mate...you were just told to kill a synth and then you go to the brotherhood with a synth as your companion and they just don't give a shit, this game man.
This is as far as I would ever go with the BoS. Next step after this is murdering the Railroad, and that’s something I’d want to avoid. Too bad the Spoils of War quest requires eliminating the Railroad beforehand ‘cause that mission looks cool. I know that you can get Spoils of War by betraying the Institute to the Brotherhood during the Mass Fusion quest, but I usually get myself banished from the Institute at the end of the Battle of Bunker Hill. I just love telling Shaun how disappointed I am in him.😊
Too bad you can’t just shoot Arthur Maxson when he shows up outside Listening Post Bravo. Danse will immediately become hostile towards you even though Maxson was there to kill him. I wish there were some way to change that. Arthur Maxson was an insufferable little shit when he was a squire in Fallout 3 and he grew into into a massive turd by Fallout 4.
First time playing this mission I was ready to end Maxson without a thought. In the cutscenes outside of the bunker, you just saw my character standing protectively in front of Danse, X-02 armor with tesla mods on, and combat shotgun in hand ready to go 😂
I refused to kill my brother Danse, he recruited me, trained me, stood by my side through every step of the way and even gave his sympathy for my lose of my wife and child throughout the game. No, i did everything in my absolute power to keep him alive and now he has his own bunker and i glared Maxson tf down and made him stand down now i can talk to him whenever i please
I'm always intrigued on Maxson's ideology of the Institute and Synths "playing god" or "abusing technology" and yet they're doing the same thing in the Wasteland and its people.
Agreed. Their ideology and their methods go against each other. And if they were asked about it, they would probably have answered "it's for the greater good"...
I really loved the BoS in fallout 3 but I didn't realize that Lyons faction was the exception. Fallout 4 showed me how twisted and cruel the BoS is. They think they're saving the Commonwealth, but they're more like an invading army committing genocide.
I love that Bethesda made this mission inevitable, making sure that even players who ooo and aaaah the brotherhood and ignore their culty and fashy dialogue that's evolved since 3. No matter what, they will always try to kill your friends
Ahh, what a day. What a bombshell of a discovery. Danse? Synth? Well, with heavy heart and even heavier minigun, I made that lonely trudge in my T-60 to where the synth had made its lair. I'd promised Haylen I'd talk to it, and I did that for her sake. Good girl, but soft heart. My report regarding her was already prepared and I hoped we could turn her around. So, there I was, talking to the machine that wore my friend's face. I chatted as I would have done to a human, but it was just the programming coming through, an emulation of human responses, not unlike an AI. Finally, I swung up that minigun and held the trigger. Must have a slipped at that moment because the minigun traced a line of fire across the Synth's legs. Synthetic flesh and plastic bone splattered across the floor as it fell screaming. Of course it wasn't actually screaming, and that wasn't actually blood. It were merely playing the part as it's synthetic fluid spilled out. Then I remembered, 5mm rounds are actually kinda pricey, and T-60 foot-stomps cost nothing. When Maxson met me outside, my T-60 treads were grisly with righteous deeds, and he nodded silently. I didn't answer. We both knew the score. If a Synth could get this far into the Brotherhood's command structure, the threat was worse than we'd feared. It was time to clean house. Nulla Misericordia! Ad Victorium!
