So, to start this conversation off, I saw something playing tonight that I had never seen before. I was walking with Preston headed south and I saw a group of people loitering around a building. I thought "raiders" immediately and went to vats, but realized they were actually Minutemen. There were 3 total and when I got close to them they addressed me as "sir" (so aware of the fact I was the general at this time). I thought this was neat to actually see Minutemen in the world, but outside of dead ones, I've never seen a Minutemen patrol in my two previous playthroughs... that I can remember at least.

The latest patch opened my eyes a bit to how buggy the Minutemen radiant quests were, but seeing these Minutemen guys out and about in the open world is making me think the Minutemen might have been messed up much more than I thought. Am I crazy or are other people noticing things about the Minutemen portion of the game that seem to work better with the new patch? Granted, I'm not that far into the game again yet, but it seems like the Minutemen stuff is more... functional. I'm not sure if that's what I just want to see though. Self-fulfilling prophecy and all that.

Minutemen are all over my game world now but the radiant quests have completely vanished and also far fewer SM attacks which is not good. I have 24 settlements

There are a number of locations around the map where I come across some "random occurrences".

There are a number of different types of random occurrences and the places they happen.

It might be on a road where you come across 2 deathclaws fighting, or mutants holding a settler prisoner or some other wasteland creatures and so on.

it might be one of the campsites where any number of random occurrences happen, like man and girl, dogs and raider bodies, raiders cooking Mirelurk, a random trader and so on.

I have also noticed some other spots where different opposing groups can spawn from time to time.

It might be Minutemen vs foes.

BOS vs foes,

Gunners vs Children of Atom.

Or something else like a faction patrol.

Also I know when you do Minutemen stuff you might come across patrolling Minutemen at or in the vicinity of settlements.