If you don't have good lockpick (and hacking), then what happens is you might find a safe that you can't pick, then you leave and never come back because you forgot where the stupid safe is. Better to be able to just open stuff when you encounter it.
I'd argue that Aquaboy is much more valuable in a survival-mode game where fast travel isn't an option, since it allows you to quickly travel through the relatively encounter-free waterways .
yes but all perks are convenient. You can kill a endgame deathclaw in the glowing sea with your "starter" pipepistol also it just takes forever and you need to have 1 million rounds on you. Aquaboy is a very early lifesaver and it has 0 weight. To get the hazmat and mirelurk cakes you need to fight and track for a long time and in survival you dont want to do that a rushing mirelurk depending on your build can one hit you and then you have to track all the fucking way again. You want to not have to use rad away or rad x because water even if its not rare it weights to much to carry around along with everything else you need on your build in the early game. its only when you reach a high lvl and you have the gear you want with the upgrades you want it becomes an ehh... perk but that is the same with most perks when you are strong as shit you dont need them. do a playthrough on survival and reach about lvl 50 without any perks and then you will see what i mean. You can still do a pretty good amount of damage even without perks and you can also take bullets pending on your gear but it is possible.
Scrounger is MUCH more useful than Fortune Finder. Some ammo are hard to get in quantity even with plentiful of caps and access to the best vendors. Also, ammo is pretty much a currency in it's own way. Most ammo is worth at least 1 cap each, the rare ones will be worth more. Also, ammo, like caps weight nothing, so a good way to make easy money when you can't haul all the junk to vendors. So, Scrounger gives you the benefit of both perks, sell the ammo you don't need for caps, get more of the rare ammo for free (thus saving you even more money that you are not spending resupplying at vendors).
+Rangersly I agree with that. I use 38 and 5mm as currency, since I don't use weapons chambered in either. I also use Fat men and Flamers, since they are a little more high value. When I "Bought" the Overseer's Guardian, I traded 4 or 5 Fat Men, 2 Flamers and the remainder in 38 and still had a ton of 38 left over.
@@bwel2500 uh, damn. Highest I've gotten is like 50. But that's cause I love to restart the game and I love early game. Downside to it is, I keep finding places I've never been too so I've actually never played 100%.
Holy bananas Batman! You didn't mention the absolute BEST convenience perk in the game?!?!?! *Local leader* --> ALL of your Junk is shared between all of your settlements. Thus, you don't need to travel around and gather loot for each settlement. You simply have someone become a Provisioner and then you can build up your settlement (Beacon, Defenses, workbenches, generators, beds, etc.) right away. This game is infamous for Preston constantly sending you off to help settlements so that they can become a part of your dynasty/kingdom, why wouldn't you want to be able to build up defenses to keep the, "Help defend Some Settlement Far Away!" from occurring so frequently? Local Leader is one of the first 5 perks I take, so that I can properly build out the settlements. From that point on, I don't have to worry about where I stop and dump off my Junk, any place will do because it all becomes one big resource pool. Later, when you're ready to invest another point into *Local Leader*, it allows you to make shops (to generate income and get better items) as well as workbenches for areas that don't have them. What's the use of becoming a Water Baron if you don't have the distribution chain to get your product out?
Local Leader is one of my favorites. Even if I'm not doing much in the way of settlement building, it saves the hassle to trying to remember where you left what. It gets annoying when I show up at Hangman's Alley, ready to upgrade my new gun, only to discover my supply of fiber optics is in Jamaica Plain and my oil is in Sanctuary. The stores are nice, but the big advantage of level 2 is having a full set of work benches in any settlement I control instead of dragging whatever I'm modifying and a bunch of junk to the nearest appropriate bench.
Strong back fully ranked is my top convenience perk. How else am I going to haul 600 purified waters to Diamond City to sell for ammo and junk, then carry the junk back to my settlement workshop? I would never think of doing a playthrough without maxing out strong back ASAP (except possibly on the new survival mode, when fast travel is not possible)
Even in survival mode, siding with the institute gives the ability to fast travel to the institute as long as you are in the commonwealth and outside. Sell what you can there and then run even over encumbered from the CIT ruins to Diamond City. That’s what I did on my first survival character. No mods and only a minor exploit at the cooking pots for food. Most of the time however I would just stock up on noodle cups as they replenish thirst and hunger.
Right-o. This video is 8 years old to me. I've been playing almost daily for 8 and a half years but am just now commenting on this video like it was put out minutes ago.
One of the upgrades to the Sneak perk gives you the ability to never set off enemy traps. It's a convenience perk because I could just be more careful and disarm the traps (disarming them is still worth doing even after taking this perk for the small amount of XP gains), but this perk ensures you're not taken by surprise and forced to use up stimpaks to heal yourself after accidentally stepping on a mine or triggering a gunshot.
Some perks I like are local leader, if you're into the settlement thing, it's very helpful to have supply lines instead of stocking each workshop. Another one would be the buying for less and selling for more perk. Obviously the use of that is that you save more caps, which is always a good thing. I personally decided to get the scrounger perk instead of fortune finder because you can sell ammunition that you don't use for a cap each and you don't have to buy as much ammunition that you do use.
I literally take whatever perks I need at that moment in time. Earlier I got a second level of strongback because I couldn't carry a 0.5 pound bloatfly gland, and also wanted a metal bucket so I could put it on Codsworths head to make him look like he had a robot hat on...
I’m not sure if these count as convenience perks but... For me a maxed out life giver, which heals you overtime, and a two perk point Solar Energy, which gets rid of radiation overtime, is a necessity. Basically, with Life giver you don’t have to use any stimpacks after fights or if you’re running low on them (if you wait... then you don’t need stimpacks at all, even during fights), and with solar energy there’s no need for Radaway. Life Giver’s Health Regen costs 3 perk points and level 20. Solar Energy’s Radiation Removal costs 2 perk points and level 27. Legit, the only thing I need to worry about is having enough Jets, Psycho Jets, and Buffjets on me, since my character is melee based.
The Salvage Beacon mod is a lifesaver. Toss junk in a chest, add a beacon, and voila! Someone manning the comms desk at a settlement will head out, grab the stuff, and bring it back.
doing crazy damage is certainly convenient..... I take everything that makes things more convenient simply because the way I play, It takes me 300 hrs to get just past diamond city because I open every box and go into every building.... haha
I just realized, you can theoretically be invincible if you combine the last level of the Medic perk with one single piece of armor that uses a stimpak when your health drops to 20%! Throw in a piece of armor that slows time at 20% health and you are practically always in control of any battle situation. Unless you are instantly killed with nuke/explosion.
I'm surprised that Lifegiver isnt mentioned. not only does it give good adds to HP but at the 3rd rank you regenerate lost health over time invaluable on a survival run!
Well it's 3 perk points for little HP boon and little Regen which a stimpack or cooked meat could replace. Spending the 3 points in Scoundrel instead gives you the caps to buy more stimpacks, and in times you don't need the healing the caps are universal, you can spend them on anything else.
I like "Awareness" because of the fact it shows you the level of the enemy. I can go into VATS and sweep over an area of enemies, see what each level is and decide how I'm going to engage.
May i make a suggestion!? When you do videos like this is it maybe possible for you to show in the video how the perk or mod or what ever you are talking about works. There are several perks and functions that i have no idea how they work still even tho i have played the game a lot. I know its more work with extra recordings and stuff but it doesn't hurt to ask :)
I personally move like an army. getting a settlement up with supply lines, going out to scouting to another spot using the power armor,. having the stores up to sell is key. so yes public speaker gonna be a perk,nuclear physics for longer use of the fusion pack. chemist for longer duration of chems, and lady killer will give you an edge in negotiations and battle. I was also thinking ghoulish perk but its such a high requirement its really a plan ahead perk. but i see the benefit if your gonna go play in the glowing sea and farm legendary weapons and armor... perhaps in another built. I,ve never used the v.a.n.s system for i came in on my first game playing this soldier that has had education in historical war,tactical and notably The manual of "the art of war. which funny enough i,ve used and its made the game experience a 100 times more fun. Just imagine having so much influence that you end up being the top ranked in all factions except railroad because they truly are without leadership. my character never wanted any power he just wanted his son......I could tell you the real ending to you and you would agree it would of kicked every ending this game came up with... its suck a shame they never seen it.
Some commenter said you could use the scope on your rifle to zoom in on the robot and hack him from farther away. I don't know if that is valid or not.
Hey, i dont know if you already covered it but if you check the xbox one achievements you get a way clearer image of the automatron achievements, including one that confirms the use of terminals and a special machine to build the robots.
Years after your comment, we now have some new enemies call Rust Devils, that consist of various robots ganged up with some hardcore raiders. We also get the companion Ada a slow walking robot with a claw on one hand and a laser in the other. Ada was the only survivor of a convoy wiped out by the Rust Devils and I came along just in time to help her finish off the baddies. When I take her quest to hunt down and destroy the Rust Devils she gives me the blueprints for the special machine to build and modify robots. The first robot I modify is Ada. I change her legs to the hover jet like on a Mr. Handy and exchange her claw for an assaultron sword. Later I will give her more carry capacity.
What I love about scrounger perks and finding .38 ammo, I use this ammo as a secondary currency in this game. I'm not sure if anyone did this? Had the idea after playing another post apocalyptic game called metro. In the classic interplay fallout games, you could do this but not often.
I do in my current build. No .38 guns are worthwhole at my level so I use the ammo whenever I'm a little short. Though now with quite a few mega settlements I can afford most things with the few hundred water and mutfruits they put out
I figured out ammo was tradable in my first playthru. One level of Scrounger gives me all the ammo I need and increases my tradable items as well. I reduced my tradable items when I took Scrapper to get a big reduction on the components I had to trade for. I still trade basic weapons and armor but upgraded versions yield a lot more components for upgrades to my weapons and armor. This also enables me to give good, upgraded weapons and armor to my settlers.
JV3017: the only RUclipsr who refuses to set his Pipboy light to a color less painful than radiation green... Or use a weapon besides Overseer's Guardian.
+PhillyCheese Gaming I just set mine to pink...because everytime I kill a boss...they were killed...by a man with a pink pip boy...also because pink is pretty easy on my eyes
might as well say this but if you wear a hazmat suit you have to take off your armor so if you get shot (considering you're not undetectable cause no rank 2 aquaboy) you take more damage compared to having aquaboy and being able to A: taking less damage B: not being shot from rank 2 C: not having to put on all of your armor when you get out . but i see your point it's for convenience and it can be achieved by other means it's more of do you want to make yourself be vulnerable and eat items to tread water or spend 1 point to be able to be protected and keep those materials/items for health or caps. (btw not on team aquaboy i hate sides i'm always neutral
I don't feel like he's saying it's good or bad in one video. He's saying it's bad but convenient. I see it the same way as, an escalator is bad compared to taking the stairs, but convenient.
Steady Aim is also a convenient perk- sure you could use vats or aim down sight or use Jet, but man, I can be lazy with that perk. Also for the occasional xXx_360_noscope_xXx
You forgot to note the fortune finder explosion. It's sort of a gimmick novelty perk, but combined with bloody mess it makes for some really fun and funny gameplay. When you have enemies just exploding into bloody chunks and caps you have to say to yourself, 'Hot damn that sure was satisfying!'
I did a VATS sniper build where I refused to take Gun Nut or Armorer. There is nothing in the game you can't get without those perks, finding items and stripping the mods to put on your own gear is WAY more satisfying.
I got Aqua boy as one of the first perks I ever got, so pretty early game, it made travelling so much easier (for example, when I was going to Diamond City, I cut right across the water, and made there in record time
I'm definitelly a hoarder :D In my last playthrough I had like 120k caps in the end and nothing to spend it on but I was still picking up pretty much everything :D I can't just stop looting. If I decide that I'm not gonna pick up anything exept ammo, I get frustrated for leaving all that stuff behind :P
I'm a loot hound. My 102 level character still grabs fans, typewriters, and anything with oil. Probably a carryover from lower levels when I couldn't make something because I lacked one component. Now I have settlements with over 150 defense, enough caps to buy out every merchant in Diamond City, and resources to build dozens of turrets. But I'll still grab almost anything that isn't bolted down, and open every safe.
I use the Medic perk, combined with Nerd rage and the auto-medic power armor upgrade. It checks if you're low health, then slows you down, then heals you to full. It's really nice.
Thanks for letting me know that there is such a thing as Team Aqua Boy. I think with certain builds, crafting skills (Gun Nut, Science, Armorer, Blacksmithing) may be considered mere convenience perks, as well, since you can find most mods on other weapons and armour you find or can buy. This only applies if you're not into settlement building.
i disagree there are many things you cannot get without these, such as many jetpack, gatling laser, etc the chances of you finding the exact weapon you want are very rare
I normally use weapons and armor obtained from loot and do not do much upgrading before level 50 by which time I can overburden myself carrying nothing but components I obtained primarily by scrapping looted pipe weapons and raider armor. I never buy weapons or armor except for an occasional unique I may covet.
Scrounger is still pretty much my only perk I designate by level. From a play style, the rest can be worked around. I just really hate being forced to use a gun because I have no ammo for the one I want to use. All other perks I will scramble to get are in fact companion and magazine perks. Double meat magazine, the Piper double exper on exploration perks? I go out of my way to get those as soon as I can. I've done the math and Piper perk early, amounts to around 5000 experience over a play through, even with a low intelligence build. Getting all 10 covert magazine perks is 50% sneak and I don't need to be any level to get them. Power perks aren't in the tree.
I don't know if this is a convinience perk, but i love steady aim because you can throw a long scope onto a gun, and still comfortably use it in closed quarters.
sneak, lockpick, hacker, and rifleman all get to within one level of max ASAP before I consider anything else, then even though it bugs me, I get INT, AGI, and PER before I got any of their 'dolls' (LOL). Same for Luck on this playthrough as well.
Thanks for this. I, like many others, find value in these perks. For me, trading off carry weight for a perk has been so very useful. Love your channel jv. Keep rocking.
The kind of ammo you find with scrounger is level based, .44 starts showing up after level 20(according to the wiki) but you'll find enough extra ammo of other types that you can just sell that off to get .44 from vendors.
If you enter vault 81 after completing a quest about some relationship problem and you will stand on Henry Cookes side you will get around 40 to 50 jet and you can sell one jet to the de luca guy in vault 81 for 75 caps!
BTW JV2017, you should be more intelligent about your targetting. For melee attackers (Assaultrons seem to give you a lot of problems), simply concentrate your fire on their legs. They will be become crippled/disabled and you can then finish them off at your leisure. Assaultrons are terrible at ranged attacks and are very fast, so stop trying to take their heads off. Same goes for even the toughest ghouls, dogs, or Suiciders, simply take out one of their legs and then they're helpless. For ranged attackers like Raiders or Gunners, aim for their arms or 'center mass'. I'd rather put 5 shots @ 95/100 into their chest than attempt 5 shots @ 65 into their heads. But regardless, if they carry a weapon, shoot that arm. It only takes one or two shots to make them drop their weapon and then they just dance around looking for a weapon to pick up. That's when you reload or queue up a bunch of VATS shots and finish them. Crouch to shoot whenever you're not running. You take a lot of standing shots, and it makes your aim worse, not to mention you'll never get a Sneak attack (2.0x dmg) bonus that way. And, why don't you have a scoped rifle for longer shots? You got a "Mighty" (+25%) combat rifle in that attack on Vault 95, you should make that into a .308 sniper rifle, you'll do a lot of damage with that bad boy. Lastly, when you have cover and are taking a shot of say, 30 feet or more, try throwing a couple of frag mines in front of your cover. If something closes on you, you back pedal a bit and let them run into the mines. If no one gets that close to you, just pick up your mines and set up at your next spot. You seem to spend a lot of time back pedaling and then having to retake a position you just held.
I think it would be neat if Awareness not only told you the enemy's stats and resistances, but also showed specifically what they were wearing on each body part when highlighted, not only the armor type but also what mods it has. Wouldn't be that game changing, but if you know that an enemy has a certain type of mod on their armor you may approach them differently.
Love your videos. obviously I take your perspective as your opinion, but your videos are well made and offer interesting insight. thanks, and keep up the good work!
That u said about Nick Valentine and quicksaving before you ask him to hack a terminal you dont need that just make sure you walk like 10 to 15 feet away from it you can ask him to try again!
As a mention, I find that Aquaboy/girl is a great perk when used for role-play. It's great fun trying to actually minimize your time on land and provides unusual challenges, but circumvents other difficulties.
my favorite two convince perks are the damage resistance ones and nuclear physicist (there is a ton of fusion core I had at one point 60+ fusion cores)
First I want to compliment you on your videos. I've watched a few of them now and I do agree for the most part. However, I'd argue that science, gun nut, blacksmith, and armorer are also convenience perks with the exception of maybe science and armorer simply because of the building structures and giving power armor different paint jobs for often trivial effects. Also there's the ballistic weave under-armor that you at least need armorer for (so I can see how these 2 could be taken off the convenience list). I have done several play-throughs and never put points into these 4. Yet I still had at least one or 2 fully modded weapons and 4 fairly high up modded weapons by like lvl 30 -- all from finding the parts on enemy guns, putting basic parts on that one then putting the upgraded part on mine -- all whilst only exploring about 1/4 or 1/3 of the map. Armor is a bit harder since there are so many different variations (raider, leather, metal, synth, etc and each of those having 3 subsets that determine the base stats of them) and it's generally just harder to find higher tier armor at lower levels anyway. But even then, I may not have had the best armor. Even so, you aren't going to have the best armor anyway at lower lvls so I was actually progressing at about a normal rate if not faster simply because I had all the extra screws, copper, metal, plastic, etc. that I could then use for building up structures or decorating or making chems and other stuff like that, which in turn gave me more exp to further build my character for those damage, sneak, and random skills like demolitions that I don't really need but allowed me to craft different grenades that are more effective when I got into those sticky situations or the opportunistic situations where a pack of 5 or 6 wild ghouls are grouped up. It could just be me but I feel these are the number 1 convenience perks that are kind of misconstrued as being necessary which is a HUGE lie. I play on survival difficulty, I always have and I rarely run into a mob that I can't kill with just mods for armor and weapons I have found on previous mobs I've killed. It may take a bit of sniping or making use of the terrain around me and setting some traps but it is possible and quite easy to do. The ONLY time I have ever used power armor is the very first minutemen quest in concord where you basically have to because you literally don't have any decent weapons and you can't complete the final objective unless you completely forgo that entire section until you get a better gear load-out and some more skills in your chosen skill tree. Also, I feel hacker and locksmith should have been on the same one like on your 10 best perks video. Again, I'm not trying to bash your opinion, I'm just trying to possibly give you a different perspective as well as constructive criticism on a small mistake. Obviously there are several more convenience perks and you can't list them all in an ordinal ranking video unless you somehow grouped them by aspects that they improved, like criticals, survivability, dmg, stealth, dialogue, general travel, etc. (which could actually be a beneficial video if you looked at different builds and emphasized the focus of some of them and the thought processes that likely go behind the builds for less experienced players which you seem to be doing anyway [ex. melee builds generally go for 1 hit kills for most things so you prioritize dmg then stealth, then criticals if you use vats a lot, with some survivability weaved in throughout where someone feels they are dying or coming close to dying too much to play comfortably]). Then, the people that watch that video can not only learn what they are possibly doing wrong, but different methods of thinking; which in turn can help them in any future games they play like this. So it is a learning experience that they can apply to other games that they may play.
The term you are looking for is the quality of life perks. They make the game more fluid by removing or minimising tedious activities but do not directly make you stronger.
If Strong Back is a convenience perk because you could, in theory, just travel back and forth to get stuff more often, then by that logic most perks are convenience perks, because there's almost always an alternative method to dealing with whatever the perk offers. [With a few exceptions, like perks that without them you literally can't do whatever it is [pick harder locks, hack harder terminals, use better weapon mods, etc.]
I agree medic maxed is convenience perk, but I think the first level or two are less so. Maybe there are a lot of stimpaks, but I would rather take one versus 2 or 3. My opinion though.
I can see perk choice having more weight on the low levels of survival mode. but without a level cap, on normal mode its possible to take everything ... eventually.
I would say that these are good ones for any playthrough: 1) Local Leader 2) Strong Back 3) Scrapper 4)Scrounger (probably not for a melee playthrough unless you need the fusion cores and/or REALLY want to sell the ammo) 5) Demolition Expert Rank 2 (That throwing arc is sweet) And these you may or may not want depending on how you are playing (especially which companions you have): 6) Locksmith 7) Hacker 8) Lone Wanderer (if you use Dogmeat, this perk still applies fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Lone_Wanderer_(perk) 9) Medic (Survival playthrough or building Hospitals at settlements) 10) Awareness - but definitely my last pick though.
+G Bean maybe not you have to destroy robots to get there parts maybe idk i have 5 perk points just waitin for the next dlc maby there are going to have new perks
Medic maxed out gives you full health with one stimpack. If you have armor with the auto-stim legendary effect, it will save your hind parts many, many times.
I think scrounger significantly undermines Fortune Finder. There is always ammo you're never gonna use in the game. Eventually you will no longer use .38 ammo, or you may upgrade your .45 combat rifle to a .308 reciever, so you will probably be selling a lot of .45 ammo. The point is you can get just as much money selling ammo as you can with Fortune finder, if not more. Beside, I love getting extra Fusion cores and Mini Nukes from the max out at Scrounger. The point is, you can get scrounger and never have to invest in fortune finger. I suppose Big Sale could be a convenience perk. You can always grind for the caps, or just find the stuff you're buying out in the wastes, but it's just so much easier to get discounts and invest in stores so you can get good guns, lots of ammo, or supplies in general, rather than grind away at weaker enemies for supplies or farm for legendary items.
Fortune Finder is more of a hindrance in combat. #1. Highest Rank makes enemies explode in a mess of blood and caps a little too much at times. #2. You got to pick up the caps which is not good in the midst of combat since you got to look around at the ground to find the caps.
I like Mystery Man (or whatever it's called). I don't know if it's technically a convenience perk, but it could be because the way around it is: get better weopons. It's nice though, because the guy pretty much one hits anything, and it really encouraged a first time player like me to use VATS. Now in almost every battle, I use VATS, because there's the prospect of getting crits, and the mystery man
I love using auto weapons in bullet time, which means that I burn through ammo at a disgusting rate. Since I use an ammo crafting mod, I find Scrapper + Scrounger a good investment of Perk points. In the long run, Caps Collector 3 + Local Leader 2 is also an effective way to collect the ammo I need.
I almost always pick Awareness. Not for offense, but to easily see the defensive value of my settlers. I geek out over my settlements and my settlers are always armed to the teeth and wearing good defensive gear (usually combat armor I pick off dead enemies). Needless to say, attacks on my settlements always fail.
Scrounger is pretty damned essential if you're playing any kind of automatic weapons build, whether it's using Commando for tommies and combat rifles or Heavy Gunner for the big frigging Minigun.
I get what he's saying here, because aquaboy and Vans for example from a longplay perspective can be useless but has an convenience perk it can be really usefull, i mean all changes when you cange the perspective, like Einstein once sayd "All is relative" so your take on anything depends on your referential.
I’d argue technically for those people who don’t take crafting perks they’d fit in as convenience too I love aqua boy aswell as I love exploring around and it saves radaways wich are a bit more scare early on
Have to disagree on fortune finder. It is a good jumpstart for finding caps at the beginning. Lev.4 can make enemies explode with caps so along with the few caps the body has on them there are aditional caps on the ground best I've seen so far is +45 caps. Same with scrounger. Finding more ammo is good but at full rank it can reload your clip without taking ammo out of your stock. Ammo can also be used as cap-cash. Got 1388 .38 bullets but not using any .38 firing weapons? Sell it all and you now have 1388 caps to barter with. I use these when I want to by material shipments. Also save your food items. Setup abernathy to produce all the food needed for making refreshing beverage. Once you have that nuka collas fancy lad snack etc are pretty worthles for health. Sell them to a trader and buy materials or what you need. Pack mual as it's called in my game allows you to fast travel overweight at full rank but you have to put up with hearing your character running out of breath every 5 secs until you return to your settlement. Hope I helped a few out with this.
You might not agree with me, but I use white as my pip-boy light (mostly for the flashlight tbh) and pink as my HUD color. I think the pink looks really cool.
Survival mode reshuffles some from convenience, into must-haves. Aquaboy 1 is S tier, for example. Quick, encounter-free travel, no items needed. Local Leader 1, for supply lines, to drop off meat anywhere, and cook only what you need anywhere. Besides the obvious shared workshop. Moving Target 3, Action Boy 3, because traveling everywhere becomes much , much faster. Basically, as you can see, traveling efficiently is S tier, to me. The game is much more fun. No need to run everywhere, constantly stopping and waiting to slowly regenerate AP and do random fights.
I never sprint. I prefer to have a full load of Action Points if I get into a sudden firefight. Besides sprinting for 50-100 yards then stopping to regen AP is a total waste. I just jog if I am in a hurry.
@@edmartin875 Hey, i hear you, if you don’t have a build that’s built to sprint, sprinting soon leaves you out of AP and defenseless. But when you do, it’s like comparing apples to oranges. No way do i want to play on Survival, without fast travel, and just jog. My build drains AP so slowly while sprinting, it’s hard to even tell the meter is draining. Distance-wise, around 300 yards. And I’m ready to go again in 5 seconds.
@@edmartin875 Hey there. I need to correct myself. I did a test. I sprinted non-stop from the far SE corner, starting at Warwick settlement, all the way to Sanctuary. I only needed to jog 3 times to regen AP. I sprinted for 4 bars worth of AP. That’s basically 2 bars of AP to go halfway across the map with one jog to regen. I can go from corner to corner, across almost the entire map, with only 30 seconds spent jogging, the rest sprinting. (Level 53. 245 AP. AP bar fully regens in just 10sec) No drugs were used. No consumables either. I don’t know what distance that is in yards, Warwick to Sanctuary. But if you’re only sprinting 50-100 yards before you need to jog and regen AP, you’re probably taking 20-30 jog breaks to go that far. All of this goes to dispelling your concern. You’re worried about getting enemies catching without AP. As you can imagine, I’m almost never in that position. I could sprint from Sanctuary to Diamond City, never letting my AP bar go below half, and i can get there having only spent 15 seconds of the trip jogging. 4 half bars of AP, and 3 five second jogs. When it’s all said and done, Survival requires running everywhere. No fast travel. And i love a build that can easily handle that.
I think scrounger is useful if your build is based on the Commando Perk, since automatic weapons use more amunition per kill, even if you are a good shot. The combat rifle is very good with burst fire, but you use at least 3 rounds to kill something that would only need one with a semi automatic with the rifleman perk. It's even more useful imo if you consider the assault rifle and the minigun. But I agree that if you have a rifleman based build the scrouger perk is a bit useless.
if your a hoarder use the supply lines. I,ve never used the strong back perk. use the lone wanderer perk and send your companion to your desired settlements.you'll increase your carrying capacity in seconds.if your still overweight call a bird and get air lifted out.. those perk points you use could be easily be put in stats that can really be helpful.
I like the robotic expert perk because you can shut down robots and then destroy them to get the stuff that they drop, and at the second rank you get the automatron DLC early (if you don't get it, look it up and you'll understand)
Having somebody else picking locks and hacking locks for you is a convenience? Never thought of it that way before. I have both, I like to pick locks and hacking computers in the game. In real life I don't think I would ever been so successful at it.
I always have to take lock pick and hacker...can't stand not opening a container or door. Likewise I always feel compelled to get scrounger to make lock pick and hacker worth it. I sometimes get at least one or two ranks of fortune finder at most...because anything more and you'll literally find caps everywhere...which breaks the game and any immersion. As a console peasant I don't exactly have access to the best mods or console commands...so I try to create my own custom difficulty with my character perks set up and some self imposed restrictions as I find survival pretty obnoxious and tedious in some key respects. I love some of the ideas but mostly it's a chore and becomes tedious rather quickly, plus it forces a very narrow play style and practically demands ya waste all your perk points on what I consider boring "quality of life" stuff to offset or compensate for survival mode rules. If I could (without the need for mods) toggle a few of the settings or hell if there was just a more appropriate time scale or the ability to set certain food items and water to be consumed automatically instead of having to stop and do it manually every five or ten minutes...if that was an option I'd love survival mode and probably only ever play on that setting. As it is I usually play on a lower difficulty but refuse to take any health medic or damage resistance perks, I'll turn off auto save refuse to fast travel and only save when I'm either at a settlement, faction base or "safe" city zone etc... I generally build vats characters with max agility and perception, as I love gun fu and concentrated fire, I also dig penetrator...so I choose or build light gear to compliment that, I eventually try to raise luck, intelligence, strength and my other special stats to levels where I can get grim reapers sprint critical banker and few quality of life perks like strong back etc... Rifleman is my go to weapon perk and energy weapons are my favourite, I.E the laser "righteous authority" danse gives you which I usually get pretty early on and between his mission and killing kellog...there's a shitload of ammo to be had so I generally rush to those...plus I always want the brotherhood to arrive as quickly as possible because they add a certain chaotic and bad ass vibe to exploring the commonwealth. Eventually I get bored though and want to play with the other "toys"...sometimes ya just want to blow shit up and cut loose with a mini gun or charge in pumped up on psycho jet and hack a few raiders to death with a flaming sword or battle axe. I also like to mod, customise and improve my favourite weapons instead of just swapping randomly to whatever I can find or has the most ammo...so I tend to sell slash swap 10mm 38 and 45 for 9which I always seem to have in abundance for what I really want or need at that moment. Point is on lower difficulties there's more room to experiment with the games features and change up ya play style if it starts to feel stale...it's a pity there isn't a way to reset your perk points
My problem with strong back is the required strength stat in the first place. If I had 6 strength, I wouldn't need this perk. Maybe a heavy weapons/power armor user in survival mode because of how heavy that ammo is.
You may have had this suggestion in the past, but I'm thinking that the next time I start over, I'm going to hoard anything with ballistic fiber in another container (i.e. not my workshops) from the beginning of the game so that when I'm finally able to get to Armor 4 and work with the Railroad, I can just build the suit I want and not have to zip all over the common wealth going to vendors looking for raw materials.
You can also buy shipments of 25 ballistic fiber from some vendors early too. But, yeah, I do the same thing. I have about 15 red toolbox containers at my home base where I put certain items in with it's own kind to help me keep track of items of interest.
I haven't messed with Rank 2 of aquaboy because it seems to conditional but I can see where it can come in handy but rank one is more than worth it if nothing else it saves travel time
If you don't have good lockpick (and hacking), then what happens is you might find a safe that you can't pick, then you leave and never come back because you forgot where the stupid safe is. Better to be able to just open stuff when you encounter it.
Yep, I take the perks just for the xp gain. I can't remember if safes reset every once in a while, but I want the xp NOW!
Not much in a safe is worthwhile.
@@BriarHood no but that xp is good.
if its important...there will be a key for it. same with hacking...lockpicking and hacking are kind of a waste of perk points.
@@thomaswhite4609 Depends if you're playing survival or not
I'd argue that Aquaboy is much more valuable in a survival-mode game where fast travel isn't an option, since it allows you to quickly travel through the relatively encounter-free waterways .
Ayyye
He isn't denying that fact. He's just saying that there are other ways to achieve the same effect. (Namely using a hazmat suit and mirelurk cakes)
brpierce *reads this comment*
Oh sweet! I'll get that, and it'll protect me from water enemies!
*forgets to get perk*
DAMN IT.
brpierce but it can be avoided. and rad away isnt rare
yes but all perks are convenient. You can kill a endgame deathclaw in the glowing sea with your "starter" pipepistol also it just takes forever and you need to have 1 million rounds on you. Aquaboy is a very early lifesaver and it has 0 weight. To get the hazmat and mirelurk cakes you need to fight and track for a long time and in survival you dont want to do that a rushing mirelurk depending on your build can one hit you and then you have to track all the fucking way again. You want to not have to use rad away or rad x because water even if its not rare it weights to much to carry around along with everything else you need on your build in the early game. its only when you reach a high lvl and you have the gear you want with the upgrades you want it becomes an ehh... perk but that is the same with most perks when you are strong as shit you dont need them.
do a playthrough on survival and reach about lvl 50 without any perks and then you will see what i mean. You can still do a pretty good amount of damage even without perks and you can also take bullets pending on your gear but it is possible.
Scrounger is MUCH more useful than Fortune Finder. Some ammo are hard to get in quantity even with plentiful of caps and access to the best vendors. Also, ammo is pretty much a currency in it's own way. Most ammo is worth at least 1 cap each, the rare ones will be worth more. Also, ammo, like caps weight nothing, so a good way to make easy money when you can't haul all the junk to vendors. So, Scrounger gives you the benefit of both perks, sell the ammo you don't need for caps, get more of the rare ammo for free (thus saving you even more money that you are not spending resupplying at vendors).
I have crap ton of 556 ammo and it's worth like 2 caps each so I can get like 12000 caps
+Rangersly I agree with that. I use 38 and 5mm as currency, since I don't use weapons chambered in either. I also use Fat men and Flamers, since they are a little more high value.
When I "Bought" the Overseer's Guardian, I traded 4 or 5 Fat Men, 2 Flamers and the remainder in 38 and still had a ton of 38 left over.
+Rangersly This is sound logic. You've opened my eyes sir or madam!
Amen brother! (that's "sir", thank you very much!) Have fun!
kinda true i fould 4mini nukes in a container and i had maxs scouger and my next playthrough i went there without schourger and only 1
Local maps make me wanna die. Who the fuck thought that a garbled mess of pixels would help me navigate anything
ObiJuanKenobi3 I know, Everytime I look at one I end up more lost than before.
Televised Water Polo IKR!
wut
Televised Water Polo o local maps lol yah I agree
I've not been able to find local maps. Must be stupid or summat.
2019 and im still playing this one of my all time favs
andres Vargas 2020 still playing
@@outrageousvideosxd5038 same
Playing too
I'm still playing too. At level 203 and can't see me stopping anytime soon.
@@bwel2500 uh, damn. Highest I've gotten is like 50. But that's cause I love to restart the game and I love early game. Downside to it is, I keep finding places I've never been too so I've actually never played 100%.
Holy bananas Batman! You didn't mention the absolute BEST convenience perk in the game?!?!?!
*Local leader* --> ALL of your Junk is shared between all of your settlements. Thus, you don't need to travel around and gather loot for each settlement. You simply have someone become a Provisioner and then you can build up your settlement (Beacon, Defenses, workbenches, generators, beds, etc.) right away. This game is infamous for Preston constantly sending you off to help settlements so that they can become a part of your dynasty/kingdom, why wouldn't you want to be able to build up defenses to keep the, "Help defend Some Settlement Far Away!" from occurring so frequently? Local Leader is one of the first 5 perks I take, so that I can properly build out the settlements. From that point on, I don't have to worry about where I stop and dump off my Junk, any place will do because it all becomes one big resource pool.
Later, when you're ready to invest another point into *Local Leader*, it allows you to make shops (to generate income and get better items) as well as workbenches for areas that don't have them. What's the use of becoming a Water Baron if you don't have the distribution chain to get your product out?
And you can combine it with Cap Collector to use the Weapons Emporium glitch to gain massive *S T O N K S*
Local Leader is one of my favorites. Even if I'm not doing much in the way of settlement building, it saves the hassle to trying to remember where you left what. It gets annoying when I show up at Hangman's Alley, ready to upgrade my new gun, only to discover my supply of fiber optics is in Jamaica Plain and my oil is in Sanctuary.
The stores are nice, but the big advantage of level 2 is having a full set of work benches in any settlement I control instead of dragging whatever I'm modifying and a bunch of junk to the nearest appropriate bench.
I combine this with the Robots you can make for Wasteland Workshop and it’s a pretty sick combo. Robo-Brain powered Sentry Bot Provisioners.
Strong back fully ranked is my top convenience perk. How else am I going to haul 600 purified waters to Diamond City to sell for ammo and junk, then carry the junk back to my settlement workshop? I would never think of doing a playthrough without maxing out strong back ASAP (except possibly on the new survival mode, when fast travel is not possible)
+ParallelUniversity drop them and ask a follower to pick them up. perk saved
Even in survival mode, siding with the institute gives the ability to fast travel to the institute as long as you are in the commonwealth and outside. Sell what you can there and then run even over encumbered from the CIT ruins to Diamond City. That’s what I did on my first survival character. No mods and only a minor exploit at the cooking pots for food. Most of the time however I would just stock up on noodle cups as they replenish thirst and hunger.
@@marccuffe6392 Melons are like noodle cups but weigh more.
Playing FO4 after 4 years and really enjoying these old guides.
Me too
5 years now
Right-o. This video is 8 years old to me. I've been playing almost daily for 8 and a half years but am just now commenting on this video like it was put out minutes ago.
You should make a top 10 fun perks! Perks that aren't exactly useful, but are helpful in a small way, to have more fun! :)
Bloody mess
+Andres_20_11 :O
that was his 10 useless perks one
+Just Noob bloody mess does a pretty good damage boost though
FAN-TAS-TIC IDEA!!!
I love coming back to this game. I haven’t played in about 2 years and there was still so much to be done. Games with longevity are such a blessing.
One of the upgrades to the Sneak perk gives you the ability to never set off enemy traps. It's a convenience perk because I could just be more careful and disarm the traps (disarming them is still worth doing even after taking this perk for the small amount of XP gains), but this perk ensures you're not taken by surprise and forced to use up stimpaks to heal yourself after accidentally stepping on a mine or triggering a gunshot.
Some perks I like are local leader, if you're into the settlement thing, it's very helpful to have supply lines instead of stocking each workshop. Another one would be the buying for less and selling for more perk. Obviously the use of that is that you save more caps, which is always a good thing. I personally decided to get the scrounger perk instead of fortune finder because you can sell ammunition that you don't use for a cap each and you don't have to buy as much ammunition that you do use.
9:15 don;t you love it when point blank shotgunning somebody in their unprotected face doesn't kill them?
Well it isn't a shotgun but yeah I see what you mean.
it is, its a combat shotgun.
Cain Anderson No it isn't it's a combat rifle.
oh yeah, woops I forgot
BreNine, fallout is a rpg it's not supposed to be realistic.
I literally take whatever perks I need at that moment in time. Earlier I got a second level of strongback because I couldn't carry a 0.5 pound bloatfly gland, and also wanted a metal bucket so I could put it on Codsworths head to make him look like he had a robot hat on...
gotta watch out for those puddles lol
Lol
Omg, i know, right? I can't tell you how many times I've died from those damn puddles.
MIDA multi tool you're great
he's so salty about aqua boy/girl. lol guess he wants to carry a bunch of extra shit in survival. better get that convenient strong back perk bro lol.
kagdra omen but.... aqua perk is useless XD
Strong Back is one of my faves!
I’m not sure if these count as convenience perks but...
For me a maxed out life giver, which heals you overtime, and a two perk point Solar Energy, which gets rid of radiation overtime, is a necessity.
Basically, with Life giver you don’t have to use any stimpacks after fights or if you’re running low on them (if you wait... then you don’t need stimpacks at all, even during fights), and with solar energy there’s no need for Radaway.
Life Giver’s Health Regen costs 3 perk points and level 20.
Solar Energy’s Radiation Removal costs 2 perk points and level 27.
Legit, the only thing I need to worry about is having enough Jets, Psycho Jets, and Buffjets on me, since my character is melee based.
I've never tried either. Too many other perks screaming for my attention.
Strong back is pretty much required for scavengers like me
Paper Mario pfp 😌
And is a must have on Survival mode.... because you have no fast travel
Power armor + vertibirds is must have. Strong back - not so much.
The Salvage Beacon mod is a lifesaver. Toss junk in a chest, add a beacon, and voila! Someone manning the comms desk at a settlement will head out, grab the stuff, and bring it back.
max corrice same
doing crazy damage is certainly convenient..... I take everything that makes things more convenient simply because the way I play, It takes me 300 hrs to get just past diamond city because I open every box and go into every building.... haha
I just realized, you can theoretically be invincible if you combine the last level of the Medic perk with one single piece of armor that uses a stimpak when your health drops to 20%! Throw in a piece of armor that slows time at 20% health and you are practically always in control of any battle situation. Unless you are instantly killed with nuke/explosion.
I had not thought of that. Thanks.
I'm surprised that Lifegiver isnt mentioned. not only does it give good adds to HP but at the 3rd rank you regenerate lost health over time invaluable on a survival run!
Well it's 3 perk points for little HP boon and little Regen which a stimpack or cooked meat could replace. Spending the 3 points in Scoundrel instead gives you the caps to buy more stimpacks, and in times you don't need the healing the caps are universal, you can spend them on anything else.
I like "Awareness" because of the fact it shows you the level of the enemy. I can go into VATS and sweep over an area of enemies, see what each level is and decide how I'm going to engage.
May i make a suggestion!? When you do videos like this is it maybe possible for you to show in the video how the perk or mod or what ever you are talking about works.
There are several perks and functions that i have no idea how they work still even tho i have played the game a lot.
I know its more work with extra recordings and stuff but it doesn't hurt to ask :)
I think i can understand you, i have played the game several times and i still have no idea of how to set a treading line between 2 settlements
@@mariomario5913 lmao nice
@@mariomario5913 I don't either...
@@hobbitpeddler4267 i know now how to do that :v
@@mariomario5913 that's good. I don't.
I personally move like an army. getting a settlement up with supply lines, going out to scouting to another spot using the power armor,. having the stores up to sell is key. so yes public speaker gonna be a perk,nuclear physics for longer use of the fusion pack. chemist for longer duration of chems, and lady killer will give you an edge in negotiations and battle. I was also thinking ghoulish perk but its such a high requirement its really a plan ahead perk. but i see the benefit if your gonna go play in the glowing sea and farm legendary weapons and armor... perhaps in another built. I,ve never used the v.a.n.s system for i came in on my first game playing this soldier that has had education in historical war,tactical and notably The manual of "the art of war. which funny enough i,ve used and its made the game experience a 100 times more fun. Just imagine having so much influence that you end up being the top ranked in all factions except railroad because they truly are without leadership. my character never wanted any power he just wanted his son......I could tell you the real ending to you and you would agree it would of kicked every ending this game came up with... its suck a shame they never seen it.
building shops in your settlements is clutch big time (charisma skills are my
Robot hacker was really good until they patched the distance. Now you have to be practically face to face
Some commenter said you could use the scope on your rifle to zoom in on the robot and hack him from farther away. I don't know if that is valid or not.
okay, you got me to subscribe dude, pretty nice vids, descriptive without being boring and very clear speach (unlike a few other youtubers...)
Hey, i dont know if you already covered it but if you check the xbox one achievements you get a way clearer image of the automatron achievements, including one that confirms the use of terminals and a special machine to build the robots.
Years after your comment, we now have some new enemies call Rust Devils, that consist of various robots ganged up with some hardcore raiders. We also get the companion Ada a slow walking robot with a claw on one hand and a laser in the other. Ada was the only survivor of a convoy wiped out by the Rust Devils and I came along just in time to help her finish off the baddies. When I take her quest to hunt down and destroy the Rust Devils she gives me the blueprints for the special machine to build and modify robots. The first robot I modify is Ada. I change her legs to the hover jet like on a Mr. Handy and exchange her claw for an assaultron sword. Later I will give her more carry capacity.
What I love about scrounger perks and finding .38 ammo, I use this ammo as a secondary currency in this game. I'm not sure if anyone did this? Had the idea after playing another post apocalyptic game called metro. In the classic interplay fallout games, you could do this but not often.
I do in my current build. No .38 guns are worthwhole at my level so I use the ammo whenever I'm a little short. Though now with quite a few mega settlements I can afford most things with the few hundred water and mutfruits they put out
I figured out ammo was tradable in my first playthru. One level of Scrounger gives me all the ammo I need and increases my tradable items as well. I reduced my tradable items when I took Scrapper to get a big reduction on the components I had to trade for. I still trade basic weapons and armor but upgraded versions yield a lot more components for upgrades to my weapons and armor. This also enables me to give good, upgraded weapons and armor to my settlers.
JV3017: the only RUclipsr who refuses to set his Pipboy light to a color less painful than radiation green... Or use a weapon besides Overseer's Guardian.
+PhillyCheese Gaming I just set mine to pink...because everytime I kill a boss...they were killed...by a man with a pink pip boy...also because pink is pretty easy on my eyes
***** Same here haha.
PhillyCheese Gaming i made mine white cause I am colorblind I can't tell the difference between regular green and yellow in dialogue.
I originally had pink, but the light was too dark.
PhillyCheese Gaming I set my to a nice light blue
Seriously? In one video you say aquaboy is one of the worst perks but now you say its good for THE SAME REASON that you said its bad?!
Vans is the shittiest perk ever. So damn useless.
might as well say this but if you wear a hazmat suit you have to take off your armor so if you get shot (considering you're not undetectable cause no rank 2 aquaboy) you take more damage compared to having aquaboy and being able to A: taking less damage B: not being shot from rank 2 C: not having to put on all of your armor when you get out . but i see your point it's for convenience and it can be achieved by other means it's more of do you want to make yourself be vulnerable and eat items to tread water or spend 1 point to be able to be protected and keep those materials/items for health or caps. (btw not on team aquaboy i hate sides i'm always neutral
same thing I was about to say
I don't feel like he's saying it's good or bad in one video. He's saying it's bad but convenient. I see it the same way as, an escalator is bad compared to taking the stairs, but convenient.
Vans is not for the first point, is for the second one...
heres a list idea: top 10 luxury perks (bloody mess, ricochet) it sounds like convenience but its just a list of fun stuff you can get
PoseidonWarrior bloody mess was better in fo3 and nv
Steady Aim is also a convenient perk- sure you could use vats or aim down sight or use Jet, but man, I can be lazy with that perk.
Also for the occasional xXx_360_noscope_xXx
Kawdog Too bad there's no w33d in the game.
Seriously, there's Psycho, Jet, Mes-X, etc. in the game and NO WEED? DAFUQ
720 insta swap
+CKshouta lmfao God forbid you smoke but taking heavy drugs is perfectly okay
@@HerobrineMinion Made up drugs are ok for game play. But real drugs is Real world drug encouragement. and therefore banned from game play.
this was my first Fallout series play through but I knew from beginning VANS was useless
You forgot to note the fortune finder explosion. It's sort of a gimmick novelty perk, but combined with bloody mess it makes for some really fun and funny gameplay. When you have enemies just exploding into bloody chunks and caps you have to say to yourself, 'Hot damn that sure was satisfying!'
I did a VATS sniper build where I refused to take Gun Nut or Armorer. There is nothing in the game you can't get without those perks, finding items and stripping the mods to put on your own gear is WAY more satisfying.
well i love the combination of a sniper scope and the robotics expert perk
if you zoom in on a robot you can hack it no matter how far away it is
I got Aqua boy as one of the first perks I ever got, so pretty early game, it made travelling so much easier (for example, when I was going to Diamond City, I cut right across the water, and made there in record time
What's best about strong back is that you can combine it with lone wanderer which will give you the best carry weight you can get.
Now this is the playstyle I was talking about in your previous video. I'm glad you understand.
I'm definitelly a hoarder :D
In my last playthrough I had like 120k caps in the end and nothing to spend it on but I was still picking up pretty much everything :D
I can't just stop looting. If I decide that I'm not gonna pick up anything exept ammo, I get frustrated for leaving all that stuff behind :P
I'm a loot hound. My 102 level character still grabs fans, typewriters, and anything with oil. Probably a carryover from lower levels when I couldn't make something because I lacked one component.
Now I have settlements with over 150 defense, enough caps to buy out every merchant in Diamond City, and resources to build dozens of turrets. But I'll still grab almost anything that isn't bolted down, and open every safe.
I use the Medic perk, combined with Nerd rage and the auto-medic power armor upgrade. It checks if you're low health, then slows you down, then heals you to full. It's really nice.
I love the new top ten videos that you're making, even if I dont agree with all of them.
+Alex Kok I just like listening to other peoples opinions
@@eriklee1131 That why I spend tons of time reading comments (and writing my own) than it took me to watch the video.
Thanks for letting me know that there is such a thing as Team Aqua Boy. I think with certain builds, crafting skills (Gun Nut, Science, Armorer, Blacksmithing) may be considered mere convenience perks, as well, since you can find most mods on other weapons and armour you find or can buy. This only applies if you're not into settlement building.
i disagree there are many things you cannot get without these, such as many jetpack, gatling laser, etc
the chances of you finding the exact weapon you want are very rare
I normally use weapons and armor obtained from loot and do not do much upgrading before level 50 by which time I can overburden myself carrying nothing but components I obtained primarily by scrapping looted pipe weapons and raider armor. I never buy weapons or armor except for an occasional unique I may covet.
Scrounger is still pretty much my only perk I designate by level. From a play style, the rest can be worked around. I just really hate being forced to use a gun because I have no ammo for the one I want to use.
All other perks I will scramble to get are in fact companion and magazine perks. Double meat magazine, the Piper double exper on exploration perks? I go out of my way to get those as soon as I can. I've done the math and Piper perk early, amounts to around 5000 experience over a play through, even with a low intelligence build. Getting all 10 covert magazine perks is 50% sneak and I don't need to be any level to get them. Power perks aren't in the tree.
I don't know if this is a convinience perk, but i love steady aim because you can throw a long scope onto a gun, and still comfortably use it in closed quarters.
sneak, lockpick, hacker, and rifleman all get to within one level of max ASAP before I consider anything else, then even though it bugs me, I get INT, AGI, and PER before I got any of their 'dolls' (LOL). Same for Luck on this playthrough as well.
Thanks for this. I, like many others, find value in these perks. For me, trading off carry weight for a perk has been so very useful. Love your channel jv. Keep rocking.
The kind of ammo you find with scrounger is level based, .44 starts showing up after level 20(according to the wiki) but you'll find enough extra ammo of other types that you can just sell that off to get .44 from vendors.
If you enter vault 81 after completing a quest about some relationship problem and you will stand on Henry Cookes side you will get around 40 to 50 jet and you can sell one jet to the de luca guy in vault 81 for 75 caps!
You can get your companion to carry infinite stuff by telling him to carry it and he will pick it up even when he is totally full :)
BTW JV2017, you should be more intelligent about your targetting.
For melee attackers (Assaultrons seem to give you a lot of problems), simply concentrate your fire on their legs. They will be become crippled/disabled and you can then finish them off at your leisure. Assaultrons are terrible at ranged attacks and are very fast, so stop trying to take their heads off. Same goes for even the toughest ghouls, dogs, or Suiciders, simply take out one of their legs and then they're helpless.
For ranged attackers like Raiders or Gunners, aim for their arms or 'center mass'. I'd rather put 5 shots @ 95/100 into their chest than attempt 5 shots @ 65 into their heads. But regardless, if they carry a weapon, shoot that arm. It only takes one or two shots to make them drop their weapon and then they just dance around looking for a weapon to pick up. That's when you reload or queue up a bunch of VATS shots and finish them.
Crouch to shoot whenever you're not running. You take a lot of standing shots, and it makes your aim worse, not to mention you'll never get a Sneak attack (2.0x dmg) bonus that way. And, why don't you have a scoped rifle for longer shots? You got a "Mighty" (+25%) combat rifle in that attack on Vault 95, you should make that into a .308 sniper rifle, you'll do a lot of damage with that bad boy.
Lastly, when you have cover and are taking a shot of say, 30 feet or more, try throwing a couple of frag mines in front of your cover. If something closes on you, you back pedal a bit and let them run into the mines. If no one gets that close to you, just pick up your mines and set up at your next spot. You seem to spend a lot of time back pedaling and then having to retake a position you just held.
I think it would be neat if Awareness not only told you the enemy's stats and resistances, but also showed specifically what they were wearing on each body part when highlighted, not only the armor type but also what mods it has. Wouldn't be that game changing, but if you know that an enemy has a certain type of mod on their armor you may approach them differently.
Love your videos. obviously I take your perspective as your opinion, but your videos are well made and offer interesting insight. thanks, and keep up the good work!
That u said about Nick Valentine and quicksaving before you ask him to hack a terminal you dont need that just make sure you walk like 10 to 15 feet away from it you can ask him to try again!
I totally understand you in this video great job
The awareness perk can also help you uncover synths. They'll have a slight energy resistance that otherwise shouldn't be there.
As a mention, I find that Aquaboy/girl is a great perk when used for role-play. It's great fun trying to actually minimize your time on land and provides unusual challenges, but circumvents other difficulties.
my favorite two convince perks are the damage resistance ones and nuclear physicist (there is a ton of fusion core I had at one point 60+ fusion cores)
I don’t use power armor, but I hoard them like they’re going out of style. I had at one point 300+ cores before I sold a bunch!
@@zachshuler1143 hehe I'm glad I'm not the only hoarder
My hoarding got alot worse with the manufacturing dlc so many weapons and armor lol
First I want to compliment you on your videos. I've watched a few of them now and I do agree for the most part.
However, I'd argue that science, gun nut, blacksmith, and armorer are also convenience perks with the exception of maybe science and armorer simply because of the building structures and giving power armor different paint jobs for often trivial effects. Also there's the ballistic weave under-armor that you at least need armorer for (so I can see how these 2 could be taken off the convenience list). I have done several play-throughs and never put points into these 4. Yet I still had at least one or 2 fully modded weapons and 4 fairly high up modded weapons by like lvl 30 -- all from finding the parts on enemy guns, putting basic parts on that one then putting the upgraded part on mine -- all whilst only exploring about 1/4 or 1/3 of the map. Armor is a bit harder since there are so many different variations (raider, leather, metal, synth, etc and each of those having 3 subsets that determine the base stats of them) and it's generally just harder to find higher tier armor at lower levels anyway. But even then, I may not have had the best armor. Even so, you aren't going to have the best armor anyway at lower lvls so I was actually progressing at about a normal rate if not faster simply because I had all the extra screws, copper, metal, plastic, etc. that I could then use for building up structures or decorating or making chems and other stuff like that, which in turn gave me more exp to further build my character for those damage, sneak, and random skills like demolitions that I don't really need but allowed me to craft different grenades that are more effective when I got into those sticky situations or the opportunistic situations where a pack of 5 or 6 wild ghouls are grouped up. It could just be me but I feel these are the number 1 convenience perks that are kind of misconstrued as being necessary which is a HUGE lie. I play on survival difficulty, I always have and I rarely run into a mob that I can't kill with just mods for armor and weapons I have found on previous mobs I've killed. It may take a bit of sniping or making use of the terrain around me and setting some traps but it is possible and quite easy to do. The ONLY time I have ever used power armor is the very first minutemen quest in concord where you basically have to because you literally don't have any decent weapons and you can't complete the final objective unless you completely forgo that entire section until you get a better gear load-out and some more skills in your chosen skill tree.
Also, I feel hacker and locksmith should have been on the same one like on your 10 best perks video.
Again, I'm not trying to bash your opinion, I'm just trying to possibly give you a different perspective as well as constructive criticism on a small mistake. Obviously there are several more convenience perks and you can't list them all in an ordinal ranking video unless you somehow grouped them by aspects that they improved, like criticals, survivability, dmg, stealth, dialogue, general travel, etc. (which could actually be a beneficial video if you looked at different builds and emphasized the focus of some of them and the thought processes that likely go behind the builds for less experienced players which you seem to be doing anyway [ex. melee builds generally go for 1 hit kills for most things so you prioritize dmg then stealth, then criticals if you use vats a lot, with some survivability weaved in throughout where someone feels they are dying or coming close to dying too much to play comfortably]). Then, the people that watch that video can not only learn what they are possibly doing wrong, but different methods of thinking; which in turn can help them in any future games they play like this. So it is a learning experience that they can apply to other games that they may play.
I'm a fucking hoarder
200 space is being taken up on mine cause of all my weapons i want to keep but i only really use 1 or 2
Pickpocket is amazing, nothing like giving all enemy weapons to your allies before a fight. Also can you do a pirate build?
I'm glad you gave Aquaboy some credit. I agree it is more of a convenience rather than a real buff to your character, but I still like it.
The term you are looking for is the quality of life perks. They make the game more fluid by removing or minimising tedious activities but do not directly make you stronger.
Scrounger is a must have, even a melee build can just sell the extra ammo
Level 1 .38 rounds
Level 1 5mm rounds
Level 1 10mm rounds (patch >1.4)
Level 1 fusion cells (patch 1.4)
Level 1 shotgun shells (patch >1.4)
Level 5 .45 rounds
Level 5 .308 rounds
level 18 .50 caliber rounds
Level 19 plasma cartridges (patch 1.4)
Level 20 .44 rounds
Level 26 5.56mm rounds
Level 30 2mm EC (patch 1.4)
Aqua boy comes into use in the few areas we're thier is treasure underwater and some of them recycle after a few days
If Strong Back is a convenience perk because you could, in theory, just travel back and forth to get stuff more often, then by that logic most perks are convenience perks, because there's almost always an alternative method to dealing with whatever the perk offers. [With a few exceptions, like perks that without them you literally can't do whatever it is [pick harder locks, hack harder terminals, use better weapon mods, etc.]
I agree medic maxed is convenience perk, but I think the first level or two are less so. Maybe there are a lot of stimpaks, but I would rather take one versus 2 or 3. My opinion though.
I can see perk choice having more weight on the low levels of survival mode.
but without a level cap, on normal mode its possible to take everything ... eventually.
I would say that these are good ones for any playthrough:
1) Local Leader
2) Strong Back
3) Scrapper
4)Scrounger (probably not for a melee playthrough unless you need the fusion cores and/or REALLY want to sell the ammo)
5) Demolition Expert Rank 2 (That throwing arc is sweet)
And these you may or may not want depending on how you are playing (especially which companions you have):
6) Locksmith
7) Hacker
8) Lone Wanderer (if you use Dogmeat, this perk still applies fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Lone_Wanderer_(perk)
9) Medic (Survival playthrough or building Hospitals at settlements)
10) Awareness - but definitely my last pick though.
robotics expert can be one too. because you can make sentry bots and assaultrons your allies instead of your enemies
It's probably gonna be really good in automatron
It's probably gonna be really good in automatron
+G Bean lol i got it and 1 min later after i got 3rd rank i heard that automatron was a thing
+G Bean maybe not you have to destroy robots to get there parts maybe idk i have 5 perk points just waitin for the next dlc maby there are going to have new perks
Medic maxed out gives you full health with one stimpack. If you have armor with the auto-stim legendary effect, it will save your hind parts many, many times.
I think scrounger significantly undermines Fortune Finder. There is always ammo you're never gonna use in the game. Eventually you will no longer use .38 ammo, or you may upgrade your .45 combat rifle to a .308 reciever, so you will probably be selling a lot of .45 ammo. The point is you can get just as much money selling ammo as you can with Fortune finder, if not more. Beside, I love getting extra Fusion cores and Mini Nukes from the max out at Scrounger. The point is, you can get scrounger and never have to invest in fortune finger.
I suppose Big Sale could be a convenience perk. You can always grind for the caps, or just find the stuff you're buying out in the wastes, but it's just so much easier to get discounts and invest in stores so you can get good guns, lots of ammo, or supplies in general, rather than grind away at weaker enemies for supplies or farm for legendary items.
Fortune Finder is more of a hindrance in combat.
#1. Highest Rank makes enemies explode in a mess of blood and caps a little too much at times.
#2. You got to pick up the caps which is not good in the midst of combat since you got to look around at the ground to find the caps.
I like Mystery Man (or whatever it's called). I don't know if it's technically a convenience perk, but it could be because the way around it is: get better weopons. It's nice though, because the guy pretty much one hits anything, and it really encouraged a first time player like me to use VATS. Now in almost every battle, I use VATS, because there's the prospect of getting crits, and the mystery man
mystery stranger?
Miles Upshur I think that's what he's called. I'm not sure though
John Roberts it's called the mysterious stranger.
Many times he does not show up until you are only 1 or 2 shots from killing the baddie. He just finishes the target for you.
Should have Quick Hands rank 1 on there, faster reloading is great.
well this isn't call of duty, it isn't a twitch shooter where the kill time is lower than 5 seconds, yo
pro tip shot automatron on legs they don't have armor on legs
I love using auto weapons in bullet time, which means that I burn through ammo at a disgusting rate. Since I use an ammo crafting mod, I find Scrapper + Scrounger a good investment of Perk points. In the long run, Caps Collector 3 + Local Leader 2 is also an effective way to collect the ammo I need.
I actually use the VAFS mod, which I highly recommend for shooty builds.
I almost always pick Awareness. Not for offense, but to easily see the defensive value of my settlers. I geek out over my settlements and my settlers are always armed to the teeth and wearing good defensive gear (usually combat armor I pick off dead enemies). Needless to say, attacks on my settlements always fail.
Scrounger is pretty damned essential if you're playing any kind of automatic weapons build, whether it's using Commando for tommies and combat rifles or Heavy Gunner for the big frigging Minigun.
I get what he's saying here, because aquaboy and Vans for example from a longplay perspective can be useless but has an convenience perk it can be really usefull, i mean all changes when you cange the perspective, like Einstein once sayd "All is relative" so your take on anything depends on your referential.
I’d argue technically for those people who don’t take crafting perks they’d fit in as convenience too
I love aqua boy aswell as I love exploring around and it saves radaways wich are a bit more scare early on
Maybe next time top 10 perk combos, my idea solar energy, ghoul like and lifegiver.
The best combo is Blitz with Ninja
Have to disagree on fortune finder. It is a good jumpstart for finding caps at the beginning. Lev.4 can make enemies explode with caps so along with the few caps the body has on them there are aditional caps on the ground best I've seen so far is +45 caps. Same with scrounger. Finding more ammo is good but at full rank it can reload your clip without taking ammo out of your stock. Ammo can also be used as cap-cash. Got 1388 .38 bullets but not using any .38 firing weapons? Sell it all and you now have 1388 caps to barter with. I use these when I want to by material shipments. Also save your food items. Setup abernathy to produce all the food needed for making refreshing beverage. Once you have that nuka collas fancy lad snack etc are pretty worthles for health. Sell them to a trader and buy materials or what you need. Pack mual as it's called in my game allows you to fast travel overweight at full rank but you have to put up with hearing your character running out of breath every 5 secs until you return to your settlement. Hope I helped a few out with this.
I'm the ultimate hoarder no items gets left behind that's why i always get strong back perk XD
You might not agree with me, but I use white as my pip-boy light (mostly for the flashlight tbh) and pink as my HUD color. I think the pink looks really cool.
Survival mode reshuffles some from convenience, into must-haves. Aquaboy 1 is S tier, for example. Quick, encounter-free travel, no items needed. Local Leader 1, for supply lines, to drop off meat anywhere, and cook only what you need anywhere. Besides the obvious shared workshop. Moving Target 3, Action Boy 3, because traveling everywhere becomes much , much faster. Basically, as you can see, traveling efficiently is S tier, to me. The game is much more fun. No need to run everywhere, constantly stopping and waiting to slowly regenerate AP and do random fights.
I never sprint. I prefer to have a full load of Action Points if I get into a sudden firefight. Besides sprinting for 50-100 yards then stopping to regen AP is a total waste. I just jog if I am in a hurry.
@@edmartin875 Hey, i hear you, if you don’t have a build that’s built to sprint, sprinting soon leaves you out of AP and defenseless.
But when you do, it’s like comparing apples to oranges. No way do i want to play on Survival, without fast travel, and just jog.
My build drains AP so slowly while sprinting, it’s hard to even tell the meter is draining. Distance-wise, around 300 yards. And I’m ready to go again in 5 seconds.
@@edmartin875 Hey there. I need to correct myself. I did a test. I sprinted non-stop from the far SE corner, starting at Warwick settlement, all the way to Sanctuary. I only needed to jog 3 times to regen AP. I sprinted for 4 bars worth of AP.
That’s basically 2 bars of AP to go halfway across the map with one jog to regen. I can go from corner to corner, across almost the entire map, with only 30 seconds spent jogging, the rest sprinting. (Level 53. 245 AP. AP bar fully regens in just 10sec) No drugs were used. No consumables either.
I don’t know what distance that is in yards, Warwick to Sanctuary. But if you’re only sprinting 50-100 yards before you need to jog and regen AP, you’re probably taking 20-30 jog breaks to go that far.
All of this goes to dispelling your concern. You’re worried about getting enemies catching without AP. As you can imagine, I’m almost never in that position. I could sprint from Sanctuary to Diamond City, never letting my AP bar go below half, and i can get there having only spent 15 seconds of the trip jogging. 4 half bars of AP, and 3 five second jogs.
When it’s all said and done, Survival requires running everywhere. No fast travel. And i love a build that can easily handle that.
I think scrounger is useful if your build is based on the Commando Perk, since automatic weapons use more amunition per kill, even if you are a good shot. The combat rifle is very good with burst fire, but you use at least 3 rounds to kill something that would only need one with a semi automatic with the rifleman perk. It's even more useful imo if you consider the assault rifle and the minigun. But I agree that if you have a rifleman based build the scrouger perk is a bit useless.
if your a hoarder use the supply lines. I,ve never used the strong back perk. use the lone wanderer perk and send your companion to your desired settlements.you'll increase your carrying capacity in seconds.if your still overweight call a bird and get air lifted out.. those perk points you use could be easily be put in stats that can really be helpful.
Medic perk is also necessary to build the top tier medical clinic at your settlements.
I like the robotic expert perk because you can shut down robots and then destroy them to get the stuff that they drop, and at the second rank you get the automatron DLC early (if you don't get it, look it up and you'll understand)
Having somebody else picking locks and hacking locks for you is a convenience? Never thought of it that way before.
I have both, I like to pick locks and hacking computers in the game. In real life I don't think I would ever been so successful at it.
I love scrounger because I frequently sell useless ammo for money. It’s potentially thousands of caps in gear with 0 weight burden
i wish there where a perk that would let u pick up EVERYTHING automaticlly :D
There is probably a mod for that. I know there is a scrap everything mod for settlement building.
I always have to take lock pick and hacker...can't stand not opening a container or door.
Likewise I always feel compelled to get scrounger to make lock pick and hacker worth it.
I sometimes get at least one or two ranks of fortune finder at most...because anything more and you'll literally find caps everywhere...which breaks the game and any immersion.
As a console peasant I don't exactly have access to the best mods or console commands...so I try to create my own custom difficulty with my character perks set up and some self imposed restrictions as I find survival pretty obnoxious and tedious in some key respects.
I love some of the ideas but mostly it's a chore and becomes tedious rather quickly, plus it forces a very narrow play style and practically demands ya waste all your perk points on what I consider boring "quality of life" stuff to offset or compensate for survival mode rules.
If I could (without the need for mods) toggle a few of the settings or hell if there was just a more appropriate time scale or the ability to set certain food items and water to be consumed automatically instead of having to stop and do it manually every five or ten minutes...if that was an option I'd love survival mode and probably only ever play on that setting.
As it is I usually play on a lower difficulty but refuse to take any health medic or damage resistance perks, I'll turn off auto save refuse to fast travel and only save when I'm either at a settlement, faction base or "safe" city zone etc...
I generally build vats characters with max agility and perception, as I love gun fu and concentrated fire, I also dig penetrator...so I choose or build light gear to compliment that, I eventually try to raise luck, intelligence, strength and my other special stats to levels where I can get grim reapers sprint critical banker and few quality of life perks like strong back etc...
Rifleman is my go to weapon perk and energy weapons are my favourite, I.E the laser "righteous authority" danse gives you which I usually get pretty early on and between his mission and killing kellog...there's a shitload of ammo to be had so I generally rush to those...plus I always want the brotherhood to arrive as quickly as possible because they add a certain chaotic and bad ass vibe to exploring the commonwealth.
Eventually I get bored though and want to play with the other "toys"...sometimes ya just want to blow shit up and cut loose with a mini gun or charge in pumped up on psycho jet and hack a few raiders to death with a flaming sword or battle axe.
I also like to mod, customise and improve my favourite weapons instead of just swapping randomly to whatever I can find or has the most ammo...so I tend to sell slash swap 10mm 38 and 45 for 9which I always seem to have in abundance for what I really want or need at that moment.
Point is on lower difficulties there's more room to experiment with the games features and change up ya play style if it starts to feel stale...it's a pity there isn't a way to reset your perk points
Action Boy. Even on builds that don't use VATs. It allows for more sprinting, jet pack use, etc depending on build
Actually jet packing is fusioncore related not ap unless I'm wrong if is correct me please
My problem with strong back is the required strength stat in the first place. If I had 6 strength, I wouldn't need this perk. Maybe a heavy weapons/power armor user in survival mode because of how heavy that ammo is.
You may have had this suggestion in the past, but I'm thinking that the next time I start over, I'm going to hoard anything with ballistic fiber in another container (i.e. not my workshops) from the beginning of the game so that when I'm finally able to get to Armor 4 and work with the Railroad, I can just build the suit I want and not have to zip all over the common wealth going to vendors looking for raw materials.
You can also buy shipments of 25 ballistic fiber from some vendors early too. But, yeah, I do the same thing. I have about 15 red toolbox containers at my home base where I put certain items in with it's own kind to help me keep track of items of interest.
I haven't messed with Rank 2 of aquaboy because it seems to conditional but I can see where it can come in handy but rank one is more than worth it if nothing else it saves travel time
i almost always get the strong back perk because i’m a bit of a hoarder. that’s also why i almost always have strong as a companion