Where is the exact location of the first synth you run into?

[partyboy]

It's close to sanctuary somewhere and there's 2 guys that look alike and one has the other at gunpoint. I'm having so much trouble finding that spot again.. I thought it was a little west of tenpines buff somewhere but I can't find it now.. It's not like super important or anything I just enjoyed that interaction before lol

[JustOnePepsi]

That's a random encounter. It can happen almost anywhere that random encounters can happen. There is no specific place.

Although technically, the first synth you run into is in Concord. ;)

[partyboy]

Originally posted by HomicidalGrouse:

That's a random encounter. It can happen almost anywhere that random encounters can happen. There is no specific place.

damn wonder why I can't trigger it now then.. and I thought I got it before in the same spot twice.

But I ran into them then I died (survival mode), so was trying to go back there but can't get it to happen again

[JustOnePepsi]

Originally posted by Recruit partyboy:

Originally posted by HomicidalGrouse:

That's a random encounter. It can happen almost anywhere that random encounters can happen. There is no specific place.

damn wonder why I can't trigger it now then.. and I thought I got it before in the same spot twice.

But I ran into them then I died (survival mode), so was trying to go back there but can't get it to happen again

Because it's random. There's a whole bunch of random stuff that can happen in random encounters. You could find two deathclaws fighting, you could find a couple scavengers fighting raiders or ghouls, you could find an eyebot, you could find... any number of things. Even nothing.

It's all entirely randomized.

[Xyzzy]

same, Art vs Art is a Random encounter, can happen anywhere.

[DouglasGrave]

It can happen at any random encounter point that meets its conditions (for example, some random encounters only happen at encounter points on a road), and there's no guarantee of getting the same one twice, unless you saved close enough for it to have loaded. Many encounter points also refresh if you leave and return.

[Zee_]

Don't worry, if you hang out in downtown Boston for any amount of time you'll eventually run into the Art vs synth Art encounter about a million times. Its gotten to the point where I just ignore it rather than help Art live another day. When I hear the sounds of a double barrel shotgun and a pipe pistol going off a block or two away I know its them... again... so I go the other way.

I got a bit tired of killing that synth after a few dozen times.

[Rogue Freeman?]

Concord

Sturges

[partyboy]

Originally posted by Zee_:

Don't worry, if you hang out in downtown Boston for any amount of time you'll eventually run into the Art vs synth Art encounter about a million times. Its gotten to the point where I just ignore it rather than help Art live another day. When I hear the sounds of a double barrel shotgun and a pipe pistol going off a block or two away I know its them... again... so I go the other way.

I got a bit tired of killing that synth after a few dozen times.

Wait do you keep encountering the event because you've never talked to them / killed one? Or can you encounter the event multiple times lol

[MageThis]

Originally posted by Recruit partyboy:

Originally posted by Zee_:

Don't worry, if you hang out in downtown Boston for any amount of time you'll eventually run into the Art vs synth Art encounter about a million times. Its gotten to the point where I just ignore it rather than help Art live another day. When I hear the sounds of a double barrel shotgun and a pipe pistol going off a block or two away I know its them... again... so I go the other way.

I got a bit tired of killing that synth after a few dozen times.

Wait do you keep encountering the event because you've never talked to them / killed one? Or can you encounter the event multiple times lol

Many, many, times in lots of different random locations. Here, let me mark all those locations on your map.

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by Rogue Freeman?:

Concord

Sturges

I'm sceptical about that. He seems like the type to keep a synth part around to study it.

[Gustuv Wynd]

Isn't there a house near Concord where there are a group of scavengers holding a gun on a guy's head because they think he's a synth? I think that is a scripted encounter that always happens in that spot...

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by vagrantstorm:

Isn't there a house near Concord where there are a group of scavengers holding a gun on a guy's head because they think he's a synth? I think that is a scripted encounter that always happens in that spot...

Nope, that's a random event too.

[Zee_]

Originally posted by Recruit partyboy:

Originally posted by Zee_:

Don't worry, if you hang out in downtown Boston for any amount of time you'll eventually run into the Art vs synth Art encounter about a million times. Its gotten to the point where I just ignore it rather than help Art live another day. When I hear the sounds of a double barrel shotgun and a pipe pistol going off a block or two away I know its them... again... so I go the other way.

I got a bit tired of killing that synth after a few dozen times.

Wait do you keep encountering the event because you've never talked to them / killed one? Or can you encounter the event multiple times lol

As I said, I've killed the synth Art dozens of times. All random events can pop at several locations, in the case of the Art vs Art standoff there seems to be somewhere between 15 to 20 different locations that event can happen at. Because of that you can (and eventually will) experience it multiple times in a single playthrough.

It doesn't matter if the real Art dies, if the synth Art dies, or if they both die*. That event WILL randomely happen again a few days later.









* After getting tired of expereincing the same random event a dozen times, I went and put bullets through both of their skulls a few times as a test, the event still kept kicking off a few days later.

[dogg]

Originally posted by Reverend Belial:

Originally posted by vagrantstorm:

Isn't there a house near Concord where there are a group of scavengers holding a gun on a guy's head because they think he's a synth? I think that is a scripted encounter that always happens in that spot...

Nope, that's a random event too.

Last night in a low level play through I found 4 Scavs and a travelling bartender guy in one of the houses in Concorde. They were all just chill talking and the bartender opened up his barter to me. First time I've run into that group.

[Reverend Belial]

Originally posted by dogg:

Originally posted by Reverend Belial:

Nope, that's a random event too.

Last night in a low level play through I found 4 Scavs and a travelling bartender guy in one of the houses in Concorde. They were all just chill talking and the bartender opened up his barter to me. First time I've run into that group.

If he had a unique name then he was one of the Level 4 Merchants. If you can recruit him to one of your settlements and assign him to a bar he'll have unique stock.

That's a pretty big if though, because last I was aware only one of the Level 4's wasn't glitched to be unrecruitable.