The Railroad Ending & its Epilogue: How the Commonwealth Changes - The Story of Fallout 4 Part 45 

My suspicion is that synth shaun is there to explain synths in the future. I got the sense that father was sympathetic to the synths, but politics forced him to tow the company line. But he re-programmed shaun before sending you to him, and the fact he can make the wazzer wifle leads me to believe he is essentially a 'back up' of the institutes technological advancements, including the creation of synths.

I think my top 3 Moral Compasses in the Commonwealth is thus: 1. Curie (she's purely inquisitive and will turn on you on the spot if you commit a felony, attempting to kill you herself) 2. Preston Garvey (he's almost too nice. BUT, he is the only human with the betterment of the Commonwealth truly at the center of his mind) 3. Codsworth (He just wants to help his Master/Mistress find their lost child and rebuild whatever form of family we have left, but he is willing to do bad stuff with you to that end.) As a foot note, for me Piper and Nick *just barely* missed the list.

So you actually can find Institute Scientist refugees in your game, but it's VERY situational. So apparently, you gotta end the game with the minutemen, and start the evac in the Institute, then you also gotta have a bunch of unclaimed settlements, preferably those that require you to clear them out. After exploding the Institute, at some point or another, you should get a quest called "Resettle Refugees", recieved as a radiant quest from Preston, and/or radio freedom. The quest plays out like any other clearing the way quest, but instead, you help a bunch of institute scientists at a military checkpoint, and they actually move into the settlement. They even have unique lines like I heard one say "How are we supposed to live up here?" Or something like that. Hope that helps in a future video

Can't wait to see the brotherhood and minuteman playthroughs ox

The most annoying thing for me is the fact we can't take over the İnstitute, only destroy it. And destroying it creates another radioactive crater.

Irony - one underground organization destroys another underground organization.

How does Preston know that Nate didn't issue evacuation order if he wasn't even there?

Ox you can see Institute survivors. Preston can give you a randomized quest to find them bring them to a settlement.

I recently finally platinumed Fallout 4 after 7 years, and man is this series the perfect sendoff to the game for me

"Good luck kid.....see ya later........byyyyyyeeee." lmao. That left me in stitches. Lol

In my first Minutemen walkthrough I killed father on the roof, he still managed to send me Shaun. His bed was empty when I destroyed the Institute though. But the funny thing is that despite everyone in the Railroad thinks that Glory is dead (including the dialogues about Glory being dead), she still walks in the HQ.

I always seem to steer toward the minutemen. However on my survival playthrough I strung the Brotherhood along until the last second to side with the railroad, all in order to use vertibirds to defend settlements.

And this is exactly why there SHOULD be a fifth ending, one where you DON'T have to destroy the Institute, but not join them. Just rig the reactor with the bomb so that the Institute can't remove it without detonating, and dictate demands to the Institute.

It bums me out that we don’t have the classic Fallout slideshow epilogue but the consolation prize is that we do have a lot of reactions to your decisions with commonwealth civilians, some important characters, and the companions. That’s why I always do the Minutemen peace ending. Adds a lot more dialogue and fun in the commonwealth(Plus you get a lot more loot).

The rail road is such a odd faction is it not? The oddness of it flabbergasted me to this day they lie to the player and is odd for those reasons

I can’t wait for the next episode. Ox saved the best two factions in my opinion for last

43:02 “Damn it! It won’t budge!” - Piper as she phases through the door. Piper maybe breaking the 4th dimension just to open a door is a bit much?

I wish we got mama Murphy thoughts on the institute blowing up

I always wondered why public occurrences, a printed paper looks hand written.

“Father” downloaded his personality into Saun and is waiting for the right moment to rebuild the Institute. 🤘🏼

Always boggled my mind that the Railroad didn't just occupy the Institute to secure the survival of the Synth people

I don't think that Father views synths as people. Instead, I think that he is projecting himself into synth-Sean. At some level, I think he always wanted to be raised by his parents - or parent, once he learned what Kellogg had done. I think he released Nate / Nora when he learned that he had cancer and would die. Knowing his end was approaching, he had a desire to learn more of his origin, to learn what type of person his parent was. He had likely imagined answers to that question many times as he grew up in the Institute, and before he died he wanted an answer. But at the same time he knew that any reunion would be short-lived. Yet a part of him wished to prolong this, and so he had synth-Sean built - over the objections of many of his associates. I believe that synth-Sean was created to be for his parent a replacement of himself. I believe it was intended - mostly - to grant his parent the lost opportunity to raise the lost son. As for the other part, I think that Father wants the player to raise synth-Sean in the manner that he himself wishes that he could have been raised. I think Father sees synth-Sean in the same manner that Dr Binet likely views (or is believed by others to view) Eve: a helper but also a sort of surrogate. On the one hand the synth is viewed as a robot: an aid, an assistant, etc. But on the other hand the synth [Eve, Sean] is treated sort of in the same manner as the modern use of an 'emotional support animal'. It is something that - while not considered human - is close enough to still fulfill a deep emotional need, to give balance and stability. Father, I believe, created synth-Sean as a projection of himself, in the hope that - however vicariously - 'he' might still be raised by his parent.

When I first experienced all endings of Fallout 4, I found it quite difficult to find what the best one would be for the Sole Survivor. At the end of the day, you can only make the choice to either end your son's legacy to save the Commonwealth, or make your son proud in return for the Commonwealth to remain trapped and scared at the hands of the Institute.

A friend of mine beat Fallout 4 for the first time just last night with the Railroad. What timing!

I had a collection of scientists appear in my first playthrough, in that playthrough there were still some unoccupied settlements sites and they requested that I clear one out for them. In subsequent play throughs having dealt to all the sites before wiping out the institute I have never encountered them again.

Love your depictions of each faction there at the end on the separate cards. The Courser on the Institute card reminds me of Sylvester Stallone from his days as Judge Dredd

9:28 i was hoping that flicker was a secret, but you just happened to turn the page and turn it back super quickly.

I only ever encountered Institute Scientists when I finish the game with The Minutemen. Their radiant quests after the Institute boom is picking up roving bands of institute scientists and resettling them in settlements.

really tells you how bland the Starfield story and lore is when Ox is not making lore videos about it lol

You can also bring the Diamond City doctor to save Danny

I think the surviving synths are found when doing the minutemen ending as that's when I found them, I even made a settlement for institute survivors

I always expected synth Shaun to go full Broken Mask and murder everyone

How does Desdemona know about getting the ball over the “goal line”?

My first RR playthrough, the Patriot incident hit me hard as part of the story.

Just finished watching your video - I love this series BTW. I just wanted to let you know, it is possible to meet up with a group of Institute Scientists after having destroyed the Institute. I have had this random encounter twice after having played through multiple characters on all 4 factions. I'm not sure if it is just random chance, or on purpose, but on both of the playthroughs where I met the scientists (and set up a new settlement for them to live at), I was with the Minutemen.

I still wish there was a world where the Sole Survivor united the three factions under a single banner and moved toward the future together.

@Oxhorn you have to leave a settlement vacant to trigger the Institute survivors, you have that in one of your older videos.

you know, I do wonder what happens with a (non-minutemen) Railroad ending Commonwealth, like the RR is just doomed to fade away with a finite number of synths to save and no institute to fight against, leaving the region with no real organized resistance in a few years. Still the minutemen really do make every ending better huh; doing the hard work with the RR play spies, preventing dependency on the Brotherhood while building up enough settlements to feed them, and being the SS's PR department to ease the paranoia over the institute and build up the commonwealth without using the institute's resources.

This is the best play-through I have ever watched. It’s fun to watch, but also to listen. It feels like those old time radio stories. I love it.

Ox to give you a heads up but Paladin Danse has 2 Ending dialogue depending on either you side with the minutemen or the brotherhood & keep him alive

No Body pillow but a cuddle Ox. Interesting. Worst outcome if you blow up the institute you also blow up one one the perfectly preserved pie dispensers inside the old institute... I dislike the crater the institute ending does but I just realized it's a great place to store all your stolen Powerarmor frames before you blast it out of existence. Similar to the Brotherhood blimp. In my first playthrough I met exactly 1 scientist after the explosion which looked like a Institute member but he hadn't any dialogue. I'm a bit envy about you finding the scribe at that random encounter point the bastard never showed up in my play throughs... Also blowing up the institute can similar to saving the Mojave Bis in FO:NW negatively influence your performance. First time I played through on an Xbox One S and it started stuttering like madness. Well at least this isn't a concern for me anymore now it's only do I want to loose Liam and a nice walkable are.

you can find institute refuges, but you need to have settlements that have not been taken over yet and undiscovered. also, if you have curie in your party, you can have her heal him you can also have the town doctor help Danny.

I'm gonna miss the Westworld inspired intro theme but im excited for the next one

Institute scientist survivors only appear if there is an unclaimed settlement, and it has to be one of something like 5 settlements. I know Kingsport Lighthouse is one of the settlements that, if unclaimed, will trigger the quest.

We are always patient, thank you Oxhorn. :) I have never run across Institute scientists after eliminating the Institute. As I understand it, we can get the option to give them a settlement of their own - as a quest from Preston.

After playing FO4 so many hours myself, Ox still is able to show me unseen stories and stuff! Thx

I have a couple of playthroughs. I would get a quest from Presto. Telling me that one of our checkpoints has a group of Institute escapes looking for help

I hope Shaun is involved in the future fallout games. Would be crazy if comes back to rebuild the institute or some new faction

Love the non confident Travis when he gets all flustered with new news. Lol

i love your videos ox. been with ya for a long time. I went with the railroad on my first playthrough of fallout 4 because I love a story where the underestimated underdog comes out on top. I bet you're going with the brotherhood next, they have the best start as a new faction to the story. And they have a huge amount of resources behind their efforts, arguably one of the more interesting choices to side with in the game.

By the way, there's more ways to help Danny! If you have Curie with you she can stabilize him, otherwise you can have the guy standing there keep him awake for a bit while you run for the doctor's office down the road and save him that way!

I think the key explanation for Father's seemingly-odd treatment of Synth Shaun is how he continually describes that one particular synth as "different" "unusual" "an experiment" etc. I... don't think Father considers Shaun a Gen3. Certainly nowhere near standard-issue. One could honestly make the argument that Shaun is perhaps a lone Gen4 prototype -- and about where even Father starts wondering if maybe a line has been crossed after all. (Consider, for example, how differently we treat children, and the subject of children, IRL, vs adults -- and Synth Shaun is, very specifically, a _child_ after all...) Also, I get the feeling that Capt. Sally and the other named L&L gang fellow, those names are references. I swear I've got this snippet of a song in the back of my head, "we can dilly, we can dally, we can make like Dan and Gary, we can make like Captain Sally if you want" but that's ALL I can remember. Kind of annoying. Oh, speaking of lore... Ox, I've heard that there's actually one way into and out of The Institute that DOESN'T involve the Molecular Relay. I don't believe you've ever covered that... is that an omission, or something I've misheard? and, while I've got you around, Ox, one last thing. Knowing how you feel about the Minutemen, I'm guessing you're leaving them for last. (No prizes for _that_ one, ha! and, for the record, I'm not actually asking.) Regardless of what faction you cover next... please don't take multiple MONTHS to get to it.

The Liam thing really caught me off guard I thought des was being cryptic like patriot did live and escape but we’ll say he died and that’s where it ends I actually expected his letter to be some farewell thanks for everything type deal 😭😭😭 two seconds later he’s cursing me and my sleep schedule

I got a mission from Preston right after destryoing the institute, it was about some institute scientists south in the commonwealth, I had to build them a settlement. Besides it is necessarily important to activate the evacuation if u want to have synth gorillas at ur settlements u can get them only this way.

I don't really understand why there at least wasn't one faction with a "Send you in to steal all their advanced tech knowledge." You'd think there'd at least be some of the tech and research would be interesting to a lot of people.

I got a random encounter from a mission from Preston... one time in the 14 playthroughs. Preston tells me a settlement has some Institute scientists that show up. If you go there there are 4 Institute scientists are asking to join your settlement. I am not sure if you understand what a synth is. The Institute used Shawn's DNA as the basic genetic structure to create all the synths. They are clones. The only thing that makes them a synth and not a human clone is the fact they have a synth component implanted in them so their memories can be programmed in and protocols can turn them off. They are human. The feel pain, they age, they get sick, they can have kids. Of course their kids will not have a synth component. The Institute could have slowly added men and woman to the institute that could have had skills the Commonwealth needed, like teaching, healing, science, and morals... and had them find husbands and wives to help fix the damaged DNA from all the radiation as well as help the Commonwealth become a better place. The Institute never needed to do the synth replace. They used that to directly control and monitor the people when a softer version would have been much better. Sadly even as the replacement for Father you can not get them to stop doing the synth replacements and actually help the people. That is why I find the Institute to be the worst of the factions, even worse than the aggressive Brotherhood of Steel. After a a few decades and a few thousand synths they could have played a more direct role in the Commonwealth by opening a hospital and college and maybe restoring power and other infrastructures. They could have started to clean up the Commonwealth. In another 100 years the place could have recovered what was lost and maybe even more. See Shawn was a new synth. Not only was he a clone, but he was a child too. I am not sure if Shawn was allowed to grow up like a regular baby but it sounds like it. It sounds like they might have adjusted his memory a few times maybe, but that he not like the other synths. His memories were not 100% programmed by the Institute, but based on his life experiences. Father was an idiot to think these clones were nothing more than slaves, programmed to be loyal. The problem is they are also humans deep down and humans by nature have free will. Gen 1 and gen 2 were robots... toasters, but not gen 3. They are human.

One of the reasons why I prefer this ending, is that it's the only one where all your companions stay alive. If you weren't banished from the institute and finished the game with railroad X6-88 will continue to be available as a companion. And Dance (if you completed his personel quest) will not turn hostile after brotherhood destruction (though he'll stop being a companion and become a settler).

Goodbye Intro and Goodbye Double O7😢😢

I feel like they almost did a great job with father as making him a conflicted complex individual, but only gave him hardline pro-institute dialogue. There are moments where he seems upset at his lot in life, regretful that he had to grow up with (probably) dispassionate scientists to raise him. He had to grow up knowing one of his biological parents was dead and the other frozen, knowing the institute only got him out the vault to use him as a tool to make the synths - and then seeing the synths which were essentially his children growing up and being treated with the same dispassionate manner he'd been treated with. Him giving you Synth-Shaun is like him not only giving you a 'son' back but also giving his own child a chance to live a life he'd been robbed off: In an imperfect world, but with a loving parent.

I did encounter those scientists once, but only once. Which is strange because I have never been able to finish the main story without losing my saves to lag and corruption atop Mass Fusion. If memory serves, you can actually send them to your settlement, but I don't remember what comes of it.

I just realized what I've been missing from these ending wraps. The DLC and Expansion content. Surely DiMA has slightly different lines at some point if you've completely destroyed the institute, or you just happen to run it?

Whens the next episode coming out Ox???? I just finished binge watching all 45 episodes it took me 3 days, and I loved every second of it. BUT I NEED MOREEEEEEE.

I was really confused because I did a play through with the minutemen but was still able to get the to the mattresses quests but it had the same speech about glory as if I did sided with the railroad so I was worried glory died but she was still alive and fighting

I usually find surviving scientists n that one big settlement with the lone Mr. Handy. I forget the name of the place, but it was a big area with a shack/shed in the middle with a computer terminal and a Mr. Handy

Question: Oxhorn mentions that Railroad does not care if u dont put in the evacuation order. But im quite sure that the Railroad turned hostile on me when I talked to them after the epilogue (without evacuation order). It was a long time ago though. Am i wrong? Or does the Railroad only not care if you finish with the Railroad? Because I probably finished that game with the Minutemen. Thx Oxhorn for the great work on Fallout as always!

I play the song Fortunate Son when riding in the vertiberd 😅

How Desdemona treats Liam's death is why I never side with the Railroad. 1. She chooses to basically abandon Liam once she learns about Z1. 2. For all her talk about being in the right, and how they're above "petty minds" she closes her mind to any outside help, even the Minute Man General/Heavy that ran ops for her. 3. She martyrs Liam, then LIES about how he died, Then LIES to make the railroad agents feel like everything they gave up was worth it, you know that thing she scolds deacon for all the time? Then makes the player an accomplice to the lie? She's the worst kind of hypocrite.

Lmfao "Oooooh, I blew that place to hell..." What a demon. That's how you tell the guy that helped you get into his home, that you blew up his home, and killed everyone he knows LMFAO!!!!

The last time I did it they said that Gloria was dead when she is actually still alive

Oxhorn: "Not that it matters with fast travel available" People who play on survival: -______-

Ooh I need more. Minutemen, BH? I am patiently awaiting.

Are you going to do the BOS story next?

49:23 To the matressES. It is odd to say. But that’s what they say in the Godfather.

33:45 This is a common misconception but the institute scientist random event is actually just a minutemen quest where you help institute scientists clear out a settlement. The reason it’s so easy to miss is by endgame most people either haven’t touched the minutemen quest line or have already finished the minutemen quest line so it doesn’t spawn.

Yay. New episode and my bowl of cereal. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood

Can't wait for the Brotherhood path. I think that just like me, a lot of us chose that path ( I did the other endings too)

Wtf did liam expect was going to happen!? That everybody was going to sit around a campfire and sing cumbaya!?

Can't wait for the next choice! I'm pretty sure it'll be the brotherhood, since Ox likes the minutemen so much 😆

I could swear on my play through, when I went swimming in the crater - I found part of the interior dome/hall of the main institute. It was floating underwater in the river. It looked like it was made to be found if you went looking for wreckage.

The problem I have with child Shaun is that he will be a child eternally, unless he has a power supply that eventually wears out.

I've been waiting for the Minutemen storyline but... make the Minutemen last. Save the best for last 🤘🏽 more powers, Oxhorn

Every time I destroyed the Institute, I always spent some of my time to visit Sanctuary and Diamond City. Codsworth, Preston, Piper, and Nick Valentine were my OGs

I always over thought it and sent Shawn to live in a different settlement because, I just feel the Institute, while destroyed, has some remnants still around and synths are STILL observable entities. They did have mobile units capable of whole extractions from the surface. I dont think the game thought as far but if I play thinking realistically, Shawns own eyes can be used to see what and where I am at any given time so I tended to send him always to vault 88. I controlled that environment so whatever the Institute saw, was MY own machination. See? over thought.

Mods to the rescue "Rescued Synths Go to Mercer Safehouse."

That screen tearing though

I do like this format you've come up with to deal with the factions.

This was a really well made video. Work is the only time i get to listen to long form content. I accidentally started watching this, and it was just to good to stop. Thank Oxhorn.

I followed the Railroad right until the very end, where I backed the Minutemen. I just don't think the Railroad has the people or resources to secure the Commonwealth.

Your “good luck kid!” was great

It's funny how Piper's newspaper looks like it was written down, not typed out like a printing press would create. Maybe they had printing press technology that printed in really neat handwriting. No matter how much Bethesda tried, they dropped the ball a lot. But, they did a lot, so it's understandable that a lot of things would fall through the cracks. Major LOL!

33:30 I encountered them they are not a random encounter they are a radiant quest that can be given by the minute man to recruit them to a settlement or save them or something, I've done it twice before. It's fairly rare but it does happen

Just tried to do my favorite ending where you work with the railroad till you meet with father outside the Institute then end him. Forcing them to work with the Minute men. But I've encountered a bug where during the attack at the castle by the Institute they stopped spawning after the first few enemies appeared.

Leeeeet's do the tiiiiiiime waaaaaaarp agaaaaiiiiin!

36:17 Obi-Wan: I have the High Ground! PAM: Good, now go and destroy that Vertibird

The reveal the McDonough is a synth can trigger before blowing the institute to hell, I don't know what the exact trigger is

I love Travis 😂 his reaction to the institute being gone is the best.

viewing from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 I love you brother. God bless you.😊 I couldn't wait for this episode

Hey Oxhorn I watched all your fallout videos and surprised you play my other favorite games,I know this is long but The first video I ever watched was Billy the kid in fridge and I didn't even know what fallout was I was 7 know am 15 so thanks for getting me into the fallout community

I recommend doing the Minutemen last since I'm all but certain that that's the canon ending.

Just noticed "Publick" is a really good name for a pub.