Do all ghouls go feral eventually?

[Jesse]

Is Rachel right? Do all ghouls really go feral eventually? How long would it take?

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69 years

[casualsailor]

Jerky time!

[Deku Scrub]

It's different for each ghoul. However the more radiation they "absorb" the quicker they'll turn feral.

[WildCat]

It really differs from person to person, some go feral instantly, some are able to keep sanity for over 200 years. Some go feral from relatively small dose of radiation but there're a couple of cases where a ghoul turned into a glowing one from tremendous amount of absorbed radiation but still able keep sanity.

[LeedleTheWeedle]

Originally posted by Squat:

Is Rachel right? Do all ghouls really go feral eventually? How long would it take?

420 years

[Von Faustien]

Fallout1 and 2 in particular had a ♥♥♥♥ ton of sapient glowing ones.

[pedantic_roc]

It's like alcohol. A glass of wine can turn some folk, mostly women, into a giggling rag-doll. Other folk can quite happily sink 16 pints of an evening and walk home in a relatively straight line. It all depends on how your constitution and metabolism deals with it and how often you are exposed to it.

[sascomander]

I think it varies from Fallout to Fallout now. So its hard to say.

[Anvos]

I'd say yes their all doomed to go feral eventually, but the time frame varies too greatly to give an adquate time table other than inherently violent ghouls seem to go quicker than ones how try and still be humanish.

Even if the ghoulification arrests most aging human brain just isn't made to stay healthy forever even more so in a frame that is literally falling apart.

[casualsailor]

The question should be did you find the house in Cambridge with the tapes from the woman that was studying the very first ferels right after the bombs dropped? It's one of the game's little secrets that is easily overlooked.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by casualsailor:

The question should be did you find the house in Cambridge with the tapes from the woman that was studying the very first ferels right after the bombs dropped? It's one of the game's little secrets that is easily overlooked.

I JUST found that last week with 2500 hours played....

It is the blue house south of Bunker Hill, has a halloween decoratiosn and one of them red skulls on the front.

I cna not count how many times I grabbed the ♥♥♥♥ on the porch and neve rnoticed you could enter the door, lol.

[Spiltmilk]

Originally posted by casualsailor:

The question should be did you find the house in Cambridge with the tapes from the woman that was studying the very first ferels right after the bombs dropped? It's one of the game's little secrets that is easily overlooked.

Any tips as to finding this house? If I came across it, I can't seem to recall it.

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by casualsailor:

The question should be did you find the house in Cambridge with the tapes from the woman that was studying the very first ferels right after the bombs dropped? It's one of the game's little secrets that is easily overlooked.

I JUST found that last week with 2500 hours played....

It is the blue house south of Bunker Hill, has a halloween decoratiosn and one of them red skulls on the front.

I cna not count how many times I grabbed the ♥♥♥♥ on the porch and neve rnoticed you could enter the door, lol.

Thanks.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Spiltmilk:

Any tips as to finding this house? If I came across it, I can't seem to recall it.

It is closest to the scavenger workshop for the USS Constitution quest. Start there then as you going up towards Bunker Hill turn left and jump down. It is in kind of a dead end alley.

[Zee_]

Theres also a small apartment in downtown Boston with tapes of a man (pre-war) testing a prototype drug and slowely turning ghoul, as well as going feral in the process. I can't remember the exact location though, it was a nice little find and I'll try and post a screenshot and describe the location when I have the time.

Whether ghouls eventually go feral or not changes with each game. In Fallout and Fallout 2 there were numerous ghouls (including glowing ones) that were in full control of themselves. There has never been an exact description of what it takes to become a ghoul, nor why some go feral. Because of that I'd take Rachel's hypothesis with a grain of salt. You have to remember that her and the rest of the Nuka World ghouls wound up living through hell for quite a while. For all we know her and the rest of the Nuka World ghouls could have simply been suffering from bad cases of PTSD. especially since... erm... whats his name wasn't affected like the rest (the magician guy, I just woke up so my mind isn't 100% atm), and he's probably the most radioactive of them all.

Afterall, its not unheard of for people who have been through tragedies to go "feral" irl.

[troy_cummings]

I'm pretty sure the ghoulification process only occurs while exposed to radiation. So if they are exposed to enough radiation to ghoulify them, but not enough to make them feral, and then you take them out of the radiation, the ghoulification process stops. So as long as they aren't exposed to that level of radiation again for a prolonged period of time, they will stay sane and otherwise normal ghoul.

So no, not all ghouls go feral. But if a ghoul is continually exposed to radiation over an indefinite time period, then they will go feral.

Also, here's a little tidbit of relevant information that you may not know: only some people become ghouls because the ability to become a ghoul is supposedly genetic, and only some people have the gene.