UPDATE: Can Settlers be Synths? Most Likely Another Game Bug

[PsychoMachina]

 

 

Actually, some settlers can be synth.

 

True, but when followers bug-out and turn on you during a firefight then you have to wonder if the same can happen to settlers or other allied NPCs.  The settlers that turned on me did so after defeating some Gen-2 synths.

 

Also I encountered two gunners who spoke like synths (synth voice and dialogues).  First time this happened to me.

 

Near Fallon's Department, right ? Me too.

 

 

Quincy.  I was doing the Long Time Coming quest and had to get the last holotape at the police station in the middle of a gunner camp.  This is the same area you do the mini quest, Kid in the Fridge (or something like that).

 

If you mean the synth-voiced gunners, I fought them on the road that lead to the Atomic Cats hangout.  I guess they are random encounters like Art and Art.

 

 

[bc733]

I arrived via fast travel to hangmans alley once to find all my settlers shooting the crap out of one other. After he went down I went for the loot, and he did indeed have a synth component in his inventory. After over 100 hours of play however, thats the only time ive seen that happen. 

[Guest Comrade DR. MAHUJ DIK]

Theres a way to discover wich art is a synth by talking to them, if you say its not your problem (I wont get involved) the real one will complain. But I actually dont give a fuck and just wait the synth finish the job so I can loot the body. My first chracter actually didnt give a single fuck about synths and the institute untill he discovered they had shaun, also i actually saw a synth reaplacing a settler 9i dont know it I was suopposed to se it, but I saw) he killed the settler and the body disappeared on thin air... i was folowing the institute route at this point so i ignored it.