Fallout London Tips and Tricks

✓ At a glance

• RPG skill checks added to the game.
• Strength is OP due to ealry game gun issues for the most part.
• Churchill early on

Fallout London is live, and with the new design and take on the game with its total conversion, players will experience the game ever so slightly. If you’re getting started with the mod, here are some Fallout London tips to help you get into the game.

Beginner tips and tricks for Fallout London

Early special skill checks

From our experience, investing heavily into a chosen stat early on is very helpful. Strength helps you get through the game much easier early on. There’s also a door at the top of the Shard elevator, the building you emerge into at the end of the tutorial. The door requires 7 Strength.

As for other stats, be aware that there are some early-game charisma and intelligence checks in speech requiring 6 points. So, if you have a build in mind, try to reach 6 or 7 in the main stat you want to use to take advantage of those early special skill checks.

Strength is OP

Our first Fallout London tip is that Strength perk is very strong in the early game. When you do start the game, you’re going encounter a few beasties running around. The only way to deal with them is with your fists. Even when you do get your first gun, which is looted from a lock pick by the way, ammo is extremely limited. So, if you go with a strength build, then expect to be able to dispatch more annoying foes when you’re out of the tutorial.

In addition, when you leave the tutorial, you do get a debuff due to an event that leaves you wounded. This makes you take 10% more damage until it is healed. Of course, you have to run around a few times before that happens so that bonus HP pool is extremely handy on any difficulty. Not to mention the endless ambushes from bloatflys and other critters new to the game that challenge your HP greatly.

Melee weapons abundance

Melee weapons are more common on your travels. From the walking cane loot early, to the switchblade you get from a quest.  On the mod’s website, it states that guns are much rarer, with missions designed a lot more on being able to play melee. And it seems to be true in that nature. So, taking strength is very handy for weapon scarcity. It’s also nice for the general HP you need dealing with lots of annoying critters and the debuff you start the game with.

You get Churchill early on

If you want your Dogmeat replacement, then you’ll be happy to know players can get an English bulldog companion. As you’re walking from the events at the end of the tutorial where the Thames community, you will encounter the dog organically. It’s rather impossible to miss. Save the dog from the stray mutant beasts, speak to the security guard by the dog food plant, and you get your dog companion.

Crashes

Fallout 4 being downported back to the pre next gen update has sent the game into an unstable mess. So, you may need to get some mods to stop the awkward crashes that randomly happen from time to time. There’s a pretty in-depth thread on Reddit about how to resolve the crashes by downloading other mods which you should probably check out. It seems guaranteed that you will crash based on our own experiences and reading everyone else’s experiences so far.

If we have any other tips we’ll update the page with more info.

Recommended first steps when starting out

Tickets, please

The iconic Bottlecaps are a thing of the past – in Fallout London, you will be trading in Tickets. This is the game’s main currency and you’ll be able to start collecting even before the first train ride. After successfully escaping the lab, you will have to make your way from The Shard Hotel and through the London Underground. Keep an eye out for Tickets, represented by large orange tokens. This currency is the most abundant in the game and you will use it to barter for most items down the line. Therefore, starting to stock up early is worth the extra time to search for it.

Rush to get Churchill

As we mentioned above in our tips, you will be able to find Churchill the bulldog fairly early on. We recommend going straight to get him. After surviving the train crash at the start of the game (and hopefully not the literal one), you’ll be able to speak with Sebastian Gaunt, leader of Vagabonds. He points you towards Thamesfolk if you ask him for directions. Head north, then west, and you’ll come upon their camp.

Head north following the path until you reach the Prilladog Food Factory. You’ll hear a ruckus, with one guard shouting and sounds of fighting animals. Rush over there and help the bulldog fend off the mutant beasts.

Then, speak to the guard who will offer you to take the dog with you. Of course, accept his offer and you’ll have your very own good boy, Churchill, joining you on the adventure. Just like Dogmeat, he’s able to help you during exploration and combat, as well as keeping you company in bombed-out London.

Get an early gun

Guns are far more rare in Fallout London, so you will have to rely on melee weapons for the most part, especially during the early game. But if you’re a gun aficionado and need one as soon as possible, there’s a gun you can get fairly early in the game.

Follow the main quest that requires you to reach Thameshaven. Head north-west past Fesco until you find a group of guards. Talk to them, and they will suggest that you find an entrance to an old Underground station.

Be careful, these tunnels are flooded and have pockets of radiation. Follow the path through them until you find a tin-can trap. Avoid it and head to the room on the right, where you’ll find a cooking station and a bed. Go to the bed and scavenge through the bedside table. You’ll find a Flare Gun there, as well as a few flares for ammo. This gun is slow and cumbersome but is something you can use at range until you find a better option.