Yes! It was a hell of a challenge. But I do believe I finally got the worst enemy in all of the Commonwealth beat.
Bethesda surely came up with one of the most despicable characters ever in a video game with this Machiavellian sadist!
I am referring, of course, to the fiend known as Preston Garvey.
The odds seemed overwhelming at times. It's like nothing I did was ever enough. No sooner would I return from rescuing yet another kidnapped settler, or cleaning up what might've been the 20th nest of ghouls in a row, and there he'd be all chipper from exercising his sitting muscles at home base, ready to cheerfully slap me with yet another chore.
Oh hey, I got something for ya. There's another settlement in trouble. Here, lemme helpfully mark that on your map. Better get out there and recruit those settlers for the Minutemen so I can have MORE SLAVES to jerk around.
Not gone yet hmm? Still sorting through your loot? Well hang on then, I just thought of something else that you might as well do for me too.
So at some point I had 4 parallel Preston Garvey missions. And I was in despair. With a new one popping up for every mission I handed in there seemed to be no end in sight.
See, normally I tend to take my time. Go through mission areas at a deliberate pace. I'll search through cupboards and fridges and make sure I clean up properly.
I'll pick up everything off corpses and make multiple fast travels to Bunker Hill to offload until I complete the quest. And then go back for the rest. Those 50000 bottlecaps didn't find themselves.
But that clearly wasn't gonna cut it anymore. Desperate times. So for once I ran through the 4 mission areas at breakneck speed, rushing up to every enemy that popped up and shooting it in the face as I made a beeline straight for the named or legendary or whatever it was that would clear the area. And then immediately off to the next zone.
So after a while I was good to go. All 4 missions at the 'go see Preston Harvey' stage. I headed back to Sanctuary Hills and confronted him. Here's a mission. Done! Have another! Done, done, done!
He sputtered a bit, and went to his 'as usual, I have something else..' shtick. But to my surprise he didn't actually get to mark any locations. So I saw my chance.
Workbench. From maximum distance, target Preston. 'Move' to Course Manor.
I'm never going there again. Yeah, I know there are no water pumps yet. Or anything else really. Such a shame. Have fun being buttfucked by glowing feral ghouls out there.
Bethesda surely came up with one of the most despicable characters ever in a video game with this Machiavellian sadist!
I am referring, of course, to the fiend known as Preston Garvey.
The odds seemed overwhelming at times. It's like nothing I did was ever enough. No sooner would I return from rescuing yet another kidnapped settler, or cleaning up what might've been the 20th nest of ghouls in a row, and there he'd be all chipper from exercising his sitting muscles at home base, ready to cheerfully slap me with yet another chore.
Oh hey, I got something for ya. There's another settlement in trouble. Here, lemme helpfully mark that on your map. Better get out there and recruit those settlers for the Minutemen so I can have MORE SLAVES to jerk around.
Not gone yet hmm? Still sorting through your loot? Well hang on then, I just thought of something else that you might as well do for me too.
So at some point I had 4 parallel Preston Garvey missions. And I was in despair. With a new one popping up for every mission I handed in there seemed to be no end in sight.
See, normally I tend to take my time. Go through mission areas at a deliberate pace. I'll search through cupboards and fridges and make sure I clean up properly.
I'll pick up everything off corpses and make multiple fast travels to Bunker Hill to offload until I complete the quest. And then go back for the rest. Those 50000 bottlecaps didn't find themselves.
But that clearly wasn't gonna cut it anymore. Desperate times. So for once I ran through the 4 mission areas at breakneck speed, rushing up to every enemy that popped up and shooting it in the face as I made a beeline straight for the named or legendary or whatever it was that would clear the area. And then immediately off to the next zone.
So after a while I was good to go. All 4 missions at the 'go see Preston Harvey' stage. I headed back to Sanctuary Hills and confronted him. Here's a mission. Done! Have another! Done, done, done!
He sputtered a bit, and went to his 'as usual, I have something else..' shtick. But to my surprise he didn't actually get to mark any locations. So I saw my chance.
Workbench. From maximum distance, target Preston. 'Move' to Course Manor.
I'm never going there again. Yeah, I know there are no water pumps yet. Or anything else really. Such a shame. Have fun being buttfucked by glowing feral ghouls out there.
