

November 2077, a month after the Great War, army Captain Roger Maxson arrived with survivors at the Californian bunker of Lost Hills.

This part of the organization gets founded in 2254, over 150 years after Fallout 76 takes place. The logo shows the larger gear on the right side of the sword, which indicates that this is specifically the East Coast chapter of the Brotherhood – the one depicted in Fallout 3. Lore is always subject to change based on the needs of the latest story, and the tweet explains things well enough – though there’s still at least one sticking point. Apparently that’s not the case, and the sudden confirmation that the Brotherhood was operating in this part of the timeline had some lore purists reeling, as Eurogamer noted last week. As far as the Fallout story so far has gone, they had been locked up in a California military shelter since then. There he formed the Brotherhood of Steel, who used a functioning satellite to extend their reach across America… all the way to Appalachia.”Īccording to existing lore the Brotherhood was founded in 2077 in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear war which wiped out civilization.

In a series of social media posts today, the developers say that in “November 2077, a month after the Great War, army Captain Roger Maxson arrived with survivors at the Californian bunker of Lost Hills. That’s contrary to how most fans had interpreted existing lore up until now, but Bethesda’s got an explanation. There’ve been hints that the Brotherhood of Steel would appear in Fallout 76 since the E3 trailers, and a recently-uncovered note in the upcoming game has confirmed that the organization was in West Virginia circa 2102.
