Now Todd Howard is personally breaking down the debate about New Vegas and Shady Sands

For the most part, the new Fallout series has been very well received by players. Our hopes for the game adaptation were also fulfilled. However, an event in the series sparked debate as to whether it contradicts the games' timeline. Now the head developer of Bethesda Game Studios, Todd Howard, is clarifying in one Interview with IGN the situation.

Spoiler warning: The following is about important events from later episodes of the series. So if you haven't seen Fallout yet, then it's best not to read any further and watch our video instead:

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The Fallout series is much more important to the games than I thought! (Without spoilers)

What are we talking about?

In the Fallout series, we learn that Shady Sands, the capital of the New Californian Republic (NCR), was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. A timeline seen in Vault 4 can also be read as if the bomb had fallen in 2077.

However, that would contradict Fallout: New Vegas: The destruction of the city is never mentioned here, even though the NCR is one of the most important factions. A dialogue also indirectly confirms that Shady Sands still exists.

What does Todd Howard say?

The idea that Shady Sands is destroyed a few years before the events of the series did not come from Todd Howard himself. According to him, it was an idea of ​​the two showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. With the help of the Bethesda developers, careful attention was paid to ensuring that everything fit into the canon:

So the destruction of Shady Sands didn't happen in 2077, but sometime shortly after the end of New Vegas in 2281.

You can find out exactly when the story of the individual Fallout titles actually takes place in our article on the official timeline above. Among other things, our author Michael Sonntag talked to the biggest German fallout expert about lore questions. You can find out what he thinks of the new series in our plus special.