This is impressive. Although, I know a guy who beat Fallout 4 using only caltrops. Did you know people die if you reverse-pickpocket caltrops into their inventory? That took care of a lot of baddies. The rest involved lots and lots of patience.
Can you beat Fallout 4 as Santa Claus? Only weapon allowed is the Junk Jet loaded with children's toys.Optionally, the only armor you can wear is the Sexy Santa suit from the creation club. Bonus points if it's Nate in the suit.
Challenge run idea: You can only use institute items: synth armor and weapons. Stuff like that. I imagine the hardest part would be progressing far enough to get into the Institute.
Honestly, I don't think it would? The hardest part would be doing Fire Support, which would involve running away from ghouls while Danse slowly whittles them down. The moment that that's over, you can grab Institute weapons from the synths Danse kills at ArcJet and then it's a normal run.
Excellent video! I think the Institute has to be the hardest side, due to the assault on the BoS. Challenge suggestions: No crafting. You can never touch a workbench, chemistry station, or cooking station. Only use what you find or buy. No perks. You can only spend points on stats. Skyrim Illiterate Mage. Can't use spell tomes, only learn spells from npcs or items.
i think molotovs use the whole bottle as their hit box, which rotates in the air. This is why they're more finicky than other, regularly shaped explosives.
First vid I've seen from you- 3 minutes in and I just wanted to say 1) Excellent choice on avoiding the sneak perk...if your guy just loves things going boom he's not going to be subtle and most people miss that part. 2- explaining the grenades, I don't have this game but watching it and skyrim are fascinating because the AI can easily just derp out in new ways. I didn't know there were grenades that summoned npcs
you and mittens squad are why i play and do challange runs in fallout games. gotta say they make the game a lot more interesting. my current survival run is using modern weapons with no armor. with the modern weapons mod im often shredded before i can even see the enemy. i would love to see how you would handle it. keep up the good work on these challange runs
9/10 Great vid, but the DOOM music is too quiet at the montages. Other than that, I might try this for myself. Unfortunately, I don't have the Wasteland Workshop DLC so I'll have to make do without caltrops.
17:45 I forget if legendary armor pieces are against the rules of the challenge. If not there is a chest armor piece you can buy at bunker hill with the dense modification that significantly reduces explosive damage taken
With Skinny Malone you could've preemptively laid mines there he and his gang will spawn. When they turn hostile the mines trigger almost instantly and kill everyone. I did it with 3 bottlecaps mines on Very Hard, but you might need less actually.
see this shit is why i watch you Its not a exceedingly impossible, gamebreaking ruleset, or a super competitive speedrun Its just some dude playing a videogame and feeling some pain and glory Very nice man, as always
neat run, but like was mentioned partway through the video-getting blast padding armor would have helped make this run a lot less frustrating to do with much less self inflicted damage
I don't swear in scripts because I never feel the need to, but I swear all the time in normal conversation. The streams are profanity riddled to the point where most of them get demonetized.
Long time no comment Willow! I got myself an Xbox Series S recently so I thought I would give it another go. So far I only have $30 of CC mods installed and no mods. Aside from the occasional game crashes from the PS4, so far the new console is working pretty well. I have already completed the CC mod quests and I started on the Nuka World stuff. So far the only bugs I have, is the lack of ability to complete Gage's companion missions and the game crashing with both the Sentient Power Armor and Gage as my partners for some reason. Other than that, making good progress and I am almost to where I was at before the PS4 run died.
Have you ever done an Acid Soaker or Caltrops only survival run? 🔫 I just know that these would probably offer the greatest challenge to any play through. Also RIP Mittensquad, we’ll miss you Paul.
Theres a challenge run ive wanted to see done for a while now... ive personally done it and it is FUN... basically, the challenge is "can you beat fallout 4 with only power armor". I think it was mitten squad (may he find peace in his walk through the veil) that did a similar challenge, but this one would badically just limit all weapons to things your power armor can do... jetpack/explosive vents, pain train perk, and power armor mma with bonus electroshock therapy and bloody knuckles for added fun. As i said, ive done this build before and its actually super fun to fist fight a deathclaw wearing a mini tank.
Molotovs are the bane of my existence in Fallout 4. They have a wonky spinning hitbox that makes them explode on bad geometry unless you're an NPC with perfect aim and their blast radius is, like, twice as large as it should be.
@WillowPlaysGames nice. Only partially into the video, watching through the day here and there. Random thought, but can you beat Fallout 4 on survival, with just the world series bat? Just something off the top of my head. I play on survival nigh exclusively, and the only melee run I've done on it was a blast, and I feel like adding that might be even more fun. Thanks for what you do Willow!
PLEASE do a "scientist" run, where you focus on robots (including codsworth), power armor and energy weapons only. It would be awesome if you did it either with the railroad or the institute! You could even call yourself Tony Stark hahahaa
I wonder if Willow doesn't know about ballistic weave, forgets about it, or really likes being a glass cannon. Perhaps there's something else going on even.
I am well aware of ballistic weave. Have used it in multiple runs. I just don't see the point in getting it every run as it's really boring. It's also fun to have the challenges be a bit more challenging. The video wouldn't be as fun if I never had a frustrating moment. It's not even a challenge if there's no adversity.
If u kill the railroad early, than the institute quest is completed on the spot when dad gives it to you. And u can decode the chip with them dead. So u could have just thrown grenades at them when u first meat them.
I have an idea for a challenge rung for you. OuterWorld pistal only. That's how I bet the game the first time. It was one of the best game play experiences of my life
A fun challenge that Ive actually done is power fist only. Yes, bare fists only is a common run, but the power fist is both more fun and more module, with the main difficulty being finding it and dealing with melee enemies and mirelurks. But it is still incredibly fun, especially with a strength/agility run, rather than strength/endurance. Add on some luck and charisma, and you've got a very strange but very fun run
I know this ran is far past but one thing I noticed was left out and that was the Minutemen Artillery Smoke Grenade from the beginning weapons to be used in this playthrough.
With caltrops and cryogrenades maybe. Big leagues increases trap damage as they do not explode. I rarely use poisoned traps and by not using stealth you are really hurting your chances. Stealth and reverse pickpocketing make caltrops with big leagues fun. You can reverse pickpocket mines and grenades but you need to run away fast.
Irma Goboom. Cmon, Expa Load? But there is something hilarious about chucking caltrops into crying grounded enemies. As an aside the power attack is also mapped to the grenade button, maybe allow unarmed PAs? 28:51 sheeee!
You can stay in the thing for the brother hood guy where he literally kills synths I just left my game on turned the TV off and then viola you have more nuclear items than you know what to do with and then walk all the way back to sanctuary to make plasma grenades
Bottlecap mines are exceedingly rare to find in the world and crafting them requires Vault-Tec lunchboxes, which are also an uncommon item. Even finding either, its still difficult to amass a sizable quantity of them so essentially they are nonexistent
Willow completely forgot about the shock grenade until he finds one and is like "oh yeah those exist too whoops I forgot to put that in the intro thoughts part"
no, I just didn't think they'd be useful and honestly they weren't the only fight with robots that was difficult wasn't that much of an issue with normal grenades.
I would have never found you or Fallout challenge runs if it wasn't for Mitten Squad
Rest in peace, Mitten Squad
I just heard the news. It's incredibly sad. He was the first challenge runner I ever saw
@@WillowPlaysGames Carry the torch, dont let the fire go out
This comment is how I found out.
Truly heartbreaking, I was really rooting for him.
At the very least, he's not suffering now.
RIP Mr. Squad.
your joking right?
This is impressive. Although, I know a guy who beat Fallout 4 using only caltrops.
Did you know people die if you reverse-pickpocket caltrops into their inventory? That took care of a lot of baddies. The rest involved lots and lots of patience.
Can't forget the legendary Syringer alone run relying on the bleeder syringes.....good lord was that a torturous one to watch lol.
What a caltrop
Caltrops can Insta-kill!?
@@11epicnoob Depends on whether the total damage of all projectiles deals more than the total health of the target.
Can you beat Fallout 4 as Santa Claus? Only weapon allowed is the Junk Jet loaded with children's toys.Optionally, the only armor you can wear is the Sexy Santa suit from the creation club. Bonus points if it's Nate in the suit.
I love it
Yes that would be great to see
Challenge run idea: You can only use institute items: synth armor and weapons. Stuff like that.
I imagine the hardest part would be progressing far enough to get into the Institute.
It's not so bad, you can get some institute gear a few ways without getting to them.
Just going to Arcjet Systems with Danse can get you several Institute Pistols/Rifles
Honestly, I don't think it would? The hardest part would be doing Fire Support, which would involve running away from ghouls while Danse slowly whittles them down. The moment that that's over, you can grab Institute weapons from the synths Danse kills at ArcJet and then it's a normal run.
Just have to make it to arcjet.
and then after that he could do a minutemen gear only run and then railroad,bos etc
Excellent video! I think the Institute has to be the hardest side, due to the assault on the BoS.
Challenge suggestions:
No crafting. You can never touch a workbench, chemistry station, or cooking station. Only use what you find or buy.
No perks. You can only spend points on stats.
Skyrim Illiterate Mage. Can't use spell tomes, only learn spells from npcs or items.
i think molotovs use the whole bottle as their hit box, which rotates in the air. This is why they're more finicky than other, regularly shaped explosives.
I read the thumbnail and started laughing as I realised how fun it would be watching this suffering :D Thank you!
21:21 Atom has surely blessed you. 21:26 A bug? No, it is a sign.
First vid I've seen from you- 3 minutes in and I just wanted to say 1) Excellent choice on avoiding the sneak perk...if your guy just loves things going boom he's not going to be subtle and most people miss that part.
2- explaining the grenades, I don't have this game but watching it and skyrim are fascinating because the AI can easily just derp out in new ways. I didn't know there were grenades that summoned npcs
you and mittens squad are why i play and do challange runs in fallout games. gotta say they make the game a lot more interesting. my current survival run is using modern weapons with no armor. with the modern weapons mod im often shredded before i can even see the enemy. i would love to see how you would handle it. keep up the good work on these challange runs
*insert demoman from tf2 laugh*
👍👍
KABOOOM!!
KABOOM
Now I want an Eyepatch clothing item, even if it gives me -1 PER
THERE GONNA HAVE TA GULE YOU BACK TOGETHER
Omg new WILLOW VIDEO!!! Welcome back willow glad you got that stuff sorted out ❤
The masochism returns lets fucking gooooo!
lol hope you enjoyed my suffering!
Oh, we do😂 @@WillowPlaysGames
Early to a willow video is such a W. I love you willow, your videos make my day everytime I watch them.
Stay beautiful! Glad you enjoyed!!
9/10
Great vid, but the DOOM music is too quiet at the montages. Other than that, I might try this for myself. Unfortunately, I don't have the Wasteland Workshop DLC so I'll have to make do without caltrops.
17:45 I forget if legendary armor pieces are against the rules of the challenge. If not there is a chest armor piece you can buy at bunker hill with the dense modification that significantly reduces explosive damage taken
With Skinny Malone you could've preemptively laid mines there he and his gang will spawn. When they turn hostile the mines trigger almost instantly and kill everyone. I did it with 3 bottlecaps mines on Very Hard, but you might need less actually.
see this shit is why i watch you
Its not a exceedingly impossible, gamebreaking ruleset, or a super competitive speedrun
Its just some dude playing a videogame and feeling some pain and glory
Very nice man, as always
I somehow never knew about the fatman room in ArcJet. This kind of stuff is why I enjoy Bethesda games so much.
Dude you’re back that’s awesome I missed your content
Danse had hair under his buzz lightyear costume… never knew
neat run, but like was mentioned partway through the video-getting blast padding armor would have helped make this run a lot less frustrating to do with much less self inflicted damage
Love the mid rage sesh tbh thought it was gonna be worse but for never hearing you swear kinda surprised you'd kept it in
I don't swear in scripts because I never feel the need to, but I swear all the time in normal conversation. The streams are profanity riddled to the point where most of them get demonetized.
Long time no comment Willow! I got myself an Xbox Series S recently so I thought I would give it another go. So far I only have $30 of CC mods installed and no mods. Aside from the occasional game crashes from the PS4, so far the new console is working pretty well. I have already completed the CC mod quests and I started on the Nuka World stuff. So far the only bugs I have, is the lack of ability to complete Gage's companion missions and the game crashing with both the Sentient Power Armor and Gage as my partners for some reason. Other than that, making good progress and I am almost to where I was at before the PS4 run died.
Have you ever done an Acid Soaker or Caltrops only survival run? 🔫
I just know that these would probably offer the greatest challenge to any play through.
Also RIP Mittensquad, we’ll miss you Paul.
Very late, but NPCs don't react to baseball grenades, so they won't try to avoid them
I really hate how Bethesda removed making Nuka Grenades in Fallout 4. With all the Nuka variants, I could've had some fun with that. A lot of fun.
Run request: beating fallout 4 survival difficulty using the MAIM mod. Use whatever guns n stuff you want cos you’ll need them XD
a challenge idea where all damage is done by NPCs meaning companions, hacked turrets, and instigated enemies
Walkmans were super awesome! You missed out by missing the era of cassette tapes. Truly a civilized time. o7
I used cassette tapes in my 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee for a while, they are fun to use I'll give you that.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season as well Willow. Much love to ya
Theres a challenge run ive wanted to see done for a while now... ive personally done it and it is FUN... basically, the challenge is "can you beat fallout 4 with only power armor". I think it was mitten squad (may he find peace in his walk through the veil) that did a similar challenge, but this one would badically just limit all weapons to things your power armor can do... jetpack/explosive vents, pain train perk, and power armor mma with bonus electroshock therapy and bloody knuckles for added fun.
As i said, ive done this build before and its actually super fun to fist fight a deathclaw wearing a mini tank.
These challenges are so cool! Great video :D
was about to look up a video of yours
good timing!
I have *Thousands* of hours in this game. So many play throughs! And yet, I have never used a caltrop. Boy, have I ever missed out on a good time!
Molotovs are the bane of my existence in Fallout 4. They have a wonky spinning hitbox that makes them explode on bad geometry unless you're an NPC with perfect aim and their blast radius is, like, twice as large as it should be.
Which also be instant killing u
I'm watching and only thinking 'What about baseball grenades and Moe's constant restock of baseballs?' This is when he showed the first 4 nades.
I do end up using baseball grenades in the run, just didn't mention them in the beginning because I didn't know how likely it was I'd have them often.
@WillowPlaysGames nice. Only partially into the video, watching through the day here and there. Random thought, but can you beat Fallout 4 on survival, with just the world series bat? Just something off the top of my head. I play on survival nigh exclusively, and the only melee run I've done on it was a blast, and I feel like adding that might be even more fun. Thanks for what you do Willow!
Theres also the nuka grenades from nuka world devastating amounts of damage at the cost of you easily being in its range
I was aware but also didn't want to go through the gauntlet as it would of been hellish with this run.
great vid keep it up willow 🙂
Id say your rage was quite dialed down, but it did earn a like and subscribe with a comment from me. Well played
Would love to see you try doing runs based on Characters from other series
PLEASE do a "scientist" run, where you focus on robots (including codsworth), power armor and energy weapons only. It would be awesome if you did it either with the railroad or the institute!
You could even call yourself Tony Stark hahahaa
MahDryBread: Bethesda Edition
Jokes aside this was quite a fun watch, well done good sir!
"we are panzergrenadiers, not panzers!"
I wonder if Willow doesn't know about ballistic weave, forgets about it, or really likes being a glass cannon.
Perhaps there's something else going on even.
I am well aware of ballistic weave. Have used it in multiple runs. I just don't see the point in getting it every run as it's really boring. It's also fun to have the challenges be a bit more challenging. The video wouldn't be as fun if I never had a frustrating moment. It's not even a challenge if there's no adversity.
@@WillowPlaysGames Okay. Thanks.
Kinda wish this was a minutemen playthrough, so you could use the artillery grenade
I've gotta say, that laugh is amazing. You should try hard (or survival if you want) with only the rolling pin
This is great must have been tuff though.
I would love a „Can you beat Fallout 4 only with the Junk Jet“
If u kill the railroad early, than the institute quest is completed on the spot when dad gives it to you.
And u can decode the chip with them dead.
So u could have just thrown grenades at them when u first meat them.
I’m pretty sure I suggested this. I’m excited to check it out.
Hope you like it!
Id love to see some DLC content maybe a no gunz ninja challenge or something
You could've saved at Cambridge police station. They have beds.
forgot to the first time, I did the second time.
I dunno why it tickles me every time you say "now that they're gone" 😂
Quick tip you can use the water fountain in the fault and it doesn’t give you rads
I have an idea for a challenge rung for you. OuterWorld pistal only. That's how I bet the game the first time. It was one of the best game play experiences of my life
I caught a couple of the live streams great tobsee the final product
Raider drinking challenge Take a shot every he says “grenades,traps and mines”
I encountered the exact same bug just a few hours ago. 21:27
I've always wanted to try this!
It was pretty fun! Go give it a try some time!
If you were to do this challenge using the Next Gen Update you *could* upgrade it to an explosives only run- Mines, Grenades, and Grenade Launchers
A fun challenge that Ive actually done is power fist only. Yes, bare fists only is a common run, but the power fist is both more fun and more module, with the main difficulty being finding it and dealing with melee enemies and mirelurks. But it is still incredibly fun, especially with a strength/agility run, rather than strength/endurance. Add on some luck and charisma, and you've got a very strange but very fun run
I know this ran is far past but one thing I noticed was left out and that was the Minutemen Artillery Smoke Grenade from the beginning weapons to be used in this playthrough.
the list in the beginning is to cover my options, not dictate what I'll use. I also mentioned others that weren't used in this run
With caltrops and cryogrenades maybe. Big leagues increases trap damage as they do not explode. I rarely use poisoned traps and by not using stealth you are really hurting your chances. Stealth and reverse pickpocketing make caltrops with big leagues fun. You can reverse pickpocket mines and grenades but you need to run away fast.
Irma Goboom. Cmon, Expa Load? But there is something hilarious about chucking caltrops into crying grounded enemies. As an aside the power attack is also mapped to the grenade button, maybe allow unarmed PAs? 28:51 sheeee!
My legendary drop luck is infamously bad. I get amazing legendaries every time I can't use them and horrible ones when I can
i remember asking for this run
You really need to learn some more bed locations for these survival challenges^^
Dam i was waiting for a granade run 🎉
They're gonna have to glue Fallout 4 back together...IN HELL
Around 7 minute mark. *maniacal laughing*
Lelouch, is that you?
Your willow your the best you can beat anything fallout 4
That NY apartment line hit a little too hard
Lol
A Wise man once said “LEEEEEEEETS DO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT” demoman tf2
This was awsome. It would be cool if u continued and did the DLC's aswell like Far harbor and nuka world. Love to see some suffering 😂🎉
Comfy ass video, you have a really nice voice :)
thanks!
After seeing this run, I wanna see how you handle doing a similar rum but with the remote explosives mod
Bro there is a chance at Children of Atom camps that you can find nuke mines and grenades. Very rare and very powerful.
Now try this same run with the Grenade Xpansion Pack mod installed lol. So much fun lol
You can stay in the thing for the brother hood guy where he literally kills synths I just left my game on turned the TV off and then viola you have more nuclear items than you know what to do with and then walk all the way back to sanctuary to make plasma grenades
I'm surprised you didn't use bottlecap mines, they do 301 damage before perks
Bottlecap mines are exceedingly rare to find in the world and crafting them requires Vault-Tec lunchboxes, which are also an uncommon item. Even finding either, its still difficult to amass a sizable quantity of them so essentially they are nonexistent
Typical Bethesda, pretending to give us options.
I miss him so much 😢
If I had to spend 2 god damn adhesive for a single molotov I would suffer too.
Run void: Piper punched.
Didn't realize Lemon from the Backlogs had a fallout build
Thank you for the video
This is how I play in all fallout games
I had to use mods to add more grenades and explosive crossbows. Fun stuff. It’s really lacking compared to New Vegas.
I played a survival demolition play thru a few weeks ago. It was stupid easy lol
Sucks that I haven't been able to join in on the streams im in hawaii with my fam so my schedule is pretty full
Some people just enjoy suffering for others enjoyment lol
Willow is that friend youd peer pressure into speaking at your funeral
they’re gonna have to put what’s left of ya in a sOup can
shout out mitten squad rip seeing this made me think hed do something like this
yeah, it's a sad shame to see him gone, was the first challenge runner I ever saw.
22:10 I guess they should’ve listened to the announcement
Ya doin good lad!
The synth grenades only summon regular synths, like the ones danse demolished in arc jet solo no problem
Welcome back
Alboard the struggle train boom boom
His daughter at 8:00 really reveals what I psycho he is...
Willow completely forgot about the shock grenade until he finds one and is like "oh yeah those exist too whoops I forgot to put that in the intro thoughts part"
no, I just didn't think they'd be useful and honestly they weren't the only fight with robots that was difficult wasn't that much of an issue with normal grenades.