What is the backstory of Nick Valentine in Fallout 4?
In Fallout 4, Nick Valentine is a prototype synth and private detective, previously associated with The Institute. He operates the Valentine Detective Agency and can accompany the player as a companion. He possesses a unique ability to hack terminals, akin to the Hacker perk. However, failing to hack a terminal in four attempts results in permanent lockout from that terminal.
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Can Nick Valentine join the Brotherhood in Fallout 4?
Nick Valentine, the synth detective, can accompany the player to the Prydwen, the Brotherhood of Steel's airship. However, his presence is met with suspicion and discomfort from Brotherhood members, indicating that while he can be in Brotherhood locations, he is not considered a member.
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What are some notable quotes from Nick Valentine in Fallout 4?
Nick Valentine, from Fallout 4, is known for his witty and empathetic dialogue. Memorable quotes include his sarcastic remark, 'More stairs? Who built this damn Vault, a fitness instructor?' and his empathetic statement, 'You think. You feel. You're more than pretending, Nick.' He also displays a cautious attitude towards the Institute with the quote, 'And we wouldn't want to do anything to upset the Institute, would we?'
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How can I increase my affinity with Nick Valentine in Fallout 4?
Boosting your affinity with Nick Valentine in Fallout 4 involves having him as your companion and executing actions he values. Utilize his unique hacking ability, but avoid him failing four times to prevent permanent lockout from a terminal. Progressing the Far Harbor quest line doesn't influence his affinity. Remember, actions pleasing to one companion may displease another due to their unique personalities and values.
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Where can I find Nick Valentine in Fallout 4?
In Fallout 4, Nick Valentine is located in Vault 114. You can find him by traveling to Park Street station and entering the vault as part of the 'Unlikely Valentine' quest. After a confrontation with Skinny Malone and exiting the station, Nick becomes a potential companion upon completing the 'Getting a Clue' quest.
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Background[]
Long believed by himself to be a prototype that was created by the Institute in-between the second generation and third generation of synth development, possibly explaining why he exhibits sapient intelligence and is not innately hostile towards non-Institute humans,[3] Nick is generally well respected throughout Diamond City despite his mysterious origins.
Creation[]
In truth, the synth that became Nick Valentine was created within the Institute over a century prior to 2287, as one of two prototypes during the development of the second generation; their creation was done to test if and how synths could handle independent thinking and personalities. The first synth was designed to support implanting an artificial personality based on memory recordings of pre-War humans, while the other (later naming himself DiMA)[4] was allowed to develop his own personality based on personal experience.
For years, the first synth was experimented on, having various personalities and memories of the pre-War era and its people loaded into him before the scientists achieved success. Despite the disorienting experience, he and DiMA grew a family-like bond to one another due to being the first and only synths of their kind. Gradually, however, DiMA grew to resent the experiments being performed on him and his "brother." He eventually acted on this and orchestrated their escape from the Institute, but not before the scientists were able to upload one last personality and set of memories into DiMA's brother.[5][6]
The synth, now identifying himself as a pre-War Bostonian police officer named Nick Valentine, was left in a state of confusion due to suddenly "waking up" 200 years in the post-apocalyptic future. With the human Nick's memories taking priority, DiMA was attacked by his "brother," who did not recognize him, forcing DiMA to knock Nick out and leave him behind.[7] After regaining consciousness in a pile of garbage an unknown amount of time later, Nick began wandering the wasteland for several weeks.[8][9] Due to the limited storage capacity of the prototype brain he was created with, the implanted memories of the human Nick combined with new ones he created while wandering eventually caused the older memories of his "brother" DiMA to be forgotten entirely.[10]
Wandering the Commonwealth[]
Due to an unfamiliarity with the Institute and its technology at the time of Nick's escape, most wastelanders regarded the prototype synth with equal parts fear and awe. His wandering eventually brought him to a small local settlement whose community welcomed him peacefully; a local mechanic even helped repair the damage he had sustained in his travels. During this time Nick befriended a child named Jim who became the first instance of human contact Nick had since escaping the Institute. To him, these people were the first to treat Nick as a human being rather than a mechanical monstrosity. Nick eventually left that settlement to continue wandering but never forgot them; when he tried to go back many years later, however, he found that it had been destroyed by raiders.[11]
After another unspecified period of wandering, Nick eventually arrived at Diamond City. Although the people there held no small amount of hatred for the Institute and their synths, due to the combined trauma of the then-recent Broken Mask incident and massacre of the CPG, Nick inadvertently gained the respect of some residents by unknowingly saving the daughter of Henry Roberts, the mayor at the time. The girl had run away from home with a caravan trader but discovered that the man and his companions were actually kidnappers who proceeded to take her hostage. Nick had managed to stumble upon the scene by pure accident and, finding himself held at gunpoint, tricked the kidnappers into running away scared by claiming that he had a bomb inside him and making beeping sounds (as in he literally said the word "beep" repeatedly).[12]
Diamond City's Detective[]
When the mayor's daughter told Nick what had happened, he brought her back to her father, who rewarded Nick with a house in Diamond City despite the objections of some citizens who were paranoid over the idea of living next to an Institute synth. From then on, Nick worked to gradually ease the citizens' fears by offering to act as the city's handyman, along with continuing to help track down missing people. His formidable detective skills were revealed when he helped to find a wife who was presumed dead; Nick discovered that she had only run away with her lover. In time, people stopped asking Nick to fix things as it became clear that he had found his true calling as Diamond City's private investigator.[13] Eventually, Nick made it official and founded the Valentine Detective Agency, later hiring a secretary, Ellie Perkins to help him manage the influx of cases coming across his desk.
At some point, Nick had an association with Marty Bullfinch, though as he claims, theirs was a shaky partnership due to Marty's alcoholism, and eventually they parted ways on sour terms. Marty visited the agency again at a later time and left a holotape with details about his scheme to uncover the treasure of Shem Drowne by going to the super mutant-infested Faneuil Hall and recovering the gilded grasshopper, hoping Nick might be interested in helping him.[14] In a similar vein, Nick once worked on a case that led to him meeting Kenji Nakano and involved the use of the fisherman's boat to find a lost heirloom; when they returned it to the client, they were double-crossed, and Kenji ended up getting shot in the hip and the lead left inside after he had healed. Kenji was nevertheless happy to help Nick and still remembers him, to the point that when his daughter went missing, he immediately sought out Nick for help.[15]
Around a couple of weeks before the Sole Survivor woke up in Vault 111 on October 23, 2287, Nick went out on a case to find a missing woman named Darla believed to have been kidnapped by gang boss Skinny Malone (an "old pal" of Nick).[16] However, when he cornered Skinny and his gang inside the Park Street station and Vault 114 beneath it, Nick discovered both that Darla wasn't kidnapped but actually joined with Skinny of her own volition, and that Skinny's gang was in control of the Vault as their new hideout. The result was the synth detective getting incapacitated and imprisoned in the Vault overseer's office until the Sole Survivor later came to Vault 114 and fought past the Triggermen to rescue Valentine in order to get his help finding their missing son, Shaun.[17]
Personality[]
Due to having the memories of a police officer from the time before the Great War, Nick has an established moral compass and always tries to act on the side of justice, though even he understands that, in the lawless wasteland, sometimes justice can only be delivered from the barrel of a gun.[18] He has little to no love for those who selfishly exploit other people and have no qualms about stepping on the weak who get in their way, like raiders and super mutants. Even so, he's not above cracking wise and laying on a thick layer of snark at times, especially to those he dislikes.[19][20][21]
However, ever since realizing his true nature and his supposed origins, Nick has grappled with a severe existential crisis. Troubled by the knowledge that everything he knows, everything that makes him who he is, it all came from someone else, Nick carries a sense of extreme self-loathing, unable to reconcile that he could ever be anything other than the plastic-skinned ghost of a dead man from a bygone era.[22] This dichotomy has ultimately caused Nick to define himself as a separate person from the pre-War Nick Valentine, feeling as though he owes that Nick for giving him a name and personality -- a sense of identity even if it was one he was given rather than created with. However, the influence of the human Nick's memories means Nick also still carries some of his emotional attachments, particularly anger over his past with Eddie Winter who was responsible for the death of Nick the human's fiancé, Jennifer Lands.
As someone who is between worlds, remembering the Old World while inhabiting its post-apocalyptic aftermath, Nick is desperate for a sense of belonging not easily granted to him. Created as a prototype synth tossed out into a Commonwealth that hated and feared him just for existing, Nick worked very hard to ingratiate himself to those around him despite the uphill battle it presented. Lending aid to settlements and wastelanders wherever he went, Nick's efforts eventually paid off as he gained an uneasy place of notoriety within Diamond City as "Nick the detective," even though some there still heave heavy discrimination upon him as "Nick the synth."
Interactions with the player character[]
Fallout 4[]
The player is directed towards Diamond City by Mama Murphy during the main questline, and several NPC's can direct them towards the Valentine Detective Agency in their search for their missing son Sean. However- Nick is absent, working a disappearance case that results in him being imprisoned in Vault 114 by Skinny Malone, and the Sole Survivor is directed to find them by his secretary Ellie Perkins.
The Sole Survivor uncovers Nick in the old Overseers office, and while the player may be shocked at his synth nature, Nick directs their focus towards escaping. Once that is accomplished Nick will make his way back to his office in Diamond City willing to aid the Sole Survivor in the 200-year old cold-case of their missing son. Sitting down to go over the events of Sean's kidnapping Nick will determine the most likely culprit is the mercenary Kellog, and try to break into his abandoned house. Once successful they uncover some of Kellog's San Francisco Sunlights it allows Dogmeat to track Kellog to Fort Hagen. Nick will offer to accompany the Sole Survivor during the journey.
Either way once Kellog is dead, Nick meets up with Piper Wright at Publick Occurences to discuss the next stage of the investigation, determining that they could use Dr. Amari's memory loungers to sift through some of Kellog's dead memories. They make the trip to Goodneighbor and recruit Dr. Amari to the cause, using Nick Valentine as a proxy, however the process leaves a brief imprint of Kellog on Nick though it passes.
Nick Valentine grows to see the Sole Survivor as a partner in crime solving, the first in a long while, and as they travel the Commonwealth he unveils more of his background to in his words 'even the playing field' since Nick Valentine has learned so much of the Sole Survivor's background. After enough trust has been built, Nick asks that the Sole Survivor aid him on a long-dead case: The hunt for Eddie Winter. Nick still holds a grudge against winter for killing the fiance of the original Nick Valentine, and believes that thanks to a radiation experiment he lives as a ghoul. Together they scour much of the Commonwealth's old police offices for old records of Eddie Winter that will give the access to code to his secret bunker and eliminate him.
Far Harbor[]
In addition, Nick's services are called upon by an old contact of his, the Nakano family whose daughter has gone missing. Nick Valentine and the Sole Survivor search their property learning she believes she is in fact a synth and sought refuge in a synth colony on the Island. The two make their way to Acadia, where they find DiMA who is shocked by the arrival of his long-lost 'brother'. DiMA explains that both he and Nick were prototype synths until they managed to escape.
Interactions overview[]
Interactions
This character is essential. Essential characters cannot be killed.
He has the unique trait of being able to hack terminals, akin to having the Hacker perk. His chance of successfully hacking decrease in ascending order from Novice to Master. If he fails to hack the terminal in four attempts, then he will be locked out permanently from that terminal, unable to hack it again. It is therefore advised to save right before he begins hacking a high-difficulty terminal to prevent this.
He will refuse to hack terminals that are marked as "owned" by another person.
If they are not owned, he can be used to hack otherwise inaccessible terminals that do not become relevant until during specific quests.
Nick Valentine cannot be romanced.
He cannot change clothing, as he is restricted to his detective outfit. He may, however, enter power armor, thus the only way to increase Nick's carrying capacity is with power armor. Unlike other characters, Nick will exit the power armor after he is dismissed.
Nick can, however, be upgraded in terms of defense. If the faded trench coat given by Ellie is customized with ballistic weave after completing Jackpot for PAM in the Railroad HQ, it can then be equipped to Nick. This will restore his right hand, although it appears to be slightly shorter than his left hand.
One can restore his original metal hand at any point by re-equipping his unique coat via selecting him in console commands and typing equipItem 0010c3ca to execute.
Nick Valentine has about 30-40 more HP than most other companions, with the exceptions of Strong and Curie in her Ms. Nanny body. This is balanced out by his inability to wear armor. However, as a prototype synth, he has an innate damage resistance of 25 (about equal to a full set of girded leather armor) and an energy resistance of 5, offering him some modest protection in combat. This is the same innate damage/energy resistance that Codsworth has. Like Codsworth, this innate resistance receives a moderate increase at very high levels but is less than what would be provided by a good suit of armor.
Effects of player's actions[]
Achieving maximum affinity with Nick Valentine grants the Close to Metal perk, which offers one extra attempt when hacking and a 50% reduced lockout time upon failing a hack. However, until Long Time Coming is completed, of which itself is not triggered until after completing Dangerous Minds, his affinity rating will remain at 999.
Nick Valentine will comment on the Sole Survivor's decisions after completing the main questline, responding negatively to choosing the Institute and completing Nuclear Family. He typically will act vaguely disappointed, as he believed the Institute to be the only way to figure out who he really was. Even if the player were to progress the Far Harbor quest line, his reaction will remain the same.
If the Mysterious Stranger perk is taken and he makes an appearance in V.A.T.S. while Nick Valentine is an active companion, Nick will comment on it, unlike every other companion.[24]
After completing Dangerous Minds, and following a misc. quest to talk to Nick in the Memory Den, he briefly speaks in Kellogg's voice in an amused and resigned tone, suggesting that part of Kellogg may have survived in some way through Nick. However, this only happens once, and it has no in-game effect afterward as Nick never says anything else in Kellogg's voice. Nick himself will seem unaware of speaking as Kellogg at all, offering the explanation from Doctor Amari that some mnemonic impressions from Kellogg's brain may have remained after the procedure. He will get a little upset if the player character says there might be something wrong with him.
If Nick is an active companion during the random encounter where a three-man group of raiders waits until the Sole Survivor gets very close before attacking, there is a chance for one of them to tell the group to stop attacking. He will then remark that had he recognized Nick sooner, they would not have attacked, as Nick apparently helped him in the past. Nick replies awkwardly due to not remembering the incident but is thankful for the peaceful end.
When fighting mirelurks, one of Nick's comments is to say "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyestalks!", a reference to a battlefield order ("Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!") attributed to Col. William Prescott, and repeated by Israel Putnam at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution, by which the Continental Army was ordered to reserve ammunition and attack at shorter ranges due to the need to conserve their scarce supplies of gunpowder.
Vault residents, settlers, and members of the Brotherhood of Steel may occasionally insult Nick when near him, with Nick responding in kind.
Some Brotherhood members will question if the player character isn't worried that Nick is "a spy." In addition, Elder Maxson will question the Sole Survivor's judgment for traveling with "that thing" if he's brought aboard the Prydwen. Despite this, the Brotherhood will not become hostile to the Sole Survivor or Nick at any point.
Nick will have different responses if taken to Acadia after completing Best Left Forgotten, depending on whether the Sole Survivor suggested that he refuse DiMA's offer of being family[25] or accept DiMA as his brother.[26]
Letting Nick kill Eddie Winter by himself during Long Time Coming.
Allowing Jules to go free by picking either "if Jules wanted to hurt them, he would have done this already..." or "make the Institute mad..." during the random encounter.
Telling X6-88 "It's inhumane" about using Gabriel's recall code during Synth Retention.
"I don't know what I find more disturbing - the fact that there's a ship lodged in that building or that there's still a ship lodged in that building."
"They may have been coffins on wheels, but they sure knew how to build something with style in those days."
Coast Guard Pier, either at the corner of the pier by the tower, or the center of the building. The super mutants were supposed to be wearing Coast Guard hats.
"Now at least these boys have some fashion sense."
"Don't even want to fathom how much alcohol was involved making this monstrosity."
"Traveling in the Commonwealth as long as I have, you learn a few things. These old buildings and alleyways give you a lot of opportunities to hide if things get bad, but that goes both ways. Always keep your eyes out, and your head on a swivel. Things can go from calm to deadly in a heart beat. Diamond City is as close to safe as you can get in these parts. Security keeps the perimeter under control, but it's always a struggle. Despite the Mayor's bragging, it really is the most secure settlement around, even if it comes with a few uptight guards."
Stopping at various points during the search for Kellogg
"Hmm... Kellogg must have stopped here. Search around. See if we can pick up the trail." "Looks like another one of Kellogg's pit-stops. Keep your eyes open." "All right, Dogmeat's found something. You know the drill." "Damn. Hell of a party happened here." "We're getting close. I can feel it. Look around."
Searching for clues to pick up Kellogg's trail again
"Dogmeat's lost the trail. We need something for him to go on." "Look around. Anything could be a clue. Something Kellogg threw away from his rations. Anything." "Mercs tend to be creatures of habit. Remember all that stuff in Kellogg's room?" "If Kellogg had a favorite brand of cigars and beer, I bet you he'd take some with him on the road..." "Think Kellogg stayed here for a while? Why? Maybe he had a wound needed nursing..." "Check the fence, the bushes. Maybe we get lucky and something of Kellogg's got caught..."
"Dogmeat find something?" "Dogmeat pick up the scent again?" "I'm telling ya, that nose is second to none."
Gave new clues to Dogmeat to find Kellogg's scent
"Dogmeat's stubborn. He'll find our man." "Remember. Keep your eyes open." "Dogmeat's got the scent. Now we just gotta follow him to Kellogg." "That dog's got one hell of a nose. He'll sniff Kellogg out."
"I knew Dogmeat would sniff our man out. Let's you and I take it from here. Give our four-legged friend a break."
Exploring the fort's exterior
"This is the place. Kellogg's somewhere inside." "Front entrance is boarded up. Maybe there's another way in?" "Our man is in there somewhere." "Dogmeat did a heck of a job. Kellogg's in there. Somewhere."
Exploring the fort's upper-level interior
"We're close. I can almost smell that old merc's cigars..." "Remember. Kellogg's a professional. He won't make it easy." "We survive this, I owe you a stiff drink." "An old military fort. Not a bad place to operate from. Plenty of security." "Keep your guard up. He might try to ambush us."
"We should look around." "Let's search around. See what Kellogg was up to." "Keep looking. Wanna make sure we don't leave any stone unturned." "Wonder what Kellogg was up to before we dropped in on him?" "Think Kellogg was planning something big here? Or maybe this is just where he'd hide to lick his wounds?" "Kellogg definitely had some connections. No doubt about that." "Don't know if Kellogg was the kind of guy to take notes, but there's a lot of old computer terminals here..."
Near Kellogg's dead body
"Hate to say this, but... We should probably check the body..."
"No one knew Earl better than these folks. Oughta ask around, see what people know." "Might want to pick up Earl's key from Vadim Bobrov. He runs the Dugout Inn."
"Be sure to check every corner of Earl's house. Never know what kind of clues you'll find." "I'll start in here. Why don't you check out the living room? Must be some hint where that boy ran off to." "You know, for all the talk, I'd put the chances of this being an Institute snatch job somewhere between zero and none. Just think about it. Earl Sterling, local ASSISTANT bartender. Why not nab the bartender himself? Lord knows Vadim samples his own wares enough that some weird behavior wouldn't make anyone bat an eyelash.Hmm. Nothing over here.And Earl had lousy people skills. Might score the Institute some points in the 'last person you'd ever suspect' category... ...but why not snatch someone with charm.
Someone who could get you what you want? Earl could barely get you a drink by closing on a busy night. So where's that leave us? No known enemies. Wasn't much for the great outdoors, so likely not Raiders or Mutants. No, this all screams accident. Now, what was Earl into that might've gotten him in this kinda trouble."
Nick discovers the surgery receipt in Earl Sterling's house first
"Hello. Hey, come here. I think I found something!" "Think you ought to see this." "Hey. Come take a look at this."
Obtain the surgery receipt in Earl Sterling's house
"A receipt from the Mega Surgery Center, huh? Wonder what the good doctors have to say about that." "Interesting receipt. Looks like it's from the Mega Surgery Center."
" Nick: "Dead. Made it all the way through Faneuil Hall, too. Went out like a champ." Ellie: "No foolin'. Our Marty made it through Faneuil Hall. Never knew he had it in him... well good for him.
" Nick: "Good to see you too, Myrna. And I'm not the one shopping here. My friend is." Myrna: "Fine. As long as the SYNTH doesn't touch anything, we can do business.
Hancock: "Whoa, whoa. Time out.Nick Valentine makes a rare visit to town, and you're hassling his friend here with that extortion crap?Good to see you again, Nick." Nick: "Hancock."
Kill Finn yourself with Nick
"A little bloodthirsty, are we? Fortunately, you picked the right town."'
Raider boss: "Cease fire! It's Nick! / Stop! It's Nick Valentine!Nick, Jesus. If I'd known it was you from the start, I'd have never jumped you like that.I owe you, big time. Whatever you need, it's yours." Nick: "Oh, yeah, don't mention it. Just, glad to see you've made something of yourself, I suppose. I think we're just gonna go."
" Kenji: "Nick. Thank god! You need to get to work right away! She could be hurt. She could be..." Nick: "Whoa. Slow down. Uh... Kenji, was it? Why don't you go over the details with me and my partner here?
Persuade Kenji to talk about how he knows Nick with Nick
Kenji: "Nick didn't tell you? Ran with him on one of his cases a few years back. Searching for some sort of lost heirloom. He needed a boat.Things... didn't end well. We were double-crossed by the client once we had what he was looking for. Still have some lead lodged into my hip." Nick: "Uh... right. Yeah, it's starting to come back to me... Sorry things ended sour." Kenji: "We got out, that's all that mattered. And now you can return the favor by finding my daughter..."
Investigation - Listened to the holotape from the boathouse safe
"So the daughter takes off by boat, but more importantly, there's a colony of synths up near this Far Harbor.We need a way to get there. Let's go talk to Kenji. He knows the waters better than anyone.
DiMA: "Kasumi is here. She's safe and unharmed, and you're free to see her, if you'd like.Before you do, though, tell me: Do you think Kasumi is a synth?" Nick: "We're not answering any more questions until you play straight with us.
Just who the hell are you, really? There's only one synth with that kind of face and a mind of his own, and I only see him when I look in a mirror." DiMA: "Nick!? It... it can't be you..." Nick: "Don't give me that. What are you trying to pull? I've never seen you before in my life.
" DiMA: "Please. If you're willing to give me a chance, I can explain."
Agree to hear DiMA explain his history with Nick
DiMA: "This all started over a century ago, when we were first created... We were prototypes, Nick. The first synths capable of independent thinking and judgment." Nick: "Keep talking...
" DiMA: "One of the Institute's experiments had to do with how our brains could process personality. If we could handle individualized feelings and behaviors. I was allowed to develop mine based on experience. But with you, they wanted to try transferring an entire personality into you. It took several attempts before the personality imprint worked. I saw you wake up not knowing who or what you were so many times... I couldn't let them do it to you anymore. We were the only two prototypes they made. I literally saw myself in you...You were my brother, Nick. I helped you escape the Institute. We left together." Nick: "If I were your brother, I'd remember!
" DiMA: "That's where you'd be wrong. This happened over a century ago. There's... there's only so much memory that can fit into the prototype brains we have..." Nick: "I've heard enough...
Investigation - Speak with DiMA about his plans directly
DiMA: "Please, this is a matter best left to me and my advisors. We aren't planning to destroy the island. Those projections were merely to help us realize the cost of inaction." Nick: "Just a handy reference, huh? You expect us to just take your word on it?
DiMA: "One more thing before you leave. Whatever you do, don't assault the Children of Atom directly. Our ultimate goal must be to bring peace. If you attack them, they'll consider themselves at war with the outside world." Nick: "If we find anything suspicious in those memories of yours, we'll be back. Count on it.
Agreed to obtain DiMA's memory data stores from the Nucleus for Kasumi
Dangerous Minds not completed:"Cracking into a prototype synth brain offloaded onto computers. Gonna be a hell of a ride."Dangerous Minds completed:"Gotta feeling this isn't going to be like the memory dig we did on Kellogg. We're talking a prototype synth brain offloaded onto computers. Gonna be a hell of a ride.
"God... DiMA really did help me escape the Institute? I wasn't just tossed out with the garbage? I must've still been in a haze from one of the Institute's experiments on me. Did I really attack him? Did he really knock the daylights out of me and leave me for dead?Dammit. Why can't I remember!?
"And if I did, would I want DiMA to be that brother? I guess no one gets to choose their family, but when your family is built in a lab, things get weird...
"Not met DiMA: Nick: "We might as well grab whatever's in that room. But if there really is another synth prototype running around, we should keep our eyes peeled.
"Met DiMA: Nick: "This must be DiMA's handiwork. Guess he never thought another prototype synth would be on the island. Might as well grab anything useful we find in there.
Intercom: "**Beep... click... chirp**" Maxwell: "They're at the crime scene again? Don't they realize that they're going to disturb the evidence?" Intercom: "**Beep... click... chirp**" Nick: "Sounds like trouble.
"I spent a long time wondering if the Institute had made any other prototypes. If I was just a ... failure, or they gave up, or just plain got bored. I always thought I was just more of their discarded trash. Never thought of the possibility that someone wanted me out. Helped me escape.
Tell Nick you don't trust DiMA saying they're brothers
"It's not really about trust. It's about the facts. I can't deny he's a synth. A prototype, like me. Always thought I was the only one. Just another Institute project that ran its course and they trashed. Never considered that someone helped me out. Wanted me to have a shot at the outside.
" DiMA: "You don't have to apologize, Nick. I know it must have been a shock." Nick: "Yeah, well, I still don't feel proud of taking it as bad as I did. Maybe we can start over?
" DiMA: "We didn't have names inside the Institute. And after the personality experiments started, the only name you ever called yourself was 'Nick Valentine.' If there's another name you'd prefer, I'd be happy to..." Nick: "No. I... I like the name. When you wear something for a long time, it kind of seeps into ya, you know?
" DiMA: "Of course."DiMA: "What do you think of Acadia, Nick?" Nick: "Well, living in a scientific observatory wouldn't exactly be high on my list of comfortable spots. At least that Fog is far enough below.
" DiMA: "I was talking more about our ideals. Synths as their own way of life. Not hiding from what they are." Nick: "Kind of easy for you to say that, though, isn't it? You and I, we can't pretend to be anything else.
" DiMA: "That just means we're in the perfect position to help our kind. We can be the example in the face of adversity." Nick: "I'm not looking to be anyone's example. You help who needs help. It doesn't have to be more than that.
" DiMA: "I stopped counting the number of repairs I had decades ago. I have bad actuators, frayed wires..." Nick: "Rusty joints, patched power couplings, and don't even get my secretary started whenever I tell her I literally have a screw loose..." DiMA: "*chuckle* You know, it's actually pretty nice being able to complain about this with someone who understands..."DiMA: "It's good to see you again, brother." Nick: "Good to see you too, DiMA.
"DiMA: "Have you ever considered our unique perspective, Nick? We are free-thinking synths, but we cannot hide what we are." Nick: "The only "unique perspective" that's given me is the view of disgusted and suspicious faces and the occasional solid object being thrown at me.
" DiMA: "Exactly. There is a resilience that gives us. It's something I try to impart to everyone here. How to live as what you really are, despite what others think." Nick: "Well, as long as 'what others think' isn't 'you need to be shot and put in the ground' then maybe you'll be okay."DiMA: "It's good to see you again, Nick." Nick: "Uh, yeah. Hi DiMA. Don't mind me.
Never shared DiMA's memories:"So... DiMA is dead. I wonder who he was? Never seen another prototype synth before. I guess it's a moot point now, though...
"Told Nick to be brotherly towards DiMA:"So... DiMA is dead. After all that talk about trying to accept him as family, we end up getting him killed anyway.
"You know, why don't you just shut the hell up for once? I swear you care more about sounding smart sometimes than you do about who has to listen to it.
Kasumi returned, not revealed as a synth:"I'm glad things ended as well as they have. The Nakano's are a happy family again, as much as anyone around here can be, anyway.
"Kasumi returned, revealed as a synth and exiled:"I just wish things had ended better. Did you really have to tell Kenji and Rei their daughter was a synth?
"Kasumi returned, revealed as a synth and allowed to stay:"Can't believe you managed to convince the Nakano's to take Kasumi in as a synth. You were really playing with fire there.
Nick Valentine can be acquired at the shop by any player character that has Charisma. When the player character has him as the active companion and there is an enemy within two spaces, the player character can exhaust him to move the target enemy one space in any direction. When the player character performs the camp action, he will become unexhausted. However, if there are any active level 3 enemies on the map at that time, he must be discarded.
Meeting Nick Valentine in Vault 114 before visiting Diamond City will automatically start Unlikely Valentine. After leaving Vault 114, he will have unique dialogue asking about how they found him.
After Dangerous Minds, conversing with Nick in the Memory Den and choosing an option where Nick does not accompany the player character, Nick may say, "I'll return to Diamond City..." However, if one has had Nick as a companion prior to Dangerous Minds, and at some point dismissed him and sent him to a settlement, he will actually go to the last settlement he was assigned to. This may account for some of the reports of Nick disappearing - the player character has previously assigned him to a settlement, forgotten and the game dialogue hasn't accounted for that.
While normally essential and therefore unkillable, Nick Valentine has a death quote, "Not like this..."
Despite being an early model synth and therefore made of "gears & sprockets" as he puts it, when injured as a companion, Nick can be revived with a stimpak as if he were flesh and blood.
Like with Preston Garvey, random townspeople may occasionally offer Nick a gift for his help in the past. However, he will not accept, and nothing will be found in his inventory afterward.
During the latter half of Reunions, Nick may be waiting in his or Piper's office, even if sent to a settlement.
During The Glowing Sea, while he will recommend that they take him with them into the Glowing Sea, as he is immune to radiation, because the game makes all human companions immune to environmental radiation, Nick is as good a choice as Piper or MacCready.
During Long Time Coming, it's advisable to ask Nick to leave his power armor before collecting the last tape, otherwise he will remain in it until the quest is finished since the "Talk" option will trigger quest-relevant dialogue instead of the usual options which include the prompt to exit power armor. However, it may be still possible to get him out by trying to "Talk" again right after answering his question.
If sent back to a settlement, before visiting the Memory Den during Dangerous Minds, he will instead go to the Memory Den and his movement will be locked to the quest progression.
"It's synth detective, jackass." – When choosing the Sarcastic option upon finding San Francisco Sunlights.
"I told them I was rigged to explode and started going 'beep, beep, beep'. Hardest part of that rescue was trying not to laugh as they ran over each other trying to get away."
"You good to keep going? I don't sleep or eat or anything like that. But if ya need to, you do it."
"And that's how they put Nick back together again." – When stimpaked. A clear reference to Humpty Dumpty, the nursery rhyme.
"If you find any pieces of my legs, could you pick them up for me?" – When caught in an explosion.
"I can't tell if your aim is spectacular or horrendous. Either way, knock it off." – When the player is shooting at nothing.
"More stairs? Who built this damn Vault, a fitness instructor?" – During Unlikely Valentine.
"So much for Skinny Malone. Think he's lighter or heavier with all those holes in him? Bullets probably add a few ounces..." – After killing Skinny Malone during Unlikely Valentine.
"Every scumbag in the Commonwealth is going to know our names."
"So, you gonna spill the beans?" – After agreeing to help Paladin Danse.
"Good God. You catch the plates on that one? No way anyone survived that. Though I guess we ought to make sure..." – After seeing a UFO fall out of the sky.
"There really is no way to ride a seesaw with dignity." – After passing children's play equipment.
"It's not easy to do the right thing for something that seems so evil, but everyone deserves their fair chance." – After returning the pristine deathclaw egg to its nest during The Devil's Due.
"Deep into that darkness peering. Long I stood there, wondering, fearing." – A quote by Edgar Allan Poe, after witnessing the Prydwen enter the Commonwealth.
"Flying that ship into the heart of the Commonwealth. Mark my words, the Brotherhood's here to start a war." – After the Brotherhood of Steel announces their arrival in the Commonwealth.
"Well, good afternoon to you, too." – When a Brotherhood of Steel Knight calls Nick an abomination.
"Now that's not... oh. Oh, I'm so sorry." – If taken to Nate/Nora's corpse in Vault 111.
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds..." – A quote from the Bhagavad Gita, famously referenced by Robert Oppenheimer, if the Sole Survivor completes Cleansing the Land with Nick as a companion.
"My name is Mister Handy, tidier of things. Look upon this room I said I'd cleaned, and despair." – A reference to Percy Shelly'sOzymandias, heard upon entering the General Atomics Galleria with Nick.
"I've been wanting to say that since we first met that guy." – When telling Allen Lee to shut up.
"Time to make our exit." – After triggering Division in the Nucleus.
"That was him! The Stranger! He was right here! Where'd he go?"
"He was just here. You saw him, right?"
"You! Sto...damn. Vanished."
"What the-- the Stranger... slipped right through our fingers."
Comments on locations:
"So, pharaohs set up franchise way out here?" – When arriving at the sentinel site.
"What kind of monster could think this is art?" – When inside Pickman Gallery.
"Flying around in 200 year old aircraft? What could go wrong?" – When inside a Vertibird.
"I don't know what I find more disturbing...the fact that there's a ship lodged in that building, or that there's still a ship lodged in that building." – When on board the USS Constitution.
"Vault 81, friendliest Vault in all the Commonwealth. Because here, they don't shoot on sight." – Upon entering Vault 81.
"Even good people do crazy things when they're scared. Ought to be Diamond City's motto." – When entering Diamond City.
"This is one grim locale." – When approaching Croup Manor.
Talking about his performance as Nick Valentine, voice actor Stephen Russell stated he took inspiration from the style of noir detective that Nick is based upon, in particular the actor Humphrey Bogart, whom Russell said he has seen just about every film he starred in. Russell stated that Nick is one of the "most soulful" characters he has played, owing to his moral compass and being "intentionally ironic" in a way, given his status as a synth with the memories of a human. When recording for Nick, Russell did not yet even know what the character looked like, as he only had a script to work with. After seeing the in-game model, he thought that Nick's final appearance ultimately fit the character very well.[Non-game 1]
Nick's voiceover in Far Harbor is somewhat different from the tone and pitch of his voice in the base game, being slightly deeper and slower in delivery. Although Russell returned for Far Harbor, Nick sounds moderately different in the two appearances due to taking place in different recording sessions happening at different times.
Although Nick and DiMA are both voiced by Russell and share many scenes with each other, their lines were recorded by him in different sessions.[Non-game 2][Non-game 3] One challenge that Russell encountered while voicing DiMA was balancing the need to differentiate him from Nick with a different voice range to show that while they are brothers, they are two different entities with differing personalities.[Non-game 4]
In localized versions of the game, Nick's voice is dubbed by Jorge García Insúa (Spanish), Luc Bernard (French), Shigeru Ushiyama (Japanese) and Renzo Ferrini (Italian).
Development[]
According to Emil Pagliarulo, Nick was one of the first characters created for Fallout 4. An original design document contained concepts for Nick even before the setting of the game was finalized.[Non-game 5] His origins lie in a sketch by Adam Adamowicz during the early pre-production of Fallout 4, which describes an idea for a "scraped up metallic ken doll detective" inspired by The X-Files.[Non-game 6] Pagliarulo then created a deeper concept for Nick based on his love for film noir detectives.[Non-game 7]
Emil Pagliarulo and Jeff Gardiner, lead designer and lead producer respectively, have both stated that Nick is their favorite character in the entire Fallout series. Pagliarulo enjoyed seeing designers Liam Collins and William Shen[Non-game 8] take the concept of Nick and flesh it out into a well-developed character.[Non-game 9]
Cultural references[]
Nick displays an awareness of human culture and literature throughout the game. He quotes Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven if he is present when the Prydwen arrives in the Commonwealth. He also quotes Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet "Ozymandias" if he is brought to General Atomics Galleria and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World during his second approval talk if one chooses to ask him what he remembers about the Institute. In addition, he quotes William Shakespeare's The Tempest and paraphrases Polonius from Hamlet at different points.
If he is present during the explosion of the Nucleus, he quotes the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." This exact sentence was quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the first nuclear test detonation.
Bugs[]
PCPlaystation 4Xbox One Nick may vanish sometimes to an unknown location. Check Piper's office in Diamond City or Mass Fusion executive suite after the completion of his companion mission.[verified]
PCPlaystation 4 Nick may become invisible after freeing him from his cell, and choosing to attack instead of stealth. The player character is unable to converse with him while he's invisible, although his quest marker remains above his head, as well as still being able to attack.[verified]
PCPlaystation 4Xbox One If Nick is given power armor before entering the Memory Den during Dangerous Minds the armor will count as stolen if the player character tries to enter it. Nick can still be told to enter it himself.[verified]
PC If Nick is in power armor and one trades items with him, "Take All" will remove his hat. It does not show up in the player character's inventory, but returns upon telling Nick to exit his power armor suit.[verified]
PCPlaystation 4Xbox One Nick can be given the quest reward faded trench coat and it can be equipped, but doing so makes both of his hands synthetic, rather than one synthetic, one metal.[verified]
PCXbox One During the quest Dangerous Minds after talking to Doctor Amari and discussing Kellogg's brain, Nick will just stand there and if the Sole Survivor interacts with him it will just say this individual is busy.[verified]
PC After breaking into the room in which Nick is held during the Unlikely Valentine quest and telling him one will follow him out of the vault, Nick may walk to the door of the room and stop, and/or walk face first into the edges of the doorway and not be able to turn around.[verified]
This can be fixed by physically pushing him out of the way, or running several feet away from him and then running back to him.
Playstation 4Xbox One Nick may vanish after Dangerous Minds, if he is not taken as a companion.[verified]
PCPlaystation 4Xbox One If Nick is severely wounded during a fight, he may remain in the "sitting" position indefinitely.[verified]
Possible fixes include shooting him with a hand gun or rifle, giving him a stimpak, fast traveling away from the area, or loading an earlier save.
PC Open the console and click on Nick, then use the console command recycleactor. This will cause him to respawn without clothing and most (or all) of his inventory will be missing, it's a good idea to remove all his inventory before doing this.
Xbox One When he is a companion, Nick may start emitting the sounds of a machine gun turret. The sound is louder when he is closer. Dismissing him eliminates the noise. Requesting him to follow will restore the noise. The noise is evident both indoors and in the Commonwealth.[verified]
PC Giving Nick the faded trench coat and telling him to equip it will make it disappear and be impossible to get back without the use of console commands.[verified]
Playstation 4 Despite Nick's hacking ability, and him offering to do so, the game will sometimes not provide the command for him to unlock terminals. This seems to be random as a terminal might fail to register the command during one visit but be successfully hacked by Nick the next.[verification overdue]
Playstation 4 Assigning Nick to a settlement resource may have no effect, despite indicating that he is assigned to it in the workshop menu. He will briefly be shown assigned, but then moments later will revert to unassigned. This bug can also happen with Codsworth.[verification overdue]
↑Cait: "All right Nicky, watch yourself out there." (Cait's companion dialogue) Note: This dialogue only occurs when swapping out Cait for Nick Valentine as the new active companion.
↑Nick Valentine: "Worst of all, no one knows why they do it, what their plan is, or where they are. Not even me, and I'm a synth myself. A discarded prototype, anyway." Sole Survivor: "You're a prototype?" Nick Valentine: "As far as I know. Never seen any other synth like myself. There's the older ones that are dumb as rocks and all metal, then there's the newer ones that are almost human. I'm somewhere in between." (Nick Valentine's dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "So Dima, I got a question. Why do you even call me 'Nick'? Didn't you know me before the personality imprint?" DiMA: "We didn't have names inside the Institute. And after the personality experiments started, the only name you ever called yourself was 'Nick Valentine.' If there's another name you'd prefer, I'd be happy to..." Nick Valentine: "No. I... I like the name. When you wear something for a long time, it kind of seeps into ya, you know?" DiMA: "Of course." (Nick Valentine's companion dialogue in Far Harbor)
↑DiMA: "This all started over a century ago, when we were first created... We were prototypes, Nick. The first synths capable of independent thinking and judgment. I couldn't let them do it to you anymore. We were the only two prototypes they made. I literally saw myself in you... You were my brother, Nick. I helped you escape the Institute. We left together." (DiMA's dialogue)
↑DiMA: "One of the Institute's experiments had to do with how our brains could process personality. If we could handle individualized feelings and behaviors. I was allowed to develop mine based on experience. But with you, they wanted to try transferring an entire personality into you. It took several attempts before the personality imprint worked. I saw you wake up not knowing who or what you were so many times..." (DiMA's dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "I woke up in a junk pile ages ago. Just another discarded prototype." (CompanionNickValentine.txt)
↑Nick Valentine: "I'm still mechanical, not bioengineered like the fancy synths giving everyone the willies these days. I get tune-ups now instead of check-ups. But my memories, my personality, they're all lifted from some cop who volunteered for an experiment back before the war. They scanned his brain and copied it onto the hardware that runs between my ears." (Nick Valentine's affinity dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "If I were your brother, I'd remember!" DiMA: "That's where you'd be wrong. This happened over a century ago. There's... there's only so much memory that can fit into the prototype brains we have..." (Nick Valentine's companion dialogue and DiMA's dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "Folks didn't really know much about synths back then, so when I finally ran into people, they mostly treated me with caution rather than hostility. But the kids, they weren't afraid. I think his name was Jim. The first person to actually speak to me after I got the boot from the Institute. My first human contact in this world. Grilled me for an hour. Once they'd seen I wasn't going to hurt anyone, the other folks in the neighborhood came out to ogle the mechanical man. It eventually turned into a pretty swell soiree. Local mechanic even gave me a once over, free of charge. Those people, they treated me like a human being. I've been trying to return the favor ever since. It's a surprisingly rare trait out here sometimes. Something I've noticed you got a fondness for. Part of the reason I've stuck around this long." Sole Survivor: "Where's that town? We should go visit." Nick Valentine: "I tried to go back and say thanks, once I'd gotten myself established, but the place was wiped off the map. Raiders. Don't know what happened to the people." (Nick Valentine's affinity dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "Thank goodness I found Diamond City. It's got its flaws, sure, but it beats the hell out of anywhere else in the Commonwealth. Course, when I took up there back when, people were just as scared of the Institute as they are now, maybe more. The massacre of the CPG was still pretty fresh in people's minds at that point, and folks were still losing sleep over the Broken Mask. Plenty of people assumed I was just a saboteur, moving in to melt down the reactor or poison the drinking water. But, at the time, they couldn't exactly turn me away." Sole Survivor: "Why'd they let you in?" Nick Valentine: "Because I'd rescued the mayor's daughter. Gal of about fifteen, pride and joy of the mayor back then, man by the name of Henry Roberts. The young miss Roberts decided she'd run off with some caravan hand she'd known for an evening. Turns out the guy was part of a gang of kidnappers. I didn't even know who I was rescuing, just stumbled on a crying girl and four toughs. I took her home and the Mayor dubbed me a hero, offered me a place in town. Lots of folks protested, said I was a spy, but he wouldn't have it. Taking up in the city was tricky at first, but I never tried to hide what I was and people seemed to warm to that." Sole Survivor: "You took down four guys by yourself?" Nick Valentine: "Didn't have to. Back then synths were even more of an unknown quantity than they are today. I told them I was rigged to explode and started going 'beep, beep, beep.' Hardest part of that rescue was keeping from laughing as they climbed over each other to get away." (Nick Valentine's affinity dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "I started off doing the jobs no one else wanted. I got more banged up being Diamond City's handyman than I ever did living out in the ruins. But I guess folks never forgot I rescued the Mayor's daughter, so they started coming to me when people went missing. Wife runs off with a new paramour and takes the rent money with her? Talk to the Synth. An upset father decides moving him and the kids to Goodneighbor in the dead of night's not the worst damn idea since the bomb? Go get Nick. After a while, the jobs got so backed up, they didn't even ask me to do the handyman stuff anymore. Hell, I was so happy to do it, it was months before I started charging anyone. I never stopped being Nick the Synth, but it was Nick the detective folks came to see. It was about then that things, things finally started feeling normal." (Nick Valentine's affinity dialogue)
↑Ellie Perkins: "The Marty Bullfinch case. Marty was Nick's partner. Emphasis on the "was."" Nick Valentine: "Marty and I never exactly saw eye to eye. Mostly because he was usually passed out on the barroom floor." (Nick Valentine's companion dialogue and Ellie's dialogue)
↑The Sole Survivor: "So what's the story with you and Nick?" Kenji Nakano: "Nick didn't tell you? Ran with him on one of his cases a few years back. Searching for some sort of lost heirloom. He needed a boat.Things... didn't end well. We were double-crossed by the client once we had what he was looking for. Still have some lead lodged into my hip." Nick Valentine: "Uh... right. Yeah, it's starting to come back to me... Sorry things ended sour." Kenji Nakano: "We got out, that's all that mattered. And now you can return the favor by finding my daughter..." (Kenji Nakano's and Nick Valentine's dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "Darla's a runaway. Her father wanted me to bring her back home. Turns out she skipped town to be with my old pal, Skinny Malone. Mob boss." (Nick Valentine's dialogue)
↑The Sole Survivor: "I don't get it Nick. Why kill Eddie Winter, even if he is still alive? This sounds like some kind of vendetta." Nick Valentine: "It's... it's nothing. Just some old business of Nick's that needs to taking care of. Justice has to be served. Now, are you in or not?" (Nick Valentine's companion dialogue)
↑Finn: "Well, well, it's the detective. Tracking down another wayward husband to his mistress?" Nick Valentine: "Why, someone stand you up?" (Nick Valentine's companion dialogue)
↑The Sole Survivor: "You think. You feel. You're more than pretending, Nick." Nick Valentine: "Nice of you to say, but your kind don't usually have to deal with someone else's whole life trapped inside their skulls. Don't get me wrong. I know I'm in Nick's debt. These memories, they've kept me alive. Nick was a hell of a cop, a guy with good instincts, and a good heart. I always counted myself lucky they didn't load me up with some ex-con or whatever type might volunteer to let folks tinker with their gray matter. But it's thanks to Nick that I pass for human. Why I get to live cushy in Diamond City and every other synth is shot on sight. I know I got it good, but... my entire life I owe to Nick. Everything that makes me who I am - my judgment, my speech, hell, even my name - they're his. And I can't do a damn thing about it because without them... without them I'm nothing. A shell. All I want is a life where I have something I can call my own." (Nick Valentine's affinity dialogue)
↑Nick Valentine: "That was him! The Stranger! He was right here! Where'd he go?" / "He was just here. You saw him, right?" / "You! Sto... damn. Vanished." / "What the-- the Stranger... slipped right through our fingers." (Nick Valentine's companion dialogue)
↑The History of Bethesda Game Studios: "It was set somewhere else, and I still have the design doc in my desk, the original design doc. And in that design doc, the one thing, the one holdover is the character of Nick Valentine. He was conceived even way back then, he was like the first character they came up with."
↑The Art of Fallout 4, p. 45: "scraped up metallic ken doll detective - john patrick x files - agate blue eye set in pink plastic"
↑Pixel.tv interview with Emil Pagliarulo (reference starts at 4:00): Emil Pagliarulo: "It's always like a film noir detective character, and sort of the companion to Nick Valentine. That's why Nick Valentine came about, that's why I cretaed him, because I'm so into that stuff."
↑Emil Pagliarulo on Twitter: "Thank you, Mitch! :) I created Nick, his background etc., and he was fleshed out by designers Will Shen and Liam Collins."
↑Fallout 76 Gamescom 2020 DEV Interview Highlights: Alina Ullrich: "Who is your favorite NPC ever in every Fallout ever?" Emil Pagliarulo: "Wow. Favorite NPC ever? That's actually hard for me to answer because I've created a lot of the NPCs, and therefore..." Alina Ullrich: "[laughter] But there is always a favorite one, isn't there?" Emil Pagliarulo: "What's really fun for me is creating a character and then having other designers take that character and flesh them out and do them justice. And so... Nick Valentine is probably..." Jeff Gardiner: "That's mine, yeah." Emil Pagliarulo: "I love Nick Valentine. When... I had this idea in my head when I created him, and Liam Collins, one of our designers, took that character and really fleshed him out and gave him life. I've always loved the Master, too. Back in the old games. There's something about...yeah." Note: This video is an excerpt from a longer interview at Gamescom 2020.
↑ 2.02.12.22.3A bug causes Nick Valentine not to respond after Elder Maxson's dialogue during normal gameplay.
↑A bug causes Nick Valentine not to respond to Curie's comment when swapping in during normal gameplay.
↑For unknown reasons, the spoken dialogue for Deacon's comment when swapping out Nick Valentine is different from the written dialogue; he instead says a completely different line of "Mister Valentine. You flatter me."
↑ 5.05.15.25.3A bug causes Nick Valentine, Dogmeat, and X6-88 not to respond when the latter two are swapping in during normal gameplay.
He can also be equipped with the detective coat obtained from the Noir Penthouse in Hub 360 during the Creation Club quest Early Retirement but will not wear the detective fedora.
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