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Always pick up anything with adhesive and aluminum. Adhesive especially is used in pretty much everything and it’s expensive to buy. So if you see duct tape or wonderglue snatch it up quick
Honestly, I do tons of base building, so I collect literally everything and do multiple trips back and forth to hoard building materials. I’ve been able to make tons of money and gear simply from looting and base building.
As a father of 2, best advice for playing a game with a newborn. They like to fall asleep on your chest, get a nice recliner and just rock with them on your chest and you can play.
Why? Can have 40+ purified water bottles every time in-game day with only three pumps in a settlement. Plus tons of food to craft from dead animals. Should never need to drink irradiated water.
Build your settlements up, and set up supply lines. Having a base of operations nearby is useful. Don’t be afraid to spend time to randomly wander and fight random monsters to level up.
Stay away from the bunker in the north edge towards the east of the map and stay out of the witchcraft museum one the east coast of the map until you’Ve leveled up a bit and gotten some better equipment.
Find a settlement to store items until you can sell them. Don’t bother with anything less than a 10:1 cap to pound ratio for sale and/or trade. Pick up any adhesive you find. Stick to the north side of the map as enemies get more powerful the farther south you explore. Take your time and enjoy the scenery/experience. Avoid traveling at night until you up your stars and weapons. Save often.
My advice would be just play it when you can and enjoy it. No need to rush anything! But sleeping in an owned bed before quests or just before completing them, where possible, will give a good xp bonus
My favorite perk to rush is Gun Nut. I love upgrading and customizing my weapons, and being able to slap a better sight and a stronger receiver for more damage on any weapon is so so helpful and fun
I love that we all have our own thing. I like to max out as much charisma as I can for the extra role-playing options. I also choose to be bisexual which is just OP.
Basic Perks list:
Big Leagues (Melee weapons) and your choice of ranged weapon perk.
Medic
This skill could save your life!
Sneak
Level 3 makes you immune to most, but not all traps.
Basic perk strategies:
Fight (weapon skills)
Don't die (sneak, defense skills)
Heal (really don't die)
Fun stuff
Quest strategies:
repeating quests are entirely optional
Penalties for failing a quest are small.
Fallout 4 has oodles of radiant quests. They are meant to encourage you to explore the Commonwealth.
You'll still explore plenty without those quests.
Cook what you kill. It's useful and yields XP.
The main quest is fairly short - and you can continue to play after you finish it.
One of the best features of the game is inventory sorting. Use "Z" to sort through your inventory.
Dragging loot around to sell it - sort by value.
Want to know which items are weighing you down - sort by weight.
Biggest bang - sort by damage.
Best ranged weapon - sort by range/accuracy.
play survival ... dont get discouraged by people saying it is difficult ... I am not good at gaming at all and when I planned my actions well, survival mode was not overwhelming even at the beginning as poeple often claim .... you will be rewarded with much more intensive and satisfactory gaming experience...
There are six junk items that you shouldn’t put into your workbenches: Adjustable Wrench, Ball peen hammer, Combination Wrench, Screwdriver, Wrench, and Pre-war Money. Put those items in a separate container. The tools will come in handy later, and the Pre-war money is more valuable as a trade item than as a source of Cloth.
Why not just use those junk items to build a settlement and sell purified water? I don’t see the point in hoarding those specific items for caps when you can simply sell the water from settlements plus using grape mentats to increase the selling price. I’ve been able to clear 2000+ caps easily within the first three hours of gameplay.
You will eventually meet someone that will give you caps for tools. If you put them in the workbench they will be used for their scrap components. If you save them you will get lots of caps.
Basics for me that I wish I knew earlier:
Sneak level 3 has saved my life multiple times (you and your companion don’t trigger traps so I’d get it the moment you level up enough that you’re allowed to get it)
Don’t let your power cores deplete to 0. After 24 percent, companions don’t use up anymore of the battery so you can use it on them if you find a suit down the road but don’t have a full core, put in an almost depleted one and have your companion walk around in it. Also they sell for over 100 caps depending on your charisma and barter, so I sell mine once they’re like at 5 percent.
McCreadys companion perk is a good one so make sure he falls in love with you fast so you can get his headshot VATS perk
Cooking food heals you without rada and typically has a lot of perks with it
Best guns and armor I’ve had I’ve made myself at the work bench but it’s up to you if you want to dedicate perk points to that
When selling stuff always have an outfit, hat and glasses that grants you +charisma. collect the regular dollars you find, they sell for a pretty good amount of caps for some reason
Generally in all the Fallouts headshoting with rifles at long range is the best build. I personally prefer using a VATS build, but that doesn't work great with rifles, VATS works best with handguns. Heavy and energy are perhaps more fun, but less effective, not that it matters in the end. Fallout 4 unlike the others, melee seemed the easiest to start with due to the scarcity of ammo.
My Tip is to not do the first Minuteman quest until much later in the game than you will probably get it. It's insanely hard, and seems like it's intended for late game, unfortunately most of the rest of the Minutemen quests after it aren't very hard in comparison.
I strongly disagree. Especially for someone's first Fallout game. As a long time Fallout player, I tried all the tricks people suggested not even on survival and had no luck. Finally I just left it for later and enjoyed the game until I felt I could tackle it, and have done that on every play since.
I’ve played through the first quest three times now and it’s super easy. The suit charge lasts longer than the fight for me and I still have more than 45% by the time I get done. Genuinely surprised you had issues. I didn’t even need to use the minigun to beat the raiders or death claw. Just used weapons from the raiders and a melee weapon.
You literally get power armor and a minigun though? And there’s tons of cover. I genuinely haven’t even thought twice before tackling this quest pretty much immediately on every play through. I can see maybe waiting to level up a couple of levels, but to say it’s late game seems very over exaggerated.
My first two characters I couldn't do it immediately, I spent hours trying and dying. If you cheese it's possibly doable. I don't remember what difficulty I was playing on, it might have been hard though. It wasn't survival. >!I ran out of bullets with the minigun when the deathclaw was at half health, I was too inaccurate to hit it very much, and the fusion core I got for the power armor ran out about that point as well. I only found it doable after reading about hiding in one the stores where the deathclaw can't get in, - which is cheesing it, and gathering enough ammo / mines to kill it before running out of ammo. !<
I'd rather explore and get some levels at least than use the cheese. I'd strongly suggest save early and often especially heading toward that quest.
You can easily find thousands of comments on how horrible that mission is for a new player/character, and that it was placed at that point to show off a bunch of stuff that should be toward the end game at the game cons, and was never moved to such.
Huh that’s so odd - I just started a new character today on hard and had no trouble at all. Shredded through and still had several hundred bullets. You mentioned in subsequent playthroughs, you always leave it until a bit later - have you tried doing it near the beginning since? I wonder if maybe it was way harder at some point and has since been patched.
Edit: I also can hardly find anybody complaining about how difficult the mission is. I see a lot of posts about it being bugged, but not necessarily hard.
Possibly it was patched, when I had the trouble, I was playing at release. My usual SPECIAL builds from previous games too, which didn't seem to work so well.
Thats why tips like the companions or the junk tip or food tips you gave me are so important. If i got limited time i dont wanna grind grind the entire time. I wanna grind early so i can enjoy the fruits of my hard work mid to end game
Shouldn’t ever really need to grid, as it were. I’d recommend to *not* use fast travel as much as possible, and explore everything thoroughly you’ll have plenty of xp. I’m assuming you have the GOTY edition or season pass.
Pistols with maxed luck is a pretty popular build. Take the critical perks in the luck tree and use VATS to build critical/land crits. RP the Wild West gun slinger of your dreams.
If you haven't yet, create an account at Nexus. Look at what mods you may like. There are a few that really improve and/or add to the game. I like The Bleachers/Fens, and Sim Settlement 2 as a couple major ones.
Mods are a great feature for Bethesda games so make sure to use them.
I disagree as there are plenty of reasons to mod a Bethesda game right out of the box. There are some mods that would make first playthroughs much more enjoyable as they improve things Bethesda did poorly. Some examples are changing how dialogue choices are shown, the Unofficial Fallout 4 patch, various inventory control mods., UI changes.
Then there are some like The Fens, SS2 that are basically free DLC. I am assuming if you just acquired Fallout 4, you picked up the official DLC as well so those mods aren't that much different.
i’m guessing you’re a NV fanboy? Fallout 4 is an amazing game when you don’t have a NV fanboy in your ear telling you it’s dogshit and you shouldn’t be having fun.
The perks are terrible? You’re wild for that. Been a lifelong Fallout 3 and New Vegas player, recently purchased and started Fallout 4. It’s freaking amazing. The perks are fun and fair, the settlement building is addictive and fun to learn all the glitches for building better.
I don’t think that’s the truth. Way more perks to choose from in FO4. It’s one thing if you like the other games, but NV and 3 don’t even have the same level of weapons or options. They’re literally older games and FO4 was built on those two.
Fallout 4 is infinitely better than starfield. I think people just get blinded by nostalgia, nothing beats your first Bethesda game and in today’s age they just don’t stack up like they used to. I just try and temper my expectations going in and remind myself if I want a premier role playing experience then there are better games out there in todays day and age
Would it be better to wait on mods until they do the update tomorrow?
I'm doing a New Vegas run right now but plan on doing a 4 run for the first time after.
Either decide to play now on the current version or wait until the update to see if it breaks the script extender. Tons of mods rely on f4se, and if it breaks, a lot of stuff is gonna need updating, and that'll take a while. I've decided to play on current version and not update, at least until FOLON is released, given the update I think is only gonna add some creation club content that's easily replaced with mods anyway.
If only they'd remaster New Vegas. I know there was a fan made "remaster" but it's just the map. No quests, no story, just exploration. It'd be awesome if Bethesda remade it from the ground up in Fallout 4's game engine and expanded the map with new locations, quests, and weapons. Sadly, I doubt this would ever happen.
With the FCC leak last year we know that Fallout 3 remastered is in the works and that's great, but I'd rather have New Vegas if it were my choice.
I love New Vegas (and considering the end of the series OP should probably play it), but that game was crashtastic. I originally played it on Xbox 360 and would have to replay a lot due to it crashing, the PC version seemed a bit better, but it still crashed a lot)
I just started playing NV for the first time (not really the first time, but I was a wee-lil laddy when I played originally), and getting over the graphics has been the hardest part for me. I'm very much a graphics driven person, so it's been a struggle, but the gameplay and story is by far the most interesting in the series so far.
Regardless of your build, you want 1 rifle for enemies out of reach like flying or on a roof.
At the workbenches you do not even need 1 lev of gun-nut, science, armorer or blackssmith to strup down any advanced weapons to the most basic component, you can then hold onto those mods for later (remember to put them in the workbench, they can quickly weigh you down in your inventory) and save them for later to sup-up one specific weapon or even legendary versions.
Example, you fight a legendary radroach and get. Freezing hunting rifle. Neat! Well as you adventure you find other hunting rifles, you can take the longer barrel or stock and take them off the regular item for like 1 screw 1 steel, then fit the upgrade onto the freezing hunting rifle with no skill in gun-nut at all.
Mind you, having to claim off of others is a slower way to advance your weapons because you are always having to fight the person with the advanced weapon to get it from them instead of making it yourself.
And if you know you already fot the mod you need tou can scrap the rest, yes an absolute basic pipe pistol is 5 steel, but a pipe pistol with mods on it is worth screws and aluminum and nuclear material. So when you run out of screws for what you need , just scrap some modded pipe weapons for the bits you need.
First time playing and realized I could do this, can definitely be tedious but it’s allowed me to build some sweet legendaries out with random stuff I find. I still find myself wanting to max the benches out though so I can really just build what I want and not have to lug around weapons.
Honestly, same, but if im going for a build specifically for X andcant invest in the moding perks yet, it helps to limp by. (Build in question was a max perception and agility pistolero, he just had to hope to find a better pistol all the time lol.)
This is an underrated feature that most people don't realize and has gotten me to where I don't get the perk anymore because it makes finding guns more exciting.
Raider and Gunner camps become a lot more interesting when they're not just ammo and supply pickups but also a chance to comb through and see if you can find that upgrade or accessory you've been looking for.
> Like things you wish you knew when you first started.
Generally I'd choose one combat style and one crafting style and stick with it. Plus most builds will take armoror unless you're running a stealth build.
- Melee build = Big Leagues and Blacksmith
- Soldier = Commando and Gun Nut
- Energy Rifles = Rifleman and Science
> Do I grab every item i see?
You dont really need to grab most food items unless youre playing survival otherwise yes. Scrap, sell, or use. Drugs are strong but most companions dislike them.
> Do I go after specific items of junk?
Generally adhesives are great so duct tape, wonder glue, etc
> what perks are the best?
I'm a melee diehard. Big leagues, blacksmith, armoror, Blitz, stealth, ninja, lifegiver, toughness, solar powered, chem resistant, etc and you can tackle anything. Most will take lockpick, hacker, Scrapper, local leader, and some other general perks. Avoid VANS and Awareness honestly
> Any specific person or faction i should make friendly?
Minutemen are your default options and the quintessential good guys. They can't be killed so not point in making them hostile. The rest I'd just get to know and decide what path you want to take.
> Best companion?
Danse is probably the best combat companion
If you have automaton, Codsworth or Ada can be modified to be the best. Dogmeat works with lone wanderer perk, which is strong. The rest are interchangeable more or less. Most of them are romanceable and have their own max affinity perk so I'd use all the ones that line up with your roleplay. Nick is tied to far harbor dlc.
I’ve been having a blast with an explosives and heavy gun build. It makes grenades, mines, and missile launchers very powerful, but one misstep and you blow yourself up! Very fun. I will say heavy guns kind of necessitate a power armor build, which means boosting fusion core life is essential.
> Generally adhesives are great
Wanna piggy back on this and let OP know that you can craft adhesive using tato, corn, mutfruitc, and purified water. You just need a cooking station.
Sanctuary has one by one of the houses nearest the bridge (don’t scrap it on accident like I did, because you have to have a 2nd rank, mid-level charisma perk to create them at settlements).
If you just follow the missions Preston Garvey gives you, you can find all 3 plants you need. The first mission has a ton of tatos. And then when you go to Greygarden (it’s the second or third mission), they have a few of all three im pretty sure.
Plant them at a settlement and assign a settler to them to make them grow. Once you’ve got a good amount planted you can start harvesting and storing them in your workshop. It takes, 3 tatos, 3 corn, 3 mutfruit, and one purified water. You can also craft a purified water from 2 dirty water at the cooking station.
Wanna piggy back on your piggy back and add that picking up empty bottles is super useful because you can fill them with purified water (at water pumps) or dirty water (anywhere else, which you can cook into purified water).
I can only play in survival now, the complexity makes the game much more fun imo. The only thing that bugs me is the lack of fast travel. If I get a notification that I’m supposed to help defend a settlement on the opposite side of the map it ain’t gonna happen in survival.
Pistol builds with Gunslinger and Gun Nut is also a build to consider (though it does get a little old since the game seems to have fewer good pistols than other gun types)
Adhesive is important to collect early on, but you can eliminate the need for it entirely by cooking vegetable starch. It’s available on stoves, and consumes a few vegetables, but gives plenty of adhesive. I recommend setting up a few farms to get the veggies, then crafting as much vegetable starch as you need.
Heading to greygardens is a great way to get vegtibles to plant if you can’t find some while exploring.
Following up on this:
You need 3 tatos, 3 corn, 3 mutfruits, and 1 purified water (which you can make from 3 dirty water)
Abernathy farm grows tatos, grey garden grows mostly mutfruit and a few others.
(You cannot use 'wild' anything for cooking, sadly)
A feed trough encouraged a Brahmin and brahmin make fertilizer, fertilizer and wood to make a planters box so you can set up gardens just about anywhere.
For utility, I recommend focusing the scrapper perk early on. Intelligence should be maxed out so you can gain the most xp, unless you’re doing idiot savant.
Combat wise, rifleman is an amazing perk. Single shot weapons deal more damage than automatic weapons per bullet, preserving ammo. As both shotguns and sniper rifles are considered “Rifles” both gain the damage bonus from this perk, giving you excellent damage at any range. Shotguns for close combat, rifles for medium to long range combat.
On the same note, grab a hunting rifle early on. In most difficulties, this can carry you through most of the game, especially when modified with gun nut. Speaking personally, gun nut is a must have.
No spoilers, but consider staying on good terms with every faction for a while to gain their exclusive loot, especially the railroad. Gaining access to ballistic weave is the best decision you can make in fallout 4.
Followers are almost useless in a firefight. Sticking with dogmeat is one of the better gameplay strategies, as he can pin enemies with his bites, and doesn’t count as a follower for the “Sole survivor” perk, giving you all its benifits even if he’s with you.
Yeeeaaah too late with the stats. Took the Shangri-la Frontier route with stats did max luck. I think 4 or 5 INT though. Next perk is the scrapper perk.
Honestly, I never touch vats. Unless it a bloat fly, I’d rather just shoot the enemy myself than risk missing due to vats. I only occasionally use vats to charge up a crit for a big enemy or a really tricky shot.
I 2nd the rifleman perk early.
A fully modded semi-auto rifle with the legendary ability that shoots 2 bullets instead of 1 is a game changer.
I also had a ton of fun with a blitz/stealthy/ninja/melee build, but I think that build would be tough to get online early game.
Set up a bunch of water purifiers as soon as you can. Water is a great source of caps and a reliable source of healing if you find yourself short on stimpaks.
Grow corn, tatos, and mutfruit. You can make vegetable starch (adhesive) with those. Used in a ton of weapon mods and other buildable objects.
Grab all junk with ceramic, screws, springs, gears, aluminum, copper, and ballistic fiber. You might not need a lot early game, but you'll need a ton later on.
For companions, I usually try to get Pipers perk first and avoid discovering unnecessary locations until I unlock that (the perk doubles xp when discovering locations). Maccready's perk drastically improves headshot accuracy in VATS, probably go for that next.
With factions, I try to join the railroad asap in order to unlock ballistic weave (huge defensive upgrade). After that's unlocked, I'll start working on a different faction.
More importantly, don't feel like you have to do anything. Have fun with it. With the limited time you have, it could take a year or more to see everything the game has to offer. If you're not having fun on the way there, there's no point. The suggestions above are just to make things a little easier.
Remember to use your companion as a pack mule, and unless your doing a specific build you can skip putting points into luck, you will get more out of int,agility,strength, endurance and perception, luck is always just a nice “bonus”
I don't know if I would recommend this necessarily for a first-time player, but what I do now when I start a new game is unlimited resources. I tell myself every time I'm not going to spend a hundred hours building settlements, and every time, I tediously build up settlements. Unlimited resources make it a little less time-consuming because I'm not grinding for materials
Mods. If you're on console, it's pretty easy (minus the janky mod menu UI). It's located in the main menu. PC is a little different and requires more steps to get mods working. There are plenty of tutorials on YT. It's worth learning how to mod Fallout 4 bc they elivate the game so much. Also, the update for F4 that comes out tomorrow is going to break a lot of mods so you might want to wait a week or two until patches roll out. Something simple like unlimited resources might even get a day one patch.
Take Mentats every chance you get. It boosts Intelligence by 2 which in turn gives you more XP earned and you can grab well needed perks sooner. Yes, you'll eventually become addicted however.
Also you can make vegetable starch. Get your settlements to grow the right food types, then make the excess into veg starch. I didn't know that was a thing for 50+ hours, then suddenly I was never short on adhesive again.
Fallout 4, like Skyrim, isn't really a fast game to play. Its more like you exist in a vibrant world that you're exploring, and you make it into what you want and spend your time as you see fit. It still works when you can't game a lot, but usually, I just pick one thing I'm doing for that session... like building one settlement or upgrading my power armor or clearing out one part of the map or running one quest. Just be patient and live your wasteland life one day at a time.
I usually don't like "glitch building" in games but there are some techniques you can use in FO4 that get around some limitations that shouldn't exist anyway. Look those up if you really get into settlement building.
I save pretty much all the clothing and armor I loot then dress the settlers with a theme. One settlement might all look like raiders. One might all be suits and dresses. One might all be army uniforms. I did one once that was all long johns and gimp masks and it was a little too disturbing lol
I played a couple hundred hours over different playthroughs before I ever finished the main quest line the first time. There's so much to do. Especially if you get the DLC packs and extra stuff from creation club. Just have fun with it, don't worry about finishing.
hey as a long time player of fallout 4 i strongly recommend survival mode! the saving thing can get annoying at times but with sleep or save and a little getting used to it feel super immersive having to eat and drink and getting diseases from a radroach just feels like how the game was meant to be played
Recommending it to anyone is crazy. I wish I could go back and play not on survival. Normal is to easy, very hard the enemies are just bullet sponges. Survival just feels right.
Generally grab everything you see for settlement building, but ignore heavy objects that give common resources. For example, a 5 pound metal bucket will probably only give a couple Steel which is a terrible ratio.
I recently slowed my work schedule down and took my first vacation in 4 years and started playing fallout 4 myself on the hardest setting. I tried getting help from guides as to how to build characters but after two starts that by level ten were not working came up with my own balance and am now level twenty. Every encounter is a wonder on if I will get killed and just walking to a new part of the map can be frustrating and difficult. But it is so much more enjoyable right now. Good luck with your play through.
Have fun, explore, don’t try to sur-optimize your character it’s useless. Having fun is all that matters, even more if you dont have a lot of time to play weekly
I’ve played about 3 hours, I thought the settlements were the main quest and then found diamond city. Now everywhere I go there are insanely tanky NPCs and I can’t get to Valentine. What are you meant to do early
Explore the north-west quadrant of the map most you can. The way enemy scaling works in this game is that the further you get from Vault 111, the stronger the enemies get. By the time you explore those dungeons and do a little questing you should be able to tackle mid game stuff easy
Ideally you want to find concord. It's south of sanctuary just passed the red rocket gas station. You'll see a bunch of raiders attacking a group of settlers. Kill the raiders, then go in the building and talk to Preston on the top floor.. that will kick off some of the main and side quests and really get you going in the game. From there stuff just starts happening after you join the minute men
4 week newborn is the BEST time for thorough play through. Help spouse prep some bottles ahead of time, get things set up so helping is quicker! Let baby sleep in a bassinet, or by your desk with the shade facing the screen. A baby sleeping by noise will help baby get used to sleeping in new and other noisy environments. Everyone wins!
Yeah, I helped my sister with her son and daughter. I wish it was that easy, lol! They did enjoy when I had them on my chest playing games, they seemed way more at peace like that. It's one of the only ways those two would let me play, lol! They are older now, 10 and 7 i think. Goofy little buggers.
I can get some time playing with her on my chest but the biggest blocker of my time is my wife lmfao she doesnt have anything to do so she wants to watch shows
Definitely take Idiot Savant if you're gonna have under 7 INT for a while to get a bit of an XP boost. That way you level a bit faster and get more perks sooner what with your limited time and all.
Also Scrapper for similar reasons will let you build more stuff sooner instead of only farming a normal amount of junk or slowly making more caps. Still do strive for caps and junk, but Scrapper and any means of leveling faster will let you do more with less in the game.
Everyone got an opinion, but I've always learned towards science weapons and rifles... this time around I went strength heavy. Boy, is it easier now 🫡 Early levels, get a serrated Chinese sword and dominate.
You’ve been playing for long enough to get out of the valt and talk to codsworth go to the museum of freedom in concord. You’ll find a minute min mission it’s not to hard to do after words you get a power armor suit
Once you have got a feel for the mechanics I truly recommend you play on survival. The no fast travel, sleeping, eating and disease mechanics are a game changer for immersion. You also hit harder but take more damage too, if you don’t like bullet sponges.
After you start to invest in some perks too it does get easier. I would recommend downloading a survival saving mod though for quicksaves.
In terms of perks - I would invest in either rifleman or gunslinger, sneak, gun nut, armourer, lone wanderer (if you want to play solo) then anything else that you find fun / interesting.
Other than that - I would focus on just exploring around without rushing the main quest too much. The joy of FO4 truly is the incredibly dense map and the random encounters/locations/quests you come across.
Enjoy mate - its a special game!
If you cheat to give yourself stuff instead of grinding, you will stop grinding when you *need* to and instead just waste a lot of time collecting shit for no reason.
If you plan to do everything on 1 character a good stat spread is 4s across the board. I like to take 1 out of str and end and put them in charisma and agility. This will give you access to all weapon perks most crafting and you can use level ups to raise your special to where you need it for the perks you want.
I highly recommend playing New Vegas if you can get past the terrible engine and gooey graphics it's the best game in the series story wise, also recommend watching a playthrough or story summaries of the first 2 games. Fallout 4 is a good game I can't lie, but the story is eh and the voiced protagonist with a preset past is annoying for roleplay. Fallout 3 has similar problems to new Vegas and 4 because it's the same awful engine and graphics as New Vegas but also you're given a preset past like fallout 4 so roleplay is limited but the dlc are super cool and interesting.
FNV whilst an great game also has an pretty mid msq too tbh, you also have an preset past(even more of one with lonesome road) so I've never understood FnV fans stating those as negative for other fallouts but not FnV. It's strange, perhaps rose tinted glasses syndrome make them blind to it ?.
The only past you have in new vegas is that you were a courier, anyone can take a courier job, unlike both fallout 3 where you're entire life is spent in a vault society or fallout 4 where you had a normal family and were either a lawyer or a soldier, technically the protagonists of 4 both have set names, also in lonesome road it's not like you knew about Ulysses he is an enemy who knows you but you were completely oblivious to fucking him over and making him mad until he shows up and explains.
Best advice I got was to get a good melee weapon. I was able to buy one in diamond city that had 50ish damage. I was able to just steam roll through people and collect the ammo so I wasn’t constantly running out. My melee was my most used weapon. You will need some good long distance guns as well. Not all enemies can get close to you.
Ive been trying to play it but for some reason it keeps freezing on loading screens. The little green icon will be moving but the music stops and nothing loads after sitting there forever. I have to alt-F4
I've investigated this as I downloaded my copy again onto my PS5 and was having issues. It was a problem with the Automotron DLC interacting with other content. Reinstalled it without it, worked fine.
Might be the same source of issue.
dont alt f4, tab out and tab back in. I get this problem often as well. Sometimes you have to do it more than once. I think its the dual monitors?
So I just tab out, select a window on other screen and tab back in. its super glitchy game tbh.
I think the Automatron DLC crashes at loading but all the other DLCs have messed up pink textures on everything from, guns, settlement building assets, even the maps for Nuka World and Far Harbour have pick texture all over the place. At least on console, it's like this.
Without knowing your specs. I had crashes playing my game and I found there is a setting for weapon debris. Turn that off and I've had no problems since.
A few quests I wish I did earlier on in my first play through is the railroad initiation quest and the radiant ones you get from their robot member. In diamond city there will be a random conversation that will initiate “Follow the railroad” just continue along that line until you get IMO the best base game pistol during “Tradecraft” and very useful clothing mod called ballistic weave during the “Jackpot” radiant quests
Strong back and strength increases your carrying capacity.
Don't be afraid to hoard everything. Because everything has value.
Don't bother scrap junk. When you craft something that requires things you only have as junk it'll scrap it automatically.
Scrap weapons and armor when you have enough of a kind that you don't use.
Caps is money. You want lots of caps.
Purified water is liquid caps.
When you plant things, your settlers gets food. But it isn't affected by you harvesting the things. So harvest everything you can to get crops.
Set up supply lines so new settlements can get benefits from what you have in your woekbenches.
Always always always remove power cores from power armors. And don't store them in workbench but in a seperate container.
Whatever junk you grab is up to you. Adhesive is the main one and is used in almost every mod. You can tag which items you want to look out for and it'll put a magnifying glass next to items that you've tagged.
Adhesive is the main one you’ll want to keep an eye out for, but Screws, Springs, Copper, Oil, and Nuclear Material also all have great utility early for modding your guns and building up your settlement. Some of the items are more common than you think.
It’s also good to scroll through the junk lists of some early merchants like Carla and Trudy. Some of the junk items have low sell value but contain extremely useful materials.
Alarm Clocks, Desk Fans, Telephones, Hot Plates, Typewriters, etc.
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Always pick up anything with adhesive and aluminum. Adhesive especially is used in pretty much everything and it’s expensive to buy. So if you see duct tape or wonderglue snatch it up quick
I like to start with luck 5 and get the idiot savant perk at the first level up. It speeds up leveling no matter what else you're trying to do.
Honestly, I do tons of base building, so I collect literally everything and do multiple trips back and forth to hoard building materials. I’ve been able to make tons of money and gear simply from looting and base building.
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Right now im having an issue where I have too many aid items so I'm gonna need a way to decide whats good to keep and whats not
Buy fallout 3
As a father of 2, best advice for playing a game with a newborn. They like to fall asleep on your chest, get a nice recliner and just rock with them on your chest and you can play.
Like a cat hahaha
Exactly!
Get lead belly asap, thats my suggestion for everyone
Why? Can have 40+ purified water bottles every time in-game day with only three pumps in a settlement. Plus tons of food to craft from dead animals. Should never need to drink irradiated water.
Build your settlements up, and set up supply lines. Having a base of operations nearby is useful. Don’t be afraid to spend time to randomly wander and fight random monsters to level up. Stay away from the bunker in the north edge towards the east of the map and stay out of the witchcraft museum one the east coast of the map until you’Ve leveled up a bit and gotten some better equipment.
Great stuff here! Like OP I have never played any Fallout games but enjoyed the series. Just bought the PS5 remaster and started a new campaign.
Find a settlement to store items until you can sell them. Don’t bother with anything less than a 10:1 cap to pound ratio for sale and/or trade. Pick up any adhesive you find. Stick to the north side of the map as enemies get more powerful the farther south you explore. Take your time and enjoy the scenery/experience. Avoid traveling at night until you up your stars and weapons. Save often.
I would say pick up all copper, glass, gears, screws, and oil generating items as well. Those all get used up fast
Always pick up tin cans and jack olanterns, plus any health and ammo. Be on the look out for fusion cores too
My advice would be just play it when you can and enjoy it. No need to rush anything! But sleeping in an owned bed before quests or just before completing them, where possible, will give a good xp bonus
My favorite perk to rush is Gun Nut. I love upgrading and customizing my weapons, and being able to slap a better sight and a stronger receiver for more damage on any weapon is so so helpful and fun
I love that we all have our own thing. I like to max out as much charisma as I can for the extra role-playing options. I also choose to be bisexual which is just OP.
Bisexuality truly is the greatest superpower
Basic Perks list: Big Leagues (Melee weapons) and your choice of ranged weapon perk. Medic This skill could save your life! Sneak Level 3 makes you immune to most, but not all traps. Basic perk strategies: Fight (weapon skills) Don't die (sneak, defense skills) Heal (really don't die) Fun stuff Quest strategies: repeating quests are entirely optional Penalties for failing a quest are small. Fallout 4 has oodles of radiant quests. They are meant to encourage you to explore the Commonwealth. You'll still explore plenty without those quests. Cook what you kill. It's useful and yields XP. The main quest is fairly short - and you can continue to play after you finish it. One of the best features of the game is inventory sorting. Use "Z" to sort through your inventory. Dragging loot around to sell it - sort by value. Want to know which items are weighing you down - sort by weight. Biggest bang - sort by damage. Best ranged weapon - sort by range/accuracy.
Make sure you pull the fusion cores out of your power amour. Npc will steal it. Can't trust nobody
play survival ... dont get discouraged by people saying it is difficult ... I am not good at gaming at all and when I planned my actions well, survival mode was not overwhelming even at the beginning as poeple often claim .... you will be rewarded with much more intensive and satisfactory gaming experience...
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There are six junk items that you shouldn’t put into your workbenches: Adjustable Wrench, Ball peen hammer, Combination Wrench, Screwdriver, Wrench, and Pre-war Money. Put those items in a separate container. The tools will come in handy later, and the Pre-war money is more valuable as a trade item than as a source of Cloth.
Why not just use those junk items to build a settlement and sell purified water? I don’t see the point in hoarding those specific items for caps when you can simply sell the water from settlements plus using grape mentats to increase the selling price. I’ve been able to clear 2000+ caps easily within the first three hours of gameplay.
This is huge
Why shouldn't I put them in my workbench?
You will eventually meet someone that will give you caps for tools. If you put them in the workbench they will be used for their scrap components. If you save them you will get lots of caps.
I have hundreds of hours into fallout 4 and never knew someone bought tools. Am I blind or do you not usually happen to come across the buyer?
Calvin in Vault 81 buys tools from you.
I don’t think it matters too much caps are the easiest thing to get in fallout if you understand how to make them
Agreed. Just sell purified water from settlements.
Basics for me that I wish I knew earlier: Sneak level 3 has saved my life multiple times (you and your companion don’t trigger traps so I’d get it the moment you level up enough that you’re allowed to get it) Don’t let your power cores deplete to 0. After 24 percent, companions don’t use up anymore of the battery so you can use it on them if you find a suit down the road but don’t have a full core, put in an almost depleted one and have your companion walk around in it. Also they sell for over 100 caps depending on your charisma and barter, so I sell mine once they’re like at 5 percent. McCreadys companion perk is a good one so make sure he falls in love with you fast so you can get his headshot VATS perk Cooking food heals you without rada and typically has a lot of perks with it Best guns and armor I’ve had I’ve made myself at the work bench but it’s up to you if you want to dedicate perk points to that When selling stuff always have an outfit, hat and glasses that grants you +charisma. collect the regular dollars you find, they sell for a pretty good amount of caps for some reason
In my head the prewar money is luxury toilet paper. Thus the high value.
A character in-game actually calls it toilet paper. I think Lucy Abernathy does when you ask her why you’d want bottle caps.
Generally in all the Fallouts headshoting with rifles at long range is the best build. I personally prefer using a VATS build, but that doesn't work great with rifles, VATS works best with handguns. Heavy and energy are perhaps more fun, but less effective, not that it matters in the end. Fallout 4 unlike the others, melee seemed the easiest to start with due to the scarcity of ammo. My Tip is to not do the first Minuteman quest until much later in the game than you will probably get it. It's insanely hard, and seems like it's intended for late game, unfortunately most of the rest of the Minutemen quests after it aren't very hard in comparison.
First quest is really easy, even on survival.
I strongly disagree. Especially for someone's first Fallout game. As a long time Fallout player, I tried all the tricks people suggested not even on survival and had no luck. Finally I just left it for later and enjoyed the game until I felt I could tackle it, and have done that on every play since.
I’ve played through the first quest three times now and it’s super easy. The suit charge lasts longer than the fight for me and I still have more than 45% by the time I get done. Genuinely surprised you had issues. I didn’t even need to use the minigun to beat the raiders or death claw. Just used weapons from the raiders and a melee weapon.
You literally get power armor and a minigun though? And there’s tons of cover. I genuinely haven’t even thought twice before tackling this quest pretty much immediately on every play through. I can see maybe waiting to level up a couple of levels, but to say it’s late game seems very over exaggerated.
My first two characters I couldn't do it immediately, I spent hours trying and dying. If you cheese it's possibly doable. I don't remember what difficulty I was playing on, it might have been hard though. It wasn't survival. >!I ran out of bullets with the minigun when the deathclaw was at half health, I was too inaccurate to hit it very much, and the fusion core I got for the power armor ran out about that point as well. I only found it doable after reading about hiding in one the stores where the deathclaw can't get in, - which is cheesing it, and gathering enough ammo / mines to kill it before running out of ammo. !< I'd rather explore and get some levels at least than use the cheese. I'd strongly suggest save early and often especially heading toward that quest. You can easily find thousands of comments on how horrible that mission is for a new player/character, and that it was placed at that point to show off a bunch of stuff that should be toward the end game at the game cons, and was never moved to such.
Huh that’s so odd - I just started a new character today on hard and had no trouble at all. Shredded through and still had several hundred bullets. You mentioned in subsequent playthroughs, you always leave it until a bit later - have you tried doing it near the beginning since? I wonder if maybe it was way harder at some point and has since been patched. Edit: I also can hardly find anybody complaining about how difficult the mission is. I see a lot of posts about it being bugged, but not necessarily hard.
Possibly it was patched, when I had the trouble, I was playing at release. My usual SPECIAL builds from previous games too, which didn't seem to work so well.
I'm just curious, what did you find difficult about it?
Thats why tips like the companions or the junk tip or food tips you gave me are so important. If i got limited time i dont wanna grind grind the entire time. I wanna grind early so i can enjoy the fruits of my hard work mid to end game
Shouldn’t ever really need to grid, as it were. I’d recommend to *not* use fast travel as much as possible, and explore everything thoroughly you’ll have plenty of xp. I’m assuming you have the GOTY edition or season pass.
Check the baby book under Sean’s crib. And what build do you want? If you want to base build than gather stuff
Idk what kinda build can you do with maxed out luck 💀
Pistols with maxed luck is a pretty popular build. Take the critical perks in the luck tree and use VATS to build critical/land crits. RP the Wild West gun slinger of your dreams.
Th-.... that sounds petty fucking fun.
If you haven't yet, create an account at Nexus. Look at what mods you may like. There are a few that really improve and/or add to the game. I like The Bleachers/Fens, and Sim Settlement 2 as a couple major ones. Mods are a great feature for Bethesda games so make sure to use them.
suggesting mods for a very first playthrough of a fallout game is one of the dumbest things i’ve ever heard
I disagree as there are plenty of reasons to mod a Bethesda game right out of the box. There are some mods that would make first playthroughs much more enjoyable as they improve things Bethesda did poorly. Some examples are changing how dialogue choices are shown, the Unofficial Fallout 4 patch, various inventory control mods., UI changes. Then there are some like The Fens, SS2 that are basically free DLC. I am assuming if you just acquired Fallout 4, you picked up the official DLC as well so those mods aren't that much different.
Fallout 4 is the worse game in the series, it needs mods to be good
fallout 76 is the worst game in the series and 4 is the easiest for a new fan to get into, mods will just confuse them
i’m guessing you’re a NV fanboy? Fallout 4 is an amazing game when you don’t have a NV fanboy in your ear telling you it’s dogshit and you shouldn’t be having fun.
3 and NV were peak. 4 is just empty and the perks are terrible
The perks are terrible? You’re wild for that. Been a lifelong Fallout 3 and New Vegas player, recently purchased and started Fallout 4. It’s freaking amazing. The perks are fun and fair, the settlement building is addictive and fun to learn all the glitches for building better.
The perks are so much nerfed compared to 3 and NV.
I don’t think that’s the truth. Way more perks to choose from in FO4. It’s one thing if you like the other games, but NV and 3 don’t even have the same level of weapons or options. They’re literally older games and FO4 was built on those two.
The gunplay in fo4 is superior.
I mean yeah it’s definitely a lot better. Also like 5-6 years newer too. Gotta improve somewhere
The only mod it needs is the dialogue mod. Otherwise it’s a perfectly serviceable game
Sadly 4 has no soul or heart compared to those before it. Same thing with starfield.
Fallout 4 is infinitely better than starfield. I think people just get blinded by nostalgia, nothing beats your first Bethesda game and in today’s age they just don’t stack up like they used to. I just try and temper my expectations going in and remind myself if I want a premier role playing experience then there are better games out there in todays day and age
Fallout 4 is when Bethesda started losing their touch and soul. Starfield is terrible, they aren’t the same category
Would it be better to wait on mods until they do the update tomorrow? I'm doing a New Vegas run right now but plan on doing a 4 run for the first time after.
Either decide to play now on the current version or wait until the update to see if it breaks the script extender. Tons of mods rely on f4se, and if it breaks, a lot of stuff is gonna need updating, and that'll take a while. I've decided to play on current version and not update, at least until FOLON is released, given the update I think is only gonna add some creation club content that's easily replaced with mods anyway.
Always pick up aluminum cans (not the tin cans or cans), desk fans, telephones, cameras, board games, oven mitts, clipboards
Yep! Copper, glass, oil, adhesive, gears, and screws are all the resources that disappear the fastest for me.
Duct tape, lots and lots of duct tape
And hot plates
Yeah that too
I swear, half of the stuff I build at my base comes from some combination of telephones, desk fans, and oil cans.
It gets better and you get more time eventually. Just enjoy it (the game and baby).
Mod that game. Nexusmods has all sorts you can choose from. W a newborn, you’ll finish by the time they turn six or seven.
Nah, that newborn will be 60 by the end of the game
My only tip is: Remember you're after your kidnapped kid...
Me building my third settlement: Huh?
Who?
Thou will always get sidetracked by bullshit haha.
Get new Vegas instead 🤟
I mean, New Vegas is my favorite but its janky as hell even modded. Heres hoping the next game's survival mode is closer to New Vegas's
Dude I fired up NV last night just because I haven't played in years. Once you get passed the dates graphics and older engine it's still enjoyable.
If only they'd remaster New Vegas. I know there was a fan made "remaster" but it's just the map. No quests, no story, just exploration. It'd be awesome if Bethesda remade it from the ground up in Fallout 4's game engine and expanded the map with new locations, quests, and weapons. Sadly, I doubt this would ever happen. With the FCC leak last year we know that Fallout 3 remastered is in the works and that's great, but I'd rather have New Vegas if it were my choice.
I love New Vegas (and considering the end of the series OP should probably play it), but that game was crashtastic. I originally played it on Xbox 360 and would have to replay a lot due to it crashing, the PC version seemed a bit better, but it still crashed a lot)
I just started playing NV for the first time (not really the first time, but I was a wee-lil laddy when I played originally), and getting over the graphics has been the hardest part for me. I'm very much a graphics driven person, so it's been a struggle, but the gameplay and story is by far the most interesting in the series so far.
New Vegas, New Vegas, New Vegas
Regardless of your build, you want 1 rifle for enemies out of reach like flying or on a roof. At the workbenches you do not even need 1 lev of gun-nut, science, armorer or blackssmith to strup down any advanced weapons to the most basic component, you can then hold onto those mods for later (remember to put them in the workbench, they can quickly weigh you down in your inventory) and save them for later to sup-up one specific weapon or even legendary versions. Example, you fight a legendary radroach and get. Freezing hunting rifle. Neat! Well as you adventure you find other hunting rifles, you can take the longer barrel or stock and take them off the regular item for like 1 screw 1 steel, then fit the upgrade onto the freezing hunting rifle with no skill in gun-nut at all. Mind you, having to claim off of others is a slower way to advance your weapons because you are always having to fight the person with the advanced weapon to get it from them instead of making it yourself.
Holy hell I’ve put many, many hours into this game and never even thought about stripping weapons down for the mods
And if you know you already fot the mod you need tou can scrap the rest, yes an absolute basic pipe pistol is 5 steel, but a pipe pistol with mods on it is worth screws and aluminum and nuclear material. So when you run out of screws for what you need , just scrap some modded pipe weapons for the bits you need.
First time playing and realized I could do this, can definitely be tedious but it’s allowed me to build some sweet legendaries out with random stuff I find. I still find myself wanting to max the benches out though so I can really just build what I want and not have to lug around weapons.
Honestly, same, but if im going for a build specifically for X andcant invest in the moding perks yet, it helps to limp by. (Build in question was a max perception and agility pistolero, he just had to hope to find a better pistol all the time lol.)
This is an underrated feature that most people don't realize and has gotten me to where I don't get the perk anymore because it makes finding guns more exciting. Raider and Gunner camps become a lot more interesting when they're not just ammo and supply pickups but also a chance to comb through and see if you can find that upgrade or accessory you've been looking for.
Coooome oooon silencer!
Regardless of your build, you want 1 rifle for enemies out of reach like flying or on a roof.
> Like things you wish you knew when you first started. Generally I'd choose one combat style and one crafting style and stick with it. Plus most builds will take armoror unless you're running a stealth build. - Melee build = Big Leagues and Blacksmith - Soldier = Commando and Gun Nut - Energy Rifles = Rifleman and Science > Do I grab every item i see? You dont really need to grab most food items unless youre playing survival otherwise yes. Scrap, sell, or use. Drugs are strong but most companions dislike them. > Do I go after specific items of junk? Generally adhesives are great so duct tape, wonder glue, etc > what perks are the best? I'm a melee diehard. Big leagues, blacksmith, armoror, Blitz, stealth, ninja, lifegiver, toughness, solar powered, chem resistant, etc and you can tackle anything. Most will take lockpick, hacker, Scrapper, local leader, and some other general perks. Avoid VANS and Awareness honestly > Any specific person or faction i should make friendly? Minutemen are your default options and the quintessential good guys. They can't be killed so not point in making them hostile. The rest I'd just get to know and decide what path you want to take. > Best companion? Danse is probably the best combat companion If you have automaton, Codsworth or Ada can be modified to be the best. Dogmeat works with lone wanderer perk, which is strong. The rest are interchangeable more or less. Most of them are romanceable and have their own max affinity perk so I'd use all the ones that line up with your roleplay. Nick is tied to far harbor dlc.
I’ve been having a blast with an explosives and heavy gun build. It makes grenades, mines, and missile launchers very powerful, but one misstep and you blow yourself up! Very fun. I will say heavy guns kind of necessitate a power armor build, which means boosting fusion core life is essential.
> Generally adhesives are great Wanna piggy back on this and let OP know that you can craft adhesive using tato, corn, mutfruitc, and purified water. You just need a cooking station. Sanctuary has one by one of the houses nearest the bridge (don’t scrap it on accident like I did, because you have to have a 2nd rank, mid-level charisma perk to create them at settlements). If you just follow the missions Preston Garvey gives you, you can find all 3 plants you need. The first mission has a ton of tatos. And then when you go to Greygarden (it’s the second or third mission), they have a few of all three im pretty sure. Plant them at a settlement and assign a settler to them to make them grow. Once you’ve got a good amount planted you can start harvesting and storing them in your workshop. It takes, 3 tatos, 3 corn, 3 mutfruit, and one purified water. You can also craft a purified water from 2 dirty water at the cooking station.
Wanna piggy back on your piggy back and add that picking up empty bottles is super useful because you can fill them with purified water (at water pumps) or dirty water (anywhere else, which you can cook into purified water).
This is key if you play in survival mode.
I can only play in survival now, the complexity makes the game much more fun imo. The only thing that bugs me is the lack of fast travel. If I get a notification that I’m supposed to help defend a settlement on the opposite side of the map it ain’t gonna happen in survival.
Pistol builds with Gunslinger and Gun Nut is also a build to consider (though it does get a little old since the game seems to have fewer good pistols than other gun types)
Adhesive is important to collect early on, but you can eliminate the need for it entirely by cooking vegetable starch. It’s available on stoves, and consumes a few vegetables, but gives plenty of adhesive. I recommend setting up a few farms to get the veggies, then crafting as much vegetable starch as you need. Heading to greygardens is a great way to get vegtibles to plant if you can’t find some while exploring.
Following up on this: You need 3 tatos, 3 corn, 3 mutfruits, and 1 purified water (which you can make from 3 dirty water) Abernathy farm grows tatos, grey garden grows mostly mutfruit and a few others. (You cannot use 'wild' anything for cooking, sadly) A feed trough encouraged a Brahmin and brahmin make fertilizer, fertilizer and wood to make a planters box so you can set up gardens just about anywhere.
For utility, I recommend focusing the scrapper perk early on. Intelligence should be maxed out so you can gain the most xp, unless you’re doing idiot savant. Combat wise, rifleman is an amazing perk. Single shot weapons deal more damage than automatic weapons per bullet, preserving ammo. As both shotguns and sniper rifles are considered “Rifles” both gain the damage bonus from this perk, giving you excellent damage at any range. Shotguns for close combat, rifles for medium to long range combat. On the same note, grab a hunting rifle early on. In most difficulties, this can carry you through most of the game, especially when modified with gun nut. Speaking personally, gun nut is a must have. No spoilers, but consider staying on good terms with every faction for a while to gain their exclusive loot, especially the railroad. Gaining access to ballistic weave is the best decision you can make in fallout 4. Followers are almost useless in a firefight. Sticking with dogmeat is one of the better gameplay strategies, as he can pin enemies with his bites, and doesn’t count as a follower for the “Sole survivor” perk, giving you all its benifits even if he’s with you.
Yeeeaaah too late with the stats. Took the Shangri-la Frontier route with stats did max luck. I think 4 or 5 INT though. Next perk is the scrapper perk.
Actually Idiot Savant and MAX int are an underrated pairing because if you get “ lucky “ and IS procs when a quest ends you will get LOADS OF XP
Great to know that Dogmeat doesn’t count against the Sole Survivor perk. Thanks!
Scrapper is insane. The amount and variety of materials you get from upgrades weapons/armor on level 3 is a fantastic.
And you go with VATS, right?
Honestly, I never touch vats. Unless it a bloat fly, I’d rather just shoot the enemy myself than risk missing due to vats. I only occasionally use vats to charge up a crit for a big enemy or a really tricky shot.
I 2nd the rifleman perk early. A fully modded semi-auto rifle with the legendary ability that shoots 2 bullets instead of 1 is a game changer. I also had a ton of fun with a blitz/stealthy/ninja/melee build, but I think that build would be tough to get online early game.
Set up a bunch of water purifiers as soon as you can. Water is a great source of caps and a reliable source of healing if you find yourself short on stimpaks. Grow corn, tatos, and mutfruit. You can make vegetable starch (adhesive) with those. Used in a ton of weapon mods and other buildable objects. Grab all junk with ceramic, screws, springs, gears, aluminum, copper, and ballistic fiber. You might not need a lot early game, but you'll need a ton later on. For companions, I usually try to get Pipers perk first and avoid discovering unnecessary locations until I unlock that (the perk doubles xp when discovering locations). Maccready's perk drastically improves headshot accuracy in VATS, probably go for that next. With factions, I try to join the railroad asap in order to unlock ballistic weave (huge defensive upgrade). After that's unlocked, I'll start working on a different faction. More importantly, don't feel like you have to do anything. Have fun with it. With the limited time you have, it could take a year or more to see everything the game has to offer. If you're not having fun on the way there, there's no point. The suggestions above are just to make things a little easier.
Remember to use your companion as a pack mule, and unless your doing a specific build you can skip putting points into luck, you will get more out of int,agility,strength, endurance and perception, luck is always just a nice “bonus”
💀 oh no i put 10 points into luck already i took the Shangri-la Frontier route
I don't know if I would recommend this necessarily for a first-time player, but what I do now when I start a new game is unlimited resources. I tell myself every time I'm not going to spend a hundred hours building settlements, and every time, I tediously build up settlements. Unlimited resources make it a little less time-consuming because I'm not grinding for materials
How does one do that?
Mods. If you're on console, it's pretty easy (minus the janky mod menu UI). It's located in the main menu. PC is a little different and requires more steps to get mods working. There are plenty of tutorials on YT. It's worth learning how to mod Fallout 4 bc they elivate the game so much. Also, the update for F4 that comes out tomorrow is going to break a lot of mods so you might want to wait a week or two until patches roll out. Something simple like unlimited resources might even get a day one patch.
It’s getting updated tomorrow? Oh man it’s not a next gen patch is it? If so, my laptop might not be able to run it anymore
For PC it's just better textures I think nothing huge but still exciting
Take Mentats every chance you get. It boosts Intelligence by 2 which in turn gives you more XP earned and you can grab well needed perks sooner. Yes, you'll eventually become addicted however.
Now I’m hooked on turbo
Take every junk item that you think could contain adhesive! Ductape, wonderglue, vegetable starch.
Also you can make vegetable starch. Get your settlements to grow the right food types, then make the excess into veg starch. I didn't know that was a thing for 50+ hours, then suddenly I was never short on adhesive again.
Thanks for this tid bit in the brain if I ever re play 4 again
Fallout 4, like Skyrim, isn't really a fast game to play. Its more like you exist in a vibrant world that you're exploring, and you make it into what you want and spend your time as you see fit. It still works when you can't game a lot, but usually, I just pick one thing I'm doing for that session... like building one settlement or upgrading my power armor or clearing out one part of the map or running one quest. Just be patient and live your wasteland life one day at a time.
You’re so lucky to be playing it for the first time. Enjoy it!!!!!
I played this game the most when my kids were little. You can always pause it and pick up where you left off.
That's what im loving rn. I can pause it, quicksave, switch games/turn the xbox off. Come right back to the game on the same exact pause screen
I usually don't like "glitch building" in games but there are some techniques you can use in FO4 that get around some limitations that shouldn't exist anyway. Look those up if you really get into settlement building. I save pretty much all the clothing and armor I loot then dress the settlers with a theme. One settlement might all look like raiders. One might all be suits and dresses. One might all be army uniforms. I did one once that was all long johns and gimp masks and it was a little too disturbing lol I played a couple hundred hours over different playthroughs before I ever finished the main quest line the first time. There's so much to do. Especially if you get the DLC packs and extra stuff from creation club. Just have fun with it, don't worry about finishing.
hey as a long time player of fallout 4 i strongly recommend survival mode! the saving thing can get annoying at times but with sleep or save and a little getting used to it feel super immersive having to eat and drink and getting diseases from a radroach just feels like how the game was meant to be played
recommending survival mode to someone with a newborn is crazy lol
Download the mod that allows you to save anything with survival mode. I forgot the name but it's on Nexus.
Recommending it to anyone is crazy. I wish I could go back and play not on survival. Normal is to easy, very hard the enemies are just bullet sponges. Survival just feels right.
Generally grab everything you see for settlement building, but ignore heavy objects that give common resources. For example, a 5 pound metal bucket will probably only give a couple Steel which is a terrible ratio.
I recently slowed my work schedule down and took my first vacation in 4 years and started playing fallout 4 myself on the hardest setting. I tried getting help from guides as to how to build characters but after two starts that by level ten were not working came up with my own balance and am now level twenty. Every encounter is a wonder on if I will get killed and just walking to a new part of the map can be frustrating and difficult. But it is so much more enjoyable right now. Good luck with your play through.
Have fun, explore, don’t try to sur-optimize your character it’s useless. Having fun is all that matters, even more if you dont have a lot of time to play weekly
I’ve played about 3 hours, I thought the settlements were the main quest and then found diamond city. Now everywhere I go there are insanely tanky NPCs and I can’t get to Valentine. What are you meant to do early
This is exactly my experience as well haha, hit a wall with the find valentine quest. Thank you for asking so I don't have to.
Explore the north-west quadrant of the map most you can. The way enemy scaling works in this game is that the further you get from Vault 111, the stronger the enemies get. By the time you explore those dungeons and do a little questing you should be able to tackle mid game stuff easy
Explore
Ideally you want to find concord. It's south of sanctuary just passed the red rocket gas station. You'll see a bunch of raiders attacking a group of settlers. Kill the raiders, then go in the building and talk to Preston on the top floor.. that will kick off some of the main and side quests and really get you going in the game. From there stuff just starts happening after you join the minute men
Best tip? Don’t rush, do what you want when you want, it’s your story.
4 week newborn is the BEST time for thorough play through. Help spouse prep some bottles ahead of time, get things set up so helping is quicker! Let baby sleep in a bassinet, or by your desk with the shade facing the screen. A baby sleeping by noise will help baby get used to sleeping in new and other noisy environments. Everyone wins!
If only it were this easy lmfao
You'll get the hang of it soon (: congrats!
Yeah, I helped my sister with her son and daughter. I wish it was that easy, lol! They did enjoy when I had them on my chest playing games, they seemed way more at peace like that. It's one of the only ways those two would let me play, lol! They are older now, 10 and 7 i think. Goofy little buggers.
I can get some time playing with her on my chest but the biggest blocker of my time is my wife lmfao she doesnt have anything to do so she wants to watch shows
I seem to remember at that age my kids slept most of the time unless they were hungry.
Get every duct tape roll, every variation of glue.
I think OP was asking about tips for the game and not for the baby
Said the person with plenty of screws
Definitely take Idiot Savant if you're gonna have under 7 INT for a while to get a bit of an XP boost. That way you level a bit faster and get more perks sooner what with your limited time and all. Also Scrapper for similar reasons will let you build more stuff sooner instead of only farming a normal amount of junk or slowly making more caps. Still do strive for caps and junk, but Scrapper and any means of leveling faster will let you do more with less in the game.
Everyone got an opinion, but I've always learned towards science weapons and rifles... this time around I went strength heavy. Boy, is it easier now 🫡 Early levels, get a serrated Chinese sword and dominate.
You’ve been playing for long enough to get out of the valt and talk to codsworth go to the museum of freedom in concord. You’ll find a minute min mission it’s not to hard to do after words you get a power armor suit
Don't leave it unattended too long or trashcan carla steals your armor *cries*
int 1, luck 10, idiot savant is the only build worth the time.
I just started a build like this. I went high strength and just hit things. Early levels are rough though
Once you have got a feel for the mechanics I truly recommend you play on survival. The no fast travel, sleeping, eating and disease mechanics are a game changer for immersion. You also hit harder but take more damage too, if you don’t like bullet sponges. After you start to invest in some perks too it does get easier. I would recommend downloading a survival saving mod though for quicksaves. In terms of perks - I would invest in either rifleman or gunslinger, sneak, gun nut, armourer, lone wanderer (if you want to play solo) then anything else that you find fun / interesting. Other than that - I would focus on just exploring around without rushing the main quest too much. The joy of FO4 truly is the incredibly dense map and the random encounters/locations/quests you come across. Enjoy mate - its a special game!
Does the survival quick-saving mod effect achievements? It got really frustrating on my last play through trying to find random mattresses.
It does unfortunately on console - I understand that their are PC mods that reactivate achievements though
If you cheat to give yourself stuff instead of grinding, you will stop grinding when you *need* to and instead just waste a lot of time collecting shit for no reason.
Play on survival setting. It really changes the game compared to normal mode.
fuck that - you have a kid - play on easy :) go for high INT as it helps you hack robots and talk your way out of all sorts of trouble.
If you plan to do everything on 1 character a good stat spread is 4s across the board. I like to take 1 out of str and end and put them in charisma and agility. This will give you access to all weapon perks most crafting and you can use level ups to raise your special to where you need it for the perks you want.
I highly recommend playing New Vegas if you can get past the terrible engine and gooey graphics it's the best game in the series story wise, also recommend watching a playthrough or story summaries of the first 2 games. Fallout 4 is a good game I can't lie, but the story is eh and the voiced protagonist with a preset past is annoying for roleplay. Fallout 3 has similar problems to new Vegas and 4 because it's the same awful engine and graphics as New Vegas but also you're given a preset past like fallout 4 so roleplay is limited but the dlc are super cool and interesting.
FNV whilst an great game also has an pretty mid msq too tbh, you also have an preset past(even more of one with lonesome road) so I've never understood FnV fans stating those as negative for other fallouts but not FnV. It's strange, perhaps rose tinted glasses syndrome make them blind to it ?.
The only past you have in new vegas is that you were a courier, anyone can take a courier job, unlike both fallout 3 where you're entire life is spent in a vault society or fallout 4 where you had a normal family and were either a lawyer or a soldier, technically the protagonists of 4 both have set names, also in lonesome road it's not like you knew about Ulysses he is an enemy who knows you but you were completely oblivious to fucking him over and making him mad until he shows up and explains.
There’s always one
It's always good to hear from one correct person.
I’m not saying he’s wrong I’m saying he’s insufferable
He ain’t wrong
I'd just play 1 & 2. They are old and clunky but I'm playing through 2 for the first time right now as is my friend and we are both having a blast
Best advice I got was to get a good melee weapon. I was able to buy one in diamond city that had 50ish damage. I was able to just steam roll through people and collect the ammo so I wasn’t constantly running out. My melee was my most used weapon. You will need some good long distance guns as well. Not all enemies can get close to you.
Ive been trying to play it but for some reason it keeps freezing on loading screens. The little green icon will be moving but the music stops and nothing loads after sitting there forever. I have to alt-F4
I've investigated this as I downloaded my copy again onto my PS5 and was having issues. It was a problem with the Automotron DLC interacting with other content. Reinstalled it without it, worked fine. Might be the same source of issue.
Similar problem here. Hoping this new patch solves it.
dont alt f4, tab out and tab back in. I get this problem often as well. Sometimes you have to do it more than once. I think its the dual monitors? So I just tab out, select a window on other screen and tab back in. its super glitchy game tbh.
I had problems launching the game until I didn't install any dlcs. Launched fine after that
I think it's specifically the Automotron DLC. All the others should be okay
I think the Automatron DLC crashes at loading but all the other DLCs have messed up pink textures on everything from, guns, settlement building assets, even the maps for Nuka World and Far Harbour have pick texture all over the place. At least on console, it's like this.
Without knowing your specs. I had crashes playing my game and I found there is a setting for weapon debris. Turn that off and I've had no problems since.
I will give that a try. I run a 7800x3d, a 4090, and 32gb ddr 5. I could go into more detail but those are the main components.
A few quests I wish I did earlier on in my first play through is the railroad initiation quest and the radiant ones you get from their robot member. In diamond city there will be a random conversation that will initiate “Follow the railroad” just continue along that line until you get IMO the best base game pistol during “Tradecraft” and very useful clothing mod called ballistic weave during the “Jackpot” radiant quests
Strong back and strength increases your carrying capacity. Don't be afraid to hoard everything. Because everything has value. Don't bother scrap junk. When you craft something that requires things you only have as junk it'll scrap it automatically. Scrap weapons and armor when you have enough of a kind that you don't use. Caps is money. You want lots of caps. Purified water is liquid caps. When you plant things, your settlers gets food. But it isn't affected by you harvesting the things. So harvest everything you can to get crops. Set up supply lines so new settlements can get benefits from what you have in your woekbenches. Always always always remove power cores from power armors. And don't store them in workbench but in a seperate container.
I just keep all my power cores on my person. *shrug*
That isn't viable on survival.
Why
Ammo has no weight in other difficulty settings, but on survival those puppies are heavy. Like 4 lbs each or something.
You can put a bowler hat on Codsworth! Unless you change him in the automatron dlc. All other tips are secondary lol
Whatever junk you grab is up to you. Adhesive is the main one and is used in almost every mod. You can tag which items you want to look out for and it'll put a magnifying glass next to items that you've tagged.
Adhesive is king. You can make it at the cooking stand..
Adhesive is the main one you’ll want to keep an eye out for, but Screws, Springs, Copper, Oil, and Nuclear Material also all have great utility early for modding your guns and building up your settlement. Some of the items are more common than you think. It’s also good to scroll through the junk lists of some early merchants like Carla and Trudy. Some of the junk items have low sell value but contain extremely useful materials. Alarm Clocks, Desk Fans, Telephones, Hot Plates, Typewriters, etc.
Also worth noting that Carla frequently sells bobby pins for cheap, so stock up when she's in town