I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Spectacle Island. On the one hand, it's a great settlement, in concept: large open area, surrounded by water that should serve as a natural deterrent to attacks. On the other hand, in practice, the water doesn't do anything to prevent attacks, the settlement area is so big that it sometimes doesn't load all the resources at once, yet the vanilla settlement budget is way too small to do anything worthwhile. If you bypass the budget with mods, commands, or the "drop weapons and store them in the workbench" exploit, you get severe loading issues and graphical glitches before you've built a town that covers barely a third of the island. And when it gets attacked, good luck finding all the attackers.
@A.M.3691 To play Devil's advocate: If I had a less decent computer, I would repeatedly be pissed if I had spent hours building a settlement, only to place one more object than my computer can handle, causing the game to crash and lose all process. So the settlement limit has a point. Unfortunately, with Spectacle Island, Starlight Drive-In, and most egregiously, Vault 88, we are given huge build areas that we cannot properly utilise.
There's a couple of mods that force attackers to spawn outside of the borders of settlements. They spawn in the ocean, so they get to experience their own version of D-Day, but for raiders
@@assassinzakral7023 Could you name some? I enjoy surrounding settlements with walls because it just fits the aesthetic, so it would be neat if they were actually useful.
I went out there once. Found a workbench but couldn't use it. Looked around, couldn't figure it out and left. Apparently there is a power pylon or something that can be turned on, and a settlement built there. Oops lol
I used this place as my lonely home base. Took 2 elevators & built a floating base. The view is dope when high up. Its right at the max height so uts only 1 level. Cool place.
I wish more of the Boston Harbor islands were in the game. Especially George’s Island. Boston has 34 islands around it. They could have had some great use out of them
I turned spectacle Island into work camp. I send all companions that I don't use there where they will work as well as settlers who get on my nerves or won't move out of the way
Can you take a look at the unmarked “hideout” under the bridge between the makra fish packing plant and coastal cottage? It’s such a bizarre place with a scientist skeleton and a bunch of nuclear waste barrels with no terminal/note/holotape providing any context
You can over hear a ghoul in skinny malones gang talking about the corrupt union construction of the vault which parallels real life issues with the big dig.
Several of the settlement builds I'm most proud of are on Spectacle Island. For one character, I built a mansion, one of my most detailed builds to date. Most of my companions live there and I bult a factory for Wasteland Workshop manufacturing elements nearby as well. In another character, I built a nice little shopping mall manned by the settlers and a fully-furnished apartment complex for them to live in (with a penthouse suite for my own personal use).
The tunnels we get to explore are Sunmer and Callahan tunnels. Not Ted Williams Tunnel. Big Dig is not in Fallout 4. I live in Boston and explored every inch of Fallout 4. They still have the Overpass 93 going North and South shore.
I love your lore content for fallout (specifically for me fallout 4), and I usually watch in full on TH-cam. I just thought maybe it'd be cool if you maybe did clips in your shorts to re-direct or re-vitilise my interest in the full videos you do. Love you oxhorn ❤
Everything change when the mirelurks attack. Seriously i think one settler was about to betray his fellow settlers when mirelurks start assaulting Spectacle island.
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Spectacle Island.
On the one hand, it's a great settlement, in concept: large open area, surrounded by water that should serve as a natural deterrent to attacks.
On the other hand, in practice, the water doesn't do anything to prevent attacks, the settlement area is so big that it sometimes doesn't load all the resources at once, yet the vanilla settlement budget is way too small to do anything worthwhile. If you bypass the budget with mods, commands, or the "drop weapons and store them in the workbench" exploit, you get severe loading issues and graphical glitches before you've built a town that covers barely a third of the island. And when it gets attacked, good luck finding all the attackers.
Thanks Bethesda
Yeah Bethesda shat The bed when it comes to settlement building limits.
@A.M.3691 To play Devil's advocate: If I had a less decent computer, I would repeatedly be pissed if I had spent hours building a settlement, only to place one more object than my computer can handle, causing the game to crash and lose all process. So the settlement limit has a point. Unfortunately, with Spectacle Island, Starlight Drive-In, and most egregiously, Vault 88, we are given huge build areas that we cannot properly utilise.
There's a couple of mods that force attackers to spawn outside of the borders of settlements. They spawn in the ocean, so they get to experience their own version of D-Day, but for raiders
@@assassinzakral7023 Could you name some? I enjoy surrounding settlements with walls because it just fits the aesthetic, so it would be neat if they were actually useful.
I don't think I ever made it here, this game is so damn big
I went out there once. Found a workbench but couldn't use it. Looked around, couldn't figure it out and left. Apparently there is a power pylon or something that can be turned on, and a settlement built there. Oops lol
"it just works"
I used this place as my lonely home base. Took 2 elevators & built a floating base. The view is dope when high up. Its right at the max height so uts only 1 level. Cool place.
@@xorphanaYou have to deal with the mirelurks
Same as Skyrim, people still point out shit I've never seen
I wish more of the Boston Harbor islands were in the game. Especially George’s Island. Boston has 34 islands around it. They could have had some great use out of them
Most of the dirt from the masspike tunnels actually went to logan airport where they added like 6-7 more runways
There’s a fatman on the boat on spectacle island, trust me when I say you’re gonna need it
I turned spectacle Island into work camp. I send all companions that I don't use there where they will work as well as settlers who get on my nerves or won't move out of the way
Can you take a look at the unmarked “hideout” under the bridge between the makra fish packing plant and coastal cottage? It’s such a bizarre place with a scientist skeleton and a bunch of nuclear waste barrels with no terminal/note/holotape providing any context
Love your Fallout lore videos. I never get tired of hearing these stories.
The novel Zodiac has this island as location when it was still used as a bump, I didn’t know they cleaned it up until recently, like 30 years late
You can over hear a ghoul in skinny malones gang talking about the corrupt union construction of the vault which parallels real life issues with the big dig.
Several of the settlement builds I'm most proud of are on Spectacle Island. For one character, I built a mansion, one of my most detailed builds to date. Most of my companions live there and I bult a factory for Wasteland Workshop manufacturing elements nearby as well.
In another character, I built a nice little shopping mall manned by the settlers and a fully-furnished apartment complex for them to live in (with a penthouse suite for my own personal use).
Cool
I didnt know the quest name was a reference to something, thats neat!
The moar ya know khed. Lotta history there
@@Dorkchester1 definetily
Learned this from Joov during his fallout 4 without leaving spectacle island video. Very interesting history
Such a good game. Plenty of issues, but the lore entertains me so much more than other games. Makes me want to walk vs fast travel.
The tunnels we get to explore are Sunmer and Callahan tunnels. Not Ted Williams Tunnel. Big Dig is not in Fallout 4. I live in Boston and explored every inch of Fallout 4. They still have the Overpass 93 going North and South shore.
Love your videos OX
Especially all the lore
Take a look at little nightmare 3 hope you had a great Christmas and looking forward to your next video
In real life the big dig was a big disaster and took way longer than expected. It’s also falling apart already
I love spectacle island it’s such a peaceful island when u take care of all the creatures there
Just beat Starfield and I’m ready for another Modded FO4 survival play through 🙌
I also have a project that's called 'the big dig'
This just sent me down a rabbit hole online... thanks!
I love your lore content for fallout (specifically for me fallout 4), and I usually watch in full on TH-cam.
I just thought maybe it'd be cool if you maybe did clips in your shorts to re-direct or re-vitilise my interest in the full videos you do.
Love you oxhorn ❤
The largest building grounds in the game
I must be exhausted, I literally sat here thinking, man this sounds like oxhorn...😂
Sometimes your voice sounds like Tom Hanks playing the Conductor! Super uncanny-
Man Oxhorn milks fallout 4 like he does childern.
Everything change when the mirelurks attack. Seriously i think one settler was about to betray his fellow settlers when mirelurks start assaulting Spectacle island.
Where do you get this power armor?
fun fact, it took like 20 years and fucked up traffic flow for a while here lol
It has been done...69 comments
Oxhorn you should speed run some DLCs and tell us which is the best
Rereading your script in a boston accent makes it all the bettah.
Jet pack just a burnin
Come to think of strange settlements, wheres the boston airport runway?
What outfit mod is that
I am the 68th commenter, to the next person to comment. You know what kudt be done. Godspeed.
Im walkin heah
Thats new york bud but nice effort
@@Dorkchester1 Boston word?
@gru8327 hey blow-in or wash ashowah (ashore) is a common saying from south shore to the Cape and Islands to anyone who isn't native.
@@dunewalker5567 I aint reading all that
With a "g" !!
Umm were just going to skip over the power armor 😮
The big w h a t?
biggus diggus
Oxhorn is always living in lala land
Condensing lore into shorts is dumb and I’m not a fan of it.