>Jason Bright reaches the Far Beyond >a planet a million light years away >it's occupied by the Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, Deathclaws, Super Mutants(there was a bottle of FEV in space), Radroaches, Dogmeat, and a 50s greaser gang, they all drink Nuka Cola

Aint it funny how you can bring nick valentine into the airship, walk around with him, and listen to the elders speech with him right beside you? And the only thing they do is insult him?

A whole country full of storytelling opportunities, and it's always the BoS.

Bethesda tried 3 games and 1 show to make Brotherhood right. And yet they failed each time, I miss my tech-cultists...

I asked my roommate "You're a Brotherhood of Steel Knight. You've been assigned by the Elder to guard the airport where the Prydwen is docked. One day, some random wastelander walks up to you and asks "What is this place?" you tell her "This is a military installation, you need to leave now." and she replies "I'm familiar with these military installations. My husband was in the military." What do you do? His answer? "I don't care, now get out of here!" I will say now my roommate knows little to nothing about the lore of Fallout, and his answer makes way more sense than what actually happens in Fallout 4.

Fitting, ain't it? Bethesda already reduced Super Mutants into a bunch of mindless Orks, so naturally they made the Brotherhood into knockoff Space Marines.

Cant wait for fallout 5 where you gotta find your sons father

I was talking to my friend while watching the show and I mentioned how the BoS really doesn't need to be in everything fallout when talking about how all Fallout is now is a checklist of references with terrible writing and he told me the BoS kinda have to be in Fallout and are the face of the franchise. I realize Bethesda has really done irreparable damage to this series' identity, it's WHY I love New Vegas so much man, I just want this franchise to try NEW things more often and not remain stagnant forever with the same exact factions, stories without even improving on the writing.

10:33 this is comedy gold right here -- Emil Pagliacci writing at its finest - "I'm no stranger to your blimp, my husband was in the military, and I wasn't, cuz I'm a lawyer who stayed at home." - "OMG WITH UR *****EXPERIENCE***** YOU'LL FIT RIGHT IN THE BROTHERHOOD!"

It usually takes me a long time to realize something. I just realized that the BoS in the series IGNORED a piece of tech that even they didn't have: the fusion generator.

10:34 "My husband was in the military". Paladin: Wow I guess with your experience you will fit in with the Brotherhood. In Bethesda Fallout if you get married to someone you just get all their memories transfered to your brain. Also love how this Paladin didn't question which army, because there are no nation states in the east coast as far as I know and the only factions with actual militaries are BoS and Enclave. It's the little things like this that show how little Bethesda care about their writing actually making sense. Edit: I just realised that if the soldier were to actually ask that then Nora/Nate would have to go on and explain how they are a pre war person. At which point he would have to weight what's more likely, that they're telling the truth or just a synth with implanted memories.

They went from Power (armor) Rangers in 3, to this, to the fucking Crusaders from Fallout the Frontier in the 110% CANON show

Emilio: Apparently I can't write to save my life. That is correct Emilio, that is correct. Just like it was said in yesterday's STAG, yes, Bethesda wants to erase everything iconic about Fallout and replace it with their own vision to make Fallout "their" IP. They are sick of people reminding them Fallout had a past pre-Bethesda and they really hope the serie will help to erase all of Fallout's past.

“you bet your ass the brotherhood are in hawaii” dude you just murdered todd holy cow

Jokes in West Coast Fallout: "am I playing Virgil to your Dante right now?" Jokes in East Coast Fallout: "haha, Gary! Gary! Gary! GARY! HAHA HE SAID GARY AGAIN, LOOK! GARY GARY GARY! HAHA GET IT, HIS NAME IS GARY, IT'S SILLY, IT'S A FUNNY NAME, GARY! HAHA, GARY! GARY!"

OG Fallout Enjoyers be like: "Get that BOS OUTA here"

10:40 ah yes, the classically isolationist tech cult with a superiority complex are "always looking to add a few more brothers and sisters to our ranks"

BoS philosphy in 1, 2, NV: "We need to prevent this nuclear Armageddon from happening again." BoS philosophy in 4: LET'S NUKE CAMBRIDGE OMG OMG NUKE IT NUKE CAMBRIDGE

You know, the T-60 would have worked so much better as a post FO3 BoS invention, rather than a prewar thing. Showing that they're advancing as a faction, technology wise. But then, that would be against their FO4 version, which is allergic to new technology. The west coast BoS would have tried, at all costs, to take the Institute, like how Father Elijah tried to hold HELIOS One.

E-Mail: "We will not be restricted to something written 20yrs ago." Also, E-Mail: "My OC was actually in FO1 HOW KOOL!? Nevermind, me lied :P Not everything me say is true"

Joseph Anderson puposed a rewrite where Proctor Quinlin is the Synth and altered the data on the Holo-Disk to avoid getting his own cover blown and to frame Danse to sow chaos.

Fallout 4 Brotherhood feels like someone vaguely looked at the Warhammer 40K Wikia for the Imperium of Man for 20 minutes before work and went to town designing a rip off.

The Brotherhood has been Bethesda's favorite child for decades, seeing as how they've been favored in every main and spinoff Fallout title. And THIS is what they did with them. Edit: there IS special dialogue with both Brother Henri and Mother Isolde if you joined up with the Atomites in Far Harbor, both making things easier for you as they will just give you what you want cos you're "one of them". Which is the bare minimum of reactivity to your actions I guess.

To be honest, Danse is such a fucking good idea, but since this is a bethesda game, no matter how hard I try to ignore the inconsistencies, the game STILL reminds me of them every single time...

That prewar guy's voice acting is so funny to me. He doesn't care at all about the end of the world.

Nora be pulling the "it's _our_ rank _we_ deployed" bs

Hold the fucking phone... 24:08 Quinlan says he wouldn't miss a synth any sooner than he'd miss a *transistor radio.* Transistors were never invented in the Fallout universe! They use fucking vacuum tubes! God, EVERY TIME I expose myself to Bethesda's writing, I uncover a new layer of just how shitty it is...

I don't think there's any better symbol of how incompetent Emil and Bethesda are than their tortured overuse of the fact that "atom" and "Adam" sound alike in English

How you join the Brotherhood in the four mainline games: 1. You get sent on a quest to a site so radioactive, that it is an almost guarentee you will die. When you return, they hold up their end of the bargain. 2. You don't. But you are allowed in to one bunker, if you can steal virtibird plans from an Enclave military base. 3. You join by proxy of following Dr Li to the Citadel. 4. You help Danse get a transmitter, and are invited to join before they even know it it works. My guess is 5 will have you walk up to a training camp and just getting recruited on the spot.

Sadly Danse being a "loyal" Synth to the Brotherhood, is still overwritten by the broken Mask Incident. He could flip out any Moment, and that's the Danger he poses.

Meanwhile in Fallout 5 BoS knight: "Freeze! What wretched, diabolical device is that?" Random scientist: "It's a crucible! It's used to add carbon to iron to make steel! It's simple, reall-" BoS knight: "DESTROY THAT AT ONCE! SUCH TECHNOLOGY IS A DANGER AND MUST BE PURGED!" Scientist: "Wait, aren't you called the Brotherhood of St-" (Scientist gets instantly killed by nuclear crossbows, somehow)

The fact that Vergil can cure himself of supermutantism and outright say he’s working on making a generalized cure for the rest of the world and the Brotherhood couldn’t give less of a shit is so mind boggling to me. Just a very basic “Hmm I guess we’ll keep an eye on him”. That should tell you all you need to know how shallow and retarded the faction has gotten over the years. They’re just watered down Space Marines now.

25:53 In a good Fallout game, like NV, you would be able to convince Elder Maxon to change his mind not just because of charisma check but also via changing several key members minds or finding enough support like this. Maybe the mechanic Ingra could also support Danse and some one else who's named NPC and some no names but nooo, Bethesda doesn't care

The problem with Bethesda's Brotherhood? It's never earned. This is actually very similar to the situation with Luke Skywalker in the The Last Jedi abomination. It's not the problem that they made Luke a hermit - it's that they did a complete 180 on his character without required building up for that. The same goes for BoS. You can't make them someone completely different without doing the required legwork. You can't change the surface and claim that everything beneath also changed. It's as if you wear the clothes of your friend and start saying that you're actually him.

Honestly I don’t mind this at all, Lyons brotherhood was a radical offshoot that focused on helping people rather than keeping up to the brotherhood ideals And it was done pretty well and made sense because they were more or less excommunicated by the west coast BOS Maxons brotherhood still feels like it makes sense as it’s an extreme overcorrection by a young ambitious extremist who grew up in the capital wasteland which is full is some of the worst mutants when compared to the west coast, so the shift of attitude still makes sense imo

People forget the original Brotherhood of Steel send you out on a Death mission as your first mission from them knowing full well you won't survive. They are genuinely surprised if you make it back. These are exactly the type of people who will hold no feelings for your death if they believe you to be a synth. Even if they fought by your side. They are portayed exactly how they always been and 3 was the one where they changed. It was the Brotherhood outcasts who held up the old ways. Maxton reunited the two and made them stronger and more focused. But that outcast mindset of "if you're not one of us you're nothing " remains. Even NV had them drugging you and slapped a bomb collar on you. These have never been a group that allows anyone other then themselves to be in charge of tech. New advanced tech is to be destroyed, old tech is to be gathered, researched, and destroyed if deemed to dangerous. The Brotherhood are not good people and they have never been good people.

Codsworth leaves if you are not moral. Therefore he has developed a personality. The best explanation is that the robots are basically uploaded humans whose minds are stripped back to the rudimentary level, and who go insane or become people if they go long enough without a mindwipe. This explains why the one in the classroom of diamond city can fall in love despite the testimony of Curie that she had little or no emotions as a robot. As far as I know, that's the only robot to experience romantic love. Is Kleo lying about being a woman or do they consider themselves female? They don't seem insane. It might simply be they found it a good tool to manipulate humans with, or they might genuinely see themselves as a woman, and might pursue romance with a certain ghoul if they could.

I won't let you turn this giant killer robot into a weapon of war!

In Fallout 3 Despite my unwavering dedication and pivotal contributions, I find myself overshadowed and underappreciated. Reclaiming the Jefferson Memorial from the Enclave and sacrificing myself to activate the purifier were monumental feats, yet the Brotherhood seems to claim the "Lyon's" share of the credit for these achievements. All I got was a pat on back and I also got promoted to Knight. Even after I told Lyons that "I Don't want to join the Brotherhood".

It’s a shame because I enjoyed the basic experience of being in the Brotherhood. It felt like a real faction in terms of basic structure. I wasn’t in charge (or being told I was command when I truly wasn’t) and I gained ranks in a chain of command and had backup that could actually be useful at times. Unfortunately the writing makes the BOS’ motivations and actions all over the place and their final actions against the Institute are the most ridiculous of all. Emil just thinks wouldn’t that be cool and shoehorns something in without any regard for a larger framework that needs to make sense. Parts of this game could have been enjoyable if they were left in more capable hands.

Hope one day we'll see your tier list of which Fallout elements did Bethesda butcher the most, S tier being the most butchered aspect. I think BOS has to be the most butchered besides maybe super mutants imho. Literally each time we see em in Bethesda games they act differently, barely any time or events happen and they become completely new people

"A Canticle for Leibowitz" is key to what the Brotherhood of Steel should be.

"Danse has served you for years, how can you not trust him" I don't know, how about we ask Varus the same question regarding his most trusted subordinate

I was honestly confused after watching Frank Horrigan kill Matthew and an entire Brotherhood bunker in Fallout 2 how many Brotherhood were left.

Bethesda is where every single porblem with modern Fallout stems from. They tore out bunch of cool concepts and used them to create their own little piece of open world action casualness without putting much thought into anything beyond that. And to think these people professed to be fans of the original CRPGs, yeah sure they are fans of what they thought looked cool and were happy they didnt have to think too hard about coming up with their own cool looking set pieces for their buggy shoot and loot romps. Its just so fucking sad that this had to happen.

The brotherhood should still be hiding in their bunkers in California at best or at worst still having a military conflict with NCR in a limited capacity not being fully Across the US in Washington or Boston.

Fallout 3 did introduce some things about Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel such as Elder Lyons past, the Brotherhood Outcasts, and there were members who still stayed in the path of the Brotherhood of Steel traditions. Though yes, they did bring wastelanders to join in but it was out of desperation and lack of manpower due to the Outcasts, lead by Henry Casdin, leaving Lyons after Lyons showed sympathy to the wastelanders who were getting killed by super mutants. Still, the problems still remain on how in the world the Brotherhood got there. I can kind of understand the Enclave since they have advanced technology and they had cells in the Capital Wasteland for a while but the Brotherhood...that's long ass way to get to DC. It is mentioned that Lyons Brotherhood crossed the Pitt but it never explains how. :/ Also, Bethesda retcons their own lore. In Fallout 3, Madison Li just helped with power issue. The original designer is lost in the sands of time while Scribe Rothchild would be the one who will most likely be the current head of rebuilding Liberty Prime. Liberty Prime in Fallout 3 was used as a weapon for the Brotherhood of Steel. In Fallout 4, for some reason, Madison Li doesn't work undercover and actually convince scientists to join the Brotherhood of Steel and take over the facilities to preserve technology.

I like that, starwarification of the robots is a good way to say it. Though the R2-D2 thing is not getting memory wipes for very long intervals of time. Pretty much they go insane and get a personality.

18:39 If you have Far Harbor installed and have met with the Children of Atom there, it unlocks a new line of dialogue for this interaction. You can tell them you're "on a pilgrimage", and he'll let you pass without a problem.

I actually enjoy the brotherhood path, if they where an all new faction I wouldn't have as much of a problem with them, their writing is still a bit dumb and they contract everything the brotherhood is meant to be while they are called the BoS. The idea of clearing out the wasteland of raiders and mutants suits the gameplay loop of fallout 4 well. A fight loot return loop.

At least Fallout 3 had the Outcasts to show that the core Brotherhood is potentially still tech hoarders and whatnot. Though, it is odd that such a small minority chose to stay to the original ideals of The Brotherhood.

Maxim is right about Danse, he's a machine that can be reprogrammed at will. That makes him an extreme danger.

The BoS in 1 and 2 are very much an fringe faction that is unusually armed. They've done very little for how "powerful" they are due to being isolationists. At most in 1 they would help you blow up Mariposa even if bugged to only help out in the first floor, Scribe Vree giving you the autopsy to own the Master in an argument while also being a thing, was not directly the intent of getting the disk narratively, it was just "oh hey, we have this autopsy result of a super mutant that seems interesting, do you want to see it?" sort of thing. In 2 they're literally a bunch of weirdos that stalks you since you showed up on The Den (back when you're literally just a nobody tribal) and then asks you to steal Vertibird plans, they literally have no involvement beyond this. And it's even more baffling that they have a bunker on San Fransisco with a hyper advanced medical AI that is left untouched by the Enclave that dropped by to kill the guy manning the outpost even, ignoring the fact that San Fransisco is right next to Mariposa. But hey, that's probably just the byproduct of 2 being a not quite finished product. Tactics is very much where they've gotten their modern identity of being "wasteland cops", but in Tactics they were depicted as highly pragmatic, very much oppressing the locals and were only praised by them due to the bigger badder threat the Calculator's army/initially super mutant army remnants/raiders presents. Van Buren design docs paints them as to have gone mad, the Maxson bunker Brotherhood, also known as "Circle of Steel" were Stealth Boy junkies, this is not unlike the nightkins on New Vegas but this is Van Buren, so it precedes that, on top of being kicked out of California if I remember. New Vegas only has an entire chapter hiding because they got beaten up by NCR, Elijah while interesting is actually as a concept pretty much a recycled Viktor Presper, the main antagonist of Van Buren, him and Ulysses, but that can be discussed for another time. And other than being destroyed, they have at most the ending choice of being turned into "highway cops confiscating technology". See, by those regards, 3 actually did something interesting, it takes after Tactics to some degree, but unlike the ones depicted there, they had a more altruistic approach to the Capital Wasteland, and even had a splinter faction in the Outcasts consisting of die-hards, while still retaining some grey-ish ideals such as "hating non-feral ghouls" as if I recall the random BoS spawn around The Mall would shoot at The Underworld's gate guard. 3 also explained this characterization with The Pitt, or well tried to, Ashur is kind of interesting but not that much as he's pretty much just a Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now reference for the most part, but eh it's an attempt regardless. I'd agree that 4 pretty much flanderized them as if some sort of a way of fanservice pandering to 1's fanboys though. The writers could've stuck with their guns and made a distinct East Coast brotherhood faction like 3 did, but no, what we get is like a child's idea of what they were like in 1 and 2. Oh there was also Extreme where they tried to invade China I guess but who cares about Extreme.

3’s Brotherhood isn’t just “The good guys” wholly and completely, many within it criticize the drastic change, and the Outcasts completely rejected the change. New Vegas showed exactly what you said: “if they don’t change, they’ll die,” and so Lyons’ Brotherhood changed. And 4’s Brotherhood didn’t suddenly hate Ghouls and Mutants out of nowhere, that was true in 3. Fallout 3 gets way too much hate for what it is. You don’t need to hate 3 and 4 to like 1, 2, or NV

Love your videos rn bro, keep them coming x

Me ever since seeing the BoS on the east coast the first time in FO3: "Get that smelly lore outta heaaah!! 😡😡😡"

I've been looking forward to this

If you treat Fallout as a trilogy (1,2, NV) and everything else as Bethesda fanfiction then it's easier to not get upset. Instead of irreparable damage to the series, it's Todd Howard's or Amazon's version of Fallout.

Creedout A betterly written post-bethesda role playing game series

Idk, i think the rogue Brotherhood that didnt want to stagnate and die were very well done in Tactics and keeping their tech hoarding ideals with Vault 0 being the main goal and after that Bethesda tried to replicate them with each of their installment. Even weird in FO4 where it feels Institute would be another Vault 0 for BoS to reach and take over. The schism in Tactics also goes along with state of BoS in 2

Thank you for these.

Isn't there a house that has a family of feral ghouls in the basement and the terminal reveals that the son unsuccessfully attempted to tame them. So was this just another instance of two different writers having no communication?

Starwars droids don't ACTUALLY have personalities technically. They are very clearly stated to have such sophisticated programs that they basically pass as having one but it's more that their personalities serve to help them in their original programming. C3PO's prissiness is actually a manufacturing defect in the Droid brain that his company used when they built his line of droids so all 3PO units end up becoming somewhat neurotic. The closest they get to actual personality is that IF you don't mind wipe them for long periods of time, their quirks from their Droid brain become more and more pronounced and their specific quirks end up becoming displayed in more unique ways which pass as personality to a human interacting with them.

Dang, Cree, you dropped this one while I was at work! 😆 Lucky for me, my Internet connection is great, so I got to close out a good day with your reminders about Fallout 4's depiction of the BoS.

One thing is a fact, we really need to thank the modders. America Rising 2, Subversion, Phase 4, and Synthetic Player. Amazing that they all work together as well.

That opening bit is exactly why the Brotherhood was portrayed as an ideological dead end in New Vegas.

@16:15: Li had a dialog in the Fallout 3 DLC that she is going to find the institute and try to join them.

Just wanted to comment on the Star Wars droids part you brought and up and add that Star Wars (at least in the expanded universe) does tackle the issue of droid sapience and the morality of keeping droids as property. There’s even multiple droids rebellions over it.

OH BOY HERE WE GO!

Just look at Fallout London, and how much factions custom made to area they developed. Bit sad that total conversion mods like Ederal create new world with story better than Behesda.

I think the Brotherhood being in D.C. makes sense because of all the government tech and the Enclave. They also split into two groups the ones that wanted to help the Capital Wasteland and those who just wanna collect tech. Also he forgot about the fact the Brotherhood are in Chicago in Tactics.

I dont mind the brotherhoods main faction goal changing over time, it must be organic not this forced good guy shit. SHOW me how they changed not just some two line exposition dunp

Hell actually, 😅 if we wanna get technical, the BOS outcasts of Fallout 3 were Bethesda getting the Brotherhood right. They did what they were supposed to do; acquire and preserve technology from the Pre War era.

9:57 me flailing wildly in agony everytime i remember Fallout 4 exists

I always just assumed the deep range transmitter transmitted across the entire state meaning it would let the brotherhood contact allies near the border for more reinforcements as a backup if the prydwen is shot down

We got this for "good entertainment" and people wonder why 97% of my 2023 playtime is bloody truck simulator.

16:14 She is?! Her face looks completely different. If it wasn't for the nametag telling me she's "Dr. Li", I would've assumed she was a completely different person altogether.

By this point, no wonder it's hard to choose faction in this game when they're all just down right terrible. Not terrible as evil, just terrible as in utterly so stupid that they're unlikeable even if you want to be evil.

Only 50min. I thought your rant would be longer.

For the robot part id also add that the robots you can construct with the Automaton DLC also seem to have some form of self-preservation. If enabled with a personality they seem to be weary of being told to self-destruct and show relief if you cancel the demand.

Does anyone have a link to the live stream about the fallout show on 4/21/24?

If youve joined the CoA in Far Harbor before doing that quest in the Glowing Sea, the cultist in the basement will believe you and will be much more friendly

Clarification on the whole “why is Dr. Madison Li here” thing, during Fallout 3 Broken Steel DLC, you can ask where she is and they tell you she went to join a group of scientists in the commonwealth. Taking into account that Zimmer (who was bothering her every day in the Rivet City science lab) was from the Institute and raved about how the android (synth) belonged to the Institute, and we can understand how she got the idea of going to the Institute to begin with.

I just got an ad on this video for some kind of Fallout branded coffee. Hilarious.

“With your experience” …as a military wife? Yeah sure, Bethesda, encourage the dependas to claim their husband’s rank.

I enjoy all of the standalone faction Videos. The Leaf Bro had a very good idea👍🏽

I have one single statement: Fuck the Brotherhood Of Steel.

It would have been cool if when the brotherhood are at the airport that when you are going to get the deep range transmitter that dance said something about the brotherhood in the commonwealth having trouble keeping contact with the brotherhood outside of the commonwealth due to some contrived reason

The first time I played FO4 I went with the BOS storyline so when it came to Danse is a synth quest I made a save and ended him, there was no synth component on him that was December 2015 and other players found none on him either. I then went back in and convinced Maxson to let him live and then Danse was going to leave the commonwealth but having a high charisma char I convinced him to stay, so after a few in game days I went back to Danse and got him to follow me again, Danse was still all BOS talk but had no issues ending the knights sent after us as Maxson had promised and Sanctuary was constantly under attack by the BOS because Danse lived there, yet I could still continue to do quests for the BOS when Danse wasn't my companion; how does that make sense? My questions at that time were why would Maxson believe what the institute implied about a fellow brother he had known and trusted for years and why would Danse even entertain it? The only faction I go with since then is the Minutemen and my main companion is Dogmeat, while I collect the other companions two I leave behind is strong and curie and I only use the railroad to decipher the chip, Deacon is a liar so I won't work with him, I love settlement building and having 26 settlers in every settlement plus extra minutemen at the castle I'm in charge of a huge army that protects the commonwealth, the BOS while I have nothing to do with them usually tend to follow where I am on the map and inadvertently help take out groups of bad guys I'm fighting. The battle for Bunker Hill is usually my last quest for the Institute and since I'm not affiliated with either the railroad or the BOS it's a walk in the park, I don't have to fight any of them and send the synths back, I only do the quest to get Bunker Hill as a settlement. The only companion I have yet to work with is X6-88, it's at the marina waiting on me even after the Institute is gone. I have destroyed the BOS once but frankly playing the way I do they're more helpful from a distance.

Actually, you need 8 charisma and intelligence to convince that follower of Atom to let you get access to the nukes without shooting him. I found that out a while ago.

4 was my first fallout, its high school level writing. Its still a fun game if you completely ignore every bit of dialogue, like all of it. Just go build stuffs

„The Star Wars-fication of Fallout robots“ what a term. And actually right, I’ve never thought about it before.

RE: question about what are druids in Star Wars, I believe that A New Hope novelization and EU addressed this a bit. Basically "personalities" and independent actions were considered anomalies that emerged when droids weren't regularly memory-wiped. Wedge, who most recently owned C-3PO/R2-D2, as of episode 4 either neglected memory wipes or didn't believe in them. As such the duo had personalities by the time we met them. Novelizations touch on the parallelism between Droid servants (who are routinely wiped) and slavery. The droids that follow movie heroes are anomalies and have essentially gained their "freedom". In the KOTOR games you can similar juxtaposition between HK who is brimming with character (who had not been managed by a human for a while) and HK units that were in current operation.

6:13 You were close and far off at the same time 😅. BOS in tv show is "muh evil faction" but in the most stupidest way, where they have a cutl like ritual and initiates fear knights as if they gonna snap their heads. Like Bethesda literally makes BOS so inconsistent you can't predict their next iteration!

There was Cut Content where you could Challenge Maxson for the Position of Elder because Danse would Remember that it would be Possible, and it was a Duel to the Death or something like that. And YOU, the Player, could Take over the Brotherhood of Steel. However if it is anything like being the General of the Minutemen, being the Elder is just in Name Only...

I got into this series with fallout 3. So seeing how they are in New Vegas and 4 was a jarring change. I just want the faction to have some damn consistency.

Going to search for the Institute is part of Dr. Li's ending in F3.

A lot of nukes are designed with a variable yield. They could have either been set lower for the brotherhoods knights safety or even the electronics could have degraded and been stuck in a lower yield. Or even possibly they took the individual smaller warheads and put them into mini nuke shells increasing the ammo supply but decreasing the overall explosive yield per warhead

I only played New Vegas. What’d I miss?

Do they ever explain Proctor Quinlan's accent? Fallout 4 is interesting in that there are a ton of random accents in the Commonwealth but no indication that world travel is a thing again. And the weird thing is, you'd actually think that Transatlantic travel would be workable by this point, two centuries after the Great War. It's just weird that no one talks about it yet plenty of people clearly are doing it.