SPOILERS: Decoding the chip

[Mad Marduk]

Do I need to go through the railroad to decode the courser chip or can I get the BoS or someone else to do it? I don't want to give them the chip if I don't have to.

[Zenexras of Blackwick]

Yes.

[Kiyoko]

Yeah i've been trying to decode with the BOS and haven't found anyone who can

[wootarma]

Pretty sure RR are the only people who can do this. Following the Freedom Trail ties into it no?

[Nite69]

You have to go through railroad, don't worry if you are not sideing with them it won't hurt anything

Just avoid talking to Daemon he is the one to talk to if you want to join

[pebot]

Yeah, if you don't do the quest, following the freedom trail, you get sent to the memory den, and you talk to Amari who says she can't decode it, but the railroad can.

Intersting side note, if you don't come back after to the railroad and get someone else to help you with the teleportation, you fail a quest from the railroad.

[TooTall1]

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

You have to go through railroad, don't worry if you are not sideing with them it won't hurt anything

Just avoid talking to Daemon he is the one to talk to if you want to join

Daemon? Do you mean Deacon?

[Unrelenting Force]

Originally posted by TooTall1:

Originally posted by =EGC= _Nite_:

You have to go through railroad, don't worry if you are not sideing with them it won't hurt anything

Just avoid talking to Daemon he is the one to talk to if you want to join

Daemon? Do you mean Deacon?

Same bloke,different name

[sljones511]

Whoa, whoa... who goes there and stop right there!
The Enclave is the U.S. military. The Enclave has all the technology, science, and engineering capabilities imaginable. Government facilities with groundbreaking satellite communications, the list goes on and on.

I am an Enclave Captain. A U.S. Army General gives me an order to find a way into the Institute.
In the process of following that order; I gather intel from Vic, a civilian private-eye.
I track and eliminate Kellogg to obtain a piece of highly top secret technology, instead of reporting my finding back to HQ, I'm talked in to having my brain connected to a synth with a foreign chip in his head, and all conducted by some back alley crackpot that hardly knows her ass from a hole in the ground.

And just because the so-called doctor is only aware of the "Railroad's" idiot savant 'Tinker Tom', of all people, I'm now quested to deliver highly sensitive U.S. military property to that fruitcake Tinker Tom and the members of his "Secret D_uch bag Club". As if they are the only hope of deciphering a chip?
-- Welp no offence Mr. Mitchell, but either the "Children at Bethesda" were sitting around doing Jet all day when that was introduced, or you have no idea of how the U.S. military operates.

A general gives an order, to discover and obtain Top Secret Intel about something so highly advanced that it has potential to forever change the course of United States history and shift the balance of power.
But instead of returning and reporting my findings to my Commander at U.S. Army HQ, and allowing the Best and Brightest to crack the code, guess what my last mission would be, before being arrested, jailed, court-martialed, branded a traitor, and probably shot! - Thanks Tom. - Might as well take it to the Gunners.
Now... Thanks to you and your hole in lore, I have no choice but to massacre the Railroad - and right after our first meeting, when things were going so well.
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I WILL BE an Enclave General one way or another!
Despite the booboo in authenticity.

[Cyan]

after you kill everyone in the hq you can use the decrypter.

[The Inept European]

Originally posted by sljones511:

Secret D_uch bag Club

Not so secret. Their password is "D_uch bag"

[The Inept European]

Nice RP General.

We have reports of another stinking Commie mutant traitor settlement that needs your help - to rendezvous with Chairman Mao in Hell.

I'll mark it on your map - coordinates, 2024.

[cardsfanbj]

Tinker Tom is the only way to decode the courser chip.
Or rather, his terminal is: if you truly don't want to work with them, you can unalive him (and the rest of the RR), and you'll find his terminal password on his leftovers, and you can use that to decode the chip.

[keileigh091307]

my current playthrough, i took out the railroad before they turn the lights on you after yoou go through the puzzle door. i saw this in a youtube video, then you search the hq, and use tinker toms terminal too get info on the courser chip. this was alot more fun i have too admit.