Things Fallout 76 did right 1#: The Brotherhood of Steel

Yeah how convinent a sattelite radio is. These idiotic Enclave people didn't know about it. It would have been so easy with sattelite radio. Also Maxsons scribes are really evil or total incompetent they didn't warn Elder Lyons about this big dragons in the sky over Appalachia.

I disagree.

 

Not sure if you're serious but if you are, you're wrong. This creates so many problems is not even funny from no mention of any BoS sattelite in any of the Fallout games that come after in the timeline, to the fact the few times BoS was without communications and yet, they apparently had a satellite radio.

This contradicts Bethesda lore. It has gotten that bad that the company that raped lore established in games before 3 is now contradicting Fallout 3 and 4.


I genuinely do not care what Bethesda does with the lore at this point: everything they do with the lore is idiotic, nonsensical and it has a complete lack of understanding basic continuity. My point is people actively defending this bullshit like these retcons make any sense.

 

I am still trying to think of any explanation on why Maxson's people would go out to try to recruit other former US military as none of that was ever mentioned in Fallout 1.
I guess it would make sense to a degree but in this regard I hold Fallout 1 lore over that of any follow up Fallout games.

One can say that lore should remain flexible but I am just tired of lore retcons in order to explain introductions like these.
There is to much "we want to improve on the established" mentality going on and the results in general are unnecessary, disappointing, and sometimes quite frankly insulting. Because if we continue on this route it could be excused that there are now BOS chapter all of the US, even the moon if Bethesda insisted upon it.

I know this is perhaps not the decision of the designers themselves to insert the Brotherhood yet again but this type of mentality shows how creatively dead game studios (well not just them, many media producers actually are).

I strongly believe that a lot of beloved franchises at this point should be put on hold until the currently recycling mentality in the media industries has died out.

 

Yeah. because listening to propaganda over a comm sattelite turns you into a loyal BoS knight, complete with equipment and fully-ideologically driven.

Really...?

 

Would you join a faction or political ideology and risk dying for it just because a radio transmission "inspired you"? I wouldn't. The BoS took some time and events to transform in what they were in Fallout 1 and 2. It takes time to build a proper believable faction. BGS could've gone with "US Army Soldiers" and/or build an entirely new faction. But no, they rather reuse the BoS over and over and give some badly thought out explanation.

 

It's not an organized faction, It's an empty promise based on nothing, pretty much propaganda over the radio. They had way more options besides joining. They could create their own faction with their own ideology or joined some REAL group near them, but I guess that's way too much for BGS to write.

 

Satellite based comm would work. Faction with similar outlook could be recruited without eye-to-eye contact also. You would just need to promise them something appealing enough. These would be desperate times after the armageddon and people would do anything to survive. Slapping the Brotherhood logo on already existing PA's and other stuff would be child's play.

 

Also working satellite(s) do exist in Fallout universe. Archimedes II (NV) even fires a bloody Ray of Godly Annihilation down to Earth.

 

That's all wrong. "Ideology" doesn't build anything by Itself, and Maxson didn't even send them anything or do anything to help them, just propaganda over the radio. Stop trying to justify Bethesda's laziness. It's badly written retcon to the lore.

 

Lore... Fallout 76... Can't seem to find a connection between those two concepts...