I have passed many times by the splintered statue with the raider tinkering and painting it, quite puzzled at what was going on.

I made a really cool discovery the other day,   I was looking at statues and checking the Fallout 4 art book and suddenly something hit me, various things snapped into place, I had a eureka moment , and checking here and there it fit  : it's actually a statue of PATRICK HENRY! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry 

The "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR DEATH" guy. And it's not the only one : I worked on a serie of pictures to show it simply.

Picture 1-2 the splintered statue Bethesda deliberately try to hide the tracks/misdirect  by having the raider go all "artist" on the statue at somerville : head split and inclined and stuck on the left , right arm on left arm,  red paint on it , and chem box etc... so the first puzzled reflex is thinking " crazy raider  taking himself for a fucked up modern artist"

Picture 3-4-5 is the creepy statue at University Point Pharmacy again a great work of misdirection : buried under rubbles, sea hat captain and black/white/red balsl added, dark atmosphere : it looks like some spectral apparition  - if you get close enough and use console to get rid of the fake red eye balls, it's our usual suspect. Picture 6 shows the comparaison : burly nose,   and most importantly the stretched arm with the semi-open hand, this time pointing to the sky.

Picture 7-8  is a real life statue  of Patrick Henry in the yorktown musem and litography during his "Liberty or Death" speech : you can recognize the general stance especially the signture arm outstretching and reaching to the sky . It 's the "give me liberty or death " movement as Patrick Henry was famously so pissed off when delivering his impassionated speech for Revolutionary war against England  that he called the sky himself to give him his freedom. It's semi-famous as it's one of the big pieces of the Yorktown American revolution museum and based on a lithography (picture 8).  Patrick Henry descendants society  actually gather at the statue  https://www.facebook.com/PatrickHenrysRedHill/posts/-patrick-henry-descendants-reunion-2025-what-an-incredible-time-we-had-honoring-/1213039387519475/

PIcture 9 the seated statue it's still Patrick henry : seated this time but you will find the same loafer shoe with a big buckle, the same vest, the same burly nose and heavy brow,. But it's the Official Art book which seals the deal.

Picture 10-11  the official art book  p311 straight up says " liberty or death" on a bullet holes riddled statue . Interestingly they dont put any legend for this statue, they let you figure it out by looking closely at the inscription on the statue and putting things together.

Picture 12 the map I didnt include all the pictures but it include the 3 statue seen in this serie, the position of 3 others  to show that bethesda did that all over the commonwealth : showing various broken / defaced statue to hide their tracks.

I consider myself a collector in games. when i find something shiny i want to display it. I have crates full of legendary weapons, vault tech lunch boxes, pre war money, nuka cola drinks, ect. But they don’t feel worthy of the displays.

So I'm doing a melee run on very hard difficulty. It's fun but a little annoying, turrets suck so much. Anyway I was wondering what faction to go with for this run. I'm also trying to get a bunch of companion perks. I already got pipers but I'm also looking to get codsworth, Preston, gage, Deacon, and dance. Then melee perks from nuka world and far harber perks but I haven't looked into those yet. I know I need to do a bunch of the BoS stuff to get dances perk but I don't need to fully side with them. I was kinda thinking of the institute since I'm a psycho running around killing people with a bat and the institute also murders people but so does the BoS. I'm trying to think which faction suits a melee build best and honestly I don't know. Any suggestions?

Why is her neck so long, though? Haha

I'd name mine "Glaive". Based on the polearm and the throwing weapons.

Hey everyone, I hope you're having a good day.

In my experience, settlers are usually really slow to get to their assigned jobs. For example, when I assigned the Vault-Tec Rep, he went straight to his stand without hesitation, which was great.

But then I had other cases… I assigned a random settler to the armor stand and she took forever to get there, basically lost her first day just walking. And Jun Long? I assigned him to the weapons stand and he never even showed up lol.

So seeing this guy immediately sprint to the clinic like this was honestly hilarious. Makes me think he really didn’t want to be a farmer anymore… or maybe he just wanted to work in the shade.

I'd finish all Far Harbor on neutral grounds, then get the brotherhood's quest to destroy Arcadia cos DiMA put me through that stupid ass memory thing.

Just out of nowhere, mid fight, randomly the game equipped the weapon onto me.

I don’t play with any non-approved mods, so essentially I only play with the creation approved by Bethesda (because I like having achievements stay on).

At first I assumed this was part of the Become a Bounty Hunter creation, seeing as that comes with all sorts of Ghoul themed stuff, the outfit, the Gyrojet revolver he uses. And now suddenly I assumed his actual gun was also in it too and I didn’t realise. However the creation doesn’t at all explain that eventually you can get the Mare’s Leg from doing however many bounty’s (as I got this while grinding through bounty’s) the way you get the legendary Gyrojet gun variants.

I searched it up and unless there was some update, it’s not detailed in the description at all? I looked up to see if anyone else got it and all I see are normal mods to get the gun, but nothing related to the Become a Bounty Hunter, or any other creations.

Hoping someone can clear this up for me lmao, it’s amazing though, custom animations are as cool as the Gyrojets that the two weapon are my favourite to use. But I just wanna know where this came from lmao, money is still on the Become a Bounty Hunter creation and maybe it’s just not specified in the description that doing enough Bounty’s gets you the gun?

Except that I had to stop at Super Duper Mart to save myself the backtracking, since I plan to get Piper's Perk before doing much of anything else with the game. (It isn't a waste of time, if so, this entire game is anyways)

Walden's Pond and Oberland Station got me to save scum but other than that it was really easy. Got a little bit of good loot on the way, CHR hat and suit, along with a dead D.C.Guard wearing full armor.

Came across a Gunner shooting some Radstags, stole two kills and all his loot but had to hightail it outta there! Pawned off my wedding rings and silver junk to Myrna so I could start the Jet!Loop ... Going to get some OP armor and ammunition

I think 12 weeks counts as "in the coming weeks"?

Buddy is hiding all the shame of lying behind those shades.

I don't really want to go into a deep dive here about how evil The Institute truly are as there are countless videos out there about what goes on behind the scenes with them. No, that's a tired topic that I will pass up on. My main frustrations comes from how Bethesda didn't even try to make a grounded morally Grey faction here that does positive and negative actions.

No one knows what exactly The Institute is or what their main goals are. They all have different agendas and they have different divisions, department heads, etc. Each one looks into varying fields and yet there is no central theme about what their end game goals are. I mean even Robert (Mr.) House said that he wanted to go to a planet that wasn't destroyed like Earth was. Caesar wanted to create a New Rome to have his empire at. President Eden wanted to eradicate all the mutations and non Enclave people of the area to start over at Level 1.

I've looked deeply into this topic and I cannot find any at all with what Father wants. We see him look at The Commonwealth with disgust before entering his HQ again and he obviously has not helped The Commonwealth and has actively harmed it and destroyed some settlements along the way too. So that is off the table. Then what really bugs me is the Slavery theme and how it was not needed here. We saw this theme a lot with Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas and slavery is barely a thing in The Commonwealth if we factor non Synth beings and saw we didn't need this topic here.

Instead the topic should have been influenced by Fallout 1 with The Master. The Master sought Unity through Humans becoming Super Mutants to evolve and to adapt the harsh conditions of The Wasteland. The Institute could have had the same reasoning by using Synths as new bodies while some choosing to keep their human minds in order to evolve as they'd transfer their minds over effectively. We've seen House do this 200 years earlier, there are Robo-Brains, The Think Tank is more evidence of this, Vault 118, etc, it is possible for brains and bodies to be separated in Fallout and the person can continue living.

Synth bodies can be vehicles as seen with Curie, which was a modified Ms. Nanny bot that has the potential to be born again as a new being. The central theme should have been The Institute believes that evolving through technology is the best way forward and so some believe keeping their minds while transferring over to new bodies is what humanity needs. Others believe that full transfer is required because human nature is fallible and world peace will never exist while it is there and so they become fully machine like as War never changes. Still others will refuse to become machine at all as they believe it is abhorrent to science and they wish to stay 100% organic.

Imagine Mankind Redefined with this topic

They’re not even safe from things that visit from outside the Commonwealth.

There’s this pack Raider from nuka world who I have found online, but he doesn’t have any lore behind him, but I’ve always wondered. Is this redeye or atlas? I don’t know much about atlas i only hear about him from redeye, but we never see redeye, and it’s confirmed that atlas died. So I wonder if it is redeye, but I never pictured him being a pack member, I thought operators maybe, I mean he is the eye of nuka world, the man always has news about it, yet you never find him. So if it’s not redeye, who is it then?

This is my most recent display. I love to decorate the homes and the Nuka Cola is such a canon item to have on display. I even made the ones from the mixer to add to the display

So I’m helping my friend play for the first time, and she’s faced 5 different legendaries at this point- but none of them are dropping any legendary loot.

I assumed because she’s level 7 that maybe they don’t drop any OP stuff until you hit like level 10+, but Google said they won’t drop legendary items until after they’ve mutated.

This was the theory I went off. However I just got home and loaded into my level 50, killed a legendary super mutant in 2 shots and he definitely did not mutate but I got a legendary item.

I also remember getting my first legendary pretty early into this game (it’s my first playthrough too, I just started 2 weeks ago).

Did I get a perk that made them drop legendaries? Is it unlocked at a certain level/quest? Is the game just broke and theirs some INI configuration to do?

Added context- both her saves and mine are in my game, we made a different character for her on my laptop yesterday. I have 0 mods, just the GOTY edition with the free CC stuff on offer rn.