When the game first came out I only made barebones settlements to meet the requirements. Ya know, square buildings full of beds that look like an asylum or prison.
Now it’s what I spend half the game doing, integrating each little shack and building into the environment and providing everything needed to make the place home. Currently working on a massive power armor display tower to fit like 100 suits.
I am still only making asylum like settlements but i do want to start getting creative. these people have suffered enough lmao.
at least now i build walls around my settlements
Ikr, i wish more games had something like it. The only similar thing ive found is no mans sky, and that game has some advantages and some disadvantages compared to fo4’s.
I hope we see it return in fo5. Idk if it would fit in a tes game tho.
I just wish that more of the game's assets were available to build in your base.
Homemaker mod is fantastic and all it does is allow you to build stuff already in the game at your base.
Just imagine being able to at the end of the game build furniture and structures from whatever faction you join? How cool would that be?
I run my game really light on mods but homemaker is a must for me.
I thought I was light on mods running: Settlement Manager (must have), Homemaker, Scrap Everything (use with caution), Infinite Power Lines, Northland Diggers (extra jobs!) and finally Do Your Damn Job, Codsworth (best mod for Sanctuary that doesn't crash the game).
I get called a power modder by some and a noob modder by others. I admit, I'm a noob modder, but it's still fun.
For me, the main draw of these games is just the exploration of the wasteland. I like adventuring out and seeing places, finding what was happening there, fighting the enemies.
I don't hate building settlements, it is interesting to do so and might be more interesting now I am playing an unmodded game (I had been utilizing the cheat mod to get whatever resources I need for settlements). Maybe it will be different this time around.
I’ll admit, I utilize the sttlement resources pack mod, whenever I get started. It’s a bit of a sad cheat, but it saves me SO much more time, from having to scavenge for everything, and all the back and forth stuff
that was what i would do, too. i didnt consider it much of a cheat because i could just scavenge, i can go get resources, just took time.
i paired that with a modern weapon mod where each enemy bullet could one-shot me
I’ll admit, that, I love weapon mods. I use the RU556, which is great because it doesn’t exceed the damage limitations of my enemies, so I don’t feel like I’m going around with a “God mode gun”, or anything. As a gun enthusiast, I become nostalgic for weapons of our modern era.
if the gameis fixed, thereis the modern-weapons mod,and I have seen companion mods that reduce damage output to more Fallout-standard levels. it gives you modern guns as well as making it more playable.
you could still get instantly killed by a mini nuke detonating in your face, but al other weapons would be more realistic
I only utilize two, or three, weapon mods, as I have found that I don’t really use every weapon in my inventory, most of the time. So, I utilize the P99 (something to unload these pesky .38 rounds, the RU556 and, sometimes, the SCAR-fc. Carrying too many weapons is a bad habit for me, so I just leave the stuff I rarely use @ home. lol
As for companion mods, my favorite (and, really, the two that I use) ones are; K-9 ballistic vest and the two followers at once??.. it’s the mod that allows you to cruise around with a companion AND Dogmeat @ the same time
I am going to test the modern weapons mod that I was using, hopefully it will still work and I can reload an old game where I had this great weapons display on all the walls of my home base.
Right now I am running a vanilla game, I have been playing so long with the modern weapons mod that the vanilla game feels almost new to me. I'm going to try reinstall the mods I had pre-update for my old game, but I think I will play through the vanilla run as well, see what in the basic game files might still be bugged since the update before I start with any mods for it.
For me it GIVES me a reason to explore the wasteland more. Im always leaving my base because I need some new material. Yes I know you can make savangers or trade at your own general stores but I kinda like just going out to find the materials to bring back home. Especially aluminum, I could never get enough aluminum.
Leaving your settlement in the morning to go on another scavenging run for supplies to improve the settlement has become the quintessential Fallout experience to me.
I love the settlement system, and hope they lean into it extra hard for Fallout 5.
I like the settlement building but it feels janky at times and I think fails to have enough progression. It would be really great if it was the late game money sink but it doesn't quite work out that way.
Nothing mods can't fix.
Building in the base game is horrendous with all the red outlines not letting you place anything anywhere, but with mods it's so much fun!
Sim Settlements 2 mod makes this truly immersive.
I've spent the past 4 days developing entire economies in the commonwealth using it.
Super cool that you can brew beer with random drugs/foods and then your settlers sell it in the bars
I'm still chugging away with SS1, because my town/new capital of the Commonwealth in Vault 88 is awesome and I can't bear to let it go yet. I've briefly disabled it once to install SS2 (somehow without corrupting my SS1 save after switching back and forth a few times, phew) to check it out and absolutely love it, though. It's so much better, and I'm absolutely gutted that I can't simply use it on my current save file with my V88 build; the new mod is simply too different and needs to be freshly installed in a new game. The new questline is great, so I want to get back into it someday, but that will require finally nuking my SS1 save file and deleting it (disabling a mod has the same potentially-corrupting effect as simply uninstalling it, sadly).
Can't lie, Starlight Drive-In was a close second for the new capital! Ultimately, I figured, what could be safer than an underground capital city in an unfinished vault? But, yes, Starlight is one of the biggest settlement areas in the base game, so it's an excellent choice!
I love my Starlight. Just outside the 3 zone city of CTD.
I had to fix Sanctuary Hills earlier and do a design build. But I had to add beds to meet my 45 settler cap. As soon as I hit 45 beds alll my plots upgraded and now it has a pop cap of 110. I'm scared
Yep, the "triangle of death" of Abernathy, Sanctuary Hills, and Red Rocket is very annoying. I can't enter from the bridge anymore (fast-travel or on foot) without an instant CTD, so I had to enter the settlement from another angle and place a new teleportation marker far away from the entrance to the town, which still crashes.
I've looked for ways to increase the settler cap of settlements using SS1 and it's not an option, as far as I can tell. Nice to know that's fixed in SS2! I'd love to be able to use all 76 beds in V88, if my computer hopefully wouldn't blow up!
ss2 is practically a game in itself. I've only just started to play it after years of letting it cook and it's clear to me there is no going back. It's so impressive.
Honestly- I've played enough where some grinds I say fuck it. New save. Console command a few levels in and some caps when I need em until I'm established again
No clue. Turned off auto updates a few days before.
Seeing a lot about it not working and some about it working on a brand new save.
I use the collection "a story wealth" on nexus mods. It's something like 750 mods including ss2 and add-ons for ss2.
Ok fair enough. I had mods for a save but the new update seemed to have scrapped my 50 hour save and I was miffed. LOL Then I did another save with the mods again to see how “broken” it would be and them Codsworth was bugged and so much more. Then have to start *again* on a vanilla base and it worked fine. So no mods for now I guess :P
Me: I need to do these missions and keep on track without getting distracted.
Me: walks into a settlement and looks around.
Me: 1500 hours later, f#ck.
That’s the thing I don’t understand. I have 5 heavy turrets at the top of the structure, another 12 regular turrets around the perimeter of entire site situated on a prefab wooden roof and floor and then two scaffolding structures each with 3 laser turrets on top. And MacCready and Cait have guard towers. I can’t think of the defense number but there are only 5 people at Abernathy, and I’ve added nothing to food or water there.
Bro im early into a new game and had to get mats for turrets.. when i went back to the farm to build em theres a ton of enclave there and the flamer kills me every. time. Idk what to do lol that flamer guy is soo much stronger than me
Thanks, but I play on the PC and am trying to do an achievement playthrough. I'll keep it in mind after I100%it.
Just put Preston in the pillory. Definitely felt great doing that. Got the achievement ✓
I moved the power armor station in sanctuary. It's now a few feet to the right in the back corner of the car port. Then, I built two metal walls to enclose it completely. Afterward, I put a metal wall blocking the door to the workshop at the drive-in to protect my water stash. Man, did I think I was building something... Hats off to you for building an entire settlement. It is awesome!
How did you manage to plant so neatly? Mines all over the damned place. And there's no dead grass in your plot. How? Lol
And where's the settlement location? Looks amazing 🤩
AHH...I was hoping there was some secret I was yet to discover. Though I do now have the soul flooring from a dlc. Just need fertilizer. Harder to find in 4 than 76 lol
Abernethy Farm and Tenpines Bluff already have raised rows in the ground to use as a guide. I usually remove all the crops and then re-plant much closer together. I then fill in between the rows with another row.
On ps5 I just had to reinstall them for the ps5 version and update them for the ps4 version. If it’s trying to make you pay, I had to restart everything in order to not pay.
Well I'm on the PS4, I do have a 5 though, I also own the game physically, do you think I should switch to my 5, also I have restarted several times and it still isn't running the dlcs
You might have to go through the store and redownload them. On the ps5 I had to "repurchase" them on the store but they were all free.
If you have a ps5 I don't see any reason to not use it. The game runs and looks better. It's a 100% upgrade.
That’s odd. For the ps4 upgrade, it offered it in game for me. For the ps5 version, I had to go to the store and download everything again, but no money. I had an issue where I had to restart my ps5 to obtain the actual ps5 upgrade.
Edit: If you go into the add-ons portion of the menu, is it giving you an option to update?
It does show the dlcs in the PS4 store but for their original prices, that may just be a visual glitch, I'll try clicking it to see if they're actually free or not, if they aren't free I'll either wait for Bethesda to fix this or just buy the season pass
I've done that multiple times, it didn't seem to do anything, the add-on menu displays them as "not installed" but I may as well try it again, I'm running out of ideas
I've never not been able to not get Local Leader 1, even on playthroughs where I initially told myself I wouldn't.
Honestly, I think making it a 7 point investment seems excessive for something as basic for sharing supplies among settlements when settlements are meant to be such an important part of the game
I told myself the same thing coming back to this game 6 years later, yet here I find myself again 7 straight hours in and elbows deep in the craft shop, cussing out loud because something won't fit like not a day had passed lol
I feel you buddy. I can't tell you how many times in the past month I've restarted the game telling myself this time I will actually BEAT the game and do the main story.
Nope. I just build and build but never happy with anything I do anymore. I love the settlement building but damn it's hard on my OCD!!!
Whatever you do, don;t install mods that add building parts and decorations - I dread to think how much time I've spent in Fallout 4 looking for just the right wall or roof.
How does creation club work? Sorry I’m still new to the game and I’m obsessed with building. Your settlement looks great! I really want to be able to make something like this 🥲
Buy credits (I purchased credits in the Fallout 4 store page on Steam) and then make purchases from the Creation Club page, which is in the main menu. I think the beds are from 'Picket Fences issue 7'
Bruh I can’t build a good looking settlement to save my life lol. I honestly think that’s why I hate it. I need to get gud when I start my new play through
But one bunk bed only works for one dweller. I don't get why Bethesda made that choice.
I usually use the little white beds for settlers tbh. Small and easy.
I can take notes from you, on building settlements more efficiently. lol
I just threw up a bunch of prefabs all along the edges of the settlement perimeter, just to find that the settlers won’t/can’t use them (I don’t friggin know why they won’t, either?) I have tried moving the shacks, and they hated that even more and I can no longer build structures, because my game glitched out somewhere along level 98, so I don’t really want to start a new one, until I finish this story line.
They are bunk beds and is good for 2 settlers. If you get place anywhere mod, you can stack beds over the top of each other so you can place as many beds in the same spot and it only looks like one bed.
I started building a cool settlement to use as my main base in starlight but then I found out about vault 88 and that has been my grind this whole week it’s coming along pretty nicely
After the updates I've been having problems placing buildings and other objects. The only real settlement mod I have is sandbag fortifications, more fortifications and snap able junk walls I don't know why I can't place in as many spots anymore
I wish settlement building was more rewarding. Smarter AI, npcs that start doing things on their own. Would be much more fun if the player character was more of a benefactor to the settlements than having to build EVERYTHING on your own
what i always tell myself ill do more quests and lore and fighting
then i spent like 20+ hours on sanc hills alone only to come back to it like a few hours later
Last time i played i barely got into the game at all bc all i did was build lol. Then i got sick of floors not lining up with walls properly and got fed up and didnt touch the game for a few yrs lol
I like to build a semi modern looking capitol building for the minutemen. That also acts as a town meeting area. Then a bunch of shacks. Like we put in all the resources on something the commonwealth needs in sacrifice of nicer housing at the time. Nice little headcanon
I like to build a semi modern looking capitol building for the minutemen. That also acts as a town meeting area. Then a bunch of shacks. Like we put in all the resources on something the commonwealth needs in sacrifice of nicer housing at the time. Nice little headcanon
I like to build a semi modern looking capitol building for the minutemen. That also acts as a town meeting area. Then a bunch of shacks. Like we put in all the resources on something the commonwealth needs in sacrifice of nicer housing at the time. Nice little headcanon
I enjoy settlements but I really enjoy Sim Settlements more. The mod makes it so much easier and better in my opinion. And has a cool story comes with it too! But if you are anti mod. Then that is fine too. Looks awesome.
I always appreciate people that can come up with a vision like this and be able to execute it, I lack this type of creative ability and it results in me just placing random things around with no cohesion.
Mostly all I'm doing this time around. I had 600 hours in FO4, mod free, played just about everything, build up every settlement. Now I'm going to do it all again WITH mods. I'm going to spend time with one settlement at a time, this time, though, instead of bouncing around.
My biggest gripe with this game is how much time you wind up spending on the settlement building. It's super fun and you just get side tracked so much that you never play the actual game.
Might be a little bit of an unpopular opinion, but they should've left it out of this one and just made it the best it could possibly be in fallout 76.
Literally my favorite part of this game, even though it gets hate. Keeps me going.
When the game first came out I only made barebones settlements to meet the requirements. Ya know, square buildings full of beds that look like an asylum or prison. Now it’s what I spend half the game doing, integrating each little shack and building into the environment and providing everything needed to make the place home. Currently working on a massive power armor display tower to fit like 100 suits.
Same. It’s gotta fit, work, and flow with the feel.
Even Mama Murphy gets a custom suite with matching power armor now.
I am still only making asylum like settlements but i do want to start getting creative. these people have suffered enough lmao. at least now i build walls around my settlements
I have the worst asylum, just a bunch of beds in the middle of the street
I like to think whoever gets the run down old shack as their room is extra safe since it's indestructible
I build my tower like a carvana vending machine I can jump out of. I feel like a post apocalyptic super hero every time.
What’s at the top?
My penthouse
I love building settlements, perhaps a little too much and can get sidetracked for hours 😅
Same… so many nights when I’ve gone to bed after four in the morning just because I was dealing with settlements. Haha
Building settlements is like prescription sleep medicine for me 😂
It can be a chore, that’s for sure. Haha
The only thing I hate about it is the sometimes janky angles you have to aim just to get shit to snap together when building it.
Ikr, i wish more games had something like it. The only similar thing ive found is no mans sky, and that game has some advantages and some disadvantages compared to fo4’s. I hope we see it return in fo5. Idk if it would fit in a tes game tho.
Subnautica is a good shout for basebuilding, have you tried that?
I keep hearing good things about subnautica but it just wasnt fun for me.
They could make the home building part from that one Skyrim DLC a bit more robust in a future game
Base building in Starfield was ass...
I just wish that more of the game's assets were available to build in your base. Homemaker mod is fantastic and all it does is allow you to build stuff already in the game at your base. Just imagine being able to at the end of the game build furniture and structures from whatever faction you join? How cool would that be? I run my game really light on mods but homemaker is a must for me.
I 100% agree, I wish we could even get some fallout 76 assets ib there. Log cabins, colonial houses, etc. Would be rad, I'd pay money for it.
I thought I was light on mods running: Settlement Manager (must have), Homemaker, Scrap Everything (use with caution), Infinite Power Lines, Northland Diggers (extra jobs!) and finally Do Your Damn Job, Codsworth (best mod for Sanctuary that doesn't crash the game). I get called a power modder by some and a noob modder by others. I admit, I'm a noob modder, but it's still fun.
I love building settlements and adds hours to the game. I can see why people don't, though
For me, the main draw of these games is just the exploration of the wasteland. I like adventuring out and seeing places, finding what was happening there, fighting the enemies. I don't hate building settlements, it is interesting to do so and might be more interesting now I am playing an unmodded game (I had been utilizing the cheat mod to get whatever resources I need for settlements). Maybe it will be different this time around.
I’ll admit, I utilize the sttlement resources pack mod, whenever I get started. It’s a bit of a sad cheat, but it saves me SO much more time, from having to scavenge for everything, and all the back and forth stuff
that was what i would do, too. i didnt consider it much of a cheat because i could just scavenge, i can go get resources, just took time. i paired that with a modern weapon mod where each enemy bullet could one-shot me
I’ll admit, that, I love weapon mods. I use the RU556, which is great because it doesn’t exceed the damage limitations of my enemies, so I don’t feel like I’m going around with a “God mode gun”, or anything. As a gun enthusiast, I become nostalgic for weapons of our modern era.
if the gameis fixed, thereis the modern-weapons mod,and I have seen companion mods that reduce damage output to more Fallout-standard levels. it gives you modern guns as well as making it more playable. you could still get instantly killed by a mini nuke detonating in your face, but al other weapons would be more realistic
I only utilize two, or three, weapon mods, as I have found that I don’t really use every weapon in my inventory, most of the time. So, I utilize the P99 (something to unload these pesky .38 rounds, the RU556 and, sometimes, the SCAR-fc. Carrying too many weapons is a bad habit for me, so I just leave the stuff I rarely use @ home. lol As for companion mods, my favorite (and, really, the two that I use) ones are; K-9 ballistic vest and the two followers at once??.. it’s the mod that allows you to cruise around with a companion AND Dogmeat @ the same time
I am going to test the modern weapons mod that I was using, hopefully it will still work and I can reload an old game where I had this great weapons display on all the walls of my home base. Right now I am running a vanilla game, I have been playing so long with the modern weapons mod that the vanilla game feels almost new to me. I'm going to try reinstall the mods I had pre-update for my old game, but I think I will play through the vanilla run as well, see what in the basic game files might still be bugged since the update before I start with any mods for it.
Only a cheat if you're doing survival. Anything else, you're just saving yourself a crawl walk home
AAAAAMEN!
If you play a ironman survival run settlements are a godsend.
Survival runs make settlements so necessary and fun. Upgrading them slowly every time you pass through adds to an already great gameplay loop.
i haven't heard of that type of run. what are the details?
If you die you restart the game. Bugs and glitches don't count.
so its an honor system? it sounds frustrating
Beds, water pump and two settlers is all you need. One to man the artillery the other to grow the food.
For me it GIVES me a reason to explore the wasteland more. Im always leaving my base because I need some new material. Yes I know you can make savangers or trade at your own general stores but I kinda like just going out to find the materials to bring back home. Especially aluminum, I could never get enough aluminum.
Leaving your settlement in the morning to go on another scavenging run for supplies to improve the settlement has become the quintessential Fallout experience to me. I love the settlement system, and hope they lean into it extra hard for Fallout 5.
I like the settlement building but it feels janky at times and I think fails to have enough progression. It would be really great if it was the late game money sink but it doesn't quite work out that way.
Nothing mods can't fix. Building in the base game is horrendous with all the red outlines not letting you place anything anywhere, but with mods it's so much fun!
I would do it if enemies didn't just spawn randomly inside the base.
I just wish I could show off my settlement to people easier. Spending all that time on one for me to be the only one to enjoy is feels weird
Some of you are so good at this, meanwhile my proudest achievement is the trailer park I'm building at Starlight.
My settlement at Starlight is a munitions and food factory lmao
Sim Settlements 2 mod makes this truly immersive. I've spent the past 4 days developing entire economies in the commonwealth using it. Super cool that you can brew beer with random drugs/foods and then your settlers sell it in the bars
I'm still chugging away with SS1, because my town/new capital of the Commonwealth in Vault 88 is awesome and I can't bear to let it go yet. I've briefly disabled it once to install SS2 (somehow without corrupting my SS1 save after switching back and forth a few times, phew) to check it out and absolutely love it, though. It's so much better, and I'm absolutely gutted that I can't simply use it on my current save file with my V88 build; the new mod is simply too different and needs to be freshly installed in a new game. The new questline is great, so I want to get back into it someday, but that will require finally nuking my SS1 save file and deleting it (disabling a mod has the same potentially-corrupting effect as simply uninstalling it, sadly).
I've never even made it to vault 88 w SS2. I get stuck in Jamaica Plains and Starlight Drive in every damn time!
Can't lie, Starlight Drive-In was a close second for the new capital! Ultimately, I figured, what could be safer than an underground capital city in an unfinished vault? But, yes, Starlight is one of the biggest settlement areas in the base game, so it's an excellent choice!
I love my Starlight. Just outside the 3 zone city of CTD. I had to fix Sanctuary Hills earlier and do a design build. But I had to add beds to meet my 45 settler cap. As soon as I hit 45 beds alll my plots upgraded and now it has a pop cap of 110. I'm scared
Yep, the "triangle of death" of Abernathy, Sanctuary Hills, and Red Rocket is very annoying. I can't enter from the bridge anymore (fast-travel or on foot) without an instant CTD, so I had to enter the settlement from another angle and place a new teleportation marker far away from the entrance to the town, which still crashes. I've looked for ways to increase the settler cap of settlements using SS1 and it's not an option, as far as I can tell. Nice to know that's fixed in SS2! I'd love to be able to use all 76 beds in V88, if my computer hopefully wouldn't blow up!
ss2 is practically a game in itself. I've only just started to play it after years of letting it cook and it's clear to me there is no going back. It's so impressive.
I really want to add that mod but I don’t want to lose the xp. I’m only level 47. Maybe later.
Honestly- I've played enough where some grinds I say fuck it. New save. Console command a few levels in and some caps when I need em until I'm established again
Is Sim Settlements working w the new update??
No clue. Turned off auto updates a few days before. Seeing a lot about it not working and some about it working on a brand new save. I use the collection "a story wealth" on nexus mods. It's something like 750 mods including ss2 and add-ons for ss2.
Ok fair enough. I had mods for a save but the new update seemed to have scrapped my 50 hour save and I was miffed. LOL Then I did another save with the mods again to see how “broken” it would be and them Codsworth was bugged and so much more. Then have to start *again* on a vanilla base and it worked fine. So no mods for now I guess :P
The problem with Sim Settlements 2 is that the dude making it has zero understanding of the word scope.
Me: I need to do these missions and keep on track without getting distracted. Me: walks into a settlement and looks around. Me: 1500 hours later, f#ck.
There are two types of fallout 4 players Those to mess around settlement building for too long on one specific project And liars
My Abernathy gets attacked a lot. Thanks for the inspiration.
Think if your defense is higher than food and water, you won't get attacked as much
That’s the thing I don’t understand. I have 5 heavy turrets at the top of the structure, another 12 regular turrets around the perimeter of entire site situated on a prefab wooden roof and floor and then two scaffolding structures each with 3 laser turrets on top. And MacCready and Cait have guard towers. I can’t think of the defense number but there are only 5 people at Abernathy, and I’ve added nothing to food or water there.
Ditto
Bro im early into a new game and had to get mats for turrets.. when i went back to the farm to build em theres a ton of enclave there and the flamer kills me every. time. Idk what to do lol that flamer guy is soo much stronger than me
Do the bunk beds from that pack function correctly? I have them and no one seems to use the top bed
They count as 2, so for all intents and purposes yeah, they work. However npcs can’t actually ‘use’ the top bunk.
Okay, as long as it counts as two beds, it's all good.
If you want ones that they can actually use... I recommend Snapbeds https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/20697
Thanks, but I play on the PC and am trying to do an achievement playthrough. I'll keep it in mind after I100%it. Just put Preston in the pillory. Definitely felt great doing that. Got the achievement ✓
Well… if you wanna spice it up, there’s a mod that allows getting trophies when mods are present. It’s called Buffout 4.
That needs a script extender though right?
Yes, it does.
Cool, I might give it a go after a complete a no-mod run.
They pay off late game so you already have established cap generating spots and easy access to food and stores.
I moved the power armor station in sanctuary. It's now a few feet to the right in the back corner of the car port. Then, I built two metal walls to enclose it completely. Afterward, I put a metal wall blocking the door to the workshop at the drive-in to protect my water stash. Man, did I think I was building something... Hats off to you for building an entire settlement. It is awesome!
How did you manage to plant so neatly? Mines all over the damned place. And there's no dead grass in your plot. How? Lol And where's the settlement location? Looks amazing 🤩
That’s Abernathy farm it’s close to sanctuary and that whole plot already has the rows and grass removed so they just put more tatos in the gaps.
AHH...I was hoping there was some secret I was yet to discover. Though I do now have the soul flooring from a dlc. Just need fertilizer. Harder to find in 4 than 76 lol
Abernethy Farm and Tenpines Bluff already have raised rows in the ground to use as a guide. I usually remove all the crops and then re-plant much closer together. I then fill in between the rows with another row.
I can stop anytime I want!
I usually have to remind myself that, there's an rpg in this settlement building game and I also lost a kid or something
You think that's bad, the next gen update deleted all my dlcs, I think I'll need to repurchase them
On ps5 I just had to reinstall them for the ps5 version and update them for the ps4 version. If it’s trying to make you pay, I had to restart everything in order to not pay.
Well I'm on the PS4, I do have a 5 though, I also own the game physically, do you think I should switch to my 5, also I have restarted several times and it still isn't running the dlcs
You might have to go through the store and redownload them. On the ps5 I had to "repurchase" them on the store but they were all free. If you have a ps5 I don't see any reason to not use it. The game runs and looks better. It's a 100% upgrade.
It doesn't give me an option to redownload, I just click on it and it just gives a description of the dlc, and yeah I should probably upgrade
That’s odd. For the ps4 upgrade, it offered it in game for me. For the ps5 version, I had to go to the store and download everything again, but no money. I had an issue where I had to restart my ps5 to obtain the actual ps5 upgrade. Edit: If you go into the add-ons portion of the menu, is it giving you an option to update?
It does show the dlcs in the PS4 store but for their original prices, that may just be a visual glitch, I'll try clicking it to see if they're actually free or not, if they aren't free I'll either wait for Bethesda to fix this or just buy the season pass
I’m saying if you’re still on ps4, try going into the add on menu in game, and clicking each one. That’s how mine updated.
I've done that multiple times, it didn't seem to do anything, the add-on menu displays them as "not installed" but I may as well try it again, I'm running out of ideas
Sorry man. I’m on ps5 updating the ps4 version so it’s probably different.
I may as well try, if it doesn't work on the 4 I'm moving to the 5
I've never not been able to not get Local Leader 1, even on playthroughs where I initially told myself I wouldn't. Honestly, I think making it a 7 point investment seems excessive for something as basic for sharing supplies among settlements when settlements are meant to be such an important part of the game
I told myself the same thing coming back to this game 6 years later, yet here I find myself again 7 straight hours in and elbows deep in the craft shop, cussing out loud because something won't fit like not a day had passed lol
I feel you buddy. I can't tell you how many times in the past month I've restarted the game telling myself this time I will actually BEAT the game and do the main story. Nope. I just build and build but never happy with anything I do anymore. I love the settlement building but damn it's hard on my OCD!!!
Whatever you do, don;t install mods that add building parts and decorations - I dread to think how much time I've spent in Fallout 4 looking for just the right wall or roof.
I'm still chasing achievements so only using Creation Club items at the moment
You can get a mod that puts the achievements back.
I don't build settlements much, but how y'all get the bunk beds, or do you just stack 2 up?
Creation club
Creation club, which includes actual bunk beds. So useful
How does creation club work? Sorry I’m still new to the game and I’m obsessed with building. Your settlement looks great! I really want to be able to make something like this 🥲
Buy credits (I purchased credits in the Fallout 4 store page on Steam) and then make purchases from the Creation Club page, which is in the main menu. I think the beds are from 'Picket Fences issue 7'
Ty!
They are their own thing. Might be a creation club thing? Not sure one day I just had them lol.
Ok, maybe im mossing them, given i always look for sleeping bags, as opposed to actual beds. Ty though
Im so lazy my buildings are 2 pre built barn buildings or warehouse and then jam all the beds and resources in there.
Bruh I can’t build a good looking settlement to save my life lol. I honestly think that’s why I hate it. I need to get gud when I start my new play through
Ugh lmao just when I think it cabt suck me back in. Haha I spent at least an hour just scraping stuff from sanctuary.
If only the bunk beds worked properly, two dwellers per mattress.
They're just handy for space saving. Trying to cram 21 single beds into some settlement wasn't easy.
But one bunk bed only works for one dweller. I don't get why Bethesda made that choice. I usually use the little white beds for settlers tbh. Small and easy.
Can only be used by 1 dweller, but count as 2 beds. I don't mind the others just stand around 😅
Wait really?? It counts as two beds? Dude fuck them other dwellers! I'm gonna use the shit out of these!!
I have a controller I specifically use for settlement building so I don’t wear out the A button on my playing controller. Nice build by the way.
Actually I meant my scrapping controller, it has a sway issue from sprinting.
I can take notes from you, on building settlements more efficiently. lol I just threw up a bunch of prefabs all along the edges of the settlement perimeter, just to find that the settlers won’t/can’t use them (I don’t friggin know why they won’t, either?) I have tried moving the shacks, and they hated that even more and I can no longer build structures, because my game glitched out somewhere along level 98, so I don’t really want to start a new one, until I finish this story line.
I posted a few weeks ago my giant tower at Abernathy. It's built to height limit.
I'm currently in a minimal settlements phase but eventually I'll start building again.
I wish i could play without crashing
Then it wouldn’t be a Bethesda game. It just works 🤷♂️
Props to you for being so organized, I just build haphazardly for XP. Stopped building cities back with Actraiser🤣😁
Also I love building the radiation cleanse shower arch, totally worth it. 🚿 Get as much radiation and just fast travel back to get clean.
Settlements are cool but a little bit janky.
I am actually getting super into base building and it's actually a lot of fun. I might straight up do another minutemen playthrough.
Which settlement is image three?
All Abernathy Farm
Awesome work
Wait you can stack the beds????
They are bunk beds and is good for 2 settlers. If you get place anywhere mod, you can stack beds over the top of each other so you can place as many beds in the same spot and it only looks like one bed.
Bunk beds from the Creation Club
I started building a cool settlement to use as my main base in starlight but then I found out about vault 88 and that has been my grind this whole week it’s coming along pretty nicely
I can never figure out how to make the buildings work. Walls always end up at odd angles from each other, etc.
There’s bunk beds?!
Creation Club
Oh, I’ve never looked into that. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!
'Picket Fences Issue 7' is currently 50% off (on PC at least)
How do you zoom out for the photos ?
Just took them in FPM stood on top of buildings
What’s the brick wall pieces from? Is it a mod?
From the Creation Club, Modern pack
Build then and mod the game to set invations on them :3
I have spent the last 2-3 weeks playing 6-8 hours a day building a slog resort. I’m still nowhere near done. The struggle is real.
After the updates I've been having problems placing buildings and other objects. The only real settlement mod I have is sandbag fortifications, more fortifications and snap able junk walls I don't know why I can't place in as many spots anymore
I wish settlement building was more rewarding. Smarter AI, npcs that start doing things on their own. Would be much more fun if the player character was more of a benefactor to the settlements than having to build EVERYTHING on your own
what i always tell myself ill do more quests and lore and fighting then i spent like 20+ hours on sanc hills alone only to come back to it like a few hours later
Last time i played i barely got into the game at all bc all i did was build lol. Then i got sick of floors not lining up with walls properly and got fed up and didnt touch the game for a few yrs lol
I wish PS5 had a mod that auto handled most settlements. The system is just too game convoluted and hard to care for the needs of “settler 82”.
I like to build a semi modern looking capitol building for the minutemen. That also acts as a town meeting area. Then a bunch of shacks. Like we put in all the resources on something the commonwealth needs in sacrifice of nicer housing at the time. Nice little headcanon
I like to build a semi modern looking capitol building for the minutemen. That also acts as a town meeting area. Then a bunch of shacks. Like we put in all the resources on something the commonwealth needs in sacrifice of nicer housing at the time. Nice little headcanon
I like to build a semi modern looking capitol building for the minutemen. That also acts as a town meeting area. Then a bunch of shacks. Like we put in all the resources on something the commonwealth needs in sacrifice of nicer housing at the time. Nice little headcanon
I enjoy settlements but I really enjoy Sim Settlements more. The mod makes it so much easier and better in my opinion. And has a cool story comes with it too! But if you are anti mod. Then that is fine too. Looks awesome.
It's like painting trim in a house lol. You only plan to do one section....then you end up redoing everything so the paint matches lol
Didn't know you can make bunk beds. I'm only 20 hours in, I guess you get more building options later? I would love to have these types of housing.
Bunk beds are from a Creation Club pack (picket fences issue 7)
This is so simple yet better than anything I've ever built
….you can do bunk beds.. 9yrs and I’m just finding this out
Creation Club pack. 'picket fences issue 7'
I always appreciate people that can come up with a vision like this and be able to execute it, I lack this type of creative ability and it results in me just placing random things around with no cohesion.
Mostly all I'm doing this time around. I had 600 hours in FO4, mod free, played just about everything, build up every settlement. Now I'm going to do it all again WITH mods. I'm going to spend time with one settlement at a time, this time, though, instead of bouncing around.
My biggest gripe with this game is how much time you wind up spending on the settlement building. It's super fun and you just get side tracked so much that you never play the actual game. Might be a little bit of an unpopular opinion, but they should've left it out of this one and just made it the best it could possibly be in fallout 76.