In a previous post I mentioned the idea that instead of playing as a prewar character we are able to live in prewar memories for a price by buying them at the Memory Den. Some fellow redditors may have lent some credibility to this theory in their ridiculously thorough tear down of the new trailer.



What they’ve spotted may be a glitch in whatever engine they are using to create the trailer, or it may speak to something much more significant.

Let’s take a look at the dubious frames in question.

Frame 1: As you can see there is a shadowy figure that resembles a vault dweller, clad in what appears to be a blue and yellow jumpsuit. He’s a Caucasian male with brown hair that bears a resemblance to the alleged protagonist of the trailer.

Frame 2: One frame of video later… he’s gone.

Now of course this is wild speculation at the moment, but perhaps that is the vault dweller playing through a memory like it was a holotape, watching the last moments of prewar civilization. Perhaps it’s a bug in the game engine, and knowing Bethesda’s track record this is not entirely unlikely.

In the end it’s interesting, and that’s why it’s a thought bubble.