Wiping out the raiders is tough

[Casper]

I'm like lvl 114.. and the only time I've gotten close (on survival mind you) is using an explosive combat shotgun with fully upgraded MK VI X-01 power armor..

I find it close to impossible going into each raider stronghold with about 10 raiders turning to me and slamming with their handmade rifles... especially when the bosses take 4/5 direct hits with a GOD tier weapon to kill them. it's lunacy.


anyone got a strategy or way to cheese this other than 'git gud'? I'd really like to get this over with so I can explore the damn park with the power on at the start.

[s.turner3030]

Turn the difficulty down? I did it at around lv104, with maxed out combat armour and ballistic weave everywhere it would go, weapon wise I was using a double shot, automatic assault rifle with the high level penetrating reciever, drum mag, and compensator, and it was killing most of them on about 4-5 shots, and the bosses on about 10, though I could not tell you off hand what difficulty, though it would be whatever the game defaults to.

Oh, and of course do not stand still, skoot and shoot is the word.

Though i do remember using more stim packs in that quest than I have used in ages, normally I just use food, which is why I have about 800 in my inventory.

[cougarshamn]

Git Gud really is the answer though.
Pick off the rabble until only the bosses remain, move from cover to cover, judicious use of mines and grenades helps, as do drugs.

I started with Nisha, and had left the ramps heavily mined, so when the area went hostile and everyone ran to the top, not many actually made it :D
I can see where going into fizzletop with everyone already being hostile might be problematic though. Still, find a defensible spot and let them come to you. Run to the right and behind, dropping mines behind you or something, be tactically smart

[Marine Trooper]

Try and use walls and anything that can shield the gun fires. Use a Quad missile launcher with targeting computer usually help against the raiders at outdoor situation. During indoor, try and hide behind the corner or wall to help you, get more grenades such as frag and plsama will certainly help your situation a little bit better.

By the way, I did the quest "Open Season" at Level 122! Yes it is hard, so that is why you need heavy weaponry

[mfree]

Originally posted by cougarshamn:

Git Gud really is the answer though.
Pick off the rabble until only the bosses remain, move from cover to cover, judicious use of mines and grenades helps, as do drugs.

I started with Nisha, and had left the ramps heavily mined, so when the area went hostile and everyone ran to the top, not many actually made it :D
I can see where going into fizzletop with everyone already being hostile might be problematic though. Still, find a defensible spot and let them come to you. Run to the right and behind, dropping mines behind you or something, be tactically smart

This. Prep. Every mine you can lay hands on, dropped in every place a raider idles.

Heh, wonder how big the FPS hit will be when that first round hits a Boss and suddenly every raider goes aggro, and the mines they're standing next to recognize that... Might even drop a fireworks shell or two next to some of them and start where everything would be visible :)

(yes, fireworks shells detonate in real fire and explosions)

[Wurm65]

A have a really powerful single shot weapon and all my points spent in AP and crit damage in vats. I can take out 4 raiders with headshots get behind cover and do the whole thing again.

I also got lucky and found a combat armor piece that autostims me.

The destroy all raiders fight is seriously crazy, I really think there should of been a better reward/ending and achievement for it.

Oh and you weren't saving all those mininukes to admire them later where you ;-) Best crowd control weapon in the game...

[Casper]

I eventually managed it.. it was really about the order.. and yes positioning

I started with Mason, and just sort of spun around and let off round after round until the amphitheater was left lifeless. This drew out mags black, who I bottle necked with the operators at the doorway leading to the market.

Left a skeleton crew with Mason, who wasn't much resistance..

And finally, using 'strategy' as I've seen mentioned, I found you can stay on ground floor of fizztop and let the raiders come down the ramp, bottleneck with explosive aoe, used lots of ammo but I survived all the same..

and still managed to keep my playthrough immersive.. (my build is a detective they'd never touch drugs)

[TNS]

Meh, it was a piece of cake.

Stormed the place with a fully upgraded X-01 and a maxed out explosive minigun. Too easy.

[cougarshamn]

Originally posted by TNS:

Meh, it was a piece of cake.

Stormed the place with a fully upgraded X-01 and a maxed out explosive minigun. Too easy.

If you use a big enough hammer, the round peg WILL fit in the square hole.

[AlphaCorps]

i haven't done this yet but im planning to. i have finish the story so i already have one dead. im guessing that makes it easier. also what happens to the outposts you set up in the Commonwealth when you kill off the gangs?

[TNS]

Originally posted by cougarshamn:

Originally posted by TNS:

Meh, it was a piece of cake.

Stormed the place with a fully upgraded X-01 and a maxed out explosive minigun. Too easy.

If you use a big enough hammer, the round peg WILL fit in the square hole.

Yeap, thats what I do, I just be the badarse overpowered mother****er and destroy em all.
No strategy needed. Just pure overpoweredness.

[DouglasGrave]

I did almost the exact opposite; before I even started Open Season every raider in those areas without their own name was already dead. I finished the leaders off with a 10 mm pistol.

To be fair, the pistol was Deliverer, but...

[Yhwach]

I went in butt naked, my butt cheeks clenched with my bare fists and a tattoo of Chuck Norris on my chest and decimated those Raiders

[H.Honor]

i always use the first person cover system where you go behind a wall and when aim you peek out to shoot

[Testsubject196]

When I got towards the end and a decision had to be made.
Being the General of the Minutemen.
I rolled in with Preston by my side and a small army of 12 Minutemen in power armor rolling in to clean up the place.

I started with the Disciples and clean that pit up.
I lost 4 Minutemen in that.
When I proceede outside. All hell broke loose.
We could not clear the area and had to fall back.
I lost 6 good Minutemen while trying to retreat.

Once in a safe location we regroup and called in reinforcement.
12 more Menutemen in power armor join the fight.

We finially secured the outside and proceed to wipe out the rest of the raiders from their strong holds.
The last to kill was Gage, out of all the raiders it was hard to take out Gage.
He was a smart man and could of been part of my team for something better.
But he couldn't look past the feeling of being betrayed.
He told me when we were clearing out Nuka-World, that I was the only guy he could trust.
After taking him out, he was the last of the raiders at Nuke-World.


Once all of Nuke-World was cleared of the raider scum we found the plant and turned the power back on.
It was a good fight.
I lost my whole outside power armor after the fight and 18 good Minutemen.

The traders were freed and Nuka-World was once again the best trading hub.


FCOM - Fallout Commander
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/14946/?


We Are The Minutemen
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6443/?



.....Weeks later.....

Nuka-World Started rebuilding and with a second chance.



Nuka Mercs

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/18220/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Ffallout4%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D18220%26preview%3D&pUp=1

[cougarshamn]

Originally posted by AlphaCorps:

i haven't done this yet but im planning to. i have finish the story so i already have one dead. im guessing that makes it easier. also what happens to the outposts you set up in the Commonwealth when you kill off the gangs?

You get to take them back, and get to reclaim the vassal settlements in the same way as the MM quests. I am in the middle of doing that right now