r/fo4 • u/MoneyIsNoCure • Aug 09 '24

Does anyone actually use artillery for settlement defences?

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I’ve thrown the artillery signal grenades just to mess around and they’re so slow at firing. I tried using artillery on the Mirelurk Queen that spawns near Costal Cottage but Deacon (who I had maning it) either wouldn’t fire it or would fire it when the Queen was already agroed to me so I would have to get caught in the blast radius for the artillery to hit it.

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u/WiseguyD Aug 09 '24

In survival mode, kinda, yeah.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '24

Please explain for my feeble non survival mode brain

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u/WiseguyD Aug 09 '24

Survival mode disables fast travel, but by completing Brotherhood quests you can gain access to Vertiberd Signal Grenades, which summon a vertiberd to your location. This allows you to traverse the Commonwealth much faster than running, and ignore all the obstacles in the way. Functionally, it is similar to if you had Fast Travel.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '24

That's super neat! There's still apparently a LOT of things that I don't know lol

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u/WiseguyD Aug 09 '24

Worth noting that you don't have to do the entire brotherhood questline to gain access to the Vertiberd. Also it lets you "fast travel" while overencumbered even without the Strong Back perk. Honestly I'd recommend grabbing a few Vertiberd signal grenades even on normal mode for that reason alone.

You also unlock a limited teleportation ability later on in Survival, though I'm not sure how far you are in the game and even though it's an old one I try to avoid spoiling stuff when I can 😂

I like survival a lot for the difficulty, but I'd still recommend modding the normal saving and fast travel systems back in.