How Fallout 3's Brotherhood of Steel Foreshadows FO4's Vertibirds

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Fallout 3 from Bethesda Game Studios received widespread praise from critics and fans, maintaining its popularity even today through older PlayStation and Xbox consoles and PC platforms. Introducing a first-person perspective, the gameplay for Fallout 3 changed many of the combat mechanics that had existed previously in the series. The introduction of V.A.T.S. became popular as it utilized aspects of turn-based and real-time combat elements.

While not being a direct sequel to Fallout 2, its post-apocalyptic story follows the timeline of historical events established in the previous entries while also including factions featured in those games. Famously, a faction chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel is present throughout the game, albeit mainly as a rogue chapter that has forgone its primary directive of finding technology in favor of learning about and hunting super mutants. Nevertheless, the Brotherhood's presence in Fallout 3 foreshadows the technological Vertibirds in Fallout 4.

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Built by the United States military around 2072, Vertibirds are vertical take-off and landing aircraft used for traversal or as gunships. While prototypes were still being developed and tested during the onset of the Great War, these Vertibirds wouldn't be completed until much later by the Enclave. Second-generation Vertibirds had two versions: transportation models with glass canopies and plenty of cargo storage, as well as gunships, which were heavily armored and contained powerful armaments.

While the Enclave used them in earlier Fallout entries on the West Coast for transporting materials from the mainland to the Enclave Oil Rig, they also appeared in Fallout 3 on the East