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.

11 years ago*

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fuck yes!

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Check this for all up-to-date info
New messages and translations december 1st:
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"
And todays update:
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?)"

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Would be an awesome hoax, but I think its the real deal

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It would be really awesome to start the campaing in the vault when is under attack

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Probably gonna be a trailer released on the count down... though knowing Bethesda they mighta already completed the game using the same engine as Skyrim but just added different textures, objects, a green tint, and some guns.

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so, u judge a game for the graphics?

11 years ago
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Partially, although my comment was more a reference to how Bethesda released Oblvion, Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas with little changes to the engine.

11 years ago
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Fallout 4 showed up on Austrian store gameware.at for pre-order! (thanks Silvero_Ceriano for the info)

BTW sorry for the lack of main post updates in the last few days, let me know if I missed something.

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Thank you very much for gathering all this information! I'm a big Fallout fan and I can't wait for the next game!

11 years ago
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TBNLS 5120
I heard that TBNLS stands for The Boston Nuclear Launch System. 5120 could be a radio frequency or a code to activate/deactivate it.

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Oh em geeeee O_O

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One of these days I have to play New Vegas.

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Stop whatever you're doing in life right now and install and play fallout new vegas. You will probably need 100+ hours of gametime to complete it.

Jokes aside, you should probably play the game soon

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Yeah, erm, I don't have 100 hours :/ Maybe 20...

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only 20 ? can i have the rest of 180 ?! :D

11 years ago
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New video from Brodual with latest updates!

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oyes multiplayer?

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After looking at who owns survivor2299.com it shows Zenimax media owns it. We all know who they are.

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OMG SITE UPDATED, IT'S CONFIRMED http://thesurvivor2299.com/

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YES TUNNEL SNAKES RULE FALLOUT 4 CONFIRMED!

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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.

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awesome for me! not for others.. more time to finish the fallout games xD im slow as turtles in peanut butter :c

11 years ago
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Well, sorry, but f*ck both the dude that made this and Bethesda. People have too much free time to be screwing with fans like this and Bethesda should have said its fake right away, instead of doing the usual corporate "no comment" crap. Really tempted not to buy their future games for this. They should have been honest.

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When corporate says "no comment" it means "we're doing it". Just compare it to R* - every time someone mentioned PC version, they were "No, no, no". I don't remember Valve ever answering "no comments" about Half Life 3, always with "we have other stuff to do" etc or total silence.

Which means Bethesda was into this. Imagine if this were real game - look how much coverage it had just because it pretended to be Fallout 4. And because they never used Fallout name, they could sell this Survivor, which would be known by everyone because everyone was thinking it will be Fallout.

It would sell so much better as every news-site would write about it's development, would show every trailer and everything.

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I still don't understand how it was a prank if the site is registered under Zenimax media...

11 years ago
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You can put anything there, not many domain registrars check those.

11 years ago
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I vouch for this

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Hoax or not, you could have preordered the game Fallout 4 from here: http://www.gameware.at/info/space/Fallout+4+%28AT-Version%29?emphasize=P4-FAO4A now the game is unavaible there too..

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Apparently dude that made this spent over $900, he was even working on a CGI trailer... o.O

According to him, he decided to reveal this after seeing some of the tweets from Pete Hines (vice president of Bethesda Softworks). He was also drunk when he did it, he planned to do it in a much more interesting way instead of a simple Rick Roll.

His public reveal at reddit

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Closed 11 years ago by Skylight.