Fallout 4: 5 Unsettling Mysteries You May Have Missed in the Commonwealth - Fallout 4 Secrets

[@Blackwolfufk]

I'm still trying to figure out how caps got into a bank vault before the war.

[@StacieMMeier]

I noticed that likewise. Caps existed after Nukes. You even find Caps in old pre-war boxes, why were they storing them?

[@Mage-7734]

+Stacie Meier Bad loot tables?

[@StacieMMeier]

+Chris Gowen Indeed, still it is funny that stores sealed up have caps in Cash registers...lol Or even in Bank Vaults...lol

[@nvfury13]

Caps are soda bottle metal caps, they existed prewar; as to why you find them in places you’d expect cash from prewar: They most likely effectively were. Fallout’s prewar setting was heavily 50’s inspired, but a number of WW II things were worked in: shortages; return deposits and exchanges; ration books/stamps. One thing that really applies here was the return exchanges, as things like used toothpaste tubes (made of metal at the time) and bottle caps were often used as exchange items in WW II; were bringing them in could get you a discount on or (with enough) *free* items when shopping. In effect they *were* currency, just like ration book stamps (also occasionally mentioned in Fallout lore), both of which you would find people storing where they would store money back in WW II, finding out there were even banks that accepted them for deposit at the time wouldn’t be surprising.

[@gavinagain4631]

Nick V - "Popeye, why do you still carry around your 'chute?" "I'm going to use the silk for Kittys wedding dress, we took all the silk." - Band of Brothers.

[@obviouslemur]

Just realized that the Fairline Hill Estates has a similar feeling as the simulation neighborhood in FO3

[@eaglestryker1338]

I had the Vault-Tec workshop DLC and sent the Vault Representative there to manage one of my shops. Looks like he did get into a vault after all.

[@milenaavila1603]

About West End... considering that there is a skeleton guarding some ghouls, you could say that these ghouls are probably the skeleton's family. They were infected with radiation, and the skeleton decided to keep them alive, despite the fact that they became monsters. Heartbreaking. (Just saw that there is another comment here saying the exact same thing)

[@bradleystilwell5960]

That bit about Maxon was most likely an easter egg to Captain America

[@Anonymous-uo7nb]

2:26 the most threatening sentence I’ve ever heard

[@sovietsoft3828]

9:34 Early warning system he probably knew a ICBM was inbound and had only our player left to sign off on going into the vault and he most likely raced down here to get this guy access which would also allow him entry to the vault as a sort of quota but what happened is he had no time to get it reported to Vault-Tech before being blasted into the future (quite literally)

[@eazzy5822]

3:30 the people probably turned into ghouls and the last survivor was trying to either 'tame' them and have them be civil ghouls or was hoping for a cure somehow

[@jonathonworner360]

Elder Maxson is Squire Maxson from Fallout 3 isn't he? Hard to believe that at age 13 he killed a Deathclaw, bare handed

[@spongebobbies]

I think the dead postman is a reference to the man who reported the victory of marathon by the Greeks who died after running a marathon and saying nikke which translates to victory

[@BF-I-II-V-V-III-VII]

The postman is a 1997 movie about a nameless drifter who dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America. Not a bad movie. Its with Kevin Costner.

[@ManuelSanchez-hc9xr]

The vault tec rep knew the bomb was on the way, he needed to get all those signatures to make sure he had enough people for the experime I always thought the post man was a thief, I recall something about the loot available at the locations it reveals.

[@joshuafroughton4171]

On the island on the south east of the map, you know the one you can build a settlement on. The name escapes me. There's an out house with two skeletons in it. There's a women sitting down with a man face down across her lap. She also has a paddle in her hand. Like the man was receiving a spanking when the bombs fell. Lol just found it yesterday. I know I'm a few years late

[@legiondecanus961]

6:00 I think he was just talking about power armour Ect

[@shiteyanyo1111]

My whole thing with MacCready is...WHAT happened to his son? Is Duncan okay??

[@screaming_weasel762]

That abandoned settlement is the fake place in fallout 3 where that guy put the headsets on everyone

[@mcoreotims2509]

Yeah Fallout has a lot of unanswered QUESTions :D

[@damiensullivan5222]

I just want to know what the hell is im Deezer’s Lemonade in Covenant.

[@colemorrow5042]

In the words of strong "looks like piss, tastes like piss, is piss"

[@zstrode.8953]

Definitely human pisss

[@redzed2038]

The Peeepee

[@cleanwater3180]

Robot lube

[@eyesack6845]

PISS

[@jimmynutron7969]

Is it just me or does Fairline Hill estates look a lot like tranquility lane from the simulation in fallout 3???

[@thattallguyleo531]

I said the same thing bruh I was like how doesn’t anybody notice

[@imtasty8693]

To me it looked like Grove Street a little from GTA SA

[@ethzero]

Thought the exact same thing until I remember that was a FO3 thing :D

[@aren1887]

I honestly hate Tranquility Lane, as to me, it's f***ing creepy as hell.

[@smokeytherat1533]

Duuuuuude Jimmy nutron can I have ur autograph

[@NotMikey437]

Of course preston would be blunt about there being a settlement there. Here he'll mark it on your map.

[@cookiesmonsters8577]

Still questioning joining them

[@articusramos808]

Too bad pay is roughly 100 caps for saving those settlements

[@silenthero4450]

Cookies Monsters building up all your settlements will get you full map artillery coverage, so that’s nice. Of course if you beat BoS with them you’ll get the vertibirds as well.

[@alanpascal7631]

FUUUUU--

[@Peeky-Meeky]

Hey how much caps do I get for saving your grandchild from being dropped in a fev tank?? *6 caps*

[@Botro1]

The Blue Flu might be considered canon actually! It's referenced in some of the idle chats dwellers have in Fallout Shelter!

[@McDonaldWilliamT]

Have a look at some of the Lore for the cancelled Fallout 3 project named Van Buren. Its a callback to that. Alluded to as well in Point Lookout. The disease in question is what was called The New Plague and basically was the impetus for the start of the Pan Immunity Virion Project. The program which led to the development of the Forced Evolutionary Virus.

[@guy_autordie]

The blue flu is the new plague.

[@Finn_7117]

It is cannon, it was talked about in Fallout 3 and NV, well kinda in NV. In the cut game it said 2 Chinese dragoon soldiers in stealth armor infiltrated the blue flu lab under Hoover Dam and the US military killed them and gained the armor and in NV you find Chinese stealth armor in the Hoover Dam

[@hermit7165]

Is fallout shelter canon?

[@comander____michael8940]

@@hermit7165 yes it is.

[@YooranKujara]

"Murdered a Deathclaw to death." is now my favorite sentence

[@kingvaliant2963]

I was just about to say

[@hayden3865]

He says it in everything and it's just annoying

[@flareondapig469]

I read this exactly when he said it word for word

[@juniornostaw7536]

I came here only to hear that line… “Murdered to death”? lol

[@murkkz1679]

@@kingvaliant2963 nice pfp

[@anubisanarchy5710]

As to why McCready knew about a possible cure in Med Tek, you forgot that some guy named Sinclaire had a friend who had the same disease and was trying to get the cure from Med Tek but died before he can succeed so Sinclaire gave McCready the information and even the passcode for he can save his son's life.

[@uttersolitude]

Nate tends to do that lol

[@LordBloodraven]

The Lone Survivor recalls one strange encounter: During my travels, I once found the body of a dead delivery boy. After searching his belongings, I tracked down his employer. Some crazy old scientist. When introducing me to his crew, he announced, *"GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!* We have a new delivery boy."

[@juliehudson3556]

Sorry, what’s the reference?

[@Beauxjak]

Julie Hudson Futurama

[@chris-m780]

Sole survivor dumbass.

[@waterwaifu612]

Lord Bloodraven I can’t tell if you put lone because it’s close to sole or because your thinking about the lone wanderer

[@uthredragnarson7753]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jamespondy0]

The dead postman is part of a hidden quest. In the city behind him, there's a random door you can go in, and talk to his daughter.

[@saucy-one]

Also... Kevin Kostner's The Postman is about a Fallout type world where a wanderer finds a uniform and pretends that the usps is still in service to con his way into a place like Diamond City.

[@tomcascaddan8319]

@@saucy-one I always figured it was a Easter egg for the movie/book The Postman as well.

[@lucathesadman]

What city

[@hrodga]

@@saucy-one David Brin's 'The Postman'. The book was SO much better than the movie.

[@saucy-one]

@@hrodga right on, ty

[@otimo144]

Isn't the dead post man just a reference to the movie "The Postman"?

[@perpetualpunster]

Yep.

[@seanthompson3163]

They should have put Tom Petty in Fallout 4 too

[@ThyMagusNikola]

Hey... isn’t he famous? Huh... he used to be. 😬

[@DonDorscha]

Cybernetics are entirely canon in the BoS. In FO1 by Interplay you can get cybernetic upgrades from a doctor in the BoS bunker as long as you are a member and have the caps to pay (and the time to wait to heal). Obviously then the Brotherhood wouldn't have an issue with cybernetic enhancement so its perfectly feasible that Maxson is enhanced.

[@kyleanderson4977]

Star Paladin Cross from FO3 is canon to be a cyborg as well.

[@anonymousperson3153]

Implants are also in New Vegas.

[@black_rhino241]

Kellog was a cyborg and had his body enhanced with drugs and radiation to make him age super slowly that’s why he’s alive 60 years later after kidnapping Sean and looks the same

[@TheHerobrian23]

Murdered to death

[@j.h2968]

Beat me to it

[@prestongarvey4139]

But general a settlement needs our help

[@Wolfinsheepsclothing0707]

people die when they are killed

[@straightupnothavingagoodtime]

unoriginal e w

[@straightupnothavingagoodtime]

@@prestongarvey4139 help our needs settlement another general but

[@Jesse12489]

There used to be a settlement here. That's one less settlement that needs my help.

[@AFatOcelot]

Lmao “What’s this postman’s story??” *picks up dead postman limp body and shakes it around*

[@j.a.pelaez6435]

Found the uniform in an old van

[@getthegoons]

Honestly same.

[@saooran7364]

@@j.a.pelaez6435 among some old weed and a booze flask

[@j.a.pelaez6435]

Now he's trying to rebuild America

[@VaultBoy-ox1sx]

@@j.a.pelaez6435 yes, the postman

[@james_greeny2180]

Are we gonna ignore the fact that one of his characters were called George w bush

[@jeffreylessard7538]

That was the low intelligence character playthrough

[@gaaraofthefunk7163]

I wish there were secret Easter eggs for remarkable naked characters.

[@aamaravel2493]

@@jeffreylessard7538 ROFL

[@aamaravel2493]

there was one named mike pence too

[@117zachbaker]

THE FIRST ONE WITH THE GOULS ,THE REASON THEY ARE LOCKED INTO THAT ROOM IS BECAUSE IT WAS SOMEONES FAMILY THERE IS A JOURNAL NEARBY AND IT SAYS THAT "HE COULDNT BRING HIM SELF TO DO IT"

[@DanTheReaperMann]

Bro turn down the caps there's no need for it.

[@KainaX122]

About what I figured

[@MustafaCemal]

@ BlackDragon: YO WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU? CAPS IS THE BEST: BESIDES YOU WOULDNT STAND A CHANCE WHEN I PULL UP ON YO!

[@mascamuelassmith8088]

@@MustafaCemal CAPS SQUAD FOR LIFE

[@Snoogen11]

GONNA BUST A CAPS IN YO ASS!

[@YokomichiSilver]

I just find it funny that Arthur Maxson the leader of the brotherhood of steel is in fact the very same kid that we saw back in fallout 3 over in the Citadel.

[@ላንካ]

Yeah the little bitch whose fall in love with Sentinel Lyon.

[@alienking3847]

rikulight90 yeah I played fallout 4 before 3 (ik Ik lol shame on me) and I was like ohhh shit haha you have no idea what’s to come homeboy

[@altra972]

but have y'all played fallout 1 or 2

[@alienking3847]

MyPhoneFlips no lol

[@MinutemanOutdoors]

I'm pretty sure the lone wanderer gave him great advice as a kid and as an adult he chose not to follow it.

[@qjo1999]

Pertaining to Elder Maxson being "enhanced;" in Fallout 1 the brotherhood of steel will actually sell you cybernetic Implants and it is an established part of their lore that they possess and use cybernetic enhancement technology. Quinlan is also most likely referring to th fact that Maxson has power armour, vertibirds, lasers and a giant airship at his disposal.

[@Darmani2MB]

An interesting approach, however, if Quinlan were just describing the technology Maxson posseses there was no reason to specify "but still very much human" at the end

[@qjo1999]

@@Darmani2MB Star Paladin Cross in Fallout 3 is another example of Brotherhood usage of cybernetics.

[@twinsoflupa146]

@@qjo1999 that's what I was going to bring up. Maxson spent quite a bit of time in the Capital Wasteland, its possible he received all or some of the same enhancements.

[@Unknowerr404]

He's a synth

[@Unknowerr404]

Nvm that's paladin danse I was thinking of

[@animehuntress9018]

For the dead postman... I always thought it was an Easter egg for the movie The Postman. Early in the movie the survivor finds a postman and delivers the letters and eventually sets the corner stones to reestablishing civilization. I thought it was just quirky thing they added because if you are doing the Minuteman route its a very very similar storyline.

[@nvfury13]

It was a double reference, to both The Postman, and The Courier of New Vegas.

[@addison82201]

I think it's an east coast version of Mojave post office thing( can't remember the name)

[@demonguy5082]

It's just one of Piper's mailman sending newspaper across the commonwealth

[@1804-rev]

I think the courier in the postman's uniform is a reference to the movie "the postman". In the movie, the world has ended and a survivor finds an old US mail van with a postal uniform inside along with some letters. He takes the uniform and, to gain entry to a town, he claims that he's with the remnants of the government of the United States. By coincidence, he actually has letters that were supposed to be sent to the people in the town or their ancestors. That's all I really remember though.

[@misterindica9821]

Yea bro I was about to say that thing. good move

[@elizabethkruszewski107]

It's also a good book. Much different than the movie though

[@zacharyhinton7656]

The will of Shadoon great movie

[@CentralNexusPrime]

I took it more as a fiction reference than an in universe puzzle, As to him being unarmed maybe someone else found the body but was only interested in weapons and ammo. Being unarmed when we find him means little

[@CentralNexusPrime]

jbiehlable it happens to sci-fi. Star Trek had is with interplanetary ships in the nineties. Lost In Space thought we would have interstellar drives by the late seventies. For everything they get right they get mountains wrong....

[@ClydeC]

The dead postman could be a ref to the “The Postman” movie starring Kevin Costner, same settings

[@toransxx]

More like novel. Developers even said that they took inspiration for fallout games from novel "The Postman" by David Brin.

[@ClydeC]

D-LZ AI can you cite the article or source for that info? Can seem to get hold of it on google..

[@toransxx]

I can't find it but it was an interview on youtube. They talked about inspiration for F4 and Postman was among other books.

[@baconous689]

looks like he tried it but it didn't go well for him

[@Marine4399]

That is what it is

[@brydjoslin4674]

Btw with elder Maxson his "technological assistance" might come from well everything the B.O.S. is about...technology, power armor and the airship just to name a couple.

[@crimsonking440]

Or maybe... Just maybe... Bethesda has shitty writers.

[@danamoore1788]

@@crimsonking440 Nooooo! Say it ain't so!

[@LordStencil]

But BoS object to cybernetics sinse it's a path leading to another technology crisis so I check it to either shitty writers or since the west and east coast chapters are different and maxson gets it in track but with Lyons tactics like letting wastelanders join if they prove themselves, so maybe cybernetics is looked at differently too

[@jeffhelmick8065]

No bethesda obviously means the power armor... seriously what else would they be talking about beside a how many inch thick of plasma, microfusion, radiation, weather, water, arrow and fecies resistant "PROOF" Steel? I mean that seems pretty OP to me not to mention the tac light.

[@JamesMichaelDoyle]

i took it to mean some bio tinkering. or maybe minor implants like in new vegas. minor enhancements, but that he would have been given all of them, regardless of the scarcity/cost.

[@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540]

4 years later, and it just occurred to me, could Fairline Hill Estates be a nod to Roanoake?

[@jesusdiscipledon1499]

CROATOAN

[@jesusdiscipledon1499]

Fair line estates seems to be a settlement where a family turned to ghouls. A member of the family who hadn’t turned was keeping them locked up probably in hopes of finding a cure at the behest of the rest of the community who likely wanted to eliminate the threat. Fighting ensues, or the settlement was raided by gunners, Muties, ghouls, all of the above?

[@eddieowen2122]

@@jesusdiscipledon1499 but then where are the bodies? Where is the blood?

[@jesusdiscipledon1499]

@@eddieowen2122 Maybe Mother Nature and Father Time washed those things away? That would be my most cogent argument for the lack of blood and bodies on the scene given the time scale of many events in the game is unknown. We stumble upon the settlement when we happen to. It could have been like that for decades at that point. Maybe even over a century.

[@paulbarrett9825]

@@jesusdiscipledon1499 Preston says not to long ago it was a settlement

[@allisoncornell4378]

McCready explains how he knows the cure might be there.

[@pwojo9776]

I feel like Fairline Estates was meant to be an actual player settlement at some point but for some reason the idea was just scrapped or unfinished. I mean think about it: - all the houses are empty, still in great condition, and the player is able to enter all of them - there's crafting stations all over the place; the first time I found the place I looked all over the place for a workbench to no avail - it's arguably big enough and has a simple enough layout with level enough terrain to be a settlement - lots of potential scrap items - centrally located and a great potential hub settlement for the southern half of the map and the Glowing Sea - all the other settlements in the southern half are weirdly far apart from one another; assuming this place would've been a settlement, it makes it a lot easier and makes more sense

[@painkillersclan]

I thought that same about many places in the commonwealth the one i really really wanted to be a settlement was the Galleria, with the Mr Handys and all the stores and buildings...

[@Hemostat]

bugs me that you cant rebuild the university settlement too

[@adamgray1753]

Exactly, John Kubik!! When I first found University Point I was like "Whoa... this blows what happened to everyone, but I can rebuild and turn this place into a thriving trading post.". Heck, I *still* want Quincy to be a core quest for the Minutemen. This way the Minutemen are no longer homeless police men and women and becomes a true settlement again. I still strongly believe that Bethesda threw out Fallout 4 long before it was ready. It needed at least another year of polishing so it could of had the content it was clearly showing it was about to have but then abruptly vanished or denied access to one way or another.

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

Agreed. I made this place a settlement in my hard core survival playthrough using the "Conquest" mod on Xbox that lets you create a settlement anywhere.

[@sicklygem]

I also think the ghouls were probably the old residents

[@BILLYCRAFTER-jd6co]

5 more unsettling murders to death

[@straightupnothavingagoodtime]

unoriginal e w

[@bacon5126]

Atomnomilous Not in affiliation with Atomwafflen stop replying that to every comment. Unoriginal Ew.

[@Skygon1]

MacCready actually mentors a traveler and his friend with a disease just like his sons looking for the cure at Nextel, but the friend with the disease dying before they could retrieve it

[@lakatosfrodo9613]

Ryan Schuster just Wanted to say that too

[@davidbarnett342]

Yup I also like to note how close the Blue Flu is to the Bubonic Plague with the boils and fever. It also explain why only some people have got it sense our bodies are adapted for the black death maybe those of us healthy enough are safe from the blue flu.

[@Comicsluvr]

After hearing Preston's remarks at the settlement, now I need to go back and replay the Superduper Mart with Preston as a companion. He commented when you first meet that a few days ago there were eight people in his group. In the Superduper Mart you find the bodies of three people, some with Minutemen gear. Could be Preston's other three people?

[@tommyboy889]

I remember the mart did he say anything

[@nvfury13]

He lists the various places they lost people, and yes, Super Duper Mart is one of the places.

[@neonswan1482]

There literal minuteman and there's one in the parking lot dead with a settler... There's videos on it

[@grahammunro8081]

I found one (I'd forgotten about) today. When you exit Vault 75 and enter the commonwealth, the door leading in has been trapped and landmines are now littered out the front. Who trapped the entrance after the main character enters the vault and why?

[@johnytoast]

I noticed that too recently on my 3rd playthrough. Really strange.

[@bypy3550]

I think its a bug like with the construction thing where if youcplacs stuff it falls to the ground soo the mines fell to the void then spawned back

[@nvfury13]

…What? I’ve done that in….7 play throughs so far, and it is never trapped on my way out…it always is going in, but nothing coming out.

[@LeigonX]

Vault 75??

[@allster0crowly]

Number 5: listen to X6-88 response to arriving there and remember prior to you being his partner, he was part of the synth retention bureau. Number 4: there were artificial enhanced paladins in fallout 3(Star Paladin Cross) Number 3: there are crazy references to movies and comics everywhere Number 2: Vault-Tec was aware that it was inevitable but did not tell all their Vault-Tec employees if they knew the exact time the bombs would drop. Number One: It is a pre-war disease that was being tested and west tek and other companies tried to find a cure the disease somehow survived even though one of the possible cures was a version of the FEV, and this virus probably adapted and mutated with the FEV instead, that is just a possibility it could also be a left over from the Enclave tests to cure the wasteland of irradiated life as blowing up a highly technological and possible biological staging and containment site with no proper disposal of the material can cause alot of problems Cough**RAVENROCK**Cough***BROKEN STEEL DLC*** If you want to get technical Point Lookout was at the time the bombs dropped was quarantined because of a outbreak of The New Plague and was made into an isolation zone so those boils and deformations of the swampfolk might be more than just inbred genetics it might be how the FEV and the virus formed a stabilized carrier and as we leave the DLC we have opened the land up through the mother and daughter now owning the ferry so if a version of the virus is still there than we could have also been responsible for it being spread back inadvertently.

[@painkillersclan]

he was spot on about the biological weapon being accidentally released in colorado. it was us that created it, separate from the original chinese biologic attacks. then the govt started pvp research that morphed into fev. and when the world found out about fev they kind of assumed it was the cause of the new plague. the world was half right.

[@allster0crowly]

I know but Macready left the capital wasteland and made it to the commonwealth somewhere inbetween that his son got infected with this disease so given the most likely culprit it would be one of those listed in the response as many enclave are descendants of the government, military, and corporate big wigs that would have had access to samples of pre-war material and the other possibilities give the reasons within the lore as to why it would be the case.

[@Sol-thefirst]

also with no.4 could just be reference to the power armour and tech the bos uses

[@MinutemanOutdoors]

The "New Plague" in point lookout was the cover up used my the gov't to cover the mass internment of Chinese and spies there. People were brought in for medical tests and were then incarcerated. Some becoming ghouls for you to kill 200 years later.

[@alexramos7708]

Also with #4 Star Paladin, that is one of the HIGHEST rankings you can get. The Bos didn't have an aversion to tech, they had problems when it was used in the wrong hands, and obviously their hands are correct so their is no problem with them using cybernetics to gain the edge.

[@RaccoonJack]

I think it's a reference to the movie the postman

[@mborel]

This. It's not a mystery, it's an easter egg.

[@CriticalHitRabbit]

was going to comment that. Also its a good movie

[@yuleeyahoo]

The original book was much better.

[@johnrowland9497]

That’s so true my dude

[@TheMijman]

Yeah same, that's what I think

[@MrSchplingle79]

for the first one, if you have PIPER as your companion, she'll say the following; "Something's not right, blue Something's not right, blue Something's not right, blue Something's not right, blue Something's not right, blue Something's not right, blue Something's not right, blue." and, at least for me, will never stop as long as you're there

[@Fretzton]

DR4GCN HUNT3R buggthesda it just work

[@zillerx8783]

Ya it happens to me when I have Piper with me

[@MrSchplingle79]

Thanks for the sub on my cringey channel!

[@leoperez636]

Fairline estates to me feels like a massive alien abduction scenario. We see dead Brahmin, and there is a playground ufo near them. The place seems too clean. Yes we see skeletons, but that shows they have been dead for a very very long time. Preston talks about settlers being there, so the corpse's should be rotton at best. I don't think the bears ate them spotless.

[@nicholasdonin1465]

3 months is the longest it takes deer carcass to decompose. That's without carrion scavengers or first being eaten of most meat.

[@snorlacroix2237]

a lot of the "plotholes" ur goin on about arent really plotholes other people (like oxhorn) have found some answers, like the fairline dude and how maccready knew about prevent

[@iloveowls90]

NoodleDaddy this isn’t a plot hole video

[@JamesMichaelDoyle]

@@iloveowls90 and yet, he keeps talking about them. specifically macready's story, he claims that its full of plotholes. and hes just wrong, he researched it VERY poorly. as macready explicitly details how he came into the info.

[@Finn_7117]

Thank you for bringing up oxhorn

[@Kevbo2040]

While I definitely love seeing Fallout 4 videos, I kinda laughed at that Maxson one, I gotta admit. I'm pretty sure the Brotherhood of Steel having the largest cache of power armor, laser/plasma weaponry, vertibirds, the Prydwen, and a functioning skyscraper sized mini-nuke tossing death machine, kinda constitutes him being 'aided and enhanced by technology', while still remaining human himself. Still, nice video!

[@sltrskid]

0:42 This seems familiar, remember in Fallout 3 when you go in this weird virtual world to save your dad? This looks a lot like it. It almost seems unsettling

[@irememberachmed1552]

It could be Bethesda making a little nod to 3 or they could have gotten lazy and used that model they did it with skyrim’s caves

[@sltrskid]

K lol

[@alexshoemaker5992]

TheKowHunter that's my favorite part

[@sltrskid]

TheKowHunter I love that place. I also love when you get a chance to kill everyone

[@exobeckian7322]

omg it does

[@jpennell5555]

The delivery boy is probably a reference to the 1997 film "The Postman" about a post apocalyptic postman.

[@ThisHorrorFilmDoesNotExist]

Or more likely, the novel by David Brinn that it was based on.

[@Killjoy357]

The mailman is a reference to the movie "the postman".

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Though that guy had a gun.

[@cookiewoke1899]

I'm going to stort off by saying, Nate, me commenting on your channel and you giving me a lot of hearts has gotten me mildly famous (and I mean very mildly). Whenever I comment on another channel a lot of the time I'll get someone who replies "oh I know you from Epic Nate's channel" or "murdered to death" without any context. Which is pretty cool. So thanks for that dude!

[@sgtwolf7391]

Yeah I don't know who you are.

[@cookiewoke1899]

@@sgtwolf7391 like I said, very mildly.

[@prestongarvey4139]

But general a settlement needs our help

[@Intr0vertical]

I know that feeling people used to know me as the guy who spammed fudgemuppet with mad max build requests

[@massimosnelgrove5713]

Waaaaaiiiiiitttt... I know you...

[@EmoEmu]

"Murdered to death" Are you doing this on purpose? lol

[@redwolf1496]

I've literally just found a mystery in fallout 4 that you haven't covered yet. Really I'm baffled and slightly amused, plus maybe creeper out. It's on the nukaworld powerplant roof, go into the open pipe. I have no idea what that dude was doing or how he got there, really it's just weird.

[@Torch4Life]

" just What is wrong with those people ", the welder girl.

[@theatricalhorseschlong]

"Pandemic" Me, in 2020: *(laughs nervously).*

[@incognitoomen7898]

I know right!

[@sprig1387]

The Great War is Coming And we could possibly be going to War with China Get those pip boys Ready

[@darthXreven]

hey waffing boy.....no more buwwets...... 😈

[@trentonfloyd908]

Oof

[@darthXreven]

@@trentonfloyd908 I'll give ya an oof and a whoosh then I'll toss in a big fat cringe to go along with the oof & whoosh..... so sick of these terms 😈

[@sh4312]

Fairline Hill would've made a perfect settlement spot 😠

[@mysleepy_head5509]

How the hell did I never notice the makeshift stairs in the “abandoned settlement”… I could see the ghouls clipping through the walls but I had no clue how to get in!

[@francescofulghieri9608]

In Fallout New Vegas the dead sheriff and his wife in Primm are a reference to the movie Once Upon A Time In The West.

[@kenjib88]

Isn’t the Elder Maxon quote just talking about his use of power armor?

[@genocidedog5207]

thats what I thought

[@Doralga]

he never uses throughout the whole game even when assaulting the institute so?

[@bluethunderbolt9631]

@@Doralga He does wear it if you side with the Institute. He comes in a vertibird and drops down near the end of the battle.

[@Doralga]

@@bluethunderbolt9631 as enemy yes as an ally he doesn't weird

[@abdullahahmad10]

Kenji Bomar Niceee

[@bignath250688]

More 5 things we didn't know we could do in fallout 4?

[@robertmercer6656]

THAT WOULD BE DOPE

[@bignath250688]

@@robertmercer6656 I know right?

[@Saffrone221]

Not really. Small map, limited items, redundant quests, and not a single whore outfit to pig on.

[@bignath250688]

@@Saffrone221 did you even think about the dlc's?

[@Saffrone221]

BigNathGaming same stuff different skin

[@akun50]

With the Vault-Tec Rep, I get the feeling he did know, and he wanted to help everyone he could. You were simply the last client he was willing to risk his neck for, as he wanted to get to the vault himself.

[@MatthewN8OHU]

I don't think he knew as much as we think, though.

[@solidmoon8266]

McCready explained how he heard from other people who had similar symptoms were going there to find the "cure". Not a mystery as talking with McCready when is companion tating is high enough unlocks this quest and the dialogue.

[@kellerweskier7214]

ah yes, the original BoS. they use to be good "itch my back, ill itch your back" with the Enclave. 2 military powers both with core fundamentals. only separated by the way they operate. never had a rivalry and never stood in each others way... till the oil rig assploded, and the BoS be like "gotta get me that tech at Navarro" the Post man is Enclave btw. the random encounter from Fallout 2 that was cut, was an encounter with a man in leather armor, out delivering mail. he tells the player hes "Enclave of course, the EUSA of course". EUSA being the Enclave United States of pre-war America. or the like. But yea. also im sorry but no. Because of the New plague, the US closed down into self quarantine to prevent further contamination, and to hord resources. The "New Plague" arose in 2052 after Chinese Hei Gui agents managed to steal some of the Limit-115 during a sabotage of the Hoover Dam testing labs. The spies were in the process of trying to escape Denver and were killed, breaking samples of the virus in a crowded public area. The epidemic killed approximately 200,000 citizens in the United States, including cities such as Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs. The United States closed its borders and the first-ever national quarantine was declared. So we can blame the Chinese for initiating a biological attack on US soil in this instance. and the FEV was to create super soldiers. which worked... somewhat. but the subjects became too violent. the project ultimately halted due to the great war. one of the strong aspect of the point in FEV was to force biological resistance to enemy bio weapons. in a way it was for as you say. but not a direct result.

[@crimsonking440]

Uh fucking what? Did you even play fallout 2? They were never "buddy buddy" with the enclave. At least know what the fuck your on about before you post three God damn paragraphs

[@uberd3323]

Fallout predicted the Chinese unleashing a killer flu to destabalize America

[@sparkslegends7482]

I wish Fairline Hill Estates was a settlement you could've unlock.

[@Mage-7734]

That would've been cool. Hopefully there's a mod out there for it

[@mc6470]

Chris Gowen well there’s a mod where you can spawn a workshop wherever or whenever you want.

[@janjan5126]

There is a mod for it

[@mc6470]

Jan Rodney yeah what I just said

[@sparkslegends7482]

Another cool location for a settlement would have been Fiddler's Green Trailer Park or a skyscraper in downtown Boston.

[@davidwells9982]

Seeing as how Bethesda loves dropping easter eggs in that direct us toward movies and other games, the postman could reference the movie mentioned by other commenters. I've always thought of such out-of-place individuals as perhaps the remnants of the Institute's program that led to Nick Valentine. He was given the memory of another individual and thereby took on the attitude, skill, and knowledge of that person. Perhaps the mailman was one such synth, lost in the wasteland, until finding the remnants of a mailman or post office and decided to take up what felt most familiar to him. Or maybe he's a crazy person who decided he was the new Fallout mailman! What's their motto? Like...come rain or snow or radstorm, or...deathclaw...Something like that.

[@tortilla8145]

"Murdered a deathclaw to death"

[@lamp6121]

6:43 he looks too healthy and his suit looks strangely undamaged, almost like he's from the pre-war times, maybe he's a time traveler? i mean, i highly doubt anyone in Fallout would dress like that, and even less as a unarmed delivery man, at the end of the day they deilvery stuff, wouldn't be strange for them to have to deal with raiders from time to time and i don't think that's how a deilvery guy would get his job done.

[@wulfjams8737]

"murdered a death claw to death" not enough to murder it huh maxon had to MURDER IT TO DEATH thx nate love your videos

[@juniornostaw7536]

Your videos* Not you’re/you are videos

[@wulfjams8737]

@@juniornostaw7536 thanks, despite it being a two year old post happy somebody decided to correct me

[@juniornostaw7536]

@@wulfjams8737 😉

[@alekssierzant5901]

The "New Plague" and "Blue Flu" are the same thing. It is definitely canon, in Fallout 3: Point Lookout DLC the swampfolk are the result of this plague, look it up.

[@420mralucard]

No they're the product of fallout, inbreeding and various other pollutants. Quotes from the wiki "Their physical deformities are the result of inbreeding, coupled with radiation or exposure to other toxic wastes in the Point Lookout area and the various pollutants washed down the river from the north." "Although Point Lookout did not suffer a direct hit during the Great War, the effects of the radioactive fallout can be seen in the indigenous population that have slowly degenerated over the decades, and now sport the "Point Lookout look." Sporting sinewy, pockmarked bodies oozing with strength and pus, the swampfolk are a violent and stupid bunch, and they don't take well to strangers. They have a rudimentary belief system and mark their territory with fetishes: straw dolls hanging from trees and bone totems. Anthropologists have speculated the swampfolk have a belief in the occult, and some postulate they pray to a hitherto unknown entity named Ug-Qualtoth.[1]"

[@alekssierzant5901]

Keep on reading, New Plague is mentioned below. You're right, their appearance is not ONLY due to New Plague, but it is one of the reasons.

[@cheetarah9199]

I'll be interested to see what elements of 'canon' Bethesda choose to use in 76. And FO5... Whatever criticisms we may have of the games, glitches, etc... They do like the backstory etc, to be canon.

[@alekssierzant5901]

Yeah, except for when they break their own lore, they like it, true.

[@thebiglich]

Besthesda titles arent canon

[@vevesumi]

for the first myth, maybe some of the settlers ARE the ghouls? and the dead person couldnt let them go?

[@AssassinEmbers]

I'm thinking maybe the ghouls were his family that got infected and killed the settlers but couldn't kill them so rounded them up and locked em up

[@saltyssalty]

If you bring x-88, he will talk about how he was there, meaning the institute got them. In the white building there's a note saying it's his family and he cant bear to "do it".

[@LeigonX]

It literally says that in the game.....

[@cpt_nordbart]

The elder has Power Armor as his advantage over mere mortals. T60 is a very high tech thing.

[@nanaorihara9801]

Fast travel to the Old North Church Face the statue nearby head on and take the left path Follow it until you find a mailbox and trash can lining along an unmarked train station entrance I won't say what's inside but check it out Nate. I'm not sure if you've placed it into a video before but I thought I'd mention it anyways. Hopefully i have good enough directions. :/

[@straightupnothavingagoodtime]

The bowl of granulated sugar..

[@WeTokeWeedSmoke]

A technical document! Nice

[@nanaorihara9801]

Guys, I'm not talking about the items/contents inside but the scene inside. Thought Nate could put it into a video.

[@WeTokeWeedSmoke]

Oh inside the station, I thought you meant inside the mailbox and trash can. I know what scene you're talking about.

[@hughjanus3395]

Someone reply so I get a notification please. I want to save this comment for later

[@normal6969]

The vault-tec rep is now living with us in Sanctuary managing a trading stall. :) If you remember the beginning, it is more creepy that he references the vault will protect against hostile mutants. ;)

[@JeshikaKazeno]

In the Overseer's Terminal in Vault 81, the original Overseer makes several references to Vault-Tec knowing about the bombs before the general public did. In fact, that's part of how she subverted the experiment. Vault-Tec got an early warning, as expected, and she was supposed to contact all the vault staff so they could get ready before the residents arrived. She didn't call the scientists, so most of them didn't make it in time. (I guess they lived further away than the residents?) I don't know if Vault-Tec told their sales reps about it, but the higher-ups somehow knew when the bombs would drop, before everyone else. Creepy as fuck.

[@DayZeroGaming]

There are US bombs in the Mohave unexploded as well as in fallout 3. They both use the same assets as NV reused most of 3’s assets, so who knows what’s cannon, but why would the US drop its own bombs in DC and in Vegas? And why would Vault Tec AND The Enclave be alerted beforehand?

[@nickclayton7248]

The fairline hill mystery to me is about a person that lived there before the war in this little neighborhood. When the bombs fall they’re the only one left and all of their friends are ghouls. Then they lured the ghouls into the back room and kept them there, maybe hoping they could fix it and see their friends again. That’s just how I see it

[@SoloKyoto]

The blue flu was very interesting and really gave decent bit of information I wasn't aware of before, I had heard of the blue flu in the fallout lore before but I didn't know FEV was created as a cure for it or that it was a modern issue in the pre war fallout universe and created by the US government as a bio weapon.

[@selfcontainedmess]

While pleading to get inside the fence at the vault, the salesman says that he is supposed to be on the list. If you look at all the chambers after the main character leaves his, you can see that there is an empty chamber. This suggest that the salesman was telling the truth. Did Vault-Tech lie to him about having a spot or was it a clerical error?

[@ethanhess8230]

Elder Maxson may have been biologically enhanced, i.e. steroids (maybe he’s always on x-cell or buffout) or gene therapy, or maybe even the FEV. Technology also includes biology and medical procedures and techniques, so that may be the technological enhancements he has

[@doconus6630]

For the first one, the ghouls could have been residents of the settlement and the owner of the skeleton was trying to keep them close, unable to let go of their friends.

[@The_Ninedalorian]

"murdered a deathclaw to death" yep that is usually what happens when you kill something LOL

[@shadodancer4323]

McCready tells in his story how he cam to know where the cure might be, it was part of the story when he gives you medtek terminal password

[@420mralucard]

The Elder Maxon quote is just referring to all the brotherhood of steels advanced technology that they use. Also the brotherhood has no problem with cyborgs, Star Paladin Cross from Fallout 3 was a cyborg and she was one of the highest ranking members in the Citadel.

[@AidenTheRealShadowwolf]

Walking dead reference locking them up thinking they can be cured?

[@iloveowls90]

Francisco Flores or perhaps family?

[@AidenTheRealShadowwolf]

@@iloveowls90 still a dead reference from the barn the old man wanted to cure his fam

[@AidenTheRealShadowwolf]

@@iloveowls90 btw I also love owls lol nice user name

[@kiwi229100]

9:20 still can’t believe he missed out on the chance to say “his timing’s impeccable”

[@thecornettmultiverse]

If you take X6 to Fairline, he’ll insinuate that there were people there the last time he was out that way. That seems to imply that there was a synth-related mission somewhere out that way.

[@ionceateapinecone]

You never see Maxon sleep, just sayin'.

[@StacieMMeier]

"That's what a Synth would say."

[@anubisanarchy5710]

You also never see Maxson put the cap on his toothpaste either.

[@evallyntc3164]

He too angry to sleep

[@noticesrawr9294]

I always thought that the maxson thing was in reference to the advanced armour and weaponry the brotherhood used

[@quinlan130]

It’s so weird hearing Quinlan because I have a friend named that and he first time I played I got so confused.

[@edwinstoodley5958]

6:15 clearly a reference to kevin costner's 1997 movie, "the postman". mystery solved.

[@shinichikudo7577]

My first thinking😂👍

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Probably, but the character in that was armed.

[@dannythecursedone7091]

Tbh, I think when Quinlan said "Enhanced" he meant the Power Armor suits

[@skythebunny]

Fairline Estates kinda looks like the dream world where you murder everyone with that mask and knife in fallout 3.

[@LordZoth6292]

I learn so much about FO4 from these videos. After my first playthrough I just couldn't get back inyo it to find other hidden things like the vault tec guy McCreedy

[@chrisfox7034]

Vault Tech caused the great war. I never knew about that dialogue though, those two things combined actually makes it more understandable how he ended up with less sanity than most non-feral ghouls.

[@thaguy69]

I just had the thought of how scary a fallout game based in the ocean could be. Radsquids, sharks could be "deathjaws", ghoul dolphins or eels, not to mention the potential for mermaid type creatures. Would make a good spin-off horror game.

[@greatyng442]

I always just assumed that the phrase in Quinlan's terminal 'assisted by advanced technology' referred to the brotherhood using power armour and laser weapons. And as already pointed out here, there was at least one cybernetically enhanced soldier in the brotherhood in the capital wasteland. Maybe the 'enhanced by technology' is simply meant to refer to your combat abilities being enhanced by using advanced weaponry and defences.

[@SecularFelinist]

The Brotherhood's beef with synths is that while humans take many thousands of years to evolve and adapt, synths can do so instantly via software upgrades. This would effectively make humanity obsolete, with the potential to accomplish what a nuclear war couldn't. This is also the reason they hate super mutants - the organism best adapted to it's environment will thrive. Cybernetics wouldn't be any sort of existential threat. Given the Brotherhood's penchant for hoarding tech, cybernetics would likely be considered just a tool, like any other.

[@SecularFelinist]

Grow up.

[@septon4087]

Klaus Mateschitz he wasn't talking shit at all jesus why are people like this

[@mc6470]

Those ‘tools’ in diamond city...

[@nvfury13]

Scrotor Synth “software upgrades” would work on humans as well, given Gen 3 are *human in every way other than birth* with some minor cybernetic implants only an autopsy will reveal. Synth “programming” is brainwashing and teaching through what amounts to a modified version of the Memory Den’s tech (itself an offshoot of simulation tech used for the Operation Anchorage DLC and for pilot training at the Boomers’ along with the memory recording tech that made Nick Valentine possible).

[@jaydenstiles8017]

3:42 that’s the town from fallout 3 when you try to save your dad and you go into the virtual world that’s the town, it even has the playground in the middle Like if you love fallout!! 🥳