What you need to know
- Update: Emil Pagliarulo has posted a follow-up thread to the original reveal, walking back what was originally said and stating that "not every bit of Fallout info I share is automatically canon." His complete statement can be found below.
- Bethesda studio design director and Fallout 4 designer and writer Emil Pagliarulo has revealed a new connection between Fallout 4 and Interplay Entertainment's original Fallout game from 1997.
- Specifically, it's been confirmed that the soldier seen laughing as another executes a prisoner of war in Fallout's opening cutscene is Nate, Fallout 4's male playable character.
- In that scene, the execution was shown in a US-controlled propaganda news broadcast, in which it was said that "our dedicated boys keep the peace in newly annexed Canada."
