What happens if you bring Nick Valentine to Brotherhood of Steel HQ?

Have you ever considered what would happen if you brought Nick Valentine to the Brotherhood of Steel base, given their stance on synths in Fallout 4? I decided to find out. I went to Sanctuary Hills, found Nick Valentine there, and brought him along. Then we headed to Boston Airport, where the Brotherhood's base is located in the Commonwealth. We walked straight up to the gates. Afterward, I explored the airport and even checked out the airship. Here are the remarks I overheard directed at my friend.

[@benvolkmann9678]

Brotherhood Leader: Technology cant be controlled! Brotherhood: Synth Pet

[@senjubrian1687]

Lol !

[@n0t_the_plague_doctor343]

That's actually the opposite of what the brotherhood wants, they want all technology strictly controlled so that nothing like what happened in 2077 can ever happen again

[@georgeofazgad2176]

They don’t mind normal robots and synths, it’s the gen 3 they are annoyed by since they can camouflage them selves as humans

[@VitalHonet98]

If you play the series you see the hypocrisy in all the different factions. It's the narrative

[@reddead2740]

Lol

[@TheBeLuvdTRex]

I love Nick so much. He's definitely my favorite companion.

[@callumcheetham3949]

I kinda hope we see him again in another Fallout title, even as a cameo

[@Abraham-yf2sd]

What about dogmeat 🐕

[@ECONOMY_YAPPING]

@@Abraham-yf2sddogshit

[@HolySych]

no. too judgy. almost go with dog meat.

[@TheBeLuvdTRex]

​@@HolySych Dogmeat cant hold a gun. Nick's witty comments over Dogmeat day. ​

[@nlrenzo9432]

Brotherhood soldier : “That thing shouldn’t have a free will!” Nick : “What? Are you jealous you had to turn yours in?”

[@Gfish17]

Is that actually a line in game?

[@nlrenzo9432]

@@Gfish17 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaO7co2vbs-sfbMsi=0qj2f1B5cwAZLw10

[@ericauskewneut5598]

Yes and it had me rolling the first time I heard it, Nick sure is witty lol ​@@Gfish17

[@foxxygradius7858]

*Checks the soldier's pulse, crosses himself* "He's dead."

[@axel4196]

Hahahaha! Damn.

[@CorruptPianist]

In my save, someone said “A machine shouldn’t have free will.” and Nick responded, “What’s the matter, jealous since you gave yours up?”

[@duranium4445]

Nick is savage

[@homeydiscus5895]

Bruhhhh that goes unbelievably hardd

[@bayupahleza2957]

really? if its true, damn, nick should join the forged instead. that burn way hotter than their cheap flamer

[@CorruptPianist]

@@bayupahleza2957 The Brotherhood of Steel can’t meme

[@royk7712]

​@@CorruptPianistthe OG brotherhood can. Even liberty prime can lmaoo

[@senjubrian1687]

I liked nick because the game didn’t feel like a single player game as much, he brought life to it, I didn’t feel alone all the time.

[@samwiserando]

he interacts with npc's in every settlement i visit, he has another life away from us.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

So anti-Preston gravy?

[@randomguyontheinternet8345]

yea I only wished you could have two companions. Like piper and nick is all I needed.

[@MtpMuzik]

@@randomguyontheinternet8345mods bro, only way to fully enjoy this game

[@nekochan4461]

@@randomguyontheinternet8345there’s a mod for multiple companions

[@MasterHall117]

I always bring him near BOS soldiers just so Nick can absolutely roast the rads off of them.

[@HunterGuy558]

Is that a good thing though?

[@LordBloodraven]

Brotherhood: We hate Synths. Sole Survivor: Okay, since I'm friends with Nick, I must be banned from the Brotherhood. Todd Howard: Don't be hasty.

[@nogitsunegaming]

Unless you're rushing it by the time you are doing brotherhood missions you're strong enough to be a genuine threat to their entire force. We know full well if you were anyone else they would have executed nick but they dont wanna risk being literally decimated in return. By that point you're bare minimum heavily armored and armed and if you've done mechanist and nuka world you potentially have both a bandit army and a robot army at your beck and call.

[@Dk-he6ez]

​@@nogitsunegamingFr, I've started fallout 4 recently(planning to actually beat the game this time and not do like 25% of it like a couple years ago) and by time I finally got into the pryden a couple days ago I already had a X-01 mk4 suit of power armor. Y'know For it being a nuclear wasteland, Power armor and fusion cores is pretty common.

[@realjordangrey]

​@Dk-he6ez FCs make sense - kinda. Power Armor, though, eh. Like the suit that was in transport on the train makes sense. But suits just being in random places doesn't. Sure people may have gotten ahold of some over 200 years, but not always.

[@evocativeaxis7401]

FNV Brotherhood : We hate supermutants Courier: Okay, since I'm friends with Lily, I must be banned from the brotherhood. Obsidian: Don't be hasty.

[@maxskogh6289]

​@@Dk-he6eztime to get mods to make them rare. And make fallout muxh better!

[@orwellianson]

Nick is the greatest companion of the entire franchise. Love him dearly and will always protect him.

[@Mere-Lachaiselongue]

bro is a robot he's the ones whose supposed to protect you not vise-versa

[@orwellianson]

@@Mere-Lachaiselongue you never played the game and it shows

[@Mere-Lachaiselongue]

@@orwellianson Actually I pirated it a few days ago, got everything including the DLC's, a bunch of creation club content AND the new high resolution official texture pack. I'm not giving betheshitsda a dime.

[@orwellianson]

@@Mere-Lachaiselongue no one believes you.

[@Mere-Lachaiselongue]

@@orwellianson I would post the link but youtube auto censors links sooo...

[@gutspraygore]

The way Nick's storyline played out was worth the game by itself.

[@marloncosta8479]

Very cool, indeed. One of the best companions in enteries Fallout series.

[@RobertMoser]

Nick + Far Harbor is what did it for me. Really had the emotional payoff that I felt was a little lacking in the main game.

[@donavan34]

Huh

[@andrewshouse9840]

If you want a "fun" time - bring the Courser to the Railroad.

[@Furykidxxx]

Yikes!

[@iloveowls90]

BUT SAVE BEFORE HAND

[@dominiquewilson2434]

Omg what happens?

[@wesleyconfort]

What happens?

[@andrewshouse9840]

@@wesleyconfort The Courser implements its programming.

[@reabecabradbury5654]

Now make him wait there

[@Cpt_TightPants]

Now that’ll be a good video

[@eveesix9683]

Taking Hancock on the airship has some fun dialog too.

[@Jovanelo]

Was about to comment this. It's arguably even funnier than Valentine's interactions.

[@CharlieBrown20XD6]

​@@JovaneloI have the mod that let's me take them both. And Strong too!

[@Furykidxxx]

I bet, they hate Ghouls too and Hancock isn't the one who will be just quiet xDD

[@Killer-wi1mr]

My favorite quotes from John "Are you sure this thing's tamed? "Heh. Hardly." "Behave yourself, freak." "Ain't about to start now."

[@sion76]

nick valentine is a robot with a human soul and surpasses humans themselves

[@doomguy2553]

W

[@antrace92]

Exactly

[@falconlord7811]

They definitely messed up by not adding more dialogue for nick and the brotherhood

[@Mere-Lachaiselongue]

its betheshitsda were talking about here blud

[@davidhong1934]

It's impossible to safely contain Nick's resulting level of dry wit

[@camdenmaynard5407]

Nick was my companion the very first time I went to the blimp, it heavily influenced my decision not to join them

[@doomguy2553]

W

[@themightybob]

Its more of a zeppelin

[@camdenmaynard5407]

@@altaccount9716 If it thinks like a human, acts like a human, and laughs like a human, it's human

[@CodPatrol]

@@altaccount9716 way to out yourself as a bigot

[@EricLinstone]

Brotherhood is probably cool with Super Mutant companions too.

[@Norwoodg00ner]

And their cool with Hancock Too they just make similar remarks

[@AdmiralKarelia]

When you think about it, Nick, Strong, and Hancock should all elicit the same hostility that post-Blind Betrayal Danse does.

[@wadewilson5712]

well in fallout 3 i had one and they were fine with him , no mods. Fawkes is a companion you free from a vault and he has a higher IQ than the other super mutants.

[@mfvitt8000]

@@AdmiralKarelia Curie as well

[@Allantitan]

@@wadewilson5712and a higher IQ then some people irl

[@jared8530]

Nick was definitely top tier companion

[@M12GProductions]

Answer: he gets really catty.

[@GrayClient]

One time a mine went off when I was walking around and afterwards nick said “if you hear anymore beeping it’s not me”

[@Chasmodius]

Nick's responses are hilarious!

[@isaacgraves06]

I unironically took him there almost every time, i replayed it and its been like 5 or 6 years ago and i didn't remember. I found out by him saying he hopes i don't share their views.

[@agentmaryland1239]

The first time I played I had Nick tagging along still and went to inspect the Brotherhood of Steel HQ. I started hearing offhand remarks like 'you better keep that tincan close, if he wanders away, can't say we didn't warn you' and the like. But when I went up to the Prydwen, one of the BoS members said "You should really be careful with whom you keep company, friend. And a Synth ain't the kind of company you want." to which Nick replied with "Yeah yeah, I've heard it all before. I'm sure my companion here knows what kind of company with which they want to idle with. And I can't say YOUR kind, is it." To this day I have no idea what triggered it, I didn't have any mods at the time because I didn't know I COULD mod my game as I was on Xbox. At this point I'm almost sure it was a Mandela Catalog Effect or something.

[@statementofjoespooky1660]

Did… did you genuinely just say “mandela CATALOGUE effect” or was that a joke?? There’s no catalogue in that phrase lmao

[@patrickrowland3932]

Mandela catalogue is the found horror thing Mandela effect is the misremembering thing OP

[@mlkcold]

Even nick states how ridiculously would be for him to enter a BOS HQ, this is Bethesda Peak Game Design and consequences. In New Vegas if you dare approach a Legion Camp with peaceful intentions Boone would stop following your commands and go full berserk, guns blazing until he couldn't see any red on his scope.

[@RonanInLan]

I mean after blind betrayal, Danse will be attacked by BOS. So, it was a weird design decision to just comment badly about nick instead. But still NV has some goofy a moments

[@pokemagetech]

@@RonanInLan But Nick isn’t impersonating a human person.

[@RonanInLan]

@@pokemagetech No point on it. BOS hates all non-human beings the same.

[@curtharakaly4620]

@@RonanInLan The BOS hates super mutants in FNV but is 100% fine with you have Lily as a companion so its the same design choice Obsidian chose.

[@RonanInLan]

@@curtharakaly4620 I know. As I said, NV has its own goofy a moments. People just like to overate NV.

[@warrenwoodhouse]

🤣🤣🤣 “In that transaction” see, this is why I love Nicky. Good Ol’ Nicky, that witty sarcastic bucket of bolts. He’s worth more to me than a diamond ring. Wouldn’t trade him in for all of the bottle caps available in the game itself. His remarks always get me through the day. Nicky, Danse and Dogmeat are my favourite characters overall.

[@O_Lee69]

As I tried this, Nick was instantly attacked by the whole Brotherhood. I don't know if it depends how far into main story you are or if the survival difficulty led to that.

[@josephperez2004]

Might depend if you are allied with them yet.

[@O_Lee69]

@@josephperez2004 It was years ago and I don't remind at what point it was. Too many playthroughs. I think I am addicted to F4. Usually I go with all factions as long as possible until the battle of Bunker Hill.

[@iami3rian394]

​@@O_Lee69 I do the same thing. I'm pretty sure that early on they won't do anything, but early-mid (I wanna say after you meet maxson) they'll flip out for a short tkne. It's always a good time when it's just a few of them, and Nick has a chance to return fire, so they all go hostile on you. 🤣

[@medpackpapi_ymg4556]

If you didn't start the brotherhood missions or go there before the airship shows up they will be hostile

[@sebastionherring4196]

@@O_Lee69Ahh yes, the classic “Become The House, as The House always wins” route from NV

[@Arthas972]

You forgot one: Knight: You disgust me Nick: Yeah? You’re not much to look at either

[@nukeman_13]

Nick is THE best companion of all time: change my mind

[@TheShaggMann]

I can't 😭

[@Fuzzyplayzz986]

I did this anyways on my first playthrough without even thinking about it

[@the7thkoyote274]

I watch these like I don't already know 😅

[@QuietRayy]

My favorite about this that he will just diss them whenever they say shit about him

[@timporter6264]

Yeah he gets a lot of hate there. Poor Nick

[@jacobarmstrong9227]

I'm fully convinced that the sole survivor is a secondary character and the game is actually about Nick 😂

[@trikkinikki6843]

Honestly that sounds like a rad game. Nick Valentine detective game spin off when?

[@earlluppe2686]

What if you bring ‘88?

[@ItsGbat]

They dont see nick as a threat

[@bowley4]

Funny I actually did this today! They were like, “how could you bring a synth here?!”

[@cocaine9357]

Plot Twist, Liberty Prime is replaced by a synth. Checkmate BOS

[@VergilTheomega]

If that’s the case why did the institute need to installa virus into it

[@anasshahid224]

Insane!

[@SinfulRxven]

Isn’t liberty prime technically a synth itself?? 😂

[@blackbirdrose6871]

@@SinfulRxvenno by that logic the protections would be as well

[@_dmfd]

​@@blackbirdrose6871 I mean in an weird way they kinda are too

[@unifiedatom]

Nah if they hav an issue with my companion they should keep it to themselves don’t forget ik how to turn off your immunity Arthur

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

lol nick humbled that brotherhood bed warmer

[@thedepression950]

Barracs bunny😂

[@tizbit_vrc]

I be so stoned all the time im pretty sure i did this and tell just now didn't think anything of it.

[@JazzyJake4]

This is my favorite exchange of dialog: BOS Soldier: "No machine should have free will." Nick Valentine: "Why, are you jealous that you had to give up yours?" 😂FUCKING SAVAGE😂

[@damace3838]

Its Bethseda, that means nothing will happen.

[@VeryBerry04]

It's Bethesda, that means there will be some interesting dialog

[@LSSRMCHNDROME]

nah they're just synthcis

[@AG1k]

Yeah for for example, in New Vegas, Boone becomes hostile towards Legion troops. The same could have easily been done with Brotherhood soldiers in regard to Valentine.

[@sonofabitchingbridge]

In Fallout 2, Vault City made you leave your super mutant and/or ghoul companions outside.

[@Impacatus]

​@@AG1kI think that does happen when you bring X6-88 to Railroad HQ.

[@blondebuddhist4403]

He answers the question in the last 25% of the video

[@symbiotesully]

Nicks the GOAT, love his design, and his personality

[@DukeofJukes293]

Nick and Danse get a pass

[@alexandersnow1412]

Nope danse not

[@jondoe-xn9st]

Glad to see the tv show pumped some life into fallout. It’s always been a great game.

[@elitackett2617]

Nick is my main companion so I hear those remarks every single time I go there

[@thephoenix6237]

I really just can't enough of these little bits. And I get so invested too like I'm watching real news.

[@PlaneCereal]

What about curie with the synth body?

[@specter1691]

They do nothing mainly because I think the NPCs still register her as a miss Nanny bot (Look at the Diamond City Guards for evidence). They also don't care about Hancock, Strong, and X6-88.

[@uninspiredgaming9963]

Curie and X6-88 can at least pass for human, which is the entire point of Synths in the first place

[@specter1691]

@@uninspiredgaming9963 I would say that X6-88 not being found by the BOS would be impossible because he's wearing the infamous courser coat and has a voice that's equivalent to an unenthusiastic handjob since the coursers main job aren't to blend in and try to act human while possibly sabotaging the human settlement they're in unlike normal 3rd gen Synths but rather to ya know retrieve Synths that have gone A.W.O.L . Yet at the same if Curie can get by so can X6-88 because while yeah one of their enemies are Synths, they can't just shoot and kill people all willy nilly just on the suspicion that they're a Synth

[@Loona_Rose_Hazbin]

@@specter1691yet they were all to happy to kill Danse without officially confirming that he was a Synth and not the real Danse on the suspicion based on institute records matching their own records. Its only after he goes AWOL that he’s confirmed to be a Synth. It’s clear that the real person and a synth can exist at the same time as we find out in a random encounter. We find a man being held hostage by a man that looks just like him. It’s possible that the real Danse is still alive but we don’t ever meet him.

[@keithsavagelives]

​​​​@@Loona_Rose_Hazbin Agreed, but as it's SOP for the Institute to take the captive original over to the FEV lab, you're not likely to actually recognize the original when you find them. Hint: they'll be much bigger and green now. I don't know the details of the Art vs. Art escapade. Honestly, I don't think Besthesda really cared about a believable scenario, just a bizarre encounter. I have met them enough to have confirmed one is a synth, and the other IS a human. I started by trying to kill the synth, eventually killed the human. A couple of the events happened in conjunction with other fights, and it was difficult to tell who killed whom. I'm sure Super Mutants killed the human once, as he was dead before I fired a shot. Now that I think of it, that's the last time I saw it. Could be Art's death stopped the random encounter?

[@Toddpeekence]

Oh so.... They basically built the game for you to bring him there? Yeah, mad.

[@sloshyscarab718]

There’s actually a little line of dialogue between Danse and Nick hinting that they’ve crossed paths a few times

[@alkhemizt]

nick has the best quick witted quips

[@brandonb1631]

Tip for this mans shorts: skip to the halfway point because he never explains anything before then. Ever.

[@123Dudus123]

What a waste of time - half of the 'short' is intro...

[@ArtemusTheOneAndOnly]

The fact that i accidentally just did this today before seeing this video, i feel bad for nick ngl

[@thefiretipepikachu4400]

I already knew this one because I have Nick Valentine as my follower the entire time.

[@Nick9Three]

Nick Valentine is by far one of the best characters in all of fallout. His smart ass quips and witty comments always got me smiling. We also share the same name. My middle name is Valentine.

[@Bloody_Ingenious]

-"Don't get any ideas, synth." +"From you guys? I wouldn't know where to look." -"A machine shouldn't have free will." +"Why? You jealous you had to turn yours in?" These are my fave piece of dialogue when you bring Nick over. Boy, he did NOT hold himself back when he said the first one😅 pure savage

[@OfficialPrestonGarvey]

“There is a settlement that needs your help, I’ll mark it on your map”

[@Lll-ov8lr]

Nick came with me from the moment I met him. Dudes a straight savage

[@chucklenutchad7394]

This man just read my mind with this one, been wondering the last few days.

[@DirtyWastelandr]

Asking the questions we all answered 8 years ago like a boss!

[@m.t.fguard8309]

You cut out the best part, everybody knows Nick is The comeback King and oh boy, does he have some comebacks

[@user-qz2sn7pp6j]

The attention to detail in this game is insane

[@lqunchl5306]

I just got the game and did that without thinking, i felt bad for bro. Non stop him getting bitched.

[@ianfinrir8724]

I really enjoy how Nate and Nick have a buddy cop thing.

[@kingkarmaah8847]

And this is precisely why the last thing Maxson hears is rusty gears from 12 seventeenth century mortars.

[@FantasyKid46]

Bruh, that cutaway as Nick was about to get clobbered...

[@Generihol]

I have never thought a about doing this. In fact I have always left him behind when going to the Brotherhood base to be on the safeside.

[@jimjimmers8571]

You should’ve included more of Nick’s comebacks, they were the best parts of these interactions!

[@ryanmartin6437]

I almost never go anywhere without Nick, he's been on the Prydwen loads of times

[@derykherold]

In mine a knight said"watch it synth"and responed "I will"

[@odinido5594]

I let nick go to spaceship in a power armor, then let him out to present a surprise

[@jaysonbenjamin5509]

Nick s responses are on point homie is there for all the smoke hands down my fav companion

[@officialdevil-risinggaming5530]

If you take nick to dima? It turns out its his brother 😮

[@Rocket_Aces]

He rode with me on the copter and I was blaring Magic Carpet Ride like I was back in Vietnam

[@kanetidus]

the big quest for Nick was dope when you have to collect 12 audio tape to find out a code and to find out the guy to take his revenge (I forgot his name)

[@itsmrlester]

Brotherhood: That thing should be scrapped for parts Me with maxed out X-01 armor and spray and pray: So you have chosen death...

[@mysteryneophyte]

There really was so much well thought out stuff going on in this game

[@MRRED-bk5hb]

Me: take a good look around nick... It will all be up in flames in a second or so

[@thefigure13]

Nick’s best line is easily what he says if you destroy the nucleus with him.

[@berserkerbright2558]

I literally found this out in my first play through by accident

[@Alisibeth_Talia212]

Nick's sass was the BEST in this base. "What is that *thing* doing here?" "Is that what your parents used to say to you?" "How they let this *monster* walk around in here, I will never know." "...Let you in, didn’t they?" "Don't you try anything funny, Synth!" "Why? 'Cause you wouldn’t know why everyone's laughin' again?"

[@woahdudeitsme9742]

Sweet! The detail is awesome.

[@gabrielemory1030]

fast traveled to the prydwin one time with hancock as my companion, first thing i heard, “careful traveling with that thing”

[@pulse0000]

Nick is my favorite mechanical Humphrey Bogart companion.

[@michaelwilks6652]

I brought him on the blimp base and he got stuck there and could never leave but nobody attacked each other

[@christorres9833]

They really thought of everything.

[@maiqthecoward7132]

He’s my go to follower, just asks if you’re sure you want to walk through a brotherhood compound with a synth at your side

[@rkallday1026]

Damn the BOS manages to say Synth with a hard R

[@northparkstudioroblox2k11]

I did that before when I just meet the brotherhood of steel

[@RobotPlayzzGaMeS]

I love how half of the things you do ive already done

[@user-rl4pi7yk8b]

I brought Nick to the brotherhood long after I joined and they just ignored him funnily enough.

[@tarrycapybara90]

This is literally how I play the game lol

[@mikeyprice2964]

When I took nick to the brotherhood’s base I put him power armour so they can’t tell he’s a synth

[@alecrocksablegaming]

You forgot the parts where nick roasts them it’s so good😂😂🤣🤣

[@camtube55]

"the institute and their creations need to be destroyed...except you Nick, you aight"

[@maddoxtalker9844]

Pet Synth and pet psyker parallel givin me the heebie gebies

[@Monio.]

I actually brought him straight to prydwen after killing kellog

[@thefallenjedi66]

I’d be more worried if someone whispered to me *true to kaiser*

[@optiTHOMAS]

Love Nick so damn much! Such a great character! I remember when I brought him aboard to see the brotherhood😅 😆 love his roasts