Do you like for some enemies to surrender? Like if you shoot them enough, a low number of them may ask you to surrender or spare them? There is only one enemy but it was as a part of the quest. It could roleplay you as being mercy toward the enemies.

Are you asking me if my sadistic ass likes to see people give up? You want me, the psycho killer lawyer, to go around being nice to people?! You want mercy?!

Yes indeed I would. In fact, I've been looking for ways to do a pacifist run for awhile now. Just doesn't seem possible unless I use console commands.

But we have no Karma system... so it affects nothing in the end.

You can always get intimidation and spare them.. I pacify them then kill them though....

Well, wouldn't it be more sadistic if they beg you to spare them and you execute them in the head? Just a thought.

Skyrim has a similar system to this, I believe where they will beg for their life. Some of the companions also said that robots are unlike humans you can't reason with them or that they won't surrender when neither would surrender in the first place. It would be cool for roleplaying purposes people to avoid killing unless necessary.

You can only do it with one person at a time though, and they're not really running away.

I'd be more interested IF not only some of these enemies(Gunners and / or Raiders for example) would submit defeat and maybe even request us to join them. This could definitely add to alot of role-playing and i'd definitely be one to have this either as a legit patch update or a mod.

That is a bit more sadistic. Making them kill their friends then killing them is my current favorite thing to do, haha.

For robots, I was thinking the SS could hack them as a means to pacify.

I'd be afraid that if I was able to spare, say a raider, he would just shoot me in the back as I was walking away.