Settlements overall is a good feature but why does the game just rely on it. It really is a peice of shit compeared tp ehat other games do with a system. I would of prefered a system more similar to the divsions where by you don't mirco manage but just buy upgrades overal. This would been like a house to get more income ect you don't have to spent 10,00000 years building a settlement. I would of also would of lied to build at bigger better areas, Some settlement are just so shit for like 5 people it really not much more you can do with it in a lore freindly way. I was exploring the map expecting to see more settlments but there was't and I feel like this was. Overal it a good system when its works but these ot really intresting places to grow really big settlements. Also as the was the main part of the game (Beilieve it or not) it was quite limited you would expect to more I feel from it. Like to get more pre excisting town but over all this was a mess. I'd rather just have one town that you get to in depth manage rather lots of shitty little getting attacked all the time towns
milliam you're bang on it about the story. It felt like the game world was disjointed and too mach incostiances. You could lead a power group of settlements but people would still treat you like a bitch witch makes no sense. Even when you had all this power it really dind't mean that much and story had to still be taken in a linear route even if it made no sence.(You could't skip to keloge you had to do all the nick vailtine bollocks).
However i have to disagree with you about mods. Bring mods to console is a very good thing even if PS4 version is not avbaile yet when they said they would get it working however. I doubt its actually to much there fault as PS generally have more secruity ect harder to achive it for some reasson