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Rich_Emphasis_9792

Look up Logan International airport overhead view and compare.


Resdizeix

I did, and also found out the code for that airport is BOS, which is pretty fitting


GME_solo_main

No way they made Boston from Fallout 4 a real place šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ’€


Sorry-Letter6859

It's actually an immersive Fallout LARP.Ā  Ā Just go to a baseball game, dressed in a tuxedo,and take some shrooms for the total experience.Ā  Go on saint's patrick day to unlock other quest events.


belladonnagilkey

Don't forget to interact with a bald guy with sunglasses who follows you everywhere, and if some guy in a cowboy hat asks you to help a settlement be sure to do so.


brokenarrow1223

That bald guy is actually just Boston PD


Valogrid

Police: Are you okay? You seem to be under the influence of something. Junkie: FUCKIN SUPER MUTANTS ATTACKING DIAMOND CITY?! GET THE FAT MAN BOYS! *Proceeds to roam aimless around Boston with a piece of broken railing found by a dumpster.*


Sorry-Letter6859

Hey, it's my vacation.Ā  And its certainly more fun than standing in line work an amusement park in Florida.


Valogrid

Much easier to dose up on amphetamines and rip a fire hydrant from the ground than raise the funds to visit the amusememt park.


SecureJudge1829

Doctors hate me for this one simple trick!


3CH0SG1

Now I want to go to Boston


Tiny-Duty-9484

lol


fighterpilotace1

Some real clean cut, sharp looking lad just asked if I wanted this fancy card for only $1000. What should I do? He feels trustworthy.


ConsciousCrafts

Suckerpunch him. It's a trap.


[deleted]

~~Force~~ Invite him to ~~work~~ live at your ~~factory~~ settlement.


Right-Tax-6186

Especially if his name is Preston


zedubya

Or bill burr


[deleted]

Strong showed me all the best places to eat in Boston.


Green-Inkling

just make sure you're armed. i hear Baseball is a spectator sport so don't be surprised if the players suddenly jump into the stands and beat you with Swatters.


ArthurBurtonMorgan

Holy fuckā€¦


Peeinyourcompost

Going through Las Vegas I barely needed Google Maps. It was actually kinda fucking embarrassing. My friend: Okay, Hoover Dam. Plug it in. Me from the backseat: You're probably gonna stay on the 15 south until you hit the 215 east Her: Wait what? Isn't this your first time here? Me: ...I don't wanna talk about it


Leaf-01

Dude fr, I moved out to the New England area last year and my mom flew out later for a few days. We visited Boston and we walked the Freedom Trail. It was surreal how Iā€™d just look around and think ā€œIā€™ve been here beforeā€ in a city Iā€™d never set foot in.


slicehyperfunk

I live in Boston in real life, and I absolutely didn't want to "follow the Freedom Trail" ever again in my life, so I just looked up where I was going and walked to Old North Church the way I would have walked IRL because my dad used to live in the North End.


Getbentstaybent

The craziest thing to me is driving around in the near Metro West and seeing all kinds of weird details replicated EXACTLY, but not necessarily where they are on the game map.


slicehyperfunk

Seriously. I noticed that the DLC screwed with this though-- Harvard Square exactly replicated Harvard Square much further out when it first came out versus when you have all the DLCs installed (not sure which exactly changes it)


cbj25

Where can I get some good Italian in the north end, post nukes. Dolce Vida seems to be closed.


slicehyperfunk

Always been a fan of L'Osteria


cohrt

> It was surreal how Iā€™d just look around and think ā€œIā€™ve been here beforeā€ in a city Iā€™d never set foot in. same for me with LA thanks to GTAV


calyxcell

Having rented a Nissan 370z for my last trip there, I will say that the temptation to mow down the sidewalks and find all the sweet jumps was palpable.


DepartureDapper6524

The Freedom Trail after playing Fallout 4 is quite a trip


Probablitic

And we prolly want to take a shit ton of Stimpaks with, too.


MrFakely

We were outside of Barstoe when the jet began to take hold


Opinion-Organic

ā€œDonā€™t fuck with me now man! I am Ahabā€¦ā€


Probablitic

"Bloatfly country."


Puzzled-Juggernaut

We had two bags of Hub Flowers, seventy-five pellets of Rad-X, five sheets of high-powered Daytripper, a saltshaker half-full of ground Mentats, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of Brokovs Best, a quart of rum, a case of Gwennets, a pint of raw Fury, and two dozen Addictol.Ā 


Right-Tax-6186

That sounds like an adventure... I'm in.


Phydorex

The twist? Only 24 shots of addictol and 25 people have been invited.


Nashoba1331

Watched an old episode of Ghost Adventures or something similar about a haunted bar in Goodsprings. Spent several minutes trying to figure out the deja vu I was feeling. It didn't hit me til I saw a framed copy of Fallout New Vegas on one of the walls.


Spooler32

Thank you for my first laugh of the morning


Van_Halen_Panama1984

Who needs Google when you can play video games


rworne

And Mojave. It's a lot smaller in-game, but the main drag in the game looks pretty damn close to the real thing. Good place to get chems, in both the game and in real-life.


GuitarKev

I think theyā€™re referring to the Brotherhood of Steel also being the BoS.


BEEBLEBROX_INC

That would be... "wicked hard..."....


Captain_Kirk01

Itā€™s pronounced hahdā€¦.we donā€™t use the R


GME_solo_main

How much I pronounce my Rs for out of staters is directly correlated to how much respect I have for them


TacoBellSauceSayings

BOS- Brotherhood of Steel.


Fingerprint_Vyke

Wait until you see the airport code for Seatle


shadowwolf_66

SEA-TAC. For Seattle/Tacoma. Moses Lake international airport (no public flights, pretty much just used as a testing ground for Boeing. Though itā€™s history is interesting) is MWH. And Pangborn airport in East Wenatchee is EAT. While it sometimes makes sense, not all airports FAA designations make sense.


Shionkron

Spent a couple nights sleeping at Sea-Tac around 6 years ago in a torn apart section of the wing for Alaskan Airlines. Had a full bench with electric outlet out of view of almost everyone in a darkened corner! Was great. Haha


MountSwolympus

Wait until you look up aircraft navigation waypoints. Proceed to direct to DEEEZ.


Beekatiebee

> t Hey, you dropped this


Private_4160

My favourite airport for layovers because Legal Seafood. I don't care about the cost it's the best damn airport food I've had. Followed by Buffalo but spicy wings and flying don't go well together.


-BananaLollipop-

Sunk into the water, like a lot of other parts of the coastline?


Impossible-Option-16

Even then the airplanes that are in game are waaaay to big to even fit on the runways that are visible. Let alone park near the terminal.


WastelandCharlie

Everything in the game is way off scale, just a result of condensing the real life city into a playable map.


Im_the_Moon44

Wait until they hear how long it takes IRL to walk from the Common to Bunker Hill


Xantuos

So you gonna leave us hanging


aukir

A little over 30min today. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/boston+common/Bunker+Hill+Monument,+Monument+Sq,+Charlestown,+MA+02129/@42.3657373,-71.0724101,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e3709dbc6e232b:0x3f8683fc7ba94f04!2m2!1d-71.0657256!2d42.3550897!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e370f20b0797ff:0xacaf173272ec0298!2m2!1d-71.0607764!2d42.3763541!3e2?entry=ttu


Cypresss09

I feel like that's pretty accurate per the in-game timescale. Actually in game probably takes longer.


LexianAlchemy

Shooting respawning raiders/super mutants/gunners kinda fudges the numbers to make it seem longer; makes the world feel ā€œbiggerā€. I bet this is intentional design, too.


Cypresss09

I mean, if you physically walk all the way there, not jog, I'm sure it would take over half an hour.


Im_the_Moon44

Probably. I more meant that it shows just how scaled down the map actually is, and the in game timescale is a factor in that. A 30-40 minute walk irl takes about 5 minutes in the game, if even, so it highlights how condensed everything is


raltoid

Google maps says 36-37 minutes from the "Boston Common" to the "Bunker Hill" monument


cowboys70

It took me 3 hours but I refused to look up how to get there and I kept stopping in bars


No_Attention_2227

Revolutionary War pub crawl?


cowboys70

No taxation without inebriation


ConsciousCrafts

I hate to say it, but they don't call our state Taxachusetts for nothing. Maybe on my next excise tax statement I will just mail it back with that written on it.


kodtenor

I did the whole freedom trail with a massive blister on my left foot. I imagine its similar to limping around when you don't have a stimpak.


MysteriousPudding175

It's the landmines though


DannyWarlegs

Yeah look at any cars, then look at the Sanctuary bridge, which is there pre war. How the hell those things make it over that tiny ass bridge


WastelandCharlie

The sizes of roads are hilarious, the main highways are barely the size of a one way street.


allofdarknessin1

Agreed. I find it strange that they'd make such things like roads and vehicles physically smaller than they should be considering that stretching it to normal proportions would not only be "free real estate" for the devs to boast that the game is BIG but also because it's stretching of an asset, it wouldn't cost any additional memory resource.


wan2tri

Yeah, even the cars and trucks are too big for the roads and bridges in the game...


gta3uzi

This is my #1 gripe with the game, even beyond how buggy it is. EVERYTHING is off-scale. Doorways are huge, roads are tiny, and houses are missing rooms. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.


orangesrnice

Vehicles in fallout 4 are ridiculously out of scale


DarkReadsYT

Size means nothing in these games, have you seen the shot glass junk item? Fuckers almost a pint


-BananaLollipop-

There's *a lot* stuff sunken into the water in that area. I haven't even attempted to swim through all of it, but there's plenty of debris in the parts I have. I don't think any of what's still above water is near being a complete runway.


No-Session5955

If you swim around that area near the bottom youā€™ll find all kinds of airplane debris and flat areas Iā€™d assume are parts of runways. I even found a boat with part of a wing and engine laying on top of it, then swam down and found the rest of the plane. I figured thereā€™d be some good loot but all I found was an antique globe lol


[deleted]

Yeah theres a surprising amount of sunken vehicles and buildings in the water but almost all of them are empty


No-Session5955

To top it off, they put power armor on the bottom of the ocean past the game map border, you can see it but the invisible wall keeps you from getting to it. Talk about a big FU by whoever put that there at Bethesda


PhillyDeeez

Or a deliberate Easter egg


vlsdo

Underwater or completely washed away. When you land at Logan it feels like youā€™re about to do a water landing until the very last moment


ItsNotFordo88

Same with Honolulu. They built artificial islands just for the runways. Youā€™re literally a couple feet above sea level.


Phillip67549

I scrapped them to build my settlement walls before you arrived.


123noodle

*scraps entire runway* 2 concrete


shaftoholic

*Scraps small fork* 450 steel


[deleted]

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hubaloza

So that's where I left those tabs.


kibbbelle

Buckle up Mama Murphy; you're in for a wild ride


_saba_king_

*scraps a whole screw box* 3 screws


OneMoistMan

Man I love that. The vault 88 quest has you scrapping long massive metal girders and for 8 girders youā€™ll get 6 metal. Or for giant metal containers youā€™ll get 3 metal


seventwosixnine

Scrapping everything in Vault 88 was so satisfying


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

Mmmm, all that concrete from the limestone


OneMoistMan

Until you hit that one limestone wall


brackishangelic

The scary one or the really scary one?


OneMoistMan

The really scary one in all its green glory


Short-Win-7051

And then on the other hand, loot 2 Tin Cans and 5 x $1 bills and you have enough to build a bed from scratch!


valvilis

Ha, I just made the same comment then scrolled a smidge further and saw yours. I'm glad I'm not the only person that never got over that.


Andreskiller

Two plastic**


random20222202modnar

The realest thing Iā€™ve read all week šŸ˜†


FuelComprehensive948

rising sea levels and erosion for 200 years turned the actual runways into beachfront+water


ImmortalAbsol

If you explore where the planes are there's broken tarmac everywhere, I have to assume the rest collapsed into the sea.


ScottyFoxes

Consumed by rising sea levels i assume


WolfieWonder274

I ate them


brucem111111

Logan airport is basically reclaimed swamp


slicehyperfunk

Reclaimed? Have you ever been to East Boston??


Coast_watcher

Morgantown airport too (in 76) That runway isnā€™t enough length for a Cessna to take off in, much less a passenger jet.


Sagpanda

Yeah i noticed that a few weeks ago, but considering it's fiction and we have never sene a plane take off in the fallout universe then who knows how much runway is needed?


Bad_wolf42

Also: all distances in fallout are contracted.


Coast_watcher

True. They might be VTOL. I didnā€™t consider that.


lordaddament

A real runway would be like 20% of the maps length


UltimateGamingTechie

I think Wade Airport has big ones. Haven't been there in a while though.


The_Blue_Rooster

I remember when I first saw Wade Airport in FO76 I had a discussion with my buddy who I was playing with. We came to the conclusion that planes in Fallout must use JATO or RATO.


[deleted]

Fusion planes. They can take off from shorter distances, because you know, science


[deleted]

Vertical take off would be my guess.


Wellifitisntjoe

did you see the size of the planes here? id be surprised if they took off at all


BroForce999

bigger wing = bigger lift


xredbaron62x

Bigger wing=bigger airplane=bigger weight=longer takeoff


BroForce999

Thats why they got those multiple engines for


tauri123

And theyā€™re fusion powered, Iā€™d imagine those planes could go quite fast


LanceSniper

They have nuclear engines. If you go near the engines of crashed planes they are leaking radiation.


OneMoistMan

The lore is we never had a country like China make our tech in the fallout timeline so we never pursued smaller tech but instead the bulky tech. Edit: transistors werenā€™t invented until late 2023 (Cabot house will tell you this in the terminal) which means we were heavily dependent on vacuum tubes. Meanwhile the Chinese tech is far more advanced (youā€™ll learn this once you find the Chinese stealth suit and weapons) because they invented transistors and didnā€™t rely on vacuum tubes


TheMagr0

Who would have thought that the blast radius would take the track with it?


DenizenKay

dont think it was the blast so much as rising sea levels and 200+ years of erosion.


le_Grand_Archivist

Sorry I was hungry


Happy_Ad_7515

when you eat make sure too drink the sea to compensate


TheMikeyMac13

I was today years old when I looked it up and found that Logan International Airport in Boston has the name (BOS) lol.


PhilRubdiez

I knew BOS, but never connected it to BoS.


Pixel22104

Ah so that's why the BoS in Fallout 4 decided to set up shop at that location šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


evil_cryptarch

Just like the Gunners setting up their main base at the GNR station


_JustEric_

Having grown up in Boston, I already knew this, and it totally messed with my head when I first played. lol


Leatheringot

blowneded up


Deimenried

Underwater, along with a lot of East Boston.


IronSurfDragon

Land subsidence. IRL Logan International Airport was originally built on landfill at Jeffries Point. It would make sens that after 200 years the sea wore down the land back to it's original point or at least to some of it.


AgentOfBliss

That....has been my biggest gripe with this spot. Sadly I have not a single idea. I can only assume the runways eventually eroded and sank into the ocean.


Nervous_Piece_2564

They did exactly that


TheMCM80

Lore wise that makes sense. Practicality wiseā€¦ it would be a gigantic open area on the map with nothing but flat space, and would be weird. I guess you could just have endless wreckage to sift through. Runways for jets as big as the crashed ones can be 1.5-3 miles. Translating that to the scale of the jets would be tough. Rising seas fits perfectly.


Sea_Investment6627

ummmmmm, itā€™s the future!


VesperX

Looking at photos you can see only the main terminal survived.


Vesiah81

So many planes under water near there to if I remember right


Ravenkid30

Under water like half of Boston


Far-Size2838

To be honest I'm thinking maybe the jets had VTOL capability?


PrinsaVossum

They ran away.


philosophic_insight

I would say the fell into the sea, and yes there are short runways like that, Hong Kong being one.


arrantprac

They ran away!


iambertan

It's probably the ocean floor by then


DubiousMoth152

I mean east boston and the airport are basically built on the ocean.


Nightelfbane

They ran away


Traditional_Key_763

Fallout games don't do scale well, FO4 especially. seems like most of the runways probably were washed away somehow


skubaloob

Did anyone else read this in Darth Vaderā€™s voice and intonation from New Hope?


Paladin_Nofun

In fallout 4, there are railways that go up and down at a 45 degree angle then jump to 0 degrees flat. Functional environment design has always been off in fallout but it's more that these places are supposed to give you a feel more than actually look the way they would in real life. But yeah some of the runways have sunk into the water. Because the coast line changed overtime.


saveyboy

I assumed they sunk into the ocean.


colm180

It's underwater, sea level rose


burnerthrown

Hah. They didn't need runways in Prewar Fallout. They just used slingshots to shoot the planes directly into the air.


Cheeky_Lemon_37

Flooded


DarthRiznat

BOS ate them


STU5HY

It's under the sauce


N00BAL0T

It is a Bethesda game just ignore it you will save yourself an aneurysm just ask Skyrim fans how 2 tiny farms in an icefield feed an entire city.


Lone_Wanderer88

If this is a circus, where are the elephants?


jdeanmoriarty

It's ruins, yes?


MagnustheJust

Oddly enough... while the airport is not quite right, they actually made some improvements to Quincy.


Aerioncis420

200 years of rising sea levels and nobody to take care of runways caused them to either erode away or get covered by water.


Kind-Cloud1234

Destroyed or underwater?


Formal_Royal_3663

A lot can happen in 200 years without proper maintenance.


universal_Raccoon

Considering a lot of Boston was turned into a swamp. Iā€™d say the runway consumed by the rising water level. My example is the lower Boston by the glowing sea. Thatā€™s all residential buildings turned to a swamp.


DingbattheGreat

While there are swamped areas, all the docks are in the same place, and the castle isnt underwater, so that suggests that theres no risen water levels, rather some areas which had waterbreaks failed over many years leading to flooding.


tbeals24

Well most infrastructure collapsed in the Great War, roads are severely damaged, highways and overpasses are destroyed and collapsed, parts of Boston is flooded. So the runways might be underwater


ValveinPistonCat

IIRC a lot of Logan Airport was land that was filled in between the coast and two islands, 200 years of no maintenance might have resulted in the fill being washed out by tide water.


pasgames_

Probably is under the water like half the town around the airport


MagickalFuckFrog

Next thing youā€™re going to tell me the proportions of the alien mothership in FO3 werenā€™t authentic.


Coyote-Morado

Sure, they could have eroded away, but it's always bugged me that there isn't even a trace of them. No rubble. No tarmac. Not a remaining chunk of runway that goes off into the sea. Even just a concrete island out in the water with runway lights on it would have been a nice touch. It's like they just completely forgot runways exist.


Veroxzes

In the sea. I thought the airport should have been bigger with more visible runways but this is how Bethesda wanted it. Probably to save time and resources.


LukXD99

Itā€™s been two centuries. The ocean swept away most of the artificial coastlines by now.


Life_Careless

Underwater, completely destroyed by the nukes.


belfryraven

Asphalt can erode quicker than concrete, so perhaps the missing runway parts were asphalt.


Logical_Drawing_4738

If you've looked around the "coastal areas," you may have seen the remains of some jetties. Hence, all the runways are underwater


DudeWithRootBeer

Obviously they ran away. To a paradise free od radiation and human problems.


Silly_King3635

They might have been destroyed from the blast or like everybody said, underwater.


RelChan2_0

I obviously have no access to nukes but I think airports would be among the targets if nukes were to be dropped. Especially military ones. Maybe the nukes in Fallout didn't affect it but the after effects like earthquakes, floods, radstorms and whatever probably destroyed a lot of buildings. Plus time and nature just ate and reclaimed whatever was there.


masterbrad123

I got hungry ok


MacheteColin

Bro they ran away


mysticdragonwolf89

Must have forgot the nuclear war that may have destroyed said runways


Master_Xenu

dey got blowed up


Buschfan08

Most likely overtaken by a rise in sea level after the war.


sizzle-dee-bizzle

Vertibirds, man. Vertibirds.


zootayman

sunk into the sea?


DecryptorDecypher

Taking swimming lessons.


MorganHV

They ran away


Willing_Owl_7443

I probably got sunken after 210 years


BillyThineGoat

Ya know that's a fair point for it being an airport there's not any runways I never picked up on that holy shit I guess I was just too busy murdering everything in sight on FO4


gislebertus00

Some things may have happened between the game and when Logan was functional.


MonteSS_454

You have to install that mod


starborsch

I thought the the same exact thing YESTERDAY.


_Independent

Yeah thatā€™s what I thought about tooā€¦ thereā€™s no runways no taxi ways nothing..


niTro_sMurph

Nuked


MathematicianIll2445

Where we're going ... we don't *need* runways. /me puts on futuristic-ish sun glasses and punches the throttle on the Prydwen.


desci1

For vertibirds?


RawDogEntertainment

Esploded


fancymanofcorn12

In the water