

If you do get yourself caught in a bad situation, that’s where Demolition Expert comes in. Only use VATS for Blitz (great for stealth killing high-level enemies). Take all perks that increase damage, especially stealth and silenced damage. Try to find a silenced long-range weapon ASAP. +END gear can help with this if you want, but you still need to be smart with how you approach an engagement to make sure you don’t get yourself caught in bad situations. Low endurance means low health, so you need to kill fast or be killed fast. You’re more brutal and uncaring, and do whatever it takes to improve your chances of short- and long-term survival. But it’s not the typical sneaky-archer type. This build has high agility, so yes this is more of a stealth type build. Recommended to get Perception bobblehead early too for Demolition Expert. Put extra point from You’re Special! into Agility (for Blitz).
#Aqua boy on survival mods#
But anyway,įavorite survival build: Shadow of the Apocalypse (Survivalist build no mods required)

And admittedly, I try to build a decontamination arch as early as possible. I never did a no-settlement survival build, might have to give that a try! I always end up building up at least a couple that I can retire to and re-up on water. Still got one-shot killed a fair number of times in the first two dozen or so levels but never lacked for resources. Stripped most weapon mods off of guns looted from opponents or bought from merchants so I didn’t need the crafting perks either. Rarely even used stimpaks, RadAway or Rad-X in order to avoid the side-effects and got by on cooked food and Refreshing Beverages for healing instead. I was able to avoid settlement building and live off the land. The other starting SPECIAL stats allowed me get the other perks that I though helped: Armorer, Rifleman, and Lone Wanderer. I also poured points into Endurance both for the hit points and because, in my opinion, the best perks to mitigate survival mode are on that tree: Toughness, Lead Belly, Aqua Boy/Girl, Adamantium skeleton and –especially– Solar Powered. I also maxed intelligence out fairly quickly to get Nerd Rage, which went a long way towards ensuring I could survive tough combat situations and keep my progress.

Going high with Intelligence allowed me to level up quickly and get the Chemist perk early on, which made it possible to craft a lot of good things like antibiotics and gave an extra edge to chems. My starting build was Strength 3, Perception 5, Endurance 5, Charisma 3, Intelligence 7, Agility 3 and Luck 2. And yet there’s no reason to doubt that it worked either. Every time I read a comment on the subject the “Here’s how you can survive Survival” advice seems radically different from what I did or what other commenters have done. Gotta say I’m intrigued by how many different ways players have found to beat the game in survival mode.
