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.
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.
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.😂
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 😁
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 👍
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 👍🏻
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.
@@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!
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.
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! 👍🏻
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
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....
@@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.
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 🤣
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.
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.
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.
@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
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! 👏🏻
@@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.
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. 🤣
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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 😂
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.
@@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!
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.
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
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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?
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 🤣
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 😂😂
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
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.
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!
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!
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 🤣
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 😁
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,
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 🤣
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Those 2 ghouls that appeared after you took out the turret are a scripted event when you take out the raiders & turret. they crawled out from under the machinery.
There's a back entrance to the assembly plant through the sewers and the raiders have setup defenses there to keep ghouls out. The also reference it a bit in their dialogue and terminal entries. Pretty much the whole bit of Lexington is overrun with ghouls.
@jamesmilton6529 yeah I've been back and cleared that area out a few times since, mainly for weapons to break down for parts and stuff. It's a lot easier just shooting them from a distance as there's tons on the roof and scaffolding
one of the houses in left area of concord has a dead raider where you can get a scoped rifle. many other places at home area, but want gun perk to optimize.
Thanks yeah I plan to go back there and do a proper scout out of the area (same with Corvega). I've heard there's a hidden speakeasy or something in Concord I'm yet to find, unless that is the area you reference
Whoever thought you had played this b4 had to be trolling you! Otherwise you're a great actor! 😂😂 Tip: you can fast travel to places you've already been using the map! This will help you shoot back to Sanctuary to offload junk and stuff👍 mostly junk based on what I've seen you pick up so far!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Keep going, there's a long long way to go 😁😁😁
I know 🤣. I've been called many things on YT but a liar is a new one, not sure what I'd gain from saying its a first time playthrough when it's not other than to massage my own ego maybe 😂. There's lots of areas I plan to go back to and do a proper sweep of all the materials and stuff 😁
From the audio it sounds like you are holding down the VATS key? This forces VATS. Normally you can just tap the VATS key and it will trigger if there are any targets in VATS range in your field of view.
Plantables are the only food I store in inventory. Even in Survival mode food is pretty much useless, unless it's something you've hunted & cooked that provides specific protection/perks. Purified water is the best bet. Lots of players create purified water factories in their settlements, because they sell the water for loads of caps & because it provides good recovery in battles. When it comes to junk... I always grab what's gonna provide copper &/or circuitry. I'll take a telephone over a gold bar any day. Also, here's something to know about companions... Dogmeat is the only companion that offers no perk. Every other companion offers a perk, and every companion has a different set of likes & dislikes that come from various interactions. For instance, you could've possible scored as many as 3 likes with Preston in your Trudy's Diner interaction. You have to build affinity with companions & once you max out affinity with them... you score their perk. You haven't met MacCready yet, but when you do HIRE him! He has the best perk, in my opinion, he has the kill shot perk. Basically, any gun you got can be used for highly effective sniper shots. Preston is annoying to travel with, but he also has a good perk.
Start settlements where you find workshops and start caravans from settlement to settlement and all your workshops will be connected. Don't need to return to sanctuary to put away your junk.
Thanks yeah will do that eventually when I feel a bit more familiar with the settlement system, need to get local leader everyone keeps mentioning first and sort out the happiness at Sanctuary as its still quite low, probably due to lack of food/more defences etc
Ideally Industrial Water Purifyer is more efficient (and so is Large Generator). As for food assignment - if you assign a person to any food, you will pick up any available up to 6 food production.
Do you need a perk for some of the better upgrades like the industrial water purifier? Seem to remember some stuff was locked behind perk walls but maybe not that one, I can't remember
When doing any Terminals you should first use three tries before looking for the open and closed brackets as it could reset your tries before you use them
I always adopt Dogmeat but rarely use him as my companion because I prefer playing as a stealth character and he just rushes in bless him!Corvega assembly on your second day of gaming! I broke out in a sweat just thinking about it! 😂
There seems to be a lot of confusion around dogmeat in general, I got the lone wanderer perk as I was told he didn't affect it, now I've seen several comments saying he does 🤣
Would that have been better vs the yao guai? Or was that enemy just above my current rubbish gun levels? Seemed like bullets were barely scratching it, if it wasn't for the explosion I think I'd have wasted a lot more
@@mike-thegamingdadyes the yao guai would be a good candidate for the shotgun. You did amazingly well with the pipe rifle. That is a very tough enemy for your current level. I probably would have just run. 😂
@@mike-thegamingdad The laser musket would have done better - you probably recorded the new episode already so I don't know if you noticed yet but the Musket works differently than other weapons, no matter how much you "reload" you're still gonna shoot a single time and have to reload again - this is because the reload system is to "charge" up a shot, so if your musket does 30 damage, cranking it three times and shooting does 90 DMG in a single shot. It's currently you're most powerful weapon when fully cranked. Another system that isn't explained at all is that any time you open V.A.T.S. you'll see a "Critical Hit" meter at the bottom of the screen, any V.A.T.S. hits that doesn't miss will fill that meter, once its full you can trigger that super powerful critical hit during any V.A.T.S. shot by pressing X on your xbox controller (so "Accept" your V.A.T.S. shot and quickly press X afterward) - this Critical Hit will NEVER miss, even if it's through a wall, as long as you have at least 1% chance to hit, it will be a guaranteed hit. So if you combine that V.A.T.S. critical multiplier while also sneaking (which also gives you a sneak critical multiplier) with your most powerful weapon (like fully cranked musket) you can do a massive amount of damage, probably would have taken 50% of that bear's health in a single shot, that's a really powerful tactic to keep in mind.
I don't question this is your first playthrough, but you are doing quite well, as a general rule, I rarely buy anything other than ammo from vendors and I sell stuff like caltrops and cigarettes and prewar money to them until they run out of caps, but that is just me, you play your game to suit yourself, good move drawing the yao guai to the ghouls and bomb even if it was by accident, I am really enjoying your playthrough
Haha that was a complete fluke I didn't even know that the barrel/ghouls were there 🤣. Thank you though I appreciate it 😁 hopefully the further you get into this the combat will look smoother, I did episode 6 last night, just need to get it uploaded 👍🏻
Just so you know, you have been investing level up points in Lone Wanderer, which is great, but Dog Meat is considered a companion. While you travel with any companion, the Lone Wanderer perks do not apply. They only apply when you are traveling without a companion. While I was watching this episode, you looked at your inventory and noticed you were still carrying the minigun. I see you are still carrying multiples of other weapons. They never break so you should store those back at Sanctuary and just carry one. This will also give you more carrying capacity. Don't just drop them because you can sell them later for caps at various vendors. Having fun watching you play for the first time. You're doing good kid. I jest of course. In a few months, I will be a gaming Grand Dad!
I certainly did enjoy this episode and I am enjoying the playthrough as well. In Skyrim I am thinking of finishing the Dragonborn questline and doing some of the other quests on Solstheim. Maybe that will be long enough so that when I get back to Skyrim I will get 20k gold from Goldenhills Plantation. If it does pan out that way I will let you know on one of your other videos. Best regards Gary.
That sounds like a good plan! Have you done the quest at the mead hall yet? Where you can either side with the Nords and clear out the Riekling, or side with the Riekling and fend off the Nord attackers. I sided with the Riekling and at the end you can get one of them as a follower 😁🙌🏼
Do you realize that you can Fast Travel? Just go to your map, click on a location you have previously discovered -and you can fast travel. Would have made it much easier to travel to Sanctuary to lighten your inventory, then return to Lexingon/Corvega,
Thanks yeah I've stayed away from them, I guess if I use something that gets rid of addiction then you can use them strategically in battle? I saw something called refreshing beverage in the chem station that removes all addiction which sounded interesting
Don't worry about "wasted" perks. You'll be able to get everything you want eventually, there really isn't anything that is a waste. And this game has so much replayability that eventually you'll try different builds and find something that fits you. My brother and I play this game in completely different ways. As long as you are having fun, nothing else matters. You might want to take one of the spare rifles you've found and craft yourself a scope so you have something to snipe with. Especially if you find one of the .308 bolt action rifles. Or the laser musket, that's a nice powerful rifle that lends itself well to sniping because the reload time is so long. And as you've noticed, the .38 ammo is all over the place so turning one of your pipe pistols into an automatic weapon could also be fun. One of the beautiful things about this game is that pretty much every weapon style and build is perfectly viable, so feel free to play around a bit with everything. Some of my favorite builds were the result of pure happenstance because I was just messing around trying random things and some of them worked out really well. Glad to see you are having so much fun with the game that like a true FO4 veteran, you have completely forgotten about your dead wife and missing son. One side note: for many of the radio signal quests, you can just listen to the signal broadcast to get the quest properly in your journal, and then just follow up with it whenever you find time.
Watching you loot everything but leaving carrots in peoples inventory was... Early game i always loot any crops i see so i can plant in my settlements straight away (of course you wouldn't know to do that as a new player). Also a settler can work up to 6 units of food, most things you plant count as 0.5 units so you can have quite a big garden with only 1-2 settlers working it. If you go to your garden and manually harvest a few things you can then plant what you gathered to expand your garden. Takes a while for them to regrow though.
Also I have seen you go through places like Starlight Drive in and clear them out but then not click on the workshop. You need to do that to activate the settlement as somewhere you can build.
Yeah carrots didn't seem important to be honest, I go through Skyrim not collecting potatoes unless on Survival, Starfield not collecting potatoes. I'll be picking them up now though
Yeah i get that totally get that mate. It's like you said when you you started breaking down junk. The surprise that all (most) the junk has a purpose in this game. We all did the same thing coming from Skyrim. You learn what is worth picking up eventually. These days I am quite selective and basically only pick up things with components i need and i'm sure over time you will figure out what is worth grabbing and what is dead weight. Enjoying watching the process and your playthrough though :) @@mike-thegamingdad
