5 TIPS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FALLOUT 4 SURVIVAL MODE 

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My biggest tip would be ARTILLERY ARTILLERY ARTILLERY. I would always use artillery to soften up an enemy base/location then I would go in and clean up with my rifle.

Here are some valuable tips that I've learned for survival mode/permadeath: Caps: - Prewar money; weightless, infinite supply at Lexington bank that respawns every 8 hours of game time if you DO NOT go into the Super Duper mart! * Simply setup a bed and sink at the Drive-in just north of Lexington, sleep 8 hours, run down to bank, pick up PWM and return. Rinse and repeat as needed, about 150 PWM per run. - Ammo: save all that you don't use for your preferred guns, low weight and can sell for 1 cap per, getting the Scrounger perk will boost this caps source * Put into a storage container you make at your settlements, store until you are ready to buy stuff - Drugs: I only ever use Berry and Grape Mentats, and sell the rest, they have a high cap/weight making them ideal for selling for caps * Put into a storage container you make at your settlements, store until you are ready to buy stuff - Purified water: heavy, but you can make a lot if you build water generators in Sanctuary (whenever you find Carla in Sanctuary, sell them to her for ammo or materials + all her caps) * Remove every 24 hours game time or it won't accumulate anymore, remove all Aid items and bottles from settlement storage (put them into your own storage) - Caltrop & Poisoned Caltrops: heavy, but you can make a lot of them and they have a high value and you get XP for making them * Same as above, put into your own storage for when you want to use them to buy stuff Food: - Wild Mutfruit is plntiful around Red Rocket & Abernathy farm, as long as you DO NOT go into the Molerat Den, they will respawn every 24 hours of game time making them excellent food source early on - Get the magazine at Sunshine Tidings before killing animals, it will double your meat extraction from killing animals - Cooked Radstag increases carry weight by 25 lbs. for 1 hour real time - Noodle Soup (Razorgrain + Dirty Water) both feeds and hydrates you - At all settlements, grow; Mutfruit, Corn, Tatoes (for Vegetable Starch/adhevsive) and Razorgrain (for Noodle soup) - Collect all empty bottles when going around, use these to produce Purified Water with Sink, Waterfountain or Pump - Put as many water generators as you can at Sanctuary, Drive-in, etc. for free purified water supply Surviving: - Avoid; flying insects (always), feral ghouls (have a safe spot that they can't reach you so you can pot shot them), molerats (especially the unique at Olivia with a mine strapped to it) and mirelurks until you reach level 20+ - Avoid any unnecessary fights --> this is one of the hardest lessons to learn, but don't start anything unless you really know the extent of the fight you're getting into - Learn where the frequent respawn areas are (e.g. the diner just west of Hangman's Alley) respawn enemies very quickly (8 hours of game time?), avoid if you're not ready for a fight - Swim whenever possible, best way to travel with lowest risk --> get Aqua Boy/Girl perk early! - Run/Sneak whenever you aren't swimming, but stay aware of your surroundings, you don't want to get into the middle of a bunch of feral ghouls or flying insects by mistake Rads/HP: - Decontaimination Arch at settlements removes all rads, as soon as you get enough Fibre Optic mats, make one, you'll never regret it - Cooked Mutant Dog removes rads, carry 2-4 with you all the time - Hazmat suit gives 1,000 resisitance to Radiation, you can always find one at Farron's in Diamond City and on the first mission with Deacon for the Railroad (in the room next to where you get Deliverer) - Nuka-cola + Dirty water or Nuka-cola + Nuka Cherry = no rad, high hp recovery drinks --> build a Nuka Cola station in your main settlements and always carry 4-6 with you, hotkey them (they are better than Stimpacks), plus they give you caffeine to offset tiredness - Wild Mutfruit (only 2 rads per), cooked animal meat & purified water for typical HP recovery, plus you make XP by cooking food Sleeping: - Raised beds are "clean" and can be slept in >5 hours, full rest - Mattresses and sleeping bags on the ground are "dirty" and can only be slept in

If I may add a number 6 tip: Build 2 large water purifiers in Sanctuary immediately. Not only do you get spammable healing items that are actually OP in the early game but any remaining water can be sold for a relatively good amount of caps to vendors which will help you upkeep more expensive ammo types and buy chems or craftables for healing/curing with.

Survival mode is amazing. I always start with 6 charisma so I can get the local leader perk and build a network of settlements all over the map. That way I can stash my junk and food ingredients at any of my settlements, and also do my cooking and crafting from any of my settlements (as soon as I can start building crafting stations). I usually make my “home base” at Hangman’s Alley, because it’s pretty close to the center of the map, and it’s close to Diamond City where I can buy and sell ammo.

I don't know about permadeth runs, but Survival Mode is the only way to play 4. I love how everything has a use, from empty bottles to pencils. It's no longer useless junk. Bottles make purified water for instance.

I love the Aqua Boy/Girl perks for Survival Mode. Water becomes your get out of jail free card during outdoor combat. More importantly the waterways become your freeways empty of any threats.

If you apply bloody mess, it will increase your damage to the 10 mm (read all weapons), plus their is the lone wander perk as well. Life giver is also a good one to max out as it makes up for any damage you get from being over encumbered and you don't die by accident. Sneak maxing is a must as well as you don't set off land mines or any other traps too. Taking the breathing underwater perk is also a quick way to get around parts of the map. I kind of like starting out with full intelligence, go to sanctuary, grab a beer from the basement bunker, and then go to the character's old home. Their I get near the special book, drink the beer, make sure my intelligence is now 9 due to it, then select the special book. Once the beer wears off, I now have 11 intellect for the rest of the game.

It's funny when I run into people that are surprised at using the 10mm to take down tough enemies. On my last survival permadeath run, I defeated both Coulter & the Nukalurk Queen with the 10mm, and both were very short fights. Also, thank you for including berry mentats! Antifreeze bottle is probably the most underrated junk item.

You can send Dogmeat out to collect mines since he doesn't trigger them

Go to Bunker hill and by the legendary 10mm from the vendor. 50% limb damage on top of gunslinger is an almost instant kill.

Here's another tip I found, Fallout Wiki stated that with enough sleep (7 hours or more) you can stay awake for 12-14 hours. But since I always walk in sneak mode everywhere and never run or sprint, I can stay awake for more than 24 hours. Not sure the exact times, I only noticed this when I completed Nuka Worlds Power Play, cant find bed there, so I always watched the timer. Completed the quest after 23 hours without tired when I finally used a bed to save. Another thing for Nuka World, if you let Operator alive you'll unlocked their perk that give straight increase for any weapon with silencer, not a stealth attack, but raw damage.

Survival mode is the only fun way to play FO4 , honestly have a great time playing survival mode , really love the challenge and makes building settlements even more fun and important Imo SV is the absolute best way to play the game

Honestly having chemist as soon as possible is hella good. Crafting poisoned caltrops gives a lot of early exp, given on how much steel you can aquire. They can also sell for a gooooood price!

Another Pro Tip is to finish the Show No Mercy Quest as soon as you can. From there you can atleast use some Vertibird Grenades to use the Vertibird to travel far ass distances

--Don't clear areas which spawn mirelurks & eggs if you can avoid it. This ensures the area will fully respawn upon each visit. Cutler Bend is a great example. Just travel along one side of the river per visit, collecting eggs & meat. Those mirelurk eggs combined with dirty water yield mirelurk egg omelets, each capable of filling you up from a peckish state with only one serving. They each weigh 0.1 pounds, making them priceless. Stockpile them for long trips where you are away from support, such as forays into the Glowing Sea or Far Harbor. You get as much nutrition from 1 pound of mirelurk egg omelets as you would from 10 pounds of mutt chops or grilled radstag. --Craft and use the Nuka mixer stations! Nuka cola and dirty water become Nuka Free, which allows you to stave off fatigue while adding zero radiation. This can allow you to keep the high adrenaline damage bonus going when necessary.

Great video! I’ve never utilized Berry Mentats in any of my runs but I like the idea! Especially with automatic weapons or sneak builds

"Talk to Mama Murphy". Ha, nice try but she's staying locked inside the museum along with the others because I never came back after the deathclaw fight. No more bitching Marcy. No more downer Jun. And most importantly no settlements needing my help.

This was in my recommended and I love it, great video and I'm a small gaming RU-vidr myself, and I'm your 125th sub, awesome, I'm about to hit 130 myself, and I love me some Fallout 4, and Fallout in general. The sleeping away infection is really useful, I'm definitely going to be using that.

Great tips. Very clear and concise.

That early infection tip was the one I was looking for. Now if I can stockpile some food to last the sleep intervals to heal up.

Well done CTK!! and yea I didn't know about that adrenaline mechanic, thank you sir!

I got an infection from the rad roach near the bridge in sanctuary on my new run today. Ran all the way down to Palidan dances police station because there’s antibiotics there. Almost died trying to get there

Great video man! Keep up the good work!

The infection tip saved me! Thank you

You mean people do SURVIVAL CHALLENGE RUNS in fallout 4?😮

Honestly, live the fact that you're talking normally and coherently. Instead of doing some cRaZy voice. Keep up the good work!

Great video!! Really enjoyed it :)

Phenomenal video dude, you are very well spoken and informative! Great voice!!

Thanx for this great video. Just got into fall out 4!

These modded skins looks terrible not gonna lie.

This game also does something to me I love. Makes me LEARN from my mistakes. At least because I don't go doing the same thing twice if I die but like last night. I knew I shouldn't have tried to help oberland station so early in my playthrough but did. I was doing fine and then died randomly to god knows what I never saw it 😂

Just assign a doctor in the settlements. Also build water fountains (sink) for faster bottle refills. For guns, get an explosive .38 rifle. Convert it to piercing auto. It will destroy everything, even without any buffs.

For the ultimate, atmospheric Fallout 4 Survival mode experience, turn off the cross hair's and the waypoint markers, and turn off the music! Oh, and also, turn off any Cyberpunk mods. I love Cyberpunk, but not in a Fallout game lol.

Just throwing out something I did in my first time and am do run through survival is to sell all the chems u get from diamond city blues quest to cricket a buy spray’n’pray, very powerful weapon for a start, tho fighting trish is a challenge

Good to see that you're rocking on YT as well... I'll sub here too!

Rushing the railroad to get the Deliverer early was the best idea I've had so far, the Vats build is top tier in survival.

Great vid CTK

Love the fo4 videos. Just curious, is it possible to do unarmed permadeath? Seems like it would be insanely difficult and frustrating and wonder if anyone tried it before.

Surprisingly, I actually learned two things from (#1 & #3) this video!

i have sum 50 charactors in survival mode i am playing only fallout 4 , best part of this mode i like planning out you game start to get something very high armor or weapon i start with the mini gun ammo from prestins roof then use it as money to fund my adventure , cash it in for caps then i head off to nuka world at level 5 with one jet i use it to get in the subway from the roof behind the park i jump on the roof . (make sure when get in the subway to head left go behind the train hide from the assultron ) do the gauntlet fairly easy once you see the pattern ..use the 21 grenades in the traps to kill overboss i dont go into the room with overboss i stay in the entrance , once he he dead i got super power armor rest of the game failry easy ...then i head off to shovel museum and recover the loot from the battles return to the refreshment stand with the bed and save 12 hours head off to the shovel museum again repeat get good gear and armor for level 5 then at level 13 i upgrade my gunnut to level 2 use the recovered minigun from shovel museum super muntants to covert it too shredder then you got the most powerful weapon in fallout 4 ...minigun shredder without ammo from thier you can make any charactor at level 13 go after any weapon or outfit .

Great vid bro

This was awsome!

Man how many years later and im just finding out about the recall code

I could imagine having a farm set up for enemies and trapping them in settlements, kill enough for a good enough adrenalin boost, and clear a hard quest with stealth and a maybe 200+ dmg sniper with the right perks

I believe most/all diseases can be cured by sleeping/time passing I had a disease, I think it was "weakness" or something like it, but I just kept playing, sleeping 8 or more hours per day and eating and drinking water when necessary, and eventually I was cured.

fun fact if ur overcumbered, go in third person and be unarmed and keep doing the walking atack, it will make you get to point B faster (doesnt work in power armor and need to be moving forward

Did a hardcore run on nv and am thinking about doing this for fo4 after I beat nv

I tried looking through the list but couldn’t figure out what mod you used to make the 10mm neon?

nice tips, giggity, thanks

Tip for a fast - and SAFE - doctor: Start the game with at least CHR 6 and INT 2(or 1 less of either stat, then use the SPECIAL book to raise it the missing point). Assign your first 3 perks to get both Local Leader perks and Medic level 1, then you can build a tier 3 clinic. This way you have access to a doctor before you even need to go to Concord. The only hard part might be raising the 1200 caps to build it, but if you sell all unnecessary stuff you can find in/near Sanctuary, Red Rocket Station and Abernathy Farm, you’ll be able to save up enough pretty fast selling it to traders.

The Deliverer is your best friend in survival

I was like yeah yeah yeah whatever.. then he said berry mentats.. and I Was like.. shit I thought I was the only 1.

Doing survival without chemist already sounds like a death sentence

I like Permadeath, for the adrenaline rush when facing tough odds, or close calls. I’m on Fo3 and FoNV playthroughs. So far always very hard difficulty, plus hardcore mode in FoNV. I haven’t figured out if Fo3 does hardcore, too. I was disappointed to learn Fo3 gives bonus XP in very hard difficulty. Fortunately, FoNV does not. Do you have content that might help with a Permadeath run through Fo3 or FoNV? I was hoping this video offered info I could generalize to use in them, but it was quite specific. Albeit perhaps the notion of using weapons whose ammo type is common is solid in any scenario.

The first time I encountered the courser, I accidentally selected the recall code and had no idea what I did and how I did it

the infection one is one that i did not know

Got a two shot 10mm on my current survival run and it is better than the deliverer

I'm doing a survival permadeath run with an entirely diferent strategy/chalange I can't leave my settlements untill I'm lvl 200 and can just shred the whole game by being overleveled and overgeared I can't kill, loot or buy anything outside my settlements I can only leave my settlement to go to another settlement I own, and only walk on the road that leads me to that settlement I have to start on sanctuary and can only claim one settlement every 10 levels Pretty fun chalange so far

i need that 10mm skin. please someone tell me which mod that is

the overseers guardian should probably be the first weapon you buy. on my no mod survival run on console I got a plasma infused ten mill under red rocket

HOLY SHIT ITS CHRIS THE FUCKING KEY, *BEARDSLAP*

the 10 MM is my go to as well. for all the same reasons you listed. I've beaten the game in non survival mode with just the 10 mm in my underwear many times. Might not have even been wearing pants in rl too, come to think of it. lol

Now I want to try a 10mm pistol only run.

Protip: 11 Charisma wins any speech challenge. If you find a red dress (1.5 lbs.), Black rimmed glasses and a hat (Trilby, Formal, Militia, etc) you can swap to them before any convo to reduce prices and win speech checks. With Bobblehead, means you`d need 6 Chr at start to achieve 11. Also, Grape Mentats give a whopping +5 Chr & -10% pricing, should be used before any big purchase to save/make caps/profit.

Wait, gunslinger does work with the 10mm? I had thought that only applied to revolvers and bolt action, and commando was for the 10mm and other automatics.

What is that UI mod for the status at the top?

working on hubologist charactor , and made charactors based on the bosses like tesla and even cito and his ape settlement this game is endless never seems to stop entertaining me i just try to get something hard to get low level on survival mode using careful planning .

2:23 EXCUSE ME, YOU MEAN I RAN ACROSS THE ENTIRE MAP FROM SANCTUARY TO DIAMOND CITY LIKE A MADMAN FOR NO REASON AFTER GETTING INFECTED. I THOUGHT IT WAS PERMANENT UNTIL A DOCTOR OR ANTIBIOTIC WAS USED

Wtf these are amazong tips I thought nothing could surprise me, but i didnt know ANY of them

What’s the mod for the 10mm pistol?

I didnt even know there was a hunger, sleep, hydration

and if on top of all you said to improve the 10mm u do that in a 10 mm legendary well is the most perfect weapon on Fallout

Build a drinking fountain or sink in every settlement. You can fill up every empty bottle with purified water without a water purifier. Burnt magazines, file folders and pre-war money are worth cops but have no weight. Don't pickup the 7 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bobbleheads untill the related stat is 10. That way it will be 11.

10 mil tip is hilarious )

The 10mm is overpowered if you get a legendary effect on it

Great tips. I wish you listed more.

Maybe because I'm on Playstation and I have the unofficial patch because the glitches are terrible, but I haven't been able to sleep away infections. Os this just for the one called "infection" which gramts periodic damage?

Tfw bought destroyers right leg to run everywhere faster but ended up not using it because sped-up 3rd person animations look too goofy 😶

You do not need to sleep for 24 hours to get rid of infections. A normal night's sleep is enough even if the chance is not so high.

Just play survival as a nomad and using found weapons only. No crafting. True survival experience

So I've only just discovered that survival mode exists . May the odds forever be in my favor

Great video! Allegedly. Kappa

survival mode is the shit feels like what I imagine original fallout was like

Does other sicknesses go away from sleeping, or is it just infection?

Imma just ignore the last Tip because I'm a simp for Overseer's Guardian xD

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Perma death ? In this game ? Fuuuuuuck that .

what mods you use?

Best thing carry on survivor mode is quantum cola

Sleeping and Fatigue every 3 minutes is realistic ..

Here is my tip: Never get a concussion, if you do, there is a small chance that you will get glitched with a permanent 1 per. Also, beware of using med-ex when poisoned, the poison wil not have its effects removed.

is that pistol a mod? thing looks cool reminds me of Tron

Aquaman is an underrated SV perk also

Like 10 mm with rad or plasma damage

Love the voice mate keep it up

Ughhhhhhhhhhhh, so helpful!

the background music is very familiar for some reason

do you use any mods?

why do you have a laser 10mm?