What build or playstyle do you feel gives the most enjoyment or immersion?

What best fits the character and his/her environment while also provoding a good gameplay experience?


I'm leaning towards strealth play. Early on it feels very intense watching that meter and carefully sneaking through dangerous areas. I'm afraid using heavy vats play may ruin this immersion but my pc is a bit glitchy for the fast trigger play I'm used to. I was gonna flop on some mods that make stealth and the game in general a bit harder. Hopefully it's make mines much more useful as enemies will more actively pursue too. I plan to skip using armor entirely. Just sneak around in a suit and sunglasses. It'll make getting shot at even scarier.


I was also thinking about going the gorden Freeman route playing as a scientist surviver but I'm worried that the power suits might be OP even with mods. The immersion value is definitely strong with this one though and there would be no shortage of cool toys to play with. I'm just super worried gameplay will get boring.


Other thoughts. Possibly playing as a hopeless drug addict. Taking various drugs and pummeling everything to death in a drugged out rage.


What do you all think of these ideas?

What other ideas do you have other then what I mentioned?


I look forward to hearing your responses. I'm halfway through an 18 hour trip home with my significant other in the driver seat so I got time to burn

What I enjoyed most was a detective style playthrough. In my mind the woman I was playing as was a private detective before the war at some point. Emphasis on stealth, high intelligence, charisma to get information out of people. Nick Valentine is a natural fit as a companion. The Silver Shroud quest feels at place. There are quite a few trench coats in the game and the pipe revolver packs a good punch, enough to take out most enemies in a few shots.


You're going to need Ballistic Weave if you want to wear trench coats though. I'm not 100% sure but I assume you can put it on trench coats. The Railroad is the most fitting choice for a sneaky detective though so it shouldn't be much of a problem.

Powah Armour.

It honestly reminds me of Space Marine.

It's going to depend on the person playing really. It's a reason I like to read about people's play styles here...so many different ones.

Me personally, I'm a sneaky sniper. I'm that way in every game I play that allows it. It's just where I get the most enjoyment playing. Going the power/heavy armor battering ram tank style character just doesn't appeal to me.

Me too. I was just realizing the other day that in 300+ hours of play, I've never fired an automatic weapon other than the Minigun in Concord or in Vertibirds. I'm not even sure how a Sub or Auto Assault rifle works.

Some of the most fun I've had in this game was attacking the Forged group WAAYYY too early and trying to sneak/snipe my way through. I was actually able to handle all the peripheral people, but the Boss creamed me over and over (because the cutscenes guarantee a stand-up fight) until I finally had to just leave and come back like 15 levels later in PA.

Sneak-sniper is fun and immersive, no doubt, but at higher levels it gets insanely easy even without the top tier weapon (Gauss), basicly is 2 perks you'd be looking after which you obtain them everything, big bosses included, just become too damn easy even on survival mode.

Is indeed fun , but if i were to go the sniper route again, i won't wear any armor as there's basicly nothing that fits it properly.

Yeah, you could boost the army/military fatigue with balistic weave and thats it, but anything else breaks immersion way too much.

Would you go with a combat armor while trying to sneak behind something, or walking through an area in which you won't be realisticaly capable of camouflaging yourself? that'd mean you'd die once somebody spots you.

So no leather, its brown, most anti-camo thing ever.

No metal either, too clunky and well, how you'd sneak with a whole heavy armor on you?

Synth's full white, you'd be seen from miles away.

Sadly this game doesn't have the "stand down completely" mode while taking aim, but only the crouch mode, that breaks it a bit, i had spent hours over roofs in the boston's ruins headshotting everything i came across, including vertibird gunners/pilots

@BrewerGeorge

I played alot with the SMG, two-shot, full auto, fully modded and with commando perks is very good because of its great fire-rate but it has an uncomfortable (at first) recoil.

After a bit you'll just get used to the swing it does while firing so you'd aim at a lower spot knowing that the weapon will go up fairly enough but still hitting on better spots like chest-head and not missing half mag

Yeah, I'm basically experiencing that now. Happened in 3 and NV, and to a lesser extent, the Elder Scrolls games too. Beth just seems to have issues with stealth balancing.

I'm able to sneak right into the faces of enemies, shrug off mini nukes with my maxed ballistic weave clothing, and rarely is there an enemy who can survive more than 2 shots from my surpressed .50 cal rifle. (With the first being a x4.2 sneak attack.)

But I'm still having fun exploring, and plus, being the biggest badass in the game world is kind of fun for me.

Yeah depressed and drugged up death seekers pretty immersive.

On the flipside my second player is more science and speech oriented. Shes been hard at work trying to build up settlements and make the wasteland a better place.

So far Commando is my favorite. You were a war vet after all.


Agility, Endurance, Perception.


Only use power armor for planned battles and sieges but running and gunning and throwing grenades and ducking for cover while out numbered is certainly the most fun and immersive way to play for me.

the most fun I've had so far is actually on my current play-through.


wasteland whisperer is hilarious.


Currently I have the super mutant 'Hammer' following me around and he's hilarious.


his dialogue is so funny, like 'hot potato' when he throws a grenade or 'ah, wounded' when he gets shot.


at rank 3 this perk is unmissable, even pacified and commanded a Behemoth (before I put my gun down, forgot that negates the perk)


Still trying to get an Alpha Deathclaw as a companion, but had plenty of legendary companions that don't die as they keep mutating. Just order them into a camp and watch all hell break loose.


most. fun. ever.

Well, NV was much more oriented towards this and Boone was actually made to guide you through this kind of playstyle (i was so happy, when i got that hat, i never removed it) and well, went on cazador's or Quarry's hunt and kept a kill-board of who'd kill more enemies.

Was immersive also coz of clothing etc, which was purposely designed for pretty desert camo-ing and all.

Going to be stealthy with a white / green / brown coat in an urban firefight? gotta be kiddin' me....

Same yo !

Thats my approach, grenade (plasma ones, 'couse i can!) those who seek cover, fill the air with .45 bullets, whatever runs away its just for maccready to be taking him down.

Obviously i am avoiding vats, it takes away immersion and it gets far too OP while stacking commando's and maccready's perks, i am quite tanky but still taking few deaths here and there which i find its good and makes me actually looking for proper positioning (not behind cars or blind corners) and a more movimental kind of approach, like, yeh, shot some, cover, run to next cover-able area, shot again, either run forward or back based on situation.

Actually biggest pain to face are assaultrons and yao guai's, mostly because of their hp pool and high balistic def.

It really depends on the build I am playing.

My last character was all about shotguns and rifles. no melee or energy weapons. Just good ol bullets and a body count heh. She wasn't to big on stealth either but rather simply took out the enemy from a distance.

my current character is the opposite of that. She loves big energy weapons like the gauss rifle. But for an up close and personal fight she switches to melee. Usually a sword, power fist or that Krev's tooth(sp) She also gives them special names.

But I'm leaning towards a stealth build for my next character. Might be more suited for a character not to confident in herself like my current ones. There is nothing stealthy about a gauss round exploding someone heh.

If you're going to go sniper, go with layered armour (vault suit + leather pieces work well). You can put the 'Stabilized' mod on the arms and when combined with a single rank of sniper, your scope aim no longer sways when crouched.

I went down the sneak/sniper route myself, and if you balance things out, you can limit how OP you'll become (though you WILL be somewhat OP no matter what).


I only took the first four ranks in sneak (though, I really wish they separated the enemy trap part in the fourth rank, it's too cheap). I never took any of the perks that increase stealth damage or suppressed weapon damage. The 2x multiplier from sneak is more than enough.


I also invested fully into explosives. Setting aside your standard weapons and luring enemies into lethal traps is always good fun. And, playing hand in hand with that, is pickpocketing. Very few things are as satisfying as dropping a live grenade into your enemy's pocket and sneaking off as you hear them scream in horror as they realize what just happened.


Oh, and as others have said, I went for looks over protection when it came to armor. BoS Officer Uniform with shadowed sturdy leather armor over the top (with various mods added) looks excellent on a female character.