@WillowPlaysGames if you complete the diamond city blues quest and kill everyone and take all the drugs, i usually sell 90% of all the drugs from the quest which leaves me with plenty of each, and enough caps to trade for overseers guardian.
@@Eric-gd6fr i just go straight for the explosive radium rifle in the nucleus because its less than 1000 caps. You can buy it with sanctuary gold bars. Plus everything you see on tables in the nucleus is free and can be sold back to the vendors there. Its just like nuka world market in that sense. Then do the mariners quest for 4k caps. Theres a guy carrying like 4k caps during the quest. All you gotta do is take it. Hes the guy who approaches you and tries to buy the tools. Do not sell him the tools. You have to kill him to get all the caps, but you can not just kill him outright. Attempt to pickpocket him and fail. This will aggro him, allowing your kill to be considered "self defense". This way you wont be locked out of other quests for killing him and you get an easy 4k caps. Also, little known fact, but the robes of atoms devoted you get upon entering the nucleus offer radiation immunity, AND give you full hp while sumultaneously allowing you to max rads. You can exploit this for double damage AND keeping full HP when using the perks "crusader of atom" or "inquisitor of atom". Its much better than walking around with 10% HP. The robes can accept ballistic weave as well. So youll still have at least halfway decent armor while having full HP. You can always use mods that allow for clothing layering with armor if you really want to, but its not actually needed for the build to work. It also scales with junkies weapons. Another fun fact, junkies scales all damage types. A junkies gamma gun with lorenzos artifact on an inquisitor of atom character can one shot literally anything without stealth or crits. It even multiplies the explosive range of the explosion. Its unbeliebably overpowered. Especially with the repeater on it, which makes each vats shoot 3 shot bursts. It makes the explosive combat shotgun look like a toy. Ive compared them and its not even remotely close. Junkies automatic lorenzos artifact gun blows every other weapon out of the water. Just keep in mind that it even though its called "automatic", it doesnt benefit from commando, but instead uses gunslingers. Btw, its technically possible to end up with both inquisitor of atom and crusador of atom perks, which quadruples your damage, BUT its glitchy. Im not entirely sure how it happened. I was playing on survival and died and lost a bunch, then when i redid the quests i did them differently the second time. Then noticed my damage was INSANE, so i checked my perks and saw i still had the other perk too as if i had done the quests the other way. So aslong as i kept the robes of atoms devoted on i had full HP, full rads, and rad immunity, plus 4× damage, times the 2.8 times damage from junkies. I was doing well over 10 times normal damage per shot, not even including the fact that the artifact gun benefits from demolition expert, and gunslinger, AND nuclear physicist. ALL of those perks scale together too. It gets to like 30× damage or more compared to a lvl 1 character
I loved my survival playthrough. Couple of tips: - Creating settlements and having caravans between them is useful. - Get rid of all molotovs. If you equip them by mistake and throw one thinking it's a grenade in close quarters, you are pretty much done. - Joining the institute will let you teleport to their headquarters, which can somewhat mitigate the lack of fast travel. - Strong back is a must. - Companions are useful as extra carrying space.
Boom. Headshot Sniping's a good job mate. Challenging work. Outa doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, as long there are two people left on the planet, someone is going to want someone dead. Ooh Dad... I'm a... I'm not a crazed gunman dad, I'm an assassin. Well the difference being ones a job and the other's mental sickness! I'll be honest with you, my parents, do not care for it. I think his mate saw me. Yes, yes he did. Feelings? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes who bludgeon their wives to death with a gold trophy. Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
@@WillowPlaysGames - Generally, I run snipers high PER for access to important snipey perks, low END because when you snipe right, you don't get hit. Much. As far as survival skills, really Aquaboy/girl is the only one that might sway me, but with a metric ton of anti-rad resources in the game, I find it's more an exploration convenience than anything.
@@xaosbob the only perks that help with sniping are VATS related.VATS was banned. Endurance in survival is more useful, every bit of health and resistance does a lot considering how damage and health are in survival
I love playing games at high difficulty, and for that, sniper builds are THE way to go for me, if I wanna have any kind of immersion. - Otherwise enemies are just bullet sponges, and game balance then turns automatic guns into pretty much just... airsoft rifles. Playing sniper actually makes bullets feel real, plus it plays into the whole idea of "ammo is supposed to be scarce, make the most of every bullet". And when resource management becomes a thing, it also becomes the only viable way to play. - Look at Elden Ring, where you have a maximum of 198 arrows you can carry on you at a time, if you want to play primarily with bows or crossbows, you end up -needing- to play for maximum damage per unit of ammunition, otherwise you might kill things fast but you'll end up not being able to kill as many things before needing to refill.
Excellent video! The "no Sneak" was an interesting wrinkle. It's pretty much a given for me on Survival. Challenge ideas: Institute Laser only (an easy one, since the Danse quest gives you so much ammo). .44 pistol only (no silencer and rare ammo early on) Finish Nuka World with Raider gear only (raider armor and pipe weapons to get through the Gauntlet, then anything you can get in the park itself)
A few things: 1. There is a guaranteed Pipe Bolt Action Sniper Rifle in Concord. To find it, stand at the door to the Museum of Freedom (as if you’re about to go inside). Turn left. The last house on the right at the far end of the street can be entered. Upstairs is the Rifle. No ammo, but it’s an easy and quick way to get a starter Sniper Rifle. 2. Non-ballistic damage is bugged. It only uses the weapon mods to determine damage. Perks, Magazines, Bobbleheads, etc, are not included. A mod was recently released that corrects that (Energy Weapon Calculation Fix), which I highly recommend downloading immediately.
Not seen anyone else mention it but ever since you wrote "budbloog" in one of your videos, I can't stop calling bloodbugs, "budbloogs" either. I'm glad you continue this newfound name into your other Fallout videos, thanks!
Personally banning the sneak perk doesn't make sense to me, as snipers utilize stealth to the max, they try to remain hidden, but i can understand to not use it for a cakewalk playthrough
I understand why he didn't go with the perk. But avoiding stealth doesn't make much sense. So no sneak skill but sneaking seems right. Because even with a surpressed rifle and stealthing about enemies will find you, so every dungeon quickly evolves into "stealth is optional"
Nice work! I think sniper only is a bit easy (compare to your previous runs), If you want more challenge idea, I highly recommend doing an explosive only run, which would be very fun I guess :3
when you do the quest for Paladin Danse and you are at arc jets building when you are about to turn the rocket engine on, before pressing the red button to turn the engine on you can let danse attack the snyths and they will just keep dropping from the ceiling and you can wait for however long you want so the fusion cells just keep piling up from all of the snyths that die 13:25. (I got this from a different video I saw one time I didn't figure it out myself)
@@raideranimator6091 sneak doesnt make it too easy its only with sneak attacks that make it easy because lots of enemies will detect you fast even with max sneak
Challenge ideas: in fallout 3 and 4 enemies scale with your level… but what if they didn’t? What if max level enemies spawned immediately and you could only improve via books? What if you treated fallout as a rogue lite with one life only and max level enemies immediately? How would you survive and complete its story.
Only sniper rifles y'say? For those who want to try this challenge with a lil' more leeway: Sniper's still carry a pistil or two and a good ol' knife for when shit happens up close, so maybe you could have a 10mm pistol fill that role, maybe you get a grenade choice as well if you wanna make it extra easy X)
At first I was like "What do you mean 'Can I survive'? Stealth Sniper is like the easiest build to run with!" But then I saw your rules, and I stood corrected. Some of them aren't so bad though. I almost never use VATS (too immersion-breaking and annoyingly unreliable) or power armor (too clunky, and it adds complications to your logistics and capabilities as a player that outweigh the benefits, imo) in my runs anyway, so I just shrugged there. But yeesh, nothing BUT sniper weapons and no Sneak Perk? That's painful.
power armor makes runs so much easier once you learn how to stock up on fusion cores, it does make stealth impossible but the way it allows you to tank damage is really really useful. It feels less clunky when you use it enough and get around it's movement. VATS isn't immersion breaking to me as it is a part of the lore and overall I find it extremely reliable as long as you build correctly.
@@WillowPlaysGames Yeah, by about the mid-game, fusion cores are not a problem anymore. As for the rest, I think it's just a matter of personal preference. I know that VATS is a real thing in the lore, but, as ridiculous as this might sound considering that I'm talking about a video game, it's too "video gamey" for me. It just doesn't FEEL realistic to the setting or the environment, even though it genuinely is. As for Power Armor, it just doesn't fit my preferred playstyle. I tend to play fast, stealthy, skill-and-strategy based character builds. Power Armor is a blunt instrument made for brute force, which is anathema to the way I like to play. The added annoyance of keeping up on fusion cores and part repairs, as well as the major crimp carrying broken or spare power armor parts puts on your carrying capacity, is just the icing on the cake of why I don't like to use it.
I just prefer the Fallout 1 and 2 targeting options. You could blind enemies or shoot them in the groin. At higher skill levels, you had a chance of landing instant kills regardless of the damage roll.
Nice, i thought this would be easy but i guess i was wrong. but i find it funny in this game that you can take a minigun to the face while wearing a dress and still beat a bos soldier in full power armor. so, when will the fatman only survival run come? :D
Hearing you call them "budbloogs" always makes my day, and then your laugh at trying to say activate gave me quite the smile. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into your videos. Keep it up
Dead could make sense if the safehouse doesn't know who or where anyone from the main base is. They would only know where the dead drop is and could have some long-range signal to indicate a message ready for pickup. Whether our flag is raised or if a certain light is on.This would provide a long distance signal to indicate the dead drop is ready for pickup. Im this scenario the dad drops me set up for a long time and if the super mutants moved in after we set up the railroad outpost we have no choice but run the dead drop to that location anyway.
tell me you have never fired a gun without telling me you have never fired a gun. I'd agree with my character would struggle with handling any rifle for a long period of time, but that's because of weight. Actually firing a gun and withstanding it's recoil isn't particularly difficult, especially with rifles. the hunting rifle which is the primary weapon of the run is a .308 rifle, you can google it and see for yourself that it only produces 16 foot pounds of recoil. which isn't unmanageable.
@WillowPlaysGames I did say most. I was just pointing it out. I thought it was funny for a sniper being, really skinny. When I think of elite snipers, I think of the large caliber ones that feel like you're firing a cannon. I did fire guns before, too. I didn't mean it in a rude way.
Taking down wolfgang, one frag grenade took him and his friend out in a cloud of gunpowder smoke. No demo expert required to do this either. Explosives are crazy op on survival. I do suggest two perks into explosive expert though as being able to craft mines and nades and have a throwing arc for nades is amazing.
I know you can, but in honor of Paul of Mitten Squad. Ill stick around to see how this goes. -Edit here Basically what I expected, but i did laugh a few more times than i thought i would. Pretty good video.
glad you enjoyed, he was an inspiration to many. hope ya stick around. Also, paul did some challenges that were a bit obviously doable as well. I like to think that challenges are more about telling a story than answering a question. if you can deal damage in any capacity you can beat these games.
@@WillowPlaysGames You know what, didn't expect a response, think I will subscribe. He truly was, helped get a lot of people through hard times too. That being said I did like your script, it's nothing Zany or over the top (for my levels at least haha) that I usually like but I think that's percectly alright and still entertaining. I'm usually into over 20 minute long videos so I think I'm gonna like your channel. Take it easy and don't overwork yourself, I think I'll go rooting through another video of yours and see what's up.
I was extremely surprised to see Overseer's Guardian absent from this party. Grant you, it's an expensive early game cap sink, especially if you don't have Charisma, but Grape Mentats could be a huge help with that.
Of course it's possible! Things can go sideways when there are too many enemies very close to you and snipers are very low on speed when it means to take down folks in close distance.
I found this channel and Juts gotta say I love this kinds of videos does fallout 4 runs: Ayo nice does straight to the point runs while varying factions: AYO NICE uses Mods and explains how he uses them: AYYYYOOOOOO NOICE Always Blows up the Institute: AAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOO NNNNNOOOOOOIIIICCCCEE Subbed, liked, and waiting for more
CHALLAGE IDEA- Can you beat fallout 4 with only power armor RULES: You can only use power armor to deal damage(punching, falling, egcting cores ect.) Only armor you can use is power armor good luck :)
I must addmit, after this whole shorts push of RUclips, it is very enjoyable to wathc long format Videos liek in the old days, especialy in a Game I know and love
No shot I would do this run as anything but brotherhood, traveling with vertibirds is invaluable, also when he laid out the rules for the run I honestly thought he was gonna be a true psychopath and use vanilla scopes, which are ABSOLUTELY GARBAGE... The lines are so thin you can't see them even on the best backdrops, and anything even slightly dark?... So like... The whole game... Yeah those lines disappear, and from any true range you can barely tell if you're dead center even when you can see the lines, so I definitely understand modding scopes I do the same thing even on PS4, I use a hand painted style scope (no idea how they did it either cause they can only use vanilla assets which makes me feel like Bethesda had all these better options and then just consciously used... THE WORST FUCKIN ONE EVER IN ALL OF HISTORY), also when he mentioned which guns can get the sniper suffix I immediately thought of the handmade lol, fully decked out it hits the hardest with the fastest fire rate (truly as fast as you can pull the trigger) with a quick eject 75 round drum mag, suppressor and no recoil lol
Sorry for necroposting. Tinker Tom sells a unique sniper rifle. Its special feature relates to VATS, so it would not be useful in this run, but it comes with a silencer, so doing sneaky sniper shots is a lot easier with it. You would have a lot less trouble sniping people in many locations. Even without the Sneak perk.
While many suggestions are fanciful, this one I’ve actually done-> No Aid items consumption. No Power Armor. No Companions. Survival. The last 3 are pretty standard. The interesting twist is no aid items. No Stimpacks, RadAway. No Chems/drugs. No Stealth Boys. No Nuka Colas. No water. No food. Anything listed in the Aid Items section. (I did allow for noodle cups, to heal hunger and thirst fatigue states. If you use them to clear both states, you won’t heal hp). It’s not a crazy hard challenge. It’s fun. You look at perks differently when they are what you use to survive. You also have to adapt to a different playstyle. If you want a little extra challenge, kill the institute-> can’t eat synths 👹👹👹
Your channel is flying up my dude, I'm glad I can be here early before you get famous :* Keep uo the good work, these videos are super long yet still entertaining and that's rare. You rock, wish you all the best, I'll follow your work. Adios :]
I'm a little surprised you never attempted to get a Gauss Rifle. I understand that the ammo is heavy in survival mode, while also being rare and expensive, but it really would've come in handy for some of the tougher encounters towards the end of the game. Oh wait, is it because it never technically gets the word "sniper" in the name even if you mod it into what is effectively a sniper rifle? Or maybe you felt it would've made the end-game too easy? Also, this was a great video, and I'm impressed that you beat the game as a sniper, while on the highest difficult (plus survival mode) in addition to having so many self-imposed restrictions. Great job! 😄👏
Fair enough, and you managed to do it without a Gauss rifle anyway. Also, I’d be interested in seeing you try a survival playthrough with pistols only. Maybe see if others would also be interested in such a thing?
I love this run keep up the good work . I’d like to finish by asking the question can you beat fallout for survival as a handyman only a pipe wrench in the junk jet for damage and you must wear the maintenance or red rocket coveralls As soon as possible and remain in them the entire game no power armor and for headgear you can only wear either the hardhat or mining helmet .
As a sniper in the game, my go-to weapon (if I can find it) is the lever action rifle with the two shot legendary perk Mostly because it doesn’t shoot two bullets, it just doubles the damage of the one bullet it fires outright
Will say yes no stealth perks adds to the challedge but in reality stealth is a big thing for snipers being able to get out of tight situation and get into position of advatage are all big things for snipers so but good chalendge none the less
can you make a second part where you complete the dlc's? That would be awesome and it also gives you more weapons to experiment with. Love your vids btw!!!
`21:45 Fun fact: The usual armaments of a sniper typically consist of a pistol as well as a rifle. Using a pistol in CQC wouldn't violate the run in my books, so long as you don't have a pistol build. Someone actually tried using IRL sniper tactics in a FPS. It worked out rather well for him. `38:35 Next challenge: Can I beat Fallout 2 (other than the Temple of Trials) with just a Solar Scorcher? Answer: No. You'd run out of ammo too often, and you can only charge it in really bright light. In addition, you'd have to cheat in the Scorcher, as it's only available in a unique random encounter that's unlocked at level 12. If you cheat one or two in at the beginning of the game in or around Arroyo, then I don't see a problem with that.
“Can you beat Skyrim as the Champion of the Daedra?” Rules: Only weapons allowed are daedric artifacts Must collect all Daedric artifacts If an artifact has multiple choices, choose the one that is the Daedric side (ex: Azura’s Star over The Black Star) Can only heal with Namira’s Ring This is what I can think of, if you have more ideas feel free to add
For a minute I thought this was going to be the dumbest challenge ever, I mean playing a sniper is the EASIEST way to survive, But then you said no sneak, and I was like oh hell is this even possible.
Saw this idea in a comment on a fallout 4 meme here on RUclips. Picky eater playthrough, where you're on survival difficulty but you can only consume pre war food items. This was suggested by @mistaOppritunity so credit goes to him, excellent idea
While I understand the theme is sniping, unless he has a death wish, no sniper would be caught dead without a sidearm. If the option is there, the sniper will always carry one; specifically for up-close engagements that make this run as hard as it's supposed to be. If a companion is brought along, I'd give them a rifle or shotgun while I'd carry a pistol. If solo is the name of the game, then I would take an SMG / PDW.
In this game I'd avoid the SMG because that'll deplete your combat rifle ammo. I'd go pistol or maybe melee/unarmed weapon. Gun bash perk is mandatory for snipers.
@@BigDavetheMiddleAgeGamer This is why we mod. Get an ammo / receiver mod, make the weapons actually take the ammo they should be taking, learn some entry level game dev coding skills, and then be salty the rest of your life when you tell people to never pay full price for a Bethesda game because you'll have to learn how to become a developer yourself if you want to enjoy it, just like me. Seriously, an SMG uses PISTOL ammo. It's a sub-caliber machinegun (SMG). A rifle is supposed to use rifle rounds. GG Bethesda. Fucking uninstall your dev team.
I have an idea for a challenge run... A Legendary Challenge Run. Using the following rules: You can only use LOOTED Legendary weapons and armour. Which means no mission rewards or legendary items bought from vendors. You must use the Legendary Apocalypse mod. You must also use the War of the Commonwealth mod. And of course, you'll be playing it on Survival Difficulty. I have already completed this run twice, including playing through the three main DLCs (Far Harbor, Automatron and Nuka World). Although I have no video to prove it, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
“No VATS or Power Armor”
Understandable
“No sneak”
You have my undivided attention
Understandable, but for me it was more like:
“No VATS”
You have my undivided attention.
“No sneak”
You had my attention, now you have my respect.
792 likes and only 1 reply? Lemme fix dat
Me fix too
he did sneak
@@damienhehe means no sneak perks
Next time, try playing with your left hand while sitting on the bottle and shouting Hallelujah every 27 seconds. This will be epic.
Are you high?
oof..
huh
Uhh.....what?
Pretty easy run I’d say but would be a good idea
Kinda surprised you didn't go for overseers guardian and turn it into a 2 shot sniper
I thought about it but never really had the caps. Should of gotten it instead of getting old faithful
@WillowPlaysGames if you complete the diamond city blues quest and kill everyone and take all the drugs, i usually sell 90% of all the drugs from the quest which leaves me with plenty of each, and enough caps to trade for overseers guardian.
@@Eric-gd6fr i just go straight for the explosive radium rifle in the nucleus because its less than 1000 caps. You can buy it with sanctuary gold bars. Plus everything you see on tables in the nucleus is free and can be sold back to the vendors there. Its just like nuka world market in that sense. Then do the mariners quest for 4k caps. Theres a guy carrying like 4k caps during the quest. All you gotta do is take it. Hes the guy who approaches you and tries to buy the tools. Do not sell him the tools. You have to kill him to get all the caps, but you can not just kill him outright. Attempt to pickpocket him and fail. This will aggro him, allowing your kill to be considered "self defense". This way you wont be locked out of other quests for killing him and you get an easy 4k caps. Also, little known fact, but the robes of atoms devoted you get upon entering the nucleus offer radiation immunity, AND give you full hp while sumultaneously allowing you to max rads. You can exploit this for double damage AND keeping full HP when using the perks "crusader of atom" or "inquisitor of atom". Its much better than walking around with 10% HP. The robes can accept ballistic weave as well. So youll still have at least halfway decent armor while having full HP. You can always use mods that allow for clothing layering with armor if you really want to, but its not actually needed for the build to work. It also scales with junkies weapons. Another fun fact, junkies scales all damage types. A junkies gamma gun with lorenzos artifact on an inquisitor of atom character can one shot literally anything without stealth or crits. It even multiplies the explosive range of the explosion. Its unbeliebably overpowered. Especially with the repeater on it, which makes each vats shoot 3 shot bursts. It makes the explosive combat shotgun look like a toy. Ive compared them and its not even remotely close. Junkies automatic lorenzos artifact gun blows every other weapon out of the water. Just keep in mind that it even though its called "automatic", it doesnt benefit from commando, but instead uses gunslingers.
Btw, its technically possible to end up with both inquisitor of atom and crusador of atom perks, which quadruples your damage, BUT its glitchy. Im not entirely sure how it happened. I was playing on survival and died and lost a bunch, then when i redid the quests i did them differently the second time. Then noticed my damage was INSANE, so i checked my perks and saw i still had the other perk too as if i had done the quests the other way. So aslong as i kept the robes of atoms devoted on i had full HP, full rads, and rad immunity, plus 4× damage, times the 2.8 times damage from junkies. I was doing well over 10 times normal damage per shot, not even including the fact that the artifact gun benefits from demolition expert, and gunslinger, AND nuclear physicist. ALL of those perks scale together too. It gets to like 30× damage or more compared to a lvl 1 character
@@alexcrowder1673 thanks im writing all of this down
@@alexcrowder1673dude came and wrote EVERYTHING about fallout 4
I loved my survival playthrough. Couple of tips:
- Creating settlements and having caravans between them is useful.
- Get rid of all molotovs. If you equip them by mistake and throw one thinking it's a grenade in close quarters, you are pretty much done.
- Joining the institute will let you teleport to their headquarters, which can somewhat mitigate the lack of fast travel.
- Strong back is a must.
- Companions are useful as extra carrying space.
Yeah but lone wolf is good too
I usually go brotherhood instead for the vertibirds which is something that is pretty much only useful in survival
Get the dog meat perk and lonwanderer perk giving you a total 35% less damage overall taken
Put the Dense mod on your chest armor and u can eat molotovs
Boom. Headshot
Sniping's a good job mate. Challenging work. Outa doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, as long there are two people left on the planet, someone is going to want someone dead.
Ooh
Dad... I'm a... I'm not a crazed gunman dad, I'm an assassin. Well the difference being ones a job and the other's mental sickness!
I'll be honest with you, my parents, do not care for it.
I think his mate saw me.
Yes, yes he did.
Feelings? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes who bludgeon their wives to death with a gold trophy.
Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
*dies from random uzi crit*
“Dad, put-… Put Mum on the phone…”
Ruddy hell MEDIC
That's... that's one hell of a gilly suit you're wearing.
lol
It's made for sniping from a clothing store
Ooh, at first I thought this challenge would be too easy, but with no Vats, Sneak, or power armor, this might be a challenge. Cool!
made it interesting!
@@WillowPlaysGames - Starting with PER 2 and END 8 was also an...interesting choice for a sniper. ;)
@@xaosbob without vats there's no point in perception. And if endurance includes survival skills then endurance makes sense
@@WillowPlaysGames - Generally, I run snipers high PER for access to important snipey perks, low END because when you snipe right, you don't get hit. Much.
As far as survival skills, really Aquaboy/girl is the only one that might sway me, but with a metric ton of anti-rad resources in the game, I find it's more an exploration convenience than anything.
@@xaosbob the only perks that help with sniping are VATS related.VATS was banned. Endurance in survival is more useful, every bit of health and resistance does a lot considering how damage and health are in survival
I love playing games at high difficulty, and for that, sniper builds are THE way to go for me, if I wanna have any kind of immersion. - Otherwise enemies are just bullet sponges, and game balance then turns automatic guns into pretty much just... airsoft rifles.
Playing sniper actually makes bullets feel real, plus it plays into the whole idea of "ammo is supposed to be scarce, make the most of every bullet".
And when resource management becomes a thing, it also becomes the only viable way to play. - Look at Elden Ring, where you have a maximum of 198 arrows you can carry on you at a time, if you want to play primarily with bows or crossbows, you end up -needing- to play for maximum damage per unit of ammunition, otherwise you might kill things fast but you'll end up not being able to kill as many things before needing to refill.
Excellent video! The "no Sneak" was an interesting wrinkle. It's pretty much a given for me on Survival.
Challenge ideas:
Institute Laser only (an easy one, since the Danse quest gives you so much ammo).
.44 pistol only (no silencer and rare ammo early on)
Finish Nuka World with Raider gear only (raider armor and pipe weapons to get through the Gauntlet, then anything you can get in the park itself)
@maestrofeli4259 Yeah, I double checked the Playlist, saw the revolver run. I like watching challenge runs, I forget which channel did what.
I always think that you can beat the runs. No doubts
Oh and happy Halloween
Trying to beat the runs is how you end up throwing your pants in the trash. Never try to beat the runs. The runs always wins.
A few things:
1. There is a guaranteed Pipe Bolt Action Sniper Rifle in Concord. To find it, stand at the door to the Museum of Freedom (as if you’re about to go inside). Turn left. The last house on the right at the far end of the street can be entered. Upstairs is the Rifle. No ammo, but it’s an easy and quick way to get a starter Sniper Rifle.
2. Non-ballistic damage is bugged. It only uses the weapon mods to determine damage. Perks, Magazines, Bobbleheads, etc, are not included. A mod was recently released that corrects that (Energy Weapon Calculation Fix), which I highly recommend downloading immediately.
Not seen anyone else mention it but ever since you wrote "budbloog" in one of your videos, I can't stop calling bloodbugs, "budbloogs" either. I'm glad you continue this newfound name into your other Fallout videos, thanks!
“so i head off to do just that” merch would go hard asf
Personally banning the sneak perk doesn't make sense to me, as snipers utilize stealth to the max, they try to remain hidden, but i can understand to not use it for a cakewalk playthrough
I understand why he didn't go with the perk.
But avoiding stealth doesn't make much sense. So no sneak skill but sneaking seems right. Because even with a surpressed rifle and stealthing about enemies will find you, so every dungeon quickly evolves into "stealth is optional"
Nice work! I think sniper only is a bit easy (compare to your previous runs), If you want more challenge idea, I highly recommend doing an explosive only run, which would be very fun I guess :3
Just started a grenades only run can catch the first live stream vod with channel membership!
"It will put me out of my comfort zone as I use iron sights" me sweating because I use iron sights on snipers
My wife performs a magic trick by catching a bullet before freezing again
You have a great narrative, comedy and engagement in your way of describing it. Amazing 😊👌
Wow, thank you!
when you do the quest for Paladin Danse and you are at arc jets building when you are about to turn the rocket engine on, before pressing the red button to turn the engine on you can let danse attack the snyths and they will just keep dropping from the ceiling and you can wait for however long you want so the fusion cells just keep piling up from all of the snyths that die 13:25. (I got this from a different video I saw one time I didn't figure it out myself)
Why did you ban sneak? lets face it half a snipers job is sneaking behind enemy lines .
Fr as well as vats because some snipers have spotter for target distance and bullet drop and they have thermals and recon gear which is literally vats
@@hairylimey7709 WE NED CHALLEGE !!!!!!!
He didn’t ban sneak. He just banded the sneak perks that make his damage insane.
@@xXREDACTEDGAMERZXx because, as he said, it would make things too easy
@@raideranimator6091 sneak doesnt make it too easy its only with sneak attacks that make it easy because lots of enemies will detect you fast even with max sneak
Challenge ideas: in fallout 3 and 4 enemies scale with your level… but what if they didn’t? What if max level enemies spawned immediately and you could only improve via books? What if you treated fallout as a rogue lite with one life only and max level enemies immediately? How would you survive and complete its story.
Why would you want to fight a 1400 hp gunner at level 1
@@chickenpurple6704higher level enemies means higher cap drop rates 🤑🤑🤑
heres the thing: you wouldnt
@@asurveillancecamera3392 higher death rates too 🤑🤑🤑
i've watched this on my lunch break, it was really fun to watch keep up the good work Willow 🤗
Honestly, the hilarious narration got to me. Well done, bro 😁👌
Congrats on 1mil views! I love your content man, keep it up. 🤘🏻
Thanks! Will do!
That cartoon looks super colorful and fun! 🌈 It's like a burst of creativity on your screen!
"Loot piñatas" is now my favorite way to think of enemies in the game. Hit them hard enough and they drop tasty treats.
Or long johns and boards.
Stoked for this!
Only sniper rifles y'say?
For those who want to try this challenge with a lil' more leeway:
Sniper's still carry a pistil or two and a good ol' knife for when shit happens up close, so maybe you could have a 10mm pistol fill that role, maybe you get a grenade choice as well if you wanna make it extra easy X)
Or a shotgun since they benefit from the rifleman perk.
At that point it’s more of a sniper build than a sniper challenge run.
But that's what snipers are supposed to be.. sneaky,if not they die.
At first I was like "What do you mean 'Can I survive'? Stealth Sniper is like the easiest build to run with!" But then I saw your rules, and I stood corrected. Some of them aren't so bad though. I almost never use VATS (too immersion-breaking and annoyingly unreliable) or power armor (too clunky, and it adds complications to your logistics and capabilities as a player that outweigh the benefits, imo) in my runs anyway, so I just shrugged there. But yeesh, nothing BUT sniper weapons and no Sneak Perk? That's painful.
power armor makes runs so much easier once you learn how to stock up on fusion cores, it does make stealth impossible but the way it allows you to tank damage is really really useful. It feels less clunky when you use it enough and get around it's movement. VATS isn't immersion breaking to me as it is a part of the lore and overall I find it extremely reliable as long as you build correctly.
@@WillowPlaysGames Yeah, by about the mid-game, fusion cores are not a problem anymore. As for the rest, I think it's just a matter of personal preference. I know that VATS is a real thing in the lore, but, as ridiculous as this might sound considering that I'm talking about a video game, it's too "video gamey" for me. It just doesn't FEEL realistic to the setting or the environment, even though it genuinely is.
As for Power Armor, it just doesn't fit my preferred playstyle. I tend to play fast, stealthy, skill-and-strategy based character builds. Power Armor is a blunt instrument made for brute force, which is anathema to the way I like to play. The added annoyance of keeping up on fusion cores and part repairs, as well as the major crimp carrying broken or spare power armor parts puts on your carrying capacity, is just the icing on the cake of why I don't like to use it.
I just prefer the Fallout 1 and 2 targeting options. You could blind enemies or shoot them in the groin. At higher skill levels, you had a chance of landing instant kills regardless of the damage roll.
Effortlessly 360 no scope Father, I laughed out loud.
20:04 I always did that wiggle wiggle too when lock picking. It’s been years I need to play FO4 again
Check out the latest video to see much more wiggle
There is always a 308 pipe sniper in concord housing to the left of the MoF
I randomly got this video in my recommended. I haven't searched any fallout 4 just new Vegas about for months ago.
hope you enjoyed
Nice, i thought this would be easy but i guess i was wrong. but i find it funny in this game that you can take a minigun to the face while wearing a dress and still beat a bos soldier in full power armor. so, when will the fatman only survival run come? :D
Finally somebody actually makes challenge. It is ridiculous that someone claims it is a challenge and then exploits and glitches through the game.
Hearing you call them "budbloogs" always makes my day, and then your laugh at trying to say activate gave me quite the smile. Thank you for all the hard work that goes into your videos. Keep it up
Tune in next week for.. Can I complete fallout 4 while playing skyrim instead.
As usual great vid dude.
Dead could make sense if the safehouse doesn't know who or where anyone from the main base is.
They would only know where the dead drop is and could have some long-range signal to indicate a message ready for pickup. Whether our flag is raised or if a certain light is on.This would provide a long distance signal to indicate the dead drop is ready for pickup.
Im this scenario the dad drops me set up for a long time and if the super mutants moved in after we set up the railroad outpost we have no choice but run the dead drop to that location anyway.
VATS and the Sneak perk are a sniper's wet dream. And yes, Overseer's Guardian is a must for this.
Actervate is now a new word in my personal dictionary.
4:50 "hoping to find duct tape, but im not so lucky" vs tool can with 1 duct tape
Basically me in all my play throughs i always use a Sniper Rifle
"And build our elite sniper."
*Proceeds to make a character that would not handle the recoil of most snipers*
tell me you have never fired a gun without telling me you have never fired a gun.
I'd agree with my character would struggle with handling any rifle for a long period of time, but that's because of weight. Actually firing a gun and withstanding it's recoil isn't particularly difficult, especially with rifles.
the hunting rifle which is the primary weapon of the run is a .308 rifle, you can google it and see for yourself that it only produces 16 foot pounds of recoil. which isn't unmanageable.
@WillowPlaysGames I did say most. I was just pointing it out. I thought it was funny for a sniper being, really skinny. When I think of elite snipers, I think of the large caliber ones that feel like you're firing a cannon. I did fire guns before, too. I didn't mean it in a rude way.
Taking down wolfgang, one frag grenade took him and his friend out in a cloud of gunpowder smoke. No demo expert required to do this either. Explosives are crazy op on survival. I do suggest two perks into explosive expert though as being able to craft mines and nades and have a throwing arc for nades is amazing.
I know you can, but in honor of Paul of Mitten Squad. Ill stick around to see how this goes.
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Basically what I expected, but i did laugh a few more times than i thought i would. Pretty good video.
glad you enjoyed, he was an inspiration to many. hope ya stick around. Also, paul did some challenges that were a bit obviously doable as well. I like to think that challenges are more about telling a story than answering a question. if you can deal damage in any capacity you can beat these games.
@@WillowPlaysGames You know what, didn't expect a response, think I will subscribe.
He truly was, helped get a lot of people through hard times too.
That being said I did like your script, it's nothing Zany or over the top (for my levels at least haha) that I usually like but I think that's percectly alright and still entertaining. I'm usually into over 20 minute long videos so I think I'm gonna like your channel. Take it easy and don't overwork yourself, I think I'll go rooting through another video of yours and see what's up.
Turns out the best way to add a challenge to Fallout 4 is just to not use sneak.
I was extremely surprised to see Overseer's Guardian absent from this party. Grant you, it's an expensive early game cap sink, especially if you don't have Charisma, but Grape Mentats could be a huge help with that.
Of course it's possible! Things can go sideways when there are too many enemies very close to you and snipers are very low on speed when it means to take down folks in close distance.
I found this channel and Juts gotta say I love this kinds of videos
does fallout 4 runs: Ayo nice
does straight to the point runs while varying factions: AYO NICE
uses Mods and explains how he uses them: AYYYYOOOOOO NOICE
Always Blows up the Institute: AAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOO NNNNNOOOOOOIIIICCCCEE
Subbed, liked, and waiting for more
So excited to watch the vid!!
let me know what you thought when you do!
@@WillowPlaysGamesfantastic video as always! Keep up the good work mate!
I’d never expected to see a run of fallout as an 240 year old Russian Femboy Sniper
now you have, subscribe for more lmfao
CHALLAGE IDEA- Can you beat fallout 4 with only power armor
RULES:
You can only use power armor to deal damage(punching, falling, egcting cores ect.)
Only armor you can use is power armor
good luck :)
I was actually considering an iron man style build with idea you can survive out armor long.
There's a nice sniper rifle on the roof of a Red Rocket just south of Mass Gravel and Sand. Sneak there when you leave the Vault.
before the run begins I am already calling it, you'll beat this thing
17:18, ya, every now and then the game has to let you know who's boss. Happens to me at least once a run.
I guess you could say the railroad really puts the dead in dead drops 14:36
i like how budbloogs was a typo that just became the norm
I must addmit, after this whole shorts push of RUclips, it is very enjoyable to wathc long format Videos liek in the old days, especialy in a Game I know and love
No shot I would do this run as anything but brotherhood, traveling with vertibirds is invaluable, also when he laid out the rules for the run I honestly thought he was gonna be a true psychopath and use vanilla scopes, which are ABSOLUTELY GARBAGE... The lines are so thin you can't see them even on the best backdrops, and anything even slightly dark?... So like... The whole game... Yeah those lines disappear, and from any true range you can barely tell if you're dead center even when you can see the lines, so I definitely understand modding scopes I do the same thing even on PS4, I use a hand painted style scope (no idea how they did it either cause they can only use vanilla assets which makes me feel like Bethesda had all these better options and then just consciously used... THE WORST FUCKIN ONE EVER IN ALL OF HISTORY), also when he mentioned which guns can get the sniper suffix I immediately thought of the handmade lol, fully decked out it hits the hardest with the fastest fire rate (truly as fast as you can pull the trigger) with a quick eject 75 round drum mag, suppressor and no recoil lol
"I even ran into a bug"
we know, Vault 111 is infested with them
Sorry for necroposting. Tinker Tom sells a unique sniper rifle. Its special feature relates to VATS, so it would not be useful in this run, but it comes with a silencer, so doing sneaky sniper shots is a lot easier with it. You would have a lot less trouble sniping people in many locations. Even without the Sneak perk.
I like your mod for ADS on scopes. Makes them act more like LPVOs. Cool.
Power armor and vats holds sniping back. Sneaking is a big part of snipping. But it can be done.
While many suggestions are fanciful, this one I’ve actually done-> No Aid items consumption. No Power Armor. No Companions. Survival.
The last 3 are pretty standard. The interesting twist is no aid items. No Stimpacks, RadAway. No Chems/drugs. No Stealth Boys. No Nuka Colas. No water. No food. Anything listed in the Aid Items section.
(I did allow for noodle cups, to heal hunger and thirst fatigue states. If you use them to clear both states, you won’t heal hp).
It’s not a crazy hard challenge. It’s fun. You look at perks differently when they are what you use to survive. You also have to adapt to a different playstyle. If you want a little extra challenge, kill the institute-> can’t eat synths 👹👹👹
Your channel is flying up my dude, I'm glad I can be here early before you get famous :* Keep uo the good work, these videos are super long yet still entertaining and that's rare. You rock, wish you all the best, I'll follow your work. Adios :]
I'm a little surprised you never attempted to get a Gauss Rifle. I understand that the ammo is heavy in survival mode, while also being rare and expensive, but it really would've come in handy for some of the tougher encounters towards the end of the game. Oh wait, is it because it never technically gets the word "sniper" in the name even if you mod it into what is effectively a sniper rifle? Or maybe you felt it would've made the end-game too easy?
Also, this was a great video, and I'm impressed that you beat the game as a sniper, while on the highest difficult (plus survival mode) in addition to having so many self-imposed restrictions. Great job! 😄👏
don't believe it gets the sniper suffix, and even then there's no reliable way to get one without being high level or going to nuka world afaik
Fair enough, and you managed to do it without a Gauss rifle anyway. Also, I’d be interested in seeing you try a survival playthrough with pistols only. Maybe see if others would also be interested in such a thing?
Starfield armor in a thumbnail of Fallout 4? Ah, good old clickbait-and-switch.
That's not starfield armor. It's a mod that adds modern armor. Also, huge ass fallout 4 logo isn't really hiding what game this is.
'Budbloogs' amused me more than it should've. xD
Mhhh how fun I always thought of doing so This convinced me I should
hope you have fun with it!
Ohhh Snipers my favorite weapon in Fallout 4.
Ah this reminds me of ... an old legend. Rest in peace 😢
I was expecting “no matter what happens… it all comes back to stealth archer.” But no sneak will be interesting
I love this run keep up the good work . I’d like to finish by asking the question can you beat fallout for survival as a handyman only a pipe wrench in the junk jet for damage and you must wear the maintenance or red rocket coveralls As soon as possible and remain in them the entire game no power armor and for headgear you can only wear either the hardhat or mining helmet .
Sniper is the only way to go.
As a sniper in the game, my go-to weapon (if I can find it) is the lever action rifle with the two shot legendary perk
Mostly because it doesn’t shoot two bullets, it just doubles the damage of the one bullet it fires outright
There goes your chance to call him "Wesley Snipes". Still a good run.
It's nice finding someone else who likes fallout 4 as much as me I put over 1000 hours into it
Will say yes no stealth perks adds to the challedge but in reality stealth is a big thing for snipers being able to get out of tight situation and get into position of advatage are all big things for snipers so but good chalendge none the less
I love how no one pointed out that he just made Trevor Phillips from GTA V
can you make a second part where you complete the dlc's? That would be awesome and it also gives you more weapons to experiment with. Love your vids btw!!!
This was so funny thank you for the amazing content 😂👍
Spotters and Targeting Tech is 100% part of the sniper MO. I feel VAYS should have been allowed personally.
Now listen most of the times i hate the "can i beat x first person shooter with a gun!?" But you did it much better
4:50 Ah yes no duct tape anywhere in that cellar
`21:45 Fun fact: The usual armaments of a sniper typically consist of a pistol as well as a rifle. Using a pistol in CQC wouldn't violate the run in my books, so long as you don't have a pistol build.
Someone actually tried using IRL sniper tactics in a FPS. It worked out rather well for him.
`38:35 Next challenge: Can I beat Fallout 2 (other than the Temple of Trials) with just a Solar Scorcher? Answer: No. You'd run out of ammo too often, and you can only charge it in really bright light. In addition, you'd have to cheat in the Scorcher, as it's only available in a unique random encounter that's unlocked at level 12.
If you cheat one or two in at the beginning of the game in or around Arroyo, then I don't see a problem with that.
“Can you beat Skyrim as the Champion of the Daedra?”
Rules:
Only weapons allowed are daedric artifacts
Must collect all Daedric artifacts
If an artifact has multiple choices, choose the one that is the Daedric side (ex: Azura’s Star over The Black Star)
Can only heal with Namira’s Ring
This is what I can think of, if you have more ideas feel free to add
I was going to say this will be easy but then you said no sneak perk . Good luck
33:30 clutch leveling
indeed
power armor has a stealth debuff so it actually makes you noticed easier so banning it for your run was a smart move.
would of made the run way easier, power armor is the number one way to make survival more bearable other than purifying water
@@WillowPlaysGames yeah but stealth has guaranteed crits.
For a minute I thought this was going to be the dumbest challenge ever, I mean playing a sniper is the EASIEST way to survive, But then you said no sneak, and I was like oh hell is this even possible.
Saw this idea in a comment on a fallout 4 meme here on RUclips.
Picky eater playthrough, where you're on survival difficulty but you can only consume pre war food items. This was suggested by @mistaOppritunity so credit goes to him, excellent idea
Get the Overseers Guardian, attach a suppressor, Medium or short scope, Extended mag, Marksman’s Stock, and install the .308 receiver.
Wow, I haven't seen the vault elevator platform in years. Always have to do a quick god mode before falling to the bottom
While I understand the theme is sniping, unless he has a death wish, no sniper would be caught dead without a sidearm. If the option is there, the sniper will always carry one; specifically for up-close engagements that make this run as hard as it's supposed to be. If a companion is brought along, I'd give them a rifle or shotgun while I'd carry a pistol. If solo is the name of the game, then I would take an SMG / PDW.
In this game I'd avoid the SMG because that'll deplete your combat rifle ammo. I'd go pistol or maybe melee/unarmed weapon. Gun bash perk is mandatory for snipers.
@@BigDavetheMiddleAgeGamer
This is why we mod. Get an ammo / receiver mod, make the weapons actually take the ammo they should be taking, learn some entry level game dev coding skills, and then be salty the rest of your life when you tell people to never pay full price for a Bethesda game because you'll have to learn how to become a developer yourself if you want to enjoy it, just like me.
Seriously, an SMG uses PISTOL ammo. It's a sub-caliber machinegun (SMG). A rifle is supposed to use rifle rounds. GG Bethesda. Fucking uninstall your dev team.
I have an idea for a challenge run... A Legendary Challenge Run. Using the following rules:
You can only use LOOTED Legendary weapons and armour. Which means no mission rewards or legendary items bought from vendors.
You must use the Legendary Apocalypse mod.
You must also use the War of the Commonwealth mod.
And of course, you'll be playing it on Survival Difficulty.
I have already completed this run twice, including playing through the three main DLCs (Far Harbor, Automatron and Nuka World). Although I have no video to prove it, so you'll just have to take my word for it.
i was there for most of the live streams for this 😎
Bro snipers are also equipped with pistols as their backup weapon and they are good at being sneaky that's why they wear ghillie suitts
5:44 this is what enemies see when you play a sneak build in a Bethesda game
Finally, the stealth archer build