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Could the Brotherhood of Steel be in Fallout 76?

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  • Paul
    Officer
     
    July 1, 2018

    Could the Brotherhood of Steel make an appearance in Fallout 76 after all?

    YouTube user Lone Vault Wanderer has made this video, after an eagle-eyed Reddit user spotted the Brotherhood logo in one of the gameplay trailers released by Bethesda. Watch this video - it explains better than I can...

    So what we do think?

    Is it simply reused assets from Fallout 4 that will be stripped out before the game goes 'gold'?

    Or are the Brotherhood going to be 'retconned' into Fallout 76 even though the existing lore appears to make it impossible?

    Obviously we don't know. So let's speculate... because, yeah, speculating is fun :) 

  • Mr.
     
    July 1, 2018

    Hm. How would that work? Hasn't it already been announced that there will be no NPCs in Fallout 76, and that every human you meet in-game is another player?

  • Noodles
    Member
     
    July 1, 2018

    Yeah, I think Todd Howard is the one who said that they'll leave factions up to players.

  • Paul
    Officer
     
    July 1, 2018
    I am thinking maybe a rogue group of Brotherhood members, where you discover the skeletons or remains. Perhaps a holotape telling their story with a small quest locate their stash? In other words a kind of Easter egg as a nod to the long time Fallout fans...
  • Edana
    Leader
     
    July 2, 2018

    Good find on the video! It definitely raises some interesting questions. I think of those theories, a scouting party seems probably most plausible... especially because of the vertibirds (one crashed, one in tact...?), it could be that the camp is now empty and became overrun by insane ghouls or other mutated creatures and maybe the aim might be to acquire resources...? Maybe it could be a trial of some sort? That might be way out theory-wise though.

    I sort of doubt that it's an oversight in reusing assets. I would think this trailer alone would have seen hundreds of hours of editing, countless eyes on it, and I'd imagine they're pretty deliberate about what they would choose to show in the first place. So I would think this is an indication that it will be woven in somehow. Unless they're completely rewriting the lore here, maybe it could be some sort of loose proto-BOS beginnings...?  It'll be interesting to see either way. :)

  • Mr.
     
    July 2, 2018

    I hope that it's an oversight. In the lore, the Brotherhood only comes across vertibirds after the war with the Enclave, in Fallout 3's Broken Steel DLC. Back when 76 is set, well, the Brotherhood wasn't even a thing or if they were, they hadn't left California yet.

    I would be okay-ish with it if it were a ground expedition or something. But with a vertibird? That's way too far-fetched to me, personally.

    If they do decide to retcon the Brotherhood's origins (Talos forbid it!) and put their origins on the East Coast, on West Virigina of all places, they would basically have to retcon all the games prior to that, including Fallout 3 and Fallout 4. That, together with the fact that this is an online-only survival game is why I think (hope?) they won't dare changing the Brotherhood's origin story.

  • tirrene
     
    July 3, 2018

    Perhaps they will let players customize flags for their settlements or guilds, and there's really no problem if one of those flags coincidentally looks like the Brotherhood's emblem.

  • Mr.
     
    July 3, 2018

    tirrene said:

    Perhaps they will let players customize flags for their settlements or guilds, and there's really no problem if one of those flags coincidentally looks like the Brotherhood's emblem.

    That's something I could get behind. In fact, if it was up to me, I'd keep the Fallout lore from being even touched by 76, heh.


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