Not gonna lie the first time I came here, I thought the big secret was that the lemonade was somehow made of blended people

(walks into covenant) Talia: "Everyone is super friendly and really wants to help!" Me: (thinking) Ok these people are serial killers and cannibals that rape their victims corpses.

When I first found this village, I actually thought the villagers are all synths and the test was there in order to get a good enough profile of you to replace you with a synth.

I killed that whole settlement with joy. They're not just killing synths, they're doing it based on a test that isn't anywhere near 100% accurate.

[ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ] [ You're carrying too much and can't run! ]

I just pickpocketed James. We have to be quiet and get out X6: NOW THAT WAS SMOOTH.

“I’m going to put my Quantum Harmonizer in your Photonic Resonation Chamber” I’m sending this to my crush

"I have myself a code. Thats not always good on my wallet, but it helps me sleep at night" Dan truly is a honest person

Oxhorn: steathfully steals the key X6: THAT WAS SMOOTH!

You are not just killing 20 humans to save one synth. The people have killed tons of humans and tons of synths and will continue to in the future

I really liked Honest Dan as a Temporarily follower but I really wish we could have him as a full companion he really is an interesting character and has a cool voice . I definitely miss this character after the quest was complete .

Classic example of “if you stare into the abyss it stares also into you”/“take care when fighting monsters, lest you become one yourself”. Dr Chambers became what she hated and didn’t even realize it.

I already learned to never trust 'perfect towns' in the apocalypse. So when I found this place I knew something dark is happening behind the scenes.

Believe it or not, I was wandering on the west side of the lake and found a drainage pipe and I wanted to see where it led. Then I rescued the prisoner at the end of the cave. I walked over to a nearby settlement and they started shooting at me and I didn't understand why. I had the worst habit of discovering the end piece of several quests first in my first play through

I only found covenant long after the end of the game, you can imagine how confused I was when Nate, the director of the institute at the time, started asking himself what a synth was

When he said "Congratulations!" I thought he was going to say you had passed.

If it's not already known, if you continue around the lake there's a crashed vertibird in the water. Dive down and there is a suit of power armor sunken next to it. Just in case you want to grab it.

I just couldnt stop thinking about how they were perfectly fine with the sole survivors power armor is painted as the institute

In Covenant, there's a bookcase somewhere with self-help material you can examine while investigating the town

I think the best plot twist for this would be if everyone in the town was a synth and didn't know it. Or at least a large portion of them.

When I took Covenant I kept Deezer alive to take advantage of the lemonade

When I got to Covenant and saw how everyone acted I thought that the residence were cannibals. I remembered a small community in Fallout 3 where that was the case and you find out by breaking into a shack with a bunch of corpses inside.

I’m gonna be straight up, I gunned down Deezer on my first playthrough thinking he was also hostile during the whole firefight. I’m on a new playthrough after a couple years and I will not be making that mistake again

I betcha the Bethesda writers love you for this stuff. Creators always appreciate others going through their stuff and finding all the connections and little easter eggs 😊 It shows appreciation for their work. We gamers love you for it, too!

"Alright give me the caps and I'll not go to the compound and investigate anymore of this" *takes caps* "Alright lets investigate this compound"

I really hated these people. And I quite like Honest Dan, I wish we had the option of making him a Companion or at least recruit him to a Settlement.

I wish they had tied Rosalind Chambers and her work into the BOS somehow. They share similar ideals and I could see Maxson wanting her drive and tenacity on a synth-detection team.

I wish that they added a random encounter after you free Amelia where you come across Amelia, Dan, and a few Mercs and they give you a discount since you saved their lives

I was kinda hoping that when you killed everyone in the Compound and in Covenant, if you looted their bodies you would find out that one of the people in on the project was a synth. That would of been super ironic.

You know what I hate about Covenant? Penny. Why? Because When I tried to investigate her, she said "Enjoy You're Stay!" I got really annoyed and killed her.

After finishing the main story I went to check out this place. It really made me chuckle how they're paranoid and jittery about the Institute finding them, and even running some sick inhumane psychological experiments just to find out which person's a synth or not. I wish there was just an option to tell them that I'm now the acting Director of the Institute and I'm watching all this tomfoolery unfold before my eyes. XD

I know this is an old video, but If anyone happens to see this hopefully it’ll help! There are 2 shops that exist in covenant when you get there. Inside a house to the right as you know, there’s a general store and a doctor stationed inside. But if you take Over covenant they’re gone, and you can’t assign settlers to those shops! BUT, if you have vault Tec workshop you actually can! You just have to setup a settlement management terminal thingy. And you’ll see those shops available as jobs you can assign settlers to! They’re not tier 3 shops, but it’s still neat. Settlers will go and stand at those locations. So now it’s fine to kill everyone there 😂

Q: You're exposed to radiation. A mutated hand grows from your stomach. What you do? A: Become the pattycake champion.

I only killed the covenant ppl cuz I wanted a new settlement.

"I don't mean to alarm you, miss, but you appear to have a cigarette growing out of your face."

"Do synths even know the rules of baseball?" DOES ANYONE IN BOSTON BESIDES THE GHOULS?!?! and the sole survivor. Heck, Moe is the local "expert" and he doesn't know diddly

8:08 X6: {stands right in front of Jacob Orden} *N0w tH4T wa5 Sm0oTH*

the SAFE test, we drop a safe on your head and if you survive you pass

5:28 "You have a problem with the people here?" NPCs block view and run into each other

I found the compound before covenant, and once I heard the holotape from test subject 12, I just instantly went off on everybody in the compound. I couldn't bring myself to have mercy on them.

Yeah I wiped them off the map. They were all complicit in wholesale murder and torture. I tried to have compassion, but I kept hearing the caravan guard talking about his son. I only left Deezer, because he's a robot that makes "lemonade".

“All of our lives shattered by the Institute.” >is wearing institute power armor God I love this game hahahah

I found out it funny to see a "Join the railroad" holotape in a trashcan while exploring covenant

my first playthrough I stumbled across covenant at night and everyone attacked me. I killed them all. then later while wondering around I randomly found the compound, did not speak to the guards but was able to walk through without anyone shooting at me. I had absolutely no idea what was going on

I still wonder why an X-Ray or Ultrasound couldnt reveal a Synth.

Talia is the only one who I felt bad for killing. She seemed too frightened not vindictive

I still remember when I first came to covenant, I got it and ignored Dan, I sat down in a chair and when Dan came over to talk to me for the 5th time, I got up and blew his head off. Obviously I didn’t know what was happening behind the scenes, I just wanted Dan to stop bothering me.

"Hey, you need to pass the SAFE test in order to be sure that you're not dangerous" "Ok." *Proceeds to answer like a fucking psychopath* "Ok, you passed. Congrats!"

Pretty late to the party but... Chambers: What would you do if your family was destroyed by a synth, right in front of you, when you were but a child? What would you do if your family was kidnapped and tortured, right in front of you, by people who aren't sure and don't care whether they were synths or not, when you were but a child?

"I don't trust a man that doesn't have something strange going on about him, cause that means he's hiding it from you. If a man's wearing his pants on his head or if he says his words backwards from time to time, you know it's aaaaaallll laid out there for you. But if he's friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not he's done something even his own ma couldn't forgive." - No-bark Noonan

Place reminded me of that cannibal village in Fallout 3. Too perfect. *Too" well maintained.

I was told that most of the population in fallout 4has forgotten that catchers existed and that is why the compound people thinks that if you answer "catcher " on that question , then you're a synth

21:49 The guard in the background is missing a head

When I first heard of Covenant, first thing that came to mind was Halo because that's what they call the aliens in the game.

"Are you threatening me, Dan?"..... Damn, so edgy, I love the tone of her voice!!

8:07 "Now that was smooth" The mayor: Are you talking about my legs?

I stumbled upon Covenant essentially by reverse. I was exploring in early game and found the sewer entrance to the towns dirty little secret. Since the guards decided to talk first, I tried to leave peaceably. Too bad for them, they opened fire after saying I'd seen too much, and I tend to have a rather hostile reaction to people that do that. One (more) underground hellhole full of dead people later, and a rescued innocent, I go up to the Covenant gate to Have Words with whomever may be in charge. Too bad for them, they opened fire. So now, one (more) collection of buildings full of dead people later, I've apparently taken a possible settlement site by force of arms. I'd feel guilty, but they shot first. And I have a rather hostile reaction to people that do that. :P

In my Institute playthrough, my Institue character was dressed as a settler to infiltrate Covenant. And even though synth are valuable Institute property, I decided to let Chambers live, because I figured, if she finds any psychological deficiencies in synths our robotics division could make some personality software patches to the synth builds. So effectively, the Institute controls covenant from the shadows without them knowing it. Occasionally we "provide" them with a runaway synth deemed expendable.

I’ve literally watched this about 7 times lol. Your videos are really informative and interesting, Well Done Ox!

I really love your videos here of the fallout lore. You do such a thorough job breaking down and going over the details and information pertaining to the subjects of each video. It is very wonderful to listen to, have been binging on them.

4:57 its really hard to focus on what Mayor Orden is saying when the branch behind him is doing magic tricks and floating from its tree.xD

First time through, I immediately left when I found out there were no lemons around to make the lemonade. "Nope!"

You should start using the Aquaboy/Aquagirl perk for the lore-throughs. That perk and a suit of power armor means you can explore anything you want, and I feel like there are definitely mysteries hidden in deep waters around the Commonwealth

The "S.A.F.E. Test" - or the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner - nice. Also, let's not forget that in Bladerunner, there are hints that Deckard is also a replicant. And the Institute has the Coursers - synths who hunt synths just as Deckard hunted replicants. I was entertained by the parallels mainly because they're fairly subtle. This one was funny for its recycling of the G.O.A.T. exam questions and artwork; I agree, not laziness - it's wise to reuse assets where possible, especially in creative ways.

Covenant feels like a group of raiders who happen to have sophistication as a cover.

the more humane way to test for synths is to lock them up and feed them lots of candy. the people get fat synths don't. And no one could accuse you of cruelty lol

First time I ever found the covenant, I was immediately ASSAULTED! How was I supposed to know all those suckers in the pipe were theirs? Sheeeeesh my baaaad

I just thought deezers lemonade was brainwashing juice that will make you stay in covenant and become one of those smiley weird peeps

Honest Dan should've been a companion

I don't care if someone is human, ghoul, super mutant, or synth, The quote "it's not who I am, but what i do that defines me". Sums it up why.

the goat from fallout 3 and the apparently innocent look of the town reminded me so much of Andale from fallout 3

In my playthrough on Survival Mode i had chosen to leave Preston in the room waiting for a conversation we were never gonna have, i figured id go BoS once as i kinda "need" the Vertibird flares for the travelling. I figured my goal here is to ensure mankinds survival which means a stable secured Commonwealth and as futures kind of depend on people breeding like rabbits even synths with the best intentions arent a "good thing", point being i shot up the entire Compound only to agree with Chambers all synths had to die and ended up with Covenant worshipping me. The existing turrets dont count for defensive values to prevent raids but they do help fire in case of attacks so just place an outer layer of turrets and 3 water pumps and youve got an instant healthy productive settlement. For me i just started with Red Rocket, Covenant and the 2k Diamond City spot. Once i ended up meeting Danse and crew i was reminded just howmuch i dislike Knight Rhys and found that once you accepted to go inside with them that killing Rhys or the Scribe switches off Danse's unkillable status and i ended up wasting all 3 and saving on the spot. Damnit no Vertibirds and back to setting up settlements dreading the day i gotta face Preston, ill just make sure theres no more settlements left to send me to =)

Kills 20 people all companions Hated or dislike it X6 THAT WAS SMOOTH

I walking into the synth dungeon and thought it was the Railroad, because I didn’t complete any of the missions for them, and was sadly mistaken

41:08 “…and she grew up to be an old woman” Best line of the video.

Also, the Compound Guard Armour is reused Vault-Tec Vault armour.

I thought they were cannibals tbh

ox: plays fallout ox: is talking about fallout me: is playing fallout while watching fallout: yes

I just realized the railroad is like the Underground Railroad with freed synths being freed slaves.

Maybe the reason the baseball question has so much correlation to whether a subject is a synth is because of the sole survivor. Since the SS was around when actual baseball was played, and since all gen 3 synths were created using Shaun's DNA, making them all genetically the SS's grandchildren, then maybe the have some residual genetic memory of the sport itself

Covenant: You wanna play Gestapo? Settlers: wtf!? NO Covenant: Oh boy, that's the spirit

In other words the road to hell is paved in good intentions

I love these videos. It's almost like an old radio serial :) the Narration is perfect and the writing is brilliant. You get the tension of solving a mystery. Wonderful!! 👍

25:24 the guard uniforms resemble altered vault tec security armour, maybe they are from vault 111

When I stumbled upon this quest the first time, I had developed my character to be a lonely, well-suited, smooth-talking alcoholic (roleplay ftw), staying relatively neutral to the factions, despite having made contact with the Institute. I easily found the way to the compound and convinced Manny to escort Honest Dan and I through the complex to Dr. Chambers. Horrified by how Chambers treated her fellow man, under the mere "impression" that they might be synths, I blew her brains out with my trusty revolver and freed Amelia. She, H.D and I had to shoot our way out, but we made it safely to the end, leaving no survivors. While looting the place for ammunition and caps, I got to the real depths of what horror had taken place between these walls. I spent the caps H.D gave me on a nice bottle of whisky back in Diamond City, bragging to Takahashi about how I single-handedly rescued the daughter of Old Man Stockton from 50 crazy scientists.

If things seem to good to be true they usually are.

So, I've played this game almost 10 times. Never seen this place. Ever. And I've been to Taffington Boathouse.

Killed everyone in the Compound, rescued Amelia, never went near Covenant again after reloading a save.

I screwed up. I found the entrance in the pipe. When they questioned me, I told them the truth, I said I was just exploring. If they gave me the option of just leaving, I would have. But they attacked, so I wiped them out. When I finally got to Covenant everyone attacked me, so I did the same.

Covenant reminds me of Goodbury the town from The Walking Dead. When you meet the leader you feel something is fishy the town is treating you too well. I think you find the similarity everything is just too good to be true, until you uncover the truth...

This is also an easter egg for a book called Do android dream of electric sheep, I'm reading it rn. They use a psychological exam to determine whether they are androids or not.

I was never sure about whether or not synths actually counted as living people until I heard honest dan’s reasoning. If synths can fake being sentient to such an extent that we couldn’t tell the difference between a natural person and a synth, I don’t think it can be classified as faking it anymore

Whether you believe synths are "people" or not, the fact that every person they kidnapped - synth or not - was automatically tortured and executed was enough for me to Sand Man the entire compound. That's almost Vault Tec-level of evil. To be fair, my Sole Survivor probably had a body count (human and synth) above theirs at the time...but hey, Protagonist Armor, am I right?

Even on my BoS dude, that error rate is far too high. Too many dead innocents.

In regards to the lemonade, I think the funniest option is making it the Fallout version of Mountain Dew. A citrus drink made with no actual citrus fruit for reasons that only make sense in a world like the Pre-War America of Fallout.

Fallout 4 never dies. It's as relevant today 2020 as it was when made. Mods keep it alive. Thanks for this great video. I never did covenant because I found it confusing. I like to be a good character but now I'm conflicted. I love the BOS but When it was exposed that Paladin Dance was a synth, I spared his life from Elder Maxton. I also saved Little boy Shaun from the Institutes destruction and I love him in the Commonwealth/Sanctuary. So your video drove home for me that all synths are not bad.

Next time I see my girlfriend: "Hey, Babe! Listen, hope ya don't mind, but I'm going to put my Quantum Harmonizer in your Photonic Resignation Chamber....Okay??"

I still don't feel bad for molotoving the entire town after finding out the truth.

Anyone else realize that the safe test is the goat test from fallout 3