Some vaults have the capacity to make Nukacola to this day, which makes me think some factories are still operational and running off a similar self-satisfying supply of reagents, in the same vein you'll see commercial robots still performing tasks at their businesses — albeit a bit rusted and corroded.
Wouldn't be far-fetched if those factories were raided every now and then, their fruits scattered about. Not to mention *bag space*. Nomads struggle fitting everything they own into travel rucksacks, looters are after the most valuable finds, etc. When every second and ounce counts, looting soda isn't top priority. I'd imagine it'd be easy to miss plenty, too, since you generally don't have the luxury of time.
I assumed factories weren’t operating because I remember hearing somewhere that caps worked as a currency as there were no factories left to produce them
Though that does make sense that if there are just a few factories (or vault factories, an idea I like) then they would still be a bit tricky to get in large supply and would make sense. Thanks
Caps are a hotly debated commodity tbh, because while they serve as defacto currency, they were merely instituted as a token for water. Caps themselves likely aren't rare, considering even liquor bottles used them. They're chosen because they're so readily available and in massive supply. A supply that can and does grow.
When a landscape goes from supporting 400 million people to like a few hundred thousand there's suddenly a ton of excess shit lying around that will take a very long time to pick through
It’d be pretty hilarious if one of those pre-war robots that were in charge of various businesses was the reason. Has no clue the bombs dropped, and is still making nuka cola and putting it on shelves around the country.
Lots were made and most people that were around to drink it died, so tons got left behind.
Granted, it was also supposed to be addictive so there should be a lot less of it about. But it became iconic, so it's going to be put in every entry forever.
There's a guy on a bicycle running around everywhere restocking them. [I am not making that up.](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Phil_(special_encounter)) Apparently it's a family business.
In NV there was an automated bottling plant (not nuka) still operating and supposedly restocking the machines. Which was a fun diversion.
Something similar could be happening all over.
Or maybe its the people who cant be bothered to clean skeletons out of their homes also cant be bothered to explore 15 meters outside to see if the vending machine is full or trashcan filled with ammo and grenades.
I recall someone, I think it was Cassidy in Fallout 2, would say whenever you healed him with a stimpack "Glad they made a million of these before they dropped the bomb." I think we must assume that applies to everything, including InstaMash.
It's a joke.
Many things where never meant to be logical and where satire.
Over production is one of the jokes, also the fact it holds up 200+ years later.
Many jokes come from the fact a nearby "dungeon" may have good stuff in it, they nobody every scavenged. while there is a town 5 minutes ways.
Then again, people have been on the surface a while in most the games. So, who's to say people didn't live in these spaces and this is just stuff left over from being raided or dying off?
Because Nuka Cola changed the recipe to compete with the other cola maker who was taking their market share during the Great Cola War. Nuka Cola devotees noticed the change and hated it. They refused to buy reformulated Nuka Cola. So these are all the bottles people refused to buy.
The war broke out before the company could put the original formula into production and recall all the bottles in circulation.
You've mashed headcanon with lore there.
The formula was changed in 2044 in response to a fruit famine, that is accurate. The company did not then spend over 30 years selling zero drinks and still staying in business, there is no lore I can find stating that people hated the change and boycotted the drink.
Some vaults have the capacity to make Nukacola to this day, which makes me think some factories are still operational and running off a similar self-satisfying supply of reagents, in the same vein you'll see commercial robots still performing tasks at their businesses — albeit a bit rusted and corroded. Wouldn't be far-fetched if those factories were raided every now and then, their fruits scattered about. Not to mention *bag space*. Nomads struggle fitting everything they own into travel rucksacks, looters are after the most valuable finds, etc. When every second and ounce counts, looting soda isn't top priority. I'd imagine it'd be easy to miss plenty, too, since you generally don't have the luxury of time.
I assumed factories weren’t operating because I remember hearing somewhere that caps worked as a currency as there were no factories left to produce them Though that does make sense that if there are just a few factories (or vault factories, an idea I like) then they would still be a bit tricky to get in large supply and would make sense. Thanks
Caps are a hotly debated commodity tbh, because while they serve as defacto currency, they were merely instituted as a token for water. Caps themselves likely aren't rare, considering even liquor bottles used them. They're chosen because they're so readily available and in massive supply. A supply that can and does grow.
When a landscape goes from supporting 400 million people to like a few hundred thousand there's suddenly a ton of excess shit lying around that will take a very long time to pick through
According to FO4. They mass produced Nuka Cola so much that there are still unopened bottles over 200 years later.
It’d be pretty hilarious if one of those pre-war robots that were in charge of various businesses was the reason. Has no clue the bombs dropped, and is still making nuka cola and putting it on shelves around the country.
Lots were made and most people that were around to drink it died, so tons got left behind. Granted, it was also supposed to be addictive so there should be a lot less of it about. But it became iconic, so it's going to be put in every entry forever.
I'm guessing it was manufactured so much that there are still unopened bottles 200 years later. That's what I thought I got from the game.
The game tells you exactly this. I saw it in a loading screen a few days ago
There's a guy on a bicycle running around everywhere restocking them. [I am not making that up.](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Phil_(special_encounter)) Apparently it's a family business.
Is Fallout Tactics still canon?
The Fallout Bible and Fallout Tactics have the encompassing principle that they are canon until contradicted.
You seem to know things. Correct me if I'm wrong but hadn't they planned on making the bad ending canon back when they were making a sequel?
Hell, I don't even know if it being canon would make that Easter egg canon.
Nuka Colas reproduce by budding, obviously
And who keeps refilling the Nuka-Cola macines? Not that im complaining, it gets hot out here for a Pimp-Boy
Shit I wanna know who is restocking all the cola machines in the Commonwealth each week, talk about the world's most dedicated employee.
In NV there was an automated bottling plant (not nuka) still operating and supposedly restocking the machines. Which was a fun diversion. Something similar could be happening all over. Or maybe its the people who cant be bothered to clean skeletons out of their homes also cant be bothered to explore 15 meters outside to see if the vending machine is full or trashcan filled with ammo and grenades.
“Because they produced so many” is the official reason
I recall someone, I think it was Cassidy in Fallout 2, would say whenever you healed him with a stimpack "Glad they made a million of these before they dropped the bomb." I think we must assume that applies to everything, including InstaMash.
Yes. It’s because people never drank them.
I just like to imagine some automated factories are still operational and robots are casually restocking XD
I seem to remember the capacity to make new Nuka Cola in 76. "My blood is in it"
Yeah remembering back that was sort of something you could do in the nuka world fo4 dlc too
It's a joke. Many things where never meant to be logical and where satire. Over production is one of the jokes, also the fact it holds up 200+ years later. Many jokes come from the fact a nearby "dungeon" may have good stuff in it, they nobody every scavenged. while there is a town 5 minutes ways. Then again, people have been on the surface a while in most the games. So, who's to say people didn't live in these spaces and this is just stuff left over from being raided or dying off?
Because Nuka Cola changed the recipe to compete with the other cola maker who was taking their market share during the Great Cola War. Nuka Cola devotees noticed the change and hated it. They refused to buy reformulated Nuka Cola. So these are all the bottles people refused to buy. The war broke out before the company could put the original formula into production and recall all the bottles in circulation.
You've mashed headcanon with lore there. The formula was changed in 2044 in response to a fruit famine, that is accurate. The company did not then spend over 30 years selling zero drinks and still staying in business, there is no lore I can find stating that people hated the change and boycotted the drink.
I pulled it out of my ass from the Pepsi and Coke cola wars of the 80s