Fallout has pretty good sci fi lore, but I was disappointed in Liberty Prime when I first saw in FO3. The concept seems very B-rate 50's sci fi. I know that Fallout has a 50/60's sci fi retro theme but that is in the art and not the writing.

One giant robot in terms of a military asset doesn't even make sense. Why not put whatever advanced weapon systems it has on a vertibird, tracks, or wheels? Those would provide better mobility and capacity than a slow, lumbering, easily knocked over biped. What's the point of it?

I put it down to Fallout's humor. Yeah, there are better, more efficient ways, but they're also not as fun or memorable as a 50ft robot spitting out anti-communism rhetoric.

maybe it was intentionally meant to be used as more of a propaganda and recruiting tool back before the world went to ****? you know, shows around the country going "Hey, you should join us, look at the cool stuff we have!" ?? would give explanation to some of primes dialogue

Can a vertibird pick up a behemoth and squish it?

Because B rated 50's Sci Fi?

Uhmm missing the point are we?

As to why a giant robot?

What has the bigger psychological effect? A vertbird that looks like all the others or a massive robot that shots slogans and stamps you into paste?

a massive robot that also looks like an evil clown and shouts demonic laughs?


...I think I just had an idea for a mod..

Not the writing? I don't think we're playing the same game.

It is a pretty dated way for Bethesda to say "hey kids, remember when you liked it when I did this?" It's a 50 year old accountant with a skateboard and backwards baseball cap.

Meh, someone at Bethesda just has a thing for http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Numidium

I'm guessing it was a way to demoralize the Chinese invaders and to easily destroy those snow tank things they had in Anchorage.

A bit like that scene in the film The Watchmen, when Dr Manhattan helps with the Vietnam war, the troops there flee in fear when they saw him, as he was several hundred feet tall, lol

He doesnt look like much.. Especially in fallout 3. But his systems are extremely advanced. Try killing him, you're gonna have a bad time

Some guy tested it by spawning 1 liberty and 50 behemoths and it killed around 38 of them before succumbing..
Which, is actually.. Pretty useful, considering Behemoths are 100-200 year old super mutants whom were turned post or pre war, survived all that time and have grown with age (which happens, bethesdas changed cannon in 3 if you never picked it up)

As for bipedal weapons? MGS already started this; they can navigate obsticles easier than something on wheels could yet still provide more armour than if it was to be suspended in the air.

Plus, if you look around fallout 4 theres posters with a giant chinease robot and liberty standing in the foreground as a shadow saying "Their war machine is ready, lets mobilise ours!" which, as some peevious guy stated, was also due to morale/loyalty/proppoganda/ect

Because..............SCIENCE!

Also, did you not do the mission involving him in Fallout 3? It literally took an orbital strike to take it out, nothing on the ground or in the air was hurting it or hindering its devastation.