Far Harbor Ending Discussion [SPOILERS]

[Ahlefeldt]

If you have not yet completed the storyline in Far Harbor or don't wish to know endings or other plot twists, don't click here. :)

Hello. I picked up the Far Harbor DLC lately and I kinda "rushed" the main storyline. I am quite disappointed by the ending, but I am not sure if I've done it right.

Basically, after recovering DiMa's secrets and that he replaced Captain Avery with a Synth, I went to Far Harbor and spoke with the people there. They were PISSED and I failed to persuade them and they simply shot her and somehow knew Brook was a Synth too? I don't know how Allen knew Brook was a Synth that easily but whatever.

They rushed to Acadia and attacked it, I lost the option to talk with Kasumi and it was so plain. No challenge. The Synths of Acadia died like flies and there was no dialogue. Just killing.

I accepted the faith of Acadia and decided to continue with The Children of Atom and after recovering the nuclear key, I went to the High Confessor, not telling him about the key. I simple put the key in and they all went hostile. I ran out from The Nucleus and saw the bomb explode. Smallest nuke I've ever seen in my opinion.

Nothing happened after that. It was over. No one said anything and the story just ended like that. "No, that can't be real" I thought and went to Far Harbor. Allen held a speech, saying they've won. He then thanked me for my help and gave me 1600 caps.

What now?! IS THAT IT?! The standard storyline with The Institute being blown up and all was alright, a bit plain and not very in depth but I thought this one would be much more exciting. :/

How was your experience with Far Harbor? There is still tons of stuff to do for me but the storyline, meh.

[Yhwach]

You can actually convince them to side with you if you've done quests for them, they don't exactly "trust" you if you just rush the storyline and that's where the beauty of far harbor's story comes along, a story that actually make sense and at times is better than the main games story in every single area.
Just rushing it means that they have no reason to trust you, and listen to allen since he's the only reliable person there.

The difference between The main story and Far Harbor, is that your choices actually matter, and change how the ending goes.

[Stormie]

Yeah, if you take the time to help out the CoA and FH residents you can get to a resolution where everyone remains peaceful and more or less happy. There's still some dirty dealing, like you have to hide what DiMA did from everyone, but you can kill Tektus and replace him with a synth that's more agreeable to peace.

[Ahlefeldt]

Originally posted by Barnstormer1126:

There's still some dirty dealing, like you have to hide what DiMA did from everyone, but you can kill Tektus and replace him with a synth that's more agreeable to peace.

I wanted to expose DiMa and tell everyone he was basically like the Institute, replacing people with Synths but instead of getting a good dialogue, it was just mass murder. :(

And the Children of Atom, ♥♥♥♥ them. I wanted to nuke them from the beginning ASAP, they are fanatics. :D

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by dat boi Ahlefeldt:

Originally posted by Barnstormer1126:

There's still some dirty dealing, like you have to hide what DiMA did from everyone, but you can kill Tektus and replace him with a synth that's more agreeable to peace.

I wanted to expose DiMa and tell everyone he was basically like the Institute, replacing people with Synths but instead of getting a good dialogue, it was just mass murder. :(

And the Children of Atom, ♥♥♥♥ them. I wanted to nuke them from the beginning ASAP, they are fanatics. :D

If you don't want mass murder, you'll have to do all the quests for Far Harbor, one for each person so they take your side, otherwise they'll trust allen more.
His sister will always trust him, so just ignore her.

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

Yeah, you do have to do more than just rush the main quest to get the most out of the storyline. Though, I think the side quests are more interesting. I absolutely loved the quest at Cliff's Edge Hotel. It caught me offguard

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Beautiful Ham Sandwich:

Yeah, you do have to do more than just rush the main quest to get the most out of the storyline. Though, I think the side quests are more interesting. I absolutely loved the quest at Cliff's Edge Hotel. It caught me offguard

I generally liked the quest involving a Robot Murder Mystery, probably my favorite quest so far, I've seen a lot of the island so I'm just going to explore Nuka World for now with my raider girlfriend.

[Stormie]

Originally posted by dat boi Ahlefeldt:

Originally posted by Barnstormer1126:

There's still some dirty dealing, like you have to hide what DiMA did from everyone, but you can kill Tektus and replace him with a synth that's more agreeable to peace.

I wanted to expose DiMa and tell everyone he was basically like the Institute, replacing people with Synths but instead of getting a good dialogue, it was just mass murder. :(

And the Children of Atom, ♥♥♥♥ them. I wanted to nuke them from the beginning ASAP, they are fanatics. :D

Oh yeah the CoA are *nuts* lol, but the only reason they're so aggressive is because Tektus is the nuttiest of them all, before when Martin was in charge they were actually pretty decent, more of a live and let live kinda deal.

And I can see the argument about DiMA, but at the same time it's different. Institute replaces people because they want a perfect obedient homogenized slave society not affected by radiation, DiMA only did it because he had no other choice at the time to avoid conflict. Kind of a 'did the wrong thing for the right reason' deal, and if you listen to his holotapes and dialogue you can clearly see he's incredibly conflicted about his decisions. Hell he wiped his own mind to escape the guilt.

[Stormie]

Originally posted by Scarecrow:

Originally posted by Beautiful Ham Sandwich:

Yeah, you do have to do more than just rush the main quest to get the most out of the storyline. Though, I think the side quests are more interesting. I absolutely loved the quest at Cliff's Edge Hotel. It caught me offguard

I generally liked the quest involving a Robot Murder Mystery, probably my favorite quest so far, I've seen a lot of the island so I'm just going to explore Nuka World for now with my raider girlfriend.

OMFG that quest was so fun XD Brought me back a little bit to Old World Blues...

[JH]

My only problem was the fog. I wanted some more explanation for that. The condensers convert it to oil, so what is the source of this radioactive oily smog?

[Stormie]

Oh, that's easy if you think about it. Water is still irradiated all across the wasteland, yeah? And what is fog? Water droplets suspended in the air. Bar Harbor/Maine in general is well known for being super foggy. Thus the natural fog existing before the war got highly irradiated. Simple :)