So I entered the plant via the undergound pipes, going past 2 ghouls and a gun sentry. Killed every raider I could find in the plant, and have run all over the catwalks outside the plant and killed every remaing raider there too.

When outside the plant, I still hear footsteps on the catwalk as if someone is still in this area, but I've scoured everywhere and can't find anyone. Have gone both in and out of the plant several times.

Anyone else have this issue? Any hidden areas for raiders?

Thx.

Did you kill Jared? He's inside the assembly area (vehicle assembly) with a couple of raiders guarding him.

In the beginning where you enter (near the first turret) there is a white door (elevator) it will take you up to jared. I got stuck on the same part.

I killed him but couldn't find the safe that I had a key for. Eventually I just gave up.

Jared's safe is underneath the elevated room Jared is in. It's behind a piece of wood that says "go away" or something.

The safe is behind a sign that says 'keep out' located underneath the walkway he's standing on.

I walked right by that sign a number of times. I suspected he had it hidden somewhere in the shop but I guess I took the sign too literally. Maybe I'll take a stroll back since I'm still in that area.

Pretty much ALL of the, "Kill all of the _____ at ________ location" quests actually boils down to "Kill the ______ leader at ______ location." (I think it implies that once the leader is dead, any survivors conclude that it's time to move on to greener pastures elsewhere.) As such, it is very likely that even after you get the "quest completed" update, there will still be some hostiles roaming around. So don't let your guard down.

This mission drove me insane. \only due to forgetting to save.

I ran into some trouble inside the plant so took the nearest exit to be greated by 5 raiders and at this point my game auto saved. So i load the save up and jump back through the door to find yet another 4 raiders sat waiting for me. Became a game of load, die, load die lol. And my previous save was close to an hours play before it....

Hmm. I thought the Autosaves were at the point before you went through a portal/fast traveled. So upon Loading the last (Auto)Save, you would be being attacked by Raiders in the place you were trying to leave. (Only to find Raiders waiting for you to arrive on the other side. Which is unusual because Bethesda usually allows "breathing space" on the other side of a portal.)

Use the console code tgm (godmode) for a moment to get out of that situation. Imo it is permissible, but dont forget to turn it off right afterwards.

Might be something to do with me playing on survival maybe?

I did eventually manage to clear one of the groups that were inside the plant right by the door by managing to get my minigun out. Problem is I am on that low health that once I've killed them (which I did a couple of times), there are more enemies under the gang plank that only need 1 lucky shot to kill me as my health is that low.

It was extremely frustrating but in all fairness theres only myself to blame for not saving more often. I got that frustrated in the end I just loaded the previous save and did it all again.

Same thing happened to me with a Sentrybot. Your clue is in the door count though. You go through a door, meet overwhelming odds, go back through the door, overwhelming odds ont ehother side now, and your save loads with you facing the first set of overwhelming odds.

To reach Jared's corpse there is a retracting bridge you need to cross by pressing a button.

On the subject of Jared - I killed the swine but can't get to where he was to loot him - the walkway is busted. Is there another way to reach him?

By jumping. You need to sprint and properly time the jump.

If by "busted", you mean that there is a wide gap that you can't jump across, then know that it really isn't busted at all. There's a large push-button mounted on the bridge section near the side of the bridge that you can walk up to. Push the button and the bridge extends.

For being what I considered to be an early mission, this one was bloody hard. I died more times than I care to admit, and eventually just had to unleash Codsworth on them all. I didn't even know he HAD a secret stash, as I fled the moment he died due to lack of...well everything