Fallout 4 - 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing (Tips and Tricks)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Given the success of the Fallout TV show, a lot of new people are discovering the Fallout series for the first time. As a longtime Fallout player, I figured now might be a good time to dive back into the games and share some helpful things I learned along the way.
In this video we’re going to explore 10 tips and tricks I wish I knew before playing Fallout 4. So buckle up, grab some iced coffee and let’s dive into the guide.
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0:00 Introduction
0:28 1) How to Get Ballistic Weave
2:10 2) Setting Up Supply Lines Between Settlements
3:30 3) How to Equip Better Gear to Companions
4:43 4) (Some) Companions Can Hack Terminals and Open Locks for You
5:13 5) Use VATS to Locate Hidden Mines / Enemies
5:38 6) Idiot Savant Perk is BUSTED
6:18 7) There's Extra Ammo in Enemy Gun Chambers
7:05 8) Shops and Water Purifiers = Profit
7:44 9) How to Use Console Commands 101
8:53 10) Crafting Stimpaks and Using Chems
10:01 Conclusion
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Another good tip is if you grow mutfruit corn and tatos you can use those ingredients to make adhesive
Absolute 🐐 comment thank you much.
500 hours in fallout 4 and I actually didn’t know this. Tbf I just do the duplication glitch for my settlement supplies, so ig it’s not surprising
LOL, I'd forgotten about the incessant search for adhesives! Thanks for the tip
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Thank you
One more Tip - There is a shower which you construct in a Settlement that removes your radiation completely so you won’t need to waste RadAway if are in a Settlement
Never knew that 😮. Thanks 👍🏻
Another tip,
Companions do have a carry weight. However, if their inventory is full, you can command them to pick-up items and weapons, and they will, with no issue. So you technically DO have infinite storage.
Super underrated comment right here. Likewise, you can store things in a corpse and pick up the corpse to carry it around as a way of dragging things around the wastes!
@Diana2112Gaming I didn't think of that! Thanks for the tip!
@@soraofthemist No worries at all! Fallout 4 is one of my favorite games (I'm an unapologetic Bethesda Fangirl🤣), so I'm happy to spread tips, tricks, and love for it!
@Diana2112Gaming same!!!!! I'm a huge Bethesda fan so I know the feeling! About to (attempt) a fallout 4 "wasteland landlord" video series of settlement building on survival. So all tips and tricks are super helpful haha.
@@soraofthemist Never did much with Settlements, was always more of the Lone Wanderer kind of player. This next play is going to be my first Settlement play actually! Good luck!
My favorite trick for Fallout 4 is farming purified water. A few industrial water purifiers will give you lots of purified water which, in turn, can be used as a form of currency. It's pretty amazing how quickly it works and you can become a "water baron" in no time.
The entire bank of the river at sanctuary is loaded with purifiers! I'm the richest mf in the wasteland and buy more ammo than I could ever use. 😂
I too dabble in industry
I second this method
Just be aware that hoarding food and/or water resources will cause your settlement attack chance to increase drastically, which can be an issue early on (or it might be just what you want for farming legendaries on Survival.)
The game can only check your odds and launch an attack on a given settlement once every 7 days, but the total number of food and water your settlement has is one of the multipliers for attack chance each time the game checks. If you have hundreds or thousands of water, the chance of being attacked when the game performs a check for that resource-rich settlement will eventually reach or exceed 100 percent if you don't have an obscenely high defense value.
Here's the actual formula the game uses, so you can see what I mean:
Attack chance:
(Can only be rolled for a given settlement once every 7 days)
.
Base attack chance is always 2%
[Note that in the following formula "food" means the food production in the workshop stats PLUS food you have stored in Workshop, and the same is true of the term "water," in that it's checking water production + stored water.]
Solve for:
• (Food + water) ÷ 10
• Add 2 (base chance)
Answer = X
(Write down your X value.)
Next:
Solve for:
(Population ÷2) + (defense) = Y
[Write down your Y value]
(X - Y) = percentage chance of being attacked on any settlement's "roll."
Also note that as far as Vanilla Fallout goes, your odds of a check resulting in "attack" cannot go below 2% no matter what you do. 2% is the minimum.
So you can see how having 30k water will _drastically_ increase your attack chances, and require a ludicrous number of turrets to truly keep it in check.
Examples:
If you have a settlement with 20 people, 20 food stored, 20 water stored, and 20 defense, your odds will come out negative, so the game will default to 2%.
However, if that same example settlement had 500 water, its odds of an attack go up to 24% per roll.
If you had 5k water in the example settlement, its odds would be up to 474%, which is functionally 100% per roll.
Just something to be aware of.
[Edit - to better reflect that the terms "food" and "water" each reflect production PLUS stored resources in this formula.]
@@NickC_222 I certainly do have a lot of defense there as well. Good to know that water production counts toward attack chances, not just stored water. But I do regularly pick up and distribute water to every vendor I can.
- Excess food crops (mutfruit, corn, tatos) can be cultivated and turned into Vegetable Starch, which produces the highly sought after Adhesive components for crafting. This is a godsend for when you need to mod/upgrade your gear.
- Unlock the Scrapper perk early, and unlock its highest tier at level 40. The ability to break down unwanted, modded guns into crafting components can be the easiest way to obtain uncommon materials needed to make the upgrades you want on your weapons. A highly modded assault rifle can net you over 20 pieces of Aluminum.
- Hospitals are a great place to find uncommon crafting components through junk (microscopes and biometric scanners, and cafeteria trays). I often check hospitals for aluminum and crystals, as well as some rarer materials.
- Military bases have more automated turrets than other locations, and the scavenged components (Military Targeting Cards) are also something I search for when crafting on settlements and equipment.
- Enemy power armor CAN be acquired for yourself. Either by being a skilled pickpocket and using stealth, or by shooting the fusion core on their back until it breaks. As soon as the core is gone (or forcibly detonates), the enemy will be ejected from their power armor, and it becomes as easy as inserting one of your own cores into the back port to claim it for yourself.
- If you leave power armor inside one of your settlements, it is imperative that all fusion cores should be removed from vacant suits. In the event that your settlements get attacked, the residents will try to claim an available suit in order to protect themselves. If armor pieces break while in their possession, they will end up buried inside of their inventory.
Í ain’t reading all that but I get the gist of what ur saying by reading the first couple sentences
Preston Garvey in a dress killed me😂
> Negative score because Preston hates me.
@@travismcnasty4239 i'd also hate someone who puts me in a dress.
Hey, it suits him
One of my settlements is populated only by people in suspenders 😂. Probably a bit chilly !
Personally for me the tragedy of ballistic weave is that I almost never take off the marine assault outfit or power armor... Nothing beats that tactical marine drip in my opinion.
can’t you use it on the marine wetsuit?
@@thanoschin962Nope
How deep into the railroad do you have to go to get it and can I betray them after and go back to the brotherhood, like is a point of no return situation?
@Mac_8 Not terribly deep, But usually the furthest I go is to get the pistol before wiping them out because they annoy me
@@Mac_8 You need to do the mission with Deacon, and then complete two side quests for PAM. She may not give them right away. You will still be able to betray the Railroad.
I'm glad you pointed out that you should pick Idiot Savant regardless, it's never a waste of points imo
Idiot Savant's sound effect when it procs cracks me up everytime
theres a mod to remove the sound if it gets annoying.
@@LoveProWrestling I dare not ,it's funny everytime
@@LoveProWrestlingplease I need the name of it 😂
Yeah, the random cheering/whooping was very unnerving at first as I had zero clue what caused it and the source. Didn't help I had a video playing on the 2nd monitor and I was confused on which source the cheering came from.
One of things I personally found useful was tagging ingredients you needed so that items with those ingredients show up differently when you search an area. I think it was a magnifying glass. Been a while, but at the time I really found that useful vs just collecting crap or having to remember what items have what ingredients.
That’s 76 my guy
No it's in 4 too
@@sp3psi99buddy, before you spout shi, at least verify you’re right. People like you make the world suck
One of the best features in any fallout game.
Scrapper Rank 2 (INT 5) permits highlighting items in the world for specific components (aluminum, adhesive, gold, fiber optics, etc.)
(1) Ballistic weave - can be put on some hats and lots of the clothes you can then wear under full sets of normal armor. Sets a good base for when you are focused on legendary effects for the rest of your armor rather than its defensive capabilities.
(2) Linking settlements - it can be a REAL pain if the settler you send is the one who is the originator for settlement quests, sending you running all over to find the guy to tell you to go to Backstreet Apparel for the 300th kidnapping rescue. The best way to solve that is to hold off linking settlements until you get the robot workbench and then link them up using Graygarden as a hub (robots tank settler happiness as they are "fixed" at a value of 50 and thus average your rates way down). Robot provisioners not only won't be at risk of being a quest giver, they are easily upgraded into real threats to keep the roads clear of random threats if you have the materials and perks to upgrade them with.
(3) Companion equipment - they consume ammo and usually are not worth it. Strong, however, can be massively improved if you give him a maxed out Rocket Sledge or similar melee weapon with more damage than his normal sledge. A rocket bat for post-synth Curie is worthwhile. Otherwise, there isn't much reason to equip them. You can upgrade Ada, Cogsworth, and pre-synth Curie into super-robots if you wish. That said, equipping settlers can be a huge boon to clearing settlement attacks quickly - especially since they only need one round in their inventory to shoot forever with anything except missiles and nukes, just like enemies. Armor can increase the time they fire before they "sit down" (they can only die if you murder them). Give them your best full autos and fast shooting heavies (miniguns, gatlings, flamers) and they will tear through attacks faster than turrets (you still need the turrets for the defense ratings). If you are using humans to link settlements, definitively give them your spare miniguns and the like to keep roads clear.
(4) Hacking/picking - you can also set up a robot to do one of those for you.
(5) VATS spamming isn't a hint people need. People who play the game either do it by reflex in short order or swear off it completely.
(6) Idiot Savant can, sometimes, give you a huge XP boost if you run it with a full IN build - but if you are running a high IN build (and you always should), you likely are leveling fast enough. It feels great when you hit the lotto on a big quest turn in (and if you are willing to save/reload to cheese those turn ins it can make some big jumps on story quests), you give up XP in the form of level (perks) to get it and the level curve is pretty sharp in the game - meaning that it won't really get you massively higher in level, just get you up there a little bit faster. Also, having it pop is one more annoyance (there are too many pop ups as is, especially for things like critical builds).
(7) Ammo in guns - yup. That one is totally legit and especially useful for things like miniguns with huge magazines.
(7a) Companions as pack mules - all but the dog can be infinite storage if you fill their inventory and then command them to pick up things or check containers you dump things into.
(8) Water purifying - the more excess you build, the more will be dumped into your storage, but you need to clear the workstations of it regularly to get more (you can put it into normal non-linking storage to keep production high). That is also the case for crops and junk if you have settlers producing those. Thus, you shouldn't build junk stations at a place where you store the junk you link to other settlements (Sanctuary, etc). Caging cows for jet production and crops for adhesive production also make for XP farms as well as caps.
(10) If you really care about chems, help the Nuka raiders take over the Commonwealth. Make one max-population settlement with max food production that doesn't have any necessary population members to be the slave-settlement which can feed all of the raider settlements (20 settlers making 120 food will keep all your raider settlements going so long as you don't give the raiders jobs - as the population stops growing at a certain number of slackers). Then you can put chem fridges into your settlements and they produce chems like mad (and you are only limited by how many you can afford the materials to build). Combine them into super chems if you want to use and get XP for a junkies build.
(11) Max your stats to 10 before picking up the Bobble heads if you want base 11 stats. Also, if you take a chem that lowers a maxed stat temporarily that you have at base 10, you can use the SPECIAL book to take that one higher (base 12 with the Bobble) - without duping cheats required for 1 stat.
Nearly 10 years I've been playing this, and I'm only just finding out about supply lines? It's gonna be a game changer.
Fr it took me a few years till I found out too lol
It’s one of the main perk for settlement building, also gotta unlock that in order to get to the stores for settlements
That's LITERALLY what he said in the video clown
Thats super funny because supply lines have been integral to my builds since the start. It really opens up the crafting system. Especially in survival
I hope you learn how to read some day little fella
You can fast travel in power armour without using up the fusion core. A good tactic when reaching a tough area is to quickly fast travel to where your power armour is, get into it, then fast travel back again.
One corollary to that which I recently realized is that once you're in your power armor, any armored clothing you're wearing is effectively 'unequipped', even though it doesn't show up that way in Inventory. That is, it's not counting toward your stats. Placing that stuff in a footlocker before going back to battle / explore, along with any other heavy items you won't need for the excursion, will increase your carrying capacity, especially if you're wearing a lot of heavy body armor. Same goes for any heavy weapons you probably won't need.
@@uzer_zerosmart man
@@uzer_zero Not sure which FO4 you are playing, but when I add the def the PA gives, to what my char has without it, my normal armour definetly counts into it, especialls the radiation withstand.
@@Eysenbeiss I checked this before I posted it, because I thought I'd noticed this previously and it seemed weird, so I wanted to be sure. I'll check again. Maybe it was the specific combat armor I had.
@@Eysenbeiss Might want to re-check your math there, equipped armor and clothing definitely do NOT apply when in PA.
You can have all the perks of lone wanderer with dog meat in your party it doesn’t seem to count dog meat as an actual companion
Who needs Radaway when you can easily build a decontamination shower in your settlement!
Never take any of the seven bobbleheads regarding your stats until you have gotten that particular stat to 10. If you wait, you can then have a base of 11 for every stat. A bobblehead will always raise your special up by one, even if that's that is at 10. If you're playing Survival mode, build a sink or drinking fountain at every settlement. You can always refill any bottle, including baby bottles at that sink. No water purifier needed
There is also a magazine in one of the vaults that let's you put up one stat of your choosing.
It’s good you’re making these now I hope your channel blows up again like it did with mass effect
the fact that the railroad is the only faction that has ballistic armor always confused me... not only is it the best way to get the highest none power armor, armor rating in the game but it should have been in every faction... I mean common the BoS is literally military why wouldn't they have it
Because factions like BoS just wear regular armor. Railroad developet balistic armor so they can blend in better. Armor is pretty revealing when you're pretending to be a trader.
@@ichduersiees4908 Exactly. It's a spy thing. The BoS doesn't need armor camouflaged as regular clothes, wherever they go, people _know_ it's the BoS.
I think it’s less a problem with the Railroad and more a problem with the other factions. The Minutemen and Brotherhood should have had quests to upgrade their equipment with a master armorer wastelander or their own respective people. Somebody had to make the pre existing laser muskets recently and somebody is making more as the minutemen expand. Talking to that person to make different weapons would have been cool. And don’t even get me started on how the Institute had almost nothing to offer weaponry wise despite being the most technologically advanced faction.
@@jacehackworth6413 that computerized toaster oven shaped laser rifle is the worst
@@joshuastender4871 I wonder who thought it would be a good idea make the one and only Institute weapon be a functional reskin of the laser rifle but worse, worse looking, and with less customization while taking up EVEN MORE of your fov, when there were so few guns. I think it’s even more insulting than the “assault rifle.”
Best advice i can give for the supply lines, do the Mechanist missions to unlock the Mechanist Lair as a settlement, u cant plant crops nor place water extractors but u can make that the central hub & instead of sending people from ur settlements to the Lair, build robots (assualtron is best imo as they are quick & can defend themselves well) & send those robots to all the settlements. Also makes it so when u go around to all ur settlements u can collect all the junk, water & food from their workbenches & drop it all in the Lairs so ur settlements continue producing without capping out.
The characters that are assigned to travel are immortal and speed doesn't matter, so just make the cheapest bot.
u r ryt plz kp on kpng on
@@ducite9943 not true! I found One of my traveler bots body parts while traveling between settlements. Maybe that applies to humans but not the robots
@Oldcasualgamer404 interesting yeah I guess maybe it does only apply for bots
@@ducite9943 since bot mortality was already covered, speed was moreso for while they're in the lair to prevent traffic jams since they take the longest possible route through the lair to the exit. I've tried with protectron legs but they always get backlogged in the halls & lag the game
I love making robots to run my supply lines. They make for some crazy fights to walk up on out in the world.
Like watching a tricked out Assaultron absolutely eviscerate a group of gunners.
New players! Battered fedora can be ballistic "weaved?" And it's a godsend along with extra resistance, plus it's +1 luck attribute.
Trillby hat and newsboy cap are also moddable with ballistic weave.
I love that your character's name is Big Mongo. Reminds me of Blazing saddles.
"Come on Mongo, your a free man!"
"Mongo stay with Sherriff Bart. Sheriff first man who ever whipped Mongo. Mongo impressed...have deep feelings for Bart.
Easy Bart, looks like Mongo has taken a fancy to you.
"Mongo only pawn in the game of life."
I recently started following your page when I had my Mass Effeect journey last month, and now im playing Fallout 4. 😎 Great tips, never knew about the ballistic weave.
Railroad has all the best rewards: ballistic weave, Deliverer, railroad stealth boy, Deacon and his companion perk.
Also they get vertibirds later.
In my latest run, I already had about then normal stealth boys, before I even ran into the Railroad ...
If you’re gonna mention companions carrying your extra gear, you might also mention that they can carry an essentially unlimited amount weight-wise. Once they cannot hold any more when you trade with them, simply direct them to pick up stuff from the ground, same as you would have them pick a lock or whatever. You can do this as many times as you like. I usually wait until I’m encumbered, then drop all the heavy stuff I’m carrying like weapons or large stacks of heavy scrapped stuff such as steel, and then tell them to pick it up. There is a limit, I think it’s based on number of items, not weight, but they can carry way more weight than you’d expect. Won’t work with Dogmeat, but any human-ish companion can do it.
This was a great video - super helpful content with no filler. Hope the algorithm treats you well.
When it comes to supply lines, I have found one configuration that works for me is the following;
- finish the Automatron DLC first
- set up the robot work bench in Gray Garden and using that and the one in the Mechanist lair, make all the supply caravans there.
- use Gray Garden to supply all settlements on the west side of the map, and the Mechanist lair for all the ones on the east side. Make sure to have both connect to Taffington Boathouse so they share between each other.
- this creates two hubs and because you are using droids, you can equip them with heavy weapons and armor very easily. Without cheating or using an exploit, you are limited to the max number of settlers per settlement. Using this means creating a lot of robots, which would impact the happiness rating of the settlements...except for the two I use here, as they already have robots present.
Good luck.
I will be doing this. Thanks.
I wish I knew there wasn’t a way to kill Preston Garvey before playing lol.
Mods are your friend
Preston really is the Jacobb Taylor of this game!
@manofwarb who is Jacob Taylor?
@@knightscross3716 the vent god.
He's the most boring companion in the whole Mass Effect franchise. He only serves as being chosen as a tech specialist in Mass Effect 2 as it is the only good choice forward.
I send Tali or Legion. I forget about Jacob as much as possible. @@kims4149
These are all great tips that I've also learned from many play throughs. I'd like to add that setting up supply lines is fantastic! Setting up as many shops and vendors is an awesome way to make money later in the game. After you have your settlements in place, just check your building thingies for caps. I average about 2000 a game week.
I really appreciate this channel so much! I just started playing this weekend, been having troubles because im stuck on the Fort Hagen Kellog missions 😅
Big Dan your mass effect videos made my experience so much better I watched almost all your ME content now that I’m getting into fallout I KNOW ILL BE GOING BACK AND WATCHING ALL YOUR OLD STUFF YOUR THE BEST MAN 🖤💪🏼
Best stealth weapon ever, the operative. I usually just do railroad for that gun alone. Then later for weave maybe lol.
Do you mean the Deliverer? Reward for Carrington Prototype mission?
@whimsy0451 yes! Omg it's been a long time, can't believe I forgot the name. Love that gun, and has the goldeneye 64 pp7 silencer sound.
@@yukiokami8380 I agree! I always head straight to Old North Church after Concord and Diamond City to grab it.
Probably the most unknown yet basic thing is that power armour cancels out your equipped gear so having crazy defenses or effects is pointless and in instead is better to just go all in on charisma regular gear so you can hop out at vendors and towns for better prices and dialogue options
Back with a new playthrough and having a blast! Very helpful video. I feel like I'm doing a lot better than in my previous playthroughs. Also i didnt know the idiot savant perk also works with high intelligence, thought I couldn't get much use out of it since my character has rather high intelligence.
I’ve got like 250+ hours on fallout 4 and didn’t know supply lines til now
Great vid. I'm going to re-install this old classic. Subbed
Here’s another hot tip, Scrapper is goated. Need screws? Take a gun you got off some random dude and break it down for screws, steel, and gears. You can break down armor too with it. Good way to get junk if you’re selling water for caps, so you don’t have to sell random people’s equipment
Edit: also if you don’t have gun nut for whatever reason you can get upgrades for you guns by taking random guns with upgrades and giving them base upgrades. This will give you whatever part that gun had and you can slot it into your real gun. So if you find a 10mm with a suppressor and you want it, give that gun a base muzzle and put the suppressor on your gun. You can get pretty much every upgrade this way, though it’ll be slower then just upgrading it yourself
Knowing nothing is, imo, the best way to play any FO game. It's not like it's Satisfactory where if you don't play efficiently it could take the rest of your life to get through a playthrough.
Agree... the first time through. After that, I think it's a matter of personal taste. Some folks find a game's replayability in discovering new things, including sussing out the game's mechanics and then organically discovering the most efficient strategies. I think such people also love solving complex puzzles. I'm not one of those - I'm among the others who find it fun to do subsequent playthroughs in the most efficient way possible. ;-)
First time I played Fallout, I barely touched the vats ability. I didn't see the point as the accuracy was random and the damage wasn't any better.
Once I learned it was a cheap way to detect enemies, npc's, mines, grenades and a way to zoom in on distant enemies, I feel like I spam it every few seconds even just to detect others now.
A tip I have never seen is putt up a couple off scavenging stations early in sanctuary(and if you have settlements with people not working) they can net you a lot of junk and allow you to ignore a lot of worries about resources. An additional thing, if you are going to be doing a lot off weapon mods make sure you pick up bones to make cutting fluid too make oil gathering easier. Also mutfruit corn and tatos with that purified water that becomes an endless resource that you won't know what to do with to make endless adhesive. Biggest thing I have figured out is don't have 5 intelligence, if you pick up idiot savant it is the slowest levelling possible and if you are going a high intelligence build every point above 10 drastically increases the chance off idiot savant due to the chance of it triggering is the same as if it was 10. Also even if you don't want too put a lot of work into settlements pick up local leader, set up a couple with very good water and food generation then just make some with like 10 scavenging stations and have infinite of pretty much every crafting resource. Last thing for new players that I have to say is scrounger is the third best perk in the game behind idiot savant and damage perks, best income generation perk and it gives you plenty of ammo to remove that worry quite early.
Any economical perk can be denied by 1 point in Science! perk, just farm purified water on Sanctuary and sell to vendors. Buying stuff is easier and less time consuming.
Instead of linking each settlement to the next, I used to just link all of them to Sanctuary. There'd be a horde of brahmin all trying to occupy the same point in space waiting for me whenever I headed back to Sanctuary to repair my power armor, grab water, etc. Shit was jokes.
Nick Valentine looks badass in Power Armor.
Ive got Carla wearing cage armour. Not my choice. I left the core in the armour and she helped herself. Does look badass though 😂
Adding on from the first tip about Ballistic Weave: If you want to still wear regular armour with your Ballistic Weave clothing, you have to be mindful of what you decide to put Ballistic Weave on as only about 4 or 5 outfits still let you wear all 5 armour pieces on top of it. You can also double-up on your Ballistic Weave stats by putting Ballistic Weave on a hat as well.
Also, the random location chosen for Mercer Safehouse that you must do in order to get Ballistic Weave is actually level dependent, so if you want an easier location then do the first few Railroad quests at a lower level. No one really wants to deal with Outpost Zimonja or the Lighthouse, let's be honest!
If you are on PC and playing with mods, dont update
why
@@youngmeachnsgit deletes your mods and you have to find them again and there is a bug with one of the mods that breaks your save if you have it.
It's doesn't effect mods though
Lol people are full of shit I have 20 more mods including sim settlements not even broken people cry like Barby MY MODZ BROKEN BOUHOUHOU okay do you know what mod exactly? See how they NEVER respond or tell what mod GFY
@@TOXIC5757what the fuck are you talking about good lord 😭
If all the supply lines connect to at least one other connected settlement in the chain you can get materials, they don't need to get connected to a central hub settlement.
Thanks Dan, timed just right😊
Great starting weapon: Spray 'n' Pray.
Available from Cricket, best place to find her is just outside Vault 81 (Wait if she's not there)
That’s my favorite weapon
@@TheSlave57 pile on the perks and a giant ammo drum and go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
For those looking to grab it - it runs about 2500 caps depending on your CHR and other perks.
@Blippitybloppitybloop It's the only way I got the Eyes on the Prize Nuka World achievement. You didn't even have to aim at the ducks to hit them 😂
Finally got around to playing last night & did some testing, resource dup & cap dup glitches both still work
Great vid. New to Fallout and playing F4 for the first time now. Love the game but my biggest issue was ammo scarcity and making money I feel like a noob lol. And the robot merchant at Diamond City has such little money to fruitfully trade with. I gotta find others 😂 Looting guns to auto recieve ammo was a helpful tip !
C'mon, Dan!! For this game, we should grab a Nuka cola, not iced coffee!!
You should also get The Endless weapon too it doesn't require reloads. Still needs ammo but no reloads makes a difference in fights
Eh only good for very large groups. Bleed is the best legendary effect because it stacks up and cant be resisted.
@@ducite9943 On one run I managed to get a wounding pipe pistol. You know I modded that thing to auto and largest ammo capacity ASAP. That thing was OP as hell and MELTED everything. Plus, the .38 ammo is VERY easy to come by.
@@cybercifrado well that sounds broken. I assume you put on rapid auto rather than trying to power it up
@@ducite9943 But of course! I think for pipe weapons the max capacity is 48 rounds? So, even before ballistic damage, you're looking at a stack of 48x 25 bleed damage if you mag dump. Add to that bonuses from silenced weapons and such... I rarely if ever had to use the entire mag on a single target. >:)
@cybercifrado that's insane I mean I shredded a mirelurk queen with a wounding double barrel which can get off way less shots
How do I still didn't know about extra ammo tip?
Thanks for the view of Preston in evening dress)
So Wise , Thank You for the reminder
Glad to see your a fallout fan BigDanGaming 😎💯
Nice video. I do everything through console commands.. unlocking ballistic weave and so on
In my survival playthrough, I started with 10 in endurance so I can get the solar powered perk. At higher levels you can flush out RADS and regenerate HP
man, i just picked up FO4 on xbox. I remember when it came out I just got to the first settlement part and quit it. However played FO3 a lot on PC back in the day. It was so much easier to control, but kicking back on the couch is too good with a controller.
Use a multiple companion mod, having 3 or 4 troops around makes you feel like a general moving with the Minutemen
The biggest pita with that is they tend to get in the way in tight quarters. I usually use the Sentinel pa, dog meat & whatever companion I'm trying to boost affinity with & they always seem to be in the way
@@ostmen_draugrI have a mod that helps with that, it makes them have a knock back affect like Skyrim when you sprint into them. Bruh I found a mod where I can use spawn beacons to spawn people in, so I've been calling a virtibird in, and when it arrives I'll spawn 10 minute men to assault somewhere plus 3 or 4 followers. It's looks like a warzone and I also have a few combat realism mods so you gotta stay in cover constantly and 10 men don't last too long, I have another mod so the birds can get shot down and if I lose all of my men or need more I don't spawn more unless the bird touches down safely. No fast travel so only Virtibird assaults
@@wfr878 they make such great pack mules though
Garvey in a dress is absolute nightmare fuel
Ballistic weave can be applied to some headwear too. With just the armored clothes and hat you get over 200 armor against both physical and energy damage.
So what happens when you are sick? I have never cared about that😂😂
My best tip is make sure you have charisma boosting gear in your inventory. Enough to boost it to 11 is preferable (if possible). This can help with buying and selling prices but also pass dialogue checks that you really want to pass.
Avoid cheating with the console commands or cheating in my best way to play without making the game trivial and burn out
The explorer outfit you get from Rex is +3 charisma. Best outfit, lightweight, I always do Trinity tower as early as possible so I can always have it with me
@@OldJabbaJaws that, black rimmed glasses for +1, and the dapper gentleman hat from far harbor for +2 means you can carry +6 everywhere. Some beer for another +1 (+7 total) means you can start with 3 cha for lone wanderer and get the bobble head and be set for +11 dialogue choices haha
@@SirEliteGrunt Just want to add for people reading that grape mentats also give a +5 charisma boost so it's also very handy for specific hard to pass charisma checks or those very expensive weapons.
Boosting with gear to a base of 11 is also because top end for buying/selling is 16 (boosted with grape mentats). Prices don't get any better at 17+. Once you have more base charisma and perks like cap collector, that value will go down so you no longer need to carry as many pieces of charisma gear or use grape mentats for large purchases anymore.
I think the vats strategy to locate enemies is also very helpful when playing survival. When at lower levels especially. otherwise getting from place to place feels impossible sometimes.
Stimpaks and Radaway can be expensive and it is sometimes more cost effective to travel to diamond city and have the doctor heal you then to use either of them.
My *_TOP TIPS_* (especially _Survival Mode_ )--->
--> _Codsworth_ is available as a companion without first needing to free *Preston* . Simply enter _Concord_ far enough that Preston and the Raiders start fighting, return to Sanctuary, and he can be hired. Taking him along to free *Preston* can give some _affinity boosts_ . _Codsworth_ will give you a Purified Water on a continual basis just by talking with him, making him a solid companion for _Survival Players_ .
--> *_Need Caps?_* Stop at nearby *Abernathy Farm* , under the Power Pylon. Grab the 9 Melons, then speak with the daughter _Lucy_ . Keep picking the top dialogue choice about caps as currency. This will trigger an Easy speech check, and she will offer to buy Melons for 5 caps instead of 3. She can buy every Melon you have, on an ongoing basis, which can be lucrative if you turn Sanctuary into a Melon farm. However, if you make the Farm a settlement, she stops buying them.
--> *_Survival Players_* , besides planting *Tato* , *Mutfruit* and *Corn* for _Adhesive_ , plant *Razorgrain* . Cook *1 Razorgrain /1 Dirty Water* to make rad-free _Noodle Cups_ . They lower thirst one level, and hunger half a level. Check wandering vendor _Trashcan Carla_ and _Trudy at Drumlin Diner_ , South of Concord. Or find randomly as loot.
--> *_Weapon and Armor modifications_* can be _stripped and swapped_ onto your better gear. You can _remove armor mods_ for free, but you will have to _build a new gun mod_ from components. Even without Gun Nut, you can build the base level gun mod, which will put the previously attached modification into your inventory, and put onto your new hotness.
--> _Survival Players_ should build *15 more water supply than they have settlers* , minimum. Take out the water from the Workshop *every day* , and store it separately in another container. New Purified Water will be added every day *_if_* there’s little to no water already in the workshop. If you build a large enough water purification operation, a huge amount can get added daily. Use this for your travels, or stockpile, and sell the surplus.
--> _Survival Mode_ features *Diseases* , acquired numerous ways. You can take *Antibiotics* , visit a *Doctor* , or *wait* until they go away eventually. Each disease has _different durations_ , lasting from *2-7 days* . The most debilitating are _Weakness_ (receive +20% damage), and _Infection_ (take damage over time, though it won’t kill you, will leave you with a sliver of health). These two diseases take *2.5 days* to go away. Find something safe to do, like decorating Sanctuary, or sleep it off. Sleeping causes a _disease check_ , so you might get sick again, but anything is better than Weakness or Infection. *Early game* , when resources are tight, you might be better off saving Antibiotics just in case for the debilitating diseases, and living with the others until they go away.
-->Want to play _Survival Mode_ , but aren’t sure what starting SPECIAL to use? I’ve found the first 10-12 levels to be the hardest, and it’s worth going for strong combat skills first, and then flesh out your build.
*Melee Builds* , get _Rooted_ (STR9) and _Blitz_ (AGI9) immediately. *9,1,4,3,1,9,1* _(Book END)_ .
*VATS Guns* get _Penetrator_ (PER9) and _Concentrated Fire_ (PER10). *1,9,3,3,3,7,2* _(Book AGI)_ . You’ll get the *Perception Bobblehead* when you free Preston, so have a point saved, and put into Concentrated Fire mid-rescue.
--> _Survival Mode_ players should seriously consider not using Power Armor. _Swimming_ is Survival’s Fast Travel. You’ll get around much faster and safer. *_Aquaboy/girl perk_* will save you a ton of time! Without spoiling, the game gives you a quick means of crossing the map as you do the main story, if you dabble with the *Brotherhood of Steel* .
--> _New Players_ : *Idiot Savant* isn’t a good choice for first timers. Enemies scale with you. You need to have good gear to survive, and easy and fast XP can leave you without enough time to explore and find good gear before the bad guys start hitting even harder. *You’ll get plenty of levels, faster than you think, even at 1 INT* . Growing powerful isn’t only a matter of levels. Having 1 INT will give you plenty of time to find what you need to survive. *You’ll be stronger if you have great gear when you pop your next level*. Take it easy, don’t rush, go slow, and you’ll be better for it.
--> _Pass every speech check_ with *11 CHR* , 100%! Low CHR builds, don’t fret: assemble a 3-piece _CHR set of clothes_ . *Hat/glasses/suit* , for _+4_ . Most *Alcohol* adds _+1_ . Find *Daytripper* _+3_ . Better yet, craft *Grape Mentats* at a Chemistry Station _+5_ . There’s other ways, but with these, that’s a +13 buff already.
*Bonus!* Your companion will come to your side and stay there if you crouch.
Didnt know disease would go away in time! Im the type to immediately cure any debuffs though so In early game I tend to scout out Covenant or that Ghoul Doctor near Sunshine tidings.
Also Aquaboy is so slept on. I cant tell you how useful it is in survival. Water is probably the number one source of rads.
Why would I want Codsworth, if I can have dogmeat?
Enemies are cell bound, player level is secondary and also, higher level means higher perks, which give better weapons and those are always better, even when enemies get bigger too.
Especially if you build a sniper char, you invest into VATS and headshot them from distance, making their level obsolete.
Idiot savant makes too many annoying noises, and it's not good if you like customizing weapons, armor, etc. Still, it's great if you don't want to focus on that stuff.
Imagine if we could put power armor on Dogmeat 💀
Snowball from rick and morty 😂
Thanks for the tip to pick up weapons to gain extra ammo. I never knew that.
I set up Starlight Drive in as a Hub for Provisioners.
Just need a couple farmers and a water purifier in the center.
You cac build mule bots, when you unlock robot's crafting station. Good way for clearing easier places and bring tons of loot to settlement, especially in survival mode.
I just lugged a bunch of supplies to the drive in. Now I know about the supply lines 🙃
I seem to remember equipping my supply caravan NPCs with super heavy weapons. If I remember correctly you could give them the nuke launcher and one mini nuke and they would be wandering the wasteland destroying anything that took a shot at them. I also went overboard zigzagging trade routes all over the place so I'd always had backup close by.
That's true, I used to give them all upgraded miniguns +1 5mm ammo and they mowed down almost everything. But then the wasteland got quiet....
Bro that settlement tip is good sent bro 👌👌👌
Congrats on your channel success! I've been subscribed since 10k and to see you at 170k and to see how much progress you've made is awesome. Keep it up!
#1 - Ballistic Weave is obscene. At the final level (Mk. 5; Armorer 4) you can get 110 ballistic/energy armor on a clothing item and some hats. So, 220 before adding any actual armor. If you're playing a stealth build - this is just amazing. #7 - Arcjet is often used by players to "farm" fusion cells (laser weapon ammo) as the synths are near-infinite so long as you stay out of the room and let Danse play with them. Main issue is that depending on your machine, the game starts deleting corpses to free up RAM. #11 - Caltrops are often overlooked and underrated. They act as mines and are a great way to eliminate smaller, annoying enemies (mirelurk hatchlings, for example). Just be sure to clean up after yourself - I had Preston go from liking me to hating me because he ran across a field of them. :(
The synths don't come back to Arcjet after you destroy them. I did come back to open a few safes and loot other stuff I didn't pick up the first time I was there.
Right on time replaying the game as a adult and actually reading things now 😂
I always play with a huge amount of mods, so I can't tell which one cause it, but I never ever played the Rail Road as far to get the Ballistic weave, yet I have it in every single playtrough since the start.
you can give settlers different weapons and give them just 1 round of ammo and it will last forever, it used to work con companions as well but i dont know if the companion part has been patched
Bro he literally explained it in the video 3:53
Yes the companion part was patched long ago but there is a mod to give them unlimited ammo
Are we just gonna ignore the synth stub haymakering the power suit in the intro?? Man got rocked by 1/4th of an arm!
Dude big Dan digging you character look.
I started a new playthrough on Xbox and didn’t realize my VATS glitched now I’m about 8 hours in and since I don’t have console commands I just won’t get to use VATS for the rest of my playthrough unless I make a new game.
You can have virtually unlimited carry capacity as long as you have a companion (whom isn't Dogmeat). I found out that, despite your companion having a full inventory, they will still pick things up if you tell them to. You do this by engaging with them at a distance so that a target cursor appears, and then you can tell them to do something (go somewhere, sit/interact with something, etc.). You can also tell them to pick up items/loot bodies, and they will do so despite being over-encumbered themselves. Piper likely has thousands of pounds worth of inventory on her for me and is a walking inventory through which I can make a killing when I make my rounds on merchants!
1:31 you cannot apply ballistic weave to any clothing item. There are also glitched items that apply and some good items that just don’t allow it. That being said, it’s still nice.
You can start commanding your companion from a distance, just hold the interact button with the reticle on them.
One of my settlements was under attack and one of the settlers took my Fatman and started nuking everything 🤣
Another thing for the chems, you can use a perk I forgot which one, but you can use it to completely get rid of chem addictions without having to see a doctor or anything like that.
What about robot companions? I haven't really looked or tried to upgrade Ada, but what are some good parts for her?
It is not enough to remove the fusion core from your power armor to prevent npc's from "stealing" them. I found Trashcan Carla in one of power armors and I couldn't get her out of it. Trashcan Carla sometimes sell fusion cores and she will use them to enter your power armors.
My sulotion was to park my power armors in my private house and lock the doors using console commands (click door/container and write "lock 1")... also place your power armors a bit away from the outer walls (npc's can reach through walls). But I don't think it's 100% safe since npc's can spawn inside your house when you return to the "cell". I also lock my personal containers so npc's don't take weapons/fusion cores from my personal weapons locker.
Console commands can't be used in survival mode.
Theres a fishing factory near the museum of witchcraft in Salem in the northeast of the map that has conveyor lines of hundreds of aluminium trays
This game is just as fun to play than it was the first time I started it, love it
About the ammo from weapons too, do i have to "unload" the gun somehow? Or does the ammo just appear in my inventory by picking up the weapon?
It just appears. Go into the game and watch your ammo count before looting a pipe pistol, for example. Your count of .38 will instantly reflect the increase.
If you do a save before commanding a follower to unlock a door/terminal, if they fail just reload the save and try again until they succeed.
Funny, I began a new play-through on an old laptop after the last one I got the fans bearings crapped out (new tech is buggy and has poor quality). On it I had installed Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Skyrim SSE. They’re all having functional mods working. Since it’s running the Win 8.1, I don’t connect it to the internet for obvious reasons. It’s a perfect time capsule of games I love.
So I’ve begun a new run. Playing on Survival-difficulty: hunger, thirst, sleep, diseases, fatigue, and no fast travel.
Edit. The perfect tip - unlimited cargo capacity on your companions, point at them and use the ‘E’-key, point them towards containers, props/loot etc. If you only use point and loot, their inventory becomes infinite storage.
1. Companion can be overloadedby giving them a command to grab the loot. Very useful as long as you can't fasttravel when overloaded. 2.If you have some settlements: Build this Brahmin drinking tub. Brahmins in the settlement produce fertilizer. Fertilizer can be used to produce explosives and drugs. Drugs in mass production (Jet) grant XP when produced and a readily available exchange good for expensive goods at the merchant.
3. use the dismantle perk and get lots of resources by dismantling loot weapons.
Addendum 4. With Dogmeat you can get the Kryoweapon in the Vault 111 immediatly. Go to the Weapon, talk with Dogmeat and let him search for Weapons. He will find the Kryolator and pick this in his inventory
Tip number one is important for new players. I am a veteran player and my first BOS play through I missed out on this and without spoilers am unable to achieve ballistic weave anymore
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also my best tip: if you want tons of caps make water purifiers in sanctuaries river and the castles ocean and sell the water you make you'll get rich quick.
Don't forget to periodically remove the water from your workshop storage and into a container if you're not going to sell it right away. There is a limit on your workshop and it won't gain any more units of purified water if you've met it.
It usually stops gaining water at around 400 units for me.
I didn’t know about the ammo in the weapons
One tip that people miss is that this game is so much better on console. Specifically ps4/ps5. As long as you have a good size screen. sitting back in a recliner and enjoying the theatrics of this game is next level!
If you want to arm your settlers with the best equipment in the game, you only need to give one unit, same with grenades. So I farm 999 water on Sanctuary Hills doing industrial water purifiers and medium generators, you need 1 point on Science! perk (sanctuary can be empty and will still generate purified water for you, max selling price per unit is 16), build weapons dealer level 3 and I buy all automatic plasma rifles from the vendor. Settlers can have infinite ammo if it's not missile or mini nukes, their accuracy to hit enemies are based on weapon's accuracy (weapons with long scope is more accurate than stock weapons).
So my settler's load out will be:
x1 automatic plasma rifle (preferably with scope) + x1 plasma cartridge + x1 plasma grenade, make sure to press T to equip for him (if they're provisioners, doing supply lines I try to give spike/cage armor, because he will walk between 2 settlements, if the enemy is too strong the supply line will be cut and the provisioner will stay on the ground the same way as a companion does when he's low HP).
At the start you don't have plasma weapons so try to give automatic weapons, more shots = more chances to land shots = more damage on invaders.
There's 4 items in the game that is essential to farm until late game: aluminum, nuclear material and the 2 fiber (fiberglass and fiber optics):
Aluminum: essential to upgrade mid/late weapons, fix your power armor, etc (TV dinner tray, surgical tray, cake pan all gives +3 when scrapping, aluminum can +2, aluminum canister +2).
Nuclear material: make powerful generators and late game weapon improvements (wood blast game +1, biometric scanner +2, radioactive gland +2).
Fiberglass: late game weapon improvements and laser turrets (Rat poison +2, abraxo industrial grade +2, telephone +2, aluminum canister +2)
Fiber Optics: late game weapon improvements and laser turrets (Microscope +1, biometric scanner +1)
This will cover settlement management, what kind of junk is rare and good in mid/late game so you can farm since the start and hidden mechanics on settlers, hope it helps your journey on the Commonwealth.
Big thing about Idiot Savant, don't max the perk out. When you max it out it changes the XP bonus from 5X on anything to 3x ONLY on kills within a short period of time, removing the 5x from everything that isn't a kill.
The way it reads to me is that whenever you get the 5x bonus xp, you also then get 3x xp for kills for a short amount of time.
An extra effect, rather than an effect that overwrites the previous.
@@munky342this is correct, whenever the random xp bonus occurs with the perk maxed out, it will always be 5x, with an additional 3x effect on any kills within 60 seconds of receiving the random bonus. The 3x bonus for kills is independent of the 5x bonus, meaning the 5x bonus is only applied to random selected action that gained xp, and the 3x bonus is only applied to kills performed within 60 seconds of the randomly selected action
@@jblizzyy Yes but still not really worth the perk point.
@@jblizzyyIs it 60 seconds real world time? Will jet allow you to extend it?
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Hey Dan I just started playing fallout 4 a few days ago. Never played one before but i figured I should give it a shot cause I’ve always liked the idea and I liked the show. I have a question, are you limited to the amount of factions you can join? I’ve joined BoS and Minutemen so far. Is it going to be a problem to join the railroad guys too?
There is certain quests where it will lock you out of the other factions but you can get all of the good things and the companions from every faction before reaching this point.
The most 'complete' faction setup is keeping the railroad, BoS & Minutemen alive while destroying the Institute. That's the only way to have 3 factions surviving I am aware of. It's a bit fiddly on where you have to jump questlines and how to handle Danse's quest so best to look for a guide. Not sure how these interact with the raider faction in the DLC though.
@@kevak1236 pump the brakes there on spoilers haha. I wasn’t so concerned about endings. I was more concerned about getting locked out of quests because this faction doesn’t like that faction. I’ve only made it past the memory palace before you go to the glowing sea and since then I’ve just been exploring and doing side stuff and joined the railroad too