I wonder if FO4 will have some sort of consequence when you do silly stuff like "trolling" a quest progress/completion.
Long example:
In one of the first quests of FO3 - the Grayditch Ant-Invasion one - you have a multitude of choices:
- Kill/Let live the Researcher who, through experiments, caused Giant Ants to mutate into Fire Ants
- Kill/Let live the Ant Queen
- Destroy/Ignore the mutagen for the next ant generation so the experiments to go on
- Maybe more
I sided with the Researcher since in my first playthrough (when the game first came out years ago) I killed him instantly when he admitted creating the ants.
So, this time, I let the Queen live, let the work continue, etc. And on the end of the quest, he offered to give me +1 Strength or +1 Perception.
After that, I killed the Queen and destroyed the Mutagen in front of him (which gave me Good Karma), and filled the cave with explosives in case he ever tries to leave.
And hey..nothing happened at any point, because I had already completed the quest. I wonder if FO4 will be any different.
PS: Even though the scientist was doing good work trying to turn the ants back into their normal size, he was using the FEV (which I have very, very little knowledge about because I never played FO1 or FO:Tactics, and couldn't finish FO2 because I absolutely hate the interface..and because I "broke" a savegame that had HOURS of play, and my backups were days old), and he was experimenting right next to people with no regard for human life.
So hey, fuck that sort of science in that context. We have Power Armors, just burn every single Queen to death and do artificial selection. Or do your science in an isolated region without bringing more suffering to the world!
God damn I need Fallout 4 so I can bring more shotgun justice to that world.