15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Fallout

14. There Are No Usable Ladders In The Modern Fallout Games

Seriously, turn on either Fallout 3 or New Vegas, find a ladder near a billboard and try climbing it. Go on, try. You won't get anywhere because for all their brilliance, Bethesda admitted they couldn't get ladders to work. Game Director Todd Howard told a panel back in 2010 that they felt like "game development pussies" because they couldn't get usable ladders to marry up with game engine. Instead they would confuse the character A.I. and the only option was to go to a loading screen instead - but don't worry because the modding community got there in the end. Modders 1, Bethesda 0.