If you're playing on Survival mode when you get to the elevator in Vault 111 and are prompted to do any last minute changes to your character, even if you are otherwise happy with your build, change your name. This starts a new string of saves and leaves the old one intact so you don't have to replay the pre-War tutorial over again. You can just go back to the save before the elevator under your original name.
If you and your companion are both at max carry weight, can drop items and command your companion to pick them up. It will go into their storage even of they are at capacity
To add to this, put your items into a container and command the companion to inspect the container. You can keep spamming the button (E in PC) to pick up the items. I found this to be easier than dropping items. This works in Skyrim as well, but items will be marked stolen.
When you leave sanctuary, you might encounter a wandering merchant named trashcan, Carla. When she ask you about your story press the sarcastic response; you will more or less give her a half flirty line and Carla will laugh and more or less poke at you, but will give you a small discount, with a pretty decent charisma score you buy some pretty nice stuff from her.
Don't scrap EVERYTHING in Sanctuary! Many of the safes and other containers respawn decent loot periodically.Mutfruit is a better trade item than water. It's worth almost as much and far lighter.
But those containers don't spawn much of value outside the very beginning, and you can get far more water for trading than mutfruit easier than a massive amount of mutfruit.
You can "loot lock" any Legendary weapon or gear you want. First, go to a notorious farming legendary zone like National Guard Training... Crank up the difficulty to "very hard" and save before entering the building. You will see five ghouls... One of them will be 85% of the time a Legendary Ghoul. Kill it and see the drop... Let's say, for example, you want a Legendary Laser Rifle and he drop a stupid Wounding Walking Cane, reload the save you did before entering the building repeat the process until he drop a Legendary Laser Rifle... When he finally drop a Legendary Laser Rifle but you don't like the Legendary Prefix, now you have to "loot lock" the weapon. If you go to your saves, you will see an automatic save AFTER you've entered the building. Reload THIS particular save everytime you don't like the Legendary prefix of your Legendary Laser Rifle. TIPS: - Go do this to the National Guard Training when your level is like 15-20! Do NOT go there before level 15 or it's a wrap. - When entering the building, press the VATS button (don't let go the VATS button) to scan the area and check for the Legendary Ghoul... If he's not there, reload the save you did before entering like i've explained before, it's "faster". - If you die while you've loot locked the weapon, do not panic, just reload the save the game automaticaly did after entering the building. This "trick" can be done everywhere else... My best bet is: - National Guard Training. - Sewers of Concord (next to the blue Pulosky atomic protection) but you need to be at level 6-10 (legendary radroach) - The Shamrock. - The cave of Croup Manor. I hope i've explaining it well, my english is not that good, i'm from Belgium.
My *_TOP TIPS_* (especially _Survival Mode_ )---> --> _Codsworth_ is available as a companion without first needing to free *Preston.* Simply enter _Concord_ far enough that Preston and the Raiders start fighting, return to Sanctuary, and he can be hired. Taking him along to free *Preston* can give some _affinity boosts._ _Codsworth_ will give you a Purified Water on a continual basis just by talking with him, making him a solid companion for _Survival Players._ --> *_Need Caps?_* Stop at nearby *Abernathy Farm,* under the Power Pylon. Grab the 9 Melons, then speak with the daughter _Lucy._ Keep picking the top dialogue choice about caps as currency. This will trigger an Easy speech check, and she will offer to buy Melons for 5 caps instead of 3. She can buy every Melon you have, _on an ongoing basis,_ which can be lucrative if you turn Sanctuary into a Melon farm. However, if you make the Farm a settlement, she *stops* buying them. --> *_Survival Players,_* besides planting *Tato,* *Mutfruit* and *Corn* for _Adhesive,_ plant *Razorgrain.* Cook *1 Razorgrain /1 Dirty Water* to make rad-free _Noodle Cups._ They lower thirst one level, hunger half a level, _yet weighs the same as Water!_ Check wandering vendor _Trashcan Carla_ and _Trudy at Drumlin Diner,_ South of Concord. Or find randomly as loot. --> *_Weapon and Armor modifications_* can be _stripped and swapped_ onto your better gear. You can _remove armor mods_ for free, but you will have to _build a new gun mod_ from components. Even without Gun Nut, you can build the base level gun mod, which will put the previously attached modification into your inventory, and put onto your new hotness. --> _Survival Players_ should build *15 more water supply than they have settlers,* minimum. This will _accumulate_ extra water from the Workshop *every day,* so take it out store it separately in another container. New Purified Water will be added every day *_if_* there’s little to no water already in the workshop. If you build a large enough water purification operation, a huge amount can get added daily. Use this for your travels, or stockpile, and sell the surplus. --> _Survival Mode_ features *Diseases,* acquired numerous ways. You can take *Antibiotics,* visit a *Doctor,* or *Wait* until they go away eventually. Each disease has _different durations,_ lasting from *2-7 days.* The most debilitating are _Weakness_ (receive +20% damage), and _Infection_ (take damage over time, though it won’t kill you, will leave you with a sliver of health). These two diseases take *2.5 days* to go away. Find something safe to do, like decorating Sanctuary, or sleep it off. Sleeping causes a _disease check,_ so you might get sick again, but anything is better than Weakness or Infection. *Early game,* when resources are tight, you might be better off saving Antibiotics just in case for the debilitating diseases, and living with the others until they go away. -->Want to play _Survival Mode,_ but aren’t sure what starting SPECIAL to use? I’ve found it’s worth going for strong combat skills first, and then flesh out your build. *Melee Builds,* get _Rooted_ (STR9) and _Blitz_ (AGI9) immediately. *9,1,4,3,1,9,1* _(Book END)._ *VATS Guns,* get _Penetrator_ (PER9) and _Concentrated Fire_ (PER10). *1,9,3,3,3,7,2* _(Book AGI)._ You’ll get the *Perception Bobblehead* when you free Preston, so have a point saved, and put into Concentrated Fire mid-rescue. --> _Survival Mode_ players should seriously consider _not_ using Power Armor. _Swimming_ is Survival’s Fast Travel. You’ll get around much faster and safer. *_Aquaboy/girl perk_* will save you a ton of time! Without spoiling, the game gives you a quick means of crossing the map as you do the main story, if you dabble with the *Brotherhood of Steel.* --> _New Players:_ *Idiot Savant* isn’t a good choice for first timers. Enemies scale with you. You need to have good gear to survive, and easy and fast XP can leave you without enough time to explore and find good gear before the bad guys start hitting even harder. *You’ll get plenty of levels, faster than you think, even at 1 INT.* Growing powerful isn’t only a matter of levels. *You’ll be stronger if you have great gear when you pop your next level.* Take it easy, don’t rush, go slow, and you’ll be better for it. --> _Pass every speech check_ with *11 CHR,* 100%! Low CHR builds, don’t fret: assemble a 3-piece _CHR set of clothes._ *Hat/glasses/suit,* for _+4._ Most *Alcohol* adds _+1._ Find *Daytripper* _+3._ Better yet, craft *Grape Mentats* at a Chemistry Station _+5._ There’s other ways, but with these, that’s a +13 buff already. *Bonus!* Your companion will come to your side and stay there if you crouch. And if *Dogmeat* only carries _25_ units, put a *bandana,* *welding goggles* or *dog armor,* and it’ll bump it up to _150!_
Wicked Shipping respawns all junk objects and locked containers if you leave to Sanctuary or a similar distance and then return. Great for lots of free ammo, guns, and junk including a fair bit of caps with Fortune Finder. The item respawn breaks if you fast travel to or from W.S., but it can't break on survival without mods.
Grape Mentats is my go to If I'm not doing a CHR playthrough. With the curtain call quest you get the outfit which gives +3. Get a hat and some glasses. Thats already 10+ CHR without anything else added.
Dogmeat is hands down the best companion. No other companion has dug at a pile of trash and given me a doggone FAT MAN AND MISSLE LAUNCHER both on separate occasions.
As a dog lover I don't use dog meat much because I HATE hearing the whimpering when he gets hurt. It truly affects me. I'm getting soft in my old age. Ha
@@imissmypeep2209dude!!!!! I’m a big lover of our fury 4 legged friends, I have a German shepherd and kelpie, for the same reason you mentioned, I can’t take him with me through the commonwealth, he’s whimpers actually get to me, I made him a sick home in sanctuary.
Here are a few tips I have not seen very often. - Build a Decontamination arch. It can remove all your rads unstantly and without the side effects you get in survival. It is pretty cheap, does not need any perks or going to Far Harbor and needs just 2 power. - You can sell junk tools to vault 81 for high price. Collect and buy them any time you see them anywhere. Also using the workshop machines it is trivial to make a separator for them so you can dump all your loot in one place and be sure none of the tools get scrapped for steel. - Also get all Military ammo bags you can. Aside of shipments they are the only real source of ballitsic fiber and it can be hard to find a seller of the shipments when you need some. Ballistic fiber is not a resource you need that much especially in the early game, but once you need it, it is easy to burn a lot of it and its good to have a big stockpile ready. Edit: I just realized military duct tape also gives ballistic fiber. Still, its not like those grow on trees either.
using the 'sort' button while in the inventory screen, re-stacks inventory contents in a variety of convenient ways, strongest armor, top to bottom, highest damaging weapons, top to bottom, etc
My absolute favourite strategy is to get a 10mm pistol with the Enraging effect on it. This is actually a lot easier than it sounds. Once you hit level 5, legendary enemies will begin to spawn. The best place to farm such enemies early on, is in the tunnels beneath Concord. Use the entrance slightly NE of the entrance to the museum where Preston are trapped. Make a Quicksave outside of the entrance to the tunnels, and head on in. The first enemies you meet are three Radroaches, and they all have a chance to be legendary. Although they can drop other items too, they drop 10mm pistols on a regular basis. If they don't, reload the quicksave, and try again. Plenty of instructional videos on this subject if you're unsure of the procedure. The Enraging effect is an awesome tool for causing mayhem among your enemies, and thus weakening them. You can have this effect on any gun, but it works best on a 10mm pistol. Fully upgraded with Advanced receiver and suppressor, you can fire up to 16 shots in one VATS session. With the right perks, you can enrage 5 enemies, and continue shooting to refill your crit meter for 5 new hits. Pretty nice! The possibilities are endless! This may not be an actual "tip or trick", but considering how easy it is to actually get one of these, I thought I'd mention it. It's an incredibly powerful mechanic, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually exploit in in a build.
You didn't mention any glitches, but some of them are pretty awesome. The two I find most useful are: 1. Yao Guai roast says it gives +10 to melee damage, but in reality, it gives +500% to melee damage 2. If you scrap or store weapons at a settlement, the game treats it like you scrapped or stored furniture. This means if you store enough weapons (or the same set of weapons over and over), you can go WAY over a settlement's build limit.
SAVE BEFORE GETTING ANYWHERE NEAR QUINCY not only because its tough but its incredibly bugged in that you can miss out on a "unique" laser rifle and a unique piece of raider power armor I had to reload and clear it out several times before they both spawned
Yeah fr, I'm just doing the "war paint" quest and it's bugged af!! Is very much frustrating at this point, it has crashed my game a couple of times now and worst, it makes that whenever I try to restart the game it takes a lot of time, but really A LOT, between 5-10 minutes in my case, in case it indeed opens the gsme in the first place. Man I love fo4 but sometimes is just way too much broken...
@@SithrenThalhaiden Roger that. When my Xbox crashes, I have to do a restart then go into TH-cam and watch a video to reset my Cache, then I can try to restart my Fallout game. Sometimes I have to start over at step one (usually when it crashes while having a black screen when going thru a door and I have to use an earlier save).
A little addendum for the Shipment tip: Occasionally the shipments won't automatically count as scrap when put in a Settlement's Storage (happens to me all the goddamn time), to fix this; simply drop the shipment item from your inventory, go into build mode in your settlement, and scrap it that way. Then the materials will be added in their component parts to the Settlement's inventory. This is good for things like Copper and Aluminum that are annoying to farm otherwise. Side note, with some of these materials in their component form, you can craft an ammo forge in your settlement. Build it, power it, and connect a terminal and you can craft your own ammo out of resources! Not all ammo mind you, but still a wide selection (no Fusion Cells or Plasma ammo sadly)
I put my shipments in the same container that hold all my components. I routinely gather up all the components from all my Workshops and store them in a red toolbox at my Home Base/Home Plate. That way I don't have to sort my junk anytime I want to do some building of special things like the Decontamination Arch or a factory line.
A tip that I haven't seen anyone use is before engaging the boss set up a mine trap . So when they run at you that helps take them out. It helps you get passed overpowered enemies when you are just starting . I started doing that kinda stuff in New Vegas.
Survival and water. Sanctuary is the best place for this, but one of the items in the workshop menus is a kitchen sink or a drinking fountain. Put one of those right next to the workbench and every time you're dropping off a load of junk, you can activate the sink and start filling those bottles that you've picked up as junk. :)
Don't know if someone else has already found this out, I just call it a "Companion Train" in Survival Mode. Go to new settlement, then go back to home base pick a Companion load them up then dismiss them to the new settlement. Rinse and Repeat with each Companion to make a "Companion Train" supplying new settlement without glitching anything.
Too complicated for simple me. I load up myself in Power Armor AND any and all companions traveling with me. I am willing to make multiple trips if necessary. But usually, I end my loot run at the new Settlement then continue to my home base to offload what I store there then load up with more loot from the home base and go back to the new Settlement to drop it off. Then I go on another loot run. If I do not have a new Settlement opened up, I drop all my loot at my home base. My Home Base is normally Sancturary but if all new settlements will come from south of Diamond City, then I will slowly move my loot stash to Home Plate while ending my loot runs at Home Plate too.
With respect to armor, you can, and in some cases must, armor your settlers just by initiating Trade in conversation. You must with unique settlers, like Connie Abernathy. She's also a vendor, and to lose her because she was killed in a Raider attack leaves you missing out on one of 3 (that I recall) vendors who sell Fertilizer. Fertilizer? Yes, it's the best Caps supply, 2 parts fertilizer and 1 part Plastic creates Jet at a chem station. Lightest and most valuable resource available from the early game. Also useful in a fight, or an escape, AND you get crafting XP. Crafting XP? Right-O. Cook food, make soup, cook vegetable starch, mix cutting fluid, create chems, level up and get more perks.
Just 100% fallout 3 and new vegas now im doing the same with 4 and your videos helped some of the way. Been playing fallout for 15 years and weirdly enough my favorite thing about fallout 4 is being able to build a settlement even though preston is the most avoidable character. Going back playing fallout 3 and nv i kept thinking "man itd sure be nice to just build a house and have traders with all my companions stationed there" fallout 4 may be less interesting than the others but it definitely makes up for it with the workbenches
I just finished my childhood achievements 100% two days ago on fallout three. Needed like 6 for the past 10 years or so. I’m doing fallout 4 same as you glad to see others are doing the same
A note on Vegetable Starch. Yes its easy to set up a farm for, but you will need to plant a massive number of tatos compared to mutfruit and corn bc, for some reason known only to Todd Howard himself, settlers are programmed to consume tatos before any other food sources. I learned this the hard way across several playthroughs bc I always hit up Tenpines Bluff, Abernathy Farm, and Diamond City to get my starting supplies for adhesive farming. I always kept running out of tatos while I had hundreds of corn and mutfruit stored away.
Quick note regarding the Enclave quests, just so nobody gets confused. All the Enclave gear (X-02 PA, Hellfire PA, Tesla Cannon, Heavy Incinerator) were originally sold on the Creation Club store page. Each CC item could be purchased separately and had an associated in game quest to acquire it. The N-G update added all of those quests and CC items, as well as the new Echoes of the Past quest, into the game for free. The weapons are never painted, however the PA and combat armor you loot from dead Enclave soldiers will have an Enclave paint scheme applied. It also unlocks those same paint schemes for all combat armor and I think other sets of PA as well. So you can role play using the Minutemen as a new rising force of Enclave troops if you want
Changing the pip boy light blew my mind! No longer do i have to figure out what the hell things are with a gameboy glow. I wished i knew about that earlier
There's a chem station behind a house on the west side of the main drag of Sanctuary near the river. There's a raider named Gristle who you'll find in Concord who has a key to a gated storage room in the bottom floor of the Corvega car plant that has a good supply of ammo. There's a cave under the Red Rocket near Sanctuary that has a pair of black-rim eyeglasses that will give you +1 to charisma that will give you a small bonus to barter, it's next to a skeleton on a ledge in the cave. There's a lot of other good loot in there as well. Have fun!😃
5:29 if you build a vacuum hopper from the Contraptions Workshop DLC & face it to the workbench you can essentially bypass the purified water cap as it'll continuously take out everything from it
Do not pick up any of the seven bobbleheads for your attributes until the related attribute is already maxed out. That way, you can have a stat of 11 across the board
So u dont have to lower ur stats before getting them? Like for intelligence when u reach lvl 10 u have to drink alchohol to lower ur intelligence temporarily then grab the special book it goes up to 11
@@tonimacaroni5305 the special book will raise a stat up to 10 but no higher. The bobbleheads will always raise the stat up by one even when it is 10 or higher doing something to lower your stat below 10 so you can use the book I think works but I have never tested it out.
@@billcox8870 yeah it does its even mentioned in this video u can raise stats to 11 with the special book. So i thought the bobble heads worked the same way
The VAULT-TEC "experiments" on Clem in Vault 88 rise the skills over 10, too. I got +1 skills each after using training bike, soda machine, seesight machine and slot machine.
One thing I never realised until recently (and I was playing from release) was that in the hacking screen if you have made 3 choices and can't figure out the password, instead of being locked out or just having to retry, you can mouse over the other NON-Letter characters. If more than one highlights, click on that and it could either dismiss a dud word or reset your tries. Also, if a large string of characters highlight, don't just move on, go back over that string as more than once they have also highlighted a smaller string of characters dismissing another dud or resetting your tries.
Yep. It's been a thing since fallout 3. More specifically, you usually select parts of the coding between ( ), [ ], < >, and { } symbols. Just select the opening symbol, and it should highlight the entire sequence. There can also be multiple selections in one sequence, for example: [[[.....] . Selecting each open symbol will remove another choice as long as there is a closing symbol at the end of the sequence.
Scrap all the wood and trees in sanctuary at a low level then build the wooden shelf over and over again and level up a few points, it’s slow going but gives you a little boost at a lower level. I went from leve 10 to 15 in about 40mins or so
The Marcy Long comment made me almost die from laughing so much! I always put her on either a guard post or gardening the crops! She always has something negative to say no matter the Happiness level!
Very good tip video for previous or new players. I'll add this tip: mods. Some simple mods can improve gameplay like removing godrays and the washed out look, more scrapping of settlement unwanted trash and debris, and cleaning the faces of settlers. Those mods improve the game while not feeling like cheating. However using mods will disable trophies.
5:28 Along with the cap to how much can be stored in workshop, you won't store any surplus of water if there are 5 or more types of drink items (not quantity of each, but actual types) stored in there as well. Alcohols, deezers lemonades, dirty waters and anything else stored in there. I think it works the same with excess food from crops as well with stored food items, but haven't gotten around to testing it out.
I never noticed this. Likely because I store a lot of stuff in containers. Thanks for the info. I have noticed that the workshop in Sanctuary does not store excess produce from my garden. I guess the few settlers there are piggy and eat it all. It does store the purified water produced in Sanctuary.
One tip I've learned is if you have enough scrap, make turrets when you have enemies coming towards you. If you're fast enough, these turrets can even take out enemies like the mirelurk queen in Vault 88. And let me tell you; a mirelurk queen is a pain in the ass to deal with at the best of times. Hell, they'll even rip through a deathclaw with enough turrets. I'd recommend at least 3 to 5 per area you plan to clear, if you have any enemies you want to deal with. Also, use some of the smaller settlements as hub areas for any traders if you have the local leader perk, and supply lines. Places like covenant and Hangman's alley could be good areas in that regard, because if you use robot traders, or anyone else, they won't affect settlement happiness, but they will allow scrap to be used in those settlements
Putting miner helmets on your prospectors at first then everyone in your settlements. You can get 14 -18 at a time from Dunwich bore. It really helps you to not shoot your people and the light helps you find your supply line caravans . Plus give everyone a Lazer weapon. That way you know where they are shooting and can engage along with them.
Here's a tip for survival mode. Build a water fountain at every settlement so you can fill up a bottle of every kind with purified water without a water purifier. You can also use those same bottles and fill them up with dirty water for cooking at any open source of water.
My new settlements always get an immediate bed and water pump. I went without water at home plate until I found the water fountain. BTW, The hand pumped water pump will store 3 purified water every game day in the Workshop. The Water Fountain does not store purified water in the Workshop.
You can play the game straight or you can mod the hell out of it. Or anywhere in-between, whatever you do it is entirely your choice to make it like YOU want to play to have the most fun.
There is an awesome glitch with the special book where you can use it for unlimited levels. I used it on one playthrough cuz I usually don't like cheat kind of stuff. Its on youtube. I don't wanna get it wrong but it involves hitting the scrap and use buttons together after you tie the book to something like a pistol as a mod.
Theres a chemistry station you can move over to your house early. Its behind one of the houses by the bridge where you put water purifiers in sanctuary
On PC, the "e" key works just the same as the Enter key 95% of the time, so no need to move your hand over or off the mouse. The one exception I've found is when confirming an assignment to a settler.
High charisma if this your first playthrough no mods. That and Luck for that Mysterious stranger and them bullets and caps. You will be rich and talk your way out of stuff. And finesse everyone for extra caps.
On one of my numerous visit to Maldon Hospital (full of super mutants), I stole an electrified serrated Chinese officer sword from one of the super mutants, and I also happened to have found a makeshift battery (not sure if the two are linked), but suddenly my serrated sword had a damage value of 300+, if you then put it in your workshop, it loses the added damage 😵
Recently returned to Fallout 4 and I always play survival mode, but the VATS Crashing seems to be getting worse and worse as the game progresses. I've tried all the old tricks to mitigate it (making sure I'm fed and watered before combat, window mode rather than full screen) but it still happens with great frequency. Any other tips?
if you're eager to level up fast and early, scrap much of sanctuary and then make wooden shelves on the wall, they cost 2 wood, and you can spam make them in the same spot usually, and you can level several levels before you can scrap them back to wood.
Dont know if this has happened to anyone else but it would appear that All Hallows Eve and When Pigs Fly are bugged the station required for the former will sometimes play nothing and the later can cause the entire east side of Cambridge to freeze and crash when ever you get to close to the quest location both of these occured on PS5 i cannot verify whether or not the same happens on PC or Xbox
Heres my advice for settlements. First conquer them all before Preston. Level up get to nuka world and pick up porter. Next systematically go and kill any non essential npcs. Build up the ones with the non killable NPCs to produce nothing but food. Continue to play through nuka world start linking outposts to unlock raider items set alcohol/ chem/ tribute chests. Once you beat power play and get the perks you can kill all of the bosses right there after completion, take back the settlements, and now you have outposts producing legendary loot along with the minutemen.
HINT: Body armor doesn't stack with the power armor's armor. So strip your character down to their base layer before donning the armor- then you aren't tying up carrying capacity for armor.
I got the back pack with medic and sleeping bag mod, health regen and extra carry weight 👌💯 I bought it off the creation club, but I’m sure you can just buy it from certain vendors 🤦♂️
You can duplicate raw materials by dropping them down on the ground at any settlement, going into build mode, then quickly sliding your thumb from Square to Circle (I play on the PS4/5, i'm sorry for not knowing the Xbox buttons). Essentially, you are going to both "Scrap" them into your settlement inventory and "Store" them at the same time. If you see both options' windows pop up asking for confirmation, you did it right!!! You can potentially double your materials everytime. You can also "Scrap" a junk item for its material, while also storing said item back into your inventory. You can't "duplicate" the junk item, but you will scrap it and then get another item you scrap again, if you get the buttons right.
Any npc you kill who is wearing power armor, you can can damage their armor pieces until they break. This will make each broken piece weigh 0lbs so you can carry it for free and repair it at your base. Free full set of T60 every time you kill a brotherhood knight 👍
Can't carry the frame. Gotta buy them. If you steal one, it always has the STOLEN tag (except for the Raider Horse Power Armor since it counts as loot).
If you get behind the npc, or can hide, wait until they give up searching for you and turn their back to you, use VATS to target the fusion core, this causes the fusion core to explode, the npc exits their power armour and once you kill them you can insert your on fusion core & steal the complete power armor - frame and all.
Both these replies are true, but carrying the broken pieces from brotherhood doesn't weigh anything or require you to get yourself and campaigning into armor, so you can literally carry infinite amounts of power armor back to base
If you kill an enemy who has power armor pieces you want, shoot the enemy's dead body until the pieces of armor disappear visually. Then, pick them up. Do this to avoid the armor having a carry weight attached to them (At least it works on everything but survival, not sure if it does or not)
I do not have internet at my house and cannot afford dlc, this is my problem with games nowadays is that if you don't have the dlc and just the main game you can barely have any fun
You can find deep discounts on many games if you Google them. I bought many of the games I don't play, thanks fo4, for dirt cheap by checking prices on Google
The trick I only figured out after playing for over 2500 hours, yes I am nuts, is that even if your companion can’t carry any more, if you through the item, or weapon on the ground, you can ask them to pick it up, and they will, regardless of how much they are carrying
The Big jim cripples everything from mirelurks to deathclaws , then it's ez I found a devs npc room under concord by local map can't enter it though. Getting under the map is my favorite trick so far, with the nukacola crafting station.
the creation club sentinel companion is an AI powered power armor frame, that you can install any of the power armor pieces onto. it'll use the in game voice sets for the sentry robot, or the mr. gutsy, or the assaultron, or liberty prime. it doesn't technically count as a companion, so you could take the sentinel and dogmeat, (who the game also doesn't count as a companion), and still make full use of the lone wanderer perks. the sentinel is like a power armored bodyguard that follows you around, and is another whole inventory to dump stuff into. it can throw grenades or use weapons you supply, or just let use it's default weapon, a stock laser rifle with unlimited ammo.
Dogmeat DOES count as an companion - go to the Trinity Tower, free Rex and then recruit Strong - you have to sent Dogmeat somewhere else and the thing about the lone wanderer is FALSE too, because of that.
@@Eysenbeiss Yeah, he's a companion, he takes that slot, but technically the game doesn't register him as there-there. It's for the sake of certain perks, 'lone wanderer', and the perks relating to dogmeat specifically.
Is there any tips how to find the bodies to loot? Even a mod or something? Many times i spent 3-5+ minutes to find all the corpses after a hectic fight, or just find most of them and move on. The only thing i found is resting till morning, better lighting. And high level scrapper perk might highlight a body, but usually they don't have junk soooo help!
Up above your post is this tip: @woolenthreads 1 month ago Tag fibreoptics too since that's hard to find sometimes. I am also going to try tagging something like steel or plastic, not because it's good but because dead bodies usually have items on them and they might be more visible if a common material is tagged and I sometimes spend time trying to find them. I haven't tried it yet but have this exact issue right now. IDK if the bodies despawn after time or a save. I'll try this now, but not sure if they're still there (I killed 3 Raiders and only looted one before it got dark)
If you are into mods, there is one that makes the dead bodies glow. It's one of the 3 I use. It just pissed me off to kill 6 or 8 or more enemies and be able to find only 2 or 3 to loot. I use the P-99 10mm pistol for about 10 levels then carry it for about 10 more levels then give it to my settlers. I also use the My Jetpack because I find my game crashes less often when traveling the rooftops. Also, I sometimes (very rarely) find loot on the rooftops I would never have access to any other way.
I pick up all loot. If I see a bobblehead, it is loot that gives me a perk point. I don't play the game looking to make new records. I'm old and have a spotty memory. If I don't pick it up then and there, I will likely forget where it is and maybe never find it again.
Here's a tip. Watch all of his videos for the magazines and bobble heads. I played the game for years and never knew about the island to the far right of the map. Until a bobble head sent me there
Tip 1, especially on survival: save, save, save & save some more. This game (Xbox version) crashes about twice as much for me post next-gen upgrade as before & even started major crashes where my tv stops receiving signal from Xbox, sure, easy fix of restart the game or restart Xbox then restart the game, but I have a survival game with about 22 hrs in it; but I’ve put in upwards of 30 hrs…yeah, I died once…but that was due to yet another bug where a mirelurk hunter appeared directly beneath me throwing me to the side & locking me as in no buttons or joystick maneuvers had any effect as I watched first dogmeat go down then withheld the urge to throw my controller as I watched helplessly as my life bar drained to nothing…but hey, when I rebooted the game (Home button, start button on the game, quit…then open it) I didn’t have to worry about the infection that mirelurk had given me as it ate me for lunch. There’s nothing like being on a long mission, 45-90 mins of effort, heading to that bed & that save a min or 2 out when you hit a crash! Yes, this happened to me a couple hrs ago & I’m still pissed as the crash happened when I clicked on the bed to sleep, it said saving, then screen froze…reboot game…yay, a corrupted save, MF!!! Oh, one more thing I’ve noticed, don’t immediately delete the corrupted saves as I got kicked out once to Home Screen, tried to reload & all survival saves showed as, I think it was “invalid save file”, fortunately, I quit the game, rebooted the Xbox, restarted the game…all save files were good???
I'm on Xbox One. The crashes started in downtown Boston but now are everywhere in the game. I especially dislike those when I'm going thru a doorway. Crashes happen when the screen goes black and stays black. Recover is most difficult then. My recovery routine is to restart the Xbox, pull up TH-cam, watch a video (to randomize whatever is in the cache), pull up Fallout 4, and hope for the best. Many times, that hope for the best is to try again with an earlier save. If Bethesda would just fix the crash problem, I would swear off swearing at Bethesda. In fact, I would likely stop badmouthing them altogether. I don't care what the problem is, I bought a good product and I expect a good product. Right now, I view Bethesda as a corporation of con artists.
@@edmartin875 yeah, non-survival the corrupt save (crash during save) can suck, but it’s generally not too bad. I had it happen on a survival game…thankfully the value of things popped into my head as I pulled back my arm ready to launch my controller when I saw my options.
I never bother making adhesive in fallout 4 as I can get tons buy using the item search glitch at starlight drive-in you can also get more bobby pins fusion cores and other ammo types as well as extra caps buy using the same glitch at the same site but you have to do it on the right container for what you are after
All I know is that it draws attackers to the Settlement. Every time I find purified water in my workshop I put it in a red toolbox that is close by just for that purpose. Likewise with garden produce.
But the biggest settlement, for me is the one on Spectable Island, on the island you can build a whole fortress village there in the style of medieval villages
In survival mode if you hate walking get the Brotherhood to fly you.places, but I love walking. Baseball Ubiform is the best undergarment, I'll fight you over that.
How the hell do I get the updates to work on ps4? I've downloaded them 5 different times and every time I add them into the game it just keeps saying I have to download them again. I just gave up on it awhile ago.
PSA: it turns out you don’t have to join the railroad to get ballistic weave. Just do a few of their starting quests and talk with Tinker Tom. Then you can go and join which ever faction for your play through.
You don't have to join any faction, or you can join them all. If you join them all, at some point in the later stages of the main quest you will be assigned a task which may cause the others to balk. They say if you do that quest you will become the enemy of our faction. Never been that far myself. Went to the Institute one time. Saw how they lived all super modern with home-made slaves and all as compared to the rest of the Commonwealth and said the Institute is my enemy. Joined the BOS one time. That ended when they told me to extract tribute from the farmers. I decided they were just Raiders who has aircraft and always wore power armor. The Railroad has never given me any grief. The Minutemen's only thorn is Preston. The thorn goes away when he is happily just a settler in the Castle and I no longer have to avoid him.
I found some awesome power mods that gives npcs powers (that I can also obtain) and I made Omniman (Nolan Grayson) whose name Codsworth also knows. I spent about an hour getting him to look just like him. Now he has super strength, endurance, and can fly, and, the best part of all, his trusty robot slave addresses him as Nolan or Mr. Grayson. 😂
well if you don't mind some slight "cheating/glitching" if you can highlight something to craft you can craft the thing above of below it for "free" by highlighting what you can craft and pressing right and quickly up/down you'll highlight the thing you want while it asks to craft the 1st item. don't need perks or junk to do it, but any junk you do have for it will be used. mostly use it to get caps, by highlighting jet and making mentats for free only need to have "1 fertilizer & 1 plastic = jet" but end up with mentats it's easier with a controller you can get xp with it as well but as you level up it's less rewarding since you can sell them for about 33 caps each also early game to to the Drumlan Diner nearby is Trashcan Carly use Sarcasm when she asks what you want to get a discount, she will start visiting your settlements after that. and if you don't want to deal with Preston after meeting them and getting the Power Armor on the roof & defeating the Raider & deathclaw just don't report back to him in the lobby of the museum they'll just wait there for you to come back for them to go to Sanctuary thereby not starting the MM questline (no "a settlement needs your help" quests)
Wear a lab coat and usanka hat, sleep at least 7 hours (for well rested perk), and consume a grape mentant and squirrel stew before doing any major crafting projects for an extra XP boost. I hoard my gun upgrades, food, and veggies to craft in large batches instead of a doing 3 -4 mole rats, mongrels, or vegetable starch at a time. Even if you don't use the food, craft it and store it so you get the XP.
You seem to be mixing intel boost (good for crafting) with charisma boost (good for trading and speech checks). Grape Mentats gives you +5 Charisma. Fancy glasses will get you +1 Charisma as will drinking a beer (any alcohol) +1 and various articles of +1 or +2 clothing totaling +8 or +9 (or +10 with Rex's +3 jacket/female clothing). The lab coat +2, usanka hat +1, and road googles +1 gives an intel boost totaling +4. Squirrel stew boosts both intel and charisma by +2, if I remember correctly. I believe the well rested perk gives you a small unspecified increase in intel for a short unspecified period. All the chems will notify you when they wear off, the well rested perk does not. You can also sell the food/drinks you do not wish to utilize. In fact, you can sell ALMOST everything in your inventory (not recommended unless you are cashing out that character in the game and want to find your total worth).
On a separate note I was forced to first watch an Amazon Prime Video ad. The Boys, Fallout, a few movies… no Rings of Power though despite Season 2 around the corner. 😅
First of all I HATE idiot savant. The sound alone makes me never want to take it. Besides I usually focus on Charisma and Intelligence and maybe stealth. Not big on chems/food/drink buffs or VATS. I build up all the settlements but do to fast travel I usually have Sanctuary as my home base. Never cared for a super challenge in Fallout. I like having fun with a little challenge thrown in and not challenge with a little fun thrown in. Just take the perk for finding more ammo and use ammo like money. It weighs nothing and even crap ammo is a cap each. I rarely worry about money.
If you're playing on Survival mode when you get to the elevator in Vault 111 and are prompted to do any last minute changes to your character, even if you are otherwise happy with your build, change your name. This starts a new string of saves and leaves the old one intact so you don't have to replay the pre-War tutorial over again. You can just go back to the save before the elevator under your original name.
Now THAT I didn't know! Thank you!
@@feiryfella It is actually common knowledge from Fallout 3 that allowed the same trick.
I’ve been playing fallout since 3 and had no idea 😳
Thats what I do it’s always a fresh save ready to fire up
@@zedorda1337 Tips are mainly for newcomers
If you and your companion are both at max carry weight, can drop items and command your companion to pick them up. It will go into their storage even of they are at capacity
I learned about this last week bloody godsend 😀
@@Jaydot34.what the fuck, I’m trying that after work today!
True. You can also tell them pick up other individual items in view. There doesn't seem to be a limit. P.S. Doesn't work for Dogmeat.
To add to this, put your items into a container and command the companion to inspect the container. You can keep spamming the button (E in PC) to pick up the items. I found this to be easier than dropping items.
This works in Skyrim as well, but items will be marked stolen.
When you leave sanctuary, you might encounter a wandering merchant named trashcan, Carla.
When she ask you about your story press the sarcastic response; you will more or less give her a half flirty line and Carla will laugh and more or less poke at you, but will give you a small discount, with a pretty decent charisma score you buy some pretty nice stuff from her.
Another bonus to trading with Carla: It will prompt her to come to Sanctuary on occasion, instead of having to go out and find her.
Is there a chance of forgiveness if you were to mug her?
Don't scrap EVERYTHING in Sanctuary! Many of the safes and other containers respawn decent loot periodically.Mutfruit is a better trade item than water. It's worth almost as much and far lighter.
But those containers don't spawn much of value outside the very beginning, and you can get far more water for trading than mutfruit easier than a massive amount of mutfruit.
I scrap everything that’s isn’t important
I literally just scrapped the safe in sanctuary an hour before I reason this. Fml
You can "loot lock" any Legendary weapon or gear you want.
First, go to a notorious farming legendary zone like National Guard Training...
Crank up the difficulty to "very hard" and save before entering the building.
You will see five ghouls...
One of them will be 85% of the time a Legendary Ghoul.
Kill it and see the drop...
Let's say, for example, you want a Legendary Laser Rifle and he drop a stupid Wounding Walking Cane, reload the save you did before entering the building repeat the process until he drop a Legendary Laser Rifle...
When he finally drop a Legendary Laser Rifle but you don't like the Legendary Prefix, now you have to "loot lock" the weapon.
If you go to your saves, you will see an automatic save AFTER you've entered the building.
Reload THIS particular save everytime you don't like the Legendary prefix of your Legendary Laser Rifle.
TIPS:
- Go do this to the National Guard Training when your level is like 15-20! Do NOT go there before level 15 or it's a wrap.
- When entering the building, press the VATS button (don't let go the VATS button) to scan the area and check for the Legendary Ghoul...
If he's not there, reload the save you did before entering like i've explained before, it's "faster".
- If you die while you've loot locked the weapon, do not panic, just reload the save the game automaticaly did after entering the building.
This "trick" can be done everywhere else...
My best bet is:
- National Guard Training.
- Sewers of Concord (next to the blue Pulosky atomic protection) but you need to be at level 6-10 (legendary radroach)
- The Shamrock.
- The cave of Croup Manor.
I hope i've explaining it well, my english is not that good, i'm from Belgium.
I think you explained that quite well.
@@DarkReaper2597 Thanks!
@@Rogdan1995 you are welcome! :)
Yeah you explained that flawlessly. Cheers
@@peeko_luxx2873 Thank you, cheers!
My *_TOP TIPS_* (especially _Survival Mode_ )--->
--> _Codsworth_ is available as a companion without first needing to free *Preston.* Simply enter _Concord_ far enough that Preston and the Raiders start fighting, return to Sanctuary, and he can be hired. Taking him along to free *Preston* can give some _affinity boosts._ _Codsworth_ will give you a Purified Water on a continual basis just by talking with him, making him a solid companion for _Survival Players._
--> *_Need Caps?_* Stop at nearby *Abernathy Farm,* under the Power Pylon. Grab the 9 Melons, then speak with the daughter _Lucy._ Keep picking the top dialogue choice about caps as currency. This will trigger an Easy speech check, and she will offer to buy Melons for 5 caps instead of 3. She can buy every Melon you have, _on an ongoing basis,_ which can be lucrative if you turn Sanctuary into a Melon farm. However, if you make the Farm a settlement, she *stops* buying them.
--> *_Survival Players,_* besides planting *Tato,* *Mutfruit* and *Corn* for _Adhesive,_ plant *Razorgrain.* Cook *1 Razorgrain /1 Dirty Water* to make rad-free _Noodle Cups._ They lower thirst one level, hunger half a level, _yet weighs the same as Water!_ Check wandering vendor _Trashcan Carla_ and _Trudy at Drumlin Diner,_ South of Concord. Or find randomly as loot.
--> *_Weapon and Armor modifications_* can be _stripped and swapped_ onto your better gear. You can _remove armor mods_ for free, but you will have to _build a new gun mod_ from components. Even without Gun Nut, you can build the base level gun mod, which will put the previously attached modification into your inventory, and put onto your new hotness.
--> _Survival Players_ should build *15 more water supply than they have settlers,* minimum. This will _accumulate_ extra water from the Workshop *every day,* so take it out store it separately in another container. New Purified Water will be added every day *_if_* there’s little to no water already in the workshop. If you build a large enough water purification operation, a huge amount can get added daily. Use this for your travels, or stockpile, and sell the surplus.
--> _Survival Mode_ features *Diseases,* acquired numerous ways. You can take *Antibiotics,* visit a *Doctor,* or *Wait* until they go away eventually. Each disease has _different durations,_ lasting from *2-7 days.* The most debilitating are _Weakness_ (receive +20% damage), and _Infection_ (take damage over time, though it won’t kill you, will leave you with a sliver of health). These two diseases take *2.5 days* to go away. Find something safe to do, like decorating Sanctuary, or sleep it off. Sleeping causes a _disease check,_ so you might get sick again, but anything is better than Weakness or Infection. *Early game,* when resources are tight, you might be better off saving Antibiotics just in case for the debilitating diseases, and living with the others until they go away.
-->Want to play _Survival Mode,_ but aren’t sure what starting SPECIAL to use? I’ve found it’s worth going for strong combat skills first, and then flesh out your build.
*Melee Builds,* get _Rooted_ (STR9) and _Blitz_ (AGI9) immediately. *9,1,4,3,1,9,1* _(Book END)._
*VATS Guns,* get _Penetrator_ (PER9) and _Concentrated Fire_ (PER10). *1,9,3,3,3,7,2* _(Book AGI)._ You’ll get the *Perception Bobblehead* when you free Preston, so have a point saved, and put into Concentrated Fire mid-rescue.
--> _Survival Mode_ players should seriously consider _not_ using Power Armor. _Swimming_ is Survival’s Fast Travel. You’ll get around much faster and safer. *_Aquaboy/girl perk_* will save you a ton of time! Without spoiling, the game gives you a quick means of crossing the map as you do the main story, if you dabble with the *Brotherhood of Steel.*
--> _New Players:_ *Idiot Savant* isn’t a good choice for first timers. Enemies scale with you. You need to have good gear to survive, and easy and fast XP can leave you without enough time to explore and find good gear before the bad guys start hitting even harder. *You’ll get plenty of levels, faster than you think, even at 1 INT.* Growing powerful isn’t only a matter of levels. *You’ll be stronger if you have great gear when you pop your next level.* Take it easy, don’t rush, go slow, and you’ll be better for it.
--> _Pass every speech check_ with *11 CHR,* 100%! Low CHR builds, don’t fret: assemble a 3-piece _CHR set of clothes._ *Hat/glasses/suit,* for _+4._ Most *Alcohol* adds _+1._ Find *Daytripper* _+3._ Better yet, craft *Grape Mentats* at a Chemistry Station _+5._ There’s other ways, but with these, that’s a +13 buff already.
*Bonus!* Your companion will come to your side and stay there if you crouch. And if *Dogmeat* only carries _25_ units, put a *bandana,* *welding goggles* or *dog armor,* and it’ll bump it up to _150!_
Wicked Shipping respawns all junk objects and locked containers if you leave to Sanctuary or a similar distance and then return. Great for lots of free ammo, guns, and junk including a fair bit of caps with Fortune Finder. The item respawn breaks if you fast travel to or from W.S., but it can't break on survival without mods.
Grape Mentats is my go to If I'm not doing a CHR playthrough. With the curtain call quest you get the outfit which gives +3. Get a hat and some glasses. Thats already 10+ CHR without anything else added.
I didn't know that equiping that cool bandana on Dogmeat raised his carry weight. I just thought it looked great. 😎
Don't clear the mole rat den under red rocket and the trunk half buried near the water tower will respawn.
@@donnymartin5879 Is that the trigger for the respawn to stop? I’ve always wondered. I thought it might have to do with clearing Concord.
Dogmeat is hands down the best companion. No other companion has dug at a pile of trash and given me a doggone FAT MAN AND MISSLE LAUNCHER both on separate occasions.
cait might for some chems
Who's a goood boy? Dogmeat!
As a dog lover I don't use dog meat much because I HATE hearing the whimpering when he gets hurt. It truly affects me. I'm getting soft in my old age. Ha
@@imissmypeep2209dude!!!!! I’m a big lover of our fury 4 legged friends, I have a German shepherd and kelpie, for the same reason you mentioned, I can’t take him with me through the commonwealth, he’s whimpers actually get to me, I made him a sick home in sanctuary.
Yeah, I named dogmeqt after my dead German shepherd and I hate when it gets hurts idc how many stimpacks I waste😂
Those magazines add such color to the world, I love leaving them on coffee tables with smokes
What do u mean?
@@osizzle4 Purdy pichers on the cover.
If you ever put Codsworth into a robotics workbench, he will no longer be able to wear a bowler hat.
worth it. there is a mod for that though
Here are a few tips I have not seen very often.
- Build a Decontamination arch. It can remove all your rads unstantly and without the side effects you get in survival. It is pretty cheap, does not need any perks or going to Far Harbor and needs just 2 power.
- You can sell junk tools to vault 81 for high price. Collect and buy them any time you see them anywhere. Also using the workshop machines it is trivial to make a separator for them so you can dump all your loot in one place and be sure none of the tools get scrapped for steel.
- Also get all Military ammo bags you can. Aside of shipments they are the only real source of ballitsic fiber and it can be hard to find a seller of the shipments when you need some. Ballistic fiber is not a resource you need that much especially in the early game, but once you need it, it is easy to burn a lot of it and its good to have a big stockpile ready. Edit: I just realized military duct tape also gives ballistic fiber. Still, its not like those grow on trees either.
Duct tape grows on trees
@@Nathanaelelliott Duct tape does not include ballistic fiber.
@@puskajussi37 that's what she said.
using the 'sort' button while in the inventory screen, re-stacks inventory contents in a variety of convenient ways, strongest armor, top to bottom, highest damaging weapons, top to bottom, etc
My absolute favourite strategy is to get a 10mm pistol with the Enraging effect on it. This is actually a lot easier than it sounds. Once you hit level 5, legendary enemies will begin to spawn. The best place to farm such enemies early on, is in the tunnels beneath Concord. Use the entrance slightly NE of the entrance to the museum where Preston are trapped. Make a Quicksave outside of the entrance to the tunnels, and head on in. The first enemies you meet are three Radroaches, and they all have a chance to be legendary. Although they can drop other items too, they drop 10mm pistols on a regular basis. If they don't, reload the quicksave, and try again. Plenty of instructional videos on this subject if you're unsure of the procedure.
The Enraging effect is an awesome tool for causing mayhem among your enemies, and thus weakening them. You can have this effect on any gun, but it works best on a 10mm pistol. Fully upgraded with Advanced receiver and suppressor, you can fire up to 16 shots in one VATS session. With the right perks, you can enrage 5 enemies, and continue shooting to refill your crit meter for 5 new hits. Pretty nice! The possibilities are endless!
This may not be an actual "tip or trick", but considering how easy it is to actually get one of these, I thought I'd mention it. It's an incredibly powerful mechanic, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually exploit in in a build.
You didn't mention any glitches, but some of them are pretty awesome. The two I find most useful are:
1. Yao Guai roast says it gives +10 to melee damage, but in reality, it gives +500% to melee damage
2. If you scrap or store weapons at a settlement, the game treats it like you scrapped or stored furniture. This means if you store enough weapons (or the same set of weapons over and over), you can go WAY over a settlement's build limit.
SAVE BEFORE GETTING ANYWHERE NEAR QUINCY not only because its tough but its incredibly bugged in that you can miss out on a "unique" laser rifle and a unique piece of raider power armor I had to reload and clear it out several times before they both spawned
can confirm.
Save is the most powerful ability in the game!
Yeah fr, I'm just doing the "war paint" quest and it's bugged af!! Is very much frustrating at this point, it has crashed my game a couple of times now and worst, it makes that whenever I try to restart the game it takes a lot of time, but really A LOT, between 5-10 minutes in my case, in case it indeed opens the gsme in the first place. Man I love fo4 but sometimes is just way too much broken...
@@SithrenThalhaiden Roger that. When my Xbox crashes, I have to do a restart then go into TH-cam and watch a video to reset my Cache, then I can try to restart my Fallout game. Sometimes I have to start over at step one (usually when it crashes while having a black screen when going thru a door and I have to use an earlier save).
A little addendum for the Shipment tip: Occasionally the shipments won't automatically count as scrap when put in a Settlement's Storage (happens to me all the goddamn time), to fix this; simply drop the shipment item from your inventory, go into build mode in your settlement, and scrap it that way. Then the materials will be added in their component parts to the Settlement's inventory. This is good for things like Copper and Aluminum that are annoying to farm otherwise.
Side note, with some of these materials in their component form, you can craft an ammo forge in your settlement. Build it, power it, and connect a terminal and you can craft your own ammo out of resources! Not all ammo mind you, but still a wide selection (no Fusion Cells or Plasma ammo sadly)
I put my shipments in the same container that hold all my components. I routinely gather up all the components from all my Workshops and store them in a red toolbox at my Home Base/Home Plate. That way I don't have to sort my junk anytime I want to do some building of special things like the Decontamination Arch or a factory line.
A tip that I haven't seen anyone use is before engaging the boss set up a mine trap . So when they run at you that helps take them out. It helps you get passed overpowered enemies when you are just starting . I started doing that kinda stuff in New Vegas.
Survival and water. Sanctuary is the best place for this, but one of the items in the workshop menus is a kitchen sink or a drinking fountain. Put one of those right next to the workbench and every time you're dropping off a load of junk, you can activate the sink and start filling those bottles that you've picked up as junk. :)
Yeah, also fill every bottle before leaving the Vault.
Wtf you can fill bottles??
@@ChiefPasker In Survival Mode...or with a mod that allows it in regular mode, yes.
Taffington boathouse is a much better option with it being closer to the center of the map and just as much water available ❤
Empty bottles are better used for Dirty Water for making recipes.
"What a hayseed" bro im crying 😂😂😂
The trilby hat, I believe the battered Fedora and the Newsboy cap can also get ballistic weave.
Don't know if someone else has already found this out, I just call it a "Companion Train" in Survival Mode. Go to new settlement, then go back to home base pick a Companion load them up then dismiss them to the new settlement.
Rinse and Repeat with each Companion to make a "Companion Train" supplying new settlement without glitching anything.
Too complicated for simple me. I load up myself in Power Armor AND any and all companions traveling with me. I am willing to make multiple trips if necessary. But usually, I end my loot run at the new Settlement then continue to my home base to offload what I store there then load up with more loot from the home base and go back to the new Settlement to drop it off. Then I go on another loot run. If I do not have a new Settlement opened up, I drop all my loot at my home base. My Home Base is normally Sancturary but if all new settlements will come from south of Diamond City, then I will slowly move my loot stash to Home Plate while ending my loot runs at Home Plate too.
Genius. Been playing since 2015 and I never thought of that. Thanks.
The tip about the dash before the item is great.
With respect to armor, you can, and in some cases must, armor your settlers just by initiating Trade in conversation.
You must with unique settlers, like Connie Abernathy. She's also a vendor, and to lose her because she was killed in a Raider attack leaves you missing out on one of 3 (that I recall) vendors who sell Fertilizer.
Fertilizer? Yes, it's the best Caps supply, 2 parts fertilizer and 1 part Plastic creates Jet at a chem station. Lightest and most valuable resource available from the early game. Also useful in a fight, or an escape, AND you get crafting XP.
Crafting XP? Right-O. Cook food, make soup, cook vegetable starch, mix cutting fluid, create chems, level up and get more perks.
as an alternative just make sure you put some brahmin feed troughs in all your settlements as they passively create fertilizer
I start gathering Bags of Fertilizer from Level 1, just like I do with Bags of Cement/Concrete (whichever one it is).
What are you doing General?
There’s a settlement that needs your help! Here, I’ll mark it on your map
Just 100% fallout 3 and new vegas now im doing the same with 4 and your videos helped some of the way. Been playing fallout for 15 years and weirdly enough my favorite thing about fallout 4 is being able to build a settlement even though preston is the most avoidable character. Going back playing fallout 3 and nv i kept thinking "man itd sure be nice to just build a house and have traders with all my companions stationed there" fallout 4 may be less interesting than the others but it definitely makes up for it with the workbenches
I just finished my childhood achievements 100% two days ago on fallout three. Needed like 6 for the past 10 years or so. I’m doing fallout 4 same as you glad to see others are doing the same
Sweet. My dad sent me this because im just starting out playing. Thanks for the tips.
What an awesome dad. 👏👏
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And so the torch is passed to the next generation. 😃
A note on Vegetable Starch.
Yes its easy to set up a farm for, but you will need to plant a massive number of tatos compared to mutfruit and corn bc, for some reason known only to Todd Howard himself, settlers are programmed to consume tatos before any other food sources.
I learned this the hard way across several playthroughs bc I always hit up Tenpines Bluff, Abernathy Farm, and Diamond City to get my starting supplies for adhesive farming. I always kept running out of tatos while I had hundreds of corn and mutfruit stored away.
I agree with scrapping sanctuary, but you
May want to pick any locked containers you’re able to for the extra xp.
Quick note regarding the Enclave quests, just so nobody gets confused.
All the Enclave gear (X-02 PA, Hellfire PA, Tesla Cannon, Heavy Incinerator) were originally sold on the Creation Club store page. Each CC item could be purchased separately and had an associated in game quest to acquire it. The N-G update added all of those quests and CC items, as well as the new Echoes of the Past quest, into the game for free.
The weapons are never painted, however the PA and combat armor you loot from dead Enclave soldiers will have an Enclave paint scheme applied. It also unlocks those same paint schemes for all combat armor and I think other sets of PA as well. So you can role play using the Minutemen as a new rising force of Enclave troops if you want
Changing the pip boy light blew my mind! No longer do i have to figure out what the hell things are with a gameboy glow. I wished i knew about that earlier
There's a chem station behind a house on the west side of the main drag of Sanctuary near the river.
There's a raider named Gristle who you'll find in Concord who has a key to a gated storage room in the bottom floor of the Corvega car plant that has a good supply of ammo.
There's a cave under the Red Rocket near Sanctuary that has a pair of black-rim eyeglasses that will give you +1 to charisma that will give you a small bonus to barter, it's next to a skeleton on a ledge in the cave. There's a lot of other good loot in there as well. Have fun!😃
5:29 if you build a vacuum hopper from the Contraptions Workshop DLC & face it to the workbench you can essentially bypass the purified water cap as it'll continuously take out everything from it
Do not pick up any of the seven bobbleheads for your attributes until the related attribute is already maxed out. That way, you can have a stat of 11 across the board
So u dont have to lower ur stats before getting them? Like for intelligence when u reach lvl 10 u have to drink alchohol to lower ur intelligence temporarily then grab the special book it goes up to 11
@@tonimacaroni5305 the special book will raise a stat up to 10 but no higher. The bobbleheads will always raise the stat up by one even when it is 10 or higher doing something to lower your stat below 10 so you can use the book I think works but I have never tested it out.
@@billcox8870 yeah it does its even mentioned in this video u can raise stats to 11 with the special book. So i thought the bobble heads worked the same way
@@tonimacaroni5305 the bobbleheads will raise your stat by one no matter what it is. Perk points can only raise your stats up to 10
The VAULT-TEC "experiments" on Clem in Vault 88 rise the skills over 10, too. I got +1 skills each after using training bike, soda machine, seesight machine and slot machine.
One thing I never realised until recently (and I was playing from release) was that in the hacking screen if you have made 3 choices and can't figure out the password, instead of being locked out or just having to retry, you can mouse over the other NON-Letter characters. If more than one highlights, click on that and it could either dismiss a dud word or reset your tries. Also, if a large string of characters highlight, don't just move on, go back over that string as more than once they have also highlighted a smaller string of characters dismissing another dud or resetting your tries.
Yep. It's been a thing since fallout 3. More specifically, you usually select parts of the coding between ( ), [ ], < >, and { } symbols. Just select the opening symbol, and it should highlight the entire sequence. There can also be multiple selections in one sequence, for example: [[[.....] . Selecting each open symbol will remove another choice as long as there is a closing symbol at the end of the sequence.
I do love how automatron dlc allows you to upgrade Codsworth… i love the polite way it has when tearing people apart
I love the fact the sole survivor talks . Nothing beats psycho “FUCKINNNNNNGGGG KILLLLLLLLL”
Which Sole Survivor voice actor do you like more?
Scrap all the wood and trees in sanctuary at a low level then build the wooden shelf over and over again and level up a few points, it’s slow going but gives you a little boost at a lower level. I went from leve 10 to 15 in about 40mins or so
I prefer to level up by playing the game. I'm not doing this because I'm in some kind of competition. I'm doing this because I enjoy playing the game.
The Marcy Long comment made me almost die from laughing so much! I always put her on either a guard post or gardening the crops! She always has something negative to say no matter the Happiness level!
Very good tip video for previous or new players. I'll add this tip: mods. Some simple mods can improve gameplay like removing godrays and the washed out look, more scrapping of settlement unwanted trash and debris, and cleaning the faces of settlers. Those mods improve the game while not feeling like cheating. However using mods will disable trophies.
Btw there is also a figure in the room that you find Preston for the first Time which gives plus 1 perception indefinitely
5:28 Along with the cap to how much can be stored in workshop, you won't store any surplus of water if there are 5 or more types of drink items (not quantity of each, but actual types) stored in there as well. Alcohols, deezers lemonades, dirty waters and anything else stored in there. I think it works the same with excess food from crops as well with stored food items, but haven't gotten around to testing it out.
I never noticed this. Likely because I store a lot of stuff in containers. Thanks for the info.
I have noticed that the workshop in Sanctuary does not store excess produce from my garden. I guess the few settlers there are piggy and eat it all. It does store the purified water produced in Sanctuary.
One tip I've learned is if you have enough scrap, make turrets when you have enemies coming towards you. If you're fast enough, these turrets can even take out enemies like the mirelurk queen in Vault 88. And let me tell you; a mirelurk queen is a pain in the ass to deal with at the best of times. Hell, they'll even rip through a deathclaw with enough turrets. I'd recommend at least 3 to 5 per area you plan to clear, if you have any enemies you want to deal with.
Also, use some of the smaller settlements as hub areas for any traders if you have the local leader perk, and supply lines. Places like covenant and Hangman's alley could be good areas in that regard, because if you use robot traders, or anyone else, they won't affect settlement happiness, but they will allow scrap to be used in those settlements
Putting miner helmets on your prospectors at first then everyone in your settlements. You can get 14 -18 at a time from Dunwich bore. It really helps you to not shoot your people and the light helps you find your supply line caravans . Plus give everyone a Lazer weapon. That way you know where they are shooting and can engage along with them.
Here's a tip for survival mode. Build a water fountain at every settlement so you can fill up a bottle of every kind with purified water without a water purifier. You can also use those same bottles and fill them up with dirty water for cooking at any open source of water.
Thanks!
My new settlements always get an immediate bed and water pump. I went without water at home plate until I found the water fountain.
BTW, The hand pumped water pump will store 3 purified water every game day in the Workshop. The Water Fountain does not store purified water in the Workshop.
Best thing I saw about f4. Started playing about 2w ago, and saw 30+ clips about it. :)
Okie dokie! I Can't wait to join my fellow Wastelanders as a Fallout noob. Just finishing the show on prime video and I will be jumping right in. ✌️
Welcome scavver 🖖
You can play the game straight or you can mod the hell out of it. Or anywhere in-between, whatever you do it is entirely your choice to make it like YOU want to play to have the most fun.
There is an awesome glitch with the special book where you can use it for unlimited levels. I used it on one playthrough cuz I usually don't like cheat kind of stuff. Its on youtube. I don't wanna get it wrong but it involves hitting the scrap and use buttons together after you tie the book to something like a pistol as a mod.
Late too … by about 10 years..lol. Should have listened to my Dad and brother. I love this game!Great tips, thank you.
4:30 What mods on survival mode do you mean in particular. So far every mod I tried was broken.
13:45 whoaaa this one is brand-new to me!
7:36 I didn’t quite understand this one - could someone break it down for me? (I’m on Xbox if that makes a difference)
Theres a chemistry station you can move over to your house early. Its behind one of the houses by the bridge where you put water purifiers in sanctuary
Cod always call me Mr. Leo I feel special a NPC can say my name
On PC, the "e" key works just the same as the Enter key 95% of the time, so no need to move your hand over or off the mouse. The one exception I've found is when confirming an assignment to a settler.
Quick easy caps. Assign your settlers to crops. Once they've grown collect them all. And sell them all.
High charisma if this your first playthrough no mods. That and Luck for that Mysterious stranger and them bullets and caps. You will be rich and talk your way out of stuff. And finesse everyone for extra caps.
On one of my numerous visit to Maldon Hospital (full of super mutants), I stole an electrified serrated Chinese officer sword from one of the super mutants, and I also happened to have found a makeshift battery (not sure if the two are linked), but suddenly my serrated sword had a damage value of 300+, if you then put it in your workshop, it loses the added damage 😵
Yea the survival mode is what really hooked me on a 2nd play through
I'm at level 114 in survival. What level are you?
@@billcox8870 currently right around level 25. Lucky crit vats build.
How were you able to fit all of those 40 water pumps at the drive-in I was only able to make three 40 water pumps at the drive-in
Recently returned to Fallout 4 and I always play survival mode, but the VATS Crashing seems to be getting worse and worse as the game progresses. I've tried all the old tricks to mitigate it (making sure I'm fed and watered before combat, window mode rather than full screen) but it still happens with great frequency. Any other tips?
if you're eager to level up fast and early, scrap much of sanctuary and then make wooden shelves on the wall, they cost 2 wood, and you can spam make them in the same spot usually, and you can level several levels before you can scrap them back to wood.
Dont know if this has happened to anyone else but it would appear that All Hallows Eve and When Pigs Fly are bugged the station required for the former will sometimes play nothing and the later can cause the entire east side of Cambridge to freeze and crash when ever you get to close to the quest location both of these occured on PS5 i cannot verify whether or not the same happens on PC or Xbox
What mod is he using to display the weapon-mod changes? @12:27
It's a mod called 'better mod descriptions'. You can hopefully still find it on Nexus.
1:15 Aside from the various workbenches in Sanctuary the only thing I don't scrap is that damn fencepost which leaves an unattached fence floating.
Which makes no sense to me. That is one piece I am sure to scrap.
Heres my advice for settlements. First conquer them all before Preston. Level up get to nuka world and pick up porter. Next systematically go and kill any non essential npcs. Build up the ones with the non killable NPCs to produce nothing but food. Continue to play through nuka world start linking outposts to unlock raider items set alcohol/ chem/ tribute chests. Once you beat power play and get the perks you can kill all of the bosses right there after completion, take back the settlements, and now you have outposts producing legendary loot along with the minutemen.
HINT: Body armor doesn't stack with the power armor's armor. So strip your character down to their base layer before donning the armor- then you aren't tying up carrying capacity for armor.
Used Marcy Long as a provisioner. Got rid of her while making her useful.
Been there, done that. Now I just tune her out and ignore her. I wonder if that would work on Preston since action needs to be taken to ignore him.
I got the back pack with medic and sleeping bag mod, health regen and extra carry weight 👌💯 I bought it off the creation club, but I’m sure you can just buy it from certain vendors 🤦♂️
You can buy it from vendors if you want to put one on your companion
Awesome tips! If you're able to add chapters to this video, that would be especially handy 😁
You can duplicate raw materials by dropping them down on the ground at any settlement, going into build mode, then quickly sliding your thumb from Square to Circle (I play on the PS4/5, i'm sorry for not knowing the Xbox buttons). Essentially, you are going to both "Scrap" them into your settlement inventory and "Store" them at the same time. If you see both options' windows pop up asking for confirmation, you did it right!!! You can potentially double your materials everytime. You can also "Scrap" a junk item for its material, while also storing said item back into your inventory. You can't "duplicate" the junk item, but you will scrap it and then get another item you scrap again, if you get the buttons right.
I spent an hour trying to get the timing right for hitting the buttons and still couldn't do it 😢
Any npc you kill who is wearing power armor, you can can damage their armor pieces until they break. This will make each broken piece weigh 0lbs so you can carry it for free and repair it at your base. Free full set of T60 every time you kill a brotherhood knight 👍
Can't carry the frame. Gotta buy them. If you steal one, it always has the STOLEN tag (except for the Raider Horse Power Armor since it counts as loot).
If you get behind the npc, or can hide, wait until they give up searching for you and turn their back to you, use VATS to target the fusion core, this causes the fusion core to explode, the npc exits their power armour and once you kill them you can insert your on fusion core & steal the complete power armor - frame and all.
Both these replies are true, but carrying the broken pieces from brotherhood doesn't weigh anything or require you to get yourself and campaigning into armor, so you can literally carry infinite amounts of power armor back to base
If you kill an enemy who has power armor pieces you want, shoot the enemy's dead body until the pieces of armor disappear visually. Then, pick them up. Do this to avoid the armor having a carry weight attached to them (At least it works on everything but survival, not sure if it does or not)
I do not have internet at my house and cannot afford dlc, this is my problem with games nowadays is that if you don't have the dlc and just the main game you can barely have any fun
Yep when buy games I see price of games and dlc
Bruh. This game is nearly ten years old and goes on 85% sales on Steam pretty regularly. Everyone can afford the DLC
DLC'S are free now with next gen. I'm a bit annoyed coz I bought em when they came out in the pass. But yeah DLC'S are free no excuses.
You can find deep discounts on many games if you Google them. I bought many of the games I don't play, thanks fo4, for dirt cheap by checking prices on Google
Does it make you happy to impersonate a child or what, weirdo?
Just to let you know those new quests are also on the PS4 version as well
The trick I only figured out after playing for over 2500 hours, yes I am nuts, is that even if your companion can’t carry any more, if you through the item, or weapon on the ground, you can ask them to pick it up, and they will, regardless of how much they are carrying
The Big jim cripples everything from mirelurks to deathclaws , then it's ez
I found a devs npc room under concord by local map can't enter it though.
Getting under the map is my favorite trick so far, with the nukacola crafting station.
the creation club sentinel companion is an AI powered power armor frame, that you can install any of the power armor pieces onto. it'll use the in game voice sets for the sentry robot, or the mr. gutsy, or the assaultron, or liberty prime. it doesn't technically count as a companion, so you could take the sentinel and dogmeat, (who the game also doesn't count as a companion), and still make full use of the lone wanderer perks. the sentinel is like a power armored bodyguard that follows you around, and is another whole inventory to dump stuff into. it can throw grenades or use weapons you supply, or just let use it's default weapon, a stock laser rifle with unlimited ammo.
Dogmeat DOES count as an companion - go to the Trinity Tower, free Rex and then recruit Strong - you have to sent Dogmeat somewhere else and the thing about the lone wanderer is FALSE too, because of that.
@@Eysenbeiss Yeah, he's a companion, he takes that slot, but technically the game doesn't register him as there-there. It's for the sake of certain perks, 'lone wanderer', and the perks relating to dogmeat specifically.
This sounds very nice, but at 700 Points needed for purchase it's $10 USD, I think I'll pass, that's more than many DLC's.
@@mmouse648 If it ain't free, I don't want it. The con-artists at Bethesda aren't getting another penny from me until they fix the crash problem.
Is there any tips how to find the bodies to loot? Even a mod or something?
Many times i spent 3-5+ minutes to find all the corpses after a hectic fight, or just find most of them and move on.
The only thing i found is resting till morning, better lighting. And high level scrapper perk might highlight a body, but usually they don't have junk soooo
help!
Up above your post is this tip:
@woolenthreads
1 month ago
Tag fibreoptics too since that's hard to find sometimes. I am also going to try tagging something like steel or plastic, not because it's good but because dead bodies usually have items on them and they might be more visible if a common material is tagged and I sometimes spend time trying to find them.
I haven't tried it yet but have this exact issue right now. IDK if the bodies despawn after time or a save. I'll try this now, but not sure if they're still there (I killed 3 Raiders and only looted one before it got dark)
If you are into mods, there is one that makes the dead bodies glow. It's one of the 3 I use. It just pissed me off to kill 6 or 8 or more enemies and be able to find only 2 or 3 to loot. I use the P-99 10mm pistol for about 10 levels then carry it for about 10 more levels then give it to my settlers. I also use the My Jetpack because I find my game crashes less often when traveling the rooftops. Also, I sometimes (very rarely) find loot on the rooftops I would never have access to any other way.
If you wait to pickup bobblehead a until you have the special stat at 10 then the bobblehead will raise it up to 11
I pick up all loot. If I see a bobblehead, it is loot that gives me a perk point. I don't play the game looking to make new records. I'm old and have a spotty memory. If I don't pick it up then and there, I will likely forget where it is and maybe never find it again.
Here's a tip. Watch all of his videos for the magazines and bobble heads. I played the game for years and never knew about the island to the far right of the map. Until a bobble head sent me there
Tip 1, especially on survival: save, save, save & save some more. This game (Xbox version) crashes about twice as much for me post next-gen upgrade as before & even started major crashes where my tv stops receiving signal from Xbox, sure, easy fix of restart the game or restart Xbox then restart the game, but I have a survival game with about 22 hrs in it; but I’ve put in upwards of 30 hrs…yeah, I died once…but that was due to yet another bug where a mirelurk hunter appeared directly beneath me throwing me to the side & locking me as in no buttons or joystick maneuvers had any effect as I watched first dogmeat go down then withheld the urge to throw my controller as I watched helplessly as my life bar drained to nothing…but hey, when I rebooted the game (Home button, start button on the game, quit…then open it) I didn’t have to worry about the infection that mirelurk had given me as it ate me for lunch. There’s nothing like being on a long mission, 45-90 mins of effort, heading to that bed & that save a min or 2 out when you hit a crash! Yes, this happened to me a couple hrs ago & I’m still pissed as the crash happened when I clicked on the bed to sleep, it said saving, then screen froze…reboot game…yay, a corrupted save, MF!!!
Oh, one more thing I’ve noticed, don’t immediately delete the corrupted saves as I got kicked out once to Home Screen, tried to reload & all survival saves showed as, I think it was “invalid save file”, fortunately, I quit the game, rebooted the Xbox, restarted the game…all save files were good???
I'm on Xbox One. The crashes started in downtown Boston but now are everywhere in the game. I especially dislike those when I'm going thru a doorway. Crashes happen when the screen goes black and stays black. Recover is most difficult then. My recovery routine is to restart the Xbox, pull up TH-cam, watch a video (to randomize whatever is in the cache), pull up Fallout 4, and hope for the best. Many times, that hope for the best is to try again with an earlier save. If Bethesda would just fix the crash problem, I would swear off swearing at Bethesda. In fact, I would likely stop badmouthing them altogether. I don't care what the problem is, I bought a good product and I expect a good product. Right now, I view Bethesda as a corporation of con artists.
@@edmartin875 yeah, non-survival the corrupt save (crash during save) can suck, but it’s generally not too bad. I had it happen on a survival game…thankfully the value of things popped into my head as I pulled back my arm ready to launch my controller when I saw my options.
Good video!
Thanks man, I enjoyed this video! I'm running it back on ps5 on hard. Haven't really considered a survival mode yet
Survival mode is a must and as for what to collect to sell is ammo, chems, and pre-war money.
Thank you!! I've learned a lot!
No idea how but marcy long died in my game, not modded either. I thought she was an invincible quest character?
Ive never done a quest for her
“Mm-hm…..mMMmHmmM!” 😂
7:27-7:36
I never bother making adhesive in fallout 4 as I can get tons buy using the item search glitch at starlight drive-in you can also get more bobby pins fusion cores and other ammo types as well as extra caps buy using the same glitch at the same site but you have to do it on the right container for what you are after
what’s the cap to the amount of purified water that can be stored in the workbench
All I know is that it draws attackers to the Settlement. Every time I find purified water in my workshop I put it in a red toolbox that is close by just for that purpose. Likewise with garden produce.
The first time cod said my sons names I didn’t know if they would stop taking about
But the biggest settlement, for me is the one on Spectable Island, on the island you can build a whole fortress village there in the style of medieval villages
Get Local Leader perk and use the water towers. 20 purified water per tower with no generator needed has made me wealthy.
In survival mode if you hate walking get the Brotherhood to fly you.places, but I love walking.
Baseball Ubiform is the best undergarment, I'll fight you over that.
I'm fine with walking in any mode (I play on very hard) and use that walk as an opportunity to pick up more loot.
How the hell do I get the updates to work on ps4? I've downloaded them 5 different times and every time I add them into the game it just keeps saying I have to download them again. I just gave up on it awhile ago.
Started a melee build. Used a pen bat and hits with vats causes power armor cores to explode
PSA: it turns out you don’t have to join the railroad to get ballistic weave. Just do a few of their starting quests and talk with Tinker Tom. Then you can go and join which ever faction for your play through.
You don't have to join any faction, or you can join them all. If you join them all, at some point in the later stages of the main quest you will be assigned a task which may cause the others to balk. They say if you do that quest you will become the enemy of our faction. Never been that far myself. Went to the Institute one time. Saw how they lived all super modern with home-made slaves and all as compared to the rest of the Commonwealth and said the Institute is my enemy. Joined the BOS one time. That ended when they told me to extract tribute from the farmers. I decided they were just Raiders who has aircraft and always wore power armor. The Railroad has never given me any grief. The Minutemen's only thorn is Preston. The thorn goes away when he is happily just a settler in the Castle and I no longer have to avoid him.
I found some awesome power mods that gives npcs powers (that I can also obtain) and I made Omniman (Nolan Grayson) whose name Codsworth also knows. I spent about an hour getting him to look just like him. Now he has super strength, endurance, and can fly, and, the best part of all, his trusty robot slave addresses him as Nolan or Mr. Grayson. 😂
well if you don't mind some slight "cheating/glitching" if you can highlight something to craft you can craft the thing above of below it for "free" by highlighting what you can craft and pressing right and quickly up/down you'll highlight the thing you want while it asks to craft the 1st item. don't need perks or junk to do it, but any junk you do have for it will be used.
mostly use it to get caps, by highlighting jet and making mentats for free only need to have "1 fertilizer & 1 plastic = jet" but end up with mentats it's easier with a controller you can get xp with it as well but as you level up it's less rewarding since you can sell them for about 33 caps each
also early game to to the Drumlan Diner nearby is Trashcan Carly use Sarcasm when she asks what you want to get a discount, she will start visiting your settlements after that.
and if you don't want to deal with Preston after meeting them and getting the Power Armor on the roof & defeating the Raider & deathclaw just don't report back to him in the lobby of the museum they'll just wait there for you to come back for them to go to Sanctuary thereby not starting the MM questline (no "a settlement needs your help" quests)
Wear a lab coat and usanka hat, sleep at least 7 hours (for well rested perk), and consume a grape mentant and squirrel stew before doing any major crafting projects for an extra XP boost. I hoard my gun upgrades, food, and veggies to craft in large batches instead of a doing 3 -4 mole rats, mongrels, or vegetable starch at a time. Even if you don't use the food, craft it and store it so you get the XP.
You seem to be mixing intel boost (good for crafting) with charisma boost (good for trading and speech checks). Grape Mentats gives you +5 Charisma. Fancy glasses will get you +1 Charisma as will drinking a beer (any alcohol) +1 and various articles of +1 or +2 clothing totaling +8 or +9 (or +10 with Rex's +3 jacket/female clothing). The lab coat +2, usanka hat +1, and road googles +1 gives an intel boost totaling +4. Squirrel stew boosts both intel and charisma by +2, if I remember correctly. I believe the well rested perk gives you a small unspecified increase in intel for a short unspecified period. All the chems will notify you when they wear off, the well rested perk does not. You can also sell the food/drinks you do not wish to utilize. In fact, you can sell ALMOST everything in your inventory (not recommended unless you are cashing out that character in the game and want to find your total worth).
On a separate note I was forced to first watch an Amazon Prime Video ad. The Boys, Fallout, a few movies… no Rings of Power though despite Season 2 around the corner. 😅
First of all I HATE idiot savant. The sound alone makes me never want to take it. Besides I usually focus on Charisma and Intelligence and maybe stealth. Not big on chems/food/drink buffs or VATS. I build up all the settlements but do to fast travel I usually have Sanctuary as my home base. Never cared for a super challenge in Fallout. I like having fun with a little challenge thrown in and not challenge with a little fun thrown in. Just take the perk for finding more ammo and use ammo like money. It weighs nothing and even crap ammo is a cap each. I rarely worry about money.