Manual

[Twogun]

Is there one?

If not is there a new player guide?

[Twogun]

Originally posted by Pookie101:

Originally posted by Twogun:

Is there one?

If not is there a new player guide?

The manual is basically a single piece of paper with the controls.

There is the "Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Prima Official Game Guide" which should help but you will have to google that.

It also not completely up to date either.

Actually a list of controls would be very helpful

[Löthar Storm]

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Fallout_4/Controls

[Twogun]

Originally posted by entom6ed:

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Fallout_4/Controls

Thank you! This is very helpful!

[Löthar Storm]

oh... and about throwing those molotov's and grenades... well, you'll find out.

[Zekiran]

*hehehehe*

[SlasH]

Originally posted by Twogun:

Is there one?

If not is there a new player guide?

I suggest watching the first x minutes of a let's play on YouTube as manual/tutorial.

[Relic62]

Actually the retail version is a 2 bits of paper one with all the special perks and one with the keyboard layout and that's it and a disk to install the whole game thru steam after that, it gathers dust.

My memory is a bit rusty but I think there is a bare bones basic tutorial when u first start the game mostly on how to build and upgrade stuff with prompts

Look in the guides section there are some there, but they mainly focus on what build you are gonna run with.

And yeah watch out for the exploding barrels disguised as cars! why they blowup is a mystery to me they should all be rust buckets !

[Twogun]

Originally posted by Relic62:

Actually the retail version is a 2 bits of paper one with all the special perks and one with the keyboard layout and that's it and a disk to install the whole game thru steam after that, it gathers dust.

My memory is a bit rusty but I think there is a bare bones basic tutorial when u first start the game mostly on how to build and upgrade stuff with prompts

Look in the guides section there are some there, but they mainly focus on what build you are gonna run with.

And yeah watch out for the exploding barrels disguised as cars! why they blowup is a mystery to me they should all be rust buckets !

i didn't see a tutorial in the game

all i seem to do is die right now

but that doesn't seem to matter at all?

i'm used to PZ where dying is the end, and you gotta be very careful

so far i dont' seem to be learning anything, but dying has no penalty, so i suppose that's good for learning.

oh well

[Relic62]

Originally posted by Twogun:

Originally posted by Relic62:

Actually the retail version is a 2 bits of paper one with all the special perks and one with the keyboard layout and that's it and a disk to install the whole game thru steam after that, it gathers dust.

My memory is a bit rusty but I think there is a bare bones basic tutorial when u first start the game mostly on how to build and upgrade stuff with prompts

Look in the guides section there are some there, but they mainly focus on what build you are gonna run with.

And yeah watch out for the exploding barrels disguised as cars! why they blowup is a mystery to me they should all be rust buckets !

i didn't see a tutorial in the game

all i seem to do is die right now

but that doesn't seem to matter at all?

i'm used to PZ where dying is the end, and you gotta be very careful

so far i dont' seem to be learning anything, but dying has no penalty, so i suppose that's good for learning.

oh well

I did about 5 starts and a fair few hrs trying to figure out this game as it was my first fallout game, experimenting in Sanctuary so dont be disheartened, just put it down as a hard learning curve but once you master the basics and where to spend your points to survive it gets a lot easier.

I stuck with the 10mm pistol mainly at the start and lone wanderer to lessen damage. do watch vids if your stuck on how to do things and use the wiki and guides section if you need to.

[DouglasGrave]

There is also guidance available from the in-game help that covers a variety of topics (not just the pop-up help that appears automatically the first time you do certain things, but the help accessible from the menu while playing).

[chakkman]

Originally posted by Twogun:

Originally posted by Pookie101:

The manual is basically a single piece of paper with the controls.

There is the "Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide Prima Official Game Guide" which should help but you will have to google that.

It also not completely up to date either.

Actually a list of controls would be very helpful

I thought the game pretty much teaches you everything in the first half an hour or so.

The first half to one hour pretty much IS the tutorial. Like in most modern games.

[Zekiran]

The entire first (hour and a) half of the game IS the tutorial.

On-screen messages should be coming up constantly to help you.

What specific things do you need to know? This is a VERY standard First Person Shooter/RPG so you will have menu options for setting your keyboard controls (most of them anyway), and the rest is literally 'like every other shooter out there since 2016'.

If you're having trouble figuring out where to go, your map is right there on the pipboy. If you're having issues with accuracy and "dying all the time" then change your tactics. You do not have to run up to every single enemy in the game, you can run AWAY from them. They will eventually give up.

Tactical thinking is vital, particularly early in the game when you are most vulnerable.

But knowing what specific things you are having trouble with, just say what they are! You're just going to want to get used to the controls first, figure out what your pipboy can do for you by fiddling with it and clicking on things, everything comes up with tutorial messages unless you have those somehow turned completely off (which I don't think is actually an option you can reach without tweaking the initialization files?).

[random_frugality]

Originally posted by chakkman:

I thought the game pretty much teaches you everything in the first half an hour or so.

The first half to one hour pretty much IS the tutorial. Like in most modern games.

I absolutely needed much more than that. I was swimming a lot in the early hours, days, of playing FO4. While I was still in Vault 111 I was wondering why sometimes I saw [HIDDEN] on the screen. I kept looking for whatever I was being told was hidden. It wasn't until I was out in Sanctuary Hills and read about crouching on the wiki that I figured it out. There were a lot of aspects of the game that took me quite a while to figure out. I was lucky to find the wiki and this group.

[DouglasGrave]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Tactical thinking is vital, particularly early in the game when you are most vulnerable.

But not the quest, just the actual thinking.

Originally posted by random_frugality:

Originally posted by chakkman:

I thought the game pretty much teaches you everything in the first half an hour or so.

The first half to one hour pretty much IS the tutorial. Like in most modern games.

I absolutely needed much more than that. I was swimming a lot in the early hours, days, of playing FO4. While I was still in Vault 111 I was wondering why sometimes I saw [HIDDEN] on the screen. I kept looking for whatever I was being told was hidden. It wasn't until I was out in Sanctuary Hills and read about crouching on the wiki that I figured it out. There were a lot of aspects of the game that took me quite a while to figure out. I was lucky to find the wiki and this group.

It's covered under "Sneaking" in the Help section, and I usually have a read over the controls for any game I start playing to work out what options are available. Though for Fallout 4 in particular, I admit that it was mostly just to cover what had changed from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

The in-game help covered most of what I needed early on, so I only went to the wiki for occasional extra details or clarification.

[Zekiran]

Yeah looking over all the keybinds is REALLY where you should always start with a new game, even if you think you know it already. Sometimes games pull a fast one and don't have x or y thing that you 'expect', or even don't have a rebind for something you want. Sometimes, those bindings are telling of what to expect IN the game, too.