Level 20
Whoever said a few pages back that there's not much to scav is out of their mind.
After playing since release night about 40 hours straight, sneaking with the dog, taking everything,
and then stashing, re-exploring, and re-stashing. Everything you kill adds XP, everything you craft adds XP, it wasn't hard to level up without really doing anything. But the dog got under my feet so I switched to the Bot. After maxing out his companion perk, back to solo sniping and looting. Built about 5 houses fully loaded with power, defenses, gardens. To get key components out of junk,
I had the Sanctuary streets lined with dozens of generators and structures large and small.
Just lining them up in the street to break them down added XP, but I tore them down for vital components. Move to the next site (I only have 4 sites right now) and build up. Tagged copper, adhesives, gears, and antiseptics for making everything including Radaway.
Took a few weird paths unknown from the release trailers, and ended up early on crafting snipers
and shotguns, tactical miniguns and such, but the real wealth is in the scrap. Raid every raider as well. Favoring the pocketed armors along with strong back perk, but before I favored the shadowed armors for stealth.
A few spoilers I won't mention, but some old friends give you some great stuff in various locations,
if you find them before doing the main story which I have been avoiding. I have lots of the rare weapons
thanks to those missions and killing so many "Legendary" creatures and bad guys.
Once you find the base snipers, combat shotguns, hunting rifles, energy weapons you're home free. Still love the basically un-modified Calibrated Sniper Rifle. Could've found that thing anywhere. Can't remember. These people and creatures are blind if you're in stealth mode, simply by sneaking. I should try hard mode I guess.
Now sniping everything has become a job, and the power armor looks nice in the various paint but this game
I'm just not using it that much, just storing it everywhere. Haven't asked the Wiki or anyone for any answers
but have had to figure out the perk chart and basic operations, like how to spin stuff around and connect things.
The only question I have is back to basics, but I think Captain Kirk said it best:
"Dammit Bones, how do you pick things up like the toys, (Mr.Gutsy Model for example) and place them on my trophy shelves?" Hope you guys are enjoying the game. Some crazy stuff here.