

The rest is up to you, although I'll suggest two full builds below.

There are two absolutely mandatory stats: book in Shaun’s room in your old house in Sanctuary, so we’re working with the assumption that you have 29 points to distribute (21 in the character set up screen, seven minimum starting stats and one from the book). Note that as soon as you leave Vault 111 you can obtain an extra attribute point just by picking up the You’re S.P.E.C.I.A.L. This provides the skeleton on which you’ll construct your mighty vault dweller. Let’s start with the basics: selecting your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. In either case, you'll want to carry some back up weapons and keep a good stock of healing item and chems as you start out, but trust me things are going to be super rad by the time you have a couple of dozen levels under your belt. Warning: this is a slow burn build that will be tough for beginners it's not a good first run set up. You can adopt this for the full game experience, and I'll even tell you how, but it's going to take tens of hours to reach high levels so you can invest heavily in S.P.E.C.I.A.L. This is an ideal build for a fun, action-packed run through the main story and quests (especially if you take the Brotherhood of Steel route), but if you're after a "main" build with lots of support for crafting and settlements, I'd look elsewhere. This build also works tremendously well for heavy Power Armor users, especially if they invest in crafting skills and trick out their gear.

You don't have to restrict yourself to fisticuffs, either although punch weapons use less AP, which is something I favour, there are dozens of terrific melee weapons on offer in the game, which we'll discuss later. It's named both for the popular anime and for the way just one punch makes enemies' heads explode in bloody chunks. Today's build of choice is a little something I like to call One-Punch Man (or Woman or Unspecified it's an equal opportunity murder machine).

No matter how many Fallout 4 runs you've done, there's always something new to try. Fallout 4 has a lot of boomsticks, but you don't need any of them.
