Who did you side with in the end /v/? Why? I can't decide
Ooh I'm at the tippin point to. Fuck I'm leaning Railroad but Institute seems chill too. Fucking synth Gorillas bro.
I guess I understand why Bethesda removed all choice and consequence from the game now.
>>318718967
Kinda was gonna do the brotherhood but Maxon is kinda a dick
>stalker promo art with a fallout logo plastered on it
>>318718849
The C-Consciousness, best hope for humanity's advancement.
>>318718849
>i cant decide
you are why rpgs died
>>318719251
Were you expecting viral marketers to make an effort?
>>318719528
I guess not
Finna kill Maxson and take his coat.
>>318718849
Its only a hard descion because all the factions are such shit. Minutemen have problems ruling as they are too small and once they grow large they have faction problems almost instantly according to Preston. BoS is just by concept cancerous in the long run but are the best bet at achieving something significant without having the people against them. The Institute is the technologically most advanced but has insubordination problems with their technology due to it becoming semi-sentient and having the people be against it due to boogymen. The Railroad's only use is getting ballistic clothing and the courser chip, otherwise they are dumb idealists that don't understand what makes a thing living/non-living.
I fucking hate you OP
>>318718849
BOS cus SPASEH MARRIENS!!!1!
>>318718967
If you had the minutemen help you inside you could've sided with them
I like the Minutemen
>pirate the game
>should probably wait for a mod that changes the beginning to how i want but what the fuck ever i want to shitpost about this on /v/
>fill out character sheet
>hear codsworth actually fucking say the name i put in
well god fucking damn good job bethesda you've done precisely one thing correctly so far.
Institute is the only reasonable choice.
Don't just stand there I said come in!
>>318718849
I'm going with full Minutemen for my first playthrough.
Minutemen General outfit
Laser Musket main gun
Revolutionary Sword melee
calling artillery on mutant and raider shits
feels AMERICAN man.
>>318718849
Duty >>>>>> Freedom
>>318718849
I saw this image on an actual store page for Fallout 4 and I was so triggered that I contacted them about it.
>>318721042
He's the only character who says it, unfortunately.
The Mr Handy voice actor must work for peanuts or something.
>tfw just went with BoS cause I was already at their base and didnt feel like sitting through another loading screen to travel somewhere else
>>318718849
In terms of gameplay?
Brotherhood >>> Institute > Minutemen > Railroad
In terms of story?
Minutemen >>> Railroad > Brotherhood > Institute
>>318721249
Is this a fucking joke.
Bethesda has literally gorillions of dollars to spend on development, the game fucking markets itself, they implement a piece of technology that allows NPCs to recognize the name of the player
AND THEY ONLY DO IT ONCE
How the fuck can Bethesda fuck up so hard?
>>318721042
And then you realize that Codsworth is one of the worst companions and you never speak to him again.
It's one of their typical "wow, check THIS out!" gimmicks. Something that has very little value for actual gameplay, but which sounds cool when they talk about it in previews.
Why is this even a question? Don't tell me anyone actually sided with the C-Consciousness, you'll miss like a chunk of the ending.
Please don't put Stalker on the same level as your shitty pseudo RPG
>>318719251
No joke I saw this promo art in a fucking gamestop.
>>318721756
Stalker is a pseudo-rpg on an ever lower scale than Fallout.
That said, every STALKER game is 10x better than any fallout game.
>>318721181
you do realize they're a Russian puppet right
So, wait a minute, the point of the vaults are typically some form of social experiment, or some sort of science experiment, right?
And generally, the experiments exist primarily because the conditions could not be met under normal circumstances, so they need to find a way to force people into the vault, right?
Elaborate, why the fuck does Vault 111 exist? If it's to test the cryogenics, why does it NEED to be a vault? I'm sure there's SOMEONE who they could find that would be willing to undergo cryogenics, that wouldn't lead to a 99.99999% chance of everything going fucking wrong because it's a large scale experiment conducted before any other type.
Like, seriously, what the fuck?
>>318718849
Siding with the Brotherhood was fun, but I also enjoyed siding with the Railroad for those sweet rewards.
>>318719235
>join brotherhood
>kill kellog and see the prydwin
>holy fuck
>get in prydwin and really like the good guy vibe
>maxson a bit cocky but with a ship this big who wouldn't be.
>go to the crew for missions take crops from farmers, basically told to rob them each time. forced to give precious caps to keep them on good side
>investigate missing supplies
>guy telling ptsd story about ghouls
i lost it there. at that moment i knew i couldn't side with them and have been helping the railroad since. hadn't gotten far enough into the main campaign where the institute is a viable option yet, need to do the courser thing.
>>318723754
Courser is actually pretty easy to kill, and if you go to the top of the steps there's a Fatman and a mini nuke
> Stalker wallpaper
> Fallout 4 logo
>>318723983
i've been avoiding it because i feel like the main story may be pretty weak so i play the game with my own internal narrative. im level 47 now i figure i'll do the courser at 50 or 52.
second reason for slowing the campaign is i can't see myself siding with any one faction in a way that hurts the others.
given that you know the institute takes your kid i wonder what they say to you that leaves the possible option for you to join them and not immediately get your son back first?
>>318721928
Gunslinger mod when?
>>318718849
I sided with the minutemen only because you get credit for your efforts. You bring them back from the brink and as such you're given the title of General. Any other organization you join makes you do everything but treats you like shit.
The institute makes you the leader but at the objection of basically every one there, BoS, railroad, everyone else makes you do all the work and doesn't give you shit in return. Their basically like the blades in Skyrim, Delphine is the symbol of all the factions of FO4, you do all the work and they toss a few caps at you and keep bossing you around.
I just wish there was a way to kill off all the factions and have it all for myself like in FNV.
>>318724651
Big plot twist, don't wanna ruin it for you
ths institute is the only option desu
>>318721439
thats just false, the railroad has the best final missions, but they are a shit faction unfortunately
BoS cause I wanted that Danse dick.
I really hate how asshole-y the BoS is in this game though. I kinda wanted to side with the Minutemen because they seem pretty chill about everyone.
>>318725981
>the railroad has the best final missions
You're actually joking right
>shoot broberhoo in corridor
>shoot broberhoo in corridor 2
>shoot institute in corridor
whoa
>>318725449
Do shotguns fire multiple shots like in new vegas making that really good? or would each trigger pull just do +1 explosion
>>318721813
Nigger really?
Can't really figure out how to do Minutemen.
Got a quest from the Institute where I can inform the brotherhood or railroad
Decided that railroad and Minutemen can work together. However, when I go to inform railroad, even after being a member, she tells me I have to leave the Minutemen and I say no.
Maybe brotherhood and Minutemen can be allied? Or the Institute. Idk who they are compatible with.
>>318718849
Traditional guns or energy guns? What is the best/ must have gun in either category?
I was kind of forced into siding with the Institute. The institute ending is definitely a "feelgood" ending. It has the best final mission too.
Literally wipe out an ENTIRE Brotherhood of Steel colony in the Commonwealth and take over Liberty Prime.
>>318728717
Good luck finding enough ammo for an energy gun solo run
>>318728448
The only way to trigger the Minutemen quest is to directly piss off the Institute. You can do that quest that you're on for the Institute, help Railroad of Brotherhood, and then when you talk to Father afterward tell him that you aren't having his shit.
>>318718849
the endings are literally the same just reversed with who ever you side with
>>318728717
There is no energy/physical separation in terms of perks. The weapon categories are Heavy, Unarmed, Melee, Rifles, and Pistols. Physical and Energy are now just damage types. With the Awareness perk you can pick and choose which gun you want to use based on enemy resistances.
Also, as >>318729323 said, you're going to be more strapped for ammo with energy guns, but if you're selling off your other ammo you'll probably be able to make it work with fusion cells. It's the plasma cartridges that get expensive.
As for the "best" guns, that depends on the weapon type. Also, Plasma now does a mixture of physical and energy damage.
Best ending is headcanon reformed institute.
Worst is BOS. Maxson got kekolded into an asshole.
>>318728032
pellets
>>318719251
>>318719251
s︂︂m︂h t︂b︂︂h f︂︂a︂m
>>318718849
>siding with C-Consciousness ever
They fucked up the noosphere and has been more on damage control rather than enacting out their plans
You might as well be doing Wish Granter endings instead or just shoot them so they don't get in the way and take a shot on trying to fix the damage they caused (which Strelok did).
>>318721181
Freedom>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Duty
if people want to come into the Zone and probably die wore are you to stop them also fuck being a Russian puppet.
>>318728717
>best gun
Heavy: Gatling Laser, Minigun with any good affix
Rifle: Gauss, Laser Musket, Plasma
Pistol: Deliverer, Plasma
Automatic: Railway, Plasma
>>318718849
Every faction is equally as shitty as each other, so I ended up just choosing BoS simply because the Prydwin is fucking rad as hell.
>>318727792
meet the patriot and arrange and operation to rescue all synths while still working with father
steal a vertibird to sneak into and crash Prydwen with no survivors
besides lets me honest all end missions are
>shoot the other two factions
>>318730506
>steal a vertibird to sneak into and crash Prydwen with no survivors
I like that you got to talk to Father after fucking up the Institute. I feel like, like in New Vegas, it would have been cool if you got to have a last confrontation with Maxson/Danse when attacking the Prydwen, especially if you had been a member of the Brotherhood.
>>318728717
"traditional" guns
>Gauss Rifle
>Railway Rifle
Energy guns
>Plasma rifle
Institute was pretty chill desu senpai
>>318730703
>Danse when attacking the Prydwen, especially if you had been a member of the Brotherhood.
this was likely planned but is bugged, because after that quest Danse becomes completely bugged, he cant act as a follower or anything
>>318730709
>Gauss Rifle
is it just me or is the gauss rifle aim a bit wonky?
>>318718849
The institute, because it's the best hope for mankind and I'm at the head of it.
>>318731207
Nah, you're just Ayo's bitch fuqboi.
Ayo technology.
Why do they even bother making you leader of the Minutemen? You're essentially a figurehead, wearing the fancy title and going around kicking ass while Preston gives the orders, because he's too shy to put himself out there as leader.
>>318731270
I can tell you're a faggot
>>318718849
>railroad: SJWs that only give a shit about synths and hide like homos. Incessantly bitch about "M-muh, muh SYNTHS, m-muh REEL EMOSHUNS!".
>BOS: Zealots who wanna destroy degenerates, kinda cool, but Nick is proof that not all synths are bad. Too aggressive in their ways
>Institute: Boogeyman hated by literally fucking everyone, steal people away in the night. People hate you for siding with them even ifthey aren't actually that evil
Also your son is a pretentious fuck.
>Minutemen: No real agenda, just want to protect the Commonwealth, and bring about it's past glory. Chill guys who role-play as colonials.
Minutemen all the way.
>>318731748
>but Nick is proof that not all synths are bad
Faggot could snap your neck at any second.
How far can i go without permanently choosing a faction?
>>318718849
anything besides BoS or Independence is objetively wrong
>>318731960
He's such a nice dude though, he'd probably have a good reason for killing me.
>>318721928
Thing is STALKER doesn't advertise itself as a full blown RPG
>>318718849
Duty
>>318721928
what are these mods
>>318725449
>I sided with the minutemen only because you get credit for your efforts. You bring them back from the brink and as such you're given the title of General. Any other organization you join makes you do everything but treats you like shit.
I think you are too impressed by titles, you are still their errand boy. But hey, at least you are a "general".
Loner forever, fuck Duty fuck military pigs fuck bandit pussy bitches. GET ARTIFACTS
>>318732291
AtmosFEAR + CoP most likely
Anyone know how to get mods working again? they've all stopped on me now.
>>318718849
The one choice the game gives you and you can't fucking make it yourself
Go railroad because your obviously a faggot who eats shit
>>318721450
Freedom
>>318732273
It's like you don't want to just drink vodka while tinkering on guns with Uncle Yar
I seriously couldnt play fallout long enough to care or know about the factions. Wandered for like 3 days working on gear, out leveled my normie brother that loved the game, then quit.
That being said. This stalker image, which is my favorite, with fallout on it really triggers me.
>>318732291
>>318732450
Call of Chernobyl with AO2
Looks even nicer with AO3 but I don't have any screenies on hand.
>>318718849
Wanted to go railroad for Deacon, and dat Desdemonass, but my game is bugged and I can't talk to her to progress the story. Fuck Bethesda
>>318718849
>torrent fo4
>get bored halfway through
>realize I could be collecting artifacts instead
>>318732023
It varies.
In the Institute quest line, a quest called Mass Fusion will make you enemies of Brotherhood, and End of the Line will make you enemies of the Railroad.
In the Brotherhood quest line, Tactical Thinking will make you enemies of the Railroad and Spoils of War will make you enemies of the Institute.
In the Railroad quest line, Operation Ticonderoga will make you enemies of the Brotherhood, and The Nuclear Option will make you enemies of the Institute.
Minutemen quest can only be done by becoming enemies of the Institute, but otherwise will not set you against anyone.
>>318733096
What's the bug?
>tfw fighting feral ghouls
>literally every second one of them is a glowing one legendary who will continually charge into you
It's not difficult but holy fuck is it annoying
>>318718849
I didn't side with anyone because I couldn't play such a shit game for more than an hour.
>>318733813
Here's your reply
>>318733851
thanks. Now send me an application for being a marketer for bethesda game studiosâ„¢
>>318733620
You know what pisses me off
Literally every time you encounter a legendary enemy they always mutate. Literally always
Minutemen because they're, in my opinion, the ones with the noblest intentions. Railroad are a close second.
>>318733945
Ebin m8
You got some dank memes we haven't heard?
>>318730010
>headcanon reformed institute.
Dude what?
If anything it's The Minutemen. You know, the fucking faction that THE PROTAGONIST IS IN CHARGE OF. The faction that no matter what, you can't piss them off and you can always fall back on them.
>>318733496
During the last part of underground undercover, I have to warn Des but everytime I talk to her I get regular dialogue. Not sure what the issue is but I tried console commands to reset conflicting quests and reloading prior saves. I could force completion but it won't start the next quest without a force start so I just said fuck it and stopped playing that run until it's patched.
>>318734161
Not if you attack other Minutemen
Please refrain from using images from good games to advertise your shitty ones.
>>318718849
Institute, why would you side with a bunch of warmongers and conspiracy theorists?
>>318734123
A webm is worth a thousand memes
>>318734229
Nope. There's literally nothing you can do to be hated by them. No matter what, you can always side with them.
The Institute, BoS, and Railroad are the only factions that can end up hating you and prevent you from siding with them. You can always side with The Minutemen .
>>318719975
This is really what bugs me most. Minutemen are so goddamn incompetent, they can't do ANYTHING themselves and they need a fucking general to be as their postman. BoS are plain assholes, Institute seems stupid because i don't want world filled with robots and railroad just remains me of leftist libertarians forcing their naive view of the world to everyone.
Why isn't there possibility to just tell everyone to fuck off and do it by myself like in NV?
>>318734229
They are the "Yes Man" of Fallout 4.
>>318723303
All the vaults were established by the pre-war enclave as experements for their own agendas. Since their plan was to fuck off into outer space before the world went to Shit, they used the vaults as experiments pertaining to questions and problems arising from prolonged space travel. Hence cryo-stasis, genome harvesting, etc.
>>318734406
>I hate Fallout 4 because an animation doesn't work properly in VATS
Alright
>>318734612
so, in short it makes sense for the cyro-stasis to be tested in the vault, since it was most likely top secret?
>>318734793
Probably. They were expecting nukes, just not so soon. And not as bad.
Who did I side with, /v/?
>>318734741
Well since you put it that way. Oh wait... Maybe it's the dialogue being rail-roaded and the voice acting/character back story which ultimately destroys any shred of role-playing capability that actually causes me to hate the game.
>>318735041
Institute or modder.
All the other paint jobs are mid-game, Institute requires you to side with them.
Duty all the way. You're not one of those Freedom hippies, are you?
>>318718849
Was fucking around, gonna go with Brotherhood cuz I'm a power armor fag but wanted to do some institute shit first, then Bethesda sends a couple of faggot Knights who shoot the damn courser I gotta talk to into the ocean. Got really bored, now I'm basically just fucking around
>>318735153
That I did. Had a save from before I sided with the Railroad which was kind of boring except for the explosion the Institute made. Is the Brotherhood any less shit? The battle against the Brotherhood for the Institute was boring and just a ton of dudes.
>>318735041
too easy - the institute
>>318735196
Loners > >>>>>>>> Cheeki-Breeki > the rest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBhh23-paLU
which game are we discussing here?
>>318735292
I liked it. A ton of dudes is exactly what I want as a final battle. I want to be able ot use my galting laser to its full potential.
>>318735292
Instead of the weak as fuck vertibird ride they cart outLiberty Prime againand you follow him through the streets as he throws nukes at synths. Then he burns a giant hole in the ground at MIT and you take the institute by force. The explosion is identical.
Is there really no option to fight everyone? Out of the innumerable 4 choices I was surprised that each and every one is dick and balls.
I wanna kill the Brotherhood dude for Banecoat, but I don't want to help the Railroad/Institute because they're both clinically retarded.
Maybe I'll just play a good game. Any suggestions?
>inb4 Nuke Boston
>>318735041
The brotherhood are cunts
The Institute is fine but goes full retard in the end
Railroad is pretty based
Minutemen probably have the best idea of what the commonwealth should be
>>318719975
>>318734510
Minutemen are the new NCR: they're good guys, but just really shitty at what they do.
>>318735541
Railroad is full of retards and are essentially SJWs
>>318720062
Imagine how much you'd have to miss the theme of fallout to think that was official art
>>318735669
They just think synths shouldnt be slaves, since they are very clearly just synthetic humans with free thought
I'm having fun doing Railroad quests right now, and I'm not /opposed/ to their ideology. Sure, let humanoid synths that want to be free do their thing.
But why would you focus all these resources on such a frivolous goal when humanity is still in such lousy shape? There are giant mutant monsters killing everything in sight and you use all your time, tech, and firepower on rescuing some robots?
Get your priorities straight, nigga. Revisit the issue when society has a little stability.
>>318735669
Super violent SJWs.
That said, they'd approve of this and I do too.
>>318733620
Just fuck their legs m8
>>318735510
>Liberty Prime AGAIN
>After it got blasted to smithereens in Fallout 3
Holy shit, is Bethesda really so uncreative that they can't think of anything else?
>>318732162
If you're being nitpicky neither did Fallout 4, it's just what people have come to expect on /v/ at least.
>>318735742
Because giant monster respawn every weeks anon
>>318735530
you can kill them all, except the minutemen
>>318735770
>super violent SJWs
So, SJWs then?
Railroad because let's face it--you're playing a stealth archer.
>>318735669
>SJWs
I wish the twitter warriors would go away
>>318718849
CHIIKI BRIIKI IV DAMKE!
>>318736208
I wish SJWs like you would go away.
>>318721181
Loner>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>duty>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>freedom
Faggot
>>318736445
You tell 'em
>>318733620
They can't mutate back their leg. Even when they do mutate, it doesn't repair limb damage, so just keep fucking up one of their legs. Ghouls and Synths have shit limb health in general, so they can show off the dismemberment system in the game.
I actually found the choice to be quite difficult.
Raidroad: Equivalent to animal activists. Don't seem to care about anything other than saving the synths. Worst choice by far.
Minutemen: Want to help the common folk. Don't want power or control, just allowing people to survive and work together etc. They don't have a desire (or the resources) to protect/defend the entire Commonwealth. They're a better choice than the Railroad, but still not a great one.
Brotherhood: Power hungry, mostly care about themselves. Not as likely to help the common folk as the Minutemen, but they might if it helps themselves too. Has a fair amount of resources and power, wants to cleanse the Commonwealth of all the mutants, ghouls, synths etc. In the process, this may make all the common people safer too.
Institute: Nobody/nothing matters except for them and their cause. All in the name of a future world. Every person who helped you, or you helped throughout the story means nothing if you pick to side with them. Shaun is a holier-than-thou faggot who is older than you and seems delusional, considering he hasn't had a difficult life at all.
Brotherhood or Institute endings are probably the best of the 4 choices. Institute if you don't care about the Commonwealth as it is now (maybe even the next 100+ years), Brotherhood if you want power/control and to help people as well, but sometimes you'll end up wrecking innocent people etc carrying out orders.
>>318736208
Le SJWs don't exist shitlord
I got in deep with all of them, but I'm going to join Railroad because their missions are the most fun so far, and I've made Curie my waifu.
>>318736737
Gameplay-wise, siding with Railroad is the best.
Ending-wise, probably BoS. Institute ending is really shit.
Minutemen are meh all-round.
BoS my first run
Doing Minutemen now and making a clubhouse with all the companions
>>318736780
Le my world revolves around twitter shitlord
BOS
O
S
>>318718849
>mfw i skimmed this thread thinking it was a STALKER thread being confused as fuck
>>318736019
Fallout IS an RPG, before Bethesda bought the IP outright.
>fallout never advetised itself as an RPG, you silly
>>318718849
Duty. Because you can't let the zone spread.I know that it isn't a STALKER thread, but still.
>>318735737
They are all scumbags aside from Deacon. They only ever treat you as an asset and their fanaticism gets real humans killed when nobody needed to die, all the while having a holier than thou attitude.Liam's suicideshows that they just use people to further their goals no matter the consequences just as they are using the protag. Fuck the railroad.Minutemen = Institute > BoS > Railroad
First I thought joining the Institute, but then again, they were the ones that took your child and made him the person he is now. I guess i'll take minutemen or railroad, then next playthrough as nazi officer and do mainquest as BoS .
>>318718849
I don't know anon. I can't play buggy games.
>>318719251
Stalker stole that art from Bethesda you dumb fuck.
>>318741707
Someone ban those people
>>318742361
God you Stalker fanboys are even worse than Dark Souls fanboys.
>>>/vg/
>>318742452
Why would there be an AK, STALKER cosume, STALKER location and a Russian gunship in post apocalyptic USA?
>>318718849
anon you posted S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
this is Fallout 4
>>318742585
>STALKER
No that's Fallout dumbass.
>AK
No that's a Chinese Assault rifle dumbass
>Russian guns You know what I'm not even gonna finish this one because you clearly don't know what the FUCK you're talking about.
>>318742585
Why are you taking their bait like it's your first day on 4chan?
>>318742796
Because there people taking it seriously, like it was in the beginning with that picture.
