This is the third tier of the Fallout 4 Iceberg; the Synth Tier. Today, we’ll be going over a a plot thread that was never touched again, covering a handful of synth theories, and answer the age old question of “Is eating a ghoul considered cannibalism?” If you think that’s wacky, it’s only getting more unhinged as we delve deeper. Without further ado, let’s get into it.
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Honestly, I do believe that the sole survivor being a Synth is possible.
I fully agree that the recall code is a massive plot hole. But everything about the institute is a massive plot hole.
I don't usually use logic like that to fill in a story. But the institute is literally nothing but contradictions.
Their motto is man kind redefined. But they don't think of synths as human, and Father seems to think cyborgs are morally wrong for some reason. So that motto has nothing to do with anything they are doing.
I think the writers were trying to leave it open for each player to choose. They just didn't think it through.
The SS being a synth also doesn’t make sense because why would Shaun give even a single fuck about defrosting you and seeing how you perform in the wasteland? Why would he create a synth and then place him in the same cryochamber as his father? Also, the VATS thing can be explained in a similar manner as any perk in the game; that is, the player has access to ridiculous abilities that no one else possesses. Aqua Boy can make you breathe underwater and not take rads, various perks make weapon types more powerful, Action Boy gives you more AP, Bloody Mess let’s you explode bodies, etc. And while VATS isn’t a perk, I can’t imagine the devs would have thought to take away VATS for a single combat section in the game, at the only time in the game where you won’t have a Pip-Boy. And if having VATS without a Pip-Boy is evidence the SS is a synth, then every other protagonist also should be a synth because of the perks that they and only they can have.
There are around 46 power armor types/variants across all fallout games depending on how you count them. I’m honestly torn on them continuing to add more considering the first two games only had four types total.
ARTHUR IS 20 IN FO4???
Oh my god! I’ll be 40 in a couple more years, and he looks a little older than me! 😂
MOISTURIZER IS IMPORTANT LADS!
the mysterious Stranger to me is an easter egg character like M'aiq the Lier is in the Elder Scrolls series
Kasumi doesn’t have a synth component and Armitage is one of Dr. Zimmer's androids not a synth. My idea as institute leader would be to use synths to slowly cleanse an ever widening perimeter around the institute above ground and invite decent humans and ghouls to rebuild prewar civilization and advance humanity.
My favorite high/drunk voice line is just the sole survivor going "YOUU"
The mysterious stranger being an agent of the Institute I can buy, but him being an actual gen-3 synth just doesn't hold water for me. The timeline just doesn't make any sense, especially given his presence in the first and second games.
The Crows: You can see from their viewpoint on the monitors in the SRB, confirming that they act as flying cameras for the Institute.
The way I played Fallout 3…He is not the lone wanderer lolol
What if the gen 3s inside the institute start replacing the scientists of the institute with their own replacements and become the synthstitute? They then systematically start to fill the Commonwealth with as many synths as possible. Creating their own populace as they see fit. I think something like that,but maybe not to those extremes would make a pretty cool quest line mod
It would be easier to say that Deacon was just another railroad agent that was in the Capital Wasteland during the events of Fallout 3 or went there between when FO3 and 4 takes place, by that point I guess whatever the outcome of the Replicated Man quest was, the other railroad agents including Deacon would've learned about it.
Dogmeat – the series has absolutely no logic and no sense, not even for sci-fi. Referring to that retarded series is not exactly the wisest thing to do. Dogmeat is a purebred German shepherd, he is alone in that world, he is in excellent health. In a strange way, at the first contact with the player, he does not bite him, but he tears Raiders as if it were the last thing he does. He listens to a word without training, protects the player with his life and here and there finds good things for him, how he knows that these are necessary things is a mystery. I could go on, but why. Dogmeat is a planted synth to observe the player, that's all.
There was a cut random encounter meant to activate after spending time in Kellogg’s memories that has you get attacked by multiple Kelloggs. I had a mod that activated it and it freaked me out.
Virgil doesn’t help you out of the kindness of his heart, he literally has no choice but to help you. You can’t get him the cure until you get into the Institute, which is what you need from him.
I don't think it's unreasonable for there to be a pre-war prototype that preceded the APA. Especially since it's primarily found in Boston, a center of tech with CIT and regional HQ's for companies like Vault-Tec.
The enclave dogmeat theory is so much better than just calling him a synth
the institute does such a good job making everyone paranoid about synths being everywhere its leaked out of the game and infected the rest of us
Of course, Fallout London takes away the guesswork regarding the bird/synth debate – it has the Cyber Pigeon, which is unambiguously not a real pigeon. It can attack as well as snoop!
I played a lot of FO4. I never understood are synths good or bad. Some look like people, some are actually robots.
Ghoul meat is probably like human flesh turned into jerky.
Damn dude, why so negative this time 😅
Regarding ghoul meat, there was a quest related to Longneck Lakowski in Fallout 4 who was using ghoul meat in his canned products and you can eat those though people get sick doing it. Regarding Dima saying you're a synth, it actually seems likely that DIMA is not a synth (that is since Nick is really a synth running a human's mind, maybe Dima is as well and he is a human mind as well and is just lying about it). Indeed, if he was a conman and cult leader and was then "imprinted" onto Dima, wouldn't that explain a lot about Dima?
I recently started a new run on Fallout 4 next gen unmodded, VATS is unavailable until you have the Pip-Boy. Appears it was a bug all along.
I think the enclave just copied blueprints developed in secret with nukacola scientists
The synthberg
Kasumi is not a synth. It's a key part of her character whether she is or is not. If you send her home to the Nakano's, you potentially sent them a synth. If you have the Institute collect her, you potentially sent an innocent girl to them. If you kill her, directly or indirectly, you discover she's human and you killed an innocent girl. That was the intent.
Glory is the only character I know of who is supposed to be a synth but doesn't drop a synth component, but her being a synth is never in question. She is further bugged because the Railroad thinks she is dead when completing the end game with the Minutemen, even though that is the only ending where she doesn't die, and she's still walking around Railroad HQ. So, Bethesda just screwed her up.
So nice I watched it twice.
8:30 i think it's pretty lame that you're supposedly this fallout youtuber or whatever but somehow it's just fine to care about fallout lore even less than bethesda does, and act like people who do care are being ridiculous. if you care this little about something you've spent this much time doing why are you even alive?
Nuka Cola and its marketing were likely inspired by Jolt Cola, a real product that advertised “All the sugar and twice the caffeine” well before the “energy drink” branding was introduced.
the dogs in the show aren't german shepherds, they're belgian malinois.
also… I'm so sick of the hair-brained "sole survivor is a synth" theory. besides the obvious recall code bit that you mentioned, the vats-before-pip-boy thing is also trash. we can also use the pip-boy mounted flashlight before we get the pip-boy. so what? we also take rad damage exactly like a regular human being.
I hate the sole survivor is a synth theory but I do like the idea of turning the sole survivor into a super soldier through augmentations. Certain perks in 4 behave like biological and technological augmentations.
Do we have any evidence that N_orte isn't a synth…?
Ive never agreed with the Deacon is Loan Wander theory. The reason is every case of facial recognition we’ve seen as a player has just been that; facial recognition. Bone structure, hair implants the likes. Never has there been a melanin change. I understand that you as the player can do this but it is just Bethesda allowing you the freedom to do a complete change short of gender. It’s non-diegetic and thus cannot be considered canon. Despite what race the player chooses The Loan Wander is, canonically, always at least half black as Catherine is a black woman no matter what.
Is eating a ghoul considered cannibalism? Cannibal perk says yes.
I feel like kellog in nick was probably supposed to lead to maybe if you want to do an institute/bad karma playthrough and have nick not hate you for everything, you can go down a questline to turn nick into kellog and have kellog as a companion
Only canon PA are from F1, F2 and Van Buren. The other armors are just plucked from the finger and stuffed into fallout stories.
X-01 never existed before the war.
Enclave scientists modified old versions of PA from f1.
X-01 is another force crammed content into Fallout
14:00 So, I'm always blown away by the need to try and make the Mysterious Stranger a synth when we know that Psykers exist in Fallout and have since the very first game. I think the much more likely theory is the mysterious stranger and maybe even Miss Fortune are the two missing party members from Nate Grey and Harold's party that "died" or went missing very well… Mysteriously.
Just like… We know people with super powers just fuckin exist in Fallout. We don't know who exactly this super powered being, so he's The Mysterious Stranger.
Oh well, even the synth theory is better than what they put in the Fallout 3 game guide where they say he's a Eldritch entity named… Farmer? I think? Bizarre as fuck
dogmeat is actually the dog that Mr Russell juiced up with x-cell pre-war, the dog got so much x-cell that he became immortal. the reason why he is so friendly with you up front is that he still remembers you from the pre-war days.
The loan wanderer is the rouge Knight from nuka world and the gun they carry is fawks's laser gun
with regards to the x-01 nuca world power armour mu head canon is that the enclave used the per war plans to develop new armor and just said the did it themselfs after all can we realy trust anything the enclave say and of corse the would say they developed it as there goal is to become the governing body of the post war usa and developing new armor for scratch is a better show of power and tech know how to further there agenda than we found and improved it slighlty just some food for thought
Virgil didn't have a choice. We can only help him if he helps first. It was a gamble, but there was no alternative.
Deacon looks older than a modern 29-year-old, but keep in mind that this dude has spent a decade in a brutal wasteland. That ages you.
With the inclusion of a new Dogmeat in the TV show, I like to think that all incarnations of Dogmeat are related, maybe descended from the one in the first game, maybe descended from Rex in New Vegas (note that Rex is actually pre-war). Maybe they're all tied to that Enclave program shown in the TV show.