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F allout 4'due south rich and varied mural is built for lackadaisical roaming – the actor graphic symbol's nicknamed the Wanderer for a reason. The experience isn't about just racing through the main questline or finding the best gear, but assembling your own story from all of Bethesda's tiny interlocking parts.

The Commonwealth is a harsh mistress, however, so we could all employ some aid – and none other than our grizzled survivor "Corbyn" has heeded your call. We've already covered the 12 primal tips for beginners, and then now it's time for some more than avant-garde instruction. Let'southward actually go those Super Mutants quaking in their boots.

1. VATS tricks

Fallout 4's Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting Organization (VATS) mechanic slows time downwardly to a crawl, and allows you to target specific body parts of enemies – and displaying the chance of striking them in a percentage. This is all many players use it for but there are several kinks to the way VATS operates that tin make all the departure in a tight spot.

Our Fallout 4 grapheme Corbyn is probably overdoing it past Crit-ing a bloodbug. Photograph: Bethesda

The obvious ones first: employ VATS when your gun's empty and, for the AP price of that shot, you'll get both the shot and a gratuitous reload. Disquisitional hits build upwardly over fourth dimension in VATS and can then be stored until you want to use them – yes these do not bad damage, only much more importantly they're guaranteed to hitting even if your 'normal' shot only has a 1% chance. This is useful only in fights against enemies with specific weak points, such as the fusion cadre on power armour, save that Crit and zoom into VATS the second their model turns sideways – i% chance is all you lot need for the shot that ends the fight.

Crits are also useful for taking out the gainsay inhibitors on the back of mechanical enemies.

But it doesn't end there! One of the almost useful functions of VATS is that your aim will be centred on whatsoever enemy you shot at after you've exited VATS. Call back of this equally at least 1 free shot and, thanks to the shonky enemy AI, usually many more than – if they're however alive after using VATS, just spam that trigger.

2. Fraggle Rock!

Messed upwardly that grenade toss? Ever throwing it just a second too tardily as the Raiders scarper? Worry ye not my wasteland friend, for there are 2 magnificent tricks to frags that will turn your throwing arm into the envy of Shane Warne.

First one is obvious when y'all think about it: a well-placed bullet will prematurely detonate your grenade. Hit the VATS button equally before long every bit you lot throw and you'll find yous tin target the grenade, though depending on its location your shot hazard will be dissimilar (this is another great opportunity for using the guarantee of a Crit.) And nail – no more legs for your luckless foes.

As you lot tin see, no enemies have all the same noticed my explosive presence. Timing grenades is especially useful against crowds of weaker enemies.

The second trick, however, is even sneakier. A glitch in Fallout 4'due south mode of slowing downward game time during VATS means that, if your grenade has landed and you lot so target and shoot an enemy using VATS, the grenade will explode during the VATS shots. That is, you don't need to target the grenade at all – if it's in the correct place, just target the enemy in VATS and it will explode near-instantaneously.

3. Getting legless

This one can exist a lifesaver for when you lot're just out on a relaxing stroll and run into a randomly generated tough-as-nails Legendary enemy. Many of these enemies, after taking roughly half damage, will mutate into a tougher form and regain their lost health. What a joke.

This is how I similar my Legendary enemies – legless and toothless. Now cough up that loot! Photograph: Bethesda

The one matter that doesn't regenerate, however, is limb damage. When fighting Fallout 4's normal enemies you don't really need to target limbs and then much so it's easy to forget about this tactic, but it is absolutely the core role of my strategy against Legendaries. If information technology's a Legendary Super Mutant, where we're worried about their weapon, focus on the artillery – if they mutate, yous've crippled the arm past that betoken and their accuracy'due south dived. If information technology's a Legendary Ghoul, blow off the legs, and then the mutated 2d phase can merely wait upwardly in abject apology as you line upwardly the combat shotgun.

four. Radical Stags

The greatest enemy in Fallout four, the blight of every player, the most despicable sentence in the Commonwealth: "You're carrying besides much and tin can't run!"

God I hate it. There are several mutual workarounds: load upwardly your companion, use the Solo Wanderer/Dogmeat glitch so on. But when you're stuck in a lovely loot zone and just need that scrap actress to go outdoors and fast-travel dwelling, yous want Grilled Radstag.

OK information technology doesn't LOOK very appetising, but when your other options are mole rats or Spam ...

You lot encounter Radstags everywhere, ordinarily in groups of 2 or three. Make a dominion of slaughtering these defenceless creatures, and grilling them upwards at a cooking station – because it adds +25 acquit weight. Eat that and you'll feel the benefit for an hour, just why non wash it down with a bottle of alcohol (+10 deport weight) and have an extra 35 on your weight limit. Because no trinket should be left behind.

5. Slumber well

What do you hateful y'all never slumber? True, you don't really need to – but occasionally a prissy residual is just what's needed to heal up and see the sun once more. I aspect of sleeping that is possible to overlook, however, is where the bed is.

If yous actually desire to maximise XP proceeds, practise this before handing in quests you lot've already completed. Photo: Bethesda

Sleep in a bed that you own (in a settlement for case), or rent a room for the night and your character not only heals but gains a "Well Rested" bonus that gives x% extra XP for eight in-game hours.

6. Sticky concern

Y'all could write a whole article about Fallout 4's crafting organisation, merely one affair everyone needs more of is agglutinative. Luckily at that place's a simple solution waiting in the cookery pot: have your settlements subcontract corn, mutfruit and tatos for subsistence. Perfectly respectable foods, merely you can use these stores to pick the lesser choice at a cooking stove and brand Vegetable Starch – each i worth a whopping five adhesive.

Vegetable starch goes into your 'junk' inventory, so e'er remember to transfer information technology to storage earlier taking off.

7. Pick upwardly named junk

This ane's uncomplicated to the point of obvious: you'll sometimes come across otherwise standard loot that has a modifier in the name, for example "Rich Stanton'due south beer". This ways it is an infrequent beer for an exceptional human being or, in other words, a primal item for a quest you haven't yet picked upwards. So option it up and, downwardly the road, yous'll exist able to manus in that quest immediately.

The jazzy Hubris Comics office has plenty of interesting stuff, and brand sure you have a close look at the props.

You may not really go far through youor birthday if you swallow this revolting morsel. However, it has a special name which means it could well exist office of a later quest. Grab that sucker.

8. Hazmat and Hat

Two items of clothing I keep on me permanently are a Hazmat conform and a hat that grants +3 Charisma. The utility of the first is obvious: everywhere in Fallout 4 is more or less radioactive, and you'll find some nasty spots. It's not convenient to fetch Power Armour for every little cubbyhole, so a Hazmat suit just always makes life easier.

Amidst the game's conditions effects are radiations storms which, if they catch you in the open, can be trouble – simply non with the humble Hazmat. Photograph: Bethesda

Hazmats are around – there'south i on sale in Diamond City – but this is where I stumbled across mine relatively early on. Photograph: Bethesda

The hat I combine with some Grape Mentats (brand at any cooking station) for when I need to sell a lot of gear or purchase something big. Why not become your money's worth?

9. Use it, don't lose information technology

Advice from biting experience: don't just leap into the water willy nilly while wearing power armour. It sinks and, while most bodies of water in the game have a way out, some of them don't and you'll have to abandon it there. Likewise, don't always become rid of a companion wearing power armour by sending them back to a settlement – my snazzy Flames ready is all the same out at that place somewhere.

You lot can repair damaged power armour with steel – but even without information technology the basic frame provides some protection and the suit's usual abilities.

Finally, don't become out of information technology in a non-settlement area without removing the fusion cadre. Even if you tin't see any enemies. There'due south nothing so humiliating every bit getting out to stretch your legs, waking upward a nest of raiders, and watching open up-mouthed as they hijack your beautiful suit.

10. Mystery Meat

OK, I said I wouldn't be too specific but this is as well good to pass up. On the far eastward of the Commonwealth (shown in the paradigm) y'all can find Longneck Lukowski'southward cannery. On entering you'll see a curt exchange between two characters and can then offering to assistance with a pest problem in the building.

Looks delicious though, every bit e'er in Bethesda's post-apocalyptic worlds, no-1'south cleaned up for 200 years.

This kicks off a curt-just-sweetness mission, but the reason it'southward great to visit here is that there's an function at the peak of the edifice containing both the 'Barter' bobblehead – which permanently decreases buying prices by 5% – and an result of Tales of A Junktown Jerky Vendor, which applies its own discount depending on how many copies you have. Basically you're walking out of there subsequently a ten-minute mission with everything in the Republic 10% cheaper.

This is where you'll find Longneck Lukowski'southward cannery, an essential visit for the savvy scavenger.

Bonus points: in the final confrontation, you can brand your opponent surrender if you lot get them low enough, and make a very ... interesting pick. Oh, and practice apply the before tips about Legendaries and frags when you're exploring. Wouldn't desire to end up in a can at present, would we?

11. Give them a Minute, man

The Minutemen are rather worthy and irksome sorts, all about helping out one's neighbour and looking out for each other. Blah blah blah, point me to the bad guys right?

Some people like Preston, but he constantly moans when you're hoovering upwards junk so I call up he's a circle button. Photograph: Bethesda

The Castle's replaced Sanctuary as my primary settlement, because a half-destroyed castle looks cooler than half-destroyed bungalows.

Me likewise. But it'southward worth zooming through the early on Minutemen quests, which are all very like shooting fish in a barrel, just to reach the betoken where you re-take a location chosen the Castle. Beginning of all, when y'all're doing the quests beforehand, take Preston as your companion – because completing each one depends on reporting back to him.

Take the Castle, go off and do something else, and soon enough someone will turn up looking for you. Become to meet her and within 10 minutes you'll pocketbook a Fat Man portable nuke launcher, an accented ton of ammo and a slap-up armour prepare, and unlock artillery positions for every settlement.

12. And ... grin

Though I've loved much of my fourth dimension with Fallout 4, it is a game filled with bugs and glitches that can – on occasion – really ruin your day. I've lost hours of progress through abrasive problems with the salve system, seen my companions wing into the heaven and disappear, even failed a mission because of an NPC that decided to walk to the bottom of a lake.

But it'southward worth remembering that, for all the frustrations it brings, the janky side of Bethesda games tin can take real charm too. Apply Corbyn'south tips wisely, comrades, and enjoy these dancing Mirelurks.

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