Here's a guide on how to get all your SPECIAL stats to 20+ at the start of the game: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pnl_l6uknZtiuWw.html I explained this badly in the video, so here's the SPECIAL book Guide: You can indeed raise your attributes over 10 with the SPECIAL book, but you must first reduce your attribute to make it available as an option. For example if you wanted 11 intelligence: you would first get a 10 in intelligence, then you would drink whiskey to temporarily reduce your intelligence by -1, you would then use the SPECIAL book so you can raise your intelligence by +1. Once the whiskey effects wear off you will now have 11 intelligence. If you now get the intelligence bobblehead you can reach 12 intelligence. Some stats can be pushed even higher but I could do a whole separate video about that.

Walton Goggins is the best character in my opinion. "Thou shall get side-tracked by bullshit every god damn time" That was such a relatable line for anyone who has played the games.

Whenever I'm on a power armor, I take note when a fusion core is about to deplete and remove it when it's 1% left. I can trade/sell those 1% cores at full price.

Watched the series twice - Cooper is 1000% my favorite character in the series by a mile. Maximus did basically nothing but maxed out his Luck stat.

Wow, holy shit...I just now realized how much shit I've missed in the start...

Maximus is definitely using the Idiot Savant perk and I love it.

Keep all pre-war money, cigar boxes and cigarette boxes on you for bartering. They can be easily found off of Ghouls or in most places that have cigarette dispensers. Most raider settlements will have a lot laying around. They are a good alternative for those who are lacking the caps. Pre-war money doesn't have any weight so you can carry as much of it on you as you want. All of them are under the Junk tab so make sure you collect them from your settlements in case you stored them accidentally.

lucy is my favorite character. I love how naive she is and how as the show progresses she becomes less naive but still tries her best to make sure people are nice

The Dogmeat/Cryolator glitch has been patched, so the exploit no longer works. 😢

Straight to survival mode for me! My favorite way to play Fallout 4.

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. 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. Take out the water from the Workshop *every day* , and 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.

Gees, never thought I would watch this topic as a brand new upload in 2024, feels like years have passed as I was trapped in a fridge.

I used to watch ESO for skyrim advice - I've gotten over 2k hours now. I've never touched a single fallout game and now im back for tips on that. Times are good

After trying this game about 5 times. Finally got its claws into me. Now over lvl 40+ now with 11 sets of power armor with sanctuary built up. It's soo fun!!

My mods all gone 😔

i am just so happy we are all talking/playing/watching vids on fallout. feel like I'm in a time machine but also this is my first FO4 playthrough

Got one more tip to add when your fusion cores are about to run out replace them as you can still get a good price for them even with 1% charge left but if u don’t it will automatically replace it

Has to be Walton Goggins as the Ghoul, couldn't have cast anyone better then him. Would love to see more backstory of him slowly turning into a ghoul in season 2!

Of all my years of playing this game.. I never even knew that helmet was in the vertibird wow

Can’t breathe without a helmet underwater. I died

can’t believe almost 9 years later i’m seeing best start videos like we would around launch, man I love Fallout.

once I found the Silver Shroud outfit I just been wearing that everywhere I go

There's a mod that should be installed if you have all the DLCs, it's the one that keeps the radiant quests inside the Commonwealth, that way you aren't forced to visit a DLC location to complete a random radiant quest.

So happy to be on board. Been following you a long and it's time I became a member! You have the most awesome tips and tricks for FO 4! Thankyou so much! U rock! ☺️👍

there is sneak magazine in the radar olivia station treasure room, it has a white cover and is in the light so is easy to miss

The first thing I noticed about the update on PC is that the creation club menu now cannot tell which mods I have already downloaded, nor can download consistently. There are now more bugs in the creation menu than there were before. This does not bode well for the rest of the game.

You forgot the switchblade stuck in the PC at the Vault 111 building with the ruined PC, the ammo, and the cram. Also the fan has mats to build a turret, springs iirc.

On the cryolator part, the dog wasn’t spawning when I put on the vault 111 suit, but it did work when I put on a numberless vault suit. He spawned as the gate started opening.

I haven't played the game since it came out back in the day, but I made it way too easy for myself. Somehow I got lucky while crafting and upgrading my weapons and got the "Explosive Ammo" perk on a machine gun, which turned it into a rapid fire grenade launcher that would just shred anything I pointed it at, even the biggest, baddest enemies. The only problem was that I sometimes blew myself up when using it in small rooms.

Forgot this was coming out today. I’ll spin it up when I get home

If you go east up the hill from that electric switch by the water there should be a camp with raiders just past the camp is a chimney stack with an open safe that has a cap stash and a 10 mm pistol

Hello eso im glad to see you doing fallout tips for all the new players! i remember watching all your guides to the nuka cola melee builds and ballistic weave guide i hope you do well eso enjoy the helping all the new comers :D

Man thank you so much! Probably my 10th start and finally have a fighting chance always get killed so much I give up.

Get pipers afinity to max ASAP cause she doubles the xp gained from discovering locations. its actually nuts cause some areas can get rediscovered with raider shenanigans. great vid

For survival, remember to grab all the cola/beer/milk bottles in Sanctuary, you can haul back to vault 111 and fill them all in the sink. That's a pretty easy and reliable way to get purified water, both for consumption and selling to vendors. And if you get advanced lockpicking in the earliest levels, you get access to a bunch of the safes in both Sanctuary and Concord, as well as a locked room in the Speakeasy with a steamer trunk, ammo and potentially a shotgun.

fastest sub ive done fr, bro set me up for fallout 4 and its my first day playing, thanks man appreciate it

15:51 "excuse me sir, please get wrecked" your mama raised you well, so polite.

Will the update apply to my save I started yesterday??

Thanks for the tips and tricks - I had not noticed some of these on my 3rd Playthrough - Rushed things looks like will be starting fresh haha

Absolutely invaluable tutorial. I'm a level 25, and there's so much I'd missed around Sanctuary that I'm now going to do, plus loads of tips that I wish I knew sooner 😂

4:38 This book will not raise a stat that is 10 or more at the moment of reading, including buffs and debuffs.

Lol I am bummed I gotta ensure my mods won’t crash my game again but thrilled to see the new content that comes with it! Not to mention it usually means better performance. You might need to make an updated modding video but hey, good stuff!

Fast, to the point and very detailed! You Sir are a Fallout Scholar and I will keep coming back regularly! Cheers

I just got the new power armour and I gotta say they did an amazing job on the look

That's a US Military vertibird that crashed there after the bombs dropped. You can tell because the skeleton there by the power armor and the one inside the vertibird are wearing fatigues and not a BOS outfit.

Missed the army helmet on the teddy bear at the satellite!

I love this finally get to start a fresh installation of my mods

Mods won't even install anymore it just says "this operation could not be completed"

I never stopped playing since the release, have 4 characters, one for each faction. now all of them are above lvl 160😂 all on survival mode, the only way to play the game

That was absolutely very useful. Never knew the Dogmeat exploit with the Cryolator!

Ooh a CLASSIC fo4 run thank you for going over this for newer players

Great work. I love your videos and after 10 years of Fallout 4, I still learned things.

Any chance you'll drop a video on some of the new content? I already got me a character ready - heck, she hasn't even entered Vault 111 and I quick saved after I finished making her - and I already know most of the tricks you've listed thus far. Sorry to sound impatient btw, I just want to know what this update is bringing to the table for us vanilla players.

If you go to Abernathy farm you can get a quest for a lock it inside of the satellite array it gives you some extra XP and tabs for just having a conversation

You mentioned that there was somewhere to trade a gold bar for a weapon and left it at that? Where do you trade it in at?

I didn't get the buff for sleeping in that bed for an hour

Don’t forget there’s new vault suits in the vault 111

Awesome-palyed this how many times? And yet STILL saw things you mention I never knew-RIGHT ON!

The dogmeat/cryolator trick was patched out ages ago. Either is a locked version prior to that update, or he just cut old footage over it. I literally just tried it. locked in the cage w/dogmeat and when prompted to find nearby goodies he finds nothing..

I found something very odd. I couldn't get Dogmeat to fetch the weapon back in vault 111. Is anyone else having the same issue?

Why does everyone leave the switchblade in the terminal in the pod? Seriously, it may be a really weak weapon, but scrapping it gives you decent scrap, and it's a sellable item early game.

ESO always ready to guide us through another update

That's the best tutorial for start I have seen. Would be great if you do next part 😁

Dog meat won’t get the cryolator for me 😢

Followed your instructions to the letter regarding Dogmeat and obtaining the cryolator early, he won't spawn into Vault 111.

The cryolator trick was the biggest thing in this video for me, but all of the tricks you mentioned as well as the walkthrough to get power armor were all really useful. Will definitely be using these!

If you get the book to create statues from the building where your get shiskabob and duplicate copper you get 30xp per placement and can get to level 200 in like 3-4 hours (witch is accessible from level one. Just need to run and avoid some enemies and your smooth sailing)

Well I just drowned in my power armor searching for the steamer trunk...🤷‍♂

I started playing yesterday and now there is a 30 gb update, what are the chances that as soon as I start playing there is a massive update 😢

Lol. The cryo sneak never worked before. Thanks for the info. Lol worked perfectly 👍

Does all the power armor locations respawns ? Can i pick the one early and come back later (higher lvl) to get a better version maybe ? Is it sure and does it work for all PA locations ? And is there any uniques ? Thx

i think i’m gonna restart i ruined my character

Fallout London mod going to hit hard.

You can also get the Army helmet off the skeleton by the orange case in the mole rat room after killing Ack Ack

thanks danny lots of effort as per usual gone into this

Isn't idiot savant proven to be the best way to gain experience?

To anyone that’s played has bostons fps been fixed if not I have no reason to download

S-7 P-4 E-1 C-6 I-8 A-1 L-1, Baby Book +1 to Agility. L&E stats can be supplemented with better gear, guns, & lots of chems. Perception can be boosted with certain hats, & glasses. Absalom, Atom Cats, & Bullet are good for basic gear. Quests get buggy, if you take Sanctuary before Preston. Taffington Boathouse is my first base suggestion.

You can still get the full T-45 set in concord without starting the main quest or the minutemen questline. If you get on top of the churches roof you can jump across the crashed vertibird and go straight to the power armor and minigun sitting there. If you don’t have a fusion core you can still go in the building and grab the one from the basement like normal, and jump back up through the hole in the floor by standing on top of the file cabinet right below the hole. Either way you can get the set without ever having to deal with Garvey 😎

wow, all these minor changes and 8 new armors are totally worth breaking 58,000 mods... Bethesda once again showing how much they hate their modding community.

Breaking all mods, leaving only the paid ones available in Creation Club... Just like Vault-Tec "time is the ultimate weapon..."

Funny thing with the SPECIAL book in sanctuary. If you put your INT on 10 and get first into the root cellar and grab a alcoholic drink, you lower your INT by 1. You can now get the SPECIAL book and increase your INT by 1 which makes it into 11 after the alcohol wears off. Makes it another 3% more xp. Pretty handy.

You should make a "cloning" contraption. Simply make a line of two conveyer belts. A drop hopper on one end and two floor auto loader/unloader. Followed by belts to link back to hopper.

The update many modders including myself didn’t want.

Yeah I’m not playing it until all (or most) of my mods get updated. I get that some mods will probably never be updated. But I was at a certain point in the game where all my mods (with the creation club) was running smoothly so I’m going to hold off for a bit.

You can wear clothes and use consumables to raise charisma for speech checks, so you don’t need to dump points into it. Speech checks are based on prohibits so save and reload to redo and clear a speech check. Never start a character with 10 points in any specific skill as each skill has a bobble head that will permanently increase the skill by 1. There is also a book at the start of the game that increases any skill by 1.

My saved carried over from the Xbox one but I just used this video to help me start over. Thanks for the help.

I got the best start. It’s seeing you here.

Do NOT update unless you want all of your mods to get wrecked.

Great video! Was it made with vanilla? How did you get the graphics to be so smooth? Is that the official texture pack or just playing on Ultra settings?

Lucy's brother Norm is my favorite. It's starting as a level 0 leave it beaver type, but working up to that stealth sniper that is in all of us.

Don’t take this guys advice as soon as he said get max intelligence for more xp, no use 1 intelligence and level 5 luck with idiot savant to level up fast

The AI facecam is weird. Why not just record yourself while you're doing the voice over? Unless the voiceover is also AI generated off of a script. That would be double crazy.

There are also some spots east of Abernathy Farm. Center the boulders left of the Power Line Tower when facing East, you'll find a skeleton and suitcase; along with a machete. Just East of that same Tower, you'll find an open safe, similar to the one near the Water Tower; situated just under the boulder cliff, with a pistol and ammo box within.

Damn ESO i missed you i used to watch all your videos when skyrim dropped and now thanks to the amazon series i am trying fall out 4 and damn its so good

Incoming “stop playing the game how it’s not intended to play” comments

Thanks for setting me up! Great, straightforward video 👍🏽

If you aint playing survival mode you aren't even playing the game yet

This feels like the best way to get to speedrun the game but honestly, i feel like the best way for a casual play is to make ur stats pretty even but also try getting strength and luck up. The game is so fun and so big, you will level up fast in no time while also taking the route of just playin. I recommend doing main quest storyline all the way till you defeat Kellog b4 venturing off bc you will have his pistol which is an underrated weapon itself. Also you should treat your first power armor as a beauty. Mainly bc once you can get another power armor that is better, you can always save that extra one for a companion or for a settlement while also having it upgraded. Idk thats my opinion. I recently got the game and am having fun

for the extra special book, strength is the best option? or go with intelligence?