Bit of a thread necro. but it seems more appropriate than starting a new one.
I'm in the same head space as
@RayBo, in that I'm not really interested in playing as a Raider, and would rather be a Minuteman.
Some of the below have already been created, or are being created, but I'll share my thoughts anyway.
Minutemen
I've long been keen for expanded Minutemen content. The vanilla questline just kinda stops abruptly after "Old Guns". I'd love to see a questline continue with that concept and:
- Repair the Castle Walls (properly, with actual cell edits that remove the rubble, and rebuild the walls with obvious lore-friendly repairs)
- This quest could involve capturing one of the quarry locations
- Restore the 'dungeon' in the castle and link it to the surface workbench, ideally allowing the whole combined settlement to be a little more appropriately distributed, such as having the power stations be underground, where they're less vulnerable.
- Improve the MM equipment
- Weapons
- Armor
- Uniforms (I've long held the theory that the lack of uniform and associated identity prevented the original MM from bonding as coherently as was needed)
- These quests would involve going to various industrial buildings to salvage the appropriate equipment. The facilities would probably be built in the newly restored castle dungeon.
Raiders
Long term I'd love to see all the raider gangs of the commonwealth get their own identity. We know from terminal entries that there are many different gangs. Often they're in conflict with each other. But from the player perspective, and wider world perspective, they're just 'Raiders'.
I like the idea of the 'Downtown Dogs' as the name of a raider gang. The gang themselves would use a lot of attack dogs, and would have a lot of dog related unique dialogue. Such as taunting with 'Oh, I promise, my bite is worse than my bark!' and 'I'm gonna sniff you out. Just you wait.' And otherwise just barking and growling.
(SO sick of hearing "Come on out. I DARE Ya!")
Otherwise I'm keen for any/all factions in Fallout to get a faction, if they're appropriate. The Tunnel Snakes probably don't need one. But all the New Vegas factions seem big enough to be sensible (I've never actually played NV, so I can't say for sure).
Zetans
I really like the idea of the Zetans being a kind of end-game faction. Once you've successfully conquered
the commonwealth, they show up to wreck your day. Though they'd need A LOT of custom assets. I'm really keen on a War of the Worlds inspired Tripod. Though it'd probably only be about as big as a Behemoth, as a full sized one would be nearly impossible to implement in game.
The Undying
A Ghoul faction that wants to kill all smooth skins. It seems that with all the prejudice that Ghouls deal with a fanatical faction like this would be inevitable
.
They'd use Feral Ghouls as attack animals. And possibly strap mines/explosives to some of them. Probably also use Gamma Guns, and probably also be enemies of the CoA.
Not sure how this meshes with @uituit ghoul faction though.
Edit: oh, and a custom power armor made out of robot parts, but the one with the sentry bot parts looks weird, so I'm trying to remake it :P
I'm so glad someone else is considering that. It's another thing that's been on my mind a while. I love the idea of the Rust Devils not only having robot power armor, but also having their own custom backpacks for them. I can easily see them strapping an Assultron to their back, linking the powersupply, and having the Assultron blast anything that gets close with their head laser.
The Forged could easily make their own power armor too. I actually think the
Institute Power Armor looks a lot like something the Forged would make, especially with the integrated helmet/torso. I can also see them having a backpack option of extra large fuel tanks for their flame throwers, that give the 'no reloading necessary' legendary effect when used with a flame weapon.
There's probably scope for other factions to have their own custom power armor/power armor tech. There's a combat armor based one on the Nexus that seems pretty great for the Gunners.