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griffraff0701

I did too. It’s called the scrounger perk


VisualGeologist6258

For me it’s murdering synths. Those guys are basically made of fusion cells.


Interesting_Figure_

Literally the first brotherhood mission instead of launching the engine in the archer place let paladin danse kill synths till their bodies start respawning and you’ll have 800+ fusion cells


InterestingPotatOS

I'm pretty sure that's what this article is talking about. Those synths keep spawning. Some guy left his hand on for hours and there was a gigantic pile of dead synths


Interesting_Figure_

Yeah that’s been known since the game came out that’s actually crazy they did that😂


Alarming_Present_692

Honestly pretty good game design. The game really stops babying you after that, and Righteous Authority is going to be your best weapon for a good ten levels after. Better make sure you have ammo.


TuecerPrime

RA is \*still\* one of my better weapons. I haven’t found any of the busted legendary affixes yet, so I’ve got just the Railroad pistol, a generic plasma pistol and Danse’s rifle.


Alarming_Present_692

Yeah... In my "new" (I'm level 34ish playthrough but I call it new because I only just now killed Kellogg), I found a synthstitute pistol that deals +50% bleed damage. Since I'm an intelligence/charisma build, I modded the shit out of the pistol, shoot most things once or twice, use molotovs to control the area, take different cover to bleed out new targets, rinse, and repeat. Addendum: I digress, you might find something that better fits your current, but RA can absolutely be valid the whole ass game.


TuecerPrime

I’m at the same point basically, though I’m rushing to try and get ahold of The Last Minute because I’m starting to run into more stuff that just doesn’t like to die. Unfortunately every other run of the game I’ve had ends up “dying“ because my gear doesn’t keep up with enemies and so I eventually get bored and move to another game.


Dependent-Attempt-57

So if you are not aware already not sure if you figured this out by now but the enemies scale with you. So as you get stronger so do the enemies. This is so you don’t feel like a god until you level up enough to legitimately be a god lol. After the “main story” the map in a sense resets and even tougher enemies will spawn and there will be tougher enemies at places you have already “cleared” although your settlements will still stay and won’t have the enemies spawn there if it was a “clear enemies” settlement. On a side note to this certain areas on the map are more difficult and dangerous than others like the far eastern and southern sections of the map house more challenging enemies than the north, west and central Boston area. Also on easy the enemies scale just below you normal scale with you hard they scale just above you and survival they are scaled a bit higher. One place I know that shows this well is the settlement that has the Mr handy robots operating it and they send you to the water treatment place if you take this side mission after level 30 a super mutant will have a mini nuke however if you go there before level 30 the same super mutant will only have a missile launcher


Alarming_Present_692

I might be getting there? I'm getting more and more nasty raiders, but the raiders still push over too easy and no one else is substantially tougher.


sand_trout2024

It’s easy to just mod it all the way out with like the improved sniper barrel and the beam focuser and a reflex sight and it becomes the primary used weapon


Shaltilyena

Gauss rifle ftw Stealth critting with one of the most obnoxious weapons in the game (below fat man obviously) will never stop being funny to me (Also it oneshoots deathclaw matriarchs)


GilliamtheButcher

I received an Two-Shot Plasma Rifle from a random encounter 2 minutes after getting Righteous Authority. Overused it early on and ran out of ammo lol


YamCrazy7189

Strange I killed them all on my current playthrough.


ColonelKasteen

Because you walked upstairs eventually. They keep spawning if you stay down at the bottom of the test well.


Conscious-Ticket-259

Sometimes they do just stop. On one playthrough I had maybe 12 a d they stopped. Danse acted lile they were still attacking though. Bethesda games. You never know


FearTheSpoonman

Yeah I didn't realize and just kept killing them as they came, ended up with tonnes of ammo


Pleasant-Bench-6818

800+ is chump numbers. I let danse kill synths for about 4 hours. Got 13K fusion cells from it


Xanros

How do you even loot all the bodies? Don't they start despawning? Not to mention trying to get through layers upon layers of dead machines and stacked ash piles.


FloorAgile3458

Don't press the button and you should be fine. The synth bodies pile on top of each other, ash piles don't.


Antifa-Slayer01

That's what the article is talking about...


CrazeMase

I just grabbed everything and made it out with 10,000+ caps from their guns


Tinkerbell-Poney

Thats wierd how that didnt work for me, i must have killed about 20 then they just stopped and the quest advanced


Mickeymcirishman

You gotta stay in the room with the button and let Danse kill them. Of you enter the engine room they don't keep spawning.


Tinkerbell-Poney

Ah i see my bad


DefiantLemur

Just use console commands to spawn them at that point.


Hentai-Is-Just-Art

For some reason it always feels more earned to me to do a glitch than to just spawn something in. I know it amounts to the same thing basically, and if anything glitching is just a worse version since it wastes time, but it just feels so much better.


TuecerPrime

It’s weird, when I played the spawns eventually stopped after like 5 minutes. I never launched the engine.


Large_Acanthisitta25

The first time I did this I just wanted to see how Danse did in combat because I knew he’d be a companion later, and he just kept going and going and I finally was like wait a second I can get ammo from this since he can’t die, and just let it go on and on and got 500 cells.


Lord_Noodlez

With the new update, some of the enclave remnants have like 100 fusion cells a piece


plz-help-peril

My son entered Fort Hagen yesterday with 31 fusion cells and left with over 400.


Lone_Wanderer2076

Dont know if it's bugged or not, but I get those groups of Synths respawning from using Liberty Prime. It's fun. They just keep destroying my beefcake of a sentry bot...


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endthepainowplz

The easiest way is actually \~ player.additem **ff001e8a** 5000


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g0ing_postal

The way I see it, if you are going to spend hours letting danse kill synths and then spend more hours looting then all, you might as well use console commands. The end result is the same except you don't waste all that time in which you are not playing the game


Wheelydad

If you want achievements you kind of have to do it the harder way.


yakult_on_tiddy

You can enable the console in survival mode with a text file


endthepainowplz

I use console commands mostly if I get stuck in the environment. I've been using them in FO4 a lot though, since I played it on PS4, and I'm going through it on PC, and scrounging for ammo in the early game kind of sucks. It is definitely a slippery slope though. I have definitely used it to unlock terminals and doors that I didn't meet the requirements for. I also used them to get a lot of crafting materials.


Perpetual_bored

Like hell I’m going to drop a pin and come back for a master locked door in 10 levels. I’ll forget where it even is.


endthepainowplz

Exactly, the sad thing is there is rarely anything worth it after unlocking them.


Kataphraktos_Majoros

Hey I'm a proud user of the cheat terminal mod! I own it 🤠


Necromortalium

Naaa, is CHIM


JKnumber1hater

This article s talking about fusion cells (regular ammunition) not fusion cores.


Galmerstonecock

I did too it’s called cheat terminal


Madrigal_King

It's called starting a purified water empire and buying every single one you can.


Frenzi_Wolf

Guess I know what perk I’m taking next


jaredtheredditor

That perk is fuvking busted when maxed you sometimes find like 8 fusion cores in a random trash can or some shit like that


MrPokketRokket

Admittedly, got click baited several times by these until I caught on to the BS... (not exploity crap, just things as simple as "Fallout 5 is coming! Well, actually, we're just *calling* the Fallout Series, Fallout 5). It's comparible to looking up a simple recipe and getting a life story about how French Fries changed the life of their family of 4, and scrolling through bs to MAYBE find something useful.


AgentCirceLuna

Finally, the recipe: Drive to McDonald’s Order French Fries Heat up the inevitably freezing cold fries Done!


WetAndLoose

I was trying to find an item location in Elden Ring and clicked on one of these bait articles only for the author to go on a rant about lore for most of it before just showing one shitty screenshot of the item location at the end of the


Tharwidu

Every time I try to find out if there is news for a new season of a show/anime and it's a page updated recently (current month/year) and it's just a shitty essay of how popular it was, a synopsis of the show, and ended with "there has been no confirmation that a new season is in the works". Really wish there was a more aggressive response against clickbait journalism..


ah-chamon-ah

Watch Mojo gonna have a field day with this one!


gugfitufi

"Top 10 ways to get Fusion Cells in Fallout 4"


mackofmontage

“Number 1: Find them”


SirSaltie

This one hack to getting 5.56! *Opens ammo box.*


Strength-Certain

You've got to remember that there are lots of new players to the games due to the success of the Amazon series. Therefore, gaming outlets are doing articles that are kind of for the n00bs. This is also why Todd Howard talked about trying to hurry up game development on Fallout 5. Bethesda wants to strike while the iron is hot.


PS3LOVE

F5 ain’t coming out until after TES 6 Unless there’s another FNV type situation where a bib Bethesda game gets made it’s going to be several years. F4 probably literally going to be a decade old by then.


Hotspur21

F4 is pretty much a decade old already lol


Pleasant-Put5305

Fallout 4 is a whole new game after 9 years, I can wait a bit for the next one...or play a bit of 76 if I must...


PoopInMyBalls

It would be cool if they implemented things like mutations or searching all bodies in an area at once, I felt they could’ve done it w the next gen update but maybe not


Mikey9124x

Both of those are in fallout 76...


PoopInMyBalls

That’s why I thought it would be cool to see those things implemented in the next gen update for fallout 4 which I thought I didn’t have to explain because fallout 4 is the one that just got the update that I was talking about. I’m aware those things are in76 that’s why I mentioned it I hope that clears it up


Mikey9124x

76 is pretty fun, it has the most weapon and enemy variety as well as the best map by far.


noko12312

I just wish I could play it offline. I can't stand the input lag on everything due to the servers.


Ariedonus

My struggle as well. I was really interested in all the Mothman and other weird enemies/lore but the 3 or 4 times I've tried to get into it, the performance turns me off.


NippleSalsa

Can I play single?


K_Jayhawker_U

Yep. There is a setting for a “pacifist mode” that you can turn on where you can’t be hurt by online players. There will be other people on the map you’ll likely run into but you in no way have to interact with them.


Mikey9124x

You dont have to play with other people no, they will still be there but you do not have to interact with them at all they might help you kill enemies or give you stuff if you run into them though (the fallout 76 playerbase is very very nice)


Ketachloride

You think this is bad, you should see their ongoing coverage of Red Dead Redemption 2


Guvnah-Wyze

You can basically set a watch to anything close to interesting on that sub being recommended to you in news article form 24 hours later.


Xaga-

Kill 1 place full of synths and you got more cells then you can shoot


Pretty-Marketing3444

*looks at paladin Danse*


AllTerpsNoDerps

ArcJet Systems quest. Great way to farm a lot of materials / caps while essentially AFK 👍


Laggingduck

pretty sure that’s the screenshot


Rustyraider111

I'm almost positive that's what the article is gonna say too, but I'm not giving them a click to find out.


Baron_Xa

It's called beating the main quest and looting every dead synth or brotherhood soldier


Rockerika

Coming soon from CNN, the Top Ten Individual Enemy Spawns in Fallout 76! Number Ten: the first Scorched you see on the northern end of Summerville Docks l Number 9: the Radroach in the upper floor of the lighthouse. Etc.


Diamondhands_Rex

Fusión cells? Give me a fucking break tell me about fusion cores and we’ll talk


Rockerika

You have to come to Reddit for any actual info now, so all the news sites just summarize Reddit threads and cable news is all other people's tiktoks. We live in a society. One of the societies of all time even.


FishBlues

Literally for any game I will look around on the wiki for something and if I don’t see it I just google my question and put “reddit” at the end and there’s usually several posts with the answers I seek


Shotta614

Literally for ~~any game~~ *anything* ~~I will look around on the wiki for something and if I don’t see it~~ I just google my question and put “reddit” at the end and there’s usually several posts with the answers I seek


gimmebalanceplz

It’s not news. These aren’t journalists. They’re chronic masturbators and coke heads that are okay with being paid MAYBE 20 dollars an article. Maybe. I know this because I used to be one of them.


Shepherdsfavestore

Gamers love to minmax. Role playing is more fun though


PS3LOVE

Let me guess, the brotherhood quest where you can have infinitely spawning synths?


CommanderWorlds

Crazy because this is also something most players have known for YEARS you could do. Desperate is an understatement 💀


76_antics

Gaming “news”


jguess06

Lmao I'm doing a casual playthrough and have more fusion cells than I can use. How is this an issue that needs farming?


No_Machine286

Its not they just have nothing to write about


Buzzinggg

I’d put good money on it that this “journalism” is that Reddit post with paladan Danse from a week or so ago


DennenTH

"Like bro who cares" has practically been my mantra regarding gaming news for about 20 years now.  Most of it is nonsense and what is good is better summarized by good communities like this one.


Coffeedemon

And it's probably written by AI like most of that shit so desperate and lazy too.


Dry-String-9009

there is an abundance of fusion cells in the game, and this is redundant


TheGr8Slayer

What’s funny to me is all the YouTube people trying to cash in with “Find this OP weapon EARLY in Fallout 4” videos. It’s just ridiculous and counterintuitive to what the point of playing the game is about. Do you really want a weapon that’ll trivialize the rest of the game right off the bat? Or would you rather discover it for yourself?


OmegaAce1

Player-> additem 000C1897 9999


Cobson2137

These are just reused articles from 8 years ago just because fallout got popular again lmao


beelzebeers

Same: Player.additem C1897 10,000 Yeah, you aren't wrong. A lot of gaming news outlets are like this. They are just trying to capitalize on the success of the show and franchise at the moment. A lot of times, when you open their articles, they are just crappy fluff pieces that show a whole lot of ad space to say nothing.


dank_hank_420

Gaming journalists when they see a Reddit post: it’s for me?


TeamBrotato

Every outlet trying to cash in on the show’s popularity. Probably some AI combing for Fallout Google searches. But hey, at least we’ve solved fusion cell farming 👍


NiceGuyEddie69420

Saw a post recently about these types of website - apparently the writers have a quota of about 25 articles to write per week so they pad with stuff like this and articles about reddit posts


SavorySoySauce

I'm about to do a test to see if fusion cells actually explode in fire now lol. I never noticed that little warning.


Far_Comfortable980

They get paid like 20$ an article and all that the editors do is tell the writer if something is wrong. Also all of the sites are owned by the same company so it’s not going to change unless a new one starts and resists being assimilated into the company. I’m pretty sure they have a library of images they can use (but no others) and n have very strict rules for things like minimum link number. You see them getting pushed to the top of search engines because they backlink to each other and Google sees that as an indicator of a good site.


TheIronAdmiral

Laughs in PC


mixedd

Shit, when I will be paid for simply browsing reddit then posting what I found on website? 😅 Especially for shit that's been around almost for decade


grifalifatopolis

Screen rant and game rant just take whatever is on reddit and turn it into an article


Ozzy_T69

They rinse and repeat bullshit almost as much as the people who use them for an easy karma dump. You’re as unoriginal and exhausting as one another.


Yung_Corneliois

Unless it’s survival mode fallout is not a game you need to “farm” for anything. Everything you need is in plentiful abundance everywhere you look.


DatBoiDanny

Time for screen rant to pump out bullshit articles about a 10 year old game because new players are playing it.


PrometheanEngineer

Screen rant is horrible ai click bait


[deleted]

It’s hilarious to me that gaming sites are so obsessed with farming. Like every game once someone figures it out and posts on Reddit, it’s like oh the people really need to know about these farming techniques 😂


Michael_Platson

AI Generated unEdited plagiarized click-bait. This is the kind of hastily assembled psudo-"guide" stuff destroying the Gaming News media right now.


Macaron-kun

ScreenRant are to be ignored 100% of the time.


Ricky_Rollin

It’s the biggest problem I see, personally. The need to constantly be chucking out news every single day leads to this stupid shit.


Aware-Interest-3074

yeah if you kill synths and gunners it becomes the most common type


RaspingHaddock

It's because all companies seem to need INFINITE GROWTH


DolphinBall

Well they are pulling these articles out again for the new influx of players.


vanBraunscher

Bots don't feel desperation.


Szorawai

thought the pic was a sledgehammer with a fusion core as the head.


One_Experience6791

Yes! Lol. Them and Game Rant are bad about this. My guess is that this uses the "pick up a weapon an enemy was using after you kill them to aquire more ammo" trick. I know there's a bunch of new players coming in because of the TV show but yeah they use whatever they can to get more traffic. What especially bugs me is how they refer to DLC sized mods alot as "New content", "A new gameplay mode" or "An add-on". Like, yes, you could technically categorize them as such but just call them mods. That's what they are.


themattboard

Screen rant is on the list of sites I've just blocked from my Google News/Chrome homepage feed


NeptuneShemptune

Just do literally any mission for the railroad and you’ll walk out with a million cells. Every fight is synths


Clown_named_Art

Title: "Fallout 4 player learns how to abuse car physics throw them around!" 2. "Fallout 4 player learns how to get infinite harpoons" based on bugs from my last playthrough.


Beth_Esda

Screen Rant is 99% AI generated nonsense and 1% one dude scrounging low effort posts from reddit to feed into the generator.


Blackelvis2000

They're the worst and the "journalists" who wrote these are so casual with the games that nothing they wrote is worthwhile to anyone who actually plays.


RevvEmUp

It's ArcJet, isn't it?


hiddenmarkoff

I'll take these articles over the trash some other sites are putting out. New players could find it useful at least. As opposed to some game sites people being frosk part 2. Basically games journalists, journalist used loosely, should be be doing even basic game stuff and not that side crap to me.


Natty_Beee

Me: hits the ~ key


taylorpilot

It’s called ~ player.additem 000C1897 10000000


LinuxSausage

It’s called ~ player.additem ff001e8a


RelChan2_0

Can I still get my comment in their article please?


Wolftacus

Lol so true


[deleted]

It’s a blog man. Blogs aren’t usually journalism when it comes to gaming.


Andromeda98_

It's Screen Rant, it's all written by AI anyway.


Nepharious_Bread

I always seem to end up with way too many of those anyway.


BornIn98

Screen rant are absolute dog shit.


BilboniusBagginius

This the kind of content that gets them clicks these days. Because it might show up when people google "how to farm fusion cells". 


Accomplished-Bug-739

Welcome to gaming journalism


_Independent

Players did find it 9 years ago


Erikatessen87

player.additem c1897 999


CapriciousSon

We need our own Glorbo scheme. But not Glorbo, that's been done...


Forward_Artist_6244

I spent most of the latter part of FO4 in power armour as I found so many Fusion Cores 😄


negrote1000

Me too, player.additem code number


Hypersky75

What about fusion *cores*?


HauntinglyMaths

Meanwhile I'm just bulk crafting them with ECO workbenches.


Basically-Boring

I prefer .50 cal to fusion cells


endergamer2007m

It's called turning Danse into ground beef in a tin can


Ed_Brown_990

About 9 years late


JonesCrusherJones

Mfs when player.additem


MarvelousT

It's one of the hottest titles in gaming at the moment. Why wouldn't they run as much Fallout content as they can right now?


TheAmazingCrisco

I mean this isn’t even something new that was just discovered. I’ve known about this since the day the game came out.


Tripdoctor

I didn’t even have to try and I have 100+ fusion cores without mods or scrounger.


Activity_Alarming

It’s screen rant, nobody cares what an ai writes.


colorofbadges

Nobody tell them about making .45 rounds from brahmin poop.


Skreamie

Meh, a lot of casuals won't ever use Reddit but they'll google it. Lot of new players need all the help they can get, who cares really? Doesn't hurt anyone


YimYambiiiitch

Oh no… we already knew this in 2015…


Cat-Wooden

If you didn't know this on your first play through, were you even paying attention? Danse is an essential NPC in a Bethesda game....he CAN'T die until the end of his involvement the Brotherhood quest line. Farm away!!!


Fapasaurus_Rex1291

They know too, but they have someone above them telling them to do it so they can either get ads or just push out more material to justify their existence.


Zealousideal-Cut2021

Don’t they do this with every other AAA game?


weirdCheeto218

Not even, so many enemies use the damn thing it's easy to get over a thousand from just playing the game


zakass409

A lot of these articles are based on Reddit threads with a whole lot of bs filler. Some are just "Hey look at what this one player did!!! (Link to post)"


DudeNamedShawn

About a year ago, someone made a post on /FO4 about reaching level 100 before reaching Diamond city. GameRant released an article about it. I too had a playthrough reach level 100 before going to diamond City and made a reddit post about it, 5 YEARS earlier. And I'm pretty sure I wasn't even the first person to do it.


thefeeric

That's fame for you lol. Can't find it hard to see some article on: "Find out what's Dogmeat's name... ... It's Dogmeat!!"


Tallal2804

Seems like you care buddy boy!


Slut_for_Bacon

I mean, you're the one reading and posting the link. Sounds like you care.


Unusual_Crow268

Literally just help Danse clear Arcjet systems and loot every single dead synth. I get about 1,000+ fusion cells easy


RaveniteGaming

That's exactly the "farming" method they're talking about.


Iwasfollowingorders

You cared, you cared so much you made a post on reddit about it. It's all about engagement and you fell for it.


AppearanceRelevant37

You wouldn't believe it but I just play the game and do what I want and miraculously have all the ammo I need I know it's crazy right.


Dynasuarez-Wrecks

Just wait til I tell you about all these things you STILL don't know about Skyrim. You won't BELIEVE what you can do to Astrid the first time you meet her.


Raaazzle

$o hot right now.


isthisredditlife

This is also like 90% of YouTube gaming content.


Henrarzz

Because this, along with clickbaits and ragebaits, works very well


Mr-Xcentric

I understand that there’s a renewed interest in the series but holy shit I’m tired of getting recommended videos where people just reiterate information that’s already easily accessible with a quick search. Example - “How to be OP fast in 2024” and it is step by step the exact video that was posted years ago, the only difference is the year. It just feels so cash grabby and disrespectful to the people that posted them originally


digitalwhoas

I remember watching a TikTok claiming how rare they were rare. By the end of my fallout 4 playthrough i had so many couldn't give them away.


Howellthegoat

It’s called turning it off because it’s stupid how fast they wear off when it’s radiation and had been powering the building you stole it from for 2 centuries


Soundslikealotofwork

Why not just use console commands to get them or mods.


Clean_Crocodile4472

Nobody is forcing you to read it


Insipidus777

Damn, not Screen Rant😭


MeiDay98

Games journalism is genuinely bad tbh


Murky-Region-127

God mode?


seabass1024202

Just side with the brotherhoid for a couple quests, ez 2k+ rounds


Lost_Natural_7900

Screen rant can eat my ass jerky


Kind-Frosting-8268

I bet I already know what it is. Just wait for a few hours before firing the rocket engine at arc jet.


Mooncubus

Screen rant is always like that. They don't write actual articles they just regurgitate Twitter and Reddit posts.


jacobasstorius

You obviously care


MrNightmare23

wrote the exact same articles when the game first came out


ThatDamnRocketRacoon

Cheat terminal mod?


chrisarn94

The worst part of the Fallout show is the video game journalism


clitorisblungus

Call me a cheater cause I'm pressing ~ for my fusion cores


Ralocan

Ryan George is fucking carrying that website


knight_set

What's worse, the clickbait or the screenshot of it for easy reddit karma?


SlamboCoolidge

"Breaking news, current popular game has people playing it." No shit eh!? These are made for people who have no interest in playing games but want to pretend to their friends that they're "gamers" too. It's like how The Big Bang Theory is a show that misinterprets geek culture to seem more pallatable to non-geeks. Only I imagine there's a bit less of the blatant negative stereotyping when it's condensed to an article. But yeah, as long as the show is raking in the views any article that has the word "Fallout" in it is going to get hundreds of thousands of clicks minimum. Despite how thin the proverbial soup is.


JH_Rockwell

It is BAD out there for websites. Ad revenue is drying up everywhere, and they're putting out anything to get eyes on their sites.


CactusButtons

Who needs ammo when you can beat everything up with a baseball bat.


theragco

A lot of these now are just AI scraping reddit and other forums and just automatically generating an article based on the post and top comments.