Yeah, I did the Castle earlier too, around Level 15-18, I'm at 27 right now. It was really painful, a lot of deaths and restarts. In one of my tries I was fighting a Legendary mirelurk and the Queen Mirelurk. Yeah, I only lasted a few seconds.
I used the Fat Man. And then just hide in the castle, trying to hit the Queen. It took me a long time doing that.
Then I had to kill the Legendary Mirelurk, but for that one I just jumped to an unreachable place and kept firing from there. I took off my armor, and the other Minuteman that was alive immediately took it. It was fun.

Good article. Agree completely. Choices doesn't matter, charisma doesn't matter. Just go here, kill stuff, complete quest. Back in July Bethesda mentioned they would have non-violent playstyles. Evidently that didn't work out, or it just involves a lot of stealth and running away.

Yeah, even though it's more limited I enjoy this a lot more than Fallout 3 or New Vegas. But all 3 have been a big step back from the original two.

I avoided the spot that the legendary mirelurk was in until the castle was nicely settled and when I posted my artillery spots in the four corners of it the mirelurk never reappeared. Glitch?

Looks like the PIP-Boy edition for the PC is in stock at Amazon again.

http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-4-Pip-...t+4+pc+edition

Legendaries are random, so sometimes they'll show up, sometimes they won't.

For some reason seeing "Legendary" always pulls me out of the game a little bit, even though it's just slightly different than having somebody's name floating above their head.

Hmm, all I know is I still have almost no one there. I was supposed to assign someone to do something at the end of another quest there, and there was no one left alive to assign (eventually there was, I actually have a whopping 2 settler-type people there at this point). So I just figured it was that I let everyone die.

It will eventually populate. I have like 6 guys there. Another thing you can do to speed things along, it's tedious however, is to travel to your settlements and assign folks to the Castle route. Once they're at the castle and if you have supplies build it up like you did Sanctuary Hills. Then assign folks to the stands, crops, etc. I've got guys specifically handling artillery, which is neat.

I'm t level 51 and saw that I accidentally armed myself with this awesome and powerful gun that uses the 5.54 bullets. I've been staying over to the left of the map across the radiated hills and ran into 2 Deathclaws and a fucking Matriarch Deathclaw. It was intense but if it wasn't for me being leveled up that high and having this gun I would have been toast. I recommend having lots of the Radaway/radiation suit, because that's where all the fallout seems to rain from. I went over to some cache building and the Atlantic Office but had to back off due to the radiation.

The tower you assign someone to in the castle is an emergency broadcast signal that keeps giving you settlement assistance type quests when you're close by. It's not a settler beacon. If you want to get more settlers at the castle, you still have to build one of those settler beacon towers that you build in all the other settlements.

I only had 4 settlers at the castle for the longest time until it dawned on me that I never actually built one of those beacons (I assumed the tower that was already there was it, but it's not). The population shot right up to 20+ once I built the beacon.

I was at level 21 when I took the castle. Used the missile launcher but I died many times before I figured out a good way to kill it. I have never died this many times in a game before. I had to turn the difficulty down from normal to easy. I still don't get the settlement part. I can't get anyone to work.

I'm sure that is totally what it is, I just assumed with the radio blasting all over people would show up.

Something I just read is that if you already maxed on a SPECIAL, and THEN you get the bobblehead, you'll be 11. No extra perks but if it's something pretty useful to your play style, might be worth it (I had agility at 9 since I mostly sneak around and need lots of vats, might have made it 10 to bump to 11 just to see if it made a difference if I'd known).

Still roaming around and cleaning out certain places. Cleaned out the Gunners Plaza, etc. There's a bobblehead in that level, but you need to be leveled up, because Gunners tend to be strong as it is already.

I've decided I'm just gonna store all my stuff at one location (first red rocket you get) it's just easier to manage that way but I wanted to ask was...do raiders or anyone else ever steal your shit when you're not there?

I don't know who would just throw shit in a random mailbox or any other place that allows you store your stuff....I mean how the hell would you remember where it was??

I've kept all my stuff at the Red Rocket too. After 101 Hours, No one has stolen anything. Raiders show up from time to time but they never touch anything.

I just store all my stuff at the workshop in Sanctuary. I have that place set us at the hub for all my supply lines so whenever I fill up with junk I drop it in my workshop and I can use it anywhere.

Hit lvl 20 and I finally feel like I'm not spending so much time running for my life.

I store my crap in Sanctuary and at my house in Diamond City. I do have several Power Armors around the Comonwealth.

Red Rocket is my home base, but I do have couple power armor suits at Sanctuary and a couple at Prydm.

I set up supply lines to most settlements, so all but airport and Prydm are connected.

More roaming today. Discovered the airport and the robot pirates. That mission had a hilarious finish.

I think I'm at level 57.

For those that have finished does the "railroad" mission interfere with the "reunions" mission? Does the order of completion matter. I feel like I'm getting to the end. Please advise.

Anyone else find the submarine yet?

I'm not sure what you mean by the railroad mission because there's more than one, but 'Reunions' is part of the main quest line. None of the main quest line missions interfere with any of the factions. You can actually be friendly with all 4 factions at once... up until a certain point. As you get deeper into the faction quest lines, the game will tell you if you're about to do an action that will make you an enemy of another faction and you'll have the option to back out.

The order of completion doesn't matter, but if you want to get all the achievements/trophies in one playthrough then you have to make a couple saves at certain points. Most people do their first critical save at 'Mass Fusion' (which is an Institute quest).

Also, if you haven't been to the Institute yet then you're not quite getting near the end. You will come to a point where the other 3 factions (Brotherhood, Railroad, Minutemen) will stop giving you 'new' storyline quests until you reach the Institute so don't worry about alienating anybody just yet.

Not sure if you know or not but you can buy the hazmat suit from fallon's basement in diamond city. The down side....you will be weak when fighting enemies - quickly changing out clothing for battle doesn't help much either so you will still need a bunch of radaway.

So, I've pretty much been everywhere on the map (with the exception of a few places) - Interesting things everywhere.

I have found the thing that pisses me off most about this game - the ammo, I have killed a ton of ghouls and everything else and I only get shitty ammo from every enemy. Even when I went to the Boston common (and wasn't expecting to encounter what I did) and had to fight the main "boss" - I had no good ammo at all.

Between the ammo issue, Constantly having to manage picked up items (you're carrying too much and can't run!!), and having to deal with trying to find the next mission location on the map as they sometimes make you find them yourself......it really slows down the momentum of the game.

I loved when I visited the area (sorry, can't remember the name) where robots run the city - I decided to play along with the diner robot who asked if I wanted to be seated to eat, so I followed him, sat down in the booth and he asked "so what will it be - char-broiled, mashed, (and something else..I forget)" when I chose char-broiled my character said "wait, what?" then all the robots started to attack me - ha, really caught me off guard.

Oh, and has anyone ran into a "Swan" yet? Shit, those things have to be stronger than the death claws....well maybe I'm wrong but, don't walk in shallow ponds or you will run into one!!!! (hint, if you really want to fight one, find the boston common on your map and simply walk through the pond out in front of it).

You can always sell the .38 ammo that is literally everywhere and trade the funds to buy the ammo you need. For weight issues, just bring a follower along and command them to pick up the heavy items. Even Dogmeat can carry armor for you. And you travel in power armor you carry weight increases enough for it to no be a big deal.

I'd really wish they would add a gun rack and mannequins in the workbench to display your unused special weapons and unique outfits. They already have magazine racks and a bobble head stand. Seems easy enough.