

Instead of just being bigger, scarier raiders, I’d have them be actual characters who have accepted that there is no more "green stuff" and are now looking for ways to survive on their own. Second thing I’d do is have the super mutants chill the fuck out.


Boston, already disorganized thanks to the Institute and high raider population, would be one place of many that the muties would have fled to. and force the scattered survivors to relocate far away. The Brotherhood of Steel, having secured a bunch of Enclave technology and started recruiting openly, grew in strength enough to drive the super mutants out of D.C. This would benefit both the super mutants (by making FEV less commonplace and their origins less cheap) and the Institute (by making them less unambiguously evil). I would have had the super mutants be from Vault 87 just like they were in Fallout 3.
