Fallout 4: 10 Essential Survival Tips For New Players

4. Save Your Game Regularly

'Thanks a lot,' you're probably thinking. 'In the next tip he'll be suggesting that I need to switch on my console to play the game, and to take 15 minute breaks after every hour of gameplay'. But the old gaming adage of 'Save Often' particularly applies to Fallout 4, because it's already proving itself to be rife with bugginess and instability. People have reported getting stuck in elevators, weapons disappearing from peoples' hands, and all manner of technical nasty. Classic Bethesda. In what seems like a perfect cocktail to screw gamers over, Fallout 4's bugginess is combined with a sparse save system that doesn't have any checkpoints, and will only save when you ask it to. If your last save was five hours ago and you find yourself stuck in a piece of wall or something equally ridiculous, then that's five hours you're not getting back. Such is wasteland life. To better cover yourself, go into the game's options and set it to autosave every half an hour, or however much time you're willing to backtrack before throwing your controller against the wall and proclaiming you'll never play Fallout 4 again on principle... before sheepishly coming back to it an hour later.