father: All synths should belong to us Desdemona: all synths should be free Elder Maxson: All synths should be killed Preston: Another settlement has sent word

I could Just imagine Maxson, Father, and Desdamona having an argument, and Preston say's "Hi guys!" and then everyone just shouts SHUT UP! at him.

List of factions from worst to best. 5. the Railroad 4. the Institute 3. the Minutemen 2. Brotherhood of Steel 1. Atom Cats

Dog meat is the best companion. He also does tricks so he is automatically the best

Brotherhood: we have Vertibirds! Railroad: We are lame for anything but stealth! Institute: We... uh... We have... uhh.... Relay grenades! Minutemen: OUR ARTILLERY WILL RAIN DEATH UPON ALL WHO OPPOSE US! also, General, here's a settlement that needs your help. ill mark it on your map.

Brotherhood:We have a ship Railroad:We have guns Institute:We have lasers Minuatemen:WE HAVE SETTLEMENT MISSIONS

If Preston was part of the BOS "I'll add victoriam another settlement to your map."

Minutemen:We have artillery Institute: we have synths BoS:We got a 30ft tall anti-Communist fusion powered robot Railroad: we have sneak skills and many secrets

I wish the minutemen went to war with raiders

Father: we have advance technology Elder Maxson: we have liberty prime Desdemona: we have connections all around the commonwealth Preston: we have a settlement that needs your help

BOS : "You should join the brotherhood" Player: "Why?" BOS: "Preserve old world tech" Player: Hmmm BOS: "We do things honorably" Player: "Hmm" BOS: "Power Arm..." Player: "STOP Right there, where do I sign?"

Institute: We have a pimped out Vault! BOS: We have a big ass blimp! Railroad: We have... cardboard forts? Minutemen: Our settlements can’t get their s**t together...

Am I the only one that did this: Paladin: I would like you to join the B.O.S Me: What are the benefits? Paladin: Well, you will have full access to your own personal Power Arm- Me: Nuf said looks like i'm with the B.O.S

Brotherhood: Armored Bois Railroad: Stealthy Bois Institute: Synthy boiz Minutemen: Big P-Garv and the Settlement Selective

I killed maxon for its coat worth it

you forgot to mention that the brotherhood has a ton of patrols that help you

I really wish you could assign settlements to specific factions, and get special settlement items/tilesets & settlers as a result...

You know you all laugh at the minutemen but there standard Minutemen attire is actually quite useful if you collobarate with the Rail Road because of balastic weave since it has no armor rating and can also use armor attachments right on top of it probably giving you the highest armor rating in the game. Plus I like to put artillery in each one of my settlements. Boom Boom didn't know what hit him.

Institute: Tech Hoarders Railroad: Tech Thieves Brotherhood: Angry Tech Hoarders Minutemen: well, we have land

This video was made a year ago, so the odds of someone reading this is pretty low, but the for the vanilla factions, you should join the brotherhood of steel and use dog meat as your companion. With access to the power armor and the lone wanderer perk. You will be much better off than any other faction

I started with the Minutemen and Railroad, accidently shot Tinker Tom in the head while fighting Rust Devils at Mercer. Then resurrected them through console because my last save was very old before I built up sanctuary. The Railroad was still aggro after I slept for a week, so I went in the HQ like Anakin did the jedi temple and finished them off. Lucky I had Deacons perk beforehand, but I did missed out on the Ballistic weave. Then I joined the Brotherhood and saved Danse through Charisma getting his perk later.

Just buy the overseers guardian, then side with anyone

X6-88 is dope asf. But the thing i hate is how he dislikes getting some from magnolia

I think the most ironic thing about the Institute not having vertibirds is have some quests about getting blueprints for vertebrates with several scientists wishing start construction on their own vertibirds. I feel that Bethesda Super Nerfed The Institute with how much there laser weapons are out classed from pre-war laser weapons and that there teleporter least for you only works with two areas. I just wish the institute and the same level of love the The BoS got, just think how cool it would have been if in the after ending The Institute got Liberty Prime and he just walks around the Commonwealth kill raiders and super mutants

Pro tip: you can get Ballistic weave from the Railroad without actually advancing the main quests. All you need to do to get ballistic weave as an option is complete the 3 DIA cache quests that P.A.M. gives you. Then you can go off and side with anyone, and enjoy the awesome benefits that ballistic weave offers, like having a lot of armor score without having to touch power armor.

Doing open Season before allying to any Raiders should have given you a perk on its own. Considering you only get 1 perk instead of 2, the rewards should somewhat still 'reflect' as if you gotten two. Preserver of the Innocent [Perk] -Siding with the Slaves. +20% Ballistic resistance & Energy resistance increased when facing any "evil" groups. +10% Damage output when facing any "evil" groups. Charisma checks are 25% more likely to succeed. Groups included: Raiders. Institute. Brotherhood of Steel. Rust Devils. etc Notes on those not included: Super Mutants and Ghouls are not included as they are lorewise actually victims themselves. Ghouls being victims, innocent people from the great war. Super Mutants victims, innocent people turned Super Mutant. Robot are Robots and are as evil as the one who created them, thus they are not included in the perk. I hope that this perk looks balanced and worth taking for some builds.

I always use minutemen ending, mainly because I get to choose which factions live. With the minutemen ending you get the Ballistic weave, tinker tom's great gadgets, the vertibirds, and you get a lot of power armor and laser weaponry.

How to make preston look like a beast: Give him the general's outfit and the luitenant's hat.

Unfortunately, in my game, due to mods, the minutemen ended up the most powerful. The mods were --We Are The Minutemen --You and what army - More minutemen patrols

Holy Christ I don’t remember being this confused in Calculus class

Skyrim faction(s): Imperial legion, The Companions Fallout 4 faction(s): Brotherhood of Steel, Minuetmen

Am I the only person who wants to be in the Institute and the Minuitemen?

children of atom ending= far harbor dlc evil ending nuka world raiders ending= nuka world dlc evil ending I don't give a shit about perks when it comes to doing wats wrong. I prefer to be the good guy and save the innocent people. if I listened to u and chose the COA and raiders, Id have to live with the guilt until I start a new game

BOS: We have power armor! Institute: We have synths! Railroad: We have a secret hideout! Minutemen: We have an annoying companion!

I know this is 3 years old but for anyone that is reading this: The reasoning behind choosing the railroad is completely wrong although the outcome is the same. Deacons perk is better but completely useless if you're not playing a stealth character while Danses perk is a nice boost regardless of playstyle. Now, IMO the Railroad is the best but for an entire different reason, TIME. He forgets to mention that you only have access to the brotherhood after you kill Kellogg completing act 1, if you're playing on survival that can take quite a lot of time before reaching that point, while the railroad, you can join and start doing their quests right away as soon as you leave the vault and hike your way to old north church, from there you can straight up start working towards the ballistic weave which unlocks rather early providing you an enormous advantage early on. Also, there are some "passive" perks with each faction, like the Brotherhood ending spawns so many brotherhood soldiers in power armor throughout the map that you're never actually alone, the institute ending lets you bypass dungeons with enemy synths since they're all friendly now, so you just walk in, take the loot and get out.

Minuteman: a settlement needs help I'll mark it on your... wait a sec, I can't mark it! Sole survivor: well duh, my map is too mini, you filled it with settlements XD

Since when can the Institute "kill off the Minutemen"?

I love how Deacon change his outfit all the time hahaha

All faction leaders walk into a room Preston walks in ANOTHER SETTLEMENT NEEDS OUR HELP I'LL MARK IT ON YOUR MAP LIBERTY PRIME IS ONLINE *Mini nukes*

Ad Victoriam! :P

You do know that if you defeat the brotherhood after the minutemen quest line you get free vertibird signal grenades in workbenches right?

Fun fact about the minutemen the settlements anywhere on the map ,excluding some places in the glowing sea, and the artillery is the same story when you get every settlement and because those are considered radiant you can get this bonus along with whatever faction you want to side with AND (in case you didn’t realize this is why the minutemen are the strongest faction) they have one thing the other factions don’t...RECOVERABILITY. Let’s say the castle get taken over by gunners that’s ok we still have another settlement to regroup and plan on taking it back. Now what would the brotherhood do? NOTHING they couldn’t because they don’t have a second base of operations along with the institute. So yea Preston may have 4000 settlements that need saving if you save them...you gain an army and if you use the flare gun using your settlers infinite ammo bonus by giving the fat mans and quantum thirst zappers to obliterate things.

For me I sided with BoS and the minutemen because both faction grenades are extremely good the artillery and the vertibird grenade also puma forgot to mention you can get the last minute a really good gauss rifle and that the castle is a good player home as you can link workshops other than AHEM THE PYRDWEN QUARTERS

I just did the Brotherhood of Steel ending. Fallout 3 was my shit and I enjoyed playing as a part of the BoS. #AdVictoriam

I have a survival playthrough and chose the brotherhood. they are extremely useful. the vertibird grenades are decently cheap, and there is a large amount of supplies you can buy from proctor Teagan.

I choose to ally with the institute combined with the Minutemen, my reasoning is when you make the institute known with the speech over the radio, I choose to say that The institute would protect the commonwealth, so I basically turned the institute into a way more advanced version of the minutemen that would protect the commonwealth and make future advancements beyond imaginable, so in the long run ( role play wise) the institute is the best faction (imo)

Nice vid, it helped me learn what I want to do in the game. Thank you.

Unless I'm doing a specific build in most Bethesda RPGs, I usually go with the most pragmatic and advantageous faction, disregarding motions or good, evil, or indifferent.

(Base Game) From a moral standpoint, the Minutemen in my opinion are the best choice. They aren't Synth/Ghoul "Racists" or "Fanatics", they offer a TON of settlements, and above all else they don't wipe anyone other factions other than the Institute. (As far as I know) (Far Harbor) Also from a moral standpoint, I find that siding with Far Harbor is the best idea. Now what I find is that you want to get DiMa to tell Far Harbor what he did himself, and tell Allen to "Shut his damn mouth", while doing this you can save Acadia. I also believe that it is best to blow up the nucleus as they're "Fanatics with nukes", now that is my personal opinion do as YOU please in this area. (Nuka-World) Now onto Nuka-World, if you play the "Good Guy" style then your best bet is to complete open season as you get to power Nuka-World once again, keep Preston, and make Nuka-World a free trading post. If you don't care then do as Puma said and give land to your two favorite gangs and none to the one you like least so you destroy the one you do not like. (Vault-Tec Workshop) Now, if you're a person who wants happy dwellers (Morally Good) then you're gonna want to do the option that increases happiness and not effectiveness, (There are videos out there that tell you what is what) so that you piss off the Overseer to the point of her leaving. (You also get a legendary Vault-Suit) If you want an effective vault then do all the opposite of what I said to do. (No legendary Vault-Suit, less happiness, and you don't become the Overseer) (Automatron) I don't know much about Automatron, figure it out by watching KZfaq videos and playing yourself.

I hope we get Butch DeLoria as an old man NPC in Fallout 5. Would be great if he was a companion.

great video! Loved it. I'm playing fallout 4 again and I've watched several of your videos :)

I use the Institute for the synth relay grenades (super useful) and strategic location. For a companion it either Curie or a robot. The Institute also has pleanty of clean water/food and has a free Dr. with reasonable supplies.

I join the Railroad because I can't handle the Brotherhood's attitude (I miss Fallout 3's Brotherhood) and I like Deacon and their heavy armor Mk

Thanks man! You deserve so much more support than what you currently have! Such a great and experienced gamer! :D

I love the Bos. I will always side with them. AD VICTORIUM.

Personally, I went with the Institute + Minutemen, for both moral and gameplay reasons. When it comes to Survival mode, I ultimately think the Minutemen is the optimal choice. While everyone can agree that settlement building is annoying, it's incredibly beneficial as you'll get a very large amount of food, water, caps and crafting resources, along with Preston's perk and their artillery as you mentioned. As for the Railroad, any sensible person would obviously try to obtain their ballistic weave technology prior to meeting the Institute. It might seem strange that I would support them, but my reasoning goes with the fact that their Synth armor and Courser uniform are the highest armor value outfits outside of Power Armor and the DLC's, and they stock a large supply of energy weapons, ammo, and chems, which is a must for Survival. I also think that having the ability to call in a large amount of Synths via relay grenades can really give you an edge in battle when you're outnumbered. Normally I would agree with you on the Brotherhood's free T-60 Power Armor, I sadly cannot. Any knowledgeable Fallout player would know all too well that there are hidden suits of Power Armor scattered throughout the Commonwealth, some of them being level-dependent, others not, and you do have a very rough time with the Brotherhood due to roleplaying issues and Paladin Danse alike. I don't know your roleplay preferences personally, but I think roleplaying as an Institute scientist would be very enjoyable, and the Railroad's morals are questionable, to say the least. While I agree Deacon's perk is very useful, a fair majority of rational players could also agree that stealth attacks in general already do a large amount of damage, more so if you invest in the relative perks, even without Deacon. This is further amplified by obtaining The Last Minute via Minutemen at the Castle, which can be done whilst keeping the Institute alive. I do agree that having the Vertiberds is incredible, though, don't get me wrong.

I always choose the Brotherhood simply because I played Fallout 3 and loved them in that game. And I still love them now!

My interpretation of the factions in fallout: Minutemen: A small milita who'll help the commonwealth but will face moral and political issues once they expand much like the NCR. Railroad: Have good intentions but will ultimately hurt the commonwealth because they will be blinded by their vision. The way to hell is paved with good intentions. Brotherhood: A organized military that could be good in theory unfortunately; like most real world militaries, they don't follow their own doctrines and will always splinter into separate sects. Watch videos on their origins and you'll see the wide devotion from the original mission. In fallout 3 the outcasts and Lyons men are a good example. The Institute: Similar to brotherhood but due to their isolation they will also hurt the commonwealth. Personally I think it's best if we let dog meat handle it

My favorite ending: 1. Brotherhood of Steel 2. Railroad 3. Institute 4. Minutemen That's what I thought were the most fun, not based on the perks stuff Edit: I switched 2 and 3

50% of the comments are Minute Men Jokes 10% Are I Hate The Factions Comments 40% Helpful/in Discussion Comments Your welcome

The Minutemen are the weakest, but the best morraly. I sided with them and destroyed the Brotherhood in the end.

One thing I think Puma didn't really consider is synth relay grenades. In survival they are so useful as they can provide you with instant back up, regardless of your position. They can also serve as distractions and soak up a decent amount of damage. Also you can pick up free energy cells of the synths dead bodies.

BOS is only really useful in Survival Mode. Got to many places fast and able to pull some shots off before I land with the Vertibirds.

INSTITUTE ftw!! The only faction that doesn't end up creating a smoking radioactive crater.... And as I'm the General of the MM and Director, I certainly haven't problems going around the map to my 30+ settlements. You can teleport to/from the Institute, and it's my home now.

FOR THE BROTHERHOOD!

I choosed the brotherhood of steel too they have really cool armors

Great video nice seeing the various violence

When you said I'm sorry but the railroad, I was like the railroad is my favourite why did you apologise😂

15:56 "pretty decent synth chest piece" .. it has 3 stat boosters.. im gonna say its arguably the best chest piece in the game

Danse is still available as a companion if you keep him alive the brotherhood will just be hostile towards you. But in the epilogue brotherhood knights and scribes become more common throughout the commonwealth making it kind of pointless to have danse

I’m glad that joining the BoS after you get the Castle is a good idea, because that’s exactly what I did! I thought I did it wrong, so I’m glad to hear I made the right decision.

Another variable is how dangerous the faction is as your enemy. I think if this was taken into account, the Brotherhood would win.

Nah, Minutemen and keep all three "good" factions around

Me when hear about any other companion besides Dogmeat: Wait there's other companions other than Dogmeat...naaaa they're wrong

I like the BOS the most (outside of the MM), even though I use stealth, because you can get the RR specific things really early.

AD VICTORIAM BROTHERS

I combine the minutemen and the BoS. I role play as if the sole survivor is in the Enclave. Ya know the BoS is the enclave and the settlements are Artillery batteries and strongholds etc. I chose the Enclave because Murica.

Minuteman-annoying Brotherhood-wants genocides Railroad- took way to long to find Instute-kinda aloof to you Honestly normally i would of picked bos but the fact they wanted all synths dead even innocent ones along with mutants and ghouls the instute kinda where d bags at first but compared to everyone else the instute was the most sane in a messed up way

This was the very first video i watched before playing the game.. Great video.... Im 100% a minutemen..as a Bostonian i love the faction... Building up boston and creating neighborhoods is my favorite thing in this game

the institute isn't evil its miss guided from a story and lore point of view i can't pick any1 else RR is doing more harm than good with the memory wipes BoS are just hightech raiders as far as survival goes if you have automatron you can get a super badass body guard early on that just mows thru any mob like tissue paper /duel gatling lasers and survival is about exploration not fast travel

when he said railroad I was gonna say you son of a b**** but then I saw how it said he meant BoS and I calmed down I sided with the brotherhood of steel because I agree with there motives best like hunting all post war abominations to extinction example synths, deathclaws, feral ghouls, super mutants, mirelurks, the mutated insects, and yao guai to name a few

I'm sure it's been said before, like Railroad, the Minutemen also get Veribirds (be sure to get them from BoS first for the game flag) if you complete the story with them. So if your largest perk from a faction is taxi service... Siding with the Minutemen also give them (post Nuclear Option siding with MM).

I'd say that the best faction overall is without a doubt the Brotherhood. They're the most powerful and have an actual political capacity throughout most of the post-war US. In Fallout 4 they might seem a little "evil", especially because of the whole situation with synths and [SPOILER] one particular quest involving one of mc's companions. However, I do understand their motivation - a vast majority of synths are just tools used by the Institute to do their evil stuff. Sure, there are some good synths, like Valentine or Curie, but they're extremely rare. The Brotherhood are a military group with a strict code and hierarchy. They were fighting the Institute before and destroying it was their reason for coming to the Commonwealth in the first place. Synths were created by the Institute and while they might have a free will, they still pose an extremely high threat. Historically the Brotherhood has almost always been an organisation, which main purpose was to help humanity survive in the wasteland and possibly rebuild in the future - unlike the Enclave or Ceasar's Legion, which both had an extremely twisted idea of what "rebuidling humanity" means. The Institue in that regard is no better than the Enclave - they treat the wasteland as a lost cause and rather opt for sacrificing it for the good of their own people. My second favorite are the Minutemen. When I first played Fallout 4, I really missed the whole point of the Minutemen, especially beacuse of the annoying Radiant Quests and Preston Garvey. However, on my second playthrough (which was a BoS playthrough btw) I spend much more time developing settlements and helping them grow. I even remade the Castle into an actual fortress. Sure, you have to roleplay a bit outside of the main storyline, but if you spend enough time and resources on it, the Minutemen can legitimately gain control of the entirety of the Commonwealth and become an actual powerhose. The only drawback is their severe lack of thechnological advancements. Even if they grow in numbers a lot, they still wear basic leather gear and use laser muskets or other crappy weapons. Compared to the Brotherhood or the Institute, they are like cavemen. Despite this, it's still possible that they would improve their gear and hierarchy later on, so it's not that big of a deal in the long run. Another advantage of the minutemen is the fact, that, unlike the BoS, they will stay in the Commonwealth and keep control over it in the future. They could quite possibly create a centralized government and fight off the gunners, bandits, supermutants etc. This is something the Brotherhood cannot offer, as the Prydwen is set to return to the capital wasteland after dealing a final blow to the Institute. Historically, the Brotherhood has never been interested in actually uniting the wasteland, so in this regard they fall short compared to the Minutemen. Last but not least, the Railroad and the Institute. One is a group of people with no real goals and the second is Encalve 2.0. I don't think there's much to explain here. The Railroad has no political capacity to do anything beyong helping the synths run away from the Institute, while the Institute simply doesn't want to do anything to help the Commonwealth. From the Sole Survivor's point of view, choosing the Institute might seem like a good option, if anything, at least to help out their son. There's also the possibilty of reforming the Institute from inside out in the future, since the Sole Survivor is set to be their next leader, but it's just wishful thinking in my opinion. One individual cannot change the Institute so drastically, the other would simply dispose of them and continue with the original plan. The Railroad is a lost cause completely in my opinion. The Sole Survivor is not even one of the leaders and Desdemona doesn't seem to be interested in anything other than Synths. I'd say, the Railroad would be better off as a side faction, possibly working together with the Minutemen, but as a main faction, they're definitely the worst out of all three.

The brotherhood is def the most popular for others its the nostalgia from other games for me it was the around 5000 suits of power armor that I rlly want on my side and not to screw with

Minutemen for life.

Why not do minutemen and keep every faction (besides institute) and there exclusive stuff?

The Synth Relay grenades are life savers for me in survival mode. Backup at the ready!

New Vegas: which ending results in the most prosperous outcome for the Mojave and likely the whole southwestern U.S.? Fallout 4: which ending give you the best gear?

I've beat the game 6 times and in that 6 times I sided with the institute once. But now I'm playing with mods and found a really cool mod for the institute which let's me make relay grenades and I get spawn all 3 gem types, Coursors (still can't spell it), synths in X-01 power armor.......and finally.........I can spawn monke

My minuteman playthrough(with mods) 1. All settlements are legit military bases 2. Artillery fire covering the entire map 3. We took liberty prime after we took out the prydwen and it patrols in the river outside sanctuary 4. I have 5 major cities 5. Vertibirds I can call whenever 6. I have a command radio that calls in troops whenever 7. The minutemen flaregun that I never use 8. Started manufacturing power armor, weapons, ammo at the mechanists lair 9. I have built a amazing trade route for my settlements 10. I have patrols everywhere on the map

Vinylic puma videos are so nostalgic

They should've kept Father alive and replaced him with X6-88 as a companion. I probably would've joined them them. Traveling with your own son would be cool.

For the brotherhood

By the way (you will already know by now, but some will not), it is possible to negotiate peace between all three FH factions by keeping DiMA's secret (additionally gaining the chest piece) and then replacing the leader of the CoA with a synth. It is then possible to have all three factions at peace.

Fun Fact: If you make an all Stealth Build like Sneak, Ninja, Rifleman, etc WITH DLCs as mentioned getting 3× multiplier (Granted all perks at their max ranked) YOU CAN REACH 1,137.5 MULTIPLIER WITH DEACON WHILE SNEAKING. (All of this guaranteed with Nerd Rage too by at least lvl 67) 🤣😁🤔

You can side with the Institute, remain friendly with the Minutemen, and have both teleportation and vertibirds after you've completed the main story. It might take longer, but ultimately you can ALWAYS get access to vertibirds eventually as long as you don't kill off the Minutemen.

I just realized how much of the far harbor I've missed. Because I just killed all the children of atom the first time I saw them.

Hunter’s wisdom is really useful especially if your in survival where you need to hunt for food plus old long-fellow has a cool overcoat

Thanks broo , good information 👍

Apparently I'm "allied" with the Institute but I just wanna side with the Minutemen