We all know that, above all, in open-world games, you can find a lot of secrets, hidden references to pop culture, or unmarked spots with an interesting story or equipment to take. It is no different in the case of Fallout 4, in which we are still discovering new curiosities. The virtual world created by Bethesda is so vast that it will probably take us many more weeks to thoroughly explore the Boston area. We can also expect the birth of many myths, but this is only an additional motivation to explore. After all, some players are still looking for Yeti in GTA San Andreas to this day…
Fallout 4 has a huge number of locations marked on the map. It takes dozens of hours to visit them all, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. A lot of interesting places are not marked either on the main map or in the lower part of the display during exploration. For this reason, it is very difficult to find the most hidden ones. The largest accumulation of unmarked places can be found in the ruins of downtown Boston. We can enter many buildings there, including shops, tenement houses, basements and even a gym. Most of them are filled with randomly generated enemies and valuable equipment. While performing the main part of the story, you have certainly noticed an object falling from the sky that crashed somewhere near the city. As it turns out, it was an alien ship that appears on the map only after a dozen or so hours of the game or after visiting several other places. The UFO will crash east of the Oberland Station, and you can find an Alien in the nearby cave, from whom you can take a unique Alien Blaster along with a limited supply of ammo.
Most objects in Fallout 4 have a history. Some of them have even been reconstructed on the basis of the real Boston, so tourists and residents of this city can find many similarities and even try to locate their own homes in the virtual world! The most observant fans of exploration will find terminals and notes telling about the events that took place in given locations before the War. Thanks to them, we can read about the adventures of the characters, their family relationships, or even their reaction to the first explosions of atomic bombs. Some of these stories make you feel good, but others can depress even the most optimistic players.
Most players will never notice this, but there are several posters in Fallout 4 with phone numbers depicted on them. All of them can be called using, of course, real telecommunication devices. Unfortunately, we won't talk to anyone, because the voice in the handset belonging to the Vault-Tek answering machine will reply that we are waiting in line, and only a few hundred hours later we will be contacted by a call-center employee. I wonder if the creators will keep this promise, but I don't think anyone can afford such an absurd phone bill ... It's also worth listening to conversations with other characters, including bandits, Supermutants, or robots. Their dialogues can be extremely interesting and even comment on the latest achievements of the players. The best story is about a mad warrior who regularly attacks bandit outposts. According to the conversation, this warrior was unarmed, but he perfectly imitated the sounds of grenade pins being removed, an assault rifle being fired, or even a motorcycle engine starting up. Some players have set themselves the goal of finding this individual, and we have a feeling that someday they will succeed.
In a few places in the game, there are seemingly useless vending machines, in which you can pick up perfectly preserved, pre-war sweets with a special paw. You need a high Luck factor to get them. The obtained cookie can be used to temporarily improve your stats. Perfectly preserved food, household items, or clothes can also be found in very few locations, such as some Vaults, the town of Jamaica Plain, or the house of the Cabot family. They are so rare that it is worth using them as decorations in your own settlement.
We all know that settlements are vulnerable to attacks from the outside, but hardly anyone would expect an attack from within. Synths created by the Institute are able to infiltrate our bases disguised as ordinary settlers. To make it more interesting, robots can even take the form of ... Brahmins. Mutated cows sometimes come to settlements on their own, and there is a high probability that one of them will actually be a Synth. Even the dogs that befriend the iconic Domeat can turn out to be robots. Speaking of a quadruped: if we add a teddy bear to his inventory, it's worth stopping for a moment and seeing how our friend will react. On our way, we can also come across the so-called random special events. Usually, it's a simple ambush of bandits on caravans, but sometimes we can also meet ordinary inhabitants of the Wasteland fighting with their own doppelgangers - Synths, scammers claiming to be one of our companions (usually Preston Garvey), or crooks trying to sell us useless items for a considerable amount of money.
Have you come across any unexpected locations, characters, or events in Fallout 4? Did you find something you can't explain?
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