Zuhl3156
I'm still waiting for today's Fallout 4 DLC to drop. I'm not terribly excited about it but I might as well get it downloaded and installed so I can verify my cache files before the crashing problems start just like they did with the last DLC. I romanced Piper last night. Still looking to get those Diamond City quests with her. I talked to Preston hoping he had a Minuteman mission for me but after listening to him whine for a while one of my options as a reply was 'Romance' in bright red letters. I already have my companion perk from him so he'd better get a life or find someone else to shack up with. LOL

How exactly do you "romance" your companion? The only way I have seen is to go to bed and get that "sleep perk".

Zuhl3156

stalinx20
 
How exactly do you "romance" your companion? The only way I have seen is to go to bed and get that "sleep perk".

IDK about Preston but after I flirted with Cait, Curie and then Piper for a while I got an option to 'Romance'. After that whenever I woke up from sleeping in bed they were laying next to me and I got that "You feel your lover's embrace" business. Preston isn't even my companion right now but I seriously do NOT want to wake up with a naked Preston in bed with me, EVER!

Please don't post if you end up romancing Preston.
 
And if he gives you any "signs", send him to the swap settlement, or send him on a caravan expedition.

Ok, so we all know they made an Elder Scrolls online....
 
Any bets that they'll make a Fallout  MMO?

Has anyone noticed if Bethesda lifted the cap on settlement building? Some of my settlements are very close to not being able to build anything because of the cap.

whiskers54
Has anyone noticed if Bethesda lifted the cap on settlement building? Some of my settlements are very close to not being able to build anything because of the cap.

No, I can't build anything at Sanctuary. I had to tear some stufff down so I could build a Clothing Store for that radio staion guy's wife I stole from him with the story about how I could use a 'Seamstress'. That's probably why the game sent me to County Crossing to build the Robot Station instead of back to Sanctuary like it did for some of the other players.

BioHazardSperm
not sure it works every time but drop random items (junk) then scrap it to make almost anything (if you have the other needed build items for it) or try dropping items with the item selected to build and hit TAB to store and it can make the item able to be made ,ive been doing this since i hit the cap and it works ,ive built some crazy stuff without using any mods

I'll give it a try. I had to tear down a Cooking Station to build my Clothing Store. I have two Weapons Workshops for some reason. I'll have to scrap one to build my Eyebot Station or another store.

I'm running into more and more Robots and dead Minutemen. These new enemies seem to be targeting my Minutemen. Yesterday when the BOS sent me to clear an area everyone from a nearby Settlement came over to help me. It's nice to have friends in the Wasteland. Piper is getting on my nerves. Every time I am lining up a Sniper shot she walks right in the line of fire. Pretty soon I'll be down to my last nerve and then IDK what I'll do with her. I found Cait's lost Power Armor just sitting outside Diamond City. Nobody touched it and that was weeks ago when she lost it. I just stripped the parts off of it and I'll go back for the frame later today if I can find it again. Silly girl!

stalinx20
 
Cant really trust a druggy, even after their withdraw. Even Macready, who is kind of laid back on the decisions I do, I gave him a .308 sniper rifle, and took out the .50 cal because I don't trust him, thinking he'll just "lose" the weapon by randomly picking up something else along the way. Don't get me wrong, he's good, he's just not all there.
 
I understand the energy weapons can be better than bol-action rifles in this game, but the rare bolt actions rifles I find are awesome, and the sound of the .50 cal is fantastic, and when you customize it into a short rifle, it's just wow sounding.
 
I think I'll start a collection of rare bolt action rifles.

I was exploring that hidden area on top of Diamond City and Cait didn't know how to use her jet-pack apparently and couldn't follow me. So, I decided to take a nap hoping when I woke up she would be lying there next to me. Well, to make a long story a little bit longer when I woke up I heard Power Armor opening somewhere below and then Cait suddenly appeared laying next to me in bed. No Power Armor in sight. I didn't think I would ever find it because I had no idea where she wandered off to.
I have been favoring my Plasma weapons especially my Recon Overpowered Plasma Sniper Rifle but it seems to have been nerfed after the DLC. I used to one shot Super Mutants and turn them into goo until yesterday. Now my silenced .308 Sniper Rifle takes them right out while the Plasma Sniper Rifle takes 3 or 4 shots.
Ah yes, MacReady! The last time I saw him he was in Sanctuary trying to walk through a wall to get to the garden I guess since it looked like he was assigned gardening duty. There's no telling with him. He had his head down, face planted into the wall and marching away. He's probably still there. I'd better go check on him before he gets stuck inside the wall.

Zuhl3156

whiskers54
Has anyone noticed if Bethesda lifted the cap on settlement building? Some of my settlements are very close to not being able to build anything because of the cap.

No, I can't build anything at Sanctuary. I had to tear some stufff down so I could build a Clothing Store for that radio staion guy's wife I stole from him with the story about how I could use a 'Seamstress'. That's probably why the game sent me to County Crossing to build the Robot Station instead of back to Sanctuary like it did for some of the other players.

 
I found that out also when I tried it at one of my settlements.
 
A little note to all. Check your workbenches for caps. If you have a lot in them, get them out of there. Each settlement has their own amount. I found out that I am short close to 2000 at a couple of settlements. May be like the power armor issue. I left them in there to build as I have 92,000 on me now.

Zuhl3156

I was exploring that hidden area on top of Diamond City and Cait didn't know how to use her jet-pack apparently and couldn't follow me. So, I decided to take a nap hoping when I woke up she would be lying there next to me. Well, to make a long story a little bit longer when I woke up I heard Power Armor opening somewhere below and then Cait suddenly appeared laying next to me in bed. No Power Armor in sight. I didn't think I would ever find it because I had no idea where she wandered off to.
I have been favoring my Plasma weapons especially my Recon Overpowered Plasma Sniper Rifle but it seems to have been nerfed after the DLC. I used to one shot Super Mutants and turn them into goo until yesterday. Now my silenced .308 Sniper Rifle takes them right out while the Plasma Sniper Rifle takes 3 or 4 shots.
Ah yes, MacReady! The last time I saw him he was in Sanctuary trying to walk through a wall to get to the garden I guess since it looked like he was assigned gardening duty. There's no telling with him. He had his head down, face planted into the wall and marching away. He's probably still there. I'd better go check on him before he gets stuck inside the wall.

 
I noticed this also but it was with .45 and 5.56. Both were one maybe two shots and that was it. Now I am chewing through it like the Dukman with those ferocious teeth. Maybe I should hire him and retire my weapons, LOL

BioHazardSperm
 idk ,im not using mods and what i posted still works ,in theory no limit as long as you have stuff to (R) scrap or can (TAB) to store (not all food items work) ive built some CRAZY settlements

 
In theory this is correct but sooner or later one runs into a wall and deems all that is there essential. This really comes quickly when your settlement is small to begin with.
 
One would think that because Bethesda allowed more items to build that count against the settlement's capacity, they would have at least increased the cap level to accommodate this. 
 
I don't use mods either.

Zuhl3156
I must have killed Art vs Synth Art a dozen times since yesterday. Definitely Zombies! Each time I go to Cambridge Police Station they are a block away shooting it out. I even killed the Synth Art first and the other kept shooting at me. I think I need some Holy Water for my Syringe Rifle. LOL

 
Just wink at them. With your charisma being so high you can charm the you know what right out of them. Then there is the lead that they used on each other you can charm out of them. LOL

I made this base on the island, as it's the biggest area to allow the most pieces in one area. It has one entrance to get into with a narrow corridor that you have to go down. There are balconies on both sides of the corridor which leads to defense towers, which are stacked on top of the balconies to give my NPCs a longer view. Then, when you pass the corridor it leads to a bridge that crosses over the corridor and connects both balconies for easy access, where another NPC is guarding another defensive post on top of the bridge which they can look and see down the corridor for any raiders approaching, where 2 shotgun turrets on both sides. As you pass that, 2 concrete blocks on both sides with staircase in the middle to go up into the main tower. there are 2 defensive outposts on the front of the 2nd level, and 2 defense towers on west and east on first level. As you go through the main entrance of the tower, you can head through the back door which leads to the farming area which I have blocked off as well so raiders cannot enter through the back. The only way to enter through the complex is through the south entrance; there's only 1 entrance to this base. On top of the roof(s) which cover the balconies of the main corridor are 2 missile turrets on both sides, 2 machine gun turrets in the front gate, and 2 security lights. There are 3 levels to the main tower. I placed my little store bazaar outside in the farming area. You take a set of stairs up to get to it, and of course, the only way to get there is to go through the back entrance of the tower.
 
I'm thinking about putting Lance here.

enigma442
And here i thought that i was imagining things.                                                                                                                                                            I would ask myself why does it seem to take more shots to kill a lot of things!
Glad to see i am not going completely nuts yet!

hahahahaha.
I messed around a bit and set up 16 missile turrets in one area. It's awesome when they all go off.

Zuhl3156
I got one mission to clear an area from Rhys that I can't finish. All Mutants dead but it won't finish. A patch or something downloaded when I started playing today and I got my first freeze-up trying to exit the game. I couldn't even ctrl-alt-del to open the Task Manager. I just verified the game cache and I'll see if it helped later. Piper is stuck between a mailbox and fence rail in Diamond City. Hopeless! I think I'll leave her there for a while until she figures it out by herself.

 
Did you get the mission issue sorted out yet?