GAME · 2015
Fallout 4
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows
50 archived facts 6 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Sep 2026
All facts (50)
- #001
A Fallout 4 developer said he played the game for more than 400 hours and still had not found everything in it.
- #002
Initial plans for Fallout 4 took shape in 2009, when director Todd Howard wanted to explore the world of Fallout before the bombs fell. A team began production on the game that year, including Istvan Pely, the lead artist of Fallout 3, after he finished that game's downloadable content.
- #003
In the Fallout 4: Far Harbor (2016) DLC there is a lake, and while swimming in it you will see two skeletons floating in the water; one is on top of a door and the other holds the door from inside the water. This is a reference to the famous scene in Titanic (1997).
- #004
Development of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim held Bethesda's full attention while Fallout 4 was in its early stages. After Skyrim's 2011 release, the studio continued to support it with updates and downloadable content until 2013.
- #005
Fallout 4 contains slightly more than 111,000 lines of voiced dialogue, more than Fallout 3 and Skyrim combined. The player's character has 13,000 spoken lines for each of the male and female characters.
- #006
Fallout 4 entered full production from mid-2013 to mid-2015, after Bethesda finished the updates and downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
- #007
If you find a globe in the game, you will notice that the African continent has merged with Europe, the Middle East and Asia to form a single mega landmass.
- #008
Fallout 4 was built on the Creation Engine, which Bethesda had previously used for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, rather than the Gamebryo engine used by Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
- #009
There is no level cap in the game, and you can keep playing even after completing the main quest line.
- #010
This is the first Fallout game in which the player's character speaks, as also shown in the announcement trailer.
- #011
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Events take place on specific in-game dates in the game world. For example, on October 31 you will see Halloween decorations and the corresponding dialogue from NPCs.
- #012
Bethesda revealed that mobile devices would be integrated into Fallout 4 as a second screen, serving as a secondary display for the Pip-Boy.
- #013
The player's robot butler Codsworth can address the player by the name they chose. There are over 900 recognized names that Codsworth says out loud when speaking to the player, including some that are quite profane.
- #014
Production of Fallout 4 began right after The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011). Bethesda stated that they will begin production of Fallout 5 after production of The Elder Scrolls VI is completed. The Elder Scrolls VI premieres in winter 2026, and Fallout 5 is not expected to be released until at least 2030. In an interview, producer Todd Howard said a rough draft of the Fallout 5 script had already been written. He shared certain parts of it with the creators and head writers of the Fallout (2024) series to give an idea of what the game's story would be about, so that they would not go in a similar direction, since they wanted the series' characters and story to be original and not directly connected to any existing or future game.
- #015
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The in-game radio station Diamond City Radio plays various songs from the 1940s and '50s. Some of them appeared in Fallout 3, but many are exclusive to Fallout 4. The game also features five original songs by Lynda Carter, who plays a singer (Magnolia). These songs are added to the Diamond City Radio rotation after the player encounters this character in the game.
- #016
Todd Howard said that mods made for the PC version of Fallout 4 would also work on the Xbox One version, and that the team hoped to eventually bring them to the PlayStation 4 version.
- #017
Fallout 4 won a large number of awards at E3 2015. Along with "Best PC Game" and "Best RPG", it also won "Best of Show", the most prestigious E3 award.
- #018
Asked about the unsuccessful attempt to introduce a paid mod system for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Todd Howard stated that Fallout 4 had no plans for a similar effort.
- #019
Mods created by PC players using The Creation Kit, which holds the official modding tools, arrived for Fallout 4 on Xbox One in May 2016 and on PlayStation 4 in November 2016.
- #020
The announcement trailer for Fallout 4 reached 10 million views on YouTube in one day.
- #021
Fallout 4 runs on Bethesda's Creation Engine, the same engine originally built for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
- #022
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When entering the Covenant settlement, you must take the SAFE test, where you will notice that the questions are exactly the same as those in the GOAT test at Vault 101 in Fallout 3.
- #023
The Railroad, an organization dedicated to helping runaway synths reach freedom, was modeled on the "Underground Railroad", an organization in nineteenth-century America dedicated to helping African-American slaves escape to the north.
- #024
The Laser Rifle, an in-game weapon, suffers from bullet drop. This is quite surprising given that the weapon fires a strengthened light beam.
- #025
While wandering in the Quincy area, a refrigerator can be found containing a ghoul child trapped inside since the bombs fell. This may be a reference to the scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) in which Jones survives an atomic bomb test explosion by hiding in a lead-lined refrigerator at ground zero (which is a myth; refrigerators were not lead-lined, not counting the paint). This is not the first time the Fallout series has poked fun at this idea. In Fallout: New Vegas (2010), if the player chooses the Wild Wasteland trait, a skeleton wearing a fedora can be found inside a refrigerator with no door.
- #026
The raiders in the wreck of the FMS Northern Star speak Norwegian. Their accent comes from the northern part of Norway, where many old traditions revolve around the sea. The ship is a reference to the Norwegian vessel MS Nordstjernen (North Star). It was built in 1956 and served as a passenger ship on the Hurtigruten coastal service (route) until 2012. At the time of its retirement, the Nordstjernen was the longest-serving ship in the Hurtigruten coastal service and was preserved in Norway as national heritage.
- #027
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At Robotics Pioneer Park, the player can find and activate four protectrons in the colors of the four famous Pac-Man ghosts; once activated, they will begin patrolling the area.
- #028
This is the first Fallout in which you can build your own settlements and also create and customize your own weapons.
- #029
Fallout 4 takes place in Boston, Fallout 3 in Washington, D.C., New Vegas in Las Vegas (and the surrounding regions), and the first two games in California.
- #030
At E3 2017, Bethesda announced that Fallout 4 would support Creation Club, an in-game system for purchasing and downloading custom content.
- #031
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When Tinker Tom hacks the advanced encryption on the course chip, his terminal screen cannot be read from a distance. However, if you aim a scoped weapon at him, you will see a scrolling version of the screen as if you were hacking a novice-level terminal.
- #032
Creation Club became available for Fallout 4 in August 2017.
- #033
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Four characters from Fallout 3 (2008) appear in this game. Dr. Madison Li, who formerly worked in Rivet City, can be seen working for the Institute. RJ MacCready, the former mayor of Little Lamplight, can be found at The Third Rail in Goodneighbor and can be hired as a companion. Sierra Petrovita, Girdershade's Nuka-Cola-obsessed resident, can be found in the Nuka World theme park (finding this character requires purchasing the Nuka World DLC). Arthur Maxson, a child in the Citadel, is now the leader of the Brotherhood of Steel.
- #034
It is the first Fallout game to include a ghoul as a child.
- #035
The game features a character named RJ MacReady, the same name given to Kurt Russell's character in John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).
- #036
It was confirmed that the game would take place in Boston, America's training city. Many iconic landmarks can be found in the game, including Bunker Hill and much more.
- #037
On a holotape found on the Prydwen, a character references Underlane Guide comic book values. This is a reference to the real-world Overstreet Guide, considered by collectors to be the ultimate reference for comic book values.
- #038
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Stephen Russell, the voice actor who plays Nick Valentine, also plays Mercer Frey, the first leader of the Thieves Guild encountered in Skyrim. Both characters have lock-picking abilities in one capacity or another. He also plays Garrett, the hero of the Thief video game series.
- #039
During initial planning, New York City was discussed as a possible setting for the game, and a design document was prepared by Emil Pagliarulo. The developers settled on Boston as the location. However, the design document was kept on file, making it possible for NYC to be used as a location in a future game.
- #040
Players can obtain power armor frames from enemies by pickpocketing the fusion core or by shooting the fusion core in VATS to cause it to overheat. However, this counts as stealing, which can cause some companions to dislike the player.
- #041
On March 22, Bethesda released the first DLC, Fallout 4: Automatron (2016), in which you can build and customize your own robot companions.
- #042
Stephen Russell, who voices Nick Valentine, also voices multiple characters in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), the most notable of which is Mercer Frey.
- #043
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Although the player is a spouse and parent at the start of the game, they can romance NPCs after emerging from Vault 111 into the wasteland. The protagonist's son, Shaun, is said to have survived after being kidnapped by an unknown character who later features in the main story.
- #044
The premiere date of November 10, 2015 was confirmed at the E3 presentation hosted by Bethesda and presented by Todd Howard.
- #045
The developers created a working Skyrim port on Xbox One to figure out the new consoles (PlayStation 4, Xbox One). Fallout 4 director Todd Howard left the question of whether Skyrim would be remastered uncertain, stating that you should not give up hope yet. The uncertainty disappeared over the years, as Skyrim has been re-released in new versions more than a dozen times since its launch.
- #046
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Fallout 4 was (at the time) the only game in the Fallout series that let you build your own base/shelter. Fallout 76 (2018) expands on the core building mechanic introduced in this game; players are equipped with a Construction and Assembly Mobile Platform (C.A.M.P.). This allows players to create mobile bases called CAMPs; the items that can be built are essentially the same as in this game, and the player's level limits how many items can be built. CAMPs exist in the open world and can be visited and attacked by both players and NPCs. Initially players could only have one CAMP; the Fallout 76: Wastelanders (2020) DLC allowed players to create two CAMPs, but only one can be placed in the world at a time. The Fallout 76: Steel Dawn (2020) DLC added the ability to build a fallout shelter at a CAMP; these shelters are instanced and can be visited by other players, but NPCs cannot enter or appear inside. Shelters can have a variety of different appearances; some resemble a series of caves, while others look like a small vault.
- #047
Fallout 4: Vault-Tec Workshop (2016), the fifth DLC, was released on July 26. It includes a completely new vault that the player can build and experiment with.
- #048
Fallout 4: Nuka-World (2016), the sixth DLC, was released on August 29. It contains a new theme park called Nuka World controlled by several different Raider gangs.
- #049
During the intro, a bottle of Nuka-Cola can be seen in a flashback to World War II, even though the first Nuka-Cola bottle did not reach the market until 2044, 100 years later.
- #050
After first meeting the Railroad at the Old North Church, once you finish talking to Desdemona, you can talk to Deacon, whose only reply will be "We having fun yet?" This is one word short of the catchphrase Henry (Adam Scott) says in many episodes of Party Down (2009): "Are we having fun yet?"
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