Like in F3, all those military robots in the wasteland who attacks everybody. Did their circuit get fried by EMP or something?

No, they're meant to attack all threats and everything in the wasteland registers as a threat (unless they're programed otherwise).

Evidence that shows that they don't attack everbody is the protectron in the Super Duper Mart...

They likely were deployed following the Great War to aid in the National Gaurd's attempted rescue efforts.

Probably over the ages, their combat inhibitors have been damaged.

Never thought of it like that before.

I think it has to do with the fact that they no longer have a connection to their owners, be it the U.S. Army, the Metro, or something else, it's all been destroyed. So without anyone in control of them they scan everything as hostile unless they are reprogrammed.

Because youre a dirty commie

Many are programmed to defend certain things or areas, and they have been out there for a long time.

Like LT. said their circuitry probably decayed over a 200 year time span.


"DO NOT INTERFERE WITH SECURITY OPERATIONS!"

That's because that protectron was in its base pod, so IFF (identification, friend or foe) is undamaged.

I think its a pity there not tougher, as i was walking through the wasteland, i stopped for a moment to look at a swath of destruction there were dead deathclaws, brotherhood outcasts, raiders, some enclave yuo guai, and dead robots, and at the end was an albin radscorpion with acouple of bars of health left. I wondered when i started playing as well it seemed strange but as i understood the story better, it seemed more logical, they were mostly all army robots, so without any masters they were basically doing what they were programmed to do, they have no idea who you are, although they kill wastlelanders, and merchants.

^ Then won't the Enclave be their masters? And I don't think the military would set their robots to kill everyone on American soil.

They would be no more their masters than they are of the Ghoulfied pre-war national guard soldiers (aka Feral Ghoul Roamers).

Technically yes, the Enclave would be the ones they should take orders from, but the robots that wander the wastes have lost all sense of friend and foe. Just as the feral ghouls have lost all sense of their humanity.