Over 1 Hour of Useless Fallout 4 Facts 

These are my previously uploaded shorts, all sorted into a video containing only the facts from Fallout 4.

The Sole Survivor is not a synth. They are effected by radiation and they have numerous pre-war memories that no other Institute characters know. Plus pre-war robots out in the wasteland identify the Sole Survivor as a pre-war citizen.

Nick saying "i've worked with him a few times." Is so easy to just pass over but I love the idea of nick actively asking dogmeat for help on cases that might stump him

You say "useless" I say relaxing and an avoidance of my reality.

I just noticed that there's the sound of a casing hitting the ground when Kellogg shoots Nora in the memory (1:26:54), despite the fact that he's using a revolver which doesn't eject the casings.

Re: the bird cameras The locations displayed on the screens are also places involved in the main quest before the player reaches the institute, implying they've been watching you since the day you left the vault. I mean yeah, given they're the ones who let you out.

I think the Vault 101 jumpsuit should have been included in a small museum on the prydwen, alongside some other fo3 stuff. Give the lone wanderers affiliation with the brotherhood and important role in the defeat of the enclave it would make sense.

Grabbing the barbells is super easy, just command your follower to pick it up and they'll grab it without checking their current weight. I cleared out the entire gym this way, made Preston swole af bringing it all back to my base

All of the useless facts about Fallout-series are useful facts to a Fallout fan, knowing these things makes the games even more immersive and interesting. Love it!

For why nuka cola cans aren’t found often I think it has to do with them being rare before the bombs fell. With the whole world being at war I’m pretty sure most metal would’ve all been used up to help the war effort. What little was left probably wouldn’t have been used on soft drinks. So aluminum cans would’ve been way too expensive to mass produce.

I'm surprised that you didn't mention that at the Fraternal Post in addition to the terminal entry, one can activate the microphone on the stage and Nate once again says the iconic, "War Never Changes"

I looked 2 hours ago for fallout 4 facts. Just checked again and you made over an hour of my work day much better. Thank you for getting me through another day

At fraternal post 115, if you walk up to the mic and press E, the player will say the line; "War never changes".

I played a character named Tony Stark once, and hearing Codsworth say "Mr. Stark" in that British accent always made me chuckle.

This is probably one of the more known little facts, but when you come to Hardware Town for the first time, a raider pretending to be a civilian who needs help saving someone inside will ask you to follow her in, causing a raider ambush. However, if you enter from the back loading area, the raiders will wait, vocally annoyed that you arent coming in. You can then ambush them in the same way they planned to do to you.

I jumped from the Mass Fusion building into Goodneighbor before in Power Armor. Although, previously, I scared Wolfgang off from Drumlin Diner and he was standing at the enterance. My velocity was kept and when I spawned in I power landed and injured or killed Wolfgang and got in a shootout with the rest of Goodneighbor

I'm fully aware that lots of folks hate this game. But boy, I do love Fallout 4. Thanks for this video!

I'd love to hear some radio drama style detective stories read by the Nick Valentine actor featuring Nicks adventures in the Commonwealth.

I'm surprised you only just found out about Home Plate, that's been one of my go-to safehouses since my very first playthrough of Fallout 4!

13:38 I think this might be a Doom reference. The Doomslayer had a pet rabbit (I think named Daisy) who, of course, was killed by demons. He kept her foot as a charm and went to war with the demons over her.

About the lunchboxes, I realized recently that I could quicksave before opening them to guarantee a robot model (or whatever else) if I felt like putting a few minutes of time into it.I don’t know why it never occurred to me to do after so long

31:13 Some people have also mentioned that this could be a reference to an episode of Gravity Falls where Mabel crosses out a piece of graffiti saying "you suck" and writes "you look nice today" beside it. I believe the episode is called The Inconveniencing

1:09:30 in addition, the 108th Infantry is a real world National Guard Unit. It makes more sense for Nate to have been mobilized from the National Guard than tha Active Army as he then has the potential for any back story the player wants to make up for him and it doesn't break the fact that he was in the Army.

Worth noting that if you sided with Lorenzo to get the Mysterious Serum, and then you use it to save Andre, Lorenzo gets upset and permanently cuts you off from your lifetime supply.

The Homerun one surprised me. The kids in Diamond City often run the bases and some of the guard's passive dialogue to you are about running the bases.

The Lucky Rabbit’s Foot was probably either a reward from the Pack (animal theme) or an item in Dry Rock Gulch, I personally would’ve loved to see this concept of non-grenades you might lob and lose in a panic.

I love how the video started with no intro, so tired of RU-vidrs doing these 3-minute intros, just getting to the point of the video right away is so nice.

I never thought The Sole Survivor was a synth, theres just to much info that disproves it, I always assumed we had the ability to do ' V.A.T.S ' without a Pipboy because of our military background, youd have to get pretty good in combat to be in the army and for the argument ' well what about Nora ' itd be safe to assume that Nate the husband character taught Nora how to shoot/defend herself in case ever needed.

Fallout 4 will always be my favourite entry in this franchise, I dont care if it’s story was mediocre, exploring the commonwealth, Nuka-World and the Island never gets old

The VATS before having a pip boy thing is more than likely just an oversight by bethesda. If the sole survivor were a synth, then there's no way Shaun would just kick them out of the institute, he'd just use the sole survivors recall code if that were the case.

As someone who hates the Red Sox, finding out that I can change the color of the Green Monster made me immediately start a new play through.

I always give my provisioners mining helmets so that I can see them walking around at night.

At Beantown Brewery Preston will say that his favorite drink is a Gwinnett Stout. If you go to Quincy Ruins you can see that the bar there sold Gwinnett Stout, possibly explaining why it was his favorite.

"One hour of useless facts" * Me actually very interested in finding out a shit ton of lore i never knew about *

Knowing how strong Mama Murphy is makes her story about taking down a Deathclaw a lot more believable Guess she wasnt called Murphy the Madwoman for nothing, after all

I've always assumed the "You look nice today!" trap is a reference to Gravity Falls. A little more than three years before Fallout 4 was released, the Gravity Falls episode "The Inconveniencing" was aired. In that episode, Mabel sees some graffiti that reads "You Stink!" and crosses it out, replacing it with the message, "You look nice today!" At the end of the episode, Mabel (after a traumatic evening of being haunted by ghosts, on top of eating sugar until she hallucinated) sees her "You look nice today!" message again and says, "What kind of sick joke is this?" Of course, this gag in FO4 definitely ends up being a sick (and potentially deadly) joke. "You look nice today!" is a common enough phrase, though, that the whole thing could be coincidence.

1:19:21 the timeline in fallout doesn't actually cleanly split at any point in time for example, the earliest confirmed divergence afaik is the Samurai the Zetans kidnapped in mothership Zeta while the Lovecraftian elements you can find in the various games are definitely from earlier but an unknown time. It's easier to imagine Fallout's timeline and ours as two overlapped lines that sometime diverge. Though sometime after ww2 Fallout did entirely split from our own.

My all-time favorite location in all of Fallout is the saw dungeon-esque parking lot next to I believe it was Milton General Hospital. I was trying to get into the hospital for an electromagnet, but didn't feel like going through the entire thing, so I went through the garage next door with a bridge to the hospital. But I got way more than I bargained for, it's like a base game nuka world gauntlet!

On a whim, I just started another fallout 4 playthrough, and it's the first time with any DLC, I am currently wearing the Machinist armor and honestly having a blast with the game. I haven't played it in years.

It's pretty creepy how Deacon is just spying on you for a third of the game.

In the automatron dlc, there's a great shortcut to avoid that hellish slog. Get the department heads' holo-tapes, unlock the elevator terminal and play the the department heads names and it'll let you bypass the whole thing, sneak up behind the Mechanist and have an easier time dealing with them.

You can also pick up bodies and use them as shields. Supermutants work best.

My theory on the rabbits foot would be that they we’re going to implement accessory items to equip along with your armor. My guess is that they couldn’t quite get it to work and the closest they got was to equip it as a weapon

55:00- in case you didn't know, the reason this is a big deal is because that wall is known as the Green Monster. It's a huge part of baseball history and particularly Fenway Park's history. Every baseball fan knows about the monster

They really should've made the combat helmet light work

So no mention of the murder scene from the museum next to swan. Inside the building check through the windows at night and you will find a murder scene

When you mentioned the really easy achievement for running the bases around Diamond City, the way I learned to run the bases a Diamond City guard actually said to me while walking passed him to run the bases which i was surprised to get the achievement afterwards

Missed one of the names Codsworth can say, Rockatansky. Which is Mad Max's actual surname.

Lucky Rabbit's foot drops in Nuka world during the gauntlet. It's a rare chance but a corpse in there can spawn with it. It wasnt cut from the game it's just very rare to find it

I have post-apocalyptic dreams when I listen to this while I fall asleep and I love it.

About the pre-war globes thing showed in 21 minute. If you look closely at them, you should notice that in the northern europe part the Baltic sea isn't coloured blue, but like the rest of landmass. Either it's just a miss from the Bethesda to paint it correctly, or in Fallout universe the Baltic sea somehow dried up(even though it is connected with the North sea through 4 straits: Danish, Kattegat, Skagerrak and Limfjorden). Maybe some big companies cut it off from the neighbouring sea to dry it and build something there? who knows!

Listening to you struggle to say "Prototype Railway Rifle" was a joy! Subbed for sure lmao

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The drifter at 50:15 is a reference to Granny Rags in Dishonored I think. Sounds like her, wears rags as an outift, she loves her "ratties" and comes across as insane, just like Granny Rags.

1200 hours, no clue you could throw sh*t with r key... cheers dude.

I've been waiting for this, just started a fresh Fallout 4 VR playthrough, looking for places to look out for. Appreciate it!

I have over 3000 hours in FO4. I find that fact sad, now I feel bad.

I'll add to this. There is so much more. At the intro cinematic and character creation, Nate is rehearsing his speech that you metnioned. In the Fraternal Post - if you engage the microphone there, both Nate and Nora will recite the line 'War never changes' as a callback to that. When meeting the Railroad at their base, Deacon will tell Desdemona who you are. If you go there following the quest log, he'll mention you're a Vault Dweller, maybe the general of the minutemen, and that's it. But he'll actually list a *whole* bunch of things that you've done. If you go to them late game, he'll never shut up. During the Memory Lounger bit, as well as when exploring Kellog's memories, you will actually look like you did during at the time of the real event - even if you changed your appearance after. In Far Harbor, you can find a literal radio shack. Inside there's some tech and a radio tuned to Diamond City Radio. If you did the Confidence Man quest, a note will read something like; 'Wow, that guy is so smooth, I can't believe it's the same guy!" - Not a clue if there's a note if you didn't do it. If you approach the Mechanist dressed as the Silver Shroud, there's some fun extra dialogue there as you can 'Speak as Shroud', which is hilarious. Also, if you have maxed hacking and lockpicking, it's possible to skip the *entire* Mechanist's final dungeon and go straight into the Mechanist's room. She will go; 'Oh, well, so much for the most secure facility in the country' and surrenders right there and then. This is a fairly obvious one, but clicking on the Law Degree in 2077, indicates that Nora is a lawyer. The Mr Handy at the USS Constitution will actually mention that, too. It's actually not just the Vault Tec rep that has the 'SPECIAL' clipboard. Everyone holding a clipboard in the entire game, will have that one. A handful of callbacks and references to older titles: The most obvious one is Kellog, a former agent of the NCR, a major faction in most previous titles. MacCready was the mayor of Little Lamplight in Fallout 3 Sierra Petrovita - the one with the Cappy Glasses Quest in Nuka World - was in Fallout 3, too. The Institute and synths was already mentioned in Fallout 3. You can find Dr Zimmer in Rivet City, who at the time, is the head of the SRB. He is mentioned at least twice when exploring the institute. In FO3, he is looking for Dr. Madison Lee, working on Prime for the Brotherhood. Of course, in FO4, the Brotherhood wants you to re-recruit Li, now working for the Institute. Arthur Maxson was on the Citadel in Fallout 3, and a child. That makes him... early 20's by the time of Fallout 4. His last name suggests he is a descendant of the original founder mentioned in Fallout 1, though. That's probably mentioned in FO3 somewhere, but I can't recall. The Children of Atom originated in Megaton from Fallout 3, the Hubologists are a cult from Fallout 2. The 'You're Special Book' is a callback to Fallout 3, where you started as a baby and you used that book to pick your skills. There's a raider in Power Armor at Outpost ZImonja with a Fat Man, named Boomer. Boomers in New Vegas were more or less the same enemy.

Home plate (diamond city residency) has always been my favourite place too set up base, although it can not be included into supply lines it's the perfect location to set up. You can store as much as you like in the workbench without worrying about triggering raids from enemies. You have vendors directly outside so it's perfect for all your selling needs

It’s to bad you can’t turn Edna into a synth. That would have been interesting.

I really like the idea of the lucky rabbit's foot. Like, the idea of trading the ability to have a thrown secondary weapon for a non-damaging trinket that increases a stat or giving you a buff of some sort. Wish they would've explored that idea more tbh

4:03 just make sure you're not wearing power armor, you might cause the town to become hostile by accidentally landing on Wolfgang.

the homerun achievement is even more shocking when you realize that the guards tell you to do it for "fun"

Glad you brought this series back, it was always a favorite

New Fallout 4 DLC coming next summer (2023). It's free to celebrate 25th anniversary. Also, will have better optimization. According to Todd.

As someone who has played 300 hours of fallout 4, I wonder how many of these I know

I knew about the Diamond City home, I found the elevator while I was doing my usual "sticking my nose into every corner of everywhere" kind of exploration. LOL. It can be quite a useful settlement, in fact, if you use it right.

If I learned anything, it's that Diamond City is the largest and most notable settlement in the Commonwealth.

TKS: “These are Useless facts” Me (going through a survival run seeing one of the secret areas mentioned has a bed close to my in game location):🌚

I figure one reason for the low numbers on that baseball bases achievement is that a lot of people outside USA and a few Asian countries just aren't that familiar with baseball. I wouldn't have known those things on the ground were actually something specific... (assuming the stats are worldwide)

I've been playing since release day and had no idea you could get inside the South Boston church; great video!

The Far Harbor one was really cold to me. I had no idea that’s why they called it that.

I remember doing the paint the town quest and I accidentally painted it yellow 🤣🤣🤣

Man that was kinda freaky when Nate waved to himself in the memory den vault memory

These videos really show how much more love was put into new vegas, and even 3. This one is just like "look at this quest you can do"

I imagine the 101 jumpsuit was a "missprint" or a mixup for the suits that ended up in vault 111

Is it me, or does anyone else feel like Diamond City uses its space badly?

Shame you can’t use the Mysterious serum to cure the mariner

I had an entire playthrough where codsworth (who i turned into a sentry bot) kept calling me "Mister BADASS"

I never suspected the ravens of being spy cameras but i was well aware of their complete immunity to my weapons....

6:00 when I played outer worlds I had a visceral reaction to using a ladder like a ladder. I'm so used to creation engine looking stuff (ik outer world is unreal) not using ladders as ladders.

Maybe that climbable ladder in the DLC of F4 is a test asset for Starfield. I assume Starfield will have climbable ladders

I use these videos to help me fall asleep. Love hearing information about a topic I enjoy in a measured and calming tone, each night I work out where I remember upto and go from there. Thank you so much for your service

The wall of Diamond city can be painted purple too if you mix blue and red and bring it to the wall

do you think you made it clear enough that this stuff is "In Fallout 4"?

A dad going around his infant son's room thinking hits really fucking hard

when i start a new game of FO4 i always go for the power armor before getting into the museum. it takes practice but you can jump from the roof of the church onto the tail of the vertibird and if you grab any of the other easy fusion cores or even get the ones from the robot disposal site you're set with out having to deal with Preston.

50:00 I believe that woman is a reference to Granny Raggs from Dishonored. In that game she called the rats that plagued the city of Dunwall "Birdies", so, "Ratties" isn't far off I suppose. It's also a similar pattern of speech.

i got 127 hours in fallout 4 and watch a lot of fallout content and never knew you could throw stuff

For the home run achievement, on steam all achievements for Fallout 4 are hidden until you unlock them, I had to make an excel spreadsheet to figure put which achievements I needed when going to 100% the game. I think that could be the reasoning behind the low numbers for that one, but that’s only steam numbers

The bit about the sole survivor going around trying to find a store that will accept his charge card was hilarious to me, it reminds me of something you'd see in American dad.

Love it, this is how a video should be, quality content and people getting along in the comments *chef’s kiss*

This channel has been a blessing and Im glad I found it thank you Mr.Mantis

The rust devils have to be the smartest gang in the commonwealth but we're did they come from did the build up strength in the commonwealth or did they come from outside like the forged.I really should make fallout videos

10:40 that location also had a part of the wall that was missing mesh, so doing the quest line to get rid of the gatorclaws, while fighting them, I fell through into that void.

You have no idea how happy I am that you used "Get Fucked" in the outro again lol

Love this content, exited to watch!

No, you know the rules, past 3 videos were one hour longer then previous one! this has to be 4! JK love your stuff❤

The schoolhouse quest is always one of my favorites. A sweet moment in the wasteland is rare.

The “Have a nice Day” Sentinel bot encounter is probably a reference to the horror movie Chopping Mall. The robots in the film say have a nice day while trying to kill people.