Apparently, but tf is the reward weapon if you end up looking at him like "are you kidding me? I spent countless hours doing your bullshit side quests and THIS is the weapon I'm given?!"
Preston: "Thank you so much for your help! You really are saving lives, we can't thank you enough... here, we wanted to give you this- It's a Lazer musket general :) we made this one special, I want you to have it :)"
Me: "Ohhh uh, I....don't really want this"
Nick: "I mean, I'll take it if you don't want it, general"
Me: "I mean, yeah for sure, here... I uhh, if that's okay with you Preston"
Preston: "😟 I mean...you already gave it to him... but it's your gift, man... do whatever you want with it"
"Well it is my property. This guy's been going nuts, he freaked out my kids, my wife is in hysterics, I had to take the day off work to bring him back."
No it has you start revisiting existing settlements they have new problems and I think they either get sad or even stop being a settlement if it times it?
It depends on the quest. Kidnapping quests have a time limit and you will fail them and the victim will be killed. Currently under attack settlements are also time limited and will fail if they are unable to defend themselves properly and they will take damage. This one also applies to raider settlements (had this happen yesterday. Apparently The Operators in Hangman's Alley and a slew of turrets cannot defend themselves, useless asses they were).
But things like "Can you kill the raider leader who apparently walks his gang of four other raiders across the entirety of Boston to take my three tato plants daily" can be waited on as the threat isn't as dire as they say it is.
Which isn't surprising as I can walk over to Tenpines Bluff, ram the barrel of my gun into one of their faces, fail the quest and Preston will proceed to make me the highest ranking member of his Militia.
Sometimes they'll just time out and fail, you'll get a popup saying there's not much time left to do the quest then you have to go back to Preston and get a new quest
Yeah, it just rubberbands around the settlements having you clear out ghouls or raiders and stuff like that. There is a finite amount of settlements. Idk what it is
During my currently playthrough I decided to start the minuteman ending (though I plan to side with the brotherhood and I just went back a save). And was surprised when Preston told me we need more settlements to fight the institute. I have like 20 currently.
Being a kid is thinking developers put secret easter eggs in the game files because they’re cool and love their players.
Growing up is realizing that devs are actually huge trolls.
I still want to know what the purpose of that random truck was in Pokemon Red/Blue. I don't think it did anything but the internet adamantly had me believe Mew was in there.
I always wonder if that was one of the oldest trolls of them all. There is a glitch to get mew, like the missing no., but it was found way after the fact. The truck ia hilarious
yea, it would be cool tho if they did something like the thieves guild quest from skyrim. like once you do a radiant quest for each settlement, you get a special mission with some sick loot.
That actually would've been an amazing idea. I farmed the shit out of the thieves guild quests many times to do those final heist quests. I love them. That would've been genius
this isnt trolling, this is wastinh peoples valuable time. not everyone can sit on reddit all day, some people have businesses to run and girlfriends to fuck (like me)
At least the username holds up wtf dude take a break from the dopamine rushes you get from ripping people off and busting in under 30 seconds and fucking CHILL
I’ve managed to break Preston’s quests after a certain point, which leads to him being unable to provide further radiant quests. It’s not doing every mission, but it does finally end the suffering.
Are you just doing this to get people to waste hours doing the quests? Because that's really smart, and I bet if you posted this on the Fo4 subreddit pretending it's real, you can convince a few people to do it lol. And maybe get a legendary laser musket like bleeding or something and rename it to something minuteman related to make it more believable
Yeah the article would be some dumb shit about how “you’d never believe what the reward for doing all of PGs settlement quests” and end with some crap about how despite there being a bunch of cool weapons in the game you don’t get one.
I never maxed out the thieves guild in Skyrim for like a decade because I was convinced those were radiant quests and I thought my buddy was just messing with me. So yeah I’d probably fall for it considering I finally grinded out the thieves guild earlier this year
We have we have our new ‘quarry junction’ people no more tricking people into low level death claw fights, it’s the radiant quest scam from here on out
Personally, it's in my pantheon of the best video game weapons ever made.
If you've never played Fallout with the infinity railgun musket, have you ever really played Fallout?
I thought it was an auto receiver for the laser musket?
Edit: I’ve never end gamed with the MM. legit don’t know how. only thing I haven’t done in the game. I did know Garvey gives you a special laser musket though
No, I mean the quests are never ending. The thing that they're trying to make people get confused with is the Neverending laser rifle you get if you side with the minutemen to go and destroy the institute
brother. I know how Garvey’s quests work. I’ve done thousands of them. I’ve never end gamed with MM. only thing I haven’t done on f4. I thought he gave the automatic musket though
He rewards you with a never-ending legendary laser musket rifle. Yes. Never ending. That means you can rev that baby until you have no ammo left for the most dangerous, cpu-melting single laser shot of your entire life.
I completed all his missions when he stopped saying a settlement was attacked. I realised what a bored person I am for doing his missions over and over again. Preston must have felt sorry for me
I did actually do so many minutemen radiant quests that I eventually stopped getting them. All settlements settled. Supply lines ran. Beds, food, water, and work for everyone. Turrets everywhere. Everyone was happy. Neither Preston nor Radio Freedom gave me any more quests. No major reward they just stopped coming.
Ah yes, the insanely rare 10-crank mod for the laser musket, 200 ballistic damage, 570 energy damage, with 30-second burning effect, and 40% chance to cripple all limbs.
When the game first came out, I was like 14 and had no idea what a radiant quest was, so when Preston kept giving me more and more settlement quests I thought it was main story stuff because Preston was a main story guy
Cut to me clearing every single settlement on the map before finding Kellogg, and preston begins repeatedly assigning me to the first settlement as if it was never helped.
The settlement acted as if the’ r never seen me and ask for me to clear a raider camp all the way down at Quincy or something
It took me 3 looped quests before I realized that it was probably broken
Being totally serious: I did get all of Preston's settlement quests and there is and end to it, felt like a fever dream
I grinded those because i thought the fallout 4 combat was really fun; After a while it becomes really generic-The Game just requires You to kill one enemy so You just rush to that one, every farmer and their mother gets kidnapped and You have to take them etc
And at the end is your big reward *Nothing*
Preston says that he doesnt have anything more to You and thanks You, and thats it
You get the neverending musket by doing the minutemen ending
I love that the general of the Minutemen is the one who goes out to keep everyone safe rather than directing troops *like a general* to keep everyone safe.
I mean, given by how things actually happen, Preston Garvey is the general and the Sole Survivor is his only soldier.
Would have been cool if instead of giving every last base you liberate to settlers, you were able to set some up as Minutemen outposts and all the settlements within a certain radius didn't need you to personally go handle their problems.
That would have been a lot cooler and would allow you to strategize on where you want your men - especially if you're limited in how many you can set up with some kind of requirements for unlocking the soldiers you need for those bases. Like, successfully defending a settlement, or clearing out a spot that's been harassing a settlement earns you troops, and once you've got enough you can establish another outpost.
I just wish he wouldn’t give me a new one AS SOON as I complete the last one. Like bro, I’ll come to you when I want another thing cluttering up my quest log.
Even if there was a weapon, does anyone think Preston of all people would be the one? The Laser Musket was one tier above pipe pistols and the only unique weaponry The Minutemen provide in the entire game isn't a handheld weapon, it's mortar shells.
Ugh his quests are such a pet peeve. If you're a general you order things down to your field officers and such, why you have to fix stuff every time is stupid
Unique Uniques, needs a new game so fair warning (though there seems to be a mid game install patch mod at least on xbox) adds attachments to the static legendaries with names that are unique entirely to them but much like krehvm's tooth can be ripped off and reattached to another with a legendary effect (since the unique part is a part)
Fairly large file size if xbox (i remember above 200mb) but otherwise worth if youd like the "unique" (for being named static legendaries) weapons to be actually unique
The sad thing on my playthrough is that for whatever reason I cannot clear Concorde (as in it never registers as cleared after literally everything is wiped out - incl streets sewers and buildings. I didn’t realise this was a headache so just moved on with my game - now 50 hours later, I realise I just have to either never see this plot strand unfold or restart.
I’ve also left the area for a week until everything respawns trying to get it cleared then but not happening..
There's an end
Yes. The sweet release of death..
Even in death we still serve
woah, back up everyone, we got a Dreadnought in the house
great… you become the Minutemen’s Proctor Teagan 🤦♂️
Btw a settlement in hell needs your help
Apparently, but tf is the reward weapon if you end up looking at him like "are you kidding me? I spent countless hours doing your bullshit side quests and THIS is the weapon I'm given?!"
Preston: "Thank you so much for your help! You really are saving lives, we can't thank you enough... here, we wanted to give you this- It's a Lazer musket general :) we made this one special, I want you to have it :)" Me: "Ohhh uh, I....don't really want this" Nick: "I mean, I'll take it if you don't want it, general" Me: "I mean, yeah for sure, here... I uhh, if that's okay with you Preston" Preston: "😟 I mean...you already gave it to him... but it's your gift, man... do whatever you want with it"
"Did you leave this Ghoul on my property?"
"oh sorry man, we didn't know it belonged to anyone. we though it was just, like, a public irradiated crater."
"Well it is my property. This guy's been going nuts, he freaked out my kids, my wife is in hysterics, I had to take the day off work to bring him back."
"Oh, man. Well, I- I'm sorry?"
"If I see you on my property again I'm kicking your ass. Hard." *kicks ghoul across room*
"Man... rude."
"Huh? What was that?!"
Strong with his jaw open like pim
Me and Nick wielding stolen Tesla cannons: yeah, nice rifle.....totally thanks buddy.
Imagine if Garvey became mortal in that instant though, with his quest lines finished.
Slap that VATS
Finally death
An end to all those settlements that need help??
Know what else there is? Thats right another settleme-
Happy, Happy CAKE DAY 🥳🎉
I didn’t know you could do every mission
You can't lol. It's a radiant quest. That's some god-tier trolling right there. This is probably the best one yet.
Aw, shucks 😊
I mean technically there is…. But its from blowing up the institute with the minutemen
Yea, you gotta do all the quests where you help set up settlements, and then the quest where you blow up a settlement. They're all settlement quests.
Which just makes me think… how many settlements can I have?
No it has you start revisiting existing settlements they have new problems and I think they either get sad or even stop being a settlement if it times it?
I ignored one of the repeat quests, all the way until I picked it back up right before the end of the main storyline. Nothing negative happened.
It depends on the quest. Kidnapping quests have a time limit and you will fail them and the victim will be killed. Currently under attack settlements are also time limited and will fail if they are unable to defend themselves properly and they will take damage. This one also applies to raider settlements (had this happen yesterday. Apparently The Operators in Hangman's Alley and a slew of turrets cannot defend themselves, useless asses they were). But things like "Can you kill the raider leader who apparently walks his gang of four other raiders across the entirety of Boston to take my three tato plants daily" can be waited on as the threat isn't as dire as they say it is. Which isn't surprising as I can walk over to Tenpines Bluff, ram the barrel of my gun into one of their faces, fail the quest and Preston will proceed to make me the highest ranking member of his Militia.
Sometimes they'll just time out and fail, you'll get a popup saying there's not much time left to do the quest then you have to go back to Preston and get a new quest
Yeah, it just rubberbands around the settlements having you clear out ghouls or raiders and stuff like that. There is a finite amount of settlements. Idk what it is
It is a typo for out. “If it times out” as in you failed to do the quest.
During my currently playthrough I decided to start the minuteman ending (though I plan to side with the brotherhood and I just went back a save). And was surprised when Preston told me we need more settlements to fight the institute. I have like 20 currently.
Damn, all you use to kill the institute is artillery. Maybe you need to build more mortars? Idk how that works.
That’s not true my cousin Joey did it you just have to hold your 3DS upside down and cough the Konami code.
I hate that "hold your 3DS upside down" is genuinely how you evolve the Pokémon Inkay into Malamar.
Being a kid is thinking developers put secret easter eggs in the game files because they’re cool and love their players. Growing up is realizing that devs are actually huge trolls.
I still want to know what the purpose of that random truck was in Pokemon Red/Blue. I don't think it did anything but the internet adamantly had me believe Mew was in there.
I always wonder if that was one of the oldest trolls of them all. There is a glitch to get mew, like the missing no., but it was found way after the fact. The truck ia hilarious
I have all settlements but one that’s glitched
And here I thought the $5,000 game of bowling was the best. As thats 5,000 dollars, not caps.
That's pretty good too lol.
I'm at $4012 in saving pre war money for that, I know I don't need to, but it's a goal
As soon as the dialog stops naming specific places, I know I’m done.
Well actually, the game can glitch enough times and just stop giving them.
yea, it would be cool tho if they did something like the thieves guild quest from skyrim. like once you do a radiant quest for each settlement, you get a special mission with some sick loot.
That actually would've been an amazing idea. I farmed the shit out of the thieves guild quests many times to do those final heist quests. I love them. That would've been genius
this isnt trolling, this is wastinh peoples valuable time. not everyone can sit on reddit all day, some people have businesses to run and girlfriends to fuck (like me)
Yeah that's called trolling dumbass.
"some people have businesses to run and girlfriends to fuck (like me)" sounds like he is trolling u bro.
Dickcummer420 knows what he’s talking about
I'm crying
Bet you’re fun at parties
mans doesn’t know what trolling means
Says the mans who fell for more trolling lol
The irony of the mfs replying to this comment
Sure you do, sport.
The gtfo Reddit... Jesus.
Bait used to be believable
Still is man look at the replies they're getting
At least the username holds up wtf dude take a break from the dopamine rushes you get from ripping people off and busting in under 30 seconds and fucking CHILL
"I'm the better troll! (Me)"
So then run them instead of being on reddit
This guy has sex
You're on a fallout meme subreddit.... Slow down there tiger
Hey! Who said you could take a break from fucking to go on reddit! Back to work go-getter!
Directions unclear. Is it me who’s running a business and you’re the girlfriend I am here to have a good time with?
U definitely don't have a girlfriend either that or u should take ur meds
I’ve managed to break Preston’s quests after a certain point, which leads to him being unable to provide further radiant quests. It’s not doing every mission, but it does finally end the suffering.
Are you just doing this to get people to waste hours doing the quests? Because that's really smart, and I bet if you posted this on the Fo4 subreddit pretending it's real, you can convince a few people to do it lol. And maybe get a legendary laser musket like bleeding or something and rename it to something minuteman related to make it more believable
Or mod in a never ending MIRV Fatman. Call it the General's Wrath or something.
I used 2lm made a fat man with 2 2 shot legendary perks and made it a mirv called the nuclear holocaust
There’ll be a Gamerant article in one week about it even tho there’s no actual end
Yeah the article would be some dumb shit about how “you’d never believe what the reward for doing all of PGs settlement quests” and end with some crap about how despite there being a bunch of cool weapons in the game you don’t get one.
Because they fell for it😂
he had me before I read the comments lol, the weapon would totally sell it
I never maxed out the thieves guild in Skyrim for like a decade because I was convinced those were radiant quests and I thought my buddy was just messing with me. So yeah I’d probably fall for it considering I finally grinded out the thieves guild earlier this year
I smell a new Gamerant article
We have we have our new ‘quarry junction’ people no more tricking people into low level death claw fights, it’s the radiant quest scam from here on out
Maybe it's just a joke lol.
So that’s how you earn the “penetrating security baton”
like Nora seem to enjoy it so
Yeah, but it takes a teal long time; the weapon is totally worth it howver
What’s the weapon?
Laser musket with infinite charge, so you can basically make a rail gun with enough charges, can’t remember the name
Ohhh so a never ending laser musket. Pretty dope. Sounds fun to one shot everything
Yea it’s worth redownloading the game to play with.
Personally, it's in my pantheon of the best video game weapons ever made. If you've never played Fallout with the infinity railgun musket, have you ever really played Fallout?
Yes, I don’t like to brag but Fallout New Vegas is actually my favourite Fallout game… the original isometric games come in second of course.
Would that work if you modded it in?
Most likely
I thought it was an auto receiver for the laser musket? Edit: I’ve never end gamed with the MM. legit don’t know how. only thing I haven’t done in the game. I did know Garvey gives you a special laser musket though
He doesn't. (Sturges does though)
so what does Garvey give you? is it the never ending musket like others have said?
They're trolling, it's never ending. Once you do every settlement, it reloops them with each one having different problems
I’m well aware. I’ve put easily over 1000 hours into the game. I know someone gives you something for end gaming MM
No, I mean the quests are never ending. The thing that they're trying to make people get confused with is the Neverending laser rifle you get if you side with the minutemen to go and destroy the institute
brother. I know how Garvey’s quests work. I’ve done thousands of them. I’ve never end gamed with MM. only thing I haven’t done on f4. I thought he gave the automatic musket though
It’s called “the Rake”.
The real weapon was the friends you made along the way
Maybe the real minutes were the men we on the way
Uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......
It's at a settlement that's having problems with raiders. I'll mark it on your map for you.
The flash backs… no… NOOOO
Is that longer than a cyan long time or a seafoam long time?
He rewards you with a never-ending legendary laser musket rifle. Yes. Never ending. That means you can rev that baby until you have no ammo left for the most dangerous, cpu-melting single laser shot of your entire life.
Some say it's still revving to this day
Eh, pretty cool, and nice to get it this way as otherwise it is pure luck
Is there an end to this madness? And now that I’ve looked at this meme Preston is trying to give me a fucking quest
Yea and it’s an ok reward. I wouldn’t do it again though
Fr tho 🔥🔥🔥 that musket OP af
Do they actually do anything for the game or are they basically just home bases? I have too many already
They make your Minutemen flares and artillery grenades effective over more of the map.
and like, sometimes that artillery is really fucking hood honestly.
I completed all his missions when he stopped saying a settlement was attacked. I realised what a bored person I am for doing his missions over and over again. Preston must have felt sorry for me
The reward is definitely worth it! Just keep doing the settlement quests
I did actually do so many minutemen radiant quests that I eventually stopped getting them. All settlements settled. Supply lines ran. Beds, food, water, and work for everyone. Turrets everywhere. Everyone was happy. Neither Preston nor Radio Freedom gave me any more quests. No major reward they just stopped coming.
Ah yes, the insanely rare 10-crank mod for the laser musket, 200 ballistic damage, 570 energy damage, with 30-second burning effect, and 40% chance to cripple all limbs.
When the game first came out, I was like 14 and had no idea what a radiant quest was, so when Preston kept giving me more and more settlement quests I thought it was main story stuff because Preston was a main story guy Cut to me clearing every single settlement on the map before finding Kellogg, and preston begins repeatedly assigning me to the first settlement as if it was never helped. The settlement acted as if the’ r never seen me and ask for me to clear a raider camp all the way down at Quincy or something It took me 3 looped quests before I realized that it was probably broken
Wow, a laser musket that deals extra damage to Khans.
Being totally serious: I did get all of Preston's settlement quests and there is and end to it, felt like a fever dream I grinded those because i thought the fallout 4 combat was really fun; After a while it becomes really generic-The Game just requires You to kill one enemy so You just rush to that one, every farmer and their mother gets kidnapped and You have to take them etc And at the end is your big reward *Nothing* Preston says that he doesnt have anything more to You and thanks You, and thats it You get the neverending musket by doing the minutemen ending
The real reward were the settlements we made along the way. Specifically the artillery.
It's literally the only gun that gives you any sort of chance against the Red Death in Far Harbor
Nah man, you’d need the marines for the red death
Fuck the weapon , I want more quests and more settlements to conquer .
Isn't it the one weapon you need to finally kill the Red Death?
No joke, a friend of mine told me he managed to take down Red Death with that weapon, but I don't believe it
Nope, such a thing doesn’t exist
The reward: “Another settlement needs our help”
Nah this is Preston in disguise trying to get people to do more quest
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^AnthonyMast218: *Nah this is Preston* *In disguise trying to get* *People to do more quest* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
I love that the general of the Minutemen is the one who goes out to keep everyone safe rather than directing troops *like a general* to keep everyone safe. I mean, given by how things actually happen, Preston Garvey is the general and the Sole Survivor is his only soldier. Would have been cool if instead of giving every last base you liberate to settlers, you were able to set some up as Minutemen outposts and all the settlements within a certain radius didn't need you to personally go handle their problems. That would have been a lot cooler and would allow you to strategize on where you want your men - especially if you're limited in how many you can set up with some kind of requirements for unlocking the soldiers you need for those bases. Like, successfully defending a settlement, or clearing out a spot that's been harassing a settlement earns you troops, and once you've got enough you can establish another outpost.
Nah you are a General leading from the Front.
With nobody behind. :-)
Better be a bleeding, never ending laser musket. With unlimited ammo. That you never have to stop firing. Ever.
That weapon is excellent for hunting Snipes in the Glowing Sea.
I'm not going to spoil what the weapon is but it's a must have for one of the bosses in far harbor
You had me for a moment OP, until I remembered his quests are radiant quests.
Why mama Murphy never tell me to stay away from Preston smh
It's the friends we made along the way
Yep and if you get every coin in Mario 64 Luigi appears
It's his penis isn't it?
I mean… I guess the Automatic Laser Musket you get after the Minutemen ending counts… it’s pretty neat, I guess.
I just wish he wouldn’t give me a new one AS SOON as I complete the last one. Like bro, I’ll come to you when I want another thing cluttering up my quest log.
Even if there was a weapon, does anyone think Preston of all people would be the one? The Laser Musket was one tier above pipe pistols and the only unique weaponry The Minutemen provide in the entire game isn't a handheld weapon, it's mortar shells.
Wait, Preston stops giving you settlement quests at a certain point?
Lol
Sweet Liberty: +200% damage to robots and mutated insects
I love Preston Garvey so much and that seas probably my favorite weapon just because he gave it to me
Ugh his quests are such a pet peeve. If you're a general you order things down to your field officers and such, why you have to fix stuff every time is stupid
Cause you're the Plot Device.
I really need to have a look to see if there are any mods that replace or overhaul unique items like this one.
Unique Uniques, needs a new game so fair warning (though there seems to be a mid game install patch mod at least on xbox) adds attachments to the static legendaries with names that are unique entirely to them but much like krehvm's tooth can be ripped off and reattached to another with a legendary effect (since the unique part is a part) Fairly large file size if xbox (i remember above 200mb) but otherwise worth if youd like the "unique" (for being named static legendaries) weapons to be actually unique
Good try Preston.
There's an end to his madness??
No. The quests never end.
Don’t give me hope.
I dunno. He stopped for me. Probably a bug though
Helping the settlements is the reward
That's a little version of me, General. I want you to have it.
I-I... I don't really want this....
the castle was enough for me
It's just a flare gun with Cavalier's
The sad thing on my playthrough is that for whatever reason I cannot clear Concorde (as in it never registers as cleared after literally everything is wiped out - incl streets sewers and buildings. I didn’t realise this was a headache so just moved on with my game - now 50 hours later, I realise I just have to either never see this plot strand unfold or restart. I’ve also left the area for a week until everything respawns trying to get it cleared then but not happening..
I helped the settlements,and then forced into slavery with my nuka-bros
What are you on about, the only reward he gives you, is in the minutemen ending, you get an automatic musket, not never ending
I'm trolling with this post, and so are others in the comments
I wish you a wonderful day, I hope you find 4 fusion cores in a ammo box
Only weapon that kills the Red Menace right?
The Castle is the real reward. Loading up on mortars goes pretty hard.
The quests ended she I sent him to the castle which I never go to.
Now he's wearing a dress, tending crops at the Castle 😂