Disease in Survival mode...

[无聊]

I like new Survival mode, but I'm a bit annoyed by disease, almost any action can cause various disease, like drink contaminated water or eat contaminated food, but it's very frustrating that even a bit from any creature that can have very high chance to get sick, even I use Radaway it can cause disease...

Additionally, it's very very hard to get antibiotic, and to build one need lv1 chemist perk, that need science to be 7 or 8, and there is no doctor at very beginning (to get your own one need invest too much perk in later game)

So how do you guys solve this problem, is there any place that contains more antibiotic? or this there any "independent" doctor at beginning? (don't tell go diamond city...)

[SaltyPeanuts]

Originally posted by bethrezenn:

it's very very hard to get antibiotic, and to build one need lv1 chemist perk, that need science to be 7 or 8

It's 7 INT for Chemist.

Originally posted by bethrezenn:

OK, thanks for advice,
but I really want to know how to cure diseases more effectively not to just avoid them (it seems completely inevitable)
like I want to know where is the first doc in the very beginning of game?

As Hobo suggested, Covenant has the closest doctor. It is east of Starlight Drive-in, east side of the lake.

If you're willing to get the 'Local Leader' perk you can build hospitals at your settlements and assign your settlers as doctors. That requires 6 CHA and lvl 14, with 1 rank already in 'Medic', and 2 ranks in the 'Local Leader' perk. Without this you will need to buy antibiotics or travel to a doctor.

[Τhano$]

Originally posted by Forsaken Wolf:

You can find 1 pair of free antibiotics in vault 111 :D:

Who is that?!

[Kalsu]

Except for infection and maybe parasite because it hit your food stack , all those disease have minor drawback. Simply staying well rested all the time will help clear them up.

[CaffineBandit]

I've played FO4 too much, finally decided to try SuMo, Its crap, i leave the vault and become deseased before leaving sanctuary at lvl 4, so i fight my way up to Diamond City, get cured, sneak all the way back and i'm so exhausted from lack of beds that I thought I'd die from it.

So I drink, eat and sleep to get refreshed and guess what i'm sick again. hard modes are fine, but when they are so pervasive that the game is not really playable... what's the point?

I mean ya, it's still playable, spend 90% of my time on food/sleep/puking my guts out, and 10% playing the game... I don't see the fun or challenge there.

And with so many GameBreaking bugs still not fixed, not being able to have multiple saves is problematic.

I wish i could enjoy this mode.

[Stardustfire]

All Diseases exept Parasites and Infections are not really hindering, when u have settlements the pumps spend u clean water at use, and u can build Doc Shops where u can let cure all diseases much cheaper than make antibiotics uself, what is another way, only need chenist lvl 1 to craft antibiotics.

[The Inept European]

I agree with the concerns above. Feels like Survival Mode is about spending the whole time sick, barely able to do anything properly, trying just to get well again.

I didn't know you could just wait a disease out, and not die. It sure looks like the additional damage disease is going to kill you in about 4 hours after you contract it, minus however long it takes to burn through all your supplies. I'll try just resting in bed and see if I die or get better.

Either way, I agree it makes for a boring game. What's Bethesda's next franchise - "Terminally Ill Patient"?.

I guess you could build a character with 6-7 INT out of the box and go straight for Chemist (or is there also a Level requirement?). Then go to Red Rocket and get glowing mushrooms from the Mole Rat Cave.

What a lot of the "helpful" suggestions are not recognising is that this disease mechanic cripples you before you even make it out of Sanctuary for the first time. You're coughing and wheezing on the way to Concord and spewing phlegm on Preston. So suggesting stuff like "build medical facilities in your settlements" is missing the point.

The point is that right from the start you can get so ill that you can't even scavenge for food, let alone go on quests etc, so you start starving (making the illness worse probably).

But my top tip is, build a bed and a pump everywhere, ASAP. But you're basically chained to the bed and to the pump when you are infected. And it looks like once your health drops to a certain level only sleeping will restore it, water stops working. You can stay at the pump drinking water and still watch your health steadily declining towards zero.

[The Inept European]

Hmm OK so when the in-game hints and Help say "visit a doctor or use antibiotics" they should also say "...or just go to bed and drink plenty of fluids".

Worked after about three days, I'm cured of Fatigue illness. W00t!

[Tesityr]

Yes, just stay Well Rested and always Hydrated/Satiated and (just like IRL) you'll fight much of them off on your own...

It is nicely realistic actually, you'll get sick a lot (in a wasteland of a world) but it is possible to fight most of it off (if you stay healthy otherwise).

Also, noone seems to have mentioned it, but you can purchase Antibiotics/etc at Vendors as well (it only shows up in Survival Mode). Keep a nice stock of Caps on you and you'll always be able to get some (even General Traders sometimes have one). GL