SIM SETTLEMENTS 2

Raiders attack my settlements in Fallout 4 pretty often, but they’ve never taken hostages before. And now I have to go out into the woods, where the raiders have guns trained at my settlers’ heads, to save them. Dialogue options give me the choice of trying to pay the raiders off with caps or trying to talk my way out of it. Since my silver tongue has gotten me out of plenty of jams in the past, I tell the raider in charge that I’m sure we can come to a peaceful resolution.

“Nope,” the lead raider says. “They die.” And he immediately shoots one of my settlers in the head, point blank. A proper bloodbath follows.

All of this—raiders capturing my people, offering me a chance to talk things over, and then ignoring me—is a big shock, and that’s just mod. Like the original mod, it overhauls the settlement creation and management system in . But also adds a helping of something else ’s settlement system has always lacked. Drama! Yes, it’s got lots of great new building systems, but it’s also packed with new characters, stories and quests.