Fallout 4

[Fozzle]

Is there a way to transfer settlers from one settlement to another? I didn’t see anything in the command menu.

It is actually “® Move”. The (E) button makes them change positions. The Move button sends them to a new camp. You have to be in build mode, and then facing the settler.

[Grifman]

Is there a way to transfer settlers from one settlement to another? I didn’t see anything in the command menu.

Yes but you will have to google, I don’t know how.

[JFrazer]

Not sure I understand your problem? Are you setting up supply lines between the old and new settlements? Then they should have access. That said, I wouldn’t start a new settlement until I felt I had the resources to support it and get it up and running.

Naw, it’s more of having to carry around starter-sets of supplies with me. It’s a minor complaint, but it’s gotten to the point of needing step away from it. There are a ton of new settlements (last night, I established 4 new settlements in about an hour and a half). I have plenty of supplies in Sanctuary and The Castle, it’s just annoying to have to go back to them every time I’m establishing a new settlement. When you’re tuned in to Freedom Radio, you get these semi-constant stream of farms and unsettled areas showing up as quests.

As for the supply line statement, I should say “not having access to your supplies”. I don’t have the Local Leader perks, so I can’t establish supply lines. For the last 4 levels, I bumped my Charisma up to 6 and my next 2 levels will be points in Local Leader. Until I get those, I’m likely going to stop creating new settlements so that I’m not fast traveling all over the place for each set of new settlements.

Personally, if I was able to change anything, it would be to have workshops linked by default. Local Leader could instead provide bonuses to the performance of your settlers. 10% extra supplies harvested. 20% increase to caps earned via markets. Etc…

[JFrazer]

Yes but you will have to google, I don’t know how.

When you’re in build mode, hover over a settler. You will see a “Move” command. That allows you to move the settler to another settlement. Some settlers won’t move (you can’t move Finch off of Finch Farms, for example).

[Scrax]

Vault 81

[spoiler] Anyone else check their stat effects after completing Vault 81?

Friend of mine clued me into the fact that you get diseased if you are hit by one of the molerats (appears to be permanent -10 reduction in hit points. Maybe I would have thought a little harder about the save the kid/take the magical health elixir if I noticed that earlier. Was there a notification - if so I definitely missed it. Oh well![/spoiler]

[KevinC]

I’m getting a little frustrated with new settlements not having access to your supply lines. They start with almost exactly enough mats to build the generator and settler tower that’s required to create a colony, but beyond that you can’t really build anything.

Charisma 6 and Local Leader is very useful for that. I’ve got a robust supply network built, so the second a new settlement comes online I can quickly build whatever I need. I go to one of my larger settlements, set up a supply route to the new town, and it’s all taken care of from there.

[AntediluvianArk]

This is already a 100 hour game with fast travel, I can’t imagine how long would be without using it.

That is a really good point. I’m willing to bet the people arguing for the elimination of fast travel have a lot more time to play videogames. I have less than 10 hours in Fallout 4 since release since that is all the time I have had for games in the past couple of weeks with my schedule. With that said, I am one that appreciates fast travel. :-)

-Todd

[Alistair]

For people who like travel, is there a fast-combat option?

[Scrax]

Easy mode? Game is starting to get easy on Very Hard - so I might up it to Survivor. I figure raiders fall over with a stiff breeze on easy!

[Oghier]

Is there a way to transfer settlers from one settlement to another? I didn’t see anything in the command menu.

In workshop mode, approach the settler. One of the commands available at the bottom will be “Move.”

[KevinC]

For people who like travel, is there a fast-combat option?

Yes.

~ killall

Or you could do ~ kill if you’re a little more discriminating in your murder.

[Profanicus]

My guess is that this bug happens when you try to place too many plants at the same time.

I don’t think that’s the issue, as the bug happens when moving plants around. You can still plant a bunch of new ones and successfully interact with them.

Ah, I’ve run into this too… I think I know what the issue is.
I think it has to do with crops which have been planted, then grew food, and then were harvested. Until they grow food again, you can’t pick them up or move them or do anything. Or something? It’s something like that.

I don’t think it’s related to harvesting after planting either, as last night I freshly planted a bunch of Mutfruit trees, then immediately decided I wanted them elsewhere. After moving them to a new spot I could no longer interact with most of them. Thankfully I saved first.

I guess the workaround until it’s fixed is to ‘store’ them and re-plant, rather than moving.

[JFrazer]

OK Bethesda. When talking to a settler, how about a conversation option that says “Whatcha working on?” and they respond with “I’m doing some farming” “I’m searching the wasteland for salvage” “I’m selling medical supplies to the locals” etc…? Getting tired of assigning what I think is a new settler and finding out that I reassigned a farmer or assigned someone who was already working defense. You have such a great game here, now lets work on the quality of life and usability stuff.

Next suggestion: be able to assign settlers to work the weapon/armor benches. When assigned, they up the defense of your settlement based on the number of settlers you have (say, +1 defense per settler in the settlement) and randomly create weapons and armor for the settlers. Same for the cooking station; assign a settler to be a “cook”, raising your overall food production by 20% and creating random cooked foods that show up in your stash.

[Strollen]

OK Bethesda. When talking to a settler, how about a conversation option that says “Whatcha working on?” and they respond with “I’m doing some farming” “I’m searching the wasteland for salvage” “I’m selling medical supplies to the locals” etc…? Getting tired of assigning what I think is a new settler and finding out that I reassigned a farmer or assigned someone who was already working defense. You have such a great game here, now lets work on the quality of life and usability stuff.

Next suggestion: be able to assign settlers to work the weapon/armor benches. When assigned, they up the defense of your settlement based on the number of settlers you have (say, +1 defense per settler in the settlement) and randomly create weapons and armor for the settlers. Same for the cooking station; assign a settler to be a “cook”, raising your overall food production by 20% and creating random cooked foods that show up in your stash.

I completely agree with both of these. They really need to patch settlment management soon, and then it would be really nice to flesh out the settlement concept. I think they did a very nice job with the building and scrapping element of the game, and basic exploration part, but settlement is an increasing source of frustration for me.

[KevinC]

OK Bethesda. When talking to a settler, how about a conversation option that says “Whatcha working on?” and they respond with “I’m doing some farming” “I’m searching the wasteland for salvage” “I’m selling medical supplies to the locals” etc…? Getting tired of assigning what I think is a new settler and finding out that I reassigned a farmer or assigned someone who was already working defense. You have such a great game here, now lets work on the quality of life and usability stuff.

Next suggestion: be able to assign settlers to work the weapon/armor benches. When assigned, they up the defense of your settlement based on the number of settlers you have (say, +1 defense per settler in the settlement) and randomly create weapons and armor for the settlers. Same for the cooking station; assign a settler to be a “cook”, raising your overall food production by 20% and creating random cooked foods that show up in your stash.

I really want a ledger from which I can see every settler in town and what their current assignment is. I want to be able to select them from this ledger and assign them to a task (supply route, farming, defense, a shop, etc). Having to do all this in first-person mode is just tedious and stupid, for the reasons you mentioned and many, many more.

And how about going the extra two feet and adding a random name generator to people who join your settlement? Superfluous with a ledger, but it’d be a little more immersive to see “John O’Brian” at the shop stand instead of a dozen “settlers”. Give them a little “-” designation by their name if they’re worried about filtering out unimportant NPCs.

And regarding shops, what’s the point? I could have really used constructing a shop in the first 10 levels or so, before I ever found a merchant. Unfortunately you can’t do that, because they level-gate it for some reason. I tried building some shops to see how they work. While they add a tiny bit of convenience, I have no idea what the draw of spending all those caps to build the shops is. They don’t seem to make me money or anything?

This settlement stuff could potentially be really cool in this kind of game, but that’s all it is right now: potential.

[Telefrog]

I really want a ledger from which I can see every settler in town and what their current assignment is. I want to be able to select them from this ledger and assign them to a task (supply route, farming, defense, a shop, etc). Having to do all this in first-person mode is just tedious and stupid, for the reasons you mentioned and many, many more.

The management ledger will be an item you have to craft. 6 wood, 2 wire, and 2 chalk. You’ll also have to assign a settler to it.

And how about going the extra two feet and adding a random name generator to people who join your settlement? Superfluous with a ledger, but it’d be a little more immersive to see “John O’Brian” at the shop stand instead of a dozen “settlers”. Give them a little “-” designation by their name if they’re worried about filtering out unimportant NPCs.

Even weirder are the quests that make you go talk to “settler” at a named farm or whatever. Like, really, Bethesda? You couldn’t be assed to give that quest guy a name?

[KevinC]

The management ledger will be an item you have to craft. 6 wood, 2 wire, and 2 chalk. You’ll also have to assign a settler to it.

Maybe it’ll even be their first DLC release! Who needs horse armor when you can buy a “Basic UI functionality” add-on for $4.99?

[Murbella]

Vault 81

[spoiler] Anyone else check their stat effects after completing Vault 81?

Friend of mine clued me into the fact that you get diseased if you are hit by one of the molerats (appears to be permanent -10 reduction in hit points. Maybe I would have thought a little harder about the save the kid/take the magical health elixir if I noticed that earlier. Was there a notification - if so I definitely missed it. Oh well![/spoiler]

This is such a bullshit decision and a poorly designed quest.

There is zero notification of this happening and you can get the disease from your companion getting hit.

I didn’t even know i had it until i read this post and i did that quest days ago.

[Squee]

To commemorate commissar Kurt and guardsman MacCready’s heroic defense of forgeworld Boston, a picture was taken by a servoskull.

My only regret is I can’t have a sword in my other hand.

[Aleck]

A patch is due out next week. I don’t think that is unreasonable for a game that came out the 10th of this month. But haters gonna hate :)

As long as they don’t do a Fallout 2 “sorry, the patch took a few weeks and by the way it invalidates all your old saves but you’ll have fun starting all over,” I’m okay with it taking two weeks.

Although, looking back, games have come a long way. I don’t remember the last time a game basically borked every save game from before the patch.