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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@Texas_Red666]

bro that’s 100% ganna be the next fallout game’s premise i’m calling it rn, it’s ganna be a resurgence of the plague and the whole story is ganna revolve around it for sure like it makes sense with what’s going on in the world rn too

[@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.

[@kiwi229100]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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*

[@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

[@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. 😬

[@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)

[@Gerraint]

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

[@mechislander]

Vault Tec STARTED the war! 10/23 was an inside job!

[@tactic34wot52]

There is no confirmation and there are a few terminal entries that talk about Chinese nuclear missiles incomeing first as well as Chinese bombers

[@saltyssalty]

I think he was talking about the Chinese planes above. The us military new they were there and didnt do anything. Since vault tech worked with the us government, it is possible they were informed about the planes.

[@cykondacot5409]

Vault-Tec were zetan aliens, just playing with hoomans v:

[@therubbercop4590]

Oxhorn fan?

[@therubbercop4590]

Well, I’m bad At lore besides FO4, but in either NV or FO3, I believe there are several dud-nukes, with the vault tec (VT) symbol. Now, this could just be a copy and paste error from Bethesda, like some boxes in FO4, or could be purposefully put there. Heck, maybe vault tec went as far as buying Chinese planes and nukes so they could start testing people

[@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

[@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]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@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

[@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

[@VaultBoy-ox1sx]

@@j.a.pelaez6435 have you seen the postman

[@Jesse12489]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

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

[@trentonfloyd908]

Oof

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

@@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 😈

[@NixonsAppendix]

"Could the salesman have known about the bombs?" If you read the terminals in vault 111 you'll find they had a few hours warning, performed a crew recall and last minute resident recruitment. He definitely knew.

[@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.

[@allisoncornell4378]

McCready explains how he knows the cure might be there.

[@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

[@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

[@Killjoy357]

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

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Though that guy had a gun.

[@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.

[@Cricketmane]

Vault 75??

[@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.

[@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. ;)

[@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.

[@tortilla8145]

"Murdered a deathclaw to death"

[@cpt_nordbart]

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

[@chrisk_nfl4120]

In regards to the Vault Tech Rep - he's a door to door salesman, a sleezy one at that. He's doing everything to complete a "sale" as I'm guessing he gets commission for every person who gets admitted to the vault. The fear of nuclear war was a strong sales technique pre-war

[@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

[@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.

[@DayZeroChannel]

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?

[@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?

[@DON_MA4]

Plot Twist 5 years later in the Fallout series we learn that Vault-Tec detonated the bomb.

[@quinlan130]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@briandurio6479]

Also not sure if anyone's pointed out yet but MacCready does mention that he knows the Cure exists because some other guy told him about it I can't remember the dude's name, but he was said they have had a companion who got sick with the same illness but his companion died before they can get to the Cure in the Medtech building. He basically sold the location to MacCready who was trying to earn enough money higher on some extra guns to help him take the building.

[@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.

[@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.

[@noticesrawr9294]

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

[@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.

[@MetaManGamingTM]

The Mail Carriers you find are an Easter egg for the Kevin Costner movie "The Postman". Good old movie if you haven't watched it

[@sh4312]

Fairline Hill would've made a perfect settlement spot 😠

[@skythebunny]

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

[@The_Ninedalorian]

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

[@someone4650]

5:30 It might just be him talking about power armor, since that's advanced technology that enhances your ability.

[@idok333odikay]

Watching the theory about the Vault Tech guy knowing about the bombs has a new meaning after watching the TV Show.

[@CRYOKnox]

Elder Maxson could be a Cyborg. Star Paladin Cross in Fallout 3 was one. And i think the Postguy is just a reference to the movie (i think is named) Postman. A post apocalyptic movie of a guy delivering letters from before the Apocalypse.

[@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.

[@Deepranger930]

I always thought the dead mailman was a reference to that Kevin Costner film, The Postman.

[@iamstillwaiting9305]

4:30 "By age 13, Maxon had murdered a death claw *to death.*"

[@KillThemNazis]

Number three in the post man outfit is a reference to the book the postman where a guy in a postal apocalyptic US reestablishes the US government by delivering mail and a postman outfit that he stole off of a corpse it and every time he goes to a new town he appears with old mail and no weapon and it’s made a big deal that the other people in his postman organization that he establishes also don’t carry weapons so that they can travel freely between the settlements, but yeah it’s a reference to that book

[@AidenWolf97]

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

[@iloveowls90]

Francisco Flores or perhaps family?

[@AidenWolf97]

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

[@AidenWolf97]

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

[@oldnotweak]

7:00 he probably had lots of weapons, until someone killed him then looted them

[@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

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

Even though this video is old and somewhere in the hundreds of comments (I didn't see any scrolling down a good bit) but the dead postman was I believe a Easter egg to the post apocalyptic movie from the midish 1990s called The Postman staring Kevin Costner. Good movie. Haven't seen that one on ages. Now I want to watch it again.

[@Cherubim666999]

Whoop ma fakko

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

@@Cherubim666999 Whoop Whoop mutha facko. MMFWKCL!

[@gregc8831]

It's clear that the intro scene is just an implanted memory because your character is actually a bladrunn... I mean synth.

[@mikeb2040]

Regarding Elder maxim's enhancements may be in reference to the enhancements of BOS tech Armor and weapons?

[@hectorlumbagoCringe]

That sounds accurate

[@ulyssesthepagan7873]

I think it's possible that the Maxon terminal entry was cut content. It could have met to be used when the Sole Survivor is given the orders to kill Danse. The Sole Survivor could use the knowledge of the fact that Maxon is a cyborg, to persuade him that he's being hypocritical.

[@mandickthetittysmithy5117]

Except being a cyborg does not make him hypocrite cause he was still born to a human unlike a synth who are made in a lab.

[@combinecommando001]

To be honest, it would have been a very good move and writting by Bethesda had they gone that route. It would have pushed the player to seek out information and even something to keep Maxon from killing Danse. Pointing out the knowledge of his cybernetics which is both blackmail but also a statement to Maxon's hypocrisy which ultimately makes him stand down if the Sole Survivor promises to keep it to themselves and in exchange will not have Danse executed but still kicked out from the brotherhood but not in a dishonorable manner, he'll invent a story that Danse can no longer perform his duties and has decided to retire. Or the sole Survivor uses this info to create a scandal in the brotherhood which ends with Maxon being exiled and have a leaderless brotherhood still carry on their mission on the Institute, since the player has done the most on the mission, they end up being offered the rank of Elder. It's sad that Bethesda had such a good opportunity to make writings that rival that of New Vegas and they just let it slip through their fingers. Such wasted potential.

[@samcobden3263]

I've always thought it quite weird that Sarah Lyons seemingly gets killed off so easily. The East Coast brotherhood did well under the leadership of Lyons and, despite the issues with the Outcasts was doing pretty Damn well for itself. I thought it would be cool that, unknown to a young Arthur (who had a massive crush on Sarah) Sarah Lyons was assassinated, potentially on orders from the Outcasts or the Western Brotherhood. With the defeat of the Enclave, the East Coast Brotherhood had found an unprecedented cache of tech, and with the support of the local population, which Lyons fostered through recruitment and protection, they gained great strength and presence. However the West Coast Elder, who had rejected Lyons anti-isolationist ideology and fearful of their gaining strength, wanted to get their hands on the spoils of the war with the Enclave. And so Sarah was assassinated, the West Coast Elders put their own people in high positions and a young Arthur Maxson, desperate to prove himself, is thrown in to "reunite" the brotherhood. Arthur then finds out that his rise to power has been engineered, even his own ideological beliefs concerning synths. If finding out that your a cyborg synth is bad, then finding out your human but everything about you is just as manufactured would be a big blow. Ah, but that's just me.

[@ellisbarnett0292]

Elfan Waltz you fucking idiot. Maxsons problem with synths isn’t because they were not born organically, it’s because he’s terrified of humans “becoming obsolete” which in actual fact will never happen as long as the institute maintain control

[@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).

[@stevennelson6576]

“The postman” Easter egg. I love that movie lol

[@lmock04]

Coming back post Fallout the TV show, knowing that Vault Tec did indeed drop the bombs, the Rep's foreshadowing is crazy

[@xdopexassassin3650]

Macready’s son had COVID

[@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.

[@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

[@the_americangamer4296]

The New Plague sounds similar to the Black Death. Perhaps that is what the New Plague was based on?

[@gazhevski]

Or perhaps the vault representative just said it because he wanted his sales commission

[@TheUnwrittenDestiny]

4:32 murdered a deathclaw *to death*

[@briandurio6479]

I always thought the postman was a time traveler of sorts. In Fallout 3 there were some aliens who had a bunch of people in cryo pods from various points in history. The player character ends up taking over this ship and sets some of the people free. Could be this is one of them but he died of radiation because he was lost and confused.

[@skyyzz4316]

Nate is Great

[@vitomcvenito8668]

yup

[@D.M.O.N.D]

nate for president

[@WarhammerGeek]

The Vault-Tec rep does actually elaborate about what happened pre-war. He tells you that Vault-Tec didn't tell him much. That he was being pushy to get a steak knife set as a bonus. So his whole spiel pre-war was either a prepared speech, improvisation, or intuition. Even without him being told by Vault-Tec directly I'm sure he could have pieced together what was going on. Civil unrest was on the rise and Vault-Tec was increasingly pushing for finalized sign-ups. Not hard to read into that.

[@abrahamroloff8671]

Yup, not a mystery at all. Just a cynical sales push for bonus cutlery.

[@JamesMichaelDoyle]

the macready "mystery" is explicitly explained in game. this is actually one of the stories that doesnt have holes in it as you claim. he doesnt KNOW there is a cure, but he had been going around asking for help trying to find a doctor that knew something about this disease. he found a guy that said he had scavenged in the research lab, and had copied some of the data hoping it would be useful to trade. he told macready that there was some disease with those symptoms in the database, and sold him the holotape and the code to unlock the secured area. thats why macready was taking merc jobs, to pay for the data. im probably leaving out some details but thats the gist of it.

[@thebiglich]

The dead postman is an easter egg for the postman movie. This is like the 10th video without factchecking

[@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!! 🥳

[@KellinKingdom]

Your character is George W Bush? LOL!

[@josephternent1779]

I honestly don’t know how I didn’t realise the connection between macready in f4 and mayor macready in f3. Ive played through both countless times but never made that connection. I love the little things like this that connect the capital wasteland to the commonwealth.

[@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.

[@axedaman954]

OK I will stop to ask you to do a Witcher video

[@caemgenkealey5279]

Witcher MG really want to see one

[@yaldabaoth2]

100 Question marks you might have missed in Skellige's sea.

[@mrqadaffi3638]

that game is so shit

[@prestongarvey4139]

But general we need to helo a settlement

[@axedaman954]

@@mrqadaffi3638 no one asked for your opinion The game is so shit, so that's why it got more than 800 awards and is game of the year 2015

[@GusZeven]

What was Preston's reaction? There's another settlement that need your help?

[@clinicalcyanide1603]

I have a theory about fairline estates. Picture if you will a perfectly functioning settlement with a population of 6. And on a beautiful day where the sun is shining and 2 of the settlers are tending to the Brahman when raiders come. They kill the 2 tending to the livestock and threaten everyone else into submission and leave with full pockets. However the remaining 4 settlers discuss the idea of fighting back, however one settler in particular has a different idea. Sometime later they've all huddled together in the newly fortified white house ready for the raiders to come back and eventually they do. The raiders return and the leader of the settlement locks the other 3 remaining settlers in the room and grabs his sniper to fight these remorseless parasites but he takes a round flying back onto the dresser we find him sprawled out on. The raiders then build a makeshift pathway and break down the wall but apon seeing the settlers trapped in the room decide its crueller to leave them there to starve. Several days pass and after taking copious amounts of radiation from passing rad storms the settlers finally become ghouls and go feral. Several weeks later we the player find what remains of this settlement

[@Bub8les5]

5:00 obviously he’s talking about power armor and the other advanced tech he has at his disposal

[@mitchelbailey55]

The enhancements for Maxson reminds me of the implants from the New Vegas medical clinic or Big MT.

[@gg_sam7847]

8:20 maybe it was just a little bit of fourth wall breaking

[@seventysix2545]

The postman, is from a movie about post apocalyptic America, the movie's name is "The Postman".

[@dannythecursedone7091]

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

[@jossarch367]

The biggest hole in MacCready's story is how you go to all this trouble to save his son, who is supposedly real and living somewhere without either his mother or father, and once you get the antidote, instead of making a beeline to wherever Duncan is to make sure he survives the treatment, MacCready hangs around the Commonwealth hoping to the shag the Sole Survivor like he has nothing better to do.

[@Torch4Life]

" you're not gonna make me carrry all that junk, are ya? !! "

[@ericdesmond3599]

I think what they mean by enhanced by technology is in relation to power armour and weapons.

[@what8139]

11:29 if you talk to Mcready about his son he explains that he talked to a man whose friend or something came down with a disease that had similar symptoms to Mcreadys son. Mcready recognizes how desperate the situation is.

[@yazidefirenze]

“Where did this place go? Used to be a settlement here. Maybe they needed your help. So go help this one! I’ll mark it on your map.”

[@AssassinEmbers]

As for the vault-tec guy he knew what was going to happen cuz vault-tec told him so it was his job to get people to the vault 111 before the bombs fell read between the lines it adds up

[@DayZeroChannel]

The vault tech rep should have given us a bombshell lore moment and say he was tipped off by vault tec outright

[@1goofydude]

It was confirmed by Bethesda that Vault 111's systems detected the bombers on the way with the nukes.