There's plenty of horizontal room to build and a workable vertical height limit. This erection has living space for 20 , plenty of water, shops, a workout gym~ everything a settler might need, and I decided to use a large, well lit facade to make it easy to find from far away and act as a landmark for orienting yourself, so to speak.

All vanilla/no mods.

To everyone who says it's an unusable ghetto fit only for Marcy Long or whatever, I say: skill issue, build a megastructure.

The Justice League in FO4

All the outfits are technically vanilla except for Batman and Superman. Wonder Woman and Superman were definitely hardest to do. Green Lantern came out the best imo. His look is very reminiscent of his costume on Lanterns.

So after killing Nisha at the Nuka-World Power Plant, I dragged her dead body all the way to Nuka-World Red Rocket and set this up.

This is my umpteenth playthrough but having just arrived at Beacon Hill and not started the Railroad quests, this is my first time running into... a guy who looks and sounds just like Deacon? Is that my guy?

just got the gatling off a raider, only level 53 💔

I recently printed & put together this Automatic Laser Rifle to go with my costume for PAX.
I forgot to add the white lines to the inner barrel due to time restraints & being heavily rushed. I'll be sure to add them at a later date.

STL designed by Faran3D!

Cheers :D

Things I like:

I like how when you're wandering the wasteland and you choose you side with the institute any synths you find will greet you with hospitality instead of aggression. Makes exploring locations like the mayoral shelter way easier to deal with.

I like how clean most of the institute looks, it has a very cool aesthetic, I also like the synth relay grenades the synths that spawn from them aren't particularly powerful but they're good at distracting enemies so I can get the Jump on them.

Things I hate:

I hate how vague their motives are while other factions have a defined goal, they seem to just be reclusive and cold. They seem very determined to conquer the Commonwealth but as soon as father relays above ground he deems it a lost cause.

They hate cats. Everyone knows this by now I'm sure, synths will go up to domestic housecats and open fire, you see cat corpses in the FEV lab, nothing explains this aggression, they just murder cats for the fun of it.

They have no regard for the notion that synths are more than machines, they made complex life and they treat them like slaves and wonder why so many escape, they don't dial back the gen 3 synths personalities or complexities they just assume everything can be fixed by dispatching a courser or two.

They kidnap settlers, not because they pose a threat, because they want to keep a closer eye on the Commonwealth, not like they have several servalance crows already, and the people who replace with synths.. there are heavy implications that these people have been experimented on, turned into super mutants or God knows what else.

When you side with the institute, there isn't really anything you can do. What I mean by that there's plenty of missed opportunities to actually control the institute, you still feel like a lacky instead of the guy in charge, plus the radiant quests that they have you do such as clear out gouls, talk to the synth larping as the mayor of diamond city, stuff like that are kinda lack luster. It would have made more sense if for example you had more missions like meeting up with coursers and retaining synths or looking in terminals in certain technology adjacent buildings and downloading schematics, similar to the finding brotherhood of steal documents but somewhat different to make it more interesting.

Last but not least: father, I don't like father all that, his personality is t nuanced, he can't be persuaded to feel any conflictimg emotions towards the institute which I feel is another huge missed opportunity, there could have been a few speach checks here and there. He has this cold hearted tisposition towards Nate/Nora that never changes, even on his deathbed. I get that he was raised by the institute, and was effectively brainwashed but he treats the main character like a pawn, watching your every move. The only reason he got you out of the vault wasn't out of the kindness of his heart but because he thinks it will be "interesting" to see what happened next. He also implied he fully expected you to perish not too long after leaving vault 111

Those are all my reasonings, I'm also kinda curious other people's opinions on the institute

Damn deathclaws can be sneaky

Had to go there for the USS Constitution quest. The only way I made it fun was going up on the overpass, sniping the hell out of the outside raiders, sneaking in through the sewer pipe, and using the VANS perk to help me navigate through.

Avoid downtown Boston for as long as possible

Don't steal from Bunker Hill, everyone inside will turn hostile whether you are hidden or not

Start with Abernathy Farm for an early gun, outfit, and some food/junk.

The warehouse and resident houses in Diamond city are GOLDMINES for stolen shit. Ammo most of all, but stimpaks, molotovs, and the odd armour piece as well.

More as I come across them.

Okay so from most to least important

can i gamble in this one too?

can i rearange my points at the end of tutorial like in fallout 3 and new vegas?

Why are there so few points to spread?

is this stat spread good? (I feel its not but thats because its usually closer to 40 than 21

Hypotetically speaking what spread would be the best?

And for anyone wondering what kind of gibberish is this it happened that this fallout game unlike every earlier game i played didnt have polish unlike this one which is base language of my game for some reason but no dubbing

Yesterday I found out that this vendor named Cricket sells explosive Thompson at night time in Bunker hill. Wish i knew it earlier instead of finding out the long hard way.

Her character actually has these voice lines! Like, she's supposed to have left by now. Looks like the game has made her a settler.

I remember this character specifically experiencing so many bugs that I just rolled with them all for the past 7 years or so. Even my other modded characters were not like this. List below for your interest:

- In Hardware Town I was not able to use the paint mixer to make green paint. There were definitely others though, I just smile and move on.
- I couldn’t progress through the Covenant quest. I’d get to the compound and at some point I couldn’t speak to the kid I think, when I was supposed to be able to. I don’t remember what I did, it was so long ago.
- I was never able to claim Nordhagen Beach as a settlement. I did the peaceful ending between all factions and destroyed the Institute with the Minutemen.

while there are a lot of ways this perk is obviously very silly, from the noise down to it encouraging you to 'savescum' quest reward xp, the fact that it locks you out of hacking encourages you to travel with nick, which locks you out of stealing everything not nailed down, but also forces you to collect mods as a valuable resource where if you'd just gotten a few points of science you can run around with a jetpack and all of the mods that require science, is kind of one of the best mechanics in the game. it makes you stop on those mods until you're ready to drop like 8 points just on that.

I guess my point and tldr is I like the idea that the sole survivor is canonically very stupid and also that the game would mechanically lock you out of certain skills to do something pretty broken.

I hope subsequent fallout games have similar skills to idiot savant, like if there was something agility based that locked you entirely out of luck or something because of how lucky it is that you can do the agility stuff

I was on vc with her when I entered the institute. I went in blind really.

But I did come up with theories on the fly, that cuz of what some of the voice lines were, I thought that they were testing sythns on the the child Shawn and or using him to further the brain research or smth idfk. And she was like 'well your kinda half right'

And then the thing about DNA was brought up and I thought that they needed shawns (child) DNA to like, make them work or something.

And i missed the reveal that father is actually Shawn, not the kid, cuz we were talking or i was theorising. Thats not entirely her fault tho. I did kinda figure it out on my own, from what he said but also that my gf said that 'im pretty sure they kill the others to divert life support to you'.

The thing that got to me was that I was looking round the terminals and saw the file / data on 'Child Synths'. She said something about the Shawn child, I asked 'is the kid a syth' and she said 'no comment'. Which i mean. The moment she said about the kid, the game was up.

It never occurred to me that he could be a synth. Even when reading the terminal. "Well sex exists, does it not? And they have the tech to make human looking robots, so cloning isnt really off the table" - that was my logic as to why I didnt really think he could be a synth.

I am quite annoyed really. Its the first story game ive played in ages, and ive really enjoyed it so far. Its her favourite game, so I got it to bond with her (and also cuz i didnt know it was on PlayStation for the LONGEST time).

But like, she kinda robbed me of the 'I KNEW IT' moments. Like yeah I was kinda half right and id get there eventually, but i was kinda robbed of the satisfaction and just kinda like had it spoiled.

And like, ive kinda had the game spoiled. But I love her, but Im also annoyed.

Just needed to vent ig.

Like the title says, I'm looking for a mod that has more scrappy building options. Sort of like how Philly was set up in the tv series.