newbies guide for Fallout 4

[pukunui]

Is there a(n easy) way to tell if a settler is a synth? I keep hearing my Vault 88 settlers gossiping, and it sounds like they’re suggesting one of them might be a synth, but I’m not sure, and I have no idea how I would find out short of killing them all and searching their bodies.

 

[Necropolitan]

Is there a(n easy) way to tell if a settler is a synth? I keep hearing my Vault 88 settlers gossiping, and it sounds like they’re suggesting one of them might be a synth, but I’m not sure, and I have no idea how I would find out short of killing them all and searching their bodies.

Spoiler: Spoiler

If you have Awareness you can check and see if they have increased energy resistance.

 

[pukunui]

Spoiler: Spoiler

If you have Awareness you can check and see if they have increased energy resistance.

Aha. I don't. I'll have to get that next time I level up. What do I do then? Is there a way to unmask them?

I'm still annoyed that I can't do anything (yet) with the info I learned snooping around in the Institute (like which NPCs are synths and which are Institute informants). Like, some of that is stuff that Piper would love to know, but I don't ever get the option to tell her.

 

[Necropolitan]

Aha. I don't. I'll have to get that next time I level up. What do I do then? Is there a way to unmask them?

If it's a specific radiant quest you can check and then shoot them if they are a synth and tell the accuser they're not if not.

If not I don't know, you can still shoot them but it might make the others hostile.

 

[pukunui]

If it's a specific radiant quest you can check and then shoot them if they are a synth and tell the accuser they're not if not.

If not I don't know, you can still shoot them but it might make the others hostile.

Oh, OK, so I have to wait for a quest that says something like "Someone says there's a synth in your settlement"?

 

[Necropolitan]

Oh, OK, so I have to wait for a quest that says something like "Someone says there's a synth in your settlement"?

It's the quest called "Suspected Synth."

 

[pukunui]

It's the quest called "Suspected Synth."

OK. I haven’t received that yet. I leveled up and got Awareness and tried it out. I saw a settler with 10 energy resistance, but when I checked their equipment, they had a hat that was granting that resistance.

 

[Necropolitan]

OK. I haven’t received that yet. I leveled up and got Awareness and tried it out. I saw a settler with 10 energy resistance, but when I checked their equipment, they had a hat that was granting that resistance.

Yeah, false positives are possible.

But from what I've seen other than the quest the only way you'll know without checking for energy resistance is when the synth starts attacking the humans.

 

[pukunui]

Yeah, false positives are possible.

But from what I've seen other than the quest the only way you'll know without checking for energy resistance is when the synth starts attacking the humans.

Ah OK. That's good to know!

 

[Necropolitan]

Ah OK. That's good to know!

Also the humans speculating about synths is just generic idle chatter.

Like the guards in Skyrim talking about taking an arrow to the knee.