The Watcher Initiative | Fallout Lore
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- As you’re exploring The Commonwealth Wasteland you may get the feeling that you’re being watched, but you’re completely alone, there’s no one there and while that feeling of being watched subsides it never fully goes away and that’s how many people in The Commonwealth feel - that there’s always someone watching. The Institute, The Commonwealth Boogey Man, appears to be the go to culprit and they do have eyes and ears all over the place through synthetic humans, Institute spies almost indistinguishable from the person they pretend to be and if not for the synth chip on their person you might never have known the face in front of you was false. But The Institutes ability to watch others goes far beyond synthetic humans.
Watcher initiative testing log, entry six. Acting Director Justin Ayo speaking. We've concluded the third round of surface testing, and the results are promising. We're receiving valuable data across a broad spectrum and in real-time. With the improved monitoring, I'm confident we'll be able to expand our operations on the surface. I intend to request additional units from Robotics for immediate deployment in Diamond City. End log entry.
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The birds work for the bourgeoisie.
I knew it!
Birbs aren’t real!
Birds are a mere social construct
@Synonymous I don't even know how to pronounce that last word.
@@PrinsaVossum booje whaa zee
If you attack the crows with a knife. You’ll get the sound effect of hitting something metallic( like cars, power armor, etc.) instead of the flesh stab sound.
Probably a bug, but still a neat addition nonetheless
Might just be you hitting the ground
They make good target practice when they’re up in the trees!
@Svenskanorden1 Considering they could do something amazing well and just leave in stuff that baffles people in a bad way, it just makes sense.
Although if you shoot them they explode into normal bloody gore. I've killed them in the past for spying but it's likely they don't know they're spies so now I feel bad for the needless avicide.
Honestly if the Institute wants to spy on me by sending me a small little cat to just chill with me for the rest of my life in the wasteland I wouldn't even be mad.
Lets hope they dont program them to watch people poop as much as some cats do.
That would just be awkward and a massive invasion of privacy.
I mean I'm not doing any heroic shit so if they are sending me a cat thats fine by me
@@davidmclaren3620I don’t know Dave. I’ve seen you shit, it’s pretty heroic my guy!
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The CIA has admitted to doing this in the 60s in what they called acoustic kitty. It wasn't very successful because after they installed the microphone in its ear and an antenna in its tail, it got hit by a car crossing the street to the Soviet embassy. The funny thing is they never bring up attempting this on dogs, which seems like a natural progression to such a sick experiment, but also makes me wonder if they were successful given most dogs inherent obedience.
This truly shows how deeply the Institute has infiltrated the entire Wasteland. To be honest, kind of spooky if you were placed in the shoes of an average wastelander.
When I played this game lots. I looked at the institute as our government. Fallout has so many answers we don’t listen too. Because it’s a “fanatical video game”
@Mister Majestic he needs to hop off them drugs
@@Lightskinmakwayou need zyprexa
@@placer7412 I like how there's repeated evidence of social media platforms collecting our data and not only selling it to advertisers but the government as well, to the point they use our microphones to listen to things (hence why when you mention a product irl suddenly you'll have advertising for it), that even multiple government bodies have admitted to collecting our data and that it's just a matter of time until they have the technology to interpret that amount of data but y'all are still like: "nah, it's not real. It's not happening". 🥴
@@placer7412 he's right.
Also it's confirmed.
In fact: ALL crows are spying - they're the so called: "Watchers"!
The program is called the "Watcher Initiative" !!
We have a lotta proof:
Why is every animal mutated, except crows??
Why you get no XP when you shoot them?
Why they completely explode when you shoot them? Like with the Bloody Mess perk? = no proof. Same reason with:
Why Crows cannot be disintegrated with energy weapons? Or:
Why you can't aim at them with V.A.T.S. or seen on the compass? = no proof
Why you can find them only around you or/and crowded places?
The more crows, the more important. Like for example around Diamond City.
We've proof:
Like i said l, at this point it's pretty much official lore for us.
And even in-game, a lotta ppl and factions know that. I'm sure the Railroad and Minuteman know 100%.
I guess the Brotherhood knows too.
The "Watchers Initiative"
We see it at the spy monitors, that it HAVE to be crows. Cuz there aren't any cameras at all!
Ppl openly talk about it;
Ronnie Shaw: "We've seen a lot of those Institute crow-things sniffing around. Looks like they're getting ready to try to take us out."
Deacon: "You see those little raven bastards (he calls them ravens), - they could be Watchers. Reporting everything back to the mother ship. So, the Institute wasn't content with just creating synth people. Oh no, they have synth birds, too. Or wherever the Institute's hiding. So smile for the pretty birdies." 😉
Gotta love Deacon.. 😅
We also have official Statements:
Fallout 4: Crows - on Mark Teare's Tumblr:
"At one point I was thinking the spy crows were hiding in the packs of real crows so I made one red eyed and impossible to kill. In the end the idea was that all crows were WATCHERS, so we didn’t need to have a second type."
Edit:
Alana Secord: "Oh, yes. Uhh... Watchers have not shown any additional threats at this time. We're still monitoring increased activity around Fort Independence, though there's no immediate cause for concern. Boston International Airport remains occupied, and Brotherhood presence has been noted at several other locations. And, uhh... Despite a lack of concrete evidence, we have reason to believe that the "Railroad" continues to operate within the Commonwealth. Personally I suspect they're becoming more ambitious, but I can't confirm that at this time. For now, we have assets monitoring all known situations."
I wish there was lore on the mannequins they always creeped me out so much
Facts
I'm pretty sure that they're put all over by raider gangs.
Put a human shaped figure in the street and listen for someone to shoot at it. It's like dinner ringing the 'come'n gettit' bell for you.
@@glenngriffon8032 plus it's good to judge distance and I imagine it gets boring out there so sometimes you gotta be a goofy fella to past time
U always find them in the strangest positions like standing over skeletons and I found one cuddling a ded man on a mattress
There is lore on it have you not seen the video
Makes me suspicious of the birds you first see in new Vegas when leaving doc Mitchell house. I wonder how far the watchers have spread across the wasteland. And how many.
Yeup and they're more than just there, they're all along the road to new vegas. There's one outside novac headed north on interstate that has the blue, peaceful npc icon on your compass
From what we can tell, the Institute’s reach is fairly localized. They are pretty much stuck in the Commonwealth, with a bit of reach into the Capital Wasteland. From what we can tell, that’s pretty much as far as they reach. I guess crows are just everywhere in the post-apocalypse, and that is why the Institute picked them to be their drones.
@@Satellaview1889 makes sense.
@@mandelabrein8116 I wouldn't be surprised if they have some birds that made it to the west coast and despite the institute not having any need for anything that far out they still study what's going on and keep and eye on important people there just in case the data gathered becomes useful in the future.
@@Satellaview1889 they're a bunch of scientists with all the time in the world, they would absolutely do it for curiosities sake. they made a bunch of gorillas; for what reason?
I always thought Dogmeat was a synth too. 'perfectly preserved' one of a kind dog just happen to wait for you outside of sanctuary
Very suspicious
In some ways I agree. However dogs, especially hunter/warrior breeds like Alsatians, would be very valuable in a dystopian world like this. Them being the only one is actually the inconsistency there.
I think Diamond City Security should have had them as descendants of K-9 units from Boston PD. It makes sense for BoS and the Enclave to not use them due to their technological superiority and augmenting their capabilities with robots. The Minutemen likely did use them being quite limited and lacking tech, however we don’t see that because they’re still rebuilding.
So yeah it’d be cool if Dogmeat is a synth, as I love the idea of an immortal Shaun roaming the new world with his immortal doggo! But it’s also more likely he’s just a good boy like the other dogs in the series.
@@TheMelancholicWriterI mean, it's not like Dogmeat is the only dog in the entire fallout franchise though. Dogs appear in other games, but they look like wasteland dogs. Raggedy scavengers in poor shape. Dogmeat is just pristine when he shouldn't be. He should be dirty, mangy, gross but he's very well taken care of, despite the fact most people can't even take care of themselves.
@@TheMelancholicWriter I disagree on the BOS thing here. Dogs make excellent spotting companions, far cheaper and common than working robots, and just as effective too. The BOS in the East for sure has used dogs, and so did the NCR.
@@DrownInLysergic I dunno why people keep thinking dogmeat is a synth just saying. Originally he's an Australian cattle dog/ blue heeler from the original 90's Fallout. That's a direct nod to Mad Max's dog, the original dev's said. Also dogmeat was same breed in F3 when you find him in the junkyard. He's a healthy looking pure bred there too. He definitely wasn't a synth then either. If he's killed in computer commands in F4 , he doesn't drop a synth component.
Even in F4 there's a wandering dog breeder called Greg I think. Sells healthy looking pure breeds too. Not every dog in Fallout world is a mutated mongrel.
Now the real question: Has anyone ever tried to eat the synth bird?
Considering you can eat the synth courser, watchers are likely as edible as regular crows
Considering that advanced synths are effective biological in pretty much every way, it would be surprising if the watchers weren't edible like any other bird
Pam likely discovered the watchers when correlating data, picking up on agents mentioning an abundance or increase in the number of crows around institute projects (DC mayor) and major operations (castle) leading to that conclusion. Ronnie is the oldest native military commander in the commonwealth, over her years as a minute man she would have slowly picked up overtime as she originally if not even by the time of Fallout 4 considering it partially coincidental.
Ronnie and Pam were the only ones to realize the connection as they were the only ones with access to the necessary statistical data, Pam through dozens if not hundreds of agents and Ronnie through years of situations where she could encounter institute operations in the commonwealth without knowing it.
I think another way Ronnie or other wasters could find out is by shooting crows as a source of food then finding out they have synth components. Honestly I'm surprised they are still such a hidden aspect of the institute throughout the wasteland.
I knew about the crows being institute eyes, but i never knew ronnie and deacon mentioned them. Thanks for the video :)
The birds are literally the "birds are spycams" meme.
Dog meat a synth? Think about it, only friendly dog that just happens to be outside of the vault that you were in and is the most obvious path you will take out of sanctuary. Not to mention he is the only German shepherd to appear in the game
Not true, through a random encounter you can meet a guy who has dogs for sale (Rottweiler I believe) been a while since I played so I can't remember if he will sell you the dog or keep it.
He’s the only German Shepherd so you can identify which dog to fire your Mini-Nuke at.
Dog meat's actually an eldritch entity
@@tiredman99 right, but again there is only one German shepherd. Could be wrong it’s been a while since I’ve made a full run
A sample taken from the dogmeat in fallout 3 during the encounter in rivet city. Then cloned an dropped off to monitor our progress. He found kellog in fort haggen so quick based off only cigars........ Plue you can take him plus 1 more. Come on
The cats being watchers makes sense. It explains why they can't become pets like dogs, and it explains why you find them in covenant
The main thing it explains is why cats are only found in the commonwealth and why they're all identical munchkin cats
I recently started a new fallout 4 campaign and I was really noticing the birds this time around, I just got the sense that they were following me. It was like time I turned down a street a flurry of crows flew away. At first I just chalked it up to Bethesda demoing a new ai mechanic but I love that there's an actual lore reason there are crows everywhere.
Love the content! Your narration is great. I've enjoyed being a part of the channel for a while now.
I find it odd that these crows didn't get mutated like all the other animals. They are definitely synthetic.
Exactly. Even the seaguls you can often find in the coastal areas of the map have noticeable mutations and sores throughout their bodies.
Some dogs like Rottweiler's were also natural and unaffected by radiation. I had the same logic as you but these Rottweiler's seem to suggest some dogs were unaffected by the fallout.
@@Clark42EoC They're simply: Built. Different.
The birds did mutate, just not as drastically as other animals. Crows and gulls are already extremely adaptable and widespread to begin with, so they wouldn't need to change much to survive the post-war world
The Institute probably took the most inspiration from the Tyrell Corporation in Blade Runner.
Fallout 4 is older than blade runner
@@enclavelieutenant8614 Blade Runner came out in 1982
I never thought the birds outside of vault 111 were also synths but until I found the room in the institute with a bunch of cameras watching the commonwealth.
Well, if I ever play F4 again, I'll be sure to just wipe the map indiscriminately.
Doesn't everyone do that already?
I treat this channel as an offical lore channel for alot of the hidden aspects of the games deeper lore that aren't as commonly discoverable. I love each new video and they always contain vast amounts of new knowledge and information. Keep it up man!
Let's go another Synonymous video
The “birds aren’t real” crowd just coomed their pantaloons…
The idea of watcher gorillas is hilarious to me. Totally inconspicuous lol
This reminds me of the Yathzees would call random phone numbers to see how much land they lost in Berlin.
Look at you want, I aint going to be the one counting how much dmg the Spray and Pray does to their body.
I genuinely love that Bethesda took the "birds are government drones" meme and just ran with it 😂
Can you do a video on Lorenzo Cabot, and more specifically the headwear of his that gives him immortality, knowledge, a connection with potentially aliens, and psychic powers. I find that to be incredibly lore heavy and interesting.
Hey man have you thought about doing creepy pasta narrations? You have the voice for it.
another great one, gotta be the best fallout lore content out there
Don't forget that Dogmeat is also a very special synth watcher, likely specifically designed and programed by your son Father.
Honestly, it just makes much more sense if he is your own special, dedicated, synth watcher. Immune to radiation. A perfectly healthy dog, beyond rare already, but out of everyone he came out of hiding and approached only you and INSTANTLY bonded permanently and took direction PERFECLY (well Bethesda "perfectly") IMMEDIATELY, because he's obviously been programmed to follow your orders, protect and monitor you for Sean.
No dog would be that trusting if it has lived a real life out there for the years it would take to reach his apparent age. Add to that the fact there is a "watcher" station overlooking the Red Rocket truck stop, much like the Railroad watch station at Vault 111, but very noticeably missing any railroad markings so it is not the Railroad's. Since dogmeat comes out to meet you before you can get solid eyes on the station, whomever was verifying contact likely already teleported away. You could even turn Dogmeat's exploring & retrieving bugs into explained, believable FEATURES. How could Dogmeat get passed a Master level lock and grab the Cryolator or other items in locked containers and return them to you (yes I know it's long patched)? Obviously his Institute design was prepared for contingencies that may be needed, such as systems & equipment to bypass them. See? No patch was necessary, just a better theory.
Honestly, though, the most satisfying argument for me that Dogmeat is your personal institute mic, camera, monitor & reporter has to do with Sean's seemingly laissez-faire attitude towards you. Taken at face value, Sean apparently ordered you released from Vault 111 and sent out into the wastes with no guidance, information, or supplies and made no attempt to contact or significantly help you, yet simultaneously wanted you to find the Institute FAST, before he dies, so that you can succeed him. That always made ZERO sense to me.
The Institute is supposed to be a scientific society. Even if Sean felt it necessary for you to prove yourself and your capabilities to the other members by being able to reach the Institute with no assistance, he still needs PROOF and a record of what you had done and accomplished on the way there. Bird watchers are obviously a great choice for large scale passive monitoring, but they obviously have their limitations too. So, after successfully releasing all those synth cat watchers to augment the birds' coverage area limitations, what would be an obvious choice for a higher spec, better equipped, bigger and stronger synth watcher AND companion-protector meant for long-term active monitoring of a high value target? Is there any other choice BUT a dog for something like that? I think it is far more likely that Sean feigned disinterest and passed his decision to free you off as nothing but a whim. But, he knew he was dying and wanted you to succeed him. He also knew no one in the Institute would accept that decision (ESPECIALLY if you are actually a synth too). He sent Dogmeat to help and protect you while also recording the evidence he needed to get his decision accepted...by MOST people.
Lastly (this really got out of hand lol) if you consider the theory that the Sole Survivor is also a special synth replacement, it only strengthens the Dogmeat synth watcher theory. You don't conduct an experiment just to see what happens, you want to see if it behaves and operates as expected or not. Since the experiment requires no contact, initial info, etc. so as to not influence his behavior you want your protector/monitor meeting and staying with them as soon as they pass the starting line which is precisely what happens.
There is a hole in that theory. Dogmeat is well known to others in the wasteland, well enough that even if you haven't met him yet Nick valentine will call for him to track Kellog.
It would seem odd for a watcher designed specifically for the player has such a significant past interacting with others in the commonwealth.
I would imagine the Institute doesn't make watcher cats because they would be helpful to the wastelanders
I just finished the main plot. Ended with brotherhood (no quests they just ignore me), railroad (quests and shit) and minuteman alive. There's anyone watching me anymore. And i still have automatron and far harbor to complete along with a lot of commonwealth quests. Lvl 81 4d 1H save
Oh and a lot of mods like "Enemy levelling revamped so the game never gets easy and boring
I wondered how canon wise - cows mutated from radiation yet birds and cats and other animals haven't.
"As you're exploring the commonwealth wasteland, you get the feeling you're being watched.." Yeah, that's Deacon.
"Why not?" - Deacon, RUclips poop
Am I the only one who instantly thought the crows were synthetic? I mean have you seen their movement? They are either synth birds with animatronic head movements or Todd had 1 dev animate a bird in less then a minute as a last minute plug in.
Have you seen how crows move in real life? The in-game crows are pretty accurate
Average conversation with a "birds arent real" believer:
A healthy dog just happens to wander out in front view from a Red Rocket store? No it was Dogmeat! He orchestrated it. And you, you have to stop him!
So I partake in a lot of reefer, right. THIS, is one of those times I'm gunna take a break for a few days. Thanks bud!
i knew from the first time i saw one they were Institute creations as no matter where your char ended up and what you were doing they always seemed to be there and would always seem to follow your movement
This would be so useful. But flesh will always do the trick for a fraction of the cost.
People are fallible and think for themselves. It's probably a large cost up front (if they even have to pay for anything and not just steal or obtain it by theft or force). But, I don't work at the institute, so I may be very wrong lol
The Sole Survivor: MURDER TIME FUN TIME!
Merry Christmas Synonymous thanks for all the awesome video this yr☃️👊🇨🇦
You're welcome and Merry Christmas! 😁👍
Man I don’t want to think my cat is a robot spy
This is all I needed…… I’m now fully convinced that birds aren’t real not only in game but irl.
Small birds as government surveillance tools is actually a common conspiracy component. Go ahead, catch one and cut it open, you’ll see…
I found a chunk of flesh in an abandoned wing of some Institute location, probably CIT. It was labeled "Cat Meat", and I always see cats in ideal intel gathering locations such as the one on the Prydwen, so this theory seems very plausible.
Buts red string on cats nail.
It's all coming together
The power lines is what charges them.
The main reason it doesn't make sense, especially in the wasteland, is that healthy looking crows would be something a lot of people hunt.. and all it would take is one synth crow to be killed, and dissected for people to realize it was synth, and the whole cover to be blown
Nah crows eat corpses. Same reason we wouldn't eat them is the same reason people wouldn't eat pigs not clean
I mean, the sa.e can be said about cats. In the West Coast, cats are extinct because people have been hunted to extinction.
I think the main excuse is those cannibals in Far Harbor ate a Synth and couldnt tell till they like coughed up his robot bits.
Not if they're the latest generation, made of flesh and bone. Presumable there'd be a ship in their heads to actually transmit visual information, but who eats bird brains? Or the component could be made to self-destruct, leaving no trace.
@@BigChap117 I think if they had that tech, their Corsuers would of had that.
Someone commented under one of your videos (Fallout 3 related if I'm not mistaking) that when some NPC's talk to each other they say this: "did you notice, all animals it the wasteland mutated except the birds".
Maybe it's old news, but I remembered it for some reason :)
I still feel fallout 4 could have been much better without a voiced character. The wasted resources on voicing could have lead to so much more
What I find odd is that more wastelanders don't hunt birds for food, and if they did, they'd find lots of synth components
dogmeat is the best institute spy.
You must shoot every bird you see, As is the duty of every man, woman and child who serve the Minutemen
the birds arent real, confirmed.
explains why there's so many ravens & crows out and about in the Mojave wasteland
Maybe I've been playing too much God of War.... But all seeing crows, the leader of the institute being called Father...
When Ronnie Shaw said that they've seen those crows sniffing about. What I thought was those Courser synths because of their dark attire.
Man the end slate just shows us how much of a wild wild wasteland it truly is
I aways feel like somebody watching me
ain't got no privacy
Finding this out struck a cord. A very creepy cord. I realized I had been watched the whole time.
What if the watchers are the mannequins. 😂
I heard tidbits about the watchers and kindof headcannoned them as Old World government robots, which makes them still existing 200 years later way creepier to me
Dog meat is a synth, he’s the best looking dog in the entire game. Like freakishly clean. He’s insanely smart and useful, and the player finds him directly outside the starting area.
Why is it every time you upload a video i get that erie feeling that i watched it already. And like a year ago or more its too.... unnerving.
"A little birdie told me"
Funny that Deacon talks about the Institute spying on you using innocent looking birds when he himself spies on you while disguised as an innocent looking wastelander.
There’s a bioscience terminal with an entry titled “Synth Zoological Initiative Phase 2” which states: “…We’ve engineered creatures that inhabit the sky and the land…” meaning the crows for the sky and atleast the gorillas for the land.
I take the duck season approach to the wasteland birds
Imagine the cat you return to vault 81 was a synth replacement 😳😂
What happens if you go to each of the locations on the monitors and take out the crows there? Do the monitors go black?
Nah. The birds are almost immediately replaced anyway
And they ask me why I kill all the birds in every game I can; firstly, irl, I do not like them in the slightest. Secondly, this.
you should make a video about the ash heap area in 76, one of my favorite areas in all of fallout love the look of it like a uncheck industrial wasteland
I mean this mostly as a joke, but I like the idea that Deacon DID lie about the Watchers. He just only lied abouy them being ravens, not crows. The Deacon works in mysterious ways
Could you do an episode on the cats of fallout? I was very surprised to see them in Fallout 4 and 76, especially in their largely un-mutated forms. Also what did he mean by “(cats) previously thought to be extinct“ ?
There’s a quote from a previous game where a character who seems to be really knowledgeable saying that cats went extinct. I think it’s mr house in new Vegas
@@jameskacer9563 thanks! I never got around to playing NV or 3, so I know I have gaps in my understanding.
I adore this channel
welp, now I have an excuse to go bird hunting *starts looking for a mod that lets me do that*
The Institute pretty much confirms this theory. In a meeting SRB head itself mentions "Watchers" or similar and the camera monitors fit positions crows are usually in. Still or in general a cool thing to add.
E: Lol, I wrote this comment as I watched the video and right after posting the part is mentioned.
Did no one notice him say "purrfect" as he was talking about cats? 8:52 well played sir
You know when I first played through I felt creeped out lol. The birds are spies the birds are spies.
Wait…. Synonymous… are you also working for the channel Heavy Spoilers??? I swear the narrator for their TLoU episode 1 vid is you… and if not he sounds IDENTICAL 😅
If you look at the institute cameras of the overworld they line up with crows sitting
I thought someone in the institute had a line about increase the watcher presents blank region, I may be wrong but I remember it vividly
regarding why crows were chosen: - Crows are as smart as a 7yo human child. they can be trained to do an array of tasks. Corvids are amazing animals, and even if they are flying spy cameras.. I still enjoy having them around.
Deacon just jealous someone else is watching the Sole Survivor besides him 😎
To add on to this, I’ve heard the theory that Dogmeat is a synth. He’s immune to radiation, is healthier than any other dog in the game, is trained to listen to the sole survivor, and is found in a location that the sole survivor is almost guaranteed to pass when leaving vault 111 and sanctuary. As far as I know, there’s nothing that proves this theory in game, but he could be a watcher specifically intended to keep an eye on the sole survivor.
It’s a popular theory but there’s zero evidence. Still would been interesting if he was
Dogmeat is just Dogmeat. An ever faithful friend of Fallout players, earned by the actions of people playing Fallout 1 who desperately did everything in their power to keep their lil furry friend alive through the hardest part of the game by locking him in rooms during combat.
Making him a synth for this game feels a bit like spitting on that legacy. The good boy deserves better imo :)
@@ngfshgsfhsgh I unfortunately haven’t had the chance to play the original fallouts, I need to either figure out how to get them to run on windows 10(if it’s even possible) or buy an old laptop or set up a VM
I dont like that theory, it could exist but when people try to make it a thing just rubs me up the wrong way.
@@awesometechguy1706 There’s two mods to fix it for modern systems. Fixit and the unofficial patch. Fixit adds some extra content to the base game so unofficial patch can be better for a more vanilla experience
Hey Synonymous, can you do a video on the Pulowski shelters? You're doing a first rate job lad
There's viewscreens in the Institute (can't remember where) that show proof of synth birds being used for spying.
And best of all, it isn't cut content, therefore it's canon.
Probably the smartest thing the Institute could do would be to introduce cats as Watchers, then let slip that birds are Institute spies. They can sit back and sip coffee as every powerful person in the Commonwealth surrounds themselves with an army of cats to hunt the birds.
Love how you come up with the greatest topics to cover man genius ✌🏻🤟🏻💯🔥🔥🔥🐐🐐
Birds know what I had done, and they are concerned.
the institute synth watchers always reminded me of "Acoustic Kitty" a CIA experiment that intended to use cats to remotely spy on soviets during the cold war, project cancelled 1967 and disclosed in 2001, so public knowledge well before fallout 4 development. though likely just a coincidence in reality.
Watcher birds would also explain tge the suspicious lack of bird sh*t all over the Commonwealth... Considering the lack of predators and abundance of corpses and other food sources for birds, I would expect the Commonwealth to be absolutely COVERED in it.... lmao 🤣
They can build this but use computers with big duplo buttons.
Or a Laser Gun that doesnt cry when fighting anything stronger then a Pipe Revolver in the hands of a slow guy.
Or robots that could not fall over from 2 good whacks.
I wonder how many other people know about the watchers irl. Don't know how cat's survived but give the insanity that is vault tech. I wouldn't put it past them to fill a vault with nothing but mice, cat's, and dog's. Just to see which species survives
The issue with having Watcher cats would be that they get closer to humans. It would only take one accident for people to discover that the cat is a synth, so much easier than with birds.
I always assumed the crows were watching.
I could be misremembering but I recall a terminal in bioscience that talked about synth animals, and I just assumed they used them to spy.
We need a video about Lakelurks!
Awesome video!
Then there is the theory that dogmeat is a synth dog.
My respect to the one who was making the subs for this video. For taking the purrfect opportunity to making this 8:53
I started shooting every crow in sight when I first found out about it, just find it weird you don't get any items
Speaking of The Institute. I'm playing Fallout 3 right now and I'm on the Alien spaceship. I was using a Teleportation matrix and couldn't help but wonder if The Institute had somehow gotten their hands on Alien technology. I mean Synths are one thing but teleportation is leaps and bounds more sophisticated and has to be precise.