
Without warning he opened fire on the residents around him, in an event that has become known as the “Broken Mask”. Come evening, he sat at the bar where Takahashi now sells his noodles, and ordered a drink. Carter reportedly had arrived in town earlier that day and had been quite friendly, setting people around him at ease. This was a time before the fear of being replaced by a Synth had spread. In 2229 (some 60 years before the player visits Diamond City), Mr. Perhaps the most famous case is that of Mr. So, why does the Institute do it? Through heresay in the Commonwealth, it seems that synths act as sleepers, pretending to be humans until they suddenly kill everyone. I elected to let the human shoot the synth. The synth confirmed that they were a synth, and asked me to help them kill the other guy so that he could take over his life.

Due to my character’s high charisma, I was able to convince the suspected-synth that I could be trusted and that they should just tell me if they were a synth. A person was pointing a gun at a person that appeared identical to them-self, kneeling on the floor with their hands raised. In my travels in the Commonwealth, I have also come across someone being replaced by a synth in a random encounter. Members of the Institute are quite adverse to going above ground, and I can’t see a Courser wanting to do much talking. It seems much easier to replace these key people with synths than it does to simply convince them to inform for you. You can also find on a terminal a list of people that are informants for the Institute, which I suspect means people that have been replaced by Synths. Once you reach the Institute you see that the Gen 3 synths really are indistinguishable from humans. I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout 4 recently, and there’s one glaring question that I find hasn’t been addressed: Why does the Institute replace people with synths?įirst off, does the Institute replace people with synths? You hear rumors in the Commonwealth, but lots of people are quick to say that it’s a myth. Manually initialising connections with Scapy – Vic Harkness on Python Guest Book.



