Fallout's Deadly New Plague | Fallout Lore
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- In 2053 Pre-War America was experiencing an epidemic, no one knew exactly where this mysterious disease came from but people were getting sick. And this led to scientists discovering that the disease, soon to be called The New Plague, would no matter what, eventually kill the infected which led to the very first nationwide lockdown. America had closed its borders to the outside world while their scientists tried to figure out how to cure The New Plague. Within a year thousands had died and they were no closer to finding a cure but they did develop literature in the hopes of preventing the disease from spreading any further. And for that to happen people needed to know what to watch out for, what did someone with The New Plague look like? Well, according to the experts the symptoms were profuse sweating, followed by unexplained contusions and swelling, before ending with external haemorrhaging and death, as well as the additional symptom of expressing new ideals such as socialism. I don’t really think socialism and The New Plague were connected, not physically anyway, but it was a great way for the US Government to register any communist or potential spy. So, now people knew what to watch out for, but what should they do in the event they were to see someone displaying one or more of these symptoms? Well, all they had to remember was the acronym C.I.R. Confirm Symptoms, Isolate and Report. Therefore, you’re walking down the street and you see someone showing the tell-tale signs, the first thing you had to then do was confirm the symptoms. Now if no Civil or Medical professional was available to do that then it was up to you to do it instead. Meaning, you now had to go up to that person and confirm that they had The New Plague, if they didn’t then you just went on with your day, but if they did, that now meant you had just come into contact with The New Plague and now both of you needed to isolate from the general population as The New Plague was notoriously contagious. The third and final step was to report directly to the nearest Federal Fitness Registry or Medical Centre and let the professionals take it from there. Now reporting directly sounds like you had to pay them a physical visit, which would mean leaving isolation, passing other people, potentially infecting them as well, so the professionals could take a look at you and your condition, which kind of defeats the purpose of isolating in the first place. Although these so called “professionals” were kind enough to tell people how to protect themselves from The New Plague, which wasn’t much. Now The New Plague, as we know is a social disease, meaning it is especially contagious during social interactions. So the only way to protect yourself was to avoid social interactions, ice cream socials, cruising main street, promiscuous activities such as sodomy and attending fairs or festivals. Instead why not stay at home, enjoy a light novel and a home cooked meal. But then again these professionals said that if you were infected then to get yourself back outside and pass who knows how many other people just so they can take a look at you. It doesn’t make any sense, but there is a reason.
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Sometimes it feels like in the lore of Fallout people forget about the new plague.
People in Fallout universe forgot names of their cities, how guns called (M4 Carbine in FNV simply called Assault Carbine for example) etc so forgot about some random plague that no one faced (or faced but died) after great war is pretty easy
We live in a world where people can't even find their country on a map. Memory is volatile and easily tampered with; look at our culture!
@@mkepioneetwas jet invented postwar, or was Myron a liar? Considering you can literally accuse him of lying and then he admits all he did was make an easier way to produce jet using brahmin dung. (a jenkem reference btw) Chris Avelonne tried to retcon that by saying later Fo2 was wrong and Myron invented it, but Mrs Bishop claims to have used it since before Myron's birth. Get the lore right at least my guy
@@mkepioneetalso jet specifically appears in places only accessible prewar, such as parts of Vault 22 and the Big MT. So no, Fo4 wasn't what retconned it, it already appeared in prewar places and Myron is a known liar.
@@tazionuvolari8142 Guns in video games have mostly made up names because the developers need to pay for a license to use the name, for example M4A1. Also there is no good lore reason for the gun to be named M4.
Keep in mind, these would be the same people who put their brains in jars in Fallout 2. Homerun ideas all day with these guys!
From the ashes of oxhorn and thentapple we have synonymous and radking to give us our lore. Keep it up man you are amazing at this
What happened with the first two u mentioned? I'm new to the fallout yt sphere so I don't really know
Isn't thentheapple still around?
Thenthapple is still around but yeah
@@9bang88Oxhorn is too, he made a fallout video a month ago 🤷
@AK-sx4zp Oxhorn likes to use modded games and has a habit of straight up making stuff up as he gets further along the 'story' he's pursuing... and some other interpersonal misdemeanors, but we'll stick with lore related reasons. Don't know about the other guy.
Humans when a new disease appears out of no where:
Communist!
Dies
*Capitalizes*
China virus. UA-cam doesn't like that but the in-game virus was unleashed by China during the resource wars. That's silly UA-cam let the truth be told.😊
Dies again
Turns out and having people register at these facilities will also be a great way for vault-tec to collect genetic information in order to select individuals to be prime candidates for installation in certain vaults.
Like the test kits we used and sent?
@@nagihangot6133 exactly. 😈
Seen my best friend backing out his driveway the other day. I stopped and asked him what he was up to and he said "just headed to wash OUR car".....
I think he has the plague...
Better call liberty prime because that "our" is sounding mighty communist
Sounds more like a synth to me...
So you approached him? Are you currently in isolation?!
@@Ascendedninja6 uh..uh..yes sir, im in isolation! I simply hollered to get his attention and stayed 16 meters away from the commie scum at all times. Go capitalism! USA! USA! USA! cough cough US cough A, weez. Not sick, I swear!!!
Edit: have yall read anything by this Vladimir Lenin guy?!?! I MUST recommend The State and Revolution, best read of my life, 10/10. ⚒
Remember, Kids, avoid ice cream socials and sodomy.
But chocolate fudgicles are the best!
I can not do one or the other, not both
What do I look like? _A Roman!?_
- scoffs in ancient Greek -
Good advice all around
Ahh true words of the "professionals"
A Fallout game set in Denver with the main story involving the plague reappearing might be interesting.
Considering even Lanius lost many legionnaries because of the feral dogs in Denver, it would basically be the canine equivalent of Old Olney.
Imagine it would be about that airport there too that’s some weird stuff there in real life
@anglonationalist8243
yeah, like the disaster known as the old luggage transport system. I wish that some day I could explore those miles of conveyors and machines...
I’m pretty sure New Vegas made that Limit 115 story canon. That is a great concept on how the new plague started
The work day just got a lot better. Fallout lore and an open highway.
Nice
Tbf i love we saw more pre war America in the show. Hope we get more or even a pre war mini series
1:07 The most important symptom of the New Plague in the eyes of pre-war America.
Here's a good question: How in the Nine Hells did Dr. Lesko get his hands on F.E.V.? I'm very curious about where he found it!
Also, where do all these damn Fresh Apples keep coming from?!?
The real question. I thought all apples did the FEV thing of mutating into one species and that's how we got Mutfruit.
maybe he got some contaminanted one from a dead Super Mutant?
If I recall correctly, there are some Super Mutants near Grayditch, on the opposite side of the river.
Or maybe he tricked one into helping him with the promise of making them stronger, as he did with the Lone Wanderer.
From apple trees?
@@bottleflaskan802 show me a single apple tree in all of the wasteland.
@@bottleflaskan802 I'm Alaskan, but for now, let's say I'm from Missouri....
It's crazy to think that 2 years ago we had our own version of "The New Plague" in real world.
Not so much "new" as just "improved"
It was a virus created on purpose.
100%. They were talking about "what to do with the unvaccinated" here in Canada. They are eager to forget.
@@TheTenthLeperremember the Australian camps they built where you couldn’t go out on your front porch lol
Complete with experimental drugs and social monitoring!
Man I love this crazy Fallout lore. It's so outlandish that it's enjoyable. This would NEVER happen in real life
Don’t jinx it
Don't jinx it
Oh boy.
Lol
In real life ppl would just buy up all the toilet paper
These videos help make sense of all the random situations littered across the wasteland! By the time the next Fallout game comes out, I'll be fully educated in the fallout world, making it even better.
115 huh? Maybe fallout is a secret zombies sequel lol
In my usual ADHD fashion, I found your channel looking for deep lore to spice into my Wife's Fallout D&D game I'm running her and I've found myself binging all your videos. There is some amazing information in here! Keep up alllllll of the great work because I can't honestly get enough!
Fallout tabletop game eh? Nice; I’m running one myself.
What region you guys working around? Any ideas you’d like to share?
I feel like whoever wrote the lore for the New Plague started sweating when Covid first hit.
Also, I feel like I have heard at least 4 different origin stories for F.E.V. at this point.
Same. And somehow, every podunk little tinkerer in their shed was able to get ahold of samples and run experiments with it.
Meh, its just the logical evolution of authoritarian governments.
Thinking the same. Used it both to find spies and potential people for the vault
While on the topic of plagues you should check out the scorched plague. I'm sure there's enough info to probably do a 30 minute vid
Absolutely not….that’s total crap
@@dongvermineyou good?
@PhoenicopterusR My guess is they aren't too keen on legitimaizing anything from Fallout 76. (Which, tbh, is kind of sad, because for all it's faults, there is some pretty neat stuff in that game.)
@@amandadadesky5192 Honestly 76 is already legitimate so long as Bethesda says so, people can cry that they don't like it or it's lore implications, but unlike Fallout:BOS, you can't sweep it under the rug.
There's so much conflict in pre war fallout, i never got why they neverr made a prequel
I don’t get it either. There is so much potential for a prewar stories and conflict. I’d like to see one where your character finds a place to survive the war safely at the end, and the descendants start a new society.
Invasion of Canada could be incredible but it would need to have different formula than other fallout games i guess
@@mikoto7693I think they reason they don’t do anything pre war is because that game would have to be SUPER cannon, more so than other games. If you do anything relevant anyway.
I know
Wouldn't be Fallout if it took place before the fallout.
I think trying to over explain the pre war world would ruin a lot of aspects of the main series including piecing together the threads of information left behind. The ambiguity is part of the fun of exploring a ruined almost alien landscape. Plus, it would likely retcon so many things, especially if Bethesda made it.
Do you have any plans to cover "Dog City" (post-war remnants of Denver) from Van Buren? I believe there were only design and lore documents, but they were so detailed they could make for an interesting video.
Dog City gives such a familiar feeling but I can't say why
Is it called dog city due to the presence of robo dogs from the big mt?
@@leocano2341pretty sure its because of there being tonnes of feral dogs.
Caesars legion utilises tribals from Dog City that are accompanied by packs of dogs, iirc
@@Nothing-1w3If you watched The Storyteller shoddy cast series that's why. I'd never heard of it until then myself.
@@TheRealDickGrayson hmm could be
Quality videos as always 👌🏼
Beastlords is my suggestion if possible 😁 either way keep up the good work 🫡
Beastlords? I'm intrigued please do tell.
@@Tommytakanawa their a gang or tribe in Fallout Tactics. They control Death Claws and other wild life.
Hey glad you covered this plague from the lore
I really hope we get some pre-war stories in a comic book, TV series, or even a video game. Obviously we all love the apocalypse madness but the prewar era sounds very interesting. So far all we got was the Fallout 4 intro(which was amazing) but The main idea of the F4 intro was “living in denial”. In other words it feels like the people in the neighborhood(and even the news reporters on Nates TV) were kind of blocking out the problems of the world & allowing themselves to listen to the lies of the corrupt government. “everything is just fine, go to the park, go to the baseball game, we are handling the plague, everything is fine in the war” then BOOM 💥 mushroom clouds.
Have you been watching the leaks from the Fallout TV show? Looks amazeballs. And we'll probably get some more prewar lore
@@mcpossum I didn’t hear much about it. I’m really excited to see this TV show and of course the graphics upgrade for F4(Plus the DLC that comes with it). If we get some more pre-war lore then I’m all for it.
Soooo IMHO I think making prewar lore detracts from the imagination of the community. If the loregods decree something then we no longer get to wonder and postulate about the before fore times. I think that by keeping it ambiguous, it makes us think. Makes us guess. It keeps us more involved. Just a thought.
@@tekno4blood It does. Which is why I think no one knows the exact "time" the divergence happens. I enjoy learning all there is to learn about the Fallout franchise as a whole
@@tonij708 At first I thought you were replying to me 😂 like, I haven't watched Ox in over a year 😂 how did you know?! Lmao
Im wondering if the Vault 81 Cure could work on the New Plague.
It will hence all known diseases.
Man i love these videos, also thanks for the captions seriously this is some high quality stuff
I was hoping you'd cover the new plague. Be nice if it played a role in Fallout 5.
Edit: Hey if you ever do one on the Regulators maybe you could come up with a reason a band of peace keepers haven't taken out the slavers at Paradise Falls.
idk about you but I think everyone's had enough w diseases for a bit
@@R-YR29 hey I listen to Roanoke Gaming just to listen to how the diseases/viruses worked in movies. Plus it's just a game so I'm fine with it. I mean I'm sure everyone has had enough of drug addiction and murder but here we are with Chems and raiders. Lol. But I understand what you mean Covid sucked big time. But to call it out so casually in F4 and not follow up. I would like a little something. Maybe find a way to eradicate it completely that would make people feel good about it I bet.
It was in fallout 4, as a side quest.
@@urieaal yeah but just mentioned. I want it to play a bigger role
Regulators likely don't do anything because they're out manned and heavily out gunned. Should realistically jump smaller caravans/groups of them going out though.
Starting my Saturday with this 👌
Get to work
@@Tommytakanawa ?
Profuse sweating ✅
Socialist ✅
Guys I think I have the New Plague
Smash.
Today I learned something new about Fallout. My man your videos are excellent
The Bubonic Plague is cannon in the Fallout universe? Overseer yes!
I miss your challenge runs. 😭
Your voice is so so so good to fall asleep to.
What a weird list of “symptoms”
Welp. if the 2053 new plague was the first nation-wide lockdown, covid is officially out of the Fallout lore... not that anyone thought otherwise...
We're just thirty years ahead of schedule.
Except covid was natural and the government had a half assed response lmao
I am here because one of RadKings videos was recommended to me and came as a reminder that i haven't checked your channel since changing my email address. This was the oldest of your vids that I didn't recognize
Great video! I always wondered what was up with the new plague.
Hey, Synonymous, do you ever wonder the wastelands don't have wild apples, and how Mutfruit has traits of various pre-war apples and crabapples? Almost like a genetically combined bag of ideal traits from the genus? Almost like a black man, an asian woman, or a caucasian child would all become a green, agender Super Mutant?
Love your channel man keep up the good work!
So happy to see a new fallout lore video!! Thank you
I love how we define plagues as something that kills thousands, instead of the millions of classic plagues.
I'm guessing the writer for this lore suffers from "Warhammer 40k idk maths disease" where they describe a war of unseen apocalyptic scale that engulfs the entire planet with 50k soldiers on both sides...
I’ve loved listening to all your fallout lore videos 😍 would it be possible to do one on Taggerdys Thunder/ the Appalachian BoS?
The new plague (which isn't really a topic in Fallout 4, besides MacCready quest), the war (and fear of total nuclear annihilation) and the stupidly high inflation (Astoundingly Awesome Tales did cost 29$ per magazine!) where all points that bother me with the start of Fallout 4. Nate and Nora had quite a nice house in a new neighborhood and a brand new Mr. Handy despite said inflation. No signs of uneasiness because of the plague. The visit of the Vault-Tec representative seemed more of a annoyance than everything else. It just doesn't fit together if you think a bit about it.
Honestly it kind of does fit. Have you noticed just how cheery the news reporter sounds on the TV? Obviously someone is paying him to not give the full truth. in other words the people in the neighborhood are living in denial about the problems in the world. Then bam when the bomb dropped, it shatters any form of “peace”. But yeah I wish we got a little bit more info on the pre war life(like maybe an optional quest to walk around in the neighborhood).
@@Steel-101 Yeah, more pre war stuff would have been great. It would have made the impact of the bombs bigger.
Oh and don’t forget Nate is a soldier and it looks like US soldiers get a lot of benefits in this universe. Plus Nora may have a decent paycheck as a lawyer. So that could explain the nice house. Still it can’t fill up the fridge(two Salisbury steaks and three Nuka Colas is a college dorm snack lol 😂) edit: and don’t forget the benefits of being a war hero(which included a spot in the vault)
@@Steel-101I wish the game never started pre war. Fallout is about a world set after a nuclear apocalypse.
Even in times of strife there will always be those either by design or just luck that aren't as affected as others.
Could also be part of the fan theory that Nate was originally going to be offered a place in the Enclave for his service but then the bombs hit, but I highly doubt that one.
@1:55
That's not how reflections work.
2:23 sole survivor would be about as old as this kid here when the plague swept the US
War, resource shortages, immoral companies, paranoia, idiots in charge, and a plague. Prewar America was just the best.
I like to think that the hei gui suits in hoover dam mean the New Plague being a leaked American bioweapon has been recanonized, just the developers never get the chance to figure out how to tell that story in the Fallout lore in the games they've had to make (time constraints, etc)
Best Lore channel
Did Fallout lore ever explain why 10mm is ubiquitous and 9mm is unobtainium?
I've wondered this myself. I don't think there is a lore reason but it does fit the retrofuturistic setting. In the 1950s world War era weapons were still the most commonplace weapons and they tend to use big powerful rounds like .45 and 30.06. Additionally, cowboy stuff was very popular in the 50s which is why cowboy guns are so common. 10mm auto would fit this trend towards larger more powerful rounds. This also helps explain why armalite rifles are so hard to come by despite being invented in the 50s: armalites are associated with the cold war era for most Americans. I really think it comes down to the retrofuturistic setting.
wow, golly gee, this is looking quite familiar.....
Nobody:
Some random folks back before the war: "DE NEW PLAGUE! DE NEW PLAGUE! IS GETTING REAL! IT'S GETTING REAL!!! WOOOOH!"
*turns around and fucks off*
The New Plague wasn't a bacteria or virus, it was paranoia.
Exotic (foreign) domestic (from your home country) locals. I just love how many contractions like this there are in the fallout lore. Makes me think the people in this universe were slightly insane possibly due to real life situations such as lead in the water pipes or something like in ancient rome
"Extreme risk factors include: Going outside; going outside; doing it in the butt; going outside"
Wow this seems familiar.
I miss these intriguing videos!!!
Disease: Exists
Nukes: Here comes the sun doo doo doo
Do you follow a set upload schedule? Sometimes YT doesn't tell me you've uploaded 😭
I don't really have a schedule, I just start a video and then post it once it's done 😅
"Hey honey how is our---"
"Hes sick!"
The Chinese stealth suits make VB canon; fight me.
I hate that this has never been followed up
yoooo babe wake up! new synonymous video!
So, Fallout had COVID, too
they had lockdown in the fallout universe damn covid has spread everywhere
Always thought the new plague was just a term used to describe communism, very enlightening video
hello synonymous Fallout lore is so rich a beautiful tapestry of paranoia Greed Arrogance Hubris poisoned dreams and innovation...Vault Tech Machiavellian machinations President Eden and the enclave Ghouls and that so sweeeet retro futurism keeps me coming back for More
ah i just learned about fallout covid
I saw New Plague at a grocery store in New Vegas yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
The new plague, was Fallout version of covid.
13:51 holy shit so that explains why in fallout New Vegas you can find 2 Chinese stealth suits conveniently hidden away at Hoover Damn
Now I wonder if there's any hidden holotapes or terminal entries down there 🥵🥵🥵
Spicy stufffff
Coronavirus: Bethesda variant
4 Hours?! give me sum
They were warning us all along
The background of the story sounds familiar!
I had honestly never heard of the new plague. 😅
coronavirus just went to hard mode
Hello synonymous I was wondering is there any reason why you don't make challenges anymore because I didn't find anything about you saying why you stopped if it's because you don't like them anymore it's ok but I'd love it if you could make one like the good old days :)
I just sort of drifted towards lore videos, I would like to try another challenge though 😁👍
If we ever get another Fallout Game Id like to explore things from the Chinese Prospective. Maybe we'd finally get a concrete answer as to who sent the first Bomb Flying. Or maybe we could play as a Member of the U.S. Government and we could find out what they knew about the war and what the Relationship between The Government and Vault Tech was really like. I wonder if the Government knew about Vault Tech's intentions to Experiment with the People in the Vaults or if they just went Rouge and could do what they pleased with the Survivors.
Fallout 2050s: new plague
Our world 2020s; coronavirus
Why does this sound so familiar...I can't put my finger on it...
It’s been awhile since I played fallout 4 but I’m pretty sure this virus also affects Brahmin as you can find a dead one covered on blue boils
Do you remember where?
@@mikoto7693 Think the one near Taffington, but if it is that one it's almost fully blue and has open wounds. Most people seem to think that one's been sucked dry by bloodbugs and has been decaying
@@DracoSafarius Oh yes, I know what you mean. I assumed that the was just a decaying brahim and never actually looked at it closely. But you’ve gone and gotten me curious now. I even remember thinking vaguely that it was weird because Bethesda has never really bothered with decaying bodies before.
It’s either 200+ year old skeletons, skeletons with a bit of blood on them or bodies that look fresh like they’ve only been there a few days even when the lore implies it’s been weeks or months. I don’t recall the decaying Brahmin asset being used anywhere else in FO4. And my memory might be a bit off but isn’t Taffington pretty close to Med Tek?
Fortunately last time I played FO4 a few weeks ago I’d made a fairly new character that I’m 80% sure hasn’t been to Taffington yet. Tomorrow I’ll play the game, load his file and have him go over and claim it as a settlement for the Minutemen. Normally I wouldn’t claim it at this point in the game, but now I’m curious and I’m going to take a closer look and see if it really does have the blue boils while I work on making the settlement livable and get the beacon going.
"Walk up to the infected to confirm"
We're so lucky the Fallout world never had a zombie apocalypse, there wouldn't be any survivors to play as if everyone was doing shit like this
Fallout New Plagues
FEV is just magic. Does whatever the writers need.
"what if they......"
I wish the New Plague was touched up on further ingame, the fact so many players lack knowledge of it is rough
gotta love social constructs
0:28 sounds familiar 🤔🤨
Fallout lore is the best
Thank you.
What I just realized is all the events, right before the nuclear apocalypse is just like the biblical story of the 4 horsemen. There was Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death. That usually is the sign that the Rapture was near. And all the people whom was vaporized in the Great War were the ones who were actually saved
Considering there are occult powers tied to radition, are you really sure their tainted souls would even end up anywhere but down?
Atom needs souls and souls arent cheap.
@@Subject_Keter not necessarily though. It’s kind of like how the children of atom look at radiation as a divine source
Wait did fallout predicted Covid pandemic
Naw a deadly unknown pandemic spreading isn't a new thing. The black death, Spanish flu pandemic and every time a new bird/swine/ outbreak happens and worries of it jumping to humans.
Another great video
Bethesda predicted COVID, only The New Plague is more lethal
*Interplay predicted COVID
So does this mean we’re one step closer to the Great War
This is Sick...
Sounds VERY familiar.
This video is absolutely terrifying given the last few years.
And I thought humans were fcked up in Warhammer....
Absolutely love the content as always