For those wondering what the meaning behind the canon insignia is: The gears represent their engineering knowledge, the sword is their will to defend themselves, the wings represent the uplifting hope that the acquisition of lost technology represents for mankind's salvation following the devastation of the Great War, and the circle represents the fraternal unity that makes the organization a true brotherhood.

"Hey local, shouldn't you be banging together rocks or something?" Still hurts...

The paint job they had on their power armor was so badass. I wish that paint job would be available in FO4

I remember following Outcast patrols in 3. Few could stand against them and no matter who won the skirmishes I came out with a bunch of loot.

Its so funny to me that the outcasts are basically the brotherhood members that MAINTAINTED the original ideology and didn't empathies with the people of the Capital Wasteland

I’ll never forget when protector casdin lost his life to an albino rad scorpion on my last play through. Effectively ruining our trade deal and friendship

If you notice in fo4, the BOS has color schemes similar to the Outcasts. This is possibly due to the fact that Maxson brought them back in and the east coast chapter returned to their original goal.

funny thing is, despite the Outcast being more focused on gathering Tech, it's Lyon's BOS that ended up acquiring more tech in the end of FO3 🤣

I'll always have an appreciation for the Outcasts. When my childhood self played FO3 for the first time, speaking with Casdin about the BOS and events that led up to FO3 was some of my first exposure to the larger FO universe/lore and I've been hooked ever since

The Outcasts are honestly a pretty interesting subfaction of the Brotherhood, I wish Bethesda fleshed them out more in Fallout 3.

But in a sense, Lyons followed the Ideology of the Brotherhood, as Supermutants could be considered a result of technology which ran amok. Therefor finding and destroying the source of the supermutants is one of the duties of the brotherhood

if you kill sibley without being detected he doesnt start a mutiny when the vault opens. i do that nearly every playthrough cause the outcasts are badass

So they are literally Black Knights. Pretty cool concept. Though I find it a little hard to believe that NO ONE in an entire faction of former brotherhood of steel members had a single pip boy.

I still remember being a low level in fallout, when I just started. And I was getting my arsse handed too me by some creature in the wasteland, then then these guys walked by, and saved me. Then left with no explanation

I always liked the Outcasts when I was a kid, even if they were pricks. Their armor paint and matching robots always fascinated me since I loved and still love Fallout 3's robots.

If you compare the Brotherhood from Tactics with the Brotherhood under Lyons, they seem to be on similar wavelengths. Makes me wonder if, despite their words to the contrary, the East Coast Brotherhood did in fact make contact with their Midwest cousins and were inspired by them.

Timely! I was playing F3 last night fast-traveled with Charon the outcast base so I could cut through the building full of Super Mutants to get to another location. I had already gone through the whole 'Alaska' simulation, and knew the Super Mutant would be respawning in the building in front of the base entrance elevator ramp. What I didn't expect was three minigun toting Outcasts to be all agro and start blasting at me and Charon, as well as the Super Mutants. Charon died three times before I could get a handle on how to beat the situation. I just don't remember those Outcast guys being agro there before. Fun anyway.

Honestly, it felt like these guys were thrown in as an afterthought. There could have been an entire game built around this concept, instead it was a throwaway plotline.

What is kind of ironic is that if they had kept to their original objective, and looked for lost tech and data-bases. They likely would have found information on the local vaults sooner than they did. While the Super Mutants were a large force and a considerable threat, the Elder could have appeased both sides by creating a Task Force that would handle the search for technology. While the bulk of their forces would act in support should there be a large mutant presence in the area.

The Outcast saved me a fortune at early levels,thanks to the bug where you get the odd Enclave spawning before you unlock them.

The Outcasts are literally my favorite faction from F3 It sucks there was so little done with them, but I love their blind technological fanaticism

It's nice to see that the fallout factions aren't all of one mind and that schisms can (and do) happen. I do wish that in F:NV those whose unhappy with elder Nolan McNamara decided to go outside and form their own base

I really wish the outcasts had a bigger role in the wastes. It'd be neat to perhaps have a questline where you could completely bring together the Brotherhood and Outcasts, or perhaps further intensify relations. Would disregard what would be future events [lore] in F4, but it'd make Fallout 3 that much more enjoyable.

Small point, but I’m sure the brotherhood was aware the mutants in DC were not from California due to the visible differences alone. Which IMO makes the situation that much more concerning and could actually give some credence to Elder Lyons change of goals.

I believe Lyons and The LW plus the Lyon's Pride etc deserved more mention In FO4... A wonderful work as always I love seeing people making such amazing detailed and explanational Lore Videos because the game needs that

This is my new favorite fallout lore channel, thank you for your research and videos!

I have to say I’ve been playing fallout 3 since I was in junior high and I still at 28 years old have never been to the oasis location.

Love the channel so much synonymous thank you for making these

I understand the outcasts reason for wanting to follow the intended course but the supermutants would directly effect their ability to hunt for more tech. If you have the mutants out there in such heavy numbers you risk being ambushed anywhere you go in the DC ruins

I played fallout 3 when i was like 15ish and I remember having such a black and white understanding of the outcasts, I knew it was deeper as i got older and played 4 and new vegas but it was nice to hear the full story.

This is a weird request but I’d love to hear lore about fallout’s soda companies, Nuka cola is everywhere and has so many offshoots, and Sunset sarsaparilla’s star caps were an intriguing collectible

Theses videos are so great! Its like discovery documentary but for the fallout world, outstanding!

Lyons brotherhood had more technology, firepower, manpower, training, skills, influence and stability than the outcast ever have. And that’s when stopping super mutants was top priority and technology second. It really shows how time has changed and the brotherhood have to adapt just like new vegas tells us. I believe the west would have agreed with Lyons to some degree if they saw the numbers ( properly ) and how there’s a super mutant factory. We know that lot of the elders felt like that in the west. Interplay wanted to change Brotherhood elements as seen in fallout tactics ( which is reference a lot in fallout 4 ) and fallout brotherhood of steel ( which also reference a lot ). Another thing fallout bible isn’t entirely non cannon though.

Glad to see you're back!

Excellent as always...Thanks for the upload!

With the Fort Independence mod that expands the sub-faction of the Outcasts I roleplayed that my lone wanderer agreed with them, worked for them, was made a initiate, and became as mission objective oriented as them. My character was to the Outcasts what Sarah Lyons was to the Brotherhood. Since my character met the Outcasts before the Brotherhood, I roleplayed into that further by acting aloof towards many of the Brotherhood members for their foolish savior complexes. Pretty fun roleplay I must say. You go from wanting to save the wasteland to a technology obsessed isolationist that will gun down scavengers and raiders for scraps of energy weapons or power armor. You also start buying and trading for every piece of advanced tech you find. It makes scavving and trading far more interesting than you'd think.

What would’ve been cool is if BGS had designed a metro system under the Citadel. The Pentagon has its own metro system, and having a Brotherhood of Steel mission to clear the tunnels would’ve been neat.

I love your videos man they’re really interesting and informative keep up the good work bro 😎

i love your content man, thanks for being such a great creator.

Love the quip at the end. 😆 Great stuff.

Man the shoulders of outcasts always make me think how much it would fuck you up of the charged at you and shoulder checked you in the face/jaw with those heavy, scratched, metal pauldrans 🤪🥲

Excellent work as always, Sir! o7

Not many people speak on the outcast this was nice to see im glad someone remembers them

"I'll put go put this in storage immediately" equips enclave armor the player just turned in

I wish you'd been able to talk to former outcasts in Fo4

The outcasts were an interesting group because they were essentially considered one of the bad guys in Fallout 3 since they fought against the BoS, but they are literally following the ways of the brotherhood from Fallout 1 and 2 where they could be considered one of the good guys depending on how you play.

Always was fond of the Brotherhood Outcasts and their attitudes is actually pretty rational in the context of what is going on in the wasteland at that time.

I always thought that their armor was getting rusty and that's why it looked black and red.

they helped me at friendship heights during a playthrough, I was so hyped since I needed help and they random encountered perfectly

Hey man, just found your channel and love the videos! Would absolutely love a video on synths/the institute.

The lore from Fallout all the way thru to Fallout 4, is absolutely huge. There is SO much stuff that just gets overlooked if you don’t pay close attention. I need to reply them all... especially 3 tho, I hardly remember the story.

I also love the outcasts assholish remarks towards you, pretty funny.

I like how elder Maxon tried to bring back the old bos but instead of his troops getting the institutes technology they opted for nukes with liberty prime

Another banger my man thank you

I been playing Fallout 3 again on my Xbox one and you posted a video on a faction I liked.

Love this faction. Great video

See, the Outcasts complain that the BoS had stopped gathering tech. Except they didn't. Even under Lyons, they were still gathering tech they found. They just ALSO focused on helping people and stopping the Supermutant threat. Which seems like a lot more critical task. If the mutants aren't stopped, then it doesn't matter if they're gathering tech, there will be no humanity left to save.

This series is so dam good! 👍

The rad roaches in fault 111 just be chillin while waiting for you un-popsicle

I've always killed the outcast just to loot their base. Great video synonymous.

Your definitely the best fallout KZfaqr. Always watch your videos

My favourite video yet

With the mod Fallout Wanderer's Edition, which is a very good overhaul for F3, many raider bands had "Fallen Brothers" with them which were basically outcasts who deserted and wen't mercenary for the Raiders. What was cool is that the mod tweaked with the armor statistics and if you fought with an enemy in Power Armor with anything less than 5.56 full auto ammo and/or your weapon skill was below circa 60, the fight with a "Fallen Brother" was always won (if at all) by the skin of your teeth. This made encounters with raiders very interesting, especially in the first half of the game because every group of raiders could have at least one "Fallen Brother" in it. I remember that when I faced one of them in Wheaton's Armory , I had to use all of my mines and grenades to get the dude to a near death state and even then it took a considerable amount of .44 and 5.56 ammo to bring him down. I had a ton of fun with these fights, they were really exciting.

I love the concept of the Outcasts, and even more so love their armor paint jobs! Thanks to the FO4 Creation Club content, I now always have my companions in Outcast Power Armor in both 3 and 4

1:25 liberty prime, “better dead than red.”

Great video!

Of interesting note, has anybody else noticed that after the integration of the Outcasts into the newly reformed BoS that the Brotherhood took on their black and red color scheme? I just realized that, maybe as a tribute to their loyalty to the cause, as Lyons was technically a radical. As a kid I thought the Outcasts were dickhead traitors, but now as an adult it actually all makes perfect sense.

I always liked the Outcasts simply because their armor looked cool

Isn't it ironic that the outcasts refer to Knights and Paladins as "Defender" and "Protector" when they left to avoid defending and protecting those they deemed unworthy?

Incredible time of this video, I have recently started a new run on my ps3 fallout 3, and was heading for fort independent just after running into the Outcasts and was like, damn, forgot about them. So as I said great timing.

Oh shit I remember watching orcadeas video on the gauss rifle back then, the outcasts being part of op anchorage was pretty badass

i love how fallout 3 and nv is still realvent and people are still making content about it

Honestly a fallout game with rad spiders instead of rad scorpions would be pretty cool. Their both of the arachnid family, quite possible spiders get benefits similar to scorpions when the bombs fell and FEV altered their DNA. What’d be crazy is not only the venom you could harvest from their fangs in possibly some spears or crossbows, but also their webs. Think about it: the webbing from spiders mutated on the scale of rad scorpions could quite possibly have webs as strong as steel. They’d have to be to hold up spiders that big and honestly could play into the game as a resource for weapons and armor crafting.

Great Video

Let's start a debate The "normal" brotherhood of steel should've been the outcasts. The Current Outcast brotherhood stands for everything that the BoS from Fallout 1/2 stood. The BoS in 3 accept and willingly protect wastelanders. The original didn't. They only accepted the Vault Dweller because of desparation. I see why being a Vault dweller will maybe increase your chance of joining the BoS but hey, 1% is still a 100th.

honestly the number of times I've heard "the best explanation is in the non-canon fallout bible" is so insane that im generally baffled that they made that book non cannon

I'd love to see a fallout lore vid on everyone's favorite Great Khan, Chance

Awesome. Cheers!

Excellent lore videos , would love to hear about radroaches :]

no one but Beth says the Fallout Bible is non-canon.

Wow this was a nice informative video about this I never looked to deep into the outcasts. I would just turn in scrap and other junk to get free things thanks synonymous. Keep it up 💯

The outcasts are awesome! But I hope the sequel gives us different factions

I wish the Entirety of BOS would start acting like Lyons. Maxon is kinda going there a little. They go after the institute which are causing harm to people by kidnapping people or letting super mutant loose. And they are pretty nice to the people of the commonwealth compared to the outcasts who are very rude and condescending towards people. Maxon even let’s our character join something the outcasts and most other BoS don’t seems to do. They just need to find a good balance between being protectors and doing their own thing.

YESSSSSS ITS FINALLY HERE

Easily one of the coolest breakaway factions in any piece of media, if only there were books surrounding fallout 3 deepening the lore

Man, I miss the old power armor design. It looked so much better.

loveeeeee itttttttt thank you!

If I was in a life or death situation, it's people like the outcasts I'd want on my side. They turned their backs on all the comfort and safety that came with the group to hold onto what they believed was right all else be damned. Those guys have some dedication.

Man it was funny when me my brother and dad played falliut 3 the first time. I was enclave all the way. Dad was brotherhood and brother was the outcasts. Our rivalry carried into warhammer sessions.

I understand you’re trying to stick to things that are strictly canon but I feel like an episode on the Midwestern brotherhood of steel would be greatly appreciated. They’re not often talked about and I feel like it would be a great opportunity to shed some light on an underrated faction. Great video!

I wonder how often did bethesda think “oh yeah let us change this small thing, Im sure they wont notice”

If the goal is to keep technology out of the wrong hands, what if the Brotherhood is the wrongs hands, either for that time or the individual.

I actually ran into them immediately upon leaving vault 101 my first playthrough of FO3 (or any fallout game for that matter). I tried attacking them because i thought they were the typical characters in the world

Oh look, a new video. Sweet! Hey Syn, would you consider doing a challenge run for any of the FO-games? Game and challenge is up to you, as far as I'm concerned. Anything you'd do a voiceover and playthrough for would be (and has been) absolutely golden. Edit: and before anyone says that everything has been done already .. why yes, everything has been done; but not by this smooth-voiced son of a gun. Take care fellow wastelanders

I like how the Ad Victoriam mod for Fallout 4 puts the Brotherhood's armor black and red as they brought the Outcasts back.

I love the outcasts one of my fav factions from the game

So outcasts left because they didn`t want to secure the area (Washington and outskirts) with technology in it? Super mutants seem like big enough threat to attempts to find tech anywhere. I understand that they REALLY want that old tech, but super mutants already managed to kill some amount of BOS. Going out of relatively well defended area with smaller group just so they can say "I am actually doing what BOS people supposed to do" seems short-sighted. Yes, they have that fort and patrol some other areas, but they don`t have people to secure them. So that tech can fall into anyone`s hands. So they splintered basically because they wanted to stroke their own ego. And no recruiting is just plain stupid. All of them are going to die at some point, so there just going to be some pointless robots left. Very helpful in a mission to secure tech and show those people in the citadel that removing relatively big threat to your operations is not necessary for your continued survival and success of said mission. I think some outcast says elder "gone native" or something similar. No, he isn`t (at least not at the start). He tries to find source of and remove actual threat, while outcasts walk around and stare at tech that they can`t get. And act like assholes to natives they need to get to tech. Then plot happens, threats and okay-ish leaders are removed, so BOS and outcasts reunite to build that dumb blimp and go to somewhat annoy people in the commonwealth. Guess someone at BGS remembered that outcasts were a thing and gave them a conclusion. Undeserved, but they are gone anyway. I played FO3 a long time ago and my memory isn`t good, so I don`t remember much about outcasts and using my understanding of this video as a base.

HEYYYY nice I thought it was jsut me having my game bug when outcast shoots at each other after I take the things on the sealed weaponry lol so its part of the story that mutiny.

It would have been nice to have a mention of the Lone Wanderer in Fallout 4. At least 1 mention.

Its to bad so much of their content was cut