Fallout 4: Best Starting Special Stats to Start With (Melee, Survival & Beginners)

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What's going on guys! This is VinylicPuma, back with another Fallout 4 video and today, I figured I could go over what I think is the Best Start or Best Starting S.P..E.C.I.A.L. point allocation for Fallout 4! In this video, I'll go over a couple different setups that will go over Melee, Ranged and more Beginner Special Stat Point allocations. I'll also talk about some good Substitutions for certain special stats as well and you may find some of my suggestions here could be good for Survival Mode!
As always guys, If you liked this video, feel free to leave a like and let me know what you think!

[@d3g3nmonk38]

There's still fallout 4 videos out here!! The legend lives on!!

[@chrisschmeitz1139]

Still in production

[@whatthewarp5012]

And it keeps going

[@dragonqueen556]

3 years later and Fallout 4 still hasn't gotten a sequel or any other Fallout game other than 76 but we don't talk about that and people are still making videos discovering new things new players like me are joining every day

[@Rhinorin72]

And going

[@sammyblaze4234]

Guess what

[@dormeuilangelo4242]

9:05 - "Ranged stat points", 12:44 - "Ranged modified stat points", 15:00 - "Melee stat points"

[@MrAbraham16]

Thank you

[@DryPopeyesBiscuitNoBev]

Omfg thanks

[@justinkennedy4768]

Thank you

[@t1mek33per9]

I have 4 characters. One for each faction. I started them all with the same stats; 3 in everything except for intelligence; 10 intelligence for extra leveling speed. Then I use the alcohol-SPECIAL book trick to get to 11 intelligence, and the bobble head for a total of 12. Then I go for Perception and Agility or Strength and Endurance based on whether I’m doing ranged or melee. Then I work towards getting all my stats to 10, then I collect all the bobble heads.

[@djuraster]

No perks , you are dumping points into stats? Window licker

[@Mr._Anderpson]

Depending on your style of play, some of the endurance & charisma perks can be essential. Lone wanderer & aqua boy means you are a one man amphibious strike force which can use the water as a means of retreat.

[@ambassador8524]

Man, honestly I’m more confused then when I started thus video!

[@vovasyhin7219]

I would definitely go with: 4 Strength "Armorer+Blacksmith+Carry Weight" / 10 Endurance "+45HP" / 4 Perception " Lock Pick" / 3 Intelligence "Gun Nut" / 5 Luck "Idiot Savant" Others may tell you that Endurance is retroactive so getting 10 is pointless, What They Don't tell you is the permanent bonus you wont get on character creation if you endurance is LOW! Basically each point of Endurance equates 5 HP Bonus during character creation, Difference is: 5HP/1 Endurance, or 50HP/10Endurance meaning you will permanently loose 45HP on character creation if you start with 1 Endurance! This is huge, this basically equates to 2.25 points in Life Giver Perks! This means that Endurance is partially retroactive, making it more important then others would claim!

[@justinisenberg1841]

9:35 Letting your fusion core deplete is a loss because you can sell nearly depleted ones for their full value. Anyway great vid and keep it up !

[@melanie9674]

Justin Isenberg ooh thanks for the tip :)

[@ihavetubes]

that is a great tip damn lol

[@tachikazetyler2916]

Thanks for still doing relevant Fallout 4 vids. Also, I noticed you scroll through the whole list of things you can cook before starting, as if to make a mental list of what you have.. I do the same thing.

[@bryanmetzger4805]

Thank you very much sir. You make me want to play Fallout again. Keep it up.

[@roguelobster4278]

I'd add boosting Charisma to a minimum lv. of 6, as this unlocks the Local Leader perk, which is essential to the overall settlement happiness, as it allows the player to craft vendor stalls and certain workbenches among other things

[@treybrzezowski3259]

Shared inventory is a fucking godsend

[@bluemuppet6]

​@Trey Brzezowski without mods it makes your life between settlements so much better, but even with certain mods that give you some benefits, im the type that likes to build my own settlements. a few mods give you a few perks you normally would have to unlock in the game, and two mods that allow you to do more with your settlement than the base game gives you by default. i have tried a few different settlement mods, but to be honest i wasn't really all that impressed with what you get extra that the game doesn't have already. charisma is very useful, but outside of local leader and the black widow which has been around in every Fallout game since Fallout 3. maybe Fallout 1 & 2 does i don't really know, i never played the first, but i have played a little bit of Fallout 2. but at that time i wasn't into the series, so unfortunately i didn't get into early on like others did. Fallout New Vegas is what turned everything around, as that was the first full Fallout experience i had, most people say it's usually Fallout 3, but not for me. it's the opposite for me, i heard of Fallout 3, but Bethesda games didn't appeal to me at the time. but a friend of mine at the time, if you try this New Vegas that's getting ready to come out; i guarantee you'll like Fallout 3. after sitting on it for awhile, New Vegas came out two weeks prior, and i just said its now or never; and i never looked back since. now a part of me regrets not giving Fallout 3 a chance earlier. but with this game, intelligence and charisma are treated alot better than they were in the past with Fallout 3 and New Vegas. although intelligence not so much, it's still had some benefits, but charisma was always seen as the dump stat. some people say perception was the other weak one alot of people say to ignore, but i never was the type no matter what rpg im playing, i can never give my character im playing as a handicap. in New Vegas especially it's recommended not to max one special, but unless you know type of build your doing, i rarely put any of my special up to 9. i mean the bottle head gives you an extra point, but my builds across the 3 Fallout games look like this. Fallout 3 Strength 6 Perception 4 Endurance 6 Charisma 4 Agility 6 Luck 5 New Vegas Strength 5 Perception 5 Endurance 5 Charisma 5 Intelligence 6 Agility 6 Luck 7 Fallout 4 Strength 3 Perception 5 Endurance 4 Charisma 5 Intelligence 6 Agility 4 Luck 3

[@leilaumfleet5022]

One note: While Int reduces the effectiveness of Idiot Savant, the extra xp from the Int more than makes up for it, with the maximum xp gain being max Int + Idiot Savant. Side note: If you intend to save skim quest rewards to get the Idiot Savant boost, I'd recommend keeping your Int low until you are no longer getting good xp from repeatable quests.

[@nukalion5280]

Thanks for sticking with your fan base and uploading fallout 4 still

[@TheNooberd]

My favorite start is 6,4,1,6,4,2,5, which I call the "explorer build". The key early perks are idiot savant, strong back, locksmith, local leader, and hacker (hence those numbers), with the extra point in agility because I'll rush that to ninja once I max Deacon. I choose this build because I don't want to miss anything. The play style assumes maxing affinity with piper, deacon, and gage first while using every opportunity to get xp and explore (locks and terminals). Once you hit 34, max INT and idiot savant, use the special book on INT, then go get the bobble head to set INT at 12. From here, focus on silenced weapons. Perks I never get now, after over 1000 hours, include: anything in endurance (including Chem resistant-- pointless), lone wanderer (because I'm always leveling a companion), demolition expert (I used to farm the shotgun, no longer need to), nuclear physicist, and scrounger/ fortune finder (the points are best spent elsewhere). One of my favorite perks is chemist: jet fuel, overdrive, berry mentats for 24 min (or more with the chest mod) when idiot savant 3 triggers? Yes please.

[@torsten381]

Thanks for the positive, constructive, and instructive tutorial. It's nice to watch a KZbin video that focuses on the games we love, while avoiding the protest pandering other sites now rely on (the protests are real, much of the pandering to it appears to be a trend to milk drama for every drop it's worth. And no, haven't purchased '76 and don't plan too buy it any more than I would delete Skyrim or FO4.

[@pomponioval]

Thanks for staying current 😀

[@billcox8870]

I'm at level 117 and I started the game in survival mode. I started with 10 endurance for maximum HP every time I leveled up. I went for Life giver and solar powered as soon as they were possible.

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

I think if you are doing stealth melee and not planning on maxing our every stat 9 agility to get blitz makes landing sneak attacks without getting spotted by other enemies way way easier. Though crit basher due to bashing eventually getting a crit chance outside of vats is hilarious.

[@zooner1350]

Another awesome video! 👌

[@christopherconard2831]

Charisma is most useful for settlements and companions. Building settlements without local leader is a pain in the ass. Linking your settlements also means you don't have to remember what you put where when you are trying to upgrade weapons and armor, or make chems. Inspirational opens a lot of options with companions, if you choose to use them. You can give them more powerful weapons and explosives without the fear of being shot in the back.

[@marshallbeck9101]

Not knowing where specific weapons is brutal especially on survival, local leader is a must for me which is annoying because I really don’t like having to invest 5 points into charisma

[@agikai_]

4 > 76

[@Moriibund419]

NV> 3> 4> 76.... Anyone else see a trend?

[@Himenton]

@@Moriibund419 2 > 1 > NV > 3 > 4 > 76 #orthodoxy

[@vpgnto]

4 > fuck the rest

[@assasinon1209]

4 is above all other fallout games solely because of the blade runner Easter egg. Is that you Deckard?

[@codiwawi911]

NV > 3 > 1 > 4 > 2 > 76

[@geomodelrailroader]

here is what I do STR set at 4 get Armorer and Blacksmith so you can craft. Perception set at 5 get all the perks Endurance set at 2 take Toughness Charisma set at 6 get Local Leader and Cap Collector the rest of the perks are junk. Intelligence set at 6 to get you started take all the perks except VANS AGI set at 3 take all the perks, and Luck set at 4 you don't need Idiot Savant don't listen to Jeff or Polecat their advice is bad and does not work for Post COVID Fallout.

[@Blackwidow-qj7bl]

I like what your doing

[@doteejay9729]

Very helpful. Thank you Puma!

[@YourBoyNobody530]

So, I would personally dump agility, and drop luck down to 3 putting the points into strength to get the strong back perk then putting the your special book into charisma to get the lone wanderer perk.

[@Johnmichaelmoore2359]

Great video thanks mate 😁👍

[@thesaucylorax]

I think I (on my first account which is my only one so far) didn't know what to do with the special because I hadn't played before and didn't know what the benefits were besides the ones that were the same from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, so I went with 4 of each. I am still paying the price for that.

[@i_love_crpg]

I love your video. I think timestamps would be a life saver if i wana revisit certain parts of the video with ease

[@miguelmata4557]

S: 3 (Armorer fixes low carry weight) P: 4 (I just can't play without Locksmith) E: 1 (Perks are hot trash in here) C: 6 (Why is Local Leader that high!?) I: 6 (Science! To mass produce Purified Water) A: 3 (I hate mines so...) L: 5 (Idiot Savant) With the You're SPECIAL! point into either STR for Blacksmith, PER for Demolitions Expert or INT for Chemist...

[@leeman27534]

me, i like s 3: same p 3: bobblehead is like 20 mins away. e 1: same c 3: tbh, local leader's kinda nice, but i've got other shit to worry about first, i'm fine with having one base of operations, till i've got enough perks to be a badass and can waste some on special and branching out more. i 4: gun nut's a must, hacker's nice too. not as useful as locksmith, sure, but eh. later, will put a point in int, + bobblehead for science. a 7: i want pretty much everything but commando and moving target ASAP here. l 7: like the crit stuff too, with 7 i can't get grim reaper's sprint, but i could get the bobblehead pretty much as soon as i et a hazmat coat, as its on an island. soon as i find the first river, hazmat suit, jump in, swim to the island. probably put the extra point in luck, because four leaf clover's good too, and can get grim reaper's sprint ASAP as well. mess with gunslinger at first, later branch out into rifleman, keep filling up the sneak/ninja/sandman and crit banker/better criticals/sprint/four leaf clover when i can, hell that even works for melee too.

[@greeny3382]

I usually run high int and endurance with some perception and go with a laser/plasma weapon build

[@chasebeasley7656]

Luv your vids

[@justarandomotaku1363]

I prefer intelligence charisma builds personally so that is normally where I put my stat points

[@redscrubkilleryt657]

I love fallout 4

[@fatherelijah7088]

I love fallout 4 too!!!!!!

[@FredDurst00]

One thing I don't think was mentioned is how endurance affects the amount of hp you gain per level. I set END and INT to 10 with luck to 4. Get idiot savant asap and bam, you've got yourself a ramp character.

[@Skjeggspir]

Idiot savant is a wasted perk, because you can always grind up an extra level and use the perk point for something that actually makes you stronger. And having it with 10 intelligence is even more braindead, it’s just a noob mistake. Each level you gain without making your character stronger will actually make you weaker, since the foes level up and get stronger each time you level up.

[@Jess1Dude]

David Lilleøren I’m interested in what you’re saying and would like to know what you’d recommend for starting a sneaky sniper or sneaky stabby character?

[@leeman27534]

@@Jess1Dudeeh, tbh perks are plentiful. not that big a deal. for sneaky sniper, imo starting out with something like 3 str, 3 per, end 1, cha 1, int 3, agi 6, luck7, 4 extra(put wherever you want a few more points at, like int or if you really want cha 3 for lone wanderer fast) isn't a bad idea. focus on these skills, roughly, locksmith, sneak, ninja, action boy, gunslinger, gun nut, sandman, better crits, crit banker, grim reaper's sprint. you can aim to get the luck, agi, int bobbleheads relatively early (perception's literally in the first 20 mins, hence why at 3 despite lockpicking being 4) luck basically is gettable as soon as you get a radiation suit, the agi bobblehead's right nearby that, but might be a little too hard to actually get for a few levels. the int might be also a little longer, but not too much, and tbh you could get nick early to make up for no hacking ASAP, you've still got gun nut at 3 int. gunslinger early on will let you use a variety of weapons easily available early, i personally like to use all three pipe weapons, with silencers as pistols, given they've got different ammo types and they're light, easily available and moddable, early on. later, you can change it up for rifleman ranks, and switch to sniper rifles. luck and its perks aren't absolutely required, if you want to play it more like a FPS and ignore VATS, but nigh 100% accuracy, 3X crit dmg, and being able to stockpile faster, and keep more crits onhand at once, is really nice if wanting to use crits as a potential 'touched by god' shot sort of thing. and tbh there's still quite a few levels to raise your SPECIAL stats if you want to branch out to other stuff, as well, like upgrading perception for the last 3 perks, getting the cehmist and chem resistant stuff, upgrading int for science, nuclear physicist, agi for gun fu (though tbh, concetrated fire's probably more useful. lot of these fights you might be downing enemies instantly, not have enough AP to get off more than like 4 shots with your weapon, like a gauss rifle, and lots of situations without 4+ foes within shooting range) ========================== SNEAKY STABBY lot of the same, really, sneak build wants lots of agi, luck can be optional, pass over mister sandman, too, melee weapons don't count as silenced. just wants more str, too. early on want enough str for blacksmith, so you can mod melee weapons, and instead of gunslinger, want either iron fist or big leauges, as well as just 'more damage'. pickman's blade is a broken good melee weapon, as a knife it's got lower dmg, but its fast as hell, plus it has a wounding effect, which is a DOT trait that DOESN'T get erased, unlike incendiary, at 35 bleed dmg, and bleed pierces defenses, so 3 hits of 35 bleed dmg will to over 100 dmg to anything, raider, power armor, fog crawler, in 5 seconds. powerful, str independent weapon. even has a bonus to sneaking. later might have you upgrading str to 9 to get rooted (50% more Dr/melee dmg while standing still, works even with VATS) and more melee dmg in general, and agi to 9 to get blitz, in where, the range you can melee target foes in vats is vastly increased, and you get a bonus dmg for how far you traveled. added bonus, you 'teleport' basically, so you get rooted's effect even if you had to blitz to a foe. and melee works with crit focused build, too. once you get to 4 sneak, you can actually wear power armor if you want, without it messing up your sneaking, for the added str boost as well.

[@brodybarlow6156]

you're pretty good

[@bolg892]

Hey man, love your videos! Could you make more Fallout 3 and 4 theory videos? I have a suggestion: "What happened to the Talon Mercenary Company?"

[@bolg892]

OR "Who are the Talon Company working for?"

[@hazzard1983]

Don't forget the military backpack which gives you an extra carry weight

[@leeman27534]

that's creation club BS. besides, power armor gives more carry weight too.

[@hazzard1983]

Ex: backpack carrying (depending on your build) 350lbs you get into power armor im 20-30 pounds over carrying limit. It's good bs

[@leeman27534]

@@hazzard1983 to be fair, i wasn't knocking the idea of the item, just creation club. its literally basically just mods you can pay to use without messing up trophies.

[@silentsixteen]

This is why I can't play without the Be Exceptional mod.

[@hellgeist_]

Nice video! You're talking about 'career Fallout 4 players' with this one, with the assumption that replays are going to happen. That being the case, I think your pivotal argument about Intelligence should be somewhat revised. According to actual nuclear physicists who play this game, a fusion core would never run out of power operating a single suit of power armor within one user's lifetime. They've even done the math, which you can look up in the comments section in one of the F4 mods that eliminates fusion core decay. Because of this - unless I want to play a character who is an actual scientist - for the purpose of added realism/immersion, I never push Int to 9 just to take the nuclear physicist skill for fear of running out of juice. Whatever character type you choose, that mod should be considered essential for F4 and factor into one's usual stat decisions.

[@fabiomoreira1506]

I NEED to have 6 inteligence to get science and get my fully upgraded Laser Musket. XD

[@leeman27534]

get 5, get the int bobblehead.

[@Fix2k24]

4 years later and im back

[@Anonymous247n]

Power armour is clumsy and requires way too much upkeep & repairs. I never bother with it.

[@bingbonk7125]

If u use t50 u would be able to carry most of the supplies needed for upkeep and xo1 or t60 offer high durability and you can make a few trips to a location loot and return to ur settlement of choice and have enough to easily repair the armour and u dont need to repair it until its broken so not to much upkeep unless ur a stealth heavy guy or u use fast mele weapons power armour is a great advantage over your opisistion. On my current playthrough my guy feels like a level 1 without my T60 tesla armour

[@nanoqht285]

I May not be subbed but i am pretty early.

[@overl0ad_x762]

Plz do another how to get back ur interest in fo4 vid puma, plz I’m begging

[@jacobkeegan721]

I have a question; does the scrap/store resource glitch become more effective with the rank 3 "Scrapper" perk...? If so, would that combination result in gaining more resources (from scrapping the item) than you lose from building the item...?

[@jackstill3503]

Thanks for the video. I have a silly question. Does the two shot legendary effect have the desired effect with the rifleman perk? My logic being the extra projectile being listed and nullifying the perk on the weapon. Thanks

[@leilaumfleet5022]

The effect has no effect on the perk.

[@christopherconard2831]

The second bullet does base damage. So, if I understand the question, no, it doesn't do an additional 20/40/60/80/100% damage as Rifleman increases.

[@jackstill3503]

Thanks for the reply, I noticed how good it is. I found a pipe rifle on a radroach with the effect.

[@christopherconard2831]

The Rifleman/Gunslinger perk does increase bonus damage with some legendary effects. With the plasma legendary effect I believe the base is an additional 15 points per shot. With those maxed out, the appropriate weapons will do an extra 30/shot.

[@leeman27534]

@@christopherconard2831 afaik, the 'second bullet' that is added IS affected by rifleman, like a weapon that deals 30 base dmg, unmodded should do 60 with two shot. with mods that make the weapon damage go to 46, it'd do (46+30)/2, for 38 dmg/projectile. with rifleman maxed, and unmodded rifle that does 30 with two shot should do 60/60 per projectile, as perks work on legendary effects, too. but, modding the weapon to do that (92+60)/2 = 76 is still double dmg. interestingly enough, if you equip a mod that lowers the damage from its base, the 'added' damage from two shot actually makes it more than double. like, say, you also had commando at 5, giving automatics 100% dmg, go from 30 to 24 but vastly increasing the fire rate, it'd be (24+30)/2, 27, instead of two shots of 24. so that's kinda cool. also, that's why explosive is so insane, barring that it's also a slight AOE and on each projectile for shotguns. its modified by gun damage boosts, generally, as well as explosive boosts, to IIRC 75 dmg per shot/projectile/whatever. though, still prefer wounding. can't fucking kill myself with wounding, and i like that it pierces enemy defenses, unlike two shot. or instigating, on something with really high base dmg, like my gauss rifle.

[@retroambassador2945]

In rarely use more than 1 endurance. I prefer to max out perception and agility first then strength and luck.

[@billcox8870]

Endurance affects the amount of HP you get every time you level up. Max solar powered at 10 will restore HP and flush out RADS in the Sun.

[@phoniexcrow6520]

I dont really use vats but I like to rp that vats is in power armor

[@vovasyhin7219]

PS: Didn't know that Grim Reapers Spirit was SPRINT up till now! I mean the perk makes more sense if it was SPIRIT and NOT SPRINT!

[@nolgroth]

It's called Grim Reaper's Sprint because you can keep refreshing your Action Points and thus keep killing. Eventually, it will fail to proc and you'll have to let your AP recover naturally. Like a sprinter having to catch his breath after a race.

[@TheGamingBurglar]

If I boost my intelligence to full, how does that effect my levels? Like XP???

[@justinisenberg1841]

In my game I can have 10 in any stat then lower it by using alcohol or addictions, then use the SPECIAL book bringing it up to 11, then get the bobble head to bring it up to 12, The bobble head will stack onto a SPECIAL stat that's at 11. Is it not the same for other players ?

[@billcox8870]

For me the special book did not raise my stat above 10 but the bobbleheads do raise it. In my non survival mode game all my base stats are 11.

[@justinisenberg1841]

@@billcox8870 Yep, you need to get drug addictions to lower your SPECIAL stats lower than 10 then use the SPECIAL book to bring it to 10. Cure the addiction and it brings it to 11 then get the bobble head which brings it to 12.

[@Sankhretseul]

Is this a bug? Or do drug addicts become well rounded people after they break their addiction?

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

I like having not too high intelligence as double barrel shotguns can be situationally better then combat shotguns one with never ending two with crit damage due to the sawed off barrel meaning getting your hands on as many chances for a legendary double barrel in the early levels is a good idea.

[@bob8014]

At the start of my playthroughs I like to have max charisma and intelligence. I just love being able to pass every charisma check and I also love peveling up faster. This just means that I can hold literally nothing for like an hour which is kinda of annoying but other than that I feel way happier running this. I normally don’t even think about the perks when thinking about this xD

[@kaii3170]

A fallout 4 video? Whaaaaaaat

[@Skjeggspir]

Getting 10 or 11 Endurance is the most important long term plan, since the life you gain scales according to your level.

[@leeman27534]

unless you're sneaking or using power armor, given you're not gonna be getting hit a lot/have insane defenses anyway. hell, i've used endurance often as a dump stat, because most of the skills in it suck. about the only one i sorta like is the rad resist, because even a little bit of base rad resistance is kinda nice.

[@Skjeggspir]

@@leeman27534 even when sneaking and using power armor, after level 60-70-80 you get huge life boosts for every point in Endurance, it's just too powerful to ignore at that point.

[@leeman27534]

@@Skjeggspir eh, sure you can. hell, health can be a nonissue with sneaking, period. if it's unnecessary, it's easily ignored, no matter how good it might be. it might be too powerful for YOU to ignore, but my level 80 dude's still only got like i think 6 endurance, and that's entirely for +30 natural rad resist. i didn't give a fuck about more health. if rad resist was at 2, i'd never have put a point in endurance. clearly i can ignore it just fine. though, sure, at level 60+, likely as not your build is sorta 'done', you've maxed a lot of the pertinent skills so there's plenty of points left over to put wherever, might as well increase survivability, but again, it's not even a priority.its just, might as well, at least it'll be useful for me in some manner, sort of thing. if you're not a sneaker, sure, it'll be more helpful, power armor's a hell of a defense, but you're still taking hits and shit. so more health is nice. and of course, less armor, more important it is, other than when you're just never getting seen period.

[@Skjeggspir]

@@leeman27534 even if you use zero of the endurance perks, you get so much extra health that you just gimp your character if you leave it below 10. At level 100 you more than double your HP for just the stat points.

[@leeman27534]

@@Skjeggspir its still not needed in any way. so your character is hardly 'gimped'. i can have 1 endurance to level 200, doesn't fucking matter really. my sneak character's not getting shot. at all. but by then, there's little else to spend points on anyway, so around level 55, might as well start raising endurance for an eye to the future.

[@Stella_Technicus]

I thought the glitch with the SPECIAL book was fixed for a long time so that you can not get over 10 anymore by breaking it down with alcohol or chems.

[@justinisenberg1841]

Not on my game it isn't.

[@percyknight3700]

Is it possible to get top 8 (I think) power armor list?

[@leeman27534]

... are there even 8 actually different tiers of power armor? besides, we all know the top tier, X-01 power armor.

[@Kobayashi-zd7tv]

5:13 hit or miss

[@chasehale4784]

I'm sorry 76 sucked so badly. At least your making the best of it and making good content. Keep it up

[@cosmiccowboy9358]

I like to pick stats based off role play and I stop picking new perks around level 40-50 I like having strengths and weaknesses makes for more challenging gameplay

[@beano2689]

Bro I swear the brand stole our names

[@filypefx]

the thing is not getting all to 11 (fallout 3 god mode +) it's.. what is the best stat to get 12 (or more dont remember)?

[@leeman27534]

probably depends on you. maybe STR if using melee, as melee dmg is based on str, luck if going VATS/critical build, as it'll fill the crit meter faster, end for a little extra health per level, maybe agi for slightly more AP, other than that, most of the other stuff's negligible. 3% more exp, eh, just go kill/build/quest more, iirc perception slightly increases VATS acc but eh, charisma at 11 guarantees 100% talking stuff already...

[@TheRoguePrince0]

Use the dog meat glitch and get all 10 at level one

[@lleer00na.79]

Explain?

[@TheRoguePrince0]

@@lleer00na.79 its patched but you can still do it if you have the disc version(not game of the year) you just have to delete the game and reinstall it offline

[@christopherconard2831]

@@TheRoguePrince0 I have the GOTY edition. It still works. But you are correct about doing it before adding any DLC or patches. Remove any past history, then start a new character. Then go online to continue with whatever you need there.

[@TheRoguePrince0]

@@christopherconard2831 i didn't know it worked with the game of the year version

[@phoniexcrow6520]

I play as a jack of all trades build,got any tips and tricks on how to start with it?

[@Iamdisguised]

Phoniex crow intelligence and maybe endurance because I’ve found that starting as a sniper is kind of hard so i would get perception after you get a good sniper melee is good with strength but probably start with a knife like pickman’s blade when you get automatic weapons should probably try to get up to commando 5 which if you have nuka world will be great with splattercannon which is also a very good sniper plus keep working up your money to get throatslicer also level your sneak for melee and suppressed weapons like the deliverer and charisma for lone wanderer if you don’t want much companions except for their perks like porter gage’s perk which is great

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

Phoniex crow well bloody mess is the increase all weapon damage perk so invest some into luck.

[@leeman27534]

a sneak/crit build goes a long way. basically, something like 7 agi/8 luck (doesn't need to start there, can go get bobbleheads and whatnot) works for a lot of things. early on could go gunslinger for all the silenced handguns, later branch into commando or rifleman for more powerful stuff, long as it has a silencer, its good. even melee is great with a sneak build, don't even need high str given 10X multiplier makes even meh melee weapons tend to be stronger than base guns. past that, enough int for gun nut, maybe 3 perception + early bobblehead to get lockpicking, 3 str for armorer at least, probably end/cha as dump stats, and still got some points left over to round stuff out, like maybe 3 perception for lone wanderer. basically, sneak build can work with everything but energy weapons (as they can't be silenced) and heavy weapons (ditto), once you're level 25 or so and you've got sneak 4, you can even use power armor no problem.

[@kye4216]

if you want the best xp gain just take int 2 and luck 5 thats all you need

[@g3synth205]

Luck 5 for Idiot Savant, I presume.

[@fatherelijah7088]

Puma do you know a glich to level up from 56 to 80?

[@leeman27534]

just keep making shit at the settlement. could possibly dupe wood and just make a shit ton of fence posts. my go-to is to dupe the materials to make molotov cocktails, and just craft them endlessly. no needing to move, scrap stuff once i run out of room, and you can sell them in bulk if you don't want like 1k cocktails. to dupe building materials, pull them from the workshop. drop them on the ground, go to the build state, hover over them. iirc, on ps4, square is to scrap, circle is to wtore, and x is to accet in those options. basically, while hovering over say, a stack of 20 wood, you'll press square, then x, then circle within like half a second, it'll scrap the item and bring up the store menu while its still registering there's an item there, essentially 'scraping' the 20 wood (for 20 wood resource) and storing the 20 wood, giving you 40. withdraw it for the workshop, drop it, it'll drop in two stacks of 20, can pick them up and they'll stack to one of 40, if not, you might dupe both and have even more separate stacks. can even do this with other junk items, like say, a pencil. done correctly, you'd break down the pencil to its parts, as well as adding a pencil to the stash. even with one item, doing it ten times gives a thousand back. if duping cocktails, maybe build a container close enough to the crafting station to be able to dump them into without any trouble, though you could just put them in the crafting station to store them in the workshop.

[@fatherelijah7088]

@@leeman27534 Thx man

[@leeman27534]

@@fatherelijah7088 np. i actually mentioned this on another video he had, but making like building objects (i.e. fenceposts, statues, etc) gives exp, but you're gonna get to a point where you can't build anymore, and you're gonna have to erase them all manually as well. far better to just make molotov cocktails or something that's got a low perk requirement and just costs building resources that are easily dupable.

[@unciclistaenbuenosaires8287]

Retaking fo4 after years, this video show me how wrong my build was years ago ffs 🤣🤣💔

[@djuraster]

note that Puma is PA fan, for the rest of us - this allocation is questionable

[@alimohsin496]

How does your game look so smooth on Xbox?

[@sike5759]

Good monitor

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

Also power armor at least early is terrible for stealth. Too noisy.

[@leeman27534]

eh, early your stealth sucks anyway. i found sneaking around only got good around level 14 or so. by then, you should be able to get like rank 2 in stealth, near rank 2 in stuff that actually makes sneaking useful too, as well as fully shadowed equipment, presumably. tbh power armor's terrible for stealth till sneak is level 4, when weight no longer affects noise. another bad thing is, it eliminates all the shadowed bonuses on your armor.

[@ultimaterecoil1136]

leeman27534 well blitz can carry you early on with a stealth build if you pick your fights wisely. Blitz in for a crit sneak attack to one shot a boss then now that the strongest opponent is gone your chances rise quite noticeably. You cannot sneak attack one shot every enemy in a group and walking up to them will also let them know you are there. But blitz gives you at least one melee sneak attack which is nearly impossible otherwise. If Preston sends you to the ironworks early you aren’t going to get that settlement unless you somehow find a fat man early enough and go to the cannery first and get all the healing items there. So when I do stealth builds I kinda wait a while to go get Preston so that when he does send me to the ironworks to kill Forbes I’m ready.

[@marquesbledsoe4343]

Why does he sound like Kermit the Frog

[@deviouscat4571]

You won KZbin xDDDDD

[@jordank5551]

You get more xp being low int for the savant bonus. 2 int is the magic number.

[@YourBoyNobody530]

I almost never go above 7 charisma because inspiration isn't that good, and pacifying enemies is only useful for pacifist runs. Additionally, you never need more than 16 charisma because that is the cap on improved bartering.

[@TheGunmac10]

This is wrong you cannot level up past 60 much if it all . By level 55(vats builds will take a bit longer) you should have all the suitable for your build perks and past that you cannot make yourself any stronger however enemies will therefore investing in int makes the window when both you and your foes level up shorter and past that you will be becoming weaker against them for instance you cannot increase damage you deal with rifleman past level 46 BUT you foes will have more health when you reach lvl 100 cause they match your level .There are ways to increase your combat effectiveness with chems and alcohol(chem resistant+ chemist ,party boy) or stealth but its more of changing your playstyle rather than becoming straight up stronger which is exactly what your opponents will be doing ( more health + more damage + more resistances ) .It looks like the game was designed around level cap 60-70 but then that idea was dropped to appear to a bigger audience of casuals as well as probably many other great ideas and mechanics .

[@Skjeggspir]

I got one char past level 100. Armed with a jet-enhanced baseball bat, she still one-shot kills every foe with sneak/blitz/ninja. That build really makes the game pushover easy.

[@TheGunmac10]

@@Skjeggspir yeah that would work, and that would be probably one of the most expensive in terms of perks builds to make(agil + luck+str) there is also ag+luck+per for vats sniper or whatever, but the original version of the build you described uses a knife(cutlass) because more hits more dead enemies so you can clean the whole room in one go and you will find yourself not being able to do that(with a knife) pretty soon because the damage output is too low for some foes. Thats an expensive build and it takes longer to make but still npcs will be growing and you have already stopped.The point is you are getting weaker because enemies level up with you and get straight damage and health upgrades and you don't really get any more raw damage past lvl ~50

[@leeman27534]

@@TheGunmac10 eh, not like you need a whole lot most of the time. 98% of the foes in the game can't withstand a sneaking gauss rifle shot. and its not even the health so much, as it is the resistances. 1k health doesn't matter nearly as much as like 300 DR. and that basically boils down to, like only 2% of foes require more than one hit, with some endgame builds. and i still killed a fog crawler with the kiloton radium rifle in like 4 seconds. you're more than likely, broken as shit for 99% of the game at 50, levels past that just let them get a little closer. between endgame viability via perks, having a 'build' set up that's probably somewhat overpowered as shit, being able to farm things like an instigating gauss rifle, exploding minigun/shotgun, getting the final judgement, kiloton radium rifle, spray and pray, any number of other potential weapons and melee weapons, insane defenses from either end game armor/ballistic weave, or just power armoring it up, or even sneaking for like 4X dmg just on top of all your other weapon boosts/perks, chems potentially like doubing your offensive power against a particularly tough foe, etc, as well as content kinda running low if you're at like level 50 and hadn't been abusing crafting stuff for exp, is that really that big a deal?

[@Johnmichaelmoore2359]

I put 10 in Charisma or 7 & 10 intelligents. Then rest in agility or luck

[@desmondjones7643]

Why not just get 10 intelligence off the bat rather than 9?

[@chillgreg]

Love your videos, but can you please turn off the blur behind the text, it is disconcerting and takes away from the immersion while watching. Thanks!

[@custume]

rooted and pain train is crap, sure might be good for a melee build or a power armor build but anything else is crap. Awareness and demolition expert are also crap, sure you can use the demolition but if you don't use grenades or explosive ammo there is no need for that perk Rifleman is the best perk, the sniper is also nice, lone wanderer is great if you play alone (no companion). If you have the rifleman you don't need the commando (and vice versa), lead belly is crap because you can add a food cleaner in he power armor I never seen any use to robot expert, sure you kill robots better but if you have rifle high you don't really need it. How do you get 12 on intelligent ? is the science book and the bobblehead ?? The life giver perk is just to spend perks

[@alexfehr2990]

5th

[@Drakoako]

2024 still goint

[@bodyyou]

A couple years late don't you think

[@cosmiccowboy9358]

Obviously not 3k views in about 3 hours go back to your Fort Night

[@hazzard1983]

Alot of us are still enjoying playing this game

[@flatbat13]

So am I the only one who dumps all their points into strength endurance agility and Intellegence and fucks off with the rest of it?

[@fatherelijah7088]

Try to get better camera

[@SMFDYH]

First

[@nolansloan1254]

he does not know what he talking about because he says it a lot of his vids he calls low lev guns calling them bad but they are early game not ment for high levs

[@thedirtygrandpa.]

360p gang

[@tozzman5478]

720p60 gang

[@Broncos652]

Life giver.. fairly decent? Wow. Garbage perk. Also, cap collector a decent perk??

[@leeman27534]

eh, to be fair, i guess the regen on survival would be nice. and it'd only be a 3 end requirement.

[@loganfulcher8397]

When are you going to start on Fallout 76 you been doing Fallout 4 since the beginning there's nothing left for you Explorer you're basically doing every video over and over and over

[@tomtheconqerur]

What's the point of this when stats don't matter in this game

[@leeman27534]

i mean, matters to some degree. mostly perks, sure, but someone using VATS a lot will want higher perception/agi, melee weapons str, etc. besides, probably the point is just to give him something to do.

[@MrPapageorgio]

When will you address The Jewish Question? This is my 18th petition.

[@divergentlife493]

This is absolutely horrible. Well not totally. At least some of the information is helpful. However, saying "Intelligence is the most important" is just completely and utterly incorrect. You should not even be putting points into Int, but have to if you want to do gun modding? They screwed the system up with this game. And Intelligence is the only stat that is not a real stat. It is an exp adjustment. First of all, there should never be any sort of exp alteration for any game. Exp should always be rewarded in the same way across the board as part of progression for activities in the game that are all set in stone. All independent and equal for all character builds. This applies to any and all RPGs. There should never be anything that boosts exp gain. And typically it is reasonable to temporarily diminish exp gain for specific effects such as death or illness. So as to reflect the condition in the progression of the character. But Nothing permanent here. There should never be anything that affects exp which is the basis for character progression. The only thing I can think of for affecting exp rate is from a difficulty setting that boosts progression for easier modes. This is pretty much why intelligence is not a real attribute in this game. Because it affects exp gain. So for example, you have 21 points that you can distribute into six legitimate stats. Obviously, every point distributed will improve the overall power/effectiveness of the character. Spending less points than 21 into the various stats will make the character less powerful in general, than spending more points. Therefore, to make the most of the character, it's a good idea to distribute all 21 points. However, you do have the option of not spending up to 9 of the points. Therefore, it's possible to spend only 12 points into the stats. As mentioned, spending less points will make the character weaker. However, for each point you don't spend into an attribute, you will gain exp boost of 3% to balance things out. This is because intelligence is not a real attribute. All it does is give a boost in exp for each point that is not spent into a real attribute that actually has a real effect on improving your character. This is so beyond absurd that it really screws up how good this system could have been.

[@sippdaddy101]

First

[@psychez4256]

Not first