Survival Tips And Tricks For The Gen Update - Fallout 4

[@fallout4myth940]

Unfortunately, Fallout 4's latest gen update only fixed a small fraction of bugs that have plagued the base game for many years. Keep the unofficial fallout 4 patch mod in mind for the near future. if you play console, be mindful that fallout patch may not work too effectively.

[@ErosXCaos]

My *_TOP TIPS_* (especially _Survival Mode_ )---> --> _Codsworth_ is available as a companion without first needing to free *Preston.* Simply enter _Concord_ far enough that Preston and the Raiders start fighting, return to Sanctuary, and he can be hired. Taking him along to free *Preston* can give some _affinity boosts._ _Codsworth_ will give you a Purified Water on a continual basis just by talking with him, making him a solid companion for _Survival Players._ --> *_Need Caps?_* Stop at nearby *Abernathy Farm,* under the Power Pylon. Grab the 9 Melons, then speak with the daughter _Lucy._ Keep picking the top dialogue choice about caps as currency. This will trigger an Easy speech check, and she will offer to buy Melons for 5 caps instead of 3. She can buy every Melon you have, on an ongoing basis, which can be lucrative if you turn Sanctuary into a Melon farm. However, if you make the Farm a settlement, she stops buying them. --> *_Survival Players,_* besides planting *Tato,* *Mutfruit* and *Corn* for _Adhesive,_ plant *Razorgrain.* Cook *1 Razorgrain /1 Dirty Water* to make rad-free _Noodle Cups._ They lower thirst one level, and hunger half a level, _and weighs the same as Water!_ Check wandering vendor _Trashcan Carla_ and _Trudy at Drumlin Diner,_ South of Concord. Or find randomly as loot. --> *_Weapon and Armor modifications_* can be _stripped and swapped_ onto your better gear. You can _remove armor mods_ for free, but you will have to _build a new gun mod_ from components. Even without Gun Nut, you can build the base level gun mod, which will put the previously attached modification into your inventory, and put onto your new hotness. --> _Survival Players_ should build *15 more water supply than they have settlers,* minimum. This will accumulate extra water from the Workshop *every day,* so take it out store it separately in another container. New Purified Water will be added every day *_if_* there’s little to no water already in the workshop. If you build a large enough water purification operation, a huge amount can get added daily. Use this for your travels, or stockpile, and sell the surplus. --> _Survival Mode_ features *Diseases,* acquired numerous ways. You can take *Antibiotics,* visit a *Doctor,* or *Wait* until they go away eventually. Each disease has _different durations,_ lasting from *2-7 days.* The most debilitating are _Weakness_ (receive +20% damage), and _Infection_ (take damage over time, though it won’t kill you, will leave you with a sliver of health). These two diseases take *2.5 days* to go away. Find something safe to do, like decorating Sanctuary, or sleep it off. Sleeping causes a _disease check,_ so you might get sick again, but anything is better than Weakness or Infection. *Early game,* when resources are tight, you might be better off saving Antibiotics just in case for the debilitating diseases, and living with the others until they go away. -->Want to play _Survival Mode,_ but aren’t sure what starting SPECIAL to use? I’ve found the first 10-12 levels to be the hardest, and it’s worth going for strong combat skills first, and then flesh out your build. *Melee Builds,* get _Rooted_ (STR9) and _Blitz_ (AGI9) immediately. *9,1,4,3,1,9,1* _(Book END)._ *VATS Guns,* get _Penetrator_ (PER9) and _Concentrated Fire_ (PER10). *1,9,3,3,3,7,2* _(Book AGI)._ You’ll get the *Perception Bobblehead* when you free Preston, so have a point saved, and put into Concentrated Fire mid-rescue. --> _Survival Mode_ players should seriously consider not using Power Armor. _Swimming_ is Survival’s Fast Travel. You’ll get around much faster and safer. *_Aquaboy/girl perk_* will save you a ton of time! Without spoiling, the game gives you a quick means of crossing the map as you do the main story, if you dabble with the *Brotherhood of Steel* . --> _New Players:_ *Idiot Savant* isn’t a good choice for first timers. Enemies scale with you. You need to have good gear to survive, and easy and fast XP can leave you without enough time to explore and find good gear before the bad guys start hitting even harder. *You’ll get plenty of levels, faster than you think, even at 1 INT.* Growing powerful isn’t only a matter of levels. Having 1 INT will give you plenty of time to find what you need to survive. *You’ll be stronger if you have great gear when you pop your next level* . Take it easy, don’t rush, go slow, and you’ll be better for it. --> _Pass every speech check_ with *11 CHR,* 100%! Low CHR builds, don’t fret: assemble a 3-piece _CHR set of clothes._ *Hat/glasses/suit,* for _+4._ Most *Alcohol* adds _+1._ Find *Daytripper* _+3._ Better yet, craft *Grape Mentats* at a Chemistry Station _+5._ There’s other ways, but with these, that’s a +13 buff already. *Bonus!* Your companion will come to your side and stay there if you crouch.

[@fallout4myth940]

That's some solid advice. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@ricksanchez7851]

This is great. I’m a longtime fallout player. And I may even come back to read this. Only thing I see that I do differently is I avoid Preston completely and never go save him or anything because his missions bore me 😂

[@MolnarG007]

I have started my first Survivor playthrough. The reddit map showing all beds is super useful. I have grabbed the sniper gun from the Cambridge Rocket Station roof, collected the turret hack from the cemetary and next will be the Protectron hack from the Wattz shop. I like planning ahead. For example i think swimming is so recommended i will go to the Polymer labs to do that fun mission and get the hazmat suit. Already friended Covenant for doctor, water near. (and a combat gun at the caravan) Then i will get Greygarden, planning taking a protectron to the water treatment plant, and also starting the Brotherhood Arcjet mission so Paladin Danse will be on the road to fall back to. Hope i can clear the outside, like this, do Arcjet, and later the inside of the water treatment plant will be easier with the turrets not disabled but active aiming only those nasty Mirelurks. Will bring some landmines too, collected around Cambridge. Having 2 settlement by the water, doctor, hazmat suit i hope i have better chances, later buy the Overseers guardian too. I have questions, will post it separately might be intresting not only for me.

[@fallout4myth940]

This is a well thought out route. Very nice!

[@Underliningsquare]

Consoles mods don’t suck it’s just ps4 mods that suck

[@fallout4myth940]

Tbh I have no idea being on PC and all

[@fallout4myth940]

@@AG-ur1lj ah I see. Thanks for the explanation. I haven't owned a console for over a decade!

[@pirateylass]

You can bypass the companion carry limit with all but Dogmeat by directing them to pick up items on the ground or containers. This doesn’t work with Dogmeat since telling him to pick items up has him bring them to you and dropping the item on the floor.

[@fallout4myth940]

Thats correct! I actually used it on my fusion cell farm at arc jet

[@davidnealy6459]

Sort of true if it is a multi-stackable item say like caltrops, he will pick up all of them except 1 which he will bring to you. So, craft 400 caltrops and he will take 399 and drop the 1 at your feet as a example.

[@davidnealy6459]

Also put some gear on him early goggles and collar and when it says he can no longer carry anymore unequipping those items and reequipping them allows you to carry a little more it's not limitless but in my testing, it seems to allow dog meat to carry a bit more.

[@Cricket0021]

honestly, if they fix the cars randomly killing you if you bump into them i'd be happy. i'm a survival only enjoyer. oh and if they also fix the cambridge BoS mission where if you clear all the ghouls, sometimes danse is still in combat and won't progress the quest any further. i needs my vertibird grenades in my survival playthroughs

[@fallout4myth940]

The car bug is pretty significant I think pretty much everyone has fallen victim to it. Tbh theres just too many essential bugs and it's practically luck not coming across some of these lol. At least on PC you have console commands to force progression when an npc gets stuck but console players are screwed

[@woody1633]

This happened to me yesterday. Rubbed up against a car and dropped dead.

[@Wolverine-ky9gk]

My biggest problem with survival mode is only saving in a bed. I dont like playing with mods, but if im traveling the commonwealth in survival mode and my game crashes i have to redo the progress that i lost

[@fallout4myth940]

So sad but true. I think we've all experienced game crashes and loss of progress st some point. I just learned to save frequently regardless of debuffs. A mod to allow you to save is not a bad thing

[@MinosML]

Yeah same here, random bugs, CTDs or even getting one-shotted from a random NPC from a mile away was getting a bit too much on my nerves even if I was totally enjoying the survival experience otherwise. A little mod that adds a portable Sleeping Bag was the solution for me, it's reasonably balanced imo because you can only sleep up to 3hs in it (so no bonuses or recovering much hp), it is kinda heavy (and carry weight is in short supply in survival) and spamming sleep saves is a good way to get a f*ckton of diseases anyways. Fun stuff.

[@nelsonmanuelrr]

This was useful! Did not know about the food buff BS. Thank you, sir!

[@fallout4myth940]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@97Jonnyboy]

Yooo Excellent work! Loving the Fallout hype recently! ☢

[@fallout4myth940]

Dude tell me about it. So many people coming back to the game it's crazy! How about you?

[@MolnarG007]

Will test it, but maybe someone answers sooner: iwant to preserve Power Armor Fusion Core. i plan sneaking to Diamond City, to have early acess to a human companion (Piper). My plan is to make her use the power armor when we go to a harder location. My Question: Does companion deplete Fusion Core when in armor? If no i can use her to save FC getting to places, and after clearing also exit the armor during looting. If they do deplete what happens if you don't give Fusion core? Do they reject using the power armor, entering it? Are they slower in PA without Fusion core? If i intentionally give a low FC and in runs out while they use the power amor do they stay in it? Are they slower then?

[@fallout4myth940]

Companions don't need fusion cores. They can use power armor without it. They will stay on it until you command them to get off. As for their speed, they seem to move the same with or without

[@MolnarG007]

Question: i'm with Codsworth, have no automatron DLC. He went down in fight but then joined me normally. Is this because there is no way for me to repair him? Dogmeat also returned to me after the combat he was injured. Or maybe companions can stand up after combat only need extra heal when critically wounded or something? I'm confused why my companions simply stand up after combat, again i don't have human companion yet, my first playthrough. Or something changed? I use vanilla. No patch fix mods, nothing.

[@fallout4myth940]

Companions will recover when you are not playing survival mode. On Survival mode, they will leave and go back to the last assigned settlement or place you found them to recover. Tbh I haven't played without automatron dlc in a long time I don't remember how codsworth recovers.

[@MolnarG007]

@@fallout4myth940 this is my first survival playthrough, expecting the behaviour you wrote, not yet happened. I had a legendary mirelurk and it's nest, the small ones died fast but it downed Codsworth. I ran back foward Covenant entrance to make them shoot too, the mirelurk got stuck, and few seconds later Codsworth apeared next to me as i lost aggro. I re-engaged the mirelurk, molotov, pew pew, and Codsworth. It died, didn't even have to fall back to the Covenant gate. This happened yesterday. No repair Codsworth recovered didn't left. All vanilla.

[@fallout4myth940]

I suppose since you don't have automatron dlc, codsworth recovers on its own even on survival mode

[@mathewweeks9069]

Your awesome and awesome video be safe out there good luck to you all big fan of fallout and fallout tv show

[@fallout4myth940]

Thank you. I appreciate that a lot :)

[@Kosh800]

Super psyched for all my damn mods to be broken by an update that won't fix anything on PC.

[@fallout4myth940]

🤣 🤣 so true. Lot of people are already pissed about it. Hopefully these mods get updated relatively quickly. It's precisely why I'm more confident on the unofficial fallout patch devs

[@flarite]

I'm gonna begin my first survival playthrough tomorrow !

[@fallout4myth940]

Best of luck!

[@chemistcollins5308]

What outfit were your character wearing at the start?.👊

[@fallout4myth940]

It's captain zaos uniform from the Yangtze Chinese submarine North off The Castle

[@chemistcollins5308]

@@fallout4myth940 🫡

[@oozygoop1373]

I don’t know why but I can’t find sink to craft? Please help

[@fallout4myth940]

Go Furniture > Miscellaneous > scroll to the far right and you'll see them. If you dont have the workshop dlc then they won't be available sadly

[@sabas_dilan]

Gracias por traducirlo, estaba como loco buscando mods algo que se resuelve con comandos

[@fallout4myth940]

Muchas cosas se pueden resolver con comandos!

[@TeaClipper1976]

Will that blasted Randolph-Safehouse-Bug be fixed?

[@fallout4myth940]

No idea. They vaguely said they'll fix bugs and that's it

[@TeaClipper1976]

@@fallout4myth940 I guess well just have to wait and see. Thank you.

[@TeaClipper1976]

@@fallout4myth940 just installed the Update on my xbox one... Nope, the Randolph-Safehouse-Bug is still there (what a bummer). 🤨

[@fallout4myth940]

It's truly disappointing how little effort they put on fixing bugs.

[@Skyflakes05]

Literally just started a new playthrough after updating, IN VANILLA and the Diamond city blues and Fire Support missions are still BUGGED. its pissing me off. Nelson, the ghoul lady and the triggermen didn't show up at back street apparel in diamond city blues, danse won't stop being in combat in fire support even after clearing out all the ghouls. reloaded my save prior to going at cambridge police station for the quest, DANSE IS STILL IN COMBAT IN ALL THOSE RELOADS. ISTG BETHESDA.

[@fallout4myth940]

If you play on PC there are console commands to move quests to the next stage. fallout.wiki/wiki/Console_commands_(Fallout_4)/Quests Google the quest names on fallout wikipedia to find the ID numbers

[@Skyflakes05]

@@fallout4myth940 i play solely on survival though. i tried doing the console command that you mentioned in this video but it messed up my save. i cannot go back to survival mode. but its no biggie, i'm not that far into the game anyway and i just made a brand new playthrough. i just helped danse with the ghouls the moment i get the mission so that it doesn't bug out later (apparently it glitches out if the mission is left there too long)

[@fallout4myth940]

Hmm that's very strange. Did the command go through or did the console command screen give you an input error? Doing the commands in the order should allow you to enter survival. I did it again on the video I'm releasing today with my lvl 161 survival character. Oh yes I've heard of that bug. So sad. Hope you find a way around te survival console command!

[@MolnarG007]

For me all went well. Vanilla.

[@boxy2k8]

Solid video

[@fallout4myth940]

Thank you

[@brandongribble]

You still get more hungry and thirsty by doing the "save trick". All it does is not pass time in game.

[@fallout4myth940]

That makes sense. Thanks!

[@HighDiver5555]

Anyone have kind of a long load time when walking outside into the wasteland or into any building?

[@fallout4myth940]

It happens to me sometimes. Depending on the ares there are instances where it can take close to 5 minutes

[@MolnarG007]

As i heard this is due to the FPS limit not allowing faster load. disabling FPS limit makes the game unplayable because the engine is made that with no FPS limit everything everyone moves super fast. However there is a mod that disables FPS limit DURING loading but enables it as soon as the map loaded. Makes wonders with loading times.

[@fallout4myth940]

I didn't know there was a mod for this. Thanks for sharing!

[@Tazastical]

love fallout! :)

[@YorkGod1]

I cant refill my bottles all of a sudden???!?!?!

[@TechnicalUnderground]

Make video on Hangman's alley please

[@fallout4myth940]

I did make a video on the hangmans alley base. It's in the settlement builds playlist :)

[@Cricket0021]

ah well they didn't fix the car glitch. s'all good

[@fallout4myth940]

So disappointing, I know:(

[@Cricket0021]

@@fallout4myth940 one of the most annoying bugs and bethesda was like "nah, cba"

[@XEV_]

Idk if its just me anytime i use the unofficial patch it soft locked me everytime

[@fallout4myth940]

If you play console it doesn't seem to work too well apparently

[@XEV_]

@@fallout4myth940 yea wish they would fix it

[@brynyolfxd3010]

Next gen is pathetic ... every new piece is broken .... tested on series s and x with same results .. all new items missing their textures .. completely invisible , progam markers are big n bright when should be invisible, the jitter lag from first release on antiqur comsoles is back as well ... Bugthesda as usual just breaks their broken product even more as is with everytime they touch it

[@fallout4myth940]

Sad but true for a lot of people

[@SingeNS]

There is really no proper way to play survival mode, because your "build" in this game mode will only matter up to level 30 or so, which is arguably the low to mid level. After that, or even sooner you will only die due the negligence. Going 7 in intelligence at the start just to be able to craft antibiotics will soon prove to be a big mistake when you find yourself with 15 antibiotics in stash at level 10 which you found by just exploring the game. You'd regret it and want that 6+1 perk points back, which do matter early on. But as i said, there is really no "proper" way to play this mode. I did it with 1 endurance 1 intelligence characters with same success i did with 10+ in those stats. Also Unofficial Patch is actually NOT recommended if you play the game on consoles. It's fine for PC but PS4/5 and Xbone/XBS will crash more often if you have this mod installed.

[@fallout4myth940]

Yes, every build is doable on survival and there is no proper way to play it and I never said there was. Some are more challenging than others. These are tips taking survival beginners in mind. If you are thoroughly looking through med kits and mirror cabinets you can probably find just enough to get by and that js If you know how to use them wisely. The 7 intellect is also a.major boost to your xp unless you do an idiot savant build to boost it thst way. So I'm gonna disagree with you on this one. Adding, finding antibiotics is rng. Sometimes I've gotten over 5 by the time I'm done with vault 111 and sanctuary. Sometimes I'm lucky to even have 2. As for the unofficialfalloutpatch not working well for consoles, that's unfortunate. What would you recommend for console players?

[@SingeNS]

@@fallout4myth940 well, the thing is, you are using level 155 character in the video to show every important perk which can be useful one way or another, and level 155 character is vastly over leveled by any margin. If you're doing the main story alone, you can finish the game by level 40-something. Fallout 4 perk system can't reflect that luxury of 150+ perk points in the early game. You always have to sacrifice something to get something else, and arguably, the intelligence tree is not the strongest one. There are couple of perks less experienced users will think are useful, like Gun Nut, Science, Chemist even, and some that have the high requirement like Nuclear Physicist which is only good for Power Armor users, but in my opinion, all these perks are useless early on, or at least before the stage when you don't have the luxury to spend plenty of perk points for meager rewards. Antibiotics drops are RNG, that much is true, and sometimes you won't find the single one for hours or 3 in a single med-kit box, but they are not that important for brand new character to spend 7 perk points early on. Almost every general trader has them, every doctor has them and can cure you for meager 15 caps, and every illness can be simply slept off, even the one that damages your health, i forgot it's name. Other perks in that tree are also not particularly useful, like Gun Nut for example. While having relative low requirement of just 3 INT a sheer number of weapon drops that you can find in the game will inevitably let you remove the desired mod from a looted gun and put it in the weapon you are currently using. This perk is only useful for late game weapons like gauss and gatling rifles. At the point they start to drop, you'll already be over level 50 so your "build" is becoming a jack of all trades already and you'll have other more useful perks unlocked long time ago. As for leveling, 2 points in idiot savant and 1 intelligence will level your character on average same as having 15 intelligence and no idiot savant, so... chose wisely i guess :) As for unofficial patch on consoles, there is no alternative. Just uninstall it. Sure, you'll need to live with some issues and literally go around them (literally go around pre-war cars) but the game will be much more stable.

[@fallout4myth940]

I'm not basing the tips around a lvl 155 character that would make no sense at all. I recorded snippets of that character, a lvl 1 character and pieces of lower level characters. The tips are by no means based on having 155 levels. Again, there are many ways to build your character, but as a brand new level 1 player, these are the perks I believe are important. If you wanna do a survival melee build then you are probably gonna spend perks on strength. If you are gonna do a vats build then you need more on agility and so on. Beginner players dont know ypu can sleep off illnesses. Sleeping consecutively brings an onset of debuffs and you sre better off just taking antibiotics instead of over complicating it. There are no doctors in the north west portion of the common wealth and a few handful traders that may or may not have antibiotics unless you get lucky finding a traveling doctor so you won't come across a doctor for a long while. Chemist is a good beginner perk for the reasons i already stated and I stand by it :) As for weapon mods, yep I agree and I spoke to that on the video as well. No point is wasting crafting materials when you can simply swap weapon mods around. Idiot savant low intelligence build is great too but you'd be missing on some great perks like Hacker, scrapper science and chemist. Wouldn't recommend that for a beginner. Thanks for clarifying the patch for console users.

[@SingeNS]

@@fallout4myth940 I dunno, maybe it's experience talking from me but I'm usually in Diamond City at level 3-4 already, trying to reach the Railroad and do the "Boston After dark" quest before i hit level 15, because i don't like using power armor and i want to avoid triggering Automatron DLC, which sometimes triggers by just being in the vicinity, and Boston After Dark is a near vicinity. Lemme tell you doing Switchboard in Slocum's Joe at level 7-8 with pipe weapons or 10mm at best, is... quite an experience... :) That said, I never really spend to much time in north of the map. Depending on your build, there is little of value there, except one survival magazine which is a must on all survival builds. Two more sneak magazines and that's it, you can come back for those later. Lexington is a good waypoint to hit to pick up two barter magazines and full set of power armor on a highway behind Corvega if you're up to that. Later on return for Repair bobblehead and Grognak magazine if you're into that. That's usually how i play and for all my builds i ever did, intelligence was a "dump stat" that i keep at 1 for most of the game. I don't even pick the bobblehead in library. I eventually raise the intelligence to 6-7 for science or chemist when i reach like level 70+ or something... The only time i started with 10 intelligence is that one time i played as a BoS paladin in Power Armor

[@fallout4myth940]

@SingeNS damn you are in Diamond City at lvl 4 that's crazy lmao. I always stick around exploring the northwest portion of the map. Then again I'm a completionist. But based on all you've written you sound like a survival pro so not surprised. You can truly make any build shine on survival when you know how to adapt.

[@everilliem3292]

These cringe view glazers need to stop.

[@fallout4myth940]

What do you mean?