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[FO4]-(Spoilers) I can't stand the Railroad... (self.fallout)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Blizzard to c/[email protected]

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Spoilers ahead.

I'm replaying Fallout 4. With my first playtrough I allied with the Institute. Now I wanted to have different game so I decided to ally with the Railroad. But I can't suffer them. They are just a bunch of morons and their whole agenda is ridicoulous. I'm at the stage when I'm about to officially betray the Institute by helping some synths escape. But it involves killing some innocent Institute researches and their synths to save other synths. To save a few robots I'm supposed to kill actual people and other robots? I'm trying to roleplay as a good guy here! It doesn't make any sense...

I see the Institute as the only reasonable faction to join. People live happy and civilized lives there. They are technologically advanced and can actually change the world. ^trying ^to ^avoid ^major ^spoilers: >!Your relative lives there. You get a say on Institute future goals and if you're a good guy, you can turn that to good outcome.!<

Brotherhood of Steel - military organisation that just hoards technology for themselves and have their heads inside their asses

Railroad - bunch of misguided idiots.

Has any of you actually helped the Railroad because you liked them?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd say the Railroad is one of the best factions you can join. Oppressive technology hoarding chauvinists? Fuck that, go capture another "farm" with one crop.

The institute is harder to criticize. But they also dont care about anyone's agency in the wasteland. They think they are everyone's savior with no regard for the existing lives they claim to be saving. They'll rip your baby from your arms and kill your spouse if they think your child would be a good member of their club.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

They'll rip your baby from your arms and kill your spouse if they think your child would be a good member of their club.

Now I'm going to need to see a source for this claim!... Oh. Right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Every faction kills humans. Railroad are the most morally acceptable group. Brotherhood are ideology focused at any cost. The institute is nice on the surface but they are basically slave owners

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I almost always ally with the railroad or the Minutemen. I also like the mod that allows you to bring the railroad and the minutemen together to take over the institute.

Edit: I really don’t see it as very difficult to take the position of freeing slaves as the morally correct thing to do. Especially since the slavers are the ones who kidnapped your kid and killed your wife.

Plus, I see the Railroad’s piecemeal plan of “freeing” single synths by mind-wiping them and shipping them north to be misguided (and dangerous). Better to topple the Institute and free them all while liberating the Institute’s resources at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Liked them? No

I have done enough playthroughs to have done all endings several times.

I hate how they didn't add a raider ending after Nuka World.