so I'm just fast travelling around my settlements collecting salvage, harvesting veggies, keepin the insatiable nags happy, (tryin anyway).


well, here i am at coastal cottage. a quaint little place with an over-abundance of defense, as they're frequently attacked my greenskins.


evidently the mutys have grown upset with me always thwarting their plans of destruction of this quiet little place. MY PEOPLE ARE NOT FOOD! well, you can have preston but the rest i will defend!


anywho, i spawn in and the routine is shook up a bit as everyone's on high alert, running and screaming like they're on fire. usually this turns out to be a couple normal supers, maybe a hound or 2. not today. not this day, no. this day, there were more. many more. why does this happen to me all the time? do you guys experience this?


4 (FOUR) yes, 4 super mutant warlords,

3 super mutant masters,

2 glowing hounds,

3 normal hounds,

a couple other standard mutys runnin around. it's hard to keep track when these completely op sponges are hittin me from every angle. I've got some high spots on top of buildings so I've hit em with the mirved big boy, which took out 2 warlords and a hound and i got a couple standards and 1 master and a hound before they finally bested me with flankin tactics and explosives. that was the best I've gotten so far so i had to take a break.


fortunately, i was stupid enough to save it after this last spawn, in which I've encountered all of those listed.


it seemed to have glitched 2 groups onto this one settlement because I've encountered half of this before (aside from the glowing hound, that's a new one to me).


i just wondered if any of you guys ever see these army's of crazy enemies with ridiculous stats? i ask because I've seen alot of complaints about mundaine enemies or shoddy a.i., but these guys are far from mundaine.


the entire game has been enjoyably challenging but this particular skirmish is just ridiculous. i am level 69 with 2 level ups in my pipboy, survival difficulty, on ps4 with no cheats or dup glitch exploits or anything. i play fair and the only time i fast travel is when I'm harvesting the goodies from the settlements.


last thing, i always encounter ridiculously op enemies with multi-tier stats like "alpha glowing angry middle-aged balding three-toed nutless deathclaw"! funny though, alot of deathclaws won't even attack me, i figure it's cuz i gave that one back her egg. i dunno, it's cool tho!



edit: i was mistaken with the total amount of baddies I'm seein here. there's around 16 total mutys and at least 6 are warlords. I'll list exact totals once i beat em. which I've gotten em down to just 2 left! wooooooooo!!!

yeah I had something similar happen at the settlement down by Atom Cats.

keep in mind that they used to get attacked by raiders from the ship, a lot. (I mean like several times in a row.) so I went down there and i closed off all the gaps around the place, and built a wall loaded with Machine gun turrets facing their spawn point.

so I pop down there and there were more raiders than settlers just standing on the other side of the wall just out of range of my Guns like they were anolyzing the defenses. there must have been 15-20 of these guys and 4 of them were Legendary. and as I'm standing there looking at this they all started running at the wall like a scene from a movie.

the wall turrets opened up, and chewed the entire group up and spit them out in less than a minute. first time I was completely happy with a defensive set up

That sounds exciting haha, now I want to be mass swarmed.

seriously, man. that must've been badass.

no mods or anything?

No suiciders? I had two! They throw this at you at some higher level at Warwick by the sea. I found it fun, they nearly killed me, unusual for that char at that time.

I've had a handful of really huge attacks like this before. I had one at Jamaica Plain once with about 20 Gunners, including 4 of them in power armor and several with missile launchers. I've gotten some insanely huge Super Mutant attacks at Nordhagen Beach too.

Yes it was around level 69 that the game started to gang tackle me in a similar way.

I can remember walking along a road and being assaulted by five or six assorted Deathclaws simultaneously.

As that was happening a call came up to help defend a settlement and when I arrived there were two groups of mutants spawned.

One group was inside and one was outside.

I had to lead the mutants away from the settlement and fight them one or two at a time because they were doing so much damage.

A couple of named settlers died that day.

At the time I found it quite shocking so improved the defences.

I went overboard with defences actually and have since pared it back and armed the settlers better.

It was also around that level that the game attacked the settlers with really big bears, really tough ghouls and high ranking gunners with plasma grenades.

The raiders also got an upgrade but they are easily bested.

Warlord sample attack.

http://ocau.com/pix/yxmcr

Was at a low level, <20, playing with a low armor build, when I had to defend County Crossing with its 2 settlers armed with pipe pistols against 10+ super mutants/hounds. Lot of retreating and reloading.