So morning comes and after a nice breakfast of Frosted Sugar Bombs and coffee, I decided to check out the Sanctuary Hills Community Center.



I'm going to have to fire the current daycare minders, as clearly they don't understand either their duties or what appropriate toys for toddlers are.



One of the couriers informed me that crazy old Blake Abernathy wants to talk to me. I'd better go see what he wants or he'll get all snippy and cut off the flow of tax money to the Minutemen from the shops I set up there.

On the way I passed through the Red Rocket Truck Stop, where I heard some general griping about things. This friggin' ghoul didn't seem to be very happy over his breakfast of 240 year old pink food paste. I told him to eat it and be happy or get his rotting butt back out into the wasteland.



Seems some of my Minutemen were visiting, no doubt because of the bar. I told the Abernathy family they wear those scarves over their mouths as part of the uniform, but it's really because of the smell. Abernathy goes a little heavy on the use of feces as fertilizer.



I guess the tinfoil hat isn't keeping out the right kind of rays, because he's convinced he's got a Super Mutant problem. Sigh. He hears about Super Mutants holing up anywhere in the Commonwealth and suddenly is convinced they're a threat. They've never seen one in his little corner of nothing.

Hell, he's complaining about the ones in the Trinity church in the middle of Boston. But Abernathy farm has been a really good source of caps, far above expectations, so Curie and I will go down there and kill the three or four of them to make him happy.



Besides, his daughter is a bit naive about things and since I rescued her have been concerned for her welfare. I decided to check up on her and see if she's decided to turn her life around and do something respectable:



Apparently not. Well, that explains both the Minuteman visits and the increase in tax collections.

We hoverbird down to Boston Common, make our way to the church, and after a brief firefight pause to contemplate the state of affairs. Curie, being a robot brain put into a cyborg, seems to have been programmed for prayer.



We go down to the Castle to tell Preston about Abernathy going off his meds, but he has an urgent mission - one of the farms is under attack.

I call for a hoverbird. Hey, I'm a General - does anyone expect me to walk?



As we come in I wind up the minigun and curse that damned Blake Abernathy twice over. This is a Super Mutant problem.



We circle once and I dust them as best I could without hitting the settlers, and jump down to take them on with my trusty assault rifle that I outfitted with incendiary rounds.

The hoverbird hovered about and added it's nose gun to the effort.



I did my best to lead them away from the settlement, taking a few hits to the ballistic weave of my shirt that hurt but didn't wound, and in short order the crackle of laser turrets and the crack of rifles fell silent.

Super Mutant corpses lay scattered about as I reloaded my rifle and turned towards the settlement.



We beat back the Super Mutants, but not without a cost. Three settlers and a Minuteman trooper dead along with four more Super Mutants inside the fence.



We fly back to the Castle where Preston, my adjutant, takes the news in stride.



And tells me of yet another problem, this time with the Gunners. Actually, he tells Curie about it. I studiously ignore the attention he gives her, as I don't think he gets much action, to be honest.

Wow, you really go all in on your settlements!

Nice General's uniform BTW.

How well defended was that particular settlement?

Uh...interesting looking character. lol

I just recently finished the game myself and enjoyed it a lot. I played totally un-modded though.

Anybody warped enough to promote this skin has to be just a wee bit off.



Wheels

Any feedback on the Armatron add on? I have been debating the purchase, but have lost interest in this after defeating the Synths/

This is Fallout 4? Why do I not have this game

Just curious, did you have to build a teleporting unit at the end? Just asking to make sure we played the same game.

Just wondering because I am becoming even more amazed at how I suck at PC games compared to you. Mind you, this not a jab at you . . . rather this is a jab at me. I just did not realize how bad I am at PC games. Heh heh.

Seriously, I have tried this game unmodded, modded, with cheats, without cheats, with alcohol. without alcohol, with heroin, without heroin, etc . . . I just don't understand how to connect power generators to other units.

Yes I did.

Your posts always crack me up LB.

The Armatron DLC is okay, but the difficulty level at the end is a bit of a steep slope. I'm not really into robots that aren't sexy, so I only built one or two, including one that causes a CTD when I get close to him.

I actually restarted in order to fix some of the mistakes in settlements I made the first time around.* I chose the same path, though.

I'm pretty conservative on mods - just a couple cosmetic ones and only one game play mod - a synth trap. It's an electrical trap that zaps synths hiding within my settler population. I had to get it to find out who was the last synth to clear a "settlement under attack" mission; it turned out to be one of the brahmin! It was the only time I've used it, though.

I also got the "don't call me 'settler'" mod, which grabs a name from Codsworth's list and randomly assigns it to new settlers showing up. So now I feel kind of bad when they get killed by raiders or whatever.

I need to make a video of Preston's almost pleading attempts at getting me to "romance" him along with a very cold "yes, you're one of my dearest friends" responses. It's just as heart breaking as it is cruel and hilarious.

* Most notably the big teleporter unit to get inside the Institute. This time I placed it so that a proper museum can be built around it.

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The trick to connecting generators to stuff that need power is poles and wires.

LOL!! Yeah, I was surprised that I got the "romance" option with Preston in my game even though I had already hooked up with Piper.

Hey Dart, could you make that beret a raspberry beret?

It was a bit of a bear. The robot building was indeed challenging to find the right fit of kit to be the most useful.

Anyone grabbing Far Harbor DLC? Comments or feedback greatly appreciated for that one too.

I've put in 3 hours into it so far and I really like it. The scale and scope is much larger compared to Armatron since Far Harbor takes place on a new map.

Thanks for some feedback PM. I think I will give it a dive into as well.

I keep getting a CTD now that the game has updated. I'll give the verify file cache a shot and re-install if I must. Thank goodness for cloud back up.

Usually that does the trick for me. Heck, the saves aren't considered part of the installation, so one can remove the game from the system, re-install, and get right back to chugging.

I met my first game-killing bug! Much like the Piper-Armor Bench sound glitch (where she makes the sound of it working continuously and can be cleared by making her go back to it and ordering her to stop once she starts sewing), Curie sounded like a robot walking after playing with the robot work bench and holding her arms as if she was working the panel for it.

I tried everything to no avail, so I just started a new game, which is just as well. Foresight being wonderful, I'm now doing things a bit differently to help me at the later stages, and definitely making smarter settlements.

I'm also on a fresh game, this time around I'm going to go Brotherhood, pass up on the Minutemen, limit the amount of settlments and generally do everything else differently.

The only problem so far is that my first Brotherhood quest involves fetching something from deep within the Far Harbor island, which is probably not going to happen anytime soon.

I also find the opposition is at times a lot tougher than my original playthroughs, at level 7 and having only only discovered a handful of locations, I'd already encountered an Assaultron, 2 Mister Gutsies, a random Deathclaw and even a Putrid Glowing Ghoul!

Spawn rates are much higher as well.

At least the loot seems much better this time around, I'm wondering though if the DLCs didn't break the game somewhat?

Oh. You mean that the Far Harbor DLC has now been integrated into the main storyline of the original game? I just assumed that Far Harbor just had its own separate storyline from the rest of the game.

The replacement of random raiders with robots due to the Armatron DLC did up the game's difficulty, that's for sure.

Yeah, Far Harbor content is in, for example my first good item drop right after I left Concorde was a VATS enhanced Meat Hook.

The robots I've encountered were all vanilla. So far I haven't encountered any Automatron baddies, you might have to activate the quest or at least go to Rust Devil HQ to find any, I'm hoping.

I found both DLCs seemed to make the Commonwealth tougher, on my last playthrough I came back from Far Harbor and struggled at times with enemies I used to just walk through, seeing things like Raiders with nuka grenades and the like.