Never be afraid to run away, and come back to try on another day.

That's pretty much cannon for playing any Beth RPG.

Hold the phone...............

Sneaking is for wimps and VATs is for uh cats...right cats gonna go with that word.

Real Men Bust out Performance Enhancing Supplements.

That's right we use "Supplements" that are or rather were entirely "safe-ish" to use.

Here is a list of "Sports Enhancement Supplements" that will turn your whole game around....

Buffout, not just for smashing face with a crowbar Buffout helps your overall physical health during those stressful gunfights.

Med-X tired of knowing what bullets feel like....Use Med-X!

Really wanting to smash face and mean it..........Pump it up with Psycho.............It not only dulls the pain you receive it enhances all the pain your about to deliver.

These sports supplements last for 8 minutes! You can do a lot in 8 minutes...........A heck of a lot, but man these things are powerful and you can craft them so there is really no need to save them for the big fight when each fight you could be dead.

Now there comes a time when you just feel you need to cheat and that's when you fly like Neo on JET.

With the Jet you move faster than Bulleetttssss.

For hacking:

Step 1:

Look for patterns between all of the words before you pick your first one. Take this list for example:

EMPTY MARKS

ENACT LARGE

SWORE PRICE

HELPS UNTIE

KNOWS STARK

STAKE TORCH

Step 2:

"Likeness=0" is your friend!

>STAKE

>Entry denied.

>Likeness=1

Step 3:

Always go for the next most common pattern. Try to eliminate words, not find the most matches.

>MARKS

>Entry denied.

>Likeness=2

Step 4:

Double-matches are usually the answer.

>LARGE

>Password Accepted.

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My best advice is try to keep a good supply of Salisbury Steak in your inventry, other good advice is use stealth and scope out locations, don't just rush in.

For things that you need a little more info on, if you don't want to spoil too much for yourself, you can go into the help menu.
it's actually pretty detailed. A lot of people don't seem to notice that it exists.

That is your first problem already. You called this game first person shooter. It suppose to be an RPG.

As for holding hand don't you notice the pop ups and the floating markers. Annoying. Read and follow.

There are thing to pick up and makes you better from restoring health (sampacs) to get rid off those nasty radiation (radaway). I bet you dipped into that water without a second thought. Its full of radiations.

There are guns and ammo, even in first person shooters you have pick up ammo. A weapon without ammo is a stick to be thrown away.

Becareful where you travel to. Some places are alot harder then the others. Stick around vault 111 and Sanctuary down south to the river then east to station Olivia. In the spoiler tag there is a map. Its a special map and contains spoilers.

As for hacking pick a WORD until you get the right one.

As for power armours, you notice something in Sanctuary there is something yellow with hooks coming from the top. There is where the power armour goes and sort out the pieces for the armour. There is one in Red rocket station as well.

This is NOT a shooter you have to rush but a RPG take it one step at a time. This game dose not take 12 hours to complete. It takes hundreds hours to complete.

Store everything which you don't need in your workbench at the Red Rocket Station. Once your begin to reach your carrying capacity, jut go back to your workbench and dump all the junk, spare weapons or anything else you don't need.

As you will progress through the game you will find out what is more valuable and what less. For start, you can ignore empty bottles, tableware, things made of ceramics, glass rubber. Among more desirable materials are wood, screws, springs, circuits, cooper, adhesive, oil, hide, ballistic fiber. Generally more complex things are more valuable then simple ones. Say if you have space just for one more item and you can choose between typewriter and empty can, take typewriter. Use common sense.

You can view what materials item is composed of by selecting it in your junk inventory in your PIP Boy (you can't do it with armor and weapons, you need armor and weapon workstations for that).

You can put those pieces back anywhere by opening power armor inventory (R button on PC). You can do that at the power armor station at Red Rocket too by clicking on power armor station while having armor frame nearby.

Use "Radaway" (under Aid category) to get rid of radiation. Also consider using "RadX" before entering radiation areas since it raises your radiation protection and you take less radiation damage. Some equipment, like gas mask also raise radiation resistance.

Medicine perk will raise effectiveness of Radaway. It will also raise effectiveness of Stimpacks therefore it is useful perk to take early on.

Every word you see is potential password. When you click one of them, number of correct characters inside will be displayed (correct by both type and position).

Say correct password is "Dog". If you click at "Hog", number of correct characters is 2 (og). This can be used to give you clue to find correct password. You however have just 4 tries after which computer will lock you out for 10 seconds. Then you can start anew (with new password).

I generally tend to click first word then try to find the next one with number of matching characters computer gave me as a clue. Then next one which matches number of characters in the first and second words I selected. And so on.

There are also hidden character strings in the code. They are always encapsulated inside these characters: [] () {} <>

So if you see for example ($&%#@), click on ( symbol. Rest of the string will be selected automatically which is how you will know that it indeed is the hidden string) and two things might happen: either one of the false passwords will be erased or (which happens only rarely) number of tries will be reset back to 4.

Myself I usually try words first until I have but 1 try left. Then I go hunting hidden strings. Usually there is at last one which will resets the tries. Then I continue.

Early on best armor (except your power armor of course) is your vault suit and leather armor (made of 5 separate pieces). You should be able to scavenge leather armor pieces from raiders fairly early on. If you invest in to 1 level of armorer perk, you upgrade leather armor pieces to their maximum protection which will give you very solid protection for the early game.

If you search a little bit around Sanctuary, you can find military helmet which will be for long time best head armor you can find. Hint: search for signs of military activity to find it

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_4_weapons

Give it some time.

Scout ahead, don't just run around everywhere. Switch to sneak mode, climb that small hill in front of you or rock or car wreck which will give you nice overview and look around. Use scoped weapon as a substitute for binocular to scout distant places. Once you know what's in front of you, choose next elevated position on your path and go there. Repeat.

If you discover something which moves and want to find out if it's hostile or not, enter your "slow motion mode", which is called VATS. Hostile creatures and humanoids will be displayed in red, friendly in green. Friendly one can still turn hostile as a result of some actions, dialogue choices or similar, so always be careful. To be able to enter VATS you however have to come closer to your target. Use sneak mode.

If there is skull next to name of creature in VATS mode, that creature is well above your level and very dangerous. It can likely kill you in two-three hits. Same goes for creatures which have "legendary" in their name.

Some creatures are very dangerous even without scull or legendary prefix in their name. Use common sense and caution when deciding how dangerous they are. large cockroach will likely be less dangerous then mutated monster with large claws.

Once you know your enemy, you can decide to avoid it. You don't have to fight everything you encounter. game progress mostly through quests, so you will not miss anything. Once you decide to fight, try to draw at last rudimentary plan of your attack. Opening the fire without knowing next step is likely to kill you. Find advantageous position first, give orders to you companion, if you are up against group of enemies, decide which one you want to engage first. Have a escape plan if things turn bad. Lie down mines and so on.

Sniping from hidden position is one of the most effective ways to fight in Fallout. You should consider it if you are having problems. First of all you need decent sniper weapon. Early on, .45 pipe revolver rifle can be turned in to very good early game sniper rifle. You should be able to find .45 revolver in some form pretty early in the game. Mod it with hard receiver, long barrel, standard stock and small scope. You can do these modifications with any perks.

When sniping, always do it from "sneak" mode and if possible aim for head (or other vulnerable parts depending on creature). Hits in sneak mode do 2x damage and headshots do some extra damage as well. You can kill many early enemies (bandits, ghouls) in a single shot like this. Do it at the distance and if enemies start to discover you (you will see word [Hidden] turn in to [Caution]), move away behind some cover and wait until it changes back to [Hidden]. [Hidden] means that enemies does not know about you. [Caution] means they know you are there but did not see you jet and are likely looking for you (they will give up after some time). [Danger] means you have being discovered.

With enough patience you can kill whole groups of enemies like this without them ever discovering you. Just move away (still in sneak mode) in to cover and wait after each shot and then come back to shoot more.

Before you start sniping, make sure your companion will not give you up. Command him to stay back somewhere where he can't be seen by enemy. Come back for him later. Btw,you can command companion to stay from a distance. Just command him to go somewhere, when he arrives there, your cursor will change and you can command him to stay. You can recall him in the similar way.

You can always run away from a fight. Most of the enemies will give up chase after some time. In fact running away should be your first instinct when ever you are jumped by enemies unprepared. You always come back later while evaluating your enemy, with the plan of action and clear understanding what enemy you are facing.

Besides long range weapon, always carry some close range weapon with good firepower with you. Some encounters will inevitably gets more personal. 10mm pistol is good choice early on as is pipe rifle with automatic receiver and larger magazine.

Assign Stimpack to a hot key and try to always keep eye on your health bar. Use stimpack when it falls below 50%.

Jet and drugs made of jet like psychojet or bufjet (which you can craft) are very useful in a fight. Myself I assign one of them (I prefer psychojet) to hotkey and hit it any time I fell under great danger. It will slow time for 10 or 15 seconds and is incredible useful in difficult fight. Try it.

BTW, there is in game help accessible from main game menu. Read it.

You have 4 tries on the hack. Try three using the methods above, then stop. You have two things you can do next, exit the terminal and it will reset or scroll your mouse over the lines of gibberish and look for some characters that highlight. That means you have bracket symbols that face each other, sort of like this (%^#@) or <(*&%^>. when you click on them you will either delete a false password or reset your chances. I do it after three tries so you actually get 6 chances to hit it. Most time after the false words are dropped you will only have a couple left anyway.

Get/mod a scoped gun as soon as you can. For some reason, the scope is the closest thing to binoculars in the game, . Don't just travel in a straight line hoping you don't get attacked. Stop and look around often with the scope. Its a wasteland mostly, so if you see lights in an area you have to assume its occupied. Plan how you want to approach or even if you want to. skirting around may be the better choice early. Each faction decorates their camps differently. Mutants have spikes and hanging meat bags, if you not up for that battle, go around. But learn what to look for.

Thank you all so much (/QuQ\)

Talk to Preston Garvey and join the the Minutemen as soon as possible. Once you have exhausted his quests, you will have learned to manage your frustration levels. Oh, once you get Radio Freedom channel, keep it on always! Very important information comes across this radio channel!

You meanie

Stick with it. You'll get the hang of things. I felt overwhelmed at first too and I'm a Fallout veteran.

for radiation you need a doctor or rad away buts its expensive early on so managing that might be difficult for you, look up where diamond city is on the map mark it and bee line straight to diamond city, don't stop to fight enemies, go on very easy mode and it might be tricky but get to diamond city, there's a doctor there so when you get radiation that will take care of that, once at diamond city you can get a follower and that will help with dealing with enemies, for you it might be a good idea to make sure your endurance stat is at least 4 or 5 to start out, also you can modify weapons at the sanctuary work bench so eventually you can beef up your weapons, you generally need materials like screws, oil, aluminun so you'll need to collect "junk" little by little and put it in the workbench at sanctuary, if i were you i would be playing in very easy mode, it can be a tough game but you'll get the hang of it.

I think your biggest problem is your approaching the game as a FPS. yes, it has quite a bit of shooter elements, but the game is a hybrid of several types of games. in addition to the FPS aspects, there are RPG elements, and adventure game elements too. you have to slowly build and advance your character, you can't just run out into the world guns blazing. as you level up you can pick perks (skills, abilities, and bonus's) and increase ones you have, as you level, stronger weapons and armor will also become available. but not till you hit higher levels. if you just go running around the map, especially Boston and the southern part, you will most definitely die frequently.

Don't know what has been said so far (TL;DR), but I have two suggestions:

Get a Companion ASAP. During encounters, the Companion generally maneuvers to get "in the guy's face" = A Good Thing. First because Companions can't die. (They're coded as Essential.) Let them get up close and personal. You, otoh, should pull back and engage at range. Second, related to suggestion #1, get a ranged weapon ASAP. It's MUCH better to kill them waaaayyy over there -- because here is close enough for them to reach out and do you grievous harm. Like death and dismemberment.

You sir, are an evil, evil man.