i'm playing through with the railroad for the first time and i want to make sure that its still possible because im 90% sure my next big story quest is destroying the institute

I've tried finding stuff about it, but every time I talk to Dr. Amari she shuns me.

NOTE(i am using synth curie as my follower)

I downloaded SKK fast start Institute so that after I load the game up I skip to after I beat the quest Institutionalized. I'm trying to do Curie's side quest Emergent Behavior, but Dr. Amari isn't working right and I can't enter proper dialogue with her

Solutions pls?

With Paris rebuilt from the ashes by kilotonnes of diverted grain and supplies, the Union found itself with quite the problem. Depleted grain supplies. The Union would need to solve this. But with the skies darkened by volcanic ash, it was not wise to begin expanding agriculture now. And after all, it was a new era! An age of steel and steam and science and technology! The old methods would not do! The Union would need new agricultural sciences and ideas for a new age, but where would it...

"Paris."

"What?" Julius Schroder looked in askance and the bombed out building and Papa Claude.

Claude pointed at the smouldering ruins.

"That was once the Curie Institute, before the bombs fell," he said, "I will rebuild Paris, finer and better than ever. And I want the Curie Institute back."

"Eh." The Minister of the Interior was unconvinced. "Shouldn't it be in Strasbourg? A Lavoisier Institute or Oppenheimer Institute or something."

Claude laughed and shook his head. "No, no, Julius. You underestimate the value of reputation."

The old Frenchman put his arm around the young German's shoulders.

"This was the seat of Marie Curie's inventions. And also somehow, a biological research center! You want an agricultural research center? It's not glamorous work. But being heir to madam Curie's scientific principles? Now, that is glamorous. You want biology and agriculture, my friend? This shall give you that in abundance."

[m] Rebuilding the old building of the Curie Institute in Paris and turning it into an agricultural research facility. Not hoping for food because of the malus, but a bonus for 2 or so rolls next week perhaps?

+3 to Parisbuilding

I've mostly lurked on reddit, but something deep within me has inspired me to share a piece of my life with you.

This last summer, I had the marvelous opportunity to study abroad in Paris, France to learn French. Paris is such a beautiful city, and I took every opportunity to explore and see what the world had been hiding from me for so many years. I went with a group of students from my university, and we each had our own interests and wants for what to explore within the city. Yet, I had a really great friend who came me on all of my adventures.

My major is in chemistry, and therefore I wanted to explore the STEM-related areas of Paris. One of my primary targets was Musée Curie, a museum over the works of the Curie family open to the public. After class, I dragged my friend along with me and within a few metro stops we had arrived. The museum itself was modest and inspiring, filled with the archaic devices of century-old chemistry techniques. As I marveled at each room and wall, I noticed that the museum itself was attached to the Institute of Research, with only a garden separating the two buildings. I convinced my friend to accompany me to the gardens, which were populated by several scientists in white lab coats relaxing from the stresses of research.

The idea dawned on me to perhaps explore what the labs here look like. I'm already in Paris, how about an impromptu tour? I suggested the idea to my friend, who quickly shot it down. Yet, I was determined to get the full experience. I shed my backpack, and simply waited for one of the scientists to scan their key card at the door. I waited for them to walk just out of visibility, and caught the door before it swung closed.

Now in the labs, I walked around reading the research posters plastered on every wall; getting an idea of what the facility focused on. Of course I looked clearly out of place, yet I was never questioned due to directing my attention to the research on the walls. I took a quick look here and there, peaked my head into some of the labs themselves, and even had time to find a breakroom and drink a cup of water. Just as I was going to head out, a tall lady in a white coat approached me followed by two members of security.

"Monsieur! Monsieur! Who are you?" she called.

"Uhh..."

"Are you a tourist?"

"No. I'm a student"

"Where is your identification? How did you get access to this building?"

"I was let in by a researcher. I have my ID here:"

At this point, I had pulled out my S

I currently have Curie as a companion and I want to join the institute. Is there any way to join and not lose reputation with her. The only thing I've seen that would make her mad is possibly destroying the railroad (which I'm assuming the institute does). Can I just leave her in sanctuary if that does happen?

I'll start, I just don't like Piper in the slightest bit. Personally, she gets on my nerves endlessly so I can't ever travel w her nor do I even like her being in sanctuary after I decided I didn't want her to be my companion anymore lol

Edit: some people mentioned their favorites too so I'll throw in my unpopular opinion: I am a hands down Gage simp. I am down tremendously and love him w all my heart.

Fallout 4 PSA: You are not a synth!

Hi! I’m just here to tell you that you aren’t a synth and explain in no uncertain terms why that is

the case. Honestly, the theory that Fallout 4’s player character, the Sole Survivor, is a synth? I expected that to die out years ago. But we’ve got some really large and impressive mods that have this faulty assumption baked into their story, so I’m here to set the record straight.

But before I do that, I’d like to discuss why this theory is so appealing to a large swath of the player base and, as such, refuses to die.

Skipping over the obvious benefit of role-playing the Terminator, quite a few people do not want to play as Nate or Nora. It...really is that simple. The story proceeds as if the SS is one, specific character. Probably has four in all Special stats. It does not care if you have 10 Intelligence with a maxed out Science perk, Justin Ayo will still decry your lack of scientific credentials. It does not matter if you are currently wearing power armor, Finn will still try to mug you and get wasted by Hancock. It does not matter if you just walk past Piper and the Mayor while they are having their argument, you will still have Story of the Century dropped into your quest log.

Don’t get me wrong, Fallout 4 is a game of choices. The game is filled with questions of your allegiance. Do you side with the iron men crewing the USS constitution or betray them to the scavengers? Do you help Bobbi No-Nose steal from Hancock to gratify her envy or do you reward her with a traitor’s death? The biggest of these is the Synth question; is honoring their inalienable rights a worthy trade-off for scientific progress? Are they too dangerous to be kept alive to begin with? Or are their rights a necessary sacrifice to build a brighter future?

But none of these decisions are the players.

These decisions are Nate’s or Nora’s.

If Fallout 4 was filled with dialogue checks, the four options you get constantly changing and switching up depending on your SPECIAL stat allocation and perks obtained, the general opinion of Fallout 4’s story would be much more positive. Because then these decisions would feel like the player’s decision.

But it’s the same dialogue every single time.

Going with the assumption that the Player Character is a synth is a rebellion against this idea that you’re a grieving parent searching for their child and nothing else. Against this set of rails you’ve been bolted to. That your character was prog

Like the title says - what is that you're doing in Fallout that you think hardly anyone does? Perhaps you skip using certain weapons, or insist on wearing some specific wardrobe. Perhaps you refuse to kill someone or do everything in your power to preserve some NPC's life no matter how hard it is?

Mine are teddy bears.

Since I played FO3 for the first time I noticed Teddy Bears scattered here and there, often next to a small skeleton of a child, or just lying on a heap of other relics of the pre-war past.

Somehow I can't get over the idea that these toys shouldn't be treated like trash, so whenever I spot one I always take it and store in my private hideout alongside piles of weapons, ammo and other useful items.

This behavior isn't acknowledged by the game in any way, there's no reward, no gratification, nothing. Just the feeling of getting the job done.

Teddy bears deserve better.

Edit: guys, I thought it's going to attract little attention. I didn't expect to get so many comments and I can't answer all of them even if they are very interesting, so instead of a small friendly chat, allow me to post a few selected comments of yours just to show how much of meta-experience you can add to the game:

/u/Pavkata201

> i like to say prays when i kill feral ghouls, they had gone through so much

/u/ok-pattern6103

> One thing I've done on a few builds: I build a life-size chess board using two different color floorboards, and making the pieces out of the costume displays. I've done a couple of different themes (Raiders vs Brotherhood) (The Pack vs Far Harbor) and some that were a smorgasbord of fun outfits. My Favorite place to do this is at Starlight Drive-in.

/u/Pandoras_Unboxing

Ponies.

/u/Steam_Reece

> As “Savior of the Wasteland” in FA3, I would frequent trade routes or raider camps where the good people of the Capital Wasteland might be hurt and proceed to massacre any raiders I could find. After the battle, I would strip them of their armor and wealth and pile their bodies up in a stack as a warning to other raiders who would prey on the good people of the wasteland!

/u/Trade_Prince

> I choose a famous person from history and play like I think they would. My favorite play through a were as Lawrence of Arabia for an anarchy ending of F:NV and Jean d’ Arc for a Mister House (for the king) ending.

/u/vanpocalypse

> In New Vegas I called myself the Wasteland's Wastelord, a quasi

I've found over the years that I often stick to an order of when I travel with certain companions.

Because of this, I'm planning to try a run of the game in which I attempt to max every companion's affinity, and I'm thinking of what order to do this in.

[Keep in mind, this post is for the 3-Faction "Peace" Ending (AKA Minutemen without provoking RR or BOS)]

My rough order would ve:

Codsworth - Early minutemen and BOS quests until you reach DC, All the early/easy side quests like Drumlin Diner, the Galleria, and Thicket Excavations

Piper - Finding Nick, Diamond City Side Quests (Maybe save DC Blues for later, Killing Kellog, and Taking Independance/Old Guns

[I like doing Automatron around this point and I usually stick with Ada while doing so)

Danse (Until Affinity Cap) - Act 2 Brotherhood quests + Duty or Dishonour

Cait - Memory Den, Glowing Sea, Hunter/Hunted, Goodnieghbour Quests (Excluding Silver Shroud)

Deacon - Tradecraft, Boston After Dark, pretty much any and all Railroadd Quests you can do at this point, Covenant, Molecular Level (I'd also get through all the early Institute affairs such as Inside Job here)

Nick - First half of Far Harbour (Up to and including the DIMA Puzzles)

Longfellow - Second Half of Far Harbour

MacCready - Synth Retention, Battle of Bunker Hill, BH side quests, Vault 81/Hole In The Wall, Any remaining side quests in/aorund Malden

X6-88 - Basically grind anything instute related you can do before Mass Fusion since you've got a pretty small window to do this in terms of the main quest. Maybe do some catch-up around Salem.

Curie - Cambridge Polymer Labs, Act 3 Brotherhood stuff, and any unfinished Vault business (Including Vault 88)

Danse (Post Blind Betrayal) - You can still do Brotherhood quests with him, but you have to dismiss him before turning anything in so I'd probably suggest more catchup, maybe in Cambridge?

Hancock - Cabot House and Silver Shroud + Any remaining quests in Boston, Goodneighbour, or Cambridge.

Preston - Last few main/side quests quests, Defend the Castle, Nuclear Option, etc. I'd also suggest clearing quincy with him since he will appreciate that, aswell as any quests around there (Atom Cats, Kid In A Fridge, etc).

Gaige - Nukem Whirl, obviously.

[NOTE: I'm still debating wether to start or end with NW since those are really the two best times to do it imo (Unless you take open season before taking the settlements, which cuts out half of the DLC's content). Either you start on toug

In no particular order:

• Lie to Piper during the newspaper interview with speech checks. Being able to lie to people in general. My wastelander is a serial truth-teller and it annoys me.
• Let Kellogg live with speech checks and possibly even work with him to destroy or infiltrate the Institute.
• Reject the Minutemen questline entirely and kill them on sight
• Kept karma system, if only so you could see how your character did in moral choices
• A post-nuclear story that continues even after the Institute, Brotherhood, Railroad win. I mean, Father dies and then what? You're obliged to do nothing and the Institute doesn't care even though you're director.
• A way to save the Railroad AND still be with your son
• A way to not choose the Institute but convince Father to abandon them as Luke did for Darth Vader (seriously, the Institute is whack)
• NPCs react to your decisions. Murder Markowski? Maybe the hotel staff would comment on that. Betray Bunker Hill? Why would the vendors continue to trade with you? Exterminate every ghoul and supermutant? Why is the slog still allied with you? Why is Strong your buddy?
• A reputation system (more than karma) would be nice. Hey look, it's the director of the Institute!
• It's fine if locations respawn (to prevent save bloat) but cleared out areas that repopulate should have increased defenses, not the exact same NPCs I already murdered. Also, while we're at it, why not the ability to deploy Minutemen, BoS, Synths, Railroad to hold locations WITHOUT it being a settlement?
• Why is everyone in love with me? Just play a Dragon Age game to see that love can be complicated. Can there be more than just a binary affinity check to see if Piper, Curie or Cait are in love with me?
• A quest to betray Diamond City like you could Megaton would be awesome
• Why couldn't your dialogue change if you had a low IQ? Part of the fun in New Vegas was playing with 1 INT. Also, unique speech checks based on on perks
• Have the ability to give Mama Murphy an overdose on her first request (more outright evil decisions)
• Flesh out interesting side quests more. Once you surrender all your belongings to Brother Thomas, there's no "next" part of the quest. Or when you meet Cait, why not a system where you had to win gladiator challenges to face her in the final and then take her with you? Or the robot racetrack, why not the ability to bet and gamble on robots, and enter your own robots in the race from Automatron? Or when you're asked to res

September 1, 1914 (Tuesday)

Lord Kitchener travels to France and orders John French to re-engage the Germans on the French left flank, rather than fall back behind the Seine as Sir John wished to do (to recover from the drubbing, and because he thought the French would not stop retreating until south of the Seine anyway.) Although Kitchener has no military rank any more, he travels to France in his field-marshal's uniform, to John French's annoyance. Sir John agrees to remain in the line with the French and keep fighting.

The French capture a German staff car with paper in it that describe the German 1st Army's location and future movements. The French now know for certain that the Germans intend to pass east of the city, and that the French 6th Army (detailed to defend the city against direct assault) is free to maneuver, though the German First Army is only 40 miles from Paris.

St. Petersberg changes its name to Petrograd. (Not as german-sounding, see?)

The French Ministry of War instructs the army to carry out death sentences (for desertion) within 24 hours.

September 2, 1914 (Wednesday)

Japanese troops land on the coast of China to seize the German naval base at Tsingtao.

Zeppelins raid Antwerp.

German troops take the mayor and several citizens of the small town of Senlis, France and shoot them in reprisal for... well, something.

In China, off Tsingtao, the German gunboat Jaguar sinks the Japanese destroyer Shirotaye. China protests all this fighting in what is in theory neutral China.

September 3, 1914 (Thursday)

The German-supported "Berlin Committee" meets to plot rebellion in India to impede the British war effort in Europe. Mostly initially made up of Indian students studying in Europe, the group sought to obtain resources available for such a rebellion from anywhere available, including the United States, and via Irish independence networks that were also familiar to the Germans.

The French government leaves Paris to set up shop in Bordeaux. Included in this decampment is Frances entire stock of radium -- a single gram at Marie Curie's Radium Institute. Dr. Curie would shepherd the lead box containing the radium to Bordeux, then return to Paris to begin setting up mobile X-Ray machines to be used at hospitals closer to the front (driving the first one herself -- learning to drive for the task (at the age of 47.)) About 1,000,000 of the 3,000,000 citizens of Paris will flee as well.

The Royal Naval Division leaves

I had tried to get into Fallout 4 before, but I couldn't get past the unexciting main quest and the Minuteman. But some few weeks ago I felt a great urge to revisit the game. I was musing around with various concepts that could work for a hero in a post-apocalyptic world and it hit me that I would like to roleplay as a doctor who had turned adventurer. I set out to build a mod list that would suit my character, which took quite a while and had quite a few hiccups because I was too lazy to read the mod page.

Anyway, once everything was in order, my modded fun started. I played at normal difficulty. My character woke up in a dilapidated chapel while rain poured lightly through the broken roof. He wore a ragged doctor's coat and a surgeon's mask. He had myopia, thanks to a mod, which meant the glasses he was also wearing were actually needed to see clearly. He was scrawny, smart and pretty well equipped. Be Exceptional allowed for new perks and levelling up medicine.

I looked around for loot, taking in the sights as I went. There was a hatch, which led through complicated pathways to a stockpile reserve, now in the hands of raiders, which was something I totally did not expect. Now this is the type of stuff I like to see in games.

My next fun encounter happened at Graygarden. There I won an imaginary car from a dapper Mr. Handy robot and exchanged it for a cash prize. After that, I went and helped them out. Who would have known what that horrible water could have done to the Ms.' metallic skin! Thought it was a way better introduction to the "A settlement needs your help" mechanic than whatever Preston could have come up with.

Having realized that the radio signal I got was from a companion mod, I went out to pick her up. Turns out Heather Casdin is a quack that sells people stupid herbal shit. No, wait, her items actually work, in game. She's for real. :D My character was a DOCTOR and I didn't have any facepalming emotes.

Getting into Vault 81 was my first difficulty. I expected even more suspiciousness and isolationist, but once inside I met some really warm and wonderful people. I was given a tour by a kid and later looked for his bestie's cat. An old couple ran the canteen. It was so adorable. I couldn't wait to show the Commonwealth to Curie. Also, >!curing the boy with the antidote!< felt truly in-character. Oh, and when I later returned, the kids were listening to their teacher and the cat sat quietly in the classroom. Aww! She took her cat

Am running:

• Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
• SimpleGreen 'Spring'
• Eli's Tweaks & Fixes
• Plento 'O' Exploration
• Beantown Interiors
• Water Redux
• Quick Hack and Pick
• Faster Positive Affinity for Companions (don't judge me)
• Busty Mod (don't judge me!)
• Busty Piper & Busty Curie (DON'T JUDGE ME!!!)
• Radiant Quest marker
• Chameleon and Stealth Fixes
• NPCs Travel
• The Calvin Coolidge Institute

It happens when I pass the burning tree

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Hello, I'm on my most recent heavily modded fo4 play thru, and the furthest in the game I've been able to get to is just past the bridge on the bottom of the hill to the vault in the pre-war segment. I've used enb and enb boost to try and use more memory, and it doesn't seem to be crashing due to lack of video memory. I'll post my PC specs and mod load order below. Anyone know whats going on? what to do different?

PC-specs

Device name DESKTOP-3O81QL6

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900 CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz

Installed RAM 64.0 GB

GPU ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3070 Twin Edge OC 8GB GDDR6 256-bit 14 Gbps PCIE 4.0 Gaming Graphics Card, IceStorm 2.0 Advanced Cooling, White LED Logo Lighting, ZT-A30700H-10P

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