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Fallout 4, finally conquered the North by capturing all the settlements on the outer edges of the map. Now, all I have is a few niche settlements here or there, some of which came from new mods, before I completely take over the entire Commonwealth, and then The Wilderness from a mod I talked about a few weeks back.
I installed a few new weapon mods, but at this point I think I have more than enough weaponry, even without any guns available. This melee/explosive playthru turned out to be quite interesting, not just in Fallout 4 but also the other Fallout games. There has only been one time I was locked out and was forced to use a ranged weapon(Fallout 3) and in every other instance, there is other ways around the encounter, that includes diplomacy or some other non-combat means. That said, this is Fallout 4 so I was forced to focus on combat to some extent, and I can confidently say I am very much enjoying only using close quarter weapons and grenades. I said this before, but this opens up a more interesting way to play the game that requires a bit of skill, and ranged combat can be left up to my companions and squad mates, managing them is a small minigame in and of itself even if they do make combat easier. This playstyle makes Fallout 4 a lot more enjoyable, gunplay in comparison is boring since it just turns the game into a half-assed STALKER, one of the reasons why people think the game is so mediocre. Mind you, melee only run doesn't save the game, but if I were to rate it out of 10, it would increase the rating by 0.5 points.
I did a couple of side quests inbetween settlement stuff(my main quest) and radiant quests, one of them was a modded quest I never done before where a woman gets to be turned into a ghoul by Children of Atom(criminally underused faction), another was one The Big Dig which I never bothered to do in this playthru but one of the radiant quests forced me to collar one of the workers in the tunnels. The quest is rather fun, but I didn't need the money or anything else at this point so I did it for the XP basically. Since I don't want Hancock as a companion I sided with Bobby, for once, and raided his shitty little sad "vault" of goodies, more for the thrill of being a raider than anything else. Other than that, some interesting things happened during radiant gameplay, for example several of my settlements in Nuka World were all attacked at once(there is so many settlements under my control that on average, there is 3-4 settlements under a raid at any one time) which gave an illusion of my kingdom being under attack by a foreign army of raiders, and one of the radiant Pack quests had me collar yet another supermutant for their zoo, this time a unique boss from a dungeon
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_Eye
Once again, this shows that this raider simulator game I am currently playing could work and even have hand-crafted quests which revolve around it's core mechanics, but alas since this is Fallout 4, all I can expect at this point are shitty radiant quests with an occasional cool boss or dungeon. Seems like a small thing, but an encounter like this just makes me wish for a proper game that plays like this, not a hacked together modded mess I am currently running.
Speaking of disappointments, the Cannibal perk is really lame compared to it's Fallout 3 and New Vegas iteration. Maybe it's because I am so high leveled, but despite there being corpses everywhere since this is Fallout 4 and you can't go 2 minutes without killing something, they barely restore any health. Not that I have any trouble with that since I have a bajillion healing items and passive health regen from other perks, so being a cannibal is more for roleplaying than a proper gameplay mechanic. Shame, some of my best recent playthrus, like London/3/New California made cannibalism an entire playstyle in itself and shaped who these characters were. In Bell's case, it more or less is just another threshold in just how insane and degenerate he has gotten, the company he keeps sure aren't helping matters.
Other than that, I am going to look for that last missing Metal MK2/Robot armor piece to complete my armor set and continue capturing more Commonwealth settlements while I get ready for the big logistical challenge that will be building up a new worldspace from scratch that barely has any resources found within it(it isn't called "The Wilderness" for nothing). Right now, I am capturing one of the diner settlements to create a second supersettlement I talked about earlier, so that's going to be fun.
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