Probably nobody cares about this by now, but I've been trying to figure out a way to get the minutemen questline to be as fast as possible. It might be as fast as the institute questline, but it would only work if you could find a way to get settlements quickly.
To do the minutemen questline, you have to eventually have 8 settlements before you're allowed to defend the castle and assault the institute. From what I can tell, you don't actually have to take them through preston. You can shoot the settlers of oberland station or abernathy farm and click on the workbench and take the settlement yourself. The problem is that you need at least 1 person in a settlement for it to count.
You can send Nick or Piper to a settlement and they count as a person, so that's 2. The castle and sanctuary will have people in them, so that's 4. For the others, you have to make recruitment beacons. This doesn't take as long as you'd think, because breaking down the equipment cart found in both the sanctuary and red rocket garages gives most of what you need. So you put recruitment beacons in 2 settlements, an as soon as settlers appear, send them somewhere else, and later more settlers will appear.
The problem is that as far as I can tell, preston still expects you to do one proper minuteman quest before he will let you defend the castle. The other problem is that all of this is still taking a bit too long. If the game could accept some of these settlements without having to put people in them, then the minutemen questline would be competitive with the institute one. As it is, it's taking 15 or 20 minutes longer than it takes me to follow the institute questline.
By the way, you kill the mirelurk queen with 3 bottlecap mines, found outside Fort Hagen. You do the tough ending quests, defending the castle and assulting the institute, in power armor, using the shredding minigun, which is massively powerful and needs no ammo. You need gun nut 2 to mod the minigun, which means you have to be level 13, which is where you'll be when you're ready to defend the castle, assuming you took some points in intelligence early on.
Hi all! I've just completed an Any% glitchless on PS4 and I had some questions about it. First off, I had to load a previous save twice in the run because of a failed pickpocket attempt and accidentally killing a civilian. I don't think it's an issue except when reloading saves on PS4, only audio is broadcast and all video cuts out, would this invalidate the run because the timer is off the screen for about 5 seconds each time?
Next is that my Internet is quite poor and the video is bad quality, would this jeopardise my submitted run?
Finally, I wanted to know if anybody is still into this category because it would be a shame if I'm the only one at this time?
I also changed the route slightly to grabbing a fatman and 1-4 mini nukes depending on the spawn from the raider in Lexington and an extra mini nuke in the Pulowski shelter, quite literally, next to the building the raider is in. There's also changes to fast travelling like to Mass Fusion when going to the Railroad and Greygarden when capturing a scientist for the institute. Sorry for double posting or whatever.
As long as its only the load screens that are black, and not any of the gameplay. Video quality doesnt matter that much. As long as we can see whats going on then its fine. The glitchless and console categories arent very active at the moment, but you never know if anyone else is gonna join in. The console glitched category has been the most active out of the two, so I would reccomend having a look at that aswell, and IMO glitched runs are more fun.
I looked at the glitched version first actually, but I can't seem to be able to cover slide or teleport using jet, so I don't know if it's me not getting it right or its been patched in an update or something. Although the glitchless% makes me feel kinda good knowing I beat the game fastest legit, I'm gonna keep trying glitched just in case.
Coversliding was patched early on, atleast for the PC. If I'm not mistaken then I think it was for console too. I don't really know much about what patches the console runs are done on and if they downpatch or whatnot. You can join our discord channel for that and ask there if you havent already. Fallout discord: https://discord.gg/zyMbNJa Fallout 4 console discord: https://discord.gg/g9ERzQH
The run isn't that bad tbh, it's just that noone wants to do it because it's so long. Someone did a more optimised run of it that was faster, but also at 120 fps
