Fallout 76: 6 Important Trailer Clues You Totally Missed

2. TV & Outstanding Achievement Award

Fallout 76
Bethesda

The most interesting clues to the plot of the game come from a TV announcement, with a speaker outside Vault 76 saying “you must rebuild,” followed by a trophy cabinet, with a readable plaque saying ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’.

These clues, coupled with the joy jeep and army figure beside the TV, suggest that the vault had quite a militaristic approach to the Wasteland.

If, as the poster hints, the vault did seal early, it might suggest that the vault was to be the base camp of a force created to clean the Wasteland, a Vault-Tec military or strike force.

Fallout 76 Achievement Award
Bethesda

This would be an interesting new faction to introduce to the Fallout universe. Whilst groups like the Brotherhood of Steel or Super Mutants are shown to be active participants in the world, the company Vault-Tec is always referenced in the past.

But what if they did prepare for the worst? What if they knew their experiments would go wrong, and thought of a back-up plan to make sure they retained control of the Wasteland? And what would this society be like, and fit in to the Wasteland ecosystem?

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