A new kind of gate for survival.

[Dino1288]

So I've had an idea bouncing around in my head for the last few days in regards to the way gates work in FO4. I never liked how if you powered up your warehouse shutter gate during a raid, all the melee enemies just ran and hid, and then you had to go hunt them down. To me, whatever was attacking your settlement should go for the most vulnerable part of your walls - the gate, so as to let all their buddies in. As it stands, as long as you get behind the walls of your base and power on your indestructible door/gate, the raid is effectively defeated other than the ranged attackers. I want to feel like even if I got to safety behind my walls, there are still enemies trying to get in by attacking the gate so the pressure never really lts up.

 

Ultimately what I want to do is make the junk fence gate and all powered doors from the vanilla game behave like turrets. Not that they would have guns or some type of attack but that they would have a health bar, could be repaired if damaged, create agro so enemies would attack them, and if they were destroyed they would cease to function. This to me would add a sense of realism to the game since all walls and door are indestructible, but if the gates could be attacked, and "destroyed" then enemies would be able to get to your precious settlement and settlers.

 

As far as resistances and health pool, power requirement, defense rating, and workshop cost/repair cost for each type of gate goes, I would say that the Junk fence be like a starter gate with the weakest attributes, lowest cost, lowest defense rating, and lowest power requirement so as to give you an early defensive gate. As time goes on, you can build the more durable gates such as the shutter gate and the concrete powered door, which require more of everything to maintain. If someone with 3D modeling skills decided make some heavier variations of the Junk fence gate such as metal plating or rubber tires added to the existing gate, it could make a type of tech tree for advancing the strength of your gate.

 

I know the junk fence gate doesn't require power in its vanilla form, but maybe some talented modders could add a power switch (I personally think the one on the wooden post would look best) so as to make it work like the rest of the powered doors. I never liked that anyone could open it, its useless as a gate. This would make it worth something.

 

I don't know much about how modding works, or if this is even possible, but even if no one wants to try their hand at this, I would still appreciate some advice on how to go about making it so I could try. I think this would make your survival playthrough (especially if you do some kind of raid from hell/zombie apocalypse) even more dangerous, since now you would have a way to be attacked even from the relative safety of your settlements. If anyone has thoughts or ideas to add that I may have missed please do! Also, thank you to all of you wonderful modders, you've made Fallout 4 a wonderful game I love to play over and over! Kudos to all of you!

Edited May 17, 2019 by Dino1288