Cleaning Nuka World of Raiders (SPOILERS)

[Big Mark]

As title states I decided that after running the DLC once for the relevant Raiding Achivements I would run through it again but this time killing the raider leaders as the slave doctor in the market suggests. Of course it wasn't quite as simple as it was made out to be but it was do-able. Other than the obvious raiding content no longer being available I have found you can complete the DLC without issue. HOWEVER all slaves with Shock Collars are now walking around naked (well in thier underwear) and don't seem to notice or mind. I hope that's a glitch.

Anyway, my question is has anyone else tried this and what are your opinions of this obviously undertested plot branch?

[Locklave]

Killing the raiders results in basically skipping all content, assuming I understand your question. The parks after being cleared remain forever empty. I got no naked people, just no more slave collars. Rather bland.

Kill raiders
Turn on the power

done...

20 minutes of content if you are a killing machine.

[Andrius227]

Yeah i wonder the same. I got the dlc without knowing what it was about. And it turns out it's mostly about helping raiders and becoming one or something and i don't want to do any of that. So i wonder if i can just go there to kill all the bad guys and loot everything and complete the dlc without becoming a raider.

[VeteranFruitshop]

A few have that bug too, as well as me, but it should be fixed in the next patch.

[Jane "Biffed it" Helldiver]

So killing the raiders doesn't do anything liike...bring more traders or people to the park to repopulate it? ♥♥♥♥ me, I'll just wait for F4SE to update and make some artificial settlments in each park and do it that way since BES didn't feel like doing that for some reason.

[Big Mark]

My question was just about getting other peoples opinions about this under used option is all.

I did find a workaround for the naked traders thing by buying from each named trader in the market and then going to the commonwealth for a bit. When I returned to Nuka World they all got dressed again leaving just Chip the scavenger guy still welding away in his undies. I hope they keep that in the game :)

Yeah the park is empty, no traders/civilianss taking the place of the gangs. The flagpoles can't be used at all in fact which is a shame, would be nice to get people out there to make it all seem less empty.

The Raider content is interesting but I don't like the idea of populating the commonwealth with raiders after my character has spent the entire game up until now killing them on sight. The tech behind the settlement missions would be good to flesh out the Brotherhoods presence in the region IMO or even give the minutemen radial quests a break because I am getting sick of Preston sending me out to save half the population of Boston everytime I bump into him in whatever settlement I send him to.

[Pyro Penguin]

Originally posted by Locklave:

Killing the raiders results in basically skipping all content, assuming I understand your question. The parks after being cleared remain forever empty. I got no naked people, just no more slave collars. Rather bland.

Kill raiders
Turn on the power

done...

20 minutes of content if you are a killing machine.

So you skip all the side quests and don't explore anything that's not part of the main quest? That's not how you fallout

[ianliew]

Can you complete the Raider quests, get all the goodies, assign all five areas to the Raiders THEN kill them all and just forego the settlement raiding part? That way you'd get pretty much all the content. Or does Open Season disable once you restore power?

[Big Mark]

You could do that yes, I just killed them all straight away on my second run through the DLC. The Open Season mission is still active on my first run through save where I basically took over the Commonwealth with the Raider Settlement missions

[mfree]

Originally posted by Locklave:

Killing the raiders results in basically skipping all content, assuming I understand your question. The parks after being cleared remain forever empty. I got no naked people, just no more slave collars. Rather bland.

Kill raiders
Turn on the power

done...

20 minutes of content if you are a killing machine.

You don't have to kill them right off the bat. I'm setting mine up in park areas first and doing some side quests.

All you have to do is *not* take any commonwealth settlements.

Things may be fun later; I've spotted NW gangs in the commonwealth already, without any outposts or settlements done. Literally the *only* thing I've done as a crossover was stick a shock collar on a super mutant in Faneuil Hall.

From what I gather, once the gangs are well-settled (btw, spoiler, Cito really likes the new inhabitants from the Pack) and the power is turned back on, there's going to be one left out and pissed off gang (3 gangs and 5 areas, math that yourself) that will take over the power plant and thereby give you the opportunity for a little mini-cleanup.

I'm hanging the disciples out to dry, because they're brutalist murderrs ad psychopaths, and they show absolutely no respect to someone who can (and will) wipe them off the map without breaking a sweat.

Killing a single gang member results in aggro behavior for probably the usual 'cooloff' period.
Killing a gang boss results in all gangs and members going aggro. Don't know if cooloff applies for the 'peons' but if it doesn't, eh. I'll find a rooftop and wait for targets, it's not like I'm in a hurry at that point.

tl;dr the 'good' path does eliminate all the raider fun, but you don't have to rush into it and ruin your fun... just don't screw the minutemen over by taking *any* CW locations.

[Well-worn Toast]

sort of, you can claim all the settlements then when they tell you to go takeover the commonwealth, start open season then kill all the raiders, when you do that it will prompt you to turn on the power

[Beautiful You]

Originally posted by ianliew:

Can you complete the Raider quests, get all the goodies, assign all five areas to the Raiders THEN kill them all and just forego the settlement raiding part? That way you'd get pretty much all the content. Or does Open Season disable once you restore power?

Actually yes you can. In fact that's exactly what I did.

[ChemicalBacon]

Killing people removes content. Who knew.
Sarcasm aside, you can still explore the park, power plant and get the nuka rocket station, which is still fun to do but has no future.

[wat]

What 'raider' content is there besides the settlement take overs and various radiant quests?

[Big Mark]

Originally posted by Fathat:

What 'raider' content is there besides the settlement take overs and various radiant quests?

There is some settlement workshop items only available if you get the Warlord perk but otherwise pretty much what you posted. There is a mod that gives you the perk anyway if you choose not to allow shank to go to the commonwealth to scout out settlements.

[wat]

Thanks. So I guess I'm not missing much by murdering them all right out of the Gauntlet.
(Diciples first of course)