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Helpful Pages Fallout 4

• Settlements Guide: For help getting started building your trade empire!
• Controls: View all controls to refresh your memory on the basic controls of the game.
• Stats: Stats are the foundation to define the player's overall abilities and effectiveness. Learn all about the basic stats and what they're for.
• Romance: View all Companions or Flings and each of their personalities for the best results
• Walkthrough: Follow our step-by-step guide to efficiently get through the game. 
• Factions: Learn all about the Factions and their interactions.

Quicksave Fallout 4

Quicksave frequently, especially before going into battle. This is a deadly world, and unseen danger lurks everywhere. Don't lose progress from getting too comfortable.

Fallout 4 Loot

 Loot everything you see: crates, desks, chests, etc. Resources are scarce, and the more Ammo, Items, and Bottlecaps you can scrounge up the better you will be able to survive. Carrying too much and cannot fast travel. You can use aid items to boost your strength to fast travel home. Items like Buffout and Grilled Radstag will boost your carry weight for a short time, allowing you an opportunity to fast travel back to your storage location of choice. Below is a list of some valuable scrap that you'll want to begin picking up quickly into the game.

• Duct Tape (Adhesive)
• Oil Cans (Oil)
• Wonderglue (Adhesive) 
• Cigarette Packs (Caps)

Crafting and Upgrades in Fallout 4

Improving your Weapons and Armor as well as creating Items such as Consumables and Ammo through Crafting will help you become much more self-reliant in the Wasteland. It also gives you something to do with all of those Miscellaneous Items you pick up, as you break them down into valuable Materials for Mods. Turn that awful irradiated meat into something nutritious and more valuable!

If you are spending time with crafting (and this is recommended), Adhesive is a vital Material used in Mods. You can never have enough of it. You can flag a material from a crafting workbench by viewing a mod you can't make. That will mark the material with a magnifying glass. Anywhere in your wasteland travels where you encounter Items that can be broken down into the material you need, moving your cursor over them will mark them with the same magnifying glass. This makes it much easier right away to know what is junk and what isn't. You can also make use of Settlements to help your adhesive needs. Grow some Corn, Mutfruit, Tato and install water purifiers for Purified Water. Those 4 ingredients can be combined at a Cooking Station to create Vegetable Starch which is good for 5 units of Adhesive per starch.

New Player Help Notes and Tips for Fallout 4

• Notes and Tips go here. 
• If you are opting to quest with one of the Companions pay attention to their Affinity when making decisions. Unlocking their Companion Perks and romance options requires high affinity.
• Fallout 4 is all about exploration. Go everywhere you can, talk to every NPC and accept every Quest that comes your way. It's your ticket to seeing all there is in this massive world.
• Collect every weapon you come across. Every weapon you pickup, gives you ammunition. The amount of ammo is varied between zero and the capacity of the weapon. (A Pipe Rifle with a modded capacity of 48, gives 0-48 .38 ammo.) If you don't need the gun, just drop it.
• Don't ignore Settlements. While optional, developing a thriving community can pay off in spades when it comes to survival and resources. In particular, setting up some water purifiers can make sure you have a constant stock of Purified Water which is one of the best options for healing on the go.

Items to Bring in Fallout 4

• Fusion Core: Keep a Fusion Core on hand. Their power runs out quickly when using Power Armor. When it comes to Power Armor, try to use it only when you need the heavy defensive capabilities of it to conserve your cores.
• Hazmat Suit: Be prepared with a Hazmat Suit in your inventory to protect from radiation so you won't be caught off guard in the middle of the Radiation Storm. You can also be extra prepared with  a stock of RadAways and Stimpaks on hand.

Things to keep track of in Fallout 4

• Addiction: Keep an eye on your addiction levels. Using too many Chems can lead to unwanted side effects and withdrawal symptoms. Addictions may be cured by a doctor or by consuming Radscorpion Steak or Addictol.
• Radiation: These are damaging stats that you will need to keep track of. 
• Bonuses: Pay attention to the different bonuses earned with Equipment such as Armor. Equipping an item that confers a barter bonus before negotiating prices may make a difference in your success.

Radiation Fallout 4

Keep an eye on your radiation and limb damage levels. Try and keep ample stock of RadAways and Stimpaks on hand. When you're in the middle of a big firefight, you'll be glad you came prepared with healing.

Speaking of radiation, always be prepared with a Hazmat Suit in your inventory. There are several highly irradiated areas in the Commonwealth as well as the ambient and random Radiation Storm. Having a a hazmat suit which is much lighter than Power Armor will allow you to quickly protect yourself from the dangers of radiation sickness.

Combat in Fallout 4

• Enemy A.I. is improved from past games. Enemies will flank, hide, ambush and take actions of survival almost as you would. Don't leave your Power Armor unattended!
• Fallout 4 features a leaning-while-aiming (semi-sticky) cover system. To enter cover mode, face the wall at the edge of it, then aim down the sights.
• A singular attack may be made into a critical attack by using the “critical” input.
• Make liberal use of the V.A.T.S. in game targeting system. Fallout 4 may have been redesigned to be a smoother real time shooter but being able to pause and line up precision shots as well as identity potentially hidden enemies is invaluable.

V.A.T.S. Tips: 

• Entities that can be targeted using V.A.T.S include enemies, creatures, and throwables
• A successful attack on a throwable will immediately explode it (if it is an explosive)
• Melee attacks do a singular attack per V.A.T.S input. However, chaining melee inputs causes the player model to “jump around” an enemy with each hit, making you harder to hit. 
• Automatic ranged weapons fire a burst of projectiles per each V.A.T.S attack. This burst of projectiles will either all hit the target or all miss. 
• Each attack frame can leave the player vulnerable to attack due to the glitchy nature of the system. Attacks may occur in quick succession or with a short break between them. 

Damage Types Fallout 4

• Ballistic: Most physical and ballistic weapons will deal ballistic damage
• Energy: Dealt by laser-type weapons; incendiary and cryo attacks can also deal Energy Damage.
• Radiation: Cause by specific guns, radioactive items, or the Radiation storm. Players will be able to keep track of their radiation damage when affected. 
• Poison: Mostly dealt by creatures or by specific weapons that cause this effect
• Explosive: Dealt by explosives such as throwables, missiles, and the Fatman
• Bleed: This damage is usually received over time. It is another type of physical damage.