frissy wrote:
But seriously. RPG Codex dude whines...
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... about Bethesda making setting errors and anybody, I mean anybody who has played Fallout 2 knows what Marcus said. What did he say? Something that doesn't fuck up that particular whine-topic about the setting. Everything else is decent, but please...pretty please for the community. Don't do fuck-ups like that against Beth.
a) There were a lot of dumb things in Fallout 2 that contradicted what the first game has established or simply didn't fit the setting, like the talking deathclaws.
b) Even Fallout Tactics developers have accepted the "supermutants are sterile" concept, mentioning both the mutants and the Brotherhood's unsuccessful attempts to cure the mutants' sterility.
c) From the Fallout Bible:
Does FEV really cause sterility? In Fallout 1 it seemed like the answer was a resounding yes, and a number of reasons for this were given by Zax and Vree. But then in Fallout 2 after you take Marcus to the Cat's Paw he says "I hope she doesn't get pregnant" and says that the FEV doesn't make mutants go sterile, it just makes it take a few years "to get the juices flowing again". Moreoever, the deathclaws in Vault 13 were infected with FEV and yet they are able to reproduce. So, does the FEV cause sterility or not?
Answer:
FEV causes sterility in some creatures. FEV does cause sterility in super mutants and ghouls -
Marcus' comment in New Reno was a joke only (and it was an inappropriate one, for which I apologize for). For other creatures, however, the FEV does not cause sterility - in fact, it may actually speed up their reproductive cycles (in tandem with potential drawbacks). Known species that can reproduce after being mutated with the FEV include most species of Giant rats, the mantises (who are known to have bred so fast they cover the Salt Lake City area like blankets), the radscorpions, and the deathclaws. This is only a partial list.
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Overall, the mutants' sterility played a large role in the first game, providing a diplomatic solution to one of the final confrontations. It wasn't a minor, irrelevant fact that could be ignored or easily changed.