The vehicles of Fallout Part 2
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- I've covered the cars and pick-ups of the Fallout series, but left out everything else from motorcycles to semi trucks. Part 2 goes over all the other kinds of ground vehicles that can be found in the Fallout series.
I always forget the cars are more then bombs waiting to go off.
Amen
That’s almost all they are by the time the games take place, so that’s pretty understandable.
I had it as a side-hobby to shot every explodable car in Fallout 4.
Well, realistically, an atomic powered car wouldn’t explode if damaged, it would meltdown like a power plant
There is a mod in fallout 4 that has working vehicles I haven't used it because another mod I have Wich i love is huge so I can't use the mod . But there like 10 that you can use pluses the tank
Transport trucks use a lot of fuel and probably were only used by the government or high profile companies by the time of the great war due to resource scarcity. This explains why there's so few in game.
That would definitely make sense.
Also explain tanks and other military vehicles are rare even in military bases that meant the resources problem was extremely bad then once thought if a modern army can’t maintain basic machine’s for war it not good for the country
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Edit: It was!
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Giant hermit crabs in the Far Harbor DLC in Fallout 4. Climb into the back ends of half of destroyed vans and use them as shells. They use other junk to camouflage themselves in the front. So much so I fire my gun into each van I see on the island.
I still remember the first time I ran into a hermit crab, it took my by complete surprise. Such an awesome creature concept.
@@Rad_King hermit crabs have been known to use manmade objects as shells in real life, it would be plausible for giant hermit crabs to do the same.
They’re in 76 too in the mire I believe so you have to watch out
The 80’s tribe actually uses motorcycles , but sadly, they are only mentioned in Honest Hearts on a few occasions and in the end slides.
Does it ever explicitly state that they had motorcycles or is that just inferred by the fact they could cover so much territory with so few people?
@@Rad_King i think it’s the latter
Ah ok that makes sense, I couldn’t find anything concrete.
In the concept art, The lone wanderer motorcycle's "exhaust protrusion" is a functional jet engine with a blue flame
Also, going back to the first car video, the corvega sedan from fallout 4 looks a lot like the 1953 buick XP-300 concept- especially from the back. For some reason ive never seen the XP-300 brought up when discussing the corvega.
Looking at one right now... It's definitely a jet turbine or exhaust in the rear and the protrusion between the front forks is an intake ....
Great catch! That’s exactly what it is then! I’ll show this comment in my next video. Also great eye on the corvega, I think you’re right.
What we would of had a working bike...cool might be a mode that can bring the vehicle back they have one for fallout 4 called working vehicles mode
So basically, oppressor before oppressor is even a thing
It was probably just a gimmick or something similar to a turbocharger at most. If it's the latter, it could've maybe been what gave the cycle electrical power, though like I said, it would be a gimmicky way of doing that (I would fall for it, it's cool as heck)
i was surprised to see bicycles in the 76, its such an obvious thing to have yet 76 was the first game to show them. plus i was pleasantly surprised to see MAZ firetrucks in the 76,because i come from the country that produces them.
Wish we could ride them though
@@giovannicervantes2053 that would have been absolutely awesome
I was also surprised about bikes. Are you from Belarus?
@@Rad_King yes,im from Belarus
@@yuthura7871 aye you guys got some cool gun history stuff too
When I stumbled onto Camp Golf in New Vegas, it was the golf carts that tipped me off on what the camp had been before the war. I'm glad I was friendly with the NCR, because I had to just stop and put my controller down while I cackled way too hard at the wordplay.
Man you were way ahead of me.
If Soviet style vehicles can be found in America in fallout, does that show that the Sino-Soviet split was much harsher than in our timeline?
Or is it a commentary on how the united states was becoming more like a soviet dictatorship by the end?
In the Fallout Timeline, the Sino-Soviet split escalated to a full scale war in the 1980s, which lead to the US government backing the USSR and ended with the Soviets annexing Mongolia and Manchuria. It's implied that the Post-Stalin Premiers were much less hostile to the western countries than OTL, and were able to have at least neutral relations leading up to the great war. At least, as much as they could given the extreme anti-communist stance that was common.
@@SkywarpSeeker interestingly, something like that actually almost happened in the real world too
One of the premade fallout 1 characters is supposedly descended from a soviet diplomat considering they're in a vault it implies the diplomat was respected enough to get in hinting at a lack of hostility between the two nations.
I think this may be evidence of exactly what you’re proposing. Also interesting that West Virginia is heavily dependent on extraction industries and the Soviet Union/Russia is also very dependent on similar industries.
The armored schoolbus reminds me of the ones they use in Dawn of the Dead to leave the mall and drive to the pier, that one also has a cowcatcher to plow through hordes of zombies. I'd say that's a fitting inspiration, since the ghouls of the Fallout world are basically irradiated zombies.
I'm not sure if its canon but I'm pretty sure that the USSR and US weren't at odds with each other by the time of the great war. and an update video going back on things you missed or new releases is a good idea
In think is canon the USSR and USA have better relationship, even one of the pre made characters from FO1 is from USSR and they mention in L.A before the great war there was a embasy there.
@@marklems5894 her grandfather was
Also, another thought: the bucket wheel excavators used in Appalachia are irl almost only used in the brown coal fields in Germany (atleast in that size) and there were only two companies in Germany that made excavators this big: the ones in the west were built by Thyssen, a steel company, the only specialized company for mining equipment on this scale was Takraf, which was from east Germany, so that could be another tie to the eastern block
It would make a lot of sense for the motorcycles to have turbine engines, because they can consume many different liquids as a fuel, from gas and diesel, to literal vegetable oil, this would be useful due to traditional fuels being very expensive because of the resource wars.
Thank you for finally getting us part 2s. We appreciate this and you
More to come friend.
One thing i never understood is how did they drive with those huge cars on those small roads they have in the Bethesda Fallout games, just turning a corner must have been a very nervous affair LOL
You forget that in the real world 50s and 60s, roads were a lot narrower and cars were massive. It required good drivers...
@@custink22 FO's roads are abit extreme though, just check the city streets.
So true. Same with the clearance on all the vehicles. They must have had nice roads because you almost never see them with normal looking suspension travel.
I suspect it's a symptom of the way the games are.
The buses only has 1 axle at the rear (towards the front), the rest of that covered section is filled up with some kind of a drivetrain (+ exhausts maybe)! You can find some turned over (whole) busses to see it.
Thanks for letting me know!
i wish they added brahmin carts to later fallout games. i feel bad seeing all that stuff piled high on their backs. i'm guessing it would be more difficult to integrate into the game, but it would be interesting to see
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That part killed me with laughter, you have a great sense of humor
I think there is an interesting video in exploring the household appliances of the fallout universe. Refrigerators, washer/dryers, toasters, televisions, telephones and so on. True it isn't as razzle-dazzle as aircraft or vehicles but there are definitely real world influences. There was a household appliance boom in the 1950s onward and I feel that is reflected in the fallout universe.
I’ll put it on the list!
The street cleaner strongly resembles 'walk behind' vacuum cleaners that are used in gardening/landscaping work. They are motorized, but as the name suggests, the vacuum will move forward, while you walk behind it and 'steer' it similarly to a shopping cart. It isn't a stretch to my mind that such a thing could easily exist that you ride on; the one I used when I worked as a school gardener definitely was strong enough to pull you along even though it didn't have a seat; it had to so it could be maneuvered over grass, uneven terrain, and even up steep paths. I really wouldn't be surprised if ride on versions existed for very large applications like cleaning stadiums or sport arenas.
Stellar content as always, interesting to see the backround objects from these games finally get some love and attention.
Thank you!
After watching this video. I need 1 of those silver bullet buses. Would make a great camper conversion.
In fallout new vegas you can talk to some of the drunks in freeside, and one of there lines of dialogue is "stop poking me!" So would that mean your character taps people or pokes people to get there attention?
Just a weird thought
It's probably more a reference that you're poking them with the mouse so it's more of a fourth wall break baldur's gate also has a similar joke with the character Edwin and I believe a few starcraft units say something similar if you click on them too many times
@@klaykid117 most likely, but it is funny to think the courier taps on peoples shoulders like a little kid or something to get there attention lmao
In new vegas at the NCR Correctional Facility among the minecarts and handcars are a few carts made from the rear bus axels.
Thanks for letting me know!
I love Fallout's vehicles. I would kill for a real life Corvega.
Fire truck.
-Looks like a scud launcher.
It's based off of a soviet fire truck.
-Ah ok, makes sense.
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That fallout 3 bike looks beefy enough to be a Space Marine bike.
Harley Davidson & Cushman did manufacture that type of three wheeled golf cart in the 60s.
That Russian firefighting vehicle was probably chosen as inspiration since the MAZ 7310 platform was originally developed as a mobile artillery unit capable of launching Scuds.
the dry comedy that you use during commentary is too good
Ah, a man of culture I see. 🙂
The Soviet designs are likely because in the US and USSR in the lore, are actually decent allies -even in trade.
Where as in our world we are/were somewhat trade allies with Cbina thanks to Richard Nixon in the 70s, but we aren't friends with Russia.
So yeah! You are correct, its the implication of the alternate world ^_^
So..its not impossible for the USA and USSR to trade vehicle designs.
Love the videos man, highlight of my day!
That honestly makes me really happy. Always glad to see you in the comments.
@@Rad_King Thanks man, glad to see you really interacting with the community, not too many people do that.
The thing on top of the van is likely a stylized version of ye ol' air conditioning as they used to be an exterior piece of equipment.
I really like the style of that highwayman you showed at 20:44!
thats kinda neat, the braman carts from 1 and 2 sorta came back in 76 as atomic shop workshop items, neat.
The point you made about the bike mounted raiders is exactly what I'm doing in my pen and paper fallout game. Interestingly they are a reborn great khan faction
I'm not convinced that a single Bethesda employee knows how a bike works
i very much enjoy learning about the vehicles of the fallout universe both from a design and an engineering perspective, because i happen to have a degree in automotive technology thus am very fascinated & intrigued
Sadly Bethesda doesnt seem to be able to keep their designs, and keep on changing them from game to game, making it look pretty odd with one US State having a different truck type from another US State (good example are the motorbikes).
@@SwedishEmpire1700 very true, creativity and originality is straight up messing with continuity and cohesiveness from game to game, especially when it comes to the fuel some vehicles look like they obviously run on nuclear but other leave you scratching your head
@@SwedishEmpire1700. To be fair, neither could Black Isle or Obsidian.
The backs of the buss blow up, thats why they are missing
That would make the most sense!
There are flying cars in fallout 76, they are listed as flying cars in the files. Only 2 exist in the whole game so they were obviously expensive, only found in front/inside mansions. I think they might be more “hover” cars than true flying
Radking.your wrong but kinda right the cityliner look like classic 1950s and 1960s Fishbow buses
you forgot to mention all the fancy still good looking tractors littering the commonwealth and the appalachia :P
Wish we could attach a 50. to that bitch ride around messing things up
I’ll get to them! I had them in this video but decided to put them into an upcoming heavy machinery video.
Even with a nuclear war, tractors are essential machinery. Theyd be maintained and taken care of by anybody who owned one... Which, is quite reminiscent of actual West Virginia. Ive seen tractors from the 40s still going, and in far better shape than any brand new cars.
I don't know if you'll see this rad king but recently in my play through of fall out 4 I had came across a large combine used for farming. I think it's near the family that sends you to Saugus iron works to get their son. I know it is near a settlement for certain not far from a highway bridge. It sits alone on top of a hill and is massive.
Edit: you should also lookup the Bedford Val from the late 60's early 70's. It's a single deck twin front axel bus that looks like fallout used as a reference when designing their own.
Somewhere at my parents house there's a book on alot of one off vehicles from the 50's to 70's and I recall a bus in it that had dual fronts but they would pivot to allow the bus to turn kinda like how a semi trucks rear axels turn under a trailer.
Hello again comrade. I have another idea: the unique landmarks found in both fallout and the real world!
Edit: if you really want to make an update on new vehicles, may I recommend UA-cam shorts? If you can do it in under a minute?
Especially in fo76 plz
Cool video idea, I’ll put it down. Also I’ll think about the shorts as well!
@@Rad_King another thing: if you do the shorts idea, you could maybe do one or two new changes at a time. You won’t run out so fast, and you could maybe put them up every Monday or Tuesday to space out your uploads.
Yes novas dinky the dino story was told about by hbomerguy already however would love to know about other locations in fallouts inspirations Expecialy the landmarks.
The legion on dirtbikes wouldve been insane
So true. Time for Bethesda to give us a new warrior faction in a new location that ride motorcycles!
@@Rad_King Sadly vehicles would need bigger maps = consoles catching fire = "no go bro, would lose cash"
@@SwedishEmpire1700 nah Fallout just needs a better engine like RAGE
Isn't it established that the Legion hate technology, though?
@@dragonbornexpress5650 they hate reliance on technology, but the use isnt taboo. They use guns after all
There a Fallout mod for Hearts of Iron 4, that covered the western half of the US and the coastline down to Mexico in the South and Alaska in the North, which included many of the factions and places from the various Fallout games, and I am pretty sure it contained a raider faction that was basically the wild biker horde you described when talking about postapocalyptic Mongos / proper Great Khans. I don't remember their name, but they definitely had style, and with fast overland transportation being quite a rarity in the Fallout universe, were certainly a fast-striking force to be reckoned with.
Garry's Mod Garry's Mod shows a large vehicle you say the Fallout packs but they actually shows the vehicles you can't see such as the small motor bike or the normal motorbike to see how they actually were more made of and the critters did the hardest
The springs in the dirt bike could be held in the steering columns, I used to have a friend who owned a dirt bike that had them
Definite possibility, although I don’t see an indication of the suspension having shocks or being anything other than a solid frame.
The dirt bike looks more like a flat track bike and the springs in the "steering columns" is the most common way to do it( dirt bikes weren't a thing till the mid 70s but flat track bikes were the first type of racing done in the 30s and would explain lack of suspension
I've been waiting for this one
Considering when the last video was done… you’ve been waiting for a while!
It’s always a good day when RadKing uploads.
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excellent video as always.
Thank you. Anything you’d like to see in the future?
there is a mod, that adds that tanker truck (with the double bumpers) in fallout 4, simply called "Fallout Tank Truck" as a settlement object you can build
Love your content, please keep making more!
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@@Rad_King can you make a video about the military content across all fallout games?
(Might be a bit hard)
The wheel covers on the rear fenders of the double front axle bus are called "skirts", as in wheel skirts. There were plenty of fancy cars that used them from the 50's/60's till the late 80's, mostly in Cadillac's
There are many retro cars missing from Fallout. The Sinclair C5, the Buick Century Cruiser and the Bond Bug are missing from Fallout.
I know lots of people that have taken old pickups and basically cut them in half to make a trailer. My dad used to have one that he made from a 1984 F150. It was even road legal
I think the Golf cart in NV especially the Canopy version, is Literally just a Flintstones Car
The street cleaner reminds me of that episode of wubulous world of dr suess, it scared the hell out of me as a kid but there was a sentient vacuum that ate a child
Praise be to Atom, Pt. 2!
Only took me a few years 😅
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What will we do with a drunken raider?
What will we do with a drunken raider?
What will we do with a drunken raider?
Early in the morning!
The fallout 3 bike is quite interesting. It has a giant frame which reminds me of old Jawas or even German mokicks. The overall design reminds me of old baggers like indians or Harleys yet the engine seems to be a boxer as seen on BMW's or Ural motorcycles
Great video!
Thanks mate!
The bike in fallout 4 is destructible.
I think part of the reason dirtbikes had not been depicted in the fallout universe might be the divergence from our own universe in the 1950s, in the real world dirt bikes weren't really a thing until the 1970s.
Scramblers were a thing however more of an English thing
Imagine if there was a FO4 mod that allowed you to rebuild Lone Wanderer bikes with a modification that allows it to be powered by fusion cores
The circular feature on the back of the van has a tube leading from it to the floor - its either a fuel or coolent filler.
The Soviet fire truck in 76 was kinda funny
I honestly thought it was pretty cool. I would be interested to know how they decide to know how the developers decide what to base designs off of.
Speaking of trucks, for me it seems that the semi-trucks in Fallout 3 and New Vegas look similar to the Truck Cab and Truck Cab SX from Grand Theft Auto 2 (made in 1999). Maybe these three games have their trucks based on the same real life vehicle.
The dirt bike could be mis identified and really be a flat track bike which would explain the lack of knobby tire and suspension
I always thought76's Firetruck was based off the Soviet Topol-M ICBM launcher
Its the same base vehicle, the soviets used it as a general purpose heavy duty carrier, i also saw some used equipped with drilling equipment, some used as logging trucks and i think a heavy crane too. Plus they were modified with longer frames for use in shipyards and heavy industry
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The silent "oh shit" moment is readable
The rear portion of busses missing actually makes a LOT of sense. Think about it, those are HUGE power plants, AND rear engine/rear wheel drive. Which means you can just butcher it in half however messy as you want, and use it as a power plant somewhere else with ease. They would be the easiest to adapt drivetrain for heavy duty use. In real life this is pretty true as well, since most busses are still diesel cycle engines running on diesel or in a lot of cases, propane. Diesel engines post apocalypse would be extremely desireable due to their ability to basically run on anything, and require zero electricity to run in cases of mechanical injected engines. A bus would be the best thing to convert into a mobile home or adapt the power plant for something else. i'm really high so this is really rambley
another great video! :)
Thank you! Anything you’d like to see in a future video?
@@Rad_King A video about the different plants of fallout would be cool :)
As rpg maps get bigger I feel like In game travel and even possibly the removal of fast travel will be vital in immersion. I always find walking places fun but the load times and dead space gets boring, if I could speed by on a bike and stop when I see something interesting it will increase playtime and overall user enjoyment.
I'm late as all getout here but the "Tank Truck" looks an awful lot like my grandpa's old Flusher Truck. Some in my family say it was a custom job, some say it was outfitted as is from the factory for Oregon forestry work, but regardless what it was was a 50's firetruck chassis with a 5000 gallon tank on the back that had an oval cross-section with flat ends. Paint the one's in the game solid white and you're about there.
I think that the west may have gotten a lot more close to the northern communist block, after the sino-soviet split, instead of how it went in our timeline.
everybody gangsta till the great khans show up on supermotos
There’s a new car in fallout 76 that wasn’t in any other fallout game. It kinda resembles a submarine car, and it’s dark blue or black
The FO3 also have the ability to fly, though that may have just been the physics engine freaking out as I walked past.
There is a bus on a roof somewhere in my Capital wasteland.
The pickup truck brahmin cart is based on a 1956 Powell Sport pickup, I believe.
I think you’re right.
*oof* Fallout OST smashed me in the feels.
Bringing back those memories?
I just came across this in fallout 4, but there appears to be some sort of Industrial Combine near the left edge of the map, on the upper left Sky-highway.
I don’t think it has been mentioned yet so I thought I’d point it out
If I remember properly, according to lore, the USSR still stood as a commie faction pre war. However, we weren't against them and at times considered allies. Moreover, US citizens were still standoffish toward Russians. It was a love hate relationship.
Yeah, kind of similar to the real-world relation between the U.S. and China. China in Fallout behaves more like the real world USSR. While the USSR in Fallout behaves more like real world China.
Precisely. Now to just get Radking to read and respond lolll
The trucks in FO3, FO4 and NV also bear a strong resemblance to the Bedford RL.
@radking 4:15 to 4:30 . I mean, technically wagons can qualify as vehicles. I mean you DIDN'T call it "the MOTORIZED vehicles of fallout part 2". So yeah they count.
I love technicalities.
I think the busses are a refernce to the 1976 "disaster comedy" film, The Big Bus, but that bus had 8 axles & was articulated, it was atomic powered in the film.
The next fallout game really needs to have drivable vehicles one just because they're awesome and having a vehicle customization system would be cool and two the need for vehicles would make the wasteland far more spaced out and feel a lot more natural than it does now.
They'll add one bike as a DLC for 19.99. Bet.
@@erikcarrillo7378. Nah, this ain't Konami; Even Activision would stay away from that.
The engine on the FO3 bike looks like the horizontal twins commonly seen in BMW bikes
The street cleaner is also in fallout 4
22:40 that's possible. It could be the result of corporate/industrial espionage, too. That would be in line with the general conduct of corporations (and governments) in the Fallout world.
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4:14 How could a wagon ever not be classified as a vehicle? You made such a big disclaimer about it i was thinking it was going to be something odd like a pogostick or packbrahmin. Why would anyone not see it as a vehicle? Because it isn't self propelled? So we never invented a land vehicle until the advent of the bicycle?
There! i wrote a long lengthy and in depth comment on why I agree. Well... It wasn't *that* long or in depth... Feel free to ignore it anyway :P
Also the car looking wagons might just be Utes or trucks with fins.
The motorcycle depicted in Fallout three has a twin cylinder boxer engine, typical of an R series BMW, what would be the valve covers on the engine do resemble those on the BMWs of the 1950 & 60s, it is possible it is inspired by a Harley XA which was a WW2 military prototype that used a 750cc boxer engine, but that was a flathead engine so would not have had valve covers, The fishtail exhausts are very 1940s Harley.
The nuka cola truck may be a shortened down version of the jays moving truck
So the tank truck clearly has a dented roof making the windsheild bay look much smaller.
the "off road vehicle" from fallout 76 looks based on the bantam jeep prototype