
Explore them each time because they spawn different things. On random travels there will sometimes be a house with a cellar or a cavern. The others are Fidel ( Bar in the big city), The dog ( random encounter DO NOT SAVE HIS MASTER OR YOU WONT RECRUIT HIM), Hexogen ( Crazy dude in red fighter), and Alex who comes by once you repair your rest area in Red fighter. One is a nutcase who makes two of you others companions leave so don't bother with her. The other (Gasoline) is used by your car. You will only get them here or with luck in a random trader. Look up for those rare weapons/armor/helmet/shields. Try to pass by the weapon and the armor trader in the big city as often as you can. If you don't and have no ammo in the middle of a fight, you will regret it. There are a lot of different ammos types, try to have each companion using a different one.

Get on with medium range weapons and the game will be much, much easier. You will get hit from afar by guys with rifle, destroyed in cac by big animals, and lets not talk of what a burst or a shotgun will do to you. Since the heaviest source of damage are multiples (pellets or bursts), Damage thresold is more important. You have 10 damage resistance and are hit by a 10 damage round. Damage thresold reduce brut incoming damage, and damage resistance reduce % of it.Įxemple : You have 5 damage thresold and are hit by a 10 damage round. How does defense works ? Dodge is affecting your chance to get hit. You can choose your ammo between AP/HP by dragging it over to the weapon. You can't take the car everywhere ! (Mountain pass/ Dead city) Don't dump Strenght since you will spend a lot of the game carrying a lot of stuff around. If you don't mind saving often and need a dup stat, Endurance is here for you. Having very high Attention, Personality and Intellect is better however, since you get to see them in actions a lot more often in dialogues. Having very high luck unlock some ridiculous way to avoid a few dangerous situations. Have one companion invest in Technology to repair stuff, and another in Lockpicking to open stuff for you and you are golden. And of wastepapers), And your main type of weapon. The more important are Speechcraft, Stealth ( to steal stuff), Pickpocket (even with 199 prepare to have to reload a lot, but it is the main source of money in the game. Others will get you xp, or clues, or even points to some skills.


One will give you a perk in the starting village. Don't bother with them if you intend to use rifles or Auto. Shields are only used with one handed weapon. Rather, invest in the top right to cancel the penalties of armor and then in your weapon of choice. Do not invest your precious points on xp gain ( top left in the screen). Every starting distinction where you lose carrying capacity is a bad one. Hello ! This intend to be a list of things i wish i was aware of when I first started the game.
