Fallout 4 Automatron DLC Review

Fallout 4 Automatron DLC is a minor update that adds a short quest line to deal with a new threat to the Commonwealth as well as a new mechanic to build your own robots.

Our 2 first robot settlers.

Building robots is straight forward, you create the Robot Workbench in one of your settlements and from there you will have six options to customize a new robot. You will pick between head, torso, arms (both right and left), legs, voice and paint. After building a robot you can assign it as your new companion or send it to one of your settlements, where it will work as any settler, except it does not need a bed, food or water. And since they are robots you can build an infinite amount of them as long as you have the resources (mostly aluminum, adhesive, ceramic, circuitry, steel and rubber). That also means that you can go over the settler limit of 10 + Charisma anytime, as building a new robot in the settlement do not depend on charisma. They are robots after all!

At this point (game version 1.8.7.0) they can be assigned to stores and will generate CAPS, but you will not be able to buy or sell items from them, as they will not give you the proper dialog option.


Here is a Developer Walkthrough of the DLC: