Fallout 4 Pip Boy Edition: "Das beste total bescheuerte Gimmick" (2024)

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Why is the Fallout guy giving a thumbs up? ›

Cooper Howard Invented Vault Boy's Thumbs Up In Fallout

Howard explains that he was taught to stick his thumb up if a bomb were to be dropped.

Yes, it would be great if the app was updated and reintegrated into the game, but as mentioned on the Bethesda website: " The Fallout 4 Pip-Boy app has been removed from the Google Play Store due to incompatibilities with current requirements. Currently, no plans are announced to update the app.

Under partnership with Vault-Tec, they were issued to many vault residents, though due to production constraints and ongoing development, different vaults received shipments of different versions of the Pip-Boy.

For those who have been living under an irradiated rock, a Pip-Boy is a wrist-worn computer that — despite originally being meant for the pre-war world and, later, life inside of a Vault-Tec vault — has become an indispensable tool for survival out in the wasteland.

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The words "f**k," "sh*t," and "a*shole" are heard in dialogue. A lot of swear words used except extremely vulgar ones. Once in a very long while you may just hear an F word. Otherwise, the language is not bad or frequent.

The Fallout rule of thumb shouldn't be used in a real-life event. The nuclear thumb theory that inspired Vault Boy and is used by Cooper in Fallout should not be considered an actual rule for nuclear explosions.

But thanks to the Fallout live-action series, we have a literal answer to the question, “Who is Vault Boy?” It turns out the original Vault Boy is an actor named Cooper Howard (later known as the Ghoul), who was hired by Vault-Tec to represent the brand in a series of print ads and commercials.

The Pip-Boy is a wearable computer; “Pip” stands for “Personal Information Processor.” Developed by RobCo Industries before the Great War, the Pip-Boy was standard issue equipment in all Vault-Tec Vaults. That said, Vault-dwellers aren't the only Wasteland inhabitants rocking these devices post-War.

Upon giving a companion a Pip-Boy, they will automatically equip it, and the only way to remove it is through console commands. The change is only cosmetic.

Vault 106 is one of the most heartbreaking Vaults of them all. After ten days upon entering, the Vault inhabitants were drugged through the air filtration system. The Overseer was well aware of this experiment.

What do the monkeys mean in Fallout 4? ›

These monkey dolls will raise their head to look at nearby intruders with green eyes. Should the intruder remain in their line of sight too long, their eyes will begin flashing red, and they will begin clapping their cymbals together. This will alert nearby enemies to the intruder.

According to the character known as The Ghoul, during military training he was taught that if you extend your arm and raise your thumb in the direction of the blast, you can determine whether you are going to survive it.

Vault Boy makes the thumbs-up gesture not as a sign of approval, but rather as imitating a military tactic that was transferred to citizens in the face of the danger of nuclear warfare: If you put your fist in front of you and raise your thumb, your finger serves as an indicator of the level of danger you are in when a ...

When Janey asks him why he wouldn't do it, he explains that it's because the gesture is also used to measure the danger behind a nuclear blast. If you put your thumbs up in front of yourself and the nuclear cloud is smaller, you still have time to run. If you do it and the cloud is bigger, then don't even bother.