Sounds like a good idea for a mod

I agree. There was such huge potential to keep releasing content and expanding this game. So much more could have been done with all the factions.

i actually started getting into fo4 moddding for this, i think it'd be cool if to reestablish the minutemen you first retook salem or concord and made them into proper towns like goodneighbor or diamond city and not just little settlements

"The potential was so huge" thats basically all of Fallout 4.

I'd still like for a mod to remove the enemies from quincy, create a separate worldspace to dump them in(and serve as the battle to take it back. Obviouslythe gunners would need to raise the walls so you dont just walk in and somone in the battle would drop the key to get in), and actually be able to properly take the place and rebuild. Ps I'm aware that's probably not actually that easy to do.

I mean that’s essentially us with settlement building

Enclave Playthrough: keep taking over small farm settlements and divide the families living there, sending them to more high-tech settlements as slaves

Gigachads

@@eliphas_vlka Attempted Gigachads, failed, but attempted.

@@alexchop391 That's one way to do it I guess, I usually send those two bums packing to somewhere I don't have to dump more resources into defending.

Noticed that alot more while playing survival mode , you actually get to explore the map even more on SM and learn alot of stuff you missed

​@TheDbroncos420 yeah survival mode is the best way to play. Really gives settlements a purpose and you appreciate the journey so much more. Plus once you unlock vertibirds or teleportation there's an actual reason to use them.

>remove fast travel >improves game astronomically Almost like we’ve known this since oblivion

@@mcbeaty3971Yea I like to play the game without fast travel

Thats because the mirelurks are like a hivemind army they know which settlements to attack and know which people are vulnerable for ambush which they assume is you because you are either solo or have another companion its like theyre being issued orders

Every faction including the Institute does that after completing the main quest in Diamond City.

@@spartanalex9006 his point is still correct

@@spartanalex9006 I am quite aware, but that's not really relevant; this video is clearly talking about the Minutemen and framed from the perspective of a Minutemen victory.

The idea of the institute or the railroad flying their flag in diamond City is hilarious to me. That is literally the opposite point of those factions

@@klaykid117 Aye, though the Institute one _could_ at least be justified as a sign of the SS starting to have success at changing the Institute for the better.

Agree. It's so good on survival, but on any other difficulty is a terrible settlement with horrible build restrictions

I keep hangman’s alley or covenant for my settlers and survival playthrough. Going for a frost style evmiorment on Xbox so I like to keep my Circle small and only allow certain people in eg: Tina from vault 81, Sheffield, companions. No settlement beacon

You can go high with it easily too.

@@haydenw7981 it’s a great place for mortars to be placed.

Playing my first survival run right now this is extremely truw

I decked out their settlement. Realistically, they made their mutfruit flex into a commodity. And its like a juicy middle finger to Diamond City

And to give actual quest not go get this settlement or protect one something like hay help is secure this building for salvage or something ya know?

I would've thrown a super mutant in the ranks, someone like Virgil, he'd have been around a LOOOOOONG time and realize that other super mutants are idiots (After fighting with them for a while) that won't band together to take down the commonwealth's greater threats, because they're too occupied with their own hierarchy. Main basis for this. I love super mutants and it'd be hilarious having one wear the minuteman outfit scaring the shit out of the folks in small settlements "THE MINUTEMEN ARE HEAR TO HELP!" Maybe toward the end of the quest line or after the endgame he'd rally a bunch of them up, convincing them to kill raiders instead of wimpy townsfolk, maybe by telling them that there are more raiders than civilians, so there'd be more food. (This would lead to a bunch of ragtag goofy superminute-men. Not really OFFICIAL minuteman material, since they'll occasionally just....kill everyone they come across, but SOME listen. Plus strong would have a buddy. Plus, if supermutants sided with anyone, it'd be the minutemen. (Not that they WOULD it's just the most likely since B.O.S hate them, Railroad would disapprove of them not valuing synthetic life or blunt forcing everything. Institute would be too far away from their tribal ways and the scientists would probably wanna reclaim them for research.

I'd like to see another Minuteman NPC that could give you Quest to do things like, idk " when the minutemen were a thriving and strong faction, we used to have many different outposts scattered arround the comonwealth. We've recently found one. You might want to check It out".and there you could find some minuteman bodies/skeletons, laser muskets and some Holotapes that could talk about a minuteman Split faction

You get a few characters but... yeah. There needed to be more Minutemen. Hell, I'm amazed we didn't get something like a Federalist vs Anti-Federalist split in them if we're referencing Revolutionary and Early Republic America with them.

Bos has Brandis, keys, Maxon and Danse as good npcs, institute even has Li and Filmore which are decent characters, railroad had glory who’s cool, deacon who’s cool, des who’s alright Minutemen have Preston (annoying as shit thanks the the quests) and the settlers (drug addict old lady, depressed guy, angry bitch, and synth) they really fucked over the minutemen in all ways, from the workshop tutorial BS to the uninteresting characters…

I didn’t think of that, but I like it.

Once you start playing Nuka World, and particularly once you get rid of 1 or all the raider bosses, there will be a lot of incursions into the Commonwealth by the raiders from there...

Well there's also a lot of deathclaws and behemoths over in that region, not exactly where you'd wanna take the wife and kids on holiday lol

i swear there is a way though that the minutemen can occupy specific military points and/or some roads in the nuka world section of the game as well. i used to watch a person called oxhorn on this type of stuff and i swear its something that is possible.

@@unboxing_legend7708 that's a mod

Our G at Salem, with Reba on his back, would love that.

Well, you would have to set up all that equipment along the entire coast. That requires a lot of resources, manpower, energy sources, and time + protection to build the infrastructure. That's a more costly endeavor than protecting a small island

Also, they're a source of food, so you don't want to drive all of them away.

They're... a pretty good food source?

@@tinaherr3856 I always like to assume my Minutemen after their ending start to put money and effort to build stuff like this, in an effort to get the provincial government a better chance to stabilize.

I'm still living in the house my mother passed away in, but I'm guessing the sheer quantity is what you are referring too

@@vexile1239 yeah, and the violence involved. But uhhh my condolences

Just sprinkle some jet and they’ll buy it

But spectacle island and bathhouse can be resettled

I'm curious how that's any different from the rest of the US. You'll find bomb victims everywhere

But wouldn't he be the one giving taxes?

Tbf, he also will send you to take good settlements

Considering the united states' plan to keep the IRS running even after nuclear war i would not dismiss the possibility

You get paid when you take them

Luckily I just never cared about the downfects

You know I use to be a traveler like you, till a new Radking video came out for me to see.

Have you consider a toast? 🍞

[You have become addicted to Radking's videos.] [Everybody liked that.]

Fortunately*

I don’t think the workshop is destroyed, I remember waiting for the prydwn to stop burning and found the workshop. It’s really bad though

Vault 81 would join for trade, new fresh food, new clothing, toys etc especially with the workshop DLC that give you the mean for a industrial revolution.

Totally. It's almost like playing two characters in a way. Beside the fact their cause is just.

Don't you just love turning a first person shooter into an empire builder?

@@thegamingkaiser2874 yes

Fr. In my minutemen playthrough when Shaun started going off about how the surface was a lost cause and it’s people squalor, I wanted to scream in his face that I had single handedly transformed the commonwealth into the only nation across the US with a living standard comparable to the NCR using NOTHING MORE THAN MY BARE HANDS!

@samueltitone5683 And that's why Shaun's friends get nuked, and I side with the Enclave for the best outcome for the Commonwealth. The Minutemen get access to advanced resources and training, and the Enclave gets a foothold in New England that isn't tainted by the Brotherhood, and a sizable population of imprisoned raiders at the quarry penal colonies to use as test subjects.

I did that and got attacked by the Railroad they deemed me as an enemy

​@@markmagician2471Yea, I messed that up on my first playthrough. You have to get the thingy back from Ingram without being near captain I forgot his name.

Outpost Zimonja isn't under utilised on my playthrough. It's constantly getting attacked by Automatron bots and has insane defences because of it. Most of the time the bots are already dead when I show up.

The Minutemen in general were underutilized and their potential was unrecognized as a faction. Settlements could’ve been so much cooler, more progress could’ve been made, they could’ve physically expanded and grown as the General becomes more popular among the population. Bethesda wrote the narrative about the old Commonwealth Provisional Government (CPG) collapsing after the Institute sabotaged their efforts and sorta just tossed it aside without allowing the player to convince a minimum amount of settlements (the same way you need 5 artillery pieces firing from different settlements to take down the Prydwen) to come together and form a new CPG with the Institute threat being eradicated. On my Castle build, I always use that extra set of quarters down the hallway from the General’s Quarters as a CPG meeting room of sorts. In my mind, it’s the most fitting place to have a meeting like that. Expanding on things like that would’ve made the Minuteman playthrough so much more engaging and enjoyable for players, it would arguably offset the complaining about Preston Garvey if they knew they could actually see tangible improvements in the Commonwealth due to your work as the General. I sure hope Bethesda is still open to updating the game w/ new content.

Murkwater's lowkey a cool settlement, only one with a swampy environment and can be a safe haven in the southern part of the map if you beef it out

It's stated the Institute massacred the last attempt to form a unified government

@@insomniagobrrr5542 The Institute wanted a CPG. It only failed because of a synth malfunction, causing the synth to massacre the CPG delegates.

@@alextsirikos2249 You're getting the CGP massacre mixed up with the Broken Mask incident. The exact cause of the GCP talks falling apart is unclear but the most probable cause was a Sythn killing everyone. Whether it malfunctioned or was ordered too is never revealed.

​@@alextsirikos2249i thought it was only the incident in Diamond City was a malfunctioning synth. I don't remember them ever specifically stating that the CPG was massacred by a rogue synth, just that the institute killed them after they refused to cooperate

2 incidents cpg massacre the settlements kept fighting no one agreed in the beginning it was a human last a synth that was sent to just kill everyone in the building Broken mask Dimond city power noodles something made the gen 3 go crazy and gun down a few people this was 5 years after the cpg massacre

Ty for the idea gonna try this now

Did you just spam beds everywhere I can’t imagine 45 whole settlers in sanctuary

@@kingt0295 I built a couple of larger buildings to serve like a pseudo apartment complex and hotel to accomodate more beds. In my head cannon, sanctuary got a lot travelers and visitors who came for the market (built in the cul-de-sac around the big tree) or medical center so that was part of the bigger population

Give the plebs farmer a common house stacked with open-space beds,not like Megaton or Diamond City hasnt done it either

@@FuteFranta sanctuary most definitely had a caste system in place. My settlements are always designed to keep things separate but equal

Yeah it would've been cool, but personally id like to see Minutemen with bases they've built themselves, without you. Like patrols, it shows that your effort is respected, and also that there is support from other people, be it commonsfolk, tribe leaders or other talented individuals

Do you know why the Institute killed off the provisional government? Because they wouldn't Stop arguing No, let's just go steal a bunch of history books and do in america 2 electric Boogaloo I mean real life america had an army before had a government

Well, you could retake Quincy if you buy the quest in the creation club. And I think it's on sale too, last I checked.

@@anouarassouik8558 yea but there’s no option to rebuild Quincy

@@Hazleton1376 There’s a mod on the Nexus for that called “City of Quincy” if you’re on PC, might be on Xbox too. I know I’ll be getting it for my next playthrough once I get Fo4 on PC.

Came here to say this

Also think about the bottling plant. If the SS/minutemen were able to get that up an running. Not only could they potentially produce new nuka colas (a source of income for the commonwealth as both import and exports) but essentially have a legitimate money(cap) press as well. As long as they’re not overzealous and produce too much, thus inflating the market. They (minutemen and commonwealth as a whole) could easily become perhaps the richest region in all off the wasteland. Just imagine… Nuka colas are usually on average about 15-20 caps and quantum’s are about 50 give or take. Plus whatever price The GENERAL sets for all the other rare or mixed flavors. Bonus points if they don’t give any Recipe to Sierra (I know kinda a jerk move but the economic benefits are simply to great!). Then they alone would have the legitimate nuka cola rights. I mean even if they produce only 1,000 original nuka cola a year and sell them at the 15 cap price. That’s 15,000 caps! Or 1000 quantum’s at the 50 cap price would be 50,000 caps. Even just 100 would still be 5,000 caps. The SS could absolutely become stupidly rich. Nuka World is their holy grail.

@@emismpunk new vegas might be able to match them economically considering the sunset sassaprilla bottling plant there. Considering there are home made nuka cola and home made sasspirilla recipes in that game they could have a similar economic trade item

@@warriorwithin44 true, true. Either way, Nuka world would still be an excellent source of income for the Commonwealth. Especially if one pairs it with their canning factories. They get all those bad boys up and running again and they are golden. While I don't see the minutemen expanding in the same way as the NCR, like their land grabbing/expansion (at least not any time soon), I can see the minutemen easily becoming the 'ncr' of the east, at least in terms of influence and power for the market/economy of the east coast.

This would be a much better alternative ending for nuka world. Shame that this dlc was a bit rushed

​@TheHK_47 there is a mod that allows you to invade Nuka World with the Minutemen or Brotherhood

That’s weird because I play on Xbox and I can have settlements up to 18

Why is it weird? It's 10 + your charisma Level. But since they minimum Level is 1 the lowest limit you can have is 11

@@mjn5016 they said the maximum is 11 not minimum plus I have 10 charisma so shouldn’t I be able to have 20 settlers

If I remember correctly the highest you can reach is 22 without mods, using all charisma and bobbleheads,(I don't know if that includes clothes with a charm boost.). The lowest is 10. Vault 88 can have 32 I think, and overall, including DLCs you can have less then about 850 settlers total.

@@furimindusties5736 I think you can go higher with the "unyielding" legendary effect. Though that might be a mod doing something in my game.

Or not necessarily a new one but a more volunteer based East Coast NCR

The ncr is HUGE tho

Ew taxes

​@@drunkenmmamaster419 my brother in Christ mutants walk the waste and ppl are being raped and murdered by psychos and monsters. I will pay my taxes to fund my police and military to cleanse those things. It's not like IRL where you know our taxes are just taken and rarely used to our benefit

@@drunkenmmamaster419everyone hates taxes until the slavers show up.

Yeah it put a little smile on my face when I heard it

yeah. this kind of video fascinates me for a similar reason. ive always been intrigued in this sort of thing since i saw this in the campeign of halo infinate. its a nice world building roleplay type thing within the game where you can see the progression and or evolution through the map with friends and foes based on how well they have managed to build up. just like in fallout 4 u have the military points caravans and traders, in halo infinate you also have this similar concept of the enemies, taking the technology learning the new tech from humans and forerunners from what they have left behind as well as their own military points, how they guard the place, the equipment theyve used, what theyve built, the reinforcements, the deployable covers and the vehicles they have and use. i feel like more games like these 2 should start incorperating these types of roleplay esque things in far more.

As for the CPG massacre, I don't buy the synth assassin story. Judging from holotapes in the Institute, some were still wanting to help finish creating the CPG, and it was only around that time that the Institute was thinking of becoming completely shut-off. I feel it's far more likely that at the CPG gathering, word got out about a synth infiltrator being present. Paranoia got the best of everyone, and the delegates ended up killing each other, with the synth probably escaping. This would make the Institute's disgust with the settlers more plausible and understandable, as seeing everyone wipe each other out would cause anybody to lose all hope.

Now, for the future of the Minutemen and the CPG. I don't think the Minutemen will be around for much longer, especially once the CPG is re-formed. Once the Commonwealth creates a government and establishes a professional, centralized military, the Minutemen would become redundant. They would likely dissolve and be absorbed into the CPG's military, or go off to new places to help others.

Also, don't forget the reach of the artillery if they are built at every settlement.

If we're assuming best case scenario, Hancock and the Sole Survivor are good friends and/or romantic partners. The PC can get away with a lot of less legal/ethical behavior while still leading the Minutemen, and can even do jobs for Hancock and others in Goodneighbor. On top of that, assuming you destroyed the Institute (not sure if there's an ending where you can side with both the MM and the Institute), that's sure to gain the MM some trust from the people there, and the economic growth from trading and MM passing through is a good incentive to have some kind of arrangement with them. I think as long as the folks in Goodneighbor don't go too far, like becoming as bad as Raiders, the Minutemen have enough reason to leave them alone, and as long as the MM don't try to enforce their law in Goodneighbor they'd be willing to be friendly but neutral or allies. Basically I don't see Goodneighbor waving around Minutement flags anytime soon or being considered part of their territory, but I can see them being trade partners with the MM and being friendly enough towards those who pass through (eg not extorting them at the gate lol).

@@Wh40kFinatic that's pure head canon. Multiple in game sources squarely blame the Institute for the CPG massacre and there's no conflicting information stating otherwise. There'd be no reason to fear a synth infiltrator, the Institute was openly working with the CPG. This was also before all the paranoia really started.

Due to the openness of the minutemen technically they would be the only faction to tolerate the CoA as long as they helped settlements. Not that hard to start small congregation devoted to atoms glow inside each settlement

​@@BlueBDProbably not. They might be trade partners but I doubt they would ever openly let them into their population. They're a danger to everyone, even themselves.

"May Atoms glow deliver the Commonwealth from darkness!" (launches mini-nuke mortars)

@@BlueBD I mean you could say I helped the settlements. Free radiation barrels and housing.

@@midgetman4206 not if the general Is a Atom supporter lol

I can understand honest hearts but how could you dislike lonesome road? It's easily the best of the 4.

@@Scatt2k7 lonesome road is a self insert of the writer

Destroying the BOS is counter productive if that's your goal. They're the only faction actively doing just that without player involvement. Too bad the vertibird AI is borked.

@@GeraltofRivia22 lmaooo i have never seen a BOS patrol successfully attack raiders with zero casualty and a completely intact vertibird

Aw shit, that's actually scary. Anyways, we have shit like a beta-wave emitter, that can calm even the meanest of Deadclaws.

That's....a VERY good point.

​@@user-ll6ej2un6qIf the Anti-Mirelurk and the Beta Wave Emmiters turned together, The Soundwaves become Distrubed and Unusable.

It's weird you say that, beta emitters work on radiation emitted, when the anti mirelurk system emits sounds. I don't see how it can conflict with each other

@@user-ll6ej2un6q Oh, I tought the Beta wave use Soundwaves

God, imagine recreating the signing of the DoI or Constitution at the Massachusetts State House...

Any number of reasons.

I’d assume said plywood could be holding something in, considering settlers are incompetent when it comes to handling their own problems (you need me for some ghouls? Really?)

Easter egg

There is a creation club thing that lets you and it’s pretty good

​@@k_dub0257not on console

@@k_dub0257 The CC quest simply adds a permanent minutemen presence to Quincy, while the Gunners continue to respawn. No Quincy Settlement, no storyline. just a repeatable battle and power armor paints

Tbf if I was a resident of the Commonwealth Wasteland then I’d most definitely would’ve heard about the Quincy Massacre and would try to avoid that place as much as possible even if the Minutemen were to tell me that it’s safe now, I wouldn’t want to risk my life on being one of the few people who will go out of their way to resettle a settlement that was known to have experienced a massacre and be one of its victims if it were to ever happen again.

@@elianrodriguez7318idk about that i times of war and danger yeah but if its safe already i would i mean its like saying no i dont want to live in germany because of the war there was but its years later and its all good agian or u would step into diamond city because it got raided by supermutants every settlemant gets attacked and have dead their and its prett good to rebuild something for more space

Nice! What mod is it? Would love to give it a try.

@@adianto1122 which one Glowing Sea, or the bringing back attacked ones and new ones?

When did he cover the BoS?

@@AlphaKnight-hg2jq the Brotherhood can easily be taken out by the other factions, that's what happens when you rest your power in a heavily exposed airship. Especially since the Brotherhood are far away from any real backup (the Citadel). For that reason alone, the Brotherhoods hold on the Commonwealth is precarious at best, especially when every other major faction hates you in some capacity

@sovietunion5700 yeah but the BoS is the only sizable faction on the east coast and have plenty of men still in the capital, so if you think they're not coming back to the commonwealth looking for revenge you're an idiot

Hell no! I want new ideas and creative things that fit the universe. Not teh same damn thing every game. Minute men are great but I'd rather have something new

@@Jkrocsko. They ARE new, though; They were literally only introduced in what is currently the ending of the Fallout timeline. NCR has been going since Fallout 2 (Fallout 1 if you want to get very technical), and Interplay was planning to take the Brotherhood of Steel all over the U.S including Florida and Alaska. Obviously there will be new ideas, but you also need your big faces that everyone recognizes lest you end up with a Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel situation where most players don't give a shit about the characters whatsoever.

Another settlement needs your help

Love these types of videos

😂😂😂 good luck with Preston and his slow ass laser musket that can't hit the broad side of a brahmin.. That man is suicidal and he wants to take people with him.

I've been in a simmilr situation my friend. Just keep fighting everyday. Sometimes it's the simple things like Fallout that help me too.

That’s messed up.

Another settlement needs your help

The institute are straight up irredeemably evil tho :/

Well, there is the issue that Institute is constantly scheming something all the time, if you straighten these cartoon villain scientists into an actual research and development team, that would've been great. But, they can flip you over and replace you with a synth too, so that should be taken into account. Or even worse, replace some of your friends and lower ranked allies to surround you with nonsense and misinformation

@@user-ll6ej2un6q Well, from what evidence there is I believe the player is a synth from the beginning. Also, replacements are far from perfect. It is clear that synths look like originals and share their memories, but behave differently, and lack special capabilities. Overall, it is clear that Institute lacks personnel able of quality subterfuge job. They bruteforce it with technology, but it is always sloppy, and their main trump card is that they are just out of reach, so failures are pretty much consequence free.