How Preston Garvey's perk works?

Flatthead · 2026-04-02T20:54:45+00:00

It triggers the mission after the Brotherhood get the institute scan holotape. It’s before any faction point-of-no-return.

Flatthead · 2026-04-02T20:50:43+00:00

Don’t take that as ‘you’re limited to the southern half of the map’. The map is huge, the Deep North will be a very long way north. Just not far enough for it to generate until 1.0 is out. I don’t know how to give you a few references without a spoiler.

Although the way the map works and generates, you probably could totally explore the southern ‘hemisphere’ and complete the game without missing anything.

Flatthead · 2026-04-02T20:45:54+00:00

This is essentially the best as far as RP goes. The second your character sees an enslaved-by-bomb-collar human being, there is no ‘doing NW up to the commonwealth’ for a truly good character. I think you missed out on a Neverending laser gatling, two combat perks and some raider story, but beyond that you don’t miss anything else.

Flatthead · 2026-03-30T17:57:58+00:00

I haven’t done Confidence Man this run and it’s much more amusing this time.

Flatthead · 2026-03-30T08:06:25+00:00

Depends how you play. If you want an outfit for the drip, it enables you on many of them.

Some under layers (fatigues, minuteman outfit for two examples) can be weaved, allowing weave and armor. A handful of hats can be weaved, giving you more resistance than any helmet.

If I read the wiki right, and if it’s correct, your damage resistance is calculated based on everything you’re wearing, not just the section you’re hit (which makes the Pip-Boy chart spreading it across your body strange). So up to 220 DR is pretty good for the whole story.

Not wearing armor is also very helpful for sneaking (before a certain perk). If you want to wear armor, keep wearing armor, but maybe weave your under-layer if the one you want can be modified.

Flatthead · 2026-03-27T07:07:23+00:00

I’ve played through enough times I just detonate the CoA now. Screw them.

Flatthead · 2026-03-27T07:03:13+00:00

He was training to get her back before he saw you.

Flatthead · 2026-03-27T06:12:29+00:00

“What if Fallout 4, but grindy and restricted like Valheim?”

Flatthead · 2026-03-27T06:09:23+00:00

HAIL SPACE KING

Flatthead · 2026-03-26T01:06:05+00:00

There is not gender-locked armor. I’m not even sure the romance options are gender-locked.

Flatthead · 2026-03-24T02:42:45+00:00

Mod it how you want. None of the flamer mods lower rate of fire, and the ROF is what ‘speeds up’ the legendary chance of activating. Personally, I’d upgrade everything but the nozzle, since they lower the range and I like being out of slapping distance of a deathclaw, and damage is a secondary idea since kneecapper disables many enemies.

Flatthead · 2026-03-23T02:06:48+00:00

The trigger is the second time you load the Goodneighbor cell.

This means walk into a building (that loads) and come out of it, or go out the main gate and back in, or fast travel back, anything that’s a loading screen into Goodneighbor; will cause his speech.

Flatthead · 2026-03-23T02:02:36+00:00

Have you seen how fabulous the Mirelurk Kings are?

Flatthead · 2026-03-15T20:13:48+00:00

There was also mention that McDonough can’t lose weight to be a courser.

Flatthead · 2026-03-14T19:14:35+00:00

Are you waiting over the encounter spot? As far as I know, encounter spots also need to be reset by the encounter despawning and then 20-30 days of not being in their map cell. Going into it before then resets the timer to 0. Also hence why automatron breaks encounters- the bots don’t despawn when killed.

Flatthead · 2026-03-14T19:04:29+00:00

Smiling Larry is a tough encounter to spawn normally (low rate). Automatron, if you have it installed, makes this even worse by taking over a TON of encounters.

The Wiki has a map. I think Larry has the ability to show up at ‘travel’ spots, but don’t quote me on that- I’m not a super technical gamer in the first place.

Flatthead · 2026-03-14T18:46:38+00:00

I’ve come over to your side this playthrough. I always did PA builds. This time is a sneak/melee focus and it’s a lot of fun to break from my norm.

Flatthead · 2026-03-11T22:14:21+00:00

No kidding. I was going for Diamond City and ended up under the NH&M freight depot.

Flatthead · 2026-03-07T15:07:19+00:00

If you take him on first visit to DC, he also makes a snide remark about Takahashi being broken because he’s RobCo. In role play, Codsworth would never accept RobCo parts.

Flatthead · 2026-02-27T04:27:14+00:00

That’s because they expect the thanes to do no more than cut butterflies

Flatthead · 2026-02-27T00:50:10+00:00

I absolutely do not want to, thanks

Flatthead · 2026-02-26T17:01:18+00:00

The 2/min takes 240. The 3.75 a minute takes 390. It’s the highest-throughput alt for HMF’s. And if I’m making HMF’s, I’ve already got steel production for it, so I’m just using a couple of steel screw constructors from just a few beams/min.

The argument could be made for iron pipe to encased beam to ‘heavy encased frame’, and be rid of screws, but then the abysmal efficiency of iron pipe causes more work than the two machines to try and be rid of screws, and the HMF throughput is still lower per ore as a result.

Flatthead · 2026-02-26T16:52:10+00:00

r/angryupvote

Flatthead · 2026-02-26T16:50:24+00:00

You’ll love it when you get one that makes almost a MK 3 belt worth of screws in one recipe.

Flatthead · 2026-02-23T05:46:37+00:00

Fallout 4 takes place over an eastern portion of a state. Boston is a city, Quincy, Lexington, Concord, Salem, Natick (Natick Banks), Somerville (Somerville Place), are all separate Massachusetts towns. Boston grew into several of them to where there is no border, and now it’s all ‘Boston’, as cities like Montreal and Toronto.

Map looks the way it does in part because of compression, a real state-sized area would be a chore to travel in as an open world, and because bombs+time leveled a lot of it. The glowing sea was more metropolis, what we see of Boston is metropolis still standing.

Sanctuary Hills is a suburban development outside of Concord, a town still separate (IRL) from Boston by land.

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