I admit it, Fallout 4 has made my life miserable. I can play only at night and suffer from “just one more neatly placed chair in this settlement’s recreational area” affliction at 3 a.m. Hasn’t made anything creative in the last month. At least I replaced broken tap in the kitchen today (planned to do it in December). The old one is worth at least 2 steel.
The Institute is a letdown. I found only one useful thing there *Institute spoilers below (hope the “more” function works)*:
Quite a relief after all that broken wasteland ceramic.
The Institute. Why don’t I have “YOU MANIACS” in my dialogue options there? I wonder if I can tell about what I saw there to that reporter chick or the radio guy in Diamond City, the truth has to be known! Anyway, I’m not staying there, I’ve already decided Starlight Drive Inn is my capital settlement and I’m slowly introducing my urban development plans there.
Welcome to the fraternity of staying up way too fucking late to play games and watch media you can’t watch while children are awake, brother.
Okay, so I played with some Lego recently, more than I had for the last 15 years. Almost as good as setting up settlements
Starlight was attacked so I rushed there from south Boston (no fast travel) and joined the fight with a dispatch of Gunners. I had one of my guards Settlers dressed and equipped with Grognak’s stuff and was surprised to find him dead. I found a synth chip on him – seems settlers might be synths as well.
Correct. Synths will infiltrate your settlements. I’m not sure you can do anything about it.
Last night, I decided to check in on Hangman’s Alley. Why the game wanted to make this a settlement, I have no idea. It’s in the middle of all kinds of hostile activity. Raiders are right next door. Gunners aren’t far away, and super mutants are constantly derping up and down the street. Probably a stray ghoul or two roams by as well.
Anyway, the settlers seemed to be doing pretty well considering that they had 0 beds, 0 food, 0 water, and 0 defense. I did find one dead settler out in the street, but I didn’t check him for synth parts.
Having sent a provisioner on ahead, I set about improving the settlement, which was very hard. As you may know, Hangman’s Alley is just a weird little rookery amid other low-rent structures, so there’s barely enough room for the settlers to move, let alone farm or do much else. I had to scrap some of the sheds and fences so people could get to the crops I planted. Then I had to rebuild some items so I could set generators and turrets on them. This was pretty interesting because of the architectural challenge. I think I managed to get them in pretty good shape.
One thing: for some reason a two-headed cow wandered into the place and I couldn’t get it to leave. Such an addition on a farm would be quaint. In this backstreet closet full of lean-tos and people jammed shoulder-to-shoulder, the cow was an incredible nuisance.
I couldn’t interact with it in any way. I considered shooting it and dragging the body outside, but I didn’t know whether the settlers would turn hostile. I wonder if I can snipe it from a distance, or possibly try to build a pen around it and move the pen. BTW, it’s not a provisioner brahman; it’s just a random animal. No idea how it got here.
Brite, great pic, btw. Well done.
Hangman”s alley is a settlement? Wow, I cleared it ages ago and didn’t notice! Wondwrful, this is what i wanted, an Urban settlement with hostiles around.
So far my favorite was Jamaica plain, sadly the workshop zone is weird.
Jamaica Plain is a pretty weird place. I finally found the “treasure” there. LOL.
The weirdest settlement I’ve found so far is the Murkwater construction site (edit: I can’t provide a link to the map location because it keeps getting shrunk to the size of a postage stamp). It’s certainly among the most dangerous locations to put a settlement. Plus, it’s hard to work on.
Here is a .jpg location. Good luck actually getting it to show up at the correct size.
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/c/c8/FO4_map_Murkwater_Construction_Site.jpg
yup, I saw it recently from a distance on my way through the wetlands, but didn’t go near as there was a mirelurk queen there.
I didn’t see the queen when I first found the settlement. When I fast-traveled there later, she was right in my face, along with her whole court. Diplomacy didn’t work. So far, she hasn’t respawned.
I killed that queen at level 12 with a lot of running away and hiding and watching her life bar go down a pixel at a shot. 😛
I ran into just two Mirelurk hunters last night who shredded my power armor and Piper’s. Now I’m all out of aluminum and plastic and hers still isn’t totally repaired.
The size is correct in IE 11 but gets shrunk in Firefox. Wiki map page with ads
Weird. I’m not troubleshooting cross browser shit. None of this is my code and I just don’t care. 😉
You could upload the file, there should be an option to size it how you want up to the maximum (which I think is 1024×1024 right now.) Or just link like you did.