“You saw all those computers that DiMA's hooked up to, right? They hold his memories or offload data from his brain. Maybe some combination of both? Well, Faraday asked me to help do some repairs on them. And, you know, I got curious. There's like a century's worth of life experiences in there. And that's when I see it. Data models DiMA has been making. One was the Fog taking over Far Harbor. Another was a nuclear detonation on the island. Plus death counts. What if DiMA is so open and welcoming because he's actually hiding something from us? A plan to wipe out the rest of the island?”— Kasumi Nakano
Best Left Forgotten is a main quest in the Fallout 4 add-on Far Harbor.
Quick walkthrough
| Far Harbor main quest: Best Left Forgotten | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Travel to the Nucleus. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Talk with Grand Zealot Richter. Accept to join the Children of Atom. | Force your way into the Nucleus. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Leads to: Visions in the Fog | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Enter the Nucleus Command Center. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Find DiMA's terminal. Power it up with the switch located behind it. Use the terminal to access the memories. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retrieve Memory 0V-9AX0. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: DiMA's memory #1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retrieve Memory 0J-2NN8. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: DiMA's memory #2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retrieve Memory 0H-3X0P. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: DiMA's memory #3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retrieve Memory 0Z-7A4K. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: DiMA's memory #4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retrieve Memory 0Y-8K7D. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: DiMA's memory #5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Find the marine combat armor shipments. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: Full set of Assault marine armor Marine wetsuit and tactical helmet | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Travel to DiMA's cache. | Travel to the Harbor Grand Hotel. | Travel to the Vim! Pop factory. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recover the wind farm kill switch code. | Uncover the location of the nuclear launch key. | Uncover DiMA's secret medical facility | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leads to: Cleansing the Land | Leads to: The Way Life Should Be | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reward: 500+ XP | |||||||||||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough
After obtaining Faraday's program the player returns to Kasumi, ending Where You Belong and starting Best Left Forgotten.
She will reveal her suspicions about DiMA and give a quest to investigate DiMa's memories, which are stored inside the Nucleus Command Center. Otherwise, the terminal controlling the locked gate to DiMA's memories will remain inaccessible until the player character progresses further in the main quest line.
Once the quest has been obtained the Sole Survivor must travel into the command center in the Nucleus to access DiMA's stored memories. They must bypass radiation, robots, and then solve a series of puzzles to unlock access to the memories.
Through unlocking the memories, the Sole Survivor also unlocks the coordinates of several locations on the Island to investigate: DiMA's secret medical facility at the Vim! Pop factory, the location of the nuclear launch key at the Harbor Grand Hotel, and the wind farm kill switch code at DiMA's cache.
- After uncovering DiMA's secret medical facility at the Vim! Pop factory the next quest is unlocked: The Way Life Should Be.
- Uncovering the wind farm kill switch code or the nuclear launch key unlocks Cleansing the Land.
Quest stages
Notes
- Only the first three memories are necessary for game progression. The fourth will unlock additional dialogue with Nick, and the fifth unlocks the locations for the Marine armor, which do not seem to spawn unless this memory is unlocked. (Objective to find the Marine armor shipments appears in the Misc section of Quests.)
- If a player-placed turret shoots a firewall weakpoint, the firewall will dissolve. This can be used in the 5th memory to bypass the entire puzzle, if the player is lucky enough.
- If the Sole Survivor has successfully entered DiMA's secret medical facility before starting the quest, The Way Life Should Be will start as soon as one enters the Vim! Pop factory.
Bugs
During the first memory the indexers will all cluster against the walls next to the orange memory column instead of returning to the access point, until they are destroyed. [verified]
- FIX: Do not interrupt DiMA's voiceover while he is explaining what to do. Wait for each portion of the voice-over to finish before following the instructions he gives you. This will prevent the glitch from triggering.
- FIX: Place blocks where the indexers are congregating next to the orange memory column. They will pathfind correctly back to access point.
- FIX: Do not run the game above 60 FPS.
- FIX: Walk or run against the indexers will prompt them to seek another path.
- There is a bug that doesn't let you do the memories. The game will freeze in the loading screen with the little loading symbol down in the corner. This can happen on any of the memories, not just one. Reloading to an earlier save might help. [verified]
- During the fist memory the small green indexers do not move to the orange memory column despite building a usable path. It may affect PS4 and even PC users as it seems to be very uncommon. This is a game breaking glitch and you cannot proceed further in the quest.[verified]
- There is currently a bug preventing mission completion. On one's first entry to the simulation, it may be impossible to interact with the blocks one must move to make bridges and clear the path for the beam. Exiting the simulation and restarting the console may fix this. Furthermore, turrets are not unlocked for construction when the game informs you to construct them, making it impossible for the player's green indexers to make it to the objective. This renders the quest impossible to complete, even after several reloads and restarts. It may randomly fix on PS4 after returning to an old save. On PS4 returning to the simulation may freeze the game. There is a work around for this bug by using the blocks to imprison the defensive robots before they enter the area, trapping them where they spawn.[verified]
- On certain memories the indexers will not load memory past 80%. This is reported for memory OJ-2NN8 (the second level) and 'the fourth memory' (which should be 0H-3X0P). Then, when one tries to exit the memory simulation, the game can get stuck where one can save the game but can't move around. A possible fix to this: If you are stuck on the 4th memory simulation, leave the keyboard/controller alone until it changes as if you have left the computer. Once it goes to the mode where your character is looking around aimlessly, you can then move the character around. [verified]
- Sometimes the orange data rings will disappear before the indexers are done with downloading the data. Making the quest impossible to complete.[verified]
- On the final memory, placing several Defense Constructs near (or within) the red barrier surrounding the data stream will cause them to fire at the dormant drones, which will then become active. If this persists for long enough, the Defense Constructs will eventually destroy the red barrier itself, bypassing the entire puzzle. [verified]
Gallery
Memory 01 0V-9AX0 map
Memory 02 0J-2NN8 map
Memory 03 0H-3X0P map
Memory 04 0Z-7A4K map
Memory 05 0Y-8K7D map
Grid overview
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