Fallout Creator Reveals Mysterious Role of Vaults; They Were Meant to be More Than Just Home

To say that Fallout is popular would be a grave understatement. The first two installments are still quite popular, and the parts published by Bethesda, although often criticized by fans of the original, also have a large fan base. In each installment, the key role is played by the vaults created by the company Vault Tec, but according to the creator of Fallout their task was not to be merely a home for the inhabitants of the.

Vaults in Fallout according to Tim Cain

Tim Cain served as lead programmer on the first Fallout and was one of the people who decided on the design of the world depicted in the game. The developer has launched a YouTube channel where he shares information related to video games.

In one such recording, he shared the reason why the vaults were actually created. In a nutshell, in the various installments they were portrayed as a shelter, acting as a kind of home for people who bought space from Vault Tec. According to Cain, their function was to be much broader.

1. The vaults, also known as shelters, were to serve as a place where residents would develop technologies, with which they could construct a nuclear-powered spacecraft to escape the war-ravaged Earth.
2. According to Cain, the goal would not be to transport people to another planet in our solar system, because, as we know, there is no place more comfortable to live than Earth, even one that is being consumed by dangerous nuclear radiation.
3. For this reason, the ship would have to be self-sustaining to ensure that future generations could reach a friendly planet in the vicinity of another star. According to the creator, it is for this reason that in some vaults experiments were carried out - often brutal, but necessary to develop the required technologies.

1. Timothy Cain on YouTube

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