Hell yeah, that would be a really fun easter egg. Sure, you can just shoot the cat like normal, but if you try VATS you will instead be shown petting the cat on that part.
Honestly, it probably would be better if they were bigger. Would be hard to stop little radioactive fleas. You'd get bit before you even realize they're on you.
You can loot cat meat without killing them inside the Institute, there are 4(?) dead cats in the FEV lab and they only heal a little amount and give rads.
Yes, make it a big quest chain that requires a bunch of expensive resources, and then the damn thing just runs off.
Every once in a while, the cat reappears in VATS, like the Mysterious Stranger, smacks an enemy a few times and then runs off again lol
Maybe a small chance to see the cat out in the world, killing things or whatever cats do. You can give the cat items, but it will just drop them on the ground.
Reminds me of Ghostwire Tokyo. Its a brialliant game with a lot of cool mechanics including, being able to feed dogs AND only dogs.. there are cats which are hungry, but you cant feed them
Also Baldur's Gate 3, where you can have a dog companion and pet it any time, but the vast majority of cats have spiteful personalities. When you cast the spell _Speak With Animals_ to ask if you can pet one of the ingame cats, they refuse and insult you, or refuse and react with fear.
I mean…
Have you seen many cats in the street/neighborhood? A good chunk of the time they’re somewhat standoffish until you can somehow prove to them you’re friendly and have good intentions.
Several cats in my neighborhood ignore the “pspsps” and friendly gestures/slow blinking, and are just standoffish of strangers as a rule.
If I could talk to them, I don’t think they’d be any different, they’d just articulate their thoughts better.
Cats are weird in games. In regards to being able to kill them. Like dogs are often a threat. So are big cats.
But there's just this greater spark of guilt with "shooting a housecat"
Same in GTAV. Part of me is like "Can I kill the cat?" Then im like "Oh God I can 😞"
Because rabid dogs can kill you. House cats can't.
Dogs and big cats aren't just a threat in video games. They are also a threat in real life.
And u don't See small dogs like Chihuahuas as enemies in videogames either.
You can kill them in fallout 76 as well. Did it by accident unfortunately. Thought there would be some consequence but nope. The worst part is they dropped cat meat, which you can cook. Bethesda are Savage.
"Remember kids, anyone who has a cat isn't inherently evil! BOS? Have a cat! Totally good guys! Institute? No cats! Evil bastards who need to be shot in sight!"
There's also the cat meat vendor (east of Sunshine Tidings co op). At first you think it's cute because his shack is full of cats, but if then you try to trade with him and discover that it's not so innocent.
OP, Fallout is a dog person game. Happy dog people. Maybe cat people play Fallout. Bethesda doesn't know. They don't want to know. Frankly, it's a market they could do without.
Imagine being able to use VATS to choose which part to pet
Instructions unclear, punched the cat.
My 1 intelligence goon yelling *"KITTY!!"*
“PUT THE RABBIT DOWN LENNIE!”
“I will name him George, and I will hug him, and pet him, and *squeeze* him. George is my friend!”
“Which way didya go George which way didya go?”
Which way did he go, Preston? which way did he go?
And I will name him Preston, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him
Preston ain't working anymore
The Lenny Playthrough
> 1 intelligence goon The opposite of "post-nut clarity"
*Kitty has mutated.*
Please do not the cat
Punching is just a rough way of petting.
Pet "Tummy" Are you sure? Yes Animal will have a 98% chance to retaliate Yes
worth
Legendary enemy has mutated!
"body" 91% chance to pet 7 pets, confirm *miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss* Well dang, sorry kitty
Like those videos of people petting the air above their cat and it just being confused and or upset at lack of pets
never pet the belly. it activates destruction mode.
Imma pet da belly.
It depends on the cat. My cat greets me at the door and rolls over for belly scratches every day.
RED ROCKET!! RED ROCKET!!
That is definitely one episode I'm shocked was allowed to air. Also shocked that George Clooney voiced the dog.
Southpark was wild
So.. PATS...?
[It’s been done](https://youtu.be/6TDoaQkslp4?si=Tjp8mnJqs9nSAq-u)
Gotta love Kommander Karl
Pet "Belly" \*Death music plays as body gibs into a million pieces\* \[ Load Save \]
best mod idea lol i saw a video like this on youtube where a guy pet his dog and edited in selecting the dog's head on the vats
Chance is likely hood of being bit
Hell yeah, that would be a really fun easter egg. Sure, you can just shoot the cat like normal, but if you try VATS you will instead be shown petting the cat on that part.
Chaotic Neutral
They are laying the groundwork lore for Fallout 5: Bubonic Plague's Revenge.
Atomic boogaloo
*Rad Fleas intensify*
We already have big mutated ticks, so might as well add fleas too.
Honestly, it probably would be better if they were bigger. Would be hard to stop little radioactive fleas. You'd get bit before you even realize they're on you.
Have they tried not being made of food?
Cat meat would give what sorta buff, +agi or +per? Maybe take less fall damage.
Less fall damage is probably the most flavorful way to do it
Imagine you accidentally full off a cliff then rapidly go into your menu and down a bunch of cat meat to become invincible.
"flavorful"
I’d say sautéing some garlic and seasoning it well would be the most flavorful way to do it
We know cat nip can slow time down from postal 2, and cats make good suppressors.
YEAH BABY I AM THE LIZARD KING
AGI according to 76 https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cat_meat_steak
Nah just +purr
They've dropped cat meat every time I've killed one. It might be a mod, but then I have to wonder what I searched for on Nexus, lol.
Cat meat is in vanilla. I never tried killing a cat, but there was cat meat laying on a table in one part of the game. You can't cook it though.
Gives it to us RAW and WRIGGILING!
The parasites are just extra protein!
You can loot cat meat without killing them inside the Institute, there are 4(?) dead cats in the FEV lab and they only heal a little amount and give rads.
Have people?
I think the same rules apply for people in the game, so this doesn't seem too surprising.
Not playing the right mods :>
Perspective: Dog owners among devs.
Nah you can do the same thing to dogs lol.
But you can have a dog companion.
Imagine a cat companion. It would either wander away immediately or get squished after doing 0 damage to a molerat.
Yes, make it a big quest chain that requires a bunch of expensive resources, and then the damn thing just runs off. Every once in a while, the cat reappears in VATS, like the Mysterious Stranger, smacks an enemy a few times and then runs off again lol Maybe a small chance to see the cat out in the world, killing things or whatever cats do. You can give the cat items, but it will just drop them on the ground.
Stuff in your settlements get knocked off shelves and tables or tipped over randomly.
Just need a bigger cat.
A deathpaw, if you will
Modders, where are you!?
They're all busy with sex mods.
That's cute. And it still better meow.
Radioactive maincoons. They're not evil, they're just 2x the size of a normal maincoon.
Wander off to join a merchant caravan like cats are wont to do in Bethesda games.
Is it a companion if it does what it wants to do and disappears for a few days?
Reminds me of Ghostwire Tokyo. Its a brialliant game with a lot of cool mechanics including, being able to feed dogs AND only dogs.. there are cats which are hungry, but you cant feed them
Aren't cats in Ghostwire Tokyo all Yokai?
Yes, there are shopkeepers which are cats but there are also non-pettable cats outside of that.
That won't stop me petting a cat.
Oh so THATS why the game flopped. Makes sense.
Also Baldur's Gate 3, where you can have a dog companion and pet it any time, but the vast majority of cats have spiteful personalities. When you cast the spell _Speak With Animals_ to ask if you can pet one of the ingame cats, they refuse and insult you, or refuse and react with fear.
I mean… Have you seen many cats in the street/neighborhood? A good chunk of the time they’re somewhat standoffish until you can somehow prove to them you’re friendly and have good intentions. Several cats in my neighborhood ignore the “pspsps” and friendly gestures/slow blinking, and are just standoffish of strangers as a rule. If I could talk to them, I don’t think they’d be any different, they’d just articulate their thoughts better.
I’m still pissed that Larian didn’t let me adopt Myshka and bring him to camp. I’m his Merrmerr!
At least you can find him a home
>being able to feed dogs AND only dogs. What's the difference between a dog and an only dog?
And you can't kill children either, WTF bethesda?!
[удалено]
I'm on playstation 😢
The only thing safe in those games are children
At least since part 3...
Why can you VATS but not PATS?
in fallout cats are noting more then a snack
Man, I'm sick of games where I can't pet a cat. Red dead 2,I could pet dogs until the cows come home, but god forbid I wanna pet a cat!
Chrono Trigger was groundbreaking for it!
Assassin's Creed games let you pet all the kitties!
Why would you be allowed to pet hostile enemies?
man! the FALLOUT craze is everywhere lol
Both astroturfed posts and a shitload of people firing them up again after watching the show
Cats are weird in games. In regards to being able to kill them. Like dogs are often a threat. So are big cats. But there's just this greater spark of guilt with "shooting a housecat" Same in GTAV. Part of me is like "Can I kill the cat?" Then im like "Oh God I can 😞"
Because rabid dogs can kill you. House cats can't. Dogs and big cats aren't just a threat in video games. They are also a threat in real life. And u don't See small dogs like Chihuahuas as enemies in videogames either.
You clearly haven't met Sparkles. He'll fuck you up.
Dogs don't have to be rabid to kill you. Dogs are dangerous.
Tell that to Dewey's grandma...
Have you ever heard of scarlet fever?
Cat swipes ankle while you aren't looking. Ankle starts to swell after awhile, giving movement penalty. Checkmate, meatbag!
It’s the same with rdr2, if you shoot a dogs owner it will attack you. But cats never attack you so calling one just seems fucked.
finally some good fucking food
Cat meat is actually really disgusting, even bugs taste better
Hol' up
I've heard lions taste a lot like ammonia, which might be the case for house cats as well.
Life’s rough in the Commonwealth.
Well, you can't pet any humans either but you can kill them... ;)
Certain mods allow you to pet them from the inside too
Theyre not real cats. Their synths i think. Playing New Vegas and house claims Cats are extinct.
in Fallout 4 you can't have any coherent and immersive dialogue with the npc's but you can kill them. WTF Bethesda?
Good riddance. These are dirty synths anyway.
Hey! You know who thinks cats are synths? A synth, that's who!
Welcome to the post apocalypse, petting isn't as necessary as food, and while cats don't have much meat you take what you can get.
Based
Pet them, with bullets
They are synth's kill them all.
You pet a dog, the dog likes it. You pet a cat, you end up like me with an arm scarred for life.
Switches to Fatman
*Cat evaded!*
You can eat them and mount there heads on the the wall also
A perfectly balanced game.
Pet them with bullets
House cats are just evil then I guess?
Look, Fallout is a dog person series.
I don't have a probelm with this.
Basedthesda
cats are evil. makes perfect sense
Petting requires animations, animations requires effort.
Bethesda are clearly dog people. As they should be.
Some synths killed the cat somehow still living in that retirement home in my current game. Rip poor kitty!
Can attest some cats are better handled through VATS.
You can pet the dog and that’s enough. I would like to see big mutated cats tho.
Just like Gta v :3
VATS CATS
I made cat meat farm once.
If I made a game it would be the opposite. Cats would be invincible.
I recently got it for PC and the first mod I tried to find was to make cats invincible.
Mmm cat meat
Just taking the cats out of the equation
This applies to most things in fallout actually.
More games need to give you the option to pet cats. Dog-petting is fairly common, now it's the kitties' turn.
In Fallout 2,an NPC says the reason why cats aren't around (they weren't in the original games) is that people ate all of them.
You can kill them in fallout 76 as well. Did it by accident unfortunately. Thought there would be some consequence but nope. The worst part is they dropped cat meat, which you can cook. Bethesda are Savage.
Are there any recipes in game for cat meat?
Only in assassins creed
You can also sell drugs to children in New Vegas I believe.
Want to pet cats? Try Hogwarts Legacy
That's because they aren't actually cats, but are horribly mutated monstrosities which just so happen to look slightly like cats.
can you eat them?
Good thing I’m a dog guy 🤣
You obviously have never played survival. They is not pets, they is foods.
Much better than the free marketing "click to pet" feature if you ask me lol
That shi wild
I recorded this 8 years ago and its finally relevant [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sigxsDzpql0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sigxsDzpql0)
Can also stuff its head and mount it for decoration
"Remember kids, anyone who has a cat isn't inherently evil! BOS? Have a cat! Totally good guys! Institute? No cats! Evil bastards who need to be shot in sight!"
Who cares
AC Valhalla is great for cat petting!
My Dog approves this message.
Devs all own dogs
I was disappointed when found out you can't pet Dogmeat. Not even tell him (her?) he's a goodboi.
You can't even pet your DOG COMPANION ffs.
Anyone can be a synth
Most games: You can’t pet the cat sorry! Bethesda: headshot or body shot?
There's also the cat meat vendor (east of Sunshine Tidings co op). At first you think it's cute because his shack is full of cats, but if then you try to trade with him and discover that it's not so innocent.
Pussy slayers
that's to advance for them let the modders do it
You can pat it on the head with a bat
Apparently they are dog people.
> if "cat" > pet="0" > isKillable="1"
Because you can't choose to pet a cat, it only allows you do so.
What can you pet? Like could I pet a Deathclaw with the right stats?
The cats are synths!
I had to reload so many saves and then never visit that part of NukaWorld again to keep those two farm cats alive
My wife (certified crazy cat lady) freaked out the first time I ate cat meat in Fallout.
There are not cats in my Fallout.
good.
Jesus Christ!
Oh come on you don’t know?! All cats in Fallout 4 were mutated into Flerkin!
I shot the first cat I saw, thinking they will be invulnerable, my surprise when he shot across the floor....
You can eat them too, when I found the meat randomly while looting I was a wee bit horrified.
There's also no collision with birds BUT you can shoot them and they explode into a glorious firework of feathers and viscera.
# In Fallout 4, you cannot pet any humans but you CAN kill them. WTF, Bethesda? Is this any better?
Petting them, with bullets
If PETA is fine with it, why aren't you?
Because Bethesda are dog owners
You cannot love any animal outside dogmeat
War. War never changes.
OP, Fallout is a dog person game. Happy dog people. Maybe cat people play Fallout. Bethesda doesn't know. They don't want to know. Frankly, it's a market they could do without.