Hello, I have been playing fallout for years. Although this is my first forum post. I'm really curious as to way the institute rewards are sloppy. By that I mean after you finish you get your sons old quarters; but you can't change the bed to be able to sleep in it. This is only one pointless fact, here are the rest on my mind: You make the institute presence known by increasing the numbers of synths, but all it was defending the checkpoints they were already located at (minus the added two at diamond city)., the institute store doesn't get crap even though they state that it will be restocked. So, yeah it's not that great for such advanced tech. Also, why does the synth relay grenade on relay weak @$$ synths it should be random. Anyone else feel this way.

Wow, you joined the Institute?





I blew them up




Honestly, most factions are like this endgame. They tell you about all this great stuff going to happen, then never delivers on there promise.

the synth relay grenade is OP. You can by so many for so little caps that you can just spam them.

This. One grenade of course isn't going to do jack. But spamming a good 6 or 10 of them can turn the side of a fight. Hell, maybe throw more if you want.


Think of them as the NCR. Swarm them until they're dead.

Missing out on virtibirds was a real drawback for me, but on the plus side they are fun as hell to shoot down.


The fast travel capabilities of institute will really shine as a bonus for the survival overhaul.

And Institute provides you with free health care as well as water fountains that don't make you gain rads at the same time.

The Institute's rewards are pretty damn good really:

- Free healthcare

-Access to relay for instant travel to anywhere. As the poster above stated, this will probably come in handy even more when survival mode comes out.

-Use of the incredibly OP Synth relay grenades which you can use to summon a literal army wherever you go, inside or outside.

-Nice little suite in The Institute

-Institute paintjob for the X-01 PA which is impossible to get otherwise.

-Continued access to The Institute itself.

-God-tier X6-88 as a companion.

What else do you need?

You also get an institute Flag to hang on your wall