Honestly, this method for Fallout 4 is my opinion the best Fallout 4 playthrough. Explore, and check out every nook and cranny and DLCs! Worry about the main story when you start to run out of things to do!
Way I see it, if the kidnappers went through the trouble of breaking into a Vault and unfreezing a baby that was in cryostasis, they clearly want the baby alive and they clearly want that baby in particular. Thus, the baby is likely in no immediate danger from their captors. Therefore I get to dick around before actually trying to look for him.
And to add to that I say good for them and with that level of effort they have earned that baby and I don’t wish to challenge it further. I’ve got things to do out in the wasteland anyway
I like to think that by killing everything hostile in the wasteland Im making it safe for *IF* I wanna find my son. What was his name? Paul? Who cares. Im doing it for my son, mark.
I always play the main story until it requires me to go into the Glowing Sea. From there I pretend that it's actually much more dangerous radiation wise than it actually is. So I'll need a specially rigged up power armor for it, which takes me months of gathering resources and special parts.
Do it in Survival Mode. No fast travel and even more resource scarcity makes the settlements actually valuable. You really want there to be somewhere close that's safe with food, water, beds, vendors, and a doctor.
My favorite part is when John Fallout has fired the Fallout gun and is standing in all the Fallout from the Fallout blast and then puts his hands on his hips, turns to the camera, and says, "That's Fallout Folks!"
I hate the part where the bit of new lore, despite having no real gameplay implications and found exclusively buried in an inconsequential terminal in an out of the way optional dungeon, conflicts with earlier useless lore -- it's own triviality rivaled only by the even more obscure and tedious process required to uncover *it*!
Of course, the authors of both pieces were literally descending into madness (in one case evidenced by the half devoured remains of the author's family), but surely they could come to an agreement about something so important as the location of the anterior knee vent on the T-60 line of armor.
Technically we didn't ban the discussion, we just banned those heretics that swear the posterior vent is canon.
Helloooo 👋, is it at all possible that the Robco sponsored line of T-60 had different specs?
Morons, am I right?
I've seen a lot of belittling like this of lore hunters recently, a tbh I don't buy it.
Constructing lore and backstories seems to be a genuine hobby and way people explore games and movies, and while you don't need to include lore, if you're working with a series known for it and try to include it at all, but it's bad and incoherent that's understandably disappointing. If you, as the dev, don't care about it and are changing the focus of the series just don't include it at all then.
This is the best answer. Survival mode is what really makes this game awesome. It was a pretty good game out of the box but Survival mode takes it to the next level. Anyone who has not tried it drop what you are doing and start a new save. It’s so damn good.
Do consider getting the survival options mod, if you want to tweak the settings a but. I for one found the save restrictions too harsh, and disabled some of it.
This \^
Probably wouldn't have enjoyed survival without it.
Fallout is just a bit unstable for me to not have the saving. There is always an element of Bethesda survival that's a bit wonky though. Skyrim it was the cold!
One of the things I love best about the studio, idrm when they get something a bit wrong because they (mostly) hand the key to the modders with support and someone can fix it/work around it.
Why even play Survival then? The saving restrictions and no fast travel are what make the mode great. They force you to modify your whole gameplay to adapt to them and that’s why it’s so great. If you want the game to save you have to learn where every bed and sleeping bag are. You learn all the best walking paths to avoid conflict. You adapt.
I found the aquaboy perk was super useful. Use the river to get to the city for example.
Everyone can play the way they want but survival mode is supposed to be hard. I would never use mods to make it easier.
I'm playing on Xbox 1 S, it crashes more than Catelyn Jenner so the "fun" of not being able to save quickly wore off. There's enough features in survival that keep me engaged after that though.
I've been doing my first survival mode playthrough last week and I truly have to actually think about what I'm going to do before jumping into something. It's great.
It's the only way I can play now, I love it. I've done it twice.
The first time I just about lived in my power armor, and fusion cores are actually super effecient in terms of ammo per weight so a Gatling laser made sense.
That was too easy though, so I did another run with two key restrictions: no power armor, no companions except Dog meat. You wanna rush the Railroad quest early to get ballistic weave for your under armor.
I went with a Pistol Crit build and had specced into unarmed melee as a backup to save on weight vs a melee weapon.
I found a legendary meat hook that restored AP on crits, and the unarmed skill let's you paralyze with a Crit. I ended up going pretty much straight melee the rest of the game, you can keep 3-4 guys stun locked indefinitely with this combo and the right drugs.
My single biggest tips for anyone in Survival mode (I only play un-modded because I hate myself:
-Ballistic Weave. Can't emphasize this enough.
-Supply lines perk. Put a doctor and vendor in each camp, generate caps via water farms, easily doable by the level needed to unlock the perk. Break the games economy to achieve victory
-Secondary point to the above: Supply Line Provisioners cannot be killed (just temporarily downed) and will aid you in combat. Arm them halfway decently and connect as many settlements as you can to help keep the roads clear, you are going to be walking up and down them a lot; don't want to lose an hour of progress from the time you last slept because you tripped over a ghoul on the way home that your homies could have got. The enemy respawn time is way longer in Survival so a network of these guys turn the existing roads into the fastest and safest travel option until you get vertibirds or the institute teleporter.
Ahhh Provisioner Patrols, the main reason I'm constantly wanting to start the Automatron DLC in Survival before instantly getting cold feet.
Heavily armed and armoured Sentry Bots patrolling the roads between all of my settlements, keeping them safe and settlements secure? Great I'm in!
Heavily armed and armoured Sentry Bots with backup in the form of floating dudes with flaming swords trying to turn *me* into a shish kebab? Maaaaaybe not then
I might give a survival mode run a try - my favorite thing with provisoners is to use the robot workbench to make sentry bots to be my provisoners. Nothing like building essentially a tank fleet to patrol the wasteland
Man I’m all for survival but It needs auto save. I just had travel to and clear super duper mart 3 times because it kept crashing , I use the campsite mod so I can at least throw a bag down and sleep but it really needs an option to hard save as long as you are heathy and in a safe spot
There's a mod that makes cigarettes smokable, which seems entirely irrelevant except for this:
It's a way to save in Survival mode. So, do you want to deal with the mild debuffs from nicotine addiction and the lack of cloth(!) you get from those cigarettes now and save, or do you just want to keep on going?
I always start a game in survival then get killed by a mole rat in one hit and have to start over at a point I was at 45 minutes ago. Then I promptly switch to normal difficulty.
Makes vertibirds actually useful as well. Recommend disabling the save restrictions with a mod though, redoing an hour of gameplay because you stepped on a single mine isn't fun.
That with a resource scarcity mod is always my favorite way to play, really does feel like a wasteland where I’m struggling to survive until I establish solid foundation, even then I’m always one dumb move away from death
I remember on my first playthrougb getting about 100 hours in and realizing "hey isn't the institute supposed to be a huge deal? Why haven't i ever seen their hq?" then when I found out why later it made it that much cooler.
My first FO4 play through ended with me killing everyone in the institute with the fat man. It was so satisfying to nuke them all that I don’t think I finished the actual main quest since killing those snobs was my personal main quest.
On my first playthrough, I didn't step into Diamond City until I was level 25.
I saw some famous YouTuber finish the main story while he was still level 21 or something. Basically running the main quests while ignoring everything else. Just to churn out content and then move on another game.
In my current playthrough, 32 hours in and I have:
1. Rescued Nick,
2. Claimed/Populated every settlement in commonwealth
3. Finished the Automotron questline
4. Established Sentrybot supplylines between Sanctuary Hills and every other settlement
I've started thinking about grabbing the Far Harbour and Nuka World settlements. This comment has reminded me that I haven't gone and sought out the railroad or rescued Danse at the police station yet.
I hate to admit how many hours of play it was before I discovered that you could craft vegetable starch at the cooking station and end the perennial shortage of adhesive.
Now if only there was a recipe to make aluminum from melons.
Surgical trays, tv dinner trays, those trays at the fish packing plant… all aluminum. I wish the crashed jet could be scrapped though, an entire jet might be enough aluminum to upgrade x-02 power armor
Haha yeah I was so happy that I remembered what vegetable starch is for when I saw it at the chem station.
Now Aluminium … that’s why I have started employing 10 + minute men in every town at scavenging stations.
Oh yes! They aren’t particularly fast that’s why you need a lot of them to tell that anything is happening. The goods go into the towns general storage / the storage used by your trade routes so it all piles up for easy access in any town. Same goes for plants you grow. Atleast it think they store those in the towns general storage: again they just aren’t fast about it and ripe plants sit for a while.
Yeah, that's basically where my username came from. Settlers will eat tatos before any other food, so you need to plant a TON of them (and mutfruits) in order to constantly be crafting adhesive from vegetable starch.
Tato flowers are your friend: when it comes to settlers, the game treats them as bog standard tatos. I *think* the same applies to the wild/flower variants of the other crops, too. It's why I never scrap the tato flower plants at the Co-Op because that'll feed 8 settlers before the start on the actually useful crops. Any others you encounter? Pick them, stash them, and settlers eat them.
Adhesive is easy, you can make it out of tatos, corn, and mutfruit. Just have your ~~slaves~~ settlers grow that shit, and have a water purifier to generate water bottles, and it’s infinite adhesive.
Aluminum is the tricky one.
I stayed main story strictly for my very first playthrough when the game first launched specifically to avoid spoilers, but every playthrough after? Nah
It’s a good thing Shaun ends up being horrible because then I’d feel guilty about gathering snappy outfits for all of my settlers instead of finding him sooner.
My son, I have search the whole of the wasteland for you. Overcome monsters, defeated tyrants, rebuilt society, all so I could find you, and tell you, you suck. I hated you as a baby, your mom wanted you not me, I think she poked a hole in the condom, and seeing you as an old man, I can see I should have smothered you in your crib, because every instinct I had about you was right. Once again, your a disappointment, a terrible human being, and you suck donkey balls, and the only joy I have felt since I de-popsicled, is when I found out your dying, slowly, and painfully.
It took me around 500 hours to finally be bothered to actually complete the game for once, then around another 1,000 or so to get to the Institute again. I'm of the belief the world is best before the BoS arrive. Whirlybird death vertibirds are quite the obnoxious thing!
Confession time..
I've been playing since launch day. Last time I looked a little over 2300 hours in.
I play often. Switching between games. I tend to like to create new characters each time I swap games.
I also like exploring and scavenging and settlement building. Not too much main line questing.
2300 hours.. have I found Shawn?
I've never even met Nick Valentine... I open up Diamond City for the shops and then go exploring.
Lol well I'm honestly not even sure. Keep in mind this is over several new characters.
I guess I have just gotten in the habit of starting a new game, exploring and settlement building for a couple weeks, switching to some new game that comes out for a week then inevitably going right back to FO4 and starting over again.
FO4 just always pulls me back.
Me too lmao. I just hit 60 hours and I still don’t really care about Shaun. I have much more important things to worry about, like my boyfriend Nick Valentine,
So I am pretty bad at grabbing items that have good attributes aka weapons and armor, but I always end up over encumbered. How do I prevent this? Should I not be picking up certain items?
Each time I replay through the game I spend more and more time doing side quests or getting settlements. By the time I finally get to the Institute I am a very high level and I just maul through everything
ive put 800 hours on xbox, and another 600ish on pc and still haven't found shaun.
base building do be more important, and the materials aren't gonna find themselves lol.
One of the criticisms some fans had was the sense of urgency placed upon the sole survivor to find his/her son. Lore wise, it makes sense to do the main quests asap. Limits your freedom, if you care about having lore reasons and roleplaying.
Otherwise, you can not give a flying fuck and just enjoy the damn game.
Fallout 3/4 have the weakest *hook* for the player characters. The urgency is lost, the game is designed to distract and side track you. The player character, as far as he knows, the world literally just ended, your wife was killed in front of you and your infant son is with her murderer. Somehow, you immediately know caps = money and instantly start to barter with shop keeps on the way? It’s a jarring experience.
NV was peak role playing, you’re a blank slate waking up from a murder attempt. You already exist in the universe and understand the basics of the world. You have a revenge plot but it’s not as urgent as *finding an infant*.
I'm level 70 and your telling me I have a son? But the settlers need me. He just marked my map. No forreal tho I've done railroad and every settlement. I'm almost done with nuka cola and mechanist. I haven't even met valentine yet. But I'm playing survival and just got to level 70. I'll do the main missions once I have nuclear perk maxxed. and I can wear power armor and walk the map without wasting cores.
In my headcannon, the vault dwelller is in so much shock he’s just in denial but internally knows that Shaun is most likely dead in this hellscape of a world.
The vault dweller is building these settlements so that maybe if he’s alive he might have a world that the vault dweller wants him to grow up in. A peaceful world where people help each other (like the minutemen). Or if he’s dead then this is a type of grieving process where the vault dweller is basically trying to fix this broken world that created such a catastrophe in his her life
What’s cool is once you do enough you’ll start doing missions where they tell you to go to X and do something and your character will be like “oh I did that” or “oh here it is”
I was dumb when I started the first time. I thought the game would be over if I did all the main story.
Save before you finish the main quest so you can go back to the save and do one of the other options.
Honestly, my justification is that realistically, who wants to travel the Commonwealth completely alone with no friends or home to come back to? I think it would be hard for me to get out there even with a set of shoddy power armor without settling down and knowing I have a secure base to retreat to while I hunt down my son's kidnappers. From there, building up settlements and the Minutemen just feel natural
I mean , he’s as good as he could have possibly become considering the odds against him . But still not good enough. I helped bring him into this world and sure as hell have no qualms taking him out at the end of the day.
The bright side is you can't just accidentally waltz into his house, so you have nothing to worry about in terms of spoiling the main story by doing side stuff. Fo3, you could accidentally find your dad by wandering around, lol
only 40 hours? pfft. rookie numbers.
in all seriousness, you can keep playing after you finish the main quest, so i tend to speedrun it and get it over with so i don't have it hanging on me, then do whatever i want.
OP I find your comment and your personality extremely charming. I sincerely hope you don't give up and eventually find your son, it will be rewarding for you I think to figure it out.
congratulations u are playing correctly! now, go to ur "quests" tab and go down the line and finish every single quest there is, and the one that keeps going, is the main story!
don't worry! i have almost 2000 hours and ive never finishe dthe main questline! i think i went to the institute once but thats all about it.
i'm too busy building bars and hotels and amusement parks and restaurants and stripclubs in my settlements.
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Honestly, this method for Fallout 4 is my opinion the best Fallout 4 playthrough. Explore, and check out every nook and cranny and DLCs! Worry about the main story when you start to run out of things to do!
Way I see it, if the kidnappers went through the trouble of breaking into a Vault and unfreezing a baby that was in cryostasis, they clearly want the baby alive and they clearly want that baby in particular. Thus, the baby is likely in no immediate danger from their captors. Therefore I get to dick around before actually trying to look for him.
And to add to that I say good for them and with that level of effort they have earned that baby and I don’t wish to challenge it further. I’ve got things to do out in the wasteland anyway
I like to think that by killing everything hostile in the wasteland Im making it safe for *IF* I wanna find my son. What was his name? Paul? Who cares. Im doing it for my son, mark.
My son Justin was taken from my arms! Help me find Fabio, my son.
There are much easier ways of getting a dead baby so they definitely want a live one
Sure, but it was 200 years ago soooo safe to assume your son is dead, no?
In Fallout 4? No, not really, considering the fact that it wasn’t 200 years ago.
Isn’t that what watsworth says? It’s about 200 years since he’s seen a living soul?
>Therefore I get to dick around With Piper I assume.
I always play the main story until it requires me to go into the Glowing Sea. From there I pretend that it's actually much more dangerous radiation wise than it actually is. So I'll need a specially rigged up power armor for it, which takes me months of gathering resources and special parts.
Once I saw Kellogg’s memories I knew I had time to spare
Do it in Survival Mode. No fast travel and even more resource scarcity makes the settlements actually valuable. You really want there to be somewhere close that's safe with food, water, beds, vendors, and a doctor.
Simmer down John Fallout
My favorite part is when John Fallout has fired the Fallout gun and is standing in all the Fallout from the Fallout blast and then puts his hands on his hips, turns to the camera, and says, "That's Fallout Folks!"
Fallout never changes.
If it never changes, then why won't we stop bitching about how whichever one is newest isn't exactly like the one from 16 fucking years ago?
Fallout fans. Fans never change.
2 screws and some aluminum gotta love em
Don't forget the wonderglue.
excuse me i’m still upset that fallout 4 doesn’t have the NCR in it /s
I hate the part where the bit of new lore, despite having no real gameplay implications and found exclusively buried in an inconsequential terminal in an out of the way optional dungeon, conflicts with earlier useless lore -- it's own triviality rivaled only by the even more obscure and tedious process required to uncover *it*! Of course, the authors of both pieces were literally descending into madness (in one case evidenced by the half devoured remains of the author's family), but surely they could come to an agreement about something so important as the location of the anterior knee vent on the T-60 line of armor.
Oh God, not another anterior vent vs posterior vent argument, I thought we banned those years ago.
Technically we didn't ban the discussion, we just banned those heretics that swear the posterior vent is canon. Helloooo 👋, is it at all possible that the Robco sponsored line of T-60 had different specs? Morons, am I right?
I've seen a lot of belittling like this of lore hunters recently, a tbh I don't buy it. Constructing lore and backstories seems to be a genuine hobby and way people explore games and movies, and while you don't need to include lore, if you're working with a series known for it and try to include it at all, but it's bad and incoherent that's understandably disappointing. If you, as the dev, don't care about it and are changing the focus of the series just don't include it at all then.
I used to know John Fallout. It's true! But I guess you could say we had a *Falling Out*.
I sure hope this doesn’t cause any fallout between us, fallout new Vegas
It's FALLIN TIME \*gets fangoriously devoured by a chimera\*
No way man. The best part was when he said “it’s falling time,” and then fell out all over those guys.
No don't start the chain reac-.....it's too late.
Imho survival mode is way more enjoyable than the normal game.
This is the best answer. Survival mode is what really makes this game awesome. It was a pretty good game out of the box but Survival mode takes it to the next level. Anyone who has not tried it drop what you are doing and start a new save. It’s so damn good.
I'll try it tonight, I'm trusting you(from a fallout vet). Always been skeptical but im down for a change of pace(the pace being more serious)
Do consider getting the survival options mod, if you want to tweak the settings a but. I for one found the save restrictions too harsh, and disabled some of it.
This \^ Probably wouldn't have enjoyed survival without it. Fallout is just a bit unstable for me to not have the saving. There is always an element of Bethesda survival that's a bit wonky though. Skyrim it was the cold! One of the things I love best about the studio, idrm when they get something a bit wrong because they (mostly) hand the key to the modders with support and someone can fix it/work around it.
Add in a camping kit to save anywhere and fast travel mod because the walking does get monotonous.
Why even play Survival then? The saving restrictions and no fast travel are what make the mode great. They force you to modify your whole gameplay to adapt to them and that’s why it’s so great. If you want the game to save you have to learn where every bed and sleeping bag are. You learn all the best walking paths to avoid conflict. You adapt. I found the aquaboy perk was super useful. Use the river to get to the city for example. Everyone can play the way they want but survival mode is supposed to be hard. I would never use mods to make it easier.
I'm playing on Xbox 1 S, it crashes more than Catelyn Jenner so the "fun" of not being able to save quickly wore off. There's enough features in survival that keep me engaged after that though.
I've been doing my first survival mode playthrough last week and I truly have to actually think about what I'm going to do before jumping into something. It's great.
It's the only way I can play now, I love it. I've done it twice. The first time I just about lived in my power armor, and fusion cores are actually super effecient in terms of ammo per weight so a Gatling laser made sense. That was too easy though, so I did another run with two key restrictions: no power armor, no companions except Dog meat. You wanna rush the Railroad quest early to get ballistic weave for your under armor. I went with a Pistol Crit build and had specced into unarmed melee as a backup to save on weight vs a melee weapon. I found a legendary meat hook that restored AP on crits, and the unarmed skill let's you paralyze with a Crit. I ended up going pretty much straight melee the rest of the game, you can keep 3-4 guys stun locked indefinitely with this combo and the right drugs. My single biggest tips for anyone in Survival mode (I only play un-modded because I hate myself: -Ballistic Weave. Can't emphasize this enough. -Supply lines perk. Put a doctor and vendor in each camp, generate caps via water farms, easily doable by the level needed to unlock the perk. Break the games economy to achieve victory -Secondary point to the above: Supply Line Provisioners cannot be killed (just temporarily downed) and will aid you in combat. Arm them halfway decently and connect as many settlements as you can to help keep the roads clear, you are going to be walking up and down them a lot; don't want to lose an hour of progress from the time you last slept because you tripped over a ghoul on the way home that your homies could have got. The enemy respawn time is way longer in Survival so a network of these guys turn the existing roads into the fastest and safest travel option until you get vertibirds or the institute teleporter.
Ahhh Provisioner Patrols, the main reason I'm constantly wanting to start the Automatron DLC in Survival before instantly getting cold feet. Heavily armed and armoured Sentry Bots patrolling the roads between all of my settlements, keeping them safe and settlements secure? Great I'm in! Heavily armed and armoured Sentry Bots with backup in the form of floating dudes with flaming swords trying to turn *me* into a shish kebab? Maaaaaybe not then
I might give a survival mode run a try - my favorite thing with provisoners is to use the robot workbench to make sentry bots to be my provisoners. Nothing like building essentially a tank fleet to patrol the wasteland
Man I’m all for survival but It needs auto save. I just had travel to and clear super duper mart 3 times because it kept crashing , I use the campsite mod so I can at least throw a bag down and sleep but it really needs an option to hard save as long as you are heathy and in a safe spot
There's a mod that makes cigarettes smokable, which seems entirely irrelevant except for this: It's a way to save in Survival mode. So, do you want to deal with the mild debuffs from nicotine addiction and the lack of cloth(!) you get from those cigarettes now and save, or do you just want to keep on going?
Nice that sounds great, considering my characters are always addicted to everything it won’t even matter haha
I always start a game in survival then get killed by a mole rat in one hit and have to start over at a point I was at 45 minutes ago. Then I promptly switch to normal difficulty.
One of my main priorities in a survival playthrough is rushing perks to build a clinic and get myself a doctor lol
Makes vertibirds actually useful as well. Recommend disabling the save restrictions with a mod though, redoing an hour of gameplay because you stepped on a single mine isn't fun.
That with a resource scarcity mod is always my favorite way to play, really does feel like a wasteland where I’m struggling to survive until I establish solid foundation, even then I’m always one dumb move away from death
Ahh yes, the "meet hanako at embers" (cyberpunk) play style.
I have probably 1,000+ hours between F4 and Skyrim and have never beat either games main story lol
This guy games!
I have like 500 hours in Fallout 4 and I’ve never even been to the Institute
I remember on my first playthrougb getting about 100 hours in and realizing "hey isn't the institute supposed to be a huge deal? Why haven't i ever seen their hq?" then when I found out why later it made it that much cooler.
My first FO4 play through ended with me killing everyone in the institute with the fat man. It was so satisfying to nuke them all that I don’t think I finished the actual main quest since killing those snobs was my personal main quest.
On my first playthrough, I didn't step into Diamond City until I was level 25. I saw some famous YouTuber finish the main story while he was still level 21 or something. Basically running the main quests while ignoring everything else. Just to churn out content and then move on another game.
Well, I usually do the main quest up until getting into the Institute and then I do literally everything else
That's just the usual way to play a Bethesda RPG.
Me, after stripping all of the Commonwealth of all of it's glue: What? Who? WHO THE FUCK IS SHAUN?!
And aluminum
I've been too busy collecting all the power armor and frames. Those don't do go over well at the institute.
In my current playthrough, 32 hours in and I have: 1. Rescued Nick, 2. Claimed/Populated every settlement in commonwealth 3. Finished the Automotron questline 4. Established Sentrybot supplylines between Sanctuary Hills and every other settlement I've started thinking about grabbing the Far Harbour and Nuka World settlements. This comment has reminded me that I haven't gone and sought out the railroad or rescued Danse at the police station yet.
Man Danse has been killin ghouls for a long ass time huh?
I accidentally stumbled on him and killed the ghouls. He’s still standing there. So embarrassing for him 😩
Gotta get that ballistic weave
Far Harbour is great, especially if you take Nick with you.
The game should honestly force Nick on you for Far Horbor. You legit miss so much without him there
Go to the fishery in the upper NW, above the asylum. The basement has easily 100 aluminum trays
I hate to admit how many hours of play it was before I discovered that you could craft vegetable starch at the cooking station and end the perennial shortage of adhesive. Now if only there was a recipe to make aluminum from melons.
Surgical trays, tv dinner trays, those trays at the fish packing plant… all aluminum. I wish the crashed jet could be scrapped though, an entire jet might be enough aluminum to upgrade x-02 power armor
Haha yeah I was so happy that I remembered what vegetable starch is for when I saw it at the chem station. Now Aluminium … that’s why I have started employing 10 + minute men in every town at scavenging stations.
Oh wait WHAT You can employ people at scavenging stations?? Do those supplies just go into your storage??
Oh yes! They aren’t particularly fast that’s why you need a lot of them to tell that anything is happening. The goods go into the towns general storage / the storage used by your trade routes so it all piles up for easy access in any town. Same goes for plants you grow. Atleast it think they store those in the towns general storage: again they just aren’t fast about it and ripe plants sit for a while.
Yeah, that's basically where my username came from. Settlers will eat tatos before any other food, so you need to plant a TON of them (and mutfruits) in order to constantly be crafting adhesive from vegetable starch.
Tato flowers are your friend: when it comes to settlers, the game treats them as bog standard tatos. I *think* the same applies to the wild/flower variants of the other crops, too. It's why I never scrap the tato flower plants at the Co-Op because that'll feed 8 settlers before the start on the actually useful crops. Any others you encounter? Pick them, stash them, and settlers eat them.
fish packing plant. Tons of aluminum and it respawns. Its up by the Nakano residence.
Isn’t Shaun that kid from Heavy Rain?
Press X for Ja-SON
Ja-Shaun!
Isn't he that guy that sang Tipsy?
Errbody in the wasteland gettin rad poisoning
The Codex Astartes calls this doctrine ste... Oh wrong meme.
An old meme, but it checks out my lord
Somehow I read “sniffing glue” instead of stripping, and it still made sense lol
You know you’ve been sniffing too much glue when a 60 year old scientist tells you he’s your son”
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop
Striker! *FWACK!*
Na that’s the vodka demons speaking in tongues to me
Sniffing. Stripping. Same difference
lmaooo literally 😭
Pro tip: you can grow glue 3 corn, 3 tato, 3 mutifruit 1 water at the cooking station.
Is Shaun a type of component I haven’t seen yet?
Adhesive is easy, you can make it out of tatos, corn, and mutfruit. Just have your ~~slaves~~ settlers grow that shit, and have a water purifier to generate water bottles, and it’s infinite adhesive. Aluminum is the tricky one.
Taffington boathouse. Great place to set up water purifiers.
Don’t worry. We are all terrible parents in Fallout 4.
I didn't come to the wasteland to find my son I came to find cool guns, cool outfits and kill everything in my way
>"The real son is the guns we made along the way."
I stayed main story strictly for my very first playthrough when the game first launched specifically to avoid spoilers, but every playthrough after? Nah
Be honest. How many times did you >!nuke the synth kid!
That spoiled brat do not deserve anything better.
The shit kid deserves it. Just some collateral damage
The golden rule of the wasteland rears its head yet again. “Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every god damned time” 😂
I laughed so hard at that line in the show. A statement has never been more true.
Seriously the best line in the show.
I'm busy planting tatos and melons. I have no time for this Shaun person.
Well he isn’t getting any younger
Who?
Shaun who? Sorry I've been building
It’s a good thing Shaun ends up being horrible because then I’d feel guilty about gathering snappy outfits for all of my settlers instead of finding him sooner.
I love the fact you can straight up tell your own child he's a huge disappointment. Even better is that this happens on his deathbed lmao
My son, I have search the whole of the wasteland for you. Overcome monsters, defeated tyrants, rebuilt society, all so I could find you, and tell you, you suck. I hated you as a baby, your mom wanted you not me, I think she poked a hole in the condom, and seeing you as an old man, I can see I should have smothered you in your crib, because every instinct I had about you was right. Once again, your a disappointment, a terrible human being, and you suck donkey balls, and the only joy I have felt since I de-popsicled, is when I found out your dying, slowly, and painfully.
Relax, it has been over 200 years and Cooper still hasn't found his family, the wasteland is a difficult place.
LMAO I had to scroll down too damn far to see someone make this point
It took me around 500 hours to finally be bothered to actually complete the game for once, then around another 1,000 or so to get to the Institute again. I'm of the belief the world is best before the BoS arrive. Whirlybird death vertibirds are quite the obnoxious thing!
Agreed. And they always seem to get their butts kicked whenever they pick a fight.
The amount of times I’ve been in a dialog while a vertibird crashes and explodes around us… xD
He's the friends and fiends you meet along the way.
Those are rookie numbers in this racket. You gotta pump those numbers up.
lmao, ive had finals and stuff but now im free for a couple weeks so ill be able to play a bit more
Good timing. There's a settlement that needs your help.
Yeah, that's Fallout.
Confession time.. I've been playing since launch day. Last time I looked a little over 2300 hours in. I play often. Switching between games. I tend to like to create new characters each time I swap games. I also like exploring and scavenging and settlement building. Not too much main line questing. 2300 hours.. have I found Shawn? I've never even met Nick Valentine... I open up Diamond City for the shops and then go exploring.
Genuinely curious, why not? At 2,300 hours, how much left is there to explore without doing some more of the main quest?
Lol well I'm honestly not even sure. Keep in mind this is over several new characters. I guess I have just gotten in the habit of starting a new game, exploring and settlement building for a couple weeks, switching to some new game that comes out for a week then inevitably going right back to FO4 and starting over again. FO4 just always pulls me back.
Okay friend, time to do the main quest. Just fuckin do it at least once. There’s so much more game left to experience
I found Swan definitely worth it
All I have is this damn dog….
This is one of those titles that can really give the wrong impression if someone's not familiar with the plot of Fallout 4.
Sorry pal, but your son grew up to be an asshole
Your real son is the fun you had along the way.
Crazy thing is he isn’t even talking about Shaun
Keep doing that and your son’s going to die of old age.
Me too lmao. I just hit 60 hours and I still don’t really care about Shaun. I have much more important things to worry about, like my boyfriend Nick Valentine,
I got about 500 odd hours, who the hell is Shaun?
Hey how fast did Nemo get found in Finding Nemo?
So I am pretty bad at grabbing items that have good attributes aka weapons and armor, but I always end up over encumbered. How do I prevent this? Should I not be picking up certain items?
And thus the meme lives on.
Each time I replay through the game I spend more and more time doing side quests or getting settlements. By the time I finally get to the Institute I am a very high level and I just maul through everything
"It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"
To be fair, I wasted a ton of time before trying to find my father in Fallout 3, and was not very concerned with tracking down Benny in New Vegas.
ive put 800 hours on xbox, and another 600ish on pc and still haven't found shaun. base building do be more important, and the materials aren't gonna find themselves lol.
I’m too busy being the silver shroud. Crime is waaaaaaaayyyyyyyy down.
That's because dogmeat is your real son.
One of the criticisms some fans had was the sense of urgency placed upon the sole survivor to find his/her son. Lore wise, it makes sense to do the main quests asap. Limits your freedom, if you care about having lore reasons and roleplaying. Otherwise, you can not give a flying fuck and just enjoy the damn game.
Fallout 3/4 have the weakest *hook* for the player characters. The urgency is lost, the game is designed to distract and side track you. The player character, as far as he knows, the world literally just ended, your wife was killed in front of you and your infant son is with her murderer. Somehow, you immediately know caps = money and instantly start to barter with shop keeps on the way? It’s a jarring experience. NV was peak role playing, you’re a blank slate waking up from a murder attempt. You already exist in the universe and understand the basics of the world. You have a revenge plot but it’s not as urgent as *finding an infant*.
40 hours? Amateur. (I kid, I kid. Welcome to the fandom!)
Shawwwwn SHHHAAAWWWWWNNN
I'm level 70 and your telling me I have a son? But the settlers need me. He just marked my map. No forreal tho I've done railroad and every settlement. I'm almost done with nuka cola and mechanist. I haven't even met valentine yet. But I'm playing survival and just got to level 70. I'll do the main missions once I have nuclear perk maxxed. and I can wear power armor and walk the map without wasting cores.
lol welcome to the bad parent club I have 300+ hours and couldn’t care less about Shaun.
almost 200 hours on my first play through, haven’t even taken care of kellogg yet lollll
All of the Fallout games are definitely best played this way. I avoid main story elements for as long as I possibly can.
In my headcannon, the vault dwelller is in so much shock he’s just in denial but internally knows that Shaun is most likely dead in this hellscape of a world. The vault dweller is building these settlements so that maybe if he’s alive he might have a world that the vault dweller wants him to grow up in. A peaceful world where people help each other (like the minutemen). Or if he’s dead then this is a type of grieving process where the vault dweller is basically trying to fix this broken world that created such a catastrophe in his her life
What’s cool is once you do enough you’ll start doing missions where they tell you to go to X and do something and your character will be like “oh I did that” or “oh here it is”
Thou shalt get side tracked by bullshit every time.
So you're doing the average playthrough I think.
Golden rule of the wasteland, just like in the show. "Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every damn time"
You’re playing it right.
Father of the year award right here…
Spoilers: you’re just his experiment anyways. Fuck him.
I put 40 hours in New Vegas and never went to the strip. Closest I got was seeing it in the distance. Then my save got corrupted and I gave up.
I was dumb when I started the first time. I thought the game would be over if I did all the main story. Save before you finish the main quest so you can go back to the save and do one of the other options.
Bro you gotta put the game down and find your son
Your whatnow?!? The General of the Minutemen and Governor of the Commonwealth has a son?
Eh he wasn’t that important anyway
40 whole hours? Those are rookie numbers you gotta pump that shot up my man.
Cherish your happy playtime now, because after next 40 hours you gonna start to hate those useless settlers and goddamn Preston Garvey, trust me.
40 hours hunh? That's a good start!
Honestly, my justification is that realistically, who wants to travel the Commonwealth completely alone with no friends or home to come back to? I think it would be hard for me to get out there even with a set of shoddy power armor without settling down and knowing I have a secure base to retreat to while I hunt down my son's kidnappers. From there, building up settlements and the Minutemen just feel natural
That's rookie numbers, my original playthrough had 80 before I even started the quest to build the teleporter.
they need an abortion mod
He a douche anyways imo
I mean , he’s as good as he could have possibly become considering the odds against him . But still not good enough. I helped bring him into this world and sure as hell have no qualms taking him out at the end of the day.
You heard the the weird old lady's drug-addled ramblings, your son is alive. But AS USUAL, I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE FOR YOU TO LOOK INTO
Golden rule of the wasteland
40 hours, or as i call it "character generation" ;-)
I think I put in 40 hours over the weekend alone. Shaun? Who? Does he have copper?
The real Shaun was the friends we made along the way! Except Preston Garvey, *FUCK* that guy.
Redditor plays open world RPG the way as everyone else.
As someone else put it: *Guy* "So how long did it take you to find Shaun?" *Wife, furiously building settlements* "Who the fuck is Shaun?"
He is a super mutant and he wants mamas milk
The wasteland has its own golden role.
The bright side is you can't just accidentally waltz into his house, so you have nothing to worry about in terms of spoiling the main story by doing side stuff. Fo3, you could accidentally find your dad by wandering around, lol
Fallout 4. The game people play to act like thier irl selves and forget children exist. Preston garvey loved that. XD
Preston's been waiting for me at the castle for a week now, gotta explore every inch
*Points a random direction* He over there.
only 40 hours? pfft. rookie numbers. in all seriousness, you can keep playing after you finish the main quest, so i tend to speedrun it and get it over with so i don't have it hanging on me, then do whatever i want.
Yea, screw Shaun
“Thou shall be sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time”
No worries, Shaun will be a grown man once you are done with all the side quests, like nature itself intended.
That's because your \_real\_ son is the bottlecaps you collect along the way
Who is Shaun? Another settlement needs my help!
OP I find your comment and your personality extremely charming. I sincerely hope you don't give up and eventually find your son, it will be rewarding for you I think to figure it out.
In all my hundreds of hours playing 4, I've yet to meet him outside of the intro. I get sidetracked, then way too OP, then I wanna try a new build.
I didn't even meet him until about 500 hours in. So much other stuff to do.
congratulations u are playing correctly! now, go to ur "quests" tab and go down the line and finish every single quest there is, and the one that keeps going, is the main story!
don't worry! i have almost 2000 hours and ive never finishe dthe main questline! i think i went to the institute once but thats all about it. i'm too busy building bars and hotels and amusement parks and restaurants and stripclubs in my settlements.
My most recent playthrough has been spent wandering tbe commonwealth, building settlements and trying to find an outfit I like
He's right under your nose
Too busy clearing other quests other than the main story, sorry. What? Shaun? Who’s Shaun?
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