Ghouls with names?

[Tyrion]

I was wandering the area around Diamond City and found a section of ghouls with names, like Mr Parker, and Mrs Smith, what's up with them? They people your character knew back in the day?

[Yhwach]

They're named pre-war feral ghouls, there's a story behind them If you go to their house, notably the basement.

[Crystal Sharrd]

They're your neighbors, the ones who didn't make it into the vault.

[LairosTall]

Some of the names match a few of the people that were on the elevator with you when the bomb hit.

[Kuruseida]

Originally posted by LairosTall:

Some of the names match a few of the people that were on the elevator with you when the bomb hit.

Uhh, aren't all of them dead inside the frozen capsules ?

[<< BATFINK >>]

I remember being attacked by them, quite a fair way away from Sanctuary. They must have been keen travellers before they went feral!!

[DouglasGrave]

How do we even identify them by name when they don't bear even the slightest resemblance to their former selves? Sure, we often get people's names by targeting them, but in most of those cases there's at least some vague chance we could have found out the information (even if not always by the time we see it first).

Since they turn up multiple times, even if you kill them all, maybe it's just the Sole Survivor projecting their own impressions onto a group of ghouls that reminds them of their former neighbours.

[WildCat]

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

<...> Since they turn up multiple times, even if you kill them all, maybe it's just the Sole Survivor projecting their own impressions onto a group of ghouls that reminds them of their former neighbours.

I'd like to hear your explanation on reoccurring Art vs Art random encounter even if you kill both of them... several times.

[paugus]

Originally posted by WildCat:

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

<...> Since they turn up multiple times, even if you kill them all, maybe it's just the Sole Survivor projecting their own impressions onto a group of ghouls that reminds them of their former neighbours.

I'd like to hear your explanation on reoccurring Art vs Art random encounter even if you kill both of them... several times.

Gary. Gaaaaaary.

Art. Aaaaart.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by WildCat:

Originally posted by DouglasGrave:

<...> Since they turn up multiple times, even if you kill them all, maybe it's just the Sole Survivor projecting their own impressions onto a group of ghouls that reminds them of their former neighbours.

I'd like to hear your explanation on reoccurring Art vs Art random encounter even if you kill both of them... several times.

My theory is that they're both synths and the Institute is running an experiment. One is made to think it's a regular human, and purposely left without a recognizable synth component; the other is made to think it's a duplicate being sent to replace the original. This would explain the otherwise absurd idea of sending out a duplicate on its own to replace the original.

Unlike the Railroad, the Institute doesn't typically give synths memories that make them think they're normal humans, so they're running some experiments to see how they react, and since both subjects are synths they can even see how each one reacts to the death of its alternate.

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[Kuruseida]

I just encountered Art vs Art lol that was awesome and unexpected... but now kinda dissapointing, so it was just a random-enc ? Will it happen everytime I go near that area? ...

[✠Deser✞🅵☣⚔⚔♏✠]

Originally posted by Shingatsu:

I just encountered Art vs Art lol that was awesome and unexpected... but now kinda dissapointing, so it was just a random-enc ? Will it happen everytime I go near that area? ...

Not if you put a bullet in both of them like i did.

[Nish-Ki]

Originally posted by Shingatsu:

I just encountered Art vs Art lol that was awesome and unexpected... but now kinda dissapointing, so it was just a random-enc ? Will it happen everytime I go near that area? ...

Far habour has a scene with named ghouls, you follow the story of a girl growing up in a small fishing village with the help of her drawings.

[WildCat]

Originally posted by Shingatsu:

I just encountered Art vs Art lol that was awesome and unexpected... but now kinda dissapointing, so it was just a random-enc ? Will it happen everytime I go near that area? ...

Normally you only see it once but there're cases when script gets broken and two Arts start popping at every random encounter spot. That's what happened in my game.

As for the ghouls, i believe devs screwed it up and simply didn't add a check if this random encounter happened before to prevent it's reoccurring.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by WildCat:

Originally posted by Shingatsu:

I just encountered Art vs Art lol that was awesome and unexpected... but now kinda dissapointing, so it was just a random-enc ? Will it happen everytime I go near that area? ...

Normally you only see it once but there're cases when script gets broken and two Arts start popping at every random encounter spot. That's what happened in my game.

As for the ghouls, i believe devs screwed it up and simply didn't add a check if this random encounter happened before to prevent it's reoccurring.

For me, the Art vs. Art encounter is just like the ghouls; it just keeps turning up occasionally like any other random encounter.