10 Secret Video Game Easter Eggs Left By Developers
8. Fallout 76’s Skeleton War
Many of the best worlds in video games use documents, files and diaries scattered throughout the experience to offer the player more information and to invest them further into the universe. It’s also a great place to insert humour, if your game is so inclined, and the Fallout series is no stranger to documents both foul and fairly hilarious.
Some developers can’t help but sneak a few winks and nods in however. It’s one thing to pay homage to your favourite games, books, movies and so on but one file in Fallout 76 did something unique and paid lip service to, of all things, a tweet.
The file “Skeleton extraction guide” is a fairly macabre document that details proper procedure on how to prepare a skeleton for mounting, presumably on your wall like some kind of perverse trophy. However the file ends with the hilarious line “Note: If your tombstone does not read "Rest in Peace", or some variant thereof, you are automatically drafted into the skeleton wars.”
Zach Wilson, who worked on Fallout 76, took ownership of this file and used it to immortalise one of his favourite tweets from the very popular @dril account. As far as we're concerned, this is comedy and good advice.