Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A mysterious radio beacon appeared in the Commonwealth, calling for all Vault-Tec employees to investigate a distress signal at Vault 88.
Intended to test various prototype devices with the aim of rolling them out to the rest of the vaults, this vault was never finished, with only the main entrance, the security and the reactor rooms completed when the bombs dropped and the work stopped. If it had all gone well by the time the vault was being built, people would have been allowed into Vault 88 before the majority of other Vault-Tec vaults, as its main purpose was to test some new technologies that could have been used in the other vaults and doing so after they had all locked down would have been mostly useless.
When the Sole Survivor approaches this vault for the first time, a group of raiders will be trying to force their way in - what triggered the emergency broadcast calling for help - and a voice will be constantly telling them to stop and saying that all their efforts will be useless.
Once the raiders are dealt with, the Sole Survivor can activate the control panel using their Pip-Boy to open the vault door. After that, they can use the terminal inside or outside to open and close the vault door.
The voice will then ask to find the Vault-Tec control board on the reactor room to reactivate the workshop and free them from the place they were trapped in.
When inside, the Sole Survivor will come face to face with kooky Overseer Barstow. This now ghoulified, eccentric, science-minded character has been shut-in for over 200 years. Relieved to finally saved, she will enlist the Sole Survivor’s help in finishing Vault 88’s construction and to aid her in conducting numerous experiments. These allotted experiments, depending on your choices, can turn out to be ethical or non-ethical.
Associated quests:
• Vault-Tec Calling
• Better Living Underground
• A Model Citizen
• Explore Vault 88
• Power to the People
• The Watering Hole
• Vision of the Future
• Lady Luck
Platform: PlayStation 4
All © copyrights belong to their respective owners, Bethesda Softworks & ZeniMax Media.
A mysterious radio beacon appeared in the Commonwealth, calling for all Vault-Tec employees to investigate a distress signal at Vault 88.
Intended to test various prototype devices with the aim of rolling them out to the rest of the vaults, this vault was never finished, with only the main entrance, the security and the reactor rooms completed when the bombs dropped and the work stopped. If it had all gone well by the time the vault was being built, people would have been allowed into Vault 88 before the majority of other Vault-Tec vaults, as its main purpose was to test some new technologies that could have been used in the other vaults and doing so after they had all locked down would have been mostly useless.
When the Sole Survivor approaches this vault for the first time, a group of raiders will be trying to force their way in - what triggered the emergency broadcast calling for help - and a voice will be constantly telling them to stop and saying that all their efforts will be useless.
Once the raiders are dealt with, the Sole Survivor can activate the control panel using their Pip-Boy to open the vault door. After that, they can use the terminal inside or outside to open and close the vault door.
The voice will then ask to find the Vault-Tec control board on the reactor room to reactivate the workshop and free them from the place they were trapped in.
When inside, the Sole Survivor will come face to face with kooky Overseer Barstow. This now ghoulified, eccentric, science-minded character has been shut-in for over 200 years. Relieved to finally saved, she will enlist the Sole Survivor’s help in finishing Vault 88’s construction and to aid her in conducting numerous experiments. These allotted experiments, depending on your choices, can turn out to be ethical or non-ethical.
Associated quests:
• Vault-Tec Calling
• Better Living Underground
• A Model Citizen
• Explore Vault 88
• Power to the People
• The Watering Hole
• Vision of the Future
• Lady Luck
Platform: PlayStation 4
All © copyrights belong to their respective owners, Bethesda Softworks & ZeniMax Media.
