This Fallout 4 mod is called Northern Springs DLC, and even though it’s not a Bethesda product, its scale definitely puts it on par with Fallout 4’s official DLC offerings. In addition to a gigantic new world area to explore, there’s new weapons and armor, four new fully-voiced companions, three new settlements, new enemies, and a full story questline to discover.The Northern Wasteland is a snow-covered rural area, with power pylons and forests covering much of its frozen expanse. It’s also meant for high-level characters – the creator, a modder who goes by jshrapnelc, says players should have their character at level 40 if they expect to survive.Mods and role-playing games go together like peas and carrots. Here are some of the. Based on the video below, it looks tough as nails. After some fighting with Brotherhood of Steel troops, the player is beset by ghouls of every description, who hurl themselves around corners in that weirdly disturbing Fallout 4 way.The place is apparently haunted, too.
Judging from some of the images on the NexusMods page, one NPC you meet is the ghost of a ghoul, and this figures into the questline somehow. Jshrapnelc says there’s also “random ghost spotting,” which I’ve heard is terrible for property values. You’ll also get to meet and potentially recruit the Vault-Tec salesman from the Fallout 4 intro sequence, who is now a 200-year-old ghoul and much less cheerful than he was when you first met him.There’s a lengthy combat preview video available, if you’re up for a taste of what the mod plays like. You also get to see some of the mod’s hand-crafted environments, which are certainly in keeping with Fallout 4’s overall scappy aesthetic, even with the added snow.
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Fallout 4: Wreck of FMS Northern Star Getting the Agility Bobblehead and Looting a Ship The Agility Bobblehead is located on this ship in the Southeastern corner of the map. Though there are no quests associated with this place, the Agility Bobblehead is one of the harder ones to spot in Fallout 4.
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I've written over a dozen in just a week and plan to continue. There is much more to this DLC, it will just take time to write it all. Check back for more. Comment on the appropriate page if you have a tip to share with other readers.Carl's Fallout 4 Guide A Spoiler-free Gameplay Strategy SiteAbout the Guide & Navigating ItSee if you're interested in the direction this is heading.
Cheats are just below, as they belong in no category and are only for PC players. For now, I've got to have readers lean on this main page to get a feel for where to find things in the guide, though some things like Perks are found deeper (on their SPECIAL pages). We also have search but I cannot guarantee you'll find what you're looking for - I'm one man on a mission to make a huge Fallout 4 Strategy Guide and that takes time. The Guide is currently broken into four categories, as you can see below.
Click to jump to the section you need help with:. Customizing your character in Fallout 4 - from SPECIAL, Perks, and basic understanding of Pip-Boy stats to making a build. Stealth, hacking, difficulty settings, and VATS. I go into AP usage of weapons mods, and will add more to this category. Settlements Tutorial, making Adhesive and where to find things. This goes into how to power Settlements and what Brahmin do for them.
You should find plenty of helpful info here. Something I've covered only lightly, a few quest walkthroughs that are important such as Battle of Bunker Hill and some simpler things like side quests you may not know about.
Needs heavy expansion but will come together with time.Probably the only page on this site that just won't work for consoles. These are very handy for me as a guide writer, but generally just fun for messing around and testing perks. Always make a backup save before you cheat in case you regret it and want to return to your unmodified game. On this page, you'll find infinite money, crafting materials, weapons and armor cheats, as well as general commands to help struggling players - you can look up item and Perk ids, boost your carry capacity, reveal the entire map, or walk through walls. I've listed only the most useful cheats, because I personally hate looking through huge lists of console commands in order to find the ones I really want.Character Customization GuidesAll 20 of Fallout 4's SPECIAL and Skill Bobbleheads listed, with maps to help you find the building in which they are located. Descriptions will help you to avoid wandering buildings trying to get them. I've also provided quick navigation so you can jump to the Bobblehead you need.Coverage of the seven main stats in Fallout 4, which determine the Perks your character can unlock.
Their additional effects are minor compared to the power of most perks, but it's far from nothing - they all grant minor bonuses to multiple things and help define your build. The Bobbleheads will give you a free point in each of them, should you find them all. Strength increases carry weight and raises melee damage. This guide covers its effects and Perks. Perception improves VATS accuracy, helping you to nail those head shots. This guide covers its exact gameplay effects and the Perks in the Perception tree. Endurance gives your character more life (HP) and enhances their ability to run.
There is a full list of Endurance Perks and their usefulness on this page. Charisma affects bartering prices, speech checks, and even determines how many Settlers can live in your Settlements. Check this guide for information on Charisma Perks. Intelligence boosts your XP gain - that's it. It does however have some great Perks, which are detailed in this guide. Agility gives your character higher AP and an improved ability to sneak around the Commonwealth.
Agility Perks are listed and many are covered in detail. The Luck stat reduces the number of hits it takes to score a critical and helps your character to find more loot.
Read this guide to learn about the awesome Luck Perks that can be found in this section.This is a list of every Perk in Fallout 4, extracted from my individual pages in the SPECIAL Stats guide, so that you can have all Perks handy on one page. I've included the mechanics info from each page (along with my opinions), but left the images out to keep it tight.Understanding the various stats of your character in Fallout 4, as well as the numerous Pip-boy screens. This guide is great for newcomers to help them manage their inventory, quests, and gives some tips to finding components and favoriting weapons, armor, healing items, and drugs.This guide goes into detail on Fallout 4's level up system. Each level you gain a perk point and an amount of HP based upon your character's endurance stat. Though Perks entirely replace Skills in this game, it's a great system and there are many other ways to improve your character as you explore the huge Commonwealth. Magazines you find will give you hidden perks, as will bobbleheads that grant bonuses or raise your S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Stats.This guide is an overview of how to make a strong build in Fallout 4 for high-difficulty play. It doesn't tell you WHEN to take Perks, but gives you some guidelines to help you choose the best ones to make your character strong.Major DLCThe Fallout 4 Automatron DLC will pit us against an evil mechanist who is creating robots that are marauding the commonwealth.
The motives behind this are shrouded in mystery, but we are able to make our own robot companions out of the scrap we gain from destroying his creations!, along with a walkthrough to the third quest:, and final quest. Learn more about.The Far Harbor DLC released May 19, 2016.
This is the largest addon to date and features a massive area that is said to be the largest DLC area Bethesda have created. Featuring a story revolving around the Children of Atom, Synths, and a lone settlement's conflict with them, it offers a deep main quest and story. Players will find new weapons, armor, and enemies lurking in the area of Far Harbor. Here are walkthroughs to, and with more to come!Fallout 4 Nuka World released August 29.
This DLC allows players to conquer settlements by leading raiders. Its central location is a run-down theme park. First, you must pass a significant challenge only available at level 30.
Here is a list of the current guides to Nuka World:.Gameplay Mechanic GuidesA guide to getting Companion Perks, which are permanent hidden perks gained by reaching maximum affinity with each companion. Lists the major things that each companion likes and dislikes for your character to do, so that you can get the Perks faster.Fallout 4's difficulties explained. The main changes are damage dealt, damage taken, and the rate that Legendary Enemies spawn, but these have some major implications on your gameplay. Survival Difficulty is particularly nasty, with healing items greatly reducing the rate of regeneration.
This effectively makes them less useful during combat, should you find yourself in a dangerous situation.Helpful tips for new players. This list is ever-expanding as I myself go through the game and think of things. See my contact info above.Use this guide to learn the basics on V.A.T.S. And get tips to modify your weapons to minimize AP cost while maximizing utility. Weapon type and mods greatly impact the amount of AP it costs to fire a weapon in VATS.
I've analyzed scopes, sights, barrels, and receivers to help you figure out what type of mods would be best for your guns. Taking the above guide, I made two distinct weapons - one with high AP/damage, and one with low AP cost but higher potential damage in VATS at medium range.A guide to Action Points and how its regeneration works. Also looks at the various things you can do to raise your character's AP or increase its regeneration in some way.Radiation works a bit differently in Fallout 4. This Guide explains its effects on your character, rad resistance from various sources, and how you can remove radiation damage done.This guide looks briefly at Legendary enemies' spawn rates, but its priamry purpose is to give you some pointers in fighting Legendaries in order to get their loot!All you need to know about chems, addiction, and stacking the buffs provided by these. Lists all craftable chems, and a few of the rare ones that you may find.This page goes over the types of items you can expect to reset - and how long - after you've cleared an area. It's mainly to address a common FAQ from newcomers to the series or Bethesda games in general.Dogmeat is the first follower many players get in Fallout 4. Learn all about this faithful companion, her level, carry capacity, combat capabilities, commanding her, and where to find her some dog armor to look a bit more vicious.All about the stealth meter and how that works, while providing you some tips to help you avoid detection, pull off more sneak attacks, and improve as a sniper or melee blitz machine.A step-by-step example showing how to guess the correct password on a terminal in Fallout 4.A simple step-by-step for joining the Railroad Faction in Fallout 4.
Joining them and at least working with them for a bit can get you the.For many, advancing time isn't obvious. Use a chair or bed to sit or sleep until the time of day suits you. Using a bed grants a well-rested XP bonus, so long as you're the owner! I guess I too would be a light sleeper if I were snoozing in someone else's bed without permission.Settlement & Crafting GuidesA guide to settlements and how to manage them, attract more people, and bringing in food, water, resources. Also goes over how to power things, supply lighting and defense.
You can also learn to get the.Supply lines transfer food and water between Settlements. They also let you craft things without the materials in your inventory so long as a connected Settlement has the necessary materials. The Perk is necessary to establish Supply Lines.Water and Food in Settlements and how it is deposited into the Workshop Inventory. This guide shows you a good place to get food early in the game, and describes how you can get ample amounts of purified water to use for healing or selling for caps.A guide to Scavenging Stations and the scavengers you can assign to them. Includes information on how often supplies are deposited and how to make best use of Settlers once you have enough food and water.Advice on using Tag for Search to find components, as well as a list of various crafting materials that are useful to you.
Listed by component, so that you might find an item that has what you're missing.This guide details how to make Vegetable Starch from Mutfruit, Tatos, Corn, and Purified Water in order to get 5 Adhesive each. A good location (graygarden) is mapped, so that you can travel there and get the required vegetables. You then only need an excess of water to get the Purified Water you need to get the Adhesive.Weapon GuidesA list of all Pistol-class weapons in the game, along with their base stats (including AP Cost).
This is a section I intend to expand over time, covering every weapon type and giving individual weapons a page that describes select modifications and how they affect weapons. You can see examples of this project below:.Gives you info on a standard 10mm and hidden information about its various weapon mods and how they affect stats like Recoil, and AP Cost in VATS.Information on a standard.44 Revolver and includes any hidden information about its various weapon mods and how they affect stats like AP Cost in VATS.Includes information on hidden modifiers and an example of a close-range weapon a rifleman could wield.Info on finding a gauss rifle (mainly by waiting until 35-40) and the effects its mods have on the weapon. Includes info on good perks to use this rifle in a sniper build.Main & Side Quest WalkthroughsWhile my primary focus is to make guides for Fallout 4, quest walkthroughs will come over time as I will inevitably enjoy sharing some of the quests you can find off the beaten path, as well as detailing how main quests work when possible.
Expect spoilers in this area, because it's impossible to have pages on these things and NOT spoil something. However, I will not write anything too revealing about the story in the walkthroughs or the descriptions on this page.While such an early quest hardly deserves a walkthrough, I wanted to point some things out to newcomers while trying to minimize spoilers. Hi Sylvia, thanks so much for your kindness. I don't think any guide I've made has ever quite been perfect, but it's great to know that people still find them useful.I'm looking forward to writing on Far Harbor when it releases the 19th! Hopefully the new creatures will be interesting enough that I do what I've wanted to for a while: a list of all creatures with weak points, their resistances, etc.
So that people can avoid, say, shooting deathclaws in the body where they take less damage. I think one of the Brahmin heads also takes more damage than the other! I just wanted to give you a huge shout-out for creating such a solid guide! I stumbled upon it via search and I gotta say, you've really done an awesome job. Being new to Fallout, your tips helped me understand the different features of the game much quicker, which made the game more enjoyable right from the start. I like to discover things myself (i.e. I don't go for walkthroughs), but your guides to Character Builds and general Gameplay were just what needed to wrap my head around everything.
Cheers dude — appreciate the time you've put in here! Hey, thanks so much for saying so. You've made my day. That's exactly why I don't do many walkthroughs and left story details out of the few that I did do. I know people want to enjoy the game, and story details are irrelevant to gameplay mechanics. I'm more interested in how things work.
I'm planning a total beginner's guide soon that will touch on all these various things and help to tie things together. Sounds like you're past that, but I'm glad i could help you to enjoy the game a bit more.:).