I have been playing Beth games since Oblivion with 1,000's of hours played since then. Something I have never done is a no fast travel (NFT) play thru. I have played thru all 4 faction endings and my main PC has discovered around 90% of the map.

I am going to start my first NFT PC and see how this goes. I hope my patience can withstand the urge to not use FT. I know there are many random events that I am missing out on by using FT all the time.

Yeah, I'm keeping this idea for a later playthrough. I'm thinking maybe a power armor build with the nuclear physicist perks (almost mandatory), no settlements building as the attacks and all of that stuff would be way too annoying without fast travel. My only concern would be gathering/carrying enough "quality junk" to properly repair my power armor, but it seems feasible. Maybe a few "secret caches" here and there across the map. There are a lot of workbenches and power armor crafting stations around the map so it makes it possible.

Make it a NFT-DiD-noVATS playthrough and you could say you did a "Nifty Did No VATS" through put.

"DiD" being an acronym of "Dead is Dead" and VATS being the "Vault Assisted Targeting System" you get from you pipboy.

I normally avoid Fast travel in Beth games, every since Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul mod. But I've been using it in FO4 when I return home overburdened with junk and also when I "make my rounds" to my settlements. Otherwise that perk is useless

I tried to do a No Fast Travel playthrough and it lasted a good little while but as time went on and I got missions to go here, and then go here and then do this... and I kept running across NEW missions that had to be done right naow! I finally said, "Screw it!" Fast-Traveled to a destination, knocked out a mission, fast traveled back to the quest giver to clear the mission and then Fast Traveled to my settlement to drop off loot and then got a warning about an attack and fast-traveled to the other settlement, etc etc.

Once you fast travel ~once~ it sure is hard to go back to shlepping across the wastes on foot.

I always end up carrying too much and needing to walk all the way back to my base to dump it all, it is faster with supply lines set up going to my central hub though.

If you want to play no fast travel you should try playing morrowind with some HD textures.

If I didn't have a demanding job, I would love to just walk everywhere instead of spawning. During a regular work week I have zero time to play my games, so by the time the weekend hits, I'm all over my game, but if I walked everywhere, my 100 hour game would swell up to 500 and I would never finish it. But I think it's a great idea if you can spare the time. It's the best way to absorb everything about how the game was created and make it quite a bit more immersive.

I did a no fast travel run first.

It involved a lot of trekking across empty wasteland. Turns out when you kill things, they take a few in game days to respawn, except revisiting areas you've cleared resets that timer, so chronically wandering back and forth between mission and home base means clearing a large swath of the Commonwealth and keeping it that way. I'm all for a no fast travel run... so long as there are things to shoot along the way.

Now I just fast travel. I limit it to just settlements to keep it semi interesting but overall, a world without respawns isn't a very fun world for long.

I usually play this way or close to it and I usually Walk since even a marathon runner from Kenya/Ethiopia would get tired if it was running all the time. This playstyle is not for everyone.

heh "you killed this person, you can no longer finish the game" best game ever.

Thanks for the input, and I was afraid of that. Might reconsider my plan...

I never fast travel.


No matter how many times I replay Bethesda games I never ever use fast travel.


Just the way I play.