
Scott Campbell commented on his choice of China over Russia for the game's antagonist.
Russia was planned for inclusion in the canceled Fallout Extreme.
Handy and Mission: Accessible quest were cut from Fallout 76, where the robot mentions "Mother Russia." Russia is mentioned in Fallout, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, and Fallout Tactics.
The Vault Dweller's Survival Guide from Fallout includes a pre-made player character, Natalia Dubrovhsky of Russian descent, the granddaughter of a diplomat from the Los Angeles Soviet Consulate. The Fallout 3 Official Game Guide notes that the United States used techniques utilized by Russian doctors in their own human mutation experiments. The AK47's description mentions Soviet armies. to gather statistical data, including information regarding the possibility of an attack by China and the USSR. During the Resource Wars, the United States utilized P.A.M. In Fallout 3, a Museum of Technology placard notes that the United States credited Captain Carl Bell as the first human in space, despite refutations from the Soviet Union. Several locations surround Russia on a newspaper map, including Chukchi Sea, Chukotka, and the Gulf of Anadyr. In Fallout 76, a character named Lev is from Russia. In Fallout 4, a Russian hitman named Aleksandr Strelnikov was hired by Eddie Winter. The Pioneer Scout camp terminal entries in Fallout 76 mentions the Trans-Siberian Railway, which served to connect the Russian capital to the east. US intelligence officials have begun releasing details of the real-life cyberattack dubbed "Grizzly Steppe," which used phishing techniques to penetrate email servers tied to the 2016 US presidential campaign.
It's unlikely that Russian hackers used a Pip-Boy to leak emails. The shot comes from Fallout 4's hacking mini-game, which players tackle to unlock doors and get further in the game.
CNN has since replaced the clip on its website, but it's still up on CNN's YouTube channel. The clip used a scrolling video of a computer in Fallout 4, which features bright green text against a black background. CNN did not respond to requests for comment. The gaming screengrab was first spotted by a Redditor on r/fo4, the Fallout 4 subreddit. The two-second shot might have resembled a cyberattack, but to eagle-eyed Fallout 4 fans, it was pretty obvious where the random characters came from. In a CNN report on Russian hacking, first posted December 30 and updated Monday night, the news network used a screenshot from the popular Bethesda game as B-roll footage to demonstrate what hacking looks like. We're not living in a post-apocalyptic nuclear shelter in the year 2287, but the news sure makes it seem like we're inside Fallout 4. CNN used this shot of Fallout 4 to show what hacking looks like.