He's a robot programmed to be an upbeat, cheerful butler, but in that moment there's a note of panic and sheer terror in his voice. One that's easily overlooked, but Codsworth's voice when he calls over the player character to see the news reports about the bombs starting to fall.The poor souls that weren't on the list were pretty much doomed no matter what they did, and it shows how little Vault-Tec actually cared about such things, even in the face of nuclear annihilation. And the worst part? If you look through security instructions, it makes clear that those not on the list but that made it into the vault were to be detained, and once everyone is processed, disposed of.There's a random encounter of a wandering group of Feral Ghouls with the names of your neighbors that weren't admitted to the Vault, meaning that they survived only to succumb to radiation poisoning.Their colleagues are dead, they have no transport and they're now in a ravaged hellhole landscape, bathed in radiation. Second.what do they do now? They're the only people we see in the intro wearing power armor. First, they were in the middle of a nuclear holocaust, right as it ravaged the environment and killed everyone in front of them with all the trauma that brings. A scenario that really isn't that much better if you take a moment to think about it for two reasons. It's likely the only survivors from the squad were the two men in power armor. When you reach the surface, you can find skeletons in military fatigues still littering the area 200 years later. The soldiers, having to control entry to the Vault, never have an opportunity to seek shelter themselves, for that matter.Random female resident: "We're gonna die out here!" And then he says those words that cause your heart to drop into your stomach: "Nuclear Detonations." For the next few moments you don't hear anything else he says, instead just hoping, praying that music will play and the anchor will admit that it's all just a joke, a cruel prank pulled by the news station.
To put it into perspective: It's late October, you're talking with your spouse, possibly about going to the park, maybe preparing for Halloween.and then you turn to the TV and see the news on.ItÂ’s kind of scary for the players born after 2000 as well since a good amount will expect to be alive in 2077.The introduction itself is raw, unadulterated nightmare fuel for gamers old enough to remember the Cold War, even in the closing years with the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents, considering total nuclear annihilation was a very real, very present threat that existed on a day-by-day basis at some points."Residents of Sanctuary Hills! If you are registered, evacuate to Vault 111 immediately!" Cue the air-raid sirens, hysterical panic, and the Vertibirds making the ominous announcement: Justified by the news anchor when he reports confirmation that nukes have detonated in NYC and Philadelphia, meaning the northern part of the Eastern Seaboard just got annihilated, and the missiles are making their way down the coastline for Boston, Concord, Washington D.C., Arlington, and more. This means that while for you the day is still normal, at least for the next few seconds while you play with your child and converse with your spouse, for others hundreds of miles away in the larger cities, the end of the world has already come. It's very likely to be something much, much worse: The sounds of the first nuclear weapons detonating on American soil. It could simply be an Autumn wind breezing by.except the trees outside aren't moving. Listen very carefully when you turn the mobile for Baby Shaun in the intro, and you might hear something that sounds like a low, rumbling/whooshing sound coming from outside.And then it happens, and that world is lost forever. If it wasn't for the news report, you'd never even know there was the threat of nuclear war. The game starts on the day the bombs fall, and instead of being what you'd expect, with people cowering in fear and expecting the bombs to come at any moment, it's just. It becomes even worse when we see the Pre-War world.Anyone who has heard actual news reports during large disasters or tragedies knows how jarring and terrifying it is when reporters aren't Stepford Wives levels of upbeat. Only a trailer and Bethesda already hit us with the nightmare fuel, namely, the news report during the 2077 segments.