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If you were in Fallout which faction would YOU choose? (Doesn't have to be one of these and don't limit yourself with a specific state)
- Torso
- 5 caps
- coffee mug
“Your man looks like drops common loot”
"Oh so the key to your moms bedroom is in here."
“Impossible. Her bedroom has a revolving door.“
"Yo mama so fat every time I enter the loading screen to her room the game crashes"
I have realized I am a random NPC I was going through a backpack of mine found 2 .308 rounds, 1 .556, a half roll of duct tape, a metal coffee mug, a granola bar, golf ball, and 2 bottle caps. Like full on NPC loot. Only thing missing was a cooked meal that never expires for 100 years
5 caps? I’ve killed for less.
I’ve done a lot worse for a lot less
I've eradicated encampments for less
Common first time wastelander mistake, getting paid in experience
I’m a desk fan man myself
Someone in here had a really nice femur
I’d be an environmental storytelling skeleton.
"This skeleton has a rolled up Grognak the Barbarian comic in their pelvis. How strange...."
At least that has low cost of living.
Costs an arm and a leg!
Even a Meat Sack in the Boston CBD will set you back a few thousand a week
Even if you share it with (parts of) twenty other people?
Followers was my first thought as well. Though I agree I’d probably end up in a meat sack as well…
Those two aren't exactly mutually exclusive. Pretty sure a fair few Followers ended up as Meat Sack contents
Honestly, yeah. They at least try to make the wasteland a better place, and not just for the sake of spreading NCR control, but out of an actual hope for things to improve.
I won't hold Caesar against them, it wasn't their fault.
I sail with Capt. Ironsides on the USS Constitution
The only correct answer
The King’s gang
Would LOVE for there have been a storyline that let you crown The King as the King of New Vegas. He was basically future Elvis, and he seemed to be pretty equitable in most of his interactions
All he needed was to be working hand in hand with the Followers of the Apocalypse to spread his brand of community and cooperation across the Mojave, backed by my mighty robot army
“The King” becoming the ruler of New Vegas IMHO would be the best end. Guy just seems generally fine, wants Freeside to not be fuckin’ terrible. Isn’t nailing people to crosses or forcing them to fill out paperwork or building/hunting deadly toasters.
and bro just gives you his dog for agreeing to get his brain fixed. the king is just a solid dude!
The King is the best and Rex is best boy.
Thus would actually be a great left-field choice for the show to canonize.
LUCY: So how did yoy become the king of New Vegas? Is there an election process? Is it hereditary?
THE KING: I've always been the King. But for my present situation, one day a mailman gave me a poker chip that controlled a robot army.
MAXIMUS: ...What?
COOP: Yeah, sounds about right.
I disagree with the idea of a canon ending (I enjoy leaving it to interpretation) but I wouldn't be mad at this for a second
And he was supposed to get you married to Rose of Sharon back in development
The worst thing about him was just that he had so much of a soft spot for his childhood friend that he didn't realize just how big and genuine of a problem Pacer was being to everyone. This shall be solved by me being the King's strongest soldier and preventing people from taking advantage of his kindness lol. Otherwise he's genuinely a great person, he's not interested in telling people what to do or even ruling over them necessarily, he doesn't view himself as the leader of Freeside, he's just trying to set an example for the people while also protecting them and holding them together. He doesn't demand people's obedience, but he shows himself through the way he acts so if he asks, people will respond to his expectations.
Where's Republic of Dave ?
Republic of Dave for life. I feel like the flag should just be a black flag with “Dave” on it.
Where's Gary?
Gaaaaary
gary...
GARRYYY
Uhhm…. Gary?
hahaha Gary
Gary?
Gary flair is master race amongst this sub.
Forfeited to the Wasteland.
Ncr, I wanna be a ranger so bad
Best I can do is a recruit with two weeks of training stationed at camp Forlorn Hope. Have fun.
Recruits getting stationed to an absolute shithole.
Maybe the traditions of the US Military weren't all entirely lost lol
I mean....they are REALLY close to 29 Palms (Stumps). And as far as complete shitholes, within the states go, it's really up there.
NCR probably has their own version of 29 Stumps, or just "rebuilt" the old one. Midwest BOS definitely sends their initiates to Ft. Polk (which somehow actually looks better after the bombing)
All I need is some grit and luck and I'll be there in no time
or a transfer and the mr sandman perk. Plenty of sleeping rangers over at camp golf
Let me tell u about the US army
“Go sweep up that sand over there”
Sir….thats the desert?
“Yes, it is”
Or
“Go mop up those puddles”
Sir, it’s raining
“Did i fucking stutter?”
Does the army sweep the sand in desert? The USMC rakes the sand into neat patterns because otherwise. It doesn't look professional.
I’ve swept a motor pool in a sand storm. I’d push the broom and watch the sand fill in behind it. They had us out there failing for hours; truly an exercise in futility.
Man when I was in Hawaii my friends sent a picture of a sad marine with his bucket and mop outside while it’s pissing buckets and my first thought was
“Who did he piss off???”
My second thought was “what did he do???
Even if I was just some Joe Schmo I'd go NCR. It has its fair share of problems, no sense denying it, but it's still without a doubt the most developed and "normal" civilization to emerge since the war.
If you give a rats ass about things like plumbing, electricity, relatively stable food supplies, and the ability to just live your life without having to constantly put up with insane wasteland bullshit, it's just your absolute best bet.
I’ve loved the NCR since Fallout 2 and it’s legitimately one of my favorite factions not just in Fallout, but in the entirety of the video game canon. Partly I feel a sense of pride and responsibility for it as my characters have played an integral part in its development over the course of several games and as many IRL decades. But also, I legitimately love what it stands for: an object lesson for the idea that democracy is the worst form of government, except for everything else.
The NCR as a government is bloated, inefficient, clumsy, and corrupt. It fails at a bunch of stuff, and where it succeeds it rarely does so without some sort of snag or problem. And yet… despite its flaws, it’s still making the wasteland better. It’s a group of people who aren’t perfect, who aren’t starry-eyed idealists, but who are still trying - to help others, to rebuild civilization, to reject the brutality that has become the status quo of their world.
So yeah. NCR to the end, baby.
Tbh as a non American I never seen a Californian flag before. So I seen NCR flag first before a Cali flag.
Then when I saw the Cali flag off google and internet, I am very much surprised how well designed NCR flag is. Its simply beutifully blended in and what could be real if a nuclear fallout were to happen and make a 2 headed bear.
So lets take a minute to enjoy the design of NCR's flag.
I read somewhere that to show hope and kindness in the creullest and darkest of times is the strongest trait in the world.
Sounds fun until you’re sweatin your balls off in the Mojave while getting trolled by Powder gangers ;)
Almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
We all wanna be rangers but let’s be honest, we’d all at best be like the Misfits at camp golf.
patrolling the mojaves gonna make you wish for a nuclear winter
Ncr has the coolest flag of these
Followers of the Apocalypse
I was so unbelievably frustrated to find out that there wasn't really anywhere to go with them in FONV. They were the only faction in the entire game that I could actually get behind and believe in.
They basically want you to do independent and help Freeside as much as possible.
And iirc it is no gods no masters the ending they agree with the most, or at least arcade is happiest with, even if its a bloodbath out there lol
He likes no gods no masters but he is also probably the easiest companion to hate you and at that point it's safe to assume he no longer wants you in charge. He'd wants someone he trusts be in charge and he's enough of a dreamer to take the longshot of an independent Vegas, I think that really suits him and the followers in general.
He is rather easy to piss off and I dont remember if he hates me by the end of full good karma no gods no masters with all the minor factions saved but iirc as kong as you dont side with legion or any other savage killer faction and you do well with the remnants he should still like you by the end shouldnt he? Am I missing another major reputation check with him?
There was going to be a Followers ending but it got cut.
I think it's fitting honestly, their altruism is what kind of holds them back from establishing proper power. The only way they thrive is if they work in a larger body like the NCR, but when on their own they're not going to last
They're anarcist; they aren't trying to establish power. Ideally they want what is best for everyone which in their mind is probably an independant Vegas, though they can easily work in the confines of an NGO within an actual civilization (NCR controlled Vegas).
Fuck yeah, supporting mutual aid in the post apocalypse.
I hope we get to see them in season 2 of the show, hopefully without them also getting nuked off screen.
Arcade Gannon would be the perfect callback character to show up. Former enclave member turned freeside healer? Yes let’s go
He's deadly quick with a plasma pistol too
The Followers survive in almost all the endings, so I'm pretty confident we'll get to see them
Even the legion let's them leave and live.
Only if you keep Caesar alive, Lanius has them all killed.
Lanius is a dick, if I fail to save Caesar, I reload or... I put lanius on a pike in the name of yes man!
Because Ceasar was a former member. If you kill Ceasar and Lanius is in control, he butchers them, as expected from him.
The only correct option, based good guys doing based good things
they're the best kind of good guys too, they don't force their beliefs on everyone
"hey everybody, we're an independent faction that provides help to anyone who asks regardless of their allegiances, and all we ask in return is your respect, and if possible, your contribution"
They’re based on anarchist concepts of direct action and mutual aid. It’s kind of like, “We know folks in the wasteland have different and conflicting ideologies; our ideology is that we just want to help as many people as we can. Please make a donation, we’re really short on supplies.”
ETA: They’re like the post-apocalyptic version of Food Not Bombs if FNB also provided medical care.
I’d say minutemen are a good option too, they just need proper support can be a real force for good.
Minutemen and the followers together would be true hero’s.
Does anyone lore wise actively hate FotA? I know Caesar was one but he just saw them as naive right?
Caesar lets them leave New Vegas peacefully but destroys the old Mormon fort.
I wouldn't say hate more like disappointed, Follower is one of the most influential and educated faction in the wasteland. Caesar think they are wasting their potential.
He kills captured followers cause they could educate his underlings abt the real roman empire and break the legion up. Idk if that means he hates them or just has to for survival but it don't sound like love to me
Yes 100% I think I could generally live with most of it's work where all other factions have some SERIOUS (even if limited) issues.
Tunnel Snakes Rule!
Degenerates like you belong on a cross.
You ever try to nail a snake to a cross?
If you try, you can catch these hands! (No you can't, they dont exist...) try an "I" and not a "t"
Atom Cats. Meeeeow!!
Unironically top tier faction, sick power armor paint job, helps regular civilians, and have the coolest mfs in Commonwealth
Bro the fact they have poetry slams shows they’re more cultured than the rest of the commonwealth melts.
Oh man way underrated faction! Great answer.
I side with Harold.
I side with bob
Without a doubt, the Responders. Sure, they’re your stereotypical do-good faction, but unlike the Minutemen they’re actually competent in securing and holding territory. The only reason they fell was because they underestimated the Scorched Plague, but they sure as heck didn’t go down without a fight
Definitely, a group composed of nurses teachers etc helping others is a good post apocalyptic faction. I just feel their revived group is not nearly as interesting as the originals, especially the fire breathers
The original responders were so tragic to learn about. The shit they dealt with was awful
Oh man though, the fact the raiders is pretty fucking good. It's so awful but also justice served itself so neatly.
I'm glad they were restored later on. I used to be a Raider but seeing them and hearing the stories made me switch to being a responder and helping the settlers.
If the Minutemen could rebuild the Responders and merge together, I think they’d have a fighting chance at actually rebuilding society. The Minutemen’s model of having an interconnected network of settlements that mutually come to each other’s aid works out better than having a single centralized force (like the BoS at the Boston Airport). The BoS in the commonwealth is almost entirely obliterated just by bringing down the Prydwen; but, if a single settlement falls, or even The Castle, it won’t just destroy 90% of the Minutemen in mere seconds. I’d compare their strategy of expansion to be similar to that of the Island Hopping campaign of the U.S. in the Pacific in WW2; rather than making a straight-line for Tokyo, they capture one island after another and gradually work their way to the target. But, dissimilarly, the Minutemen expand primarily by establishing mutual defense pacts and peacefully merging, rather than trying to expand via military conquest like far too many other factions.
Also, the Minutemen artillery is severely under appreciated. Vertibirds are extremely maintenance and resource intensive, and are high-value targets to shoot down; meanwhile, you can provide comparable fire support in only the amount of time needed to take aim and fire, assuming you’re within range of the guns. Plus, in an era where vehicles are fairly scarce, and air support even scarcer, the Minutemen’s strategy of building old-school fortifications works out REALLY well. Let’s face it, once The Castle is repaired, it’s practically impenetrable to raiders, gunners, or super mutants, and even the BoS has a hard time taking it on. There are a ton of 17th, 18th, and 19th century fortifications still standing all around the east coast that would make excellent bases.
So, if you combine the defense strategies of the Minutemen, and the coordination, construction, and relief efforts of the Responders, you’d have a pretty solid faction!
Based and Fire Breather pilled
After looking up the Responders, they’re now my favourite faction. Plus they’re PA is cool as fuck
The responders don’t have power armor in lore. There’s a micro transaction “responders paint” for power armor but that’s it.
They don't need Power Armor they've got their badass Fire Breather armor
The sad thing is, no one could have stood up to the Scorched. Even the Brotherhood of Steel fell and they were one of the most trained and equipped forces in the area. The Responders never stood a chance.
NCR, Minutemen or Followers. Maybe BoS in Fallout 3
I was gonna say Minutemen but then I remembered I always let my settlements get taken over bc I don’t care enough lol
That's fair. I hate having to run across the map on survival just to kill like 3 raiders that my 12 sentry turrets should have had no problem with lol.
Outside of the wonky game mechanics I think a loose association of settlements working together to protect themselves is a solid way forward even though they had just gone through an almost faction ending tragedy before the player entered the picture.
I don’t understand the gunners. They just exist to shoot. They’re basically raiders just less crazy.
They're a highly trained professional mercenary outfit...who camp out in random areas of Boston shooting at whoever passes by with seemingly no-one paying them for the trouble.
My head cannon is they’re holding these places as part of securing supply routes and only letting caravans that’ve paid cross without lighting them up and the sole survivor wandering around is just detrimental to the wasteland by taking them out in these random locations. Like a couple hours later a trader is strolling through his marked route only to get ripped apart by a pack of ghouls all because big blue had to go frolicking to close to a visibly armed and dangerous encampment just to see if there’s any aluminum to take off their corpses.
Makes you wonder how they manage to get recruits if they shoot at everyone person they see that isn’t a gunner
You need to visit Gunners Plaza. At higher levels and very hard difficulty, it's a death trap.
They have high tech gear and defenses. I went there once, for the bobble head and had a blast. Be careful with the dude standing on the roof with a fat man.
Fat Man NPCs crack me the hell up. They are more than willing to murder everyone in the room, themselves included, because they refuse to switch to fucking melee.
Hear me out, if some random lunatic just burst in and murdered 15 people before my very eyes, I already know I'm not leaving that place. There's only one way to get that 1/1 KD and it isn't with a tire iron.
Riley’s Rangers for me.
Love those guys. Felt like family, almost like GotG or something. Only wish they were more fleshed out, if the Compound was more suitable as player housing I would've gladly lived there.
Institute hands down. They have real, clean, and fresh toilet paper.
Also gorillas.
Second option is either Enclave or NCR.
Institute is one of the only factions that actually advanced technology. However, have shitty leadership and bizzare goals. I wish we could at least take them down without having to go nuclear and destroy all their work.
I mean, you become the institute leader on that route. Should have allowed us some more quests where we’re allowed to influence their policy, but I guess it would make them the clear favorite faction if so. That’s what my headcanon is though, my SS convinced them to lend the minutemen their tech to rebuild commonwealth as a ‘large scale social experiment on nation building’
I usually do this too. For some reason I have a really hard time bringing myself to nuke my child that's 35 years older than me. The institute definitely has thr potential to do the most good too, if the right people have the power atleast
do the most good too, if the right people have the power atleast
They all say that, then they push the big red button
You can remain allies of the minute men and join the institute. The MM just want to save their communities. Obviously the rail road and BS get toasted though.
This is the route I always go
This is why I side with them, in my headcanon as leader I refocus the goals to something better. Then when Earth is no longer inhabitable, we take that tech to space and bam…Starfield.
The Institute brought back Harambe. They had their priorities straight.
If this question was being asked in reality this is what most people would actually choose. That or being a vault dweller in one of the control vaults. Whatever leads to the most comfortable life.
The Kings, I just think it would be funny to be surrounded by elvis impersonators
Embrace Atom's glow, child.
Y’all hear that? Thats the sound of a Gatling laser spinning up.
Same.
Wait, where are the Atom Cats?
If I was gonna run with any group, I'd choose the Cats. They got style and moxie and seem to make for great neighbors, willing to help others, but also not taking any shit from anybody. Besides they got the coolest plates this side of the apocalypse!
The Khans baby! WOOOWOOOOOO!
Yes Man
no gods, no masters.
Institute because fantasy is the best place to find an affordable place to live in that part of Cambridge even if it's a basement apartment.
Atom Cats.
None. The ghoul said it well in the tv show, too many factions fighting over how to save the world. I'll just wander with my dog 🐕☢️
Yeah I don't think it's much of a choice in this world, and realistically I'd join the Republic of Whoever-Puts-Food-On-The-Table. Sans Rads preferably, but I don't think you can be too picky.
Though if it was the legion I'd probably run first chance I get
The Unity I want to become an amorphous blob that talks in a robot voice
Minutemen, I like helping the settlements even if it can get annoying sometimes plus I like the minutemen outfits
None of the above. Followers of the Apocalypse for me.
Enclave here
YOU ARE OUT IF UNIFORM SOLDIER! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR!
I-I don't have one.
DON’T HAVE ANY?!?
You expect me to believe that?
Truth is, you LOST an expensive piece of army issue equipment!
That SUIT is going to come out of your pay!
and you will remain in this mans army until you are 500 AND 10 YEARS OLD!
WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF YEARS IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO PAY FOR A MKII POWER COMBAT ARMOR YOU HAVE LOST!
REPORT TO THE ARMY AND HAVE A NEW SUIT ISSUED TO YOU!
now GET OUT of my sight and dont return until you look like a soldier
Why isn't your video feed working
who the hell is this?
Try the Gian
well your unit still doesnt appear to be operational pal, who is this?
Huh ain't it the truth, just don't let anybody who's got the presidents ear hear that you'll be making cattle runs till the end of time pal
Yeah, you know how unhappy he gets when people complain. he takes it personal, like it's a loyalty thing. Maybe that just goes with being the president of the united states- or what's left of 'em
The president of the United-Fucking-States-of-America who'd you think I was talking about? Who the fu-Who is- what- I should kick your fucking ass who is this
Ohhh you’re a wise guy huh? Look it tracing you right now pal. We’ll see how smart you feel with internal security all over your frickin ass, dickhead!
Brotherhood every time... they have the tech and they have the meds. It's a survival issue
Fortunate son intensifies
Followers
Gary?
Vault-Tec, they are still doing there thing somewhere and pulling the strings
No, the enclave oil rig was blown up, decconecting the vaults. This leaves the individual vaults with only their own resources.
BoS, specifically the Lyon's Pride.
Commonwealth Minutemen!
NCR, they're flawed but the best option for a reformed America. If not then, the dead horses or sorrows because Zion is the most beautiful place in fallout.
At least the NVR wanted a united country again. They had the willpower and troops to try
They have an industrial capacity too, they can even afford to make dynamite and concrete on mass as well as the uniforms and rifles. New things, not cloth that somehow hasn't degraded over 200 years.
If House wants me, I work for him.
If he doesn't, I'll serve the Minutemen.
I had to scroll too far to find somone else that wants to work with Mr House. Being his right hand, ruling the Mojave with an army or robots, living in a casino penthouse in Vegas, all sounds pretty good to me. Why join an old faction when you can build a new one.
My headcanon for my main NV character has always been siding with house
Combine all the upgrades you get from the various DLC (especially Big MT) with his techno wizardy and its feasible that my cyborg courier would live a hundred plus years in luxury, talk about a retirement!
Maybe even get to see Houses ideals of launching ships full of people to other planets
I jive more with the Followers of the Apocalypse. But if we're talking smaller factions too, maybe the Atom Cats. Gearheads with sick matching jackets
NCR in the west, Minutemen in the east.
NCR, not really a question really. Great living standards almost comparable to the pre-war world, with infrastructure, plenty food and water, good governance relatively with policing and order, and hope for the future. Only competitor for me would be the Institute, but being in an underground facility all your life isn't the greatest
The whole society held up by artificial slave people and everyone being some form of mad scientist would be two big downsides for the Institute.
The Kings!
Minutemen, and use the institute if those idiots could just behave for five seconds
The tunnel snakes because TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!
It's a tie between NCR and BoS.
I really love the minutemen cus they are an actively expanding faction in 4, and their ideals are awesome. However if I could join the east coast brotherhood I could consider it.
Minutemen, post fallout 4. The events before concord seem to be filled with corruption and cowardice but whenever I build them up in my playthroughs they become the most powerful militant juggernaut the commonwealth has ever seen.
My 34 people stationed at the castle ready to take on the entirety of boston
Reilly's Rrangers all the way!
Where my followers of the apocalypse and arroyo at?
ENCLAVEEEEEEE
Ideally, I'd join The Followers of The Apocalypse.
Realistically, I'd be the contents of a meat sack in a Super Mutant encampment.