The Robots of Fallout
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- They fight us in the wasteland, bast Enclave propaganda and can even help us in our journeys through Fallout. Let's look at the inspirations behind the robots of Fallout and explore some of their interesting lore.
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You forgot to mention that Liberty Prime has the Statue of Liberty imprinted on the soles of his feet.
He literally stomps liberty into the ground
When your a patriot and have a foot fetish
Ha, I forgot about that.
@@julesfaulk-lewis4904 lol
The last thing his enemies sees before being stomp is that picture which is kinda cool if you think about it
Sentry Codsworth = CHEERIO CHAP! WOULD YOU LIKE SOME TEA? **RIPS ENEMY IN HALF**
imagine the voice of KL-E-O but in like a Sentry bot or Protectron... wasn't there a protectron that helped with... *certain* needs, and one of the dialog options was "i can't feel my legs"
@@maybach5787 You mean ol' Fisto from New Vegas? Please assume the position.
@@chazzcoolidge2654 yeah that one.
Seriously though, his voice lines are way more fitting with a Sentry Bot body.
"Taking potshots at us, eh? COWARDS!"
*indiscriminate explosive barrage*
@@chazzcoolidge2654 "Come on, is that all you got?"
He forgot to mention that The Assaultron actually has two eyes,the big sense in the middle of its face just acts as laser blaster,above the blaster are two little camera lenses that are its actual eyes
I never noticed thar
Well, now Assaultrons stopped looking intimidating and just started looking goofy to me
NOW they fit into the universe
Yup
There is also P.A.M. and the automaton dlc where you can build versions which just has the two cameras stacked on top of eachother where the laser would be
Bruh I didn’t know that
“But were engaged in enhanced interrogation techniques”
So Torture
Yep pretty much
No no no, see the difference is, torture is what you call it when it’s not under scrutiny
I wonder is that bot was a reference to that one droid Vader uses to interrogate leia in a new hope.
Geneva convention? More like Geneva suggestion.
>questions how securitons rotate in place
>doesn't question how eyebots *fucking levitate*
An group of invisible gnomes standing on each other's shoulders hold it up. Misses fallout herself told me....
im pretty sure there a little thrust underneath thats the lore reason i think or it could be magnets but thats to sceniecy for fallout
@@couriersix8294 Magnets lmao
@@superscatboy the answer to all of engineering's questions, as well as lasers
@@nihoa9123 that would explain ede's tendency to blow the mines up
I thought the term was fem-bot but gynoid works a lot better.
I think fem-bit is more colloquial whereas gynoid is a more technical term.
"And a weak laser to attack or defend itself."
. . .
Protectron: *Looks at laser in hand*
Protectron: *starts firing the laser at self*
Attack, and defend.. damn commas
I didn't know Liberty Prime was originally supposed to be much bigger. That probably explains why there's concepts in the Fallout 4 art book for the player standing on a platform on his back; Bethesda still had hopes of implementing a rideable Prime even at his reduced size. I'm willing to bet the devs just couldn't get the feature stable enough, or otherwise decided that they liked the player walking along with Prime at ground level more.
Wonder if the plan was to make it work essentially like an oversized power armor frame with a different animation for entering the frame?
@@chazzcoolidge2654 drivable liberty prime? That would he an awesome finale
Or smaller ones are for other things specifically such as aerial...endeavors.
@@zeallust8542 and The Institute could have upgraded that Mr handy from the atomics career gallery and if you side with them you get to control it and we find other giant robots for all the other factions like a giant patektron with Railway Spike cannons for the railroad and a mechanical thrusting Garvey for the Minutemen and this is starting to sound like an anime or
I can see the frontline at Beijing, Sentry bots using mortars and supressing the line while T-51 troops, Mr.Gutsys and Assaultrons rush forward. Vertabirds overhead and then BAM. The white flash.
Vertibirds wernt fielded yet. Scheduled to enter full military service in 2085.
So, they could have easily still been using UH-1s and AH-1s
@@kellerweskier7214 The Fallout 4 ones, VTOL 1s, VTOL 2s were prototypes
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The only vertis that where delivered for field testing were to anchorage apparently. and in very very small numbers like 5.
The verties we see there are actually Phase 2 verties. the VB02, the attack variant. That wasnt made till AFTER the nukes fell. it was being worked on at the same time as the Enclave worked on making the APA from the X-01.
The Phase 1 version, we see in Fallout 4 (as bethesda is too fuckin lazy to make more assets) uses a much larger, bulkier design, with 3 propellers on each tiltrotor. This designe was actually for the BoS to use as a mountable aircraft for the Pridwyn.
Frankly, i dislike Bethesda's 'Steam punk' version of trains, oversized aircraft, and contraptions.
This makes sense kinda. As the BoS on the West coast couldnt make their own Phase 2 vertis in time for the NCR to stab them in the back and push them into full hiding. The NCR aquired the Vertibirds at Navarro.
@@kellerweskier7214 thats way wrong
The Brotherhood vertiberds are seen in pre war based crashed, are seen before tge war, and are even in 76
U forget the weird dual cannon tanks rolling infront the infantry
I suspect protectrons where more agile during the pre war era,but aging servomotors and damage have made them much more slow and ungainly.
Most likely
Not to mention Ada since she was made by Jackson and the other members other than that as well they can go pretty fast and catch up quickly.
How about the protections in watoga they are manufactured daily there even after the war
I'm not so sure. Sometimes we'd be exploring untouched pre-war locations and the machinery there is just as slow-paced.
@@commietearsdrinker they got some crappy legs and waddle all over the place
I´m sure there's is a household version of the assaultron. Especially for ejem... single parents.
Fisto version 2.0?
They're actually programmed to lock up and file a complaint if an owner attempts something like that, haha.
@@nyarlathotep7321 haha I'm sure there is a way to hack the firmware
@@nyarlathotep7321 source? I did not found
Assaultron: Housewife Model
Fun Fact: Liberty Prime is not the only of his kind. In the official Fallout TTRPG published by Modiphius, it's stated that 'Liberty Secundis' exists.
Interesting
I’m sad he didn’t talk about ironsides, he was my second favorite robot
those missions are always fun to do, the broadsider is LEGIT a good weapon too.
Best Sentry Bot ever.
Yes, after Fisto, Ironsides is everyone's second.
An Eyebot is cute, and a private Sentry Bot is the dream of every wastelander. But nothing beats the companionship and quality of General Atomics finest. A Mr. Handy will keep you safe, sane, and fed if at all possible.
You can try having conversation with an Assaultron, but she’ll only give you the cold shoulder like all the other ladies... perhaps a Ms. Nanny instead...
use your robot station to modify codsworth into a sentry bot and you'll have the best of the two worlds.
You missed the robo scorpions
Yeah!!! Someone else notice d that!
Ligma balls
When discussing eyebots, there was also the specialized one with Bobby and the big dig. That eyebot used sonic blasts to liquify loose soil/rock.
Ah, what a fun side mission!
I thought synths were inspired by the terminators
Gen 1 is based on Terminators the Gen 2 human ones are based on the Androids from Alien
RadKing nailed it pretty well... in 1927's Metropolis a mad scientist created what was basically a Gen-3 synth. There might be even older film references but I don't know!
Well there's also the quest the replicated man in fallout three which could mean they're both
@@rubenlopez3364 Were androids really invented by Alien?
You'd think that the concept of very human-like robots has been around for much longer
Gen 3s are basicily Blade runner replicans
yo the algorithm is bringing me to small fallout channels?! working as intended
You know I’m not biased or anything but I hear the small channels are the best...
@@Rad_King agreed
@@Rad_King well of course, small channels don't have to milk every detail into a 30 minute video to stay relevant, because their talent makes them worth watching 😉
@@Rad_King Sorry to be nosy or anything, but you missed the Nuka World variant robots, and the Aline Robots from Fallout 3!
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Not really. Even the lore found in the Galactic Zone mention that the public seems not amused because the bots they have are the same as the one found everywhere. No need to spare video time for mentioning some fancy paintjob.
I think he forgot to mention that all robots in Fallout 4 will self-destruct if you get rid of their weapons, and often do so with a nuclear explosion.
You and wasteland weaponistics are my two favorite current fallout channels.
Thanks, that means a lot. This is a labor of love so it means a lot when people like my videos.
@@Rad_King also what about the tactics robots?
I had originally included them but I felt like it made the video run too long. I’m considering doing a tactics special video though to touch on some of the unique aspects of the game.
@@Rad_King understandable and id love to see that tactics video
Have you played through tactics then?
I think the unique New Vegas Sentry Bot is meant to be used for area denial if you are fighting through a long tunnel and that thing is at the end, able to move up the tunnel at will, unlike a turret, and you are not going to get past without significant casualties.
Can we get a part 2 featuring the bots from Tactics, the Robo-Scorpions from OWB, an Mothership Zeta's alien bots? Might even be able to throw the Giddyup Buttercup horse robots in there, even though we haven't yet seen one working.
This. OWB also has Y-17 Trauma Override Harnesses. Those things were both sinister and awesome.
FO76's latest event came out so even more new alien robots are added
Securitrons are just the best. I like how funny they look, which effectively masks their very lethal capabilities.
yeah mark 2 securitrons are terrible. when i went to kill mister house i had already given him the chip so i had to deal with mark 2s, i opened the door using the terminal in the room you talk to house in and was killed before i could even pull out my gun and fire a shot.
The design is pretty Bad. They would handle recoil terrible since they can't use friction in their advantage. Also their screen would be a Big weakness.
@@Metalgearfox2000 Yeah, but they just embody the impractical funkiness of old sci-fi robots, when the designs felt more fantastical than scientifically plausible.
They're just really funny :)
@Metalgearfox2000 They don't have much recoil, rockets likely would channel out backblast in a real design, thr 25mm grenade launcher seems low pressure, and the other weapons are a laser and a 9mm.
The Liberators take design inspiration from the Automaton units used in the second season of the anime _Mobile Suit Gundam 00_ with their same cylindrical shape and mobility utilized by four legs that emerge from lower portions of the machine, only difference is that the Liberators use claw-like legs similar to the Guardian Stalkers from the _Breath of The Wild_ videogame to achieve locomotion, while the Automatons from Gundam use magnetic wheels to propel themselves in both mountainous terrain and in Zero-G environments. The only other distinction between the two is that the Automatons have dual machine gun turrets located on the underside and are the size of a full-grown human, while the Liberators are much smaller and have a weak laser.
I think i remember seeing liberators or walking mines in fallout 3's operation anchorage simulation.
@@sheilaolfieway1885 yes they had spider mines, somebody has remade them as a molded companion for FO4
I can't believe you left that perfectly good power armor frame and X-01 parts :(
Do you know the location of this armor? Because i am making some X-01 suits and need every part i find
@@ajaxpr1594 PA spawns dont really work like that, they are all leveled meaning the higher your level is the better PA you find, you need to at least be lvl 50 + to reliably get full set of X 01 PA on PA spawns. But if you are already just wait wait for it to respawn in other locations cuz they're treated as random encounters idk what in game days you have to wait but it should be a week I think.
@@laupatual7137 Well, i got Level 50 1h ago, so now i only have to wait :)
@@ajaxpr1594 i know there is a guaranteed full suit of X-01 at the 35 Court building , near the taphouse, IF you are over level 28, watch out, when you get too close it will release a sentrybot on your right, and assaultron on your left, i recommend a High DPS weapon and Danse as your partner
@@maybach5787 The lucky 35? Its the 35 Court. I write this to clear up any confusion the person trying to find x-01 might have
As someone who isn’t terribly familiar with Fallout, I think that the Securetron robot looks like “Gizmo Duck” from ‘Duck Tales’ when I was a kid. It was a robot suit with a screen in the chest that effectively made the wearer into a superhero.
I really found this vídeo very intresting especialy on the sentry bot i never knew there was a earlier model that had legs i wish to see that versión of that sentry bot in a future fallout Game or just a 3d model of it
Just another reason we should get some sort of remake of Fallout and Fallout 2!
@@Rad_King Imagine how Disgusting the Master would be with modern Graphics, and walking down the hall being psychically attacked? EEWGH! and Frank Horrigan...Dear god that would be a terrifying Fight
Great video! The Think Tanks remind me of the Vidbots from the '97 game Obsidian - coincidentally also the home of the original giant metal spider robot that stole my heart.
Nice! There is definitely a resemblance there, I was not aware of this game :)
I never realised the actual robots was called think tanks, I thought it only pertained to the building itself, The think Tank
Assaultrons are my favorite: Deadly, Protective, and very hot.
Mr Gutsy is my second favorite.
I'd have to say that Liberty prime is the best for me
@@cool9229 only lesser people use a giant robot, where is the challenge in that
Handys and Gutsys hands down.
Protectron and assaultrons,
Assaultrons for the same reasons
@@TonyBustaroni yeah, but have you SEEN THE BUST ON 'EM? NO WOMAN CAN COMPARE
I know he's talking about the different types in general, but I'm a little upset he didn't mention the only mini Securatron in the series, Muggy.
Say what you will about the story-line for Atamatron (I still like it but wouldn't argue for it to anyone who doesn't) the ability to mix and match robots and adding crazy weapons to them is amazingly fun and creative. probably some of the most fun I had in fallout 4 testing out my new mecanations
I liked automatron too. To be fair I'm not particularly critical of the fallout series because I love it's world so I felt that the construction DLCs were the weakest for FO4 since they didn't add too much too the game.
i liked it too but its overpriced...
it wouldve been nice if it was a scavenger group(s) vs rust devils vs mechanist kind of thing with proper factions and not like bunch of random hostile bots and a new raider variant
they couldve really added a rust devil base and a scavenger base, do something better with the mechanist's lair
instead we get Ada and like do these 6 quests where you go to a location and just kill bots bc evil rogue bots.
5:10
'Obvious inspiration' honestly things always reminded me of Gizmoduck from the old school DuckTales. Everything from the mono wheel, to the screen on the chest.
I'm probably just grasping at straws but they're similar enough looking that someone actually made a Gizmoduck mod for the securitrons in New Vegas.
Liberty Prime Concept Art : *has really cool looking guns and stuff on his arms*
Liberty Prime In-Game : *bruh ima just throw bombs at people*
Nice to see you post videos again. It really made my day
Thanks! I’m glad to be back at it. If you have any suggestions for content you would like to see, leave me a comment!
( Fully Integrated Security Technotronic Officer) AKA “FISTO”
Pump up the jam.
9:15 Not to mention their size, they looked goddamn huge in Fallout 1 and 2.
16:57 Those look cool. Specifically the top left and bottom ones. They make me think of a cross between Battletech mechs and Transformers.
The fact that I've never found your channel before is annoying, I've always been into fallout lore and love to learn more and more whenever I can, I'm definitely subbing, keep up the good work bud👍
Miss Obama it's an honor!
Keep making these videos fallout lore vids are lowkey blowing up and well deserved
Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying them
Really love how intimidating the sentry bots sound in New Vegas.
i love the robobrain design in the top right of the concept art
probably the best fallout 4 lore channel around. good video!!
The style of all these enemies looks just amazing. Always nice to encounter robots in the Fallout universe.
I forgot about Liberators! I think they were a pretty neat addition to the lore, I can see some character out there reprogramming one to be a little robot companion
I liked this video so much, I watched it back to back.
i love these videos so much , watching footage of someone absolutely suffer with an expert lock adds to it imo LOL
never heard of the Mr Torturer before.......must have been in something i haven't played.
Sentry bots crack me up because you can kill them with any gun in 1 shot if you use VATS on their fusion core. The ultimate killing machine owned by a bb gun.
ok so the Securitron inspiration DON'T look at robots Look at the Disney Classic cartoons Ducktales & Dark Wing Duck specifically at the Armored super Hero Gismo-Duck made by Giro{Jah-eye-Roe} Gearloose This armor LIKE the Securitron features Features Flex-tube Arms, (Sleaves) A Mono Wheel system, & Large Decorative shoulders WITH a a TV monitor in the chest & a Simple Keyboard on one arm.
Omg you're right, I totally forgot about that from ducktales
That was the first thing that came to mind when I played new vegas many years back.
Hugh. Another fellow fan of Red Alert 2! Cheers mate, we dwindle year by year. Only a remaster like C&C 1 can bring back our numbers.
No idea why youtube suggested me this video, anyway, a possible solution for the securitron to turn while standing still might be just a mechanical gyroscope with 2 heavy flywheels. One rotating clockwise and the other counterclockwise. Much like a twin rotor helicopter.
Nice video!
Get a unicycle, if you can ride one that is 🤣and try turn on the spot, it actually turns very easily due to the sharp turning circle if that's the correct term lol. The unicycle will tend to turn on the spot.
I think the actual way it could rotae is the one big wheel is actually two wheels that can rotate independently. I dont know my engineering terms so excuse any misuse of terminology. I think the big wheel is two wheels with something like a washer or disc between them. This means when it needs to turn, it could rotate only one of the wheels, or if it needed to turn quickly it would turn the wheels in opposite directions.
Some of those concept Liberty Primes are so cool. That one with a round shield with what look like AA guns poking through it is my favorite.
subbed bro love fallout lore
That was some real good research man!
I honestly don't get why people argue about synths being sapient. We see from the gen one model that even they had human brains. Meaning the entire "synth" line is an evolution of robo-brains. Thus they have an actual human brain controlling them. They have the one part of the human body that most people would agree makes them "human." Remember, that was in a gen 1 synth. The fact that gen 3 are smarter suggests they keep the human brain in better shape so it can process better.
So it seems odd to question if the thing made from actual human DNA and with a human brain controlling it can feel human emotions. In fact, the gen 3 synths seem to only have one non-organic component, a control unit in their brain that looks a lot like they gave Kellogg.
Wait, synths have human brains? Could you provide an image?
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14:04
Unless I've gone blind, I didn't see a single human brain
@@vizzy61 The head looks like it has a human brain with a seethrough glass cranium.
@@vizzy61 I went into the game and that is just head armor and a blurry image.
Sorry my bad, though they do seem to be made from biological parts and they needed human DNA to make them, so I do think they got the idea to use human neurons as the main processor from the robo-brain.
Though at this point they don't need criminals and can make a brain on the spot.
I'd say for the Securatrons inspiration you could look at Duck Tales' Gizmo Duck who has the same unicycle type of locomotion.
Securatron was inspired by Darkwing duck Gizmoduck basically the power suit without the duck before your time, but I recognized it instantly
Still learning alot lol thank you for your videos even though im a new subscriber
From what little ive seen of the liberators, they bear resemblance in many ways to the guardians from breath of the wild.
I always saw synths as terminators, especially coursers
6:50 i appreciate this reference ty
Like 3 years late, but quick answer for the Securitron rotating would be reaction wheels or something similar, much like how space vehicles rotate themselves.
The securitrons from new Vegas, always kind of reminded me of Kain from robocop 2. He had his digital face that was meant to represent himself as he had been as well as illustrating his mood and personality. The securitrons generally kept the same face but would change under certain circumstances.
Liberty Prime like optimus prime ^_^
Skynet from fallout 2, I believe it was. Machine that could be given a monkey body as well as being a terminator reference. Considering that Bethesda made a number of terminator games on pc back in the day, it was almost fitting that they would get their hands on fallout as well.
You should have also mentioned the walking eyes from New Vegas's Big Mountain. They didn't work, but they were there in that flooding section. They were a Venture Brothers reference which was pretty cool. Could have been an amusing counterpoint to the floating eye bots.
There was also the miniature securitron from Big Mountain that craved Coffee cups.
F.I.S.T.O also deserved an honourable mention. Of all the violent things protectrons were capable of doing to hurt a guy or gal, breaking their hearts stands out.
Does something count if it only appears in Wild Wasteland?
@@davidhong1934 canonical, no. It was always sort of a just for fun bit in the game but they are still worth honorable mentions.
Rosey the robot, from The Jetson's, might have provided some inspiration
Love your videos
And I love you, random citizen.
"A robot you wouldn't want to meet in a dark ally..."
Fisto. (Shudders)
I just recently did the Fisto quest in new Vegas, and let me just say I laughed for about half an hour
Good stuff. Many thanks.
Awesome, Red Alert 2 was a personal favorite as well and I hated when someone would blitz a horde of terror drones.
I think one way to look at the securitron is as a sutied up CL4TP-TP Bot From borderlands with the mono wheel and single eye/ monitor design.
The only reference for mono-wheel robots that springs to mind is "Ro-Jaws" from the 2000 AD comic, however the wide shoulder design with screen mounted in the chest area would suggest some inspiration from the Martians of the War of the Worlds movie [1953]
I played Fallout 4 before any other game and was not prepared for what I ran into. I stumbled across a farm settlement and then found this building nearby. When I started exploring it though I managed to activate the sentry bot outside. That attracted the attention of the Gunners nearby at an abandoned vault. Next thing I know, I'm pinned down inside the building with a sentry bot an an assaultron trying to kill me.
I know where that spot is. Sounds like the last fracas I got into at that area.
Lore or just for gameplay there are more robots and everytime they forget to mention Operation Anchorage's Spidermines and Chimera Tank. The Think Tank special robots where covered but no mention of the Zax computer AIs from fallout 1, 2 and 3 with it's most well known member being John Henry Eden and to a certain extent the AI of Broken Steel's M.A.R.G.o.T. Would also been a nice touch to cover for at least 30 seconds that in addition to ED-E being a unique armored eyebot and companion in FNV, that a special Mr.Gutsy is an obtainable companion in FO3 in Sergeant RL-3 as well a Synth type is a potential companion in FO4 in the form of Nick Valentine. It was also skipped mentioning Point Lookouts's unique Non moving Robobrain; Professor Calvert. And while aliens are a well known lore in the FO universe it would have been nice to talk about the Attack Drones and Maintenance Drones from Mothership Zeta. I may be missing more as i dont have all dlcs and games but just letting these notes. I hope its a nice read.
Humanoids? Behemoths? Security robots? Pacification robots? Anything from Fallout Tactics?
Sounds like a great part 2 video...
I wonder if the likes of Skynet, ZAX computers, and that Enclave controler at White Springs count as robots, I suppose they are more AI
@@Rad_King you also forgot the minebots from operation anchorage
I think this calls for a part 2
I also didn't know the scientists in the Think Tank were called think tanks! I always thought they were inspired by the "interrogation" (debriefing?) scenes in 12 Monkeys, where Bruce Willis is harangued by the floating ball of CRT screens.
Do the assaultorns have a pleasure model?
What helmet is that near the end of the vid when you went into third person?
I hope we get a remaster of this
In another Robocop reference, with Wild Wasteland active, when engaging in combat they'll say "Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
5:08 Well we got "GizmoDuck" from "Darkwing Duck". There you have your inspiration. If you have a time machine!!! lol
The Securitrons always remind me of that Robo-suit from Dark Wing Duck
Forgot to mention the Alien Drones in Mothership Zeta
I JUST REALIZED HOW SECURITRONS TURN
Look at the wheel
Notice there is actually two separate treads on it
Perhaps it is two wheels put directly next to each other
Brother, your Castle is giving me serious anxiety lol
I’m surprised there wasn’t a liberty prime concept that didn’t have its face look like Washington’s
Could you perhaps make a video about space travel in the fallout universe?
Cool idea, I’ll look into that!
The ASSaulttron looked good with some hip welding and a french maid outfit
You caught my interest
I particularly like the last concept art of LP looked like the ncr ranger armor and I like
Eyebots were always my favorite
I didn’t know the grill was the speaker! I just thought it was protective glass or something in front of a camera
Dude that radiation sound effect at the beginning of your videos makes me want to take some Rad-X
15:55 is the healthbar in the background full or are they at like 1-2 hp with massive rads?
My immediate thought when seeing the Securatrons in New Vegas for the first time was they look like Gizmo Duck from Duck Tales.😅
Radking: “How about we start with what is probably the most ubiquitous of all robots in the franchise”
Me: “Mr Han-“
Radking: “The Protectron!”
Me: “PROTECTRON…”
The robot from new Vegas, a T shape, there used to be a line of robot toys back in the early 80s that kind of looked like that, but instead of a wheel, they had a suction cup. Though in the cartoon, anything could come out of the suction area, a wheel, a jet, a hoover thing, legs lol.
Hope that helps, I'm just sorry I can't remember the name....Robo Force I think they were called...as soon as I saw the T style here that's exactly what I thought of.
Thanks for reading ❤
Very tired from a long day yesterday, read this as the Roberts of Fallout
7:20 Assualtrons always reminded me of Ultron from the Marvel universe.
0:49 mans stabbed a car so hard it insta exploded
Mods...lots of mods
Note the robobrains from i think Fallout 1 and 2 were able to wield weapons mainly assault rifles or shotguns, i don't know i've i encountered the later games that had that ability.
I will say that the liberators in both their operation and deployment (As well as a little of their design) remind me of the Buzz droids from star wars
small infiltrators that can tear shit apart with blades? While I'm sure theyd be more effective in a pressurized atmosphere, they're still a fun idea for quick diversion
Also just imagine being in a US submarine, triggering a sea mine and surviving, only to hear cutting on the outside of your hull