Honestly, I love the Fact the Fallout 3 Roamer Ghouls wear Combat Armor... makes you think if they were lost Brotherhood/Enclave Soldiers or if they were Pre-War Army Soldiers.

The ferals in 3 and NV seemed way more savage than in 4. Those reavers make the Commonwealth ones look like a joke. But the Putrid Ones and Charred ghouls are a force to be reckoned with if you’re a lower level.

I never noticed Reavers were just throwing chunks of themselves at you. What a unique detail.

The ghouls remind me of old Iron maiden album covers...lol

The very first Reaver I encountered in 3 was a bit after I had installed Broken Steel for the first time and just kept playing with my pre-existing level 20 character, and the surprise that came from unloading an entire Chinese AR magazine on it to little to no effect. I was very used to ghouls being basically a joke by that point. Then this one Reaver made me run in circles around a pile of rubble while I shot at it with everything I had, slowly bringing down its health. Then it decided that it could actually climb that pile of rubble and was just messing with me, smacked me into a wall getting me stuck between the ceiling and a desk and obliterated me with a second bitchslap. It was fun to be even lower level in New Vegas and spot a Reaver running down the road to REPCONN Test Site right at me and getting the opposite results because it died from a 10mm pistol. Went from "OH GOD" to just "Oh."

I think the reason that super mutants tend to ignore ghouls in Fallout 3 is because they know they can't be made into super mutants. Super mutants in 3 are really dumb, but they seem like they'd be smart enough to notice the difference between ghouls and normal humans, and that whenever they throw a ghoul into the green stuff, it never results in a super mutant. The main reason why super mutants attack humans is to kidnap them and make them into more super mutants, so it'd make sense that they'd ignore ghouls if ghouls can't be made into super mutants.

If they do have a hunger and appetite for food it would make sense that they would only attack other fellow Gouls in dire circumstances. Hence the “95%” times they are peaceful

Never really thought about it, but regular people have a chance to go 'feral' too, it's just called a psychotic break...

You’re probably the most well researched, reasonable, and thorough Fallout lorebeard I know of. Thanks for all your work.

My Reaver story isn't necessarily something terrible, just something I'm proud of. It was my first time actually doing the quest to getthe fertilizer shovel, not the best weapon in the world, but I wanted to test it. I had the Ghoul mask at the time, so I did have an advantage. I went out into the graveyard in the gate, and just squared up with everything there, including a Reaver. It took entirely too long, but I eventually beat it to death. A lot of stimpaks were used, but Blocking helped. I beat the Reaver to death with a shit shovel out of pure Spite.

I remember being lost in the underground DC metro, low on ammo and stimpacks, and being chased by two reavers. I just reloaded a save

14:00 It's reasonable to be able to determine sex by movement/stride due to the different bone structure/positioning in the hips specifically. Surprisingly thoughtful in terms of anatomy actually.

The Reavers are truly insane enemies and i think some of them are buggy which makes them even tougher than usual, like the one Reaver in the tunnel before reaching the last part of Broken Steel addon...

The fact that the feral state is considered the result of brain decay, and can occur, eventually in many non-feral ghouls, suggests that brain injury may also be a factor in ghoul behavior as well as the condition of a person’s brain PRIOR to ghoulification; it’s not unreasonable to assume that brain injury could be a common result of exposure to a nuclear blast, that aggressive behavior could be less common in situations of transition due to gradual radiation exposure and minimal brain injury, and that the presence or levels of certain chemicals in the bloodstream, like adrenaline or serotonin, or the mental health or conditions that effect the level of brain function, like ADHD or being on the ASL Spectrum, at the time of radiation exposure, could effect resultant ghoul behavior…

My worst reaver experience was in the radioactive subway with Burnmaster. 5 of those damned things came out of nowhere and I ran out of shotgun shells midway through the battle.

Reivers are the sole reason I always do the Tenpenny tower quest for the ghoul mask

Maybe I was just always too busy running away but I don't think I've ever seen a Reaver use a ranged attack. Didn't know they had that.

Gross theory: looking at your footage, had never thought about it before, I reckon the ghoul reavers are reaching into their intestinal syystem, and ripping out radioactive, feral turds to throw at you. They even reach in to put it back in the right place. Gross XD Thanks for the vid :) Great work as always

My first ever encounter with a Reaver was a trip. I had done all the side content and inadvertently overleveled. I was going to Dunwhich to do the totally not the Necronomicon(TM) quest. As soon as I stepped inside there it was. Smacked me upside the head and killed me. Was in a panic loop of loading the autosave to get back out before it hit me.

I would assume that the feral troopers were asleep since they were not necessarily out on patrol like the non feral troops that patrol the area. Asleep means no boots, but maybe armor, or maybe they outfitted themselves a little while their senses rotted away.

Been so excited waiting for this one! always a good day when atom blesses us with a Radking upload!

Best reaver story, going through the presidential metro taking out hoards and hoards of them and Charon died mid battle. I didn’t want to go back I figured it a honourable and memorable death of Charon.

Video suggestion: a single video detailing all the real life monument locations of fallout new Vegas, fallout 3 and fallout 4 and what happened to them in fallout

I actually love Reavers just because of how much I hate them. They are one of the most interesting enemy to me.

Quickly became one of my absolute favorite KZfaqrs, keep up the quality work man! Often times I’ll have your long form videos playing while I go through fallout to keep my mind occupied with lore as I mindlessly gooify raiders

Would have liked to hear about the pre-war ghouls being like the vets of the vets of the vets.

I still remember my first reaver encounter. I had done a few playthroughs of fallout 3 by that point and decided to buy the broken steel dlc. Imagine my surprise when i went to recover the Abraham Lincoln stuff from the museum and encountering one, my first encounter with one was in close quarters at like level 10 and i got demolished repeatedly, i fired my strongest weapons at him and he just didn't fall i was so confused and angry. Eventually i won but from that point forward i was very wary of encountering another one so imagine the greater surprise i had in fallout new vegas when i first encountered one and it folded like paper instead of being a massive fight.

Abdul Alhazred is a character from the Lovecraft Mythos, often cited as the writer of the Necronomicon, so like the Dunwich building itself, its another nod to Lovecrafts works.

not to pour my heart out but since the start of November of last year you've risen to one of my favourite youtubers. Right now i'm coming to terms with a family member getting terminally ill and i knew if i didn't throw myself head first into a favourite game or book or anime of mine i was going to crumble so i started watching oxhorn play 1,2 and tactics. After that i just wanted lore and thats when i found you, i think it was either the food of fallout or the chems of fallout but that started a new binge off for me, even had me taking notes on the games and build ideas (Gamma garden coming along nice) so i just wanted to say thank you for making the content you do and helping me through what was the darkest month of my life and in advance thank you for my night time hyper fixation for my autistic ass. (Also for the cult of atom thing you got going on i have a line for you 'the son, the father and the glowing spirit')

Great timing! I finished watching part 1 yesterday, wondering where the 2nd part was 😄

I don’t get why we don’t see Ghouls fucking decked out with gear. They can go anywhere they want, save for Raider territory, and yet they get a normal shotgun at best.

30:37 This is the scariest Feral Ghoul Reaver ever made. For some reason it twitches/glitches out of control flaying its appendages around haphazard and chaotically. This Specific ghoul haunts me from taking just how freaky it is to look at. this ghoul in the Broken steel add in The presidential sub level. Anyone know why it twitches out of control like that?

Crowley was with the kids on a field trip from the Springville School. It's on a terminal in lamplight caverns

The amount of radiation required for ghoulification is the total amount required to fill the plot-cup.

41:00 as i recall, the two glowing ones on the other side of the glass in the doctor's office were still hostile. I distinctly remember the red dots appearing on my compass and them often running around as though they were trying to get to you to attack, as they do. Just that they are indeed in a separate cell that can't connect but proximity says they are hostile if made aware and as such, you can't rest in there. No sleep, no waiting as i recall, but it has been a bit. Don't ghouls also pour out from the Bethesda metro tunnels at night as well, at least that first time while also appearing near the sewer exit and surrounding drainage ditch to the river? At night, as i recall, meaning that the game has other locations that they do sort of follow a pattern based on day and night elsewhere.

I'd like to see a new type of ghoul in the next game that has something to do with solar radiation.

Fun fact the rail road safe house mercer is most like a reference to major general mercer who was a doctor and general during the revolutionary war from CT What state is right nexted to CT, mASSchusetts

With the Bethesda era games (even NV) fully embracing that radiation alone (without FEV) can make a ghoul, it seems curious that 1: Ghouls are still only a theory by 2077 (note that Desmond, and Eddie Winters don't reference them as documented fact), despite the radical exchanges in Europe and ME being in living memory, which would surely produce the conditions needed for ghouls. Particularly notable since the name "Ghoul" is ME in origin in the first place. 2: While mentioned at 1:04:27 , there IS an overall abnormally high percentage of ghouls who are Chinese in ethnicity beyond the camp. 3 has the remnants in DC, and 4 has Zao and his crew. Perhaps the mutation mentioned in the bugged terminals that allows for ghouls is genetic and occurs most frequently in these populations? Maybe the x-factor is a result of alien experiments? That would explain the comparative rarity in animals, why it seems to occur more in some populations (the inner country, North America) than others (Europe/ME, and Japan). 22:25 Fallout 4 STILL has the main quest break critically if you exit Fort Hagen by any means other than interacting with a single specific terminal. I wouldn’t put much stock in unpatched bugs being canon. 30:05 This reinforces my stance that “east coast jet” is in-fact a prewar substance and Myron’s dung was just named after it due to similar delivery method despite being chemically different. On more rads=feral, I like the way the Savage Worlds "Rough Riders" homebrew (so totally non-canon but interesting ideas) handled Ghouls on this: Ghouls aren't actually "immune" to rads, but significantly more resistant and heal more quickly (short term without specialist chems), but they are still effected negatively by radiation. It's just all the effects are mental and instead of death at critical mass, they become feral at the end of the chart.

I found in New Vegas with subtitles on, feral ghouls will scream one word phrases or dialog specific groans when you take them down

Best way to start the new year

Just rewatched Part One and now I'm gonna devour this one like a hungry ghoul!

0:05 I've got my beers in and I'm ready for this marathon

Was running around in some metro tunnels on very hard. Rounded a corner nearly dead out of healing items. And 3 reavers were waiting for me. I .... I did not survive.

Your videos are amazing! Lore is just... perfect

Judging by the giant underground Chinese spy base in Fallout 76, I'd have to imagine that the Chinese ARE more prone to ghoulifaction since there are so many still down there. Seems like almost all of the personnel there have been turned.

Nice, I just finished your first Ghoul video and checked the channel and saw this just came out today. Thank you algorithm.

One thing to keep in mind with lore in the Fallout universe is that characters aren't always correct avout certain facts. Some people can either be lying, or just plain wrong about a topic. Like Ricky and his "Deathjaws" and 11mm guns. Or Moe and his twisted version of pre-war baseball. Just something to keep in mind when talking about stuff, especially lore about Ghouls, abd a certain Gunner

Pretty sure the ghouls that fly away assumed to space come back temporarily in the final scenes to help novac.

subscribed bro, always entertained by your stuff but this video sold it for me. vast vocabulary, interactive questions, and great footage!

The ghoul mask reminds me of the whisperers from the walking dead the way they wear the walker's skin

I wish ghouls were slow moving and in packs, like the zombies from Doom 2016... Slow but takes ALOT to put down outside of headshots. Oh and before people start saying they died really easy in Doom 2016, just remember you assault rifle fired .50BMG and it took about 5 shots to the body to down one with that. I would have them be slow quiet tanks that slowly tail the player when they were not paying attention.

I always assumed Ghouls had somehow obtained extreme/runaway regeneration abilities. They regenerate cells even when uninjured, causing older cells to fall off all at once. Although parts that fall off with no real structure to grow upon will not grow back perfectly (noses and other cartilage based appendages, for example)

The ferals in fallout 3 looked way better than the ones in fallout 4.

So We're Not Going To Discuss The Fact That Charon's Height Makes Him The Tallest Ghoul In The Game, Or How We Just Don't Know Much About His Backstory Either.

I wonder if there's something that separates potential Ghouls from those that just...yknow, get sick and die from Rads. Like, in New Vegas, you can take perks that essentially let you a. process rads slowly over time (or sleep to remove them faster) and b. become stronger from exposure (atomic making you faster and stronger, rad child healing you, etc) and despite being exposed to so much, no protagonist ever Ghoulifies... Maybe it's something genetic-a certain protein structure or something that can cause humans to metabolize radiation...

I mean the last ones are clearly a "coming back" from the designs of the old ghouls you shown. The ones that were basically "humans without skin". Pretty cool

So... maybe ferals are just ghoul junkies? Those ghouls fallen in such rampage after more and more those delicious rads, that it consumed last bits of human in them, turning into forever frenzy monsters...

Loved this video, very in depth 👍🏻 Subscribed and cannot wait for part 3 😁

The nthapple has the best video on ghoulification

I always thought that the ghouls looked like their flesh was made out of chicken lol

Thank you for a great video! May Atom's glow light your path

Hello Mr.Rad King thank you very much for the lovely videos I'm very happy to see someone giving my fellow ghouls some love and I was wondering when are you planing on releasing the 3rd video . Creep up the amazing work and stay safe :)

aye a reever doing an agent smith and dodging a minigun at point blanck

The Reavers are terrifying, especially in the presidential metro!

GhoulTastic video

The body heat thing confuses me, because if ferals are emitting a load of radiation they should also fairly hot. Yeah, it isn't body heat, but it should show up as their body still having warmth.

You should put Part 1 in the description so we can find it easier.

Thank you for your video! I started playing in Fallout 4. I haven’t played many of the older titles, but I am fascinated by the lore! So interesting!

Fo3 and New Vegas have the easiest ghouls and deathclaws. They literally charge you in a straight line. You can just walk backward and lay frag mines to cripple legs. Then pick em off.

Idk if you ever said this or got to this, but Glowing ones in Fallout 3 and New Vegas can revive dead feral Ghouls. Had a bad experience when in Dunwich 😅

RadKing does it again, well done sir.

Hell yeah i was just thinking about when part 2 was gonna drop last night

Wouldn’t Glowing ones and Reavers give off body heat because of the obscene amount of radiation they give off? And we all know radiation gives off heat

Love this series! When do we get part 3??

Another amazing video

Shame they didn't link red racer and necropolis with each other in a quest or so

It's ghouling time 💀

"Who wouldn't wanna hear _this_ when they get down?" _feral roar_ Me. I would very much _not_ want to hear that.

8:37 You said that we only ever encounter feral Glowing Ones in Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but Jason Bright from New Vegas is a Glowing One who isn’t feral. So it’s technically “wrong” to say every single Glowing One that we encounter in New Vegas and 3 is feral, because Jason Bright is literally the only one that isn’t feral and is a Glowing One, but it definitely feels like every single Glowing One we see is feral.

4:20 I bet instead of asking if another underworld resident was stupid, they'd ask if they're going feral XD

Fuck yeah, I've been looking forward to part two of this

That subway in Fallout 3 full of ghouls is hell. Like a mini horror game.

40:22 Well, for the ⚛Apostles of the Holy Light⚛, 2/2, so 100%. Coincidence. Just a coincidence. That's all.

First time I ever encountered a Reaver was in that huge Power Station toward the middle of the map. Strolled in with my combat armor and Chinese assault rifle like I was King shit on Turd Island, boy he really whooped my ass. Even the behemoths didnt scare me that bad

What a... GHOULish display 😎

I don't think the Super Mutants see Ghouls as "kin", that's just Willow's assumption due to lack of knowledge. The Mutants have more likely just learned already that dipping Ghouls in the "green stuff" doesn't work, so why bother with them.

40:10 I always considered that a mere side effect of the childs of atom ALL being heavily radiating which means the ferals just chill out with them. and if you attack them the ghouls simply also get hostile because of the commotion that happens but leave everyone around them alone as long as they sense that hightened radiation from them. So I think that the childs of atom just superstitieously pray to the atom, the ghouls reaction and interaction with it all is just them being passive around "radiation" as we already know from the experiments by the doctor also mentioned around 15:50 in the video :3

The Enclave are OBSESSED with taking Deathclaws and as a result I think they would have a hard time focusing on domesticating any other wasteland creatures. More than likely, I think the Slavers or Talon Company would be good candidates for buying the Ghoul control tech. However, the Church of Atom seeing some sort of divine connection to the creatures might drive them to size this technology using less capitalistic measures.

I love to think that genetic variation is the x factor. Literally a mutant gene 💀 Also I don’t like how the current art style “Pixar”-ed every thing. We want that brisket looking fallout victim, not shreks reject.

Regarding Stephan and The Surgeon, the control chips are presumably implanted surgically (ghouls don't have ports or PIP Boys) so there is no contradiction.

Can't wait for part 3

48:45 is a work of comedic genius!

11:39 No you are not! My First encounter with Feral Ghoul Reaver was in the Presidential Metro System En-Route to Adams Airforce Base and I was only using the gauss rifle at the time with the winterized T-51b Power Armour and was swarmed by two of these things, I died over 6 times, i hadn't had difficulty with an enemy since I first encountered a Deathclaw and that was at the time a good few years apart. I have always given these buggers a wide birth when playing Fallout 3 AND New Vegas, they sure did not get easier!

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Me having a bad day sees ranking uploads so day getting better

Fawkes saved my life during the Broken Steel dlc, hes so freaking tanky that i let him aggro all the ghouls in the Presidential Metro during the Adams AF base quest and picked them off with sneak attacks while fawkes held them off with his trusty Gatling Laser. Also had so e help from the robots, buuuuut they died too easily

Perfect timing as I've woken up! Keep up the great analysis vids!

Spectrum of madness is a good band name, but now i'm curious, what music do you usually listen to?

cannot believe you missed the point lookout ghoul arena, although i don't entirely blame you, as it's quite easy to miss. also the final radioactive location in your most radioactive locations is disquallified by not actually generating a passive radioactivity like other locations, and while it does, it is not a fair assessment of being the most radioactive.

Can I use Spectrum of Madness as a band name? Thats honestly cool af