Do settlements even matter?
I've been spending a lot of time gathering resources and hauling them back to my base. The novelty of building things has worn off and I'm not having fun doing it anymore.
Does it actually matter if I build and protect my settlement? Are there any major story points (or quests that become available) by doing so after the initial base building tutorial missions? Is this an aspect of gameplay I can pretty much ignore?
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Once you get a settlement established it is a good source of income also nice to have a safe place to stay in. Also if you build a few scavenger benches and assign people to them they will start bringing in resources even rare things like nuclear materials so if you have several of them it makes future construction much easier. Another thing to be noted some people claim (hasn't been confirmed yet) that if you flag build items and recipes in their respective menus that the salvage will start to skew towards the items needed to create it so might be worth flagging a bunch of stuff that you want in the future then go do other things for a while and come back just to test it at least. New resources will be in the settlements inventory so just go look through it after you have been gone for a while.
Of course you can choose to ignore it if you wish they even stated its not required for the game. Just hope my answer might make the settlement mechanic more enjoyable
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Do Settlements matter Fallout 4?
Settlements aren:t required at all for the main quest unless you choose the minutmen but once you take a certain number of settlements you can take the castle which will provide you with some artillery.What happens if you dont defend a settlement?
As discussed here, if you don't defend your settlements the attackers will potentially kill the settlers present at that settlement (assuming the settlers are themselves unable to repel the attackers) and damage certain properties, for example seems that this defences (guard towers and turrets) and resource generators ...How many settlements should I have in Fallout 4?
The goal is to have at least eight such settlements. To do so, you just have to impress settlements by helping them out, as opposed to building recruitment beacons. The quest should conclude when you've recruited your eighth settlement.Loreen - Do We Even Matter. HQ + Lyrics (Heal Album CD rip)
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I am maybe about halfway through the game almost finished the main quest line,and so far I haven't done anything to my settlements except the first mission with beds water etc... So I don't think it matters unless you actually start focusing on them.
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Settlements aren:t required at all for the main quest unless you choose the minutmen but once you take a certain number of settlements you can take the castle which will provide you with some artillery. Another thing is that you will get a flargun after you become general which will become more useful as you get more settlements. So it's not requires but can be very useful.
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