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You have to find and scrounge for your ammo and weapons......
Pick your fights, and don't be afraid to to runaway! There are some enemies that are much stronger then others, and care should be taken when fighting them.
Unless you have a reason to be at medford (and I can't think of one at lvl 13) maybe you shouldn't be there right now?
When I was a noob I put the settings on easy.
Also dont venture too far until you are ready with levels and gear.
LvL 13 is nothing to sneeze at .
Pick one weapons group ( not heavy thats too expensive in ammo) like rifleman for example and put your perks there and then focus on ammo for your best rifle.
Be sure to plunder anyone and everyone for armor /weapons and sell what you dont need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9bXjttMxKY
Also note that there are Luck-based perks which help scrounging up more ammo and caps from containers when exploring.
Welcome to FO4! Dying a lot when you're new to the game is par for the course.
Yes, that's one of the knocks against the game. I noted that when I did my personal review of it. For me it was essential that I find out more information because I was just totally clueless about what was going on when I started. The wiki helped a lot https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:Fallout_4. [/quote]
Wow! I only got to level 10 after more than three weeks irl of playing the game a lot! I don't know how many hours that was but I'm sure it was well over 100. You're doing great, I think.
I agree with the advice on using semi-automatic rifles and the pistol you got early on. Ammo can be a really difficult resource to find early on. I recall having come across a .308 combat rifle and I spent a lot of my other resources buying ammo for it. And I ran out sometimes and had to fall back on some .38 pipe rifle. And don't be afraid to sell stuff. I held on to a lot of what I'd looted and wouldn't sell it because I thought I'd need it later on and would regret selling it. This was behavior I'd learned from other games. But in FO4 selling stuff early on can get you that ammo you need to survive.
I'd also suggest reading through the perk chart pretty closely and looking perks up on the wiki. The way you personally decide to play the game will determine what weapons and perks you want to get soon. You need to be strategic about the perks now because early on you level up, and can get new perks, a lot more easily than you'll be able to later in the game. This wiki page https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_perks will bear reading and re-reading.
Don't get discouraged. I got slaughtered by insects over and over again right around Sanctuary Hills for quite a while when I started. At level 13 if the game tells you not to tangle with a certain enemy because it's too tough for you heed that warning. And save often! Good luck.
You got 12 options in total, making it quite easy to "auto select" all your weapons, grenades and healing items the moment you need them.
I won't tell you which weapons to put where, but it would be useful to put a pistol, a rifle and a melee weapon under the first three slots, frag grenades and molotov cocktails under the two after that, leaving you with 7 more slots for healing materials like (rad free!) food, Rad-X, Rad Away and stimpacks.
Especially the latter are very useful, as they return 30% - later even up to 100% - of your health in a quick way. Food will do the same, but the most useful ones early game are very useless late game.
And speaking of food, the very first settlement you can use - Sanctuary - offers a cooking location at which you can fry the radroach meat you got early game. Later you will be able to cook more useful kinds of meat, beverages, soup and more of the like.
Another advantage of Sanctuary, you will have a weapons, armor and chemist workbench there.
Use them to improve your weapons, armor and get chems which will temporary boost your stats.
Good luck!
Thorin
If you can get the caps to get the thing, it's definitely worth it.
Spray and Pray is great, but burns through .45 caliber ammo quickly, and that's one that is a little harder to come by in normal play. You can wind up with a paperweight pretty soon if it's all you use.
Some basics:
Read everything in the Help menu and also pay attention to the loading screens
Enemies get more challenging as you move south and east away from Sanctuary
Don’t feel any time pressure to follow the main quest - the time pressure in the narrative is fake
Always take perks that increase damage as soon as they become available. You need to do this, and get better weapons, and upgrade those weapons, in order to keep up with how the game levels up.
In case it’s not clear, enemies generally level up as you level up. This is in addition to areas getting more dangerous as you move away from Sanctuary.
Keep a stock of Chems for difficult combat and use them when needed. Psycho, Jet, MedX, Buffout, and their derivatives.
Upgrading weapons is different depending on whether you use VATS or not. The same upgrade that makes a weapon better in VATS can make it worse outside of VATS.
Companions can make a big difference in combat while you are learning the ropes.
Study the perk chart.
When you are new to the game take the perception perk “Awareness” that lets you see level and defence levels of enemies. This will help you decide which fights to avoid, or at least handle cautiously.
Watch out for the death head icon above an enemy. It shows they are way above your level.
If ammo is an issue take the Scrounger perk.
If money is an issue you can do something called “water farming”. Build simple water pumps (or if you prefer big water purifiers) and sell the water to traders. It’s cheesy but the game designers did not object to it enough to prevent it, so I guess they wanted money to be easy to come by.
When you start the life of an adventurer, you always first choose the weapon type as a perk.
-Big Leagues (Meele)
-Heavy Gunner (Big Guns)
-Rifleman (Non auto Rifles)
-Demolition Expert (Explosives)
-Nuclear Physicist (Radiation Dmg)
-Gunslinger (Non auto Pistols)
-Commando (Automatic Weapons, Rifles and Pistols)
You always keep it at the level! Thats your base dmg! Secundäry Weapon dmg comes from Weapon Mods. Take the Perk and keep it on level. Always install the best mods and you'll do a lot of damage.
This damage can be made even worse, here you can read for yourself which perks increase the damage. This fundamentally depends on what kind of build you have. But I won't go into it in detail now because there are so many possibilities and it would take too long.
Depending on the weapon, you build your Build around it. For example, if you choose "Commando" you have high ammunition costs you have to compensate for that. Either via perks like Scrapper and build a simple ammunition factory and process the scrap collected or via Scrounger that lets you find more ammunition.
Or you can do it completely differently and build an economy like a melon, water farm or collects tools and sells them at a suitable place (spoiler) and then you buy the ammunition. The best thing is of course a mixture of everything.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3400087765
(Why Melons: Abernathyfarm you can sell Melons for 5 caps at Lucy Abernathy. There is no limit, you can sell 10,000 melons there and get the corresponding wage. The only important thing is that you don't take over the Abernathy Farm otherwise the opportunity expires).
Every now and then choose a few perks that increase your survivability like Livegiver, Toughness or Lone Wanderer if you only choose the dog as a companion. Lone Wanderer also increases the damage by 25%.
There are more options, but please find out for yourself. Just read the descriptions of the perks.
This should make life immensely easier at the highest level of difficulty.
Hell yeah I'm gonna do a ammunation factory too sounds dope haha. Also being good and aim for the head is always helping cause if you put half of your shots into the wall well it doesn't do that much damage.
Take cover, don't be afraid to go into your pip-boy to heal yourself and take time to know what you are going to do next. I'm on very hard level 11 and for the moment I'm not struggling that much, mainly against the ghouls hordes cause they rush you so fast and hit hard. I'm using pistol, baseball bat, sniper and shotgun, a thing for each situations
And later I'll guess I'm gonna use a lot of grenades and makes some little trap with mines for the big enemies, have fun in the Commonwealth, he will be the one making you better by trying again and again you will succeed
Mind you not, I have 20 hours in.
Early game just use whatever weapons you find and loot all the ammo types, if you just use one weapon over and over you will find yourself ammo starved really quickly.
Also note the game tends to get more difficult when you venture further south, early game you should stick to the northern and middle part of the commonwealth until you have more levels, perks, better weapons etc.