Okay, so I downloaded the offical patch a day ago. I'm playing my game, doing my purified water runs. A minutemen quest auto completes. And when I'm in the caste, I get the quest

DEFEND THE ARTILLERY

... Huh. I never recall getting this quest before, and I've been playing countless minutemen quests. Must have been added by a patch.


Turns out, the quest has you defending the Artillery at (settlement) from the Brotherhood of Steel (I sided with the instutute in my current run, and right now it's just before airship down). It's basically a "defend the settlement" quest but with the BOS as the antagonist and a specific objective.


Again, I've never gotten this quest before on any other run, and on all the other runs I've sided against the BOS (either with the Institute or the Minutemen.)

This quest carries some... *interesting* implications, but I'll save those for another thread.




Has anyone else noticed this? Has anyone gotten this quest before the recent patch? And more importantly, has there been any more "additions" like this?

Just a quick Google search found an article about if dated November 11th, so I'd say it's been around a while.

http://www.polygon.com/fallout-4/2015/11/11/9718210/fallout-4-defend-artillery-at-a-settlement-walkthrough

I'm sure if something was actually added they would have mentioned it.

Hmm...


Funny then, that Nukapedia never mentions it (at least until I added it a minute ago), or that no one else has brought this event up during any arguements, so I can't be the only one who never got this quest untill now.



I guess it might simply have never triggered right or got buried under other quests repeating themselves improperly:

• Fixed an issue with Minutemen quests repeating improperly

It could have been fixed, but I had heard of people doing this one before, but I think you have to be along a certain ways in the faction quest lines and of course you have to have some artillery in settlements. Just the set-up for it may be rare.

After this patch, I got a Defend the Castle mission from Preston in place of one of the normal radiant Quests. Registered each 10% enemies killed.

Never seen this one before (370 hours in).

Mobs came in discrete waves; all high level. But then I am 95.

The Minutemen radiant quests have been repeating improperly, which was addressed in the patch. I started getting new kinds of Minutemen quests after installing the beta a couple weeks ago as well. I think what was happening is that the randomization for the radiant quest types was broken and it just got stuck in a loop so you wouldn't branch out into the other variations. I have never before gotten Rogue Courser quests from Preston in 500 hours of game play, but I just got one a few days ago for the first time. Basically he got word that a Courser (after the destruction of the Institute) was discovered to have joined up with a Raider gang. I had to go take out the Courser and the Raiders because the Courser could have become too powerful with a following behind him.

I've also gotten quests to fortify defenses at a settlement. Basically it's a mini-quest like the Defend the Castle main quest, but at a random settlement. I get there and a settler says they've been getting attacked by Gunners and ask if I can build up some defenses before they return. So I build a few turrets, and the attackers show up shortly after. I also just got one about a settlement having a suspected synth impostor residing there, and I had to investigate it. I'd never gotten either of those before either.

This sounds fun.

Damn bugs... Why you did dat..

Whaaaa?

Ok wait a minute... how come the people who data mine never said a word about this? I feel like someone let me down here somewhere lol. Honestly though, I remember reading an article from a Game Informer editor about how he planned to play FO4 a year later so they could address all the wonky craps that comes with the games. I'm thinking he might have been right lol.

In all seriousness though, I love my current FO4 run, but it makes me feel... regret (?) that I won't get these experiences until now. I wanted it to be part of the comprehensive run and I have like 5 days of game time in my current playthrough, so I don't know if I could bring myself to restart, outside of a game breaking glitch.

I'm already at level 102 in my second character, and at this point I really don't have a desire to start over again, so I'm in the same boat. I'd love to have actually enjoyed these radiant quests throughout my first two play throughs, but I've got some seriously huge settlement builds going on and stuff like that now, so starting over at this point is pretty far from my mind. At least it's helping to make the end game quests more varied and fresh though.

We are the the first generation of Fallout 4.

Those who played Fallout 4 post-full patch or Fallout 4 GOTY will never know how we roll with Preston's quests back in the day. lol

You usual get "defend the artillery" if you going against BoS. I cannot get this quest matter what, since pr date I'm friendly with them all. As wiki says, it was a bug that prevent players to get this quest.

Cheers,

-Klevs

Just curious, but

Did anyone else get this quest this way? ALso RMM, how far in with your playthrough are you? And who did you side with?

I am level 95, 370 hours in, and I have been the Director of the Institute for a looong time.

Dumb Synths still attack my settlements - I have no problem executing them.