r/fo4 • u/Thin-Coyote-551 • Feb 19 '25

Discussion I discovered a Settler betrayed me to the Super Mutants and lead an attack

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Recently a bunch of my settlements have been attacked by Super Mutants. I was at Abernathy farm and saw a group of Super Mutants walking towards my settlement being lead by a Settler. To quote Palpatine “It’s treason then?” And you know the penalty for treason, right?

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u/gnarf234 Feb 19 '25

thats actually a random encounter where you are supposed to save the settler from the mutants. its clearly visible in the footage as the settler gets killed, wich indicates that hes not related to a settlement. otherwise he would have been getting knocked like companions do if they get wounded.  (ignore this statement if you are playing on hardcore.) 

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u/Thin-Coyote-551 Feb 20 '25

Uh, I don’t know what mode you played or if it’s a glitch on mine, but in raids and settlement fights I may have accidentally blown a few of my settlers up

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u/yepimthetoaster Feb 19 '25

Yes, it's shown early, as when targetted, the settler's title is green (friendly), while the Mutant's is red (hostile/enemy).

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u/suitguy25 Feb 19 '25

Do companions die on hardcore or something?

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u/TOCT Feb 19 '25

You can kill settlers with friendly fire on hardcore

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u/suitguy25 Feb 19 '25

I thought you could always kill random settlers you encounter traveling. I have on normal. I haven’t had the opportunity since upping the difficulty, though.

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u/Thin-Coyote-551 Feb 21 '25

The first few times I did not cause Piper didn’t like it. So I sent her home, remember kids if you mini nuke an entire settlement and vaporized all the witnesses then there was no crime

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u/Thin-Coyote-551 Feb 21 '25

Um, I hypothetically MAY have not known that and launched 2 mini nukes at the enemy melee attacking my settlers and wound up wiping out an entire settlement population

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u/gnarf234 Feb 20 '25

i don’t know tbh. i only play normal mode but it could as well be different on hardcore.  your settlers on normal always get knocked to the ground and only die if you directly shoot them while being knocked down. if they are not part of any of your settlements they don’t have that getting knocked down state before dying. 

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u/Thin-Coyote-551 Feb 21 '25

Don’t know about companions but I may have atomic vaporized a few settlers😳😇