Well game decided to kill 3 setllers :(

[Phoenix]

Somerville is under attack. Ok so fast travel there, arrive in the middle of 5 super mutants, 2 armed with Miniguns, the others with automatic laser rifles and grenades. ALSO 2 vicious mongrels, one Feral Alpha Mongrel and a Legendary Albino Mongrel. Number of selttlers in the farm - 3. Cheers Bethesda, there was no possible way to keep those poor buggers alive. I died 3 times to them in power armour.

At least scale the attacks appropriately. I think I'll just leave somervile dead. Wouldnt mind, I was on the way scavenging for gear to upgrade it as well. Didnt get chance.

[diatribe]

I hate how Somerville always spawn right in the middle of the farm. I have a wall around the entire place, but somehow every time I have to defend they are right in the middle of my settlement.

[BoomboxPrime]

It helps to give settlers atleast one piece of weaved clothing and a decent gun. Being level 1 and having no resistances means they're gonna have a bad time.

[Aries the Grinning]

Weird... Somerville should have 2 fully immortal kids living there (unless you markfordeleted them)

[Zombified]

I agree with Aries.. very odd since kids can't die... were their bodies there or anything? Did they run and hide?

[Bored Peon]

I smell brahminshit.

Died 3 times means loaded three times. The saves are probably from BEFORE fast traveling to Somerville. Which as everyone knows the random encounters and legendaries do not reload unless you were already within a certain distance.

Settlers do not normally die unless YOU do damage to them.

As Aries pointed out the two kids are immortal. So kinda impossible for all 3 of the original settlers to die.

[Tex_Recoil]

I wouldnt say kids are immortal, found Kat dead downtown. First time finding her and she was dead and so was Gus.

[Bacon Cheeseburger Apocalypse]

I've had the kids die too from Super Mutant attacks which I didn't think could happen.

Mind you I couldn't give a rats ass about that settlement

[Fear dot Com]

I've had a few named Settlers die before (for some reason, the Ghoul settlement is just a big, shiny disco ball that attracts Super Mutant Masters in the masses), and it's kind of a bigger bummer than some no-name getting killed and replaced by another no-name. But, I learned to accpet it...when I'm playing on Very Hard and I'm getting pelted with rockets left and right...well, I'd say I did a "decent" job if the remaining 6 settlers are still up and kicking :P.

[Chro]

I've had the same problem on Sommerville place, i went there to defend, died like 3x cuz i spawned right next to the super mutants and most of them were using miniguns and then after defending the place i just left, after a few days i checked the mini map to see the settlements and boom sommerville was with 0 settlers, at first i thought it was one of those pip boy bugs that display the wrong number of settlements/happiness but i went there and it was empty... but w/e that place sux anyway

[Turin the Mad]

Moving the fast travel mat to a defensible location should prevent death-on-arrival. It is curious that settlers are perma-dying without player use of explosives...

[Spocks Toupee]

In my current game all the supermutants that attack the settlements are armed with Rocket Launchers, and I happen to be using a mod called "Explosions_x2", so I'm getting one-shot a lot, and there's people flying everywhere, it's a lot more difficult, but pretty hilarious at the same time

It's made me start fast traveling to locations NEXT to the settlements and running there instead of teleporting right in the middle of a fire fight with rocket launchers

I finally made some armor with -50% explosion damage so I can survive

[Phoenix]

Says 0 settlers there now and yeah took me 3 attempts to survive the attack with just me alive and a wrecked power armour suit. Only saw one body though. Maybe the kids run off instead of dying so you dont see the bodies. I've had settlers die quite a few times...I didnt know they were supposed to be immortal? I lost 2 or 3 in one attack someplace north (cant remember name) when assaulted by Synths and a bunch of super mutants.

[G1EX]

Yeah they all died for me too during a super mutant attack.Weird.I only found the body of their (probably) father.

[loverevolutionary]

Weird. The only times I have ever seen a settler die are when I accidentally killed them. I've seen settlers take a suicider mini-nuke to the face and get right back up. And kids are supposed to be completely immortal, not even the player can kill them.

[lockwoodx]

Originally posted by diatribe:

I hate how Somerville always spawn right in the middle of the farm. I have a wall around the entire place, but somehow every time I have to defend they are right in the middle of my settlement.

That's why I completely stopped defending settlements. There's no point, and the people don't leave. You can just replace them.