3 Things You REALLY Didn't Know About in Fallout 4

[@nigelarcher121]

The idea of using my companion as a provisioner hit me out of the blue one day after I got annoyed of Strong yelling in my ear every time I fast travelled to Sanctuary

[@LoveProWrestling]

For some reason Marcy always volunteers immediately.

[@Julsdad]

​@LoveProWrestling I usually did Jun. His whining is worse than Marcys nagging. Plus I like to punch her when she gets snarky

[@Julsdad]

I always send Codpiece. And usually as far away as I can (most of the time it's Covenant or Hangmans Alley)

[@mrquirky3626]

After 1500+ hours in the game, all in survival mode, Strong is the only companion character I've never gotten full affinity with because he hates every time I get into power armour and I need that armour to survive. In all my play throughs, I usually just leave him in Hangman's Alley picking mutfruit and keeping out of everyone's way.

[@MrBioniclefan1]

@@LoveProWrestlingLol you’ve “volunteered” her.

[@kennethkusmierski3108]

Not only can you carry the trash cans but you can put landmines inside of the trash can point them at the enemy and run towards them receiving no damage when they go off

[@UnkieNic]

I gotta try that. "Front towards enemy" indeed

[@jorgesantana1089]

​@@UnkieNicMythbusters said this was busted

[@MarkoDash]

urban fougasse

[@swordsnroses1986]

beat me to it, but yeah, this is one of the best tactics for fallout 4 vr cus its easy to rotate stuff you're holding. and holding you can still pull out items, unlike in console where you'd have to drop the item, put in trashcan, then pick up trashcan...

[@MuscleRose]

#itjustworks

[@braedonbaja5139]

Honestly, these things were so niche I had no idea about that… I will be using at least two of these!

[@UnkieNic]

@@braedonbaja5139 awesome! 👍

[@AndrewKolb101]

this is the first video with a title of 'X# of thing your don't know' that I didn't actually know any of them...thank you.

[@UnkieNic]

Hell yeah 👍

[@edmartin875]

Likewise. These are the first new things I didn't know in years.

[@captainawf2341]

Never used a shopping cart, but I've used corpses as meat shields before

[@UnkieNic]

@@captainawf2341 I CACKLED the first time I did it, a beautiful moment 😌

[@leonhernandez7241]

Weeeeelll wheell I've never used this meat shield you speak of 😂

[@captainawf2341]

Physics games have existed for a while not. "Can this object stop a bullet" is a relatively common gaming trope these days lol

[@canadianlumberjack7642]

Put "Big Jim" effect on a mini gun and give to companion. 20 percent chance PER BULLET to cripple an enemy. Freeking awesome.

[@spiceweasel]

You haven’t played Fallout 4 until you’ve thrown a tricycle into an incoming mini nuke to save your life

[@UnkieNic]

I have a new goal in life...

[@mattasticmattattack8546]

Check ✔️ , now shoot a teddy bear out of a junk cannon at it 🧸,, Elzar is watching 👀

[@mattasticmattattack8546]

​@@UnkieNiccan't wait for the clip 👍🏼

[@void-master9077]

This is the most fallout experience I’ve ever heard lmao

[@fredrik3880]

The raiders outside the paint store should tell that story. -Yeah man, i kid you not saw some crazy ass dude throw tricycle at a mininuke. Somehow it shielded him from the blast. -Just how high were you? -Nothing out of the ordinary man. Im telling you, it happened.

[@arellajardin8188]

Turning companions into provisioners is inspired. I can't help but collect them, but typically dump them somewhere I won't visit. I usually pick one for a playthrough and stick with them, so everyone else may as well cease to exist. Setting them loose on the roads of the Comm9nwealth sounds like a lot of fun.

[@UnkieNic]

I know right!? It's one of those things that's obvious in retrospect but I didn't realize for almost a literal decade lol

[@gabrielbitencourt1879]

I am so relieved I am not the only one that sticked all the game with just one companion. I beaten the game with piper

[@stevenscott2136]

​@@gabrielbitencourt1879 I do that too. Like an "antisocial" character who only sticks with Dogmeat, or a "mechanic" who only works with robots.

[@richlee3777]

Duelist sounds good on your companions. If they get shot, the enemy drops their weapon.

[@UnkieNic]

@@richlee3777 sadly it does not work on companions (I wanted it to so bad!)

[@vegastrina]

​@@UnkieNic huh...I know the stealth legging I put on Deacon helps him disappear, I forget it's exact name, fell off of a synth, but sometimes I have to unequip and re-equip it to make it function...I forget why, I think it's every time I dismiss him and pick him back up. Maybe that's the same scenario here.

[@UnkieNic]

@vegastrina yeah, some things work and some don't. I tested with duelist and some of the ones that freeze or burn when hit by an enemy and they never triggered. Poor Cait really gave her body to science on that one 😵‍💫

[@Mick-mi7zg]

@@UnkieNicscience. Riiiiiight

[@YouCanCallMeMisterK]

As soon as I could make robots I started making one for each provisioner spot I had. I'd run into them and they'd help me in combat quite often.

[@somebloke3869]

I do that as well. I just recently upgraded all my robot provisioners, giving them all Mr Handy thrusters and good weapons.

[@qwopiretyu]

​@@somebloke3869 the thrusters keep em from getting stuck on bullshit terrain

[@MM7782]

And the mod that changes the brahmin with Eyebots Brahmin_to_Eyebots_All

[@diddydonk5255]

Honestly, I think there should be a mod that nerfs allowing essential NPCs to be used as traders/provisions and instead, add a risk reward system where they can travel to and from the 2 locations they are to travel to, sending resources both ways but the risk comes from any random encounters and Ur provisions possibly getting killed off while travelling. If they end up dying, any resources Uve told the provisions to specifically send to another settlement is lost and despawns to make the illusion that the resources were stolen by an unknown group of attackers. Every time you use provisioners to send resources to each settlement location, there's a possible risk of that loot being stolen and those NPCs dying in combat. If the resources had made it to the settlement, those resources will now be in the workshop ready to use at that specific settlement.

[@UnkieNic]

It's so funny, I've definitely used robots as provisioners before but it just completely went over my head that the same idea could be used on human companions. I just think of the bots differently I guess

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Did not know any of them and logged hundreds of hours in this and every fallout games. This was a treat thank you

[@UnkieNic]

right on, thanks!

[@ErosXCaos]

The most obscure one I know of is Valentine’s left hand becomes human when you equip him with the Faded Trench Coat quest reward you receive from him. You can apply Ballistic Weave to it, _but the hand!_

[@UnkieNic]

Now, can you give him a screw driver still and see him tweak his flesh hand? That would be something lol

[@fuzzykurb]

​​@@UnkieNicyes it will still do the random animation even with the "new hand" Edit: as long as he has a screwdriver in his inventory

[@VintageWanderer]

Hiding behind an object was used recently. Some Marines had to sneak past a Al that was trailed to see people. But the marines were in a cardboard box and moved randomly. AI could detect them. lol

[@UnkieNic]

MGS remains the most vindicated video game series in history 😌

[@VintageWanderer]

@ MGS?

[@UnkieNic]

@VintageWanderer Metal Gear Solid ✌️

[@Jmandude5]

In that same experiment (ran by DARPA), one Marine stripped a fir tree and quote "walked like a fir tree" up to the robot. Two other Marines somersaulted all the way up to the robot. Not a single Marine got detected by the AI.

[@VintageWanderer]

@ yes !!

[@Krutchly]

I didn't even think about using companions as provisioners. Now that I know I'll be using them. And supply lines wont be disrupted because companions cannot die.

[@theiconicprodigy1736]

I mean your settlers don’t die either unless you kill them.

[@Krutchly]

@@theiconicprodigy1736 I beg to differ. On more than one occasion I have found a dead settler-provisioner on a supply route.

[@highlander1154]

The shield idea was a lot of fun. Put a billion hours into the game, and never thought of trying it. Leaving a comment to hopefully engage the algorithm. Cheers!

[@UnkieNic]

Fallout is the series that keeps giving. Thanks for the support, friend!

[@kittykittyredcat]

This is the first time a “___ things you didn’t know” video actually had stuff I didn’t know! You’re awesome man I love your vids!!

[@UnkieNic]

Thanks! 😊

[@thunderhead9338]

Loved the video, you've got a good sense of humor and storytelling Here's one I find particularly useful If you want to get a settlement prefab or piece of furniture into a right spot without the use of mods to clip it into something, use a doormat. Put the item you want to move on top of a doormat and then pick up the doormat. Moves the furniture with it and doesn't activate collision limitation for the most part I used this trick to get the 10k nukacade tickets by clipping like 5-7 basket ball arcade machines into one another and ramming a basket ball up and down the hoop for half an hour

[@UnkieNic]

@@thunderhead9338 I want to make a settlement tips video that will defo include the rug glitch. I never thought about overlapping a thing like that tho, very interesting! I HAVE overlapped neon lights to make different colors, similar, but not quite as clever 👍

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

For survival I use the robot workbench to make provisioners by building Mr.Handmen with dual gatling laser arms and full tesla armor, then have them all branch out from my main base to supply all the settlements, they do a fantastic job of cleaning up any enemies in route and once you get a few settlement lines going there's almost always one on any given major route so the roads eventually become surprisingly safe to travel.... as long as you don't mind walking on allot of ash piles. I eventually started enabling their personality subroutines because the only thing more funny then a provisioner robot smoking a roaming group of super mutants is hearing the robot trash talk them while doing it.

[@UnkieNic]

"Hold my beer, Mechanist"

[@BloodAndTsundere]

I did know about setting companions as provisioners since I did it with Codsworth between Sanctuary and Red Rocket. But I didn't think it through the way you did or experiment with longer routes and many companions. This sounds like a really fun idea, particularly for certain companions like Strong or a beefed-up Ava.

[@TheInsaneShecklador]

I didn't know Duelist was broken. I did know about the provisioners and the shopping cart. Billy the fridge kid's door also works well. It works well for stealth too as it seems to make it much harder for enemies to see you. 8:30 Looks like you were already aware of the stealthiness large solid objects can provide. Thanks for teaching me about Duelist.

[@UnkieNic]

I had no idea you could grab his fridge door! Ack, I would have loved to have a shot of hiding behind a fridge in this video. TY!

[@TheInsaneShecklador]

@@UnkieNic 👍

[@brandonviolette7203]

Apparently, I knew about the companions as provisoners. But I only remembered because I couldn't find Strong, then randomly found him wandering with a pack Brahman.

[@UnkieNic]

That's kinda cool. Like to completely forget you did that and then see him out in the wild one day would be a trip.

[@Julsdad]

I found out when I got sick of Jun whining and put him in raider gear and made him a provisioner to RR

[@brandonviolette7203]

@UnkieNic I was looking for him for a while. Strong was the only companion perk I was missing. Saw a super mutant in the distance. Shot him without VATS. He yelled, "Hey!" Then I saw the Brahman.

[@edmartin875]

@@UnkieNic Surprises are common among us older players. I often turn around to say or do something with my companion only to remember later that I gave them a STAY command a long time ago, far, far away.

[@edmartin875]

@@Julsdad Yeah, I made provisioners out of both him and his wife. He doesn't whine and she doesn't complain. Normally I use only regular human and ghoul NPCs as provisioners but making Strong a provisioner appeals to me.

[@rickmccl71]

One time I was overloaded and grabbed a missile launcher (in hands, like your shopping cart) to carry it just down the road to County Crossing. It ran into a parked car and I learned that heavy weapons are heavy enough to push the parked car down the road, into my settlement where I scrapped it... Wait I feel like part of that was a mod, maybe scrapping cars? Hard for me to tell anymore.

[@UnkieNic]

@@rickmccl71 "carrying" loot is always a fun trick 🤣 The pushing cars thing is something real settlement heads so to decorate their settlements! They CAN be scrapped when pushed in bounds of a settlement, but even better, they don't despawn. So you can push a premium Cherry Bomb into Struges garage and it will stay there The channel Orange Squeezy has a bunch of superr impressive builds where he uses that and a bunch of other tricks to make settlements in vanilla that look impossible without mods. Insane skills.

[@lyntonfleming]

I've done all but the first, but that's only because I generally go all out on defence, so low damage, high fire rate weapons don't really get past my DR so I never thought to stack it to really experience the gimmick. By the way, throwing explosive items, then shooting them once they roll to an enemies feet? Perfection.

[@UnkieNic]

Ha, now that's a way of using a bottlecap mine I haven't thought of, I'll give that a try!

[@robertcain7630]

I've never tried to send a companion off as a provisioner but it doesn't surprise me that you can. I use the Automatron DLC and so personally I use robots built through that as provisioners between settlements. As you can have them as your companions as well it works much the same way as using Strong or whoever I won't build a Robot Workbench at every settlement but just places like Abernathy Farm, Starlight Drive-in, Finch Farm, a couple others, build multiple robots at each Workbench and use that location as a hub to send them off to different places. I often find them walking (or floating) along the roads of the Commonwealth and occasionally come across a firefight only to find one of my robots mercilessly gunning down some foolish Raiders with their gattling lasers or slicing them up with their Shishkebabs. Always fun!

[@UnkieNic]

You know that's true, and I've used Robo-Provisioners before, but for some reason they occupy a different category in my head. Like they're not "real" companions, but of course in terms of gameplay they are

[@robertcain7630]

@@UnkieNic I know what you mean. They aren't as "real" as they all have the same very limited personality and dialogue options, little better than having a pet. Indeed you can give them just beeps for a voice or assign one to a guard post like you were chaining up a guard dog. Only the average guard dog doesn't come with a laser blasting out its face!

[@youngbloodizzac]

8:20 that grenade throw tho 😂

[@UnkieNic]

The best laid plans...

[@AWESOME2715]

Speaking of gimmicks, Fire Extinguishers actually stun enemies for a short time when they explode near them. Ergo, you can have vanilla, impromptu flashbangs!

[@UnkieNic]

That's an excellent idea! I think regular gas cans also explode when shot (I think so anyway). I might start collecting them and tossing them into crowded rooms :p TY for the tip!

[@disropted3276]

I discovered that I could use my companion as a provisioner because I wanted to get Danse to do something because I had him in the castle, but a BOS Vertabird would always go over it, and they would start fighting, and I didn't want Danse to just stand around in a random settlement somewhere.

[@UnkieNic]

lol, I like the idea of Danse just chilling in between MM and BoS fighting, not quite sure who's side to take

[@davidperkins6752]

the first 2 things i didn't know about but will absolutely be utilizing in future. the 3rd thing, honestly been doing that or some form of it since fo3, however you earned huge extra credit for the mgs joke! very happily subscribed, really enjoyed the steady pace of your video (some people like to rush right through!) and your voice is made for this. thanks so much for sharing and best of luck with your channel🙂

[@UnkieNic]

thank you! I really appreciate the encouragement

[@Aaron_Jensen]

I used companions as provisioners right up until the day that Bethesda let us start crafting and sending out OP killbots.

[@UnkieNic]

Imagine being a raider and seeing a pack bharnim and thinking "easy pickings" before the sentry bot guarding it rounds the corner

[@stevenscott2136]

For added hilarity, trick Curie out with heavy weapons. Semi-comprehensible French-accented banter about health and peace, while cutting people apart with streams of auto-fire.

[@Aaron_Jensen]

@@UnkieNic Lol, I can imagine the raider pausing briefly as we hear "It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up".

[@Aaron_Jensen]

@@stevenscott2136 I always turn Curie and Codsworth into Sentrybots and/or Assaultrons. Okay not always. There was that one time I let curie be happy as a synth.

[@longshot197036]

Build ADA with dual laser cannons... You'll thank me later...

[@j.m.2022]

There are a few companions that just belong in their home locations. I feel guilty I don't send Piper home to Nat whenever I done using her. Likewise, Goodneighbour needs its mayor and Preston really belongs with the Minutemen at the Castle. Nick also needs to keep his detective office open in DC. Also, I'm not sure what would happen if Danse ran into some Brotherhood along his supply route. As a result, I usually don't assign my companions to settlements when I dismiss them, but allow them to go back to their default locations. I do makes exceptions for Dogmeat (who I assign to Sanctuary) and Curie (since she really doesn't like going back to Vault 81). Strong is one who I might try making a provisioner in my next playthrough since he's usually unhappy in any settlement and always looks rather forlorn just standing by himself in front of Trinity Tower. Thanks for the idea.

[@UnkieNic]

Yeah, I like to do the same for Piper and Nick, they belong in Diamond City

[@ScoutSilico]

I never thought to set my companions as provisioners. Your clips of running into Strong out in the wild have convinced me. The shopping cart thing I found on my no guns playthrough in the subway station! It was so useful to approach someone and go into VATS to bash them.

[@robjsmiles]

First Big Jim, now Duelist effect on ranged attackers, you're turning the wasteland into a slapstick comedy lol

[@UnkieNic]

it's my firm belief that Raider don't deserve to hold on to any weapons 😤

[@robertgagne8892]

Like several other people that commented, I had an "inkling" that you might be able to assign companions as provisioners, but I almost always use robots built with the Robot Workbench for this purpose, and so I had not tried this! As for the other two, I was completely unaware! Thanks for the tips! Because of the fact that I learned something from this video, you have gained a new subscriber!

[@UnkieNic]

Right on! Thank you!

[@andrewcollins2060]

You can just shoot weapons or use vats to precise hit them and the same disarm effect happens with an even higher rate. Used to shoot the weapons out of enemies hands in New Vegas with the cowboy repeater. That gun was so accurate you did not really need anything else. I would snipe the fire ants outside Helios when they were tiny specks on the horizon just to practice with it. It does fall off later on when enemies get really strong and then it is best to swap to a incinerator and use it like a mortar from long distances while sneaking. These two weapons will carry you pretty far while you make your build. Even though the incinerator does low damage it can take out anything with its damage over time. Highly effective for safely taking out cazador nests and deathclaws just do not forget to sneak and also change positions after your volley because for some reason the incinerator will always draw enemies to your exact last location then they return to their original once they do not find you.

[@harryshriver6223]

The funny thing is that I have not played Fallout 4 sometime because I have become bored with it but I think I may give it a try now that you're giving me some fun tips. Awesome opossum, groovy 😎 😀 👌 👍

[@UnkieNic]

Right on, glad to hear it!

[@louis-danieltaillefer174]

I knew them all ;) (6k hours +) 1. Duelist is a must for a melee/unarmed build only, paired with Ricochet and its almost godmod. 2. I've always use Codsworth to supply my early settlements (Local Leader perk), then once Ive completed the Automaton DLC, use fully upgraded Sentry Robot with dual Explosive Machinegun and Nuke mortars..... you know when they are around ;) 3. If big enough, the objects can even shield you from explosions! Trash can are fantastic as you can put them on an NPC to render him completely useless.

[@kijabifilms7264]

Thank you for the tip about duelists armor, this has just become a game changer for my modded survival run.

[@vavra222]

This video is like reverse psychology lmao, i clicked while fully expecting the same stuff that was picked over by many other youtubers and instead the very 1st fact is something i didnt actually know! Knew about the other 2 but i might give Fallout 4 a whirl again just to have fun and try to cobble together a chill Duelist build. I swear, these moments are super rare, thank you!

[@UnkieNic]

Man, you're making my day 👍

[@RolandMorris-tf7bq]

First video I've seen in years of something new! Thanks man!

[@UnkieNic]

YES! Exactly what I was hoping to hear!

[@Vandal_Savage]

Yup, knew about all of those, still very interesting though. Wearing disarming armour might be a better alternative to shooting the arm off friendly legendary synths to get their legendary weapons without turning them hostile or accruing another murder on my crime lists... also will probably work on other allies too. Recently I've been carrying spare weapons and ammunition to drop at the feet of the wandering merchants and their mercenaries. Seeing Cricket using a mini gun instead of a rubbish pipe gun seems far more fitting for one of the best weapon merchants in the game...

[@UnkieNic]

There is a glitch you can do with the intimidation perk that lets you mess with NPC's equipment and I do exactly the same thing with Cricket. That girl should always be slinging a rocket launcher or plasma automatic 😤

[@Vandal_Savage]

@UnkieNic too right she should! Ooh, the intimidation perk again - I suspect that it's far more successful than dropping weapons & ammo around and hoping npcs will pick them up... I was thinking about you mentioning setting companions as provisioners earlier as I dismissed one of mine back to a settlement and watched them walk off. My thought was that if I was in (e.g.) sanctuary and recruited and then quickly dismissed each companion back to the same settlement (e.g.) the Warwick farm, spectacle Island or the Somerville place - could I then follow them across the map and would they stay roughly together? And would their guns have infinite ammo? (Being that they would be normal settlers now) 🤔

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

I did know about companions being provisioners. It helps with starting a new settlement if you don't have the resources for the beacon and a generator. Make them provison, connecting to the settlement network. Build the beacon and generator, then unassign companion from working. Soon, a new settler will arrive and they can be the provisioner.

[@UnkieNic]

That's a really smart application of this that I didn't consider, thanks!

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

@@UnkieNic i just havent considered the fun possibilities of having our companions criss cross the map. i know its helpful to give provisoners good weapons in case you end up passing by them. but our companions have a slightly better combat ai than settlers, i think.

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

actually this may be a falsehood. i dont know much about the ai of different characters

[@UnkieNic]

@ I don't know if they would have better AI or aim or anything, but I know the Strength stat counts for melee, so at least that would be better than a settler's stats!

[@edmartin875]

Roger building powered up Beacon will instantly have a settler on the way to the settlement. Building more powered up beacons at the same settlement does NOT produce more or faster settlers.

[@CheesyKnobby]

I prefer nuke tossing sentry bots as my provisioners. Absolute death machines deleting all the threats.

[@UnkieNic]

Seems like something the Children of Atom would rig up. Spread the glow far and wide

[@emmettraymond8058]

Yeah, that's definitely going to change the way I play. Great vid!

[@Key_stones]

2:30 loved this it was like someone greased their weapon.

[@UnkieNic]

real butter fingers moment

[@diddydonk5255]

1st one, I had no clue, 2nd one, ik of it to some degree but it's not something widely beneficial to be something I'd personally start using and the 3rd I did already know about. Going back to the provisions one however, I do feel like there should be a provisions plus mod where it doesn't add too much to the vanilla experience but all it really does is allow traders and caravan traders, U send out through provisions, be able to actively walk to and from 2 locations, without you needing to be close to them constantly, be able to actually have them send supplies, to and from each location and exclude any essential NPCs from being used as a provision so they don't just revive and heal themselves and never die from combat. I feel like it should be a utilised tactic of risk when trying to grow settlements and expand for trade. U risk the people you send out along side any resources lost while going to and from that location and it's a way to combat high risk areas that weren't cleared out as well as tough enemy's that spawn in specific areas of the map that could easily disrupt trade. Not only would it present risk but also a challenge for players to overcome if they want to grow their settlements without using yet another form of exploit to easily transfer resources to each settlement and skip on settlement progression.

[@StreetDrago]

The idea of using trashcans and mannequins as shields came to my mind while playing in VR. It’s pretty easy to completely break F4 firefights using VR gimmicks, but having an impenetrable shield in front of you is like an additional level of premium cheese

[@stephenmckenna5012]

After thousands of hours in the game, and you can still learn new things

[@UnkieNic]

It's the Fallout magic. Always seems to be some little nook or crany left unexplored

[@ryanloescher6234]

Honestly to each their own but I like using random settlers as my provisioners just so if I want a particular companion I know exactly where they'll be. Although getting Strong the hell away from me is always a good idea. That last tip is a pretty good one though. Definitely something very ingenious that I wouldn't have ever thought to try myself lol

[@UnkieNic]

Thanks man!

[@duncecap000]

I didn't even realize this was you until i saw Cait wielding Big Jim

[@UnkieNic]

*virtual fistbump

[@qwopiretyu]

10:12 it's like the raider told him "pick up that can"

[@LunchsackTheWise]

This is such a good video. The music, the voice, the editing, the charisma. Love it brothaaaaaaaa

[@UnkieNic]

Thank you! really appreciate it!

[@jaye1967]

Making companions has great utility too. They can't die and you can use the quest "Overseer's Most Wanted" to know where they're at on your map. I also love the shopping carts as mobile cover thing.

[@UnkieNic]

Yeah, it's good to be able to find em if you forget which settlement you left them in

[@luigibora369]

I think some of them can die, if they are not your active companion, I know Preston, Piper and maybe Nick can't die but others can if player (accidently) hits them with a final blow.

[@jaye1967]

@@luigibora369 I think they all have the "essential" tag. I think it's because they all have quests that couldn't be completed if they die. Poor Marcy Long, if only she had some quests, and wasn't irritating, she might also be immortal.

[@Zaptose69]

I tend to keep all my junk and loot in one location. So when discovering new locations, turn your companion into a provisioner to get access to all my junk from the main base, build a transponder and a generator, water pumps, then have them return to my companion before getting to far.

[@iRedact]

Here's a freebee! False attaching base game weapon upgrades to weapons they aren't built for. _Hence my sawn off targeting missile buck shot, shotgun._ The GAyTF's worst nightmare. Would you like to know more?

[@jasong3713]

Anyone else get angered when he said "Me-lee" 😂

[@UnkieNic]

Oh man, I'm gonna have to unlearn a pronunciation ive used my whole life, huh

[@tomsawyer785]

Great vid man, very helpful, definitely be checking these out for myself.

[@UnkieNic]

Thanks! Hope you have a good time!

[@zachmayes7775]

Similar to the companions as provisioners, I always max my supply lines to every settlement on survival play throughs. Helps to have an extra npc that can’t die out there

[@shazdeh4693]

This was nice, specially the junk shields. Melee is so fun in this game and this just makes it that much more fun!

[@UnkieNic]

I went from "this is a silly gimmick" to "WAIT A MINUTE" the second I realized you could still VATS attack with melee. If I had more time I'd do a "1 Endurance, all melee" build to see how far you can take it

[@benjthorpe]

I’ll have to try carrying shield junk around on my next melee playthrough 👍🏻

[@UnkieNic]

When I found out you can pick up bodies and use them as shields ☠️

[@The5thLegionSW]

I’m not shocked you can use companions as provisioners, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot🤣

[@RunkleDunkle]

Great watch! I didn't know all three!

[@UnkieNic]

Hell yeah! Thrilled to hear!

[@bowenjudd1028]

You can assign Machinest sentry bots as provisioner making the strongest hold on the commonwealth

[@landonewts]

Love this. Hundreds and hundreds of hours in this game, and STILL finding new things. I did know I could assign companions to be provisioners, but never thought to gear them up to the teeth and do it strategically. Now I will finally go get Strong from where he’s been parked, in front of Trinity Plaza, and put him to work!

[@paulrodsted3905]

The best part of having companions as provisioners is they are essential characters and can't be keeled so no chance of a broken supplyline

[@davidarnold7147]

Did you know that Vault 88 is the best place to store everything forever, and you'll never get robbed as long as you don't remove the University Point barrier, and the grate/ladder barrier? No one ever comes in from the front entrance. Only the back entrances; and if they're always blocked, no one ever attacks. Also, one can only build enough water supply that equals up to 850 purified water per day. I've only seen this at Vault 88; I haven't tried it anywhere else. Also, in concern to Vault 88: if you build outside the Atrium, where NPC's living there can't roam; they actually, technically, do go in those sections (not where you'll ever see them yourself) if you assign them to something in those sections. My current game I have been playing for almost 3 years. I spend most of the time at Vault 88. Me, and Buddy are the only residents. I've turned it into the biggest storage facility probably ever built in the game. I didn’t build with Vault-Tec material; just regular normal building supplies, no mods/cheats. Looks grungy. I'm playing a 0 main game quest playthrough. I took Vault 88 at level 1; ran all the way there, died several times before finally taking it. Which reminds me: did you know you can go to Diamond City Marketplace without activating the stadium (activating stadium is main game related) by going through the front gate, going to the elevator in security, then going up to the mayor's office then down the lift on the otherside, and walk over to the marketplace, and the marketplace activates but the stadium does not. Also Far Harbor, Nuka-World, and Automatron are not counted as main game related. I haven't been to Sanctuary, Red Rocket, Concord, Cambridge - speaking of Cambridge: if you kill the ghouls attacking Danse, even if you're nowhere near the Police Station, it will complete the quest, which is main game related. Pissed me off to no end; wasn’t even near the police station: I was level 214, with over 1,500 hrs into that game and I had to start all over again 'cause I have OCD, and I delete all my saves but the last two 'cause OCD sucks ass! There's actually a lot of main quest areas that even venturing into some areas without actually playing the main game will complete a main game quest. Going to Sanctuary is not main game related. Doing certain things there is. If Preston just speaks to you in Concord: main game quest complete. As an aside: Do not create a 10-story Greenhouse and then fill it up with crops from top to bottom and have robots (hundreds of them) tend to them. They will drive you insane. I also did that with no mods or cheats. I have a borig life.

[@Sterkson92]

7:56 Portal 1 flashbacks

[@hannahteller1383]

You're making me want to play the game again! Love hearing you talk about the immersion and how to make the games even more "real". Definitely subscribing after this! So glad I came across this video! :)

[@UnkieNic]

thanks so much!

[@PieletPi]

Here's a couple additional things about the bulletproof items thing, they can block explosions entirely. I learned this from the saving Kent mission for the Silver Shroud quests. It bugged out to where Sinjin(the main bad guy) was just sitting there aiming a gun a kent, and any damage done to Sinjin makes him instantly shoot him, instantly killing him. I was doing a throwables only run, so after quite a few attempts trying to get a grenade to kill only Sinjin, I decided to put some crates in front of Kent, and lo and behold, the blast only affected Sinjin. Also, reverse pickpocketed grenades do NOT get blocked by walls or objects like thrown ones will, strangely enough.

[@UnkieNic]

That's a really fun predicament to work through! I love self-imposed limits on builds like "I'm only using thowables" "I will not wear armor" or "I have to trade out guns after every quest." I've done a few variations on the idea myself and it's always a great time. Really makes you see the game differently. My next video is going into similar if not exactly the same waters, so check it out when it's up!

[@ShirakiAkarin]

The n2 i already knew it, because i always make a settlement with a billion robots from the automatron dlc to serve as provisioners.

[@UnkieNic]

Yeah I whiffed it with that. Which is funny cause I've definitely used robo-provisioners before. Guess I just don't count em like regular companions

[@singjai108]

I've been getting skeptical about all the "did you know?" videos in my feed. This was fun. Keep up the good work!

[@BT0WN]

My dude is blowing up! Congrats on the success, man. Keep up the great work.

[@UnkieNic]

Thank you so much! I'll try to keep it coming!

[@wilomica]

Okay I did not know about Duelist so I'll up the video. I have been using my companions as provisioners. The Greygarden to Mechanist lair run is Adas. So that last tip was also news to me. So 2/3. Thanks for the video.

[@UnkieNic]

@@wilomica thanks for playing! 👍

[@CassandraErdmann]

Literally the first one I didnt know, and I'm totally using it now

[@UnkieNic]

It's so much fun, hope you have a blast 👍

[@toakongu1]

I may actually start using Duelist pieces now. Thank you

[@UnkieNic]

hell yeah, enjoy!

[@Steven-K]

What's the name of the song at 8:41? I always hear it playing in joke bits and its driving me nuts not knowing where its from.

[@UnkieNic]

It's called "Sins of the Father" and is used in Metal Gear the Phantom Pain. It plays ever time you smoke one of Snakes "time dilation cigars" to speed the clock forward a few hours. God I love the Metal Gear games

[@psyrolz1626]

Gotta say, you geniunely surprised me with this one. First time in years that Ive learned smth new from Fallout 4. Well done, sir!

[@Nkipker]

Thanks for the vid. It was I didn't know, didn't know, and didn't know. I'm going to try companion idea.

[@UnkieNic]

hell yeah, enjoy!

[@aakla]

When you rescue Valentine, you can run to the exit ladder and wait. if you didnt disarm/trigger the trap on the steps. whats her name will trigger it, and you can hear the explosion.

[@courierz9451]

1. I knew but i def gotta admit, its a good hidden gem 2. I actually thought it was common knowledge but not prefered? Better secret is if you put all your followers in the mechanist lair, accept a mechanist mission, everyone (including strong ect) will like it, have no followers, finish the mission, then ask everyone to join you, then leave the last one back at the mechanist, and loop it, and youll get the follower perks for everyone eventually (asking them to follow you adds more affinity for some reason when you gain exp without them following you when you do it) 3. I really didn't actually know that hahaha

[@joshyjj1862]

I used that provisioner trick my first playthrough of F4 and sent all the companions I didn’t like to patrol the faraway lands across the map between The Castle and Nordhagen Beach

[@Katastrophe9009]

As an avid settlement builder, I was fully aware you COULD use companions as provisioners, but I never left them on it permanently before. I'll have to try that on my next FO4 playthrough. I do like the idea of seeing my guys tearing through the wasteland and potentially saving my ass in a pinch. I'd usually try to gear up the random settlers I use as provisioners normally, but they just aren't as good fighters as your companions.

[@BusyMEOW]

Companions can't die so it makes sense to use them as provisioners to keep your workbench stocked with materials once you link up all the settlements and create salvage stations.

[@sandwich1920]

does the audio work for everyone else? for me it plays on the left only

[@UnkieNic]

I'm getting sound in both ears in my headphones, although I notice my voice is a little louder in the left channel. Probably due to how my mic was positioned (on a bit of an angle) when I was recording. TY for pointing it out, I'll be more careful in the future. I listen to a lot of stuff at work out of one ear so I know how frustrating it can be when the stereo effect is out of whack

[@OneKauz]

Not quite a vanilla thing but with Legendary swapping mods "Homerun" being applied to a shotgun is one of the funniest things

[@ArisAng-uv4yf]

carrying the dead raider's body opens up a whole world of possibilities. I wonder what dialogues the raiders would have the longer you hold it in front of other raiders

[@UnkieNic]

You should be able to chuck em if you're wearing power armor 😈

[@billberg529]

Did not know about the first tip - that`s broken af lol. Secondly, picking up Strong seems more viable now! Dgmw, I love the big guy, but for me he always overstays his settlement welcome, eventually.

[@UnkieNic]

Some friends are better with a little distance 😌

[@MrCaryse]

Nice to find someone with actual niche advice, you see so much of the usual content. The first one i didn't really pay much attention to, but i have never really bought much for armor and typically dont pay too much attention to legendary stats on armor. The provisions thing i knew, i love sending Danse out to keep the commonweath protected. I did stumble on that once, but it just seemed like too much work to try and juggle with controler, so I don't really use it.

[@UnkieNic]

Thank you! You might want to keep an eye for my next video, I'm working on a series of anti-tips that encourage you to play the game a little differently from how most people recommend. I'm all about keeping it unique and immersive 👍

[@yellowbatman25]

I did know these, but I'm surprised to hear someone mention it. I often play survival, and using a companion as a provisioner is something I often do to build radio beacons at new settlements, then I just rerecruit them.

[@baroncalamityplus]

I have way over 1000 hours in Fallout 4 and never tried those. I probably thought about trying companions as provisioners but didn't try it because I never wanted to lose track of them without thinking about their usefulness as such. I only just figured out if when dismissing Piper, if you hit cancel it sends her back to her home in Diamond city.

[@ace0989]

I think it sends all companions back to their default/original home. And I could be wrong, but I think it only works until you send them to a settlement. For example, if you send Piper to Sanctuary after you get her, hitting cancel will send her back to Sanctuary every time after that first time.

[@UnkieNic]

It really is cool how these games keep on giving. My total playing time has to be close to that as well and it's still surprising me!

[@emeraldclone117]

I learned about turning companions into provisioners by accident on my first play through, once we got to build our own robots i started using them as provisioners

[@rickmccl71]

Duelist is something I learned recently as well; that plus gunslinger level 4 and suddenly everyone has butter fingers, weapons slipping everywhere.

[@UnkieNic]

always was a fan of damage mitigation over pure defense, tickles the MMO part of the brain.

[@AceBobcat]

Didn't know 1! I was aware of 2! I didn't know 3, but that tracks lmao. It's Bethesda.

[@UnkieNic]

I want to go back and see if this worked in Oblivion now lol

[@zapduckcake5354]

The ability to pick up items and use them as a shield is so incredibly obvious, but I've never thought about it. And the disarm effect I might just start using

[@UnkieNic]

It's one of those things that makes you wonder how much else is left to find in the game right in front of our eyes

[@brandonadkins9435]

Great video! Just the kind of creative spark I’ve been looking for. In Fallout New Vegas I used some random barrels for the same shield effect to save myself from some turrets, but I never thought to use the same idea in Fallout 4. Currently doing an all luck build, and I think the duelist items, and traveling companions are a perfect fit!

[@UnkieNic]

All luck is so fun. Have a good one!

[@Gojiro7]

Thank you for sharing the one REALLY useful tidbit in this video, that disable attacker thing is going to make me start a whole new playthrough after my current one is done XD

[@UnkieNic]

sweet, glad you got something useful from the video!

[@Gojiro7]

@@UnkieNic it kinda goes to show that Bethesda makes the biggest RPGS, but they way to often screw up making all the parts work, but thats extra embarrassing considering this is a case of "we conveyed this very poorly" since I didn't even realize that effect portained to you being attacked, I always thought it mean your %10 unarmed punches could disarm.

[@lunondisposable5382]

The Duelist effect is probably a bug, and seems like something the Unofficial Patch jerk would remove

[@UnkieNic]

@@lunondisposable5382 the game I'm running to get the footage is on the unofficial patch! 👍

[@swordsnroses1986]

not sure if this glitch is still out there, feel free to try but if you have the dlc that gives you conveyor belts and item creation you can make lunchboxes and put them in a circle loop and after you open boxes on the belt once they go in the item sorter or such they'll turn back into closed lunchboxes again, ready to be opened again infinitely

[@UnkieNic]

I saw that one on Skooled Zone back in the day! Really fun build and idea

[@BYERE]

Setting companions as provisioners would be good for once you've gained their perk and completed their questline. Unless they're someone you KNOW you want to travel with, having a powerful, unkillable, person traveling the wasteland to stock up your settlements is a massive boon!

[@UnkieNic]

it sure don't hurt!

[@Artissan]

i once accidentaly set Codsworth as a provisioner and didn't see him again until halfway into the playthrough on a random ass backroad where i heard, "Sir?" from out of the blue

[@UnkieNic]

@@Artissan Cosworth really is a trooper

[@leafonthewind88]

Who knew that Jim from the Office would be a source of things i Actually didn’t know about FO4? That was awesome.

[@UnkieNic]

lol, glad you enjoyed!

[@Muscleduck]

I knew 2 and 3. Found out 2 by accident by setting Ada as a provisioner. Which then gave me the idea of building overpowered robots with no legs (Mr handy thruster instead) as provisioner. Unfortunately Fallout 4 had a bug where those robots would sometimes bug out and reset to the 'default' Protectron. As for tip 3, I've used it to retreat from danger but not that much. Nice video either way BTW. Finally some original tips.

[@UnkieNic]

thanks very much!