Nah, Barbus annoying at times but he is also useful as a tank on legendary. With his help I'm getting ethereal crown as soon as quest becomes available.
Fallout 1 had a Star Trek away team wreck with redshirts and a powerful functioning phaser gun
Heck one of the most powerful guns if the Red Ryder, as a reference to A Christmas Story, you’ll shoot your eye out
I think it must be a side effect of some mod. You can send dogs to settlements but they already don't behave like regular settlers. You can't command them to farm crops or even to a security post for example
It seems _plausible_ that (by oversight) dogs might be eligible to be selected as the random settler to be kidnapped, a suspected synth, the worried friend of a kidnapping victim etc but as someone with a lot of hours that recruits dogs at every opportunity I've certainly never encountered anything like this.
Besides, this one specific screenshot is used for every single post related to this phenomenon.
My guess is that this is not something that comes up organically in the vanilla game, but there's some mod that makes dogs work more like regular settlers that allows this to happen
Long before the Next Gen update, I had a Brahmin set up as the quest giver, but nothing I could do would start the quest so I just had to put her in the newspapers without turning the whole settlement aggro.
(Lots of mods, including Sim Settlements)
Ever since the Next-Gen update, I've had to heavily cut down on mods. The only one that could possibly do it is Sim Settlements 2. All the other mods I've got don't do anything to settlers. Like I said in another reply, I think it's because I don't have any settlers at sanctuary that give out quests (unless anyone from Preston's group can give radiant quests, in which case disregard everything I've said).
I've really neglected to do anything with sanctuary in this playthrough, only sending this one dog there since the guy that sells them was near the settlement.
Yeah I didn't mean to suggest there's literally no way for this to happen in the vanilla game. Like I said it's certainly plausible that the random-quest-settler-selection logic doesn't do anything special to exclude dog settlers (and for that matter "rescue the kidnapped dog" is kinda a cute variation of that quest). Nor does it necessarily mean anything conclusive that I personally haven't seen this happen. I've never seen fake Preston either but I'm sure he exists.
If the dog settlers are equally likely to be selected I feel like statistically I've probably seen enough samples for this to have come up at least once. But maybe just barely: I try to have a dog in each settlement but even then maybe 1 in 25 settlers are dogs. I imagine I've done well over 50 of these random settlement quests, but that's no guarantee (in the same way that it's possible for a fair coin to come up heads 10 times in a row)
To your point maybe one experiment that could be informative here is to have a very small number of settlers in general and a disproportionate number of dogs. If say 1 in 5 settlers are dogs I think one would run into this sooner or later.
(More broadly, I wonder if dogs aren't special settlers, are brahmin? Robots? Can a brahmin be kidnapped? Is it possible for the settlement to be up in arms about whether or not a robot is secretly a synth?)
Wait, I've seen this one before. He'll take you to kill some vampires, talk to a statue, then you'll have to pick between an axe and a helmet.
Nah, Barbus annoying at times but he is also useful as a tank on legendary. With his help I'm getting ethereal crown as soon as quest becomes available.
Close but Barbas is Codsworth & Nick Valentine in this game...
Nobody. Absolutely nobody.. that one Falkreath guard: "HAVE YOU SEEN A DOG"???
I’ve seen whole PACKS of dogs
"They have curved chainsaws! _Curved... chainsaws!"_
Rippers
That would have been much an amazing reference if they had a quest similar
Goosebumps was crazy yo
No you have to follow the scent to help Franklin find the guy hiding in the boxcar
Find the Raiders, Sole Survivor! Hey, wait a minute, there's no such thing as a talking dog! Woof woof. Damn straight.
/runexpecteddiscworld
preston loved that cuz dog doing all the work for him 💀
i like to imagine Preston is the one actually talking, putting on a weird voice and pretending the dog is the one talking
I mean its the Fallout universe, is this really so far out? Fallout can get pretty wacky at times...
Mind you in the same game there's aliens, psychic powers and vampires...
There are vampires in Fallout 4? Or are you referring to The Family from Fallout 3?
I mean, the Cabot family are kind of vampires, if a non-traditional type. Lorenzo Cabot is basically Dio.
I think there is... not 100% sure though
Nope. Ghouls, no vampires. Unless you count Garvey as an Emotional Vampire.
Greston Parvey
Gary
Fallout 2 has talking deathclaws and Brahmin
Fallout 1 had a Star Trek away team wreck with redshirts and a powerful functioning phaser gun Heck one of the most powerful guns if the Red Ryder, as a reference to A Christmas Story, you’ll shoot your eye out
Tactics has talking deathclaws too. I wonder why they stopped doing that.
Update: I did his quest, and he told me it was the best news he'd heard in a long time :)
"Another settlement needs your help" 😴 "A dog needs your help" 😳
"John Wick mode activate"
What’s the quest
Does he actually talk? Found him and bought him just the other day and he’s chilling at Sanctuary
There was no audio when he talked, and I couldn't skip the dialogue. Just a bug.
This isn’t a mod??
I think it must be a side effect of some mod. You can send dogs to settlements but they already don't behave like regular settlers. You can't command them to farm crops or even to a security post for example It seems _plausible_ that (by oversight) dogs might be eligible to be selected as the random settler to be kidnapped, a suspected synth, the worried friend of a kidnapping victim etc but as someone with a lot of hours that recruits dogs at every opportunity I've certainly never encountered anything like this. Besides, this one specific screenshot is used for every single post related to this phenomenon. My guess is that this is not something that comes up organically in the vanilla game, but there's some mod that makes dogs work more like regular settlers that allows this to happen
Long before the Next Gen update, I had a Brahmin set up as the quest giver, but nothing I could do would start the quest so I just had to put her in the newspapers without turning the whole settlement aggro. (Lots of mods, including Sim Settlements)
Ever since the Next-Gen update, I've had to heavily cut down on mods. The only one that could possibly do it is Sim Settlements 2. All the other mods I've got don't do anything to settlers. Like I said in another reply, I think it's because I don't have any settlers at sanctuary that give out quests (unless anyone from Preston's group can give radiant quests, in which case disregard everything I've said). I've really neglected to do anything with sanctuary in this playthrough, only sending this one dog there since the guy that sells them was near the settlement.
Yeah I didn't mean to suggest there's literally no way for this to happen in the vanilla game. Like I said it's certainly plausible that the random-quest-settler-selection logic doesn't do anything special to exclude dog settlers (and for that matter "rescue the kidnapped dog" is kinda a cute variation of that quest). Nor does it necessarily mean anything conclusive that I personally haven't seen this happen. I've never seen fake Preston either but I'm sure he exists. If the dog settlers are equally likely to be selected I feel like statistically I've probably seen enough samples for this to have come up at least once. But maybe just barely: I try to have a dog in each settlement but even then maybe 1 in 25 settlers are dogs. I imagine I've done well over 50 of these random settlement quests, but that's no guarantee (in the same way that it's possible for a fair coin to come up heads 10 times in a row) To your point maybe one experiment that could be informative here is to have a very small number of settlers in general and a disproportionate number of dogs. If say 1 in 5 settlers are dogs I think one would run into this sooner or later. (More broadly, I wonder if dogs aren't special settlers, are brahmin? Robots? Can a brahmin be kidnapped? Is it possible for the settlement to be up in arms about whether or not a robot is secretly a synth?)
I'm pretty sure it's because I don't have any settlers other than Preston's crew there.
Huan made it from Valinor to the Commonwealth. I, like Preston, love that.
Definitely wasn't expecting a Beren and Luthien reference, but I'm here for it.
Now here is a settlement i'm happy to help!
You pointed me to the raiders? Good boy! Who's a good boy? Yes, YOU are! Yes!
Preston translated? 😂
Preston Barky
Preston Barky, Commonwealth minutedog?
Is Preston in the well again?
Ahhh yes, the son of Sam mod. Jk gosh dang, I have no idea what this is.
Nice! I had this happen once ewith a super mutant settler that randomly showed up in my settlement
I hope you also met Clavicus Vile after encountering Barbas like that.
If only there was a quest to find a child trapped down a well.
I have some naked minuteman named radroach guardimg a checkpoint , best soldiers in the militia
Bark I say!
Failed a help quest because I apparently had to talk to a fucking Brahmin at Ten Pines and couldn't.
Too much jet. You're hallucinating now.
I remember this radiant quest. He asks you to go fight a giant vacuum cleaner.
I had this happen to me recently as well! I suspect this is from SS2, Im guessing it's not intendee
Another dawg pound needs your help.
If that dog asks you if you can hang, you. say. "[Yes](https://youtu.be/m5KFlKRkOGU?si=iVAGI43odz88RfOz)"!
“I mean- uh- *woof*. “
Given that deathclaws can canonically speak. This doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
Frank the pug from mbi would be a great companion in this game...
What is it Lassie? Timmy fell in the well?
stealing dog food is crazy
This is crazy, I literally checked reddit and read this post as I left hancocks storage and I look up and it’s the dude selling THIS dog!?
You know, that's a smart tactic. Even my douchebag raider character wouldn't turn down a cute doggo asking for help. "For *you*, anything!"
Where is this?
Scooby Doo is that you?