So I figured it’s about time I gave this game a shot.

I’m familiar with the series, but never really loved it, have played all previous titles but most of my time is on F3 and FNV.

I think the reason why I didn’t pick this up earlier was because I didn’t feel like going further into the Fallout universe, it felt like Bethesda were milking the golden cow.

Of course I’m trying it now as I picked it up cheap and the TV series has come along, of which in almost at the end of. It very much feels like the TV show is Fallout 4 on TV, but then I’ve never played F76.

The game is nice, very familiar to what I remember of F3 and FNV, I wonder how open it is with the perks system, or will I have to put levels into gunplay at some point?

I’m trying to stick to the main quest to start with, I’ve helped out the Minutemen, and then made a b-line to Diamond City before setting off to find the private detective so still pretty early on. Dogmeat is a fine companion for the road.

Any tips or suggesting for a good start, and play through?

There is a patch landing at the end of the month, so I haven’t experimented with any mods just yet.

  • Clay_pidginEnglish
    4•8 months ago

    If you have the traders set up between your settlements with the Local Leader perk, you can choose to make food and water in one place and let it get distributed automatically. . The bandit raids are based on how much food and water settlements have, so most of your settlements will get raided only rarely. There is a downside, which is that every dang settler in the other towns will complain that there isn’t enough food and water, because they don’t know to look at the trader network.

    Also, raids spawn in a place randomly clean from list for each settlement. Building walls isn’t going to save you in every settlement because there is often a spawn location within the settlement. I’m not still salty about it after building a wall and turrets and lights all the way around sanctuary’s island only to have raids down in the middle of the settlement, why do you ask?

    Also, I’ve never used VATS in a 3d fallout game, so be aware it’s totally possible to just skip it entirely and save your points for other skills.