If you root around in the guts of any fictional world you’ll probably find all kinds of insightful social commentary – intentional or otherwise. It has that fifties-era cutesy aesthetic, and the series has always been about parodying archaic ideologies. Is Fallout Shelter’s cavalier attitude to women and children a razor-sharp satirization of 1950s family values? Hell, maybe. If it were up to me I’d get the kids involved too, seeing as how when they’re born they stroll smugly out of the elevator like biology ain’t a thing, but apparently child labour is where the game draws the line. There’s no decline in their productivity, they can toil around the clock without food or water, and if a fire breaks out or Raiders invade, they do the sensible thing and run away. Mums-to-be in Fallout Shelter get a spiffy yellow t-shirt, unbridled happiness and, oddly, the gift of immortality. Maybe I should feel bad about the bulk of my workforce being in its third trimester, but frankly, I can’t see any downside to it. There are two blokes in the doorway with rocket launchers and body armour, waiting to repel any would-be invaders my most virile dweller is mooching around in the living quarters, serially impregnating everyone who happens by, and about three hours ago I sent one lucky chap out into the irradiated wasteland, though I’ve just remembered I haven’t checked on him since. I’ve got seventeen pregnant women operating pumps and heavy machinery, serving food, broadcasting radio signals and churning out medical supplies. I have Fallout 4 on my Steam wishlist but if Bethesda is so bad at customer service, it makes me wonder if I should ever buy it.Vault 999 is running smoothly. Whilst it appears that Fallout Shelter is just a small game used as an enticement, to encourage people to want to try Fallout 4, it is nonetheless atrocious that Bethesda would act in such a cavalier manner. Since it appears that a major problem of the game is people losing their Vaults (which can mean the loss of hundreds of hours of gameplay, and of any money spent on the game), I find it incredible that Bethesda does not warn people about this major defect and tell them to manually back-up their saved game files (and how to do it). 'My save has been wiped for the second time.' Including two people who have lost their Vaults twice:

On Bethesda's community forum there is a page entitled 'PC Support for Fallout Shelter'.ĩ out of the 25 posts are from people who have lost their saved games.

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