Fallout TV Show Sparks Lucy XP Level Debate, Fallout Shelter Gives Us SPECIAL Stats

15.04.2024 - 14:25 / ign.com / Lucy Maclean

If you’re watching the Fallout TV show as a fan of the video games, you might be wondering what XP level Lucy would end up with, based on all the events of the series.

It’s a question that has popped up on social media ever since the Fallout TV show made its debut on Prime Video and fans worked their way through to the end of season one. Some are now having fun trying to offer an answer, applying the levelling system from Fallout 3 to what we see Lucy get up to during the show.

We won’t spoil the show at this point, but it’s worth pointing out that it revolves around vault dweller Lucy MacLean venturing out into the wasteland for the first time in a scene reminiscent of the Bethesda's trademark ‘stepping out into an open world’ set piece.

Warning: spoilers for the Fallout TV show now follow:

If the eight episodes of the Fallout TV show were a Fallout video game, what amount of XP might Lucy have accumulated? X/Twitter user Many A True Nerd has some theories. At the start of the show, Lucy mentions her proficiency with repair, science, and speech skills. There are subsequent signs that suggest Lucy is playing Fallout on one of the easier difficulties (that bear went down with one shot from a pistol!), but also on Survival Mode, given the problems she has with water.

Ok, let's run some data here;

The Fallout TV series presumably runs by Bethesda rules, and thus we can reasonably assume the ratio of XP-from-combat to XP-from-quests is going to skew heavily towards combat. This works against Lucy's levelling speed. https://t.co/JN3WewswPv

But what do we see Lucy actually do in the show that would earn XP? Not much combat (she shoots a few radroaches at one point, but talks her way out of most situations). She leaves the Vault, discovers Filly, escorts Wilzig, then goes off on a few side quests. One of these involves taking down an organ harvesting organization (potentially the biggest source of XP), and another involves shenanigans in a separate Vault.

Here’s Many A True Nerd’s verdict: “Overall, four quests representing the main plot, and two side quests, plus extremely limited combat, though technically she probably receives XP for Maximus' kills when he's an active companion. There's also XP for location discovery, but it feels like she didn't explore that much.

“Even allowing for bonus survival mode XP, it's hard to see her having more than 4,000 - 5,000 XP across the entire journey, with probably an extra 1,000 tossed in for Main Quest completion. That would put her about Level 8, and I feel like I'm being generous.”

Helpfully, we know Lucy’s S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats, and those of other major characters, courtesy of Fallout Shelter, which recently added characters from the TV show into the game. Based on