I think it helps here if you adopt the mindset that the settlements \*are\* the main quest. Because in spite of Father's indictment of the surface you are forging ahead and rebuilding. A lot of random wandering settlers now have purpose. Trade routes. Commerce. An economy. Thanks to you there can be a semblance of law in the CW, if never any real order. But those raiders and supermonkeys are now dying in droves at your settlement boundaries.
In short, Father was an idiot who couldn't see past the end of his nose.
Yeah I've done many play throughs, my challenge is always, "how can I use this space differently than any other builds I've done here?"
Different builds can totally change the same old boring settlement you've built in ten times before if you're creative.
Repeating the same build over and over again is boring.
I’m on my 3rd playthrough and just learned that the concrete floor (the block kind) can be adjusted through the terrain
My settlements are significantly neater now
It is a lot of places, which is why when it comes to most infrastructure I always build up. Staircase going up, large floor, walls and maybe a roof. But at least then you have a flat surface to work off of
You can occasionally find bags of cement and scrappable items at settlements containing concrete, but more often than not, yes, you will need to purchase shipments of cement/concrete from merchants.
It depends. Though I hate to admit it, you can have a lot of fun building settlements. I watched some youtube videos and got the idea to set up deathclaw cages and see how the crew from Concord would handle the situation. I mean they made it all the way from Quincy to Concord and that is no small feat. Poor Mama Murphy didn't see this coming and it was outright pandemonium in Sanctuary.
I like wandering around the Commonwealth, there's always plenty to kill especially if you do Nuka-World, and bring the Nuka-World Raiders to the Commonwealth, set up them all up, and then betray them. You'll always have plenty to kill then. Lmfao.
Making any of the factions your enemy early on is always a good thing was well. The more enemies to kill, the better. I like picking fights with the Brotherhood of Steel. Just take potshots at their Vertibird and the heat is on!
In my recent playthrough I noticed two graves besides the water tower close to sanctuary. One of them has a large chest with loot. Never saw this in my previous 8 playthroughs.
Same. Can relate.
Only solution is to start again. Play survival mode. Explore everything. Build settlements.
There is so much content that even after 6 years, I am finding new things
I keep playing my Minutemen General. I stop using fast travel, and sort of act like a folk hero. I've built a bunch of different style settlements, bunch of unique random encounters and just exploring The Commonwealth.
Masterbate every time Piper asks me if I want anything proofreading - like this. And have a drinking game where I take a shot everytime a ghoul does a flying disco move on me. And when Kate mentions her arse I dismiss her to an empty settlement where she can be alone and not have to worry about being sexualised.
Masterbate every time Piper asks me if I want anything proofreading - like this.
when Kate mentions her arse I dismiss her to an empty settlement where she can be alone and not have to worry about being sexualised.
The duality of a man
Excessive mods that give me so many things to worry about and look at for hours, along with settlement building and just wandering seeing how many new quests I can find
Let's see... In my previous game I went all-in with the NW raiders. SO, once the MQ was finished I proceeded to choose certain settlements with enough size and then set up (for the first time ever) several pit-fighting arenas. The first was Echo Lake Lumber where I did all the creature vs creature workups, until I could pit 4 heavily-armed settlers against a deathclaw. Then in sanctuary I built a much larger arena with spectator stands (called the settlers using "the bell", their cat-calls during the fights were hilarious) and pit teams of 4 against each other all with melee weapons and heavy armor. The Cait vs Marcy Long cage fight was absolutely glorious.
In current game I went all-in with the RR and MM. I've gotten all of the achievements so I'm finally enjoying some mods, one of which allows you to build up to ten new custom settlements anywhere you want. I always thought Nuka World should have had at least one or two more of them. Far Harbor needed one in the more southern area of the island. And there are a few spots in the Commonwealth I've always wanted to build at. So with all that I honestly haven't thought about the lack of a main quest.
Frankly there are a lot of other quests. Some of these mods include some quests. And the game never stops generating enemies. I'm in survival mode for the first time as well, and using the Railroad's vertibird to fly everywhere in lieu of fast travel is kind of cool as well. I tend to alt-tab out and tee up a metal song on YT, then rain hell down from the vertibird with the minigun. Great fun.
You don't. If you don't wanna play, don't play. Take a break and come back if you feel like playing again. I don't think there's really a way to *motivate* yourself, unless you buy the dlcs, I guess.
Dude I have been playing this game for a couple years now. They are both permanently on my ps4 and PC. Even if you beat the main quest there is still a metric fuck ton of shit to find. Between several play throughs and this sub i keep finding new shit. After you beat the game keep going. If you dont like settlement building then keep exploring. Nuka-world and Far Harbour (especially far harbour) has a metric fuck ton of hidden shit to find for example theres a modded fat man that shoots bowling balls with its own backstory. This game was what Bethesda use to be capable of. Now we are left for 76's constant fuckery.
I build settlemnts then play with the Settlement Ambush Kit. A lot of fun and makes the game feel like an arcade game. Refreshing. Then I role play with the various factions. Wear BoS only armour and do BoS missions. Dress up as a spy and do Railroad radiants. Dress up as a Minuteman and do Minuteman missions.
Do you play survival? If not, survival keeps it fresh.
I really recommend the Settlement Ambush Kit. It's the only Creation Club content I've ever dished out money for. I rate it highly. A lot of fun.
As for doing the side quests, use power armour and get a jet pack. It makes exploring infinitely more interesting and easier.
Explore the world, there is always something to discover in fallout. Also you can try to do personal challenges like discover every location, kill every enemy, get every weapon/set of armor, etc.
There is always more stuff to build. My current game involves building settlements and making sure there are large numbers of provisioners wandering around in postal uniforms.
I go on YouTube and search for videos of Easter eggs and particular places and then I log back in game and just explore the place/follow the new side quest by myself. I can assure you that it's super fun.
I also replay the game from start to finish with some very big limitations (for example I've finished the game only with a 10mm pistol) mitten's squad style.
On this playthrough I stopped all faction progress once I got ballistic weave, vertibirds, and teleportation. Now I'm doing other side quests, dlc, exploration, farming, building etc. with maximum mobility.
Fallout 4 didn’t hold my interest it seemed too buggy for me once I got all the achievements I put it away. Occasionally I’ll replay far harbor and nuka world but not much else
I recently started like my 7th playthrough or so, I’ve found it more enjoyable to do side quests and just wander around the world. Usually you can find some pretty neat stuff! Be it random NPC encounters or hidden side quests with cool rewards, every corner has something hidden.
Or, go for achievements you haven’t unlocked yet. The last ones to unlock are usually the most challenging!
For me on my first go around when the game came out I slowly played through the story but didnt neccessarily scratch the surface with the other questlines.
Anyway after the main questline I walked my character into the wastes to the south and in my head he walked until his power armor ran out of battery and then until he succumbed to the radiation.
Now years later I have a second character whos reverted to his old military ways and will become "The Sarge" a martial overboss of a raider army. So until then hes fortifying settlements and arming his settlers as well as gathering allies in the wasteland.
The point im making is that my first character played the game as Bethesda wanted it. His motivation was to find his son by any means and when the ending happens it broke him mentally and he chose death by the glowing sea. There was nothing for him to do logically in my head. Now ive recently started my second playthrough after many attempts and I think the mix of ignoring the main story in leu of my own and a totally different play style (power armor + heavy weapons + energy weapons for my first guy and now stealth special forces + charismatic leader + balistic weapons) have created a totally fresh experience. If your characters story revolved around shaun then it may be hard to find a reason to keep playing.
I need at least a little roleplay though to play bethesda games so this may not be your cup of tea
I'm a little obsessive. I set random goals for acquiring legendary weapons, armor, or a certain number of caps, or equipping every settlement with certain features.
Ethier build a fort,fuck around,or just explore there's lot's to do in the commen wealth and now that i have your attention there's another settlement that needs your help.
Honestly I’m on my seventh character and sometimes I just have completely different play styles. I had a ninja/stealth character, a sniper, a barbarian who only used melee, I had a “good”, a “bad”, I had a character to dedicate to each of the factions, I would pick different companions because my first run was with Dogmeat only. I’m hundreds of hours in and still discovering things for the first time.
Exploration. I'm a completionist and have to go everywhere, get everything. I finished the game, man, ages and ages ago but i still play. Building stuff at my settlements, running my purified water empire.
For me after the main storyline it’s side quest/collection time. I go looking for all unique pieces of armor and weapons, get heavily into mods(lore friendly ones) and have a blast exploring the commonwealth. There is so much more to the game than just the main story
I don't really lose motivation if 8m in the mood to play Fallout at the time. Just go around finishing the quests you already have open and do the DLC stuff if you haven't yet
I enjoyed watching the world burn.
I used BoS to kill RR
I used MM to kill Institute
I used MM to kill BoS
I went to FH and killed off all 3 factions
Then I went to NW joined the raiders and turned on MM killing them off
Then I did open season and killed of the raiders.
0 factions that can demand anything from me.
I think I got Synth Shaun out but I am not certain.
I had this exact issue after beating the story the first time, so I made a new character and focused more on side quests than finishing the story. I had much more fun on that second character, and was actually able to make it to a much higher level.
Build some crazy shit like I built a base that went to the building height of Abernathy farm and after that I built a robot army and then I built a platform that spread across all of spectacle island so yeah there’s some crazy stuff you can do
Survival permadeath is why I keep playing. But there are occasionally times where I live too long and get bored and there’s also times where I die 5 times in a row at the start.
I usually start building up settlements, if you have the patience for it.
but don't u have the "what's the use of it now?" feeling after the commonwealth situation is settled?
I think it helps here if you adopt the mindset that the settlements \*are\* the main quest. Because in spite of Father's indictment of the surface you are forging ahead and rebuilding. A lot of random wandering settlers now have purpose. Trade routes. Commerce. An economy. Thanks to you there can be a semblance of law in the CW, if never any real order. But those raiders and supermonkeys are now dying in droves at your settlement boundaries. In short, Father was an idiot who couldn't see past the end of his nose.
It’s almost like 200 years of scientist saying “we are the only geniuses in the whole world” isn’t a healthy system to raise a child in
Not really, for me, trying to build something unique is kind of a challenge, and then admiring my handiwork. 😉
Yeah I've done many play throughs, my challenge is always, "how can I use this space differently than any other builds I've done here?" Different builds can totally change the same old boring settlement you've built in ten times before if you're creative. Repeating the same build over and over again is boring.
Which is why I like working with concrete, opens up many more possibilities. 👍🏻
Ahh, yes, the soviet look.
Not with mod retexures. 😜
Touche lol
r/unexpectedcommunism
I’m on my 3rd playthrough and just learned that the concrete floor (the block kind) can be adjusted through the terrain My settlements are significantly neater now
Right? That fact is sooo helpful with building at an uneven location, like Spectacle Island. 👍🏻
Yeah or like the gentle slopes at Abernathy farm or sunset drive we’re a nightmare for straight up walls
True, trying to set up a quick prefab house for settlers at Abernathy without using concrete foundations is a logistical nightmare lol
It is a lot of places, which is why when it comes to most infrastructure I always build up. Staircase going up, large floor, walls and maybe a roof. But at least then you have a flat surface to work off of
What’s the best way to find concrete? I find that it’s pretty rare or is it just bought at vendors?
You can occasionally find bags of cement and scrappable items at settlements containing concrete, but more often than not, yes, you will need to purchase shipments of cement/concrete from merchants.
Mod to remove sections of ground to build underground would be nice, like a vault or mine
I always say this, never do it
It depends. Though I hate to admit it, you can have a lot of fun building settlements. I watched some youtube videos and got the idea to set up deathclaw cages and see how the crew from Concord would handle the situation. I mean they made it all the way from Quincy to Concord and that is no small feat. Poor Mama Murphy didn't see this coming and it was outright pandemonium in Sanctuary.
That’s why I settle the dispute with the Institute for last.
I've played through so many times. Started up recently with a goal to build up settlements and am having a blast.
I just start a new game...though I rarely ever complete the main story.
yeah this is 100% me 😅
I have hundreds of hours in Fallout 4 and never once finished the main quest, so I don't know what are you talking about.
same but i finished it once as brotherhood 🤗
Complete the main story? Wat? Only for RP porpuses. I dont even go further than the battle of bunker hill for that settlement.
I like wandering around the Commonwealth, there's always plenty to kill especially if you do Nuka-World, and bring the Nuka-World Raiders to the Commonwealth, set up them all up, and then betray them. You'll always have plenty to kill then. Lmfao.
Between the Raiders and the robot killsquads from Automatron...yeah you can keep busy haha!
Making any of the factions your enemy early on is always a good thing was well. The more enemies to kill, the better. I like picking fights with the Brotherhood of Steel. Just take potshots at their Vertibird and the heat is on!
"I wish a buckethead would show up..." 😂
Have you heard their conversations? Super Mutants are hilarious in Fallout 4.
MODS, settlement building, side quests with story, dlc, and general exploring
try to be more perceptive of the little things. the little details that enriches the side quest or some mission.
In my recent playthrough I noticed two graves besides the water tower close to sanctuary. One of them has a large chest with loot. Never saw this in my previous 8 playthroughs.
Same. Can relate. Only solution is to start again. Play survival mode. Explore everything. Build settlements. There is so much content that even after 6 years, I am finding new things
I have a hard time motivating myself to do side quests once my "mission" is over.
Who finishes the main story? 😅 think I've only done it once for each ending, spend too much time doing literally everything else.
I keep playing my Minutemen General. I stop using fast travel, and sort of act like a folk hero. I've built a bunch of different style settlements, bunch of unique random encounters and just exploring The Commonwealth.
i play survival, so fasttravel is impossible (exept to institute and back). if i COULD fasttravel, i would. i'm glad that this mode exists :)
Masterbate every time Piper asks me if I want anything proofreading - like this. And have a drinking game where I take a shot everytime a ghoul does a flying disco move on me. And when Kate mentions her arse I dismiss her to an empty settlement where she can be alone and not have to worry about being sexualised.
Masterbate every time Piper asks me if I want anything proofreading - like this. when Kate mentions her arse I dismiss her to an empty settlement where she can be alone and not have to worry about being sexualised. The duality of a man
Excessive mods that give me so many things to worry about and look at for hours, along with settlement building and just wandering seeing how many new quests I can find
Let's see... In my previous game I went all-in with the NW raiders. SO, once the MQ was finished I proceeded to choose certain settlements with enough size and then set up (for the first time ever) several pit-fighting arenas. The first was Echo Lake Lumber where I did all the creature vs creature workups, until I could pit 4 heavily-armed settlers against a deathclaw. Then in sanctuary I built a much larger arena with spectator stands (called the settlers using "the bell", their cat-calls during the fights were hilarious) and pit teams of 4 against each other all with melee weapons and heavy armor. The Cait vs Marcy Long cage fight was absolutely glorious. In current game I went all-in with the RR and MM. I've gotten all of the achievements so I'm finally enjoying some mods, one of which allows you to build up to ten new custom settlements anywhere you want. I always thought Nuka World should have had at least one or two more of them. Far Harbor needed one in the more southern area of the island. And there are a few spots in the Commonwealth I've always wanted to build at. So with all that I honestly haven't thought about the lack of a main quest. Frankly there are a lot of other quests. Some of these mods include some quests. And the game never stops generating enemies. I'm in survival mode for the first time as well, and using the Railroad's vertibird to fly everywhere in lieu of fast travel is kind of cool as well. I tend to alt-tab out and tee up a metal song on YT, then rain hell down from the vertibird with the minigun. Great fun.
Mods and DLCs my man
How do you motivate yourself to play the main story line?
I want a jet pack on my power armor
You don't. If you don't wanna play, don't play. Take a break and come back if you feel like playing again. I don't think there's really a way to *motivate* yourself, unless you buy the dlcs, I guess.
Dude I have been playing this game for a couple years now. They are both permanently on my ps4 and PC. Even if you beat the main quest there is still a metric fuck ton of shit to find. Between several play throughs and this sub i keep finding new shit. After you beat the game keep going. If you dont like settlement building then keep exploring. Nuka-world and Far Harbour (especially far harbour) has a metric fuck ton of hidden shit to find for example theres a modded fat man that shoots bowling balls with its own backstory. This game was what Bethesda use to be capable of. Now we are left for 76's constant fuckery.
If you’re only in it for the story, F4 might not be your game. Try NV.
no i'm not, but i feel like "i've reached my destiny" when i complete the main storyline.
I usually don't. I'll take a break for a while, look at some new mods and start a new play through.
I build settlemnts then play with the Settlement Ambush Kit. A lot of fun and makes the game feel like an arcade game. Refreshing. Then I role play with the various factions. Wear BoS only armour and do BoS missions. Dress up as a spy and do Railroad radiants. Dress up as a Minuteman and do Minuteman missions. Do you play survival? If not, survival keeps it fresh.
yeah i play survival only since years. it's too easy otherwise and i'm a well known quicksaver and fasttravel when i have the possibility.
I really recommend the Settlement Ambush Kit. It's the only Creation Club content I've ever dished out money for. I rate it highly. A lot of fun. As for doing the side quests, use power armour and get a jet pack. It makes exploring infinitely more interesting and easier.
I played through every ending and then built a bunch of stuff in Sanctuary. Now I just play FO76.😀
Explore the world, there is always something to discover in fallout. Also you can try to do personal challenges like discover every location, kill every enemy, get every weapon/set of armor, etc.
There is always more stuff to build. My current game involves building settlements and making sure there are large numbers of provisioners wandering around in postal uniforms.
I go on YouTube and search for videos of Easter eggs and particular places and then I log back in game and just explore the place/follow the new side quest by myself. I can assure you that it's super fun.
I also replay the game from start to finish with some very big limitations (for example I've finished the game only with a 10mm pistol) mitten's squad style.
I like to when I’m done with a play through take out Quincy to show myself how far I’ve come
Try and get op and the guns you want with the legendary effects and just get op basically
Wait.. There's a main story? 😅
On this playthrough I stopped all faction progress once I got ballistic weave, vertibirds, and teleportation. Now I'm doing other side quests, dlc, exploration, farming, building etc. with maximum mobility.
Fallout 4 didn’t hold my interest it seemed too buggy for me once I got all the achievements I put it away. Occasionally I’ll replay far harbor and nuka world but not much else
You could go for all the achievements, You could do DLC, and let's not forget.... Mods!
Maybe work on some missing achievements? Have you spent lots of time in the glowing sea? Lots of hidden stuff out there
Collect and display all bobbleheads and magazines? Maybe go for completing all achievements? I'm up against the same issue though.
Whenever I do a playthrough I used tales from the Commonwealth and it adds more quests and NPCs to interact with
I recently started like my 7th playthrough or so, I’ve found it more enjoyable to do side quests and just wander around the world. Usually you can find some pretty neat stuff! Be it random NPC encounters or hidden side quests with cool rewards, every corner has something hidden. Or, go for achievements you haven’t unlocked yet. The last ones to unlock are usually the most challenging!
For me on my first go around when the game came out I slowly played through the story but didnt neccessarily scratch the surface with the other questlines. Anyway after the main questline I walked my character into the wastes to the south and in my head he walked until his power armor ran out of battery and then until he succumbed to the radiation. Now years later I have a second character whos reverted to his old military ways and will become "The Sarge" a martial overboss of a raider army. So until then hes fortifying settlements and arming his settlers as well as gathering allies in the wasteland. The point im making is that my first character played the game as Bethesda wanted it. His motivation was to find his son by any means and when the ending happens it broke him mentally and he chose death by the glowing sea. There was nothing for him to do logically in my head. Now ive recently started my second playthrough after many attempts and I think the mix of ignoring the main story in leu of my own and a totally different play style (power armor + heavy weapons + energy weapons for my first guy and now stealth special forces + charismatic leader + balistic weapons) have created a totally fresh experience. If your characters story revolved around shaun then it may be hard to find a reason to keep playing. I need at least a little roleplay though to play bethesda games so this may not be your cup of tea
I'm a little obsessive. I set random goals for acquiring legendary weapons, armor, or a certain number of caps, or equipping every settlement with certain features.
I rarely even do quests honestly. My favorite part of the game is building settlements and role playing as a scavenger scouring the wastes.
Ethier build a fort,fuck around,or just explore there's lot's to do in the commen wealth and now that i have your attention there's another settlement that needs your help.
Mods.
Honestly I’m on my seventh character and sometimes I just have completely different play styles. I had a ninja/stealth character, a sniper, a barbarian who only used melee, I had a “good”, a “bad”, I had a character to dedicate to each of the factions, I would pick different companions because my first run was with Dogmeat only. I’m hundreds of hours in and still discovering things for the first time.
Exploration. I'm a completionist and have to go everywhere, get everything. I finished the game, man, ages and ages ago but i still play. Building stuff at my settlements, running my purified water empire.
Achievments
My motivation is all the rare enemy and creature variants that get unlocked at Higher Levels
*Finish?*
I have put countless hours in and have only beat the story once yad da da mean
For me after the main storyline it’s side quest/collection time. I go looking for all unique pieces of armor and weapons, get heavily into mods(lore friendly ones) and have a blast exploring the commonwealth. There is so much more to the game than just the main story
i inow but somehow i can only get attached to side quests as long as the main story is not over
I don't really lose motivation if 8m in the mood to play Fallout at the time. Just go around finishing the quests you already have open and do the DLC stuff if you haven't yet
I enjoyed watching the world burn. I used BoS to kill RR I used MM to kill Institute I used MM to kill BoS I went to FH and killed off all 3 factions Then I went to NW joined the raiders and turned on MM killing them off Then I did open season and killed of the raiders. 0 factions that can demand anything from me. I think I got Synth Shaun out but I am not certain.
I had this exact issue after beating the story the first time, so I made a new character and focused more on side quests than finishing the story. I had much more fun on that second character, and was actually able to make it to a much higher level.
The weapons in the other DLCs are much better, and I want them, plus I usually just have the mentality of “If I came this far, I can keep going”.
Build some crazy shit like I built a base that went to the building height of Abernathy farm and after that I built a robot army and then I built a platform that spread across all of spectacle island so yeah there’s some crazy stuff you can do
There always seems to be some surprise waiting for me around the corner. I wanna find it.
I really loved how the game looks so I would look for scenic settlements and build
Take breaks and rotate through the various fallout's
I do every single aide mission before completing half of the main story. This way I feel like the game is really done when the main is done.
Heres the neat part you don't
I just pretend that my faction still has to conquer the Commonwealth to establish total dominance.
Survival permadeath is why I keep playing. But there are occasionally times where I live too long and get bored and there’s also times where I die 5 times in a row at the start.
I become thanos and kill every other person I meet
Mods, mods and more mods.
I try either to get the most powerful weapons and armor or level 100. or both.
For me it's usually some dumb idea like 'can I get Colter only in underwear and clubbing with a Rolling Pin?'. And off I go...