Duck and Cover

I suggest taking head ache medicine in advance.

Hello Vault Dwellers,

Great to see you back for another installment of the old Developer Diary. The Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel team has been busy bringing the Fallout world to life in beautiful Technicolor 3D. All three chapters with their respective locales are finally completed and getting all spruced up for your enjoyment come October.

Updates on what we are doing lately……Carbon, the town our story begins in, is just about completed and has just entered some serious testing. Everyone is happy to see the Brotherhood take in interest in their little hamlet, well not everyone.

Even thou the Brotherhood never go out and guard towns. And oh raiders don't like it.

Los, the second setting of our story is coming to life on a daily basis. The inhabitants of the ruined city are chomping at the bits to get some player flesh to gnaw on. When you get to the bridge area, be careful not to fall off, we don't want any players drowning before you complete your mission (or the locals get some dinner).

So the city has a lake or river and you have to not drown in. And remember ALL ghouls are mindless fleash-eating zombies even if the majority are intelligence enough to talk and follow orders.

Okay guys get ready for the next bit, it is too painful for words.

And for the final chapter, the local Vaults have opened their doors to the initiate's. The old civilian (mostly) personnel of the Vaults could not be any more tickled pink to see new faces, except some of the locals may have something to hide.

Oh and they are hiding FEV probably.

Rest of update:

In addition to the locations being finalized, some exciting things are brewing over in the programmers' corner. New effects are going into the game daily. The Turbo Plasma Rifle and the Laser Pistol are too much fun. Watching ghouls disintegrate from a burst of focused energy is quite satisfying.

An announcement for all of you fans out there, the Lollapalooza tour is back and is being presented by Xbox this year. That means they are going to have some of this years most anticipated titles at their GameRiot facility. Make sure to hit the traveling show and play Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

Well that is it for now. I was hoping for one of the designers to visit with you, but they have been extremely busy banging away on the game. Maybe a few more questions to the FAQ will get them out of their shells.

There's also a second update to the Fbos site, this one is crafted like a letter (to view it click on the restricted button and type in "vault dweller").

This letter (supposed to be written by the cliché nice-prostitute with a naive southerner accent) mentions a raider matron, that's right the raider group is somehow run by a female that "has them wrapped around her finger and they do whatever she says", even thou raiders can just go steal girls whenever they want. And all renders of female characters are given identical breast sizes and are either prostitutes, dominatrixes, or nurses nice way to ruin Fallout's respectable portrayal of women while your at it.

Human Shield wrote:And remember ALL ghouls are mindless fleash-eating zombies even if the majority are intelligence enough to talk and follow orders.

In the first Fo, they were described as Carrion eaters, so honestly I'd expect them to be flesh-eating. It would probibly be the minority that wasn't carrion eaters, as it would be much easier in regards to food supply.

Doesn't mean that they are forced to eat human flesh. Only a few groups were mindless and attacked you, the rest were either peaceful or followed Set's orders. They traded stuff for food including bramin meat.

Of course they don't need to eat human flesh, but when there's not much else to eat or drink then human flesh becomes a viable option. Think Lord of the Flies? Of course, ghouls when civilized would be a lot more intelligent, forming elitist gentlemen's clubs, smoking tobacco, printing newspapers and the like.

I thought the "carrion eaters" in the first FO were buzzards and such. Like when you die, the narrator overtones that "not even the carrion eaters are interested in your radiated corpse" or some such. Or maybe you're referring to something else.

Fuck it. It's been years since I've played this game.

Yeah, buzzards are mentioned quite a few times in Fallouts 1 and 2. Personally I think they'd make a fine addition. Very hardcore.