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Yeah, handy flamers and turret lasers are killers right now.

Yeah, I think this is the only game I’ve been willing to be a glass cannon. Even though I’m more vulnerable because of low hp, it adds an element of survival. It motivates me to be careful and use stealth.

I got started with bloody using a power armor build with emergency protocols (particularly love union PA), and I still swap to that for anything with poison... But yeah, unyielding is life.

beware of the wall mounted laser turret

Unyielding is like crack 😂

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Glad it helped you!

Cheers! Appreciate the kind words

You can go middle of the road with an overeater's power armour set with emergency protocols and a vampiric weapon. You can get one-shot in armour piercing mutated daily ops but aside from that even bosses have a hard time killing you.

I'll always love my undying robot man build! i only hit for around 250 a hit but i can NEVER die soooo

Cheers!

Cheers and have fun!

Glad you liked it!

Yeah, it would be nice to have unyielding also increase endurance but I guess that would make it too powerful LOL. But yeah, vampiric weapons are all about rate of fire. They always heal you the same regardless of how much damage you do. Holy Fire is a weapon I recommend as a must have for everyone.

Anti-armour is very effective against the tougher enemies and I'd agree that only bloody is better. But how effective it is depends on the weapon. I personally wouln't bother stacking more than two types of anti-armour benefits. But I agree that it's definitely viable to play at full health.

@@SequentialGamerFalloutI’m level 200 on Xbox been playing since last year. I originally started with bloodies me and my friend. However, I noticed when you’re playing in a group, you die very frequently when doing stuff like daily ops. So I decided to become a full health t-65 build. Now the only thing that can remotely touch me is fire from the handy man, and poison, however I a lot of health based cards in endurance, and agility. I almost never die. However my potential to kill has drastically dropped, my carry weight goes down, and waste time playing as team medic instead of getting more kills & xp. It’s definitely a difference in play style! Id argue both are great! Just depending, however I’d love to run some of my build by you and see what is worth keeping and what isn’t for the dmg/health trade off, and I’m also trying to balance carry weight. If your okay with giving me advice I’d love to hear it! I’ll list it below after and if you choose to respond, thank you!

@@surion6368that’s odd for me being in a team I’m stronger and don’t dies as fast versus without but that’s just for regular armor, I have a full over eaters t65 with nerd rage emergency protocols ricochet, dodgy and blocker nothing comes close to killing me except for some miurlurk kings that have insane poison despite having 175 poison resist and of course the imposter

my quad/50c/15r assaultron head disagrees. it hits for thousands of damage unspec'd and it is definitely not a lousy weapon. and yes bloodied weapons are overrated. i don't use bloodied weapons on my bloodied characters anymore. AA/Quad/Exec is the way perception/luck/agi boost is extremely important especially if you're using VATs. it isn't limited to commandoes but heavy weapons like gat plasma/LMGs/flamers/.50 cals etc are extremely deadly if your perception and luck stat is high. being full health means you have to consume stuff to boost those stats and it can be quite costly in the long run.

@@surion6368 Yeah, all styles are equally viable. It's more about what fits you better. And yeah, feel free to ask about your build.

Yeah, FO76 is actually very different from FO4 when it comes to perks. If you include mutations then the difference is pretty drastic.

@@SequentialGamerFallout mutations are awesome, I have all of them, overall that gives you a huge buff and very fast movement, completely changes how the game is played 😊

@@bjarnis Yeah, mutations are almost unbalanced. A few perks and there's so little downside compared to the benefit.

Tnxs to bloodied builds I don't ever use power armour except for nuke zones

As pointed out at 10:22, power armor is quite fine for a bloody build and makes a great entry point given it's ease of set up vs a full set of unyielding. You get all the damage benefits and you're still tanky (especially if you run Union PA for the poison resist) just slap on that emergency protocols mod.

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BONK!

Nice!

Yeah, pretty much my thinking too. I pull out my emergency protocol power armour for daily ops and some of the more dangerous events.

Yeah, the Adrenal Reaction mutation alone makes a visible difference to how quickly you kill enemies. Then add bloody effects and you're a killing machine.

Yeah, I was lucky enough that I collected a lot of unyielding and overeater's special armour when events were dropping secret service and BoS recon gear. Trying to roll unyielding and sentinel's sets is grindy like hell.

You're very welcome! For PA, I use the Union set and the extra carrying bonus and that gives me the most carrying capacity. Unyielding gear gives you more but Union is only about 100 or so lower with the leg mods. I generally play outside power armour but I sometimes break it out for more difficult daily ops and expeditions. It means I have that sprinting is out but the extra protection is worth it.

Just a two shot laser gun and fire from the hip for the famous stormtrooper accuracy :p

Cheers! I swap in lockpicking and hacking perks whenever I need them. It's not too onerous once you get used to it.

Three desirable effects are almost impossible to get. That armour is almost priceless. I've been trying to get roll just unyielding and sentinels and I regularly spend thousands of scrip trying. But I still only have two pieces. That was an amazing gift.

@@SequentialGamerFallout yeah it truly was a amazing gift it took a year after to appreciate the gift after learning a lot with testing myself. It’s hard to trade for yet grinding is even harder but eventually you’ll get it just takes time i did trade for other sets of unyielding and it took 2 years to complete. But good guide there’s many ways to use this set and it’s bonuses

I haven't tried that because you have to collect it at west tek but if it's perfect for getting your health down after a death then that sounds like it's worth it.

@@SequentialGamerFallout give it a try it can be a game changer as you don't have to carry around tons of food and stuff

Free atoms LOL

matched with a vampires weapon ricochet serendipity and dodgy youll ignore half hits heal the other half

Holy Fire is an excellent vampiric weapon. Well worth going for IMHO.

Haven't tried that yet, but it sounds like it could be a neat idea.

Yeah, you're super stealthy with a full unyielding set

Yeah, cold shoulder with a VATS build is a killer.

@@SequentialGamerFalloutand so under used .vats and the gun alone just hurts plus cryo damage on top dealing bonus

You're welcome! For the legendaries I've gone for all the stats, so basically I put 10 points into most attributes then add 5 legendary perk points to get as many as possible to 15 for the max possible perk points. IMHO this is the best use of the legendary perks. I also do the legendary for charisma but I could drop it for something else but I haven't really felt the need for that. Funky Duds is probably what I'd go for but I've got a union power armour set (i.e. immune to poison) and a couple of poison resistance pieces on my normal gear so I haven't felt the need for it.

@@SequentialGamerFallout i plan to do that until being kill easily by fire damage, so i use 1 slot sizzling

@@scudlauncherr Yeah, it's not a bad idea to get either poison or fire resistance legendary perks unless you've got other types of protection.

Shame that those damn robots love the smell of burned squishy bloody builds in the morning. Hopefully that gets patched soon.

People are especially fragile now because of the laser & flamer buffs, but the devs should be fixing that soon so it'll make bloody builds more viable.

@@SequentialGamerFallout It's also nice to see there is a balance like most MMO's between Tanks and DPS you could see Bloodied as a DPS class i mostly love to tank bosses in my power armor and keeping bloodied players as save as possible :3

@@wargames43 😁 and we appreciate it lol.

@@SequentialGamerFallout yeah I haven’t played in a long time and I’ve definitely noticed I get killed by robots more often.

Ya reckon?

Fair enough, the follow up video to this showed that full health is still pretty good at killing. Even if you use a subpar weapon.

@@SequentialGamerFallout no idea if that says anything about my build but I can usually solo a silo in 15 to 20 minutes. I use a Gauss Minigun, Ultracite Plasma Gattling, Ultracite Gattling Laser and an Enclave Plasma Rifle Flamer for emergencies Edit: oh and I always keep my Ten Shot Fatman on me

@@draenog96 You should be fine. I go through with a Troubleshooter's Explosive .50 cal machine gun, but IMHO the key is to use power armour to avoid getting smashed by the laser turrets at the moment. Your weapons are pretty good. PS: where can I get a ten shot fatman?? LOL

@@SequentialGamerFallout oh that's just what I named my Two Shot Fatman with a MIRV mod on it

Yeah, it's the alien backpack. IIRC you get it from daily ops. Looks pretty nice with the jetpack IMHO.

@@SequentialGamerFallout Awesome hadn’t played DO in a long time. I tryed today and got the same scorched paint for PA plan. Heard they was adding stuff to the D O

@@outlander1321 Yeah, repeat plans are a problem with DOs. They say that this will be changed in one of the patches coming shortly. Hopefully that happens soon.

Basically armour you buy for gold. Scout armour is basically end game gear. You can also buy the covert ops plans for gold but all it does is give you more stealth when in shadows. I believe that urban and forest scout can only drop randomly but they give you bonuses in their environments. As far as defensive values are concerned they're all the same. The other types are secret service and BOS. Both have better armour values but secret service is more even and BOS is better against bullets. Personally I use a secret service chest for the jetpack and covert ops limbs.

Yeah, generally you don't die unless it's a daily ops or an event with lots of mutations. For Bolstering vs Overeaters, damage resistance has a cap to how effective it is, the rule of thumb is that anything over 300 is pointless. Damage reduction has no such cap, although it loses effectiveness because it's multiplicative, so overeaters is the generally recommended legendary for power armour.

@@SequentialGamerFallout I'm not arguing that bolstering is better, Your correct in terms of survivability usage its far better then bolstering. However let's take a moment to look at the other side of this argument: which one is more practical? Power armor isnt a regular set of armor: you probably shouldn't use unyielding because, despite the upsides, it's not helpful for survivability, which is why you see alot of unyielding In stealth builds. I'm not saying you can't get mileage out of it in power armor, it just isn't practical for how PA is used. OEs is better then bolstering as well, but again is it more practical? You only ever really need it for hard content, and that only covers about 5% of the game, while the other 95% is general use, events, expeditions (unless they add a challenge mode I dont consitter it hard content), and story content. And, while it's a good idea to use for that 5% content, if you were to use it in all content I think the upkeep would be a bit of an issue. Firstly unless you've been around for a long time, most new and mid time players probably don't have water coolers or camp items that give non-irradiated food right off the get go, so constantly haveing to visit other player camps for those items, or having to visit westec regularly to fix rads from food and drink would kinda get old for me. And that not even mentioning mutations and builds that will affect hunger and thirst. Bolstering, however, In my opinion is the best set for the majority of content: it just strait up less damage. And again, yes while that amount isn't as good a OEs, with the right builds, legend roles, perk/legend perk cards, and armor mods like emergency protocol, you end up not dieing to the majority of the game. And, after all that building is done, you rarely have to think about extra steps unless your switching your perk cards for crafting or weapon usage.

@@DumaVadamee109 Yeah, Bolstering is not bad, I wasn't trying to say that it's useless or disagreeing with you. Ultimately any power armour is pretty good at keeping you alive so you don't have to go for an absolutely min-maxed approach. The one reason why I'd say to go for Overeaters over Bolstering is that to get a full set you need to deliberately re-roll legendaries. In that case you may as well go for the ideal. But if you get one or two pieces then Bolstering is probably better for the limbs that get covered. I wouldn't tell people to throw away their bolstering, if you play at low health it's a nice first star.

You can take a surprisingly large amounts of hits if you have the right armour and perks. But ultimately it's about what you like .. full health is perfectly fine IMHO.

Yeah, weapons make the biggest difference and yes anti-armour is more effective against powerful enemies like bosses because it reduces enemy armour by a percentage .. more armour means more armour reduced. About the stealth suit, I find that enemies find you pretty quickly at higher levels, unyielding is actually stealthier. But you're right that it's way easier to get LOL. IMHO all builds are equally viable and I'm currently making a video highlighting that. The big difference with unyielding is VATS, but if you don't use it then the difference is pretty small.

@@SequentialGamerFallout I am happy to provide some level 340+ stealthsuit footage if you need any as your basis of comparison :) To be clear, I think there is a BIG difference between bloodied and stealthsuit (which really is such a niche build on it's own) My complaint is that the grind to get full UNY (even 1 star) is a ballache for just a few hundred points of damage. I would be interested in your experience with getting spotted with the stealth suit. My Rail rifle gives me away, but with Follow through my damage is so high nothing lives long after I open up. But with the Fixer I have been able to ice super mutants while sneaking near another one and not be spotted. It could be my perk loadout, maybe? Great content. Keep it up :)

@@weirdhammer Cheers! Yeah, I agree that it's a bit onerous to roll a full UY set. I only have mine because gold gear was dropping from events like Eviction Notice and I got lucky. To be fair I only tried a full on stealthsuit style way back in the day and I kept getting detected at West Tek. But I was probably getting too close and I didn't have good weapons so enemies had a chance to catch me. Might give that another look sometime.

Yeah, low health works best when you've put some preparation into it.

@@SequentialGamerFallout it defiantly takes some time to get all your ducks in a row , to make it effective . a lot of people give up too fast because it is time consuming and costly to get into the low health build . but i feel like most everyone after level 300 or so , has a loadout for it at least

@@tylersmith7498 Yeah, I only looked into it when I got a great bloodied hunting rifle. It wasn't too difficult to try out the build if you've got enough spare perk points.

It does help a lot to have extra perk slots from legendary perks but it's not absolutely necessary. For example I could drop most of my strength, intelligence, and agility perks by dumping a lot of weapons, chems, and other gear. You only really need luck to be maxed and whatever attribute affects your weapon, e.g. perception for rifles. Two maxed out attributes should be enough to get all the perks you need.

ha ha enjo the grind for modules

@@toczic8010I feel that after spending 50+ modules on one piece alone.

Get gold bullion and buy the plans for Secret Service armor. It costs only ONE legendary core to build each piece, and it comes with a random Legendary Effect that can even be a 3-star Unyielding piece. I could get a full set in just 3 days by selling to the legendary item machine the parts that came with undesired atributes.

@@mmmontanhez ill try to grind for gold bullion to buy the whole secret service

I got lucky that before the latest patches that gold armour like secret service was dropping from events. Most of the gear I have is from that time, especially Moonshine Jamborie and Eviction Notice. Do those if you want lots of legendaries to exchange for scrip. But unfortunately it seems that the devs have changed things. If you're buying plans and rolling your own then it's best to focus on one type. Secret Service is a very good option for starting, as others have mentioned you can save on legendary modules by crafting new ones.

It starts as soon as you're "hidden" after being in "danger"

@@SequentialGamerFallout hm here it doesnt regen at all

@@eliaszerano3510 You have to have the healing factor mutation to get any regeneration.

Yeah, I tend to pull out my use my power armour with the emergency protocols mod in daily ops and other high-risk situations. It's a bit of a half-way between full bloodied and full health with less damage output but more durability.

Bolstering gives you more damage resistance but resistance has diminishing returns. The rule of thumb I've heard is that after 300 DR you're not getting much benefit. Damage reduction is multiplicative so it starts to have less impact if you stack a lot of different modifiers, but it *always* has a benefit. That's why it's generally agreed that focusing on reduction rather than resistance is the better bet.

Bolstering is ok, but there's diminishing returns and a cap on how much benefit you get from DR. Damage reduction is better after you've got a good set of gear. But I haven't tested the numbers so I couldn't tell you the exact point when it becomes better, so maybe bolstering is better than advertised.

Ummm… bolstering is worse. It’s been tested; so no thank you.

Most things with the proper mods are enough DR. Dmg reduction perks and prefixes are a lot better. You don't need more DR if you take less dmg

@@theendlesschapter3720 Yea IF you take less damage... I am Bloody build and run the hardest game content so I will inevitably take damage. Bolstering is really good if you are bloody are should have added. Overeaters won't cut it but what do I know I already stopped playing again for the 3rd time lol. Atlantic city looks washed.. they just need to add a whole new region at this point.

@@CJ-jl6hf We'll see what the 2024 expansion has to offer🤞. But what I meant was by "no damage" is less dmg. I was specifically thinking Sentinel.bIt might take a bit longer to get the Sentinel effect, but I think it does a lot work. Especially if you have multiple pieces. Even better if you can get overeaters+Sentinel. Personally I use Ass/Sent armor cuz its what I got, but as a bloodied, even against npc enemies I avoid a lot of dmg a lot of times. I haven't actually done Boltering, but I have like 2 pieces with Sent so I will have to try. If you can avoid a lot dmg from hits then you cab sacrifice a bit of DR is what I was trying to say. Thing is there is no right way. Not trying to say that to be clear. You do you if it works 👍👍

No idea if a new version of armour's been released but robot's not counted as end-game gear. It's not terrible but I wouldn't roll a legendaries on them.

Not sure I follow, but "glass cannon" is used for characters that hit hard but can't take many hits back. So you're a cannon, but you shatter like glass.

I'm using legendary perks to boost specials but you should have enough special points to get two attributes to 15 right from the start. If you're level 25 or over play around with the punch card machines at rail stations to change your specials.

I don't use it normally. I'll swap it in for situations like nuke zones or radiation rumble where there's a lot of it, but normal play just doesn't require it. But I've also got all the mutations and I'm pretty ok with it so that plays into it. Normally I just need to swap it in to use radaway. Or alternatively you can use Nuka Grapes to reduce rads.

Hmm, can't say I've noticed but it does make a noticeable sound effect when it activates.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that it's superior when it comes to damage you do. So you get some players who can kill faster than others and some will be greedy and kill everything. That then leads to some disliking low health characters. It's kind of the same as when legacies killed everything.

I've heard about unyielding power armour, but personally I'd avoid it because it's hacked and you can get your account banned.

@@SequentialGamerFallout untrue. you can own tradable uny PA pieces and not get banned if you obtained it through trades/vendor but if you have an uny PA set that isn't tradable like union or strangler, that might put your account at risk for a ban.

Fair enough, my understanding was that all hacked gear was subject to bans.

@@SequentialGamerFallout nope. Its hard to detect hacked/duped items and who to punish because of the trade system and player could have unknowingly obtained it from a random loot bag. Legacy weapons were also duped en masse across platforms and most people using them did not receive a ban for it. However bans were handed out to those who entered the dev room because BGS kept logs but dev room items can still be found in the wild becoming more common after successive dupe waves. Those who own dev room items are still actively playing the game with no issues.

Ah, an immortal one I see LOL.

I dropped bloody weapons for vampire or anti-armor weapons. Works well with "unyielding build". With the right perk cards and back pack you can tank...

try seeking cover and use serendipity/ricochet/blocker. enemy AI is easy enough to predict when and where they'll shoot/attack so use that to your advantage. bloodied builds need to be tactical and always on the offensive due to their low health. vamp is not needed really, all you have to do is consume stims and super stims which stack up adding a huge boost to healing.

Yeah, bloody builds are all about killing enemies before they can kill you. So an often unmentioned part of going bloody is having a great weapon. I only tried it when I got an almost god roll hunting rifle.

Cheers! I've got one but it's pretty barren. I'll probably look at properly running a discord if the channel gets some traction.

It's definitely taking advantage of the skill & gear synergies, but you don't have to use it if you think it's bad. I did a follow up video comparing the survivability of low health unyielding vs the damage of full health. Basically seeing if the supposed weaknesses of each style was actually that much of an issue. You can see it at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W5H9HUjqLFA.html but basically my argument is that every style is just as viable.

Absolutely! If you don't get a "bloody hell!" response from people around you, your bloody member card gets revoked :p

It's mandatory to wear silly outfits at any health level, and is basically canon given what that nuka cola rep lite ally says.

Hmm, you can still play full health. As long as you've got a decent weapon you'll still do fine. Sure, you won't kill as quickly but it's doable.

That's beside the point. There was way more build variety right after wastelanders than after the nerf which left bloodied as OP.@@SequentialGamerFallout

@@virginiascurti5036 Fair enough, I wasn't around then so I don't know. It would be nice to see all styles equally rewarded though.

Daily Ops have a lot of mutations that lead bloody players to get one-shot, but IMHO the real root of why bloody builds work is that there's no real penalty to dying. There'll still be plenty of people who choose to play low health even if they're getting one shot regularly. They'll just play stealthier.

@@SequentialGamerFallout yeah they will play stealthy, smart and be skilled players as they should be. Not everyone. When the worst players rarely die on bloodied builds its clearly too strong lol

Yeah, nobody's saying you *have* to go bloodied. The point was to explain why people do it and what the pros and cons are. Perfectly viable to play at full health.

You're welcome to play however you like, this video simply sets out the reasons why people do it and how you can try it. If you want to that is, this is not an order LOL.

Not a fan? Fair enough, but it's not a bad game if you liked the combat and exploration of FO4.

Yeah, glowing blood is a good alternative too.

One Chameleon piece adds a ton to survival, but yeah, some daily ops are HORRIBLE. I have a ton of trouble with the Camouflaged ones, where usually the enemies are hitting you first.

Yeah, dodgy can eat your APs .. make sure you have a popcorn or nuka candy machine at your camp and have it hotkeyed. Then spam candies when your AP gets low. Same with coffee but you either need to spend atoms or go through people's camps for open coffee machines.

@@SequentialGamerFallout I have coffee from camp machine but even so they deplete my ap so fast even with coffe. Guess can try also popcorns.. but surviving is a problem. Maybe is my lv, like forgot now but think is 303

@@Fheara_Nyakki I always make sure to hotkey the AP food. Other than heavy weapons with the spin-up animation you can just spam the hotkey. In theory at least .. the problem is that I always forget LOL.

Need to have ap refresh on armor pieces or using vats and taking damage is gonna eat all the ap. Especially if you are running dodgy also work on stealth I can usually go through the decyption ops without even getting noticed.