A handful of new Fallout TV leaks emerged on Reddit, and they show what looks like an expanded role for the RPG‘s corrupt Vault-Tec corporation. The images, which Reddit user PrinceDaCat posted, seem to depict a confrontation of some kind in a dilapidated parking lot with the Vault-Tech logo emblazoned outside a building (thanks, PC Gamer).
Vault-Tech plays a key role in the Fallout universe thanks to building, well, vaults – the things that mostly kept some of humanity alive during the nuclear war that reshaped the planet in Fallout history. They also had a bad habit of botching their designs and embezzling government funds, so the company wasn’t exactly excelling at positive brand building.
That role is relegated primarily to lore and materials outside the actual games, though, in supplementary materials such as the Fallout Bible.
If the leaked images are any indication, it looks like the Fallout series might be bringing some of that lore to life, if only in a limited, The Last of Us prologue-style fashion. Whatever’s going on at Vault-Tech HQ, it doesn’t look good. There’s a man with a makeshift gun and some vans parked out front, which usually doesn’t indicate anything good about to happen.
As some commenters pointed out, none of the set looks particularly Fallout, though. The vans are modern, the surroundings are in comparatively good condition. Maybe the world hasn’t ended yet, or perhaps Amazon just plans on doing a lot of editing and adding to give it that radiation-blasted, end-of-the-world pizazz.
While prevailing rumors suggest filming already wrapped on the Fallout series, there’s no word from Amazon about when it might air. Meanwhile, Bethesda is preparing to release Starfield, its first new IP in over a decade, on Sep. 6, 2023, with plans for a new Fallout game on hold until well in the future.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
