What is a good, solid way to get ammo? (Newbie)

[SeaOfSeagulls]

I have played this game for a while now, around 40 hours I believe, but I was just wondering if anyone had a reliable way to get ammo, all of my characters I always get macready, when I run out of most of my ammo I usually switch to officer sword, combat knife, or power fists, haven’t gotten that far into the game, just wanted to see if anyone had any tips for me, any help is appreciated thanks!

[SeaOfSeagulls]

By the way I know you can get ammo in through console commands I am just trying to stay away from it for a little while unless I absolutely need it

[Falco]

you can try maxing out luck and the first two perks to increase the rating of finding ammo and caps hope you find it useful.

[krashd]

The legitimate way is ammo perks as stated above. Otherwise lower the difficulty to a point where you don't have to expend half of your ammo just to kill one creature, ammo should not be that hard to come across and the Fallout games are designed to be played in a somewhat tactical manner of trying to get the drop on opponents or sniping them from a distance. If you are just spraying and praying then you will tear through ammo, which is scarce for a reason.

Also having at least one backup gun helps.

[SeaOfSeagulls]

Yeah, thanks for all of your help, frankly, I never really looked at the luck category in the S.P.E.C.I.A.L tab, thanks for telling me that, it just felt when I needed ammo the most I would run out and ended up having to use my combat knife instead, now use big Jim or furious powerfisr I just like the combat knife more.

[Spec_Ops_Ape]

If you have the contraptions worksop dlc you can make most of your own ammo.

[darkdisciple1313]

Also, and I found this out through trial and error (but mostly by being an idiot about shooting everything in sight), save the ammo for creatures you can't melee. Don't waste anything on radroaches, molerats (except for the extra-special big-uns) or any of the smaller creatures. You might have to use your pistol for the flying ones, since they tend to stay out of range, but anything small and terrestrial, a sledgehammer to the face works wonders, even with low-rank ferals.

Regardless, I find it easier to have at least one decent melee weapon on hand at all times so I don't automatically go for a gun. Save ammo for the bastards what need to be blown away, rather than squashed into pudding.

Oh, and this is just my personal preference, I always save one gun/ammo for specific creatures since I like to one-shot kill things like super mutants (especially the suicidal ones, since they also tend to take out nearby ones if I snipe the bombs they're holding) with a high-powered sniper rifle from as far away as I can. Then I shotgun blast just about everything else, since I love watching them get all splodey.

As mentioned above, up your luck perk to at least level 3 or 4 so you can take advantage of the perk where you can find more ammo in containers. I think that one has at least three star levels to it, possibly more, since I don't use it myself. And check everything in the room, no matter what it is, since you can find ammo in the strangest places (like toilets and inside stoves ... weird people in these Fallout games, where they choose to store things).

[EolSunder]

many different ways.

get perks to find more ammo in looting. Get perks to increase your trading/shopping price ability so you can just buy ammo from vendors. Increase your weapon skills so you use less ammo to kill stuff.

Really you shouldn't have much problems with ammo later in the game. You'll buy/find so much of it you won't ever use it all, and probaby won't need to swtich out your main weapons for running out after a certain point.

use vats more, which reduces your chances to miss dodging foes, or due to lag, etc.

[Twinkletoes]

Scrounger is definitely a must if you need ammo.

Not only do you get more from corpses but you can find clips here and their in almost ANY container.

You can also set up water purifiers or jet factories and exchange for ammo.

[torqueblue]

Be sure to pick the dead's weapons. The gun can give you more ammo.

[Oakshield]

Originally posted by torqueblue:

Be sure to pick the dead's weapons. The gun can give you more ammo.

That's imho the cheapest option eventually. Most of the encounters you'll face have the pipe guns, using the 0.38 ammo and you'll end up with enough to support yourself and your settlers with that kind of ammo.

The other ones will be a bit harder to get by, however when playing smart you'll get by.
At some points you start to get legendary weapons - even at the normal level I play at - and when upgrading those you'll still have a legendary wapon.
So make sure you got better receivers do you do more damage, pick the right perks and for some weapons upgrade the ammo to use and you'll do fine.

My personal setup is to use a legendary hunting rifle I upgraded to sniper rifle, a 10mm gun I upgraded to recon tactical gun and a similar setup for laser rifles. Plus for close combat a shotgun is doing well. Perhaps it's overpowered a bit, but having 3 different weapns for close combat is enough without being forced to reload. Even for some legendary bosses that like that swan-thingy.

Thorin :)

[Wet Water]

Cheating yourself ammo.

[red255]

if you aren't playing survival merely going to good neighbor, clearing out the shops for ammo (weapon and misc) and diamond city (weapon shop is open during the day, night misc shop has a seporate inventory over the day shop)

which just means you need caps, particularly if you are looking for .45 ammo which they store in truckloads.

so I generally use an automatic combat rifle with a legendary effect (Wounding in my game)

Plasma, freezing. you could take overdrive or some other chemical to make the freezing effect really powerful and save ammo. plasma makes it generate fusion materials which are useful for crafting stuff which you can sell, like plasma grenades or something.

but yeah how much ammo do you need that you just can't buy it from the various in game vendors, you have McCready so you have access to goodneighbor and probably several other places, settlement weapon shops.

to get money for ammo I generally take a T-51 suit of power armor (I get pieces from the federal ration stockpile south of the Co-op.) and I craft Explosive shielding and winterized coatings and take them out of my inventory, stuff them in a box and make more of them then sell the .5 pieces of armor mods for ammo.

just requires adhesive (farm it) aluminum, (salvage it.) and ceramic or rubber (buy shipments of it)

should be able to buy plenty of .45 ammo.

[danconnors]

How to never run out of ammunition. Do not carry ANY fully automatic weapons.

[Jurassic Fart 1]

If this is your primary concern, then you need to choose carefully on the Perks chart while ranking up. There are a number of perks that affect scavenging ammo, prices, and efficiency of weapons. Select accordingly, and avoid most autofire weapons—the gatling laser is the sole exception I've found so far. Oh, yeah: In your travels, leave no stone or corpse unturned. Leave no nook or cranny unviolated—explore and search everywhere, like scrounging is your new religion.

That's the solidly honest way.

Or, you could use console commands to generate massive piles of ammo, but then you need another console command to maximize your carrying weight…but then, you'll have less incentive to play the game the way it was designed, and will end up enjoying it less.

[Solomon Hawk]

Max scrounger perk and luck.