Got to take it slow, quiet, and very tactical as the smallest mistake will set you back a mile. I was deep in the glowing sea doing a mission and I underestimated how many fusion cores I needed. I ditched my power armor in a truck stop so I could come back for it. Radiation was too much and my supplies were so low. Nothing I could do to make it out of there, even if the death claw didn't get me in the end.
I rage quit after I was about to finally beat the goal I wanted and my molatov fucking triggered on nothing and blew up in my face killing me, and basically I always die on the return journey after looting
1. Decontamination Arch, if you have the DLCs, will solve all your rad issues. Fibre Optics is the only scarce item at the start of the game 2. Make a sink/water fountain & bed at every settlement 3. Water generators in Sanctuary for caps and stockpiling pure water (no bottles needed) 4. Lone Wanderer gives you increased carry weight (+50/+100) and damage for two perk points and just 3 Charisma 5. Adrenaline isn't worth it, save as often as possible 6. There is no shame in retreating and coming back or completely avoiding an area, and dont start any fight unless you have to or know what you're getting into. Most of my deaths have come from triggering some unseen foes (ghouls, molerats) or getting a Molotov thrown at me while reloading, so avoidance is advised most times 7. Ammo can be scarce, even with the Scrounger perk, so carry two or three weapons that use different ammo types (e.g. 10mm, .45, .308)
You can get in a safe quick save when you sleep on non settlement bed for an instant. Once the area is clear sleep on a mattress, or sleeping bag and instantly cancel the sleep, preventing the chance of getting any sickness from a place that could get you sick if you slept for a period of time. And there you have a better chance of not having to die and do everything you’ve done since you last settlement save.
This is a life saver! However i seemed to notice that it fatigue you quicker than usual. I think the game acts as if the hour passes by but time doesnt actually change (adding fatigue as if you were just standing there but saving like you slept)
It does always bug me a little bit when I find stimpacks on dead bodies, but none of them, EVER have water on them :)) You'd think considering how fast you become Parched, they'd be carrying some water on them at all times.
Fair point, but all of them, all the time? I understand where you're going, and it makes sense, but considering how fast you become parched, odds are they should have died of thirst long before stumbling upon travellers to attack.
@@StefaNonsense oh thanks for the reply. The first comment i said was more of a joke with probably a little truth to it. I mean its probably also the reason why settlements get attacked aswell
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@@StefaNonsense Maybe they all died of thirst instead of battle? :D
I say it is best to get a decent long range rifle/weapon with a fairly decent DPS and scope. That way, if you see or hear a commotion in the distance, you can look with your scope to see if the encounter/fight will be worth it or not. Then, just get in some stealth shots. I use to be rather careless in normal plays and just run headlong into any encounter and barrage the targets with bullets. But on survival, it actually makes you slow down and consider the risk/reward of each encounter/fight and wither or not it is worth it. I end up finding myself avoiding certain fights all together if I can when playing survival mode.
Having the Wasteland Workshop DLC installed allows me to build a Decontamination Arch in my settlements as soon as I have the raw materials (copper, aluminum, circuitry, fiber optics and rubber) and the materials for a little generator. Setting up one ASAP in all my settlements has virtually eliminated the need to take radaway unless I get blasted by a gamma gun). I can also eat the processed foods and/or grown fruits and vegetables (if I run short of cooked meat) since I know I can clear the rads every time I stop in at one of my settlements to sleep in a good bed. I also make sure each settlement can produce at little more water than setters and I clear out the workshop on any accumulated purified water placed there whenever i go there to sleep. I grow mutfruit and razorgrain in my settlements. Mutfruit is light (0.1) and filling and relatively low in rads (if you have lead belly, it will not give you a single rad). Razorgrain is used to make noodle cups (along with dirty water, which is what I use mot of my empty bottles for). Noodle cups will satiate both hunger and thirst at the same time.
Do you have to go through the Workshop DLC 'mission' thing in order to get the Decontamination Arch? Because I don't think I have that in my list of buildings I can make.
No. I'm playing through my first time and I haven't completed any of the DLC yet. I have started Automatron a couple of times, but I've had trouble with game-breaking bugs forcing a restart of the playthrough... likely due to the very poor/unstable internet connection I have.
Addendum - Not sure though if my son having played it through on my Xbox might have unlocked it for me. For me, it's the last item under Power - Miscellaneous.
I must've simply thought it was some sort of decorative doorway or something then, because I had no idea this thing existed. Thank you for the comment, I feel I need to make a separate video with only food-related tips and tricks :) But I've been taking a break from the game because *sigh* after the latest Windows updates, it randomly crashes, and in Survival Mode it's extra annoying - I've ran through the final part of the Machinist quest line, twice already and the game crashed while I was doing it.
Go for it. BTW, videos offering survival tips is a really great idea and your video quality is top-notch. Would love to see more videos from you along these lines.
The only tips I have for everyone are the following: 1 - Prioritize Endurance and Intelligence. Doing so means faster level ups and not dying in a few shots. 2 - Don't waste on Hacker perk when Valentine is accessible at virtually the start of the game. 3 - Save your bottles for filling with Pure Water at your pumps and fountains in different buildings. Thirst is the biggest enemy in survival. 4 - Cook A LOT not simply because hunger, but because of experience. Salvage all forms of meat for this reason. 5 - Save your Jets and your Psychos to craft Psycho Jets. It's Jet on crack (no pun intended) and again, experience for crafting. 6 - Unless you have the Nuka World DLC, sell all Nuka Cola and Nuka Cherry, but keep your Quantums because it's the only viable Cola for healing. 7 - SAVE ALL STIMPACKS for emergency use only. 8 - Place at least a single bed at every settlement so you have frequent reliable save points in multiple areas.
@@ChewyChops I put most of my points into endurance and agility with enough in charisma to get lone wonderer. Everything else is solved with drugs, including speech checks.
THANK YOU!!, i was planning to play survival to actually take in the game for what it really is im starting today so wish me luck! This video really helped me out and understand what i need to do early on
Very much so, but it also depends on whether or not you're willing to use the various exploits in the comments here. I wasn't because I wanted a more role-play-y experience.
Survival difficulty is like a totally different game played on your old stomping grounds. My old stomping grounds are in a constant state of CRASH so Survival is not possible for me since the newest game update.
I have heard about that, and while it is unfortunate, it's not unexpected. Give it some more time till it stabilises. I haven't played F4 since the making of this video - and pivoted my channel into much older stuff - so I have no tips to help with that.
Cheers mate, just about to venture on my own first survival mode soon. This is the only video I've found that actually explains some of the things I'll expect to see playing, while also suggesting how to combat that. You got a thumbs up from me 👍🏻
Also, another added tip about the whole "Revisiting past areas" is that loot/enemies do regenerate and respawn. So, after clearing out an area of targets and loot...after waiting enough time, the enemies and loot will respawn, usually to match your level. So, going back to old areas you cleaned out at a lower level once you have hit a higher level can result in better loot respawns.
A good tip I have for all it’s when you get to a place to farm, first kill all creatures and then when all it’s killed you can begin to lot, for some cases I have lost 1 hour lotting some place so i will die in the last creature os the building, if you kill Everything first it will safe you to much time, because no Risk to die and lost the progress and you already know the build to farm.
Stef: Don't eat the old packaged food, you'll get rads and catch diseases. Me: eat it anyway, decontamination arch to clear rads, doctor vendor to clear illnesses, game crash 3 minutes later and lose 2 hours of progress
I speak for every survival veteran when I say that survival is easy! I am currently working on a new survival character who is around level 39 and I havent spend a single skill point into any damage pirks. No sneaking either. My tip for people struggling, get Armorer 4 and Gun Nut 4, if possible also Science 4. Over 1000 defence from power armor coupled with the 40% damage reduction between Lone Wanderer and Attack Dog, add Bufftats and Psychobuff for extra endurance and max health, then with Part Boy 2 you can add even more Max Hp on top of all the other buffs. I think I had around 550Hp at one time before level 40. If I purchase Nerd Rage and once I get all three ranks of Life Giver I will essentially never die.
Fair enough, you may be right if you approach survival mode as an extra difficulty level to the game, and you wish to "beat" the game, sure. But what if one doesn't want to min/max or exploit the game - there are several comments that make use of in-game items and various tricks to get around issues - and instead use survival mode to actually role-play survival in the Fallout universe?
@@StefaNonsense I view it as perk efficiency. Where I lose out on some perks I gain through in world items and craftables. This current characters way of living in this world is by being hard to kill in every situation. If the institute can have an underground lab with a teleporter, then I can have a suit of armor and access to all of the experimental drugs I want. Sounds like I am living fairly accurately within the fallout universe, given that I woke up out of a cryo sleep chamber after 200 years. The build just so happens to combat a good majority of the survival hardships. It is a comfort build. If I intended to min max I would have capped out damage many levels ago. I do not believe that what I have created takes from the overall experiance necessarily, and neither does it take from other playstyles. I feel every build needs some way to combat survival in some way. Your videos points included. I merely created an option.
@@slish438 That's very valid and you are right, within the gameworld of Fallout 4 you can use whatever it is that the developers supply you with. I just prefer a more average-human approach - it's me being weird and very much into the more walking sim survival challenge of being in the world of Fallout w/o using power armor and other likewise outrageous shit - even if it is within my power to do so. I like the idea of playing RPGs as the gaming equivalent of an average NPC, not a protagonist :)
My tip: Treat survival like a real apocalypse. - Spoilers Below - I was doing the Vault 81 mission, and I had to avoid getting bitten by the infected mole rats. One bite could get me infected permanently, and then I would have to use the only cure, but a child (Austin) needed that cure as well, and would die without it. I shot through probably 30 of these damn things, restarting every time I got bitten. It was the most intense Fallout 4 gameplay I have ever had. And I got bitten by the LAST one. Needless to say, I was pissed. But I just took the cure for myself, to the dismay of the vault's residents. It taught me this: The wasteland in survival mode is just as it would be in real life: Brutal. You have to be selfish to survive. You can't always take the moral high ground without real consequences like you can in normal mode.
1) Once you have built enough water purifiers to generate a surplus, use those empty bottles for Dirty Water at any outdoor water source. You will need that for Noodle Cups, a lightweight food that satisfies both hunger and thirst. Melons do that too, but they're too heavy, and they give a few rads. Save melons for settlement food. 2) Upgrade your armor pieces with the Pocketed modification for more carry weight - except for the torso, where you want to use Asbestos so you don't die in a fire.
@@reaper67309 The lone wanderer perk raises your carry by 100 and you take a lot less damage when traveling alone. Also you can have dogmeat with you. He doesn't effect lone wanderer perk
@@kurtstapleton3953 Companions can carry infinate as long as you tell them to pick it up. Just tell them to look the heavy stuff, and you'll have plenty of loot.
If they are not expecting you then they are fairly easy one shot kills. Otherwise some are sponges and some are not. I'm not bashful about running away and coming back from a different direction to try again for that one shot.
I am going for a stealth sniper build, my build was really stupid and not well thought out on the bright side when sneaking and hitting a snipe it was able to one shot legendary opponents the issues are: 1. My character is so weak it usually breaks a leg after recieving one shot from a mercanary (I am level 7 though) 2. The sniper I got was the Reba 2 and it took me forever to reach Salem for it on the account of legendary mongrels, Raiders, Radscorpions, Mirelurk Hunters, Deathclaws, Supermutants, Mr.gutsys, Assaultrons, legendary ghouls, MK 4 Turrets and Stingwing Darters. 3. I CAN'T INSTALL SUPRESSORS ON THEM YET, so what i have is one single one shot snipe snd then my cover is blown. I have no idea how I am gonna level up to make this build useful.
I haven't gone back to F4 since I made this video - I went back to New Vegas, you can find my deep dive series on it on the channel - but I'm sure there are lots of videos out there that might help :)
Wow I figured out all of these tips after the first 20 minutes of playing the game. I want my eight minutes back not because I need them but on a matter of principle
You are one of the few that can figure them out. Most players want to be spoon fed with the information. Most videos seldom teach me anything new. Except mods. I'm not into mods so I don't even try learning anything about them.
When I start survival I always scrap everything in sanctuary and build 3 water purifiers in the river with a 3 Kw generator for each that makes it EASY for the rest of the game. Free purified water
Oof, It's been years since I've played F4 and can't remember, I think at the beginning I focused on the ones that improved survival, not combat - since I was playing in survival mode.
Not sure if you were still looking for an answer, but I prefer End, Int, and Chr. All 3 make survival mode more manageable. Charisma for settlement buffs. You’re going to need supply lines with low carry weight. Intelligence for the perks, gun but etc. and I chose endurance because there’s actually a lot of utility yseful for survival.
I didn’t save for a few hours as a “lucky” legendary raider turned a corner and shot a missile at me. Killing us both. Had to re-find some items, a bobble head and lost a couple levels. Annoyed, to say the least.
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1ST EMPTY BOTTLES ARE BASICALLY USELESS. Soon as you leave the vault you get a settlment, which you can build a water pump in the water, that since will produce 10 waters, any water essess over citizens gets placed into your workbench. So if you build 3, which yes you have the materials in sanc todo so, you get inf clean water. Also you get so much you can simply sell them to quickly get all traders caps. You'll be getting about 50 water an hour. with 3 or 4 pumps easy. 2nd No the more dangerious does not = the most useful food. Death Claw meat for example gives 1 agility where as a harmless rag gives +25 carry weight. 3rd Aqua boy is a must have, as traveling in water is twice as fast as sprinting and pretty much 90% safe. 4th you don't need a bed to save, if you exit to desktop it creates an Exit save. 5th Use the mod rise of the common wealth to set your settlements to auto build while your adventuring your settlement will build its self up, so you get to enjoy the change when you get back thus helping keep the game instersting without actually changing the balance of gameplay within the game. This is basically the only type of mods I put in my games. Pilgrim is also a great addition to add better graphics and immersion, And there is also some weather mods that help surival goto the next level.
Hey man, thanks for watching and for the very informative comment! 1. I had no idea you can do that with settlement water. Collecting the empty bottles just seemed to be very flavorful and roleplay-ish :) 2. I give the exact same example during the video, as well as squirrel stew. 3. Never thought about that, would be interesting for an aqua build, at the very the least. 4. True, but if I exit the game, chances are I'm not jumping back in. 5. Thanks a bunch for the mod tips. I don't play with mods so I have no suggestions there :D
the most useful thing i can add to yours is ADA as a companion...she can carry a lot of junk by default and when you upgrade her she can carry the whole Commonwealth on her back :) i love ADA hahaahha
hey friend,please tell me how long i need to wait/sleep for the world the respawn enemys and loot...i am now level 42 and nothing has respawned except the random encounters...i need crafting materials but ive picked clean everything and i need more because yesterday i found full set of X-01 power armor in the millitary chechpoint next to andrews station...i was so excited to find it there so early..ive played hard mode yhousands of hours and now in survival i found it there..full set x01 :) so how the respawning works???in hard mode everything respawns very often for all my characters..they are 100+ level but here in survival is different...and in normal mode i dont sleep.
When you build a bed, it needs to be clean. Using anything else leaves you open to attack from whatever diseases a previous user had. I learned that the hard way.
But is that fun for you? Because if it is, then go for it. That wouldn't be fun for me. Taking advantage of any sort of glitch or exploit isn't my interest when playing in Survival mode. I'm not trying to beat the game - and use every tool available to do it - I'm simply enjoying the role playing aspect of the mode, much like I would do in a tabletop setting where you have to take into account things like carry weight, hunger, thirst and other environmental effects.
@@StefaNonsense I usually only use glitches and exploits if I am doing a wacky playthrough or if I am trying to set up a specific character with certain stats and items I could not get otherwise.
Understandable 🙂 I think my record of 7 minutes is by constantly running and with maxed AGI🏃♂️➡️. I don't think I left the surroundings around Sanctuary till like level 8 tbh🤺.
@@StefaNonsense Your "T's" sound like "D's" (very Indian) & the general rising & falling of your voice brings to mind that of Indian shopkeepers. The way you say "necessary" at 2:35. I'm not judging though! I moved to France recently & I've no doubt I sound completely retarded to the locals with my English accent. Thanks for the very informative video & no spoilers of any kind. I am currently about to start my first play through of this game & I want to know the rules of survival mode, without knowing any of the plot or too much about the world/enemies/missions.
Go for it and have fun - also stick around the channel, I'll be covering Fallout: New Vegas soon ;) If you read through the comments on this video you'll find some other tips although some of them are what I would call a bit too "exploity". I prefer to actually role play in Role Playing Games, hence I limit myself to what reasonably makes sense to do :)
@@StefaNonsense Yes, I am a fan of role playing in these games too. Fallout 4's survival mode has infinitely more scope for this than Skyrim SE (even with mods) which is what I'm used to. I won't even take certain perks if I feel they're too "unrealistic"!
I'm pretty sure you're right about that! However, I really like achievement hunting, so can't run any mods for the time being :) But I have seen at least two of them that improve and add to the realistic/survival experience. One which adds in seasons and another one that makes nighttime realistically dark.
I do plan on running through the game with mods at a certain point, but unfortunately, my desktop has been dead for quite awhile now and it will be some time till i get around to fixing it :) Combined with being busy with uni, I might get to playing it with mods close to when Fallout 5 will be released, because I have such a huge backlog of indie games to play and review for the channel :)) Thanks for watching and for the mod suggestions!
@@StefaNonsense if you're playing on pc. theres a mod that enables achievements while having mods because bethesda is trash. ive used it for skyrim and FO4 now and cant live without it.
I did it with no deaths be waiting 4 the 6 game if there is 1 sens fuck up of 76 killed off this game see less the 1oo likes to the 1000s id on any thing this b 4 that 76 shit
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“7 minutes from Sanctuary to Diamond City” it took me 6 hours in my survival game before i actually got there
Initially yes :)) It takes about 7 minutes at full sprint with max AGI and perks, if you don't meet anything :))
It took me a few days before I got there too
I'm on my 15th hour of gameplay, no Diamond City on sight for me u.u
I made it by lvl 8 but I also had max int and Idiot savant and with rng I was almost lvl 10 by the time I got there
Damn 😂 I made it there right off the rip, I just was very calculated in how I went there avoiding as much as possible then ran the rest of the way lol
Got to take it slow, quiet, and very tactical as the smallest mistake will set you back a mile. I was deep in the glowing sea doing a mission and I underestimated how many fusion cores I needed. I ditched my power armor in a truck stop so I could come back for it. Radiation was too much and my supplies were so low. Nothing I could do to make it out of there, even if the death claw didn't get me in the end.
I rage quit after I was about to finally beat the goal I wanted and my molatov fucking triggered on nothing and blew up in my face killing me, and basically I always die on the return journey after looting
Sounds intense.
1. Decontamination Arch, if you have the DLCs, will solve all your rad issues. Fibre Optics is the only scarce item at the start of the game
2. Make a sink/water fountain & bed at every settlement
3. Water generators in Sanctuary for caps and stockpiling pure water (no bottles needed)
4. Lone Wanderer gives you increased carry weight (+50/+100) and damage for two perk points and just 3 Charisma
5. Adrenaline isn't worth it, save as often as possible
6. There is no shame in retreating and coming back or completely avoiding an area, and dont start any fight unless you have to or know what you're getting into. Most of my deaths have come from triggering some unseen foes (ghouls, molerats) or getting a Molotov thrown at me while reloading, so avoidance is advised most times
7. Ammo can be scarce, even with the Scrounger perk, so carry two or three weapons that use different ammo types (e.g. 10mm, .45, .308)
You can get in a safe quick save when you sleep on non settlement bed for an instant. Once the area is clear sleep on a mattress, or sleeping bag and instantly cancel the sleep, preventing the chance of getting any sickness from a place that could get you sick if you slept for a period of time. And there you have a better chance of not having to die and do everything you’ve done since you last settlement save.
This is a life saver! However i seemed to notice that it fatigue you quicker than usual. I think the game acts as if the hour passes by but time doesnt actually change (adding fatigue as if you were just standing there but saving like you slept)
It does not skip the disease check and yes it does act like an hour has passed. But it is still a good technique.
Purified water is the only healing item I need :D better than stimpacks since its freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
It does always bug me a little bit when I find stimpacks on dead bodies, but none of them, EVER have water on them :)) You'd think considering how fast you become Parched, they'd be carrying some water on them at all times.
@@StefaNonsense they drank it all and attacking you for yours?
Fair point, but all of them, all the time? I understand where you're going, and it makes sense, but considering how fast you become parched, odds are they should have died of thirst long before stumbling upon travellers to attack.
@@StefaNonsense oh thanks for the reply. The first comment i said was more of a joke with probably a little truth to it. I mean its probably also the reason why settlements get attacked aswell
@@StefaNonsense Maybe they all died of thirst instead of battle? :D
Sneak attacks are your friend.. the extra damage you do saves you a TON of unnecessary damage and waste of resources
Oh, absolutely. And stealth goes very well with Survival Mode, for sure!
I say it is best to get a decent long range rifle/weapon with a fairly decent DPS and scope. That way, if you see or hear a commotion in the distance, you can look with your scope to see if the encounter/fight will be worth it or not. Then, just get in some stealth shots. I use to be rather careless in normal plays and just run headlong into any encounter and barrage the targets with bullets. But on survival, it actually makes you slow down and consider the risk/reward of each encounter/fight and wither or not it is worth it. I end up finding myself avoiding certain fights all together if I can when playing survival mode.
Having the Wasteland Workshop DLC installed allows me to build a Decontamination Arch in my settlements as soon as I have the raw materials (copper, aluminum, circuitry, fiber optics and rubber) and the materials for a little generator. Setting up one ASAP in all my settlements has virtually eliminated the need to take radaway unless I get blasted by a gamma gun). I can also eat the processed foods and/or grown fruits and vegetables (if I run short of cooked meat) since I know I can clear the rads every time I stop in at one of my settlements to sleep in a good bed.
I also make sure each settlement can produce at little more water than setters and I clear out the workshop on any accumulated purified water placed there whenever i go there to sleep. I grow mutfruit and razorgrain in my settlements. Mutfruit is light (0.1) and filling and relatively low in rads (if you have lead belly, it will not give you a single rad). Razorgrain is used to make noodle cups (along with dirty water, which is what I use mot of my empty bottles for). Noodle cups will satiate both hunger and thirst at the same time.
Do you have to go through the Workshop DLC 'mission' thing in order to get the Decontamination Arch? Because I don't think I have that in my list of buildings I can make.
No. I'm playing through my first time and I haven't completed any of the DLC yet. I have started Automatron a couple of times, but I've had trouble with game-breaking bugs forcing a restart of the playthrough... likely due to the very poor/unstable internet connection I have.
Addendum - Not sure though if my son having played it through on my Xbox might have unlocked it for me. For me, it's the last item under Power - Miscellaneous.
I must've simply thought it was some sort of decorative doorway or something then, because I had no idea this thing existed. Thank you for the comment, I feel I need to make a separate video with only food-related tips and tricks :)
But I've been taking a break from the game because *sigh* after the latest Windows updates, it randomly crashes, and in Survival Mode it's extra annoying - I've ran through the final part of the Machinist quest line, twice already and the game crashed while I was doing it.
Go for it. BTW, videos offering survival tips is a really great idea and your video quality is top-notch. Would love to see more videos from you along these lines.
The only tips I have for everyone are the following:
1 - Prioritize Endurance and Intelligence. Doing so means faster level ups and not dying in a few shots.
2 - Don't waste on Hacker perk when Valentine is accessible at virtually the start of the game.
3 - Save your bottles for filling with Pure Water at your pumps and fountains in different buildings. Thirst is the biggest enemy in survival.
4 - Cook A LOT not simply because hunger, but because of experience. Salvage all forms of meat for this reason.
5 - Save your Jets and your Psychos to craft Psycho Jets. It's Jet on crack (no pun intended) and again, experience for crafting.
6 - Unless you have the Nuka World DLC, sell all Nuka Cola and Nuka Cherry, but keep your Quantums because it's the only viable Cola for healing.
7 - SAVE ALL STIMPACKS for emergency use only.
8 - Place at least a single bed at every settlement so you have frequent reliable save points in multiple areas.
Thanks. I was wondering why I kept getting 1 shot. My endurance was at 2
@@rb83 Max health is based on endurance stat.
i made a character with 1 intelligence, fml
@@ChewyChops I put most of my points into endurance and agility with enough in charisma to get lone wonderer. Everything else is solved with drugs, including speech checks.
THANK YOU!!, i was planning to play survival to actually take in the game for what it really is im starting today so wish me luck! This video really helped me out and understand what i need to do early on
Glad to hear that!
Survival mode seems like it changes every way you approach the game. I think I will try it as I’ve played so much of the game not in survival mode
Very much so, but it also depends on whether or not you're willing to use the various exploits in the comments here. I wasn't because I wanted a more role-play-y experience.
Survival difficulty is like a totally different game played on your old stomping grounds. My old stomping grounds are in a constant state of CRASH so Survival is not possible for me since the newest game update.
I have heard about that, and while it is unfortunate, it's not unexpected. Give it some more time till it stabilises. I haven't played F4 since the making of this video - and pivoted my channel into much older stuff - so I have no tips to help with that.
Cheers mate, just about to venture on my own first survival mode soon. This is the only video I've found that actually explains some of the things I'll expect to see playing, while also suggesting how to combat that. You got a thumbs up from me 👍🏻
I'm glad you both found the video and enjoyed it!
Also, another added tip about the whole "Revisiting past areas" is that loot/enemies do regenerate and respawn. So, after clearing out an area of targets and loot...after waiting enough time, the enemies and loot will respawn, usually to match your level. So, going back to old areas you cleaned out at a lower level once you have hit a higher level can result in better loot respawns.
Once you play on survival mode you can’t even go back
Until a parked car gets you one too many times.
A good tip I have for all it’s when you get to a place to farm, first kill all creatures and then when all it’s killed you can begin to lot, for some cases I have lost 1 hour lotting some place so i will die in the last creature os the building, if you kill Everything first it will safe you to much time, because no Risk to die and lost the progress and you already know the build to farm.
Stef: Don't eat the old packaged food, you'll get rads and catch diseases.
Me: eat it anyway, decontamination arch to clear rads, doctor vendor to clear illnesses, game crash 3 minutes later and lose 2 hours of progress
Welp, I tried to warn you! :))
@@StefaNonsense Todd Howardium isn't listed in the ingredients, last time i checked.
Holy geez, don't give him any ideas :))
Fallout 4 on survival is basically the Dark Souls of Fallout games
I think/hope there are mods out there that make it even more soulslike in difficulty :)
I believe Fallout 4 survival mode (as a beginner for me) is harder than Dark souls type of game 🤣
I speak for every survival veteran when I say that survival is easy! I am currently working on a new survival character who is around level 39 and I havent spend a single skill point into any damage pirks. No sneaking either. My tip for people struggling, get Armorer 4 and Gun Nut 4, if possible also Science 4. Over 1000 defence from power armor coupled with the 40% damage reduction between Lone Wanderer and Attack Dog, add Bufftats and Psychobuff for extra endurance and max health, then with Part Boy 2 you can add even more Max Hp on top of all the other buffs. I think I had around 550Hp at one time before level 40. If I purchase Nerd Rage and once I get all three ranks of Life Giver I will essentially never die.
Fair enough, you may be right if you approach survival mode as an extra difficulty level to the game, and you wish to "beat" the game, sure. But what if one doesn't want to min/max or exploit the game - there are several comments that make use of in-game items and various tricks to get around issues - and instead use survival mode to actually role-play survival in the Fallout universe?
@@StefaNonsense I view it as perk efficiency. Where I lose out on some perks I gain through in world items and craftables. This current characters way of living in this world is by being hard to kill in every situation. If the institute can have an underground lab with a teleporter, then I can have a suit of armor and access to all of the experimental drugs I want. Sounds like I am living fairly accurately within the fallout universe, given that I woke up out of a cryo sleep chamber after 200 years. The build just so happens to combat a good majority of the survival hardships. It is a comfort build. If I intended to min max I would have capped out damage many levels ago. I do not believe that what I have created takes from the overall experiance necessarily, and neither does it take from other playstyles. I feel every build needs some way to combat survival in some way. Your videos points included. I merely created an option.
@@slish438 That's very valid and you are right, within the gameworld of Fallout 4 you can use whatever it is that the developers supply you with. I just prefer a more average-human approach - it's me being weird and very much into the more walking sim survival challenge of being in the world of Fallout w/o using power armor and other likewise outrageous shit - even if it is within my power to do so. I like the idea of playing RPGs as the gaming equivalent of an average NPC, not a protagonist :)
stimpacks also cause thirst, so Purified Water is a need.
Same with booze.
Absolutely!
Coffee I'm handling Survival Mode very well
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My tip: Treat survival like a real apocalypse.
- Spoilers Below -
I was doing the Vault 81 mission, and I had to avoid getting bitten by the infected mole rats. One bite could get me infected permanently, and then I would have to use the only cure, but a child (Austin) needed that cure as well, and would die without it. I shot through probably 30 of these damn things, restarting every time I got bitten. It was the most intense Fallout 4 gameplay I have ever had. And I got bitten by the LAST one. Needless to say, I was pissed. But I just took the cure for myself, to the dismay of the vault's residents.
It taught me this: The wasteland in survival mode is just as it would be in real life: Brutal. You have to be selfish to survive. You can't always take the moral high ground without real consequences like you can in normal mode.
But from now on everyone in Vault 81 will hate you, so going there for any reason is not good feeling.
1) Once you have built enough water purifiers to generate a surplus, use those empty bottles for Dirty Water at any outdoor water source. You will need that for Noodle Cups, a lightweight food that satisfies both hunger and thirst. Melons do that too, but they're too heavy, and they give a few rads. Save melons for settlement food.
2) Upgrade your armor pieces with the Pocketed modification for more carry weight - except for the torso, where you want to use Asbestos so you don't die in a fire.
If you like to loot consider lone wander + strong back
Do they let you carry more than just having a companion?
@@reaper67309 The lone wanderer perk raises your carry by 100 and you take a lot less damage when traveling alone. Also you can have dogmeat with you. He doesn't effect lone wanderer perk
@@kurtstapleton3953 Companions can carry infinate as long as you tell them to pick it up. Just tell them to look the heavy stuff, and you'll have plenty of loot.
I usually make my way allllll the way back to sanctuary where ever I am XD
Same lmao
Oh you've made me feel so much better about the amount of times I have pushed daisies
I'm glad I helped :)
just bought the goty edition, are enemies still bullet sponges after the updates?
I'm guessing... no(?) I've never felt them to be bullet spongy, but your results may vary :)
levels matter, resistances matter...That should answer most of the damage in-game /difficulty level
@ I'm just not a big fan of health bars in games most of the time
If they are not expecting you then they are fairly easy one shot kills. Otherwise some are sponges and some are not. I'm not bashful about running away and coming back from a different direction to try again for that one shot.
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I am going for a stealth sniper build, my build was really stupid and not well thought out on the bright side when sneaking and hitting a snipe it was able to one shot legendary opponents the issues are: 1. My character is so weak it usually breaks a leg after recieving one shot from a mercanary (I am level 7 though)
2. The sniper I got was the Reba 2 and it took me forever to reach Salem for it on the account of legendary mongrels, Raiders, Radscorpions, Mirelurk Hunters, Deathclaws, Supermutants, Mr.gutsys, Assaultrons, legendary ghouls, MK 4 Turrets and Stingwing Darters.
3. I CAN'T INSTALL SUPRESSORS ON THEM YET, so what i have is one single one shot snipe snd then my cover is blown.
I have no idea how I am gonna level up to make this build useful.
:)) Craft stuff and choose your battles till you gain more XP :)
@@StefaNonsense yeah I am stuck at level 10 and I only get the suppresor at level 13 fo you know any really easy quests I could do?
I haven't gone back to F4 since I made this video - I went back to New Vegas, you can find my deep dive series on it on the channel - but I'm sure there are lots of videos out there that might help :)
@@StefaNonsense Alright thanks a lot for the help.
You can buy weapons with suppressors from vendors all over the map. I would Google it if you can't find any.
Wow I figured out all of these tips after the first 20 minutes of playing the game. I want my eight minutes back not because I need them but on a matter of principle
NEVOOOORRRR!!!!
You are one of the few that can figure them out. Most players want to be spoon fed with the information. Most videos seldom teach me anything new. Except mods. I'm not into mods so I don't even try learning anything about them.
When I start survival I always scrap everything in sanctuary and build 3 water purifiers in the river with a 3 Kw generator for each that makes it EASY for the rest of the game. Free purified water
In Sanctuary.
I make sure I can get pure water at each settlement.
What perks do you prefer? Like first 10 levels
Oof, It's been years since I've played F4 and can't remember, I think at the beginning I focused on the ones that improved survival, not combat - since I was playing in survival mode.
Not sure if you were still looking for an answer, but I prefer End, Int, and Chr. All 3 make survival mode more manageable. Charisma for settlement buffs. You’re going to need supply lines with low carry weight. Intelligence for the perks, gun but etc. and I chose endurance because there’s actually a lot of utility yseful for survival.
I have camping mod kinda cheating but super useful for saving on the fly
I didn’t save for a few hours as a “lucky” legendary raider turned a corner and shot a missile at me. Killing us both. Had to re-find some items, a bobble head and lost a couple levels. Annoyed, to say the least.
Sucks, man.
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1ST EMPTY BOTTLES ARE BASICALLY USELESS. Soon as you leave the vault you get a settlment, which you can build a water pump in the water, that since will produce 10 waters, any water essess over citizens gets placed into your workbench. So if you build 3, which yes you have the materials in sanc todo so, you get inf clean water. Also you get so much you can simply sell them to quickly get all traders caps. You'll be getting about 50 water an hour. with 3 or 4 pumps easy.
2nd No the more dangerious does not = the most useful food. Death Claw meat for example gives 1 agility where as a harmless rag gives +25 carry weight.
3rd Aqua boy is a must have, as traveling in water is twice as fast as sprinting and pretty much 90% safe.
4th you don't need a bed to save, if you exit to desktop it creates an Exit save.
5th Use the mod rise of the common wealth to set your settlements to auto build while your adventuring your settlement will build its self up, so you get to enjoy the change when you get back thus helping keep the game instersting without actually changing the balance of gameplay within the game. This is basically the only type of mods I put in my games. Pilgrim is also a great addition to add better graphics and immersion, And there is also some weather mods that help surival goto the next level.
Hey man, thanks for watching and for the very informative comment!
1. I had no idea you can do that with settlement water. Collecting the empty bottles just seemed to be very flavorful and roleplay-ish :)
2. I give the exact same example during the video, as well as squirrel stew.
3. Never thought about that, would be interesting for an aqua build, at the very the least.
4. True, but if I exit the game, chances are I'm not jumping back in.
5. Thanks a bunch for the mod tips. I don't play with mods so I have no suggestions there :D
the most useful thing i can add to yours is ADA as a companion...she can carry a lot of junk by default and when you upgrade her she can carry the whole Commonwealth on her back :) i love ADA hahaahha
hey friend,please tell me how long i need to wait/sleep for the world the respawn enemys and loot...i am now level 42 and nothing has respawned except the random encounters...i need crafting materials but ive picked clean everything and i need more because yesterday i found full set of X-01 power armor in the millitary chechpoint next to andrews station...i was so excited to find it there so early..ive played hard mode yhousands of hours and now in survival i found it there..full set x01 :) so how the respawning works???in hard mode everything respawns very often for all my characters..they are 100+ level but here in survival is different...and in normal mode i dont sleep.
When you build a bed, it needs to be clean. Using anything else leaves you open to attack from whatever diseases a previous user had. I learned that the hard way.
I usually use the resource duplication glitch to get most of my stuff
But is that fun for you? Because if it is, then go for it. That wouldn't be fun for me. Taking advantage of any sort of glitch or exploit isn't my interest when playing in Survival mode. I'm not trying to beat the game - and use every tool available to do it - I'm simply enjoying the role playing aspect of the mode, much like I would do in a tabletop setting where you have to take into account things like carry weight, hunger, thirst and other environmental effects.
@@StefaNonsense I usually only use glitches and exploits if I am doing a wacky playthrough or if I am trying to set up a specific character with certain stats and items I could not get otherwise.
Yeah, because running around in the game picking up random loot is too much like playing the game, and no one wants that.
good vid
Thanks, man!
Two words:Noodle cup
One word: Tasty! Thanks for watching :D
bruh i reached DIAMOND city level 4,after spending 3 hours and countless death
Understandable 🙂 I think my record of 7 minutes is by constantly running and with maxed AGI🏃♂️➡️. I don't think I left the surroundings around Sanctuary till like level 8 tbh🤺.
Is your accent eastern European or Indian? Or a bit of both!
:)) It's fairly Eastern European, but I'm curious where you got Indian from?
@@StefaNonsense Your "T's" sound like "D's" (very Indian) & the general rising & falling of your voice brings to mind that of Indian shopkeepers. The way you say "necessary" at 2:35.
I'm not judging though! I moved to France recently & I've no doubt I sound completely retarded to the locals with my English accent.
Thanks for the very informative video & no spoilers of any kind. I am currently about to start my first play through of this game & I want to know the rules of survival mode, without knowing any of the plot or too much about the world/enemies/missions.
Go for it and have fun - also stick around the channel, I'll be covering Fallout: New Vegas soon ;) If you read through the comments on this video you'll find some other tips although some of them are what I would call a bit too "exploity". I prefer to actually role play in Role Playing Games, hence I limit myself to what reasonably makes sense to do :)
@@StefaNonsense Yes, I am a fan of role playing in these games too. Fallout 4's survival mode has infinitely more scope for this than Skyrim SE (even with mods) which is what I'm used to. I won't even take certain perks if I feel they're too "unrealistic"!
God bless!
24y good
Lol the texture quality is so crap for some reason.
Unfortunately I can't run the high res texture pack. It's only on Ultra.
I'm pretty sure you're right about that! However, I really like achievement hunting, so can't run any mods for the time being :) But I have seen at least two of them that improve and add to the realistic/survival experience. One which adds in seasons and another one that makes nighttime realistically dark.
I do plan on running through the game with mods at a certain point, but unfortunately, my desktop has been dead for quite awhile now and it will be some time till i get around to fixing it :) Combined with being busy with uni, I might get to playing it with mods close to when Fallout 5 will be released, because I have such a huge backlog of indie games to play and review for the channel :)) Thanks for watching and for the mod suggestions!
Thanks! Make sure to stick around, you might find some other interesting things through my backlog or in the future :)
@@StefaNonsense if you're playing on pc. theres a mod that enables achievements while having mods because bethesda is trash. ive used it for skyrim and FO4 now and cant live without it.
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I did it with no deaths be waiting 4 the 6 game if there is 1 sens fuck up of 76 killed off this game see less the 1oo likes to the 1000s id on any thing this b 4 that 76 shit