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SkepticJoker 29. juni 2022 kl. 12:31
Who is Nate?
What would he actually do? Who would he side with? What kind of person is he?

I think he would rush the main quest line to find his son, and turn down helping everyone except for maybe Preston during When Freedom Calls.

What I'm not sure about, is what he would do after he discovers the fate of his son. Nor can I say for sure what factions he would end up siding with.

The point of Fallout 4 isn't to pretend to be Nate, but to pretend to be whatever character you wish to be, I get that. But what if Nate wasn't a just hollow shell?
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wtiger27 1. juli 2022 kl. 5:48 
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The issues of the Institute are all things you could fix as Director though, especially if said Director was also the defacto leader of the Minutemen and had built a Commonwealth they could point at as proving the surface wasn't beyond hope. The tech and knowledge of the Institute could just as well make things better and JR pretty much proved Directors have the power to rapidly change priorities of the Institute.
The issue with this is that:
1. The institute doesn't actually offer anything overly advanced that warrents letting them go for the crimes they've committed. Other then synths and the Transporter, Nothing else they've made is farther advanced then what already exists in the world. Either from the BOS or even Black Mountain.

2. The Institute's cuccoon is a giant liability once it's location has been found. Main reason most factions blow it up.

3. 90% of the head scientists are complicint in the Institute's crimes. Not all of them knew about the fev experiments, But the majority know about the kidnapping and replacing of settlers. They also have no actual love for the above ground world and one person is not going to change their minds on that. They're all under the impression that the institute is going to give the world topside the big middle finger once that reactor comes online.
Not to mention every department is pretty much on each with eachother, And you have the SRB ready to play big brother on all of them. Not to mention not all the department heads will accept a random stranger from the above ground world as the director.

The Institute is simply a bunch of scientists without restraint nor control and you cannot change that because it's in their nature. Some of them were even doing things behind Father's back. It's better to erase that danger and let the commonwealth truly live free.

Well said. I agree.

I guess one could assume if they took over the Institute, they would have control over the synth soldiers and Coursers there, then declare Marshall Law. But the game certainly does not allow such to happen, except in the imagination of the player. Which is another flaw in the quest line if you side with the Institute.
wtiger27 1. juli 2022 kl. 5:57 
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No that like the PC's spouse, and others in the cryosleep, is a Kellog being a psychopath that chooses the needlessly violent solution and the Institute have little to no means of holding him accountable, when they didn't yet have the Corsair alternative to Kellog at the time of both these incidents.

Its no real wonder once Corsairs did exist JR started to question why they needed Kellog.



1. What does or doesn't exist at Big Mountain is irrelevant to the East Coast for a reasonable time frame. Let alone that is run by robobrains that literally have degenerated into amoral psychopaths with little regard for any life.

2. Ability to create and sustain advanced manufacturing. BoS had to steal their manufacturing base from the Enclave.

3. Advanced medicine with properly trained doctors, let alone all that medical knowledge.

4. They perfected Vault Tec's failed food paste, which alone provides a rad free way of feeding people.

5. Their labs are actually capable of working on fixing the surface produce to not radiate you for eating it.

6. They can actually produce laser weaponry, which game design failure aside, is a major thing when even the BoS is forced to scavenge and repair pre war models. Then add in the ability to create polymer armors on top of that.

7. There would literally be no moral quandary with continued/new production of Gen 1 and 2 synths, meanwhile others generally have to jerryrig robots together from prewar parts.

8. All the other general pre war knowledge they possess in their data banks that is hard if not nigh impossible to collect on the surface.
You cannot wipe the blame completely on Kellogg. The institute is responsible for his actions. They funded him, They supplied him, They knew exactly what he was like and they were fine with his methods.
The only thing that changed was the introduction of Gen 3 synths. With the creation of Coursiers, The institute no longer needed kellogg in order to operate on the surface. So father released the SS knowing he would hunt kellogg down and kill him.
The institute basically profitted off Kellogg's rampage as much as they could and then discarded him once they no longer needed him.

Well, we are on a roll in complete agreement. lol.

The one who gives orders for their hit-men for a task, yet gives them no guidelines on how to accomplish it, are just as guilty as them if they commit a crime of murder and atrocities.

And the father and others in the Institute are hypocrites to suggest they bare no responsibility for his actions.
DouglasGrave 1. juli 2022 kl. 6:17 
While the Institute does bear responsibility for Kellogg, it's not as complete as them directly instructing him to commit every action, and even the actions he does take aren't simply those of some raider blindly slaughtering for amusement.

Of the two cases we know most directly (Vault 111 and University Point), each show not unprovoked cruelty, but ruthless suppression of any possible threat to himself or his mission, which is the same behaviour he showed when first confronting the Institute and their synths. If there's the slightest danger, he typically tries to end it as immediately as possible. It's an attitude schooled by a long life in the wasteland.

The Institute made use of Kellogg because he was a tool suited to the job of wasteland operations, but he isn't just a mad dog they unleash. He's instead a person with deliberate parallels to the Sole Survivor who shows how someone might choose to live in the face of a dangerous world (especially when they don't have the convenience of a savegame ensuring their life).
wtiger27 1. juli 2022 kl. 8:51 
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Who is pjedilord?

A frequent poster who on many occasions, makes some posts and asks questions which some think are outlandish or rather dumb. I find none of his posts to be objectionable and actually some to be worthy of discussion.
Xenon The Noble 1. juli 2022 kl. 11:05 
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Didn't the Institute wiped University Point for "resources"
They were looking for tech that would help them be independent and not have to depend upon the surface for resources. They gave the fetch job to Kellogg, who was a psychopath. It ended badly, partly because the girl who found it wanted to make a lot of caps off it, but the Institute wanted exclusive rights... sort of like the BOS. The BOS guns and armor are not for taking tech politely.
Ilja 1. juli 2022 kl. 11:10 
"Who is Nate?"

Well, that depends entirely what you give him. He doesn't need to be "hollow shell", unless you want him to.

My "Nate" was an engineer during the war. He worked with Power Armors and has deep knowledge of them, but he never really believed the war that was going on.

His unit got ambushed. Only few survived, Nate among them. He was released from duty after that, but problems followed him. He had inability to focus on anything else, except for science and physical training. Nora understood what his husband was going through, even if it was hard. Nate said he would see the explosion that wiped the unit almost every time he closed his eyes.

Right before the bombs were dropped, Nate had offers from both military and university. That very morning he had maid the decision to drop his military life for good and focus on education career. That decision gave him some closure and peace.

And we know what happened next. Highly intelligent man, suffering from heavy trauma wakes up from apocalyptic world. While his emotions would run him to find his son, he is intelligent enough not to run after in to unknown. Sanctuary and Minutemen gave him something to focus, keeping his mind active and strong enough to figure out what was actually going on.

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That is just on of the "Nates" I had.
Who is Nate?

He is who ever you want him to be.
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Xenon The Noble 1. juli 2022 kl. 11:28 
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So the BOS would be an obvious option. Falling back into something familiar like the military even if it does some questionable things.
One uncle of mine was in the Army under MacArthur in the Pacific during WW 2. My father was at the D-Day invasion, his whole landing craft was under machine gun fire, and he was one of the few survivors. Both were eager to get back to something familiar, like farming or logging...

The only uncle I had that liked war was my mom's brother. Mom said he fought the Nazis from some training fort in Texas, burning brooms and blankets after each group shipped out to make sure that the locals didn't get them and destroy the local economy. He wanted me to go to Vietnam...

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Nate might reject both the Institute and BOS for the questionable things they do and just decide to help Preston and reform the Minutemen. I tend to see this as the most likely possibility.
It's an alternative reality, if you look at what Nuka-cola, Vault Tec, that fusion company, that chemical company... what they were all dong, they were more wicked than the Institute.

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Railroad is another possibility if he believes the synths are sentient slaves but I see that as a secondary to joining the Minutemen.
Did Nate free Cogsworth? Nope! The only question he and Nora had about getting Mr. Handy was if he would do useful work.

Minutemen? Okay, Nate fought in the Alaska war. The Minutemen don't even fight for themselves and always ask Nate to do the heavy lifting, and when it's crunch time, they not only don't have your back, they ditch you like you're yesterdays trash. Nate finds dead Minutemen, Brotherhood of Steel and RailRoad all over the Commonwealth. I don't think, as a military vet, he would be keen on fighting for people who won't even join him in their own fight.

Nate needed one thing, help to get into the institute in a desperate attempt to find his young son. As valid as any mission that Garvey sends Nate on! Tho' Garvey calls Nate "General", it's like Nate was some kind of easily amused idiot. Garvey promises to help Nate, but Garvey doesn't keep his promise. Garvey lies. Nate saves his life and those of his band of "settlers" who won't fight for their own lives. Garvey's motivation to help Nate is like the other factions: they just want into the Institute so they can murder them. Nate asks for help with Virgil's schematics - all Nate needs is Sturgis to look at the schematics. NOPE! Sorry general! Thanks for saving our lives, making beds, shelter, water, crops and defenses, but you need to run more errands for Garvey so he can become more famous for helping people. Then Garvey decides Nate is a useful idiot for his designs to murder the institute.

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I can't see Nate joining the Nuka World raiders unless he seriously walks off the deep end of reality after discovering what the world is like and seeing where his son ended up.
Raiders are just like the nobility in European and Japanese feudal systems. Given time, the raiders (sociopaths) would become the new nobility. I'm not sure when the English nobility stopped putting the bodies of drawn and quartered dead on pikes on London bridge, and the raiders are doing the exact same thing.
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GoreTiger 1. juli 2022 kl. 21:47 
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Didn't the Institute wiped University Point for "resources"
They were looking for tech that would help them be independent and not have to depend upon the surface for resources. They gave the fetch job to Kellogg, who was a psychopath. It ended badly, partly because the girl who found it wanted to make a lot of caps off it, but the Institute wanted exclusive rights... sort of like the BOS. The BOS guns and armor are not for taking tech politely.
This is not true. They were not looking for "tech that would help them be independent and not have to depend upon the surface for resources"
The tech they were looking for was the infinite fire Laser Rifle. Someone from UP found it, Shot their mouths off to traders asking how much they'd pay for it, The traders are all in the institute's pocket so they snitched about it, And kellogg came knocking.

It's kind of funny how people hark on the bos claiming they shoot up settlements for rare tech, when the institute is actually the one doing it lol.
GoreTiger 1. juli 2022 kl. 21:50 
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So the BOS would be an obvious option. Falling back into something familiar like the military even if it does some questionable things.
One uncle of mine was in the Army under MacArthur in the Pacific during WW 2. My father was at the D-Day invasion, his whole landing craft was under machine gun fire, and he was one of the few survivors. Both were eager to get back to something familiar, like farming or logging...

The only uncle I had that liked war was my mom's brother. Mom said he fought the Nazis from some training fort in Texas, burning brooms and blankets after each group shipped out to make sure that the locals didn't get them and destroy the local economy. He wanted me to go to Vietnam...

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Nate might reject both the Institute and BOS for the questionable things they do and just decide to help Preston and reform the Minutemen. I tend to see this as the most likely possibility.
It's an alternative reality, if you look at what Nuka-cola, Vault Tec, that fusion company, that chemical company... what they were all dong, they were more wicked than the Institute.

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Railroad is another possibility if he believes the synths are sentient slaves but I see that as a secondary to joining the Minutemen.
Did Nate free Cogsworth? Nope! The only question he and Nora had about getting Mr. Handy was if he would do useful work.

Minutemen? Okay, Nate fought in the Alaska war. The Minutemen don't even fight for themselves and always ask Nate to do the heavy lifting, and when it's crunch time, they not only don't have your back, they ditch you like you're yesterdays trash. Nate finds dead Minutemen, Brotherhood of Steel and RailRoad all over the Commonwealth. I don't think, as a military vet, he would be keen on fighting for people who won't even join him in their own fight.

Nate needed one thing, help to get into the institute in a desperate attempt to find his young son. As valid as any mission that Garvey sends Nate on! Tho' Garvey calls Nate "General", it's like Nate was some kind of easily amused idiot. Garvey promises to help Nate, but Garvey doesn't keep his promise. Garvey lies. Nate saves his life and those of his band of "settlers" who won't fight for their own lives. Garvey's motivation to help Nate is like the other factions: they just want into the Institute so they can murder them. Nate asks for help with Virgil's schematics - all Nate needs is Sturgis to look at the schematics. NOPE! Sorry general! Thanks for saving our lives, making beds, shelter, water, crops and defenses, but you need to run more errands for Garvey so he can become more famous for helping people. Then Garvey decides Nate is a useful idiot for his designs to murder the institute.

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I can't see Nate joining the Nuka World raiders unless he seriously walks off the deep end of reality after discovering what the world is like and seeing where his son ended up.
Raiders are just like the nobility in European and Japanese feudal systems. Given time, the raiders (sociopaths) would become the new nobility. I'm not sure when the English nobility stopped putting the bodies of drawn and quartered dead on pikes on London bridge, and the raiders are doing the exact same thing.
Your WWII stories don't amount to muc considering in that previous thread you claimed WWII was caused by some wacky christian holocaust bs.

And the BOS constantly backed nate up on his missions. They backed him up during fort strong, They gave danse permission to accompany nate, They give you power armor units and access to their inventory.

That's the thing, The BOS are the most well off out of all the factions, even the institute. Nate could not exist, and the BOS still gets their objectives done.
gsharon542 1. juli 2022 kl. 22:14 
what i cant figure out is how is how did the minute men an other factions didnt die during the war and then arent damaged like the ghouls
GoreTiger 1. juli 2022 kl. 22:16 
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what i cant figure out is how is how did the minute men an other factions didnt die during the war and then arent damaged like the ghouls
Other vaults/Home made bomb shelters. We find alot of them in the boston area.
fmalfeas 1. juli 2022 kl. 22:22 
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So the BOS would be an obvious option. Falling back into something familiar like the military even if it does some questionable things.

Nate might reject both the Institute and BOS for the questionable things they do and just decide to help Preston and reform the Minutemen. I tend to see this as the most likely possibility.

I can't see him siding with the BOS for one big reason.

Pre-War ghouls. By his sensibilities, those are fellow american citizens (or chinese if he went for a certain swim) that are badly injured, but are his contemporaries. They are the last people who share memories with him.

And the BOS hates them.
Iron Knights (Udelukket) 1. juli 2022 kl. 22:40 
Not everyone was directly hit with nukes or exposed to deadly radiation.
DouglasGrave 2. juli 2022 kl. 8:02 
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They were looking for tech that would help them be independent and not have to depend upon the surface for resources. They gave the fetch job to Kellogg, who was a psychopath. It ended badly, partly because the girl who found it wanted to make a lot of caps off it, but the Institute wanted exclusive rights... sort of like the BOS. The BOS guns and armor are not for taking tech politely.
This is not true. They were not looking for "tech that would help them be independent and not have to depend upon the surface for resources"
The tech they were looking for was the infinite fire Laser Rifle. Someone from UP found it, Shot their mouths off to traders asking how much they'd pay for it, The traders are all in the institute's pocket so they snitched about it, And kellogg came knocking.

It's kind of funny how people hark on the bos claiming they shoot up settlements for rare tech, when the institute is actually the one doing it lol.
The Institute were looking not for weapons technology, but for research that would help to improve reactor containment, which was in line with their goal to upgrade and activate their reactor to ensure the independence of the Institute's energy supply.

Of course, no-one except the few pre-war researchers who once worked in the secret lab at University Point knew that the research had turned out to only be useful for much smaller-scale applications, with the improved laser rifle being the result.
mikaeliby 2. juli 2022 kl. 12:27 
I played the mother, but yes the main story as it is is part of the problem with this game, story-wise. The scene where the son is lost is so compelling that the main character really would do nothing else than 1. save the son, as fast as possible which makes all side quests obsolete, or 2. go crazy. So if one roleplays under alternative 2. then the game as a whole makes sense.
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