There actually wasn't any evidence that the overseer was trying to actively kill the population, or get them to kill each other in riots. "*I want them* to fight like dogs" could just as easily be "*They just* fight like dogs". Closing the door to the vault doesn't make sense in either instance, but closing the door could make sense if the overseer believed that the wasteland was still too dangerous and he was trying to protect the dwellers. The overseer's log only ever talks about limiting growth, not reducing population. Meanwhile, faction 2 is screaming about muh second ammendment.

What do you call a cool ghoul... rad

"Big dose of radiation" *1 rad/sec *

Overseer: "I'm taking all of your guns." Vault Residents: "KAWABUNGA IT IS!"

Overseer: You’re too violent, you can’t have guns. Vault Dwellers: **Libertarian mode activated**

16:11 Ox: This terminal requires a 100 lockpicking skill. Yeah i wanna see how you're gonna shove a bobby pin and a screw driver into that machine to lockpick it

I love the part where he shoots a ghoul in a room, and says he died of radiation,real slick.

Each of the vault dwellers will have something nice to say! "Hey."

I had no idea the survivors actually went somewhere - I assumed they were dead already.

If you bring Lily the super mutant to vault 34, she will make comments about the vault, how it is similar to the vault she lived in for most of her life. She will reminisce about memories she has from her vault, like when her husband proposed to her in the atrium. I thought this was a neat bit of Lily's story. Oxhorn, will there be a character profile on Lily?

Remember that all Overseers got their secret orders what to do. Probably his order was not to let anyone out - riot or not. Which sort of doesn't make sense, because why would he put himself in the risk of death.

What I don’t get is why you can’t tell the vault 34 survivors about the Boomers and vice versa.

I was thinking these surviving vault dwellers would be ghouls by the time you released them

*one goul walks out of vault* Me: Nah bro I'm good, imma head out. *starts sprinting*

*Going into an area where you know many enemies are* You get a Grenade! YOU get a Grenade! EVERYONE GETS A GRENADE!

This is my favorite vault as far as a vault being a dungeon. Not my favorite story vault but after I got out of vault 34 I felt like I’d been through a radioactive labyrinth.

**Seeing the story unfold** **Learns that someone set a bomb inside the underground vault** Me: "What a bunch of dumbasses." Video: 31:59 "Idiots!" Me: "That works too."

Just an FYI, Oxhorn, the main theme of that Vault is that no matter what, enemies will just randomly spawn behind you. I turn a corner and there was a group waiting for me after clearing it out.

"YES, BUT WHY DON'T YOU LET PEOPLE JUST LET PEOPLE LEAVE THE VAULT??!!" I'm cryin' haha

I saved the farm, mainly because there was no way for my character to know that there were survivors still alive.

Another note: it's a game so there are limited options. However if this were real life it's quite possible that either Horowitz would have closed the vents before leaving the vault, or after finding him at aerotek the courier could then go back and shut them from the back up terminal. Thus saving the vault dwellers and keeping tge sharecroppers from having to move.

Another aspect around the final decision is that when I initially encountered this I thought it was dubious at best for anyone to have survived being trapped down there for so long. Of course this is a video game and I can find out all possible outcomes, however in the moment of uncertainty can I really gamble the livelihoods of people who I know to be alive on the slim possibility of a small group of people surviving in a confined space with limited resources, who were miraculously unaffected by the radiation?

I didn't understand the dilemma when I found this place.... the reactor is still active when you would release the trapped techs, and so I didn't understand why I was forced into a decision when the system (and therefore power to keep it running) would still have been active and I could have released them and THEN shut the vents? They FORCED us into making a "moral dilemma" decision that really wasn't there... except that because of how the gameplay was set up you had to choose... when if it was a real-world situation you could have done BOTH. Really, it irked he hell out of me! Even once we find the surviving tech after we could have gone back and did the vents with his help. This was a totally unnecessary forced hardship!

Just cleared the last night, the space suit was clutch for this because you can combo it with the rebreather

Here's a thought. Why can't you just go and disable the reactor after the survivors escape?

Fun little tidbit: all Vault 34 passwords are names of models of cars from the 1950's.

If you do Repconn before this , (which you should) you can get the space suit in the basement room next to Jason bright and Chris on a shelf, it has more radiation resistance, way more damage resistance and you can wear the rebreather with it since it doesn't have a helmet, I'm level 5 and just owned this vault with it.

Honestly that is such a terrible fate. Slowly dying to radiation poisoning and going insane with no hope of escape.

16:58 I've never heard a feral ghoul say words before... just when you think you've seen everything you can see in the wasteland. Anyone ever hear a feral ghoul talk before?

Oxhorn seriously needs to get the space suit, it acts like a radiation suit, but it leaves your head open for a rebreather

Extra guards by the doors makes sense when you consider that a group of people obsessed with munitions is out there knowing where you are and that you have a massive supply of said munitions.

From your character's perspective, it's entirely possible that the four survivors aren't even alive. Do you risk a large group of people for corpses? Or do you risk a few potential survivors to give safe food and water to dozens? Easy choice.

The farmers can move, the vaulters can’t.

"The main villain is the Overseer of the Vault" - as if it wasn't the case in each and every Vault xD

When I did this quest I literally took 4 hours deciding to either side with the farm or help the survivors I chose the survivors this is the first time I went against the my saying "The many over the few" But in my next playthrough I might go with the farm

There are some *BIG* inconsistencies in the Vault 34 Lore: The plot tells that the boomers left the Vault 50 years before 2281 or so, circa 2230 then. So there was no way those survivors could have made it without turning into ghouls, only *IF* the non-radiation poisoned area was big enough to support life for long periods, otherwise normal people would just die. On the other hand, ghouls would have survived without many problems. Other than that, either the overseer is a BIG incompetent or he was acknowloged with vault-tec plans, but this wouldn't make sense either, as he wasn't the original overseer, and it wouldn't make sense to him continue the vault-tec experiments since there was no one to tell him to do so. *AND* It took 160 years until the vault became overcrowded? Why would vault-tec make this experiment to take SO long?

Morgan sounds like Nora (female main character) from fallout 4

Mr.Oxhorn, i have played through fallout nv several times and something i would like you to dig in deeper to is these 7 things: The lore of jacobstown The honest hearts dlc The lonesome road dlc The followers of the apocalypse The powder gangers The nv strip And the vault 19 any of these would be of great benefit for me as for many other players as you dig deeper into the lore than all of us do :))

7:25 ah yes, the glorious Commonwealth desert

In some instances of determining Vault Tech’s intentions, we have to look at the “design” of their experiment. Each vault has perimeters put into place that guide along the Petrie dish society inside to the conclusion the experiment is meant to find. For example; the limited amount of space is somehow supposedly rectified by the large, open to the public armory. Uh... whut? This information alone says a lot about what was expected of vault 34 in the capacity of an experiment. Add to this the massive amount of security that is seemingly loyal to Vault Tech (usually human elements will side with emotional attachments; family/friends/loved ones; these guys sided with Vault Tech) speaks to the idea that the point of the design was to inspire riots and put “authorities” against “civilians” and see which one would emerge victorious. Clearly not all civi’s are going to agree... but with enough push from an authoritarian in a limited space with limited resources; you will eventually have enough discomfort and resentment to cause an “uprising”, “riot” or “coup”. History has a host of examples of what would have or could have happened... not sure why this was considered a necessary experiment.

I honestly always have a hard time with these sorts of 'catch twenty two' scenarios, where you have to decide what is the better path. I always try to think of it as 'The needs of the many over the needs of the few', or what would be better in the long run for the future. I had this scenario playing a different game, where I had the choice of either shutting a factory down that was heavily polluting a large lake, but leaving it intact for the most part for the enemy to re-open at a later date...or to close the valves and basically have everything back up and explode. It would destroy the factory so it would never re-open, but it would send all that waste down to the lake anyway. After debating it heavily, I simply chose to shut it down, but not destroy it. It would stop the flow of waste to the lake, and allow everyone to live cleaner lives, and prevent the place from becoming inhospitable, but would always be uncertain about if the enemies would come back and re-open it. I think in this case, I would rather shut the vents and save the farm. A lot of people count on that food, that work, that land, and the dwellers you could end up saving may not contribute as much as there would be if you saved the farm. In that case, they're just more mouths to feed. It sounds harsh, but I think it's the better ending to save the farm rather than the dwellers.

Let's take a moment to appreciate how scary ghouls used to be

An explosive build’s worst nightmare- close quarters

I chose to save them, I went in with no radiation suit and used all my radaways. I wish you could do both choices

*A PERFECT SPOT FOR A*... oh wait... nvm

I sided with the Vault Dwellers, then a month after I found the NCR Settlers near Boulder City. And they are not very happy about radiation ruining the crops and they are leaving Nevada. I don't know if it was a random encounter or some mechanic of the quest.

This video makes me want to play Fallout New Vegas again.

I rerouted the power to the Vault dwellers my first time. I never talked to them though because I couldn’t find them.

This vault was a pain in the mirelurk den

7:24 "be more active in the Commonwealth"

I know I'm -late- *ancient* to the party, but the "Patriot's Cookbook" at 11:50 is likely a reference to the Anarchist's Cookbook, which is a book containing instructions on weapon-making, bomb-making, explosive synthesis, etc. This is likely intended to imply that the residents of the vault are manufacturing their own weapons in response to being denied access to the armory.

16:58 Ghoul down here still praising the sun

Why couldn't the vault reactor be shutdown once the survivors have escaped? No reason? Just a way to force the player to make a difficult decision, nothing to do with the logic of the situation.

This one was testing you in real life with those options especially when neither had negative consequences towards you directly.

Nora in fallout 4 is voiced by the same person that did Morgan Blake

Thank you for making these videos! My boyfriend loves the lore of Fallout so these videos are helping me learn so much and understand what happened. Thank you for explaining so clearly!

I think it makes sense that everytime you interacted with something ghouls showed up. It was an overpopulated vault after all.

Perfect spot for a RETRIBUTION!

The Vault 87 of this game. Entirely radiated.

I always watched my brother play fallout growing up here and there. Watching these videos while working the roads is great! You do such a great job on the voice over that I listen to them while driving! I'm finally gonna play it myself!

13:55 Lmao, that feral ghoul has googley eyes XD

Here's another thing. The Boomers. They have been at Nellis, if memory serves, since Mother Pearl was 'barely a woman' and if we assume that means about 15 and she's now about 65, then they left 34 about 50 years ago. Now according to _their_ history, they were pretty well armed when they left, having automatic weapons, grenades and flamethrowers, backed up by their impressive K/D ratio, which doesn't quite jibe with the Overseer's account. Not to mention that the rioting followed pretty immidiately after the Boomers left, meaning that those people who shut themselves away did so 50 years ago. Which means the survivors you rescue were not even born when everything went to hell in Vault 34, well, maybe Horowiz, but he'd have been a child. Frankly, the survival of Billy the Kid in the Fridge is a tad more _likely_ than those people surviving in a half flooded Vault with a broken reactor for fifty freaking years. Not to mention that I would find it way more likely that should you visit those survivors after 3 months, you'd be told something like "Well, Dana and Tim both died of measles, Horowiz took a switchblade in the guts when someone stole his PipBoy and Lucy let a charming stranger take her under his wing and she's working at Gommorah now." Stopping that reactor contaminating the surface isn't the moral choice, it's the only realistic choice.

The way that Veronica’s quest ends is so unexpected, and an example of fantastic writing.

I personally wish that after finding the four survivors you can have them tell you where to find the override controls that they used and then seal the pipes. So they're saved and we don't have to worry about the radiation Factor anymore.

I feel like this guy could do a really good Tom Hanks impression.

"Sexy Sleepwear" Hmmmm I'll take that Its mine now :D

13:55 i absolutely love how you managed to activate vats on the ghoul right as its head was gibbed

Too bad you can’t tell the survivors about the boomers.

I just have one question How the heck do you lock pic a computer!? Last time I checked computers don't have locks to pick

"WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO KILL PEOPLE?!" Because... Game.

This Vault was designed simply spectacularly. I went for the sharecropper quest and the labyrinthine tunnels, creepy ambience, terrifying ghouls, and panic of increasing radiation makes me never wanna go back...

I still remember going through this vault: Thank goodness for power armor and plasma castors. Burned through nearly all my cells and Radaway from what I remember after dealing with wave after wave of Ferals. The faction dynamic in this vault has gotten me thinking about gun based culture: when people have free access to guns, they also like being able to use said guns. Scratching the itch to use firearms can be harmless with a range and stuff like that: but with this Vault, people looking to control the population by killing people is a demonstration of how the itch to use your gun can get out of hand. Guns are like drugs in a way: in moderation they can be good, but addiction and reliance lead to disaster. This whole Vault is just a mess of increasingly poor choices and absolute chaos... The more I look back into the stories of these Vaults, the more I realize how absolutely twisted Vault-Tec is for toying with people like this when they needed shelter from the bombs.

I opted for "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one" option. It is a better thing to ensure healthier food for a large group of people than to save four people who may or may not be responsible for the riot that got them in that position in the first place (and letting them out just puts more strain on an already-struggling NCR).

13:30 If i go swimming in this water im going to come out glowing! 😂😂😂😂

This vault was always creepy to explore sometimes. It felt more like a zombie invasion than an irradiated vault, and the ghouls would sometimes startle me just because of the way they move or when they come around a doorway and charge at me. Thank god they debuffed the ghoul reavers in this game too.

I just want to say thank you for all your hard work. These videos make the game so much richer. One video I have been chasing is on the New Vegas crafting - specifically what junk ( coffee cus, books, etc.) to keep because it’s useful in crafting and what stuff to leave or sell. Also is it better to sell guns or use them for repair parts. Thank you Oxhorn - John

I never understood why if you rerouted control, you couldn't go back and shut down the reactor after the occupants escaped.../: I also suspect that one of the reasons the armory was closed was to reduce access to heavy weapons that could damage the vault during shootouts. If everyone had fought with kitchen knives then there wouldn't be as much rebuilding to do once one side prevailed.

I know how it sounds but the needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few.So imo sealing the vault is the choice i went with.

I would destroy the reactor, the survivors will just have to find peace in death

First was gaaaary echoing the halls now it's the shrieks of ghouls echoing the halls

16:11 I have 100 lockpicking but i still can't unlock the damn thing

Commonwealth? I think your getting your fallouts mixed up!😂

The throwback to the Interplay style overseer's office with the machine gun desk was a very nice touch.

I vaguely remember reading about this on the Nexus website. Someone made a mod to 'fix' it so that you could get the NCR fame and some sort of a reaction for fixing up the water, as well as saving the vault residents,but you had to have a high science level, from memory.

I know I'm late but your narration of these videos are amazing

Oxhorn, what's your opinion on the time continuity in the vault? How long were the survivors of the southern section down there? The Boomers left generations before you entered vault 34, so the survivors must have been the children of the rioters who locked themselves in the southern section long ago. This makes the morale dilemma much easier imo, the survivors you meet at the refugee center are not the rioters from around the Boomers time in the vault. Anyways, AWESOME VIDEO AS ALWAYS!

i always justified it by saying "well we dont know exactly how long those people were stuck in the vault, they could be feral as well by now. and how many hundreds of people benefit from better crops at the farm with clean water?"

Courtenay Taylor is a great voice actor. Love her from the Mass Effect series, and it's great that she does voice acting for the Fallout games too.

is it just me or does he have the perfect story tellers voice and cadence?

First have to say I'm not very knowledgeable about the fallout franchise. Spent some time playing 3. Killing time in between oblivion and skyrim. Post apocalypse just wasn't my scene. But one thing that is morbidly fascinating are these almost always cruel experiments vault tec inflicts on the vault dwellers. My god who was running that company? 1 man and a box of puppets! No way to pick the worst. But have to ask. Where is the information on these experiments going? Stands to reason that you wouldn't conduct an experiment without being able to see the results. Maybe a "super"central vault with the company higher ups. Possibly still monitoring vaults yet to open? Like i said I'm sure anyone reading will know more than myself. The question has probably been answered in game and i am just unaware.

7:25 "more active in the commonwealth" Oxhorn, I think you are getting fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4 confused.

these vault videos are amazing. thanks for doing the work for us. There was such a crazy amount of creativity involved creating the ideas behind these vaults. To this day getting to know some of these Vaults secrets is one of fallouts finest aspects

PERFECT SPOT FOR A GHOUL DEN.

No mention of the legendary sniper THE RAT SLAYER. 4x damage to unsuspecting enemies. It's in the cave leading to V34, always one if the first weapons I get.

It's fun to go through and read all the terminals myself, but the stories tend to make more sense when it's compiled into a video. Thank you, Ox!

I love your content. I'm amazed at how much I'm entertained by the lore of fallout. A New Vegas TV show would be so amazing if done properly. Im just fascinated by vault stories.

Can you do a lore on vault 108 and GAARRYY!

PERFECTO SPOT FOR A MIRELURK DEN

I can’t believe how entertaining these videos are, and how deep these stories are

You have the perfect cadence and descriptions for narrating this series. You're on top of context like white on rice.