Kvatch, Greyditch, Nipton, Helgen.

I am curious if they go with tradition and destroy a town or settlement With the new Homesteading features maybe we can break the cycle of having a permanently destroyed or burning town in the world.

It would make sense to rebuild on top of destroyed "towns", assuming there are any and weren't destroyed by something atomic or otherwise hazardous to our health.

I think the settlement sites are all at specific locations (like in Skyrim's Hearthfire dlc) but that doesn't rule out the possibility that if a town gets destroyed it becomes a settlement site.

Also, the settlement site shown in the pre-release footage is the player character's old neighborhood, so its basically doing what you mentioned to start a settlement there

Wasn't there some quest to rebuild Helgen, or was that just a mod?

I think that was a mod. They also did one in Oblivion for Kvatch.

I think the settlements you can build are able to be destroyed by attackers.

only if you leave them undefended ;D im going to have tons of guns armed everywhere with my high science skill.. even the brotherhood of steel would be jealous of my settlement.

im fine with them remaining rubble like helgen, as long as the fires go out

kvatch drove me crazy

I doubt it. (Destruction of a town). However I do think the sites you can build your location at will be on the ruins/foundations of a long destroyed one.

A mod called Helgen Reborn.

Seems like the neighborhood we live in is the candidate for destruction. The rebuilding aspect of Fo4 shakes it up though.

Ironically, the eternal fire in the case of Fallout 4 would seem to be the one etched into our protagonist's memory after witnessing first-hand nuclear devastation.

I would rather have a town that we could rebuild instead of having a town layer to waste.

I wished for this in every Bethesda game that left a town in ruins.

How about both?

You can place a door and remove it, only makes sense that if a grenade goes off next to it then it will implode.

Well it always makes sense to build atop the ruins of an older town

A) Foundations are incredibly hard to build and get right. Generally a town burned down does not destroy the foundations just the top part

I just wish we could rebuild it. It's annoying at least for me because I see it as a destination that I could interact with.

Anyone else think this was going to be some Witcher related topic when they first saw it? Can't stand the Church of the Eternal Fire, i kill those sanctimonious [censored] every chance i get.

When I read the title the song "Blackheart" by Darkwell started playing in my head lol

Bethesda still never counts on gamers playing a character for 200+ hours so yeah, I expect the tradition to live on

Certainly looks that way. Concord is a shell of its former self, and Lexington appears to have been completely taken over by ghouls, so I'd say the trend will continue with even more force.