Did the nuke went only in America, or other countries?

[Delta51]

Fallout games always take place in USA, then what about the other countries?

[Cocoa]

The idea is total global nuclear war

[Cocoa]

All the countries of the world released nukes, if it was just USA then there would be rescuers for people in vaults from different countries

[casualsailor]

You obviously haven't found the sub yet.

[WildCat]

It was stated in several Fallout games that the whole world suffered either from direct nuclear attacks or from nuclear fallout that spread worldwide, just no one cared to make a Fallout game that takes place anywhere else.

[Big Blue]

I don't know if other countries got hit by nuclear attack but what I know is that America wiped out by suprise chinese nuclear missiles.

[Delta51]

Originally posted by Hannibal:

I don't know if other countries got hit by nuclear attack but what I know is that America wiped out by suprise chinese nuclear missiles.

Wrong. Nobody really knows who first launched the missiles.

[Nirvash]

I'd like a Fallout that takes place in one of the other "surviving" countries. I always say when this topic comes up: Imagine a Fallout game set in Japan, and the types of technology there would be.

[TD]

If you want to know about what happened to Australia just go watch Mad Max.

[Konfusion with a K]

Originally posted by Meatbag:

I'd like a Fallout that takes place in one of the other "surviving" countries. I always say when this topic comes up: Imagine a Fallout game set in Japan, and the types of technology there would be.

I think that's going to be 'harder' to do, since Vaults aren't said to have been made wordwide.

Yeah, they could make a game around other countries, but Vaults are kind of a thing, and seem to be a US deal.

Now, if they wanted to make 'something' that other countries may have done/tried, that could be done, but they'd probably have to come up with a reason why. As it stands now, I don't think other countires bothered.

[Metadragon]

Originally posted by Meatbag:

I'd like a Fallout that takes place in one of the other "surviving" countries. I always say when this topic comes up: Imagine a Fallout game set in Japan, and the types of technology there would be.

No. If any Fallout took place outside the Continental US it would be Canada, Mexico or China. The first two due to proximity and the second because aside from the US, China was the only other relevant power during the great war.

And from a tongue in cheek perspective the 50s idealized Americana and its oddly stunted yet advanced technology is really what makes Fallout unique from other post apocalyptic games.

[Der Dutchman]

First, part of Fallout already takes place outside the continental US. In Alaska. Granted I use the term takes place loosely but won't spoil it beyond that. Also briefly on an oil rig far offshore. Again, no spoilers ;)

Second, China would be the likely alternative setting. The reason is simply that is the other place that had SOMETHING in place to protect SOME of its citizens. As far as I know, Vaults are a US/Allies thing. Vault Tec simply has a bunch of back door deals with the US Government to use its facilities to conduct radical experiments that would otherwise violate human rights (even in the Fallout world).

China had some similar government run bunker based on the things you learn in other Fallout games. Rather than create a world of crazy scientific anomalies (Super Mutants, Deathclaws, and heroic vault dwellers - but also good things like GECKS) they end up with some kind of weird shadow government and continued governmental corruption and backstabbing.

The US has a similar group (The Enclave), which is basically the remaining governmental form of the US.

So yeah, long story short is China (PRC) and the US (Enclave) are the only two "countries" that seem to be left after the war. As far as I can remember no other power is ever mentioned as having operatives still active (No Russians for instance, nor UK/EU etc).

[Solomon Hawk]

Stupid humanity, blew the whole world to hell.

[⎠⎝Zushikatetomoto⎠⎝ UFO]

Originally posted by Tempest Stormcaller:

Stupid humanity, blew the whole world to hell.

No the human race left their mark on the planet just like Mars.

[TheSaboteur]

Originally posted by ⎠Zushikatetomoto⎝UFO ☢☠:

Originally posted by Tempest Stormcaller:

Stupid humanity, blew the whole world to hell.

No the human race left their mark on the planet just like Mars.

Nah the demons destroyed Mars, don't you member?

[Metadragon]

Most major cities around the world were hit. Some regions fared better than others due to less strategic importance or better defense but the whole world suffered from massive EMP blasts and fallout. Even if your partivular city was hit the radiation and fallout and subsequent nuclear winter and radioactive rain yhe fell everywhere rendered almost everywhere uninhabitable and the depopulation due to starvation and radiation is arguably worse than dying from the blast.

One example is Boston itself. It wasnt hit with a direct blast but the apparently larger than normal nukes that fell nearby made the glowing sea and stillanaged to kill a crap ton of people and wreck ruin.

Its implied the UK and Ireland have a population. Both Alistair Tenpenny and Moriarty's parents somehow traveled from there to the capital wasteland.

China is implied to have had underground bunkers and a population.

Canada and Maxico have a few settlements too presumably.

One interesting fact I have found is the globes show the Mediterainean Sea as a landmass... so Europe and Africa are one large continent now.

Oh and aliens exist canonically.