I have only played for about 55 hours and I can honestly say I have never Fast Traveled once and never plan to. Anyone else refuse to Fast Travel?

On a side note, I haven't found the need to use Power Armor yet, but since I am refusing to Fast Travel I'm not sure how many fusion cores I will need if I ever have to trek across the wasterland with Power armor?

yeah I refuse to do it, I was away from the internet until I completed the main story, but I wanted to talk and read about this game so much that I felt forced to use fast travel to finish the MQ without getting spoilers. In the end I think that ruined my experience, I decided to start a new playthrough completly from scratch without using fast travel ever again, I am currently on survival and Power Armor is almost a necessity for me since ferals kill me so easily and they are almost impossible for me to dodge.

I tend not to, if I need to get somewhere in a hurry I'll call for a vertibird - otherwise I'll travel on foot.

One of the things I'm most looking forward to about mods is things like iNeed and Campfire - the ability to travel and camp out in the wild while moving from place to place, even if it's just a sleeping bag with a fire that my character's cooked a meal on. I absolutely loved that in Skyrim, planning a journey out and taking stuff I'd need for the trip.

I do for selling stuff, and I come back to where I left and hoof it back the slow way while exploring.

What is so fun about not Fast Traveling is all the firefights you run into. I was hoofing it from The Castle to Sanctuary and heard the Vertibird firing on something. The next thing I know I round a corner and bam a Deathclaw is running my direction trying to get away from the Vertibird. Lucky for me the Vertibird did most of the damage to him and he died pretty quickly. These are just some of the things I think people miss out on when all they do is Fast Travel. For me it also takes away from the immersion.

I don't refuse to use it but do try to limit it, mainly when a settlement is under attack or when I'm really loaded down with stuff I need for settlement building. Most of the time I walk everywhere because I love exploring and don't want to miss anything.

I use it sparingly.

Sparingly. I try to never go TO objectives in Fast Travel, and before I got the top StrongBack perk I avoided FT back to base. But now that I have that perk (can fast travel while overloaded) I make the exception.

I use to to "make the round" to my settlements and collect the stuff that I cannot access from the home base.

I actually tend not to use it to respond to settlement. Based on my limited comparisons, you actually travel 2 to 3 times slower when you go between two sites in FT than when you jog between them and make some limited use of sprinting. Assuming there is an actual "timer" on those Settlement attacked 'quests' you might actually be at more risk of getting there too late if you FT.

I allow myself to fast travel along settlement supply lines when taking care of settlement business, though I seldom actually avail myself of that house rule. For the most part, I hoof it.

You can get a lot of mileage out of a fusion core if you walk instead of run. It's been my experience that you find fusion cores at least as fast as you burn through them at any rate. I've never been short on cores, no matter how much I use my power armor. With Power Armor, the much more limiting factor is the need to keep it in good repair, which requires taking it to a repair station where there are enough resources to patch it up.

First playthrough I didn't for a while but I got svcked into the story and started fast traveling for the last quarter of it or so. My second playthrough is at almost as many hours now and I've barely touched the main quest. Having a lot more fun this time.

most og the time i never fast travel , you never know wjat you are missing

only fast travel is when i am chjecking up on my settlements

I don't want to fast travel, but with the amount of resources you need for modding and settlement building, I find myself scrapping for everything I can get my hands on, so I have to port back home to unload every now and then. But other than that I don't use it.

Haven't used my PA either since first getting it, other than for a trip into the Glowing Sea and that was only for the Rad Resistance it offers. I've always felt bad about tanking my way through the wasteland and didn't use PA in FO3 either. I did use them in FO1 and 2, but it was kinda different back then.

Proud of you OP and I hope to one day to be able to do the same, but my real life only gives me a limited amount of time to play so I FT every chance I get. Once I've seen all the endings I want I plan on just slowly playing my real main character and not using FT.

Walking the short distances and using a vertiberd for the long ones.

Have you built extensive supply lines that reach allover the map? I think the major reason I fast travel is to sell loot and dump my junk. Without fast travel I would spend most of my time going back and forth just to sell and unload loot.

yup ^^

for almost everything except the settlement stuff

when you get attacked, or want to change a supply line to go somewhere else, it's pretty hard to do that without using fast travel :/

I wish we could turn the random attacks on the settlements off

I usually use fast travel only after uncovering the majority of the map in Bethesda games. But after having walked most everywhere, I use fast travel almost always afterward in completing quests taking only an occasional stroll without it.

I connect all my settlements so that any settlement is a good dumping point for my scrap. Settlement A sets up a supply line to B, B to C, C to D, etc. That way only one settler from each settlement is dedicated to supply lines. As to selling stuff, I hit every trader and merchant I come across to not only sell my excess but to attempt to snag every 5.56 round in the Wastes.

I shun fast travel, however, where settlements are concerned, walking (or running) is not always possible. I have had settlements go under attack and received the "you have failed" message in a matter of 1-2 minutes. Not nearly enough time to travel via foot, or even vertibird. So, depending on the settlement, I will sometimes fast travel to a settlement when under attack. My main settlements have a high defense to attractiveness ratio, so this is not very often.

In a more general sense, I have taken the Skyrim cart approach to this. For any two settlements that are linked via a supply line, I will allow myself to fast travel between them, in the order they are linked. I figure I am just tagging along with the Provisioners and skipping the mundane.

I use fast travel for the reason that I don't like running into the same fights over and over again, I already spend 95% of the game fighting so more of the same just makes it tedious and repetitive to me. I've already defeated all these types of enemies in every conceivable environment and situation, so I don't care for doing it multiple times. Encounters offer very little variation and I've already seen all the unique ones travelling around to discover all new places the first time.

on my 2nd PT and haven't used it once and I'm level 37 I believe....So much more enjoyable for me....

I do. As long as you carry enough to make a generator and recruitment beacon you can just wander from place to place and set up new settlements as you come across them, then wait for the first settler to start the supply chain. The trick is to write down what you need for a few things and make sure you grab that at a workshop or when scrapping.

Thanks. I only play on the weekends myself, but not many games interest me like Fallout 4 has so I expect to have at least 1 year to fully finish the game. Why 1 year? I normally play Battlefield online and have done so with Battlefield 4 the past 2 years until Fallout 4 came around. In about 1 year the next installment of Battlefield should be hitting and I can almost guarantee that will take up the majority of my time.

I have not used map-based fast travel in a Bethesda game since Oblivion in 2006. I tried it twice and have never done it again.

I was a definite FT baby in FO3/NV...Makes me realize it was just wrong!!!! WRONG DAMNIT!!!!