Fallout 4: Let's Play Episode 3! Gunfight at Corvega!
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- Fallout 4: Let's Play Episode 3! Gunfight at Corvega!
The winner of the recent poll on the channel was Fallout 4, so that is what I'll be playing next on the channel! I have never played any of the Fallout series before so this will be a blind playthrough. I'll record episodes of this and drop other bits of content in between, I hope you enjoy!
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When you come to a marked location, its a good opportunity to fast travel to your base and off load items. Then you can fast travel right back and continue where you left off.
Thanks yeah I need to do more of that 👍🏻
27:30 mate there is NO doubt this is your first run, and it's beautiful to watch. So jealous! 😊
Haha normally I get into the groove quite quickly but that whole section I was just not with it at all, the whole sequence felt awkward like I'd never played a shooter before in my life I was all over the place 🤣. Enjoying the game though its great fun! 👍🏻
When you have VATS activated the numbers you see on the body are the percentages to hit that body part. Head [9] means a 9% chance to hit. Range, weapon, and skill all play a part.
Thought it may be that thank you 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad I noticed your not wearing any armor, equip some, some pieces have special abilities
New subscriber, nice to watch someone having their first venture into the wasteland.
Always collect items containing oil, adhesive and aluminium and keep an eye out for Abraxo. As soon as you are nearing maximum carry weight fast travel to one of your settlements and scrap it all. Upgrade your scrap perk to get more from each item.
Pre war money can be used as currency or scrapped for Cloth.
If you have to use them, only carry one .38 pipe weapon and make sure its an automatic and modded to the max, scrap or sell all other .38 weapons, .38 ammo is best used as currency.
10mm is the best weapon at the beginning of the game. Upgrade Gun Nut perk.
Give your settlers your hand me down weapons and armour.
The best weapon (in my opinion) is the Overseers Guardian .45 it isn't cheap and can be found for sale in Vault 81.
Love to see people start this journey. Pretty soon you’ll be able to waltz into the Glowing Sea wearing shorts and tee shirt, kill an albino Death Claw and be back for lunch.😂
I have no idea what half of that is, but it sounds awesome 🤣
It's always great to see somebody play Fallout 4 for the first time. I've clocked up just over 5,040 hours and I still play the game. Despite its flaws, it is still one of my favourite games.
One thing I highly recommend to do is explore. There are many unmarked locations all over the map, with a lot of environmental storytelling and random encounters. For example, around Sanctuary and Red Rocket there are at least half a dozen unmarked locations with something going on. Concord has a few more buildings you haven't been into, plus a sewer system. Also, if you see a door to a building you haven't explored, open it and explore. Chances are, you'll probably forget about it later on.
While exploring, tap the VATS button every now and then. It will help identify any enemies or NPCs you haven't noticed, in addition to any landmines.
You can equip Settlers and some Followers with weapons, clothing and armour. Open their Inventory by Trading with them, give them the item(s) you want them to use, and press Y to equip. For example, you can equip Dogmeat with a bandana and welding goggles, and you can give Codsworth a bowler hat. Just beware that if you select Take All, you will also take their equipped items.
Accuracy in VATS relies on a number of factors including your Perception skill (higher is better, and some armour or clothing can further increase your Perception, or any other skill); weapon accuracy, range and cover. Shotguns are only accurate at short range, while some pistols and most rifles are better at long range. If a location on a target is obscured by cover, it will be more difficult to hit in VATS. Upon entering VATS, the default location that is highlighted is usually the easiest location to hit, or is the target's 'weak spot,' for example, a Deathclaw's belly is its most vulnerable part. On the subject of a target's weak spot, try to always aim at a feral ghoul's legs, it will stop them from charging at you. Each selection you make in VATS will use a percentage of your Action Points (AP), which is located in the bottom right of the screen. Lighter, smaller weapons such as pistols require less AP, allowing you to fire more shots. Conversely, larger, heavier weapons use more AP, and as a result you get less shots.
When sneaking, take note of the Hidden meter at the top of the screen. The brackets on either side move depending on how close you are to being detected. The closer the brackets are together, the more likely you will be detected.
Sure, .38 calibre ammo may be plentiful, but with the exception of the bolt-action pipe rifle/pistol, most pipe weapons are trash. Always try to keep your weapons upgraded. Fully upgraded, the 10mm pistol you found in Vault 111 is still a viable weapon in the late game.
Food that you cook (somehow) removes all radiation from the food. Plus it can also provide various benefits, such as increased radiation resistance, extra carry weight, etc.
When in dialogue with an NPC, and you encounter a difficult speech check, you can turn away from the NPC to access your Pip-Boy. There you can take some chems, drink some booze or equip any Charisma boosting armour or clothing, which will give you a better chance of passing the speech check. Then you can face the NPC again to continue the conversation. Just remember to re-equip your combat gear after you finish the conversation.
On the compass, I'm sure you have noticed the red dots on your compass indicating nearby enemies. However, did you notice that some of those dots may have a small chevron above or below the dot? The chevron indicates whether the enemy is on a higher or lower elevation than you.
Some Junk items are more useful than others. If something looks mechanical in nature, such as a desk fan, typewriter or microscope, then there's a good chance it will contain more usable parts. In your previous video, I noticed that you dropped items to scrap them while in a Settlement. That's not necessary. Some components seem to disappear from the Workbench when you scrap an item, however the game will still track and use the 'missing' components. After a small amount of time, those missing components will reappear in the Workbench.
When Bartering with an NPC, you can cycle through the NPC's different categories, such as weapons, clothing, aid, junk, etc. Unfortunately the UI (like in most Bethesda games) is not well designed.
Thanks for taking the time to type all that out, really useful tips! I'm enjoying the game so far and will be doing episode 4 across tonight and tomorrow night 😁
excellent post sir, hats off 🫡
All really good tips and guidelines. The last sentenance point is because they design the game for console users. Lucky we have a big mod support on Nexus that has mods to fix Bethesda's terrible designs and mistakes
great post, lots of useful info - just did Corvega for first time... came in over the freeway and dropped down on to Lexington, went through the secret pipe access, sneaked around with a shot gun and had a blast 👍
I cleared Corvega last night. Im on easy and what a fight I had!@AdrianMcGavock
I like your methodical, deliberate play style. Really enjoying this playthrough!
Same here!
It's kind of like "Dad Style" 😂
In early Skyrim videos people said I was too quick, as you start out just assuming people know what you know and I've sunk so much time into that game. So I sort of adopted a style where I would talk about why I was doing stuff etc and it was a bit slower paced. So I've ended up sort of just "plodding" through games the same way now 🤣. As long as people enjoy it that's the main thing 👍🏻
@@gilgamecha Very appropriate description lol
Yeah, I'm so glad you are thorough. I love this game. I haven't played in years. Life is weird. I've been sick lately. Last time felt like myself was Christmas last year. The last couple of days, I have felt like myself, and decided to actually post content on my own account. There are 3 things that are absolutely perfect in this world: nature, Beetlejuice, and Fallout. My content will pretty much be about these things. I was so excited to you currently are playing this.
Kudos - Corvega is very tough for where you are in the game. The plot leads you straight to Corvega but it is really too tough for a starting character unless you have played a lot of similar shooters to be good at combat.
Thankfully I had barely used any stimpaks up to now, so I was able to burn through them. But yeah without those I'd have struggled 🤣
I was thinking this the WHOLE time! Definitely shows Mike’s natural talent!
It’s 5:45am I should be sleeping but now I’m going to watch this lol
Haha I do the same, more so late at night as well, "oh go on I'll watch some more" 🤣
On my very first playthrough i got absolutely slaughtered at corvega lol, now when i go there the raiders are the ones who get slaughtered 😁
Oh no! I was probably heading that way but thankfully I had a lot of stimpaks 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad sniper rifle, hunting rifle and fully modded 10mm with recon scope and stimpacks are my friends now wondering the wasteland 🤣 raiders need fear the reaper 🤣🤣
When you haven’t played before, Corvega and the place near Finch farm are pretty daunting. I cringed when I thought of this underpowered guy marching in there, all hope and joyful expectation!😁
He did ok though!
General tip: if you are about to go into a big fight like Corvega, go home and dump all your stuff first. Because you will need maximum carrying capacity free for the loot you will get from the fight.
Okay yeah make sense thanks 😁👍🏻
Shoot there's enough stuff at Corvega that it'll take multiple trips to clear the all the valuable junk. Or wait til you have enough fusion cores to loot while wearing power armor. Your carry weight increases with the suit.
"I Like VATS, it even tells you where you need to go" haha that's because you chose the VANS perk! It was the first perk you chose and it was before you even knew what VATS was :D :D
Yeah that was such a wasted perk as well wasn't it 🤦🏻♂️🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad Haha its actually kind of useful now that i've seen you use it! it was helpful for sure inside Corvega. I always get lost in that place.
love watching your videos. Started to play survival mode Skyrim after watching your vids. Shoot spotlights, take all adhesive, take hotplates, coffee pots and fast travel back to unload items. So fun watching someone discover the joys of Fallout 4. I talk to the screen telling you to pick that up and watch out danger ahead. Also, might be a good idea to figure out your play style to properly appoint perk points, ie Don't worry about the haters, keep on doing what you do!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks yeah I think I'm gonna go and do a proper scour of all the areas we've been to so far and make sure I've got everything and then take it back to sanctuary. I've not really done any shuttle runs yet but there's lots of areas I've not checked
also grab all the hub flowers @@mike-thegamingdad
Something to be mindful of... there are landmines in various places inside and out. The roads are dangerous to travel because of this. Trip wires are a thing too, careful where you step. LOL
It cracked me up at the end of the episode when you said, "and next time we'll FINALLY make our way to Diamond City". Finally? This is the fastest march to Diamond City I've ever seen. What are you? Six hours in? Cracks me up. The game will guide you through various quests for 10 or 15 levels to prepare you. Certainly enjoying the look at the game through fresh eyes.
I love the pacing of this playthrough. Some people charge the main quest and are all done in 20 hours having only seen about 10% of the game. I'm here to see people react to all my favourite hidden away pieces.
On that note: BEWARE THE CAR-HENGE. I will say no more.
Thanks I'm glad you are enjoying it, even at this pace I'm finding it hard to stick to the storylines 🤣. I wanted so badly to explore every single car, tree, building, container and map location on the road to the last location, but the video was already over 2 hours long and I'd been playing for over 4 hours in total (if you include the time spent messing around at Sanctuary) so felt i should get there and then pause. It feels like this is a game that you can really get lost in! 😁
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You do it here. I hadn’t gotten this far when I made my comment.
I’m no content creator, but having watched many play throughs, a thing a lot of people do is after recording they will do housekeeping (storing loot, selling stuff, equipping different clothes, etc) off camera and just take a note and read off what you did in the intro to your next episode.
I personally enjoy watching you grasping new systems but if, like you mentioned in an earlier episode, you don’t think people want to watch you scrapping a pile of junk, do it off camera and mention it in your intro.
Also mess around with some of the systems off camera and don’t save your game. That way you can get the gist of a particular system without worrying whether it’s interesting to watch for your audience.
Great videos, mate. You’ve inspired me to start a new survival play through.
That was enjoyable 👍🏻 Someone’s probably already mentioned it but you can give spare armor and weapons to your settlers so they can defend bases and themselves more effectively.
When Hacking the little < > are closed brackets as well, basically any thing you hover over that covers more that 1 space and is not a word is a 'hack'. A big suggestion I have after several playthroughs would be to NOT make Red Rocket a settlement, use it as your 'House', away from others that will pilfer your stuff and sleep in your bed... a place to call ur own. Growing food wise fyi, a single settler can tend 6 worth of food, by assigning them to one they will automatically do up to the 6, the little person icon when you hover will be solid for assigned and just an outline when no one is working it, this goes for guard post, stores.... look for the outline vs the filled in person icon. The 6 units worth or 6 points worth goes for defense points just like food and they will self assign to other defense post up to the 6. so 1 settler can provide 6 food 0r 6 defense or work one store. A good way to patrol the settlement is put a guard post on one side and assign a guard then go to a other point you need defended and place another, now they will patrol between them. The three points you want at Sanctuary (three spawn points) are 1.The house you demolished to left of entrance bridge (they come from that little island direction), 2. The bridge you cross to get to the Vault, 3. On the right-back side of the house with the bunker/basement. When you are trading or transferring items you can cycle through item categories going left and right, ie... weapons, armor, aid....
Awesome thanks for the tips I'll make notes and make some changes 😁👍🏻
@@mike-thegamingdad if you use Red Rocket as private, when you get the Local Leader perk you can send a settler as a Provisioner to from Sanctuary to Red Rocket and You can use stuff stored in both workbenches.
Always great fun to clear Corvega! Not sure if you noticed the reference to Gristle (got him just before the deathclaw saving Preston) on Jared’s terminal. Some of the Raider Groups are related so be sure to check terminals when you can. Also, meant to let in you know in the previous video that you don’t need to harvest the flowers and such unless you want to start making your own chems. I always found enough and never bothered to make them myself. Of course, I never used them much either so there’s that. Lol! Didn’t find them as useful as Skyrim potions, but others find them quite useful. Guess it all depends on style of play. Great fun watching you learn the game. You’re doing well!
Someone else said he was the raider leader at Concord? I hadn't got that reference no but I was very slow yesterday. I said to another poster that the fight sequence before I saw that terminal I felt like I was drunk, just couldn't get into the swing of it at all, everything felt unnatural 🤣. Thanks yeah I may give chems a go at some points, it's refreshing beverage I'm most interested in because it reduces rads and takes away all addiction. I saw that yesterday at the chemist station and it stood out.
@@mike-thegamingdad Refreshing beverage is definitely a good one. You are correct about Gristle being in Concord, but don’t worry about missing it. He mouths off when your getting into the power armor and the dialogue is lost with everything going on, then deathclaw pops out. Lots of places where it’s bedlam with everything going on. Especially when you’re surrounded by raiders or ghouls. 🤣
you can also switch your inventory to the left or right, when you pull up the pip boy, it'll sort your stuff into weapons and aid and junk etc. that way you don't have to scroll through everything everytime.
also: just give dogmeat everything, who cares? i alway give him all my junk and the weapons i dont use
Okay thank you yeah I noticed the sort button afterwards as well, LS I think I said. Would have been helpful to have seen that earlier so I could have just gone with heaviest first or something 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad you can sort by weight
cant wait for the next episode! just binge watched the first two episodes. diamond city is one of my favorite locations as well. keep up the good stuff
You are essentially playing just like I did for my first time. This pleasantly takes me back to my early choices. It's like exploring it all again from the as new. Tip: use the Barter screen, (i.e. with Trudy at the Drumlin Diner), to offload your excess unwanted items, (weapons, armour, clothing etc.), for caps as well as the items you want. And just as a previous posted identified, old money and cigarette cartons have a great exchange rate/weight ratio.
It's a little unnerving posting a first time playthrough, for a game many have sunk thousands of hours into. I feel very exposed 😂. But most people are playing nice 😁👍🏻 thanks for the tips I appreciate it! 👏🏻
Cooked radstag (two-headed deer) meat gives you carry weight +25 and lasts for a decent time too. There's several good buffs in cooked meats.
Thanks yeah I've written that one down as someone else has said it too 😁👍🏻
There is enough salvage in Corvega for like 4 trips back and forth lol. TONS of usuable stuff to be found in that place. And it all respawns as far as I recall.
Ha yeah I definitely need to go back there 😅
I have been waiting for this!
Hope you enjoy 😁
I always forget that video game logic isn't something that is natural for everyone. Having your light on telling the enemy where your are so well at the rising spotlight shining on you, didn't immediately create a respond to turn it off or shoot it. Just FYI, you'll need to do that to be sneaky and not easily spotted.
I'll keep an eye out for the spotlights in future 👍🏻
He's saying turn your OWN light off or you will be spotted. Your pipboy light. @@mike-thegamingdad
@gilgamecha yeah it was off for this combat sequence wasn't it? I turned it off before we even reached Lexington and don't think I used it again inside Corvega
@@mike-thegamingdad It was off
7:00 You can in fact cleanse dirty water by turning 3 dirty water into 1 purified water at a cooking station.
Okay that's good to know I'll make sure I collect those in future then 👍🏻
Dirty water is also used in a few really good cooking recipes.
@@skaphanatic5657yes it's actually better to save dirty water for those recipes. Dirty water as an item is actually much rarer than purified water, and there's no way to manufacture it. (Except in Survival and even then that's limited).
Also, if you collect empty milk bottles, nuka bottles or beer bottles, place a well pump in one of your settlements and you can fill those empty bottles with purified water for free.
@@stanettiels7367 this only works in Survival mode. Pretty sure he is playing normal mode.
VATS only shows you where to go because you took the VANS perk.
I always keep charismatic pieces with me, and then equip them for dialogue and bartering, but you don't need "fashionable glasses" in combat. Welding goggles, for example, have PER+1, so that makes you a tiny bit deadlier.
You can use V.A.T.S. almost all the time. Action points rechgarge in about twenty seconds. It's not really a special ability, but a basic tool.
Thanks yeah I keep thinking of wearing other things but end up forgetting when combat starts. I do have a few better head pieces as well
There's always room for style 🤌
Looting 101:
- anything you're going to use personally (check the mods on weapons)
- all ammo because it's weightless
- anything else that weighs zero
- any chems and most items that weigh 0.1
- throwables such as grenades
- weapons generally are worth more per weight than apparel / armour
Thanks for the tips appreciate it 😁👍🏻
a tip for when you are in fight: if you see a car and your opponent is hiding behind it or is near by, shoot the car until it starts burning. It will explode by itself but if you want to give him a hand to blow up faster, shoot it few more times. If there are multiple opponents around it, it's like you've thrown a nuclear grenade because cars were nuclear powered. Wait until you come closer they will give radiation damage for about 30 seconds
If you are interested in using the chems during combat, I would recommend making psycho jet (combine psycho and jet at a chem station) it increases damage and slows time which is helpful for a quick boost when you end up with more enemies than you bargained for
Just a little tip for you; putting a regular dog collar on Dogmeat increases his carry weight.
Also, collect all of the pre-war money that you can, it's weightless and every dollar of money is worth six caps. So, it's very lucrative to trade for ammo or caps.
Seriously? I never knew that in all time I've played. Great tip!
Awesome thank you! Can you craft dog collars or do I need to find them?
@@mike-thegamingdad you need to find them. Just loot the dogs that you kill for them
no way?? i have hundreds of hours on multiple playthroughs and all achievements and never knew this...
Avoid being caught in the pesky spotlights, that's why all the raiders found you at once. You can tell when they're tracking you by the faint beeping noise they make. You did well though, I got my ass handed to me at Corvega 😂
The lift in the café takes you down to an old intelligence agency bunker. You access the bunker in a Railroad quest.
Enjoying the fallout series so far, earned a sub here!
When upgrading your gear look for the "pocketed" it will increase your carry capacity
Also keep in mind: when building beds you need to make sure to leave enough room to get in them.
Otherwise your settlers will nag about "the bed situation" and happiness will go down. Also the bridge isn't the only way into sanctuary hills so spread out your defenses always take as much as you and your companion can carry to your base and load it off in the workshop just to get up your junk and the rest in your base ... you will thank me later ...
As a last one (and I can't stress this enough) provide your settlers with guns and armor for more protection of your base
They don't nag about beds due to this kind of placement. They only nag if the game engine thinks the bed is not covered by a roof. Which can be glitchy.
@@gilgamecha mainly said it to keep in mind for the future ... if a bed is too blocked up (like if you put a row of them together to save space) it messes with the routing and you get the nagging
@@dimitridaenen4889 yeah it's tidy and it stops glitches and dumb animations so it's definitely a good idea
Okay great thanks for the tips.
On the defenses, is the game clever enough to take placement into consideration. Or does it not really matter? I went near the bridge thinking that was an obvious route in, but I've seen a comment saying raiders will just spawn anywhere?
There are specific spawn points for each settlement and there is a mod that detects them for you. However, unless you are there when they spawn, the game spawns them directly inside your settlements. So, spacing them around is best. Plus, giving your settlers better guns can help. Their ammo is unlimited and they only need 1 bullet for each weapon. Settlers can't die, but the resources you built for them can get damaged and need repair.
Forgive me if you noticed these things but I have some tips.
On the other side of the railroad bridge you just crossed is a Greenhouse run by Robots. Inside the Greenhouse are all the crops you need to make Adhesive. (Mutfruit, Tatos and Corn) If you click on the plant you can pick the fruit to plant later in your settlement.
On the road between the Drumlin Diner and Concord will be a traveling merchant named Trashcan Carla. When you talk to her use the "sarcastic" response to get a permanent discount. She will also start visiting Sanctuary so you will have a part time merchant there.
When going through your inventory or looting enemies if you see a "+" sign after the item, the game thinks it is better than what you currently have equipped so it is worth a second look.
If you find a weapon or armor piece that has a part that is better something you are using, it can be removed by using a workbench. Install a basic part or another part you have already removed. The part (mod) can then be attached to another weapon/armor piece of the same type to improve them.
Also you can save some carry weight by opening "transfer" at the red Workshop Workbench in you settlement when you are done crafting. Then find the "mods" section of your inventory and transfer the mods to the workbench. They will still be available as replacement parts later on.
But only if you are at the same settlement or workbench, unless you have Local Leader. Even that that only applies to settlements. It's still a good idea though.
@@gilgamecha True.
Awesome thanks for the tips 😁👍🏻
Oh your mention of Trashcan Carla reminds me, TAKE YOUR FUSION CORE OUT when you park your power armor. Carla stole my X01 and there was no getting it back. 😢
@@shan6556 let me guess - there was an attack on a settlement where that armor was in and Carla got in it during a fight.
there is a way to get someone out of power armor
- either pickpocket fusion core out (requares higher perks of pickpocket) or (if don't care for hostility) break the fusion core of armor with a vats shot.
npc will exit power armor if it looses fusion core
They throw you in the deep end with Converger plant being the first mission for the Minutemen, But you did well General. Sorry if l missed this, But you can give armour, Weapons and stimpacks to your settlers making them better equipt to defend themselves. You only have give them one round of ammunition for whatever weapon you've given them.
Thank you 😁. Okay that makes sense, I've not equipped anyone with anything yet so will do that. Do you need to assign more that 1 settler to things? I've done one for food, one for scavenging and one for defense. But seems like in time I'll need to increase that, the latter probably makes sense to have multiple on defense
@@mike-thegamingdad Tip, make sure you build up your settlements with walls, defences and such to keep the happiness up , if you don't keep checking your workshops (in pip-boy) to many fails on said settlements you will lose it and you need them for the support later on So keep them safe at least 10 to 15 settlers the better it will help your settlements against being attacked.. The more food and water combine will results on how much you get attacked
@missdedivine thanks for the tips I'll make sure I sort Sanctuary out 😁
You only need 1 settler assigned to food to cover 6. More than 6 settlers you'll need to assign another. I usually use the turrets for defense and assign scavengers as resources are an issue early on. Later on when you've unlocked ' Local leader' you can syart building stores, clinic, bar, and their happiness is close to max.
The scavengers only do their thing for 5 minutes at a time then they wander around the settlement for a bit open carrying their weapons. So they are practically gaurds as well.
You can sometimes get crops by asking settlers to trade and taking anything they have in their inventory. You can also harvest plants and immediately plant them.
Also settlers can look after up to 6 foods worth of crops.
Awesome thanks, fixing the food situation is high on my priority list, along with general settlement maintenance 🤣
@@mike-thegamingdad for sure! It’s ace to watch this, you’re definitely doing better than my first playthrough and it’s definitely a fun thing to watch. Grand stuff!
Selling Purified Water is one of the best ways to make caps in Fallout 4. The Water Purifier will deposit surplus Purified Water in the Workbench.
That's awesome! I think I've got a lot of that already so thats great
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You can also put a water pump in your settlement (the quest Sturgess has given you) and if you have empty bottles in your inventory (milk, beer, nuka bottles) and activate the pump, it will fill those bottles with purified water to sell or drink.
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You're carrying too much to be able to run.
The cars you find on the street still technically have fusion power if you do enough damage to the car it will set on fire and them eventually blow up when then blow there is a decent explosion but it will do rad damafe if your stood too close
Good tip. Except for the burned out and wrecked ones but it's easy to see the difference.
Thanks yeah I think I'll try use them strategically if I can. They seem like good ways to blow up anything larger than you are. Like the Yao guai I encountered
Like the neat sitrep around 1:20:00 and thanks for the efforts diving into those terminal messages! there are some interesting nuggets hidden in there. Keep up the good work!
Thank you I appreciate the kind words 😁
A tip to keep your inventory light: the (#) next to weapons in your inventory is how many of those you are carrying. I noticed you were carrying around 8 10mm pistols and a bunch of other types of guns! The guns can be pretty heavy in this game too
49:00 VATS lies. It will tell you that you have a shot when actually the path passes through the edges of hitboxes of solid objects that will block the shot. It's good to visually check you have an unobstructed line of sight. Even then you can sometimes be blocked by an invisible edge. If it looks like a VATS sequence is trying to fire through an object (or if your target has just moved into cover) you can cancel the current VATS sequence, to conserve your ammo and AP.
Okay good to know thank you 😁
@@mike-thegamingdadAlso, sometimes I use VATS just to line up a shot, just quickly activate (LB) then cancel (B) and fire. It helps when they're a little bit further distance. And don't be afraid to take different cover, especially if you're getting hit anyway. 😊
you know it shows percent chance, did you seen fully obstructed part having any significant chance to hit in vats?
@@ciberzombiegaming8207 what happens if the game engine considers your shot blocked, you will never hit, regardless of the % shown.
Thank you again for a great video, and many thanks for the comments, too 😀 I love your style of play Mike and its very interesting to see how I'm having a different experience already, so early on.
I started the game at the weekend and decided to follow your video. (I've been loving your Skyrim videos).
Not met any Ghouls as yet, but boy was that a fight at the Assembly Plant - learning shooting techniques as I go, lol.
There's so much in this game; it's good for my little grey cells.
Apologies that im 5 months behind!
@junewindross6221 don't apologise for being behind, it's great that my older videos still get watched rather than forgotten about 😁 I hope you continue to enjoy this game as much as I have done/am doing! It does take a bit of getting used to, especially the VATS mode (which I don't think I properly start using for another episode/couple of episodes). Regarding how your experience is already so different, I thought immediately that this game had replay value because of that 😁
If you come out of the building mode, you can pick the crops that are ready for harvest, then its in your stock to plant. WInning!
Thanks yeah I've got my eye out for plants now, I need corn as well I think do i can start to get vegetable starch and make my own adhesive 👍🏻. Can you collect the stuff at your own plantation if you've assigned others to farm it? Or does that mess it up. Was wondering how the assigning system actually worked for food stuff
@@mike-thegamingdad You can totally pick what they are " working " as it were. My advice is to plant 3X as many tatos as you think you will need. Its the primary food each place consumes, so its tough to get the yield even to the corn and mutfruit. Every settlement in my current game has TONS of all three. And when I go to produce the starch, the corn and mutfruit show lets say 1000 of each, and the tato shows like 150. What I have found works is to harvest if yourself and store it in whatever container you like. Then when you want to produce your adhesive you pull it into your inventory. No ideal but it works. I have tons of advice but I have been holding back to let you discover on your own. But feel free to ask anything,. I have a million hours in this game and know a fair amount about gaming their systems.
@@scottpascoe562 awesome thank you 😁
Diamond City is in the middle of what is currently Fenway Park. So its IN Boston
Okay thank you 😁👍🏻
If you are feeling like a little exercise, you could always run the bases.
Boston bugle can be broken down for cloth but anything that is burnt is useless
Okay thank you 😁👍🏻
push back button while in pip-boy to enlarge screen
But since you're using a controller, it's the center left button (double square, next to start).
Ive never had an issue with diamond city it shouldnt be glitching there you can get a bit a of frame rate drop in the surrounding area bit even then thats sort of rare
Yeah ive seen a few comments mentioning frame rate drops so I'll keep an eye out 👍🏻
You can pick the melons and plant the fruit, also veggies on corpses can be planted.
Awesome. Corvega Assembly Plant is always one my favorite places in the game. Huge environment and lots of enemies.
Yeah that place was fun, I need to go back give it a good scour over
No worries, radiant quests from settlements will keep you coming back. 😁
All porta diners offer one preserved food but getting that food counts on your luck skill tree ive done many playthroughs before and only ever got 2 of them 😂😂
Is that what I was looking at inside the glass thing?
@@mike-thegamingdad yes only one is good the rest is bad
Trudy/Wolfgang encounter. Ideal resolution is to talk to Wolfgang first, then con ince Tudy to pay him. In that case you get two vendors at he location. But Trudy is definitely a better vendor - Wolfgang only sells chems.
Okay good to know for future plays 😁👍🏻
You should read all things in screen. LS to sort items by weight to make it easier to trade the heavier items with your companions...
Thanks for the tip! 👍
Also, sort by damage on your Pipboy. The +++ are weapons that do more DMG than the current equipped weapon. Lastly, AP, on the bottom right, during VATS, the amount of shots you get. I think it's also weapon dependant, but I can't remember. Love watching you discover this great game!
Oh, I should have mentioned previously, these special loot boxes, such as Jared's trunk LEVEL with the player. The higher the level you are the better items you will find.
For a good time, you can try to score a perfectly preserved pie from Port-A-Diner looting. There's more than one to be found for the nostalgic pre-war cravings. Ok, it's not really a good time, but it is a thing you can do... for self medicating.
I wouldn't pay so much attention to "Hey! You missed xyz at location blah blah blah." There's plenty to do and find, and being it's a Bethesda game, you don't really need any of it anyhow. It's your first playthrough. Just enjoy the experience 👍
Haha Port-A-Diner is that the thing I was looking at in when I commented on the food looking bad in Lexington?
@mike-thegamingdad Yes sir. For the discriminating business man or woman on the go.
in all my time playing Fallout 4, i’ve only gotten a few Perfectly Preserved Pies, and i don’t eat them i display them on a shelf like a trophy 😂
@@SeenGodYeah, they usually wind up on an end game dining room table as a display of opulence.
Haha nice 😂👍🏻
Looks like you took the VANS perk - shows the path to your quest target - often considered a wasted perk.
Yeah my first one 😅 I got fixated on the base row in episode 1 and picked that. I dunno why I thought it unlocked more features in VATS, clearly misread VANS 🤣
slocum joes basement is a railroad quest location
Good to know thank you 😁
In dark places you tend to keep forgetting the torch.
I tried to keep it off inside Corvega as everyone kept telling me NPCs see it 🤣
If you are hidden, not so much, if caution, then yes, it makes you seen. The noise you make while moving is also what breaks stealth. More points into stealth also helps like in Skyrim obviously.
@davefarrow6865 okay good to know thanks 😁👍🏻
Haven't watched the first few videos. Just FYI if you haven't... you can command dogmeat to search for the cryo-weapon back at he vault. Have him stand near it and have him search for weapo s? I think?
An exploit long since patched out on most platforms if maybe not all.
@@gilgamechagotcha.. yeah it's been a few years really since I've fallout 4'd.
You can make furniture out of Boston Bugle (newspaper) 😊 Love your videos by the way 😊
Haha awesome, there seems to be a few random items that turn into stuff like beds, love the logic 🤣. Thanks a lot!
Tips, picking up guns off kills gives you the ammo that was in the gun, I just drop afterwards, spotlights can be shot, hanging can chimes can be disarmed like mines and traps,
Nice thanks for the tips I appreciate it 😁
This must be your first playthrough, you still pick up everything 😄
3000 hours in and i still collect EVERYTHING. Almost everything in the game has a use, be it for parts or to sell for caps
@@chriscollins8221it makes the game a literal drag, though
Don’t forget that rad-x reduces the intensity of radiation. If you find a hazmat suit, it massively reduces radiation when you have no choice but to go near the yellow radiation barrels.
I found scrapping and building so satisfying
Bear in mind that Protectrons are your friends! If you can find the terminal near a Protectron pod you can release them. At worst they are a great distraction when you are facing multiple enemies. You might want to consider using the explosive nature of vehicles to your advantage. I always do that whenever possible.
Pick up all baseballs as you can make them into baseball grenades
Pick up all vault tec lunchboxes as they can also make them into mines
Thanks I've noted it down 👍🏻😁
Hi Mike
I haven't read through all the comments, so I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but if you invest a few points into intelligence early, you'll level up more frequently, thereby acquiring other perks more quickly as you play along.
Enjoying your play through.
Have fun!
That's great to know thank you 😁
I really enjoy your streams Even if i don't like the game i'll still watch just to hear you talk TY for good content
Thanks very much 😁🙌🏼 I'll get more done this week
One thing I can suggest is that when you pick up new weapons and armor, take a look at them to see if they might be better than what you’re using.
if you go overweight and your companion is full you can drop things on the ground and tell them to pick them up which means you can have unlimited carry weight.except dogmeat
Ah thats good you could do that in Skyrim as well 🤣
If you want to increase your VATs accuracy invest points in the Perception skills
Thanks for the tips I appreciate it 😁👍🏻
You want to pick up Typewriters and Telephones. Typewriters contain both gears, screws and springs and Telephones contain copper, circuitry and fiberglass. Good materials for armour and weapon mods.
Loving the episodes got a new sub as well keep at it man it’s a great game!! 🎉
Thanks a lot! I appreciate it 😁
If it helps, when your modding weapons and armour, any mods that you either need a certain perk or type of resource that you may not have, can sometimes be obtained by removing them from another gun/armour piece.
If you have 2 right leg leather armour pieces with muffle and a left leg leather armour piece with nothing on it you can remove the mod off one of the right legs and attach it to the left leg for either fewer or sometimes no resources spent at all.
Weapon mods work the same way. Which means you can sometimes get upgrades for free or at least cheaper before you have the points to unlock perks, if that makes sense.
Edit: I also find it both funny and frustrating watching your first run through. I've restarted Fallout so many times and have forgot how daunting my first play-through was with so much to distract you as you walk from location to location often spending hours investigating buildings, collecting every scrap I can across, becoming over encumbered and having to walk back to sanctuary at a snails pace, I already have 3000+ hours spent over numerous replays (A lot of which has been spent building settlements) and still I find places i haven't seen or experiencing random encounters I haven't before. So keep up the good work and I'll be waiting for the next instalment.
P.S. Your Starfield videos have help me massively with understanding the outposts.
Thanks yeah a few others have said similar re. modifications. I'll have to make sure I check stuff out more carefully in future 👍🏻.
Haha yeah I've had a lot of comments saying 'you did this wrong, why didn't you do this, if you'd gone here you'd have found this'. I thought I'd made it clear this was my first time seeing this game so I'm unaware of anything 🤣
No problem at all it took me a while to work out starfielf settlements as I'd not dealt with a system like that before, but I'm already seeing similarities between that and Fallout. Wiring the generator power to the water pump for example, you don't get the feeling for that in the video as I was only showing the highlights but I did that straight away as it just felt logical, whereas Starfield wires took me a bit of time to work out. It took me ages to get the hang of how a switch needed to be connected 🤣
Great video dude. Appreciate the effort
Thanks a lot 😁
When dog meat is hurt like that and he can't walk give me my steampack
I think once the fight finishes he gets up okay so I've been saving the stimpaks 😁
There is a very rare chance that you can get perfectly preserved pie from the porta diner
Thanks yeah I've seen someone else mention that as well 😅
30:45 Gristle is the raider leader you killed in Concord.
Oh really nice 😁
@@mike-thegamingdad Yeah Gristles terminal was hinting she followed up on a lead about another caravan of civilians with a fortunte teller and a guy dressed like a cowboy. Thats Mama Murphy and Preston.
@spacemaker8760 yeah I started another playthrough a few weeks back just to try out a few different VATS things, and I noticed the name of the lead raider in Concord this time 😁👍🏻
39:40 with a very few exceptions, NPCs will never spot your companions if you are sneaking. It all comes down to whether or not the NPCs spot you personally. It's counter intuitive but from a game point of view imagine how annoying it would be if companions kept getting you spotted.
Haha, yeah that's how Skyrim works, your follower will always give you away as they get spotted and either start a fight or draw the enemies to your position to investigate 🤣
"She already offered us money" 🤣 NOOOO 💀
Where your crops are you can collect the grown crops and plant them too also 1 settler when assigned to food will tend to the crops if the crops feeds 0.5 they will tend to 12 plants and if the crops feeds 1 they will tend to 6 crops
Always excited for a new video!
Hope it was a good one 😁🙌🏼 excited to play this again, got so much I want to do or explore its hard to stick to a main questline 🤣
Diamond city isnt glitchy but the whole if boston you might notice frame rate drops because its hugeeeeee
Okay thanks for the heads up 🤘
42:00 once you have cleared a dungeon you have on Normal mode I think 3 game days (7?) to come back and loot before the cell resets, meaning mobs and loot respawn. Be aware that fast travel uses up a lot of game time (you go at a normal slow walk like NPCs walk). A good compromise can be to find a nearby workbench and stash all the loot there before the dungeon respawns. Once loot is in a workbench it is safe from any cell resets.
Okay thanks I may do an "offline" sweep of all the areas we've gone through them and collect anything I can find. And just show the highlights like I did in this episode after I'd done some stuff at Sanctuary
@@mike-thegamingdadyeah logistics is boring to watch. Your play style is fun to watch though. I like the careful pace that gives you time to talk what you are doing and thinking.
@gilgamecha thats good to hear thank you 😁 yeah its quite methodical my style 🤣
In your inventory (or during trading) you are looking at everything. You can use a button to isolate weapons, apparel, aid, etc. Would make things easier.
The Skyrim sweet roll was a reference to the start of Fallout 3, pre war food is pretty bad but some of the craftable recipes are good, it’s fun trying to not use stimpacks,
Yeah I do like a run where you only use food, I've done a few skyrim playthroughs like that 😁
and steampacks are weightless (outside of survival mode or fallout 76) unlike food so low rad/high healing food are good for that (nuka cola is good and rarer variants are even better) , also crafted food is generally rads-free and often has some additional benefits .
@ciberzombiegaming8207 yeah I've noted that cooked meat is rad free and often has added benefits, definitely feels beneficial to hunt and cook 👍🏻
@@mike-thegamingdad or atleast use them when its not emergency that requires stimpack
2:05:25 The power armour suit you have is better than the one you found, I wouldn’t worry about it honestly.
Theirs is a better one you can find when you reach level 12.
46:30 VANS shows you the path to your quest target. On most kill missions, the specific quest target is the leader of the group.
I wish that I'd found that out sooner!
If you notice your inventory is getting full fast travel to sanctuary drop off your loot and fast travel back
Yeah I need to do more shuttle runs 👍🏻
Next skill I would recommend is rifleman norm one of the first I grab with a rifleman build
You need defend your settlements , you can give guns and armor to your settlers. You also should plant food so your setters are happy.
I started saving tools I found to sell later to venders.
Dogmeat counts as a companion, by the way.
Enjoying watching a fresh perspective! 😀
Thank you 😁
Now that you gathered some materials, spend some time and upgrade your weapons on workbench. Plant some mutfruit, tatos and corn and assign settler (all through workbench) - solves your adhesive problems with Vegetable Starch
You should save every time before you get into a battle that way if you die you can start where you left off
Good tip thanks 😁👍🏻
Oh just a small bit of info you can carry as much ammo you want, it doesn' weigh anything
Nice thanks same as in Starfield 😁👍🏻