Fallout 4 player notices cigarette machine detail 8 years later

With all of the buzz around Amazon Prime's newly-released Fallout series, dedicated fans and newcomers are returning to the wastelands of the games to embark on their own post-apocalyptic adventures. One player has shared their recent discovery of a cool detail on Fallout 4's in-game cigarette machines, and fellow fans are similarly amazed its taken this long for them to notice it themselves.

Reddit user u/Splatulated shared their finding on the Fallout 4 subreddit, simply stating they'd never noticed that the cigarette machines that can be found in bars, stores and other buildings throughout the wastelands featured a built-in lighter. It can be found on the left-hand side of the machine, and is almost comically oversized.

i just noticed the Cigarette machines have a build in lighter
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I'll be honest, in the hundreds of hours I've spent wandering the wastelands of Boston and scavenging every building I could for random supplies and crafting materials, I never noticed the oversized lighter perched on top of the cigarette machines.

Replying to u/Splatulated, other long-term players also shared their disbelief they had never noticed it before either.

"That's a big ass lighter, somehow I never realized," said u/El-Burkako, while u/zactorbeamz replied "You've just blown my mind. I'm pretty sure I've stared at one in a loading screen and never realized." Me too, zactorbeamz... me too.

Another Redditor shared other threads where fellow Fallout 4 players had shared their surprise at the discovery too. After hundreds of hours of playing, both u/Vamfrk3 and u/Rogue_freeman had also made the same discovery.

This is just another example of how easy it can be to miss details that game developers painstakingly add into their games. Was it the slightly worse visuals back in 2015 that made it so easy to miss, or were we all just so engrossed in our wasteland adventure we failed to notice? I'm guessing a bit of both.

Amazon Prime's Fallout series is available on the streaming service in its entirety now. Meanwhile, Fallout 4 can be accessed on Xbox Game Pass for free. It's also on sale on Steam, PlayStation and Xbox for 75% off.

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