Where did the bomb fall?

[Dad's Angry Candy]

the first thing i did after i met virgil (the instatute super mutant in the glowing sea) was wonder where the bomb fell. now there is alot of radiation and a crater in the glowing sea but if you look where the bomb fell from the vault 111 entrance and look on your map it points towards the actual ocean. plus there is 2 radiation map locations by where you look. Theres Hugos hole and another radiation village that is also populated with children of atom. and there is the Yangtze quest that tells you the captain of the Yangtze launched the bombs on boston although its unrealistic the bomb hit so close to where it was launched Fallout is a universe where they kinda got stuck in a 1980s feel.

[a menace]

holy mother of necro

[SpeedFreak1972]

well it seems a necromancer cult has taken over this thread.

[Emil215p]

Necros everywhere

[Skitarii Ranger IV]

Technically, Lore-wise, the first nuke to fall was in Israel (More specifically, Tel-Aviv), which was bombed by a terrorist group.

[Thomastronaut]

stop

[JobeGardener]

Good question. Another question would be-If the Bombs(s) fell only into the actual sea, would there still be a "Glowing Sea"?

[casualsailor]

An even better question would be if the bombs fell would they destroy all the necro posts?

Personally, I'm doubtful. These things seem more resilient than cockroaches.

[Emil215p]

Originally posted by Thomastronaut:

stop

^ the post has been dead for literal years.

[xXUnrealHawkXx]

For all of you wondering, the bomb you see fall at the beginning of the game is not the glowing sea crater. The video below shows this as well you all can thank me from afar. The glowing sea bomb was caused by 4 nukes fired from the yangtze sub, as stated if you follow the quest they tried to take out the sentinel site. The crater with the children of atom was not caused by so much a bomb, but if you jump into the radiated water you will find this crater was caused from one of the airliners crashing and blowing its fusion reactor causing a similar small nuke as scattered remains of the flight are around the blast site. Hope I answered all your questions!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=

[Ihateeverybody]

What about the Cambridge Crater? I thought that was accepted as the location of the Prologue Explosion (But in all honesty I didn't delve too deeply into the argument and never really cared at all....at all....I mean at all).

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[Yo Mr. White]

Originally posted by coward:

Proof that the bomb dropped in the beginning of the game was not the bomb that created the glowing sea (You can even go and see this for yourself at any point in the game):

Firstly, Go to Vault 111, Stand in the center of the platform, where you stood in the beginning before making your descent into the Vault.

Now hopefully everyone remembers approx. where the bomb dropped in the opening scene, look at that direction now. While looking it at, open up your map by pressing [M]. You'll notice at this point that the arrow that symbolizes your character, with the arrow point symbolizing your character orientation and view, doesn't line up with where the bomb fell according to the location of the glowing sea.

If you want to go even further with this, line your character's view with the general direction of the glowing sea, using your mini-map as an aid. You'll see that the glowing sea is over in the direction, past a slight incline and a small forest. A place where obviously the bomb that was dropped in the first scene did not even come close to hitting.

My theory is that either Bethesda got lazy and had their dev's totally overlook this, or that the optimal place for the glowing sea and the optimal place for the bomb dropping was two different places and they just didnt align it. Or lastly, and most realisticly, that the actual bombs location was much further away and a smaller, less damaging nuke was dropped on the location of the glowing sea while your character was in the vault.


TL;DR
if you think the bomb dropped in the opening scene is the one that caused the glowing sea to form, then your a moron.

Originally posted by coward:

Proof that the bomb dropped in the beginning of the game was not the bomb that created the glowing sea (You can even go and see this for yourself at any point in the game):

Firstly, Go to Vault 111, Stand in the center of the platform, where you stood in the beginning before making your descent into the Vault.

Now hopefully everyone remembers approx. where the bomb dropped in the opening scene, look at that direction now. While looking it at, open up your map by pressing [M]. You'll notice at this point that the arrow that symbolizes your character, with the arrow point symbolizing your character orientation and view, doesn't line up with where the bomb fell according to the location of the glowing sea.

If you want to go even further with this, line your character's view with the general direction of the glowing sea, using your mini-map as an aid. You'll see that the glowing sea is over in the direction, past a slight incline and a small forest. A place where obviously the bomb that was dropped in the first scene did not even come close to hitting.

My theory is that either Bethesda got lazy and had their dev's totally overlook this, or that the optimal place for the glowing sea and the optimal place for the bomb dropping was two different places and they just didnt align it. Or lastly, and most realisticly, that the actual bombs location was much further away and a smaller, less damaging nuke was dropped on the location of the glowing sea while your character was in the vault.


TL;DR
if you think the bomb dropped in the opening scene is the one that caused the glowing sea to form, then your a moron.

Damnit it Bois.... If you would have played the game properly you would've noticed a Big-Ass crater in the middle of Cambridge. Also known as the *Drums* Cambridge Crater. So you could say that this Crater was the first impact of a Nuke. It was probably a very weak Nuke if you look at the Mushroom from the Opening Scene. One of the most powerful nukes would have Killed you already before you had a Chance to sink into the Vault.

At this point we can all agree that the developers did not used the proper rules of physics here, because even the Hiroshima Bomb would have destroyed most of the City at a ground Impact. (Nukes are usually blown up a few hundred meters above the ground, so they are more destructive but at the same time blow less radioactive Fallout into the air). The second crater was probably caused by a second nuke. Probably to wipe out military facilities or something. If we compare the size of the craters you could tell that the second nuke was way more powerful and created this radioactive paradise. Both of them would have been ground impacts because there are craters. But even ground impacts could not create such a place as the ''Glowing Sea''. Maybe for 2 weeks, but after 200 years all of the remains of a full scale nuclear war should have been blown away by earths regeneration. So except there is some type of nuclear power plant burning for over 200 years that contains 100 times more power then Chernobyl, that Glowing Sea thing makes no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by OG Loc:

Damnit it Bois.... If you would have played the game properly you would've noticed ....

1. You are quoting people who posted 3.5 years ago.

2. You have no clue where Cambridge is otherwise you would not be claiming the first nuke hit there.

3. The nuke in the start hit in the Glowing Sea, probably a good bet that is why it glows.

[Bob Bobbington]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by OG Loc:

Damnit it Bois.... If you would have played the game properly you would've noticed ....

1. You are quoting people who posted 3.5 years ago.

2. You have no clue where Cambridge is otherwise you would not be claiming the first nuke hit there.

3. The nuke in the start hit in the Glowing Sea, probably a good bet that is why it glows.

Why is anyone still talking in this?

[MTWNSTR_77]

it blew up

[konstantynopolitaneczka]

Originally posted by stratis:

it blew up