‘Fallout’ Season 2 is filled with recreation particulars. Here is a helpful information.

Reactivate these Pip-Boys and set your Spotify listening age to 87, as Prime Video’s adaptation of post-apocalyptic recreation franchise Fallout is again with a second season. And naturally, we’re in for extra Easter eggs, needle drops, and particulars from Bethesda’s video games that you just would possibly recognise out of your travels by means of the Wasteland.

For Season 1, showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner recruited manufacturing designer Howard Cummings and set decorator Regina Graves to deliver the retro-futurist and post-apocalyptic particulars of the Fallout video games to the display, from these immediately acquainted “Please stand by” screens to the well-known T-60 energy armor. In Season 2, there’s extra Sugar Bombs, irradiated enemies, and Vault-Tec services the place that got here from.

Here is a helpful information to the sport components the Fallout present consists of — one we’ll be updating every week because the episodes drop.

Fallout Season 2 consists of key areas from the video games together with Fallout: New Vegas

The Fallout TV sequence covers a number of floor throughout the post-apocalyptic Wasteland featured in a number of Fallout video games. In Season 1, the characters got here throughout the video games’ Pink Rocket fuel stations, Tremendous Duper Marts, and a thrown-together city akin to the sport’s cities of Megaton, Rivet Metropolis, New Reno, and Diamond Metropolis. However in Season 2, it is all about New Vegas, a crumbling, post-apocalyptic model of the Metropolis of Lights which kinds the core setting for the third Fallout recreation.

Whereas Episodes 1 and a pair of do not attain New Vegas, it is at all times on the horizon, with Lucy (Ella Purnell) and Cooper Howard/The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) following her father’s path there. However within the very first scene of the season, the pair are in fairly a predicament throughout the The Nice Khan raider hideout, a location in Fallout: New Vegas situated within the Mojave Wasteland. For the Fallout present, the gang’s base is definitely the Dino Dee-lite Motel, one other location from Fallout: New Vegas, which options that enormous T-rex.

Lucy’s sniper spot is straight out of “Fallout: New Vegas.”
Credit score: Bethesda

Vault-wise, this season’s underground areas are Vaults 31, 32, and 33, all with their very own predicaments and mysteries. However there are additionally loads of empty vaults to discover like the sport — and in episode 1, Lucy and Coop discover Vault 24, a vault that was truly lower from Fallout: New Vegas (that means the TV sequence has a clean backstory slate and fills it with brainwashed Individuals and the sport’s dreaded radscorpions). Proper close to the doorway to this vault, the pair stroll by means of the Starlight Drive-In, an iconic location from Fallout 4. You will see on the cinema’s marquee that the final film to be proven right here was A Man and His Canine 3, starring none aside from Coop.

Fallout brings the armor, weapons, and devices of the video games to life.

Again into the vault with Woody Thomas (Zach Cherry).
Credit score: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime

Probably the most spectacular components of the Fallout sequence is the impeccable manufacturing design, particularly on particulars like armor, weapons, and devices — however not the video games’ signature aim-support V.A.T.S. system (Vault-Tec Assisted Focusing on System). In Season 2, there’s simply as a lot to please followers new and longtime.

For one, each Vault Dweller together with Lucy nonetheless wears the franchise’s signature Pip-Boy on their wrist, a wearable laptop that is utilized in Season 1 for its inbuilt map and navigation, Geiger counter, torch, and extra. This season, the gadgets tackle further makes use of; Lucy makes use of hers to open Vault 24 in episode 1. The Pip-Boys additionally characteristic the sport’s ubiquitous Vault Boy, Vault-Tec’s thumbs-up mascot, who we realized final season is predicated on Cooper.

Frances Turner (Barb Howard) has her personal Pip Boy.
Credit score: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime

Armor-wise, the Brotherhood of Metal’s most well-liked T-60 energy armor from Fallout 4 is again in all its lumbering glory and requisite armor bays, together with loads of raider leathers and vault jumpsuits — in addition to just a few small sightings of armor resembling that of the New California Republic (NCR) in episode 2.

That iconic energy armor in “Fallout 4.”
Credit score: Bethesda

Weapon-wise, whereas Season 1 featured recreation alternatives from automated turrets to miniguns and the Junk Jet from Fallout 4, Season 2 begins with a bang and Fallout: New Vegas‘ grenade launcher. One of many funniest weapons inclusions of episode 2 is the 2 members of the Brotherhood casually dicking round with a plasma grenade, which players will know will make quick work of everybody within the neighborhood.

Fallout depends on help similar to the sport.

You are gonna want meals, medication, and mates.
Credit score: Courtesy of Prime.

You’ll be able to’t survive the Fallout video games with out help gadgets, and neither can the characters within the sequence. Season 1 featured the franchise’s love for Atomic Age meals made for Vault-Dwellers like YumYum Deviled Eggs, Insta-Mash, Nuka-Cola, and Sugar Bombs, the latter of which is a cereal formed like tiny nuclear bombs — and it performs an essential function on the finish of episode 1. Notably, the flea soup Lucy drinks in episode 1 is just not from the sport and is fully the tousled creation of the showrunners.

Assist goes past meals in Fallout, nevertheless, with stimulants and anti-radiation meds the tip of the drugberg. The primary season included crucial-in recreation gadgets like RadAway (to clear radiation poisoning), Jet (a chemical stimulant or “chem” used repeatedly by Cooper), and injections referred to as “stimpaks” that immediately heal — in episode 2, Lucy assists an individual in Vault 24 with one and leaves Coop to heal painfully and slowly on his personal.

Plus, it is no enjoyable traversing the Wasteland alone, and within the Fallout video games, you possibly can deliver your mates alongside for firm (and the perks and storylines you will unlock). In Season 1, the sequence included companions just like the Mister Useful robotic butlers, one in all whom was voiced by Matt Berry, and launched an excellent canine named CX404, in any other case recognized by the horrible identify of Dogmeat. The pooch is again for Season 2.

Fallout’s enemies are proper out of the sport.

Watch your again.
Credit score: Lorenzo Sisti / Prime

Enemies abound within the Wasteland, and the Fallout sequence has already featured loads of them, from Raiders (gangs of outlaws) to Fiends (cannibals). Creature-wise, Season 1 included Radroaches (irradiated cockroaches), Yao Guai (mutant bears), Feral Ghouls (zombie variations of the mutated people), and a large anglerfish.

In Season 2, we have solely actually seen one band of Raiders — the Nice Khans of Fallout: New Vegas —  nevertheless the sinister forces throughout the vaults (and the previous?) appear extra of a risk at this level. And in episode 2, Lucy and Coop face the formidable radscorpions, irradiated beasts able to wound and poison you.

One well-known foe lacking from the Fallout TV sequence? The sport’s fierce and omnipresent Tremendous Mutants; you possibly can spot one for a second on a “Needed!” poster in Season 1, episode 6. Our fingers are crossed.

Maybe all this element makes you need to play the video games for the primary time — or over again? 

Fallout Season 2 premieres Dec. 16 at 9 p.m. ET on Prime Video, with a brand new episode each week.