In one of my previous Fallout 4 gameplays, I was able to rescue a half-ghoul half-robot guy who works as a detective in Diamond City. After rescuing him, this character informs me that I should pay him a visit in his office in Diamond City so he can provide me with some help in finding Shaun, the son of the character we control in this world.
At the beginning of the game, when the nuclear apocalypse is happening, we are taken into an underground facility and it is possible to see the nuclear blast above our heads as the metal door is closing. It is a very impactful beginning and one that completely immerses you in this fictional world.
In this underground facility, we are put inside some pods that will allow the people inside to sort of hibernate for several years without dying. The problem starts when some unknown people kill the wife and kidnap the child, leaving the father, which means our character, without family. One of the main incentives for our character to explore this destroyed world is to find his son and revenge the murder of his wife.
I was back in Diamond City and visited this detective to see how he could help me. He explained there were several groups that could commit this type of crime but only 1 would have the resources to pull it off, The Institute. After I described him one of the individuals he quickly identified him and informs me he has a house here in Diamond City!
The next thing we are doing is going to his house. Here is a screenshot showing how Diamond City looks like.
That's the house we are looking for. Sadly it is locked and no one of us is able to break that advanced lock. That means we need to go and find the key to this house.
In this screenshot, we can see the big lights from what used to be a baseball field. There is also my always present robot, the best companion in all of Fallout 4.
The solution is to go to the Mayor's office and ask for the key to be given to me. It sounds easy but it is most likely an illegal request.
Once I arrive there is this journalist fighting with the Mayor's secretary. She was also fighting with the Mayor the first time I arrived in this city so I wouldn't be surprised to see her disappearing sometime in the future.
I was unable to convince the Mayor to give me the key. I wasn't even able to bribe him. There was the possibility of trying to rob the key from his pocket but this would have caused too much trouble. So I went to his secretary and luckily, I was able to convince her. She gave me the key for free and then I went back to the house.
This is how the house looks like from the inside. It is all very normal but there was a hidden button beneath the desk.
A secret door opened, and inside there were a bunch of valuable items, including the 2 Nuka-Cola Quantum from the screenshot below. I found a lot of ammunition and an item that, with the help of a dog, should lead me to the current location of this person.
The next part of the mission is to follow this dog throughout the wasteland with the hopes he can find the secret location where the criminal is hiding.
This is how Diamond City looks from the outside. There is even a baseball statue in front of the entrance.
The dog started to walk through all sorts of places, including some railroads.
I needed to find other items for the dog to sniff and continue his guidance.
There were also some enemies along the road, but I was accompanied by the robot and the dog so it was no big deal to kill these violent animals.
I saw at least one potential enemy in that enlightened place, I thought about killing him with one of my sniper rifles but I didn't want to lose sight of the dog so I left him alone.
The final place was very far away from the zones I have explored. You can see in the map below this is the only icon discovered in this zone, this was the first time I went so deep in this part of the map.
There were a lot of turrets firing at me. Very high-end protection for sure.
Once I was inside, there were synths protecting this place. These synths are robots with some biological parts, the earlier versions clearly look like robots but it is said that the most advanced versions are indistinguishable from human beings. I am expecting at least one important "human" character to be revealed as a synth later in the game.
In the screenshot below I torched 1 or 2 of them, the red dots in the lower part of the screen are from each synth that's trying to kill me.
Here are 2 dead synths. They use special guns from the Institute that instead of firing bullet, these guns use fusion cells as ammo and shot some type of laser.
The shining thing you can see on the right creates some type of lighting that can be dangerous. That's why I was hiding behind a dead synth body and a filled box to protect myself.
This is how a synth head looks like. At least one from the earlier versions.
2 more dead synths. The one on the right was shaking but I believe that was a little bug in the game.
This regular synth from the picture below was looking for me. But it was no match against all of my arsenal. That revolver looks small but it is very powerful.
One of the synths I killed had this special gun, I was disappointed because despite being special its stats aren't all that great. I have another gun that uses the same ammo and makes much more damage.
When I was killing all of these robots I couldn't prevent myself from thinking about the Terminator movies. Only this time the robots weren't super strong, and could easily be killed.
That clearly looks like a Terminator lite. ^^
I enjoy using Molotovs very much. Every time I see 2 or more enemies standing very close to each other I try to torch them.
Finally, after killing a bunch of robots I was able to find the man I was looking for. He is known as Kellogg, just like the cereal company.
This is how he looks like, and on the left side of the screen, you can also see one of the synths that are protecting him.
The fight was unavoidable, he informed me the child was with the Institute and that would be the next step in this plot. But first, I needed to kill this guy. He was able to turn invisible but I don't know how, my robot was always able to see him so I throw him a Molotov and since he was burning I was also able to see him, or at least his flames. In the end, he was unable to survive.
He had several interesting artifacts that I still don't know to use but I hope I can use them in the future:
This gun does look nice. Good stats as well.
When everything was ready, I went out of this place and what I saw was a huge surprise. I have never seen helicopters before in this game.
But that wasn't the biggest surprise, the biggest one was this huge SHIP! For a moment I thought this is an alien invasion! but there aren't aliens in this place. I turned on the radio and I was able to hear this is the Brotherhood of Steel! The same group that I found in the previous mission with all of those power armors.
That was crazy and they looked very powerful and badass. I hope to do some missions with them very soon.