Fallout 4 - It's Real and Set in Boston, Survivor 2299 Still a Hoax

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**Corpsesarefun**

So The Survivor 2299 was a hoax, but it appears that it was right about the development and setting of the next Fallout game.

http://kotaku.com/leaked-documents-reveal-that-fallout-4-is-real-set-in-1481322956

Kotaku wrote:Still upset about that massive Fallout 4 hoax? Here's some good news for you: The next entry in Bethesda's post-apocalyptic RPG series is real, it's in development right now, and, as rumored, it appears to be set in Boston, according to casting documents obtained by Kotaku.23P

Two weeks ago, a Kotaku reader sent me several documents from a casting call for a project code-named Institute. The casting documents, which I've been able to confirm are real, include scripts, character descriptions, and other details about the next Fallout, and although the word Fallout does not appear in these scripts, there are several references to Fallout's setting and locations. (The casting director for this project also worked on other Bethesda games, like Dishonored and Skyrim.)4P

This is the first confirmation we've received that the next Fallout game is in the works—although it's been generally assumed that Bethesda Game Studios, the development studio behind Fallout 3, has been working on a new Fallout since completing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim back in 2011, Bethesda has yet to announce the new game in any form. In 2012, rumors circulated that Bethesda employees were scouting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston for an upcoming Fallout game, but other than that, news has been thin.P

Yet the next Fallout remains one of the world's most anticipated games, and a few weeks ago, when an apparent teaser website called TheSurvivor2299 popped up on Reddit, people went crazy. The site, which was crafted as if it were an alternate reality game, hinted at a Fallout 4 announcement through a trickle of hidden messages and plot details, revealed through morse code and other cyphers. The sheer level of detail made the website seem real to some observers, but Bethesda wouldn't comment one way or another. P

Although some of the details I've seen may have been written simply for the casting call, and any of the dialogue could be changed by the time the next Fallout is actually released, they're interesting to read through. Here's what could be the game's opening intro, for example:

"War. War never changes," is the classic introduction used at the beginning of Fallouts 1, 2, and 3. That speech is typically narrated by actor Ron Perlman, although this page seems to suggest that the player-character will read the monologue this time around.8P

Other documents describe a mission set in the Institute—Fallout's post-apocalyptic version of MIT—and references to other Fallout locations that have been mentioned but never shown in other games, like the Commonwealth, which comprises what's left of Massachusetts. P

One character in the documents—who, again, may not show up in the actual game—is named Preston Garvey. One script describes a mission in which Garvey sends you to salvage a fusion core from a museum in the Commonwealth.

The casting documents describe some of the other characters in the next Fallout's wasteland, like a radio DJ named Travis Miles and an engineer named Sturges who is described as "a cross between Buddy Holly and Vin Diesel." Casting calls for both the male and female versions of the player character note that the player begins the game in a cryogenic sleep chamber.P

Again, it's worth noting that these details may have been invented for the casting call, and they may change during development. We also don't know whether the game will be called Fallout 4, or whether Boston will be the sole setting or just one of many.10P

The big takeaway here is that the next Fallout game is real. It's currently in development at Bethesda. So if you're upset about that teaser website turning out to be a hoax, at least take some comfort in this.P

Bethesda declined to comment for this story.

**Palindrome**

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/15/fallout-4-is-or-isnt-being-revealed-soon-would-you-believe/

There is a small chance that this may not be real. I'm sure that Fallout 4 will be happening eventually though.

**nomotog**

I'm ready for fallout 4. Fallout 3 was a very good game that I still play every now and then. You can even say it was better then skyrim. Almost. I have almost no idea what they would do with fallout 4 though.

**Kanluwen**

Palindrome wrote:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/15/fallout-4-is-or-isnt-being-revealed-soon-would-you-believe/

There is a small chance that this may not be real. I'm sure that Fallout 4 will be happening eventually though.

Not in the way that you think it is.

**Corpsesarefun**

Palindrome wrote:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/11/15/fallout-4-is-or-isnt-being-revealed-soon-would-you-believe/

There is a small chance that this may not be real. I'm sure that Fallout 4 will be happening eventually though.

I'm pretty sure it's real... The amount of time since Skyrim is about right for a new game and the countdown lining up with those awards.

**Palindrome**

Kanluwen wrote:

Not in the way that you think it is.

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Corpsesarefun wrote:
The amount of time since Skyrim is about right for a new game and the countdown lining up with those awards.

Nothing is certain (aside from EA cashcows), all you need to do is look at Half Life 3

**Coolyo294**

Assuming the site is legit, the game will be set in the Commonwealth. The site referenced the Quabbin reservoir as well as posting a caesar cipher that translated to "MY DEAR SISTER. I'M HEADING TO THE INSTITUTE. GOD KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE NOW. THIS OLD BASTARD WILL HELP US. HE MUST HELP US. --0321--". And the Institute is a location in the Commonwealth.

**Alfndrate**

0321... March 21st! It's the prophecy!

**Ninjacommando**

22 years after Fallout 3? hopefully there will be conflicts with the DC branch of the brotherhood (or outcasts), andriods, the spread of harold the Ent and mapbe this time we will get a somewhat rebuilt society that isn't nuked to hell.

**nomotog**

Ninjacommando wrote:
22 years after Fallout 3? hopefully there will be conflicts with the DC branch of the brotherhood (or outcasts), andriods, the spread of harold the Ent and mapbe this time we will get a somewhat rebuilt society that isn't nuked to hell.

Having a society that is too well rebuilt was one of the problems with NV. There wasn't that big sense of irony because everything was exactly what it was meant to be.

**ZebioLizard2**

nomotog wrote:
Ninjacommando wrote:
22 years after Fallout 3? hopefully there will be conflicts with the DC branch of the brotherhood (or outcasts), andriods, the spread of harold the Ent and mapbe this time we will get a somewhat rebuilt society that isn't nuked to hell.
Having a society that is too well rebuilt was one of the problems with NV. There wasn't that big sense of irony because everything was exactly what it was meant to be.

Except that one made made sense, Fallout 3 was weird because it was 200+ years and people were still eating trash they find on the shelves. The Mojave was rebuilding.

**nomotog**

ZebioLizard2 wrote:
nomotog wrote:
Ninjacommando wrote:
22 years after Fallout 3? hopefully there will be conflicts with the DC branch of the brotherhood (or outcasts), andriods, the spread of harold the Ent and mapbe this time we will get a somewhat rebuilt society that isn't nuked to hell.
Having a society that is too well rebuilt was one of the problems with NV. There wasn't that big sense of irony because everything was exactly what it was meant to be.

Except that one made made sense, Fallout 3 was weird because it was 200+ years and people were still eating trash they find on the shelves. The Mojave was rebuilding.

It might have made sense, but it took all the life out of the idea of being post apocalypse. It ended up being more harmful then helpful.

**KingCracker**

But Fallout is supposed to be a waste land. That's the point. If they rebuild, then it's a scify game, and will lose it's flavor.

**Alfndrate**

KingCracker wrote:
But Fallout is supposed to be a waste land. That's the point. If they rebuild, then it's a scify game, and will lose it's flavor.

But if everything remains a wasteland then it becomes just like the 40k timeline, stale and never changing.

**Corpsesarefun**

I really liked the whole recovering wasteland angle of new vegas.

**motyak**

Alfndrate wrote:

But if everything remains a wasteland then it becomes just like the 40k timeline, stale and never changing.

But Fallout...Fallout never changes.

**dementedwombat**

ZebioLizard2 wrote:
nomotog wrote:
Ninjacommando wrote:
22 years after Fallout 3? hopefully there will be conflicts with the DC branch of the brotherhood (or outcasts), andriods, the spread of harold the Ent and mapbe this time we will get a somewhat rebuilt society that isn't nuked to hell.
Having a society that is too well rebuilt was one of the problems with NV. There wasn't that big sense of irony because everything was exactly what it was meant to be.

Except that one made made sense, Fallout 3 was weird because it was 200+ years and people were still eating trash they find on the shelves. The Mojave was rebuilding.

Wow...I wish my food would stay good for 200 years. I had to throw out a jug of milk the other day. That was sad :(

I guess I just have to set off nuclear bombs and irradiate it enough, then all the bacteria will die and it won't spoil.

**KingCracker**

motyak wrote:
Alfndrate wrote:

But if everything remains a wasteland then it becomes just like the 40k timeline, stale and never changing.

But Fallout...Fallout never changes.

From my mind to this thread

I think what would help is if they stopped jumping time do damned much. You want a few years to a decade sure, but every game seems to go several hundred years. Which I will agree, that much span in time we would recover, easily.

**Alfndrate**

But it has only been a few decades between games.

Between the time when Fallout begins to when New Vegas begins, it's only 120 years.

Fallout begins in 2161
Fallout Tactics in 2197
Fallout Brotherhood of Steel begins in 2208
Fallout 2 begins in 2241
Fallout 3 begins in 2277
Fallout: New Vegas begins in 2281.

**Manchu**

I suppose D.C. would have taken a bit worse a beating than Las Vegas in a war, don't you think?

**Alfndrate**

Manchu wrote:
I suppose D.C. would have taken a bit worse a beating than Las Vegas in a war, don't you think?

That I agree with, especially considering how destroyed DC looked from the few parts of it I saw (I couldn't stand Fallout 3 for some reason). I probably wouldn't touch any of the food found in the fallout world, but I mean, whats a few rads amongst friends?

With that being said, there are still about 100 years until the US is habitable again (according to the PA system in Vault 101

**Coolyo294**

The morse code has changed to "NCRA UNIT BST 314 7 EMRG MSG NEW YORK STAGE 7 WASHINGTON STAGE 7 LOS ANGELES STAGE 7 AUSTIN STAGE 7 CHICAGO STAGE 7 NEW ORLEAN STAGE 7 LAS VEGAS UNKNOWN MIAMI STAGE 7 DALLAS STAGE 7 DENVER STAGE 7 SAN DIEGO STAGE 7 SAN FRANCISCO STAGE 7 BOSTO-"

**Wyrmalla**

Which confirms that it'll be set about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology then? The last location being listed as Boston and all. Whilst Last Vegas not being listed is referring to New Vegas. Whatever "Stage 7's" referring to of course. Wierd.

BST? Background Self Test? Testing for radiation levels? I guess New Vegas isn't listed if that's it due to it having a lower level?

**Alfndrate**

Stage 7 is the worst stage in the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures

Which considering the world of Fallout, this is not a surprise. Also the morse code message has decoded that Boston is also at Stage 7.

Also, saw an article on speculating that the reason why Las Vegas is "UNKNOWN" is due to the actions the Courier takes in Fallout: New Vegas. Fallout 3 and New Vegas got updates yesterday, which apparently are paving the way for cloud saves. Cloud saves that might have an impact on your Fallo9ut 4 experience.

**Wyrmalla**

It'd be nice if the game did include some CONELRAD reports that are still being broadcast like that. Obsidian's game don't really link so much back into the past of the series, just what happened after the war (as well to them it doesn't really matter that much).

* Edit..

¬¬ I've not got a copy of my saves from either of those games, despite putting in a couple of thousand others into both. Eugh... If that's the case then bye bye Christmas.

...Worth it.

NCRA is apparently referring to the National Catastrophe Relief Auxilliary, whilst the MP3 file itself is called longfellow-52939ac559777.mp3, referring to Longfellow Bridge, just outside the Institute.

**Coolyo294**

Alfndrate wrote:
Also, saw an article on speculating that the reason why Las Vegas is "UNKNOWN" is due to the actions the Courier takes in Fallout: New Vegas.

I think this is referring to the countermeasures that Mr. House installed to ensure that Vegas was never nuked directly

**Wyrmalla**

New Vegas was hit by two nukes actually. So it would be a level 7 event. =)

**Ninjacommando**

Seeing as they generally go with the "better" of the endings for the fallout games

During Fallout 3 the one guy from the commonwealth constantly says that the people in rivet city live like barbarians, meaning that the commonwealth(or atleast MIT) would be closer to pre war than the capital wasteland.

Come on its nothing but scientists and nexus 6 series replicants living at MIT.

Its been 20 years of the capital wasteland having Kudzu harold spreading along with fresh water source. Much of the east coast is probably rebuilding

**Manchu**

I bet it's one of those sharp contrast rich-next-to-the-poor situations in Boston, something like Tenpenny Tower or the West Coast BoS. The Institute is probably materially quite cushy, if rather sinister, but I doubt its members much go out of their way to help others -- at least if Dr. Zimmer is any indication.

**Wyrmalla**

I'm guessing it'll just be The Postman, the game! Bethesda did put down that novel as one of their references, and what's known about it kind of stinks of that books. =P