Fallout 4 Vault-Tec Workshop Doesn’t Make You Feel Much Like an Overseer

PC Gamer put out a short editorial that laments the lack of depth of the Vault-Tec Workshop DLC. While the idea of actually playing the role of a Vault overseer might have been appealing to many players, the writer suggests we might have to curb our enthusiasm, at least for anything that doesn’t concern the act of directly building the Vault. An excerpt:

The experiments are the biggest disappointment. Build an item in the Workshop, place it and power it up, and tell some poor settler to use it. You can make your subject ride a stationary bike that acts as a generator, serve them chemically enhanced soda, give them an optical exam, and instruct them to play slot machines. Each experiment has three settings, depending on how evil you feel, that can influence the subject’s behavior chemically, subliminally, or optically.

And that’s it, really. Despite the ever-present Nick Valentine’s disapproving synthetic stare, I went full-on evil, trying to pick the least ethical setting for each experiment. A couple settlers got giddy on tainted soda, one got angry after discovering a subliminal message during an eye exam, someone else was tricked into praising the ghoul Overseer even though she should not be praised because she is a jerk. I don’t exactly feel like Lex Luthor, you know?

If you were hoping to become a puppet-master, creatively brainwashing your unknowing subjects with wild sci-fi experiments, uh, yeah, that doesn’t seem to be included here. I feel like I’ve been meaner to settlers just in my day-to-day Fallout 4 routine.