50 Fun Facts About Fallout 4

Fallout 4 was released worldwide on which date?

Fallout 4 launched on November 10, 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows, the first main-series entry since Fallout 3 in 2008; native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions followed in April 2024.

From which numbered vault does the Sole Survivor emerge?

The Sole Survivor emerges from Vault 111, the cryogenic vault on the hill above Sanctuary Hills, where residents were frozen in pods instead of living out their lives below ground.

In which year is Fallout 4's main story set?

Fallout 4's main story takes place in 2287, a decade after Fallout 3's 2277; Fallout: New Vegas sits between them in 2281.

On which date do the bombs fall at the start of Fallout 4's story?

Fallout 4 opens on the morning of October 23, 2077, the day of the Great War; the Sole Survivor's family reaches the vault as the first bomb detonates on the horizon.

The Commonwealth is Fallout's version of which real region?

The Commonwealth is Fallout's take on Boston and Massachusetts: the map rebuilds real landmarks such as the Massachusetts State House, Bunker Hill Monument and the USS Constitution in post-war ruin.

What is the name of the Sole Survivor's kidnapped son?

Shaun, the infant taken from the spouse's cryo-pod, turns out to be Father, the elderly director of the Institute, which wanted his uncorrupted pre-war DNA.

Which mercenary killed the Sole Survivor's spouse?

Conrad Kellogg, the scarred Institute mercenary, shoots the spouse in the cryo-vault while seizing the baby; Dr Amari later replays his memories from a brain implant in Goodneighbor's Memory Den.

Diamond City, the Commonwealth's largest settlement, is built inside which real landmark?

Diamond City was built inside Fenway Park: its market stands on the old baseball diamond, the stadium's outer wall keeps out raiders, and Mayor McDonough governs from the upper stands.

Which of these is NOT one of Fallout 4's four main factions?

The Enclave, the shadow-government faction of Fallout 2 and Fallout 3, is not a joinable faction in Fallout 4; the fourth is the Brotherhood of Steel, which arrives aboard the airship Prydwen.

The Institute's humanoid creations are known as what?

The Institute's artificial humans are Synths; the third-generation models are indistinguishable from people, and the Railroad smuggles them out with wiped memories and new identities.

Which is the only mandatory companion in Fallout 4?

Dogmeat, the German Shepherd met at the Red Rocket truck stop, is the one companion the main quest requires: he tracks the mercenary's scent during the quest Reunions, and was modelled on a real dog named River.

Which companion is a Super Mutant sympathetic to humans?

Strong is the Super Mutant companion, freed from the top of Trinity Tower alongside the actor Rex Goodman, who is teaching him Macbeth in his search for the 'milk of human kindness'.

Which companion is an Institute Courser?

X6-88 is the Institute Courser, an elite retrieval unit, who can be recruited as a companion after the Sole Survivor joins the Institute and helps him recover a runaway at the raider base Libertalia.

How many companions can be romanced once they idolize the Sole Survivor?

Seven companions can be romanced: Cait, Curie, Danse, Hancock, MacCready, Piper and Preston, regardless of the player's gender, with Curie only after she transfers into a human-like body.

A companion 'idolizes' the player when their affinity reaches how many points?

A companion idolizes the Sole Survivor at 1,000 affinity, which unlocks their unique companion perk; actions they love add to affinity while actions they hate subtract from it.

Roughly how many perks are available to unlock in Fallout 4?

About 275 perks were advertised by Bethesda for Fallout 4, counting each rank of the chart's 70 base perks separately; they replace the skill system of earlier games.

Power armour in Fallout 4 must be fed with what to run efficiently?

Power armour runs on Fusion cores, which drain with use and can be pulled from generators or bought from vendors; the suits were redesigned to feel like vehicles and can mount a jet pack.

Which convenience is disabled when playing on Survival difficulty?

Survival difficulty disables Fast travel and manual saving, adds hunger, thirst and sleep needs, and raises damage in both directions; the revamped mode arrived as a free update in 2016.

What does V.A.T.S. stand for?

V.A.T.S. is the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, which slows time so the player can queue shots at specific body parts; each queued shot drains Action Points.

Fallout 4 was the first game in the series to feature what?

Brian T. Delaney and Courtenay Taylor voiced the male and female Sole Survivor across 111,000 lines of dialogue.

Which studio, maker of Doom, helped Bethesda with Fallout 4's gunplay?

id Software, Bethesda's sister studio and maker of Doom, advised on Fallout 4's shooting so that real-time gunplay felt as solid as a dedicated shooter's rather than a fallback, as it had in Fallout 3.

Fallout 4 runs on which technology, previously used for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?

Fallout 4 runs on the Creation Engine, Bethesda's successor to Gamebryo that debuted with Skyrim in 2011, upgraded here with physically based rendering and dynamic volumetric lighting.

Roughly how many lines of dialogue does Fallout 4 contain?

Bethesda put the count at 111,000 lines of dialogue, more than Fallout 3 and Skyrim combined; the game also introduced a layered armour system and settlement building.

Fallout 4 was officially revealed with a trailer on which date in 2015?

The reveal trailer went live on June 3, 2015, after a 24-hour countdown on Bethesda's website; gameplay details followed at the company's first E3 press conference eleven days later.

How many units did Fallout 4 ship to retailers at launch, generating $750M in its first 24 hours?

Bethesda shipped 12 million units to retailers for launch, worth about $750 million in sales, a bigger opening than Skyrim's 7 million; it was the company's most successful launch to that point.

Whose Steam record for concurrent players in a non-Valve game did Fallout 4 break at launch?

Fallout 4 passed Grand Theft Auto V's mark for the most concurrent Steam players on a non-Valve game, peaking at almost 470,000 on launch day.

Fallout 4's collector's edition included a wearable replica of what?

The Pip-Boy Edition shipped with a wearable plastic Pip-Boy that held a smartphone running the companion app, mirroring the in-game wrist computer on a second screen.

Which two ceremonies named Fallout 4 their Game of the Year?

Fallout 4 took Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards and the British Academy Games Awards in early 2016, while The Witcher 3 beat it to the top prize at The Game Awards.

Which voice actor plays both Codsworth and Nick Valentine?

Stephen Russell voices both Codsworth, the Mister Handy butler, and Nick Valentine; he had earlier played the master thief Garrett in the original Thief games.

Which was the first add-on released for Fallout 4, in March 2016?

Automatron, released in March 2016, lets players build custom robot companions from salvaged parts and pits them against the Mechanist and her robot army.

In the robot-building add-on, the captive Jezebel is which model of robot?

RoboBrains house a preserved human brain in a dome atop a tracked body; Jezebel, one of the Mechanist's RoboBrains, is found as a disembodied head and helps track the Mechanist's lair once given a new body.

Far Harbor is set on a fictionalised version of which real place in Maine?

Far Harbor's island is a version of Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park; the town stands in for Bar Harbor, and Acadia appears as the fog-bound refuge run by DiMA.

In Far Harbor, the Valentine Detective Agency sends the player to find a missing girl named what?

Kasumi Nakano, who fled her parents' coastal home believing she might not be human, is traced to DiMA's colony at Acadia; her parents Kenji and Rei hire the agency to bring her back.

Which add-on, released in August 2016, is set in a soft-drink-themed amusement park?

Nuka-World, the final add-on, turns the Nuka-Cola theme park into a raider haven; the player becomes Overboss after killing Colter at the end of the Gauntlet.

Which of these is NOT one of the three raider gangs in the amusement-park add-on?

The Rust Devils are the robot-stripping raiders of the robot-building add-on, not of the theme park; the Operators, the Pack and the Disciples are the three gangs the Overboss must keep happy.

How many pieces of downloadable content did Bethesda release for Fallout 4?

Six add-ons were released during 2016: three story expansions and three workshop packs, starting in March with the robot-building pack and ending in August with the theme-park expansion.

Fallout 4 VR launched in December 2017 exclusively for which headset?

Fallout 4 VR launched on 12 December 2017 for the HTC Vive through SteamVR, offering the full base game in room-scale VR but none of the add-ons.

Which mobile spin-off, in which you manage a vault as Overseer, launched for iOS in June 2015?

Fallout Shelter, released on iOS the night of Bethesda's 2015 E3 showcase, puts the player in charge of a vault as Overseer; it earned an estimated $5.1 million in its first two weeks.

Fallout's dog companion, dating to the 1997 original, was inspired by the dog in which film?

Mad Max 2 supplied the template: in the 1997 Fallout the dog joins a player who wears a leather jacket like Max's, and Fallout 3 modelled him as a Blue Heeler to match Max's dog.

Nick Valentine's synthetic body carries the preserved memories of whom?

A pre-war police detective of the same name had his mind copied for an Institute experiment: the original Nick Valentine was a cop hunting the mobster Eddie Winter, and the discarded prototype inherited his memories of the case.

A 2017 lawsuit over the Fallout 4 Season Pass concerned the later introduction of what?

Buyers argued they had been promised 'all of the Fallout 4 DLC we ever do' for one price.

The Institute grew out of which pre-war academic body?

The Commonwealth Institute of Technology, the game's stand-in for MIT, survived the bombs in its sealed basements; its scientists became the Institute and built their underground city beneath the ruined campus.

How many possible companions are there in Fallout 4's story?

Thirteen companions appear in the base game: Cait, Codsworth, Curie, Danse, Deacon, Hancock, MacCready, Nick Valentine, Piper, Preston Garvey, the dog, the Super Mutant and the Courser; the add-ons later added three more.

How does the Sole Survivor's family gain entry to the shelter just before the bombs fall?

A Vault-Tec rep signed them up moments earlier: the salesman knocks on the door in Sanctuary Hills that morning, and when the sirens sound the family runs for the vault and is 'decontaminated' into cryogenic pods.

Which former Institute scientist supplies the schematics for the teleporter into the Institute?

Brian Virgil, the Institute scientist who fled to the Glowing Sea and turned himself into a super mutant, draws up the signal interceptor plans once the player brings him a Courser chip.

How many years before the main story does the grown son say he was abducted?

The grey-haired director tells the Sole Survivor he was taken 60 years earlier, in 2227, and raised inside the Institute, which is why the parent finds an old man rather than a child.

In which year did Todd Howard's team first start planning Fallout 4, wanting to show the world before the bombs?

Planning began in 2009, soon after Fallout 3 shipped, with the pre-war opening among the first ideas; the studio then put Skyrim first, and full production followed its 2011 release.

What did Fallout 4's new character creator replace the old series of sliders with?

A freeform sculpting interface replaced the sliders: players click and drag directly on the face in front of the bathroom mirror during the pre-war prologue, shaping nose, jaw and brow by hand.

Who hosts Diamond City Radio in Fallout 4?

Travis Miles hosts Diamond City Radio, stammering through his links until the player's confidence-building quest for the Dugout Inn's Vadim Bobrov turns him into a smooth announcer.

On which date did Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition release for PlayStation, Xbox and Windows?

Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition launched on November 10, 2025, ten years to the day after the original game, bundling the base game with all of its add-ons and a large set of paid mod content.