Final update:

Well, that's all folks. As you can see on survivor2299 website, this was all a hoax. All I can say is that it was fun to watch this develop, and give credit to the maker of this for making it seem so believable. It's amazing how much free time some people have on their hands. Despair not, because we all know Fallout 4 is in development.

Clarification video by Brodual.

Hoaxer revealed himself at reddit/r/Fallout.


Teaser site - thesurvivor2299.com

Info

  • Site is registered to ZeniMax Media (Bethesda is a part of ZeniMax)
  • Date 2299 would place the game around 15-20 years after Fallout: New Vegas
  • The Morse code playing on the page spells out 11.12.13. (11 December by Day/Month/Year date format), so we'll probably get more info during Spike Video Game Awards
  • The site contains a script called fallout.js

My body is ready. Unless it's an iPhone game, MMO or MOBA. :P


UPDATE 1:

Kudos to NIKENIT for discovering this (quote):

Looking at souce code right now. These are some comments from it:

--- Flash Window http://www.youtube.com/user/BethesdaSoftworks/videos ---

--- Message DD/MM/YYYY For European and American sites --

--- Countdown --- (there is going to be some sort of countdown there)

Well, and source code has the AgeCheck function.


UPDATE 2:

Countdown has started, check the teaser site.


UPDATE 3:

This may be a hoax, however Bethesda declined to comment on all of this. (Thank you ifthisthenthat)

Script also cotains /radio/bridgeport-5284ec0d1b93c.mp3 and /radio/fall-river-6191da7f11n.mp3, which may suggest that the game may be set around Bridgeport, CT and Fall River, MA.


UPDATE 4:

Links to hidden images have also been found in the site's code, pointing at prepareforthefuture.com (which redirects to the official Fallout site.)


UPDATE 5 (Thanks to MegaGiga):

As The Vault reports, Bethesda has filed for Fallout 4 trademarks with the European Office for the Harmonization of the Internal Market. The filing shares Nice classes 9 and 41 with the filing for Fallout: New Vegas, which was made about four months before the teaser trailer was published.

Is this the same situation? Or is it just a gaming company covering its intellectual property hide? Mysteries.

Mysteries everywhere.

Source


UPDATE 6 (Thanks again ifthisthenthat):

Erik Todd Dellums, the voice actor of Three Dog in Fallout 3, commented on the tease on his Twitter account.


UPDATE 7:

Site updated, lots of interesting things found. Check out this video from Brodual for more info.

Also, make sure to follow Reddit Fallout section for the latest news and updates (The Survivor 2299 Speculation and Hype Megathread).


UPDATE 8 (Thanks ifthisthenthat and frankyboy for these updates):

This post pretty much confirms that this is real! :)

New text showed up on the teaser site:

"VGNR [CAP] - ***? - LET- GRZ XJG XRS FWZZR GOS UIEG SII GZVZI || GRZ SAW XRS SAZZ XJG DZVB GRZ XUJIZ"

Which translates to one two two seven two zero one three || one one two five two zero one three. Those can be interpreted as the dates 12/27/2013 and 11/25/2013.


UPDATE 9:

Possible map (thanks frankyboy)

New messages and translations december 1st (thanks Mallorn):

THE INSTITUTE IS SEALED. THEY WON’T HELP US I’M HEADING TO BLACK ROW. -TBNLS 5120-

Another Institute reference (the MIT of Fallout) and the introduction of something called Black Row. Nobody seems to have convincingly figured out what ‘TBNLS 5120′ means just yet.

New morse code 1 "Calling all stations, this is overseer 119 emergency enemy unknown, SOS. Vault 119 Quabbin 7667, repeat, SOS, Vault 119 Quabbin 7667 enemy unknown"

New morse code 2: "Calling all stations, this is Vault Overseer 119, anybody near Quabbin? SOS Vault door breach, repeat, SOS Vault door breach, enemy unknown, level 1, 2, and 3 gone, survivors on (service lift? sealed? secure location?) level 4"

New morse code 3: "Calling all stations, this is Vault 119, SOS, Level 4 is under attack, Overseer is dead, repeat, SOS,Level 4 is under attack, Overseer is dead. (We want Mark I? We won’t make it?)"

Check out this Google Document, it contains everything we know so far.

Also Austrian store gameware.at offers Fallout 4 for pre-order for PC, PS4 and Xbox One! (thanks Silvero_Ceriano for sending me this)


Update 10:

Bunch of new stuff, watch this video for more info.

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Man, I'd do anything for another Obsidian Fallout game.

11 years ago
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bethesda, this time

11 years ago
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yes, i prefer bethseda, i love fallout 3,i liked new vegas but meeh

11 years ago
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Fallout 3 > Fallout NV

11 years ago
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Finally people who understand!

11 years ago
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heresy

11 years ago
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Yes! Bethesda accomplished more with fallout 3 than obsidian did with NV

11 years ago
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Why Fallout 3 is worse:

Worse storyline(God it was like a shitty version of 2's story)

Shorter

Black and white choices

Less quality quests

Shitty Reputation system

Worse factions

Horrible level scaling

Plenty more reasons but yeah it just didn't feel like a Fallout game, not sure why they didn't just call it something different and leave the Fallout games to idk Obsidian who has writers and people who made the original fallout games....

That said as a game its pretty fun, if you ignore the part about it being a Fallout game, I expect the same from 4 and I expect Obsidian to pick up the slack again that Bethesda leaves.

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Its not a thing of better or worse, we are just giving opinions, i get more fun from fallout 3... just that

11 years ago
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Thats fine, just not seeing how 3 accomplished more is all?

11 years ago
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Speaking of shorter, have you ever looked at the location templates for The Elder Scrolls games? Oblivion and Skyrim have some big differences between them. And people say there's things to explore in Skyrim...

11 years ago
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Thats sorta sad but believable...I mean look at the path Bethesda has taken, each game is smaller then the next.

Its madness.

11 years ago
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This plus the story is just mostly a combination of the first two games with little twists.
The major events just mirrors those that were found in the first two games.

11 years ago
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Yeah... Fallout 3 didn't feel the least bit like Fallout. It was like adventures in fluffybunnyland where everybody loves you and wants to help you despite just having met you a second ago.

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Yeah I know, it was annoying.

11 years ago
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I wonder if people who think 3 is better ever ever played the originals sometimes...probably not.

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I did it, i played the first game and a bit of the second one, its just i get more fun from fallout 3, i liked the characters, the OST, and the story

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If you played the originals first and then walked into 3 you might have felt like many of us felt about 3, I am not saying 3 is a bad game, hell it might be a better game for some, but it is not a good Fallout game is all.

New Vegas feels more like a real sequel, I and many other people feel like 3 isn't even cannon. Not sure how you enjoyed the story more though, the writing was terrible...but thats just my opinion I guess...

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totally agree!

11 years ago
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I first played fallout 3 and then played the originals, after that i played new vegas. i think the story may be very simple and the game is very easy but i liked just because i liked jaja

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I mean, I played the originals years, and Fallout 2 is one of my favourite games. But I adored Fallout 3 all the same, and would put it and New Vegas on about the same level, because as good as parts of NV are, it was severely lacking in some others. I'll never understand the claims of "FO3 wasn't Fallout" or "didn't feel like Fallout". It was a bit different, but I felt like it fit in with any other of the main games in the series.

Now, Fallout Tactics or Brotherhood of Steel? THOSE are games that don't feel like Fallout. They can GTFO.

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I'll just leave this here and run away from this thread:
Fallout 3 sucks balls! Damn you Bethesda, damn youuuuuu!

11 years ago
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same, New Vegas was AWESOME.

11 years ago
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Don't worry, it will come out a year or so after 4.

Be hopeful!

Yeah 3 wasn't so great, don't get me wrong, still a fun game in its own right, but lackluster when compared to any other Fallout game. Still looking forward to 4, I am not going in with high hopes, now when obsidian comes out with a new one I will go in with all my high hopes haha.

11 years ago
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I can give them that it was brotherhood of steel level quality...

11 years ago
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same here

11 years ago
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Guys, really?
Both games were awesome ^.^

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Sad thing is they were worse than 1 and 2... :(

11 years ago
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I am a sucker for New Vegas, Honestly it goes like this for me.

Fallout 2

New Vegas

Fallout 1

Fallout 3

I don't remember Tactics to well, I don't remember being as good as the others, I might be forgetful though...

11 years ago
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I do kinda agree. Though I like to troll "the gamerz" ;D

11 years ago
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Meh.

11 years ago
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YESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!

11 years ago
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Is this real? really? YES YEEEEEEES

11 years ago
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.. i wish i could not procastrinate on the awesome games in my libraries that have good sequels/series .. i looking at you mass effect and fallout D:<

11 years ago
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YEEEEEEEEESSSS!!! I love the fallout saga, specially Fallout 3 (my top 1 favorite game!!) i hope this one would be like fallout 3 sagasgas

11 years ago
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I don't know if I am ready yet! AAAAAAAAAAH

11 years ago
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I really really hope they don't incorporate Skyrim mechanics

11 years ago
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You must be the messiah.

11 years ago
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Hope it will be good this time.

PS: european date format? most of countries all around the world write day/month/year, americans wanted to be different, so they are.
btw: shitstorm america vs rest of the world in 3... 2...

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I just copied the text from the article above, I'm European as well but I'm not sure how are different date formats officially called. :)

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The British used to write the date month/day/year, and spread that format to the American colonies.
In the late 1800's/early 1900's Britain changed to the continental day/month/year format, but America didn't change it.

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+1, you're right:
"This date format was commonly used alongside the little-endian form in the United Kingdom until the early 20th century and can be found in both defunct and modern print media (...)"

personally I use mostly reversed version of european format: yyyy:mm:dd, for cataloguing purposes (even with default sorting it will remain in order)

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yyyy-mm-dd is the standard format here in Quebec (french Canada) and as a programmer it's the only one that makes sense to me. So much easier to do sorting on these without requiring any kind of conversion, even on text fields and file names.

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Yeah I use that format (y/m/d) when naming work files, but for everyday use I use the standard d/m/y.

11 years ago
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yyyy:mm:dd is the official standard. You can attach the time to it at any precision...

11 years ago
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[shitStorm] Metric system > retarded thing used by USA/UK [/shitStorm]

11 years ago
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11 years ago
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Not the old engine again I hope.

11 years ago
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Probably an upgraded skyrim engine or w/e. I don't know what engine the game uses tbh, kinda clueless.

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Wish it wasn't gonna be on the Skyrim engine, honestly I wish it was a new engine from the ground up but doubt it...

11 years ago
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they want to make a sequel, not entire new game, so they'll use skyrim's engine to the last bit to minimize efforts and maximize income...

11 years ago
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even if they made a new one, from start... is going to be bugged as hell.

11 years ago
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I expect a new engine or at least a heavily upgraded one because of next gen consoles.

11 years ago
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Hope so.

11 years ago
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Bethesda made their own engine for Skyrim, called the Creation Engine. Fallout 3 and New Vegas used the Gamebryo engine. I'm pretty sure they'll be using Creation for it, with as many optimizations and upgrades as possible.

Edit: They own iD Software, so it might be the iD Tech 5 engine (ala Rage). Not too likely though.

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The "Creation" engine is the Gamebyro with minor upgrades, nothing more.

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Thats what I remember, the engine that wont die, it needs to...

11 years ago
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I wonder how many engines are acctual redones and not just incremental updates. Probably quite a few big ones...

11 years ago
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Problem with this engine is its bugged to hell and building upon it kinda makes it worse, take Morrowind to Oblivion, I personally know which was more stable.... ;-)

11 years ago
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YES!!!

Hypemode on*

11 years ago
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<333333333333333333333 want want want

11 years ago
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no way i can't believe it's true

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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

11 years ago
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHH!!!

11 years ago
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You called?

11 years ago
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I was really hoping they were going to announce it in the VGA's so looks like my wish has been granted. I really want to see what it looks like in the new engine.

11 years ago
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awsom.

11 years ago
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Hopefully they will outsource story to someone who can write them.

For example, to kids in kindergarten - their stories are so much better than 99% of stuff Bethesda wrote.

11 years ago
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Ohh great, now it will take them another few years to make a new TES game. I never liked any Fallout games.

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Duh, I played both games. I don't like the setting in Fallout, the vibe sucks.

11 years ago
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Looking at souce code right now.
These are some comments from it:

--- Flash Window http://www.youtube.com/user/BethesdaSoftworks/videos ---

--- Message DD/MM/YYYY For European and American sites --

--- Countdown --- (there is going to be some sort of countdown there)

Well, and source code has the AgeCheck function.

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Cool, I added this to the main post. Thanks! :)

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Pretty sure the Creation Engine is just an updated Gamebryo

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Thats why its still awful, they keep building on top of it, it seems lazy to me, I mean its been used since Morrowind....lets let it die now lol.

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No, I am not.

Everyone knows that its just built upon the Gamebryo engine...they can say all the bullshit that they want.

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Bullshit. They may claim it's a new engine, but it's Gamebryo, every last bit of it.

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Indeed. I can't believe how much swift anal raping fans took with Skyrim, by accepting the false advertising of a new engine, when it was Gamebryo all along.

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It's called "it's perfectly smegging obvious if you took half an hour to look at it".

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And every CoD is also build on new engine. Really, read interviews, they always say "it's practically new engine with all work we put into it" every time.

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That's the same thing Bethesda's done.

Bethesda didn't need to steal it. Just like Activision, they bought some kind of license to build from it.

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Please, dont use another gamebryo engine for Fallout 4...

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they will. new engine would be bugged, and they only want to make money on a sequel, not work their asses off ;)

11 years ago
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no, please no ;-;

11 years ago
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OMG !!
fuck my life !! new fallout would be GOTY instantly :D
damn , next gen fallout would be sooo epic >< , please make it happen bethesda :/ , next gen graphics + open world and epic atmosphere
heavy breathing
lol sorry guys xDD

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NO. because NO. next year's Game of the year would be open-world Witcher 3

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it will most likely have a 2015 release window , i don't expect 2014 release tbh
but yeah , Witcher 3 FTW :D !

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Also no coz they will use the same engine and it will play out exactly like previous Fallouts.They just cant ditch it.

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nooooooooooooo don't say those bad things please let me have my moment :') :/ :( :'(

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My anus is ready

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Closed 11 years ago by Skylight.