The Weird Lore of Fallout's Assualtrons 

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Fallout 4 and assaultrons are not fallout lore, they're made up 🐂 💩 Bethesda lore. Everything after fallout tactics isn't fallout out. Fight me.

Fallout 3 4 and 76 are garbage, NV gets points for sticking to lore, but negative points for using the same engine. FPS games are trash.

What, what IF the USA needed to start stealing China high-tekietekie stuff... The USA stole like crazy after kicking out the english, hell they even tried to invade Canada illegally too and have plans on the books to this day!

@@myadhdSquirel I bet you cry yourself to sleep, knowing the show has been succeeding and Bethesda did more with the series than Black Isle ever did.

Your wife is right dude

The only right answer is - "Why not?"

They needed somewhere to put the batteries on tbe slightly frame. 😅

its where the death laser is stored

​@@Virtualblueartactually there are servos there

he's just like me fr

Truly the BEST companion Ever in a mediocre game

@@therealbfunke honestly i think mediocre is a bit harsh

@@dfprod. I agree, I did pre-order and waited in line with my then fianacee then watched the the "Special" videos and I do truly enjoy the rebuilding of the commonwealth, and playing on everything it was released on. I resend my content if I may

@dfprod. I mean I did spend alot of time with Hancock and Cait but im also too wasted to have a real convo so that should say something I guess

They were designed with an hourglass figure, it’s fully intentional on Bethesda’s part.

The voices are definitely attractive.

I don't really see it. Though I find myself wanting to protect Ada like a brother would a sister. Polly from 76 I like her personality, if it was in a human woman I would probably find her attractive. Curie on the other hand, once she went from bot to cloned human body I found her attractive, drawn to her personality, kindness, and innocents. I added Curie because she can be put into an assaultron body.

This was intended... so that soldiers would protect them in combat.

​@@Rubix003makes sense

I’m more of a “rear panel” vault boy

​@@EthanAnderson-gt7gz Assualtron Got Back...

they have bead like eyes

Listen it's not OUR fault they made them like that, they knew what they was doin

Hello..! My killer death ray is up here!

“Sirrr.”🤖

How can a robot have so much sass?

In fo76 there's a flirty/thirsty assaultron​@@fgyjtingenieroeuropeo56

Conversely, "...Ma'am?" sounds weirdly apprehensive to me for some reason

it feels derogatory the way they say it lmao

One of the things I think I love most about them is the fact that they match all the other robots while also managing to stay very visually distinct. They have a much more slender frame to keep them from looking like protectrons, but still maintain that retrofuturist aesthetic. Their voice is a commanding presence in game that doesn't get mixed up with any of the other dialog (even the robobrains, despite the fact that they're both similarly mechanized and feminine). All that's not even mentioning the way their face becomes a glowing red star when they're powering their laser!

I had no clue they where introduced in fallout 4 could've sworn they where in the other bathesda fallout games

They fill the role of relentless melee pursuer that the other robots aren't particularly good at.

They are my favorite addition too. Not for any reasons like fitting in. They're just hot.

They're my favorite robot design, for aesthetics, narrative and gameplay. Aesthetic-wise, they're sleek & slender, while still maintaining some clunkiness in their movements. The faces are almost like a spider in some portions, with two beady eyes and parts resembling mandibles under the plating. And they're the only distinctly feminine robot, in contrast to the masculine or interchangeable robots around them. Narratively, I think they perfectly represent both the technology and savagery of the Old World at its terminal point - both the most *human* and *inhuman.* A humanoid shape, speaking with the most natural voice of RobCo's lineup, and the most sophisticated software of a mass-produced robot. And what is their purpose? To quite literally tear what's in front of them limb-from-limb, and burn whatever's left to ashes. Gameplay-wise, they're consistently one of the most dangerous and unrelenting melee enemies. Think we've all had a bad moment with one.

Inflatable.

Google the k1ll em all comic Kino stuff

Ngl there probably were some made for that kind of stuff

Fisto from FNV.

My guy, everything is fuckable on r34.

Throw jars of my probably-yellow coolant at enemies.

That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw her terminal

Most weapons merchants are crazed or both. Professionals have standards.

I read her terminal. She's already planned who to kill, and in what order, in Goodneighbor. I'm not sure what would trigger this, but it should make the locals nervous.

​@carlasghost656 goodneighbor is a violent town. We are literally greeted hy its mayor murdering a dude trying to extort us for money. Violence is part of that places culture Why WOULDNT an assaultron have a contingency plan?

@@carlasghost656 Oh I'm sure many "people" in Goodneighbor have lists like that.

@@carlasghost656that’s just plain a good thing to have in good neighbor. It’s not a good neighborhood

shes a show owner and your very introduction to goodneighbor includes someone getting stabbed right in front of her shop. id say its to be expected

We're listening

@@Firefox-vz8cy Don't listen to him! His plan's going to result in a penectomy, those things have gears in there!

let him cook

I can’t wait to EAT what he’s cooking

... Servitron mod ...

some guy got overly attached to an assaultron in fo76 and it tore his face off 😭😂

Pretty sure that's intentional

@@BxBxProductionsNot overly attached, just uploaded a program to make it act like a sheepsquatch, so it would collect data with actual sheepsquatch. This backfired for when he powered it up, it activated the “sheepsquatch mating rituals” parameter and killed him. It then somehow becomes invincible and that leads to the Encryptid event

They are, Bethesda knew exactly what they were doing when they made them.

@@netherwarrior6113 Actually he wasn't killed, it was heavily implied he was, but he actually kind of went into hiding. If you go to Big Bend Tunnel East, you can find an NPC named Aries, who has a lot of Taxidermy heads inside his Train car. After you do a few quests for Vinny Costa, he tells you to talk to Aries, and if you finished the Blue Ridge questline, you can ask Aries who he truly is. He is Calvin Van Lowe

Was just gonna mention that, but you got here first ❤

I wouldn't be surprised if it was to make transport easier in case they needed to vacate the facility on immediate notice should things go wrong

Kinda. The assaultron body is there mostly just as a tangible medium. Her bulk is in the stationary computer banks. I don't know why they did that since nothing much is gained by giving the system a body. It would have been easier and cheaper to forgo that. Technicians would need to be nearby anyways, so it wouldn't be much more to have them ask and read results. But am I glad she exists? Absolutely.

Lol the whole thing about safety is BS lol if you go upstairs there's a terminal you can hack that turns kleo into a killer assaultron there's even logs on how she wants to do it Iirc there's even ones for specific NPCs

@@bendoughty9831 ...what? you can hack Kleo herself with the robotic expert perk, but her terminal just has contingency plans, there's no hacking. unless I badly misremembered something

Bad to the bone plays

It doesn't even make sense why she was made to be so blank. She's already a named character with a level of background. Double down. They were going to give us blank slates anyways. Such a shame.

Especially, since she does have an affinity stat that is affected by various things you do. It just isn't displayed at all.

If I can hook a Miss Nanny up with a guy in Diamond city, then my sole survivor can catch feelings for his travelling companion. Honestly it was such a missed opportunity

Wasn't that the primary problem with nightkin? (Not killing them but causing negative effects)

@@SworswmsdmkxYes, the first experimental models used with robots were lethal, the early production models that the nightkin still had side effects and a only a few prototypes from immediately before the war had no side effects.

​@@Sworswmsdmkxyes, you learn this in fo3 Jacobstown.

​@@CountessKekfallout NV*

Yeah. KLEO's not much more aggressive than the average wastelander. Being prepared is just something that needs to be done if they plan to live another day. I would have loved to be able to slowly get on her good side and eventually earn her trust. I just want to help the older ghouls and robots since they've been alive for so long. Imagine the stories they could tell and the knowledge/wisdom they could give you.

I wouldn't be surprised if most Goodneighbour residents had similar contingencies, if not as well thought out. At least one sidequest straight up confirm that they are a treacherous bunch motivated by greed.

KLEO's plan is based on a quote from James Mattis a retired Marine Corps general: _be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet_

@@user-lp3cv1zf6vhk42lwa In fallout 4, with the atomaton DLC, after you rescue Ada, you can build a robot work bench and eventually every type of robot including another Codsworth that makes GREAT gardener bots.

If you give them the 'Assualtron voice', they will state that the command is unrecognized.

They give me too much power

the personality is just Ada minus unique quest dialogue though.

Not with the Assaultron voice. You need to have the male or female voices

taste in uhh...what excatly

@@togeluga_the_cat I do not. Need. To elaborate.

Say no more, fellow Robophile.

😂😂😂

Fellow man of culture I see

Its like the fat man whistle legit like PTSD

It reminds me of the old Star Wars lore about droids needing periodic memory wipes to keep them functional, and that those that don't develop "quirks" and "habits" that people find odd. It makes perfect sense to me that those kind of "general maintenance practices" were lost post-War... Ergo robots that have been operating for years and years on end like Codsworth start merging sentience/sapience as they're not being "reset to factory defaults" over and over again and losing that development.

@@MisterHavoc There's certainly something to that idea. I think it also depends on how much in-depth personal interaction they got with humans. Molly at Cambridge Polymer Labs seems like she was on the cusp of self-awareness, but the Mr. Handys at the Nahant Oceanological Society were still nowhere near it, despite both running for the same length of time. The Institute was studying it and found it frustrating enough that they finally moved away from androids and into genetic engineering and cybernetics instead.

Not fallout robots, Bethesda fallout robots . They gave robots self awareness out of nowhere. Like always, Bethesda doesn't care about fallout lore

​@@roozbeh6999The developers of Fallouts 1 & 2 couldn't agree if FEV and Radiation mixed or not

@@roozbeh6999 Yes Man

Honestly the Assaultron seems like it fits the design aesthetic of General Atomics more than Rob Co. Rob Co seems to favor mass-produced lowest cost designs, often with a certain chunky/rounded aesthetic.

No, I doubt it was a proper/official variant. If it really was that much more powerful than the standard then it was probably just a testing platform. It could've been used to stress test the components besides the main actuators. Like how the student found out, some pieces are more likely to break than others, and finding out when and why would be very helpful before production. Why did the school have it? Maybe they were working with the company or maybe it was donated to them for their own personal research.

⁠@@LowbrowDeluxeI was talking to someone about this a week ago, and I felt that the Assaultrons so (relatively) commonly developing personalities and having the concept of gender felt more like a GA thing than a Robco thing as well, like the Mr Handys, Ms Nannys, and especially the Mr Gutsys. Most of this realization actually *came from* the many Mr. Gutsys that have personalities going beyond simple “Kill Commies” I found in Fallout 3, like Cerberus in Underworld wanting to kill all the ghouls around him or the medic in the Citadel who has been hiding from the BOS the fact that he developed a personality a while ago, to even the small things like the Mr. Gutsy in River City saying that he doesn’t *want* to *have* to kill you if you ask about breaking into the armory.

@@natalie6811 That's a really good point. The AI in general is much more reactive than Rob Co's bots typically are.

General Atomics sounds like the company that would get the private government / military contract to design and build them for the war effort. RobCo sounds like the company who was given the (post-DARPA) designs to eventually put into production for "public private consumption". ;) But for my head canon, RoCo is probably where the self-realization AI coding might have been introduced, either accidentally (sloppiness) or by intent (for the public; i.e. customer interaction and satisfaction).

Judging from KLEO's ultra-preparedness, I think it's probably fair to say that an Assaultron may be smarter than some of the human officers they were built to obey. Unfortunately, Assaultrons seem to be smart enough to understand this.

Lmao

Why is P.A.M. in that lineup :(

Correct* ♡

Would

Nah, he used the right image

Underrated comment right here

Mr.house created female securitrons and...have a taste for robots

I can see that. Given that they were apparently intended to obey the orders of human officers, the people funding the project might have hoped that they'd be able to form an esprit-de-corps with the soldiers they'd be fighting alongside. Robco being Robco, they interpreted this request in the way that would mean the least work for them.

Oh, neat, incel humor.

"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."

I want a tomboy Assaultron

More likely Silica from Starchaser: Legend of Orin but if you can find a Gynoid older in fiction than 1985 I'd like to hear about it.

An anime called the humanoid with a female robot

The "ears" are an indication that Metropolis was the inspiration. The OG fembot.

There's also the option to build them into Power Armor, as well. Tho not as effectively. And generally I have yet to see an NPC that has it. So I'm gonna stand in with you, that the US had access to the capabilities.

​@@user-dq9pq8uv4e Damn. Forgot that those modifications existed for PA's. Well time to fire up the Fallout 4 again.

@@user-dq9pq8uv4eIn fallout four, for some reason, and only when fighting mole rats… railroad agents use their cloak, the enemy they fight and they use it.

Stealth boy is in fact a reversed engineer by Robco from Chinese stealth armor. But was never fully understood by Americans and is known for causing neurologic damages after prolonged exposure to cloak field (most particularly on nightkin)

Always fun to have Ada and Dogmeat charge into the teeth of the enemy while you hang back with a sniper rifle and VATS.

Well in my religion we're not allowed to say it, so I've only seen it spelled. I still have no idea how you say it

@@aSipOfHemlocktea Well, there is also about ten thousand Japanese and Western shows and movies that mention the word....... maybe your religion doesn't allow access to TV and the internet either. You could type the word in Google and hit the speaker thing next to it and it'll pronounce it for you. You're welcome.

@@aSipOfHemlocktea "Suk-kyu-bus". And the male ones are "ink-kyu-bus". Plural is succubi/incubi - "suk-kyu-bye"/"ink-kyu-bye". 'Incubi' is also the species name.

It may be that he pronounced it like that, due to YT's censorship algorithm. There for a while they were coming down pretty hard on gametuber's and their colorful use of language. And YT has a fairly extensive word list of "Thou shalt not" use, for creators on the platform in general.

@@aSipOfHemlockteawhat’s your religion?

Kinky.

Wait seriously? I need to rewatch them all now 😂

No assaultrons In the show

@@Colt45reallyzagging Lucy sees a broken one partially buried in the sand in ep2

Why ? He’s not supposed to attack you unless you attack first

@@arthurd.8766 I'm not sure. It went aggro on me every time I approached the house.

@@MWHW80085 It shows as aggo, but if you don't shoot at it and you talk to the Cabots through the intercom, he won't attack. When you come back out, it usually doesn't show red anymore. Even if it does, it will not generally attack unless you do. I have noticed the bug on several playthroughs. Initially I would always destroy the bots, but I tried not shooting at them a few times and got the same results.

@@liwojenkins I'll have to keep that in mind my next playthrough lol

I just walk by it

yeah, I love making robots in f4, adding miniguns, missile launchers etc

Every battle needs a distraction.

Ada is actually a heavily modded assaultron

PAM is also not a regular assaultron

That might be a previous “civilian” model like the mr handy compared to the mr gutsy

maybe because PAM wasnt a real assaultron? she is a wargaming super computer put on assaultron body, and the laser would affect the processing power, when you attack the synth loving hippies pam always flees to her room, she wasnt made for combat, why is she in an assaultron body then? for relocation incase emergency, assaultron have the highest mobility of all robots, while mister gutsy are faster a good shot to their trusters could make them immobile

If any character from the east coast were to return in a later game, it'd be KL-E-0. She already has a canonical history of relocation, looking at the Neighborhood Watch contingency.

Exactly, and also the assautron that Commander Daguerre downloads the computer program into... the A.I. called A.T.H.E.N.A.!

... there's Adelaide now...

@@kiokyyikune real

Hinted at in the Mechanist episodes of The Silver Shroud.

Shock assault infantry. Most military models had the head laser that can be used at significant range. Their body armor stacks up well to small arms fire which we know the Chinese were primarily using instead of laser weaponry like the U.S. was. Combine that with stealth boy use and you have an extremely difficult to hit armored shock infantry that will cross no man’s land and killing fields with zero regard for personal safety forcing the enemy to reveal their positions if not abandon them outright or suffer a close ranged hand to hand engagement with an armored violent robot with metal claws for hands. Stack a few squads of regular infantry and a support squad of power armor soldiers with miniguns and Gatling lasers for support with the ability to call for fire support from internal radios and you have a winning combo

I'd hope that with those hands of theirs, they would be able to operate firearms. That's about as much as I can think of. Otherwise why even have hands? Not so sure though since they apparently had no issue with replacing their hands with blades, which makes no sense since hands could've easily held them. The blades also seem to lack the wrist movement that makes swords useful to begin with, so really they seem like a lose-lose change.

Robo titties! Distraction level 100.

​@@midgetman4206 they can use rifles and ranged stuff IF they're built-in weapons, so the option does exist but it's not as versatile as simply giving them a gun mid fight

@@blueberry4209 With the theme park model being an exception, factory options were melee only. The slapped together robots shouldn't count.

Longfellow praises you too.

There is literally a terminal that very clearly goes into detail about her being an AI on a computer originally, but she is put into an Assaultron so that she can be transported to the White House and advise the President. But the bombs drop before she can be transported.

Theyre also located in the Switchboard too, the very first Railroad mission. They're not hard to find.

It's in a terminal in the Switchboard when you go through it with Deacon.

I think the Twins from Atomic Heart are placed very high on that list, even the main character think they're attractive. They also do some... questionnable poses

I'm sure gay and trans robots will get a chance.

@@brodriguez11000 You see... there's this protectron in Fallout : New Vegas...

As the saying goes, "If you only do the right thing because you're afraid of punishment, you aren't a good person. You're a bad person on a leash."

But is the Railroad right? Are synths really aware? Nick seems so. But so does Kellogg and in the end you are expected to shoot him. Yes. I recognize Kellogg by gender.

In several ways consciousness in non-humans is displayed and respected in Fallout. The Enclave had a computer President. The Master was an FEV mutant meshed with a computer that was in charge of an army of mutants that almost destroyed what was left of people in the US. There are sapient, intelligent ALIENS you can face, and it is made obvious they are far beyond human metal capacity. There is a quest to save intelligent deathclaws from the Enclave. There is a scorpion you can play chess against, and it will attack you if you win, the scientist that created it explicitly did so to create an intelligent creature to treat with respect as an equal. You need to familiarize yourself to Fallout games before Fallout 4.

@@liwojenkins that is a cute call out but both respective examples are not given human autonomy. You don’t see the railroad in fo3 trying to liberate Eden because he’s a supercomputer and not a consciousness machine. You can even science and robotics expert your way into initiating a self destruct like how the master died in an imposed explosion upon realizing his life’s work was moot. Those are super complicated computers but they don’t really want to live and exist for Their own sake of being, like conscious beings do. The robobrains in the earlier titles also explore this, as Skynet was an amalgam of different brains which were used to make important choices for a vault while still having some human remnant inside each deteriorating brain. We see consciousness being used as a part of computation but I’m sure I’m blind to the other way around because ur right I haven’t played fo1 or fo2

@@paulfrankovich3085 Children and mentally deficient people can't tell the difference between a thing, and something that resembles a thing. soldierinsane2689 would probably melt down if I put on a dogsuit and started barking. They would think I knew shapeshifting magic! Don't try to understand people that can't get beyond the appearance of a thing, their shallow analysis and understanding cannot be fixed, it's inherent to their intelligence and maturity level.

Honestly I thinks it’s more simple than that. Theirs two other sci-fi franchises that explore and explain this sort of thing. Essentially they don’t have personalities, they’re just broken. In the Warhammer 40k setting theirs a group of highly advanced super computers known as Votann, they hold all known knowledge of humanity and can make extremely complicated and accurate calculations. However the method to maintain them was slowly lost and so the Computers started to slow down and glitch out like a computer with too many tabs left open. Because of the added burden the Computers started to display various odd quirks that could be mistaken as personality and the race that depends on them do mistake it for personality. Theirs also in Star Wars the droids. The Droids, especially the B1 models aren’t meant for war, they’re simple machines but because they’re forced into a position they weren’t designed for it has put extra burden on their processing which gives them odd personality quirks. For the AI of Fallout Robots I feel like it’s similar in that they’re designed to behave in certain ways and then we’re left to rust and fend for themselves which created an almost robotic form of insanity where they’re struggling to process things correctly and we mistake it as personality because humans like to anthropomorphize things. The Assaultron that runs the store is broken and has convinced itself of something that isn’t true, the Robots at the theme park are preforming their duties with broken AI and so have all these strange and aggressive “personalities” they’re following their programming but with no maintenance being done those programs are left to rot and decay.