Haha, i'm sure i've seen Heston Blumenthal make Radscorpion steak before.

It's not much of a "quest" but I felt really protective toward Curie at the end of her quest-line and she DOES make for a competent follower afterwards since her default weapon is a laser rifle and (due to her "Mr Handy" AI) she's deadly with a melee weapon if you give her a decent one.


I finished the main story tonight and I'm immediately planning what I'm going to do next.

I think I'm going to carry on playing for a while in order to experiment with the perks and then I'm going to start again with a set plan for how I'm going to grow my character.

I feel like I relied on Cait far too much to pick locks and open safes for me and, as a result, I probably missed-out on interactions with other followers.
next time around I think I'm going to level all the scavenger/thief perks and that should allow me more latitude in picking a follower.


It's funny but all the way through the game I've been "collecting" heavy weapons and suits of power-armor (I have at least one of every type) and saving them for the "big fights" that I assumed were going to happen sooner or later but then I ended up slaughtering the BOS and invading the Institute with little more than a silenced .308 combat rifle and some Gunners armor.

I really would have liked more "boss fights" like the one I had against the Mirelurk Queen in order to secure The Castle for the Minutemen - a proper opportunity to make use of all the heavy weapons and armor I had collected.

One thing I WAS a little disappointed about was that I felt like the game was a little lacking in "closure".
I only discovered that Danse was a Synth' when I found a Synth' component on his body after the BOS turned hostile and I had to kill him, I found evidence in the Institute that supported Piper's allegations that Mayor McDonagh (sp?) was a Synth' and I also found out that a variety of the people at various settlements are also Synth's but it doesn't seem like there was ever an opportunity to DO anything with that information.

Then again, perhaps doing things in a different way next time around will yield different results.
I seem to recall reading, somewhere, that there IS a quest-line that involves revealing to Danse that he's a Synth' and having him leave the BOS for example.

You can reveal Mayor McDonough's secret after you finished the main story for anyone but the Institute .

You never do find out qhat happened to that blood.

There is a good questline in vault 81 but it can take a while to get it. Speak to everyone and make sure you rescue the cat when it escapes from the vault.

Just got this game and I am not very far into it at all. Just fought the Deathclaw and because I am a complete novice it took a good few goes for me to do this. My question is, how do you throw Grenades and molotoves? Tried to lob a few at the Deathclaw only to die... quite a bit. Also I had spent all my minigun ammo on the raiders.

It took me a while to work this one out once you have equipped the grenade in the menu you need to hold the bash button (RB on Xbox and probably R1 on ps4) you will hear a little grande pin type click when holding the button to let you know when you can release the button.

Thanks. Needless to say I became Deathclaw chowder rather quickly till I hid in one of the shops and just blasted the thing.

Ahh ok cool, I will go and back track outside for the cat.

I'm beginning to think my game has a glitch with that first encounter.
I've seen this story from a lot of people, even those on normal or easy.
I started on hard difficulty and just stood still and swiss-cheesed that thing. It hit me a couple of times, even staggering me, but still only took less than half my health.


Had my first Settler die yesterday. Synths attacked The Castle and killed my artillery guy. I'm unable to complete the defend quest because I apparently haven't killed all of the attackers. Nobody on radar. Settlers turned the siren off. Scouted as far out as Spectacle and Yangtze. Even used Dogmeat to search for enemies in the area. Balls to it, I'm letting it fail. Same thing happened after they infiltrated The Slog. Turned up to find two settlers dead with Synth components on their corpses. But no other enemies about.
Glitch with Synth attacks on settlements?


Finally on my way into the Glowing Sea after 220 hours.

Is there a place you can see how many hours you've put in

I go off actual game save time. 9 days 5 hours & change as of last night.



edit: ooh, 3k

Sorry I think I've misdirected you. One of the kids in the vault will give you the quest to rescue the cat, It's when you get back from that you get the quest that lets you find out what Vault 81 was really about.

Yes I did a little more research on Vault 81, the Hole in the Wall was a decent quest and I did the cat quest.

I'm running out of things to now unless there are more big locations to explore, so I saved and went on rampage in Vault 81

Question:- Can you renovate the houses in Sanctuary to make them habitable or do you have to scrap them all and rebuild?

Unfortunately not. You can put new furniture and decorations in them to make them look nice but not fix the holes or add doors (This Old House is now playing in my head. Jesus, I'm old ). And only the ones that are just rubble can be scrapped.
I'd expect one of the first mods available will be a revamp of the settlement feature.

Thanks. I scrapped a house and then panicked, thinking I could have just done the thing up. (shows you how little I am through the game)

anyone know how you find the railroad? I'm level 25 now, worked to diamond city and done a few quests + some of the main story but not come across them yet, also the BOS don't seem to be giving me any new quests :/

Railroad - Have you picked up the quest 'Road to Freedom'?

BoS - Have you picked up the quest 'Shadow of Steel'?

Road to Freedom, yes I believe I did get that quest actually... it was near the lake with Swan in it if I remember correctly? I then got side tracked and went somewhere else

regarding BOS and Shadow of Steel, no I do not think I have that one - the last quest I did was the clearing the armory in the fort (I think) and then talking to all the people inside the ship. Then spoke to that elder and he didn't give me anything else to do afterwards!

You've done Shadow of Steel then. That's when .
Makson should have given you a quest after you got back from the Fort about getting food.

hmm, is he the guy who sells the weapons / ammo? If so I have done the first of them but I assumed they were just radiant quests? I did one of those and a couple for the other people you speak to but none of them seem like progressive story missions?

Road to Freedom ends at a church, go in that church and explore.

Although you'll need to have noted down the clues from the RtF to progress so you might want to go through it again.

To be pedantic, that's not entirely correct.

I can't remember where I saw it but there are plenty of videos on Youtube explaining how you can (if you really want to) renovate all the original houses.

Basically, it's a case of using a "exploit" in the construction options.
You can build a "wooden floor with foundation" right next to an existing house and then add doors, walls and even a new roof and then, when you're happy with the result, you can scrap all the new bits of floor you've added and just leave the walls, doors, ceilings and roof.

As far as the game is concerned they'll just be "floating in mid air" but to all intents and purposes they'll look like part of a pre-existing building.

It's a huge faff and there's no easy way to do it but it IS possible to renovate the original houses if you're really determined to.
Of course, there's no real need to.

Speaking of which, my settlement at the red Rocket was just getting too busy so I ended up just building a "compound" on a cleared slab in Sanctuary Hills and it looks very neat and tidy.
Basically, it's a C-shape of joined metal prefabs with a wooden roof over the top and then a fence across the front to stop settlers wandering in.


While I'm at it, I found another "bug".

I did The Battle of Bunker Hill a few days ago and fought my way through it all but then I found myself carrying too much so I dumped a bunch of stuff in a cabinet in Bunker Hill and then, when I came to retrieve it, the residents of Bunker Hill seemed to think I was "stealing" so they all became hostile.

I ended up reloading a quicksave and this time I decided I'd just complete the Institute portion of the mission so I killed the Courser and left the BOS, Railroad and Institute to their firefight.

So, out of curiosity I decided to go back into the caverns undern Bunker Hill last night to see what loot was left lying around and I discovered that all the machine-gun turrets down there are now indestructible!

I guess the game intends that they should be destroyed during The Battle of Bunker Hill mission and so it makes them indestructible at any other time to ensure they're there for that mission but if you don't destroy them during the mission they end up being indestructible forever.


I still can't get Piper her story about Mayor McDonaugh either.
Apparently, once the main story is over you're supposed to go to Diamond City and find a guard who's been shot by Mayor McD' because he's gone nuts after the Institute has been destroyed and that prompts a resolution to it all but it just doesn't seem to be happening for me.
The guards are all still healthy and Mayor McD' is still just staring out of his office window making random comments.

I guess with a game this complicated there will inevitably be some small things that end up "broken".

The BOS quest-line goes awfully quiet for a while.

Basically, play through the game and you will, eventually get friendly with The Institute and sooner or later they'll tell you they need parts to build a nuclear reactor.
At this point you'll get the option to either do the job for The Institute OR you can report to the Railroad or the BOS.

If you decide to report to the BOS you'll be told THEY want the same parts for a giant stompy robot they're planning on building.

Then you can decide if you want to get the parts for the Institute or the BOS - or neither.

The decisions you make around this time will be what gets the BOS quest-line moving again.

Of course, it's possible to make choices that means this doesn't happen.
If you refuse to have anything to do with The Institute AND you've refused to go along with the BOS's plans then neither of them will ask you to get the parts for the nuclear reactor.

I'm not sure how the game would progress any further in that situation to be honest.
Presumably the game would progress straight to the part where you attack the BOS and then move on to the game's finale.

I've just brought a ps4 and this game, I'm reading the guide book as it installs I'm so overwhelmed lol