Fallout 4 - SYNTH settlers - how to notice/get rid of them 

Do you know what would be a terrifing plot twist? Randomly encountering an exact replica of your character, you accuse him of being a synth but he keeps denying, then you kill him, but don't find a synth component in his body...

4 easy steps on how to determine if your settlers are synths, 1. Travel a to settlement populated with settlers 2. slaughter all of them 3. check for synth components 4. Ad Victoriam

this settlement looks like a concentration camp

*Goes back in time, settlement looks like some kind of a deathcamp.* "Everything seems completely normal."

Your base seems like a deathcamp.

Wow! Your settlement inspired me. Every settlement I've made I gave advanced gear and fancy clothing to everyone of my settlers. Even made the settlements look like paradise. Everyone had their own beds and even their own shacks complete with furnishings, electricity and televisions. Lights everywhere, stores galore, music playing in the background. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH COPPER IS REQUIRED FOR THOSE DAMN STATUES!?? My drive in makes Diamond city look like a slum. But I always wondered, why aren't I happy? Now, thanks to you I understand. I am THEIR MASTER!!! All they need is a sleeping bag, all in a row, and a guy in power armor with a gun in their face forcing them to work in the fields. And from hear on out, if any of them get out of line... BAM!!! Also, I'm taking their guns away.

to find out if its a synth or not simply ask which position would they choose to play in baseball.

One of the Warwick people is a gen 3 synth. This is revealed to you in the institute on a terminal in the bioscience wing. The institute is why their farm is doing well. Institute is supplying the crop seeds.

everyone gets up at the exact same time. Seems normal

Jesus Christ, this did not need an 18 minute video to explain..

1:04 "everything looks completely normal"

easier method. ring the gathering bell. wait for everyone to arrive. save. kill everyone. look for synth components. reload save and kill the synths found out.

when they all got out of bed in unison I expected one of them to point at you and shout "un forestero" and another to say "agarrenlo" and then the sound of a chainsaw in the distance. . . . .

Just waiting for you to tell them to take a "shower".

I wanted To test my new sword out so i Killed all my settlers in a quick save No Joke i found a synth Brahim! A synth component in a dead Brahim! Wtf

Guys, a much easier way to find this out is with the *Awareness* perk under the Perception tree. This ability lets you see peoples weaknesses in V.A.T.S.. You can then scan each settler and find those who have Energy Resistance. But be careful that you frisk them before you kill them... There are some settlers who have clothing which gives them Energy Resistance (hats mainly), so remove all clothing, scan them once more and if they still have Energy Resistance they're a synth!

you and macready look like jail wardens

Well the most suspicious part is that all your settlers seem to all have green shirts and jeans. That makes it the most suspicious.

Thanks for giving me a tutorial on how to be a good Naz- I mean Knight. I was having trouble picking out those pesky Je- I mean synths...

People in the Castle have been doing this and I've been wondering why my Happiness is dropping when I hooked everything up nice. I'm killing some bastard today, I know of atleast three people dying in that Castle.

I just put a lot of toasters around the place and wait for settlers to hit on them - No synth can resist a hot mechanical slot!

cool video but it's way too long and each section is drawn out.

I kept trying to save one settlement, it turned out the brahmin was the spy. Each time I killed it though the town attacked me and my companion joined them. Finally I had to just let them kill the synth-cow and fail the settlement call.

Are they synths if they stand on the bed at night instead of sleeping?

HEY GUIS I JØST FOUND OUT THAT NICK VALENTINE IS A SYNTH!!! I WAS SO SHOCKED

This is a very intricate touch for Bethesda to add. Thank you for finding this, I would have never noticed this one myself.

is this a settlement or a death camp?

"Everything seems normal" *settlers commence a synchronized robotic wakeup routine.*

You should work on editing your vids more. Take out all the unnecessary waiting and load times. The vid is really interesting, but it's slow and boring. Cut it down to the most important parts then you'll have an awesome post.

Taking a shotgun blast to the head and not reacting...that's a red flag right there.

This video could have easily been 4 minutes long instead of 18.

My settlement has a synth cow...

i had One of my settlers attack my castle base and there are 32 other people there when i heard someone say youre dead i turned around and he died so fast because of the settlers and my turrets

Has anyone been attacked by synth cows? My settlement was under attack by a cow, and when I looted its corpse, it had a synth component. This legit happened. Are there synth dead claws, too?

Apparently, when the synths were acting paranoid they annoyed all of the settlers and they didn't mind that you killed them, because your other settlers only attacked you when you killed the normal acting synths.

This video was useful. I've been having trouble figuring out who the hell is a Synth, and who isn't. I noticed some paranoid settlers, but I thought that was some kind of bug. LOL

SPOILER ALERT! the synths are synths

I have a synth living at my settlement. Her name is Curie

simple method save kill everyone see if they are synths remember who was and who was not reload save kill synths tell me if i forgot some thing

STEPS: 1. Kill all of them 2. 'resurrect' the ones without synth thingy (RIP Console Players) 3. Don't look at their face

In my settlement x6 is acting strange I think me might be a synth

synths don't sleep. the most obvious sign lol

A lot of my Sanctuary settlers act erratic. Although I'm the director of the Institute now so maybe thats why they haven't did anything.

Build 10 Rocket Turrets for each settlement and they're all fuck'd.

Your settlements looks like prison...

10:39 a random synth component appears when there wasn't one before

"How to get rid of them." *Still brought Shaun to the surface*

1 quick save. 2 purge settlement. 3 search for synth components. 4 reload quick save. 5 move suspect settler to execution camp.

wow never really encountered this, didn't even know it was possible. this is what i love about bethesda games, no matter how much you play you never really find everything, at least not in your own playthrough. is it happening just at warwick homestead? because !!!!MINOR SPOILERS!!!!! i found a log in an institute terminal mentioning trying to replace roger warwick with a synth to use his farm for institute purposes. PS why do you have so many settlers at warwick and why are they all dressed the same? you running some kind of labor camp there? lol

seeing how easily the institute mass produces the synths going through every settlement one by one with those methods would be very inefficient. would love if Tinker Tom, Ingrim or Sturges could come up with a synth detector you can build in settlements if you gave them enough synth components

I figured it out, it's a time travel causality loop. They knew you were going to go back in time and single them out, by putting them in harnesses, so knowing that, they fought their destiny and attacked the base, thereby causing you to go back in time and target them, placing them in harnesses, which they figure out in the future and attack the base, then you go back in time and place them in harnesses, then they have a psychic vision that alerts them to this in the future, where they go and attack the base, which leads you to go back in time and place them....

I don't mind a settler being a synth but I don't like a synth being a settler. If you understand what I mean

Once you've finished uploading this video, another settlement needs your help

I like how you brutally killed them

good work, but woud have fit in a 4 minute video, or implement notations to skip to the next part

1:09 That synchronized wake-up is quite creepy :D

Option 3 failed because you didn't leave Workshop Mode to initialize the new residence. You have to leave command mode for them to change behavior. Despite that mistake, I think you've found a way to tell Synths from humans! I'll be looking for panicky Settlers from now on! Thanks for taking the time to go deep on this topic.

I noticed some of my settlers in sanctuary spontaneously pull out their gun like they’re being attacked. I thought it was a glitch, but maybe some are synths.

Holy shit I had no idea this could happen.

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Just ask them about their mothers.

That's pretty impressive, how much work you put into that. I noticed, though, that the population of Warwick Homestead went down by 3 and the population of the settlement you sent them to went up, so as far as the game is and settlement management are concerned, they did move...only they called in reinforcements, looks like, because they suspected you knew. I intend for my next playthrough to go a bit differently, and harder on synths, especially infiltrators.

my fucking sturges turned into a synt, I had to put him down. I'm sorry

That's interesting. I had a synth attack on one of my settlements and afterwards I found a settler or two with synth components, but I thought they had just been killed. I hadn't made the connection that they were plants.

Great detective work Emmy! Thanks for showing us how to root out synth infestations.

I never invested so much into settlements to notice that synths would infiltrate them. Looks very interesting to see happen.

I half expected the erratic behaviour to be due to bugged out AI.

From now on I only assign Automatons on guard duty. At least they won't turn on me holding a minigun and clad in armor. Also, seems like some synth settlers are...broken. They keep making weird sounds like something is broke in them. Not the torch sound if they are assigned to scavenging, but like clanking metal. All settlers that I killed making that sound had Synth Components so far.

I only have base game on console and on there it is possible to tell if a named npc is a synth. Synths are robotic so they have radiation resistance, you can use this to tell a person is a synth or not (as long as they're not armoured). Evidence supporting this is the random encounter with two seemingly identical npcs accusing each other of being a synth. Using vats you can see one has about 10 rad resistance and one does not, you find a synth component on the one with rad resistance. As shown in this video I guess settlers may be exempt from this, perhaps because they are unnamed.

3:16 macready after sleeping with u says "that was amazing" 😂😂😂

You should also take the core out of the P.A. too. Npc's sometimes have a habit of getting in them if there's a core still in them.

My preferred method. Build an enclosure divided into two halves by the electric cargo door with the switch on the outside. Allow access to each half separately via electric door (again, switch on the outside only). Place a stockade in both halves and capture a sufficiently strong enough gunner, raider, or super mutant. With the enemy trapped in one half, tell them to go to the stockade in the other. Close the door, open the cargo door, wait for them to die. Close the cargo door and use whichever half is enemy free. Rinse, repeat.

This could've been a 2 minute video, but thanks for dragging it out as long as physically possible.

I would make a joke about Preston being a synth. But even gen one synths have more emotions than he does. Baby.

Lemme tell you: this video had more drama and suspense than any blockbuster action movie of the past 10 yrs or so! I even stopped halfway to get some popcorn and a soda!!!

Holy shit, big daddy power armour? I want one!

Ghouls can be synths, killed a ghoul in my settlement and he had a component on em

Ever since I watched this video I haven't seen any settlers on alert all the time. I swear I used to see them everywhere.

Another settlement needs your help, I'll mark it on your map.

id try pickpoketing the setlers one by one and looking for sinth components.

Actually, theres an easy way to spot them, if they dont wear any armor. Because Synths have a natural damage resistance of 10.. So if your settler is wearing farmer clothes, and have a damage resistance, its a synth. Of course the perk Awareness is needed, found under Perception lvl 3 :)

holy didn't know this could happen guess there's going to be a serious purge in my settlements.............

Only me and Dogmeat in my current settlement but I get the feelin' he might be a Synth...

Didn't think I'd find out about this detail 8 years later. It still is really cool to know about

you could had done this video in 5 minutes...

I have just one question, what perk caused the laugh in the video when you killed your synthetic little friend in option one? Just wondering

Simple. Just walk around with a metal detector making beep noises until one of them activates your trap card.

But...what if they are not spies, maybe they are just like Danse who doesn't know their identity, or some one who escaped the institute to have a better life as a synth. They chose your settlement and this is what they get D:

lmao When they all woke up at the same time it reminded me of Nazi concentration camps

So the max population limit is 10 and when you get 10 charisma it adds one settler spot each level so a max of 20.. you have 23 settlers so either you are using mods, you glitched the special books and used negative effects while doing so or the 3 extra are the Synths.

Wouldn't it be cool if you can pay for people to be trained or whatever to be tough, and be able to make them wear power armour and detect synths? No? Oh, ok

this video (along with commentors) has been very helpful, time to go commando on these mofos

Dog meat kept attacking one of my settlers, it’s kind of pissed me off because I didn’t want my settler to die. I dismissed dog meat. The next time I was traveling with dog meat through the settlement dog meat again attacked him and ended up killing him. I found a synth component on the guys body.

It feels weird watching someone play games on PS4 when you play xbox

She got lovers embrace when she slept. And she is with paladin danse. So don't act like you are against synths, you synth lover.

shout out for filming this in the dark and not using your lamp or waiting until it's daytime.

Reminds me of The Thing. Similar atmosphere.

I sided with the institute in the end. Their cause isn't actually that bad

The Virgin General of the Minutemen: -Outranks everyone on the faction, still obeys his subordinate's orders. -Has to constantly move around on foot, because the settlers qre bothered with a group of supermutants in the other side of Boston. -Spends multiple resources trying desperately to appease settlers, happiness never goes over 80 -Spends 2k caps on a brand new weapon with 100 rounds of ammo, just so the guard dumps all mags in a radroach, missing all shots and deciding to wrestle with it, to then die. -Builds the settlement like a Sims 4 Neighbourhood The Chad Paladin: -Not even the highest ranking member of the group, still intimidates people for food, being a true feudalist. -Uses a giant Helicopter with machine guns to move around and to intimidate peasants. -Does not give a fuck about their happiness, only cares about making vegetable starch and profits. -Builds high end turrets to 'protect' the peasants and also shoot them down if they try to run away or rebel. -Builds the settlement like a concentration camp.

I never had this, do you have to be an enemy of the institute for this to happen?