"idk what this is, some sort of pre-war city" that would be boston

The huge hole with water is probably supposed to be the quarry where you fix the pipes

the way you describe everything is like an alien who just figured out all of these things about humanity like 2 weeks ago and you're still trying to figure out what these common man-made structures are

"The Concord...um...I'm not actually sure what these are." That's a water tower. I don't know what you guys have in the UK, or if you have water towers but they look very different, but that's most definitely a water tower. I think there's even a valve at the bottom if you go up to it in game.

The antenna you first show is the satellite dish at the Olivia Station just east of Red Rocket. The hole is the quarry called Thicket Excavations. The Concorde thing is indeed a water tower. The rusted "antenna" you then turn to are actually towers for electric power lines (a common sight in North America). The part you suggest might be Diamond City is actually Boston. Those are some of the low detail models for the Boston skyscrapers.

"Very fucking abundantly clear" caught me so off gaurd. Like okay the houses are empty chill Edit: I don't give a shit about the swearing, it was the aggressive way it was said that caught me off guard"

"This looks like a pre-war city" It's... It's... It's downtown Boston, why would you not know that?

Well this does take place in 2077, I think it fits

I remember downloading a mod where you run down the street instead of to the vault, and what happens is the the bombs fall and you next play in a nearby cave as a ghoulified version of your character. You can then head to vault 111 and start the game from there.

Yeah, it would have been cool to do more stuff in pre-war Sanctuary Hills. Maybe help the neighbor, mow the lawn, paint the house. Maybe have a school bus drop off some kids. Interacting with neighbors, getting a tour of the neighbor's pre-war/emergency shelter/root cellar as he shares his thoughts on the nuclear scare. Maybe unbox your new Mr. Handy and install a fusion cell and turn him on and program him for the chores you want him to do. Spend an entire day in pre-war Sanctuary Hills, and then wake up to the news on the TV.

I realized recently that I've been inside one of these houses in real life. Grew up right down the street from it. They're modeled after prefab homes that were manufactured here in Ohio by the Lustron Corporation. The house that becomes the main hub after you meet the Minutemen is an almost exact replica of the one I've been in.

Water is often a fixed elevation in large world boxes like this. So make something low enough and it just has water by default unless a map designer scripts the water out.

The bomb fell far to the southwest of Sanctuary, nowhere near the vault.

Diamond city is literally a stadium

Clipping in a game and going places you shouldn't is like exploring in a lucid dream

Makes me wish the next game could take place like a week or 2 before the war, so you can experience the entire map pre-war, to give you more realism once you make it out into the post-war world

Imagine in fallout 5 you're a mafia gangster who gets to do a few missions pre war before entering the vault, 5 missions in after you've already leveled up a bit lol

@4:20 its a water tower

The shade thrown at Bethesda before the ‘Im completely fucking wrong’ made me laugh so much

The Great War aside pre war sanctuary would be a really nice place to live

Technically its not 200 years before the bombs dropped its about 5 mins.😂

I'm so glad that the houses in pre-war sanctuary are hollow. It's resource/time efficient and shows that when they put it together, they never had any plans to do more with the area.

The hole you came across is thicket extraction. Basically looks to be a granite qaurry that is flooded. Honestly I wanted to build a base here because of the location. But seems it was never possible. It’s linked to a Raider quest who wants to drain it out, for us to only fight raiders here later on…. But I just kill him every time now. (Because he basically leaves a note telling us.) better as a lake, then used against us.

a fun fact about that dome above the vault door: if you see that bubble when using an alternate start mod, the mod broke your game (it broke the starting script for after you exit the vault, which breaks a lot of other things in the game that you might not notice until it's too late!)! the city is also the skyscrapers from downtown Boston ( that big giant red and white building is, I think the Mass Fusion building you visit with the brotherhood when you "Deal With" the institute ). and they're there because when you're on top of the vault door you can probably just barely see them over the trees. The big giant hole isn't where the bombs dropped, its in the wrong place. You'd have to be looking straight south and go all the way to the bottom left of the map, since the Glowing sea is where the bombs dropped by Boston. Not being mean or rude just letting you know since you've said in the comments you haven't played in a bit! Thanks for the video, it's actually really interesting to see that they modeled so much of the map pre-war even if some of it is post-war assets. It's a bummer about the other houses, but I get it. Why add stuff the player might never see and force extra rendering power in an area it isn't needed, you know? The homes are, essentially, cookie cutters of the same pre-fabricated home, with slight variations in layout. All the same pre-war furniture and appliances would be there ( as evidenced by the state of them post-war). and another thing, they're based on real homes ! Sanctuary is so small because it's a real little neighborhood in Massachusetts, with original homes called the Excelsior Model Homes, prefab houses made of metal that could be configured in several different ways. Just a few years ago, one went up for sale and it was quickly purchased. You can even go visit the nerighborhood in MA and some of the residents allow tours, if you're not pushy or weird about it. And they are GORGEOUS! As someone who loves the retro-futurism of the 40's and 50's, I'd love to own one of them. If only companies started making them again for new homeowners.... I'd build the dang thing myself. : >

The building are all supposed to be Boston

The only bomb crater is actually literally the "Crater of Atom" in the center of the Glowing Sea in the lower left of the map. And that is where the bomb on Boston lands. It's not that close to the Vault/Sanctuary at all.

The fallout 4 opening area we never got... :D

I fucking love hearing British people be genuinely confused about random American things like water towers. The video was already gonna be good, but the presentation absolutely sold me. 10/10 would get obscenities yelled at me by this dude again. Also LMAO at the vault actually loading in to probably everyone's surprise. I wonder if the neighbor's Root Cellar would be accessible?

I wonder where the Vault-tech rep goes after he runs off? Story wise I think he entered the small cellar behind the house in Santuary.

Did you even play the game before making this video? the hole in the ground is thicket excavations, the satellite dish is station Olivia, the skyscraper building is downtown Boston, duh.

For those who actually want to do this there's a mod I'm pretty sure it's on PC but I have it on Xbox will you have multiple people that you can have follow you they can build a camp wherever you want wherever you're at in Fallout 4 and in that camp has like a simulation of before the bombs fell where you can walk around and explore this whole entire area

Have you actually played it at all or you really dont remember anything from the game? because all those things where you say "i dont know what this is" would be pretty obvious things for anyone that have played it i believe.... that was something really awkward to watch...

Wait that the fuck moment was amazing finding out you could actually reach the vault! Love the genuine content .. hope we’re all around to see you go over the next cyberpunk!😃

That tower with Concord written on it is a water tower. The pit with the water in it could be the mine that has water in. You can drain the water later on.

the radar dish is USAF Satellite Station Olivia. the hole in the ground is Thicket Excavations. the thing that you say you're "not sure what these are" is a water tower. (Idk if you have them in the UK or wherever you live, but they're common in america. they're basically clean water storage. they're in a tower so that water pressure can remain at a consistent level due to gravity.) the "antennas" as you called them are power pylons. they would likely look that way before the bombs dropped because they do kinda run through rural areas, and are only maintained on a scheduled basis. and the maintenance usually only entails making sure the pylon isn't at risk of falling. the buildings in the distance are made to resemble a city skyline, and they are the tallest buildings because those are mostly what you would see on the horizon.

Polyhistor would be proud of your quantum leap into a Bethesda game

All of those assets were put into the game because A) they're tall, and B) they would have been visible from Sanctuary Hills. In fact, those very tall buildings (located in or around downtown Boston) are visible as the bombs are being dropped, and you look in that direction as you're scrambling to get into the Vault. It's for background aesthetics.

that hole is the location of a quarry you can empty out, i forgets its name but thats why its there

i literally opened the cyberpunk launcher the second he said that 0:17

The bombs fell above the Glowing Sea. The hole in the ground is the quarry. The Concord thing is a water tower. It's not 200 years before the bombs drop, it's a few minutes. The towers are the skyscrapers in Boston. The barrier at the fence gate to Vault 111 is to prevent players from squeezing past the guard before talking to him.

Oh, yeah. they don't have water towers in the UK. except for a few basic concrete cylinders.

You can see the skyscrapers from the vault right before and as the bomb goes off. That's why they are there.

Everything in the distance that is modeled is things you would be able to see from any position during the prologue section (water tower, power lines, boston in the distance that you can see when the bomb drops. The bomb also falls much further than that crater and is roughly positioned as far as where the glowing sea would be in the regular game due to that being the location of the bombs crater in the main game. And the terrain is just what is modeled before terrain with collision is placed over it. The invisible wall at the vault 111 gate is where the military guy stands and doesn't go away until you talk to him once he is loaded in for the bombs falling scene and the black bubble over the vault elevator is just the load zone visible because you are clipping into an area before the game loads all the assets in the vault platform is an asset that is loaded in conditionally because it moves.

The map actually looks like its there in a basic form, you can see all the roads and waterways. The white thing you look at is a water tower. We dont get them in the UK (at least not looking like that). The hole in the ground is likely where "Thicket Excavations" is. The first big hole in the ground you come across. Nothing to do with the bombs. The buildings you thought were "diamond city" are just the most recognizable towers in downtown Boston. The first one you come up to is the Mass Fusion building.

Before Saturday, October 23, 2077 its name was....something else than Wasteland. To be perfectly precise, I think the Wasteland took over one week after the nuclear exchange, when the disastrous radioactive stuff rained down from the sky that was covered by remnants of mushroom clouds (source: Randall Dean Clark, a former soldier not in F4 but FNV)

Hole is Thicket Excavation - The quarry, Sattelite would be sattelite station olivia, and the "Prewar city" is Boston

I just wish we can roam Sanctuary for a little bit before the bomb fell

It would be interesting to have a fallout game that takes place before the war

The reason for the invisible wall at the vault gate is because of the part where you talk to the guy with the clipboard there. This wall despawns once he lets you through.

I just want to say I love those Lustron houses, they're so 1950s. As for the buildings in the distance, one closest to Sanctuary looks like the Mass Fusion building.

They make as few assets as possible to make the load time small, only what you can see or touch. That's how all games are designed, you just never notice unless you turn collisions off and/or go into freecam.

3:50 that's the mine where you help the guy fix some water pumps just to return and realize he moved his raider gang in there later. The tall buildings in the distant are the ones you can see from sanctuary even in the start that's why they there no other reason. 5:45 the barrier is there, because you can't cross that gate BEFORE you talk with the soldier in the questline to let you in the Vault. Ofcourse in the quest an NPC stand in your way so it's not so noticable.

Really, this is a great showcase of how well optimised the pre-war fallout map is

The big water hole is a location in after the war. It’s some kind of mine that flooded if I’m not wrong and there is a quest to dry it I think

AtomPunk 2077 looking lovely today

This is like a Zullie the Witch post but for Fallout4. Nicely done!

fallout war 2077

it's cool that you've done a fallout video since with the ps5 release i've been getting back into the game lol keep up the great work 🙌🏾

The detail in the game is pretty cool. They even used the Lustron house design which back in the back in the day were houses made of steel that were transportable. These were their idea of “the houses of the future”

Reminds me of the time a wall didn't load in and I escaped Whiterun to go exploring. Turns out the background is a mostly-complete map at low detail and I got most of the way to Solitude before getting stuck.

Ah yes, my favorite game, 4.

I don't know why so many people are hating, the guy literally started the video by saying it had been a while since he last played. Of course he doesn't recognise most of it, why would he?

“So Vault 111 actually does exist, I’m, uh, completely fucking wrong.” 😂😂 Brilliant

Can I just TCL and rush into the vault to start the game? Will this work? Will this glitch mods relying on triggers to activate like alternate start mods do?

Hey question, what do your SPECIAL Stats look like if you go in the freezing pod and advance the story without talking to the Vault-Tech Representative?

Really love the Autumn Foliage in the backdrop in Prewar Sanctuary Hills. 🍂

The bomb fell in the glowing sea. That’s why that area is so radioactive.

This was the experience from the happiest family in fallout 4

From what I read somewhere there were plans for you to do more exploring in the prewar area before the bombs went off. But it was cut.

Is there anyway to play up to the point the bomb drops and console command out towards the bombs dropping? Also, I wonder if you can find Kellog somewhere In Vault 111 before he actually shows up

honestly if you became another out of bounds youtuber i honestly wouldnt mind that just going around in your favorite games and exploring places would be interesting enough for me and probably others to watch i mean i feel like there isnt much else to show in cyberpunk as well would be alot of minor things. nothing like a arasaka waterfront or unfinished megabuilding anything like that i mean you could possibly show off cut assets [apparently theres a cut grenade launcher in 2077] but idk how youd show this stuff off tbh.

Lustron Homes. Went into a deep dive about them after seeing the show and jumping in Fallout 4 for the 1st time after watching the show. Interesting stuff.

Cmon man why y’all dissing his game knowledge

That would be a water tower. Water is pumped up into it and then gravity fuels the water to its final destination. If you ever see one, there will be no buildings taller than it that get water from it because there’s no push behind the water to get it higher than the source.

as a creator of 3d models i can safely say that there is no point putting time into modeling something when nobody is ever going to see it like the inside of the house the reason the cars are modeled inside is because of the windows you can see through and thats due to fps during the scene no point rendering something that is out of sight from the player would make no sense to do it also the vault tech guy is waiting for the cue to start the animations but of course he would have standard life animations before the call is made to start the walk to your house thats why you can interact with him so nothing in this video is at all surprising to me

I would want one fallout game that lets you explore more of the pre war America like we did slightly in the intro of F4. Like imagine if they let us drive down to the red rocket near sanctuary to pick up some milk for Shaun or something like that or go into the square where you see Preston Garvey later in the game. I've always wanted to see how that would look with the games art style

Did you enter 111 by touching the loading zone ?? It cant be on the main cel of the open world lol. Like in skyrim by using tricks if you reach a city from up the cel will load after a while (loading screen)

The surprising part about Fallout is that Bethesda decided to force an update that broke mods that makes it still worth playing in 2024

That's exactly how my Vault is looking in my Fallout 4 Playthrough right now!

I always thought how cool it would be to have a few hours of gameplay pre war.

Gabe Newell in thumbnail

The big tower that says concord on it is a water tower in the United States we have these water towers that filtrate and clean city water to become drinkable

None of these would be affordable to me. I'm sure each cost is at least a million. Simply because they're in a community. If there was a school and store, they'd each be 3 million.

4:17 that's funny, what you are looking at is a standard water tower found in many towns.

Fun fact! If you own Forza Motorsport 6 and fallout 4 and go back in time to 2018, you can get a key to get the Corvega as a car you can race in fm6, even has a forzavista model. Just thought it would fit the theme of the video

They do a pretty good job of making it feel like you’re actually there before the bombs drop

Can you show the map after the bombs as soon as you reach the bottone of the vault 111?

I like that you are branching out to other games, great videos keep it up

The reason the houses don't have interiors is because rendering the inside would take speed, pre war Boston isn't procedurally generated my theory is they just added mountains, trees, buildings assuming you will see it from a distance.

It would be cool if we got to play around in pre-war, with its own map and adventure, just to get the feel of this universe, Theam and Ambiants.

that semi-sphere above the vault door sometimes appears post war when far away

"unexpectedly these houses are absolutely hollow" much like Bethesda's soul

Also , the same sphere appears when leaving vault 111, but its white to do the blinded by the sunlight thing.

Feel free to branch out into different games when exploring out of bounds/curious places.

I really hope that next Fallout game will be about restoring the cities to their former glory!

So cool how Bethesda took the outer terrain here and used it as inspiration for starfield planets, barren with meaningless and random points of interest strewn about

I loved Operation Anchorage because I wanted to see more of the Pre-War world.

the radar dish is USAF Station Olivia

I thought that the point impact was the glowing sea since that's where the most the radiation comes from in the game. And you can even see one big crater looking thing on the map where the children of atom are over there I think that's the exact location of where the bomb dropped

I think in the pre war sequence you should’ve gone to a cookout with the neighbors before the sirens rang or something