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Nope, it's a feature.

Why the assumption that the independent ending automatically means a Dictatorship by the Courier? My Couriers usually remove House, kill Lanius, negotiate with Oliver, then fade away behind the scenes, leaving the Followers to help pull everything together as a democratic federation (with the...

Radiation isn't going to be that bad 200 years after the war. Levels drop off pretty quickly. Here's a picture of Hiroshima in 1960, 15 years after the bomb (which was a relatively small and dirty bomb by today's standards) 200 years after a nuclear war, levels will probably be slightly...

You don't have to kill them all, you can just forget about the quest. Sure, then Manny Vargas won't tell you where the Khans have gone, but by that stage you're already pretty sure Benny has gone to Vegas. Perhaps a wise courier would realise he couldn't take on the Nightkin, didn't want to kill...

It will mess up any hotkeys you have set though, so you'll have to reset those once you leave.

I think the opening is great. Not fantastic for future playthroughs, but for an introduction and for learning game mechanics, it's ideal. I think it's paced pretty well. You spend just enough time in the vault settling into things, shooting radroaches and passing speech checks to get...

Pissing off the legion is a pretty bad move early on in the game before you have any companions, good gear or stats.

Well, there are plenty of characters from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds who are just people. Colonel Hsu, Manny Vargas, Ulysses, Raul, First Sergeant Astor, Sergeant Bitter-Root, Corporal Sterling... Obsidian never felt the need to make them racial caricatures

Some Super Mutants still seem to be pretty into the Unity

If they made a Fallout set in the UK, they'd have to abandon the 50s Americana. I think it would be kind of cool to have a post-apocalyptic setting with throwbacks to London in the Swinging 60s. Fallout:Glasgow probably wouldn't notice much of a difference. Barely a day goes by when I don't get...

It's actually even simpler than that. You don't have to make any assumptions about how quickly the energy is deposited, you can just work out the energy contained in an MFC, so 20 shots * 3.3kJ * 2.5 = 165kJ. In New Vegas hardcore mode, they have a mass of 0.1 pounds (so 0.05kg). 165kJ per...

I don't think the Chinese ever attacked the Lower 48. But a Fallout: Hawai'i, would have the potential to be very cool...

We don't, but we very easily could. With zero research. If you can go to the moon, you can have kinetic impactors in orbit. They are literally dumb lumps of metal. It's not like an orbital laser cannon or something that would have to be independently developed, there is literally no way the...

Exactly, in the Fallout Universe, they have put a man on the moon, so they can clearly lift huge payloads into orbit, and drop them back to earth. That's all you need to do with a kinetic impactor, which is literally just a pointy lump of metal. We could put one in space within a month right now...

"Bahaha, the Legendary Bloatfuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......"

As BairdEC said, it's already been researched, we could do it tomorrow if we really wanted. All you need to do is put an extremely dense "dart" in orbit, with a standard rocket, and when you want to attack, fire another small rocket motor for a deorbit burn. Essentially what you're doing is...

Perhaps they did. It's never really mentioned. Or perhaps the European nations strengthened their armies to a degree where it wouldn't be practical for the USSR to invade. Particularly if there were tensions with China and/or the USA elsewhere and they couldn't face large losses fighting in Europe.

I haven't played Fallout 4 yet, so I don't really know. A couple of other minor factions I can think of: The Boomers are tribals with a leader, who doesn't appear to be elected. Obviously Pearl isn't going to be a formidable fighter, so it's more likely that she stays in power because of...

I would say they probably abandoned Europe during the war with the Middle East. As the US didn't get involved in that conflict, and it would be hard to stay out of it if US troops were the victims of nuclear attack

The BoS has an elder, who seems to be elected, but serves for life. They are in charge, but delegate a lot of power to relevant people like the heads of the various orders, and if they deviate too much from the Codex, they are liable to find themselves deposed and replaced. The Enclave claim to...