One thing I always advise people do is to plant corn, mutfruit, and tato's to create vegetable starch which can drastically increase the amount of adhesive you have access to.
Great advice. I've also been planting carrots for Radstag cages and razorgrain for Brahmin cages for xp and meat. The Radstag meat lends to Yao Guai cages and Brahmin for Super Mutant cages. Then Yao Guai to Deathclaws. Basically just exploiting the crap out of the cages from Wasteland Workshop for xp. Works even better with the 3rd rank of Idiot Savant. Craft somthing till it procs then kill caged enemies.
@@katkong281 I only really use gunner cages because deconstructing the unused equipment is a massive source of resources especially with maxed out scrapper perk.
Great guide. Spray 'n Pray is super OP at low levels, so finding a way to afford it plus get a bunch of .45 ammo is really the key to this build. Thanks!
Extra step: get Aquaboy, then swim to the Atom cats garage and get a full set of T-60 plates. Safest way to get there as a low level char. Bring Grape mentats and Piper in your old power armor.
Very enjoyable idea. 2 hours only, well done! Seems strong. One trick a new player can do is to increase Dogmeat’s carry weight by 100 units, in less than a minute after you meet. The first house on the right in Concord, on the second floor, has a red bandana. Equipping him with it, so that he’s wearing it, gives him the bonus. For fun, players can also equip him with the welding goggles too, which are found right beside the red bandana. (The bonus will occasionally reset back to 25 units, so in that case, remove and re-equip it. I give him 2 bandanas, so i can toggle over to the other. Then exit menus, talk and trade, and bonus will be reset. Load him up!)(Any kind of bandana, collar, or dog armor, also gives the bonus)
@@TheEfficientGamer Great video and what a great tip. Could you do the same but instead of command then use big league and if so what would your start special be and what perk would you focus on ? Looking forward to hear from and thx again for the great videos :)
I've been a full on hoarder from the day the game launched and I never knew that. Is that actually a thing in totally vanilla Fallout 4 and not something from a mod?
@@TheBrumbas49 Tough to say for melee. I would probably buy General Chao's sword from Trudy as a starter weapon or Rockville Slugger from Moe in Diamond City. For SPECIAL, the same as I have setup would be fine if you're staying in Power Armor (since your STR is always 11), but if not, you may consider investing more into strength and dropping int/endurance a bit.
I would also buy up the Fertiliser Shipments at Abernethy Farm. This will allow you to Craft Jet (and if you can get hold of some Flamer Fuel from Cricket, turn it into Jet Fuel) for more Caps and XP.
This a solid tip, not mentioned as often as the Purified Water farming For players following this video, try to get into DC with that +CHA boost, lots of vendors there, could buy Shipments of Fertilizer from Diamond City surplus too While Jet Fuel requires first rank of Chemist, that perk is a must have for me for my charactes with high INT. Better AP regen means more sprinting Jet Fuel isn't as profitable as Water iirc, but crafting chems grants a huge amount of EXP, and Jet and Jet Fuel are the 2 easiest ones to make in high quantity Most high EXP from crafting requires a lot of inputs; low EXP but with plentiful materials. Crafting chems is the opposite, so it's a neat option for those that don't have an PC's auto-clicking program for mass crafting, or those playing with an expensive Xbox/PS controller. The rubber under those buttons could get worn out quick
Plus you can steal the Fertilizer in the Abernathy’s house if you don’t want to do the Locket quest first, after which you can take it without it counting as theft
Ideally you could do the scrap/store method with the 1 bag of fertiliser in sanctuary until you have 6 units of fertiliser and duplicate until you have a good amount to distribute to ammunition builder and jet. This is what I do with all my builds so that I can have a disproportionate amount of ammo early game and usually 400 jet to use as cash tender or sell to Bobby in vault 81 for 75 caps.
I tend to sell explosive sheilding power armor modifications from the t 45 to t 60 And winterized coating. Because everyone sells ceramic and rubber shipments so i just need to find aluminum and farm adhesive. Would also recommend the scrapper perk and instead of dropping guns scrap them at weapon workbenches for steel and aluminum and other weapon parts
Fallout 4 experts are something else. Really all gamers who learn everything there is to learn about a game. I played through this game not caring about perks or anything and just liked doing quests and shooting people. I didn’t even memorize what ammo went to what guns…until I ran out of ammo lol.
That’s because you are a casual gamer. You find the game fun and that’s enough. Some people are what I like to call Non Descriptive Gamers because there could be a list of different types that’s never ending, but on their journey to either be the best or collect rare items they turn into NDGs and learn everything and all things there is to about games
if you lack faith in conserving ammo the overseer's guardian in vault 81 is a solid second choice. change it from auto to semi and go for rifleman over commando.
Great game and many ways to start strong. One option being set up a small lunchbox factory early on using punches to open them on the conveyor. This combined with water production gives you unlimited caps so buying and selling perks become pointless. Also gives you unlimited mats to craft other things like ammo using the lead from the pencils in lunchboxes or jet from the plastic. Survival is not harder than very hard, it's only more inconvenient. Enemies don't respawn as much and are actually easier to defeat on survival. I know this because my first main build was on survival till past lv 70 and then when I turned it to very hard difficulty I then noticed these differences and boy did it get way harder. Survival is lame, only hard because of fast travel and sleeping and such, not hard because of combat or frequency of fights.
I like the water baron route with the Settlement Garage Sale mod. The sell rate and price is stat/perk dependent, and limited. This means you can have a meaningful business without it becoming OP and breaking the game. The lunchbox thing always seemed like too much work to me, though...
Thank you! I'm currently following your guide to achieve the level 4 vendors in Sanctuary. I'm afraid to break any possible random encounter yet so I will try to to the step in this video after I get the vendors.
You could also do the BOS intro quest to get 999+ rounds and the righteous Authority. Then, VATS your way through Trinity tower with Danse and get special charisma suit +3. I use this route most survival plays.
I followed this guide step by step and it worked exactly as promised! Thank you so much for this guide. Getting the Spray n Pray right at the beginning was amazing, and I still use it as my weapon at level 40! And now that I have so much fresh water flowing into my inventory through the workshop I never have to worry about whether I can afford something (such as the extra .45 ammo I need to pump into my gun!). Thank you!
Yes! I always end up going for a stealth / demolition build using Spray n Pray. The addition of Power Armor and the Nuclear Physicist perk is great as well, especially once you get to Far Harbor and find the Kiloton radium rifle.
Great start for an auto/explosive build, but also you can very easily modify it for non-automatic rifles. Instead of buying spray n' pray, you could get Overseer's guardian while at the vault. I don't know the price difference, but I'm sure the gold would easily make it available.
I consider the Overseer’s Guardian to be indispensable on any build. For a melee build it’s wonderful for easily taking care of Super Mutant Suiciders at range with little risk of accidentally detonating the precious Mini Nukes they carry. The OG also comes with a short scope. I prioritize getting it, and convert it to non-automatic
@@kevinhammond2361 If I were going to take a ranged weapon that I am not going to put perk points into, I would definitely go with the Kiloton or Spray. I almost always use explosives and take that perk and it buffs those weapons.
@@kevinhammond2361 Grenades and mines are just fun to play with, but the utility of an explosive ranged weapon is huge. Even if you were going melee you could light up enemies with power armor to destroy it before running in.
Actually I'd recommend that if people play survival mode, Overseer's Guardian with the rifleman perk and a stealthy build. Per shot it outclassed the Spray and Pray with better accuracy and the same ammo. I've 1 shot enemies that I've sprayed and prayed at using it
Does it only pick up remaining ammo from inside the gun when it's a submachine gun? I don't use automatic weapons and whenever I pick up a weapon, no ammo whatsoever is added to my inventory.
Great guide. I had to replay it so many times to remember details. Also, I did not use the power armor at all. At the end I have 940 .45 ammo. Good deal!
I’ve played about 3000 of Fallout 4 and I’ve never, no, didn’t even know you could craft caltrops haha. This game man, it never ends, there’s always something.
I've never done Survival, so used this basic strategy to take a run at starting that. Definitely took more than 2 hours to get kitted, but the combination of the new mode and having a plan made the process fresh, nominally challenging and fun. Someone in the comments mentioned getting the kerchief for Dogmeat, which helped alleviate the limited carry weight (he was able to carry 95 caltrops with that buff). Even messing up and somehow leaving my Red Dress behind (loss of 1 CHR), I managed to pick up everything I needed and eventually make it back to Sanctuary, picking up Big Jim along the way. One thing I've noticed is that my water purification system isn't producing much at all. During the entire time I was gone for the trip to Vault 81 and back, it only produced 7. I've verified that all systems are active. Do these things need settlers in Sanctuary to trigger higher production?
I would reccomend the oversteers guardian with a high damage semi auto conversion, it's more damage and uses less ammo. you can add a reflex sight for extra style points
last month I got Fo4 again, (used to play on PC with mods, best possible experience) but on ps4. I followed this guide from GameFAQs, and it said -do santctuary and concord -collect 3 fusion cores -diamond city blues -bring grenades or molotov cocktails -loot the containers of drugs -go to vault something or other, trade 3 fusion cells for entry Turns out you sell Jet for 75 caps one at a time to the junkie. It's a better sell price than you can get from bulk, but you take 5-10 minutes mashing the buttons. went and bought the two-shot .45 gun from whatever her name was in the vault, i'm still using it. runs through ammo very quickly but i just sell other ammo and purified water
I started watching but was too tired to continue the original 2 hr vid. So tired that I can't remember if I turned it off or fell asleep. lol Anyway, super AWESOME build idea. Keep up the great content.
I know this Video is a bit old, but for anyone watching and wondering about builds, it is never optimal to start with 10 in any of the stats as there is a bobble head for each S.P.E.C.I.A.L. to give You a +1 to it.
If you pick up a bobblehead when those stats are at 10, it will be increased to 11. A further increase to 12 is also possible with surgery. Starting with 10 is optimal if you want the best possible build.
I have one tip its easy after got out from the vault just make griled queen nukalurk using a bethesda magic or bug make like 20-30 or 60 and you can just using this method to buy Anything you want
I made a very similar build before. It was 10 int, 5 luck for idiot savant, and 3 charisms for the lone wonder perk. Their were issues with my build, and I needed to add some point in special but my goal was a high xp build to build a high endurance build which worked for my brotherhood+dogmeat character (got all 4 dogmeat perks)
4-1-1-6-10-1-5... You can craft EVERYTHING, and having the best gear and chems on top of a thriving marketplace for anything extra is the best start. Just set up some water farms (great with Settlement Garage Sale mod), go to diamond city for fast glue plants, and buy every single brahmin in the commonwealth for fertilizer to make bullets and oh so much sweet, sweet jet. I don't even remember what the game looks like at normal speed. I do that much jet... Use the special book to go full sniper, or put it into Cha for even better prices and let your decked out companion do your heavy lifting. Either way.
Int at 6 doesn't lose much xp compared to int 10 thanks to savant happening more often. These points help buy either lockpocking for more loot/xp or rifleman for more firepower. But I will bump int to 10 as soon as I have my utilities anyway.
@Lukey I started my current run with 3, 4, 3, 6, 6, 1, 5 Early perk focus is on locksmith/hacker (loot and xp; I make a point of using both where I can), lone wanderer, idiot savant, gun nut, science. At 14 I have settlements with supply lines and clinics. Then I take lead belly x3 for the convenience (maybe don't need it, but I like it). As an early exploration target I'd push south past Abernathy to Sunshine Tidings. The magazine you find there is really good for food supplies. From there I start boosting my firepower and sneaking. For me it's rifleman, but all options except heavy are open at this point. Edit: I forgot the perk to find more ammo as early focus. Not sure if I truly need it, but it feels good to have a good amount to spare!
Sub machine guns are such short range. You can remedy that with Overseer Guardian from Vault 81 while there .... same ammo as the sub machine gun but great longer range with reflex sights. Also a great general purpose and hunting weapon is the .45 revolver with long barrel and glow sights ..... perfect for one shot moderate distance kills of rad deer.
You neglected the fact the spray & pray has the explosive prefix, the explosive effect is great in long range situations and with a rapid reciever can deal damage in high succession. Don't need to be accurate with this gun as the explosive effect is what kills enemies and with the rapid reciever you can kill legendaries or skull enemies no problem
Overseer's Guardian is great at early to mid game levels but seems to have a drop off at higher levels on Very Hard and Survival. I found myself switching to the Spray N' Pray more aften at levels 50+ since the explosions and stagger it produces are powerful. At that point if you want a longer range rifle a Gauss Rifle or one of the DLC rifles are way better than the Overseer's Guardian.
@@DREIKVENONW For sure it's a really overpowered weapon. I think a step up would be the Kiloton radium rifle in the Far Harbor DLC, its a like a better version of the Spray N' Pray.
the most OP weapon i ever got at low leves was a 'Bleeding Shotgun' which i put and auto mod on it, i took out the Mirelurk queen at the Castle in 15 seconds with this gun!
Yeah, that is OP... The Laser Musket is my favorite guaranteed weapon (3-4 cranks kills almost anything), but some of those mod effects just combine in absolutely insane ways.
I always started with very high perception and agility. Shot everything in vats because my free aiming suck. Very powerful build, not even FH Shipwreck gave me trouble, only need to timing the shot right, or I will die while in vats.
My wife loves VATS, I'm more of a stealth sniper kinda guy... You gotta have luck for VATS, though. Get those criticals up and pull in the stranger for extra damage.
If you have Nuka World, you can get the Splattercannon, keep buying and hoarding as much 7.62 ammo as possible, and invest heavily in your Commando perk, you won’t need another gun or any other kind of ammunition for the entire game.
Just don't use the Spray and pray for settlement defense. If settlers are present when you shoot, it will turn them against you. Spray and pray works best for meirlurks to including the queen.
I become overpowered in all Bethesda games back doing the vendor money glitch, getting a bunch of money, and buying and upgrading weapons and armor that is not intended to be in the hands of starting players. Takes less than 1 hours usually.
or get the overpowered guardian for sneaky sniper build😀 also cool note cricket is voiced by Ashly Burch(Tiny Tina in Bordelands, Aloy in Horizon Zero dawn and Parvati Holcomb in The Outer Worlds
How to get full power armor? Easy, go near the satellite that’s at the left of sanctuary hills, find a crashed vertibird, enter t-45 and save it at the base, then complete the main mission when blahblah calls, then get in power armor defeat all, and equip it on the other power armor, any extras are good to sell.
Best early game start is 4-1-1-6-10-1-5, get Savant with the first perk, use the SPECIAL book to get Per 2 and buy Rifleman later on, open Gun Nut, Armorer and Science from leveling in settlement building (set up glue farms and water farms for resources), craft your armor up and turn your gun into a sniper rifle with long scope (long recon when you gain some levels), go get Preston and the gang, turn your las musket into a sniper rifle (you should be 4 crank to start), use the chem station to make jet, and viola... You're set. Perfect early game start complete with passive income, unlimited adhesive for crafting, and the stats to unlock any and all crafting and trade perks to either build or buy anything and everything you could ever need. From there, build up as you please. Personally, I recommend turning your supply lines into troop patrols by equipping provisioners, and use the Gathers Out There mod to boost that even further with settlers seeking resources outside of the settlement. They actually have a pretty insane range. Recommended Mods: Uncapped Settlement Surplus, Gathers Out There, Salvage Beacons, Settlement Garage Sale Interesting Mods: BanCo - Bank of Commonwealth (has issues with SOME of kinggath's mods, namely Workshop Framework, but not Salvage Beacons... Otherwise, its some low cheese passive income and role-playing gold) Performance & Stability Mods: High FPS Physics Fix, Buffout 4, Baka Scrapheap, Far - Faraway Area Reform, BakaBuffoutPhysics (Baka Scrapheap is ESSENTIAL for stability since the base game does not allocate enough resources for scripts even from DLCs and survival mode, much less mods, which can cause CTDs and ruined saves. The others can boost performance and have reduced my loading screens from minutes to under 3 seconds OR LESS with my workshop loading instantly even though it has tens of thousands of modded items added and takes over a minute to load normally)
This build may level fast but its far from efficient. You can take standard armour upgrades liked 'hardened' and place them on the sturdy variant of armour. So you wasted points on strength. None of the perks are of any use. Charisma perks are mostly useless. You don't need to pick up everything, hoarding is a mental disease. High intelligence compliments power armour, but strength is too low. Luck is useless without AP from agility. Also all the VATs weapon increases like 'short barrel' can be crafted from the start. Best starting weapon for vats build is pipe gun. Awful build 😢
@@user-sx3pc4dj3r See? That's where you went astray. The GENERAL needs to equip his troops. If you're using Gathers Out There, and running settlements of maybe 20 people, you can easily be dumping 10-12 minutemen into the field per settlement. Thats 20-24 people just in the starting area with no mods. Endgame, you can have hundreds of gathers acting as minutemen, plus supply lines. Building that kind of endgame REQUIRES a strong crafting base, lots of charisma, and a whole lot of intelligence to get everything built.
OMG I done last PC upgrate 2016 , and I played Fallout 4 on mid settings , because corona & bitcoin I could not do upgrate because prices was ridiculus , but now prices went down , so I will do one before xmas , and first game I will play will be Fallout 4 on highest settings I can :)))
Why not buy the overseer's guardian? Less chance you blow yourself up. (If I recall right it's a bit glitched for damage calculation, but it's never failed to do dependable damage for me - Though I did play on Very Easy so it might in raw data be the less optimal choice) You know if you get 16 charisma you don't even need the barter books or the bobblehead. You can just have the best prices available (which kind of still aren't that impressive unless what you're buying is VERY expensive) If you take 10 charisma, then drop it with I believe it was the opposed one to Daddy-O but I can't recall it's name off hand. Only that it's rarer to see in the stores. Then with the 11 that gives you, wear the plus 2 cap. Newsboy or which one you like, the plus 2 outfit, and the black rim glasses and you'd hit 16 Charisma. Even just 11 means you never lose persuasion checks. Really it depends on how much time someone's willing to invest in a water farm. Which tends to be the best way to make a crap ton of caps for relative investment of effort. The problem with the corn mutfruit and tatos is that you also have to station one of your companions there to get anything. If you take them back into your party, that's going to bork the settlement numbers a little bit. However it is a good strategy if you're careful to do it once you've gotten said companion's questline done. Really though, there's duct tape all over the place, or wonderglue, or the bigger version. It's pretty hard to run out of said "rare" resource.
Definitely could do a version with overseer’s guardian. However, Explosive damage scales really well and outshines two shot, which is why i went with Spray n Pray.
You need far harbor dlc for caltrops. You don’t craft purified water, it just goes into your workbench when you are manufacturing excess (with water purifiers)
One thing I always advise people do is to plant corn, mutfruit, and tato's to create vegetable starch which can drastically increase the amount of adhesive you have access to.
@@tellerous_759 Good on you this was intended for player who haven't done so already.
Great advice. I've also been planting carrots for Radstag cages and razorgrain for Brahmin cages for xp and meat. The Radstag meat lends to Yao Guai cages and Brahmin for Super Mutant cages. Then Yao Guai to Deathclaws. Basically just exploiting the crap out of the cages from Wasteland Workshop for xp. Works even better with the 3rd rank of Idiot Savant. Craft somthing till it procs then kill caged enemies.
@@katkong281 I only really use gunner cages because deconstructing the unused equipment is a massive source of resources especially with maxed out scrapper perk.
in another difficlut but in survival take more time to farm them like settler arrive to your settlement.
or if your too lazy just scrap and store bug
Great guide. Spray 'n Pray is super OP at low levels, so finding a way to afford it plus get a bunch of .45 ammo is really the key to this build. Thanks!
By low levels you mean approximately 1-100? Lol
@@kjsdpgijn Yeah, that's true. It scales pretty well, too as you add to Demolition and Commando perks.
It’s all fun and games until you kill Kyle with an explosive automatic weapon.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16
@@kjsdpgijnBababooey
Extra step: get Aquaboy, then swim to the Atom cats garage and get a full set of T-60 plates. Safest way to get there as a low level char. Bring Grape mentats and Piper in your old power armor.
Very enjoyable idea. 2 hours only, well done! Seems strong. One trick a new player can do is to increase Dogmeat’s carry weight by 100 units, in less than a minute after you meet. The first house on the right in Concord, on the second floor, has a red bandana. Equipping him with it, so that he’s wearing it, gives him the bonus. For fun, players can also equip him with the welding goggles too, which are found right beside the red bandana. (The bonus will occasionally reset back to 25 units, so in that case, remove and re-equip it. I give him 2 bandanas, so i can toggle over to the other. Then exit menus, talk and trade, and bonus will be reset. Load him up!)(Any kind of bandana, collar, or dog armor, also gives the bonus)
Nice tip!
@@TheEfficientGamer Great video and what a great tip. Could you do the same but instead of command then use big league and if so what would your start special be and what perk would you focus on ?
Looking forward to hear from and thx again for the great videos :)
I've been a full on hoarder from the day the game launched and I never knew that. Is that actually a thing in totally vanilla Fallout 4 and not something from a mod?
@@TheBrumbas49 Tough to say for melee. I would probably buy General Chao's sword from Trudy as a starter weapon or Rockville Slugger from Moe in Diamond City. For SPECIAL, the same as I have setup would be fine if you're staying in Power Armor (since your STR is always 11), but if not, you may consider investing more into strength and dropping int/endurance a bit.
@@theinsaneshecklador6598 not a mod. Vanilla all the way, baby!!
Also once you go to vault 81, you can talk to the kid Erin and go get her cat ashes back which is super easy and she'll give you a fusion core
Shout out to this whole channel and community. Getting back into fallout all these years later.
Same here man every one is very helpful, big thanks to everyone
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I would also buy up the Fertiliser Shipments at Abernethy Farm. This will allow you to Craft Jet (and if you can get hold of some Flamer Fuel from Cricket, turn it into Jet Fuel) for more Caps and XP.
This a solid tip, not mentioned as often as the Purified Water farming
For players following this video, try to get into DC with that +CHA boost, lots of vendors there, could buy Shipments of Fertilizer from Diamond City surplus too
While Jet Fuel requires first rank of Chemist, that perk is a must have for me for my charactes with high INT. Better AP regen means more sprinting
Jet Fuel isn't as profitable as Water iirc, but crafting chems grants a huge amount of EXP, and Jet and Jet Fuel are the 2 easiest ones to make in high quantity
Most high EXP from crafting requires a lot of inputs; low EXP but with plentiful materials. Crafting chems is the opposite, so it's a neat option for those that don't have an PC's auto-clicking program for mass crafting, or those playing with an expensive Xbox/PS controller. The rubber under those buttons could get worn out quick
Plus you can steal the Fertilizer in the Abernathy’s house if you don’t want to do the Locket quest first, after which you can take it without it counting as theft
Ideally you could do the scrap/store method with the 1 bag of fertiliser in sanctuary until you have 6 units of fertiliser and duplicate until you have a good amount to distribute to ammunition builder and jet.
This is what I do with all my builds so that I can have a disproportionate amount of ammo early game and usually 400 jet to use as cash tender or sell to Bobby in vault 81 for 75 caps.
I tend to sell explosive sheilding power armor modifications from the t 45 to t 60
And winterized coating.
Because everyone sells ceramic and rubber shipments so i just need to find aluminum and farm adhesive.
Would also recommend the scrapper perk and instead of dropping guns scrap them at weapon workbenches for steel and aluminum and other weapon parts
Jet is both cheap AF and OP AF... Gotta agree on this one: No matter the build, addict life is commonwealth easy mode.
Fallout 4 experts are something else.
Really all gamers who learn everything there is to learn about a game.
I played through this game not caring about perks or anything and just liked doing quests and shooting people. I didn’t even memorize what ammo went to what guns…until I ran out of ammo lol.
That’s because you are a casual gamer. You find the game fun and that’s enough. Some people are what I like to call Non Descriptive Gamers because there could be a list of different types that’s never ending, but on their journey to either be the best or collect rare items they turn into NDGs and learn everything and all things there is to about games
if you lack faith in conserving ammo the overseer's guardian in vault 81 is a solid second choice. change it from auto to semi and go for rifleman over commando.
Strongly agree. It may cost more, but the gold that you find in the root cellar in Sanctuary should cover, or at least help cover, the cost.
When you free Nick, drop a few mines at the vault entrance, right wer Skinny Malone and crew confront you. When they go hostile...boom.
Seen that for the mirelurk queen at the Castle... Funny AF... Didn't think of that here, will try it... 10/10
Great game and many ways to start strong. One option being set up a small lunchbox factory early on using punches to open them on the conveyor. This combined with water production gives you unlimited caps so buying and selling perks become pointless. Also gives you unlimited mats to craft other things like ammo using the lead from the pencils in lunchboxes or jet from the plastic.
Survival is not harder than very hard, it's only more inconvenient. Enemies don't respawn as much and are actually easier to defeat on survival. I know this because my first main build was on survival till past lv 70 and then when I turned it to very hard difficulty I then noticed these differences and boy did it get way harder. Survival is lame, only hard because of fast travel and sleeping and such, not hard because of combat or frequency of fights.
I like the water baron route with the Settlement Garage Sale mod. The sell rate and price is stat/perk dependent, and limited. This means you can have a meaningful business without it becoming OP and breaking the game. The lunchbox thing always seemed like too much work to me, though...
Thank you! I'm currently following your guide to achieve the level 4 vendors in Sanctuary. I'm afraid to break any possible random encounter yet so I will try to to the step in this video after I get the vendors.
You could also do the BOS intro quest to get 999+ rounds and the righteous Authority. Then, VATS your way through Trinity tower with Danse and get special charisma suit +3.
I use this route most survival plays.
I followed this guide step by step and it worked exactly as promised! Thank you so much for this guide. Getting the Spray n Pray right at the beginning was amazing, and I still use it as my weapon at level 40! And now that I have so much fresh water flowing into my inventory through the workshop I never have to worry about whether I can afford something (such as the extra .45 ammo I need to pump into my gun!). Thank you!
How did you get all the copper for the generators?
Yes! I always end up going for a stealth / demolition build using Spray n Pray. The addition of Power Armor and the Nuclear Physicist perk is great as well, especially once you get to Far Harbor and find the Kiloton radium rifle.
Great start for an auto/explosive build, but also you can very easily modify it for non-automatic rifles. Instead of buying spray n' pray, you could get Overseer's guardian while at the vault. I don't know the price difference, but I'm sure the gold would easily make it available.
Yes; overseer’s guardian would be a great alternative
I consider the Overseer’s Guardian to be indispensable on any build. For a melee build it’s wonderful for easily taking care of Super Mutant Suiciders at range with little risk of accidentally detonating the precious Mini Nukes they carry. The OG also comes with a short scope. I prioritize getting it, and convert it to non-automatic
@@kevinhammond2361 If I were going to take a ranged weapon that I am not going to put perk points into, I would definitely go with the Kiloton or Spray. I almost always use explosives and take that perk and it buffs those weapons.
@@zachlewis9751 cool - I’ll have to try that next time
@@kevinhammond2361 Grenades and mines are just fun to play with, but the utility of an explosive ranged weapon is huge. Even if you were going melee you could light up enemies with power armor to destroy it before running in.
Very thorough build video, great job!
Thank you! Just released another one for melee.
@@TheEfficientGamer cool I'll be sure to watch it.
You could bring down the price more by getting the x-cell and day tripper from the concord speak easy
I did not follow what you did to the letter, but I did find the video extremely helpful. Thank you 🖤
Endryd Haar freaking rules. Thank you for getting me even more hyped for his impending miniature!
Super impressed with this start - and the fact it encourages you to focus on perks like Demolition Expert, means I'm 100% sold 👍👍
Playing on Survival mode makes you more squishy but also makes you deal more damage. If you are sneaky you can capitalize on this to grim efficacy.
Did somebody say stealth sniper?
Actually I'd recommend that if people play survival mode, Overseer's Guardian with the rifleman perk and a stealthy build. Per shot it outclassed the Spray and Pray with better accuracy and the same ammo. I've 1 shot enemies that I've sprayed and prayed at using it
Does it only pick up remaining ammo from inside the gun when it's a submachine gun? I don't use automatic weapons and whenever I pick up a weapon, no ammo whatsoever is added to my inventory.
Great guide man, thanks a lot.
Great guide. I had to replay it so many times to remember details. Also, I did not use the power armor at all. At the end I have 940 .45 ammo. Good deal!
Hi! Just starting Fallout 4 new and I love this video! I was wondering if you had a full build guide with level by level skill assignments? Thanks!
Could you use a clock or timer to show where and WHEN you are in the game? That would be nice
Took four hours but I'm done thanks for the help. Also I had bear camping vault 81 and it was fighting the vendor.😂😂
Great build general, but another settlement needs our help. Here I’ll mark it on your map
One day every settlement will be helped, Garvey... One day...
And then you'll be helping the colonies in Starfield.
remember that in vault 81 you can ask for caps at the blood test, you can get a total of 150 caps
I’ve played about 3000 of Fallout 4 and I’ve never, no, didn’t even know you could craft caltrops haha. This game man, it never ends, there’s always something.
I've never done Survival, so used this basic strategy to take a run at starting that. Definitely took more than 2 hours to get kitted, but the combination of the new mode and having a plan made the process fresh, nominally challenging and fun. Someone in the comments mentioned getting the kerchief for Dogmeat, which helped alleviate the limited carry weight (he was able to carry 95 caltrops with that buff). Even messing up and somehow leaving my Red Dress behind (loss of 1 CHR), I managed to pick up everything I needed and eventually make it back to Sanctuary, picking up Big Jim along the way.
One thing I've noticed is that my water purification system isn't producing much at all. During the entire time I was gone for the trip to Vault 81 and back, it only produced 7. I've verified that all systems are active. Do these things need settlers in Sanctuary to trigger higher production?
What would you recommend for later game is there a good build for the stats you recommend
Thanks for this guide. I have never played and want to have a great time. With this I know I will :)
These vids get better and better.
I would reccomend the oversteers guardian with a high damage semi auto conversion, it's more damage and uses less ammo. you can add a reflex sight for extra style points
Nice video, no glitches or duping
What if i don't have the far harbor dlc and i can't seem to make purified water
last month I got Fo4 again, (used to play on PC with mods, best possible experience) but on ps4. I followed this guide from GameFAQs, and it said
-do santctuary and concord
-collect 3 fusion cores
-diamond city blues
-bring grenades or molotov cocktails
-loot the containers of drugs
-go to vault something or other, trade 3 fusion cells for entry
Turns out you sell Jet for 75 caps one at a time to the junkie. It's a better sell price than you can get from bulk, but you take 5-10 minutes mashing the buttons.
went and bought the two-shot .45 gun from whatever her name was in the vault, i'm still using it. runs through ammo very quickly but i just sell other ammo and purified water
Now I want to give this a try!
I started watching but was too tired to continue the original 2 hr vid. So tired that I can't remember if I turned it off or fell asleep. lol
Anyway, super AWESOME build idea. Keep up the great content.
Been there, done that... These kinds of videos are a little TOO relaxing after a long day. I usually just start over when I wake up.
How do I connect the 5 generators to the water towers? Wont allow me to attach wires to them as not enough power?
I’m gonna do this my next play through
I know this Video is a bit old, but for anyone watching and wondering about builds, it is never optimal to start with 10 in any of the stats as there is a bobble head for each S.P.E.C.I.A.L. to give You a +1 to it.
If you pick up a bobblehead when those stats are at 10, it will be increased to 11. A further increase to 12 is also possible with surgery. Starting with 10 is optimal if you want the best possible build.
@@motorpolitan8884 that would be the case if you wanted to optimized one Stat but with the use of other items and aids you can max out more stats
Magazines, aid items, and some apparel fill these gaps
@@motorpolitan8884how?!?
I have one tip its easy after got out from the vault just make griled queen nukalurk using a bethesda magic or bug make like 20-30 or 60 and you can just using this method to buy Anything you want
This was great thank you!
The only video that states that the caltrops is dlc only. Thank you for the tips
always set your int to 10 then debuff to 9 with alcohol then take the special book int for perma 11 int
Glad you mention picking up the guns to get more ammo from them. Seems to still be many that don't know about it.
It only took me 1400 hours to learn that.
Ive played this game for nearly 2k hours and i never knew this was a thing aha
I had no idea it was a thing, 900 hours on pc and at least 500 on ps4.
Wait... With only 1 in luck, you're supposed to die right after leaving the vault cause there will be 3 to 4 deathclaws waiting for you.
😂
Is this true
@@eduardomontalvo6219 yep
I always play with like 1-3 luck
I made a very similar build before. It was 10 int, 5 luck for idiot savant, and 3 charisms for the lone wonder perk. Their were issues with my build, and I needed to add some point in special but my goal was a high xp build to build a high endurance build which worked for my brotherhood+dogmeat character (got all 4 dogmeat perks)
4-1-1-6-10-1-5... You can craft EVERYTHING, and having the best gear and chems on top of a thriving marketplace for anything extra is the best start. Just set up some water farms (great with Settlement Garage Sale mod), go to diamond city for fast glue plants, and buy every single brahmin in the commonwealth for fertilizer to make bullets and oh so much sweet, sweet jet. I don't even remember what the game looks like at normal speed. I do that much jet... Use the special book to go full sniper, or put it into Cha for even better prices and let your decked out companion do your heavy lifting. Either way.
Int at 6 doesn't lose much xp compared to int 10 thanks to savant happening more often.
These points help buy either lockpocking for more loot/xp or rifleman for more firepower.
But I will bump int to 10 as soon as I have my utilities anyway.
@@sneezyfido What build do you recommend for a starting in survival?
@Lukey I started my current run with 3, 4, 3, 6, 6, 1, 5
Early perk focus is on locksmith/hacker (loot and xp; I make a point of using both where I can), lone wanderer, idiot savant, gun nut, science.
At 14 I have settlements with supply lines and clinics. Then I take lead belly x3 for the convenience (maybe don't need it, but I like it).
As an early exploration target I'd push south past Abernathy to Sunshine Tidings. The magazine you find there is really good for food supplies.
From there I start boosting my firepower and sneaking. For me it's rifleman, but all options except heavy are open at this point.
Edit: I forgot the perk to find more ammo as early focus. Not sure if I truly need it, but it feels good to have a good amount to spare!
This is extremely useful for survival modes
Thanks for the awesome guide!! at what point would you invest in lone wanderer?
I would take it as early as possible to get the benefit.
i haven't used this yet but it is definitely good
Great guide!
Sub machine guns are such short range. You can remedy that with Overseer Guardian from Vault 81 while there .... same ammo as the sub machine gun but great longer range with reflex sights. Also a great general purpose and hunting weapon is the .45 revolver with long barrel and glow sights ..... perfect for one shot moderate distance kills of rad deer.
You neglected the fact the spray & pray has the explosive prefix, the explosive effect is great in long range situations and with a rapid reciever can deal damage in high succession. Don't need to be accurate with this gun as the explosive effect is what kills enemies and with the rapid reciever you can kill legendaries or skull enemies no problem
Overseer's Guardian is great at early to mid game levels but seems to have a drop off at higher levels on Very Hard and Survival. I found myself switching to the Spray N' Pray more aften at levels 50+ since the explosions and stagger it produces are powerful. At that point if you want a longer range rifle a Gauss Rifle or one of the DLC rifles are way better than the Overseer's Guardian.
@@digitalviiI don't get it, Spray and Play works better than any weapon to me in longer distances... It is even better with the sneaking multiplier.
@@DREIKVENONW For sure it's a really overpowered weapon. I think a step up would be the Kiloton radium rifle in the Far Harbor DLC, its a like a better version of the Spray N' Pray.
Ima get that spray n pray I’m totally new to the game
I like that gun but the one that just beats all is the Splattercannon from Nuka World.
I'll be doing this when I replay the game to get the Institute, minutemen and railroad achievements
Done your tutorial till you said that I need dlc... Why did upgrade chemist and medic if I don't have it?!
the most OP weapon i ever got at low leves was a 'Bleeding Shotgun' which i put and auto mod on it, i took out the Mirelurk queen at the Castle in 15 seconds with this gun!
Wounding Combat Shotgun is very strong! Lucky find for sure!
Yeah, that is OP... The Laser Musket is my favorite guaranteed weapon (3-4 cranks kills almost anything), but some of those mod effects just combine in absolutely insane ways.
So cricket only has 250 And I only have a 140, how do you get the gun?
how the hell did you get the lab coat early?
can't build a shelf on top of another shelf.. what's the trick? PS4
what if the trader isnt showing up?
Thank you so much dan
(I’m a noob) how do we get purified water?
I always started with very high perception and agility. Shot everything in vats because my free aiming suck. Very powerful build, not even FH Shipwreck gave me trouble, only need to timing the shot right, or I will die while in vats.
My wife loves VATS, I'm more of a stealth sniper kinda guy... You gotta have luck for VATS, though. Get those criticals up and pull in the stranger for extra damage.
Nice guide - but I can´t find the Mentats mentionend at 1.52......
2022 name of the year: poison caltrops
If you have Nuka World, you can get the Splattercannon, keep buying and hoarding as much 7.62 ammo as possible, and invest heavily in your Commando perk, you won’t need another gun or any other kind of ammunition for the entire game.
great stuff. thanks.
Just don't use the Spray and pray for settlement defense. If settlers are present when you shoot, it will turn them against you. Spray and pray works best for meirlurks to including the queen.
This build is genius. It’s funny how I found more outfits and stuff with 3 Luck 🍀 then I did with 8.
Luck is only for crit charge speed.
I become overpowered in all Bethesda games back doing the vendor money glitch, getting a bunch of money, and buying and upgrading weapons and armor that is not intended to be in the hands of starting players. Takes less than 1 hours usually.
I don’t see the same crafting items you have, I’m missing the “traps” category to select from. Did I fuck something up?
far harbor dlc is needed
or get the overpowered guardian for sneaky sniper build😀 also cool note cricket is voiced by Ashly Burch(Tiny Tina in Bordelands, Aloy in Horizon Zero dawn and Parvati Holcomb in The Outer Worlds
Thanks so much, I never knew Ms Burch voiced Cricket . . she is great.
Dang! She sounded familiar... One of my favorite voice actresses, to be sure. Love both Cricket and Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2
How are you powering those large water purifiers with those small generators? They only make 2 power each
Connect generators with wire.
Why is my water just 30? I also made 5 small generator
How to get full power armor? Easy, go near the satellite that’s at the left of sanctuary hills, find a crashed vertibird, enter t-45 and save it at the base, then complete the main mission when blahblah calls, then get in power armor defeat all, and equip it on the other power armor, any extras are good to sell.
Sell? No... Every settler gets his own set. Manufacture them if you have to. The Brotherhood has NOTHING on us!!!
5:39 deathclaw doesn’t enter the corner building near the museum. Shoot him from inside the doorway and windows.
Best early game start is 4-1-1-6-10-1-5, get Savant with the first perk, use the SPECIAL book to get Per 2 and buy Rifleman later on, open Gun Nut, Armorer and Science from leveling in settlement building (set up glue farms and water farms for resources), craft your armor up and turn your gun into a sniper rifle with long scope (long recon when you gain some levels), go get Preston and the gang, turn your las musket into a sniper rifle (you should be 4 crank to start), use the chem station to make jet, and viola... You're set. Perfect early game start complete with passive income, unlimited adhesive for crafting, and the stats to unlock any and all crafting and trade perks to either build or buy anything and everything you could ever need. From there, build up as you please. Personally, I recommend turning your supply lines into troop patrols by equipping provisioners, and use the Gathers Out There mod to boost that even further with settlers seeking resources outside of the settlement. They actually have a pretty insane range.
Recommended Mods: Uncapped Settlement Surplus, Gathers Out There, Salvage Beacons, Settlement Garage Sale
Interesting Mods: BanCo - Bank of Commonwealth (has issues with SOME of kinggath's mods, namely Workshop Framework, but not Salvage Beacons... Otherwise, its some low cheese passive income and role-playing gold)
Performance & Stability Mods: High FPS Physics Fix, Buffout 4, Baka Scrapheap, Far - Faraway Area Reform, BakaBuffoutPhysics (Baka Scrapheap is ESSENTIAL for stability since the base game does not allocate enough resources for scripts even from DLCs and survival mode, much less mods, which can cause CTDs and ruined saves. The others can boost performance and have reduced my loading screens from minutes to under 3 seconds OR LESS with my workshop loading instantly even though it has tens of thousands of modded items added and takes over a minute to load normally)
This build may level fast but its far from efficient.
You can take standard armour upgrades liked 'hardened' and place them on the sturdy variant of armour.
So you wasted points on strength. None of the perks are of any use.
Charisma perks are mostly useless. You don't need to pick up everything, hoarding is a mental disease.
High intelligence compliments power armour, but strength is too low.
Luck is useless without AP from agility. Also all the VATs weapon increases like 'short barrel' can be crafted from the start.
Best starting weapon for vats build is pipe gun.
Awful build 😢
@@user-sx3pc4dj3r Buy armor? LMAO... No. Just no.
@@DiogenesDworkinson who said buy armour?
@@user-sx3pc4dj3r Then where are you getting all the best parts if you don't buy them or build them?
@@user-sx3pc4dj3r See? That's where you went astray. The GENERAL needs to equip his troops. If you're using Gathers Out There, and running settlements of maybe 20 people, you can easily be dumping 10-12 minutemen into the field per settlement. Thats 20-24 people just in the starting area with no mods. Endgame, you can have hundreds of gathers acting as minutemen, plus supply lines. Building that kind of endgame REQUIRES a strong crafting base, lots of charisma, and a whole lot of intelligence to get everything built.
I dont have the chemistry station at the beginning in sanctuary like you do did you create it
It's behind the house at the bridge. Hade the same problem :)
@@wempa117thanks
I go to Vault 81 and she’s not there, every time I go she never appears, what I do?
Rest in the bed outside
I havenever seen the treveling tradesmen at vault 81... and ov3 tried thos o. 5 different playthroughs...
why when I go to Vault 81 there's no NPC outside to sell me, spray and pray?
She wanders, wait a day and check again.
That try survival noob made me laugh so hard
OMG I done last PC upgrate 2016 , and I played Fallout 4 on mid settings , because corona & bitcoin I could not do upgrate because prices was ridiculus , but now prices went down , so I will do one before xmas , and first game I will play will be Fallout 4 on highest settings I can :)))
Sounds great! Let me know how it looks on your new system.
Very informative
I found a legendary 10mm pistol with +15 explosive rounds. Works great 👍
Explosive 10mm early in the game is really strong.
On a minigun... Just give it to a settler and laugh off every enemy attack.
Why not buy the overseer's guardian? Less chance you blow yourself up. (If I recall right it's a bit glitched for damage calculation, but it's never failed to do dependable damage for me - Though I did play on Very Easy so it might in raw data be the less optimal choice) You know if you get 16 charisma you don't even need the barter books or the bobblehead. You can just have the best prices available (which kind of still aren't that impressive unless what you're buying is VERY expensive) If you take 10 charisma, then drop it with I believe it was the opposed one to Daddy-O but I can't recall it's name off hand. Only that it's rarer to see in the stores. Then with the 11 that gives you, wear the plus 2 cap. Newsboy or which one you like, the plus 2 outfit, and the black rim glasses and you'd hit 16 Charisma. Even just 11 means you never lose persuasion checks. Really it depends on how much time someone's willing to invest in a water farm. Which tends to be the best way to make a crap ton of caps for relative investment of effort. The problem with the corn mutfruit and tatos is that you also have to station one of your companions there to get anything. If you take them back into your party, that's going to bork the settlement numbers a little bit. However it is a good strategy if you're careful to do it once you've gotten said companion's questline done. Really though, there's duct tape all over the place, or wonderglue, or the bigger version. It's pretty hard to run out of said "rare" resource.
Definitely could do a version with overseer’s guardian. However, Explosive damage scales really well and outshines two shot, which is why i went with Spray n Pray.
great vid
(*in my best Darth Vader voice...) "Impressive."
Just scrapped everything. Pull up pip boy. Game crashes 👌
You mentioned purified water if you don't have the DLC, can you elaborate please.
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It is fully explained in this video.
This game is TRILLIONS OF TIMES BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT!
My chemistry station is bugged and won't let me make purified water nor caltrops what do I do?
You need far harbor dlc for caltrops. You don’t craft purified water, it just goes into your workbench when you are manufacturing excess (with water purifiers)
@@TheEfficientGameroh thank you
@@TheEfficientGamer I figured it out already though😂
how do you get Chemistry station?
Its behind one of the houses in sanctuary
Nice man