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[scriver]

Is there ever any actual confirmation on whether all synths automatically know they are synths? I haven't gotten long into the main quest yet, but it's been one if the questions the game brought up in me so far.

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especially at the end of the covenant quest line.

[BlackFlyme]

Not all know that they are.

[Teneb]

Yeah, they don't. It seems the railroad tends to erase their memories sometimes. The one in FO3, for example.

Damn it, now I need to go about killing everyone with the console to find out who the synths are.

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Piper's little sister is a synth.

I wish this were true now.

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You think I'm lying? Try killing her with console commands.

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You'd also think that Piper would be ok with synths in general, seeing as she's apparently friends with Nick.

[Antioch]

The more I think about the main quest, the more I realize how disappointing it is.

There isn't any part of it that is even above "meh", the writing is just seriously uninspired.

The way the factions act too is just completely irrational.

[Grim Portent]

My only big problem with the writing so far has been the backstory for the Minutemen.

Pretty much every mention of them makes it sound like they collapsed ages ago but it's only actually been a couple of weeks at most when you meet Preston, since they collapsed at the Quincy Massacre and that's where the survivors he's leading came from, but everyone still acts like they've been gone for years or something.

[Sensei]

My only big problem with the writing so far has been the backstory for the Minutemen.

Pretty much every mention of them makes it sound like they collapsed ages ago but it's only actually been a couple of weeks at most when you meet Preston, since they collapsed at the Quincy Massacre and that's where the survivors he's leading came from, but everyone still acts like they've been gone for years or something.

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You can find a bunch of terminals with logs in quincy detailing some other minutemen's travels during and after the breakup. It seems like they must have been wandering a while, months at least. Preston's dialogue when you first meet them doesn't really imply that though. It's probably an issue coordinating multiple writers.

[BFEL]

Yeah its pretty much stated that the Quincy Massacre was basically just something of a death knell to an already all but collapsed organization. I think its more "Preston's group was the last one acting like minutemen and Quincy stopped that" then "no minutemen left anywhere"

[Reudh]

My only big problem with the writing so far has been the backstory for the Minutemen.

Pretty much every mention of them makes it sound like they collapsed ages ago but it's only actually been a couple of weeks at most when you meet Preston, since they collapsed at the Quincy Massacre and that's where the survivors he's leading came from, but everyone still acts like they've been gone for years or something.

The raiders at Libertalia (the sunken ship city-thing) were originally Minutemen who resorted to raiding because they couldn't feed themselves by protecting people anymore. So yeah, Preston's group was probably the last actual functioning Minuteman group, but there was a cancer within the Minutemen long before that.

[Neonivek]

The minutemen's collapse is a bit more realistic then most

In that you PROBABLY could think of a single moment that destroyed the minutemen... but in reality they just slowly decayed to the point where you couldn't create the exact moment the minute men were gone.

Heck the minutemen aren't even "gone" you can still find a few living minutemen out there (as is common in a world without direct forms of communication outside short range radio.

[Grim Portent]

Thing is that there were supposed to still be Minutemen groups right up till Quincy, they just didn't show up due to factions forming that disliked one another, those groups shouldn't have just vanished into thin air, they would just have been refusing to do their job.

It'd make more sense to me if there were regional groups of Minutemen that you had to reunite rather than just building things up from nothing again, partly because it wouldn't beg the question of where the Minutemen you call on get so many laser muskets from at short notice, and also partly because it would make the Minutemen collapse seem more sensible to me if the people who ran the Minutemen after the last general died up until the collapse were present in the game.

[Neonivek]

Well remember you get the entire story from Gravy's perspective.

[Grim Portent]

Well remember you get the entire story from Gravy's perspective.

True I guess, he even mentions he doesn't know everything.

[Neonivek]

Not that I blame anyone for overlooking the "Unreliable narrator" aspect.

Since WAAAAAY too much fiction gives characters what amounts to psychic accuracy on everything they say.

Not that I think all fiction should have unreliable narrators... but they should probably stop having characters be freakishly specifically correct.

"He was going 100 miles per hour"

Me: "Now if you were a REAL person... that could mean it is going anywhere from 50-120... but since your a fictional character it means it is going exactly 100MPH with absolutely no deviation. In fact it won't even slow down on turns or lane changes."

[Krevsin]

I like the laser muskets both as a concept and as a weapon (they make for excellent sniper rifles), but there is one travesty regarding them that bothers me immensely, to the point that I count it as one of my major points of discontent with the game.

Namely, the fact that one of them cannot sport a stylish bayonet.

[Neonivek]

Looking at its general design >_> I am not sure It really could effectively.

Can you give characters upgraded versions of their weapons and they won't need ammo for them? I would LOVE to upgrade Gravy's equipment so he can hit the broadside of a barn.