I can notice the slight change of direction. You’re starting to branch out and make longer more detailed videos on specific theories. We see the work, brother. 🤝
But can you imagine how unnerving it must be to have the person who you stalked for a long ass time suddenly came up to you while you're disguised and attempt aggressively to chat with you while you're posing as a guard/caravan trader/random passerby
I love how the railroad is the only faction in the game with a literal red line leading to it, with letters corresponding to numbers on the trail, and lanterns to follow as well, and when you show up they ask “how did you find us?” Like they can’t understand.
@@kaizenregimenI would have been okay with it if noone knew about the faction’s name or knew about them at all but they literally give away recruitment holotapes asking to Join the Railroad.
It is kind of fun how you find pompadour wigs all over the place and then you meet a guy with a pompadour and don't even realize that it's a wig until he mentions it
Right, the first time I saw him without the wig, I actually thought his hair glitched, and wasn't loading in properly. But then I checked his inventory, and pht the wig on him, and I was all like, "oh, wait a minute..." XD
A note about "Project Wanderer": if the Sole Survivor refuses a code name when joining the Railroad, Desdemona will assign them the name "Wanderer". Further, after you build the signal interceptor and enter the Institute for the first time, Dez will refer to the Sole Survivor again as the Wanderer.
I haven’t seen anyone mention this in the comments and probably no one will see this since it’s been two years but I feel that one of the reasons this theory holds up is for the simple fact that Desdemona doesn’t give Deacon any orders and Deacon is able to do what he wants. At any moment had anyone else tried to start project Wanderer she would have told them to let it go or let them go off on their own and not acknowledge it as official railroad business that needed to be documented. This shows me at least that not only does Deacon have seniority over Desdemona but also more sway and importance and the only reason he does so is because he doesn’t want to lead.
He is actually John Deacon, bassist of the band Queen. He was kidnapped by the Zetans in 1986 and, after escaping to the commonwealth 280 years later with no memories and having not aged a day, he joined the Railroad in their early years so he can help others break free when they are under pressure.
I was thinking the name Johnny D could be John Deacon as well. I mean he could have found a Queen holo tape and gotten the name from that or something also.
And it doesn't take much for the Sole Survivor wanting to improve the world. And since the player can become leader, or at least a high ranking member, of all the major factions in the game, it wouldn't be impossible for them to put all the factions together to make things better.
Also maybe something of note for the last point - when you join the Railroad, if you choose to not give yourself a codename, then Desdemona will give you the codename "Wanderer"
You're damn right that's something of note. That's a crazy relevant piece of info I'm surprised Nate failed to mention. Basically confirms most of what was left unconfirmed.
The Railroad: Deacon is our best spy. Deacon, posing as anyone at all, ever: Hey there. I sure do love this place I'm in. Doing the thing I'm doing, on this day that it certainly is. Many weather we're having, isn't we? Much weather. My SS, sweating nervously: IS HE, THOUGH?
The best way to not be noticed isn't to try not to be noticed (because people, social creatures we are, will notice someone trying not to be noticed) but instead to be obvious and not caring about being noticed. The trick is to do it right.
"Let me wear those ominous sunglasses everywhere I go, even when I’m supposed to pass as a Diamond City Guard." Seriously, everyone is onto this guy: the companions know he changes his face, hell, even Vadim says "maybe you’re not a Diamond City guard at all". Love the guy but he’s not a good spy at all.
Im on my 2nd play through of Fallout 4 currently and so far I have noticed Deacon in disguise as a Diamond City guard, a drifter that hangs out around KLEOs shop, and lastly as a patron in the Memory Den.
I went to goodneighbor a few in game days after Handcock’s speech to sell stuff at the gun shop. Deacon was at the shop outside just chillin. I talked to him an he said “anyones welcome in goodneighbor even me” then “ dont you have better stuff to do” lol
Me: Wow, he must've been really well hidd- *hes always wearing his glasses and comes up multiple times, using some of the same dialoge options* Me: well now I feel stupid
It actually opened my mind when he said: "There're other organizations out there. And, in time, I'm sure they're goinng to spoon-feed you their own patented form of bullshit. Ignore the verbage and look at what they're doing. What they're asking you to do." This line is such a life advice it's awesome. As hillarious he is joking around. Deacon learned life lessons the hard way and still jokes around.
Mikey Lawrence I had to kill Deacon after failing to issue the evacuation order, made me pretty sad cause I thought he was pretty cool, but then I remembered he's a son of a bitch liar.
I'm pretty sure it depends on the situation... also these games don't always allow for good solutions (ie good vs evil), you're stuck with what they program in for options. Which is VERY frustrating. Sometimes we come up with better alternatives as players but the game isn't a tabletop RPG so we're stuck with the limited pre-programmed imagination of the makers of the game.
I love how Deacon called the Project "The Wanderer", that was the main song used to promote the game. The first reveal of your character is too that song. Not in-game, but still a nod.
Nate texting, sighing, and his phone going off in the background while capturing dialogue, due to him either not muting his mic or turning off the input source, is the best thing ever i swear
My first time in Goodneighbor, Deacon glitched himself into a conversation cutscene. Just... idiotically smiling in my face while I tried to talk to Daisy. I hadn't met him yet and assumed it was a random NPC until literally just now, but it was funny enough that I recorded it. Knowing it was Super Spy Deacon makes it so much better 😭
This is true. He is labeled as "Drifter" but is essential. He hangs around by Daisy and KLEO's shops and sometimes glitches into the conversation behind you while you talk to them. He makes the usual quips about the weather and what not if you talk to him.
It makes sense his last story is the real deal, because it's the only one where he doesn't portray himself as a good person and puts himself at real risk of losing your friendship by telling you this. It comes off as someone that has lived with this confounding guilt for years and is confiding in you about it to finally get it off of his chest.
The ironic joke of the situation is Deacon is a hero worshiper but fails at being a hero and leader himself Deacon is Johnny D and he basically effed up and cause the destruction of almost the entire railroad so when he finally not only meets you and sees you start fixing not only the railroad but the Commonwealth it makes him feel sort of a sense of horrible nostalgia because the player character is doing all the right things he tried to do and failed miserably. 😒👍
Bobby Lynch actually, Tom was right about something... for once. Several monitors in the institute show camera feeds from the commonwealth, and where those cameras seem to be lines up almost perfectly with several power lines throughout the game.
When you do the mission to retrieve the sword at the smelter, when you return, if you are careful, you can catch Deacon jumping off the roof and walking away. You never get the opportunity to interact with him, but you do see him.
I just feel like it was a right time right place scenario. Deacon was the information man, it would make sense for him to be at 111 if they had some sort of info on activity. He happens to see a single vault dweller leave and scamper out into the wastes screaming "SEAN?! SEAN?! WHERE ARE YOU?!". That obviously interests Deacon so he goes to watch and see how long they will survive. By his surprise the vault dweller is very skilled and handy, crafting armor and weapons, slaying anything in their way including a death claw. He overhears you talking to Preston and shoots up to diamond city to wait for you. On top of all of that the vault dweller would be easy to mold/manipulate as they were new to the wasteland.
@@reeceypufffs Go to Vault 81. After completing the quest to rescue ashes, come back to the vault after waiting a few days, and the vault will talk about how a boy was bit by a mole rat. Do that quest all the way through and you get Curie at the end by unlocking the room she's in. She's a modified Ms. nanny robot with a cute French accent and an adorable naive personality. She can become a human by having her conscience transferred to a synth body where she becomes a female human with a cute short brown hair cut and can be romanced as a companion. Only reason to play Fo4.
It's incredible. You'll have to play the game like 10 times in a row to get all the small details and unlock all the gameplay, understand and experience the full potential of this game. This shows how much work Bethesda have put into this. Truly amazing game
I noticed Deacon standing on one of the overpasses watching me as I was walking down a road in FO4VR. It felt pretty strange realizing that I was being watched.
@@BigHorney617 i seen the drifter deacon in goodneighbor one time and just thought it was another Bethesda npc just reused as a completely diff person they are bad about doing that then I seen these videos and realized it was actually deacon.
Don't you need a Pip-Boy to get into the vaults though? Like all of them. I mean, still they could have gotten someone from Vault 81 to help. But I doubt they would, considering the fact that they dislike outsiders.
Fun fact: at the beginning of the railroad finishing tradecraft, when Des tells you to pick a codename. If you refuse she chooses the codename WANDERER for you.
Moments like these, make me realize how dumb I am. Every time I saw “Deacon”, I thought I was seeing the story of the bald security guard through my game. He had an easy job guarding the mayor, he lost it and became a drifter and struggles to survive. Having ups and downs, like having a third person perspective of our character.
At first, I just assumed it was Bethesda being lazy with their models & skins and I was just seeing "generic white bald guy with sunglasses". (At least until it became *too* frequent. But by then, I'd forgotten how many times I'd seen him turn up. lol. When it finally connected, I was like "Ohhhhh... Well, shyte - how many places WAS this guy?!?") xD
Just had a thought. Do the synths of the institute know about Shaun? Like they call him Father, but do they know he's from Vault 111? Do they know Kellogg left one of Shaun's biological parents alive in the Vault? If so... Is it possible that one of the escaped synths told Deacon in an offhand remark about who Shaun is and where he's from?
Synths have a failsafe that wipes their memories if they escape. Location of institute, access routes. Escaped synths are also slave synths they don't feed them too much information about being a synth and the institute.
Most people of the institute probably don't even know Shaun is from 111 honestly cause whenever he was brought there most of them weren't born or it was before they arrived
Something else is always watching you in FO4 too... The crows... They're all synths and they act as the main eyes and ears of the institute. If you see a crow, blow its head clean off. :)
@@therealevilmudbug":D" has always been used to depict a smile aswell and it works much better since the "D" looks like your mouth while smiling, in contrast to ")" which is a more simple and stylized way to do that.
@Hikari12217 in no universe does your mouth look more like a D than ) when smiling. If you're one of those weird horse teeth smilers, that's your problem, not ours.
I love how fallout 4 is a massive slaughter regardless of which side you choose and there’s typically a dialog your character can say to companions or some other shit maybe and it goes something along the lines of “y-you killed someone.”
i dont think he realized his mic was being recorded during the clips of the railroad hq, you can hear his phone texting and him grunt/sigh in the background
Bit late but “wonderer” is not just what deacons secret mission is called, its also what desdamonda calls the player if they are asked to choose their nickname. Suggests deacons mission was finding us
What if the sole survivor is a synth after all as theories say? That could be the reason Shaun "just observed" how he would make it, instead of doing something to meet him. That would explain Desdemona "pretending" to not know him and Deacon saying "a normal person would not do that". More clues in game, for example when talking to DIMA - options only to choose answers that the last memory Sole Survivor has is of the day of bombing, though he should have memories of other things like job and etc as the player knows.
What’s even more funny on my newest play through when I have deacon as a companion one of the diamond city guards says my ‘friend’ looks really familiar and he’s seen him but then I think he second guessed himself. It was so funny it’s amazing how much detail they put into some things and not others
The thing with Deacon's tall tales is that basically any of them could be true in the world the games are set in. We have people from the other side of the Atlantic, people being frozen for two centuries in a vault, a connected VR simulation, space stations, real aliens, ancient gods, a robot president, immortals with psychic powers, synths, talking deathclaws, etc Even his fake recall code proves the point that you can't trust people.
Ironically one of my first Play throughs of fallout 3 GOTYE was as a character named John Daniel (named John after my deceased brother Jonathan and Daniel, my middle name). In Said play through, I helped at the railroad as much as possible. So I Found it amusing that you mentioned that Deacon could be The lone wanderer or Johnny D. Since in that play through of Fallout 3, he would have been both.
if your listening to the Dimond city radio early on the host ends up saying that someone spotted the player exiting vault 111 so either Deacon told somebody and it spread from there (tho that is unlikely as that could alert the sole survivor that somebody was watching him leave) or somebody else was watching them for Deacon and ended up telling other people not knowing the importance of keeping it a secret
Opposite effect for me. I felt utterly alone upon entering the wasteland, but in a peaceful way that lulled me into a false sense of security. There's something beautiful about the Fallout world. The game The Forest however... now that is paranoia.
Deacon: “Hey, did I ever tell you that I used to be a Bass Player for a rock band? There was three other guys. Roger was our Drummer. Brian was our Guitarist, and Freddie was our lead singer, and also played the piano.”
@@plutoniumbellamy1912 I... know? I was asking if it was an actual quote not what it was a alluding to. Queen is probably the best fucking known band out there, stop gatekeeping.
This is sort of making me realize exactly how incompetent and amateurish the Railroad is. It's a miracle that two people survived the Switchboard to refound the Railroad. Deacon seems to be the only half-competent intelligence specialist they have. It was about the point where Wyatt mentioned opsec like he'd never heard of such a thing when I realized that, yeah, these guys are only really playing at being a resistance movement, and surely the only reason they're not dead and gone is because the Institute is about as incompetent as they are. I mean, hell, the fact that they *centralized their movement* instead of running in cells is ludicrously stupid. And then they kept doing it, kept having centralized and organized HQ's that they put little to no effort into concealing, not learning from their mistakes. THEIR CURRENT HQ HAS WRITTEN INVITATIONS TO IT AND IS PROTECTED BY AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL RIDDLE For FUCK'S sake.
There's a reason Deacon is desperate to recruit you. He knows the Railroad is on it's last legs, when you ask him his stance on the Railroads ideology he says so himself. He expresses interest in working with the other factions to help more then just the Synths. He says that the Railroad has become way too conceited and their refusal to look at anything other then Synths is moronic. Hell if you side with the Minutemen Desdemona lambasts you for choosing them solely because the Minutemen aren't exclusively focused on the Synths, she firmly believes the the Minutemen wouldn't do anything to help them and just leave them to die. Yet if you take the Institute down with the Minutemen, they're the only faction that cares about saving EVERYONE even the Institute. With the player being given the option by Preston to evacuate all of the people from the Institute. And if you go back to talk with Desdemona afterwards she chalks up the Minutemens victory as just "fine" as she's clearly too stubborn to accept she might have been wrong. It's why I like Deacon so much, sure he's the Railroad faction companion but unlike guys like X-88 or Danse he like Preston accept that and are just trying to help people the only way they know how too.
I find it really hard to do a railroad playthrough because they are such a meaningless faction with no true goals. The only faction in this game worth siding with for me is the institute.
I don't really think it's incompetence so much as just bad writing. The writers at Bethesda clearly did not put much effort into researching the actual Underground Railroad and at the same time they didn't put enough thought into writing the Institute so they're actually as intimidating as the lore tells us they are. Bethesda consistently has these problems in Fallout so it's really not a surprise, like John Eden in Fallout 3 is a fucking super computer but like you can very easily just convince him to kill himself. Like Bethesda really did intend for these factions to seem interesting and worth interacting with but they're terminally incapable of writing Fallout and sci-fi in general. Part of this is revealed in how they're seemingly scared of of just making the obviously evil factions evil, the Institute is obviously evil considering they invented robot slavery, they could have been written similar to Mr. House, arrogant remnants of the pre-war era completely convinced of their superiority and their right to rule the wasteland with a robotic army. In doing so you could have made them into ruthless monsters with clearly no regard for anyone other than themselves. Though in saying that it becomes really obvious how they're just a mix of Mr. House and the Enclave and not really a very original idea, they don't even bring anything new to the table because "pre-war research institution with amazing technology" was already done in "Old World Blues" and it did it way better. Same goes for the Brotherhood who after mysteriously being the good guys in Fallout 3 even though they have always been egotistical and arrogant dicks are now back to being exactly that but also with robo-racism, which does fit in with their lore. Despite that Bethesda also refuses to admit that they're clearly pretty fucking evil, because "oh look cool power armor". But Bethesda has always had an inexpiable hard-on for the Brotherhood and never really understood that they're supposed to be a pathetic holdover from the old world that is slowly dying off due to their isolationism.
@@hedgehog3180 idk about the whole brotherhood ordeal, I mean Bethesda managed to write them as a bunch of very unlikable nazi roleplayers, with appropriate aesthetics to boot (coats, haircuts and hats specifically). Also I may be giving Bethesda's writing too much credit here, but I think that the railroad's incompetence at least partially makes sense because of how uneducated the post - war society is. Because so much knowledge is lost, knowledge on covert ops included, they might be making rookie mistakes because of it
Also to note that if during that final conversation (after gaining maximum affinity ) with him -- He gets noticeably upset/angry that you don't believe him and say yeah it was all a lie. He doesn't do that for any other time you talk to him after gaining some affinity .
I love how his name is Deacon but a deacon is a devoted member of the church that takes up offerings and performs various other duties for the church with no hope of reward, it's a good name for the man
Almost all the names are like that. Preston = Priest town The man wants to find "Sanctuary". Beth loves literary devices like that. Sarah lyons In Hebrew, and Persian, it means , often simply translated as "Princess". In Modern Hebrew, "sarah" (שרה) is the word for "woman minister". Middle English lion (Latin leo, genitive leonis), hence a nickname for a fierce or brave warrior.
Many characters in bethesda games mainly the elder scrolls and fallout series follow naming conventions where they use words from other languages or that have a particular meaning to symbolize an important aspect of a character's identity. There are lists that go into more depth on this online
He also has location-triggered dialog in pleasant areas where he wistfully mentions that, "She would have liked it here." Regardless of any potential cut content, going based on what is presented in the game, she was real.
I recently started watching EpicNate's videos and he pronounces words wrong/differently, like when referring to Megaton, he says it like "Megatin" and in this video, when he was talking about Tinker Tom's diary entry of Deacon being a Time traveller, he left a " -D " at the end of the found entry and Nate called it a "smiley face" lol but it's just the initial of his name...
I agree. I definitely saw the “D” and maybe the rest will be more scraggly since it’s carved not written. Deacon seems to be a last name. The “N” could be backwards or something idk.
Holy shit, I remember noticing those npcs having the same face and thought bethesda didn’t bother making unique faces for them or it was a random coincidence, turned out it was this Deacon guy lol. I would’ve known that if I didn’t ignore Railroad faction
Not necessarily. I did a railroad playthrough twice before I realized it was the same person. Let's be real, based on Bethesdas history, it was way more likely that it was just random unamed NPCs sharing the same face.
@@dillongage If you’d be paying attention, you’d notice that the Deacon NPCs have the same voice actor and the same “personality” when you try talking to them. I get it, we all love to make fun of Bethesda, but let’s give them credit where it’s due - the same face was intentional.
Forgot about that to be honest. But why would he be stalking our character at the same time? I mean he only came to grab Shawn and left right ? I dunno if he would’ve been camping out watching over us
Ultra Speedy well it was 50 years later that we woke up, and Shaun said he released us to see what would happen, so it makes sense that it would be Kellogg watching.
My great suspicion is that deacon is a former institute agent who ditched once synths were sentient. Also, with how he completely changes his looks and has been with the railroad so long, it's likely he was in the same experimental program as kellog. All this would explain how he would know to watch for vault 111. Maybe he was even one of the agents there for your wife's death, who knows.
I think it’s also important to note that a deacon is also a part of churches. They help with preaching, burials and baptisms. Kinda like how the synths die and are reborn with new identities. The word Deacon when translated from Greek means helper. Odd how he was there for the players death, baptism and rebirth. Just a little interesting fact.
Gen -1 and Gen-2 synths are very literal. Order them and they do exactly that. Institute scientists are TERRIFIED of the outdoors. So, no one with the creativity to actually DO THE JOB has been assigned.
“Barbra Deacon” is what the sign looks like. The final letter looks like a cut off n. And where the À would be has a circular area that was not touched. It could be she kept her maiden name and he adopted it in memorial of her. Hence why even pinkie is confused at his name change that being he never told anyone not even those he started everything with. When he makes a connection with the sole survivor due to them travelling together and sharing the same mentality he might have felt true acceptance. With the railroad having to be so secretive to keep themselves safe the sole survivor openly accepts everyone and tries to help the people of the commonwealth.
I was thinking the name was Deacon. But that it was their last name and he was John Deacon, which became Johnny D when he joined, then changed it to his true last name when the last person that knew that was his real last name was dead in memory of her.
@Jugg Or just in general. There was a throw away line about him being a girl or something for a while after the face swap thing. (I can't remember what it's called)
He really is, my girlfriend's favorite companion is Deacon and she got to meet him at a Con, she even made him a tiny sculpted deathclaw named Fluffy and he posted about it on his IG
Great video! I wanted Deacon to be the reveal of even greater things afoot and the answer to questions not directly answered in dialogue, but F4 still leaves me wanting more:(
Deacon also poses as a normal guard in Goodneighbor. One of the first guards you see actually, almost straight ahead after you or Hancock take care of the guy trying to extort you to be a “body guard”
Idk if hes there in every run. Maybe he died due to some enemy that spawned in earlier. However maybe he is, and if you dont find that dead guard in other playthroughs that may mean deacon bothered to hide him. Be cool if he was found in a dumpster
Was it near where the Super Mutants are? Because if you don't go there quick enough once you get close enough to it the Super Mutants have time to kick the guards asses.
No its impossible cuz every deacon is a seperarte npc with his own clothes when u get to diamond city the game spawns that specific model then despawns him and spawns the next when u get to the point in the story than contains the next interaction i dont think how u could even think that they would bother thats stupid think about it for little bit this is a game not real life this is a dumb assemption
7:27 -true you may not be able to talk to him, but you can attack him if you get on top of the pod and use a critical hit, this will turn everyone hostile and deacon will jump out of the chamber.
I believe his final story because unlike all the others he spilled this one makes him look bad, as in he understands he might no longer be your friend after this, looking bad. There's literally no reason to tell you this besides feeling guilt about lying and wanting to confide in SOMEONE after all these years.
Or: he knows that telling you a sad story that makes him look bad will likely be the most believable. That way, you stop inquiring, which is his ultimate goal.
@@kawaii33366 No, being a bigot is not sad. However, finding love, renouncing your bigotry, and then having your love murdered for your past crimes is definitely more sad than "haha I lied"
It's a flawed writers strategy to generate interest. You ever notice how sequels can be poorly reviewed because they don't live up to expectations? It's similar logic. You don't give a definite end to something, you leave it open ended and let the player's mind run wild and try to solve it even though there is really no answer, for example, this whole 54 minute video. The complicated backstory still exists, but instead of being confirmed canon, moving on, it's now a theory amongst others. It's usually best to just take cut content as canon unless it was cut for purely contradictory means elsewhere.
@@BoroMirraCz Yeah but in the case of Obsidian, it makes some sense because they didn't have the time to even polish the game. If bethesda gave them more time, it probably wouldn't have gotten cut in the end, and as a result of it being cut, the Legion is just the objective bad-guy, with no redeeming qualities except that there are no raiders in the Legion territories.
@@volatile100 obsidian wouldn't have needed to cut large chunks out if they aimed to make something they could finish within the time they were given but they instead just had to shoot for something that would take 3-5 years at minimum for a competent dev team with the money to make and that translates to obsidian taking 10-20 years at minimum to do the same.
49:35 - Actually there is a door to the Institute. If you side with the Minutemen and attack the Institute, there's a sewer entrance under C.I.T. which leads into the Institute.
@@adamrushing5801 , From a Guide I just looked up, so I can't confirm personally: The Nuclear Option Quest line (minutemen):- When ready, fast-travel to the C.I.T. ruins and jump into the murky river just south of the building. The location you’re trying to reach should be marked on your Pip-Boy map. Swim east, curving around the river bank towards the objective waypoint on your map. Continue until you reach an underwater pipe labeled as the Public Works Maintenance Area. Swim through the pipe to emerge on the other side, where you will find a keypad on the wall. Activate the keypad to open the grate and gain access to the institute. After using the keypad, dive back into the murky waters and swim through a tunnel to the east. Follow the drop to reach the old sewer area at the other end. Climb out of the water onto the walkway, and head through the tunnels. Prepare to destroy several laser turrets that line the tunnel ceiling as well. Continue through the second pipe and follow it all the way to the end, where you discover a hatch on the left. Head up the staircase to the room and enter the next part of the sewer. Look for a large pipe labeled with “Inflow” arrows on its side. Follow the arrows until you reach an open security door at the end. You can also hack the security terminal or pick the lock on the Expert level security door that you pass by along the way. The sewers can be fairly dangerous if you stray from the path, so be prepared to eliminate any Ferals, Synths, or turrets that you may encounter on your trek. Once you enter the security gate, prepare to fight off several more Synths as you get closer to the facility. Locate another inflow pipe that leads toward the Institute. Continue through the winding pipe until you discover another hatch. Enter the hatch to infiltrate the Institute Control Room. Access the center computer terminal, and input the Institute Relay Targeting Sequence. Preston Garvey and the other Minutemen should arrive shortly.
I've known for a while that Deacon's been spying on you, and even formulated a few theories of my own. But I never realised the rabbit hole went this deep, fair few things here I hadn't found. Great vid
Deacon was following you all along because it's just good to see a friendly face, and he almost mistook you for a raider. He's was wondering if you suppose to care to trade because he was missing a few essentials and-... ...Ah screw this. Lying just is Deacon's nature. Telling it you straight, Deacon was following you for a good while. You see, it started off innocently enough. Deacon was travelling as he often does, and happened to observe you picking up one of those blue star bottle caps, but you didn't react to it leaving Deacon to believe you didn't know what you had gotten your hands on. Y'see, those blue star bottle caps are all part of this big treasure hunt going on in the wasteland and-
@@VexityEditzz That would be splendid. As you patrol the Commonwealth, keep your eyes open for blueprints, memos, manuals, books, charts... anything containing useful technical data. I'm authorized to pay you for each bundle of documents that your recover. And if you wish to be assigned to a research patrol, I have plenty of them waiting to be filled. In any event, It was a pleasure to meet you, Knight.
I just got back into fallout so I’m playing while watching your videos but it’s so hard to play bc your videos are just so interesting that most of the time I just pause the game and watch and not even notice 😂. Love the videos keep it up and your should’ve made it a hour😂😂🥺
You have no clue how tempting it was to just stretch this out 6 more minutes to make it an hour.
Lol
Next time I think you should just for us people with OCD
You did your work man
I would've done it lol
Seriously, who puts the junk everywhere tho?
I can notice the slight change of direction. You’re starting to branch out and make longer more detailed videos on specific theories. We see the work, brother. 🤝
Well I wasn't planning on watching an hour long fallout 4 video but here I am
I wasn't planning on finding you here but I did...WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!
@@lukeduke785 u have similar taste in yt vids?
Dude. Nate
This guy right here with the Donut is a leeeegeeenddd. Mad clout right now stupid clout.
Lmao
Donut Operator
Hey donut! Love your videos!
Fun fact: Deacon can actually be found posing as "Deacon" in the Railroad HQ.
That must be a super rare encounter
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Wait.. What? You don't mean that deacon guy... Holy shit...
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@some lǝᴉuɐp guy Hey man woah what was that.. Something flew right over your head!
But can you imagine how unnerving it must be to have the person who you stalked for a long ass time suddenly came up to you while you're disguised and attempt aggressively to chat with you while you're posing as a guard/caravan trader/random passerby
ikr, he is a god tier actor
"Oh god oh fuck"
D-dont- you have something important to do?
A+ acting
Yeah and the main character is terrifying to they killed a deathclaw first day out of the vault
@@averagedude6736 not necessarily but yeah, a minigun and a suit with some building where deathclaw can't get in would do the trick
I love how the railroad is the only faction in the game with a literal red line leading to it, with letters corresponding to numbers on the trail, and lanterns to follow as well, and when you show up they ask “how did you find us?” Like they can’t understand.
Railroad are commies
Plus the password being the same name as the faction
They later explain it with most people in the Commonwealth being illiterate
@@kaizenregimenI would have been okay with it if noone knew about the faction’s name or knew about them at all but they literally give away recruitment holotapes asking to Join the Railroad.
@@kaizenregimenI mean it tricked me. I couldn't imagine it was literally just the name.
Deacon: I'll just sign "-D"
Nate: right, it says "smiley face"
I feel like deacon is like me when it comes to funny dialogue
@@GlennSkywalker2305 It's just a feeling.
@@GlennSkywalker2305 ß
It’s a cyclops smiley face.
@@thaias9654 tanks
“I feel like someone is trying to SELL ME SOMETHING.”
*todd and Pete behind a rock*
“I told you he was onto us.”
Malcolm Holmes is another one
My leg. I can't stop slapping it 😅
ah a man of culture
@@edcrows232 Indeed.
Almost mistook you for a raider I did
Nazeem was watching us from the Cloud District the whole time.
Do you come to the cloud district often?
I sent him to Afterlife District as soon as he opened his mouth.
@@ridoing9969 nice
@@ridoing9969
I did that
Then the guards sent me to hell
Do you get to the cloud district very often? What am I saying, of course you don't, but I'll have you know theres no PUSSIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
During Deacons final heart to heart
that "You are carrying too much and can not run !" Hit different...
That emotional baggage was too much...
But always remember... You're gonna carry that weight
just spam feed yourself radroach meat (to get rid of the endless amount that you've picked up over the game)
Just use cooked radstag meat, it gives you extra weight.
@@tateranus4365 an extra 25 is not nearly enough let’s be real. If it is you must have too many supplies to pick up any junk then or something lmao
It is kind of fun how you find pompadour wigs all over the place and then you meet a guy with a pompadour and don't even realize that it's a wig until he mentions it
Cute birds
Right, the first time I saw him without the wig, I actually thought his hair glitched, and wasn't loading in properly. But then I checked his inventory, and pht the wig on him, and I was all like, "oh, wait a minute..." XD
@@ceilingfan3589Dude what?
@@JXX646 im just referring to the birds in her profile picture that's it
@@ceilingfan3589 Oh alright.
A note about "Project Wanderer": if the Sole Survivor refuses a code name when joining the Railroad, Desdemona will assign them the name "Wanderer". Further, after you build the signal interceptor and enter the Institute for the first time, Dez will refer to the Sole Survivor again as the Wanderer.
HORSE馬 That song was probably chosen because the Sole Survivor can be called the Wanderer.
You was called lone wanderer in fallout 3
I haven’t seen anyone mention this in the comments and probably no one will see this since it’s been two years but I feel that one of the reasons this theory holds up is for the simple fact that Desdemona doesn’t give Deacon any orders and Deacon is able to do what he wants. At any moment had anyone else tried to start project Wanderer she would have told them to let it go or let them go off on their own and not acknowledge it as official railroad business that needed to be documented. This shows me at least that not only does Deacon have seniority over Desdemona but also more sway and importance and the only reason he does so is because he doesn’t want to lead.
Im here and i read it, good theory
I am also here and also read it, good shit my man.
Fallout 4 is still very popular.
@@neurohack9038 he meant 2 years since the video was published.
@@neurohack9038 but they never said anything about the games popularity ??? like, what?
Plot Twist: Deacon does not exist. He's just an invention of the player's paranoia...
@@patrick_btmn Hey, Todd, when's TES 6 coming out?
Todd Howard telling sweet little lies again i see
@@patrick_btmn tomorrow
2077
@@patrick_btmn ahhh i see time flows differently for u too, that or ur a time traveling synth!
@@TritonSparrow hahaaha
Well I mean, yeah. Dog meat is always with us, of course he's watching everything we do
in like every game there is Dogmeat. but New Vegas gave us a Cyborhound
Someone has turned WOKE
He's still a good boy
@@Matt-md5yt Rex is literally the Bestest Boy ever. Change my mind
@@spikesshadow8683 I agree
He is actually John Deacon, bassist of the band Queen. He was kidnapped by the Zetans in 1986 and, after escaping to the commonwealth 280 years later with no memories and having not aged a day, he joined the Railroad in their early years so he can help others break free when they are under pressure.
Totally epic. Lol
He was a very good spy and all his enemy's bited the dust.
Ima need the hour long video on this lore
ASAP
I was thinking the name Johnny D could be John Deacon as well. I mean he could have found a Queen holo tape and gotten the name from that or something also.
Fuckin A
Deacon had intel that you were next in line to the Institute's throne and was grooming you to be a more friendly rival, perhaps ally.
And it doesn't take much for the Sole Survivor wanting to improve the world.
And since the player can become leader, or at least a high ranking member, of all the major factions in the game, it wouldn't be impossible for them to put all the factions together to make things better.
Also maybe something of note for the last point - when you join the Railroad, if you choose to not give yourself a codename, then Desdemona will give you the codename "Wanderer"
You're damn right that's something of note. That's a crazy relevant piece of info I'm surprised Nate failed to mention. Basically confirms most of what was left unconfirmed.
The Railroad: Deacon is our best spy.
Deacon, posing as anyone at all, ever: Hey there. I sure do love this place I'm in. Doing the thing I'm doing, on this day that it certainly is. Many weather we're having, isn't we? Much weather.
My SS, sweating nervously: IS HE, THOUGH?
This comment is so underrated
The best way to not be noticed isn't to try not to be noticed (because people, social creatures we are, will notice someone trying not to be noticed) but instead to be obvious and not caring about being noticed. The trick is to do it right.
"Let me wear those ominous sunglasses everywhere I go, even when I’m supposed to pass as a Diamond City Guard." Seriously, everyone is onto this guy: the companions know he changes his face, hell, even Vadim says "maybe you’re not a Diamond City guard at all". Love the guy but he’s not a good spy at all.
@@febreeziTV a lot of weather we are having here
@Mr. Al Such radiation, broken Geiger counter
Imagine investigating deacon’s stalking habits for so long you end up being the stalker
If stalk stalker, who stalker?
@@ihavesnacks4186 if stalker stalk stalker then stalker is stalker and stalker is stalker.
@@DevourerRich if I stalk the stalker that stalks stalker, am I a stalker stalker stalker?
@@ihavesnacks4186 s t a l m k
The only thing I’m still curious about is how he changes his outfit so fast
Im on my 2nd play through of Fallout 4 currently and so far I have noticed Deacon in disguise as a Diamond City guard, a drifter that hangs out around KLEOs shop, and lastly as a patron in the Memory Den.
well you only got afew more you can find
I went to goodneighbor a few in game days after Handcock’s speech to sell stuff at the gun shop. Deacon was at the shop outside just chillin. I talked to him an he said “anyones welcome in goodneighbor even me” then “ dont you have better stuff to do” lol
Holy hexk that's actually deacon that is always saying hi to me in kleo? Damn kinda creepy haha
Me: Wow, he must've been really well hidd-
*hes always wearing his glasses and comes up multiple times, using some of the same dialoge options*
Me: well now I feel stupid
I wasn't when paying attention at all XD
It actually opened my mind when he said: "There're other organizations out there. And, in time, I'm sure they're goinng to spoon-feed you their own patented form of bullshit. Ignore the verbage and look at what they're doing. What they're asking you to do." This line is such a life advice it's awesome. As hillarious he is joking around. Deacon learned life lessons the hard way and still jokes around.
too bad none of the factions in fallout 4 were nuanced enough to matter. they were basically reskins of each other.
*cough* BLM and Antifa *cough*
@@Snowy_Breeze not comparable
@@maxwellsamuel3255 sounds like you have been fed already then
@@matlockcrowl3396 nah they're just non comparable..
"Wait... it's all deacon?"
*Loads pistol* "Always has been..."
I love that joke
Btw should have been "Cocks Deliverer"
“Wait it’s all Detroit?” “Can’t have shit in Detroit”. “Wait where’s your gun”
Shoots you
Mmmm whatcha sayyyyy
Then you shoot him because you’re actually Deacon.
Mikey Lawrence I had to kill Deacon after failing to issue the evacuation order, made me pretty sad cause I thought he was pretty cool, but then I remembered he's a son of a bitch liar.
Player after mudering hundreds of people: "YOU KILLED SOMEONE!?"
Glad someone else found this as funny as I did
And it's how she said it, as if it was a despicable act.
I'm pretty sure it depends on the situation... also these games don't always allow for good solutions (ie good vs evil), you're stuck with what they program in for options. Which is VERY frustrating. Sometimes we come up with better alternatives as players but the game isn't a tabletop RPG so we're stuck with the limited pre-programmed imagination of the makers of the game.
LadyBeritanavatarius 🤫
@@LadyBeritanavatarius This reveals how out of touch the devs are.
I love how Deacon called the Project "The Wanderer", that was the main song used to promote the game. The first reveal of your character is too that song. Not in-game, but still a nod.
If you keep telling Desdemona that you don't want a Codename, she will give you the name Wanderer lol
SON OF A...
*new game*
The wanderer by dion? That would be epic
sperm
Imagine Deacon plotting this great plan around us, and then see us siding with the institute
This is the way
This is the way
This is the way
This is the way
This is the way
Nate texting, sighing, and his phone going off in the background while capturing dialogue, due to him either not muting his mic or turning off the input source, is the best thing ever i swear
IKR LOL
i’m so glad i’m not the only one who noticed this lol
Timestamp?
@@frxsty2585 around past 16:45
bro needs to turn off them keyboard clicks
A little secret for ya: Deacon can be found in a settlement that needs your help, here i’ll mark it on your map
I see that Deacon isn't the only one with disguises now, is he Preston?
Damn it Preston, you got me this time
I aim to please... the common wealth now go out there and help the settlements
its like a new rickroll now dang
A knife And thats just the beauty of it... the settlements, the beauty of the settlements
My first time in Goodneighbor, Deacon glitched himself into a conversation cutscene. Just... idiotically smiling in my face while I tried to talk to Daisy. I hadn't met him yet and assumed it was a random NPC until literally just now, but it was funny enough that I recorded it. Knowing it was Super Spy Deacon makes it so much better 😭
Upload it please
This is true. He is labeled as "Drifter" but is essential. He hangs around by Daisy and KLEO's shops and sometimes glitches into the conversation behind you while you talk to them. He makes the usual quips about the weather and what not if you talk to him.
I’m just waiting until I see that video uploaded, I wanna see deacons goofy ass.
@@Rameon It's been 9 months, they're probably lying about it 😭😭
Lier
It makes sense his last story is the real deal, because it's the only one where he doesn't portray himself as a good person and puts himself at real risk of losing your friendship by telling you this. It comes off as someone that has lived with this confounding guilt for years and is confiding in you about it to finally get it off of his chest.
The ironic joke of the situation is Deacon is a hero worshiper but fails at being a hero and leader himself Deacon is Johnny D and he basically effed up and cause the destruction of almost the entire railroad so when he finally not only meets you and sees you start fixing not only the railroad but the Commonwealth it makes him feel sort of a sense of horrible nostalgia because the player character is doing all the right things he tried to do and failed miserably.
😒👍
@@ZION73082 At least he tried, that is more than most people do
@@HappyBeezerStudios yep 👍
Don’t forget the Institute spy synth “pigeons” that are everywhere.
Have you been hitting the chems with tinker Tom?
Wait if the pigeons are watching us and the pigeons are birds then...............................
The birds work for the bouswaszee
Bobby Lynch actually, Tom was right about something... for once. Several monitors in the institute show camera feeds from the commonwealth, and where those cameras seem to be lines up almost perfectly with several power lines throughout the game.
I’ve never really spent much time in the institute I just do the essentials and then go and get with whatever faction I’m with and blow it up
It's crow
Deacon is like miaq the liar
Nobody knows their backstorys
They either lie or dont lie, no one really knows
Theyre both awsome and funny characters
You forgot the fact that unlike Deacon, Maiq randomly attacks people because he thought he saw a werespider.
cat.
uiop uiop meow.
Lando Cazares lmfao
M'aiq never lies, except when he does or not.
When you do the mission to retrieve the sword at the smelter, when you return, if you are careful, you can catch Deacon jumping off the roof and walking away. You never get the opportunity to interact with him, but you do see him.
No way you can’t be serious
Day 1 of asking you to do a UA-cam tutorial of it
^^^
Need to see a tutorial of this
Good looking out man, I'll look out for him next time, maybe around the missions he mentioned when he's vouching for our joining the railroad too 👍
I just feel like it was a right time right place scenario. Deacon was the information man, it would make sense for him to be at 111 if they had some sort of info on activity. He happens to see a single vault dweller leave and scamper out into the wastes screaming "SEAN?! SEAN?! WHERE ARE YOU?!". That obviously interests Deacon so he goes to watch and see how long they will survive. By his surprise the vault dweller is very skilled and handy, crafting armor and weapons, slaying anything in their way including a death claw. He overhears you talking to Preston and shoots up to diamond city to wait for you. On top of all of that the vault dweller would be easy to mold/manipulate as they were new to the wasteland.
If you pass 3 speech checks , when you enter the railroad for the first time, he tells you he has been spying on you
I remember this as well.
Yeah I passed 3 and he admits he has been spying on you
@Russel Schwartz true.
😰
Which is why I always load up on speech in the beginning. It ALWAYS makes Bethesda games a piece of cake
Deacon: "Don't you have, like, important things to do."
Me after having saved Curie: Nope
i have something to "do" however
@Ethan Young dont ask any more
@@RVM-kf1nb yea hes too Young
Whos curie and how do I save her
@@reeceypufffs Go to Vault 81. After completing the quest to rescue ashes, come back to the vault after waiting a few days, and the vault will talk about how a boy was bit by a mole rat. Do that quest all the way through and you get Curie at the end by unlocking the room she's in. She's a modified Ms. nanny robot with a cute French accent and an adorable naive personality. She can become a human by having her conscience transferred to a synth body where she becomes a female human with a cute short brown hair cut and can be romanced as a companion. Only reason to play Fo4.
The phrase "Decan Sneakin" Will never not be funny
Rhyming with names sound so funny like Greggys leggies
Now you know about Warhammer Orks.
DeOcOn SnEakiN
Deacon thinkin while sneakin a leak in.
Indeed
It's incredible. You'll have to play the game like 10 times in a row to get all the small details and unlock all the gameplay, understand and experience the full potential of this game. This shows how much work Bethesda have put into this. Truly amazing game
I noticed Deacon standing on one of the overpasses watching me as I was walking down a road in FO4VR. It felt pretty strange realizing that I was being watched.
I knew I found him on one of my first play throughs doing this! I thought I was just imagining that
@@BigHorney617 i seen the drifter deacon in goodneighbor one time and just thought it was another Bethesda npc just reused as a completely diff person they are bad about doing that then I seen these videos and realized it was actually deacon.
I saw that to I tried to use vats to see who it was and it did t work
Shit
It is Deacon. I tried killing the "Drifter" to test it and he is essential. Just walking around by Daisy and KLEO's shops.
“Nobody could open vault 111”
Uhhhh... you mean like via the giant red button in the guardhouse nearby?
Ikr?!
Don't you need a Pip-Boy to get into the vaults though? Like all of them. I mean, still they could have gotten someone from Vault 81 to help. But I doubt they would, considering the fact that they dislike outsiders.
@@BraddahSpliff true.
Maybe the button was disabled until Shaun opened it 🤷🏻♂️
The button only sends the lift back down. They have to send it up from the vault
Fun fact: at the beginning of the railroad finishing tradecraft, when Des tells you to pick a codename. If you refuse she chooses the codename WANDERER for you.
Bro I would have loved that name
Did you know that the quest “unlikely valentine” features well dressed triggermen. This is a reference to the Italian mob
Fun fact: that fact is not fun.
Yo
@@BoozyReviewsies sup
Moments like these, make me realize how dumb I am. Every time I saw “Deacon”, I thought I was seeing the story of the bald security guard through my game. He had an easy job guarding the mayor, he lost it and became a drifter and struggles to survive. Having ups and downs, like having a third person perspective of our character.
Y'See, thats what he WANTED you to think!!
At first, I just assumed it was Bethesda being lazy with their models & skins and I was just seeing "generic white bald guy with sunglasses". (At least until it became *too* frequent. But by then, I'd forgotten how many times I'd seen him turn up. lol. When it finally connected, I was like "Ohhhhh... Well, shyte - how many places WAS this guy?!?") xD
I was wondering why he was so familiar 😮😅
2:43 idk if im the only one who doesn’t believe this guy as on my last play through deacon himself told me that he spied on me…
i only saw the dude once
Just had a thought. Do the synths of the institute know about Shaun? Like they call him Father, but do they know he's from Vault 111? Do they know Kellogg left one of Shaun's biological parents alive in the Vault?
If so... Is it possible that one of the escaped synths told Deacon in an offhand remark about who Shaun is and where he's from?
My thoughts exactly
SOMEONE ANSWER THIS!!!
Synths have a failsafe that wipes their memories if they escape. Location of institute, access routes. Escaped synths are also slave synths they don't feed them too much information about being a synth and the institute.
Most people of the institute probably don't even know Shaun is from 111 honestly cause whenever he was brought there most of them weren't born or it was before they arrived
Yes, the synths in the institute know about Shaun and Vault 111, but the sole survivors identity was kept from operators on the surface.
Something else is always watching you in FO4 too... The crows... They're all synths and they act as the main eyes and ears of the institute.
If you see a crow, blow its head clean off. :)
They are also programmed to poop on your car, too.
this is true in real life as well
So the crows work with the pigeons for the bourgeoisie/institute?
@@GeMStudios2 The birds work for the bourgeoisie tiktok really do b true
this is actually an interesting theory
Nate you are literally one of the few content creators out there that can make a 50 minute long video bearable
I love how the player judges deacon for killing someone, when you kill for a living
but you gotta consider that players also might choose the wife as the character.
she was only a lawyer
@@DatAsianGuy you still kill for a living in the game
@MAXOG honestly i agree
@@DatAsianGuy no matter who you play as, they both take down a couple hundred people per day in the commonwealth lol
The person in the thumbnail is you as the pint sized slasher from fallout 3 in a weird vault
"- D" isn't a smileyface... he signed his inital letter of his name. you know like graffiti artists tag their work ^^
It it was a smile it would obviously be :)
@@therealevilmudbug":D" has always been used to depict a smile aswell and it works much better since the "D" looks like your mouth while smiling, in contrast to ")" which is a more simple and stylized way to do that.
@Hikari12217 in no universe does your mouth look more like a D than ) when smiling. If you're one of those weird horse teeth smilers, that's your problem, not ours.
@@Hikari12217Deacon would definitely be the type to do a =D face
I love how fallout 4 is a massive slaughter regardless of which side you choose and there’s typically a dialog your character can say to companions or some other shit maybe and it goes something along the lines of “y-you killed someone.”
_"I always feel like, somebody's watching me!"_
Facts
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Who's playing tricks on me?
Tell me is it just a dream.
I was just thinking about that
Who? The IRS?!
“Murdered to death.”
Every 60 minutes in Africa a hour passes
Hmm yes, the floor here is made of floor
the water is wet
*An* > a
@@oshikiri999 it is a,not an.
hour isnt started with any vocal letters
i dont think he realized his mic was being recorded during the clips of the railroad hq, you can hear his phone texting and him grunt/sigh in the background
I think he did.
shadowplay lol
Totally. I was just about comment “is there an unknown iPhone somewhere in Railroad HQ?!”
timestamp?
@@Vlad544_ 19:34
Bit late but “wonderer” is not just what deacons secret mission is called, its also what desdamonda calls the player if they are asked to choose their nickname. Suggests deacons mission was finding us
What if the sole survivor is a synth after all as theories say? That could be the reason Shaun "just observed" how he would make it, instead of doing something to meet him. That would explain Desdemona "pretending" to not know him and Deacon saying "a normal person would not do that". More clues in game, for example when talking to DIMA - options only to choose answers that the last memory Sole Survivor has is of the day of bombing, though he should have memories of other things like job and etc as the player knows.
What’s even more funny on my newest play through when I have deacon as a companion one of the diamond city guards says my ‘friend’ looks really familiar and he’s seen him but then I think he second guessed himself. It was so funny it’s amazing how much detail they put into some things and not others
Interesting
They just reuse character models lmao it's not deacon
@@tysonhoward1748 I think the guard refers to the point where Deacon was disguised as guard.
Deacon is so hardcore he's gotta relive memories of spying on you while he's spying on you.
Spying inception
Am I only one who thought Deacon was a synth b4 he actually told me he was?
would make sense the Railroad would intercept some of the back and forth communication with Kellogg so Deecon got interested in your Vault
I'd give you a like but it's at 69
@@gertywhatagash_ you can like it now, if you haven't checked yet.
The thing with Deacon's tall tales is that basically any of them could be true in the world the games are set in. We have people from the other side of the Atlantic, people being frozen for two centuries in a vault, a connected VR simulation, space stations, real aliens, ancient gods, a robot president, immortals with psychic powers, synths, talking deathclaws, etc
Even his fake recall code proves the point that you can't trust people.
This one thinks Deacon lies more than M'aiq.
Tall Order
Deacon wishes! M’aiq lies with style! Rhythm. Deacon cant even keep his story straight in the same sentence
M’aiq turns it into an event yo
M’aiq would neeeeeveer
M'aiq is also far more powerful and mysterious than he seems. So this one thinks.
Ironically one of my first Play throughs of fallout 3 GOTYE was as a character named John Daniel (named John after my deceased brother Jonathan and Daniel, my middle name). In Said play through, I helped at the railroad as much as possible. So I Found it amusing that you mentioned that Deacon could be The lone wanderer or Johnny D. Since in that play through of Fallout 3, he would have been both.
Well I'm sorry for your loss
This got me thinking, tho, uh
One of the leaders of the Railroad is named Watts
Victoria Watts? Same person, or maybe they're related somehow?
It's official, this guy writes the lore for Fallout now
What's really strange is why are we the only ones who can jump? Everyone else can't jump!
ah you see, everyone got metal implants post war and lost the ability to jump due to the weight :)
radiation is havoc on the knees, doesn't affect you as you were locked in a vault. everyone used to be able too, just not since the war
Or that EVERYONE'S dominant side is their RIGHT ARM/SIDE
Because your a gen 4 synth made by father after both Nora and Nate died
They took an arrow to the knee
if your listening to the Dimond city radio early on the host ends up saying that someone spotted the player exiting vault 111 so either Deacon told somebody and it spread from there (tho that is unlikely as that could alert the sole survivor that somebody was watching him leave) or somebody else was watching them for Deacon and ended up telling other people not knowing the importance of keeping it a secret
Honestly that game just feels like you’re being watched from the get go and I really like that about it.
I never noticed this at all lmao
Opposite effect for me. I felt utterly alone upon entering the wasteland, but in a peaceful way that lulled me into a false sense of security. There's something beautiful about the Fallout world.
The game The Forest however... now that is paranoia.
@@vceisdeadIf you really wanna get creeped out play fallout 2 at midnight
200+ hours in and i never felt watched or knew any of this stuff about deacon
Does that mean there's 3 hours of footage of me wanking
Deacon: “Hey, did I ever tell you that I used to be a Bass Player for a rock band? There was three other guys. Roger was our Drummer. Brian was our Guitarist, and Freddie was our lead singer, and also played the piano.”
First thought.....Queen
Is that an actual quote? If so, how the hell did i miss it in so so many playthroughs...
@@7uring It's not, it's a joke about a band called Queen and their bassist is named John Deacon.
John Smith thank you, at least someone gets it😂
@@plutoniumbellamy1912 I... know? I was asking if it was an actual quote not what it was a alluding to. Queen is probably the best fucking known band out there, stop gatekeeping.
This is sort of making me realize exactly how incompetent and amateurish the Railroad is. It's a miracle that two people survived the Switchboard to refound the Railroad. Deacon seems to be the only half-competent intelligence specialist they have.
It was about the point where Wyatt mentioned opsec like he'd never heard of such a thing when I realized that, yeah, these guys are only really playing at being a resistance movement, and surely the only reason they're not dead and gone is because the Institute is about as incompetent as they are. I mean, hell, the fact that they *centralized their movement* instead of running in cells is ludicrously stupid. And then they kept doing it, kept having centralized and organized HQ's that they put little to no effort into concealing, not learning from their mistakes. THEIR CURRENT HQ HAS WRITTEN INVITATIONS TO IT AND IS PROTECTED BY AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL RIDDLE
For FUCK'S sake.
I mean shit, We even got in there
There's a reason Deacon is desperate to recruit you. He knows the Railroad is on it's last legs, when you ask him his stance on the Railroads ideology he says so himself. He expresses interest in working with the other factions to help more then just the Synths. He says that the Railroad has become way too conceited and their refusal to look at anything other then Synths is moronic.
Hell if you side with the Minutemen Desdemona lambasts you for choosing them solely because the Minutemen aren't exclusively focused on the Synths, she firmly believes the the Minutemen wouldn't do anything to help them and just leave them to die. Yet if you take the Institute down with the Minutemen, they're the only faction that cares about saving EVERYONE even the Institute. With the player being given the option by Preston to evacuate all of the people from the Institute. And if you go back to talk with Desdemona afterwards she chalks up the Minutemens victory as just "fine" as she's clearly too stubborn to accept she might have been wrong.
It's why I like Deacon so much, sure he's the Railroad faction companion but unlike guys like X-88 or Danse he like Preston accept that and are just trying to help people the only way they know how too.
I find it really hard to do a railroad playthrough because they are such a meaningless faction with no true goals.
The only faction in this game worth siding with for me is the institute.
I don't really think it's incompetence so much as just bad writing. The writers at Bethesda clearly did not put much effort into researching the actual Underground Railroad and at the same time they didn't put enough thought into writing the Institute so they're actually as intimidating as the lore tells us they are. Bethesda consistently has these problems in Fallout so it's really not a surprise, like John Eden in Fallout 3 is a fucking super computer but like you can very easily just convince him to kill himself. Like Bethesda really did intend for these factions to seem interesting and worth interacting with but they're terminally incapable of writing Fallout and sci-fi in general.
Part of this is revealed in how they're seemingly scared of of just making the obviously evil factions evil, the Institute is obviously evil considering they invented robot slavery, they could have been written similar to Mr. House, arrogant remnants of the pre-war era completely convinced of their superiority and their right to rule the wasteland with a robotic army. In doing so you could have made them into ruthless monsters with clearly no regard for anyone other than themselves. Though in saying that it becomes really obvious how they're just a mix of Mr. House and the Enclave and not really a very original idea, they don't even bring anything new to the table because "pre-war research institution with amazing technology" was already done in "Old World Blues" and it did it way better.
Same goes for the Brotherhood who after mysteriously being the good guys in Fallout 3 even though they have always been egotistical and arrogant dicks are now back to being exactly that but also with robo-racism, which does fit in with their lore. Despite that Bethesda also refuses to admit that they're clearly pretty fucking evil, because "oh look cool power armor". But Bethesda has always had an inexpiable hard-on for the Brotherhood and never really understood that they're supposed to be a pathetic holdover from the old world that is slowly dying off due to their isolationism.
@@hedgehog3180 idk about the whole brotherhood ordeal, I mean Bethesda managed to write them as a bunch of very unlikable nazi roleplayers, with appropriate aesthetics to boot (coats, haircuts and hats specifically). Also I may be giving Bethesda's writing too much credit here, but I think that the railroad's incompetence at least partially makes sense because of how uneducated the post - war society is. Because so much knowledge is lost, knowledge on covert ops included, they might be making rookie mistakes because of it
Also to note that if during that final conversation (after gaining maximum affinity ) with him -- He gets noticeably upset/angry that you don't believe him and say yeah it was all a lie. He doesn't do that for any other time you talk to him after gaining some affinity .
I love how his name is Deacon but a deacon is a devoted member of the church that takes up offerings and performs various other duties for the church with no hope of reward, it's a good name for the man
Almost all the names are like that. Preston = Priest town The man wants to find "Sanctuary". Beth loves literary devices like that.
Sarah lyons
In Hebrew, and Persian, it means , often simply translated as "Princess". In Modern Hebrew, "sarah" (שרה) is the word for "woman minister". Middle English lion (Latin leo, genitive leonis), hence a nickname for a fierce or brave warrior.
Many characters in bethesda games mainly the elder scrolls and fallout series follow naming conventions where they use words from other languages or that have a particular meaning to symbolize an important aspect of a character's identity. There are lists that go into more depth on this online
Also, deacon sounded kinda sad when he was talking about Barbra, like it actually happend (even though he is a pretty good liar)
Theres a truth in a lie
He also has location-triggered dialog in pleasant areas where he wistfully mentions that, "She would have liked it here." Regardless of any potential cut content, going based on what is presented in the game, she was real.
"When the bombs first started following..."
A heat seeking nuke? Oh gods.
A target lock atom bomb
I recently started watching EpicNate's videos and he pronounces words wrong/differently, like when referring to Megaton, he says it like "Megatin" and in this video, when he was talking about Tinker Tom's diary entry of Deacon being a Time traveller, he left a " -D " at the end of the found entry and Nate called it a "smiley face" lol but it's just the initial of his name...
ITS ALL VAULT TECS FAULT
I MEAN
*"YOU DONT EVEN KNOW!"*
*Target seeking fat man*
@@nukeflower.1759 so your dad is target seeking?
I love your investigations and how thorough you are. You’ve enhanced the story each time you investigate. Thank you!
Has no one thought that Deacon could be his last name? People go by their last names all the time
That texture really seems to have said Barbara Deacon.
I agree. I definitely saw the “D” and maybe the rest will be more scraggly since it’s carved not written. Deacon seems to be a last name. The “N” could be backwards or something idk.
I mean I can name at least 3 people who don't know Kirk's full name so it's possible
isnt it Deacon Jones?
You mean Johnny D?
Holy shit, I remember noticing those npcs having the same face and thought bethesda didn’t bother making unique faces for them or it was a random coincidence, turned out it was this Deacon guy lol. I would’ve known that if I didn’t ignore Railroad faction
Not necessarily. I did a railroad playthrough twice before I realized it was the same person.
Let's be real, based on Bethesdas history, it was way more likely that it was just random unamed NPCs sharing the same face.
I thought the same thing too!
Didn't platinum the game
@@dillongage If you’d be paying attention, you’d notice that the Deacon NPCs have the same voice actor and the same “personality” when you try talking to them. I get it, we all love to make fun of Bethesda, but let’s give them credit where it’s due - the same face was intentional.
Yeah
Considering there was always a cigar at the watching points, I’d say it was Kellogg watching
Forgot about that to be honest. But why would he be stalking our character at the same time? I mean he only came to grab Shawn and left right ? I dunno if he would’ve been camping out watching over us
@@ultraspeedy4911 To keep note maybe
Deacon is smoking at 3:45 so its probably him.
@@ultraspeedy4911 he did say we were the backup. but who knows what other additional motives there might have been
Ultra Speedy well it was 50 years later that we woke up, and Shaun said he released us to see what would happen, so it makes sense that it would be Kellogg watching.
My great suspicion is that deacon is a former institute agent who ditched once synths were sentient. Also, with how he completely changes his looks and has been with the railroad so long, it's likely he was in the same experimental program as kellog. All this would explain how he would know to watch for vault 111. Maybe he was even one of the agents there for your wife's death, who knows.
16:55 Deacons iPhone went off
You can hear typing before that
It's just the Railroad guys working behind the false wall to the real HQ. Sole Survivor just has really good ears.
I heard that too lol
I think it’s also important to note that a deacon is also a part of churches. They help with preaching, burials and baptisms. Kinda like how the synths die and are reborn with new identities. The word Deacon when translated from Greek means helper.
Odd how he was there for the players death, baptism and rebirth.
Just a little interesting fact.
Thé Institute, thé greatest minds in the world, couldn’t follow a red line and read.
Gotta love Bethesda treating the players like literal fucking neanderthals :D
maybe its like one of those captcha things that cant be read by bots.
Gen -1 and Gen-2 synths are very literal. Order them and they do exactly that. Institute scientists are TERRIFIED of the outdoors. So, no one with the creativity to actually DO THE JOB has been assigned.
@@brycee.maryott8802 thank you! Finally someoene has said it
@@brycee.maryott8802 What about gen-3 coursers?
“Barbra Deacon” is what the sign looks like. The final letter looks like a cut off n. And where the À would be has a circular area that was not touched. It could be she kept her maiden name and he adopted it in memorial of her. Hence why even pinkie is confused at his name change that being he never told anyone not even those he started everything with. When he makes a connection with the sole survivor due to them travelling together and sharing the same mentality he might have felt true acceptance. With the railroad having to be so secretive to keep themselves safe the sole survivor openly accepts everyone and tries to help the people of the commonwealth.
I was thinking the name was Deacon. But that it was their last name and he was John Deacon, which became Johnny D when he joined, then changed it to his true last name when the last person that knew that was his real last name was dead in memory of her.
“Smiley face” 😂 he just signed it with -D
Fr😂 I noticed that
it'd be funnier if deacon was the type of person to end messages with =D
he should have signed it :--D lmao
49:07 Nate is a synth. His dialogue matrix got fluxed
counter theory: Deacon is the real shawn who escaped the Institute.
@Jugg Or just in general. There was a throw away line about him being a girl or something for a while after the face swap thing. (I can't remember what it's called)
@@jadepaw1248 oop-
I wouldnt mind lol
@@charlie-yp2oq Deacon is the trans icon that we don't deserve, but need
When you said deacon is like shawn ALL i could picture is the show Psych
Deacon actually coming clean about his life story:
Meanwhile lofi beats in the backround
16:52 Deacon gets a text from his side piece and dips in 3... 2... 1...
Nate probably forgot he left his mic on
@@ajescalante7913 I was wondering if someone heard him typing. lmao
Lol
@@ajescalante7913 I think he was joking about how boring interactions with the railroad can be
Homeboy really thought we wouldn’t hear him texting
Fun fact: the guy who voiced him is cool as hell.
Isnt it pete hines?
Baryon -_- nope.
WhenToastersAttack was it you lol?
Dustybf it’s a guy named Ryan Alosio!
He really is, my girlfriend's favorite companion is Deacon and she got to meet him at a Con, she even made him a tiny sculpted deathclaw named Fluffy and he posted about it on his IG
I always thought it was weird how he says "Don't you have important stuff to do?" Like, you don't know me, I could be a trader. It's like he knew
Great video! I wanted Deacon to be the reveal of even greater things afoot and the answer to questions not directly answered in dialogue, but F4 still leaves me wanting more:(
I think a reason why they called him “Johnny D” Was because when police find a person that has no records of anything they call them “John Doe”.
i thought it was a refrence to the guy who hacked roblox lol
I can’t believe this is true
yep john doe for male, jane doe for female
Definitely not Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith?
John Deacon, the bassist?
Deacon also poses as a normal guard in Goodneighbor. One of the first guards you see actually, almost straight ahead after you or Hancock take care of the guy trying to extort you to be a “body guard”
Here's a fun fact: on my way into diamond city, I found a dead guard. What a coincidence. Perhaps deacon killed the guard, and took his gear?
Idk if hes there in every run. Maybe he died due to some enemy that spawned in earlier. However maybe he is, and if you dont find that dead guard in other playthroughs that may mean deacon bothered to hide him. Be cool if he was found in a dumpster
Was it near where the Super Mutants are? Because if you don't go there quick enough once you get close enough to it the Super Mutants have time to kick the guards asses.
@@Vitacus I was about 9th level, so it's a good possibility
I've found that as well and thought that too.
No its impossible cuz every deacon is a seperarte npc with his own clothes when u get to diamond city the game spawns that specific model then despawns him and spawns the next when u get to the point in the story than contains the next interaction i dont think how u could even think that they would bother thats stupid think about it for little bit this is a game not real life this is a dumb assemption
7:27 -true you may not be able to talk to him, but you can attack him if you get on top of the pod and use a critical hit, this will turn everyone hostile and deacon will jump out of the chamber.
I believe his final story because unlike all the others he spilled this one makes him look bad, as in he understands he might no longer be your friend after this, looking bad. There's literally no reason to tell you this besides feeling guilt about lying and wanting to confide in SOMEONE after all these years.
Or: he knows that telling you a sad story that makes him look bad will likely be the most believable. That way, you stop inquiring, which is his ultimate goal.
@@DapperDanLovesYou Idk if "im a bigot" is a sad story
@@kawaii33366 No, being a bigot is not sad. However, finding love, renouncing your bigotry, and then having your love murdered for your past crimes is definitely more sad than "haha I lied"
@DapperDanLovesYou Tots true. But Idk man seems like a weird lie to keep up. He coulda came up with a better one.
@@kawaii33366 Maybe, but at a certain point you are just judging Bethesda's writing. And to that end, there is a lot to judge in Fallout 4.
love how you can hear nate just texting on his phone in the backround some times LOL
i thought i was tripping lmaoo
Unprofessional. Not to be applauded.
@@dannywright1317 still better than most of the others
@@dannywright1317 it’s a UA-cam video, the “air of professionalism” shouldn’t be needed for something that’s his own content
@@hrafn6588 well it is.
Developers: "So we'll make this character interesting with a bit of complicated backstory, yeah?"
Bethesda: "Then cut it out at the end. Yes."
It's a flawed writers strategy to generate interest.
You ever notice how sequels can be poorly reviewed because they don't live up to expectations? It's similar logic.
You don't give a definite end to something, you leave it open ended and let the player's mind run wild and try to solve it even though there is really no answer, for example, this whole 54 minute video. The complicated backstory still exists, but instead of being confirmed canon, moving on, it's now a theory amongst others.
It's usually best to just take cut content as canon unless it was cut for purely contradictory means elsewhere.
Just like Obsidian cut tons of content from FNV, including whole bunch of Legion territory... this is not exclusive to Bethesda.
@@BoroMirraCz Yeah but in the case of Obsidian, it makes some sense because they didn't have the time to even polish the game. If bethesda gave them more time, it probably wouldn't have gotten cut in the end, and as a result of it being cut, the Legion is just the objective bad-guy, with no redeeming qualities except that there are no raiders in the Legion territories.
I think its part of BGS's plan to let the players fill in plot holes and then take credit for it.
@@volatile100 obsidian wouldn't have needed to cut large chunks out if they aimed to make something they could finish within the time they were given but they instead just had to shoot for something that would take 3-5 years at minimum for a competent dev team with the money to make and that translates to obsidian taking 10-20 years at minimum to do the same.
Wow this is well structured and turns something so convoluted into a step by step break down. Awesome video!!!
"Deacon was interested is us for a while" yet we couldn't romance him
Actually might be proof for the Barbara thing.
In the Commonwealth, Deacon romances *you*
😔✌🏻
i get the sense he's married to his job (or still loyal to barbara, if you believe that story)
Yeah.
I legit never noticed Deacon stalking me in the game ever.
This video made me paranoid lol.
Same 😂
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you...
I didn’t notice him either but thought he looked familiar when I saw him in the railroad hq
Its a game , wtf 😂
@@RecklessGenesis Art imitates life. But yeah lol thats hilarious.
38:51 You can also see the "n" at the end. I'll just assume that it's still Deacon. John Doe also means, "Man without an identity."
Yeah, I’m pretty sure deacon’s full name is “John/Johnny deacon”
I love the texting in the background during the vouching chatter
49:35 - Actually there is a door to the Institute. If you side with the Minutemen and attack the Institute, there's a sewer entrance under C.I.T. which leads into the Institute.
been trying to research, are you able to say how far left or right from a certain point it is?
@@adamrushing5801 ,
From a Guide I just looked up, so I can't confirm personally:
The Nuclear Option Quest line (minutemen):-
When ready, fast-travel to the C.I.T. ruins and jump into the murky river just south of the building. The location you’re trying to reach should be marked on your Pip-Boy map. Swim east, curving around the river bank towards the objective waypoint on your map. Continue until you reach an underwater pipe labeled as the Public Works Maintenance Area. Swim through the pipe to emerge on the other side, where you will find a keypad on the wall. Activate the keypad to open the grate and gain access to the institute.
After using the keypad, dive back into the murky waters and swim through a tunnel to the east. Follow the drop to reach the old sewer area at the other end. Climb out of the water onto the walkway, and head through the tunnels. Prepare to destroy several laser turrets that line the tunnel ceiling as well.
Continue through the second pipe and follow it all the way to the end, where you discover a hatch on the left. Head up the staircase to the room and enter the next part of the sewer. Look for a large pipe labeled with “Inflow” arrows on its side. Follow the arrows until you reach an open security door at the end. You can also hack the security terminal or pick the lock on the Expert level security door that you pass by along the way. The sewers can be fairly dangerous if you stray from the path, so be prepared to eliminate any Ferals, Synths, or turrets that you may encounter on your trek.
Once you enter the security gate, prepare to fight off several more Synths as you get closer to the facility. Locate another inflow pipe that leads toward the Institute. Continue through the winding pipe until you discover another hatch. Enter the hatch to infiltrate the Institute Control Room. Access the center computer terminal, and input the Institute Relay Targeting Sequence. Preston Garvey and the other Minutemen should arrive shortly.
@@lostbutfreesoul ahh that makes more sense, i completely failed to realize that it was wih the minutemen despite him saying it, thanks!
I've known for a while that Deacon's been spying on you, and even formulated a few theories of my own. But I never realised the rabbit hole went this deep, fair few things here I hadn't found. Great vid
Yes!
Deacon was following you all along because it's just good to see a friendly face, and he almost mistook you for a raider. He's was wondering if you suppose to care to trade because he was missing a few essentials and-...
...Ah screw this. Lying just is Deacon's nature. Telling it you straight, Deacon was following you for a good while. You see, it started off innocently enough. Deacon was travelling as he often does, and happened to observe you picking up one of those blue star bottle caps, but you didn't react to it leaving Deacon to believe you didn't know what you had gotten your hands on. Y'see, those blue star bottle caps are all part of this big treasure hunt going on in the wasteland and-
What in the goddamn?
I was wondering if you could help me find some technical documents
I always kill that guy
@@aceman0000099 not the scribe again😭😭😭😭
@@VexityEditzz That would be splendid. As you patrol the Commonwealth, keep your eyes open for blueprints, memos, manuals, books, charts... anything containing useful technical data. I'm authorized to pay you for each bundle of documents that your recover. And if you wish to be assigned to a research patrol, I have plenty of them waiting to be filled. In any event, It was a pleasure to meet you, Knight.
I just got back into fallout so I’m playing while watching your videos but it’s so hard to play bc your videos are just so interesting that most of the time I just pause the game and watch and not even notice 😂. Love the videos keep it up and your should’ve made it a hour😂😂🥺
I have the same problem😂