Fallout 4: Sim Settlements 2 - Part 41 - Commonwealth Rising 

Don't forget "The Ron", Jon. He's really useful for finding talented people for your HQ. You will need lots more.

Jon blasting Cain's "We're not so different villain speech" while they're both wearing almost the exact same outfit is priceless!

"Spearhead Command: This is AG1 Lead. As per gunner regulations, I'm going to explain our evil invasion strategy over unsecured comms in case anyone is listening, over!" "AG1, this is Spearhead Command. Did you remember to add emphasis on how evil we are, and indicate we're going to be evil to anyone listening? Over." "AG1 to Spearhead, I suggested sending conscripts as cannon-fodder against ferals, showing how we consider our own troops disposable, and also mentioned the large force of actual trained troops and mercenaries for anyone listening, over." "Well done AG1, we'll share an evil laugh back at base which is out of the range of anyone listening. Over and out."

Finished the video and - Jon, check the messages by your private quarters! It will (eventually) lead to answers on the mysterious benefactors of the Nightingales!

"If we attack you, who knows how it goes, but either way your people come to murder us." "We aren't going to attack your bases, they're too big and well-defended for us." Cain is smarter than every other Raider in all of Fallout combined.

Fully loving the whole "this meeting could have been an email" attitude to the vanilla questline

It goes without saying each week, but the voice acting in this mod is fantastic. I hope all these actors have or get good gigs.

It always scares me when the description talks about moral dilemmas because I end up wondering how many genocides are going to be committed in this episode.

Cassandra: "Why is the mayor leaping from table to table and talking to imaginary people?" Jake: "Er, he does that sometimes..."

Could always grab Ada since Automatron has officially been started. Also, Old Longfellow, if you want to dip in and out of Far Harbor real quickly.

Emogene: "Stop talking about me like I'm dead!" Magnolia: "Sometimes I can still hear her voice..."

Video just got posted 9min ago, so all I'll add for now is that I noticed there's a billboard for The Ron near Wattz Electronics. It's a nice touch, reminiscent of the post-war billboards of FNV

The year is 2296; Shady Sands has been destroyed, New Vegas is a far cry from the shining beacon it once was in the Mojave Wasteland, the Gunners have been wiped out, and the atrium is still a mess.

Hey Jon as I had just finished the "Prodigal" quest last night so I am going to put what happens if you choose violence in case you or others were wondering. 1) the perfer violence option has ellis mention that not all the raiders are happy with Cain for one reason or another, which unlocks a option to talk to two raiders 2) The raider reveal that Cain had lied to them as he told them that Raphael had died (which they speculate is to hide the fact someone got out from under him) 2.1) you also get the option to convince them and I think half of the gang to rebel against Cain by either giving them 1k caps or a speech check (with the Intimidation perk making it easier). 3)Besides Raphael and Ellis having a chat outside the building and Ellies not having the mercy part in his dialog at the hospital as far as I know there is no difference other than that. It is disappointing there isn't really any difference between the choses (and as far as I know Cain and his gamg never appear again), though blasting Cain in his dumb smug face was fun. After all the Nightingales may be fine with not judging raiders and criminals but I am must certianly not.

It seems to me that the Sim Settlements 2 mod does a much better job on providing an overall plot and missions set to Fallout 4 than the base game ever did. That's an amazingly talented modding team over there.

I love how much jon is having a great time with this. I think when he started the series he didnt envision it going on this long or being this good, and to be honest neither did I. truly incredible work from the mod team

I don't know about anyone else, but for me the relationship that the protagonist shares with Jake is more impactful and meaningful than anything I've played in the base game, with the possible exception of Nick Valentine. Jake genuinely feels like a best friend and I love it.

Mankind Redefined "It could have been an email." Great quest...hate it already.

This is quite the Legendary DLC Sized Mod for the Commonwealth that's for sure I'm seriously glad your keeping up with this Jon and to think this all started with automating settlements to provide useful items and amazing house, shop, and etc. plans into Reviving the Commonwealth as a Civilization once again and taking it back from the Gunners yeah the minutemen has nothing on this crew this is like the Yes Man route done so very much Right!

As much as I love Fallout 4, the writing and voice acting in this mod is an order of magnitude better.

You can totally clean up the Atrium.

Favorite part of my Sunday. Thank you ❤

Since you just picked up MacCready and he was the Mayor of Little Lamplight back in the capital wasteland now is probably a good time to remind Jon all companions can be set as settlement mayors not just preston

One of these days, Jon, you'll learn that Fallout games do have friendly fire. It's staggering to me how many times the games have to teach you this lesson.

“We failed to penetrate Raphael” 😂😂😂

he never thinks about Curie

Did you ever pick up the Vault Tech salesman and send him to the HQ? Being a salesman he probably has good Charisma which might be useful in administration.

The way Ellis said 'I better work fast then.'.

The voice acting in this mod is incredible

Wow. I started watching Kinggath's playthough through chapter 3. And for everyone complimenting the voice acting (and rightly so) Lupe's VA really shines early in CH3.

Yay, longer episode! That's what I was hoping for, keep em coming like this Jon, favorite part of my Sunday! 😄

Please build settlements with Rec. Plots to TRAIN your settlers. Use a city planners desk to start your new town. Can be Far Harbor /NW settlements...

The VR command room is actually your original home. The Vault-tec van is parked outside. Nice.

Cain's dialogue is VERY well-written. I like him! for once, a raider who's an actual character with personal reasons, not a mindless NPC enemy.

This Cain guy is doing a pretty decent Negan impression

Finally, someone that treats the General of the Minuteman as more than just a lackey. I always felt that Preston was smirking when he told me I was the "General".

Seriously this mod respects the player so much this is the third time I remember so far that you're treated as a boogyman for anyone who goes after his people, and it's so refreshing compared to the main game.

Speaking of Fallout 4 talking about people who are in the room, my favorite is if you do the most peaceful Minutemen ending. Dez talks about how much she misses Glory, when in fact Glory survives and is right there.

I always found it funny that everyone has forgotten about like prisons in the fallout universe. There's a whole questline in this update about establishing a police force that doesn't shoot criminals on sight and yet you can't just say "ah yes, we'll heal cains raiders to stop them from dying and then arrest them with the cpd" that feels like a win for both Ellis and Rapheal.

I think that mission of going to get Ellis from Cain's gang would've been better if there'd been the option to bring along the CPD. There is a dialogue option where you ask Vanessa about getting the CPD for help, but I don't know what it does or if there really is an option to do that. The CPD would have the facilities to detain all the raiders while also allowing Ellis to treat their wounded.

I love how the medical supplies Fiona gives you includes a bottle of Vodka.. xD

With all Jakes grunts and sighs, he always sounds constipated.

Jon: "So we failed to penetrate Raphael-"

It's interesting that the Sim Settlements 2 campaign is better than any base game faction campaign or even the main story.

24:00 - Missed opportunity for "speak of the robotron devil!". Your perception really gets to you sometimes, Jon!

Good afternoon Jon! Thanks for another lovely Sunday update. :)

Given that last time Jon attacked the Gunners he had several factions to help him...yeah...pretty sure he already has a fucking army lol.

Raphael and Ellis remind me of those Pixie and Brutus comics.

15:20 "We failed to penetrate Raphael"

Cain really had a Negan from TWD and I loved it

Gotta drop a like for the longer video 👍

If you need more companions for tasks, you don't have to do too much of Far Harbor for old long fellow to be willing to join you.

Only bad thing about this series is it's getting fixed as the last thing before work again 😢😂

Such a good mod. The storyline and the choices that you are forced to make is so much better than the main storyline. Personally I think that a lot mods and mod packs should really be focused on the story telling.

Next episode I fully expect jon to go full raider mode

I feel like the next step is 100% putting as much artillery in every settlement as you can, and maximizing the load outs of your settlers with all your old guns and armor and the semi worthless legendary effects. And scrounging up as much power armor as you can. If they are coming from Providence, that to me says they are coming from the south so just leaving empty suits of power armor in settlements might not be the worst idea in the world

Don't forget Hancock as a companion.

Whoever voices Ellis voiced Vaan in FFXII

“We failed to penetrate Rafael”

All this makes me wonder what Dogmeats settler skills are.

Need to point this out - the voice actor for Jade is AMAZING! She's better than the voice actors in the base game.

What a mod... this is better than the main game.

they've added a lot to this mission.

The common complaint among fans about east coast Fallout under Bethesda is how no civilization is forming 200 years after the bombs dropped. Well this might just be the mod for them!

As much as I’ve enjoyed this mod I can’t really take the idea that the Gunners have an entire army at their disposal outside the Commonwealth seriously. They’re mercenaries who are barely better than raiders, not an organised military force and if they were why would there be so few of them struggling so long to secure the Commonwealth when they apparently had so many more resources at their disposal? It just feels like a deus ex machina to ramp up tension.

The best part of Sunday, IMO. Is there a modlist/load order for your playthrough?

Have I mentioned that this is the greatest mod ever made for any game in the history of game mods?

Can always tell when someone writes a military style radio conversation who has never actually been trained in it, just a lot of hollywood buzzwords thrown in. Great story though, looking forward to act 3

So penetrater makes all body parts chance to hit go up because you can hit them from any angle including though other parts of the body. it's great for killing the brotherhood and sentry bots.

Yay Sunday

I did a Raider first redemption later playthrough once and it did occur to me that for settlers working under Minutemen/Raider control isn't all that different. They pay tribute and in exchange the gang defends them, with the main difference being the radio station and increased autonomy (under the raiders funnily enough)

Jade’s voice actor sounds alittle like Jane lynch❤❤

I love this mod. However I have questions. 1) Doesn't John's bandanna and sunglasses combo look like some sort of Cyberpunk Mickey Mouse? 2) Now that Automata has started could one fill in all of your missing personnel needs with Robots? Could the gunner army be met with a Star Wars: Episode I style brigade of Protectrons?

Why is this so good?

OK Im calling it. The mission will be to join a faction (or Two). I really wish I knew how to get Mods to work that are not CC or from the steam page.

If you need more followers, you're still missing Cait and Hancock. I'm sure Curie would have a high intelligence even in robot form....

so will you be checking the DLC areas for integration with this mod? And after you are done, Fallout London?

This mod's absolutely stellar except for Jade and Raphael, which are the writer's thinly disguised "bad ass" OCs.

I would start making Tankbots if I where you.

This part is where Sim Settlements 2 lost me, and kind of killed my interest in completing the mod myself. It's... nonsense. It's "lets take an existing enemy and make them bigger" nonsense like you get from a Sci-Fi television series that have run too long and start jumping sharks to make bigger and better antagonists. It makes no sense for the Gunners to have that much of a presence outside the commonwealth. The simply don't have the structure or the organization, they aren't that old of a group. Heck there's more than a little bit of hinting in what lore we do get about the Gunners that they call themselves 'gunners' becasue of GNR plaza, they're just pronouncing "GNR" as "Gunner". I would have preferred 'somehow the enclave returned' to 'somehow the gunners returned'; if they really did want to stick with the gunners it should have been elements from around the commonwealth banding back together to retake the plaza. Maybe you've got a few stations outside the commonwealth that are making a push, but the way the plot of the mod goes it's like the majority of the gunners forces just happened to be outside the commonwealth at the time of the battle of GNR, and given all the other pieces they have on the board in the commonwealth that just doesn't make sense.

clear the entrance hall!!!

Hey Jon I've been watching your fallout survival series, among many of your other videos. I think since your love fallout style games and if your also into vr I beg you to please check out "Into the radius" don't look to much into it because you can spoil the lore. But it has a huge community, with many of loyal fans that I'm sure bore into the fallout crowd as well. Some compromises was made to the game so that it could be supported on the stand alone quest 2. But it can also be played with better graphics on pcvr. Please consider giving this game a chance, id love to see you play it.

Why does Raphael remind me of the guy from the postal series

See? Now THIS is a main story campaign I could get behind. Fallout 4 Main story sucks.

This mod has better writing, set dressing, and voice acting than the base Fallout. Bethesda should really stick to engine refinements and map making and subcontract the story, world building and writing.

So what ever happened to Algernon?

how many nightingales were taken at hardware town?

Has the Deliverer been upgraded at a work bench yet?

why does raphael sound like xavier renegade angel

I can never understand why the Shooting through walls perk is janky, surely all it takes is to turn collision of for your bullets momentarily, how in the hell does it still break? xD

I missed so much content when I played this mod.

1.5: YOLO Skyrim? Or Mass Effect 2/3 legendary? Been waiting years on them. I remember when you did a ME3 livestream in case you did a series.... So many years ago...

Holy shit, I never knew you can just skip the Institute meeting. So much time wasted...

Fun Fact, you can evne recruit built robots.. yes you too can beocme the Mechanist mawhahah

YAY!!!

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95% of this mod is talking. I don't mind story diaglogue, as Fallout naturally has an abundance of conversation. But this mod is too much of it. It's fun to watch, but I would go crazy playing it.

Thanks! PLEASE TRY ROME 2 TOTAL WAR OR ATTILA!

I just got dlc how the heck do I make an ed e

Day 139 of requesting Age of Mythology - a full playthrough if possible. Ellis went off without help? Doesn't he know that no man is an island? He shares a name with one, but that's different!