Fallout 4: Sim Settlements 2 - How To Rebuild The Commonwealth 

I love how Jon's description of Mayor Bob's backstory means that Mayor Bob didnt even vote for himself for Mayor.

I know Survival Mode isn't supposed to have manual saves, but I might recommend finding a mod that reenables auto saves, at least. Sim Settlements 2 is so script intensive that there's a nonzero chance things will break in later dungeons and it'd benefit you to be able to reload from a doorway at the very least, instead of the last time you did a pitstop at your house.

Not only did Bob run for mayor (and fail) but he also applied to be Overseer of Vault 114 and was the leading candidate until he was beat out by Soup Can Harry.

This better be a series

A word of warning about Sim Settlements 2. Do not build up Sanctuary, Red Rocket and Abernathy Farm as they are so close to each other that the game will try loading all three towns worth of SS2 content at once and will crash anytime you get close to them. It is recommended to only build up one of these three settlements using the SS2 mechanic.

29:40 The timing of the car exploding was perfect

For everyone who is going to say "Wow, I can't believe Mayor Bob could hold onto a grudge for over 200 years" just remember that those 200 years were all in the span of about 20 minutes for Mayor Bob.

Jon, Scrapper is a GREAT perk for settlement building, and kind of underrated overall. It will help you get a lot of those resources you need for building.

Jon if you have any problems, you could probably ask Kinggath. He helped Gopher with his Sim Settlements' Fallout 4 VR playthough.

I love how you give us your dnd style characters backstory with all your series

If you build a floating plot, you can still put a foundation from the appropriate tab in the Sim Settlements segment underneath it by the way. But using the ASAM settings to change the foundation is also possible of course.

I didn’t think I could watch another Fallout 4 series but here we go again!

I love how Sim Settlements developed from being an improvement to the settlement-building system, and became one of the best questline mods for Fallout 4.

I recommend "You and What Army?" if you plan on building up the minute men and "we are the minute men" so you get patrols from settlements to other settlements, and your Minute men level with you so they don't become weaker than raiders after level 20. Also there's a lot of sim settlement settlement layout packs, some are quite good and there's also tile sets so you can have more variety in the buildings and such, and can set themes so you can have a settlement using only institute styled buildings etc. Also there's a mod that adds 3x3 plots that I feel is basically essential if you really wanna feel your settlements grow BIG

Zero votes for Mayor Bob? So not only did his wife not vote for him, he didn't vote for himself. 🤣

I never expected Jon to cover this mod, but there's no one else I'd rather see cover it. Thank you Jon!

I played with this on my ultimate survival “No really this is my last play through” run and I LOVED it.

SS2 is an EXTREMELY high effort mod, the team put so much work in to make this nearly seamlessly integrated in the base game and it's very impressive.

That whole intro is fantastic! Love Jon’s delivery of those lines

as someone who has been playing SS2 for a few years now, I can easily see this 'short series' running 50+ episodes. The scale of this mod and what the team has achieved is unimaginable. There are a few things I'd recommend adding to make this playable, especially in survival mode. As previously recommended, adding quicksave/autosave to deal with any bugs/glitches you will definitely be running into; interior navcut fix is essential especially later on in chapter 2 and 3; mod configuration menu for easier access to the settings instead of using the holotape; and finally (optionally) place everywhere is a great QOL building tool as clipping is very finnicky in vanilla fallout 4, especially when working with large objects like plots.

11:34 "... so I can keep up and don't miss anything obvious." Just making a note of this as I'm sure these words will come to haunt Jon soon enough.

This has been one of my all time favorite mods! I Love how they made an entire story, that also intertwines with the other main plots.

Calling Codsworth a d*ick for calling you Mister Bob, even though you most likely are the one who set up his identification preferences, is such Jon move

Nice video! I've been using the original sim settlements for years and really enjoy it. Also, I've been waiting for Sim Settlements 2 to get much needed bug fixes and finished with it's story before I tried it out, but thanks to you, I get to watch someone else do all the hard work testing it out. Can't wait to see the next video! Good job!

I've played the heck out out of Sim Settlements 1, and man oh man it was an awesome enhancement of the game. I've not played SS2 but I didn't know it had a whole new campaign!!! This is going to be an amazing series! 11:21 oh and I see you get the ASAM sensors right away but from what I remember you had to progress all the way to the Museum of Freedom in Concord and the sensors were in a desk on one of the upper floors, which from then on enabled the mod.

So happy to see you giving this some love, it's been a long journey for sim settlements

So glad to see more and more channels doing playthroughs of this mod!

I look forward to trade relations between renowned Wasteland leaders: Mayor Bob and President Dave

So excited to see you play this, Jon - it's one of my all time favourite mods and the story and characters are just so fun!

This is one of the best FO4 mods out there. Really makes the wasteland feel like a living society, together with making you feel like a true settlement developer. You get to watch as settlements develop based on what you build and provide, instead of doing a bunch of building and just seeing people muck about and complain while not really doing anything. I am glad to see the mod finally getting featured here! One of my other personal favorites is the one that adds considerably more plant life to the map. I don't remember the exact name, but i think it's called "Overgrowth" or some such. Basically, after 200 years it will no longer be a wasteland, instead nature would take over the land (at least judging by how everything went in IRL fallout zones), and that mod depicts this perfectly. And it really does change the feel of the map, even if you know the layout really well.

This honestly is my favourite mod in the history of Fallout 4. Kinggath and the team have done a stellar job

"sound of the firefight must have lured the blasted thing out" (car blows up in the background) love it

Fun Fact: the voice acting coach for Sim Settlements 2 also voiced Desmond in the FO4: Point Lookout mod.

Not even Bob voted for himself for mayor

If we're getting another Fallout 4 series my life has purpose again, yay!

Thank you MATN. I was hoping to see you do a run with this mod. Most of the time I like to build my settlements myself but there are a lot of settlements that kinda suck and I hate working on. Tenpines Bluff comes to mind. With this mod I just plop down a plot or two and leave them be. I am always pleasantly surprised to see how the plots upgrade and evolve. It feels more organic. I can't wait to see you use some of the interior plots to build rooms in existing structures. Keep up the good work and the great content.

I’m never gonna be tired of fallout 4, I need to accept that

This mod and it's 2 sequel episodes along with the Fens Sheriff Department and Fourville are the Fallout 4 equivalent to New Vegas's Newv Vegas bounties mod in "The game doesn't feel complete without them" category

We need a mayor battle - Mayor Bob vs Mayor McDunough. There can only be one true mayor in Boston

❤❤❤❤❤ YES! YES! YES! A new Fallout 4 series. Ive watched all of your fallout content Jon... loved the YOLO playthrough and also a tale of two wastelands. You do such an AWESOME job and literally often make me actually LOL. my wife thinks im going nuts sometimes when she hears me. Im so pleased you came back again to FO4 as its literally been my favourite game since release and you have done some epic playthroughs. Thanks again buddy for all you do! 😊

Yeah, got burned out on Starfield and ended up downloading Fallout 4 on steam for the settlements, downloaded the Nora Lives mod as well and enjoying myself so much!🥳

Oh this is cool, I always wanted to mess with Sim Settlements but never quite figured out how it worked, this has already clarified a lot! And this looks like a fun series!

I love Bethesda games for moments like 29:39 Absolute chef's kiss timing

The quality of this mod is insane i cant get over how well done the voice acting, audio quality and script is never mind the entirely new settlement building system.

Thank you Jon, I love enjoying the fallout world with such a good content creator.

So stoked for this playthrough. Gotta get the lead out and actually play this mod's story in my playthrough so I dont get spoiled.

Jon! I've wanted to suggest THIS IDEA so many times, but I didn't think you'd actually do it! This mod is the only reason I still play FO4. Here we go!

Very excited to see how you end up liking this! I was absolutely blown away by what these guys created and not even just the city building stuff. Although yeah I would agree with some other commenters, a survival mode saving mod could be helpful... if you make a couple really big cities next to each other it can cause a ton of scripts to be running at the same time and may get some crashing. Just save often and don't make a 50 person megalopolis in the Abernathy, Red Rocket, Sanctuary triangle

I'm so glad Jon is playing Sim Settlements 2. It's such a good mod. From concept to execution, it is well done across the board.

You can tell this is a good mod, because it's making Jon want to invest in his settlement. Jon. Who's motto for settlement building is usually, "Well, why don't you go and sort it out yourselves". Being actually eager to build this place up.

Cool, nice to see you cover this. :)

IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS! i just finished chapter 3 a bit ago and was thinking id love to see jon play this!

So excited for this series!

I'm so glad to see you playing possibly my favourite mod of all time! EDIT: WTF CHAPTER 3 IS OUT FUCK THIS I GOTTA PLAY FALLOUT 4

Sweet! Keep this going as a series Jon!

So happy I get more fallout from you! I need a fallout series on this channel at all times or I'll perish.

I can’t wait for more videos of this tbh

This was awesome, hope you do more with this mod!

Woah. That's not something I ever expected. Awesome!

Hey John, sorry i havent been by in a while. I wanted to wait to watch this because I i was a little burnt out on fallout (if you can believe that?). Happy to be back! Already loving this series

Starfield has made me want to play Fallout 4 again

Always a delight to see some custom Fallout 4 let's gooo

Always awesome to see modders pulling off big projects with high quality.

Awkward convo with Nora: "I can't believe you didn't vote for me!" "You didn't even vote for yourself Bob!" "James Jamison made some compelling points!"

Been wanting to test out this mod, glad Jon can test it out for me 😂

Sim Settlements 2 is an amazing effort by so many talented people.

I'm glad Jon is covering my favorite Fallout 4 mod.

Thank you! I never thought this mod was worth it, but I didn't realize how useful it actually is, and that there's a campaign. Time for another FO4 playthrough!!!

Wooooo! I can never get enough of MATN fallout.

Wow this is going to be fun, I only played part 1 so will be interested to see what you make of this.

I literally only thought today - "Wouldn't it be perfect if Jon done a series on Sim Settlement 2 now that chapter 3 is out..." - Perfection.

Huh! You know, I have heard a lot about this mod, but I have never actually seen it in action (I'm way too far into my own game to think of installing something new and starting over). So I am happy to live vicariously through you and explore this new campaign! And I am deeply amused that Jake insists you help Preston -- the settlement build factions have to stick together! XD

In my first FO 4 playthrough, I had fun with renaming weapons…my 10mm became “Order”, a hunting rifle I got from a lucky loot roll became “Long Arm” and a revolver from along the river became “Law”. Had those three guns the entire run.

I love settlement building in Fallout 4 so this is going to be an interesting but fun watch for me.

Thanks for something to watch during breakfast for the next few weeks!

I am already looking forward to this series!

@25:45 Great drama-fall from the painting, well done there. Old Paul has a neck like Nick Foles!

Rewatching from the beginning. That "nevermind" from the stranger a second after the truck explodes post Deathclaw fight was waaay too perfectly timed. Makes me chuckle everytime.

The ASAM seller was nailed the part, I swear I could almost hear the Simpson's Monorail song when he talked lol

Damn fine suit Mayor Bob. Would love to watch the series for this modset!

OMG, I really do wish they made the Stranger sound a bit more like an old time door to door salesman, cause I keep getting that vibe. but then the sudden show up of Old Paul! Nope, you are getting the wool pulled over you, this is classic scamming! XD

Talking of "gigantic Endeavour": Give Enderal a looksy. It's technically a Total Conversion Mod for Skyrim. In fact it's is own massive Open World Story RPG, nothing to do with Elder Scrolls. And it doesn't just re-use assets like New California. Everything world relevant was made from scratch. Architecture, outfits, Dungeons, weapons and so on. It's such an amazing and impressive project! Gopher made a 100 Episode playthrough (40+mins each) of it... Also they have professional voice actors. Just not many of them, so voices repeat quite a bit. Has it's own Steam page, It's install and play like any Steam game. One for normal, one for Enderal SE. One needs you to own old Skyrim, the other to have Skyrim SE installed. Both work, SE like Skyrim itself, works a bit better. Oh and i like New California. But Enderal is a bigger and more unique feeling project.

Looks like an interesting mod, looking forward to the rest of the series!

Jon playing Sim Settlements? Easiest click of my life :D

i have been waiting for this play through.

I want to thank the tube for the lack of notifications. I think I had maybe 2 MaTN notifications over the past month and wondered if Jon was not playing much. Just today I was wondering how many years for another trip through F4 with Jon, low and behold I get a notification for ep.8!!! Holy crap, I have been missing an F4 playthrough. Not to mention other cool things. I have catching up to do!

29:39 Must've been the greatest lol I've had today

I'm playing SS2 right now, and it's amazing. I can't wait to see John's playthrough! :D

I thought I was done with Fallout 4, but this looks very cool. The voice acting is impressive, it's usually not great but it's studio quality.

I absolutely love that Jon is finally checking out sim settlements

Perfectly timed explosion there XD

I love the idea of a live steam where you choose a random settlement to build up with the mod. No story stuff obviously but just chill building. 😊

Always been intrigued by the idea of this mod but not got around to playing it myself. Should be a great cocking series

46:49 Welcome back to FO4 where the only responses to sick people asking to live in your settlement are "no trouble", "I guess" and "yes".

will definitely give this mod a playthrough when I get my pc back from the shop

Oh i love this i think i will also download this mod because i already had some fun with building in base fallout 4

Does the “Stranger” remind anyone else of Bradley Cooper or is that just me?? Lol But I’m super excited for this series! I love your FallOut content (well all of it tbh) and Mayor Bob has my vote! 😂

Love this channel so much

Back to Fallout 4! I have a warm feeling, like coming home.

Jon: “only he calls himself Mayor Bob.” Codsworth: “Mr. Bob.” Jon: moderate rage against the machine.