod. Bravo
Yoo it's all complete and so soon! Was busy with college and stopped around ep 5, so glad to see it's all done so quickly ❤
I had flashbacks to Shoddycast in its heyday. I really hope you do others in the future, this was, excellent.
Beautiful made. Im so glad i found this channel yesterday!
This is simply a story of a man. A man who believed he was doing what was right and what was just. However, he bit off more than he could chew. Now the Mojave suffers because of his actions and there is nothing left here. from trying to save some tribals to giving independence to the strip. There is just no hope left for these residents. Like the world before, opposing views and goals were what eventually ended the old world. After all... war never changes
I used to watch Shoddycast years ago. Missed this kinda content from them. Amazing work here.
I personally believe all of DUSTS story is so incredibly written with the exception of the Zion story. As much as it’s still a good story, it doesn’t with Joshua Graham’s already established character, I mean yes, he falls down the same dark path in the ending that was chosen for DUST but I feel he would never betray or cast out Danial, despite he newfound military power he still is and extremely accepting character as long as you aren’t evil.
Exceptional quality content, congratulations.
Well. Looks like its canon now
I must’ve missed something in the show? How is it canon?
@@nashandra6634People believe the little we see of New Vegas as it being destroyed.
@@ampersandyyy we literally see blown up gates and that there is nothing alive there
@@nolar120 for sure bro, there isn’t anyone living in bombed out buildings in Fallout, like ever.
@@ampersandyyy I doubt someone would live in such a dumpster that we're shown
though we do see small settlements around the Vegas, there are people for sure
1:45:29 a fantastic homage to the greatest historian the wasteland has ever seen
This is one of the most well written and composed videos I have watched in a long time. First video I’ve seen by you. Instant subscriber!
I'm just amazed how much story was made just for a mod! Like this is AAA lore for a MOD and that just blows my mind
This brings me back to Shoddycast's Storyteller Series. Good Work!
Still coming back to this
oh man, it's like I'm in my early teens and listening to Storyteller series
you've done outstanding job
I hoped the Storyteller got to see this before his passing
you forgot Butch DeLoria from fallout 3 he's in Fallout Dust
Dude this video has got me hyped, Please make this into a story like the storyteller giving a story about living in the mojave with this character that you have just made
I often wonder what Mr. House would have done with these new threats of destruction looming over New Vegas.
Especially the Big Mt. Research Facility.
The courier deserved better
The NCR deserved better. They were simply made into The Enclave 2.0.
@@notgeorge8387 Nah
@@qkomodo9098 Yah
@ollie9486 Everything WE got?
@ollie9486Like what?
Imagine being a 200+ Year old ghoul who's been across large parts of America and seeing all this: "Aw goddamit not again."
Amazing narration and fucking callbacks to The Storyteller?? I might just make another account to give you an extra sub, I love this shit keep it up man.
This was a really great video, absolutely loved the deep dive into the story. Could we maybe see something similar for Frost someday?
Honestly, every time I play New Vegas, this is the only way I can see things going, and now it feels like the tv show agrees with me
The dust walkers are idiots tho. Like, OF COURSE whoever goes out of the tunnel is going to shoot you if you start shooting first. I'm sorry but in their case, no guilt lost.
Note they live in a wasteland, and the things that have exited that tunnel has a 100% rate of burning and killing everything on the other end
@@insomniagobrrr5542Very late, but still, they could at least have scouts? Maybe send an emissary? Anything but immediately slaughter even a single person coming through.
Really fantastic and well put together video. I really enjoyed watching it! Well done to everyone who was involved in making this!
Y'all know I'm right when I say we need a DUST tv series
From the people who crash star trek, star wars, mcu, aliens, Predator, terminator...no.
Yeah, no we dont, sure dust is cool, but its also an edgy fanfic using the saying of "if something can go wrong, it will go wrong", its cool as a non canon thing, but it certainly shouldnt be made canon.
dust works better as a game
this video was sooo needed I am suprised nobody made this years ago but I am glad it came especially from a great guy like spaceman