Fallout 4

[PPerfect_CJ]

Re: Fallout 4

They are definitely worth it for pack mule for me. And nick for hacking like someone just said. Dogmeat is great with certain perks too. I had to ditch nick last night though. Was at a point in the story where he started hating everything I was doing.

I don't even have cait yet and I'm at 5 days play time. Should probably go get her.

Cait is pretty awesome. She's actually giving Piper a run for her money on which I like using the most.

[ImTellinTim]

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If you have settlements connected I'm pretty sure the ones with not enough food\water take up extra supply from other places. That's why I'm able to not plant at some places and their food\water still doesn't show up in the red.

I know that. I'm talking about the water and food it produces and puts into your workshop automatically. Go check every once in awhile. It generates new stuff in your workshop aid section.

I've got a good supply line setup going now after tweaking it a bit. Basically I have two large hubs and spokes coming off those to the smaller settlements. I will eventually have to set up a third hub in the south, but right now two is fine.

My steps for setting up a new settlement when I get it:

1. Before going to get a new settlement, make sure I have at least one unassigned settler at the hub that will support it.
2. After gaining settlement, fast travel to hub and send unassigned settler to new settlement.
3. Before the settler starts walking away, have them create the supply line. This connects them to my full network and makes all my resources available.
4. Build up defense, and if possible make some food and water.
5. Build recruitment tower.
6. Build enough beds to let it grow for a while without worry.

The only place I've really tried building my own structure is Starlight. That's a work in progress. I usually just utilize whatever's there and add prefab shacks if I need to add beds.

[ricky24]

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Cait is pretty awesome. She's actually giving Piper a run for her money on which I like using the most.

Nice. I think I'll go get her tonight. Piper just pretty much chills at my island settlement now. Haven't really used her since I reached max relationship with her.

[ricky24]

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I know that. I'm talking about the water and food it produces and puts into your workshop automatically. Go check every once in awhile. It generates new stuff in your workshop aid section.

That is the supply other settlements eat into. The extra that is put in your workshop. That's what I've gathered from reading stuff anyways but like someone said its not totally clear. That's just where I assume my excess is going.

[ImTellinTim]

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I will say that this game botched having your settlements raided. So if I'm minding my own business at a settlement and it gets attacked, my legions of turrets mows them down with little effort from me.

But if I'm out and don't come back in time everything gets destroyed? These things don't work if I'm not there?

That is the one thing I don't like about expanding - I will be called into more of these useless "kill these three things attacking your heavily fortified settlement" annoyances.

[BlackBetty15]

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Anyone else encountering thia glitch in the castle where settlers get unassigned everyone you fast travel there? Not talking about the broadcaster guy which we all are aware I am sure. But it seems that particular settlement has issues as I haven't seen it anywhere else

[ImTellinTim]

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I'm not sure the game can get any better after the

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USS Constitution Quest

.

It's gonna take a lot to top that one.

[kingkilla56]

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I will say that this game botched having your settlements raided. So if I'm minding my own business at a settlement and it gets attacked, my legions of turrets mows them down with little effort from me.



But if I'm out and don't come back in time everything gets destroyed? These things don't work if I'm not there?



That is the one thing I don't like about expanding - I will be called into more of these useless "kill these three things attacking your heavily fortified settlement" annoyances.

Settlement babysitting made me scrap my lvl 39 guy; start a new guy, level him up to 44 now and completely ignore sanctuary and that bastard Preston

Game devs won accept that baby sitting is not fun in gaming. Since San Andreas these guys refuse to stop it. I won't touch settlements ever again with my new character. Ever. It sucks. Cool game otherwise though.

[ImTellinTim]

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Fun thing you find out from a terminal regarding sports:

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I read through every terminal I find. I don't remember what building it's in, but there's terminal where you learn the Red Sox still haven't won a World Series since 1918. They are up 3-1 in the World Series on the day the bombs drop. That's ****ing cold, devs.

[Dogslax41]

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Settlement babysitting made me scrap my lvl 39 guy; start a new guy, level him up to 44 now and completely ignore sanctuary and that bastard Preston

Game devs won accept that baby sitting is not fun in gaming. Since San Andreas these guys refuse to stop it. I won't touch settlements ever again with my new character. Ever. It sucks. Cool game otherwise though.

I was getting annoyed with it at first until it kind of dawned on me that its the way they chose to handle respawning loot. Now a camp attack or a kidnapping mission I look at as just a way to refresh the loot in instances.

[Dogslax41]

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I take Nicky V with me most places to avoid doing the awful hacking mini game.

Also, his 50s detective voice is the best.

I take Nick as well and he does work with a super sledge and a suit of power armor, but I swear that if his big head drifts in front of my sights when I am aiming again I'll kill him myself. Nothing better than watching you melee companion standing back at range with you and drifting in and out of your scope one foot in front of you so that just his head takes up the entire lens. And thankfully I

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completed that damn Eddie's tapes questline so he stopped asking about it every 5 minutes

[ricky24]

Fallout 4

Settlement babysitting made me scrap my lvl 39 guy; start a new guy, level him up to 44 now and completely ignore sanctuary and that bastard Preston

Game devs won accept that baby sitting is not fun in gaming. Since San Andreas these guys refuse to stop it. I won't touch settlements ever again with my new character. Ever. It sucks. Cool game otherwise though.

Settlements add a lot to this game for some. I actually am not even sure I would play as much without them. Actually I know I wouldn't. No settlements would cut my hours big time.

Without them for me this game is no different than any other game. Go here. Get this. Shoot these things. Repeat.

[Burns11]

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If we had to do settlements, I would have quit the game 100 hours ago, just not worth the frustration and boredom.

The only settlement I have had attacked was the farm and I ignored it. Not sure what happened to them, I have no reason to go back. Super mutants have showed up at red rocket (where I store my junk, power armors, and companions) a couple times, but they never even make it inside.

[ricky24]

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It's good to know you don't have to do them in case I do start a new character. What is the point of collecting everything if you don't do them though? Obviously you still need screws, adhesive etc. not sure what the use for stuff like copper is without settlement building.

[ImTellinTim]

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I've found if you over-defend your amount of food/water by a margin that attacks rarely happen. I haven't been called to one in quite awhile.

It would be a lot more fun if building from scratch wasn't such a PITA. I really just plop down a couple shacks with beds and some turrets and call it a day for the most part.