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DuranOfForcena posted...

i had a blast with it, personally. i got creative with it, i made a secure test chamber at The Castle for that teleporter thing, a Minutemen Embassy to the BoS at Boston Airport, a historically inspired abbey at Abernathy farms, among other themed builds. any time i've heard people complaining about how bad the settlement building was, it always turns out that all they ever did with it was build farming shanty towns. no wonder they didn't get much out of it.

The actual building aspect can be a blast, and I myself have spent countless hours on it. Where it drops the ball is when you throw settlers / NPCs into the mix, and how little in-game return there is on the mechanic. NPC pathfinding is already bad enough in Bethesda games, so throw in self-created structures and you've got NPCs constantly glitching through ceilings or getting stuck on walls because they're shooting for the shortest distance between themselves and their next sandbox objective. Settlement building is there for its own sake, and while it's something I've wanted in these games since Oblivion and was plenty enamored with it myself, I can't blame others for not finding any value in it.

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