CONCEPT: Operation - Retake the Wasteland, endgame solution as replacement for Preston's boring quests

[Fiddlestickz]

So i thought about what Fallout 4 needs. The omnipresent Preston meme showed me: it's endgame content. Apart from building and your boring shallow settlement quests from beloved Preston there is not much to do.

 

Now hear me out, this is just a concept and the game command and conquer was reference for this.

Here the concept video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQnpFg93pk

Yes this is crudely handpainted, but it should do the job to show what i have in mind and to interpret thing into it.

Story could be many things. First thing that came to mind is a setting set about 10-20 years in the future where a big invasion force almost overwhelms the commonwealth. That could be any enemy, Enclave, superpowered Supermutants, etc ANYthing, just a BIG FORCE.

You play as aged General, now in his 50s. It is almost a lost battle, but you can turn it around.

 

So now how can you build something like this into the game? The easy solution is simply to clean selected settlements from settlers, build a well designed fortress and fill it with proper enemies (with coding you could place spawners aswell). Then the player can retake it, but the enemy force should be a tough fight, this leads to the next bullet point.

 

- Squadmanagement: In Theory you could abuse supply lines for this. You have settlement A which is a regular settlement with 20 peeps, then to the north you modified a settlement as enemy fortress. Now you could basically send guys as supply line there, to act as fire support.

 

- The pipboy would be modified with interactive elements which shows territories, like in the video, but of course with crisp art. I really liked the strategy map in Command and Conquer and this could be possible. If you want just the territories marked on you pip boy, you can simply take the maptexture file and place another layer on top. But it's only static of course.

 

I hope to get some input from experienced modders on this. I feel this could be turned into something wonderful what people will enjoy.

Please post your thought, thanks for reading!

Edited January 10, 2016 by Fiddlestickz

[Athanasa]

Incoming shameless plug.

 

Brotherhood Overhaul, shiny marketable title pending.

 

One of the main ideas now is to create a whole buttload of content for after the PC has become a Sentinel of the Brotherhood. A major part of this being having your own fire-team of two new voiced companions and being able to send out squads to do stuff in the Wasteland for you.

 

 

... hang on, the features list on the root post is slightly outdated. Oh well, I'll get to that later.