» Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:50 am A large chunk of gameplay in Fallout 4 is settlement building, so I wish a future update would fix some settlement issues.
* Dead bodies - such as the ghouls at Sunshine Tidings Co-op or the corpse of Mary Sutton at Taffington Boathouse - should eventually disappear, please? Even when I drag the bodies into the bushes or a nearby river, next time I return, they're right back again! Settlers wouldn't just leave feral ghoul corpses in their bedrooms or the former resident in a pile of blood on the bathroom floor. Or at Croup Manor, I have a perpetual ghoul chandelier in the dining room. No wonder the companions hate that place. And all of the skeletons at Starlight that rattle and crunch as I walk around? C'mon. I'm on PS4 so I can't just use console commands to remove them.
* Stats. Why don't they display correctly? I check my pipboy and it might say I have 3 beds at Sanctuary, or that I have 28 settlers at Starlight. But then I get there, and I actually have 20 beds, or 18 settlers. Speaking of beds at Sanctuary, why does everyone constantly complain about the "bed situation" when there are 15 settlers and 20 beds? Settlers usually assign themselves to beds, but I've gone through Sanctuary and manually assigned everyone to a bed, and they still complain. I've even waited until 2am and made sure they could all climb into their beds.
* Along similar lines... most of the workshops aka settlements listed on my pipboy have a little triangle with an exclamation point beside them. But they all have more than enough food, water, beds, defense, and all of them have at least a couple generators, one bar and one shop. When I show up and inspect the settlement, there's nothing to repair, and when I ask if anything's wrong, the settlers say everything is fine. So why the "warning" symbol?
* It would be really nice to know why happiness is dropping. I'm not psychic. Sometimes it's obvious - like a raider attack, or a turret needs repair. But often it's a total mystery. I've unlocked almost every settlement in the game, and they hover around 70-80% happiness, most of the time. But every so often, one will just plummet into the 30s or 40s, and I have no clue what happened. The little happy face tags help, somewhat, by telling us that a shop, bar or pet dog can increase happiness, but I wish there was more information about the ups and downs of each individual settlement. Such as...
* Items that need repair should have a red halo when in workshop mode. Sort of the way they have a green or yellow halo when you scroll over them, or similar to the way that items are highlighted when you have rank 2 of the Scrapper perk. Would be nice. I waste a lot of time wandering around trying to find the one broken mutfruit bush that's making everyone deeply depressed.
* I read somewhere that defense should be higher than the combination of water and food. Is that a real thing? Or just a rumor? Because I have a defense of anywhere between 100-200 on most of my settlements, even the small ones with few resources, and I spend more time defending settlements than doing anything else in the game. At what ridiculous point does a band of raiders decide, "See that place with all the missile turrets and guard towers, flying the Minutemen flag? Let's go dance in their carrot patch."
