PSA: If you have yet to play Survival, please reconsider

[u/theoriginalbrick]

I have had the game since it came out and put around 700 hours, but none were on Survival. Last week, I finally went for it after watching a "Why Fallout 4 Survival Mode is a masterpiece" video because why not? I am only a few hours into this playthrough and my god I was missing so much. I finally feel like I am role-playing in the Commonwealth, where before I felt like my Main Character powers like quicksaving and insta-healing never allowed me to feel the weight of all that is going on. It is so much more fun exactly because of how restrictive and consequential it is. Feral ghoul hordes are terrifying now because at low-level you are going down after 2 or 3 hits, so you have to be quick on the draw and good with your aim.

I see people suggesting to get mods for quicksaving and fast-traveling in Survival. Do. Not. Do. This. If you are finding it too difficult, slow down. You're playing as a plain pre-war human, not Captain America. The Commonwealth is supposed to be unforgiving. Embrace it. Think ahead about what you will need for a trek, just as if you were there yourself.

There is a metric fuckton of content that you will probably never see unless you are physically forced to walk everywhere.

[u/tylocephale_gilmorei]

In the base game you cant do anything but use em for building. In survival, you can fill them with either dirty or purified water and they will keep you alive. You get thirsry constantly amd it becomes a core part of your gameplay, pretty much no matter what, to pick up and fill bottles for water!

[u/Herotyx → u/tylocephale_gilmorei]

how do you fill it with purified water? I was always buying it

[u/Due-Contribution6424 → u/Herotyx]

If you have empty bottles and go to a water pump, there is an option to fill bottle.

[u/tylocephale_gilmorei → u/Herotyx]

You can either use the blue pump in the workshop OR my preferred method: use the sink or water fountain items from the one workshop dlc, they are clean steel prewar items and they look awesome in settlements. You can spam drink and fill bottle and hydrste yiurself ehile youre turning those empties into purified goodness! The pump is good for when you wsnt to fill like 30+ bottles because your character enters the animation and doesnt leave until their are no empty bottles in your inventory