Moar Fallout!
Howdy folks!
Welcome to May! Or the final day of April if you’re in the other part of the world. You know, the one other part. My birthday is now 57 days away… just saying.
So if you read last weeks post, you know I have been playing a lot of Fallout 4 lately - and I mean a lot a lot. This past week it has been the only thing I’ve played, to be honest, but I’m having a ton of fun. I spent a good bunch of time just venturing to all the locations that had been added to my map but I had not visited yet, and doing the repeatable quests where it’s like “Go to X place, kill a bunch of X thing, come back,” because that also sometimes reveals new locations. But the last few days, the big thing I have been doing is collecting a bunch of junk from all over the map, and in several cases, just buying screws and gears and stuff in bulk from the vendors in Diamond City and Goodneighbor, and carting it all back to my main settlement Sanctuary and building many many Giddyup Buttercups.
It started out small (as pictured above), when I went to a manufacturing plant that was littered with Buttercup parts and a few intact ones. But then when I came across another, much larger manufacturing plant filled with these little guys, and then remembered I can make these things my myself, it started to get a little out of hand…
…and then even more out of hand…
…and now I am making it my mission to see how many of these I can place until the game gets sick. This is why I love this game - there’s so much freedom to create here. Or… whatever this is, anyway.
So far there are about twenty of them placed in central Sanctuary, but last time I checked I had about fifty in storage waiting for what I am tentatively calling ‘The Horsening’. My plan is to first place one or two in random places around the outskirts of the town, and then just keep adding more and more until either I reach the point where there is just a sea of yellow, or the game stops cooperating. That reminds me, I need to make a notie of a good save point in case I break the game entirely and I need to start over.
Oh! And I have also been slowly building a museum and filling it with unique weapons and outfits that I find out in the Commonwealth, along with a ton of power armour sets as well. I’ll share some screenshots of all that at some point, once I have a museum layout and design I am really happy with.
One final thing I have to talk about before I let you go: I am thinking of doing some regular game streams! On like, regular days and times! I haven’t settled on a schedule yet, but I’ll be sure to let y’all know when I have. I expect to have that sorted out by middle of the week, and I’ll send out a little update, probably through the ‘notes’ feature on Substack that I have definitely figured out how to use already… or have I? In the mean time, follow me on Twitch!
As always, thanks so much for reading! I really appreciate it. Comments, questions or suggestions? Hit me up in the comments section, or over on the socials below. Thanks again, I’ll talk to you all again really soon. Ka kite anō au i a koe. 💚