#radstorms

Where seeking shelter is vital because the rads you take exponentially increases the longer you’re in the storm, if you’re careless it will kill you. The harder the difficulty setting = the quicker you take on rads. (I realise this may be an issue in the open areas of the game, but there’d be a way around that. Give the player a camp building function or make sure there’s more simple shelters scattered around the map or something idk). 

If you have serious protection like power armor, then you can stay out for longer. But the rads aren’t the only danger. Imagine the “glowing” variants of creatures converging on your position. Radroaches and mole rats at first, but the longer you stay out there the more likely it’ll be that stronger creatures will emerge, like deathclaws and radscorpians. 

The trade-off could possibly be that you find more valuable or rare loot on the glowing creatures. Maybe have a quest that involves the Glowing Sea....’expanding’ or something, and you need to stop it. Whatever, I’m just brainstorming (ha, get it?) if anyone else has ideas I’d love to hear it.

“Why didn’t Fallout 4’s settlement system include a way to make lead-lined shelters for when Radstorms hit?

I hate it that any outdoor buildings won’t stop the rads.

Also it would be funny to see all the settlers suddenly making a mad dash for your way-too-small shelter when the skies turn sickly green.”

“The sounds of rainstorms, radstorms, and nuked zones in Fallout 76 are all very soothing to me. It’s nice to just sit and listen (as long as the radiation allows, anyway).”