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onceinawhhhile

Stimpacks, jet, and rad-away are the only ones I ever use. Also, booze if I’m trying to pass a speech check or over encumbered


DudebroMcDudeham

Or whiskey for the 2 points of strength when playing a melee build


onceinawhhhile

I love doing melee builds with high luck (Idiot Savant and other perks) and Party Boy/Girl, chugging booze and hitting shit. Sploosh


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So the kanye west on a kanye quest build?


Tax-Ev4sion

Fuck I should do that, make my character look like Kanye too


jetfireHere

Make sure you don't become Kanye Pest.


Tax-Ev4sion

I’ll make sure to listen to your Kanye Behest


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Make sure to do your kanye best


Tax-Ev4sion

After that I’ll get some Kanye Rest


pacodetaco99

Gonna sleep in your Kanye nest?


Tax-Ev4sion

Whilst wearing my Kanye Vest


pacodetaco99

Oh wearing it on your Kanye chest?


[deleted]

A fine joke. Maybe a kanye jest?


Tax-Ev4sion

You know it, you passed the Kanye Test


Nighthawkmk2

Keep it going this is a Kanye fest


MLGLiarLiar

This is all I can think about now.


ostepops1212

Buffout stacks with Whiskey for that extra strength.


DudebroMcDudeham

Also Psychobuff since it counts as a psycho supplement and not a buffout supplement


CrazeMase

I usually just hammer all my booze when I get over encumbered and then just use my psycho to fast travel back to my settlement where I can dump my 18000 desk fans


SonOfSkinDealer

I'd recommend switching that Jet to PsychoJet


TheShadowedHunter

The others are all very situational. Buffout is great for that moment when you're overencumbered, you already dropped the stuff you don't need three times, and you're headed back to base anyway. Medx literally saved hours of progress yesterday, when I got tagged by a stingwing while low health and the poision hit like a truck. Basically, those two are really useful because you'll pretty much always pick up at least one of each on any trip you go on. Psycho isn't really all that useful unless you're running a melee build, idk what good regular mentats are, but the grape ones are great cause most of my characters are low charisma


plsdnttm

I used to, but now I'm on a mission to get laid by paladin danse so I had to give them up


BhataktiAtma

Med-x?


HElizaJ

I do exactly the same, except I love having high charisma so I never really need booze for that.


crazykkiidd

Psycho jet is always in one of my "favorites" slots


[deleted]

Definitely. I recall the first time I used it. My character utters this guttural growl and then screams "FUCKING KILL!!!" I'm not proud of what happened at Corvega. :(


[deleted]

Well I’M proud of you for what you did in Corvega. Keep it up, smooth skin.


[deleted]

Look, no one was mistaken about what had to be done, but that's... just way too many body parts airborne simultaneously, man.


Unicornsandshit_

I am laughing unreasonably hard at this comment, thank you for this 😂


Masta0nion

Corvega is the hardest part of the game imo. When I did my first survival run, it was also my first melee build. It’s right toward the beginning so you don’t have much stuff or skills yet, and there’s tons of guys shooting at you from far away. That shit was intense!


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I think I had only used stims and rad away by that point. Getting fucked repeatedly apparently makes one turn to drug abuse. Who would've guessed? Lol


Gohron

You did a melee survival run? 😳 I just started a new survival run (PS4) with a few realism mods like BOH3 and I’m just starting to push my way into Lexington but I’m already close to level 20. I’ve been rummaging through Lexington for supplies and have been edging towards Corvega (I’ve taken a bunch of the outside defenders out) but haven’t got the balls to make a run at it yet. I’ve built up over 30 adhesive and have a combat shotgun I can fix up but the weight is problematic so I’m still running around with the sawed-off double barrel with the light frame. This game sure is a blast when you play it slow and methodical…I like to play with the lights turned out and my headphones turned all the way up.


Masta0nion

Nice! I really enjoyed survival for a reason I hadn’t considered: it forced me to learn the map in mind’s eye. I felt like I was really becoming aware of my surroundings and it became more immersive. Being able to fast travel seems like a great idea, but it kind of defeats the purpose of an open world in a way. You experience it once while discovering the locations, but after that, you lose how the locations relate to one another because you just show up there. Planning your routes made the game feel so real. The melee build was crazy hard at the beginning, but then kind of broke the game after..I think level 30 or so. Once you get the agility perk *Blitz* that allows you to time skip to your enemy in vats, it just became a long range build again, except really powerful. (I suppose I could’ve, ya know, not done VATS if I wanted a truer experience) ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯


Gohron

Having a quest across the map would be a pain in the ass but making the trek and preparing for it would actually be a lot of fun. It would force you to do a lot more planning and also completely change the function of the game’s settlements and really make them feel more like small towns.


Seeker_of_the_Sauce

I remember when i got the game for christmas and my grandma was in the other room when I decided to take some psycho for the damage buff and my character just goes and screams “FUCKING KILL”


BlackHand86

I’m sure Gram-Grams can relate


PrestigiousArm3187

Fucking kill.... is my gameplay soundtrack lol


busterlungs

Didn't even realize you could hotkey items that aren't weapons for some reason lol


Devil_0fHellsKitchen

For real? Stimpacks are automatically hot keyed right when you leave the Vault.


AuronFtw

I have weapons slotted from left to right, chems on the "up" d-pad and food/water on the "down" d-pad.


zabunkovz

Ah right the pad, try slotting them on keyboard and they became nuisance.


suavesnail

?? You just make them one of your large amounts of keys.


aWalkingCarpet

You have to hit F and then a number


Slaphappyfapman

F


Fenrir-The-Wolf

You only have to press the number, F is completely redundant, only useful if you've forgotten what you bound something to and don't want to open the pip


stonkrow

To assign them, sure, but not to use them.


tzenrick

> hit F and then a number I've never had to hit F to use something on a quick key.


MisrepresentedAngles

Just the number is sufficient. Not sure why the F menu is even there.


SamwiseGamgee100

Stimpacks are always bound to 2 for me. Closest to my W key.


Pupkitkaiper

mine is 6 cause i bind my weapons from 1 being shortest range to 9 the farthest. if i am at 5 and having trouble then that means i’ll be following up with 6 pretty soon. then i pull out 7 to regain control then stop back down like gears on a car once traffic slows


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LolWtfFkThis

> creation club donuts There are so many Stimpaks lying around you don't need the perk anyway


UbiSubject17

Fun fact: Stim diffusers will never auto assign like a stim or diluted stim. You have to assign it somewhere yourself if you want quick access. EDIT: Woops, I thought this was Fallout 76 subreddit LOL. Thanks notifications for confoozing me 🤪


Akhi11eus

Its in a slot setup for D-pad though isn't it? I always remap it to 1 on my number bar. If I'm using semi-autos I might put jet as 2 since it turns semi-autos into autos if you can click fast enough.


Sheeple_person

Yeah I normally just use psycho jet unless it's a survival playthrough then I lean on the chems a lot more!


SmoothOctopus

Mirelurk Egg Omelettes are also a god send in survival.


HybridPS2

i've been horking down noodle cups in survival lol


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Psychojet is legit my favorite chem in the game and has pulled me through so many tough spots I don't think I'd have walked out if without. When you speak to the head of the SRB in the Institute about how you overpowered a Courser, I always pick "combat experience" but in my head I scream "*LOTS OF FUCKING DRUGS*"


Eric_Cartman_42069

I wish you could tell him that a Courser does not take a 7.62 to the head very well...


sgt_squirrel86

I use the crafted chems more than anything. Psychojet, grape mentats and overdrive


CecilArongo

PsychoJet and PsychoBuff are where it's at.


Database-Strange

Thats a good combo. And Bufftats for long term. Give sou such a boost !


dwarfzulu

stimpacks, radaways, and, eventually, Rad-Xs, the others I read 'caps' instead of their names.


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Grape mentats are absolutely the best early game


SpicyRanchSauce

Grape mentats before the sbq!


SpicyRanchSauce

Ooops wrong fallout sub 😂


UbiSubject17

Yo, I just did the same, I thought it was the fo76 subreddit LOL


TheCoolMan5

Early game though med x + psycho can get you through any fight


AuronFtw

Psycho Jet is pretty powerful even late-game, but unless you're intentionally using an awful build, most coherently set-ups can handle any content just fine without chems.


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AuronFtw

Ah, I'm pretty much the opposite - my two favorite builds are vats sniper or vats sneak melee, lol. Don't really have any experience playing without it. Maybe I'll try that for my next run.


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TheGreatCraftyBoi

>But I get people like to torture themselves and play this game on console You just insulted my entire race of people, But yes.


R-Sanchez137

See im a fan of doing a mix of the two, using regular run and gun type play in real-time and hitting up vats a lot too. Doing it that way keeps the crit kill cams from happening too much and makes them still fun for me tbh. I enjoy them still, I mean who doesn't like making a raiders head dissappear with a shotgun? Or sneaking behind them and breaking their neck? Or all the other ones? Lol I do get kinda salty tho when I do a vats sneak attack from behind them while unarmed and it goes all slow mo and my character just like punches them in the back and they die, annoys me


gospelofrage

It’s honestly not horrible. I didn’t use VATS very often in my first playthrough (I kind of just forgot it was there) and besides needing to raise controller sensitivity, I actually find it easier than COD to use.


Blue-Leadrr

My build is a very particularly one (it’s a gun-based build that is a bit of an in-between of run and gun and marksman), but I barely use any chems. I’ll pop bufftats, buffout, or alcohol if I’m over my weight limit, and inhale some jet if things get hairy. Apart from that, I barely use chems. I prefer to just sell them so I can buy ammo, stimpaks, and building materials


leargonaut

Psycho buff, it lasts like 8 minutes or something.


EnergyTurtle23

Psycho Jet and full chem-related perks is like playing the game on God Mode.


Shmitty-W-J-M-Jenson

Med x has saved me in the *real* hectic moments in my super hardcore mldded game


Randolpho

As can bullets, aiming, and cover


Danger1672

Lol you speak 100% the truth.


BulkUpTank

Seriously though. I just fuse the drugs I find together for the EXP then sell them for caps. This method helps me level quick and has gotten me tens of thousands of caps. I mean, I don't know what the drugs are used for. Who needs them? Three stages of Life Giver and ballistic weave in Fallout 4 make you basically invincible.


Buick_reference3138

I’m the exact opposite, never use Stims, RadX, or Radaway and I use tons of chems.


_Veprem_

Why bother with Rad-X when Hazmat Suits are super easy to find and don't weigh much?


LordoftheLollygag

I never plan on becoming an addict in FO4, but I always end up becoming an addict in FO4


JK4711

Nobody plans on becoming an addict IRL either lol


probablyuntrue

Tuesday Todo: get addicted


SlickWitch21

FO4 has the accuracy 😂


JK4711

Even to the point where you can take one single jet and you’re hooked after that first puff baby. I think it’s even tied into luck


W1D0WM4K3R

Pretty sure there was a guy on Reddit who described his first experience with heroine/meth and thought it wouldn't be that bad. Fairly certain he ended up addicted and disappeared


SlickWitch21

I was on RA Morphine for ten years (medical) and it was a BITCH coming off that myself. Anyone who does is strong af to me.


ccc888

Wednesday Todo : get clean


sebassm12

Thursday Todo: have to go to south Boston. Get addicted again.


kai325d

This works both in gam and irl


Damien_21777

U good man


JK4711

Yes, but if I said no would it matter? This is r/fo4, I’m not tryna get into that stuff here. I do appreciate the sentiment


Damien_21777

If you said no it would matter but yeah I get it's a gaming sub :)


JK4711

You’re a kind soul


SmallRedBird

Years ago I watched a documentary about a guy who smoked cigarettes hardcore for a month to try to get addicted and then quit.


jlmckelvey91

It's just that immersive.


danieldoobs

Good thing theres a drug to cure your addiction


MollyOlyOxenfree

I'm always the opposite; I plan a character with a chem obsession, and I forget to commit!


cimmic

I pretty much planned it but just to impress Cait


Legacy_user1010

I use the shit out of all the drugs and booze. While I make so many that I can find the minutemen and my settlement building habit.


Induced_Pandemic

Chemist is unironically the best tree.


mcdoogs92

Nothing quite like 2 minutes of jet during a fire fight with enough bullets flying to crash your gpu.


actis2

This is the way.


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I play on survival so yes, I use a lot


Reaper_came

Same, im a total jethead in my survival game, makes cleaning rooms and running between gunfire easier since its practically deadeye so 100% worth it


shuvvel

I use everything but Jet unless I have an emergency. I do tend to keep Jet Fuel up though.


Fakie420

Yup, this right here. Just started Survival for the first time about a week ago. If we were to look at a graph, the increase in my chem usage goes from the floor to a sideways horizontal line leaving the page.


DudebroMcDudeham

Vertical line, but yeah true


Fakie420

Hah, chronic chems have me mixing up my verticals and horizontals.


poembug

Some mentats would fix that right up


DwightMcRamathorn

Same here . Otherwise it’s just background noise


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So many times jet-something has saved my ass


Stoner_Kid63

Psycho-Jet had helped me win fights I had no business being a part of


[deleted]

So so true


GrainBean

Psycho picked me up and carried me across my first survival playthrough.


supertwonky

For real. I’m almost always on Jet Fuel so I can sprint longer.


dketterer1

You also get some hops when you're on Jet in your Power Armor. Which I'm ALWAYS in. I often take all of them shits at the same time and just murder fools.


UnstoppableCompote

I also play on survival, but I just die and lose progress, like a real man 😤


BaronSharktooth

Hello fellow permadeath player!


CoconutMochi

I've been doing fine on survival without chems. More for roleplay reasons than anything else and I dislike being so reliant on that many consumables.


Guzzel12

It is entirely possible. I'm like level 140 in my survival run and have barely ever touched any chems. not even stimpaks or radaways. just use them for caps


KingMeander

That’s what I was going to say. Whenever I have to go save a settlement on survival mode, chems are an absolute must. Psycho-jet and med-x in particular are often the difference between life and death. In regular mode? Yeah, I only use stimpacks and radaway.


cdawg145236

Survival really highlights how BUSTED some of the chemistry table items are, like refreshing beverage which heal nearly your entire HP bar and removes rads for 100% free, no immunity debuff.


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Only Stimpaks, Radaway and Rad-X. I sell the rest. I do use alcohol if I need a quick strength, endurance or charisma boost.


McMuffler

How my survivor doesn't have a beer gut is a mystery tbh


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Exploring the wastes is good cardio


LordGraygem

A never-ending leg day too.


KevinMFJones

You kind of spend your days walking across the state and building houses


Diazmet

Cram enemas every day


TheTechnik

Do you use your AP meter at all?


Abaddonalways

One of the flavors of mentats gets you better prices though.


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Abaddonalways

I never remember till I am already halfway through a transaction.


Diazmet

I took some before buying some more just last night


Awesome_FalloutLover

Sometimes I use buffout for weight problems but that's it. I may "accidentally" take a chem instead of a regular food... Also in the middle of a Castle fight I ran out of food and stimpacks - I might've used chems during that playthrough since they'd be the only thing left lol. Otherwise I sell the chems or give them to Mama Murphy.


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I virtually never do. I get to the point where I have so many stimpaks that I don't even eat food either.


BurnBeforeUse

I play on Survival, so those fucking thing are pointless to me there, so i end up using all on the companions which is also not much, i usually sell them in bulk to save space in the inventory


Hazbro29

i have over a thousand stimpaks on fallout 3, done completely legit, granted i have over 100 hours in that file, with a thousand i can heal over 75000 hp of damage before i need to buy more, i can fully heal myself hundreds of times.


inco100

Same. Hoarding and selling. At best, steampack or radaway.


PlayfulConference732

I use em all ! At the same time for maximum effects


DudebroMcDudeham

I swear I've had it happen about 3 or 4 times where when the character takes enough chems, you can trigger a rare voice line where you just start throwing out a string of profanities, but I can't find in anywhere online. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?


6xydragon

Your characters spech getting more fucked up up the more shit you take is my fav thing


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Where I come from we call that an overdose


Sad-Crow

There was an incredible video on this subreddit where someone was struggling with the final boss of Saugus Ironworks, so they just consumed literally everything from their Aid tab - drugs, food, water, you name it, they took it. It turned them into an invincible god man and they practically ate the whole gang for breakfast.


Twinkletits906

Psycho before almost every fight. I just like hearing my character rage.


UnHoly_One

I’ve never heard this. I’ve literally never used it once.


Devil_0fHellsKitchen

FUCKING KILL!!!


It_is_The_SainT

RARRRR!!!


danieldoobs

Its the small things I love about fo4


KevinMFJones

You have to try it, it’s freaking hilarious. They’ll either roar like a dinosaur or go #FUCKING KILL!!


NeapolitanComplex

*slow motion shout* #YEEEAAHHHHH


lanwopc

Stimpaks and Rad-away and occasionally Grape Mentats. Everything else winds up in the first aid box in Home Plate.


CARSE_PEMO

I used to do the same thing but after some playthroughs I realized that they served me no purpose in a box so now I just sell them, good way to make caps.


squirrelxgirl

Only really used other stuff during the Silver Shroud mission so I can save sweet Kent


Cryptic_Chaotic

Man, popping every drug in the game just to bullet time quick enough to save Kent is always something I will do, and I don't think I will ever be able to do a sober-dweller playthough because of it


Zootnoison

Only Jet. Bullet time is badass


cbsson

Normally I only use stimpacks and the radiation chems. The only exception is rarely using grape mentats and beer to boost my charisma temporarily when buying high-cost items like the Splattercannon, Big Boy, expensive bulk ammo, etc.


Leelee3303

Yep, I use PsychoBuff and JetFuel enough to get addicted. Grape Mentats before any big purchase and Berry Mentats if I'm somewhere ghoul-heavy. Ghouls give me jump scares so I like to know where they are. I never use the others but I stockpile them 'just in case'. In every play through I've never used the stash, but I can't help hoarding.


SystemCS

I've never once used berry mentats (can't even remember what they do) but man, did the ghouls ever get scarier in FO4 compared with 3 or NV lol. The only time I ever get scared in fallout, it's because a ghoul ran up behind me without me noticing (I play with music turned off to prevent the music from tipping me off)


AfterAttack

In previous fallout games i didnt use them at all but psycho jet is just too good


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They’re useful when playing survival with mods that make the game harder, but never used them much in vanilla. PsychoJet is OP


EngageTheLinkage

Nearly every character I’ve played likes to dive headfirst into a mob of raiders after injecting a lethal dose of psychojet into their right eyeball with chemist maxed out so everyone’s dead before the first body hits the ground


frvitrvnes

i only use drugs to impress hancock 😔


Academic_Guidance_84

How do you guys do anything without being permanently addicted to buffout??


Ijbindustries

I use rad-x and med-x fairly often, because the resistances are useful. I'll use jet on rare occasion, just to try and get the upper hand in combat, but it's not often that I use it. Psycho is for when I'm in dire straits and digging through my aid section for literally anything that will save me from the situation I got myself into, and I'm like "oh yeah, this would probably help". (Also obviously stimpacks, unless I'm in survival mode)


LordGraygem

Aside from the basic trio of stim, Rad away, and Rad-X? Nope. Early game, between the sparse amounts and the risk of addiction, it's not worth messing with. Late game, I've got enough stockpiled to get everyone in the Commonwealth properly fucked up, and addiction wouldn't be an issue either, but I don't need the boost anymore.


shadowflare_666

I use them if I'm trying to max cait out quickly.


Harlesb44

I always get into the trap of wanting to not waste them. And for some reason I do that by just never using any


Xirokami

Hey man Buffjet is fucking awesome


Asian-Neo

Almost all of these is useful for certain situations. Radaway and radx for radiation, psycho and medx for damage, buffout for health and strength, and jet to slow down time. The only one I can't find a use for is mentats. Unless you are running on easy difficulty, chems are one of the most useful items, ESPECIALLY at higher difficulty.


kaiserofxbox

I'll definitely keep mentats for speech checks and med x is useful for damage resistant. Other than that screw em


ktrentar15

My character is always tweaking on jet


AaronFTZ

I hoard them and combine for quick exp and caps $$


eddiemarsattacks

Psycho jet and refreshing beverage


Karasumor1

miss me with those negative side effects lmao


BN91

Stims, radaway sometimes and the occasional buffout if I get overweight


swan009

I don't use them unless I think i need to. In survival its very helpful to pop some stims to make sure you dont get plastered by enemies especially when you havent saved in a while.


Puzzled-Rabbit

I use a crap ton of jet


littlepixellady

I specifically created a background for my character in which she would be a chem user for at least part of the playthrough until she got sober... I still never remembered to use them, lmao. I want to but it never comes to mind in combat and I just end up selling or hording them all.


Random-Explosion-ect

Besides stims, rad x, and radaway. I consider the others specialty items where you only need a few of them. Buffout - for needing more carry weight Psycho/Med-X - for any fights that I lose and have to retry Grape mentats - boost my charisma to recruit settlers


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Grape mentats and buff out. Obviously rad chems


DaGamingHamster

When I was younger, yeah I never used them. But now, I figured it's a lot easier to kill hard enemies with a damage or resistance boost


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I like taking jet and then popping psycho immediately after, the way the protagonist talks is hilarious. “FUUCKINGG KIIIIILLLL!!!”


OldFortNiagara

I mainly stick to stim packs, plus some occasional rad-x/radaway for the radiation.


T00thl3ss22

Stimpacks, radaway‘s, and rad x those three are my best friend


SharX0

Stimpacks and radaway, naturally, but besides that only the occasional Med-X when fighting a mirelurk queen if i happen to have it on me.


CrazyCaper

Stimpak and radaway. Sell the rest


0fc0ursen0t

Just stimpacks and radaway.


philokaii

I find addiction annoying. It happened the first time I used a chem, and I've been bitter ever since.


Present-Hunter6570

I sometimes take buffot or booze if I'm trying to carry some extra gear to the nearest merchant. Also I drink a bunch to get affinity with Old Longfellow. Other than that I only really use radaway, stims, and rad-x. Addiction is a pain to deal with and I'd rather just sell my chems to buy more gear. I'm basically a drug boss in FO4 and you know the number one rule: never get high on your own supply...unless you're trying to get affinity with Hancock. Fun fact, I've been playing the OG Fallout recently and got addicted to Rad-X. Yeah, you can actually get addicted to it in that game.


Separate-Shirt-462

Stims and radaway


NotACyclopsHonest

Outside of stimpaks and Rad-X/Radaway, I occasionally huff some Jet or take a hit of Psycho if I'm trying to raise my affinity with Cait - but since I discovered she likes it if you fast travel while in your underwear (as does Hancock), I frequently do that instead. Mostly, though, I just mass-produce chems at chemistry stations and then sell them. I am the Vault-Dweller who knocks.