How the Railroad Destroys the Institute - The Story of Fallout 4 Part 44 

I'm literally on my PJs, sitting in my living room with a huge bowl of cereal, waiting for this episode like a Saturday morning cartoon. Thanks, Ox, for reviving the inner child in me. Keep up the good fight

I wish there was an option to destroy the institute from the inside, without having to nuke it. Imagine giving the commonweath factions access to the Institute. Highly advanced tech, growing trees and engineered food. But instead, we just wipe it out in an instant.

Love how desdemonna relays in still holding that cigarette

“I’m afraid you all have to die.” [Deacon HATED that]

Plot twist. Father transferred his mind and memories into child Shaun. Now he can begin rebuilding the Institute after getting his revenge on the Railroad.

I really wish Bethesda would have gave options to take over the institute by the other factions.

In my playthrough, I found the other factions were just not what I wanted, so I sided with the railroad, and after sinking almost 400 hours into it, I finally completed that last mission, and then took my son to the workshop place on the island, and built a house for my son and I to live in, surrounded by plenty of security, and multiple settlers, all kitted out with full armor and weapons to keep us safe, and then shut the game for the last time. What a trip down memory lane!!!

I hate the dialogue options with Father Shaun. No options to mention revenge for his mother. No options to mention he was kidnapped and brainwashed. No options to explain why he’s wrong. Just talking to him like a villain NPC, and not the driving force behind the entire plot of Fallout 4.

Blowing up the Institute is one of the largest game mechanic mistakes, I believe, Bethesda has made. Nuking the Institute goes with the story just fine, but as a player I want to be able to clear out the institute to then use the facility for continued scientific research. Imagine if the Railroad or Minutemen could use the Institute's technology in betterment of the Commonwealth. There could be entire quest lines around inventing new technologies to grow food and cleanse water.

I’m really enjoying seeing new Fallout 4 videos. Better than Saturday morning cartoons!!

Now its the minutemens turn. Very curious how ox handles this

For me, at least : The canonical ending is a joint partnership between Railroad and Minute Men Creating a new organization that leads to the rise of a government in the commonwealth

Ox killing those ghoulrillas in a very compromising position 👀😬😂😂 19:22

Fun Fact about this mission: If X6 is your companion when staring it, he doesn't turn on you, he fight the institute with you and the railroad and remains a companion even after the end of the game, and this was definitely intended because he has unique dialogue where he gets mad at you for destroying the institute, but you're still considered an enemy of the railroad when he's your companion

I swear to God ox needs to be in the next fallout game as a companion who can give you lore about the game

Desdemona: Spare the institute scientists Railroad: 20:23

Saturday can commence!! Thanks Ox!

The railroad ending feels much like the yes man ending

The Railroad playthough to me is the most tragic playthough among the other factions. But there’s something about Ox saying “The only mercy we can extend to them is the pull out the Deliverer and kill them quickly, and quietly..”, then aims for the heads of his targets to do so, as if it’s going to be an unfortunate and tragic event, like Nate doesn’t want to do this but he had to. And then he proceeded to completely miss the literal target right in front of him, with 88% chance of hitting. That was the hardest I laughed watching an Oxhorn video.

23:50 THIS is what happens when SOMEONE ELSE raises the YOUR child after KIDNAPPING THEM from you. The child becomes a TOTAL STRANGER to you, raised by strangers to BE a stranger to you, the ACTUAL parent of that child. Institute go boom. If I was in Nate's shoes, I'd DEFINITELY destroy whoever that destroyed my family (killed my wife and kidnapped the baby) instead of CALMLY letting us out as a family, CALMLY explain it all to us and CALMLY convince us to join The Institute like ACTUAL SCIENTISTS WOULD but nope, they just HAD to yank the baby and kill the spouse. Sadly, I NAIVELY chose The Institute side the first time through thinking that I could change them from inside... we all know how THAT went in The Institute ending...

After watching this video, I'm happy that I've never done a railroad run.

I always thought it was funny that "Father" is surprised/offended that Nathan turns on he Institute when all "Father" did was release his own Dad into this world without any protection or assistance.

Fallout 4 is the best game EVER. It has so many details. I have over 3000 hours in the game and am on my 14th playthrough. I still find new things every time I play. Now is it perfect? No. I wish they could have added more to it. Even simple things like more variety with the Minutemen missions (Preston). They could have had more stuff at certain locations like at the Galleria or having merchants move back into University point when you cleared it. In Nuka World they should have had missions for the Traders if you had sided with them, mike getting the code to unlock the collars, finding a weapon's cache to help them fight the raiders, turning the raiders on each other, find Traders that had fled, and helping them fight the raiders. I did not like the just kill everybody. Then the Traders could have sent you to clear the parks for them and turn the power on. Or in Far Harbor their should have been more missions like Mariner's to get you to explore the map more. Now I think in Fallout 5 they should follow Fallout 4 with settlements and such, but handle them a bit differently. Get rid of the workstations scattered around and have the player more dependent on help... and the settlements be able to provide that help. Have each settlement location have a resource. After doing missions for the settlement you can unlock that resource. Also you would assign factions to settlements to make the faction happier (a faction affinity system). This would do things like provide uniforms, guns, and some building options for the settlement. Then unique NPC could be assigned to settlements and they would have a unique building just for them... a school, a clinic, a trader, a workshop... Also the settlers would want more things to be really happy, like heat, and good roofs, and plumbing... but NPCs and locations help unlock those. If the settlement is happy enough you might unlock something really good, maybe a legendary item or collectable. The other possibility would be to get rid of the scrap and junk and have settler's build their own homes and such and the more settlers there are and the happier they are the more they will build up the settlement. This has the advantage of the homes being more detailed and better decorated and maybe having children and old people and guards and farms and animals... Upgrades for guns would be more like legendary items that can be swapped around at workstations. You would loose all the crafting and settlement building and such, but gain other layers of detail. Settlements would have more missions and likely do more. I was thinking they would send out patrols and man checkpoints instead of the winning faction like in Fallout 4. Then raiders would have to take out checkpoints and such before they could raid settlements and the raids would be more brutal. This would have things like ghouls, raiders, Gunners, super mutants not just spawning in randomly but actually trying to slowly expand, taking areas and holding them. Key buildings like police stations, military checkpoints, hospitals, schools, factories... would become areas they would try to take and control. Having the NPCs in the settlements and towns talk about areas being taken over as you want around as well as other rumors and such would help keep you informed. You could set up a home at one of the settlements where you could store you collectables and legendary weapons and armor. The main thing is though that the factions need affinities and more to do, the settlements need a purpose and should be assigned to factions for the best results, and both would require more side missions to boost affinity and happiness. They do need more options though for completing missions... to either boost affinity with certain factions, moral choices, or a few that would progress missions down different paths. And they need to make it like you are not the only customer for all the venders. And make the magazines and bobbleheads collectable again. This helped force people to explore locations that no missions sent them there.

I honestly feel like if any faction had a motivation to keep the Institute as a physical location around, it would be the Railroad. By destroying it, you are literally wiping out the one and only way for Synths to be created. You’re also destroying a great refugee camp for Synths fleeing persecution. Not to mention all the technology that could be used for good. Such a waste to destroy it all.

It was good to hear Claudia Christian again. First saw her in Hexxed then Babylon 5, and hearing her in Skyrim.

Saturday Morning Oxhorn Fallout 4 never fails to bring those vibes. Thanks, Good Sir!

SEVERAL WEEKS ! Oh my gosh , what am I gonna do until then ? Thank you , Ox . 🐺Loupis Canis .

After destroying the Institute, go back to the RR HQ and Desdemona will give a quest called To The Mattresses which consists of 6 parts. I'm guessing that will be in Oxhorn's next video.

I wish there was an option to side with the institute and stop them from replacing people and creating sentient life just to put them to work. I feel if the institute worked with people in the commonwealth instead of turning them into their enemy, then every other faction's reaction wouldn't immediately be "they need to go."

Ox: regrets having to "remove" the scientists in the Relay room. Also Ox: "removes" a scientist cowering in Bioscience. Ox in the rotunda: tries to spare scientists. Me: Make up your mind, man 😂 Shaun's terminal password is pretty easy to find if you don't like the hacking mini-game. Hope your computer gets sorted quickly! Tech issues are terribly frustrating.

The choo-choo noises crack me up everytime 😂

i don't think Synths are people, Have you seen the size of a courser chip. That thing is huge, it's like the size of a coffee mug. That means there is a synth component, 1/2 of a (human brain or some kind cybernetic tech" like in Big mountain, you use to think with" ), and then they open the heads and install the courser chip. Because not all Synths have courser chips, so they are installed later. so I think all synths are just a personality matrix, like mister handy's and the Big Mt sink, and the other appliances. just they place these copy and pasted basic personality matrix, into the tech, they use as a brain. which is Why even after they are wiped and reprogrammed, they can still be able to disable with a reset code. The Basic program is just covered up with a new personality matrix( from the rail road).

I put "Father" out of his misery with the railway rifle his head was on the wall arcoss from him (also took his clothes because he didn't need them anymore) had Ava as companion doing the MM ending (somehow got the happy version the 1st time. happy version meaning that the other groups weren't hostel to each other)

My favorite show on Saturdays, thanks Ox!

Love that you find new info after all this time

Wow when he blew the Gen 2 head clean off his body in slow mo awesome!

I'm suprise that in the last interaction with Shawn, there is no options about your wife or husband death by the institute. While Shawn would say how dispicable you are for doing this, you could counter by saying that the institute took away the 2 most important people in your life. Killed one and braibwash the other.

The history of the railway is very good. It's a shame that there isn't a final option that unites the 4 factions.

Woooohooo love it, 6am drop. Gonna stay up for an hour to watch this right away (before going to bed).

After 2hours playing Fallout 76, now a Fallout 4 Video to relax! 🤘🏼

That century bot cut to him drilling that synth was pure cinema

Literally the greatest RU-vidr I’ve ever heard

I hope the next episodes in this series comes out soon. I can’t wait for the Brotherhood and Minutemen stories.

I love these videos man. Your content is always refreshing on my weekend shift

I love Fo4 especially being from Mass. Its perfect and multiple mods to change everything. The only thing that tops Fo4 is a story from Mr. Oxhorn himself. Thank you for all the lore and stories. You give me something that my little brain wraps around.

I don't know which faction you're doing next. But after the Brotherhood storyline, or the end of the entire series, you could make an extra video where you show all of the known synths in Fallout 4. As a member of the Brotherhood, you would have to kill them eventually.

I haven’t watched one of your Fallout 4 videos in years. Incidentally, this was how I did my first play through! Good memories, thanks.

Don’t worry oxhorn take all the time you need, in the meantime we’ll all be watching your previous videos or play the games you broadcasted such as fallout, starfield, l.a noir to pass the time

You think the institute would have a backup plan but no they all put their eggs in one basket

"Double egged sword" -oxhorn

Really good covering the lore and all the talk path in a conversesion

Yo can we just give mad props for the intros ??!!🥺 so satisfying I ate brownies 😂

"You do not understand, I am here to vaporize everything so that you can feel less pain. It is the only reason I am doing this".

45:25 Wow, that's quite the sentiment from Deacon.

Man, Ox... I've been watching your vids for like 4 months now. Never played the game. Know all the lore. Thanks!

Oxhorns content is basically Saturday/Sunday Morning cartoon for us adults!

Wallace being hostile actually makes perfect sense to me. Imagine going from an irradiated shithole which causes people to die daily let alone weekly, to the clean and pristine institute with working toilets and other amenities not to mention a perfect outlet for his intellect. Meanwhile [in this playthrough] you are fucking it up but blowing up the very place, the dream as I would imagine a lot of waste landers have. I'd be pretty fucking pissed to. Sure he got kidnapped but I can see him learning to accept it similarly to how father accepted what the institute did to him and his family.

Interesting how she immediately blamed Deacon.

Ugh I hate the final convo with father so much! Wish you could explain to him why he's so wrong - why creating synths was such a waste of tech when they could have been helping humans. You don't get to point out his stupidity and selfishness to him and it really grinds my gears!

A bit of a nit-picky thing, but Plato came before ancient Rome. The myth of the metals is also used to focus on different (positive) qualities in his conception of the ideal state/community: workers (bronze) are made virtuous by temperance, soldiers (silver) by courage, and philosophers/kings (gold) by the pursuit of knowledge. In his mind, selling this kind of view would ensure social order ans balance alongside specialist education and make sure the state would endure.

Viewing from Trinidad and Tobago. Magnificent narration by our beloved Oxhorn.

Yknow, I wish Bethesda implemented a way to give the “Hi Honey” holotape to Shaun. I don’t think Shaun has ever heard the voice of Nate/Nora, nor really understand who they were. I feel like if Shaun received that holotape, it could change how he feels about the wasteland, or his family, or the institute in general.

I love that there are the synths directing non-combatants to the relay to get out of the Institute. That's amazing. You don't get that from any of the other factions.

Thx ox game lore is amazing and you make me wana go play it and se for mu self

Love these vids so much Ox, thanks for making them.

46:11 did you just say Plato told us a Roman saying? When he existed a couple thousand years before the Romans? Dude what 😂

It is kinda funny how the characters of fallout 4 can't have an interactive conversation unless they stand up straight 🤣

Awesome. Perfect Saturday viewing

There's a Mod that keeps all the Factions alive.

That crazy Smoking Animation Glitch with Desdemona kills me. It WAS the bane of my existence, before I learned how to "fix" it. It would constantly cause Des to get stuck and miss her markers, blocking quest progression. Sometimes it would just cause her to take ages for her to get to her aforementioned marker(s). For those on PC, you can select her in console and type CAF. This will cancel her "animation flavor".

I think there should have been an option to use your new authority as Director to reform the Institute. Also, how many people on the surface were inside that blast zone?

Don’t forget the Synth Gorillas u can catch in a cage at ur settlements after evacuating the institute.

Honestly it was so funny hearing "Take them out, quickly, and quietly" and then he pulls out a shotgun for the gen-2s 😂

i always adopt the synth saun since i think the sole survivor is actually a synth and therefore the two would make for a happy family once again.

What if someone made a series about all your fallout characters (Sweets, Ox, Maybell, and Haylee) It’s about the how the institute discovers dimensional travel and they bring all your characters into the “main dimension” where they face off or something like that idk still working on the idea.

Love the thumbnail. Great work Ox

Just wanted to say i really dig the thumbnail

I never side with the Railroad but I have to say the Synth(Replicant) revolution is really cool. I like that it feels similar to Blade Runner 2049. Also even though it’s a bummer that all factions have similar epilogue cut scenes(not showing any long-term consequences), The consolation prize is that the reactions in the commonwealth are different for each faction(showing cool immediate consequences). I love how my Minutemen soldiers patrol the wasteland and sometimes they team up with BOS Knights in battle. Edit, 6:23 “That’s not your JOB” I think her voice cracked lol 😂

Speculation: The Railroad ending just seems...better than the others. It fits the story of Fallout 4 the best IMO. Could it be that this was intended to be the canon ending at some point? Or perhaps it was the first ending developed for the game that was integrated into the story? There's something about it that is better, it digs deeper on a philosophical level, than the other endings. I wonder what your thoughts are on this. Thanks again for another great video and I hope your computer troubles get fully resolved soon and easily.

You please Mr. Burke, Ox

I thought there was the password for Father's terminal in the dresser near the terminal so you do not have to hack it.

YES, I've been so excited for thus video

I've never seen Sean's lines as sad in the end untill now. I'm usually blinded but ima still merc him everytime tho

I'm super excited to see what's coming next!

THANK YOU OX! love your videos!

I love you're fallout 4 videos!!!

47:10 several weeks? 😢 I knew I should't watch this, I didn't wanted to finish, well I just did like always hehe

Hey Oxhorn I’d really be interested to know what you think of the new Fallout Show Trailer!! I’m still confused by where the NCR is, and why the Brotherhood is in Los Angeles…

hi ox

Dez has the same VA as Legate Rikke, correct?

The fusion reactor isn’t actually a weak point to the institute. All of the damage comes from the Railroad’s fusion bomb, and any radiation soaked shrapnel from the reactor.

I thought glory died, but you killed her

In my opinion this is the best ending.

I love fallout 4 and your videos on it, but are you planning on doing any more videos on Starfield?

Do the institute synth tp grenades work down in the railroad bunker I wonder

New videos! Honestly you could replay the whole thing and repost and I’d rewatch.

Please do the Brotherhood Next!!!

The most annoying thing is I never get to say to Shaun how much I wish I'd had the chance to raise him, so that he wouldn't have lived his life as a psychopath, and could understand why humanity is better off without the Institute. And that's true even though A.I. will never be people, rather than machines.

👏👏👏👏👏👏 fantastic as always. Great work even being down a computer

I never understood why the Railroad choose to destroy the institute, in this way they have doomed the synth population