A creative Fallout fan recently proposed a diabolical new vault concept: a vault with 365 residents, each having a different birthday, leading to daily celebrations. This idea has ignited a discussion about how such incessant festivities would affect the vault’s inhabitants. While some suggest residents might abandon the tradition or consolidate celebrations, others believe Vault-Tec’s strict protocols would force daily parties, potentially driving residents to the brink of madness.
This imaginative concept underscores the series’ tradition of unsettling and often deadly social experiments within its vaults.
Highlights
- Vaults in the Fallout franchise host social experiments; some deadly, others creepy, like one fan”s birthday idea.
- A fan of the series recently proposed a vault with daily birthdays, 365 days a year, creating a debate as to how residents would cope with incessant celebrations.
One Fallout fan has come up with an idea for a vault so diabolical, it”s impressive that the twisted minds at Vault-Tec didn”t think of it first. Set in a world that barely survived a nuclear apocalypse, the Fallout franchise”s vaults are one of its most recognizable features, but life isn”t what the residents expected in most of them.
Players took their first steps in the series in Fallout”s Vault 13, the starting location of the original PC game, and other than a malfunctioning water chip with no backup to be found, life seemed pretty normal there. That is, until the release of Fallout 2, when players discovered a whole box of water chips in another vault, which was assumed to be a shipping error but could have been something much more sinister. As the series continues, players discover multiple vaults undergoing various social experiments, some of which turn out to be truly deadly.
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In this case, one player has come up with their own social engineering experiment, and while it doesn”t seem as maddening as the Gary cloning experiment in Vault 108, it could still easily make its dwellers lose their minds. Posted recently on Reddit, one user dug up an old social media post in which another Fallout fan had proposed a vault with 365 different residents, each of whom has a different birthday. Given that Fallout 3 shows how vault dwellers tend to throw birthday parties, that would mean a party every day, with residents only getting a break roughly once every four years. “Just endless birthdays with everyone waiting to celebrate someone dying to have a day off,” the post reads.
The Fallout Series Has Had Some Really Creepy Vaults
The idea has encouraged some discussion about just how a vault”s population would cope with so many birthdays. Some have suggested that residents would simply stop celebrating birthdays or hold a monthly celebration for all residents born that month, but others insist that the vault overseer would follow protocol to a T, sticking with the mandates issued to them by Vault-Tec. Speculation on the mental strain this schedule would place on the vault is varied, with some suggesting a mandate that a resident be executed or exiled if a baby is born on their birthday, sort of like how Fallout: New Vegas” Vault 11 normalized human sacrifice for its population.Close
Even without that fun thought experiment being real, the series already features plenty of terrible Fallout vaults to be trapped in. Ranging from a rehab vault filled with drugs to a virtual reality simulator where residents are forced to die nasty deaths over and over, the maniacal machinations of Vault-Tec are something that keep players coming back for more with each new release.
Fallout 4
Fallout 4 is an RPG in the Fallout series, being the fourth major installment. This time around, players are in The Commonwealth, formerly Massachusetts, in the year 2287.
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Action
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Top Critic Rating:
87/100
Critics Recommend:
89%
Franchise
Fallout
Platform(s)
PC
, PS4
, PS5
, Xbox One
, Xbox Series X
, Xbox Series S
Released
November 10, 2015
Developer(s)
Bethesda
Publisher(s)
Bethesda
Engine
Creation
ESRB
M FOR MATURE: BLOOD AND GORE, INTENSE VIOLENCE, STRONG LANGUAGE, USE OF DRUGS
How Long To Beat
27 Hours
X|S Enhanced
No
PS Plus Availability
Extra & Premium
File Size Xbox Series
36 GB (May 2024)Expand
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