{"id":2896,"date":"2015-11-20T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2015-11-20T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:13:35","slug":"fallouts-vault-tec-has-a-real-phone-number-but-youll-be-on-hold-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"Fallout\u2019s Vault-Tec has a real phone number, but you\u2019ll be on hold for a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of\u00a0<em>Fallout 3<\/em> \u2013 not <i>Fallout 4 \u2013\u00a0<\/i>Bethesda launched a hotline as an Easter egg hidden in\u00a0their game: 1-888-4-VAULT-TEC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0<em>Fallout 4,\u00a0<\/em>though, it looks like Bethesda resurrected it. Or maybe, like a vault that continued to function despite the world changing above, it never went away.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this number is your best hope of getting a spot in one of Vault-Tec\u2019s coveted vaults before the bombs drop. The only problem is, you might be on hold for a while.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2015\/11\/18\/9757114\/fallout-4-vault-tec-phone-call\"><em>Polygon<\/em><\/a> gave the mysterious fallout shelter\u00a0manufacturer (that definitely doesn\u2019t do mysterious social experiments on its customers) a call and the hold time was pretty egregious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Calling Fallout 4&#039;s 1-888-4VAULTTEC phone number by Polygon Longform\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F233653328&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=1080\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re willing to wait on hold long enough, maybe you\u2019ll get a real person. No, probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of\u00a0Fallout 3 \u2013 not Fallout 4 \u2013\u00a0Bethesda launched a hotline as an Easter egg hidden in\u00a0their game: 1-888-4-VAULT-TEC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}