Follow this Fallout 4 guide to navigate Pearwood Residences, clear out Raiders, and recruit Cait from the Combat Zone. Includes tips for looting and finding collectibles.
Walkthrough
- 1From Mass Bay Medical Center, head north to a brick building. Go east down stairs to a locked door [Novice]. To the east is an empty, locked truck trailer [Advanced].
- 2Head north into a parking garage, ascend ramps for a random encounter.
- 3Return to the bottom floor, continue north to a street, follow it west past a radioactive barrel pit.
- 4Locate a house with Super Mutants and their hound. Kill them and enter the red door to Pearwood Residences.
- 5Drop through a collapsed floor and ride an elevator to a higher floor. Loot a First Aid Box in the bathroom.
- 6Go south through a hole in the wall to a roof with an Ammo Box.
- 7Descend to lower roofs to the south, using stairs and caution. Pick off Raiders to the west and south-west.
- 8Reach the ground and head west to The Combat Zone.
- 9Inside The Combat Zone, note the prisoners and the three rules (no fighting, bring money, don't beg/loiter).
- 10Hack the [Advanced] terminal to open the prisoner doors (they won't leave). Open the [Expert] safe.
- 11Prepare for combat. Raiders will attack. Take cover and clear out enemies in the open.
- 12Head to the back, get on upper-level catwalks for an advantage, and clear remaining enemies.
- 13After clearing Raiders, equip Charisma gear and talk to Tommy at the cage.
- 14Agree to take Cait's contract (moderate speech check recommended).
- 15Loot dead bodies and junk. Use crafting stations. Find a [Novice] locked First Aid Box in the weapon shop and a [Novice] locked ammo box above it.
- 16On a table near the pit, find a Picket Fences magazine that allows building potted plants at settlement workshops.
- 17Tell Cait to come with you to recruit her as a companion and leave The Combat Zone. You can kill Raider Prisoners on the way out.
- 18Leave The Combat Zone and return to the road past Pearwood Residences. Follow it east past the radioactive pit to find a Super Mutant Camp near barricades. Clear them out.
- 19Head through a door near the barricades to enter the Hub 360 building.
- 20Disarm a Bottlecap Mine near a counter. Head up stairs and take an elevator to an inaccessible floor.
- 21Beware of Super Mutants on high ground. Work around rubble to reach the “Cafe Patio”. Kill mutants outside.
- 22Return inside, ascend rubble, and ascend ramps to the next level. Kill more Super Mutants.
- 23Take another elevator to an exterior area with a leveled Super Mutant. Kill it and loot a Steamer Chest.
- 24Take the elevator back down. Head through a door to the “Rooftop Pool”.
- 25Head west past the pool and take stairs down to the Fallen Skybridge.
- 26Kill Super Mutants on the Fallen Skybridge. Explore the ramp they guarded to find a door to the Ruined Skyscraper.
Tips
- Quicksave before entering The Combat Zone.
- Use the upper-level catwalks in The Combat Zone for a tactical advantage.
- Consider passing the speech check when talking to Tommy about Cait.
- Loot all dead bodies and junk in The Combat Zone for valuable crafting materials.
- The Picket Fences magazine found in The Combat Zone unlocks new settlement building options.
- Recruit Cait as a companion.
- Picket Fences magazine (unlocks potted plant construction).
- Various loot from enemies and containers, including crafting materials and potentially valuable items.
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