Clearing Distress Beacons Radio Signals

Post » Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:13 pm

So, I planned on finally searching out each distress beacon / signal today to clear them out from my radio list. I wanted to do this with the non "station" signals to make sure I visited them all and either got the associated quest or cleared out any loot / bad guys near them. I figured this would be easy as the BoS beacons I found disappeared from the list of signals as soon as I picked up their beacons, but quickly found that distress signals don't ever clear. It would be nice if there was a way to either clear them from the list by locating the transmitter, doing some small task around them (killing bad guys, picking up a holotape, etc.). That way I would only be able to see in-range/out-of-range signals on the radio list and not ones I have already visited. Anybody else feel the same way?

p.s. I love the game so far and it is only super small details like this that I am nitpicking on, can't wait for official mod support and DLC!

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Matt Bee
 
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Post » Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:44 pm

Oh, and maybe this is a bug - one of the distress signals still transmits even after I turned off the associated radio signal, so that makes it seem like there is still more for me to do...this buggy one is in a large blue box (trying to not spoil anything) near a bunch of other large boxes

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Dalia
 
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Post » Tue Dec 01, 2015 3:08 am

not sure if this is related, but settlements act like this too

u can turn off the recruitment beacon (light is red) and it wont attract any more settlers, but the broadcast is still there like it's on...i find this a little lame (oh yea, removing the wire and/or removing the antenna entirely still doesn't get the broadcast to stop, once this is on, it's on forever)

only exception to this is Freedom Radio beacon at the Castle, it actually stops when u disconnect power (can't remember if there's a manual switch on the actual antenna or not)

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