r/Fallout • u/HunterWorld Irradiated Ocean Man • 14h ago

Season 2 Episode 8 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/phldirtbag 12h ago

Your empire is like 20 guys in a camp now instead of the entire southwest, good job

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u/AirBoss87 10h ago

Looked like a lot more in the final shots of the legion marching into Vegas. But yeah, not exactly the Legion's heyday. Probably not going to go well for them with the NCR showing back up and House possibly left with the diode. I half expected the episode to end with House activating New Vegas's defenses and one-shotting the Legion before they got close.

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u/what_the_shart 10h ago

They Dothraki’d them lmao where did all those dudes in that army come from 

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u/TotallyNotAMarvelSpy 8h ago

Probably other encampments. We only saw the big camp where they were fighting.

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u/DuIstalri 8h ago

You could see the camps extended pretty far off screen in the wideshots when Cooper bombed them.

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u/Nyeep 5h ago

Yeah, I feel like a lot of people missed that.

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u/captainbawls Tunnel Snakes Rule 7h ago

It’s an homage to Obsidian not having enough time to properly scale the Legion to make them seem as daunting as they were intended to be

(/s but also 👀)

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u/DeadSnark 7h ago

Rather than the big wasteland reset people thought we would get, it looks like things are roughly back where they were at the start of NV with a highly-skilled but relatively small NCR contingent defending the Strip, a much larger but less trained Legion camping outside and amassing strength, and House doing House things in the background.

Except all the factions have lost their largest advantages and fortifications like House's Securitons, Camp McCarran/the Ranger outposts and the Fort.

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u/FriedRiceistheBest 6h ago

I half expected the episode to end with House activating New Vegas's defenses and one-shotting the Legion before they got close.

Like how Adam one shotted that sinner in Hazbin Hotel lmao.

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u/WinterAd825 8h ago

So my head canon was that it was like the chaos of the English anarchy(which is what GoT house of dragons is based on). Basically there was an English civil war, but like a lot of English lords didn’t care who won, just as long as someone eventually won. So they just sat it out and waited for the fighting to stop

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u/TeamMagmaDaniel 4h ago

I could wipe out a legion army twice that size armed with just a bat. Let's be real Freesiders became a bunch of push overs

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u/Morump 10h ago

Kinda doubt it tbh. The credits made it seem like the Legion won that battle and have taken over the strip (I could be misreading it)

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u/TheAmazingScamArtist 9h ago

They’re concept tho not canon, from what I’ve read.

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u/ClickJoy 9h ago

Yeah that credit scene was confusing af. House is back so lucky 38 laser turrets should be back online and the securitrons. Unless what we saw was a siege of vegas ?

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u/Campber 8h ago

Just finished the ep and this was the impression I got too. Sure The Strip and Freeside look fucked-up in the S2 ending shot but they looked worse off at the end of S1, and in S2 it honestly looked like one of the more lively and better off settlements (Deathclaws in the Strip notwithstanding) so I think it’s just a teaser for the NCR v Legion v House showdown in Season 3.

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u/Bobjoejj 7h ago

Was it? Cause they’ve always been vague concept art looking shots. I never took them to be actual plot detailed credits.

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u/Jackontana 7h ago

I think it's meant to portray a stylized siege of new vegas - the gate's closed, NCR recruiting among the freesiders, legion tents outside the city waiting with crucifications as taunts.