The Brotherhood of Steel decision - thumbs up or thumbs down?

Eh. Usually on my Yes Man runs. I usually kill em off. In Fallout 2 and NV they may as well be nothing more than a bunch of tech worshipping highway robbers that my courier in the future would find himself in major conflict with. But would wipe the floor with them in moments as having a securitron armor is deterrent enough against the BOS. Even then, I feel the NCR and the Legion would've eventually destroyed them in any other scenario that doesn't involve a truce. Being the numbers and high use of guerilla warfare on the legion's part. When I do an NCR run, I'd usually try to form a truce between the NCR and BOS. Mainly because I think in the end it'd benefit both of them and could put negotiations underway to end the war between the two and maybe open up the BOS to newer ideas and recruitment after seeing what the courier did and maybe the subtle realization that their ideas can't hold.
 
What irritates me to make a deal with BoS, is that in one of the scenarios they attack and retake Helios One. Man, fuck you, who said I gave permission to attack this complex? Traitors.

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Cobra Commander said:
What irritates me to make a deal with BoS, is that in one of the scenarios they attack and retake Helios One. Man, fuck you, who said I gave permission to attack this complex? Traitors.
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Are you a member of the BOS in that scenario?

In which case, I presume you were ordered to help do it.

:)

"But...I'm the hero...I don't take..."

"MOVE, SOLDIER!"
 
Norzan said:
Highly dependent on the character i'm roleplaying. So far I've destroyed them with a Mr. House aligned character and Legion aligned character. You are forced to destroy them with both these factions though (wish they kept the option to leave them alive with Mr. House in the game though). But i did made a truce with the NCR in my NCR aligned character.

Still don't know what i'm going to do with my Yes Man aligned character.
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With Yes Man you have the option (at the same time as you decide on the other Vegas families) to kill them or leave them alone. I chose to leave them be, as for some reason I have a soft spot for the BoS. That is why I chose Yes Man.
 
uprightshark said:
With Yes Man you have the option (at the same time as you decide on the other Vegas families) to kill them or leave them alone. I chose to leave them be, as for some reason I have a soft spot for the BoS. That is why I chose Yes Man.
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My Yes Man character is an evil asshole who believes anarchy is the true way of the wasteland. I even chose the wild wasteland trait to make it seem my character is hallucinating all those weird encounters because he's constantly using psycho and other drugs.

This is why i love New Vegas, being able to roleplay as different characters and have the world actually react to each of those characters's choices.
 
Hmm, so much to take into consideration.

If I want to help the people of the Mojave try to retain some of their customs and ways of life, (including members of the Brotherhood of Steel), I usually try to rally as many well equipped factions as I can like the Boomers, the Remnants, and the BoS around the NCR so at least they can help keep Caesar from taking the dam and fucking everyone. As long as there is the Legion to worry about, the general cooperation among the power players in New Vegas will remain in place. Anybody who has their own agenda (House) can fuck off and die. I like to think with this resolution, depending how long the war lasts, the greater Brotherhood of Steel organization and the NCR would eventually make a long term peace treaty much like the NCR did with the Arizona Rangers. This allows decent people (like Veronica) from the Brotherhood to continue their lives in a relatively unchanged way.

If I want to kill off humanity and let the plants from Vault 22 take over the world because they will likely be more responsible with it and not ruin things again, the Brotherhood of Steel is one of the first factions I take down because their equipment is useful to the cause and they have proven to be relatively hardy survivors as far as humans go. With their armor and weapons, human hunting season and mankind's extinction begins. Eventually Ulysses' nukes and Yes Man's robotic army help finish the job.

If I want technology to advance and attempt to give humanity the best possible chances of surviving in the universe overall, I get Veronica to leave the Brotherhood before siding with Mr. House and killing off every faction that poses a threat to him and his plans, especially the BoS. Maybe if Veronica wasn't a lesbian I could fly off into space with her and repopulate another planet Adam and Eve style. Oh well, at least there's C(ass)... shit did I just type that out loud?

So yeah because this is New Vegas level writing, it's always a toss up for me.
 
Good Karma Independence with Yes Man and the Securitron army, I blew up their bunker.

Didn't want to do it, but I didn't want them running around taking technology, and long-term could have posed a definite threat to the Securitrons used to keep order. The BoS would have never been happy with that technology all around Vegas, it was going to be a problem sooner or later.
 
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