Fallout 4: Sim Settlements 2 - Part 40 - The Fog Of War 

Gotta love how your choices in Fallout 4 make almost no difference, but an NPC getting stuck in an animation can change everything.

Jon - to clean the rooms in your HQ, you have to go into Command/ Build Mode, select Facilities --> Cleaning

Stockton wants to carry out a secret mission dead in the middle of a three-sided invasion of his home, and you get help from the Brotherhood walking a Synth to his safe house. 😂 Fallout 4, I love you. ❤

Jon - do not forget, those named random NPC settlers this mod generates have boosted SPECIAL. You can go ask Ron for any one / several you need.

"a settlement at random" It's ALWAYS Outpost Zimonja for me. Always. Every time.

...."on the day you recruit a sexbot, everything else just sort of, fades into the background a bit". .......I'm just loving this series. This is fabulous. 😄

Hey Jon, just a heads up that you might want to check around the door of your personal quarters at HQ; there's something there that just might point you towards a fun little questline that's otherwise easy to miss! (I was lucky I stumbled across it a week or so ago while doing my own playthrough!)

If I visited the HQ of a group of people who claim they’re doing what’s best for the Commonwealth and I see giant tubes with weird creatures floating in an unknown green fluid and a dead Super Mutant on the table nearby, I’d be slightly concerned. If I also knew even a little bit about FEV, I’d be seriously concerned.

The fact that Bunker Hill turns into a three-sided war regardless of player action is very weird indeed. One would expect this would be like a miniature version of the Battle for Hoover Dam, where the player choices dramatically change the makeup of the battle. It's especially weird because Father has that whole confrontation with you after the battle where you have to convince him you weren't involved in the clusterflip, which feels like it loses a lot of impact if the battle is genuinely a mess regardless of your actions.

When an NPC is bugged like Old Man Stockton, I recommend using a console command to fix them. Just open the console and click on the NPC. Make sure the text in the top center of the console menu says their name, then type "resurrect". That should reset their AI behavior and put them back on track.

Thank you for another lovely Sunday video :)

Do a quick Automatron DLC. It's fast, easy, and opens up all robot modifications. Add the SS2 Automatron mod to your list. That allows you to mod bith Codsworth and Curie. Plus allows you to build robotic settlers with the exact stats you need. Ie perception (best for those are Mr.Handy with three eyestalks), Int (Robobrains plus full voltaic upgrades on all limbs), or Protectrons (End upgrades on all limbs). Each can easily reach 20+ stats for their specialty. Build two robot settlers each stat category, send them to HQ, and your problems of too little HQ category power will soon be over.

This mod looks like it's bigger than all the F4 DLC's combined!

This mod is so, so good! I know I say it pretty much every week, but it really is, some of the voice acting is indistinguishable from the main game, and surpasses it at times. The intertwining of narrative, and gameplay, is so much more robust, and interesting than Garvey and his interminable "A settlement needs assistance, I'll mark it on your map". I *love* this mod, so much!!

Hey Jon, have you ever hit Mamma Murphy with the Vit--o-matic? I'm willing to bet that results will be just a little bit surprising to you.

Jon, don't forget to talk to Kessler, she grants you Bunker Hill as a settlement.

That exploded car just disappearing right after the stockton/lamp fiasco was good stuff.

"I find it hard to believe that you are teling the truth. However I do want you in the core of my organisation." - Shawn the Genious mastermind of The Institute.

Best Boston After Dark ever.

It's stupid how you don't have the option of just telling Shaun that the Brotherhood picked that exact time to attack the place. Emil is a talentless hack.

Will Mayor Bob be visiting the other bits of Fallout 4 DLC? I am curious how the Nuka World raider factions would interact with Sims Settlements 2.

Im curious now that The Battle of Bunker Hill has been completed if Jon will claim Bunker Hill as a settlement through completing the National Guard Armory and East Boston Prep School because that gives a good location for a settlement and some nice benefits (ability to allow base game traders to visit all settlements not just those on the route)

Yay I love Sunday

Have a shot every time Jon says "weird mission"

Why do I feel that if this was built like Fallout 3 or New Vegas, the game would have made you pick a side for when the battle at Bunker Hill happens. Just the fact anyone on their first playthrough can, reasonably, just have it happen around you feels incredibly silly.

Once doing Boston After Dark every thing between the church and safe house had been killed by Cricket and her bodyguards. 😅

Bunker Hill was so weird that I did not finish my first playthrough after that. I tried to have my character make sense in a RP way and Bunker Hill just broke it.

The railroad definitely can spawn legendaries in the battle of bunker hill. It's the fastest way I know of to try to farm legendary gauss rifles since railroad heavies seem to have a higher rate of carrying them.

The H2-22 mission glitched on me because Ada was close enough with the robots attacking her, that i had to wipe them out to trigger the walk.

I desperately need more of this series

The Battle of Bunker Hill feels weird, but I kind of like the idea of a mission where everything isn't predicated on what I do, and if it's not all predicated on what I do, there's no reason why different factions SHOULDN'T show up without me telling them, and no reason for me to know why they did.

Jon must know that if you haven't interacted with a faction at all / already made enemies of one they will most definitely shoot you on sight at the battle for bunker hill.

Always look forward to these, so good!

I love your Fallout videos.

I will say that most of the time in the battle of bunker hill it's a lot less weird as normally, most of the factions are actually supposed to attack you, the only one guaranteed on your side is the institute since it's their quest. The other factions would actually attack you if you weren't already allied to them like Jon is here. For example, if doing a railroad playthrough without any other allegiances beyond the institute, the BOS is hostile to you, and vice versa, and if the institute is your only ally at the battle, both other factions will attack you on sight. It was geniunely pretty challenging in my institute playthrough fighting off Knights and vertibirds and heavys with gauss rifles with only crappy gen 2 synths and X4 for backup.

I thought the disease system was so cool. I loved the idea of being able to cure and distribute vaccines for the diseases that had been mildly inconveniencing me and being able to see the effects in the lack of itchy settlers…but once you clear one set of diseases, another, bigger, deadlier, and more expensive to fix set moves in. And this happens at least three times, because that was when I gave up hope of ever finishing them. Tremendous waste of time and resources. I’d say cure one or two sets, then shut off the disease system as a reward.

I don’t think Pam can give you the safe house mission at one of your settlements unless you own every single settlement in the commonwealth.

There's always a few railroad NPCs at the battle of bunker hill that have upgraded gauss rifles. There's no plenty for killing them regarding factions.

Please build more Recreational Plots to train the Rest of the settlers up to Companion levels. Or better...

MATN, just the right pick me up after an exhausting day

"They had no way of knowing what was going on!" "We would ambush them" *walks into 3-way war everyone got to far before the player* Not Shaun's fault, you probably killed the courser who was supposed to say as much, and everyone else died in the crossfire...

You know the battle of Bunker Hill is flipped when you can convince Stockton to do a MUCH EARLIER mission in the RR questline without much issue except him cowering and refusing to light a lamp. :p And yes, it really is a weird mess of a mission (that should come LATER IN THE GAME), but at least you got through it, saved the synths, and got yourself on the path to ballistic weave. (Also, thank you for letting me know that nobody INTRODUCES you to PAM, you have to meet her on your own. I didn't realize that, so next time I'm dropping off RR missions, I'll go say hello and get started on ballistic weave myself). And I kind of love you ignoring the Institute Directorate meeting in favor of checking out your own HQ. XD

CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE FROGS OF WAR! (What do you mean I misread that?)

No Cosworth or Curie?

Make sure to check your messages from your personal bedroom. I was able to pick up a nice side quest from doing it!

You could have purchased The Last Minute legendary Gauss Rifle from Ronnie Shaw at the Castle. She becomes the Minuteman faction merchant after finishing Old Guns

We need another you only live once or similar series

Fingers crossed Jon does an America Rising 2 playthrough at some point

Jon, why don't you use intact vehicles as a secondary weapon? I normally shoot them a few times if there are enemies nearby, using each one like a mini nuke. Am I missing something? Is there a reason for not blowing them up?

I really hope Jon goes and picks up Curie in the next episode. It just feels wrong to create a science team without her.

Should get Porter Gage also :P

You should head back to concord and do some missions there, would love to see that.

Day 133 of requesting Age of Mythology - a full playthrough if possible. I'm impressed by how clean this mod can make these ruins look, but it makes me wonder why there aren't more mods that do the same. Can you imagine how nice it would be to have your own version of Vault City to come home to? Especially if you could make Diamond City look a bit better than a hobo camp.

Is that mod "get out of my face" still on Nexus? That was a good bug fix for NPCs that get stuck

Gauss rhymes with house, not horse.

Finally.....😊

i really dont understand the building screen at all. Mysterious. :/

Mercer is never a settlement you have claimed. Right? It's some sort of list and the one picked is the first one you haven't claimed.

Legendary Gauss rifle, Ronnie Shaw, the last minute. Ok you have to buy it but what else in money good for by this stage.

Bunker Hill isnt weird, its just shit writing resulting in a poorly thought out action scenario.

Cowering in fear old man stocking said calmly "welcome, my friend. might I ask, do you have a geiger counter" xD. This is why I can't replay this game after the one time I beat it after launch, even when I downloaded it again to try sims settlement. It just constantly takes you out of the game and reminds you your just sat in a room by yourself listening to some of the most garbage story telling and most shallow characters in my 20+ years of playing games. Sad as the combat game play can be good at times and especially if you get some mods, and some of the story ideas where fun, dunwitch quarry and that walled community where good ones that still stick out in my mind.

Glory to the free and soverign peoples of Ukraine, Taiwan, and Mayor Bob's Empire

Day 59 of requesting Jon play Okami HD

First? I dunno saying it kinda sucks now…

Yay! Its not Trash 76! This mod is better than FO76