does it have to do with by any chance?




If so, I just saved and reloaded, but before that I went to help him fight off some monsters

I'm fully on board with becoming a wasteland slum lord. I look forward to your adventures.

Hancock seems like a cool bro, haven't really quested there to nab him as a companion yet

Sometimes it's hard to toss up the recruitment signal knowing well enough that I should establish a pre-made, finished product before setting it loose, but settlers are needed for the garden so when I have to work with a small plot it grows stressful real fast.


Also, when I go kill some raiders and arrive in the night to tell you it's done it's common courtesy to wake up when I arrive. I had to punch a guy for him to wake up last night and turn in a quest. Feel like they made the settlers lazy and drone-like on purpose. Makes for a tasty time though

Yeah I've had to forcibly wake someone to turn in quests as well. I wish they acted all freaked out when you forcibly wake someone.

When they use the workshop/crafting tables and don't frig off I save the game and throw a missile at them

I have been known to beat an NPC to death with a tire iron before a quick reload myself.

best way to kill an NPC:

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poor Crenshaw

Kinda cool how to plant a grenade on someone you need to have the appropriate (rank 2? 3? I forget which) Pickpocketing perk rank. I saw that when I skilled it up and immediately planted 'nades on like 7 NPCs

game goal: get stealth up and find a suicidal super mutant and steal his mini nuke and place a grenade in it's place

A nuclear grenade in it's place.

I like sniping the glow. And they usually have at least two other muties near them, so one bullet kills 3-5 super mutants and/or hounds.

Troubling news that will turn positive later today:


Due to morale plunging in Sanctuary, I took down Fort Piss(my mega building catered to me, lit up with the word "PISS" in bright lights), it looked thrown together. There was a room(2nd floor) dedicated to just beds. It reminded me that I was putting together a barracks type atmosphere similar to my experience of being in the military and centralizing all personnel in one spot, but these people, these settlers shouldn't have to live through my experience as they have been driven from their homes. Sanctuary should live up to it's name. The other settlements will continue getting the Slum Lord treatment cause they are needy. If they would make things easier and uproot to Sanctuary then things would be easier on me.


So first things first I took down my mega building and put all the beds in existing houses(spread it out, 1-2 beds a house). Started putting down furniture for bathrooms and living rooms. Once I gather enough Copper I'm going to put lights and generators in each home. Gardens in each backyard and assign settlers to certain beds, telling them apart from their clothes(I've gathered mass amounts of clothing to shotgun this project, along with weapons to help them stave off attacks instead of being meatbags)

You can assign them beds? Does that mean if they are assigned to say, a workbench and then you assign them to a bed, they won't do their workbench duties anymore? Or will they do their thing until fatigued and then sleep is the assigned bed?


Saw/was in my first rad storm last night - that was pretty badass looking.

Yeah they're pretty cool. Terrified me the first time it happened, thought I was going to die.

Speaking of dying and stuff, fuck Assaultrons. And fuck their giant laser of death that one-shot my Power Armor

I'll test the bed/bench duties later, I'll be able to tell right off the bat. So I just let them naturally sleep wherever? I just have a thing where Piper does nothing and she's assigned to my bed, that's her duty, to provide Double XP and love/support

Nothing will ever make me tear down my Tower of Oppression. Look up as I gaze upon ye from on high peasant fools. NOW GET BACK TO WORK.

Need to find Piper myself I suppose. Double XP sounds righteous. If only I could stop building.

Got Cait to open up about herself last night. Pretty twisted shit. I haven't done any of the BoS stuff yet because she was all "Screw them, we should do this on our own" and she is a reeeeeeeeeeeeally good companion right now.

Piper is at her job, and will remain there for quite some time. Have a feeling she is going to hate my character.

Love the ragdollish physics of Feral Ghouls when you shoot them with a high-impact weapon. Fuckers are FAST on the attack. Like having a Barb Leap Attack from D III or something.

I learned that Super Mutants are bitches, but their glowing beasts can 1 shot me, WOOOOO!

Double XP comes from "well rested". You have to sleep for at least 8 hours I think.

About to get the third ending with BoS then I'll have done all the main shit. Looking through guides, happiness for settlements is fucked up and hardly worth doing. Needs expensive stores and lots of decorations it seems.

There's some side stuff I've not even found that I've seen people mention elsewhere though, so still plenty to do.

That was the downfall of Fort Piss version 1, not enough cat portraits, best believe I'll rectify that mistake

cat portraits are my jam

building a mega store and placing strobes and cat portraits in it, that'll keep them happy

So uh. When I went to Glowing Sea, and generally when I go to tough areas, I'll use my Power Armor, and naturally give my companion a suit as well. Typically I would put a fusion core in their armor and then leave it at that.

Just now I came across two BoS folk and I jacked both their Power Armor suits and I didn't bother putting a core in one before telling my companion to get in it. Apparently they don't need fusion cores?

Oh and on that note I just thought, why the hell did it take me so long to just equip every one of my companions in Power Armor?

Ferals crossed into pants-shitting territory for this installment. The World War Z sprinting, the leaping, and the fact that even if you "clear" a spot, there's a chance more will literally crawl out of the woodwork (or, twisted, bombed out metal and brick work).

Dont get me started on the Legendary Glowing One. Nobody should be that fucking fast, least of all a 200+ year old mindless zombie.

Super Mutant Suiciders are the best/worst for HOLY SHIT factor. If they get the jump on you, well... good luck

Otherwise, shooting them at a distance in the arm is the best

Beds are separate from jobs like stores and sentry posts. You can assign one settler both a bed and a task.

Actually, the biggest "holy shit" I got was my first Behemoth sighting. I was around level 14, just got jumped by a bunch of Gunners I wasn't ready for, and was in a pretty bad way, but had been kind enough to give me supplies I was going to pawn off at the diner. While cutting cross country, I see this big motherfucker and I was moving in what would surely be in his line of sight, so I made a NOPE detour farther north than I would have liked while overencumbered. If the enhanced movement patterns of every large mutant enemy in the game is any indicator, he would have sptinted over to me in about 4 steps and saved me the hike by knocking me back to Sanctuary. I'd be dead, of course.

Ran into a behemoth myself at around level 15 I think. Sounds like it might have been in the same area too. Was it under/near some overpasses on the west side of the map?

Yep. That's about where I was. It was my first encounter with Gunners, too, so I didn't know they were a hostile gang. Lesson learned. Same deal with the Scavengers being assholes in this one, who all turn hostile at your "tresspassing" on their claim... which is weird itself because I had one pay me caps for saving his life only to turn around and shoot at me because I was warned I was too close. You ran over to me, you bipolar fucker!

Thing is, I don't exactly have a battle-ready build. I put most of my SPECIAL into Perception and Intelligence at start for Sniper, and Intelligence for xp gain out of habit, and used Charisma as sort of a dump stat. Had to fix that for Local Leader, which screwed up my plans for offensive capabilities in commando, gunslinger, and the afore mentioned Sniper. Gun Nut needs max love because my shit needs supressors (have a legendary-dropped anti Super Mutant .308 pipe pistol that I had to remod to replace the previous workhorse pipe sniper I had modded up... that extra bonus on Super Mutants is nothing to sneeze at, especially between Hangman's Alley and Diamond City, and I can pick most off in one clean un-VATS sighted shot) I have a couple of pretty neat snipers, one of which is an oddly nearly maxed .50 (just needs a silencer and a long scope, everything else was up, even to mods I couldn't build at the time) waiting for me in storage until I can finish them or luck out and buy one from a vendor. Also had to up my strength for armorer and blacksmith.

I'll be better prepared for this whole on a second playthrough, but I don't want to fall into the Skyrim trap by starting that playthrough now.

Unrelated: anyone else have Pip-Boy issues? My XBONE updated yesterday morning, and now my shit won't connect. I use that as a perpetual automap, and now I can't.


*ADDENDUM: This appears to be linked to a Smartglass connection fix. The fix, while posted and detailed (not 100% accurate with the overhaul, but as long as you know where the settings screens are, you can find what you need) is totally not self-explanatory, though, because said fix has NOTHING TO DO with changing any Smartglass settings. But, I did the fix, and now my Pip-Poy app functions again.

Fusion Cores, from what I can tell aren't actually needed except for you if you want to use Power Armor for what it's supposed to be. Which is a walking tank. Which I should really start using more of now that I have the Atom Cats place unlocked.

Yeah, I use them on my own armor obviously. It's just interesting/nice that I don't have to micromanage my companions with them

also, lol

https://i.imgur.com/Jr1omf2.jpg

do any of the followers get mad emotional when you equip them with their own suit?

I ran into the same behemoth you guys did. Sneak attacked him with a fat man from the overpass, and finished him off with my .50 cal. No muss, no fuss.

Sometimes you need to deliver healing radiation to ghouls.

Fucking jetpack power armour man. Fuck yes.

^ Can't wait till I upgrade my power armor with that.

That said, I can't wait until this weekend and HOPEFULLY get some god damn play time in after retaining the Dad Championship of the World.

Still at level 11.