Or at least, let you ask him even if he reject the offer. Honestly, due to how articulate he is, it wouldn't surprise me if he came to Far Harbor from the Mariposa Military Base after the death of the Master. (The Master has been the only one who could make inteligent Super Mutants to that degree. Most are either dummer, feral or insane)
@@moonshadow7838 he and his group came from the Commonwealth I belive, but the fog had a weird effect on them, most got meaner, more aggresive, but he got his eyed opened and left them to live peacefully
Far Harbor just hits differently. It was made with love while Todd Howard was on vacation. Edit: Braylon Ramsey is right, I should have said Emil Paguliarulo was on vacation, as he is a dogshit writer. He wrote the main plot of Starfield and a lot of the main story of fallout 4. His Twitter is also a joke to laugh at.
@@Ostr0strong is a dlck. He only wants to find "the milk of human kindness" so he could make super mutants strong enough to kill all humans. Also, he dislikes everything you do (that isn't literal cannibalism) for no reason. Went the peaceful route? *Strong disliked that*, was too violent? *Strong disliked that*, talked to someone for longer than a single word? *Strong disliked that*.
@@Guile_The_ExileI mean those ones are pretty wholesome too when you remember gore and guns are like ice cream and toy trucks to these things, and they are genuinely having a good time
I also like the one from Fallout 2 who became the Mayor of a super mutant town back in Fallout 3, forgot his name though. But it's one of the intelligent and nicest ones you will meet in the game, along with a population of non-aggressive and semi cordial Super mutants too!
I wish that I could get even just ⅒ the joy out of life that Fawkes does in Fallout 3..... _Don't read this wrong,_ I'm plenty happy! But even on *my BEST day* I'll never be as happy as that Super Mutant as he/she enters combat (Fawkes isn't sure if they were a man or a woman before being turned, but I'll bet they were a super genius)
It might show his vision, but not what would've been commonplace if he succeeded. In fact, people like Marcus and Erickson would probably be killed by the hordes of more deranged and violent mutants. And considering we literally see super mutants form different groups and hold different ideologies, it wouldn't have worked anyway. If The Master had any knowledge of history, he would've known people of the same race, religion, and beliefs had gone to war before. Human conflict isn't simply from looking ir thinking differently.
@@brianmoyachiuz905 The Master never really realized that the Super mutants were brutish murderers. He also didn't know they were incapable of reproducing if I remember correctly.
It's really funny the master thought that humans couldn't inherit the wasteland because they destroyed the world in the first place so he would let super mutants inherit it instead. It's really funny because this means he didn't understand that super mutants were literally humans- just mutated.
Hes also the most well spoken super mutant on the east coast. Some might be "smarter" but his sentence structure doesn't sound like he's just learning how to talk or in constant pain.
•Super Mutant •Been around a long time •Has a way with dogs •Owns a large variety of dogs •Dogs have followed him back home before •Still ain't seen a dog like that before Yup, Dogmeat's a fuckin' synth.
@@thefaceless6406 Or basically nonexistant if you understand 20 plus entire fuckin' generations of uncontrolled mixed breeding. Most humans gone. Many domestic dogs with them. Any remaining ones will be weeded out by the wildlife. The only domestic canines to survive and intermingle with wild dogs would be larger dogs that already more resemble their wolf ancestors, and would only live long enough to contribute to the first generation of cross-domestic-wild breed wolves. Which would then go on to dull out all domesticated features with no human oversight to implement planned purebreeding. Basically no vaults had pets. If they did, the odds lean more so towards all of them dying with their respective humans anyways. Making this Dogmeat specifically the most Uncanny Valley shit, and you're a blind, deaf, and numb man if you can't tell.
I forget how violently wholesome this dude is and when you’re neck deep in the horror of the wasteland, he’s a delightful change of pace. He deserves a bigger part in the tale.
If it's got idle animations like skyrim does, I actually wouldn't doubt that they could eat and drink the things you leave. Even in oblivion, npc's would pick foods off of tables and eat it
I remember my companions in nv would randomly pick of things and use them here and there in my lucky 13 room, so maybe they actually do in this one 😊 I've always been a fan of leaving things for NPCs too
I accidentally blew up a car near one of my provisioners heading towards the bridge into sanctuary hills, he started limping really bad so I added two stimpacks into his inventory 😂 he kept limping but I felt like I gave him the tools necessary to help so I felt better
So a little backstory on this one, as far as I understood, Super Mutants weren’t exactly safe from The Fog themselves. So at some point, he was just like the rest of them, then once they came to the island, it affected their minds in some ways, even his own, but Erickson’s mind was affected differently, like it even gave him the average minded intellect at least, however still being able to comprehend his actions and what he can do. It’s nice to at least have a generally good Super Mutant out there.
I think it was that and the vim pop factory because in there you find terminal entries from one of the super mutants who was regained there cognitive functions by drinking the vim I think Erickson was that super mutants
@@skollandhati9961would’ve been nice too we could’ve learned more about his past like how he got his hat for example and if he even knows if he had family before meeting the SS
@@Iceteaconsumer900i have the same k9 harness mod lol. I love it. I also have one that turns him into somebody’s irl dog named Wolfgang, he looks really cute!
@Legozanman I think I've seen that mod is it the one that turns hin into a husky? I have a similar one that uses dog houses to transform him into several different animals including bugs and death claws
@@Iceteaconsumer900 its called wolfgang i think? He is a black dog with like a little bit of white on his belly/chest Edit: its called “A brother for dogmeat: Wolfgang” i believe
Well yeah, but this guy doesn’t wanna follow you around the wasteland, all he wants to do is raise some dogs, chill out in his plane, and eat good food. Honestly the most chill of all of them, minus whatshername from new vegas
He is possibly the most compassionate of super mutants and one of the very few to live a life of killing and pillaging and decided that he didn't like killing pepole and he felt bad pretty well written for a minor appearance
My personal headcannon for erickson is that as he changed into a super mutant a dog licked his hand and he kept petting it as he changed and only holds onto his sanity because someone has to protect the doggos
Erickson one of my favourite super mutants mainly because he's friendly but also because his brain isn't working at the neanderthal speech level the majority of the other super mutants are at Erickson actually has a normal brain IQ function
"Yep, certainly had a few follow ME home before!" It's amazing, yet I believe him. Dogs are fantastic readers of body language (often how they know someone is up to no good before you do), so I see them being able to tell a Super Mutant isn't a threat, and even following them around as the "Alpha" _thing_
Fallout always looks like that one "overly criticized for being violent" game, till you find out about dogmeat's existence. Then comes the rest of the lighthearted stuff
Erickson is the one reminder in fallout 4 that super mutants aren’t all killing monsters. I wish there were more like him in the game. Like how new Vegas and fallout 2 had. The super mutants weren’t all mindless originally, and I hated how hey just all got downgraded to just really powerful enemies in fallout 3&4.
@@DankyKang96 they’re rare exceptions, which is kinda the issue. I don’t get the logic of how different sources of FEV can yield different results. That sounds more like Bethesda hand waving away the lore for the sake of adding a new enemy type. If it’s still fev, then it shouldn’t matter if it’s fev from California or DC. Should still behave the same way. We should have a lot more than just 2 intelligent and functioning mutants.
@@nikik5567 Vault 87 mutants were created by other mutants, with different strain of FEV than on the west coast and from wastelanders, who could be irradiated in various degrees, so i guess mind abilities degradation could occur, with some exceptions like Leo and Fawkes. Also i played long time ago, but i think both of them mention that smart supermutants were basically killed by others.
With the buried grave next to the bowl and dog house in sanctuary gives me the impression this was an enclave scientist similar to the one in the show that was killed by the institute when they had their big conflict across the entire city. This is an awesome detail because it pretty much shows us where all "Dogmeats" actually come from and how easy it is for them to become part of any wasteland adventure!
That... actually makes a lot of sense. The only game we really didn't get dogmeat was New Vegas. That's largely due to the enclave being a footnote around New Vegas. Not to mention he's always a German Shepard, has insane durability, and is intelligent enough to know what items you want without any training whatsoever
Yeah, I met him, But I was using a dog meat changer mod (on ps4) and dogmeat was a fruggin deathclaw, And... He said "Nice dog". Yeah.... Dogmeat is a real god dog *looks at dogmeat, who be a deathclaw*
The most morally just characters in fallout have a staggering amount of super muties in their ranks. Prolly not Frank, but you can't mention super mutants without giving him an honorable mention
I mean the enclave was just ethically wrong. They had the right idea of resetting the wasteland by terraforming. Just sucks they wanted to include humans.
Maybe it’s because the only people who don’t go insane during the FEV transformation are people who are driven in some way. Fawkes was driven by the pursuit of knowledge, Horrigan by devotion to the Enclave, and Erickson by his love for dogs. We just meet more of the ones driven by good motives.
Erickson is probably my favorite character in fallout 4. He’s just like, so real. He feels different from any other NPC in the game, even “friendly” ones. He so polite and shy and apologetic. One time I was just walking around his camp and he was like “hey uh, you should have this” or something and gave me a whole ass ribeye steak, probably just cause he had too much and didn’t want it to go to waste.
@@mtndew4746 Aren't that many friendly mutants so you could probably guess a few of his favorites (Fawkes, Harold, Strong, Lily, even ghouls like Hancock, Raul, or Vault-Tec Rep).
If that were the case, then why does Dogmeat so adorably salute after Elder Maxson's speech? Dogmeat knows that the Brotherhood is the best solution for the Commonwealth.
Erickson would have been an great Supermutant companion. The problem with Strong simply is, he is basically the dumbest Supermutant in any Fallout game and such an wasted opportunity, especially against guys like Marcus, God and Dog and Fawkes.
I think that’s the whole point. He’s the first mutant companion that is actually like your typical super mutants in the wasteland. He’s one of my favourite companions personally.
I might be wrong but I think the bandana is blue because the dog that dogmeat was based on had the same colour of the bandana so it's also a Easter egg
Erickson helped with a lot of my posted builds. I gave Duke, Allegra, Champ, and Misha (first 3 are dogs, Misha is a Glowing Wolf) good homes at Taffington / Kingsport / BoS Airport / Murkwater.
Meanwhile we got Strong as a companion instead where if you finish his quest line he tries to kill you. This guy at least would be a worthy successor to Fawkes
Dogmeat is probably a radioactive mutant like the radstags and radroaches, he just doesn't look like a mutant (kinda like the Children of Atom), and he's probably a very weak psyker whose power is just having a human level intelligence.
Interesting lore tidbit, Erikson’s lips are malformed from the effects of FEV, and if he returns in a future game he may be wearing the leather straps we see on super mutants in Fallout 3 and New Vegas as he grows older
Except there wouldn't be tons of them as they would have been killed by the less intelligent brethren with only few and far between being able to escape.
@newbplaygames I wouldn't say more mindless, the guy who designed the mutants in 4 said in a reddit post like 2 weeks ago that he wanted them to be more human like than before but they didn't have the time to flesh them out.
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I wish he could be a companion. One of the most wholesome moments ive had in fallout 4
He absolutely should have been a companion
Or at least, let you ask him even if he reject the offer.
Honestly, due to how articulate he is, it wouldn't surprise me if he came to Far Harbor from the Mariposa Military Base after the death of the Master. (The Master has been the only one who could make inteligent Super Mutants to that degree. Most are either dummer, feral or insane)
I honestly would've taken Erickson over Strong
@@BlakeTheGamblingHero same
@@moonshadow7838 he and his group came from the Commonwealth I belive, but the fog had a weird effect on them, most got meaner, more aggresive, but he got his eyed opened and left them to live peacefully
It's crazy how the nicest being in far harbor is a super mutant
A gentle giant if you will
Far Harbor just hits differently. It was made with love while Todd Howard was on vacation.
Edit: Braylon Ramsey is right, I should have said Emil Paguliarulo was on vacation, as he is a dogshit writer. He wrote the main plot of Starfield and a lot of the main story of fallout 4.
His Twitter is also a joke to laugh at.
@@PaulRudd1941 I think you just mean the story
One of the nicest beings in fallout 4 in general
@@BraylonRamseywell. yeah. far harbor doesnt do much different that's not the story, or obviously the setting
When super mutants are chill in fallout, they are just the best buds possible.
Fawkes and Strong are awesome
@@Ostr0 same with sweet old Lily and Marcus
@@Ostr0strong is a dlck. He only wants to find "the milk of human kindness" so he could make super mutants strong enough to kill all humans.
Also, he dislikes everything you do (that isn't literal cannibalism) for no reason. Went the peaceful route? *Strong disliked that*, was too violent? *Strong disliked that*, talked to someone for longer than a single word? *Strong disliked that*.
@@Ostr0 replace strong with uncle leo
@@Creepymoose135 It doesnt matter, you max affinity with him really quickly by blowing shit up.
Erickson as a person: Loved dogs
Erickson as a Super Mutant: Still loves dogs
Yes 🙂
Erickson as a super mutant: Loves his dogs and will rip your spine out through your ass if you hurt them...... but faster now
@@Clayton_Stewart Lol yup, the only difference is how much effort it takes.
Me but with cats in the apocalypse.
Would be cats and rabbits for me.
Super mutants can either be the most depressing part of fallout or the most wholesome, and there’s no in between.
Or sometimes both
The in-betweens are the ones that lost their minds and are just bloodthirsty killing machines... Lol.
@@Guile_The_ExileI mean those ones are pretty wholesome too when you remember gore and guns are like ice cream and toy trucks to these things, and they are genuinely having a good time
Just as wholesome as Lilly 😂
@@devon8438 The Orks of Fallout, good thing they can’t reproduce like the orks lol
Erickson is my favourite Super Mutant in the franchise. He’s just a dude who likes to chill out and raise dogs. You got to respect people like that.
I also like the one from Fallout 2 who became the Mayor of a super mutant town back in Fallout 3, forgot his name though. But it's one of the intelligent and nicest ones you will meet in the game, along with a population of non-aggressive and semi cordial Super mutants too!
@@electroghost3608 Marcus! I love Marcus, he was the leader of a town in Fallout New Vegas, After leaving the original town he made in Fallout 2.
I wish that I could get even just ⅒ the joy out of life that Fawkes does in Fallout 3.....
_Don't read this wrong,_ I'm plenty happy!
But even on *my BEST day* I'll never be as happy as that Super Mutant as he/she enters combat (Fawkes isn't sure if they were a man or a woman before being turned, but I'll bet they were a super genius)
He's definitely in the top 5 for me
I like meansomofobish
Erickson has more compassion than the entire brotherhood of steel
that is not saying much lol
thenonly thing maxon is good for is giving me a cool ass coat
but danse however is another case
@@thepyrofromteamfortress2746 yea except for him he’s an exception
@thepyrofromteamfortress2746 after you convince him yes, Veronica seems like one of the more compassionate to me
I love friendly super mutants. Shows the Master’s vision if he would have succeeded- gentle juggernauts of superb strength.
It might show his vision, but not what would've been commonplace if he succeeded. In fact, people like Marcus and Erickson would probably be killed by the hordes of more deranged and violent mutants.
And considering we literally see super mutants form different groups and hold different ideologies, it wouldn't have worked anyway. If The Master had any knowledge of history, he would've known people of the same race, religion, and beliefs had gone to war before. Human conflict isn't simply from looking ir thinking differently.
What was his plan, hugging us to death? 😂
@@archbishopofthecrusades9579 As I said: The _Master’s Vision,_ not his reality. For every Marcus there were 10 failures that were murderhobos.
@@brianmoyachiuz905 The Master never really realized that the Super mutants were brutish murderers. He also didn't know they were incapable of reproducing if I remember correctly.
It's really funny the master thought that humans couldn't inherit the wasteland because they destroyed the world in the first place so he would let super mutants inherit it instead. It's really funny because this means he didn't understand that super mutants were literally humans- just mutated.
Erickson is so pure, I think he might be my favorite non-companion NPC in the game
This super mutant truly has some of his humanity and compassion left.
It is a tragedy that this is such a rare thing amongst the super mutants
Some? This mutant is more human than most people in the Wasteland.
@@davidbuchanan9101 him and fawkes tbh
God/dog isn’t too bad either if you get the good ending.
Okay chillout messiah of fallout
Finally, Bethesda writing a normal, friendly super mutant, who isn’t a moronic brute, or a genius scientist that just had bad luck
Uncle John or something in fallout 3
Marcus, Fallout New Vegas or Fawkes, Fallout 3
@@mechcommander7876LOOK AT THIS MARVELOUS PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY
@@mechcommander7876 FONV wasnt written by bethesda, and marcus is from a previous game regardless
Iirc it's because the Vim gave him intelligence and he decided not to be like his brothers
Hes also the most well spoken super mutant on the east coast. Some might be "smarter" but his sentence structure doesn't sound like he's just learning how to talk or in constant pain.
I think it was due to the Vim he drank. It rewired his mind to where he was no longer a brute and just a soft spoken well meaning person
•Super Mutant
•Been around a long time
•Has a way with dogs
•Owns a large variety of dogs
•Dogs have followed him back home before
•Still ain't seen a dog like that before
Yup, Dogmeat's a fuckin' synth.
Or dogmeats breed is endangered
@@thefaceless6406
Or basically nonexistant if you understand 20 plus entire fuckin' generations of uncontrolled mixed breeding.
Most humans gone. Many domestic dogs with them. Any remaining ones will be weeded out by the wildlife. The only domestic canines to survive and intermingle with wild dogs would be larger dogs that already more resemble their wolf ancestors, and would only live long enough to contribute to the first generation of cross-domestic-wild breed wolves. Which would then go on to dull out all domesticated features with no human oversight to implement planned purebreeding.
Basically no vaults had pets. If they did, the odds lean more so towards all of them dying with their respective humans anyways. Making this Dogmeat specifically the most Uncanny Valley shit, and you're a blind, deaf, and numb man if you can't tell.
Dogmeat seems more like an Enclave experiment than an Institute one
Brother in christ, do you not know of the enclave experiments?
Exactly the conclusion I came too, the reason he’s never seen that pattern is because dog meat isn’t a real dog.
I forget how violently wholesome this dude is and when you’re neck deep in the horror of the wasteland, he’s a delightful change of pace. He deserves a bigger part in the tale.
For a game that's story is about nuclear annihilation, the death of your partner, and kidnapping of your son, this is wholesome af
I know they can't consume it in game, but I always leave each of his dogs meat, and leave him a beer. Seems like a nice dude.
If it's got idle animations like skyrim does, I actually wouldn't doubt that they could eat and drink the things you leave. Even in oblivion, npc's would pick foods off of tables and eat it
I remember my companions in nv would randomly pick of things and use them here and there in my lucky 13 room, so maybe they actually do in this one 😊 I've always been a fan of leaving things for NPCs too
I accidentally blew up a car near one of my provisioners heading towards the bridge into sanctuary hills, he started limping really bad so I added two stimpacks into his inventory 😂 he kept limping but I felt like I gave him the tools necessary to help so I felt better
@@junebug313 you're a good man.
@@junebug313 glad I'm not the only person that does stuff like this in games
I once bought a dog from him… it died, and now I have vowed to never buy a dog from him again so I don’t kill it
I cried a little Ngl when one of Ericsson’s dogs died during an attack
@themrlupo3591 here's a solution, if you can pick the settlement it goes to, pick a place like sanctuary hills where they almost never get attacked
@@KingCooper0755 gonna a try that
Yeahhhh any time I play Survival I go solo. Leave the bois(and good boi) at home.
You know they respawn after a week right
So a little backstory on this one, as far as I understood, Super Mutants weren’t exactly safe from The Fog themselves. So at some point, he was just like the rest of them, then once they came to the island, it affected their minds in some ways, even his own, but Erickson’s mind was affected differently, like it even gave him the average minded intellect at least, however still being able to comprehend his actions and what he can do. It’s nice to at least have a generally good Super Mutant out there.
Very interesting
I think it was that and the vim pop factory because in there you find terminal entries from one of the super mutants who was regained there cognitive functions by drinking the vim I think Erickson was that super mutants
@@lordchungus4744 Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
the nicest supermutent... you mean the nicest person on the island.
Any man or mutant that is a protector and caretaker of dogs is a good one in my book
The bond of mans best friend kept that mutant calm
Dogmeat looks adorable in that blue bandana.
Did Erickson just initiate Dogmeat into the Far Harbor Crips?
😂
That's what I was thinking too 💀
GANG GANG SKIRT SKIRT DUKA DUR SCATPACK KNA MEAN YEET YEET CLING XLING CLING DRIP DROP SPLASH YA HEARD
-Average crip trying to speak.
Why not?
😂😂
BoS: Supermutants are abominations and must all be destroyed.
Erickson, Fawkes, Marcus, and many others: literally the nicest guys around.
And that’s the exact reason I exterminate the brotherhood, cause fuck em
And Virgil
Strong and the other 99.99% of super mutants on the east coast: HUMANS WEAK! ONE DAY SUPER MUTANTS KILL EVERYTHING
Meanwhile the other 99.999% of super mutants butchering humans and eating them:
@@WraifGaming720 to be fair he self infected himself with a modified FEV so imo he doesnt count
1000% companion material right there.
I really wanted this mutant as a follower instead of strong for the longest time
Awww, this is just so wholesome. Erickson is really one of the best Super Mutants in Fallout, alongside Fawkes, Uncle Leo, Lily, Marcus, and Grahm.
Don't forget Mean Sonofabitch!
Yeah he’s in good company at the top!
And horrigan
And MeanSunOfVahBich
uncle leo type super mutants are my favorite
He should’ve been a follower in this dlc
I would've loved that he would've been a much more interesting Super Mutant than Strong.
@@skollandhati9961would’ve been nice too we could’ve learned more about his past like how he got his hat for example and if he even knows if he had family before meeting the SS
This mutant is one of the best characters I've seen in fallout. He makes a better person then most in-game humans.
Meet him seen he raised dogs and gave my boy a gift immediately became my favorite merchant in the game.
I had no idea this dude existed till now
A lot of the unique stuff in every fallout game is by just exploring far and wide. You can buy dogs from him to act as defense for your settlements
Uncle Leo. And Grandma Lily, even though technically she's a Nightstalker, but they're basically the same with only a few differences.
Nightkin
Really love how we can dress him up in heavy armor. Not to the welding goggles and reinforced collar.
I have him dressed in a k9 harness (mod) welding goggles and the stars and stripes bandana ( he also has 1 floppy ear cause of a mod)
@@Iceteaconsumer900i have the same k9 harness mod lol. I love it. I also have one that turns him into somebody’s irl dog named Wolfgang, he looks really cute!
Same!@@Legozanman
@Legozanman I think I've seen that mod is it the one that turns hin into a husky? I have a similar one that uses dog houses to transform him into several different animals including bugs and death claws
@@Iceteaconsumer900 its called wolfgang i think? He is a black dog with like a little bit of white on his belly/chest
Edit: its called “A brother for dogmeat: Wolfgang” i believe
I like the idea of a powerful being striving to just be a good man.
I can think of at least 3 other super mutants that earn the title of "nicest you'll ever meet"
Well yeah, but this guy doesn’t wanna follow you around the wasteland, all he wants to do is raise some dogs, chill out in his plane, and eat good food. Honestly the most chill of all of them, minus whatshername from new vegas
Fawkes, uncle Leo, Marcus, and lily
none in fo4
@@Bland198 don't forget Meansonofabitch
Dogs are the milk of human kindness I guess
Strong find milk. Strong eat milk.
Dogmeat is a crip confirmed.
Loooool😂😂
Cripmeat
MinutemenMeat
He is possibly the most compassionate of super mutants and one of the very few to live a life of killing and pillaging and decided that he didn't like killing pepole and he felt bad pretty well written for a minor appearance
no grahm is more wholesome
Erikson is the most chill
guy ever
Should give him a blanket then
@@ElMarcoHoJ sorry my goofy autocorrect messed up
I meant chill
@@YWBPhantom I know lol, was just joking
For real, he's one of the coolest characters you'll ever meet in the game. I loved his interaction. Very wholesome
A true dog lover fr, Erickson is a real one
I knew he was a good person the moment he say he likes dogs.
DOGMEAT LOOKS AMAZING IN BLUE
He also has a unique reaction if you have strong as a companion
He's so well spoken, like his humanity hasn't been lost to the FEV
I wanna say its because of the Vim that rewired his mind
@@DirectorOfChaos9292 ooh that's a good one
Dogmeat is just a super good boy
My personal headcannon for erickson is that as he changed into a super mutant a dog licked his hand and he kept petting it as he changed and only holds onto his sanity because someone has to protect the doggos
Cringe
@@logancarlile8895 "mimimi Cringe"...Please grow up a little more to think a better argument than "cringe".
Ok now Ima just go back to Far Harbor to find this guy.
Damm MISSED opportunity for a special bandana
I feel like he an uncle the super mutant from fallout 3 would get along
And Fawkes
100% could see em chilling and sharing stories
Erickson one of my favourite super mutants mainly because he's friendly but also because his brain isn't working at the neanderthal speech level the majority of the other super mutants are at Erickson actually has a normal brain IQ function
When I ran into him I'm like wow a super mutant that can actually speak like a normal person and loves dogs? I like him already lol
Friendly super mutants are just the best!
"Yep, certainly had a few follow ME home before!"
It's amazing, yet I believe him. Dogs are fantastic readers of body language (often how they know someone is up to no good before you do), so I see them being able to tell a Super Mutant isn't a threat, and even following them around as the "Alpha" _thing_
_"Look at the size of him,_ and he's not tense or skittish or trying to chase me or eat me-
I'll pack with that!"
@@landonletterman831”fren shaped!”
no matter what i do, i always put heavy dog armor on dogmeat, but keep the blue bandana. it's too cute to give up
Fallout always looks like that one "overly criticized for being violent" game, till you find out about dogmeat's existence. Then comes the rest of the lighthearted stuff
"overly criticized for being violent" that has never been the case and you know it.
Erickson is the one reminder in fallout 4 that super mutants aren’t all killing monsters. I wish there were more like him in the game. Like how new Vegas and fallout 2 had. The super mutants weren’t all mindless originally, and I hated how hey just all got downgraded to just really powerful enemies in fallout 3&4.
At least in 3 they can actually be terrifying
@@notabryan3937 they always were, but the idea was that vault mutants should’ve been intelligent creatures not the mindless things we got.
What about Fawkes and Leo? Also it’s a different strain so different outcome I guess
@@DankyKang96 they’re rare exceptions, which is kinda the issue. I don’t get the logic of how different sources of FEV can yield different results. That sounds more like Bethesda hand waving away the lore for the sake of adding a new enemy type. If it’s still fev, then it shouldn’t matter if it’s fev from California or DC. Should still behave the same way. We should have a lot more than just 2 intelligent and functioning mutants.
@@nikik5567 Vault 87 mutants were created by other mutants, with different strain of FEV than on the west coast and from wastelanders, who could be irradiated in various degrees, so i guess mind abilities degradation could occur, with some exceptions like Leo and Fawkes. Also i played long time ago, but i think both of them mention that smart supermutants were basically killed by others.
The blue bandana looks sick
Real
Omg I need to find him and do this, its fucking wholesome and I love it. 😮
Far harbor plane crash area
Erickson is a G. Bro is friendly and helpful 🙌
screw the main questline. my new main quest is to find this guy and bring Dogmeat with me
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With the buried grave next to the bowl and dog house in sanctuary gives me the impression this was an enclave scientist similar to the one in the show that was killed by the institute when they had their big conflict across the entire city. This is an awesome detail because it pretty much shows us where all "Dogmeats" actually come from and how easy it is for them to become part of any wasteland adventure!
That... actually makes a lot of sense. The only game we really didn't get dogmeat was New Vegas. That's largely due to the enclave being a footnote around New Vegas. Not to mention he's always a German Shepard, has insane durability, and is intelligent enough to know what items you want without any training whatsoever
Such a great guy, wish I can bring him with me to one of my settlements
"I also practice dentistry"
Gives me True Grit vibes.
He came by that body fair and lawfully.
Neat never found this guy somehow and I thought I explored everything on the harbor
I might be wrong but I think he even has a little quest he sends you on
@@somehoodedguy unless I didn't get the quest then no I've only done far harbor once tho
One of the most awesome super mutants ever.
I would build a settlement near this guy with all settlers armed to the teeth in X01 and Gatling Lasers to protect this man at all costs.
Why does he sound like Jeff Bridges to me?
Cause the dude abides
He pines for the fjords.
Yeah, I met him, But I was using a dog meat changer mod (on ps4) and dogmeat was a fruggin deathclaw, And... He said "Nice dog". Yeah.... Dogmeat is a real god dog *looks at dogmeat, who be a deathclaw*
The most morally just characters in fallout have a staggering amount of super muties in their ranks. Prolly not Frank, but you can't mention super mutants without giving him an honorable mention
I mean the enclave was just ethically wrong. They had the right idea of resetting the wasteland by terraforming. Just sucks they wanted to include humans.
Maybe it’s because the only people who don’t go insane during the FEV transformation are people who are driven in some way. Fawkes was driven by the pursuit of knowledge, Horrigan by devotion to the Enclave, and Erickson by his love for dogs. We just meet more of the ones driven by good motives.
@@oliverascher213 Marcus is just a good dude who believed in the master, and now just wants to be left alone
I just got the dlc and ran into him I felt bad taking his stuff but I bought all the doggies and sent them to my base
Don’t feel bad, one of his lines of dialogue when he’s just walking around is “take anything you like”
He speaks so intelligently, like a normal dude.
That's because he's one of the super mutants who didn't get their brain function reverted to neanderthal IQ
My first play throught I stumbled apon him dogmatic wore that bandana till I restarted
didn’t know about this guy before but i just gave my dogmeat a blue bandana as well :)
HE PUTTING DOGMEAT ON THE SET
Erickson is probably my favorite character in fallout 4. He’s just like, so real. He feels different from any other NPC in the game, even “friendly” ones. He so polite and shy and apologetic. One time I was just walking around his camp and he was like “hey uh, you should have this” or something and gave me a whole ass ribeye steak, probably just cause he had too much and didn’t want it to go to waste.
Dog meat is best companion
I like him 5th friendliest mutant I've now met. 😊
Which 4 more friendly muties have you met?
@@mtndew4746 Aren't that many friendly mutants so you could probably guess a few of his favorites (Fawkes, Harold, Strong, Lily, even ghouls like Hancock, Raul, or Vault-Tec Rep).
@@mtndew4746Strong, Marcus, Virgil, Neil, and maybe Fawkes?
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@@normanmai7865 Set is a nice ghoul too.
Why do I have a feeling that strong should get to meet him. I feel like he would try to educate strong 😂
He's awesome he would of made an excellent companion
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Haha a bandan.. DOGMEATS CRIPPIN?!
That crip walk on point cuh
there's a conspiracy that Dogmeat is a synth lol Sent by the institute to guide you. I don't care tho because he's such a good boy.
The series explained that they're genetically perfected dogs with trackers.
If that were the case, then why does Dogmeat so adorably salute after Elder Maxson's speech?
Dogmeat knows that the Brotherhood is the best solution for the Commonwealth.
@@dragonranger8456 based dogmeat
He’s made by the enclave tho watch the tv series
@@giabaonn600 no, he's not. The Fallout TV show takes place after Fallout 4
Dogmeat, Crippin and Drippin 😢
A true reminder of a peaceful being, not someone that can’t do great harm, but someone that can but chooses not to.
Erickson would have been an great Supermutant companion. The problem with Strong simply is, he is basically the dumbest Supermutant in any Fallout game and such an wasted opportunity, especially against guys like Marcus, God and Dog and Fawkes.
I think that’s the whole point. He’s the first mutant companion that is actually like your typical super mutants in the wasteland. He’s one of my favourite companions personally.
Strong is smart for a regular dumdum type supermutant
Erickson is the top G
I might be wrong but I think the bandana is blue because the dog that dogmeat was based on had the same colour of the bandana so it's also a Easter egg
Eriskon has the look of a viking berserkir but has the calm ans collective behavior of a monk.
I wish he would be a recurring character or have more intelligent type mutants like him.
Erickson helped with a lot of my posted builds. I gave Duke, Allegra, Champ, and Misha (first 3 are dogs, Misha is a Glowing Wolf) good homes at Taffington / Kingsport / BoS Airport / Murkwater.
I like his dog sanctuary
Also like buying various new pets for my settlements. There good guard dogs, and very good for morale.
I CAN HAVE A CRIP DOG MEAT 😮😮
I bet his voice actor is a big guy with a huge beard. And like 3 or more BIG Dogbros.
Bruh Bethesda plz let us invite this man to a settlement
Meanwhile we got Strong as a companion instead where if you finish his quest line he tries to kill you. This guy at least would be a worthy successor to Fawkes
No?
Provides 100% proof that dogmeat is a synth since a super mutant who is able to live very long hasn't seen a dog like dogmeat.
Well, do synrgs take stimpaks?, they don't, i believe so anyway, dogmeat is just immortal
How about every other game... most of which have dogs like dogmeat. I think the reason he hasn’t seen one is because he’s on an irradiated island.
@@The_mrbob idk
Take into account he may be native to far harbor, the only dogs are the ones that already were on the Island before the war
Dogmeat is probably a radioactive mutant like the radstags and radroaches, he just doesn't look like a mutant (kinda like the Children of Atom), and he's probably a very weak psyker whose power is just having a human level intelligence.
Notice how is name isn’t just a noun or adjective (i.e Swan and Strong)
To be fair swan is his last name.
Edgar Swan was Swan's human name
Even Super Mutants cannot escape the condition of "CUTE CREATURE. MUST PET."
Interesting lore tidbit, Erikson’s lips are malformed from the effects of FEV, and if he returns in a future game he may be wearing the leather straps we see on super mutants in Fallout 3 and New Vegas as he grows older
Fallout needs more Super Mutants like this. They're so much more interesting as complex characters with feelings and not just mindless canon fodder.
Except there wouldn't be tons of them as they would have been killed by the less intelligent brethren with only few and far between being able to escape.
easy coast super mutant is more mindless than the one in west coast
@newbplaygames I wouldn't say more mindless, the guy who designed the mutants in 4 said in a reddit post like 2 weeks ago that he wanted them to be more human like than before but they didn't have the time to flesh them out.
@@ethanm.4201 nah they just retconned FO3 mutants