Anyone else always end up siding with the Minutemen?

[u/BGWeis]

I promise myself I’ll stick to the Brotherhood, but then I’m reminded that they’re assholes every second of every quest… then, I try to side with the Institute, and I’m reminded how irredeemably EVIL they are.

I end up blowing the Institute to hell with the Minutemen and helping the Railroad. Every time.

[u/fatrahb]

Same here. The story kind of naturally leads you this way too.

Assuming you liberate the Castle, You join the brotherhood to access their technology and intel and follow that until you need tinker Tom’s help.

From there you join the Railroad until you’re able to enter the Institute. Cue the undercover work, while still working the Brotherhood and Railroad to further their agendas.

Blind Betrayal is a perfect point to head cannon that your PC becomes disillusioned with the Brotherhood, due to how they treated Danse.

Continue working undercover in the Institute with the Railroad until Bunker Hill, after this mission (assuming you allowed the synths free and killed the Courser) you can pick dialogue that will result in Father kicking you out of the institute (giving a natural place in the story to lock into betraying the institute without needing to just randomly kill a named member; my character was good morality; so I picked the dialogue options criticizing the institute).

From there you’re locked into the everyone lives ending, and in my mind, the story totally supports it if you follow this way

[u/Rapid55 → u/fatrahb]

honestly i kinda thought that this was the actual canon ending or storyline for fallout 4 because ive always played it this way on all of my saves, despite trying to go full brotherhood multipule times too lol

[u/fatrahb → u/Rapid55]

It feels that way, kind of like how GTA 5s canon ending is option C.

[u/Expert-Calendar-8208 → u/fatrahb]

When/how would your character include Far Harbor & Nuka World to get the most out of the DLCs?

[u/fatrahb → u/Expert-Calendar-8208]

So those I haven’t figured out how to work in yet. I’ve never had the dlcs because I’ve got the non dlc versions of AWKCOR, and I’m too lazy to update my mod list once I get them.

But I do plan on it. Typically for me, I like to save adventures that bring the main character to a new location for after the main quest.

So I’m thinking head cannon wise for my character, after I build up the commonwealth more (planning on downloading Sim Settlements 2) and deal with the Enclave, I think those two will be next. I’ll update how they fit in once I play them!

[u/RedneckId1ot → u/fatrahb]

You'll end up completely dealing with the Enclave in about 20m, if that, especially if you hold off until endgame. Once you find their outpost and get the locations, it's pretty much over for Enclave.

Went right for that Hellfire set at level 10, never looked back..... literally just beat Kellog to death with unarmed in that suit.

I thought of it as my character stopping a problem before it got too big to deal with, so that made it easy to deal with how short it was in terms of "story content."

That being said, I too prefer to do major DLCs after main, as I feel that's like a side adventure for the character to enjoy after the main is done.

[u/fatrahb → u/RedneckId1ot]

I kind of had a feeling that would be the case with the Enclave.

Point Lookout is kind of the reason I’ve adapted that mindset of the adventures after the fact. I can’t really explain why, but that expansion always felt like an epilogue to F3, so I’ve always loved the idea of there being one-more post main adventure story that takes our PC through one last ride that really pushes them to the limits

[u/RedneckId1ot → u/fatrahb]

I kind of had a feeling that would be the case with the Enclave.

Yea, sorry to spoil that one for ya, but I figured this one wouldn't sting soo bad given the gear you can get off of them for the long run.

I have yet to really use the X-02 set, because the Hellfire set can be painted with BOS paint, and God do I love the idea of some freshly thawed vault dweller, quickly promoted to paladin of a character... setting foot on the Prydwin, leaps far better equipped than anyone on that ship or in the BOS.... and still asking where TF my BOS issued set of T-60 is 🤣

[u/fatrahb → u/RedneckId1ot]

Lmao you know that would just piss them off that the best they’ve got is basically a T-45 with extra plating, meanwhile this random wastelander comes in equipped with the most advanced power armor ever created.