The Forced Evolutionary Virus, also known as FEV, is a virus artificially created by West Tek's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Division. The virus’s ability to change an individual’s observable traits and genes has made it one of the most important mutagens known to man. Harnessed both before and after the Great War, for reasons both noble and sinister. But what is FEV, to quote Father Elijah it a long story, FEV…a virus with an even longer story, so let’s take a look at how the virus came to be, what it was used for, and who by and hopefully by the end of the video we’ll have a much better understanding.
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Guten Morgen
I bet the FEV didn't really make the chimps any more aggressive, it was just a normal reaction to being trapped in a cell with a massive headache and some newly upgraded stranglin' arms.
went for gold and found gamma
“Stranglin’ arms.”
To be fair, if I was locked in a cage and some prick in a labcoat poked me with a needle, I'd be pretty pissed off too
And hormones galore
i just recently found out bout floaters personally 4 the 1st time ever, reaction was amusing
They tried making Captain Americas but made hulks instead
Lol, my Government appears to want to go down the route of automonising our Military with only a few hundred Humans to do the paperwork because, hey, it's not like Military Hackers and Cyber Terrorists exist or anything..
except one hulk, he’s smart now he became a babysitter in new vegas
Spot on
They also made a few rocket raccoons but they immediately exterminated them
The Maestro(Hulk) would be their King or God
So basically I have to fight fire breathing ants because some dude sucks at science
Hey, I've got to deal with acid-piss-spitting lobsters on my end. Wanna trade?
Kinda like trying to live in todays economy/society
Malevolent AI attempting to murder me because some guys sucked at science. Small world huh? Fuckin' amateurs messing shit up
It’s kind of funny to think that the plot of half of sci-fi universes is because of bunch of scientists screwed something up.
@King of The Zinger The ants are in the same boat. Bullet/laser resistant exoskeleton, can lift hundreds of times their own weight(super strength), has a literal bio-flamethrower, and are tunnelers like mole rats and scorpions.
There's nothing better than binging Fallout Lore while playing Fallout.
I always listen to Fallout lore while I play New Vegas or Fallout 3
True.
Yessirrr
Breathing.
True. I'm playing Fallout 4 on Xbox right now.
"Well the FEV won't let me be or let me be me so let me see. They tried to shut me down on F:NV, but Fallout feels so empty without me."
Cheminem
@@gaelangaudette9576 worthy lulz
I love this, took me a second to figure out what song it was for, but this is awesome.
@@annecantgame Just rang a bell and bothered typing it out, haha. Auto correct messed me up, that "on" should be an "in" but oh well.
Neh neh neh neh neh 👍
"Instead of reducing their size, they gained the ability to spit *fire*" that line killed me
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Reminds me of when an area has a pest problem and a bunch of people introduce a new animal to kill all the pests, but then the animal they introduced becomes the new pest and it's even worse.
So they dropped a mixtape?
@@M2ofEMMM Australia had an issue with the cane beetle when they were farming sugar cane, so they imported cane toads to quell the pest, the beetles just climbed the sugar cane higher so the toads couldn't get them(probably due to another climate made the beetles move up). The toads now had no food so they spread all over Australia and are very destructive as well as poisonous on their backs
@@rogerstafford3488yep, and it slaps
It would be really cool to have an intelligent Deathclaw for a companion. It sucks Frank and the Enclave wiped them out.
There's still Goris 😊👍
Have you played Fallout 2 with mod Restoration Project? it "brings back" significant portion of game which was cut so some quests have new ways to approach them. Among other things, you can actually save the intelligent deathclaws.
Play fallout 2 and you can
@@Jackrazorus You can save them in vanilla if you never return to the vault after completing their quest
@@jorgeloredo100 I vaguely remember that. Do you actually get the "saving ending" though or it just doesnt show the slaughter ending?
The "bad" ending in F1 where you willingly submit to the Master was really freaking terrifying
Fun fact if you try to use the resurrect command on the failed fev experiment in vault 87 it will speak like a mutant in battle and crash your game
I've never thought to try that, thanks for sharing!
That was the universe"s way of telling you not to play god. Some things simply were not meant to be alive in the first place. lol
Very interesting indeed
@@Mister.Beef.Wellington.The.3rdGod fake
@@c0smo709 **wipes Dorito dust off neckbeard, proud of another successful day of Godbusting**
Side note : FEV infection makes the super mutants infertile, it's a big point brought up in Fallout 1, one that causes the master to suicide the project, and himself with a EXPLOSION.
Whats funny is that with a high enough intelligence (or was it 100% science, i cannot remember) you could find a solution to the sterility problem. But it is ill advised to tell it to the master.
@@_Muzolf are you BSing? I don't remember anything like that.
@@WhyDidntIInventYT yes i forget who it is i believe its a scribe in the brotherhood aswell you can probe her for all her dialog options and she will let you know that super mutants are sterile ... this will literally cause the master to realize what hes doing is pointless and he will suicide himself its kind of a underwhelming ending to that but its interesting nonetheless.
@@Abuyahya98 They were talking about the second comment, not the first.
He technically went out with a bang.
Man i remember playing Fallout 1 when i was 13 and seeing the Master for the First time. Yeah that was something else.
When i saw him for the first time a shiver went up my spine and i almost fell out of my chair
The Master is the most Metal creature to exist imagine writing a Brutal Death Metal song about The Master.
"So, what will you choose? Will you join the Unity, or will you die? JoIn? DiE! jOiN? dIe!
@@mightymollyfan you give me an idea
18:48 So THAT explains the funny looking headpiece that one psychic kid has in Fallout New Vegas!
It would've been amusing if the deathclaw outside Virgil's cave'd had a cute name like bubbles or something. Maybe he wouldn't mention this if you killed it but there was some unique dialogue if you ran past it.
There’s a Death Claw outside Virgil’s gave? Oops lol
Ha it's kind of a rituals to blow that deathclaw up with the two shot mini nuke launcher from diamond city, but I won't lie I would still probably blow up bubbles too because everybody and everything bows down to the raider king.
The moment he said cheesy puffs i can't stop thinking that theirs a mutated creature out there saying screw you guys I'm going home
The one thing that I couldn’t understand is: Why did the Institute kill the remainder of those in Vault 111? Their pods were turned off if the computer terminals can be believed. The Institute after 200 years may have a dangerously narrow gene pool. Here you have a gene pool closer to your own with those educated at a level way above those in the Commonwealth without possible genetic mutations. Also, they could have been dispersed into the Institute’s population by family units to ease assimilation. Those that had certain genetic disease could have been left behind until it could be addressed by their medical practices. That is, unless they could be of benefit to the Institute due to certain knowledges or abilities.
IT JUST WORKS!
That's a really good point!
Well they knew that at one point there need to be a "lone survivor"
Wasn't Shaun the only one with a pure genetic strain ? I think I can recall that they didn't use the other people in Vault 111 because they had varying kinds of genetic impurities (including the sole survivor) and thus were of little interest for the institute.
@@leviathanforge Shaun is to donate DNA for the 3rd Generation Synth project, but the whole population of the Institute is also of concern if the Director would take his blinders off. There couldn’t be more than 200 faculty and students that began the Institute. After 10 generations the genetics of the Institute’s population would make all residents 2nd or 3rd cousins. Every one is related to everyone else. Birth defects and other genetic abnormalities would begin to rise greater in this isolated population. Probably more if the initial population came from primarily the physical sciences with less from the medical and biological sciences. The “residents” of Vault 111 would add to the genetic diversity of the general population without a notice from the rest of the Commonwealth as they are unknown. This helps with the security and secrecy of the Institute as well.
The super mutants in Fallout 1/2 were terrifying in my opinion since most of them were pretty intelligent, And that combined with their strength made them pretty formidable.
Even for the ones with shit intelligence, their ability to destroy not only you, but your entire party, in 1-2 hits, sending your health into the *negatives*, made them more terrifying than even Dealthclaws to me. A regular mutant in Fallout 1/2 is like fighting a group of mutant behemoths in 3 but with miniguns
I want that back in the next game. Intelligent ones or dumb ones. As long as they are a viable threat. In general i want the monsters of the wasteland to be dangerous to the player like the lore implies. Imagine a roving band of mutants you have to avoid for a large part of the game. Or if deathclaws were rare again but every single one felt like a boss.
FEV in fallout 1= Resident Evil's G-Virus FEV in fallout 3, NV and 4= just a bunch of Orcs
The Super Mutants in New Vegas are the ones left after Fallout 1.
Hey at least the ones in new vegas are also really cool,And i don't lump them in with 3 or 4's,They're remnants of what remains of the masters army
@@dasonbane2839 still part of the masters army,And there are supermutants,Take Marcus for example
@@dasonbane2839 1. Nightkin are a type of Super mutant 2. New Vegas also has the regular Mariposa Super Mutants.
Also most mutants in NV are super smart and layered
It's a bit odd that I started playing fallout when I was 11, played Fallout 3 and NV religiously, watched as much content as I could about all the subjects you've covered by other people before you, yet even now that I'm in my early 20s I still find these lore videos cool. I guess... _some things never change._
Like... I dunno, for example, war?
@@LucyWest370 ...ah, i see what you did there.
*A grizzled wastelander crawls out of a scrap heap* Give it another decade youngin! It still won't change. *Runs away chasing a radroach* Gimme back my caps you jerk bug!
So weird, that describes me perfectly. Age and all. Unreal.
Same
Love your videos brother, Fallout has extremely expansive lore and appreciate you taking the time to explain it.
Yeah, much better than oxhorns annoys overly dragged out and monitized garbage. I say that as an old fan too. He's sold out so bad I wouldn't even call him a fallout channel anymore. A live stream donation begging account with the occasional fallout tactics video
@@ryshed4365 lol damn
Should go watch oxhorns series on all of fallout
@@mikeshandtightgarage4893 1 to new vegas the rest is him as a sellout
@@LowkeyRmc huh?
There was a psyker kid in New Vegas, and I didn't know until this video that his character was referring to Fallout 1
I miss the masters soothing voice
Voices
You missed the joke Einstein
Winnie the Pooh
Do you think Mama Murphy was a hybrid of brain infected FEV specimens or was one herself?
I'm not sure, I do plan to make a video discussing the different psykers though so hopefully we'll find out👍
Shes jist really good at guessing lol
Nah man the drugs give her the SIGHT
If i was in her position id be more worried about manifesting than predicting. What if she attracted the death claw?
@@Synonymous101 That sounds like a fun video. Keep up the good work!
22:48 just don't send her to Bunker Hill she constantly emits radiation and if you stand too close you'll take on rads. The npcs interpret that as attacking and fight back.
This was an F.E.V (Fully Enjoyable Video). Keep up the good work!
That's very clever! Thank you 😁👍
as a boomer gamer, I THANK YOU for F1/2 content
as a millenial gamer who can only play 1 and 2 due to mobility issues (no consoles for me, sadly) i also thank you for this content!
As a gamer who appreciates researching properly for the sake of posterity, I thank you. For who are you that know not your own history?
How's Nellis airbase boomer 😉😂
Fallout 1 and 2 are great games, very detailed and great characters and stories. Fallout 3 and 4 are also good but in a different way. Still enjoy the Fallout setting but they lack the depth and detail of the first two. They still a lot of fun tho.
@@TWH442 Finally someone with a reasonable outlook. Fallout 1/2 seemed deeper because they were, solely because they were isometric games with limited mechanical capabilities. Of course the writing is going to be better when 70% of the game is made up of text.
22:18 anddddddd you just gave every Fallout 4 player a heart attack.
Pee
Damn those dogs
@@mappsmappings4025 Wow you’re such a tough, cool guy wow
@@mappsmappings4025 fun fact there’s a difficult setting
Fev is just a physical manifestion of Zach hadel's hypothetical questions.
If your beloved beautiful wife of 10 years turned into a giant bulging beast, what would you do Tomar? But she was like a smart beast that could talk. But she was green and retired. Answer the question you've been dodging all this time Tomar.
Just picked up this game a month ago, first fallout game ever, fallout 4. Amazing experience so far, and the lore only sucks me in for more hours. Beautifully crafted, a masterpiece.
Of you want fun get the clone armoury mode and have a switch blade or baton with any clone amrour . It fun
FEV is quite possibly the signature showing of how the Fallout pre great war universe was really sinister and f***ed up
Last time I was this early, the Chinese ere still in Alaska
I love the fallout games, the first one had the best feeling of apocalypse world ending everything wants to kill you sort of way. Cool FEV lore video. 76 has a whole west tek building with FEV and supermutants very cool to learn why.
When I got the the point in the institute where they had super mutants, and you CURE someone who was recently transformed into one, I thought for sure we would get a dlc about curing mutants or something, totally lost potential, imagine finding and curing lily :) what a great day that would be.
It seems that super mutants don't want to be turned human, similar to how you wouldn't want to be turned into a super mutant. The institute scientist only wanted to revert because he retained his intelligence and personality. If you have a super mutant companion, they are upset if you make him human.
I’m so glad people are still creating new and cool fallout content. You’re awesome!
Thank you! 😁👍
The people that left the military because they were testing prisoners of war with fev they formed the brotherhood of steel. Dope video man! ☢️ 👍
Everytime I watch one of these videos I have the urge to play fallout 3 again
Go play TTW. You won't regret it
Synon- I really enjoy when you're able to give us longer and detailed videos. I throw your playlists up when cleaning or anxiety attacks. Always a good listen Thank you again for being amazeballs
How badly do you have to screw up "Make the ants smaller" until it becomes "Now they can breath fire."
Patrolling the KZhead while watching Fallout lore videos makes my wish for good day to everyone
Synonymous is like Luetin09 of fallout lore and i love it
A man of culture I see
12:34 ah yes, terminal death. The most deadly form of death!
I usually wind up killing Lasko. He flagrantly violated the scientific method. I had no choice.
For whatever reason I always thought that the New Plague actually was the FEV
Man, it's 5 o'clock in the morning and people keep uploading interesting shit. Your channel is too good.
What's cool is the FEV is influenced by its environment. Richard began too mutate and incorporate the technology he had around him. Creating the Master But Harold found himself outside. Where he became stuck to the ground and transformed into a massive Mutant tree, able too survive and pollinate the radioactive wasteland. It's such a cool and weird concept that the Fallout show needs too bring up
Was the omission of sterility intentional? Kind of a big one on the list of sacrifices... Great video, can't wait to see more lore!
It makes me wonder if the earlier strains didn't have that limitation, and sterility was exclusive to the hybrid strain used at Mariposa.
@@inurokuwarz the flatworms are noted to have switched entirely to asexual reproduction as they could not reproduce in pairs anymore
As the sterility comes from the sex organs being reabsorbed I would guess this is a result that came about later as they mucked about with the virus
I have some video suggestions: robco, HaH tool company, the divide, big MT, the pitt and the ghosts people from dead money
Scientist:"I should warn you, this is highly unstable" Government Representative:"Pssh, you're just a nerd, what do you know?" Scientist:"Is my diploma a joke to you?"
Yes
@@bluesap7318 Lol, thinking about it, unless you're someone who's Senior Level Vault Tec or Government, nobody gives a crap about you or your credentials
this also sums up modern day journalists as well
Government Representative: *looks at diploma from Vault Tec University* "Always has been a joke
Usually people gloss over interplays lore. Love this video
Following Virgil's serum, I wonder if you could mutate someone into someone else and how that would go
I believe that they would just mutate into a behemoth
Man, your coverage is SO GOOD TO LISTEN TO! It's like sci-fi history ASMR
Your videos are very informative. Now I know most of the mobs in the fallout games are a result of fev. I've always thought "how did this creature mutate from the radiation into...this." Now I know.
Damm your channels really growing fast congratulations
Thanks! 😁👍
Very much well-done, sir! I've watched several of your videos today. They're on par with the quality found in Fudgemuppet, TheEpicNate, and Camelworks videos. I'm highly impressed and have learned alot today! I hope your channel grows to a million subs and beyond!
What an awesome video... thanks. This helps because I probably won’t play fallout 1 and 2 because they seem like a pain. Be well, ave.
Great video! Fallout lore is very expansive and complicated, but your videos make it easier to digest. Great job! 👍
Fallout has such amazing lore it’s so unfortunate that Bethesda had the rights to it and not another studio that actually can create an amazing rpg, obsidian had less than 2 years for new vegas and they created a much better fallout game than Bethesda could ever hope to make, hopefully now that Microsoft owns Fallout they can actually give it to a studio who still has passion for video games
Have you played The Outer Worlds? Obsidian isn't the same developer they used to be. TOW is practically identical to FO4 in its linear gameplay and lack of choice.
@@Subhumanslug yeah and CD projekt red created cyberpunk which is a garbage rpg too, i wonder which studio there is now that can really create an amazing fallout
Microsoft owns Fallout? Huh I didn't know that.
That’s contradictory
@@Subhumanslug didn’t a bunch of people leave obsidian between fallout new Vegas and outer world?
This channel is synonymous with quality Fallout content!
Nice 😁👍
2:25 : *You were hit for no damage Good old fallout, mouse trap would do more damage than a proximity mine.
Honestly I’ve heard the FEV explained so many times, but it’s still worth it to watch one of your vids
So glad I found this channel! Really thorough, well researched stuff. I also really appreciate how calm, professional and articulate you are, it feels like I’m receiving a super interesting lecture from an expert in his field. Incredibly engaging stuff. I’m gonna binge it ALL
The growth on this channel is insane, I swear you had less than 5k not too long ago. Just shows you what quality content this lad provides 👍
I love you you’re like Oxhorn but you don’t live for drama
And also his voice isnt very creepy
I've really been enjoying this channel, Im glad I found it.
Man I love these videos, I always get super excited to see them pop-up in my notifs. Keep up the great work dude!
Glad to see they're being enjoyed! 😁👍
Awesome video as always man! Looking forward to the next one!🤘
Woo, I love watching videos and reading up about Fallout lore... but you went above and beyond, man. There's stuff in here even I didn't know about!
Absolutely love your content, keep up the good work man!
"And just as good boys do, they alert their master to intruders with a blood curdling howl" Me: Hey, my husky does that too
Another solid video. I’m digging the deep dives and honestly would love a video on some of the things from “the game that shall not be named” aka “Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel”. Also, if it’s even possible, I’d really enjoy a video on the golden muses (statues) is Arlington Cemetery from FO3 and the gothic faces that go with them.
i hope brain had atleast one follower named pinky :p "What are we going to do tonight brain? the same thing why do every night pinky, taking over the world"
good stuff, i ran out of podcasts to listen so i just flooded my recommendation with FO lores, i do not fkin regret it
A rat named Brain… new head canon
Awesome video you got me playing fallout 1 & 2 again I love your videos & content keep those videos coming wuth the lore
I would love to explore the first few fallout games in the style of the Bethesda games, I hope they get official remakes someday
I would love remakes of the first two, as they are. Feels a little clunky to play too much of it nowadays
Oh god Bethesda would butcher the dialogue and the feel
@@TheReZisTLust Can always let Obsidian handle it
@@TheReZisTLust he means a carbon copy of fallout 1 but the map to explore is created by Bethesda and you play it in first/third person
@@Gameprojordan yea but Todd
Great video dude, you just randomly showed up on my feed, and your content is great👍
19:46 wait. a genetically altered lab mouse named Brain who wants to take over the world? is that a reference to what i think it is? is anyone else pondering what i'm pondering?
Orson doesn’t like peas.
Every time I see fallout lore videos, I always wish ShoddyCast was still with us, story teller is so good!
I hope he can explain the lore of the fusion core or fusion generator/pack
If I had a mutated dog I'd name him Gamma... 😃
Your videos are always so informative and fun to watch. 💜
Thank you 😁 glad to see they're being enjoyed!
Love your videos, keep up the good work.
Can you do a video on mutant leaders? Atis is my favorite mutant leader as he combines the a master and LT’s ideas into one and goes a similar transformation, if not a more monstrous one.
Agreed
This is the channel I've been looking you do a great job going over the fallout topics
Yo this channel looks sick. Gonna binge all of your stuff
Can you do a video lore on raiders and their history and how they came to be especially afer the great war please
I think the raiders are typically people who come from groups that survived and subsisted on the surface whereas typical peaceful wastelanders were former vault residents or descended from vault residents.
Thanks for doing Thea's videos so I can learn about fallout Universe
Frank Horrigan might be one of, if not, my favourite villain in video game history.
Always a great day when you upload
Great video man!! You should make a video about the big empty. Tons of lore and cool stuff to talk about. Lobotomites, cazadores, robot scorpions, all kinds of crazy stuff we cool back stories!
Good idea! Cazadors are actually the next lore topic 😁👍
Algorithm messed up and didn't notify me you had a new video. Im upset I missed it when it came out but I'm glad I saw it. Great video as always
I'm very happy to wake up to another of your amazing videos, keep up the good work.
Good morning 😁👍
The more important role of the limbic system I would have mentioned would be its roles in threat response and aggression
It’s amazing to see how much your channel has grown, keep ip the good work ❤️
Thanks! 😁👍
Been looking for this bro. Thanks.
First, huge fan! The way the information is formatted and played out is perfect for long time players or even beginners. I am curious if there is a video on Mr. House, who he was pre war, how he came to be what he ended as in New Vegas? Keep up the great work!
Is it possible that West Virginia has a natural version of FEV seeing how the Sheepsquach and Mothman are implied to be older than the fallout lore
Your content is top notch!
Excellent work here, thanks! I learned a lot.
I can’t really enjoy playing the fallout games anymore. But I eat these vids up. Awesome job !!!
I loved this im a huge lore reader and i learned a lot of new stuff this!