It would also a add some nice depth to the overall factions. You could have the Institute still acting semi isolationist but be willing to rent out their Synths to settlements on the basis of being a more humane alternative to human slavery. This would add a moral dilemma to Railroad players has the more Synths you free / destroy the Institute, the more human slavery is reintroduced to the Commonwealth as Raiders and slave societies just use human alternatives. You could even have an early quest line in the Minutemen on if you should buy Synths from the Institute to help rebuild settlements / the Minutemen or if you abstain. Then if you choose to buy the Synths but go to war with the Institute you have a potential 5th column from wanting to take the "easy" path.
Which is odd because in FO3 the Railroad chick at Rivet City, Victoria Watts, tells you "Yes, the androids are our priority but we also help any human slaves we can" when the PC asks her about that. And according to the Official Game Guide she's allied with the escaped slaves at the Temple of the Union, so the situation isn't exactly "Lol humans get fucked" like it seems to be in FO4.
Or they could have just gone with a traditional FO1/2 style linear main story, and have the Gunners work with the Institute as their hired guns. There's zero reason for them to want you dead on sight in the base game, since unlike FO3's Talon Company they're not contracted by someone, presumably Tenpenny, to go after you for saving the day. But if they were working for the Institute, then yeah, they'd want you dead because you're a loose end. Would also give some actual weight to the Minutemen and the settlements, since you'd be rebuilding them and the trust between the settlements to counter the division the Institute keeps sowing to weaken and divide them, allowing the Gunners to pick them off easier for the synths to loot.
Literally anything would have been a better use of the gunners over what we got in the game. They just outright didn't make any sense, but then again most of 4 didn't make much sense. We never see them actually taking contracts, just being up armored raiders. There was just 0 depth to them, even by 4s low standards. They really let uniqueness die in 4.
Talon Company was pretty retarded as well, but at least some lip service was paid to them doing actual merc work. Plus 3 had Rileys rangers as another merc group to at least show mercenaries did things in the Wasteland.
Tenpenny, I'd argue. Dude wants his chaos, because chaos means the little island of well-armed safety that is Tenpenny Tower is less likely to be stormed and looted, and besides, anarchy pays when you're a mercenary group and everyone wants everyone else dead. Just ask the Sniper about human nature. Although unlike Talon Company he is a professional since professionals have standards.
I haven't played much of Fallout 4 but I like Valentine as a companion. His old detective persona fits in that wasteland.
His companion quest was however, stupid as shit with the crime guy who Valentine got his personality from, still
There were a handful of people in prior games who deliberately turned themselves into ghouls, but that was a particularly stupid case. Especially since the bunker was about the size of a bedroom.
Warlockracy is excellent, his videos are a great peek into slavic games and culture for a dirty westerner like me. I highly suggest his Olympus 2207 video, which is about a Fallout 2 total conversion.
have been on a bing watching his videos. His accent is really comfy.
