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Here's mine: I only grow corn, tato and mutfruit in my settlements, nothing else. I combine that with the purified water (that I have at every settlement) and it make starch at the stove. Easy late game source of adhesive if you start early on. All those mods need lots of adhesive.

The more obscure the better. This may, or may not, be for something...

And then stack the entrance with turrets.

Strong is my buddy atm and every time we visit Croup Manor he says "Strong feels strange. Like someone is watching" and I could't work out why.

I'd cleared the basement.

I'd gone around the peninsula and killed every mirelurk, hatchling, and ghoul.

I kill all the robots every time they spawn.

I hadn't yet put up a recruitment beacon so there's no settlers.

Finally, >!I walked down at the rocky waterline between the chapel and the ruined house to the NW of it and a Mirelurk Queen welcomed me to her home! !<

And Strong hasn't made the comment since! Thought I'd share in case his comment was bugging anyone else

The first time I played I botched the playthrough of the quest where I'm supposed to look for clues, I couldn't find all of them so I just skipped ahead to the compound across the river.

I met the cold hearted scientist who ran the compound, Patricia Montgomery. Of course I chose to take her out because she's an evil witch

What I didn't expect was that the entire town of covenant became hostile, I at first assumed that I aggro'd them by picking a lock or stealing an item while scouring the area and that it had nothing to do with me wiping out Patricia and saving Stockton's daughter but again, I never completed the whole quest, I never got to the part where they unveiled the true nature of the SAFE test, the SAFE test also has no affect on your gameplay which is odd, it would have made more sense if they called you out for answering in a certain way like they do with every other person who wants to get into their "community"

It was only after watching a video on the covenant by oxhorn doing a deep analysis of the town did I realize they were a bunch of heartless monsters who faked being nice and hospitable, no different from vault-tec. As matter of fact they adopted the SAFE test from them, it was originally called the GOAT test and unlike Fonzy at the front gate questioning you, the GOAT test in fallout 3 has some repercussions for answering in a specific way, not negative repercussions but it still moved the plot forward.

I get that Bethesda didn't want to rise suspicion early on into discovering covenant, but they shouldn't break continuity for a system they coined themselves. That makes no sense 

I think what frustrates me the most is covenant is a prestinely kept community and it was just basically used for this quest and most people after that quest will just leave it and forget about it. Yea, there's a workbench but it's not that spacious for a settlement build, there's no reason to go back except if you absolutely need Deezer's lemonade, which in my playthrough he got caught in the crossfire and got destroyed.

Playing rn on Switch 2 and I swear I just heard Hancock tell someone they owed him money and he was kind of aggressive about it. Wish I had a transcript of it and it kind of caught me off guard.

He doesn’t seem to comment on things as much as other companions and I was bummed that he isn’t more fun to travel with. Piper and Nick always seem to have something to say about the weird things happening around us/to us.

Edit: they referred to him as mayor.

It had a siren noise and screaming in the background or something. I'm not trying to do an ARG or anything here what the hell was that? I can provide a screenshot if needed.

So, I hadn't done actual builds before this. I was would get generalized perks and roll with it. I started watching fo4 youtubers and realized how overpowered some perks were. So, I did a melee build. I started off by getting a bladed tire iron. Pretty op in the beginning. I had idiot's savant and low int, so i started leveling like crazy. I had read up on the perks that directly (and indirectly) enhance melee. I got the blitz perk. It's crazy, letting you literally teleport with vats at higher levels. Then i did a dungeon. I got Kremvh's tooth. It's base isn't too high of damage but it had poison bonuses so i used it. From the amount of melee based perks i took, i got it to a base of 300+...it was so overpowered that I one-shotted Swann before he could even stand up. Thing was, the blitz gets crazy glitched out at higher levels. I'm talking teleporting into ceilings to take out turrets, a-posing as I explode suiciders, and at some points just blatantly disappearing as things died. This meant I was leveling like crazy by just one shotting everything. It caused me to have to raise my difficulty level multiple times, which made legendary supermutants take two shots, but even then it was crazy. I even at one point took out a legendary deathclaw with ease. Best part was this was all vanilla, no mods attached whatsoever. I definitely recommend this glitched out build, it's so silly and fun and entirely unserious when you hear raiders bad mouth you seconds before being launched into the stratosphere.

I just blew up the Prydwen (siding with the railroad) for the first time. I find it super funny and also sad that the aspirants on on board are the only NPCs that don’t attack when you go to plant the bomb. You can even talk to one and pass multiple persuasion checks to convince them you’re still chill.
It feels like Bethesda was like “the sole survivor doesn’t kill kids!”..only to have you blow them up 5 minutes later? The nuclear option just triggered and I feel like I’ll also be blowing up the kids at the institute?? They include so so few children in the commonwealth, there aren’t even child skeletons, so it’s almost comical that they have you wipe out an entire generation under the guise of being morally correct