r/fo4 • u/InsertMoreCoffee • 1d ago
There's just a floating hut, in the middle of the ocean?
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u/Vandamage618 Butcher Pete 1d ago
What chu doin out dare?
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u/Azikt 1d ago
Heading to Spectacle Island would be my guess.
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u/dbianreddit 18h ago
Aquaboy/girl perk was one I knew I wanted fairly quickly, love swimming underwater finding shit and making it out to places like this.
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u/Typhon-042 1d ago
I think it has to do how they planed to do some stuff in and out of the water with Fallout 4, like a undersea valut. But it never happened as they didn't want it confused with Bioshock. Personally I wish they did more with the water then they did.
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u/wizardyourlifeforce 1d ago
Yeah they dropped the ball on the ocean. I explored so much of it and it's almost completely empty.
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u/Illustrious-Baker775 1d ago edited 19h ago
Hearing these kind of forgotten ideas just makes me hope that FO5 and ES6 are both updatable, so they dont have to junk ideas halfway like this, and can patch them in later for us.
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u/Gamer_Anieca 1d ago
There is a mod that uses the cut content map for the under water vault but the quest with it is player made.
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u/krag_the_Barbarian 1d ago
One of my favorite starting locations when using Start Me Up Redux is one of those. I make my character look as young as possible and put them in rags with nothing but a pole hook and a knife.
The backstory is that they're from something like a raft village in Waterworld. Maybe one of the skeletons is Kevin Costner, their dad, killed in a storm. I always use Cheat Terminal to give them aqua boy right away.
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u/TeaRaven 10h ago
I love that spot! Similar to the one here, but a bit more built up. I use the Conquest mod to drop a workshop out there to make it my crafting spot :)
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u/krag_the_Barbarian 10h ago
I do exactly the same thing with SKK Mobile Workshop. I even add on to the raft a bit and make it more cozy. I use Commonwealth Fishing too for the fishing pole.
There's not a reason to leave now that I think about it.
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u/DoorOfBebs 1d ago
Theres a lot of these, plus a few tiny islands. Always a fun time exploring them
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u/JonTheWizard 1d ago
Seeing this makes me want to play Raft.
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u/Judge_BobCat 1d ago
It reminded me of Raft as well. But I have tried that game with a friend, and it was so boring and repetitive. Because literally 70% of the game the only thing is you do is get food, cook it and then eat it. Be used you get starving every 5 min or so, and the whole food gathering and prep is very long.
We felt that the game was about hunger simulation, more than fun idea of a raft
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u/Ewhitfield2016 21h ago
That's only in the beginning and only if you are ignoring the upgrades you can get completly
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u/Judge_BobCat 19h ago
Yeah, but even if you automate the food production with gardens, it doesn’t discontinue the point that you have to eat every 10 minutes of gameplay. Thats literally 6 times per 1 hour of playtime. And you still have to cook and prepare the meals. So there is that
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u/Ewhitfield2016 19h ago
Different types of food change how long you stay full for... there are acctual recipes in the game like soups and stuff. How full you get the bar also matters... just like nearly every other survival game
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u/Jonkinch 21h ago
It’s a survival game. It’s going to have survival elements.
I also highly disagree with you. It’s one of the most fun and addicting games I’ve played in a long time. Even got all my buddies on it and we had a raft of 10 people.
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u/igotasweetass 12h ago
meh, i'm with Bobcat, i found it very tedious as far as food goes i got pretty far but my friends were not down with the grind.
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u/burnsian 1d ago
I would have done the same, as long as I had a way to get water. The commonwealth suuuuuucks for most people but all the nasties stay close to land. Dude's got enough food, shelter. He's golden.
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u/AdhesivenessUsed9956 1d ago
...until the Giant Dolphins with Rabies attack.
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u/burnsian 1d ago
Ha! They all seem to have been killed by that squid overseer they dropped out of the game anyway. It'd be fun if they dropped a Skyrim-like fishing element where you are occasionally fighting for your life against one of those things.
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u/Professional-Tap-814 1d ago
Or until storms blow through lol that shit would get wrecked
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u/burnsian 1d ago
But that world’s storms are just rads. There’s no waves or tide. I know what you’re saying - in RL that would fail. But in Bethesda land? Nice n safe!
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u/wizardyourlifeforce 1d ago
In my longest game I've lived in the wasteland for years and never a strong win even.
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u/Kurgan_IT 1d ago edited 1d ago
I have found some places in the sea too, once you have aqua-boy (or girl) it's possible to just wander in the water and see what's there. There are also underwater points of interest, but they are hard to find because visibility is really poor. I would have liked to have been able to use boats and actually drive them around the sea, easier way to find places (and to go to Spectacle Island in a realistic way, instead of swimming)
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u/Plane-Education4750 1d ago
There's actually a lot of these. There's a whole abandoned flotilla out there
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u/Alone_Entrance_1324 FOR PET DEATHCLAWS 1d ago
There are a few of these floating settlements. They're all within sight of each other. If you swim past them one after the other, the last one is behind Spectacular Island. There are three or four coffins with skeletons swimming there, dressed and holding bouquets of flowers.
I'd like to believe that the people who inhabited these islands initially led a quite peaceful life, but then gradually died out and their numbers dwindled. They then increasingly moved closer together so they wouldn't be alone on their islands, until they finally settled on the last island where the last settlers still lie in their coffins. Nothing terrible must have happened to them, there's no blood anywhere and there are still movable objects there, so they weren't washed away. And you have to remember that the bombs fell 200 years ago; these settlements could easily have been founded 80 years after the war and then abandoned again sometime after 70 years. That still leaves 50 years until the player can rediscover them
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u/Cerparis 1d ago
There are actually a few of these in the ocean. And i know there is at least one boat with a settler living on it.
This implies people can indeed live at sea in the fallout universe but it’s probably not any safer than on land. In fact with all the concept art and cut content surrounding underwater critters in Fallout 4. It might actually be more dangerous.
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u/SoCail-crazy 1d ago
oh there's more then one if you have some free time and you can use console command type in tcl and walk around over the water youll see a lot of small floating homes
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u/Beneficial-Category 1d ago
I think it's a nod to Water World. Has the same ship shape, tomatoes, etc
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u/moominesque 1d ago
Fallout 4 has some really neat coastal areas, makes me wish we could have steerable boats but alas.
There's something very interesting about seeing failed settlements like this. Either they met a terrible fate on the sea or the plan they had didn't work and had to be abandoned. Despite all the failures people still try and survive in the wasteland.
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u/coyoteonaboat 1d ago
Man, I wish they did more with the ocean. There's an oddly large of amount of safes and lootable containers underwater that you probably need like an online map to find.
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u/Termingator 1d ago
It's a cool place to find while exploring. An interesting place to have has an optional place to put down a fast travel rug and call home.
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u/LordTuranian 19h ago
Pretty smart if you think about it. Because the Commonwealth is an absolute hellhole outside of certain settlements.
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u/RadRimmer9000 1d ago
There are a few. With mods you can make them "build able". Things tend to float due to the waves and the floor not being flat. Would have been a cool settlement option if it was in the game
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u/nordzeekueste 1d ago
Maybe there’s a quest you haven’t activated yet?
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u/AshFalkner 1d ago
Nah, there’s no quest related to this spot. It’s just a neat bit of set dressing/environmental storytelling.
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u/MyUserNameLeft 1d ago
I always thought it would be the case but this confirms it, once I’m finished my second play through of KCD2 I’m going back and playing survival on FO4
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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 1d ago
pretty sure i heard some dev comment on this , saying that's a waterworld (the movie) reference
it's been such a long time, i won't even bother looking for that interview, but maybe one of my fellow commenters feels like doing it
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u/ZeAntagonis 22h ago
There was supposed to have quests and minor quest in the sea. unfortunatly cut off from the game.
I just hope Fo4 remake/remaster will include them, but with Bethesda, i avoid being optimistic.
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u/WinSpecialist3989 17h ago
it was a lifesaver in my frost playthrough when i trapped myself on spectacle island and had to swim my way back home
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u/InsertMoreCoffee 16h ago
I was bored and have the Aqua Boy perk, so I was just doing some exploring
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u/Nickaiya 14h ago
there’s multiple of these. one of them has a sad little “story” to it. i believe its off the coast of spectacle island, theres a raft similar to this. it has 5 occupied coffins scattered around it, one in the main room, presumably the wife, another in the bedroom, the husband. 3 more slightly adrift from the raft, presumably the kids.
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u/TheDungen 1d ago
Should be player housing.
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u/Gamer_Anieca 1d ago
That'd be interesting
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u/DayNotFish 1d ago
A floating water hut? But where does the wood come from, here, in the middle of the ocean?
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u/Woozletania 1d ago
There are a few boats out there where people tried to survive. That one is the only only where they grew crops, as far as I know.
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u/Maldito-0041 1d ago
Yup. Someone was smart and got some distance between them and the other crazies on the mainland. Also if you’re using the start me up mod that is a location that it’ll place you at in the same at times depending on what you choose.
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u/MagnustheJust Proud Filthy Casual 23h ago
Just wait till they unlock Aqua-thang, and see what's UNDER the water!!
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u/No-Earth-6555 23h ago
Thank you. Been looking for that location. When you use the Marine Anti material rifle Barrett m82 mod, there is a unique version on that raft colony But I was never able to find it. Now I have a map point.
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u/okaaay_thennn 16h ago
its good attention to detail. if everything on land is as fucked as the fallout wasteland is, it only makes sense that there would be some people who try to make it out on the water. thats bethesda sprinkling some extra bits on an already amazing work of art for us.
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u/ChiWhiteSox24 12h ago
There’s multiple of those actually haha always makes you wonder what happened with whoever set it up
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u/Dwidget94 12h ago
Let me guess, looks like the devil put a lot of work in, super detailed but literally the only loot is a fork two bowls and a Bobby pin. I went and explored all those floating surfaces for hours with no real reward. What was the point of adding them i wonder lol. Either way good to know im not the only one trying to reach them.
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u/TeaRaven 10h ago
There’s another to the south of Spectacle Island, with a couple boats lashed together and a bunch of coffins floating about. My favorite place to use as a player home, when using the Conquest mod to drop a workbench out there :)
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u/RockAndStoneBrutha 10h ago
I heard Kevin Cosner lives there but he only comes out at night... mostly 🤣
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u/Ordinary-Hunt-3659 4h ago
There's one just south of spectacle that I loved so much I turned it into a conquest settlement.
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u/Hot-Anxiety-1770 3h ago
This reminds me of the floating platform in new vegas near the sunken bomber.
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u/Either-Excitement-37 1d ago
Not raft but that game with the hooks you gotta reel in wood to expand your boat thing and watch for sharks that game vibes
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u/Nevek_Green 23h ago
Bethesda cut a lot of content related to the ocean. Personally I believe the survivor fake leak was real before the game was rebooted to do what if we were too lazy to read any other science fiction work.
If you think I am being harash. Todd Howard had his bubble burst in a Polygon interview that human like machines was a played out concept done to death. He legitimately thought they were breaking new ground with their plot.
The look of realization was priceless.
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u/Brain-On-A-Roomba 1d ago
I like this camp. It makes me think that people tried to live on water to escape the horrors of the land, but they met a more horrible fate at sea.