With all of these problems and more, the settlement crafting can definitely be seen as quickly tacked on to check a box. Which means you'll need to pick up every toy car and stick of duct tape you find in the wild, significantly shortening the time you'll have on the outside before traveling back to the settlements (learn more: Fallout 4 takes crafting too far for the average player).

Junk. In order to build sprawling, fancy settlements you'll need junk.

Furthermore, whenever you try to give settlers a job to do they just stare at you blankly and often refuse to tend to whatever crops or guard post you want them to attend.

Nine out of ten of my settlers just stood inside the drive-in movie screen. I created my best settlement there with beautiful facilities, decorations everywhere, very high class establishment. Take the drive-in movie theater (I believe it is called Starlight Drive-In) for example.

Settlers are stupid. The settlers that come to a player's establishments are, without a doubt, dumb as nails.

Players could spend an hour on their gardens alone, just turning the same melon over and over again waiting for it to finally figure out that it's in dirt and can be planted. Plants take up an enormous amount of room and are decidedly ridiculous to lay in the dirt. Whenever players try to cultivate their gardens with the multiple food sources in the world, they'll find that they can't plant as much as they thought. We need a free camera or an overview camera to really see what's going on. It is extremely hard to see the bigger picture when players have to create their entire settlements from first-person. Players are essentially given the tools and told to build, without knowing much in the process. There are little to no tutorials on settlement crafting.Settlement Crafting Problems - a brief rundown However, there are too many bugs in the crafting system to make it enjoyable for an architectural noob like myself, and the entire mechanic seems like it was tacked on at the last second.

It is a highly creative area of the game, and can be quite attractive to players of the previously mentioned stature. Lots of Minecraft-friendly players may disagree with my choice to completely disregard the settlement system. Being a well-rounded gamer with multiple interests, a journalist here on GameSkinny, and a YouTube content creator, I simply do not have the time for crafting and maintaining settlements. During my original playthrough roughly 80% of my time was spent on the creation or discovery of settlements. Settlements, though they might throw in their own flair of creativity to the Fallout franchise, suck the life out of Fallout 4.

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