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[Vendayn]

I joined the brotherhood. Always been my favorite faction in fallout. Plus I get infinite fusion cores with pickpocketing, so get to ride around in my power armor for a long time :DD

The other factions, except militiamen, seemed lame. Institute gets a bad ending supposedly (really boring I heard), railroad too liberal. Militiamen are awesome though, more neutral of bunch, them and brotherhood my favorites. Institute I like, but kinda more if I was playing evil.

[Flying Dice]

Funny thing, I actually got to the Ride of the Valkyries BoS moment in the plot before I joined them, which made the initial meeting more than a little silly.

[BFEL]

Honestly I would say that of the factions BOS is the most "evil" of the bunch.
At least in the sense it fits the goals of a murderhobo player.

I mean, The Institute is evil in a "We're used to having these things do all our work for us and now we're uncomfortable with the idea they might be sentient so we're gonna just ignore that" way, whereas BOS is evil in the "We don't give a shit if they're sentient, and if they are that just makes us wanna murder them all even more because NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE NICE THINGS."

So basically Institute is colonial slaver evil, and BOS is Nazi evil.

[Putnam]

wait holy shit maxson??

like, the kid from Fallout 3 descended from the founder of the BOS over in the west?

...and he brought the BOS back to what they usually do?

huh, that's actually interesting

[Kot]

Is Enclave around? Can I join them? I want a fucking Enclave Officer uniform like back from the Fo3. Or maybe the Pre-War General outfit from NV. I don't care about evil, I care about nice uniforms.

[Flying Dice]

wait holy shit maxson??

like, the kid from Fallout 3 descended from the founder of the BOS over in the west?

...and he brought the BOS back to what they usually do?

huh, that's actually interesting

IDK, as I mentioned earlier, he was mentioned as "Elder Maxson" -- I took that in combination with ZE GIANT SPOILER to mean that the main BoS had gobbled up the Wasteland splinter group. Unless the kid became Elder at a damned young age (relatively speaking) and managed to bootstrap up from "OMG we captured a couple vertibirds in working order, huzzah!" to what we see in FO4.

[DoomOnion]

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I don't think BOS is Nazi evil. Sentient robots are scary as fuck. Humanity is already on the verge of extinction, and a mechanical life form that outperforms biological ones in every possible aspect? Uh, no thanks.

I understand why Maxson brought a whole army over to deal with this. We're talking about Cylon level scariness here, and that's exactly why I ditched railroad and minuteman and joined BOS. I don't even like Nick Valentine. Creepy fuck.

[Teneb]

Spoilers regarding Maxson below

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He is the kid from FO3. In the airship one of the head scribes has a terminal with Maxson's biography. Apparently while a teenager, he solo'd a deathclaw and killed a super mutant "shepherd" that was trying to unify the DC mutants. His badassery led to him becoming Elder (the youngest one ever) and re-integrating the Outcasts, as well as re-establishing contact with the west coast brotherhood (Plot hole? Isn't the NCR supposed to have wiped out all the western brotherhood minus the Mojave chapter?).

As for Sarah Lyons, her... grandfather? died of old age, she succeeded him, but died on the battlefield not too long after.

[Flying Dice]

Spoilers regarding Maxson below

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He is the kid from FO3. In the airship one of the head scribes has a terminal with Maxson's biography. Apparently while a teenager, he solo'd a deathclaw and killed a super mutant "shepherd" that was trying to unify the DC mutants. His badassery led to him becoming Elder (the youngest one ever) and re-integrating the Outcasts, as well as re-establishing contact with the west coast brotherhood (Plot hole? Isn't the NCR supposed to have wiped out all the western brotherhood minus the Mojave chapter?).

As for Sarah Lyons, her... grandfather? died of old age, she succeeded him, but died on the battlefield not too long after.

Ah, cool, that would explain it.

Regarding your question:

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The Brotherhood/NCR war ended with a somewhat Pyrrhic victory for the NCR. The Brotherhood self-destructed four chapter bunkers, and none were captured intact, but ultimately despite their heavy losses relative to population (hundreds, allegedly--the NCR losses were apparently in the thousands) it's implied that they basically fucked off away from the NCR once they started losing hard. Incidentally, that war is why the NCR's fiat currency is such shit--the Brotherhood destroyed their gold reserves.

It's possible that Maxson instead reunited with BoS forces still in Chicago--both FO3 and NV hinted at the plot of Tactics being considered to be canon/or semi-canon. That would also explain where he got the airship from.

[Gabeux]

I'd like to give a heads-up. I killed a dude in a T-60b and stuffed the parts in an ammo box.
I stepped away from the site for a minute and when I came back, the box had some ammo in it, and no T-60b.
My heart is broken. Even though I already have one (and half of a X-01), that was just sad.

Well, I got almost 10 frames hanging around in Sanctuary. lol so I guess I shouldn't be that much sad.
I'm kinda liking this PA collecting thing.

[SOLDIER First]

I think, until I have enough cash for Fallout 4, I'll hang out with my good friends Gary and Fantastic.

[BFEL]

Sentient robots are scary as fuck.

No more scary then sentient anything else.

[Egan_BW]

Very.

[Gabeux]

Ok. Turns out one of my Settlers was a Synth, I think. That's a subtle, weird thing.

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Albernathy Farm got attacked by many Synths, which spawned right inside my gates.
The only settler that died had a "Synth Component" on him. I'm not that far into the game, but I hey, that's probably enough evidence.
I still know nothing about the Institute, though. But I'm getting curious.

[umiman]

Ok. Turns out one of my Settlers was a Synth, I think. That's a subtle, weird thing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Albernathy Farm got attacked by many Synths, which spawned right inside my gates.
The only settler that died had a "Synth Component" on him. I'm not that far into the game, but I hey, that's probably enough evidence.
I still know nothing about the Institute, though. But I'm getting curious.

...

Huh... that explains why I found those on my dead settlers as well...