Fallout 4 has no ceiling to the number of ways that you can approach the game and have fun with it. With a vast open world, you can pretty much play the game however you would like. There are even some ways to get ahead of the game before you start the main storyline.
After the brief playable introduction to the game, the main character emerges from Vault 111. A command will immediately pop up on the screen and tell the player to return to the main character’s home. You could start your game from that point on, but why would you when you have an entire open world available? There is no such thing as being over-prepared.
15 Encounter The Major Factions In The Game
There are several factions that players can interact with in Fallout 4, with all of them playing a fairly important role in the overall plot. Aside from the Syndicate and The Brotherhood of Steel, all the other factions can be interacted with regardless of the story’s motivations.
Players need to align themselves with one such faction to reach the ending of the game, so it’s better to start sooner rather than later. It helps that interacting with these factions is also pretty engaging in its own right.
14 Discover The Public Uproar Against The Synths
The Synths are one of the most important characters in Fallout 4. A majority of the characters either hate or want to protect these artificial humans, who are encountered as enemies several times in the game too.
Understanding the reason behind this hate makes for a great time in Fallout 4. Entering Diamond City is the best way to see just how much hate and distrust there is for these artificial beings and form your own opinions.
13 Start Gathering Useful Loot
Looting anything and everything in Fallout 4 is a golden ticket to getting encumbered in the game. Instead, players should be wary about what they pick up - some loot being objectively better than others.
You should only be picking up the items that are valuable, important, or both. Players will amass a fortune even if they don’t sell anything and everything they can get their hands on.
12 Experiment With Survival Mode
Survival Mode is a pretty great way to make things more challenging and interesting in Fallout 4. Most veterans of Fallout 4 know just how fun and engaging this mode really is.
Survival Mode adds a massive number of changes to the game, making it a pretty engaging mode indeed. Fans of the game who want a more hardcore experience will be well-serviced with this new mode.
11 Amass A Small Fortune
Hoarding bottle caps is a great way to make things easier in Fallout 4. It gives players the means to replenish supplies and also buy any powerful weapon that might appear at a vendor.
Most players of Bethesda games tend to become billionaires in their respective worlds by the end of these adventures. So, Fallout 4 is obviously no different.
10 Decide How You Want To Start
After you exit the vault, you have at least a couple of weapon types to choose from. Whether you want to build a melee warrior or a sharpshooter, you’ll want to start by taking a look at the perk chart.
This can be accessed from your Pip-Boy. From here you see all of the different abilities you can get as you progress through the game and can begin planning your character’s build.
9 Explore The Outskirts Of Sanctuary
There are a handful of points of interest surrounding Vault 111. Explore them! You will encounter enemies but you can beat them and loot their equipment.
This will give you a pretty good start on your weaponry and armor. If you look hard enough you will come across your first companion.
8 Dungeon Crawling
There are a few places around Sanctuary that you will enter, hidden in the shadows of the commonwealth. You will want to enter these with caution as there may be treasures to find, but there are also enemies to fight.
These places often have a lot of junk, ammo, and weapons to loot. These are a great way to begin leveling up your character as well.
7 Establish A Merchant
Merchants come few and far between at the beginning of the game, but they’re there, you just have to find them. You can find a trader on the western border of the map across from Sanctuary.
There is also a diner south of the Red Rocket gas station, where you will have to help out the owner. Once you do, you will be able to trade with her. Having a merchant this early will be important for you to offload unwanted weapons and junk in exchange for Caps.
6 Finding Power Armor Before The Story
The iconic Power Armor of Fallout is pretty easy to come by when starting the storyline but you can find it much sooner. If you travel northwest of Sanctuary, you will come across a robot scrap yard and nearby is a suit of Power Armor!
A fusion core is needed to run the Power Armor but, if you did some exploring throughout the area, you should have easily picked one up. The Power Armor eliminates fall damage and increases damage and Rads resistance.
5 Destroy And Rebuild Sanctuary
Once you exit the vault, the player is tasked with going back to his home. The once perfect suburban neighborhood is now reduced to post-apocalyptic rubble. A red workbench can be found within Sanctuary.
Use this to start cleaning up the neighborhood. You’ll want to get all of your settlement stat numbers to at least ten. This includes your food, water, beds, and defense.
4 Build A Recruitment Radio Beacon
Once you have spruced up Sanctuary a bit and added some amenities, you can build a Recruitment Radio Beacon that will attract settlers to stay at Sanctuary. The Recruitment Radio Beacon is located under the Power category in the Misc section of the builder mode.
Once you have a few settlers you can begin assigning them to jobs such as farming, defense, and scavenging to help run the settlement.
3 Build Your Arsenal
By now you should have a pretty good stock of weapons with different ammo types. Use the crafting tables to make them powerful and efficient. You will be able to increase damage, reduce recoil, add sights and scopes, and increase ammo capacity for your weapons.
Keep the ammo types diverse so that you will always have a backup if you run out of a certain ammo type. Ensuring you have an effective arsenal will make your battles in The Wasteland much easier.
2 Reach Level 10 And Raise The Difficulty
Once you have reached level ten, your build for your character should be well on its way. Now it’s time to get some legendary equipment. Increasing the difficulty will increase the chances of a legendary enemy appearing.
When you defeat legendary enemies they will drop legendary armor or weapons. These rare weapons and armor will have a special attribute to them. Equip them or sell them for a pretty bottlecap.
1 Save Valentine. Ditch Garvey.
Preston Garvey is among the most annoying NPCs in all of gaming as he will constantly be pestering you about side quests for your to complete. You can actually skip Preston Garvey and the Minutemen story beat altogether. Instead of stopping in Concord at the Freedom Museum where a group of survivors is pinned up, ignore their pleas for help and just keep running.
You can start the main story by finding Nick Valentine. Travel Southeast from Sanctuary to Diamond City and you will eventually begin the quest, Unlikely Valentine. Finding Nick will begin the story progression for the main storyline and you won’t have to worry about Preston Garvey breathing down your neck the entire game.
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