I just wanted to know, other peoples tips and tricks, on how to survive on survival mode. As i cannot find anything useful, i also have a few tricks and tips i have discovered and have helped me a lot.

Use cover and aim for the head. It's not all that different from normal difficulties, aside from the healing. Just make sure youre in a good position before using healing items or you'll die anyway

On PC I raised my outgoing damage modifier to 100% since 50% made even rats bullet-sponges. That was a big help. I still have the high incoming damage and healing over time. So it's still a challenge. I also use Chems for tough fights. So the perks that support that are great. The Toughness perks are good. Modding your armor helps. Plant tato, corn, mutfruit so you can make your own adhesive for modding gear. Get long-range semi auto guns for most fights and use distance in engagements. Have a good shotgun, or melee for rushers. Hotkey your stimpaks. I like Codsworth for early game as he has decent damage. Dogmeat might be better after you level up a bit and add some perks but I've grown used to Codworth's banter and how he questions my need to pickup every little bit of trash I see.

One more thing, since you can't craft ammo, get the scrounger perks. They help a lot. Also avoid full-auto weapons when you can. This is not a FPS so you don't get to pick up full magazines of ammo just by running over a corpse. High-damage semi-auto will serve you better until you get a stockpile of ammo.

In the early game make sure you have a gun for each ammo type you currently carry and keep in mind some weapons can have their receivers swapped out for a different caliber of ammo. So if you end up with a ton of .38 you could mod some weapons to use that ammo. It seems the Pipe guns can be modded more at low levels than the higher quality stuff. I had a .50 caliber Pipegun pretty early in the game from modding. It was deadly.

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On PC you can just type this into the console: setgs fDiffMultHPByPCSV 1.0

Change the 1.0 to whatever multiplier you want. 0.5 would be 50% damage. 1.0 is 100% damage. Put it in batch and run it when you start up the game because it's not a command that gets saved. Or you could put a mod in that does the same thing in an esp.

- Hit the V.A.T.S. key now and than to find Ghouls laying on the ground, waiting for you to pass by to jump on your head, eating your brain...

- check every corner for loot! There are plenty of bottle-cap and ammo-packages lying here and there beneath chairs and dressers and stuff.

- Equipp your companions and use them!

- Know your limits and explore the map systematically. Don't just run straight to the east with level 10. The coast area is more like level 25-35ish

- Time your healing. If you lost 2/3 of hp, get into cover and eat something/use a stimpack

- Safe ammunition and don't use automatic guns against armored oponents if you have no bleeding/burning damage on that auto-pistol/-rifle

- use mines and grenades, rockets and nukes! You will have plenty of oportunities to find more or even buy some, so use em!

- Use drugs and food! That's something many people don't do. They use stimpacks when getting low but don't use the buffs from food and drugs. The exist for a reason!

Grenades, drugs and *heavy* weapons. Legendary weapons that give + dmg, on things with a high rate of fire.. (Think of a minigun, or an auto 10mm, with a damage bonus)

All that being said, I freaking hate the bullet sponge bit in survival. Dropped it back down to hard, and its much more fun. Killing a raider with 5-6 hits with a 10mm. Opposed to unloading 3 entire clips at the same persons head.

Seriously am I playing a different survival than everyone else or are you all extremely low level? At high level I have little to no sponges. One shot to a raiders head means a kill, unless he's a boss.