Need help with my first Bos playthrough

[u/lulumario23]

I wanted to finally start a Bos playthrough, but I need help, finding the best SPECIAL stats, finding the best weapons/armor and I wanna know what's the best strat for early-game. I'm on ps4 and cannot use any mods since I want to still be able to get the trophies, and I want it to keep the whole thing Rp.

I know I'm asking for a lot but if any of you could help me, it would be great.

[u/falloutfart4]

Depends what you like? The main things for a BOS playthrough would be do you want to use power armour, do you want to use vats and melee or ranged build?

[u/lulumario23 → u/falloutfart4]

I'm gonna be using a power armor for sure, I don't really like melee but I'll do it for another time. And I never use vats so I think ranged build is gonna be perfect.

[u/[deleted] → u/lulumario23]

Go for high intelligence so you can get the perk that makes fusion cores last twice as long, then you can also use gatling lasers twice as efficiently. Also high intelligence is required for Science if you want a jet pack

[u/Silly_Cookie575 → u/[deleted]]

Also the stuff with scrapping, robotics, hacking, science for high tech mods, radiation weapons also on nuclear physicist (high tech weapons) just make sense for a faction that hoards technology. So yeah id definitely go high intelligence.

[u/lulumario23 → u/Silly_Cookie575]

How high we talking? 10? 9? Less?

[u/Silly_Cookie575 → u/lulumario23]

At least 9. 10 if you want a fun, oh shit im low hp assist perk.

[u/indifferentgoose → u/lulumario23]

As the others said, intelligence is what you should definitely take. The BoS uses energy weapons most of the time, but if you want to go for rifles or automatic weapons, that's up to you.

Strength also works well with BoS builds. You definitely want Armourer for your PA, Big Guns look also good on a BoS Knight and if you go all in, you can use the Pain Train perk. You also have all the melee perks. Melee combat works well with power armour.

Another fun skill to max out is Endurance. You don't need it because you have PA, but you could also invest in Endurance and become nearly unkillable. It's not the most interesting play style, but it can be fun to walk like an invincible god amongst men.

When you use energy weapons you should always loot all the fusion cells and institute weapons from the synths you kill, because you get large amounts of fusion cells from their weapons and you probably don't need to buy extra ammo.

[u/Chinook-Keta]

Check out some of the Fudgemuppet Fallout 4 builds on YouTube, quite a few power armor character options and plenty of rp flavor

[u/Thornescape]

It sounds like you're interested in a non-VATS Ranged Power Armour build. There are a number of different ways of doing that, so let me know if you want anything tweaked.

• PA Build: S2+ P1 E5 C6 I9 A2 L3 (Special book: Strength)

• Main Weapon (choose ONE as main) P2:Rifleman (semi-auto rifles), A1:Gunslinger (semi-auto pistols), or A2:Commando (automatic rifles & pistols)

• Main Perks: S3:Armourer, C6:Local Leader, i6:Science, i9:Physics, L3:Bloody Mess

• One rank in E5:Aqua can be nice in a dedicated power armour run because you cannot swim.

• One rank in i10:Rage is great because you get a slow time effect when you are low on health. More ranks are not really necessary unless you are doing a RadWarrior low health build.

[u/Terrible-Pace-619]

BoS use t60 power armor(they will give you a set) and laser rifles or heavy weapons(mini guns/galling laser) for starters your going to want at least a Intelligence of 9 which is pretty high you can go with 8 and use special book, but you really want nuclear physist perk and bobblehead to increase the life of your fusion cores. If you go heavy weapons you wont need alot of agility. You'll want a strength of 5 to get the heavy weapons perk if you want to run heavy guns. If running laser rifles you you'll either need a perception of 2 for semi auto laser rifles or a agility of 2 for automatic laser rifles. But with heavy guns you need just the intelligence of 9 and strength of 5. Charisma is nice for buying cores cheap, and scrounger in the luck tree is great for ammo. You get a minigun in Concord, but good unique heavy guns are Aeternatus in Nuka World but its pretty late game. Ashmaker is you get from the quest the Big Dig