How did the Fallout universe got so high tech?

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  1. Ai chan

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    So Ai-chan watched some of the gameplay videos and there seems to be lots of robots, and the robots are hovering in the air. The Fallout universe's technology was stuck in the Cold War era, prior to their nuclear apocalypse where all technological advance ended. Plus, these robots existed way before their nuclear apocalypse, which means they have floating robots in the Cold War era.

    Even we with our semiconductors, terabytes of processing and memory power and the ability to go to space can't create a permanently floating robot with seemingly unlimited power supply. And yet the Fallout universe with their transistor-based technology was able to do it in the 60s.

    Was there ever an explanation in universe or do people just waive it as 'magic'?
     
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    Companies milking money....so anything goes as long they get the money....
    If they need an exuse they will dump it all on aliens...
     
  3. Trov

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    One of the reasons is due to their society going down the nuclear tech tree instead of the electronic tech tree.
    The transistor for example, wasn't even invented until like 2023 in the fallout universe. But they had things like portable nuclear power plants and such.
     
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    Freaking nuclear power battery = shit tons of energy to waste = rocket propelled robots are a possibility.

    Though they seriously fucks it up in the internal circuitries without semiconductors.

    Also they have FEVs ffs.
     
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    Ai-chan is 2 year late to the Fallout Fallout.....
     
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    They're all nuclear powered. That's why when robots and cars explode in the game, they deal radiation damage as well.
     
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    Thinking about it, its pretty stupid how much potential we wasted over the dumb fear of anything with 'nuclear' in its name.

    It is literally the most efficient energy generator witht the least polution created.
     
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    Keep in mind that while the design aesthetic in Fallout is very reminiscent of the 50's, the Great War didn't actually happen until 2077.

    Now they didn't actually invent the first fusion cell until the 2060's, so a good bit of the tech we see was invented relatively shortly before the war.
     
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    It's not about power source, though..
     
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    once. . . i took over a alien mothership that has some alive specimens on it. . .
    one of them is a Samurai from the time even before Battousai. . .
    then i saw on one of their cargo holds, that they are the ones mass producing those horse robots. . .
    and well, also duri gmy exploration on the wasteland, i found a lab where they experiment on a power source (ammo) that they found on a crash landing site. . .
     
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    So you mean the programming of the software, when their computer definitely lack the processing capability no thanks to no semiconductor. But seeing how power armor, FEVs, the Hammer of Dawn (fuck yeah a solar powered death ray!) We can assume somehow they manage to mitigate the issue, plus, wars advance techs way faster when you have the need to kill.
     
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    Not always. But they had so much power they could straight up ignore efficiency at times. They had energy up the ass, so "wasting" wasn't much of a problem.
     
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    Not only that they even have laser guns, energy optical camouflage, powdered apples, and sunset sarsaparillas.
     
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    50-60s aesthetic wasn't originally the style or overtly like it was in the original fallout. In the original fallout, it has a bit more mad max and 80s punk/grittiness to it.
     
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    It's not explicitly explained how it happened in the lore but history took a right turn somewhere between the end of WW2 and pre-korean war 1950 and ended up going down the "alternate" path of nuclear everything and things being a bit more 'mechanical-ish' compared to the real world's high electro-tech style with superconductors, microchips and shit. For example, the "high tech" computers that were around in 2077 (when the war went off) were basically something akin to MS-DOS.

    Here's a complete timeline charting every single thing mentioned in every game, guide as well as design documents and the unofficial lore 'bible' written by one of the writer/designers for parts of the Fallout series
     
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    because fallout doesn't have our laws of physics. most of the things in fallout's advanced tech aren't possible. (at least not the way it would work here)
     
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    You're mistaken if you think you can make a computer just by having a huge ton of energy..
     
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    I explain all this is because of the greed for money. Since Bethesda take over, best example of this is Skyrim. The more the company can exploit their gamers the more they will do this.

    Also you did not ask about Fallout 76, that trash is another whole pile of garbage.
     
  19. Ai chan

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    That doesn't answer the question, though. This isn't about metapolitics. This is a question about how Fallout tech level can be so high when they don't even have semiconductors. It's a question about an ingame lore.

    Ai-chan's not asking about the politics that make up the game. Ai-chan's asking about what's inside the game. Not whether or not the games suck or why it suck.
     
  20. Trov

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    I never once said that.
    But a huge ton of energy can help over power a lot of troubles. Like how most theories on Faster than Light methods can be solved if we just had an infinite amount of power.
    Or how giant mechs would be a waste of energy normally, but if we had energy to waste, we wouldn't need to worry about efficiency and just build us some gundams or Liberty Prime.