Fallout Season 3: Todd Howard Teases 'New Things' Never Seen Before in the Games

Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard has confirmed a fewer surprises for Fallout fans successful the upcoming Season 3 of the TV amusement — including immoderate things ne'er seen earlier successful the video games.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Howard said pre-production was underway connected Season 3, which “is gonna commencement shooting soon.” Shooting successful information begins this period successful Los Angeles.

Amazon has announced a fig of actors joining the formed for Season 3, including Manny Jacinto from Star Wars amusement The Acolyte, Thomasin McKenzie from Jojo Rabbit, Emily Mortimer from The Newsroom, and Breaking Bad prima Aaron Paul. Howard described Paul arsenic “a Fallout instrumentality from mode back.”

Of astir interest, though, is Howard’s tease astir wherever Season 3 is going.

Warning! Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 finale follow…

The ending of Fallout Season 2 sets up Colorado arsenic the determination for Season 3, with The Ghoul, played by Walton Goggins, already connected his way.

In a February interrogation with IGN, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet discussed wherever Season 3 was heading, astatine slightest initially. “We privation to punctual viewers that conscionable due to the fact that The Ghoul is heading to Colorado, of people this is the Wasteland wherever you ever get sidetracked by bullshit each goddamn time,” she said. “So however agelong volition it instrumentality him to get there, oregon volition helium get determination successful the archetypal occurrence of the adjacent season? We volition person to hold to find out. It whitethorn not beryllium arsenic linear a travel arsenic 1 would hope.”

Howard echoed Robertson-Dworet’s comment, adding: “Yeah, look, there's a batch of surprises coming. We speech astir it a lot. And truthful what I'd accidental is geography plays specified a portion into the satellite of Fallout, and seeing what's there. And there's a batch of onshore retired there, there's a batch of places to research yet. It's breathtaking for america to bash that successful games. And it's truly breathtaking to bash it successful a TV amusement wherever we tin leap locations. I wouldn't presume excessively overmuch yet, I cognize we're hinting astatine stuff, but there's a batch of surprises to come.”

Howard doubled down connected this sentiment portion speaking to Entertainment Weekly, teasing that Season 3 volition sojourn locations that person ne'er been successful the Fallout games.

"We talked astir this astatine the extremity of Season 2, hinting we're going to caller places," Howard said. "So 1 of the things that we each emotion astir Fallout is the geography of the satellite and being capable to amusement immoderate caller things successful the Fallout satellite that I deliberation volition astonishment people, that they've ne'er seen earlier successful the games."

In February, Robertson-Dworet said the determination to caput to a marque caller determination for Season 3 was inspired by the Fallout video games, which are typically each acceptable successful a antithetic location. Fallout 3, for example, is acceptable successful the Capital Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic mentation of the metropolis of Washington and the surrounding areas. Fallout: New Vegas is acceptable successful the Mojave Wasteland, which includes post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. Fallout 4 is acceptable successful the Commonwealth, which takes successful the surrounding country of Boston, Massachusetts. And Fallout 76 is acceptable successful Appalachia, though updates person expanded its borders.

Indeed, 1 of the thrills of playing a caller Fallout crippled is discovering and exploring a post-apocalyptic instrumentality connected a marque caller location, and getting to spot however it's doing hundreds of years aft the bombs fell. This, Robertson-Dworet said, influenced the showrunners' thinking.

“Well, it came retired of galore conversations astir however the games are of people regional. One of the delights of uncovering retired there's going to beryllium a caller Fallout crippled is instantly the question of like, well, wherever is it going to beryllium set? And of course, our archetypal play being LA, 2nd play being New Vegas, we were excited to spell to caller snow.”

The snowy peaks of post-apocalyptic Colorado person yet to beryllium explored by the mainline Fallout video games (it was the mounting of a canceled mentation of Fallout 3, codenamed “Van Buren”), truthful everything volition consciousness marque caller to an service of Fallout fans, and we tin expect a important enlargement of the Fallout canon. The Fallout TV amusement is acceptable aft each the games, but are wrong the Fallout timeline and are canon. So everything we spot successful the amusement continues the overarching Fallout storyline.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Fallout, including our Fallout Season 2 finale review, and an explainer connected however the post-credits country astatine the extremity of Fallout Season 2 teases thing immense from the games. Oh, and here’s what that Amazon Fallout countdown turned retired to be.

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