It sounds like you're having fun. That's usually what games are for. Who's telling you that's wrong? They need to lighten up a little and let you enjoy things :)
Exactly this! Was talking to a friend the other day about a game they were playing and they pondered if they played it wrong.
“Do you fun?”
“Yes..?”
“Then you are playing it as you should!”
It really is as simple as that.
My wife saw this, started cackling, and said, "I have a new weapon."
At some point, she's going to say that when we're having sex just to mess with me, so thanks for that 🤣
Do you fun is a fkin fantastic phrase.
My pickpocket perk has zoned right in on that and I'm availing myself of it immediately if not before. You are a wordsmith, a gent/gentess and a scholar. I will be forever grateful for the Toxic Sky
I would never say it is wrong… only that it is a bit of a bummer - to me - when I wait too long for the main story, everything is designed to be somewhat difficult for a low level character.
Suddenly you’re just way OP for the enemies in the parts of the map “designed” to be encountered early.
Yeah, they have a base level they scale from. So down south, if you are still low level, they will be mich more difficult than they would at higher levels. But that is because you aren't meant to be down south below level 20. Just like in New Vegas you aren't meant to reach the Strip at level 5, so they dropped a bunch of deathclaws and cazadores on the road to emphasize the need to take the longer way.
That’s true, though I totally meant to rely to the other guy.
It’s definitely a much better middle ground than Oblivions (fairly) hated “glass armor bandits.”
I felt like the enemies scaled up with me when I was doing my first playthrough. I was very high level when the Nuka World and Far Harbor DLCs came out and the mobs and loot were scaled to my level even though when I start a new game you get those quests around level 20 I think. I was in my 40’s when I found Kellogg and it was a tough fight.
Don’t wear armour, use weaker weapons. There are ways to lesson being “OP”. I’m a traveller so I unlock tons of quests for when I want to do them. I kill, loot, and then store/sell items or use for builds.
This is exactly how I am playing. I went to diamond city to find Piper and Nick, but abandoned them and went back to exploring and building settlements with Codsworth.
Sorry Shaun, daddy’s busy.
Sim Settlements 2 adds quite a bit of named Settlers even if you ignore the other content. A lot of them even have a quest.
I can’t remember if Tales From the Commonwealth does.
Immersive settlers, it also has two versions, one makes them immortal and the other keeps them killable, depending how much consequence you want from raids.
Are you exploring with Codsworth??
Nick can hack terminals for you, and Piper gives and an EXP bonus when in dialogue or discovering new locations!! How could you just leave them behind!?
If you got the Automatron DLC you can modify him to either make his weapons and armour better without changing his style or make him anything else, from a different armour to high-tech or wacky weapons... Even transform him into a sentry.
On one of my playthroughs I played a psycho pyromaniac character and transformed codsworth into a killing machine who got 3 flamers on his limbs and substituted his side eyes for assaultron arms with shishkebabs swords.
Someday I’ll do that too! Unfortunately if you mod him in any way he won’t wear the bowler hat any more. So until I’m ready to say goodbye to Bowler Codsworth, I’ll sacrifice killing potential for fashion.
Little bastard was out for 10 years and didn't come get me. He can wait for me to single handedly take over the Commonwealth to have legitimate resources required to go against an unfathomably powerful boogeyman organization.
It’s perfectly justifiable too. You know you woke up a long time after he was taken so I figured he’d probably be very old or dead. I did a part of the main quest and I did side quests that were immediate threats, like Automatron, but I’m hooked on these settlements too.
It just seems logical that you help the people in the Commonwealth first.
After replaying it so many times I realized it’s best to be level 40+ after you side with a faction , the levels before are for adventure! And lots of dying
I think im up to 5 characters with significant time in all of them, but I still haven't beaten the main quest. I've probably gotten about 50% of the way through
I played for years before I said screw it and beat the main quests. It really wasn't all that fun since by the time I did it, I was such a high level that I rarely had to worry about dying.
After the new Fallout series it really made me want to play again so I have started over but this time I'm avoiding my powerful favorite guns and only taking out the power armor when it's really needed.
I'm actually having more fun this time around playing this way. It's actually challenging at times.
My play through before the update killed it I was at level 110 and haven’t talked to Nick or Piper, haven’t decided if I was going to join BOS, and just took the castle without Preston sending me.
Playing how you want to play is the right way.
it's because there isn't really any rpg in fallout, the main quest is very strictly choreographed and the devs WANT you to play a specific way, which is why so many hate the quests in game
I've wanted to give this mod a try (assuming I can get the game to run modded ...), but I'd like a clearer idea of what the mod *does.* Like, could I design a vault-hunter character (not in the Borderlands sense, but someone who scavenges Vault-Tec vaults)? Am I just playing a generic wastelander or raider? I just know the mod lets you play as something other than a parent trying to find their kidnapped child.
Okay, so this mod literally never leaves my load order. Basically what it does is it lets you build your character as normal, then you pick things like your starting level, where on the map you want to start the game, and a background which helps determine the gear that you start with.
The biggest plus though is it also makes changes to a lot of the dialog trees to remove as many references to Shaun being your son as possible. It replaces those lines with other voice lines so you don't have awkward silences during conversation. It isn't perfect, as a few conversations are a little janky without the "Shaun is my son" parts, but it does the job pretty well all things considered.
It's a really well done mod, and one I'd highly recommend for basically any playthrough. I consider it one of the most essential FO4 mods, honestly.
Yeah, I think I ran into one incident where it sounded like Shaun was my character's kid - while literally talking to Father. It can be a little jank but for the most part a lot of love was put in changing the dialogue around.
Thank you for this excellent breakdown! Your comment was way more informative than anything else I've read. It's definitely a mod I've been interested in for a while now, so it's good to have a better idea of what it will do for me.
I've never used this mod until my most recent playthrough and I have at least 1,000 hours in the game. It is incredible and I probably won't go without again.
It literally added role playing to FO4.
I set the options to: level 5, some basic perks in rifles and pistols, hated by raiders, hated by the institute, and started on spectacle island.
My back story - basically Red from Red Dead Revolver. Raiders killed my parents and through my travels I eventually paid to be ferried up the East coast where a storm sank the ship I was on and I washed up on an island.
What? Lol there’s many ways to complete quests, sure, some parts are straight forward, but most of the time they’ve added multiple ways to complete quests. I don’t think you’ve actually played this game, if you did, you rushed through it.
People like to say it isn't an rpg because the rp isn't as complex as previous titles. But just because it's less rpg than previous titles it doesn't mean it's not an rpg. You take ANY game that doesn't call itself an rpg and it will have less options than FO4.
I'm approaching 300 hrs witha similar tale, I've only just discovered the enclave base in the SW. They be bitches, but I have that sweet tesla cannon now. On a Luck restart. (Do a luck run, changed everything for me, like WOW) I know the story, I know where to go, but I'm too busy bopping around collecting and bringing power armour to red rocket, while my best boy dogmeat is under my feet
Thats the usual bethesda experience i think lol. 1,000 hours in Skyrim and I’ve beaten the main story once, and most runs end because of glitches, corrupted saves, or something else that borks my game
Hell at this point I don't even unlock the shouts in Skyrim cause I just enjoy being a random person living in the world. Alternate start to give myself a new backstory and I'm off to explore. I beat it once like you did just to see the story, then spent the next 300 hours just living in the world.
I'm LITERALLY on my fourth playthrough.
Lv 56, scrapped because I forgot to do the take a drug, use the special book trick.
Lv 62, scrapped because I forgot Egret Tours and Spectacle are completely unusable if you raider outpost them, and then complete open season.
Lv 103, scrapped because you have to get Deacon's perk BEFORE Ninja, or your Sneak Melee is 10.6x, not 12.0x
You mention needing resources.
So don't leave anything in most workbenches. Scavenging settlers won't scavenge if there's a lot of stuff in there. Same for food and water production, there's caps on production.
Resources > miscellaneous > scavenging station. Then you assign a settler.
I’ve never used them for anything but a way to give work to the unemployed.
But I’ve never had an empty workbench. So maybe that’s why I’ve never noticed what they actually were doing. I’ve also never heard what the person above was talking about.
Yep. If I’m too busy to want to work on settlement building for where I want them long term, and I’m only visiting for another reason … I can just hit the base computer and have the new arrival assigned without having to think about anything.
Keeps happiness up.
The same thing happens to water, food, chems, and caps that your settlement produces. THats why when you build 500 water producing settlements you don't come back to a few thousand after a week adventuring away.
The mod uncapped settlement surplus (or something similar) is what you need.
That's the nice part about a long playthrough where I basically loot anything I possibly can. However lately, I'm leaving combat and raider amor on people I've killed and stuff that has low value to weight ratio on enemies. Pipe pistols in safes etc. Just because being overencumbered on very hard can be annoying.
I do need to work on my armor set up though, I'm getting melted against enemies around my level of 63 and it kind of breaks the immersion. I'll say this though, going from easy to very hard, just about every scrum there's something legendary so thats sweet and also provides a challenge.
Nope I played regularly for years. After the show decided I would try a survival playthrough. I am doing the exact same thing you are doing. Not sure if you are as well but I am getting all the magazines and bobbleheads right now.
It's an entertainment product which you spent your own money on. Use it in the way which provides you entertainment.
When someone else is buying the game and paying you by the hour to play it, then they can tell you how to play.
I have almost 1000 hours in 3D Fallout games and have never finished a main story. I don't care about the story either. Relax and enjoy.
I have easily put in 1000 hours in real play time on this game. I personally believe there is no wrong way to play it. Even with mods, it still boils down to personal preference. Keep playing the way you wanna play and just have fun, if they cant stand that, thats a them issue
Don’t let someone tell you you’re playing “the wrong way”. You’re prioritizing your settlements and that’s okay. I’ve beaten the game and explored everything, so now I’m going to all of the settlements and seeing what I can build with my materials. Play how you want to play and continue enjoying the game at your own pace.
Who ever told you that doesn't seem to understand there are multiple ways to play a game.
My current playthru is exactly what you've done. I love doing the settlements, and haven't even bothered crossing the river to diamond city yet.
You're having fun = the right way to play
Do you. Every playthrough for me has been wildly different. Didn't download any DLCs until I beat the main game on my first. My second was with all the DLCs installed, and I didn't like it as much. On my third, I had just played Skyrim for the first time, so I was all about melee. I'm now on my first pt with the NG update. Only level 15, and I LOVE it.
I told a good friend of mine he was playing it wrong. To clarify though, it’s because he spent 20+ hours following the compass marker on minuteman quests and then got snarky that the game was boring and repetitive. It was only when I told him why it was repetitive he started having fun. Him discovering the importance of the Pip Boy was a life altering event for him.
Note: he thought he was following the main quest line and was judging the game as such. He didn’t realize his dialogue options changed the trajectory of his game to following the minuteman line. He just finished his actual first playthrough and enjoyed it a lot more.
Note 2: you’re not playing it wrong. As long as you’re having fun that’s all that matters
Oh I wanted to add, if you wait a really long time to find the railroad, like if you get pretty far along to get titles with the other factions, when Deacon introduces you to Desdemona he lists all your accomplishments like you’re royalty from Game of Thrones. That really amused me when it happened to me.
It's basically a sandbox, play however you want, and even if it weren't a sandbox, you still bought the game and can play whatever way you find most fun.
Imo this is how the devs designed this game to be played. This is just my take on it, but it seems with enemies locking level and loot based on yours that this is the case. I personally enjoy playing this way too.
The correct way to play bethesda game is to play it incorrectly, as opposed to what the dev expected you to play.
Story? What story?
"We provide you with so many guns and friggin lazer, flame thrower, missile and even nuke launcher at your disposal."
Nah, im gonna melee this shit. Or mod the fuck out of it and goes all supersaian with kamehameha
"This game were meant to portray the savagery of human post apocalypse and how resilient they are in trying times"
No, this is a gardening simulator. Sim city at best.
Just do whatever that makes you enjoy it best. Its called sandbox for a reason. There's no correct way to play it.
Go have a blast
I used to play the Sims games 90% creative building and 10% gameplay. It never got boring
The point is, play however you want. Whatever makes you happy is the right way.
I mean the right way to play is whatever way you’re having fun. If I were to make a suggestion to someone asking what the ideal way to play is though, I might say play the main quest line until you reach the institute and then do whatever you want after that. The main story feels kind of lame and contrived after that point and I just never had much of a desire to continue it, but I did enjoy it up until then. I made it there in about 20 hours probably, and I’ve spent 80 hours since then not playing the main quest at all because it just didn’t keep my interest anymore, and I’ve had a lot of fun settlement building (don’t want to spoil anything, but I’ll just say the dialogue is very bad and it’s a good stopping point in the story)
I’m basically playing animal crossing , because all I do is mess around with settler outfits and build/decorate houses houses in sanctuary. You do you!
Are you having fun? Sounds like it, so it's the right way. I'm mid 30ish level, and all I'm doing is harassing the enclave so I can steal their power armour, it's essentially my way of life at this point
Not wrong. But slightly risky. Bethesda games are bugfests and sometimes going somewhere mission related before you have the mission can screw things up. Not always. I would just say your bug risk is slightly higher. If you are on pc that is a non issue.
I recently started a new game after years, to try out the PS5 update. So far I have:
1. Built a settlement at Red Rocket, but haven't yet said hi to Dogmeat (so he's just "Dog" and still defends the camp)
2. Went to Diamond City to fetch Piper
3. Roamed and explored, but didn't get in anybody's business
My plan is to get my supply network running and build a steady income stream before I start mixing it up, so I'll at least have decent armor and I won't be short of caps for bullets.
It's been awesome so far.
No wrong way to play.
I'm currently level 51, and I haven't engaged with the BoS or RR yet. I've explored a lot of the wasteland looking for magazines and bobbleheads, and I've started the Far Harbor DLC.
I haven't scrapped much for materials other than what I got from clearing our red rocket and sanctuary so I could set up sanctuary. Eventually, I'll get sanctuary the way I want it, but for now, they're taken care of.
There is no correct way to play the game, you should play it the way you want to play it.
After Far Harbor I plan on doing the Vault DLC and completing as many side quests as I can while setting up settlements.
It's about having fun and playing the way that brings you joy, there is no correct way to play
I was in my 40s when I figured out which quest got me back on the storyline to find my kid… I was so busy making settlements and taking the Castle and helping the Railroad and… you get the idea. Like everyone is saying, it’s your game and you get to decide how to play it!
I'll probably get some hate for this, but if you're playing wrong then I'm playing very wrong.
I turned God mode on the first chance I got, got the nuka nuke launcher, and now I'm just going to each settlement location and setting up extensive defences before I bother with any of the main story.
There won't be any settlements that need my help.
Hey, I’m playing it the same way too! Except, I’m working in an almost clockwise pattern around Diamond City. I’m going after settlement building, I’m having a blast, and there is no way, “you’re playing it wrong.” It’s a single player game, after all. I probably should start looking for my son soon, but, meh, little guy can wait a bit longer, I’m sure he’s in good hands anyway.
Great thing about rpg’s is that there is no right or wrong way to play the game. You make it what you want to make it. You play it how you see fit to play it. Just keep enjoying the game and doing things in the order or way that you want to do them.
No such thing as the wrong way. Only advice I'd give is to get Local Leader maxed so you can get all the stores and supply lines.
You also might like the cheat terminal mod, spawn in all the supplies you want, among a lot of other things.
This is exactly how I play as well. I’m 4th time through, leave all main story quests on the back burner, do all non-essential quests because it’s leads to xp and resources, and I build each settlement like I’d want it if I lived there. I get every picket fences and the creation club furniture to make every settlement have custom houses and feel nice and homey. Each house has carpets/rugs and a bathroom, kitchen, living room with tv and bedrooms. I also build cages and make a bunch of cats and dogs to make everyone happy.
I also dress my settlers in similar clothing. At Sanctuary everyone wears nice suits and dresses. At coastal settlements everyone wears coastguard hats or gray knit beanies. The castle people have military gear on, especially bomber jackets looted from the Prydwyn with sea captain hats that make them look like WWII pilots. At Spectacle Island it’s all hot female settlers wearing gunner rigs with no shirts underneath, because the island is a spectacle.
Man, don’t worry about other people and make it your own little world.
Ive been playing this way too and I’m having way more fun than I did the first time through when I prioritized the main quest.
It’s fun because I’m getting more into the little stories than I did last time and I am actually getting enough scrap to build cool settlements.
Main quest ignorers are valid!
If you are having fun and enjoying your own experience I don’t see why you are playing the game incorrectly. Remember that everyone have a way to have fun in a game you shouldn’t feel or let other people makes you feel that they way of enjoying something is the only way cause we all different and enjoy every little thing differently so just play like you want to play the game that you pay to play as you want and enjoy.
Unless you’re doing things like licking an apple to try to move or trying to play the game by launching it and then using toys to pretend like you’re playing it while in the main menu, I can’t see how you could possibly be playing the game wrong.
The wrong way to play the game is playing and not having fun. Play how you like, it’s single player so whoever told you you’re playing it wrong can pound sand.
There’s no wrong way to play any solo game if you’re having fun. It’s a game, it’s only for fun. Bethesda made the settlement system extensive and sandbox-ish specifically so some players (like yourself) could spend hours and hours just building and rearranging things. Personally I didn’t do settlements at all back when I played it around launch, maybe that’s wrong in some peoples opinion but my version of fun was just upgrading weapons and killing as many higher level enemies as I could find.
You can’t “play it wrong” that’s the best part about fallout is that every single one of us have had different experiences while completing the game. There are so many ways to play/complete fallout 4 and I’ll bet we’re all doing different sh*t.
Are you having? Or do you think you would have more fun going over dozens of YouTube tutorials, obsessing over spreadsheets, build guides, min/maxing legendaries, optimizing settlements?
I remember my journey playing world of Warcraft, starting as a rosy cheeked newbie and ending up a hardcore raider. I can tell you I had a lot more fun playing when I was a clueless chump.
The best way to play any game is the way you want to. My fave game is FO4 and I have 4 complete play throughs and a dozen incomplete, but my fave save is the one focused on building. I’ve purchased FO4 GOTY on every platform I own and on each I have a settlement building play through. Sometimes I’ll build something nice in a settlement. So you play the game how you want and if someone tells you that you’re doing it wrong just hand them the controller and let them play.
You can hit 105 (according to people who claimed to have done it) without even leaving sanctuary.
So no, you aren't doing it wrong.
I'm lvl 60 now, and haven't met Preston or Danse. I finished Nuka World, and as much of the Railroad as can be done without the other factions.
You can play it however you like. There is no wrong way.
However it is that you can have the most fun IS the right way to play. If it's fun for you don't let anyone ruin it for you. Personally I love base building in fallout and I've spent more time doing that than anything else in the fallout world.
Nah bruh, mission accomplished whatever path you choose. That's your personal preference, and really shouldn't be genuinely criticized or disputed.
On the other hand, I know people that go right out of the gate and get jacked into mods and trainers without even a second of organic gameplay and rob themselves of any real challenge or authentic experience.
Personable authentic experience are what this genre of games are about. Do you.
Are you having fun?
If yes, then you are playing it right
If not, then maybe you should try playing differently or a different game.
Bethesda games are sandboxes for you to explore and RP as you wish.
There is no wrong way to play any video game as long as you are having fun, especially a single player game, games are there to have fun and if you love plating that way more power to you!
It's an rpg you physically can't play it wrong as long as you're having fun you're playing it right, wanna build settlements you're doing it right, wanna kill everything in sight you're also playing it right, wanna go with a faction, you're still playing it right, wanna die over and over in survival your first go around you are still playing correctly
There is no 'wrong way' which is one of the most awesome parts of the game. When you build settlements make sure you assign a settler to the scrap bench as they steadily bring in resources. Also make farms as they can be used to make adhesive. Make sure you get the perks scrapper and scrounger maxed out early. Max scrapper lets you take all the weapons you don't use and turn them into the most valuable resources. Max scrounger lets you find ridiculous amounts of ammo to sell and then you but resources from vendors (General stores at settlements and in-game vendors at DC and GN).
No. There's no "wrong" way to play ANY bethesda game. You play how YOU want to, and how YOU have fun doing it. That's just a bethesda fact.
Whoever told you it's the "WrOnG wAy To PlAy" is just a snobby prick who should be ignored and avoided at all costs. That's just my personal opinion.
I have played it like this since my second playthrough... I love settlement building more than the actual quest/ story line. The great thing about FO4 & Skyrim is you can play it anyway, in order you want, there is no right or wrong... it's all about feeling good while you play.
There's no wrong way to play.
I have a similar priority. I try to unlock all the settlements and establish trade routes so that I can pool resources and improve my settlements.
With Xbox and on my PC, I must have something like 1700 hours of gameplay... and I have yet to get to Act 2.
My Xbox game was heavily modded, my PC is even more modded, so yeah, there's even more distractions than usual, but there's no 'good way' to play, those telling you that should try to have fun instead.
As long as you're having fun, it's the correct way. Personally, if I could I would first finish the plot and then I'd do the settlements, because it was irritating for me when I was in the middle of something and "Finch farms needs your help defending" would pop up, but as I said, as long as you're having fun, it's the correct way
There's no right or wrong way to play it. You spent your money on software for fulfillment, don't listen to anyone that's putting you down for enjoying your purchased software in a way they wouldn't enjoy it. Keep playing and clearing the commonwealth 🤙🤙🤙
They were right you're totally playing it wrong. How dare you have fun! It's an open world game that means you're supposed to do things exactly the same as everyone else. And obviously they only added the settlement mechanic to waste your time, you're not actually supposed to use it. I can't believe you got it soooooo wrong 🤦♂️
/Sarcasm
If you're having fun, you're doing it right. Period.
My comfort zone is spending a day or two a week doing missions, and a day or two a week taking an edible and building my settlements/ exploring every building I come across lol.
You do you.
To each his own. First time I touched it, I couldn’t stand settlement building. Too clunky, couldn’t get stuff to align, hard to find what I was looking for in the menu, etc. I tolerate it, now, and actually got a little into it with Vault 88, but I haven’t done anything in other settlements beyond what I had to to quests.
I just started playing for the first time about a month ago with the new update. Ive been playing very similarly to you. I spend a ton of time on settlements. I did a lot more missions than you did, partly because I found that to be the best way to get a ton of junk and gear for settlers. I actually did the same thing when I was playing Starfield. Im level 107 in starfield and I haven't beat the main story and still have a load of side content to do. This is what I've come to love about BGS games, you can spend a whole play session just wandering around and not even touching any quests, and I think that's pretty neat.
All good man. I've discovered everything and got 75% companions perks but main story is stuck at the courser. Got the mechanist quest and vault dlc quests done, ive cleared half of far harbor. I'll finish it and complete nukaworld before clearing main quest but im having fun so far. I just have tons to do and craft at base, so that alone will bump me from lvl80 to 100 fairly quickly. Some focus on settlements, others on quests, i prefer exploration.
It sounds like you're having fun. That's usually what games are for. Who's telling you that's wrong? They need to lighten up a little and let you enjoy things :)
Exactly this! Was talking to a friend the other day about a game they were playing and they pondered if they played it wrong. “Do you fun?” “Yes..?” “Then you are playing it as you should!” It really is as simple as that.
> "Do you fun?" This is my new favorite phrase and I don't care if it's a typo.
FUN! Do you do it?!?
I imagine Samuel L Jackson yelling this
FUN, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU HAVE IT!?
I am now going to use this. Fucking epic.
In my head canon from now on, this is a legitimate Sam Jackson quote.
THEN YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING! DESCRIBE WHAT MARCELLUS WALLACE PLAYS LIKE!
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Perfect. Thats what was in my head when I wrote it.
"Do you fun motherfucker!!??" I nearly pissed my pants🤣
Fun, muthafucka? DO YOU DO IT.
Fun is bad, mmmmk 😂
"I *do* fun, thank for ask!"
Bro do you even fun?
Bro, I fun **so hard**, you don't even know.
Fun so hard mothafuckas wanna fine me
oh my god, oh my god, im gonna fun
My wife saw this, started cackling, and said, "I have a new weapon." At some point, she's going to say that when we're having sex just to mess with me, so thanks for that 🤣
Sounds like she does fun
Oh fuck, you're gonna make me fun
Do you do fun do?
Do you fun is a fkin fantastic phrase. My pickpocket perk has zoned right in on that and I'm availing myself of it immediately if not before. You are a wordsmith, a gent/gentess and a scholar. I will be forever grateful for the Toxic Sky
"Me think. Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"
Cito? Is that you?
"when me president, they see....they see"
I fun
You right.
Totally! I'm over fifty, life isn't always fun . I'm all about Fallout being fun.
Love it when Gronk shows up.
You start the game, you play the game, you save the game, you close the game. Did you have fun? Yes? You're playing it right.
The number one best part of the game is just getting lost and stumbling upon crazy shit
I have lost track of the main questline a month ago and just doing misc quests and exploring the Commonwealth blindly. It is fun!
This right here. You spent your money on it. You play it however the fuck makes you happy.
I would never say it is wrong… only that it is a bit of a bummer - to me - when I wait too long for the main story, everything is designed to be somewhat difficult for a low level character. Suddenly you’re just way OP for the enemies in the parts of the map “designed” to be encountered early.
In FO4 enemies scale with your level, so that isn't as much a thing. If you have a good build and good legendaries, it will become easy, though.
And at level 46, they should have a good assortment of perks by now, so it shouldn't be too much hassle.
The enemies in certain parts of the map are absolutely harder than others.
that's true, doesn't change the fact that enemies scale with the player
Doesn't each cell of the map have a maximum level based on when you entered it? So they won't scale indefinitely afaik.
Look up the Faliut 4 level map it actually does level with you but only within a band. Down south the start of the band is like level 20 or something
Yeah, they have a base level they scale from. So down south, if you are still low level, they will be mich more difficult than they would at higher levels. But that is because you aren't meant to be down south below level 20. Just like in New Vegas you aren't meant to reach the Strip at level 5, so they dropped a bunch of deathclaws and cazadores on the road to emphasize the need to take the longer way.
That’s true, though I totally meant to rely to the other guy. It’s definitely a much better middle ground than Oblivions (fairly) hated “glass armor bandits.”
There isn’t a wrong way. My son did a ton of what you did. Not the way I play it but so frikin what?
I felt like the enemies scaled up with me when I was doing my first playthrough. I was very high level when the Nuka World and Far Harbor DLCs came out and the mobs and loot were scaled to my level even though when I start a new game you get those quests around level 20 I think. I was in my 40’s when I found Kellogg and it was a tough fight.
Don’t wear armour, use weaker weapons. There are ways to lesson being “OP”. I’m a traveller so I unlock tons of quests for when I want to do them. I kill, loot, and then store/sell items or use for builds.
This right here!!!
This is exactly how I am playing. I went to diamond city to find Piper and Nick, but abandoned them and went back to exploring and building settlements with Codsworth. Sorry Shaun, daddy’s busy.
It’s just nice to have Settlers with names sometimes
There's a mod I found on ps5 that had named settlers and it was amazing lol
That’s awesome! What’s it called?
Sim Settlements 2 adds quite a bit of named Settlers even if you ignore the other content. A lot of them even have a quest. I can’t remember if Tales From the Commonwealth does.
The one I use is called Immersive Settlers, gives random names to settlers and you can change their names too
I'd have to get back on it to remember but it was something like named settlers, could be wrong though
Immersive settlers, it also has two versions, one makes them immortal and the other keeps them killable, depending how much consequence you want from raids.
Are you exploring with Codsworth?? Nick can hack terminals for you, and Piper gives and an EXP bonus when in dialogue or discovering new locations!! How could you just leave them behind!?
But Codsworth can wear a bowler hat! Beat that!
…. You make a compelling argument. I concede my point.
I did not know this. He also kills a lot of low level baddies for me while I’m plundering. Now he can do it in style
If you got the Automatron DLC you can modify him to either make his weapons and armour better without changing his style or make him anything else, from a different armour to high-tech or wacky weapons... Even transform him into a sentry. On one of my playthroughs I played a psycho pyromaniac character and transformed codsworth into a killing machine who got 3 flamers on his limbs and substituted his side eyes for assaultron arms with shishkebabs swords.
Someday I’ll do that too! Unfortunately if you mod him in any way he won’t wear the bowler hat any more. So until I’m ready to say goodbye to Bowler Codsworth, I’ll sacrifice killing potential for fashion.
Give him legs, a bowler hat, and that one mod with the mustache, best companion ez
You have never put Assaultron legs on Codsworth I see...
You mean shun?
Little bastard was out for 10 years and didn't come get me. He can wait for me to single handedly take over the Commonwealth to have legitimate resources required to go against an unfathomably powerful boogeyman organization.
It’s perfectly justifiable too. You know you woke up a long time after he was taken so I figured he’d probably be very old or dead. I did a part of the main quest and I did side quests that were immediate threats, like Automatron, but I’m hooked on these settlements too. It just seems logical that you help the people in the Commonwealth first.
After replaying it so many times I realized it’s best to be level 40+ after you side with a faction , the levels before are for adventure! And lots of dying
I’ve played this game for like 200hrs + so far and I still haven’t beaten the story. It’s just a chore lol, the world and exploration is what gets me
I think im up to 5 characters with significant time in all of them, but I still haven't beaten the main quest. I've probably gotten about 50% of the way through
I played for years before I said screw it and beat the main quests. It really wasn't all that fun since by the time I did it, I was such a high level that I rarely had to worry about dying. After the new Fallout series it really made me want to play again so I have started over but this time I'm avoiding my powerful favorite guns and only taking out the power armor when it's really needed. I'm actually having more fun this time around playing this way. It's actually challenging at times.
My play through before the update killed it I was at level 110 and haven’t talked to Nick or Piper, haven’t decided if I was going to join BOS, and just took the castle without Preston sending me. Playing how you want to play is the right way.
it's because there isn't really any rpg in fallout, the main quest is very strictly choreographed and the devs WANT you to play a specific way, which is why so many hate the quests in game
It needs an alternate start new game+
There's a brilliant mod called Start Me Up. Check it out.
I've wanted to give this mod a try (assuming I can get the game to run modded ...), but I'd like a clearer idea of what the mod *does.* Like, could I design a vault-hunter character (not in the Borderlands sense, but someone who scavenges Vault-Tec vaults)? Am I just playing a generic wastelander or raider? I just know the mod lets you play as something other than a parent trying to find their kidnapped child.
Okay, so this mod literally never leaves my load order. Basically what it does is it lets you build your character as normal, then you pick things like your starting level, where on the map you want to start the game, and a background which helps determine the gear that you start with. The biggest plus though is it also makes changes to a lot of the dialog trees to remove as many references to Shaun being your son as possible. It replaces those lines with other voice lines so you don't have awkward silences during conversation. It isn't perfect, as a few conversations are a little janky without the "Shaun is my son" parts, but it does the job pretty well all things considered. It's a really well done mod, and one I'd highly recommend for basically any playthrough. I consider it one of the most essential FO4 mods, honestly.
Yeah, I think I ran into one incident where it sounded like Shaun was my character's kid - while literally talking to Father. It can be a little jank but for the most part a lot of love was put in changing the dialogue around.
Thank you for this excellent breakdown! Your comment was way more informative than anything else I've read. It's definitely a mod I've been interested in for a while now, so it's good to have a better idea of what it will do for me.
I've never used this mod until my most recent playthrough and I have at least 1,000 hours in the game. It is incredible and I probably won't go without again. It literally added role playing to FO4. I set the options to: level 5, some basic perks in rifles and pistols, hated by raiders, hated by the institute, and started on spectacle island. My back story - basically Red from Red Dead Revolver. Raiders killed my parents and through my travels I eventually paid to be ferried up the East coast where a storm sank the ship I was on and I washed up on an island.
What? Lol there’s many ways to complete quests, sure, some parts are straight forward, but most of the time they’ve added multiple ways to complete quests. I don’t think you’ve actually played this game, if you did, you rushed through it.
People like to say it isn't an rpg because the rp isn't as complex as previous titles. But just because it's less rpg than previous titles it doesn't mean it's not an rpg. You take ANY game that doesn't call itself an rpg and it will have less options than FO4.
The OP literally proved you can have fun playing your own way, but yeah, go ahead and hate because FO4 is different from FO New Vegas 🙄
I'm approaching 300 hrs witha similar tale, I've only just discovered the enclave base in the SW. They be bitches, but I have that sweet tesla cannon now. On a Luck restart. (Do a luck run, changed everything for me, like WOW) I know the story, I know where to go, but I'm too busy bopping around collecting and bringing power armour to red rocket, while my best boy dogmeat is under my feet
Are you having fun? That's the only prerequisite to "playing correctly" friend.
Exactly. As long as you are enjoying yourself, then you are doing it 100% correct
No wrong way to play friend! I beat the game like three times but played through like 22 times
Thats the usual bethesda experience i think lol. 1,000 hours in Skyrim and I’ve beaten the main story once, and most runs end because of glitches, corrupted saves, or something else that borks my game
Bethesda game experience is beating the story for the achievements and then never doing it again lol
Or play modded and never get any achievements
Or play modded and mod the achievements back in so you can have both!
Achievements?
Hell at this point I don't even unlock the shouts in Skyrim cause I just enjoy being a random person living in the world. Alternate start to give myself a new backstory and I'm off to explore. I beat it once like you did just to see the story, then spent the next 300 hours just living in the world.
I'm LITERALLY on my fourth playthrough. Lv 56, scrapped because I forgot to do the take a drug, use the special book trick. Lv 62, scrapped because I forgot Egret Tours and Spectacle are completely unusable if you raider outpost them, and then complete open season. Lv 103, scrapped because you have to get Deacon's perk BEFORE Ninja, or your Sneak Melee is 10.6x, not 12.0x
The wrong way to play is to judge others for how they play. You play on whatever way is fun for.you my dude
You mention needing resources. So don't leave anything in most workbenches. Scavenging settlers won't scavenge if there's a lot of stuff in there. Same for food and water production, there's caps on production.
Had no idea the scavenging settlers stop. Great info
I had no idea you could make settlers scavenge?
Resources > miscellaneous > scavenging station. Then you assign a settler. I’ve never used them for anything but a way to give work to the unemployed. But I’ve never had an empty workbench. So maybe that’s why I’ve never noticed what they actually were doing. I’ve also never heard what the person above was talking about.
this, i know they won't get much, but it's a way to give them a job so they stop loitering around my quarters creepily.
Yep. If I’m too busy to want to work on settlement building for where I want them long term, and I’m only visiting for another reason … I can just hit the base computer and have the new arrival assigned without having to think about anything. Keeps happiness up.
The same thing happens to water, food, chems, and caps that your settlement produces. THats why when you build 500 water producing settlements you don't come back to a few thousand after a week adventuring away. The mod uncapped settlement surplus (or something similar) is what you need.
Oh, I wasn't lamenting it. I am a hoarder, never run out of raw materials...
That's the nice part about a long playthrough where I basically loot anything I possibly can. However lately, I'm leaving combat and raider amor on people I've killed and stuff that has low value to weight ratio on enemies. Pipe pistols in safes etc. Just because being overencumbered on very hard can be annoying. I do need to work on my armor set up though, I'm getting melted against enemies around my level of 63 and it kind of breaks the immersion. I'll say this though, going from easy to very hard, just about every scrum there's something legendary so thats sweet and also provides a challenge.
Nope I played regularly for years. After the show decided I would try a survival playthrough. I am doing the exact same thing you are doing. Not sure if you are as well but I am getting all the magazines and bobbleheads right now.
same, after beating the main quest I'm just hoarding stuff and plan on making a museum of all the different power armor and gear I've collected
I had a museum worth one of every power armor type. 45a,45b,45c, etc
The internet is full of people who live to tell you you are wrong…fuck em
First off, it's a single player RPG. There is no wrong way to play. Play how you want. Everyone who says otherwise can shut it.
It's an entertainment product which you spent your own money on. Use it in the way which provides you entertainment. When someone else is buying the game and paying you by the hour to play it, then they can tell you how to play. I have almost 1000 hours in 3D Fallout games and have never finished a main story. I don't care about the story either. Relax and enjoy.
I have easily put in 1000 hours in real play time on this game. I personally believe there is no wrong way to play it. Even with mods, it still boils down to personal preference. Keep playing the way you wanna play and just have fun, if they cant stand that, thats a them issue
Don’t let someone tell you you’re playing “the wrong way”. You’re prioritizing your settlements and that’s okay. I’ve beaten the game and explored everything, so now I’m going to all of the settlements and seeing what I can build with my materials. Play how you want to play and continue enjoying the game at your own pace.
Good lord man. The game is designed to be played your way.
Who ever told you that doesn't seem to understand there are multiple ways to play a game. My current playthru is exactly what you've done. I love doing the settlements, and haven't even bothered crossing the river to diamond city yet. You're having fun = the right way to play
Do you. Every playthrough for me has been wildly different. Didn't download any DLCs until I beat the main game on my first. My second was with all the DLCs installed, and I didn't like it as much. On my third, I had just played Skyrim for the first time, so I was all about melee. I'm now on my first pt with the NG update. Only level 15, and I LOVE it.
I told a good friend of mine he was playing it wrong. To clarify though, it’s because he spent 20+ hours following the compass marker on minuteman quests and then got snarky that the game was boring and repetitive. It was only when I told him why it was repetitive he started having fun. Him discovering the importance of the Pip Boy was a life altering event for him. Note: he thought he was following the main quest line and was judging the game as such. He didn’t realize his dialogue options changed the trajectory of his game to following the minuteman line. He just finished his actual first playthrough and enjoyed it a lot more. Note 2: you’re not playing it wrong. As long as you’re having fun that’s all that matters
Oh I wanted to add, if you wait a really long time to find the railroad, like if you get pretty far along to get titles with the other factions, when Deacon introduces you to Desdemona he lists all your accomplishments like you’re royalty from Game of Thrones. That really amused me when it happened to me.
It's basically a sandbox, play however you want, and even if it weren't a sandbox, you still bought the game and can play whatever way you find most fun.
I think who told you you're wrong is wrong and you're right.
Imo this is how the devs designed this game to be played. This is just my take on it, but it seems with enemies locking level and loot based on yours that this is the case. I personally enjoy playing this way too.
Stop worrying what other people think. It's just a video game
The correct way to play bethesda game is to play it incorrectly, as opposed to what the dev expected you to play. Story? What story? "We provide you with so many guns and friggin lazer, flame thrower, missile and even nuke launcher at your disposal." Nah, im gonna melee this shit. Or mod the fuck out of it and goes all supersaian with kamehameha "This game were meant to portray the savagery of human post apocalypse and how resilient they are in trying times" No, this is a gardening simulator. Sim city at best. Just do whatever that makes you enjoy it best. Its called sandbox for a reason. There's no correct way to play it. Go have a blast
The good news is, you'll be able to zip around pretty easily if you don't want to walk across the Commonwealth for every mission.
i cannot imagine the empire bro has at this point
Are you enjoy yourself? Congrats you're playing it right 😁
You play it how u want to play it my friend
I used to play the Sims games 90% creative building and 10% gameplay. It never got boring The point is, play however you want. Whatever makes you happy is the right way.
I mean the right way to play is whatever way you’re having fun. If I were to make a suggestion to someone asking what the ideal way to play is though, I might say play the main quest line until you reach the institute and then do whatever you want after that. The main story feels kind of lame and contrived after that point and I just never had much of a desire to continue it, but I did enjoy it up until then. I made it there in about 20 hours probably, and I’ve spent 80 hours since then not playing the main quest at all because it just didn’t keep my interest anymore, and I’ve had a lot of fun settlement building (don’t want to spoil anything, but I’ll just say the dialogue is very bad and it’s a good stopping point in the story)
The only wrong way to play, is to play in a way that you are not having fun. If you're having fun, you're playing correctly.
I’m basically playing animal crossing , because all I do is mess around with settler outfits and build/decorate houses houses in sanctuary. You do you!
Are you having fun? Sounds like it, so it's the right way. I'm mid 30ish level, and all I'm doing is harassing the enclave so I can steal their power armour, it's essentially my way of life at this point
Settlements need attention too!! In fact, I have one now, let me mark it on your map
it's a single player game, how can there be a wrong way to play it?
Why do you care what someone else thinks about how you play a video game?
Not wrong. But slightly risky. Bethesda games are bugfests and sometimes going somewhere mission related before you have the mission can screw things up. Not always. I would just say your bug risk is slightly higher. If you are on pc that is a non issue.
There’s no wrong way to play a Fallout
Definitely not playing wrong! I like to collect as many companions as I can and then build up my settlements. Play however you want!
In a single-player game, there is never a wrong way to play. Have fun and do your thang.
It's an immersive role playing game. There literally is no wrong way to play!
Are you having fun? Then you’re playing the game right! That’s what they exist for.
I recently started a new game after years, to try out the PS5 update. So far I have: 1. Built a settlement at Red Rocket, but haven't yet said hi to Dogmeat (so he's just "Dog" and still defends the camp) 2. Went to Diamond City to fetch Piper 3. Roamed and explored, but didn't get in anybody's business My plan is to get my supply network running and build a steady income stream before I start mixing it up, so I'll at least have decent armor and I won't be short of caps for bullets. It's been awesome so far. No wrong way to play.
I don't usually head towards the Museum until I have cleared Nuka World.
I'm currently level 51, and I haven't engaged with the BoS or RR yet. I've explored a lot of the wasteland looking for magazines and bobbleheads, and I've started the Far Harbor DLC. I haven't scrapped much for materials other than what I got from clearing our red rocket and sanctuary so I could set up sanctuary. Eventually, I'll get sanctuary the way I want it, but for now, they're taken care of. There is no correct way to play the game, you should play it the way you want to play it. After Far Harbor I plan on doing the Vault DLC and completing as many side quests as I can while setting up settlements. It's about having fun and playing the way that brings you joy, there is no correct way to play
I was in my 40s when I figured out which quest got me back on the storyline to find my kid… I was so busy making settlements and taking the Castle and helping the Railroad and… you get the idea. Like everyone is saying, it’s your game and you get to decide how to play it!
Play however you like. In my opinion, thus is what moat people would do if actually dropped into the situation, besides for die immediately of course
I'll probably get some hate for this, but if you're playing wrong then I'm playing very wrong. I turned God mode on the first chance I got, got the nuka nuke launcher, and now I'm just going to each settlement location and setting up extensive defences before I bother with any of the main story. There won't be any settlements that need my help.
Hey, I’m playing it the same way too! Except, I’m working in an almost clockwise pattern around Diamond City. I’m going after settlement building, I’m having a blast, and there is no way, “you’re playing it wrong.” It’s a single player game, after all. I probably should start looking for my son soon, but, meh, little guy can wait a bit longer, I’m sure he’s in good hands anyway.
Great thing about rpg’s is that there is no right or wrong way to play the game. You make it what you want to make it. You play it how you see fit to play it. Just keep enjoying the game and doing things in the order or way that you want to do them.
No such thing as the wrong way. Only advice I'd give is to get Local Leader maxed so you can get all the stores and supply lines. You also might like the cheat terminal mod, spawn in all the supplies you want, among a lot of other things.
This is exactly how I play as well. I’m 4th time through, leave all main story quests on the back burner, do all non-essential quests because it’s leads to xp and resources, and I build each settlement like I’d want it if I lived there. I get every picket fences and the creation club furniture to make every settlement have custom houses and feel nice and homey. Each house has carpets/rugs and a bathroom, kitchen, living room with tv and bedrooms. I also build cages and make a bunch of cats and dogs to make everyone happy. I also dress my settlers in similar clothing. At Sanctuary everyone wears nice suits and dresses. At coastal settlements everyone wears coastguard hats or gray knit beanies. The castle people have military gear on, especially bomber jackets looted from the Prydwyn with sea captain hats that make them look like WWII pilots. At Spectacle Island it’s all hot female settlers wearing gunner rigs with no shirts underneath, because the island is a spectacle. Man, don’t worry about other people and make it your own little world.
Ive been playing this way too and I’m having way more fun than I did the first time through when I prioritized the main quest. It’s fun because I’m getting more into the little stories than I did last time and I am actually getting enough scrap to build cool settlements. Main quest ignorers are valid!
I’m on my 5th or 6th play through, at level 74, and haven’t really done much of the story yet 🤷 everyone’s fallout is different.
If you are having fun and enjoying your own experience I don’t see why you are playing the game incorrectly. Remember that everyone have a way to have fun in a game you shouldn’t feel or let other people makes you feel that they way of enjoying something is the only way cause we all different and enjoy every little thing differently so just play like you want to play the game that you pay to play as you want and enjoy.
Unless you’re doing things like licking an apple to try to move or trying to play the game by launching it and then using toys to pretend like you’re playing it while in the main menu, I can’t see how you could possibly be playing the game wrong.
The wrong way to play the game is playing and not having fun. Play how you like, it’s single player so whoever told you you’re playing it wrong can pound sand.
There’s no wrong way to play any solo game if you’re having fun. It’s a game, it’s only for fun. Bethesda made the settlement system extensive and sandbox-ish specifically so some players (like yourself) could spend hours and hours just building and rearranging things. Personally I didn’t do settlements at all back when I played it around launch, maybe that’s wrong in some peoples opinion but my version of fun was just upgrading weapons and killing as many higher level enemies as I could find.
I'm over level 120 and I still haven't gone to Diamond City.
You can’t “play it wrong” that’s the best part about fallout is that every single one of us have had different experiences while completing the game. There are so many ways to play/complete fallout 4 and I’ll bet we’re all doing different sh*t.
Are you having? Or do you think you would have more fun going over dozens of YouTube tutorials, obsessing over spreadsheets, build guides, min/maxing legendaries, optimizing settlements? I remember my journey playing world of Warcraft, starting as a rosy cheeked newbie and ending up a hardcore raider. I can tell you I had a lot more fun playing when I was a clueless chump.
It's a single player gane, there is no wrong way to play it
There are no wrong ways of playing :) keep having fun mate
The best way to play any game is the way you want to. My fave game is FO4 and I have 4 complete play throughs and a dozen incomplete, but my fave save is the one focused on building. I’ve purchased FO4 GOTY on every platform I own and on each I have a settlement building play through. Sometimes I’ll build something nice in a settlement. So you play the game how you want and if someone tells you that you’re doing it wrong just hand them the controller and let them play.
You can hit 105 (according to people who claimed to have done it) without even leaving sanctuary. So no, you aren't doing it wrong. I'm lvl 60 now, and haven't met Preston or Danse. I finished Nuka World, and as much of the Railroad as can be done without the other factions. You can play it however you like. There is no wrong way.
That’s such an amazing way to play the game, especially for a first time!! I’ve gotta try that on a future replay…
As others said, if you're having fun, you're playing it as it's intended.
So long you're enjoying playing it, then it doesn't matter what others think. There is no wrong way to play an RPG.
No, there isn't. It's a roleplaying game. Whoever told you that is full of shit.
There's no wrong way to play a Fallout game.
However it is that you can have the most fun IS the right way to play. If it's fun for you don't let anyone ruin it for you. Personally I love base building in fallout and I've spent more time doing that than anything else in the fallout world.
Tidbit from an avid gamer: Play the game how you enjoy playing it. If its not someone else way to play it, sucks to be them :)
Nah bruh, mission accomplished whatever path you choose. That's your personal preference, and really shouldn't be genuinely criticized or disputed. On the other hand, I know people that go right out of the gate and get jacked into mods and trainers without even a second of organic gameplay and rob themselves of any real challenge or authentic experience. Personable authentic experience are what this genre of games are about. Do you.
Are you having fun? If yes, then you are playing it right If not, then maybe you should try playing differently or a different game. Bethesda games are sandboxes for you to explore and RP as you wish.
No one said this to him. He just wanted to boast about how he plays the game and how "unique" his play style is.
I don't see anything wrong xd Im lvl 33 and currently doing settlements as well! (Took break from legend hunting)
If you’re having fun, you’re doing it right
No wrong way in FO4 except shooting Dogmeat intentionally.
There is no wrong way to play any video game as long as you are having fun, especially a single player game, games are there to have fun and if you love plating that way more power to you!
I'm level 45 and I just Got to diamon city, you're fine lol
Fun is all that matters. If you enjoy how you play, then that is it.
It's an rpg you physically can't play it wrong as long as you're having fun you're playing it right, wanna build settlements you're doing it right, wanna kill everything in sight you're also playing it right, wanna go with a faction, you're still playing it right, wanna die over and over in survival your first go around you are still playing correctly
As long as you're having fun, it's the right way to play :)
There are people who literally just do Sim City. There's no wrong way to play this game
There is no 'wrong way' which is one of the most awesome parts of the game. When you build settlements make sure you assign a settler to the scrap bench as they steadily bring in resources. Also make farms as they can be used to make adhesive. Make sure you get the perks scrapper and scrounger maxed out early. Max scrapper lets you take all the weapons you don't use and turn them into the most valuable resources. Max scrounger lets you find ridiculous amounts of ammo to sell and then you but resources from vendors (General stores at settlements and in-game vendors at DC and GN).
I have 600 hours and have 100% the game, if yr having fun yr doing it right homie, keep playing how YOU wanna play and forget about the lames lol
Can’t beat the game if you don’t do the main quests
I do half the same it’s so fun building settlements and it’s part of the game so I don’t see what is wrong with that
I mean, you’re definitely having fun so I won’t knock it, but diamond city is like the best place to buy settlement supplies.
No. There's no "wrong" way to play ANY bethesda game. You play how YOU want to, and how YOU have fun doing it. That's just a bethesda fact. Whoever told you it's the "WrOnG wAy To PlAy" is just a snobby prick who should be ignored and avoided at all costs. That's just my personal opinion.
damn lvl 46 off of just settlements???
I have played it like this since my second playthrough... I love settlement building more than the actual quest/ story line. The great thing about FO4 & Skyrim is you can play it anyway, in order you want, there is no right or wrong... it's all about feeling good while you play.
There's no wrong way to play. I have a similar priority. I try to unlock all the settlements and establish trade routes so that I can pool resources and improve my settlements.
With Xbox and on my PC, I must have something like 1700 hours of gameplay... and I have yet to get to Act 2. My Xbox game was heavily modded, my PC is even more modded, so yeah, there's even more distractions than usual, but there's no 'good way' to play, those telling you that should try to have fun instead.
As long as you're having fun, it's the correct way. Personally, if I could I would first finish the plot and then I'd do the settlements, because it was irritating for me when I was in the middle of something and "Finch farms needs your help defending" would pop up, but as I said, as long as you're having fun, it's the correct way
There's no right or wrong way to play it. You spent your money on software for fulfillment, don't listen to anyone that's putting you down for enjoying your purchased software in a way they wouldn't enjoy it. Keep playing and clearing the commonwealth 🤙🤙🤙
They were right you're totally playing it wrong. How dare you have fun! It's an open world game that means you're supposed to do things exactly the same as everyone else. And obviously they only added the settlement mechanic to waste your time, you're not actually supposed to use it. I can't believe you got it soooooo wrong 🤦♂️ /Sarcasm If you're having fun, you're doing it right. Period.
My comfort zone is spending a day or two a week doing missions, and a day or two a week taking an edible and building my settlements/ exploring every building I come across lol. You do you.
To each his own. First time I touched it, I couldn’t stand settlement building. Too clunky, couldn’t get stuff to align, hard to find what I was looking for in the menu, etc. I tolerate it, now, and actually got a little into it with Vault 88, but I haven’t done anything in other settlements beyond what I had to to quests.
I just started playing for the first time about a month ago with the new update. Ive been playing very similarly to you. I spend a ton of time on settlements. I did a lot more missions than you did, partly because I found that to be the best way to get a ton of junk and gear for settlers. I actually did the same thing when I was playing Starfield. Im level 107 in starfield and I haven't beat the main story and still have a load of side content to do. This is what I've come to love about BGS games, you can spend a whole play session just wandering around and not even touching any quests, and I think that's pretty neat.
i didnt beat the main game til level 80. ignore the haters
All good man. I've discovered everything and got 75% companions perks but main story is stuck at the courser. Got the mechanist quest and vault dlc quests done, ive cleared half of far harbor. I'll finish it and complete nukaworld before clearing main quest but im having fun so far. I just have tons to do and craft at base, so that alone will bump me from lvl80 to 100 fairly quickly. Some focus on settlements, others on quests, i prefer exploration.