10 Secret Choices You Didn't Know You Had In Fallout 4

[@ICountFrom0]

Sure, getting the drop on the Mechanist is fun, but it's better to show up dressed as the Silver Shroud. Now THAT is some amusing hidden dialog.

[@IndoorSunset]

If you don't say goodbye to Codsworth at the opening on a new playthrough, before leaving for the vault, then you're a monster.

[@AllAmericanBadass]

You can do that??

[@demoonmunkay]

@@AllAmericanBadass there are quite a few things he says as “goodbyes”

[@JohnnyAllan-vj7sj]

We promised we'd never say goodbye

[@AllAmericanBadass]

@@demoonmunkay time to do another play through again 😭

[@jerrysmith7705]

If he knew more than one good joke I might talk to him from time to time. Instead I send his ass to grey garden and never think about him again. Codsworth sucks, I don't care how many unique names he can say. Curie is superior in every way.

[@catch9522]

There's a perk where you can point your gun at an NPC and make them follow you as long as your gun is drawn. Some of the npc's you can take back to your settlement and then use the workbench and assign them to make them become settlers. Usually only works with unnamed characters wastelander etc. There are a few named characters it will work on

[@benwilliams3539]

That's awesome. Never heard that one. I was unsure about that intimidation perk but might try it now.

[@catch9522]

@@benwilliams3539 You can use it on the conman that sells you the charge card Parker Quinn to force him to come back to your settlement and then make him become a settler. Assign him as a vendor at a weapons stand or something, He is a tier 4 vendor.

[@benwilliams3539]

@@catch9522 that's legendary bro. Glad I have som perk points saved up. Thanks

[@inductivegrunt94]

The stuff with Dogmeat on the Prydwen is very cute and makes me like Dogmeat even more than I already do.

[@saschaberger3212]

He's a synth and sends everything to the institute. All act. But I have to say I find it cute af

[@klu9839]

Dogmeat: "Arf Victoriam"

[@mahtoosacks]

I sent dogmeat to spectacle island, and now he's stuck at the bottom of the bay

[@itwasaliens]

​It's the birds that are the synths. In the institute there's a room with a bunch of monitors of random places throughout Boston, they're all from a birds view. Dogmeat would be useless as a spy if you're not traveling with him or never pick him up. ​@@saschaberger3212

[@Ricardo_Rick]

Also, in nuka world when you deactivate the gatorclaw machines you have an option to reactivate it, but instead the machine will make gazelles who are harmless and drops meat, so that part of the park doesn't become a desert

[@Tucher97]

The way you say it, I really want to see some odd animals in very odd places. Edit: Ok so I should explain, I meant like places like zoos that bust open and thus you have the safari animals lose in the country side of America. As an example.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@Tucher97 indeed, but in this case it makes gazelles only

[@sparkssweden]

I never reactivated it bc i thought it would resume producing gatorclaws. Thanks for the info! More meat for all! 🍽

[@top_banananaplays]

You CAN?!!

[@richardharmon647]

I knew about that one

[@HeadHunterSix]

Also, am I the only one that knows that Mirelurks are vulnerable in the face? I've lost count of the people I've seen unloading shot after shot into the well-armored bodies and wondering why Mirelurks are so "tough". Shoot. The. Face.

[@gavinhazan1415]

Is this not common knowledge? I’m only 1 1/2 play through in and I knew that

[@HeadHunterSix]

@@gavinhazan1415 You would think it would be - but I don't know how many videos I see, even now, where players just shoot at the shell over and over.

[@sanskrithiscox938]

I’m a leg man myself. If they can’t move they are easy targets.

[@HeadHunterSix]

@@sanskrithiscox938 that's good for the types that don't have a ranged attack.

[@ryan___ryan2711]

Start with the legs, then go for the now slowly moving face. Just don't forget they have ranged attacks too.

[@HeadHunterSix]

I didn't have to worry about how to save Kent. The answer is Orange Mentats, Psycho Jet, and a bunch of called headshots. They were all dead before Sinjin even thought of pulling the trigger on Kent.

[@daralD99]

Pretty much what i had to do, used the shroud outfit to make his buddies run away and used vats on his face, that extra damage made all the difference with sucky weapons.

[@WaldoWheresReal]

Sinjin is the only one who will attack Kent, I just headshot crit him with a six crank laser musket the second the elevator opened

[@dustintuggle2807]

You could just tell him to kill you first then pick them all off one by one and save kent that way .

[@nodak81]

Great idea if my game didn't bug every time I try this quest.

[@xwing2417]

If you're not going through a run where the difficulty matters, drop to very easy for that fight if you're having troubles. Kent deserves to live.

[@himonightbreeze]

The Silver Shroud was inspired by The Shadow, who partially inspired Batman irl and in the comics.

[@ostlandr]

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

[@sonofabitchingbridge]

I always thought he was a knock off of The Gray Ghost from the Batman animated series from the 90s.

[@garyfantastica]

Am I the only one who enjoys Travis more before he gains confidence?

[@Beardificent]

@@garyfantastica he ain’t no red eye but yeah sad travis is a lot better than ‘macho’ travis. The kid is even better. So just let Travis die. The kid would do great on shark tank

[@adamndirtyape]

Yes. Doing his final quest is a big mistake.

[@TheCorpsehatch]

If you go into the room with Preston and ignore him only to go out the door to the roof Preston will say "Just going to ignore me, huh?" or something of the sort. Been a while since I've done that. Can't remember the exact dialogue he says.

[@sparkssweden]

I strongly recommend ignoring P(r)eston Garvey until you cleared Nuka World, otherwise he's going to be all testy about you being a raider.

[@kylejamer]

Fuck me. Does that work!? ​@@sparkssweden

[@Kithkanen]

​@@kylejamer Yes, this works. So long as you're not the overboss when you meet Preston, everything proceeds as normal. If you *are* still the overboss, he pretty much demands you make a choice: Overboss or General.

[@HeadHunterSix]

"That's it? You're just going to walk away?" Umm... yep.

[@effingclexiss1337]

Also on the railroad questline when Desdemona gives you the option to pick a code name if you dont choose any and wait a little she'll name you "The wanderer".

[@mick-mickg]

Oh really? 😳🙄

[@TheDogBartholomew]

Fyi there's a switch that shuts off the speakers at the castle so you don't have to listen to the radio when you're there and it won't keep sending you to radiant quests. It's on the other side of the antenna contraption.

[@sandwichboy1268]

Wish you actually showed these secret conversations tbh

[@BouncingTribbles]

I always wished the charge card was actually an access card. It always looked more like a corpo door card then a credit card. It would have been so cool if it opened some random door in a prewar facillity.

[@maimaisims]

Anyone else find it ironic that to get 100 caps back in game for a charge card you need to purchase dlc? 😅

[@demoonmunkay]

(Probably already known but) unique Dialogue with the Mechanist is dressed as Silver Shroud. Not sure if it pops if you use the backdoor method explained in video. Unique Silver Shroud Interaction when Meeting the Overboss for the first time, and also unique Dialogue with robots in Dry Rock gultch in Nuka World.

[@mitchells2003]

Not exactly a secret, but if you play as a raider in the Nuka World DLC, Preston will hate you forever. You can avoid this by skipping Concord until after you complete NW.

[@Donlugo11]

So we have to ignore concord completely or can we just not complete the 1st step ?

[@himonightbreeze]

I still just run in, grab the bobblehead and magazine, then dip without even looking at any of them. Preston throws some shade, and it doesn't trigger the deathclaw fight, but you also aren't going to be running around doing his bitch work. It never really made sense to me that he's still telling you to check out settlements AFTER you become the general. Like, "Nuh-uh. I give the orders now. You go deal with it."

[@himonightbreeze]

@@Donlugo11 See above. You don't have to ignore Concord, you just have to ignore Preston and Sturges. Speaking with them triggers the next wave of raiders outside and the deathclaw fight. You can run right past them, grab the perception bobblehead and power armor off the roof, and not have to deal with the minutemen for the rest of the game. You can still build a recruitment beacon without them and raiders won't attack Sanctuary. Weirdly, you can go to Abernathy Farm and the other settlements, still get their missions, and they'll still say they'll join the minutemen.

[@mitchells2003]

@@Donlugo11 I've heard the furthest you can go is sending them to Sanctuary. At that point if you talk to Preston and become the general, it's too late. As for me, I'm currently going through Nuka World while avoiding Concord entirely just to be safe.

[@iloveowls90]

unless you do open season

[@MrZenmancer]

FYI: The Silver Shroud is based off of "The Shadow (1994)" not Batman.

[@rcairforceone]

Perhaps some influence from The Grey Ghost character from the BTAS series.

[@jebbryant6522]

I always thought it was a bit of a 50/50 split between the old superman radio shows and the phantom but yeah the shadows definitely in that mix

[@miguelfigueroa5659]

The shadow is way older than the 1994 version

[@jb6748]

Fun movie

[@Lyulfr]

The Shadow dates way back before '94. He was a '30s pulp magazine hero and had a radio show in the '40s and '50s.

[@JamesLatimer]

That ‘Charge Card’ interaction made me laugh out loud when he called me a ‘retahd’

[@IndoorSunset]

Even though I already knew all of this. I still enjoyed listening to him talk about it :)

[@WinterIgnatius]

You can gain settlements without the Minutemen.

[@arlonmcg]

What!? No way!

[@volkerlanz6499]

@@arlonmcg Worth a mention only because claimed otherwise here at 11:00.

[@Lark88]

I remember trying that. Isn't some of the dialogue broken because they sometimes act like you are with the Minutemen after saving them?

[@volkerlanz6499]

@@Lark88 As "Lone" a Wanderer you may be you are always with the Minuteman for some settlements. The nonsensical dialogue does not break any quests or settlement functions though, at least I managed to have 29 settlements including the castle while Preston was still inside the Museum of Freedom.

[@Eysenbeiss]

​@@volkerlanz6499 Sanctuary, Starlight Drive-in, Ten Pines, Zimonja, The Slog, Coastal Cottage, Lighthouse, Coup Manor, Nordhagen Beach, County Crossings, Taffington Boathouse, Covenant, Abernathy Farm, Finch Farm, Somerville Place, Sunshine Tiding, Murkwater, Egret Tours Marina, Warwick Homestead, Hangmens Alley, Vault 88, Boston Airport, Bunker Hill, The Castle, Graygarden, Greentop Nursery, Home Plate, Jamaica Plains, Oberland Station, Red Rocket Station, Spectacle Island, Machnists Lair. 33 without Far Harbour, what could give 5 more, even though I don't call Homeplate a settlement and the Airport isn't really usable before taking out the Bothergoofs of Queens.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

There's actually an easy way to take out the Mirelurk Queen. Before clearing the Mirelurks from the Castle, set up 2-4 Bottlecap Mines in the section the Mirelurk Queen will cross to attack while having at least the 2nd or 3rd perk in Explosives (I can't remember which rn). Insta-kill. Works every time. Since I discovered that, I do it every time. Usually I only bother with grenades/mines when dealing with major boss fights too - and only when I can plant them around the place beforehand (and yes, I do this with the Kellogg fight too). I like the nervous Travis, so I never do the quest to give him confidence. I only do the bit to get Vadeem out of the stupid corner. That's it.

[@marcromain64]

Or make sure to have some ninja perks and retake The Castle by night using your gun of choice. The Mirelurk Queen won't even know who shot her.

[@NannyOggins]

I do exactly that and make sure Im on the opposite side of the castle on the wall when she spawns by leaving the egg batches up there until last. I hate it when my follower rushes forward to attack her and gets hurt by the bottlecap mines.

[@j.troydoe1278]

Take the castle solo because i dont loose any munitemen

[@marblemunkey]

It's really not that hard with a stash of landmines...

[@chesterstevens8870]

Oh yes, it would be such a SHAME if those nameless lv. 1 mooks with trash-tier guns were suddenly rendered into giblets...

[@sabersroommate8293]

Having the npc named Minutemen rather than settler is more immersive.

[@gagewarner6502]

I hate how often I go to ask a question to a NPC with the top choice and it progresses the conversation rather than just asking the question

[@WinegedDragoon]

I've never even ran across the Charge Card before, seen it in videos, always assumed it was a mod. I guess it's just a rare encounter then?

[@SadisticSenpai61]

It's a rare encounter, I think. Although I've only ever run into them in that little neighborhood you have to go through to get to the Castle.

[@nodak81]

Is it even an encounter? I thought the guy is always standing there in every playthrough.

[@Eysenbeiss]

He is a regular character, but he is _not_ always in the same place, but roaming around in the Quincy area. I have met him in at least three sports, depending on what you did in that area.

[@Munkylaw]

In the kent mission i did the shroud dialog. Popped a psychojet and killed sinjin before he had a chance to shoot kent. Did all of that in survival mode. 😂

[@HeadHunterSix]

Psycho Jet is one of the four food groups.

[@SuperCosmicChaos]

If you kill kent he cant upgrade the shroud costume.

[@dieseljester]

8:35 - You can also fight The Mechanist as The Silver Shroud if you have the costume to get an interesting conversation exchange. :)

[@tephra_]

I've played since release and had no idea Travis can be killed and replaced. I hate Travis and that gotdamn quest with all my battered heart.

[@ircjesselee]

Normal batter or beer-battered?

[@tephra_]

@@ircjesseleeBoth. One as a consequence of the other.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

See, I like Travis, but I hate the quest. I like him exactly as he is prior to Confidence Man.

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

You can paint the wall in diamond city. Green blue or yellow?

[@xdifficultviper9916]

Or red too

[@arlonmcg]

What!? No way

[@kelefgaming2795]

Those mireluks nests at the Castle always despawn for me after few in-game days

[@volkerlanz6499]

11:00: "Of course this will lock you out of finding new settlements" - It won't. You can get all settlements without ever talking to any Minuteman, only downside being that dead Mirelurks at The Castle won't despawn until the Minutemen show up. Just be careful with ignoring Preston Garvey mid-conversation. This can break all companion interaction until you get back to Preston and respond to him.

[@DuJuanSylvester]

Yep " So glad you're here, we could really use your help!"

[@DuJuanSylvester]

buttttt, not sure if I can get recruitment beacons without the minute men or the Nuka Raiders..let me check that out in this play through

[@catch9522]

You can convince the robots to open that mini mall they're in up. It'll give you a bunch of shops to buy and sell stuff

[@unicyclepeon]

How do you do that? They always attack me.

[@TheFreeBass]

@@unicyclepeon There's a whole quest that starts @ the administrator's office (tower by the front gate)

[@Beardificent]

@@unicyclepeon just head straight to the director. don't visit any others, all the robots will be nice and fixed.

[@hiddendesire3076]

If you wear the silver shroud getup toy can also bypass the Mechanist fight

[@youngnat]

The game gives you choices, but not consequences. Fallout 4 choices are just this reward or that reward. Where is the choice to eliminate the Minutemen when you join the institute? No where to be found.

[@TenkoVA]

To be fair, the minutemen are almost wiped out once you arrive, I doubt they were very high on the list of dangerous parties

[@Beardificent]

become Overboss

[@OriginalLictre]

The Minutemen are Bethesda's ultimate fallback faction, so you can completely F* your relationships with all the other factions, but still get the victory while listening to Preston gripe about another settlement that you've armed with laser and rocket launcher turrets that needs your help to protect them from raiders that are attacking them with pipe weapons.

[@src6339]

I already knew about all of those. If you clear the castle early, the mirelirk nest debris won't clear until the minute men move in. Also if you ignor the minute untill after you clear nuka world, and reclaim all your raider settlments, preston wont care that you were once the overboss. Also, in one playthrough, I choose not to leave Vault 111. 🤔

[@danielmiller3596]

Not as short as seeing if you can miss the entrance to the pods 😜

[@Kattlarv]

Buy charge card > Take bottlecaps back > Sell charge card > Success.

[@AllenGray47]

The thing I love about the mechanistic fight is you can show up as the silver shroud and have a showdown of ideology

[@Katsuhi50]

as someone who hates preston garvey and the minutemen i can confirm that if you don't want to have anything to do with them and still want the settlements around the commonwealth you can either A: go to nuka world and progress that storyline till Gage is ready to come with you back to the commonwealth and start taking settlements that way or B: kill the settlement population to unlock the workshop option B does not work for all settlements since some npcs are essential and tied to major questlines in order to unlock such as bunker hill but that is a rarity and you can get roughly 80~90% of the settlements this way if you like being a raider and or psychopath.

[@ryanjohnwisniewski599]

Silver Shroud is a pretty clear nod to "The Shadow" .

[@Ruosteinenknight]

Okay, I didn't know about 8. That is going to be such a lifesaver, since I'm playing as a hacker.

[@DecepticonScout]

I didn't know I could actually skip the minute men introduction! I'm honestly an institute fan.

[@demandred1957]

Yep, you may have to talk to preston once, (I think you get locked into dialog once you are close to him) but after that, grab the bobble and magazine and whatever loot you want from the museum, then go fight the deathclaw etc....and never come back...lol I know a place where some minuteman wannabe is slowing starving to death along with some other side shows. lemme mark it on your map!

[@jpeters1734]

@@demandred1957 no you don't just go straight to diamond city'

[@DecepticonScout]

​@@demandred1957 No I don't want you to mark it on my map! I've seen people at events like pax where people dress up like minutemen who actually say that. If I ever encounter someone like that I'll just say, X6-946 recall code Omega Foxtrot.

[@DuJuanSylvester]

@@demandred1957 ahhh, Was avoiding the museum and forgot about the perks...

[@sabersroommate8293]

10:23 I did it with a 6 crank Laser Musket in survival mode. Just shoot, run, hide and repeat until it dies.

[@fp6343]

2:28, in survival mode, the Sole Survivor can sleep in one of the beds before taking the lift, so it's not hours of playtime that is lost, only a few minutes.

[@DazenthGamingYT]

Am I the only one who kills the mirelurk queen with a shit ton of landmines when doing the minutemen questline?? makes for a funny sight watching the queen get tossed in the air like a ragdoll XD (never use landmines so by the time i get to the quest i have like 40 so i spend some time just tossing all 40 in the wall opening where the queen walks through to attack you)

[@nickhelmer]

The first time, I just abused the missile launcher and multiple missiles conveniently lying around. Every time after, yes, landmines galore

[@DazenthGamingYT]

@@nickhelmer lol every now and then for some reason the landmines set themselves off while I'm placing them and my body goes flying instead

[@itwasaliens]

Dog Meats interaction during Maxons speech would be hilarious if he was indeed a synth plant from the institute.

[@valor1omega]

The guy who scams you can lead to a settlement by that perk and keeping uour gun on him and once to a settlement he can be made into a lvl 4 vender. Hard part was getting him to a settlement alive and acting quickly before he wanders off again before officially making him a settler and then vender. And no you don't need mods or console commands.

[@ericcarterofthehillpeople]

It's not false. Fallout 4 is lacking in choice. Our complaint has to do with our freedom to make choices in quests and how the world reacts. Choosing things like killing or not killing an NPC is not satisfying choice one expects from an RPG. New Vegas is the only post-isometric Fallout game that managed to successfully blend FPS gameplay with meaningful choice.

[@thomasgardiner6326]

I hate to be the guy to say it but shut up. Opinions are objective. Its a game with four factions that all have meaningful dialogue when you side with them. It also has intriguing and enjoyable side quests scattered throughout a humongous map. The quests feel fun and balanced and my only complaint is the variety of bugs. For me, Fallout 4 has a lot of options and fun choices, and whilst you can say you love NV all you want, you cant say that FO4 has no meaningful choices because thats an objective statement. Choosing a faction is significant. Theres lots of important questlines with different outcomes (eg Bunker Hill) depending on whether or not you side with a different faction or not. Its a 9 year old game. Its not going to have the expansiveness of modern titles. And NV is not a perfect almighty game either. Im sick of people trying to determine which game is objectively better and whats objectively right. Its a video game. Let people enjoy it in peace. Thank you.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

The choices are much more limited, but they do exist. Even in Skyrim, the actual choices are pretty limited even without the strict 4 dialogue options. It's not the dialogue tree that limits the choices in Fallout 4. It's the way Bethesda planned the game - they artificially limited the choices themselves. They could have created interesting branches if they wanted to, even with the dialogue limitations. They just chose to go that route because while Bethesda games are open-world, the choices aren't made in dialogue - they're made by what you do outside the dialogue. That's been the case with Bethesda games from the start - even back in Morrowind. The many dialogue choices in earlier Bethesda games just gave us the illusion of choice. It was through the limited dialogue tree that said illusion of choice just became more obvious to players. But even then, we still very much enjoy their games. And many of us use mods to expand those choices beyond what Bethesda programmed into the game.

[@davidarnold7147]

I don't like correcting people; people make grammar mistakes, including me but it's 'subjective' not 'objective'.

[@janettemccubbin8246]

The castle is easy when doing it yourself, just put down a load of mines at the spawn site, if it doesn’t kill her outright it certainly takes a load of health off her.

[@shireboundscribbles]

Dogmeat is great. I literally completed the main story (and my first 80 levels just with him). After that I went to Piper, and my ideal setup would be with those two.

[@volkerlanz6499]

Not exactly the most capable companions or most useful companion perks but hey, we wanna feel comfy with the guys around us, right?!

[@TheFreeBass]

@@volkerlanz6499 Dog may not be a "perfect" companion, but he doesn't count as a companion if you take the Loner perk (can't remember the exact name) & makes a great pack mule.

[@shireboundscribbles]

@@volkerlanz6499 I play for the aesthetics and morals rather than min-maxing the power. Those two give the game the best feel (with Old Longfellow in third place). Not a fan of Curie; she's a bit too much of a science cultist.

[@volkerlanz6499]

@@shireboundscribbles My RP preference depends on my character. On my first playthrough I was a decent guy, and Piper was just the right companion. On my current playthrough Cait and McCready got on my nerves the least. They're just not as critical about my more dubious choices than most of the other ones. A dog, although undoubtedly sympathetic, is just too much of a hindrance for a sneaky sniper. I'd need more stimpaks for him on a single mission than for myself to finish the game.

[@ostlandr]

There's also the "Everybody's Best Friend" mod that lets you take on a human companion and still keep Dogmeat around. That rocks.

[@kacmed]

charge cards are legit in far harbour ... you can sell them to vendors there meaning he started his business there, and then tried to spread in commonwealth

[@CPT85]

1:53 You mean Batman and Dick Tracy. Cole Phelps was essentially inspired by Dick Tracey.

[@ostlandr]

Was I the only one that noticed the game gives you a yellow trench coat and a yellow fedora to go with your Pip-boy? If that ain't Dick Tracy and his two-way wrist radio (later two-way wrist TV) I don't know what is.

[@ronnierayburn998]

I always wondered about those holotapes at the Mechanist. Completely new info for me. Thx a bunch! Also... It pleases me greatly that you despise the so-called-music they insist on playing at the Castle. Thankfully, there's a switch to turn off the loudspeaker.

[@travistar]

I killed the deathclaw before talking to the minutemen. Now I have finished the main quest and still can't talk to them. Preston is just standing outside saying 'what are you waiting for?'

[@BigArnieLongplays]

I felt more invested in the settlement building, world exploration and side quests in Fallout 4 than I did in the main story. Bethesda did so well on this.

[@Kadcium]

Settlement building is probably what I enjoy most in that game

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

One of the most painfully frustrating tasks in the game? Not even close.

[@porcus123]

Brooks in far harbor is actually a synth so him accepting the card can be him just getting fooled as well

[@smokeyredmeadow]

9:45 me with 2 mini nukes, a crit, and big boy, looking over the queen's spawn point: your mistake was thinking that YOU were the boss in this arena.

[@susanlisson7066]

Ugh the Mechanist quest was my last dlc I was 90% of the way through when the new PS5 Fallout update completely wiped that & all my other completed dlc!!! Btw, if you don’t kill the Mechanist she gives you ongoing side quests.

[@LeRoiEnJaune]

If you can't appreciate those sweet, sweet string instrumentals on Radio Freedom, then you can't appreciate 'Murrica.

[@ogdizzie5190]

Mechanist! Another reason why I like the Bethesda games I’ve played fallout 4 since day release and never knew there was a back door I hate having to fight all them robots 👍🏻

[@anonsidious358]

Parker Quinn Charge card guy. If you use lvl 3 intimidation perk on him he can be recruited as a settler and you can assign him a shop where he will sell rare foods.

[@AllenGray47]

3:10 "It's a *rigid...air...ship!* - Captain Lammers

[@TrollingRacist-ng9fd]

I'm sure everyone knows in fallout 4 theirs a bank with a lot of pre war money behind a vault that respawns it every 4 to 5 days.

[@AverageWagie]

I think almost every location respawns loot and junk to a degree. There's places where I've already picked every lock but when I go back after a few days the safe is locked again with brand new loot waiting inside. I think it's so you never run out of ways to spam affection with companions

[@magincap70]

Only 4 options....but it's down a tree that can go forever.

[@ALY-xc7fl]

Yeah but if feels limiting, there are only 4 options per dialogue turn, sure the tree extends forever, but it’s a perfectly symmetrical tree which is boring. The other fallout games have more randomness which helps make it feel more like a story and less like video game, if that makes sense, sometimes you get 6 options, sometimes you get 2 or 1. It feels more like natural responses to the conversation

[@magincap70]

@ALY-xc7fl yeah I get what you're saying but the the fallout 4 trees go deep sometimes. Some people have minutes of questions you can go through and choosing the right 3 or 4 buttons may lead you to a charisma check. Hell if you bully Mason enough he'll give you "the problem solver" which is one of the sickest guns ever. I think people suffer from the "it's not like the old ones so it sucks" mentality.

[@ALY-xc7fl]

@@magincap70 people absolutely suffer from that mentality and it is extremely frustrating. I feel like a lot of FO4 is unfairly criticized although it has plenty of valid criticisms. A lot of people just think newer games aren’t like the ones from “the good ole days” even if they’re just as good

[@rogerjohnson7888]

Great video and awesome info !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Lordoftheapes79]

I've done most of these. Everything except skipping Cogsworth and the Minute Men.

[@MichaelMintWithLint]

the first one with guy who made his meat from ghouls when I first went in the building I immediately killed the guy cuz of the argument he had with the vault dweller when u first enter had no idea he was a quest line till now😂

[@allenkruse3246]

If you talk to skinny malone while on daytripper he lets you go and you then meet him sitting at a campsite in the wasteland by himself

[@MatthewYoink]

10 choices in fallout that aren’t so secret and validates the 4 dialogue options are subpar argument. Fixed your title.

[@NoFrontinPod]

I like confident Travis

[@unicyclepeon]

As a person yes. But as a radio personality he is worse.

[@Kalhenwrath1]

So yeah, The Silver Shroud isn't some cross of Batman and Cole Phelps, it's a reference to The Shadow (which Batman stole *a lot* from).

[@trav6718]

The charge card guy can also be made into a level 4 merchant

[@Tzephtan]

* You do not need the Minutemen at all to take settlements. All they do is unlock the Castle. * Beating the mirelurk queen at the Castle is extremely easy. You know where she's going to walk. You know when she'll emerge. Just put down enough mines and she'll be dead before you see her.

[@TheMaddgodd81]

Tenpin in the Galleria isn't scamming you. The reason he asks for 5000 prewar money is because that was how insane prewar inflation had gotten. It's an ingenious bit of environmental storytelling. It tells you that, before the bombs dropped, it cost $5000 for a single game of bowling...

[@saladinbob]

Dogmeat up on his hind legs is one of his tricks you can ask him to perform, and this being a Bethesda game that scene is as likely a bug as it is a feature.

[@ostlandr]

Nah. Dogmeat is an old soul, a warrior soul. The Elder's speech spoke to him. That was the best he could do to stand at attention.

[@SebastianWeinberg]

It's not the limited number of dialogue options that made people realise the main story has only one single meaningful decision, and it's yet another variation of Bethesda's old standby for "deep moral dilemmas", namely the same "Which shit sandwich would you rather eat?" that they _always_ use. Of course, limiting conversation to four options that are always the same - "↑: Question, →: Negative/aggressive, ↓:Positive/friendly, ←:Sarcastic/‘joking’ " - didn't exactly help to hide the fact that all story-relevant conversations are 100% on rails, with as many "branches" to the dialogue tree as a gun barrel. The writer decided that this conversation would proceed through points A, B, C, and D, and you _will_ follow this route, no matter what! It doesn't matter which option you chose at point A; if you're _lucky_ you'll get a variant response A1, A2, A3, or A4 before you're _inevitably_ moved on to point B (or back to point A again, if you pressed "up" to ask a question), then C, and finally D. The fact that each step of the way has three different "flavours" of moving on to the next point in the line doesn't make those into "choices". _That's_ why people say that, not because they didn't find some alternative routes in a couple of side quests.

[@nessuno1984]

None of what you said is true. You obviously never went through all the dialogue choices, but I have and do every playthrough by reloading. Choosing the up arrow 'question' choice almost always unlocks another dialogue choice for up and if you keep choosing up there can be several more choices unlocked, and this gives you background information from the NPC that you could just skip by choosing another arrow instead if you don't want to hear it, so that's choice. Choosing up arrow can also unlock new left or right or down arrow dialogue which is not sarcastic or aggressive or friendly as that arrow normally is. You don't always end up at the same point as you could have annoyed the NPC so they won't tell you the info you want so they cut off the conversation, or made the NPC aggressive so ending the conversation prematurely, or sweet talked them with a speech check, or made them react with more info because you made a smartass comment or intimidated them. The dialogue you have with Maxson during Blind Betrayal has amazing variety if you go through it all or mix up your responses and that conversation seems to have the most variety. I played Fallout 4 then Fallout 3 and New Vegas and was surprised anyone would prefer the older games’ dialogue system as I was very annoyed with NPCs in the older games kicking me out of dialogue constantly and me having to interact with them again to ask them all the other available questions. Fallout 4 is far superior for this reason.

[@vasaus]

Ten pin isnt scamming, the prewar economy was just that bad

[@ostlandr]

Yeah, look at the prices on the magazines and comic books.

[@OriginalLictre]

@@ostlandr And the price for one gallon of coolant at the Red Rocket station.

[@devobronc]

There are choices, but they don't really matter.

[@Middlefinger-r7b]

Yeah you can do some evil stuff 😂

[@Josh-yj1mr]

The best way I play Fallout 4 is All Factions at Peace including DLC with killing the institute

[@BobWills-j2y]

silver shroud isnt a mix of anything, its a direct knockoff of "the shadow"

[@anonymousperson8487]

All choices lead to "I got another job for you"

[@catch9522]

Saving Kent the ghoul is really hard. It can be done but you need to save before going in the room where the cut scene takes place. You have to be fast with vats and kill the ghoul pointing the gun at him. It takes a really powerful weapon

[@volkerlanz6499]

Yeah, like a 10 mm. One or two VATS shots in Survival Mode if you have perks magazines. Sure a bit more difficult with a low-agility low-level character.

[@unicyclepeon]

With high Charisma, you can convince them to make Kent watch his hero (you) die. So they don't kill him, and you can fight them safely as long as nobody tosses any grenades.

[@guerra_dos_bichos]

I thought the 5000.00 dollars where meant to express the inflation was just that bad by the time the bombs exploded

[@singjai108]

Not a great episode. You can get rid of the henchmen at the end of the Silver Shroud quest simply by passing all the Silver Shroud dialogue checks. The henchmen don't think you're crazy, they think they're actually facing the Shroud - and they surrender. And just because some of those other "choices" expose dialogue, it doesn't mean they're options worth taking. A KZbinr I used to follow while playing Fallout New Vegas seemed to have an instinct for finding rare dialogue you could feel good about going for.

[@DuJuanSylvester]

OMG, I had not the cannery on any play through so just made my way there. I forced the dialog before killing him to cut me in for a cut of the profits. Got my initial hush money. He walks away and Piper wasted him

[@TheAdventuresofStrider-xn9dv]

I'm not sure if I'm an unpopular opinion here, but just go to goodneighbor and save just before attempting to steal the fat man and mini-nukes. That way, if they catch you, just reload from that save. Then you are fully equipped with enough firepower to fricking 1-tap the mirelurk queen. It's so easy, but no one thinks of the fat man just sitting there. It's because it's pretty hard to steal it. And hell only knows no one is buying that shit. The price they put on it is like 10x markup. You might want to have the sneaky perk for it too. It raises chances of stealing it successfully to 100% as long as you are crouching and the top of your screen says [hidden]

[@OriginalLictre]

Why bother to steal the fat man at goodneighbor, when you can go East and a little north from Sanctuary and pick up a fatman and at least one mini-nuke at the Robotics Disposal Ground, where you can also find one of the Hot-Rodder magazines.

[@DuJuanSylvester]

I got my hacker perk. Hack KLEO. Steal her FatMan. Sell it back to her.

[@Jameshunt2663]

I’ve actually already met cod’s worth late on most of my saves

[@thoseguysgaming101]

Bro I randomly did the brotherhood mission and when dogmeat did that I was like "ok now you stay boy" every other companion can suck it I only need my dog. Together the apocalypse fears us😎💀

[@CallofFreaky]

6:43 they turn on you because of an error in their programming not because you’re not a supervisor

[@MarxismGaming]

I tried to talk to Theodore but dogmeat decided he would just kill him

[@whatgamesweplay]

if you don't help the minutemen, dogmeat will stay dog as it's mama murphy who tells you its name

[@EdanGrey]

You'll can also learn his name from Nick Valentine when you investigate the house in Diamond City and use Dogmeat to lead you to onwards.

[@Princess_Celestia_]

Feral ghouls are the most annoying enemy in the game, especially the charred variety. Damned things are bullet sponges from hell.

[@jayyjohnston2445]

The mechanist is a different mechanist. The one in 3 is indeed dead

[@CosmicGoku529]

Not necessarily dead but it is a different one. Fallout 4 takes place only a few years after Fallout 3. A few of the characters in Fallout 3 are in Fallout 4. So, the original Mechanist could still be alive in the Capital Wasteland.

[@jamezilla]

Actually the Silver Shroud is the Phantom.

[@mahtoosacks]

I gave curie the other wedding ring

[@mr.tbutler4294]

I killed myself Travis after the Quest was complete at Lvl.22 I just held him in dialogue until the Bobrov guy was gone so he wouldn't turn Hostile. I regret it now though as I'm Lvl.78 & Sheng's Radio dialogue is 100% more repetitive than Travis.

[@benwillems8584]

Do not play the holotapes on the terminal in the mechanist lair Play them on your pipboy near the elevator

[@rileymiller3154]

Hey it's a different person that's the mechanist this time and they are also female