>>536811568
The whole story of Fallout 76 was about how fucked Appalachia was before the bombs fell. All of the shit that happened did so locally before any nukes dropped. Environmental disasters, worker oppression and class divide, man-made genocidal robotic rebellion, special interest deals with megacorporations and property developers gentrifying the population, government armed suppression. You would never have seen such unrest recorded on anything in any other Fallout game. Most of the additional damage on the surviving civilization was done so by the Raiders, Mutants, Robotic Uprising, and Scorch Beast pandemic, with unchecked pollution that gave ghoulification, but there is still records of the whole Appalachia region still populated and intact years before the player character emerged from the unlocked vault.