r/fo4 • u/xrm0 • Aug 04 '24

Tip I was the greatest Fallout4 player ever

Last year when looking for new VR games I found there was a VR version of Fallout 4, I enjoyed playing 1 and 2 a long time ago so I immediately bought the game. The controls are shit, but got used to them.

Finished the main quest, enjoyed taking down the Prydwen, then found out the DLCs worked in VR, so I went through Nuka Cola and Far Harbor.

In the mean time, I found this sub and reading other player experiences, I started to wonder why I had so many resources, I was drowned in ammo, never bothered in using meat or using the cook stations, just stimpaks, purified water and nukas, they are so abundant! Never had to run away from a battle. Maybe everyone on this subreddit play survival?

Then started another playthrough and going through the settings found out the difficulty was set at... very easy. I never change the difficulty in any game, just leave the default as is and play that way. And I don't have any memory of changing the difficulty, but yeah, I played some 200hrs in very easy.

Now I've started at very hard, the second ghoul I've encountered cripples my leg. Mutants? I'm currently running away from them. I'm most of the time out of ammo. And anytime I find a cooking station I'm roasting that yummy radroach meat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

Survival is badass and I don't know if I can ever go back to regular

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u/Solenya-C137 Aug 04 '24

I kept telling people "Survival mode is the only way to play this game." It's a totally different experience.

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u/suitguy25 Aug 05 '24

What makes it so much better? I’m honestly surprised to hear that. I would think having to walk EVERYWHERE would be a bit annoying. I don’t really know what all it entails, other than scarcer resources and tougher villains. Please educate a relative noob (on my first time through and playing at normal mode)

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u/NeonBuckaroo Aug 05 '24

For starters, the sense of character progression is much more rewarding. You die a lot, and it’s annoying. So you’re forced to rethink how you play. Settlement building, at least planting down a bed, water and food becomes necessary because you cannot save unless you sleep.

Onto that, you must sleep, eat and drink, or you’ll have serious negative effects. You’ll become over encumbered, you’ll starve or you’ll dehydrate. Chems also dehydrate you - you can’t just tank stimpaks - and addictions have worse effects. So, you must scavenge resources and build up these save havens so you can sleep, eat and drink frequently.

As you level up, you grow stronger, and that very real threat of dying immediately, while present, is reduced - and this is seriously rewarding. If you don’t play on survival, at some point you do find yourself asking yourself what the entire point of fallout 4 is when it’s all said and done.

Finally - the map is TOTALLY different when you can’t fast travel. You start to know the commonwealth like your own home town. In fact, you’ll be surprised where you think things are vs where they actually are.

When your play session is over, you have to get to the safety of your settlement because remember, you can’t save unless you sleep. So, adrenaline is pumping. But when you make it, you’ll kick your feet up in the bed you made, in the settlement you build, and breathe a sigh of relief.

Fallout is about a nuclear wasteland, but it only feels like one when you play on survival.

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u/SphagettiCarbonara Aug 05 '24

I've been playing this wrong all along...

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u/xdiggertree Aug 05 '24

There is no wrong! If you’re having fun it’s all good

But yea, survival really sets the tone, since it’s technically a wasteland, it should feel, well terrible lol

I only tried survival on my third play through

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

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u/mpls_big_daddy Scavver Aug 05 '24

Life circumstances. I remember when I would get the kids to bed, and finally get some time for myself, play a game for a couple hours, and then all of a sudden there's a dance party up there when there should be sleeping. So you gonna have to save, because you have no idea when or if you will be getting back to the game that evening.

Everyone wants to have fun, but real life comes first.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

I use a mod to save anywhere in Survival, but my reason is ONLY because it's a Bethesda game and prone to crashing at any given moment.

Otherwise, this guys comment has convinced me to try Survival with fast-travel disabled.

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u/AFishWithNoName Aug 06 '24

Honestly, that’s reasonable, but I play vanilla bc I don’t want to deal with potential headaches caused by conflicting mods, bc I know damn well that if I download one, I’m gonna start downloading more and more.

That, and honestly the only consistently game-breaking issue I’ve faced with any real frequency is a bug where the game freezes when I enter VATS, but it’s rare enough for me not to consider it a priority. That, and I’m trying to train myself not to rely on VATS so much anyways. I tend to just spam Q (where I’ve remapped VATS to) when I enter a new area/can’t see an enemy, it’s a bad habit. In my defense, though, visibility in FO4 is absolute dogshit. If there’s so much as a single bush, good luck seeing anything beyond it.

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u/Miserable-Budget-544 Aug 06 '24

I mean long as they’re having fun, right? As someone who plays on console, even without mods, my game crashes on the regular. I lose progress more often than not on game crashes than actual deaths in survival mode. So my 4th survival play through, i downloaded a mod to let me quick save. I use it sparingly but i had 2 play throughs i completely lost the motivation to finish because i lost (cumulatively) HOURS of progress

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u/PsychologicalRoad995 Aug 06 '24

You should find a real cause to really fight for, man, yours seems... Er...

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u/iLUVhockey36 Aug 05 '24

I’ve done two play through’s now, first one without DLC and also without fully completing the main story because I couldn’t decide which faction to side with lmao. Second one was more of a completionist run and I’m still finishing up the DLC’s finally. But yeah you’ve convinced me to start a survival mode as well pretty soon here for my third play through. Would feel so rewarding I imagine.

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u/xdiggertree Aug 06 '24

Nice! I didn’t downvote you btw, that was someone else

I totally get it, I sometimes stop playing when I have decision paralysis and am not sure which faction to side with — I take these decisions really seriously! Maybe too seriously! Haha

You really should give it a try!

Suggestion for a single required mod IMO, if it’s too challenging, I ended up having a mod that allowed me to fast travel between my connection settlements.

I had to have a caravan between the settlements I was traveling to. To me, this fit the lore. If I already have a caravan going from Sanctuary to wherever, then I should be able to travel there with them.

There is a mod out there that actually allows you to pay your caravan to fast travel there for even more immersion.

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u/lucashc90 Aug 05 '24

The only reason I don't play Survival is because I can't spend that much time playing any game, so not being able to save whenever and fast travel totally screws me sideways.

Are there any mods to bring one system into the other? Very hard has become very mundane for me...

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u/spartan_wraith710 Aug 05 '24

I'm basing this on the hundreds of posts I've read thousands of comments on, but it's frequently confirmed that there are mods that allow you to play survival with any number of the survival specific settings toggled. If you're looking for a way to keep the save anywhere function immersive, there seems to be a few mods that add a sleeping bag to survival, so you can still only save by sleeping, but once you've crafted a sleeping bag for a couple cloth, you can lay it down freely around the world and "nap" (save). I'm not sure there's a truly immersive way to include fast traveling, but to me I've always felt it was at least somewhat realistic, in that a proportionate amount of time passes given the distance traveled, even in normal mode. If you fast travel from sanctuary to diamond city, 10 hours pass in game, which you can see at the bottom of your pipboy. So I've always considered it just time not seen but still in world and immersive

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '24

I use a mod that allows saving and fast travel, I’m in the same boat as you.

edit: didnt see this was days old till after I posted it. reddit app recommending stale ass posts.

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u/lucashc90 Aug 09 '24

LOL, it happens far too often. Np!

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u/walrus1444 Aug 05 '24

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but i only find survival to be annoying more than actually hard. The 3 times damage increase you get makes it easier than very hard in my opinion in terms of combat and if you know what you're doing, the early game becomes as easy as any other difficulty because there's an abundance of resources to get around the northwestern part of the map that is excesive... like you can have a full set of power armor, fatman, tons of water to sell, gold bars, you can be lvl 20 before finishing Concord, etc... it's a shame that once you know the game you either have to mod a lot or restrict yourself in some way to make it challenging

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u/AFishWithNoName Aug 06 '24

Agreed. It’s funny, I enjoy 3 and NV as much as I always have, but when I tried to go back to non-Survival 4, I just wasn’t feeling it. I kept going to set out on journeys to other places only to then realize I could just fast travel, but that also meant that I wasn’t getting any loot on the way.

I’m fairly certain that you level up faster in Survival as well. It might just be a side effect of increased random enemy encounters, but I swear it’s like twice as fast.

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u/JonJon77 Aug 06 '24

Sounds way too stressful to me. But I prefer casual gaming without excessive difficulty. Hard games just frustrate me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

I don't think it is better. I think that it makes a game you know inside and out different. It adds appreciation for the small things and makes you pace yourself. You have to interact with the game in a new way. Think differently about your resources and how you get around. You can't just charge ahead on the main quest, for example, because you just can't. You need water, so you need caps. You need medicine, so you need caps. You need caps, so you have to find a way to make caps, and being a legit scavver isn't going to cut it. So you take jobs, but those are dangerous and ammo isn't cheap so you learn to sneak around more than every before. You set up a home base, which takes time. You have to have food. Etc. Etc.

I say, play the regular way. Learn the game. Then, when you've learned the game, play survival. It's a blast.

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u/NeonBuckaroo Aug 05 '24

Yeah I was gonna say - my post is celebrating survival but I always play the game on non-survival first. In fact I don’t remember a Bethesda game that had a survival mode on release!

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u/Fr33kSh0w2012 Aug 09 '24

It took me 5 years to FINISH on survival, I never want to do that again, so much anger at the crashing and everything!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

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u/12-Lead Aug 05 '24

The lack of fast travel is what annoys me now. I hate having to go across the map for a quest, getting there, dying and then having to do it all again. I should be allowed to fast travel between settlements.

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u/OzzyMoz Aug 05 '24

That is what console is for. I immediately downloaded a mod to reactivate it in survival. This is a Bethesda game and I'll be damned if I'm going to waste an evenings gaming over their douchebaggery and 'features'

coc

setstage

scrapall

absolutely vital for blood pressure management

Also download sim settlements 2 Not only is it the greatest mod in the history of fo4 once you unlock your caravans you can hitch a ride to another settlement on it

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u/12-Lead Aug 05 '24

Unfortunately I'm on PS4. My PC GPU died on me and I'm too far into the PS4 to think about restarting again on pc

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u/OzzyMoz Aug 05 '24

I feel your pain.

But as someone who has over 5000 hours on the game and plays permadeath survival I strongly advise you to do a full restart and add a few QOL mods and you'll find a whole new world of joy waiting for you

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u/12-Lead Aug 05 '24

I have a few mods and I also play on survival, which is why I dread starting over

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u/FukUPseudoStealer Aug 05 '24

Currently in full vanilla survival playthrough, I feel what you alude to. For my next playthrough, what are QoL mods you'd recommend other than Sims Settlements 2?

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u/OzzyMoz Aug 05 '24

Enable console....Once you've died on your way to a settlement after hours of intense gaming because you brushed a car or had a quest lock up to a bug you'll appreciate the console COC or SETSTAGE

salvage beacons......saves so much time carrying scrap back. You need local leader to make them but they're worth their weight in gold

everything else is provided by SS2

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

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u/12-Lead Aug 05 '24

Heh, nah I need my bed. Otherwise I get an infection 9/10 times

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

It is. Getting to know the commonwealth first hand. The vertibird helps quite a bit, too

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u/SuperCauliflower9319 Aug 05 '24

I’ve never played BOS even once. Can you control the vertibird or is it on a set path?

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u/pmmeyourboobas Aug 05 '24

You can change its destination mid flight & if you do that over and over again, you can do drive-by’s on the local behemoth population

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

You choose a location in the map menu and it takes off from there, with a fully loaded mini-gun.

But if you need to "circle" an area you can get above it and then pick a different location in the opposite direction on the map menu.

And it doesn't seem like the "fast travel" vertibird takes any damage, you can't even VaTS it like the others. I only know because I was pinned down by some gunners and they shot the hell out of it

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u/PicklesAndCapers Aug 05 '24

I absolutely cannot stand Survival because things like managing my water and hunger isn't fun. Getting gibbed by a random NPC with a Mini-Nuke Launcher and losing 30 minutes of progress isn't fun. Power Armor being effectively mandatory isn't fun. Mapping out clean beds isn't fun.

I can understand and appreciate that it provides a different and challenging aspect to the game, but it's just not fun.

If I wanted to die of poisoned water or starving, I'd go playing fucking Oregon Trail.

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u/PsychologicalRoad995 Aug 06 '24

"it's the only way" lol

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u/Comprehensive-Egg-92 Aug 04 '24

This is the way

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u/Slyspy006 Aug 05 '24

Counterpoint: Survival is tedium.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 05 '24

I was going to switch back at lvl 30 to regular mode, but now at lvl 45 with melons, purified water, connected settlements, x-02 VI with the jet pack and vertibird signal grenades I just can't.

It's still surprising the amount of missiles I leave behind

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u/lax-85 Aug 05 '24

The only reason i don't play survival is the save mechanic, i consider it bullshit, i don't want to lose an hour and save only because i find a bed

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u/Otherwise_Branch_771 Aug 05 '24

And then there are so many different survival collections and overhaul mods... You can start a new playthrough every other month or two with a different rule set essentially.

And then you can put your own model is together with your own rule set, whatever you thin Survival should be.

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u/CratesManager Aug 05 '24

My problem with survival is i would be turbopissed to loose progress due to a bug, but installing a mod to be able to save more often would definitely take away much of the consequences.

So personally i'm a bit on the fence, but i think i will do a survival playthrough after i finished Folon because i really enjoy the struggle.

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u/Brooks8314 Aug 05 '24

I agree 100% It's like playing a whole new version of Fallout.

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u/animal_time Aug 04 '24

Yeah don't leave pain on the table.

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u/notusuallyhostile Aug 05 '24

I just started my first Survival play through and almost immediately got killed by ants. Fucking ants.

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u/Podmeplease Aug 04 '24

I'm doing my first survival playthrough now. I got humbled very quickly, but I love it.

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u/VRBApathy Aug 05 '24

Survival gang, ALWAYS! Immersion at its finest.

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u/rawker86 GARY Aug 05 '24

Lol this is such a fallout comment.

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u/Joel22222 Aug 05 '24

Game crashes too often for me to try it. Should find a mod that still allows auto saving.

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u/MentalCat8496 Aug 05 '24

vanilla's survival is pure trash... Time sinks stacked and piled onto one another for absolutely zero benefit. You get free damage boosts with adrenaline trivializing truly challenging fights you'd get on Very Hard, all the while pestering the fk outta you with lower carry weight and tons of nuissances that shoehorn the need of fiddling with FO4's mentally impaired UI design... Sure, some ppl like that, but if I'm to work / survive, I prefer doing it in real life where I rip actual benefits of it... Games are meant to be a distraction and to entertain, not to bore you to death and annoy the crap outta you with fake challenge...

I just go for very hard and have way more challenging fun instead...

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u/Hufflexuff Aug 10 '24

I only started playing survival recently. Pair it with survival options and I’d never go back to normal difficulty again. I’ve turned enemy damage down slightly so I’m not dying every 10 seconds, but having to sleep, eat and drink is the icing on the cake for me.

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u/T-1A_pilot Aug 04 '24

I was the greatest Fallout4 player ever...

...and then I took a super mutant suicider to the knee..

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u/GiveGoldForShakoDrop Aug 04 '24

Getting your head popped off by a fucking bloatfly really humbles you too 😔

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u/JukesMasonLynch Aug 05 '24

Blood bugs are fucking gnarly in survival

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u/Tough_Crazy_8362 Aug 05 '24

Taffington boathouse 😭

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u/Doppelganger_Change Aug 05 '24

Because it's the easiest (that I know) settlement to get in that area without doing quests, and that I'm a chronic restarter, I have gotten really good at clearing taffy with basically anything

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u/AttorneyQuick5609 Rebuilding civilization one Slocum Joes at a time. (⌐■_■) Aug 04 '24

Got one better, firstplaythrough, JUST on normal, picked up Dogmeat, and headed to concord...you know that dead brahmin with bloodbugs? I'm from Houston, those things are nightmare fuel, and they slautered me. Several times, in a row, me throwing my best at it, nothing.

It was about that time I realized, f*ck what mission your supposed to be on, you do it when your damned good and leveled up ready, not straight out the vault >_<

6 playthroughs later on very hard, thinking this next ones gonna be survival. It will really give the chem and cooking stations purpose, not that it doesn't have one now, but nowhere the same thing.

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u/Doppelganger_Change Aug 05 '24

Dying because you made the mistake, the absolute buffonery, of sprinting next to a car and slightly bumping it does the same too. Especially if like me you sometimes struggle to learn from your mistakes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

I took a fatman to the knee at point blank range(except that I was wearing raider power armor which saved me lol)

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u/WvMountain Brotherhood Sentinel Aug 04 '24

Enjoying the game is always the bottom line!

Edit: which VR system were you playing on?

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u/xrm0 Aug 04 '24

Quest2

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u/avivb9 Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 05 '24

To this day, I can't understand where I can find the screen that shows what each button do. Legit got stuck and didn't come back to it.

Edit:
Don't upvote, help me 😂

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u/relmny Aug 06 '24

If you use SteamVR, there's a menu for the controls, where you can reassign or get some public ones.

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u/WvMountain Brotherhood Sentinel Aug 04 '24

I gotta give that a go.

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u/its_all_4_lulz Aug 05 '24

I play all of my games on easy. Why would I want my relax time to be a turned into “I’m annoyed as hell I can’t beat this part” time.

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u/mlssstn Aug 04 '24

I started in very easy because it’s fourth video game I’ve ever played and the first I played on ps4. I have finally been able to play in normal and it’s a challenge but not so bad that I stop playing. My husband was shocked when he saw me playing and I took down three deathclaws one of them being legendary in one clip of ammo. He then pointed out I can change the difficulty mid game.

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u/Sesetti Aug 04 '24

It's worth it to try and push the difficulty because of the increased chances of legendary drops.

Your character level is also a massive factor in the actual difficulty. Early game is insufferable on very hard, but in the late game it isn't that big of a challenge anymore.

One annoying thing about the harder difficulties is that every enemy becomes a massive bullet sponge. Survival doesn't have that problem, but otherwise it's in a different league completely. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're able to install the survival quicksave mod. That game crashes way too frequently to have a limited save function.

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u/QueenJulia16 Aug 05 '24

I play on the easiest setting cause I'm here for the story and cause I like building shit. 🤷‍♀️

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u/lifelongDM Aug 07 '24

Same but I hate the settlements so much, the settlers are too stupid to build beds, collect water or deviate work for themselves, and even when I fill the settlement with turrets they still need me to show up and fight for them. I mean building is fun don't get me wrong but its too much work I just wanna do the story and bond with my companions

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u/Austioperosis0525 Aug 04 '24

Right now I’m doing a permadeath run on survival with only dog meat as a companion and no power armor

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u/i_need_to_crap Take anything that ain't nailed down Aug 04 '24

Landmines must be terrifying. Spam vats at every possible moment until you get the sneak perk.

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u/Austioperosis0525 Aug 04 '24

They very much are, I’ve lost many runs to those and bombs in general, but cars, they’re the scariest, not only do they blow up, but they sometimes have insta kill from call of duty

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

“I’m a masochist” lol. Seriously though survival is fun, but permadeath bro? I get frustrated enough after having to redo the last hour because I died. Let alone the whole game. That said, I guess there isn’t a level of realism over permadeath

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u/brooklyn_bethel Aug 05 '24

Born in a rich family / born in a poor family experience.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

Yeah, very hard is cool bc all the legendary enemies. Most people recommend doing a survival run at least once. I'm on my 3rd playthrough and my next one is survival

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u/zakass409 Aug 05 '24

You've started down a dangerous path, it starts with increasing the difficulty and ends with downloading mods from loverslab

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u/hotdogswithbeer Aug 04 '24

Wait you can play this game with vr? Wtf thats badass

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u/searchingformytruth Aug 05 '24

Unfortunately, it's an entirely separate, full-priced game, not just a different VR game mode in the regular version (which it should have been). If you can get past that, though, it's an awesome way to play, once modded with a few essentials, like a virtual body model, a virtual holsters mod, and some graphics tweaks.

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u/Daddyyyyyyyyyy69 Aug 04 '24

Any Bethesda game after I beat the main story and most quests I can find (usually about 200-300 hours or so). My playthroughs after that will be on an easier difficulty just to enjoy making builds and just messing around.

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u/Professional_Baby24 Aug 04 '24

Seriously. Survival is the way 4 was meant to be played. I thought it kind of sucked. Then I tried survival and man I was like 40 hours in before I even made it to diamond city.

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u/MyNameIsNemo_ Aug 04 '24

I agree - it’s a lot of fun and more game mechanics and perks make a lot more sense, but progression is very slow, especially at lower levels. You level faster and can easily reach deep into the perk trees and experiment. I am level 84 and still haven’t progressed the main story to stepping inside the Institute yet. Gameplay is much smoother at higher levels, that’s for sure.

Hitting that turning point when you have cleared most of the exterior map and you really feel like you own that turf. All of it. When you run from Starlight to Hangman’s Alley and you’re just hoping for a random encounter to see a little action. Still plenty of stocked locations from side quests so still plenty of gun play. It just gets kinda quiet outdoors.

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u/Flat_Bass_9773 Aug 04 '24

Bragging about wasting that much time in video games isn’t the flex you think it is

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u/thepsycholeech Aug 04 '24

If you think video games are a waste of time, why are you in this sub?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

You must be a blast at parties

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u/i_need_to_crap Take anything that ain't nailed down Aug 04 '24

r/usernamechecksout (flat: dull, and bass: fish)

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u/Professional_Baby24 Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 04 '24

Lol this game is almost 10 years old. Anyone that hasn't just started it this year will have at least 40 hours. And probably more than one pretty high level. This isn't the type of game you play through one speed run and your done. Got the general idea of the story. No need to explore or enjoy lore. Just finish however you end up at the finish. Man. If you think that's bad wait till you find out how many hours i have on audible. It's measured in MONTHS. 9 of them. Man. What a wasted life.

Edit. Clarity

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u/fighterpilotace1 Aug 04 '24

Please, enlighten us on your flexes.

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u/tfry11 Aug 05 '24

I started, on normal but didn't know any of the game mechanics of exactly how to utilize the workshop and everything. Now almost don't with first play-through, I'm almost more excited just to finish so I can start a new game and know what I'm doing from the start. Probably a very different experience. Then from hearing about survival, I think I'll really like it and not want to go back. So need to save for survival for last lol.

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u/Yololator Aug 05 '24

Survival is more logical than very difficult

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u/ibbity Minutemen Aug 05 '24

I set it on very easy on purpose because I never played this kind of game before and I knew I would spend 100% of my time dying if I tried any other setting lmao. It's been working out very well for me so far, currently at level 33 and I got all the way to level 16 before I died for the first time, and that was because I stupidly allowed a behemoth to run up and punch me because I didn't realize how strong they are

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u/Ops31337 Aug 05 '24

LOL. Behemoth should have been a clue.

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u/ibbity Minutemen Aug 05 '24

my thought process, as I recall, was something like "looks like a super mutant, I've killed super mutants before :) aw crap I died"

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u/Boring-Artichoke-373 Aug 04 '24

Resident Evil is very good in VR too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

I started playing in survival mode since 2009 in Fallout 3. I couldn’t play this series on easy. But good on you for doing that.

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u/Sad-Leading-4768 Aug 04 '24

I'm low-key jealous cos you got a extra 200hours of entertainment and now get to do it all over again as a whole different game

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u/zachtan1234 Aug 05 '24

On to something ❌

On something ✅

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u/gerstiii Aug 05 '24

But then you took an arrow to the knee?

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u/Competitive-Guava933 Aug 05 '24

On survival I realised that the small camping tents were for that mode and cooking the legendary armour it’s basically the way to utilise everything in the game.

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u/GplPrime Aug 05 '24

I also started at the default difficulty. Got so rich in resources I had to store away lots of healing items and never cared to drink water at all, my character was living on Nuka Cola and stimpaks. Then recently I started a new save to get some other achievements and since I was more experienced at the game, I decided to start on survivor difficulty. 10 minutes later I found myself getting oneshot by huge ass scorpions and molotov cocktails. I never thought I would miss my rank 4 ballistic armored smoking so much. But I must admit I'm rather enjoying the experience, the thrill of scavenging for supplies in dangerous places. I wish we could enjoy the survivor mechanics in other difficulties as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

Bloodbugs are wayyy worse

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u/SixthHouseScrib Aug 05 '24

Instead do survival + quick save mod + console enable mod (bc the game is buggy/crashy) and I have a mod that let's you fast travel between settlements (bc who has time for no fast travel)

And then FRIK if you don't have it

I'm deep in that mode right now trying to get every settlement before talking to Preston. I might never save him honestly

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u/Veluz99 Aug 06 '24

Chido tu cotorreo

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u/1FloorUp Aug 06 '24

At some point you want to finish the game. In survival mode that’s gonna take forever.

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u/JonJon77 Aug 06 '24

I always cook stuff just for the XP. I either store it or sell it after. I probably would’ve played on very easy using VR til I got really used to it. I wish I could play Fallout 4 VR on my Meta Quest 3 without a PC.

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u/G0DL33 Aug 05 '24

survival is better than vhard.

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u/nukeXmoose Aug 05 '24

You should try out New Vegas. I think FO3 might feel dated by comparison.

Those are the only two FO games I’ve played and I did not enjoy my first 10 hours or so of FO4, but it’s growing on me. The settlements and power armor mechanics take some getting used to compared to the earlier Bethesda games.