Combat Zone

	For the miscellaneous quest related to this location, see The Combat Zone (quest).

The Combat Zone is a location in the Theater District of Boston in Fallout 4.

Background[edit]

Once a theater and public arena, a gang of Raiders occupied the building and took over the operation from Tommy Lonegan.^[1]^{[Pub 1]}

Publications[edit]

“Once an old-time theater and public arena, this location has been taken over by Raiders, who don’t allow anyone in other than their own. Tommy Lonegan, a Southie Ghoul, announces the fights, while Cait, the headliner, cuts throats in the ring.”— Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Map

Layout[edit]

It is located at the intersection of Lagrange and Tremont Streets. It is also the location of a potential Companion named Cait, who the Sole Survivor meets after speaking with Tommy Lonegan.

In the entrance lobby, there is a side room labeled "Rule Breakers" on the left, featuring two bound Raiders on display behind a security gate that can be opened via the nearby Advanced-locked terminal. The two Raiders are non-hostile and can actually be greeted by the Sole Survivor, although they will mostly react with taunts or threats. They cannot be freed or untied. There is also an Expert-locked wall Safe in this room, to the right of the security door.

Within the theater, a large cage dominates the stage area, and to the lower left is a bar and seating area. There are also a few wooden shacks and walkways above ground level, built around the now largely collapsed second-floor tiered seating rows and balconies. All inhabitants except Tommy and Cait instantly turn hostile, the latter two taking refuge inside the cage until the battle is over. At that time, Tommy may award the Sole Survivor with around 100 Bottlecaps for clearing this area.

Once cleared, one can find several workstations. To the left upon entering the theater is a Cooking Station, with a Weapons Workbench and an Armor Workbench in a wooden shack nearby. A Chemistry Station is to the right of the entrance in a "Doctoring + Souvenirs" shack, and another Cooking Station is also on the right towards the stage area in a kitchen shack.

Inhabitants[edit]

Loot[edit]

Picket Fences issue #4 - On a table nearest the bar in front of the fighting cage.
Mini Nuke - On a chair in the rear row of the tiered seating above the theater entrance near a sleeping bag.
Corset - Worn by Cait.

Notes[edit]

When Cait "wins" the scripted fight, there is a chance that it will trigger Idiot Savant.
Waiting until the Sole Survivor is Overboss of Nuka-World, even at maximum infamy, does not change the reaction of the patrons upon the Sole Survivor first entering the area.
Unused voice clips for Tommy Lonegan reveal that the Combat Zone was going to be an arena the player character could participate in. Tommy makes references to prize money and an elevator in the basement that takes combatants up into the arena.
On PC, using the console command coc combatzone02 will teleport the player character to an unused basement of the Combat Zone with dressing rooms, an elevator, and stairs to the main stage. coc combatzone01 can be used to return to the uncut Combat Zone.

Companion Comments[edit]

At this location, Companions make comments, which are activated at two accessible locations including the exterior and the front row. A third set of quotes were cut, scripted to occur at the lifts in the trap room.

Character	Location	Comment
Cait	Exterior	"Why the hell are we comin' back here? My days of fightin' in that lousy cage are over."
Cait	Front row	"Why the hell are we back here? You know how much I hate this fuckin' place!"
Codsworth	Exterior	"Please don't tell me you intend on staying here. I daresay a place named "Combat Zone" may have ramifications for your well being."
Codsworth	Front row	"A cage? How uncivilized."
Curie	Exterior	"Combat. Zone. What a useful warning. We should avoid this place, yes?"
Curie	Front row	"What do they put in the cage?"
Paladin Danse	Exterior	"This place is barbaric. Is this really how far society has fallen?"
Paladin Danse	Front row	"This is positively barbaric. Has mankind truly fallen this far?"
Deacon	Exterior	"Used to be wannabe gladiators bashed each other's skulls in here. Now it's full of raiders. So, no change."
Deacon	Front row	"Cage fighting. Not my cup of tea."
Hancock	Exterior	"Raiders always go hogging all the nice places for themselves."
Hancock	Front row	"Ain't this a hell of a sight."
Robert MacCready	Exterior	"Damn Raiders. Ruined a perfectly good cage fighting arena. What's the world coming to anyway?"
Robert MacCready	Front row	"Oh man, I used to come here all time. I can't even tell you how many caps this dive sucked out of my pockets."
Nick Valentine	Exterior	"What a waste of a venue."
Nick Valentine	Front row	"Sure made a mess of this place, didn't they?"
Piper Wright	Exterior	"Ah, the Combat Zone. No finer place to get murdered in all the Commonwealth."
Piper Wright	Front row	"Animals on either side of this cage."
Preston Garvey	Exterior	"The sooner we take care of business and get out of here, the better."
Preston Garvey	Front row	"This is barbaric."
Strong	Front row	"Bah! Fighting is for killing. Not watching."
X6-88	exterior	"If you ask me, this place is a waste of time."
X6-88	front row	"This is where the separate the weak from the strong."

Unused

Character	Comment
Cait	"I used to love enterin' the ring and hearin' everyone cheer. Now I'm realizin' I was just a caged animal put on display for their amusement."
Codsworth	"Quite the theatrical set up back here. I can only imagine the elaborate plays that were performed here."
Danse	"Ridiculous. These aren't animals, these are human beings."
Hancock	"Always figured the life of a cage fighter would be more glamorous than this..."
MacCready	"Tommy tried to get me to fight in the ring once. Almost took him up on it, too. Guess I missed my chance."
Nick Valentine	"The underbelly of the Combat Zone. Not sure it gets seedier than this."
Cait	"Huh. Never been down here. Hate to say it, but a story about the inner workings of the Combat Zone would really move some papers."
Preston	"The really sad thing is that people volunteer for this."

Appearances[edit]

The Combat Zone appears in Fallout 4 and Fallout Shelter Online.

Behind the Scenes[edit]

The Combat Zone is a real world historical location, the Combat Zone, Boston.
The location's sign was created by world artist Madeleine Rabil.^{[Dev 1]}
The location was created by Nathan Purkeypile.^{[Dev 2]}

Gallery[edit]

Exterior
Across the street
Entrance
Shop
Bar
Arena
Theater
Picket Fences
Mini Nuke
Combat Zone Sign
Combat Zone dressing room area from the west side
West dressing room
Combat Zone dressing room area from the east side
East dressing room
Dressing room map

References[edit]

↑ Cait: "Have a minute? Got somethin' on my mind."
Sole Survivor: "Of course, anything you need."
Cait: "Anythin' I need, huh? I might take you up on that one day. After Tommy stuck me with you, I was expectin' to hate your guts. Not only because you agreed to pick up me contract, but because I was waitin' for you to order me around like hired help. Now so far, you've been treatin' me like a friend. Hell, you've been damn near NICE to me. Now I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but your kindness is startin' to make me wonder. If there's anythin' I learned at the Combat Zone, it was that nobody does things for other people without expectin' somethin' in return."
Sole Survivor: "You're comparing me to that riff-raff?"
Cait: "You don't even come close to the losers that pollute the place. I spent three years livin' at the Combat Zone. Smelled like puke and piss, but I called it home. I was makin' a few caps, had me own bed to sleep in and three hot meals a day. Then the Raiders took over the place. You know that lot... they aren't exactly what you'd call "the gentle type." After they moved in, if you didn't keep lookin' over your shoulder, you were liable to get sucker punched and robbed... or worse. Didn't take me long to learn that I had to put my hard-earned caps to good use. Buyin' friends was essential to makin' life easier. So I guess I'm waitin' for you to hand me a bill, you know what I mean?"
(Cait's dialogue)

Publications

↑ Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.497-498: "[16.01] COMBAT ZONE
Once an old-time theater and public arena, this location has been taken over by Raiders, who don’t allow anyone in other than their own. Tommy Lonegan, a Southie Ghoul, announces the fights, while Cait, the headliner, cuts throats in the ring."
(Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide/Map)

Developer Statements

↑ Madeleine Rabil's website (Archived)
↑ Nathan Purkeypile: "On Fallout 4 I was the second artist on the project.

I created Diamond City, the majority of the kits for the game including the Building Kit, Industrial, Utility and Steam Tunnels, random locations such as the Combat Zone and Railroad HQ and lit the game."
(Fallout 4 Developer Statements - Locations; Nathan Purkeypile: Location Contributions, 2021 April 15)

[1] Cait: "Have a minute? Got somethin' on my mind."
Sole Survivor: "Of course, anything you need."
Cait: "Anythin' I need, huh? I might take you up on that one day. After Tommy stuck me with you, I was expectin' to hate your guts. Not only because you agreed to pick up me contract, but because I was waitin' for you to order me around like hired help. Now so far, you've been treatin' me like a friend. Hell, you've been damn near NICE to me. Now I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but your kindness is startin' to make me wonder. If there's anythin' I learned at the Combat Zone, it was that nobody does things for other people without expectin' somethin' in return."
Sole Survivor: "You're comparing me to that riff-raff?"
Cait: "You don't even come close to the losers that pollute the place. I spent three years livin' at the Combat Zone. Smelled like puke and piss, but I called it home. I was makin' a few caps, had me own bed to sleep in and three hot meals a day. Then the Raiders took over the place. You know that lot... they aren't exactly what you'd call "the gentle type." After they moved in, if you didn't keep lookin' over your shoulder, you were liable to get sucker punched and robbed... or worse. Didn't take me long to learn that I had to put my hard-earned caps to good use. Buyin' friends was essential to makin' life easier. So I guess I'm waitin' for you to hand me a bill, you know what I mean?"
(Cait's dialogue)

[2] Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Collector's Edition p.497-498: "[16.01] COMBAT ZONE
Once an old-time theater and public arena, this location has been taken over by Raiders, who don’t allow anyone in other than their own. Tommy Lonegan, a Southie Ghoul, announces the fights, while Cait, the headliner, cuts throats in the ring."
(Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide/Map)

[3] Madeleine Rabil's website (Archived)

[4] Nathan Purkeypile: "On Fallout 4 I was the second artist on the project.

I created Diamond City, the majority of the kits for the game including the Building Kit, Industrial, Utility and Steam Tunnels, random locations such as the Combat Zone and Railroad HQ and lit the game."
(Fallout 4 Developer Statements - Locations; Nathan Purkeypile: Location Contributions, 2021 April 15)

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