Yes the same exploit that worked in Skyrim still works in Fallout 4. Drop your stuff and tell your companion to pick it up. You don't even have to put it in a container first, just drop it on the floor.

Cool, thanks for the clarification. Good to see that's still working. I've been putting junk stashes all over creation and then picking them up when I remember where I left them

That's always my problem, in games and in real life

My bad. It does 330 points of damage plus 3 points of poison. It's called the Poisoner's Gauss Rifle, and it is by far the most powerful rifle I've ever had in the game. In most cases it's a one-shot kill for any organic enemy, Legendaries sometimes excluded. I wish I could remember where I found it.

I know you can get a good Gauss from the Prydwynn, but I never actually tried to get it.

EDIT: You can upgrade Gauss rifles to have massive damage, like over 500 points, by having certain perks ( 5 in rifle, 4 is Science) and by using the weapons workbench. My Gauss came the way it is -- or maybe I messed it up and reduced its damaged at a workbench. I thought it was 430 damage, and I think I might have reduced its damage by changing it. Anyway, still a fab weapon, and one that I will be playing with some more to see if I can get it back up there.

Check on line for info about the Gauss and how to upgrade it. It has become my weapon of choice.

OK, so just call me clueless. The workshop at the Starlite Drive-in, in which I am storing all of my stuff is a veritable fortress itself. It's basically a maze to get into the place and two doors that I use the console lock command on to, what I though, seal it up tight. I've started bringing settlers into the place and assigning them tasks and beds right away to make sure they don't mess with Cait's or my set up. Well, I just got back from a quest, noticed that I had two new settlers listed in the settlement stats, but could only find one. So, I head up to my alleged ultra-secure workshop and storage area and guess who's there playing with the Weapon's bench, THE OTHER NEW SETTLER! GAH! How the heck did he get through two BARRED doors? I give, there's got to be a mod or something to take care of this. If I find a settler in my power armor there's going to be heck to pay!

Settlers are always taking my power armour, and then it gets blasted in a Supermutant attack. Lucky for me I don't really use it. If I find one while questing I will keep wearing it, but I always end up dumping them somewhere. At one point I had several at Sanctuary Hills, but somehow they all seem to be missing.

Edit: Maybe the new settler spawned inside the locked room? This may be time to set up a locked room murder mystery.

I had one get into my beachfront cabin on the Island and he WOULD NOT leave. The only way I was able to get him to go was to scrap the chairs and bed. Then the lazy bum finally left. Looking for another place to sit his useless posterior. I locked the place, ran after him, and turned him into a provisioner. That'll teach him to be a layabout.

Well, I took your idea and placed the fast travel mat inside of my workshop/storage area and removed the ladder that accesses it. Now the only way in is through fast travel or parachute. I think I can fast travel out of the room, since it's technically an exterior cell, so I may just remove the doors altogether. If another settler appears in there, they have to be spawning in the room.

Settlers can be placed anywhere it seems when go to one of your sites. I've had Carla and her animals (cant remember what theyre called for the minute) appear on the roof of the main building even though there is no means of getting up there. Also her animals sometimes appear inside the main house (the one with the workbench) even though there is no way they could have fit through the door.

Yeah, those darn Brahmin into the darnedest places. I like the look they give you when you walk right up to them, like "Yes, you have something to say?"

Well, I guess I'll just muddle on through until the good and saintly development folks over at Nexus Mods come out with their version of an Unofficial bug fix for FO4. I was just reading a couple posts over at their forum and it sounds like they are sitting back a bit and analyzing the newest patches and DLC. I'm sure it will be awhile before they post up a patch, but at least I know they are working on it. Kudos to the Dev's and Admins over at Nexus for giving of their time to do those patches. I don't think they get half the credit they should for that work.

You know, I have this sense (and I may be completely wrong) that part of settlement happiness is making sure that you don't have layabouts and handout-takers sitting around. I just seems that happiness is higher in settlements where everybody has an assigned task. I'm going to try that next. If there are no open work positions, I'll plant something and put someone to tending it. I know you can sometimes raise happiness by simply assigning settlers to unassigned beds.

In this game, I found someone who sells Brahmins, but only once. Since then, no Brahmins have just wandered into my settlements the way they did in my last game. In my last game I never encountered either the Brahmin seller or the dog seller. I wish I knew how to locate them.

Sounds like real life

I think you're on to something. I didn't know you could assign beds until settlers started sleeping in my room at the Drive In so I just gave it a try and it worked. For whatever reason though, I have to reassign Cait's bed occasionally to her when we go on missions. She jumps right back into the crop tending, but forgets where to sleep. Put a pair of goggles on Dogmeat 2.0, makes me giggle when he looks at me through those thick lenses.

Just stated the quest line that starts out at Boston Commons. I like is so far, I was wondering if there was an organization like the one in the quest line after coming across some interesting characters, (Spoiler)

The guy with whom you run the first unofficial quest is pretty cool, good dialogue. I have to say, some of Bethesda's other works have disappointed me in the voice acting department, but they have some talented folks working on this one. Seems like they took a lot more time coaching the voice actors. Make for a more immersive experience.

Argh. I had this whole huge plan for Egret Tours Marina and bumped bang smack into the build limit about two thirds of the way in. Bummer. It would have been very cool. Now it's just a big fortress with a lot of empty space in the middle. I was going to try to get it up to 30 or 40 people, too. Oh well.

I've been using god mode for all of my settlements so I can actually see what things would look like if I could just build the way I want to. Some of them STILL sulk, even after a full build with stores and everything -- the Slog, for instance, is as grumpy a place as I've seen in this game. Maybe it's time to send all non-ghouls away from Slog to some other settlement, and see if that's the problem.

Heh heh. Oberland Station decided to smarten up after I scrapped their whole settlement and are now quite happy. I'll swing by in a bit to add a few things.

No really great new weapon finds, but I plan on spending time at a workbench soon. I am following mostly Railroad quests right now, though I do need to get to the Prydwynn soon to do some of their quests before it's too late.

You can always use that gun drop exploit I mentioned. Just drop all your guns (big complex rifles, shotguns and large weapons work best) on the ground in the settlement, engage workshop mode, store guns using the Tab key in the workshop, pick guns up from the workshop, rinse and repeat. Just remember to use the TAB key to store and not the "R" key to scrap. I did that once during an evening when I was especially tired.


Since I hit level 30 I've been finding some kick butt weapons and armor. The ones that stand out are sniper rifles. One is the VATS Enhanced Sniper rifle, that even when not in VATS mode seems to decimate foes, although it could also be that extra point I put into the Ninja skill at my last level-up. The other was a "Nocturnal Hunting Rifle" that I turned into a .50 cal sniper rifle. It does extra damage at night, soooo I put a night scope and a suppressor on it and it's my night-time specific sniper rifle now. The other was a Wounding Sniper Rifle that causes an additional 25 points of bleeding damage. Found some really nice, albeit very expensive combat armor chest piece over at Bunker Hill. The woman with the blue mechanics overalls and black hair sells it. I can't recall it's name, but it's of the sturdy variety so is already over the stats you get with modded standard combat armor and it kicks up your perception and if I remember correctly, your endurance as well. That's a good thing because I have not put a lot of points into endurance. I've mainly been relying on the Toughness perk, although I did die a lot, and I mean A LOT in the first 20 levels. I swear, I would just reload a game after getting killed, walk two steps and some wasteland beasty would take my character out.

Speaking of wasteland beasties, holy cow! Just came across my first Mirelurk Queen. Those things are crazy huge! That's a freakin' dinosaur. The other one that completely decimated my character was a Savage Deathclaw. OMG, that's the only beast I've taken on that went into a cut scene when it ripped my character to pieces. I have no clue how to take that one on yet and will be avoiding it for the next several levels.

I found another one, a named one (cant remember the name though) which has an unmodded damage rating of just under 300 so I though I would give this one a go and I have exactly the same problem - got in a fight with some Raiders, shot them with my new Gauss and their health bars didnt budge. Had to use my shotty, which had less than half the damage rating of the Gauss and that kills them in a few shots. ALL of my other weapons seem to do more damage than the Gauss so my next question is, is there a nack to using it? Is there something I'm missing here. When I hold the gun up it has numbers displayed and they always seem to be 00. Ive tried pressing the (R)eload key but that doesnt do anything.

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Thanks, Mad

If I remember correctly, you need to hold the fire button down for a bit in order for it to come to full charge, if you're not already doing that.

Oh right. I'll have to try that then. Thanks for the info.

Also, the Gauss rifle uses 100% of its power when in VATS (i.e. no need to charge it up). Usually one or two shots does it, especially if in Sneak mode.

Ah yes, I forgot. That'll be the next move. Me and my newish pal Ada gots us many, many weapons to use for this purpose.

I never think to use VATS even though I'm carrying to rifles that have VATS buffs. I always get too caught up in the sneaking part and end up using Alt to hold my breath during the shot. I have to remember to put the scope up to my eye before doing that though, I end up giving myself away doing a melee when I hit Alt first.

Sneak + VATS + headshot = probably dead enemy. Sneak + VATS + leg shot = seriously impaired ability to get to you for melee. Sneak + VATS + arm shot = enemy has no way to hold on to their rifle/heavy gun.

Edit: Okay, I started using the build limit cheat, and now I can build all my settlements the way I want to, as fortresses. For instance, the Slog just called me for help with an attack, but by the time I got there every one of the enemies lay dead OUTSIDE the walls. And they were bragging on themselves about how they showed 'em.

Yup, that's what I've been doing. High walls where ever possible, heavily protected entrances and using the Mark IV Machine Gun Turrets as ground level decoy defenses with Heavy Lasers strategically placed to either directly defend or to flank fire an enemy attacking a Machine gun turret. So far that strategy has worked really good even against legendary level foes. Of course, now that I say that, I'll probably find Grey's Garden has been reduced to a crater by multiple legendary suicider brute attacks.

The Drive-In is an insane fortress, but this evening I saw direct proof that Bethesda's Developers worked code in to override heavily built defenses. I was in the midst of breaking down some loot in my workshop, heard some lasers firing, ran out to the perimeter wall that surrounds the place (my workshop is built on top of that) only to see two Yao Guai spawn and I mean seriously, out of thin air, right in front of one the highest mounted laser turrets I have there. C'mon, really? I'm half expecting to see parachuting, Enclave trained Deathclaws drop in for a drink at the bar and a nice snack of settlers and Brahmin.

They want to keep you on your toes, Trail