Marked Men of The Divide | Fallout Lore
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- The Divide is a stretch of devastation, a blistered wound on the earth and home to the Marked Men. But what are Marked Man, how did they end up like this, and why are they still here living in this unforgiving land?
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Lonesome Road best DLC or nah?
Most Divisive DLC for sure, either a Love it or Hate it thing
I liked honest hearts the most but all new Vegas DLCs are amazing imo
Lonesome Road's all right. I don't think New Vegas has a bad DLC to be honest
I personally enjoy the other DLC's better, though it is still great!
don't really care for it.
Marked men don’t care if you have black, brown or white skin. It’s the fact you have skin at all that pisses them off.
Lmaooo
This is gold lmao
Vote marked men for president
Imagine being jealous of a ghoul for at least having rough skin.
Their essentially racists but they don't see color just skin
Marked men fighting nonstop
"HEY THAT GUY STILL HAS SKIN!"
Marked men unite to fight the courier
"AND ITS REALLY SMOOTH"
Hate intensifies
"TAKE HIS FORESKIN"
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Oy vey.
@@rajamajapetraea
Female courier: "fucking WHAT?!"
@@drekbleh7081 they forgot how a female looks like
I finally realized why they have street signs added to their armor (beyond being cool and extra protection). They're literally marked by the roads you traveled
Lonesome Road(sign)
@@DavePyroRet ayyyyyyeeeeeee!
Thanks Unabomber, didn’t realize that before
@@invaderHUNK Yup, Ted's a changed man since he's gotten out of the house more. Now he's played New Vegas he positively LOVES technology! Just nobody let him near 76.
Omg
Marked men: skinless and in constant pain.
Joshua Graham: Skinless and in constant pain but still a chill bro.
In Joshua Grahams case he probably wouldn't feel that much pain, 3rd degree burns go all the way down to the nerves, if nerves are damaged enough they don't function anymore. That's why ironically the more a burn hurts the better, because it means the burns haven't caused serious nerve damage.
Also they weren’t burned. Their skin is continuously being sandblasted off their bodies.
@@dylanhaugen3739 Graham doesnt mention it being painful for him. I believe he talks about it when he mentions having to change his bandages everyday or something
@@AA-bz1pr no when he changes his bandages he claims it's like being burned alive all over again he was burned so badly even 4 years later he hasn't healed
Cuz God
Between the Marked Men and the Ghost People, New Vegas' DLC's really did have some of the most interesting takes for enemies.
Dont forget the lobotomites
Most interesting thing about them they are intelligent enough to capturing deathclaws by using traps then use agaist their enemies (its mentioned one of the ncr scout notes)
I think it has to do with their background and motives being expanded upon that gives them that. By learning about the background of the Marked Men and how it came to be they aren't just some random enemy to shoot at. They aren't hostile for no reason, they are bitter and hateful because of their abandonment. Similarly Ghost People were victims of the effort to finish Sierra Madre while at the same time just an experiment by Big MT. Both of these types of enemie show they aren't mindless like ferals, they still retain some form of humanity; Marked Men use tactics and advanced weaponry, Ghost People show some semblance of humanity as shown in the end credits of the DLC.
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I don't dislike the Lobotomites, or the White Legs for that matter. They're just not as interesting as concepts as the Marked Men and Ghost People are to me.
@@chesterstevens8870 Honestly, I think if lobotomites had a bit of extra lore sprinkles, like the cazadores, nightstalkers and even the spore creatures had, they'd be up to par.
Gonna love how legion armor sells for 100 and marked man for like 1,500 hundred caps.
May be it is rarer than other legion armor
*N.V. LOGIC* lmao
It's a collector's item!
More so with high barter and repair levels near the start of the game, you can bring some very high amounts of caps when you notice the armour can be repaired with basic raider gear with a maximum value of something like 250, versus marked armours value being more of around 4/5k if I remember correctly
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That’s what I do. I wish fallout new Vegas got remaster on PS4 I love playing survival so I can play permanent death characters (as in if my character dies I start a new game) but unfortunately we’re stuck with what we have.
Legion Assasin: The Caesar has marked you for death and the Legion obeys!
Marked Man: Good luck, i'm behind 9000 Red Glare rockets
they were servant men who would sacrifice their lives for the bear or the bull. now they are walking corpses with slowly melting skins and their lost destinies. Lonesome road is as dark and tragic as dead money if you ask me.
I agree. It does have some better loot though. The blade of the west is the perfect weapon to duel Lanius with.
And way better. Dead money is a big pain to play.
the bull and the bear the bull and the bear
Ncr is good because they have cool armor , the legion is cool because they have some culture , mr house is cool because he created victor , and saved your lives , yes man is bad because of course it’s bad , the Enclave is good because their the heirs of America.
Ulysses moment
Most interesting thing about them they are intelligent enough to capturing deathclaws by using traps then use agaist their enemies (its mentioned one of the ncr scout note)
WE ARE MAKRED MEN
WE ARE MARKED MEN
WE ARE MARKED MEN
WE ARE MAKRED MEN
WE ARE MARKED MEN
WE ARE MARKED MEN
WE ARE MAKRED MEN
WE ARE MARKED MEN
WE ARE MARKED MEN
Intelligent? theyre still humans.
Marked men are ghouls and ghouls have the same level of intelligence as humans as they once were humans but transformed due to radiation
@@chef8199 depends if feral or not, the marked men are like semi feral
@@unavela Not feral, but more rather driven to absolute insanity by their pain.
I always thought the Marked Men could've used more... *Fleshing out*
I saw what you did there.
Hhheeeeyyyyy
Jokes aside I also think that they should've been more fleshed out with notes written by them or female ones, just anything.
@@unoriginalperson72 completely agree, they're as bland as talon or gunners in basegame. Which I guess is okay for a DLC expansion
@@unoriginalperson72 I agree.
The Marked Men are definitely the more interesting enemies in the game, good to see them covered!
They’re definitely not covered with skin though
We see what you did here... :D
@@krzosu Damn, thought nobody would notice.
I could see this group being bigger than what it was portrayed .come on , legion and ncr working together. also not to mention them being basically immortal from being done what of a ghoul
This might be the most interesting enemy you've covered so far. I always found the marked men so fascinating
Same. They also have probably the most sophisticated firepower of any enemy or faction (if you can consider the Marked Men a faction).
They even give the Brotherhood some rivalry in firepower.
I feel the same way about Mole Miners
Most interesting thing about them they are intelligent enough to capturing deathclaws by using traps then use agaist their enemies (its mentioned one of the ncr scout notes)
@@NeoVault_ they legit have anti materiel rifles after level 30 best way to get one mind you.
The Marked Men remind me of the part in The Divine Comedy, where the good but godless people walk forever in harsh winds that tear at their flesh. I wonder if that's where their inspiration for them came from.
Many things that's for sure one of them. The main one is heart of darkness. More specifically apocalypse now version. There a reason uylious is named after an American General after all
Always thought they were just ex military turned ghouls with scraps of training left in their decaying mind. Thus carrying weapons and armour.
@Something Mildly Homophobic what are you talking about he is covering interesting lore
@Something Mildly Homophobic no they aren't
The marked men would scare me so much when I was younger I would straight up just nope out of the game
Them and the Ghost People lol
Rightfully so too one mf happened to have explosive amr ammo I have no fucking idea how but it happened
Completely understandable I did the same many many times
And game wise to, my first nv I just wandered to it early managed to power through the boys, had to fight the first few guys, and just left.
The Marked Men were a really interesting enemy.
Personally after 100% in the DLC a year ago I really thought the markman were the more challenging things in that dlc. His lore video I actually rather enjoyed
They are easily one of the coolest foes, and we’re actually pretty interesting to fight just because of it
I’m glad I found people who love the marked men as much as I do, I might get a tattoo of them very soon. They’re so aggressive and use good tactics and high powered ammo to take you out
Not quite feral and not non-feral. Trapped somewhere between the lines. I'm surprised they didn't take their own lives instead of enduring that hades they live in.
Maybe it's because they're half-way, ferals rely entirely on survival instinct so maybe it's started kicking in just enough so that they don't even think of killing themselves.
@@yourdad6236 that could be true and the ones with more mental stability may have already killed themselves. Though it would have been cool to see one mentally stable one.
@@sunnyisabunny1479 yeah he's completely cracked
Wasn't it the courier themselves that brought that fatal package to the divide? It's like without knowing, for the Marked men, this fight against the player is personal.
@@sunnyisabunny1479 I believe @Javafreak meant the words “courier” and “player” to be interchangeable..
@@sunnyisabunny1479 imagine trying to be this pedantic and then be wrong anyway
I always thought it was the courier you had replaced... you were just a case of mistaken identity i have to play again now...
There really should've been some named unique "NCR" masked men too. Theres several sets among the faction they couldve changed a bit and gave a few bonuses to make them unique. I know none of them are truly NCR or Legion, hell they don't even view them as uniforms anymore so its safe to assume youde have people who wear the armor of the "other" faction if it was available
Well depending what ending you choose, you kinda do. Colonel Royez on the Long 15.
@@ParallelSyntax yeah and i think the legion gets an equivalent location and stuff too but thats still relatively little use of the potential in my opinion
@@GaMeRfReAkLIVE I agree completely. No idea why they overlooked the potential. Maybe there's a reason, who knows?
Everything I’ve read about the making of New Vegas all revolved around a limited amount of time for everything. Obsidian probably got tired or didn’t think of it until too late.
Never really noticed that there weren’t any women in the marked men, I’d have assumed that with being ghouls, crazy, and without skin gender would have been irrelevant to them since they couldn’t tell what gender the person beside them was.
It's something I didn't notice either at first. But it makes sense, skin is the last thing that distinguishes the genders though. A skinless male and female might even be more prominently distinguished with the differences in their skeletal and muscular structures exposed.
@@ModFactory no it doesn't make sense because females have different body structure than males, with or without skin.
@@unoriginalperson72 Don't know if they edited their message after you pointed that out, or they already had prior to it. But they pointed out skinless humans have huge differences.
@@MaefigHistory I had already pointed it out lol. I meant that the video makes sense.
Not having skin would also probably make sex impossible, so that could also be a factor
Lonesome Road and Dead Money are easily the best DLC. Not Only do they represent the classic Fallout interpretation of horrific nuclear annihilation and survival, but also challenge you in a way you'll never have guessed on your first playthrough. I was an energy weapon build when I tackled Dead Money, but by the end I had to focus on melee to combat the lack of gear for most of the DLC.
LR had me searching literally every inch of ground for lore, backstory, and survival equipment to make it through. A challenging experience to have late game when you think you're OP.
All-in-all, fantastic juxtaposition to the campy yet serious Mojave, almost like splicing in sections of Fallout 1 into a mostly Fallout 2 styled story
Can't wait to see what they look like in Fallout 4 new vegas, if the mod ever gets that far.
I was hoping the scorched were gonna be similar to the marked men but Bethesda didn’t use them that much and reused the supermutants as an enemy for parts of the game
@@Nuniixo the supermutants don't even make sense for the time period of the game, they should've just made beefed up'd scorched that are the size of supermutants
@@unoriginalperson72 yeah that’s my idea call them super scorched and reskin the armor to be scorch crystals and make them more intimidating
@@unoriginalperson72 how? FEV has always been a prewar experiment, meaning they could exist at any time after the war.
@@Vaultboy-ke2jj Considering the literal queen is a boss lol . They have way more lore than marked men,burned from the inside out till they end up as statues and hearing the tapes of people infected is horrifying
@@Nuniixo The supermutants aren't quite so nonsensical in fallout 3, and even seem like tragic figures to an extent, but it's gets a bit ridiculous after that and they just feel like a crutch.
Yo thank you for not jus regurgitating the wiki but putting a creative writing spin on the info
I always go the extra mile 👍
Gonna make that sweet, sweet ad revenue
@@Synonymous101 The Courier's Mile, I presume.
@@RedVelvetBlackleather that's just a bonus 😂
The marked men are symbolic of every service member who have been tools of their superiors who abandoned them following forever wars
Glad you covered these guys. They are pretty crazy and their armor is neat
What I find really interesting is that it’s NCR and Legion working together cause in Camp McCarran Lieutenant. Hayes (I think that’s her name) tells you that Legion usually kill themselves instead for get captured so it makes think about that the Divide is so terrible it makes loyal Legionnaires work with their enemies so that they can live another day
In a way the Divide could be hell and the Marked Men could be the corpses you've left behind throughout your playthrough spooky
What I love the most about the marked men in the thought that went into the apparel, they actually look properly post-apoc, where not only made of scrap and junk but, you can recognize the junk. Especially think its cool to see the 2 factions trying to build civilization be brought back to apocalypse, even the tailored uniforms of Legion and NCR left in disrepair without proper care and lazily slapping metal and other hard materials to cover newly torn holes.
Best dlc in my mind. Between this and old world blues, there's so much lore and fun that it keeps me coming back to play every so often.
I love the idea of people looking for a reason to continue living despite their lives being agonizing to the point of being comparable to to the kind of torture one would endure in literal hell...and the reason they decide on being so that they can continue to hate the people responsible.
This was honestly the best dlc of the game, in my opinion ^^
The environment itself, enemies, environmental storytelling. Hell, just for the upgraded riot gear i love it.
I love all the dlc’s but I always get burned out halfway through playing them :(
@@alfiemitchell7219 I found Joshua’s(honest hearts I believe) to be fairly fast
I would always go here early in the game to arm myself with good weapons 😅
@@GSMillion hell yeah. Badass upgraded ranger armor with the sweet duster, an anti-materiel rifle, and that .45 auto from honest hearts. Definitely gives an edge on the competition
I enjoyed Lonesome Road, but I think I got a bigger kick out of the weirdness that is Old World Blues.
More fallout lore? You have my attention
This is my favorite dlc by far! How all DLCs had their own stories but always hinted to the showdown in the divide is something that Bethesda can never replicate or do again with fallout because obsidian made something really special with FNV and it’s DLCs
I know its a Lore Video on the Marked Men but what I took away from it was the fact that the Storms are caused by a malfunctioning weather machine. The wall map in Old World Blues makes so much more sense now.
This makes me think
Did they ever mention what the legion thought of ghouls?
Inhuman slaves
@@xptaco2298 well, what else would anything be to the legion lol.
@@xptaco2298 they allowed raul to live in their lands with no problem
I’ve played Lonesome road so much that I know it like the back of my hand so it’s amazing to learn stuff I never knew, or having the info presented in a way I hadn’t thought before. Great channel dude, keep up the good work
Go back and you’ll see that bit from the slideshow about how out of fear or respect they no longer attack the courier is BS! They respawn in greater numbers and attack on site.
Why don’t they just cover their self in radioactive material and walk out, like just grab something putting off rads and tape it to your back/put it in a backpack
There is radioactive barrels and cases of what could be uranium or plutonium in a cave, I wonder if that would be enough to walk away with and survive 🤔
@@Synonymous101 that’s a good idea, I always liked the idea of a hazmat suit filled with radioactive water so it’s like a “boy In the bubble” situation
@@umbra7163 this needs to be tested 😂
@@Synonymous101 also what if they splashed around in enough barrel waste that one eventually turned into a glowing variant then they use said glowing One variant like a portable healing area of effect
@@umbra7163 I think that's a possibility, as well as turning feral. A Glowing Marked Man would have made for an interesting boss fight or secondary antagonist!
You can do about 5% of this dlc at Lv1.. just go there after you are done at goodsprings.
You can have a set non faction riot gear, arc welder and the EDE upgrade for daily weapon repair just to name a few of the odds and ends you can get before enemies become an issue.
Pro players can take it further with a bit of finesse, or there's console commands for the PC folk.
Makes for a really good start to a few different builds.
Even at level 1 you could kill that single sentry bot as long as you have Science 25 (deactivate the first sentry bot), lets EDE take hit while you stay as far back as possible taking pot shot
There are quite alot of loots before the last fight, the US General Outfit give good Speech Boost early game
All the weapons you get there can be repair to max conditions by EDE, wait 24 hours, sell loots to Commissary which have high caps pool
Nothing beats the atmosphere of this dlc I love it!
Always loved this dlc.
it's ironic to be united in a place called the divide :3
I love videos like these. Most of the time I'm busy having fun with the game play mechanics that I forget to pay attention to the lore and story
For me the worst part of lonesome road is that there's too much cool stuff to pick up
I always take the perks to increase carrying capacity and drop off all the loot I'm carrying to make room for what I'm bringing out of the Divide.
Counter argument for the no Marked woman part. If all the skin and fat is ripped and sanded away from the Marked men, maybe the reason we don't see any is because you can't tell them apart. After all, breasts are skin and fat so it would be weaker and more pliable compared to muscle. Plus I doubt that they would try to breed for the simple fact that they are in constant pain and even Ghouls don't have sexual organs anymore, so they might not either.
And that only NCR would have women in their ranks, plus NCR only had a small expeditionary recon force.
there's more to the difference in form than breasts. also some ghouls must have genitals or that one from the atomic wrangler probably couldn't make it as a prostitute
@@averyclevername9012 She's got a purdy mouth
@@bronsontolliver9027man I feel bad for ghouls if all they can do anymore sexually is give smoothskins head
Would still have a noticeably smaller frame, particularly with any of the less covering armor.
Man, I just found your channel and I think I've found the de facto best channel on UA-cam for listening to whether I'm doing things or just interested in kicking back while listening to some interesting lore.
Gathering it all like this and structuring it so coherently, it's astounding work!
Guess you could say that overtime, your channel'll be Synonymous with Fallout Lore.
Eh?
Very punny 😂
And thank you, it can take a lot of effort putting these videos together, so I'm glad to see they're being enjoyed! 😁👍
Damn, im almost done with this dlc, so its cool to see a video posted literally within the day
This fits really well considering I just finished lonesome road
@Knight-Sgt. Reyes I liked most of the Sierra Madre but the vault of the end was just a constant run into a room, look for the speaker, explode and reload
Edit: Worth it though as I got away with 37 goldbars
Believe it or not, I played The Lonesome Road yesterday and was literally wondering: "Did anyone make a video about marked men lore?"
Another great video my guy! You're one of the best Fallout lore video creators on YT!
I like what the marked men represent, that the apocalypse can easily get apocalypsier before it gets better.
Love the content! Awesome job as always Synonymous.
Honestly this is the first time I listen to you. And I like your storytelling. So thank you. And game on.
Found your channel yesterday, cant get enough, your a legend. Your covering a gap in fallout content.
Love your videos man. Keep up the great work
Imagine a short film animation where the NCR re-enter the Divide, getting Ambushed by the Marked Men.
Could have some awesome action scenes and very emotional weight behind former comrades killing each other.
I think I'd find some damned goggles before letting my eyelids get sanded away.
All of the DLCs in FONV are fantastic, but Lonesome Road and Dead Money are personal favorites. The lore and story is just perfect.
My guess as to why there aren't any marked women would be bc maybe some of the ex-legion marked men, especially the ones with the lanius masks, might have killed the women as some kinda twisted reminder of their past
that’s some dumbass head cannon
Lmao what? They don't kill women, they just view them as unfit for manual labor. There's still plenty of women IN the Legion, there's no basis for thinking the Legion kills women lol
Thanks for the video. I was out of work sick today, and it made my day better.
There used to be a few mods that either added marked women. Or added some sort of lore that explained why there wasn't any. There was even one that would have had the Divide turned back into Hopeville. Or at least the modders interpretation of Hopeville.
Unfortunately, These models have long since been abandoned and/or deleted.
This is an underrated channel fr, wish ya great success synonymous
Great video. Thanks for the hard work.
I always figured the marked men didn't really have a gender since ghouls can't procreate and they were just called marked men because men is usually plural for soldiers
The Marked Men are so cool. I like that they’re a unique type of ghoul not found anywhere else.
We're gonna be talking about the DIVIDE, WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT "THAT PACKAGE"
Hate 'll keep a man alive, Spartacus...
I watched the ghouls video yesterday when you said you’d save the marked men for another video and here it is legend!
WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT the divide.
WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT the long 16.
AND
AND WE WILL MOST DEFINATELY BE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT the bear... and the bull.
I love your channel, keep doing what you're doing
Fighting Ulysses was the best and hardest battle in New Vegas, death claws can’t even compare to him
Imagine not joining Ulysses
I read this in Ulysses's voice
That's just the medic eyebot lol.
This is great. I actually just played Lonesome Road for the first time recently.
The divide is fallouts Mordor
I found them tragic and terrifying
*Slams desk* "The Bear and The Bull!"
They've replaced sadness with hatred.
Maybe I'm a Marked Man?
I have been waiting for this one! Awesome!!
The marked men looked like there in pain
God these videos just get better and better
Please make a whole wasteland codex!!!! I need this in my life! Great work I’m so happy to have found your channel you have my sub and a like on everything I watch
I intend to try! And thank you for your support 😁👍
"Gentleman! There is a solution here that you are not seeing."
*Marked Man shoots himself in the head*
Other Marked Men: "..... I GET HIS SHOES."
it be Kool to have a non hostile marked man , that'll explain to you their whole lore
Been waiting for this vid!!
Keep these vids coming , love every one of them!❤❤❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✌
As usual this is excellent, thanks so much for entertaining my suggestion!
Thanks I needed my fill of lore for the day.
Even ghouls look at marked men and go "well least we're not like them"
I’ve been very confused about these crispy flayed bois. Thanks🤙🏽
*chef's kiss* great video. Very well explained.
I have a theory as to why Marked Women don't appear, I think it's due to like the Sandstorm, if it's enough to tear skin and fat away from ghoulified men, then I imagine it would've done the same to Women, making them near indistinguishable from the Men
Loved the divide thanks for the great upload
Ayyyyy a new synonymous video
They attack every outsiders , very thin-skinned of them
Im droping likes on you're videos these are definitely a good way to pass 10 minutes and learn more about a game i love
Wow I usually kill them all and go for the Ranger armors, never knew they had this much lore
BREAKING: Red men sighted who are just to angry to die.
Wow, you did a great job. This channel has I'll be big. I predict in a year from now you will get 100k sub
nobody:
marked man: i just wanna blink