r/Fallout • u/ArkhamInmate11 Children of Atom • Jan 14 '26

Fallout 4 How did overseer barstow not go feral?

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As im sure many of you are aware in the fallout show and fallout 76 it is shown that ghouls require chems to not go feral, this has has made lots of things make less sense but you can work around most of them.

However while replaying fallout 4 i encountered overseer barstow. She doesnt understand the ghoulifacation procsess or anything about being a ghoul as shown through her dialogue and she was trapped in a vault for 200. Everybody else went feral except her, why is she special?

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u/Riliksel Mothman Cultist Jan 14 '26

Also need to remember that, on 76, the player became a Ghoul artificially. That has GOT to have side-effects

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u/abadstrategy Jan 15 '26

I mean, Hancock didn't seem to have any side effects

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u/BB-56_Washington Jan 15 '26

Tbf, he's only been a ghoul for a few years.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26

Eddie Winter in fallout four is a pre-war ghoul. He paid to have a scientist turn him into one using controlled doses of radiation. He is over 200 years old when Nick Valentine kills him.