What the title says. Twice now, my Spectacle Island settlement (never had it happen to any other) was completely destroyed - well, all the destructable objects, I mean. I left for a mission, during which I actually did get a message that the marina was under attack, and after the mission I went and quelled that, but when I got back home to the island all my crops, turrets, generators, everything was destroyed. No dead bodies anywhere, I never received notification it was under attack or anything. The place has good defense, with laser turrets forming a kill zone right outside the main building. You'd think there'd at least be a body. It's annoying me and I'm sick of using the mats to repair anything... I know there's glitches blamed on this location - is this a glitch, or what.. anyone know?

On pc you have the Shaikujin's Better Alerts who gives an popup box with warning of attack, the default message does not show well, fast travel tend to hide it, also its easy to miss during combat.

It's not just Spectacle Island. Other settlements have this glitch. I just chalk it up to damage from a radiation storm, repair everything and move on. I just wish that we could get a little XP from repairing.

From my experience help the settlement attacks usually come in pairs.

If you are outside a settlement cell you get a notification.

If you are inside the settlement cell when an attack starts then you don't get a notification as the presence of an attack is self evident because of the noise and commotion.

This can create a problem if you fast travel away from a settlement, or pass through a cell where an attack is imminent.

The attack starts while you were in the cell but you don't know that, consequently you get an instant fail.

I've checked this a few times now.

Coincidentally I had a pre destruction game save on the Island.

I reloaded the game and instead of fast travelling away I waited a few seconds to see the game had dropped a Deathclaw down by the dock.

Ive done similar at other settlements where I had a close save. A few seconds after i left an attack of some sort occurred.

Now I walk out of the cell.

I've also had the same occur when flying over a settlement.

The game considers that you are present in the cell so if it decides to initiate an attack you may not notice as you fly over.

keep an eye on your misc quests, as although the pop up prompt that settleement x is under attack is next to useless it will always appear in your misc quest sections

this is not 100% though as the settleemnts feature is buggy as hell. I constatntly keep an eye on my quests because of this but one day when i travelled back to sanc i could see smoke pouring from my turrets and generators.

there was no attack in my quest list before this (i check before i FT everytime and check everytime im in my inventory when i dungeon, which is alot!)

the settlers had nothing to say about anything and none of my crops or water purifiers were damaged.

worse after i fixed them all they immediately and right in front of me became damaged again after i repaired trhe last one so i had to do that all again