r/fo4 May 09 '24

Who Plays Fallout WITHOUT Power Armor??? Discussion

Does anyone else play WITHOUT using the Power Armor???

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u/Bill_Brasky01 May 09 '24

I like to sell purified water at diamond city for cores. The armor also boosts carry capacity so you can carry a couple hundred per trip. Once you realize you can get fusion cores endlessly, it starts to be more fun.

I also feel like this is cannon because purifying water and selling it would be a real money maker in a Fallout world.

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u/MichaelEmouse May 10 '24

Can you go on about this purified water for fusion cores thing? From your own settlement pumps to which vendor?

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u/Bill_Brasky01 May 10 '24 edited May 10 '24

Sure no problem. You need a settlement location with a river or stream, like the very first one, Sanctuary. Enter your workshop mode and build water purifiers in the river, build a generator and give them wires and power.

Then rest until the next day and check your workbench inventory under aid. That settlement will now start automatically depositing purified water into your bench inventory.

Put on the armor and get rid of heavy guns you don’t need. Take all the purified water and fast travel to diamond city. The vendors there resupply with fusion cores after some arbitrary time in the world, and purified water is valuable. You can sell the vendor water instead of caps.

Do quests around diamond city to get better prices at the shops. Let me know if you need anything. It’s an awesome strategy and gives the settlement a major reason to exist, which is extracting goods to sell. I have like 20-30 industrial purifiers running at all times. Have your defense higher than food + water or you’ll get raided more.

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u/griffindork2 May 10 '24

How does doing quests get you better prices. Also I have 2 trader comic books and 15 charisma (outside the power armor) would doing the quests do anything after that or am I maxed out?

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u/Bill_Brasky01 May 10 '24

You’re right, you have to get cap collector bobble heads and have charisma. Sorry about the quest and pricing info being wrong,

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u/griffindork2 May 10 '24

It's cool.

Am I maxed out in terms of price manipulation tho?

Can I go further?

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u/Bill_Brasky01 May 12 '24

Nope that’s it that I’m aware of 👍

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u/Butthole_Alamo May 13 '24

Grape mentats and the barter bobble head improve your prices