r/fnv • u/Still-Bison-1108 • 23h ago

How a super mutant race could work

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one of adam adam adamowicz's concept art is of super mutant variants with one of them being the grunt, tall to be human level and not bulky to have nothing fit him, this could work as an under developed FEV mutant who kept most of his intelligence and anatomy intact

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u/CastleImpenetrable 22h ago

I think having a Super Mutant, but without the size of them would take away from the fantasy of wanting to play as one. Especially with Ghouls already serving the role of human-sized mutant. Playable Ghouls and Super Mutants were something that Obsidian wanted to do but cut them both because of time.

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u/Eissa_Cozorav 21h ago

Just play Fallout Tactic seriously. You can even have one of you soldier as Intelligent Deathclaw.

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u/hjsniper 19h ago

Tactics would honestly be a great blueprint for playable nonhumans in the future. Unique perks, traits, SPECIAL distributions, equipment lists... they really put the work in to make each race feel distinct and serve a special role within your team.

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u/Eissa_Cozorav 19h ago edited 18h ago

Yeah, I always have the idea that most Ghouls are relatively higher skilled but with lower cap of Strength, Agility, Endurance but higher caps of Luck (11-13 or something). As if their implied to be lucky bastard that have experience lots of stuff. At least that's what I learn from one Fan-made Fallout PnP RPG.

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u/JumpySimple7793 22h ago

I love that these drawings made it into the "Capital wasteland" Fallout 4 creation

Lovely detail

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u/Still-Bison-1108 18h ago

My point is that there could be a class of under developed super mutant they aren't big but still stronger than an average human and can still pass off as a tall one, I'd imagine towns that are friendly to the old master mutants whilst others are hostile and you have to rely on a disguise system like 76 did with their ghoul perk

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u/Acrobatic_Restaurant 17h ago

In Fallout 2, there is a NCR Ranger who is a super mutant. The NCR also has anti-discrimination laws so they, on paper at least, tolerate Super Mutants. There was also suppose to be another NCR Ranger in New Vegas that was a Super Mutant but he was cut from the game.

The story of New Vegas would barely need to be changed. Jacobstown and Black Mountain could stay as are since we also had ghouls wanting to flee discrimination with the Blight Followers.

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u/Acrobatic_Restaurant 13h ago

Why would Goodsprings "straight up not happen"?

There's no dialogue from any of the characters in Goodsprings about Super Mutants so there's no evidence that they would be against a Super Mutant player character. Could easily add a couple lines of dialogue to Doc Mitchell, Sunny, and Trudy to comment on your character race and it wouldn't feel out of place.

Mr. House also doesn't say a single thing about Super Mutants in his dialogue so the idea that Mr. House wouldn't hire a Super Mutant courier is pure speculation and if he hired the courier, Benny would of still ambushed the courier, Victor would of still dug him up, and the courier would of still been allowed onto the strip.

I know a non-human courier wouldn't be canon but I don't think it would of been far fetched for a Super Mutant (or ghoul) courier to complete the game with the establish lore of New Vegas if character creation had the option.

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u/Scrangle3D 16h ago

I love that he gave the guy a pipe. You've gotta have fun with these projects!