Sorry in advance If I put this in the wrong spot
Bethesda, Todd Howard, or whoever makes the DLCs etc for Elder Scrolls and Fallout;
I’ve made suggestions in the past and seen them come out in game in the form of DLCs later on like Dawn Guard’s Vampire Lord Form and a Blood Chalice to increase vampiric powers. I posted it on every site I could find and sometime later, got to play it. I’m hoping now that it will work again.
I had an idea for DLC that I think would be very fun to play and would fall in very nicely with the Fallout world. The player and his family have had ties to a diabolical organization called “The Institute” from the start of the game. This organization is leaps ahead of the rest of the world technologically and is the father of synthetic humans and artificial intelligence.
A potential ally of the player in the Fallout titles called “The Brotherhood of Steel” are against the creation of self-aware artificial intelligence and see synthetic humans as a threat. The only potential friends to synthetic humans would be either “The Railroad” or “The Minutemen”.
There is a place in fallout 4 that has technology capable of transferring memories from human and synthetic brains into.. well into anything really.
I won’t go into details but a person in the institute knew that the player was released from cryostasis and wanted to see how he/she would survive in the wasteland. This person could of had a failsafe if the player were to die prematurely, but since the player turned out to be a powerhouse super mutant killing machine, the failsafe was never used.
I’m thinking The Institute or a rogue branch of The institute should put the failsafe into play by kidnapping the player and putting his/her mind into a synthetic body after they steal the technology needed to do it. The body would be an advanced prototype that uses little to no organics. It would instead have microscopic machines or nanites that imitate organic functions to help it seem human. It wouldn’t need to breathe have a heartbeat but it would primarily to prevent its true nature from being discovered.
One motivation for doing this could be to infiltrate The Brotherhood of Steel and assassinate a new leader or sabotage them in some way or another. The player would be forced to carry out the mission to a point and then would be given the option to fight the program’s control. When that happens the player will either fight the control of the program or die fighting The Brotherhood.
From here a whole new perk system could be introduced, the player could be given the ability to imitate NPC faces to infiltrate enemy groups. In that situation the player would just be added to the faction while wearing the face.
The player could get software and hardware updates as he/she adventures. You could call it adaptive technology and the nanites could learn to imitate things that encounters or fights. The Player would likely need to befriend and steal a lead scientist from the team that built his new body to help with some of the upgrades as he goes. Some perks for this could be a toggle for thermal and night vision, an improved HUD etc etc
This could also open the door to transformation so that fallout could get the Vampire Lord/ Werewolf feel from Skyrim. The player could transform into some robotic beast with glowing eyes and claws maybe. Who knows that’s just the 1st thing that comes to mind, I’m sure you guys could come up with cool transformations though.