However, the sorting system in Fallout 4 is flawed. I started out following Fallout 4’s own classification system by storing all armor in one container, all guns in another and so on. If you’re a micromanagement crazy like me, you’ll want to use the armor pieces and guns that you find to equip the settlers that live in your Minuteman settlements. With robots, this is not so, since their guns are modifications that do not show up in their inventory. You’ll need to click every single item to transfer it to your own inventory in order to avoid accidentally removing their own items.

For human companions, this unfortunately means that you’ll also remove and custom armor and weapons you’ve given them to wear, making the shortcut useless. What I normally do when I arrive at home base is talk to my companion and use the available shortcut go get everything their carrying so I can store it in containers at my base. Using robot companions has another advantage. You can also modify Codsworth or Ada or any other robot companion at the Robot Workbench and give them new legs to boost their carrying capacity (and some serious guns while you’re at it). Use this to build a custom Automatron and see your total carry weight go through the roof! The Automatron can carry about three times the weight that you can carry yourself, letting you loot entire buildings in a single trip! Still, you don’t have to build a custom robot to get this bonus. However, the most advantage is brought by robot companions.Īs soon as you’re level 15 and have followed Ada’s distress signal, you’ll unlock the Robot Workbench which allows you to build custom robots. I can usually offload my entire store of armor, weapons and junk load at least once onto a companion, which is really much more than the 100 pounds of extra carry weight that the Lone Wanderer perk bestows. Be aware that increasing the perk level over two does not increase your carry weight any more.Īs for the companions, ordinary humans and robots can carry just about what you can carry yourself (at a strength level of 7 or so). The Lone Wanderer perk has four levels, but only the first two increase your carry weight, to a maximum of an extra 100 pounds at level two. In the end, 50 pounds is really not a lot compared to what some companions can carry for you. But be warned: you can’t even take Dogmeat along, since he also counts as a companion. This perk allows you to carry an additional 50 pounds of equipment with you. However, you can also opt to travel alone, and in that case the Lone Wanderer perk is useful. Problem is, you can only take one of them along at any time. There are a bunch of people (and robots) available to be your travelling companion in Fallout 4.

So, inventory management is king.Ī few tips for those struggling with inventory management on Fallout 4’s survival mode: 1.

Also, since Fallout 4 is the item collector’s dream, everything can be taken and everything is useful. Everywhere you want to go, you’ll have to go there the old-fashioned way: on foot (or in a Vertibird, when you’ve unlocked that possibility). In Fallout 4 Survival Mode, fast travel is disabled and the total weight you can carry is severely limited. Fallout 4 by Bethesda is a huge game, in particular if you play it on Survival mode.

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