Fallout 4 - The Fastest Man in the Commonwealth

good afternoon ladies chapman i'm john this is many a trudeau welcome back to fallout 4 for something a bit different because you see about a week back i started doing a little bit of like research into some of the movement mechanics in modern fallout games just out of interest you understand and let's just say i ended up pretty deep down that rabbit hole so welcome to my attempt to build the fastest man in boston okay let's go over some basics here there are basically three speeds that you can utilize in fallout 4 speed number one when you're sneaking speed number two when you're just running around and speed number three when you're sprinting the last one of course is the fastest but you have to trade action points in order to do it and these speeds are basically pretty much fixed what i mean by that is it doesn't really matter how you build your character you're gonna be running at pretty much the same speed regardless an agility one character runs at the same speed as an agility 10 character and that's always been the case in modern fallout even in new vegas now many people get this wrong because there is actually a loading screen hint in new vegas that says agility affects movement speed so clearly obsidian were thinking about it and agility in new vegas does impact reload speed draw speed a whole bunch of other stuff too but in the final game it doesn't impact movement speeds the same is also true in old fallout actually though i guess you're supposed to assume that given agility 1 characters have at five action points and agility ten characters have a ten action point and those translate directly into how much you can move in combat there's an agility tank character moves twice as fast as an agility one character but like many things in isometric crpgs you kind of have to use your imagination for that there's not to say your special distribution is irrelevant though agility impacts how many action points you've got and that's the currency you spend in order to sprint insurance meanwhile impacts how many action points are being spent per second to continue sprinting there's a perk or two that impacts sprinting costs as well but once again there's no way in the perk menu to change how fast you're running simply how long you can sprint at the same speed everyone else is sprinting fortunately however there is a bit more to it than that otherwise this would be a rather short video indeed how do you boost your movement speed then so say hello to the sprinters microcarbon synth left leg basically put this on your movement speed goes up by ten percent put one each leg twenty percent they do stack properly which is very nice indeed but what's even nicer is that even though i found this one in the wilder you don't need to go legendary grinding the game just gives you access to everything you need to be ludicrously fast without needing to rely on the look of the legendary draw debs and bunky hill always sells the black ops right shin guard basically a piece of sprinter's gear for your right leg and just around the corner and good neighbor this time for your left buy those and you've got yourself a set of sprinters gear also for no good reason there's a second sprinter's right leg in vault 81 i don't know why the game decided there needs to be two guaranteed spawns of a sprinter's right leg but there are so there we go as i say full set but john i hear you cry that sort of fool said of all set would be five bits of armor well well well something a bit odd about legendary gear or rather not odd the opposite something that actually makes a fair wacker sense certain legendary effects are only spawn on certain bits of gear say for example if a weapons legendary effect teaser does something while you're aiming down a sight then it's only going to spawn on weapons that can have sights i.e melee weapons would be excluded unfortunately the same thing applies to sprinters and the only ones you can find shops around boston are on the lakes too or rather that's how it used to be then the dlc came along and things started getting a bit weird because over in far harbor bethesda decided actually this whole you use your legs to sprint thing that was a bit restrictive actually and system i in the nucleus will sell you a rather special bit of gear say hello to the recon marine right arm this thing costs a bloody fortune most people will be spending about 20 000 caps to get hold of it but but but it's sprinters despite the fact teaser as you can see up in the top there an arm which feels uh so wrong and yet so right and then things started getting even weirder because bofahaba and nuka world contain a hat that has got the sprinter's modification on it which is a as i say strange in two ways one because hats and helmets aren't supposed to have legendary enchantments at all they never spawn the only tiny handful in the game are those that bethesda chose to put in for rewards or shops etc and two as i say um it makes you faster despite the fact you're wearing it on your head but screw it i'm not going to say no you've got oswald's top hat over nuka wilder or alternatively the captain's had in far harbor oswald's top hat is much easier to get hold of though so that's the one i've got for today so let's just enjoy one final moment of just uh you know bumbling around at what is about to start looking like incredibly slow speeds because right now i'm not wearing any of this armor and now i'm wearing all of it so i've gone up from a default run speed to 140 over the normal speed of character would rana now i know what you're thinking john this doesn't look that fast yes that's because i'm not sprinting right now i'm running so now i'm going to start sprinting and the speed gets slightly dumb this is the default fastest speed you can get to using a legendary gear so yes i'm currently traveling 40 faster than you're supposed to be able to travel now that that's nice but at this speed you start to notice some rather odd little bugs in the game and seriously i just love how bloody fast you can go so for example the game doesn't actually calculate or apply speed correctly it's actually kind of broken depending on the camera perspective and i'd never noticed this before until i'd stacked all these items so it became incredibly obvious so right now i'm in first person in uh yes my crouching mode because these items don't affect sprint speed despite being called sprinters i know it's weird it affects every single type of movement but if we come out first person go over two-third you know it's all of a sudden i'm going what looks like mysteriously slowest just look how fast i'm uh going over each of these uh yeah uh paving stones go into first person and the acceleration is incredibly obvious and i've tried this in several files i have been able to replicate it the game doesn't correctly apply speed in the third person camera some of the time anyway it's weirdly inconsistent now the same is not true when you're running you can see here that yes running normally appears to be applied correctly then we go into sprint mode you may notice something straight away which is uh it does rather appear sprinting is the same speed as running yeah that's not supposed to be the case it's only happening because once again speed is not being applied in third person mode if we come out of third person mode then yes indeed you can see all of a sudden it's it's just wrong hooray i've discovered a new bug in fallout 4. so this is delightful but going back to something i was speaking about just a second ago crouching because crouching is also much faster but what you're seeing right now is not 40 faster than crouching should be 10 per piece of sprinter's gear because i've also applied sleek to both of these bits of armor so as it's on both legs that should be 50 faster than it should be now that's fine but it's still going to be nowhere near sprinting this is not relevant to the fastest person in boston or is it because it's not just armor that impacts movement speed under certain scenarios weapons can help too so here we go nimble 75 faster movement while aiming which is a pretty bloody huge actually so what i've got set right now is all the gear that you've previously seen together with that sleek on both the legs once again and i'm holding a nimble rifle so i'm going pretty fast right now though bear in mind i'm losing a tiny bit of speed because i've got a weapon out but if i aim down the scope then broadly my speed stays yeah not much lower than it was before so okay but i'm not gaining any speed here however however however however interesting fact about crouching putting the nimble rifle away for a second when you're crouching aiming barely slows you down in fact i'm not sure it actually slows you down at all so i put these facts together and i came up with something truly glorious say hello to the fastest crouching movement that is possible in the game so 40 movement boost of uh your beautiful beautiful sprinter's gear another ten percent of the sleek gear on the legs then i am crouching and aiming and holding a weapon all that slows me down but i'm gaining 75 back of nimble so if you just consider how fast these buildings are passing me by right now oh yeah this is this is slightly dumber the level of ice skating we are doing right now is ridiculous so okay let's do a quick time trial here because i want to see what the result of this says all right let's just put me crouching against a normal character who is running we'll time trial it by crossing the bridge in sanctuary hills so okay let's do this over on the left of course we have got me down on my knees just trying to uh cross the bridge as fast as you flip and like and on the right of course we've got somebody who as it turns out is not crouching but does not have the benefit of all this beautiful gear and oh my that's just that's just a beautiful result i've got to say but is this it is this the fastest person in boston no because there's one bit of the equation that a lot of people forget when they're thinking about movement speed we were just showing off uh yes the beautiful beautiful act of sneaking but that's not the only alternative source of movement i'm talking of course about swimming because swimming we can boost further if you head to the old gullet sinkhole close by to moldon just drop down you'll find a wasteland survival guide at issue 7 and that gives you oh yeah permanently swim 25 faster and that stacks on top of all the movement we've already got so basic speed 10 per bit of sprinter's gear 140 put another 25 on top we should now be able to swim 165 faster than you normally can and you can sprint in the water so if we just get into some open water here yeah you can see we're um we've got a bit of a bloody fair clip going on here just based on uh how fast the water and scenery is just whizzing by as this is just slightly ridiculous this is just me together with a 140 speed off armor 25 percent off uh wasteland survival guide number seven and uh sprinting while underwater and all of a sudden we are just flying basically we are going at dumb levels of speed and uh oh this is lovely this is absolutely lovely but but some factions just refuse to actually you know give me missions that are set under water so wouldn't it be lovely just lovely if we could be this speed 165 of what we should be above water and i'm here to tell you folks there's a way say hello to our good friend power armor now i know what you're thinking john power armor's not that fast power armor is slow and it is it's actually 20 slower in pretty much everything it does day to day walking creeping 20 and swimming it doesn't actually do but sprinting and i don't know why this is is the same speed outside power armor is in it power armor just catches up the moment you start sprinting and then we start getting into the sexy world of mods say hello to a suit of power armor i made earlier so so so so what i've done is i've slapped to overdrive servos up on both of these legs now unlike legendary gear which gives you just 10 movement speed these guys give you 15 the reason being it comes with a cost additional ap costs but um let's just say we don't need to worry about that so so so we'll get back to that in a second another modder that's got a bit of a cost on it emergency protocols so yes indeed if you are below 20 health then at that point speed goes up 25 incoming damage reduced by 50 percent rather useful so put all that together and i know you're about to say john you lied to us you told us you can get up to 165 percent on land and you can't that's blatantly 155 i'm unsubscribing no hold off just a second because i've got one final trick up my sleeve power armor is kind of weird which is if you take off say one of the arms then all you got is a naked power armor armor but there's no power armor frame underneath the helmet if you don't have a helmet on your power armor you just take it off then as a result of that a couple of odd things happen one you don't have a flashlight anymore because your pip-boy is covered up on your wrist but you don't have a headlamp so you just don't have a light in the dark fortunately fallout 4 never gets that dark so it's not really relevant but two you've got an exposed head meaning as a result of that you are allowed to have a one legendary effect active while you're in power armor as long as it's on a hat or helmet with so few effects you can get on helmet this generally isn't that relevant but but but if i was to say blend together oswald's hat with this oh we're up to 165 but only if i can keep my health below 20 percent now to make sure that happens the safest most reliable way to do it is to get myself nice and irradiated okay we're definitely in the right ballpark because yeah you can just uh vaguely hear the uh heartbeat which means i've dropped below 20 and the bug persists because this is officially how fast i'm going in third person but as soon as we go into first person oh the acceleration so all right say hello to what i believe to be the fastest you can be in the entire game i should now be traveling at a 165 of the level you're supposed to be traveling at when you are sprinting which is just it's just a thing of absolute flipping joy this is oh oh yes yes yes yes yes yes but now i am this fast i feel like we need to uh yes prove ourselves how fast are we really because what's the competition at this point i can outrun pretty much any melee enemy in the game no trouble but but what about man versus machine what about the brotherhood and their bloody virta birds all right so not just any vertibirds no no no no no no you see the end of the first act of fallout 4 you emerge onto the roof for one of my favorite set pieces of the entire franchise which is the pridewin arrives flanked by virta birds boasting about how they're definitely not about to start shooting you so don't worry about being shot and then it begins its journey over the city down up towards boston airport over here but but but i'm thinking what if i was able to beat it there on foot okay oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm gonna try and chase the prince winner on foot from fort hargan all across the commonwealth because by not coincidence the route there is actually not that bad come out of fort hargan and then just follow the roads down pass the uh yeah overpass right there buy at forest grove marsh just go around the outside of that that's the dam right there then you just uh yeah head straight up and around rejoin the road and then this road on the southern side of the river is actually pretty bloody clear as long as i've taken out the rages by backstreet apparel nearby to uh yeah i think there's uh some round one these bridges over here handful of dogs etc by old north church we simply abandon the power armor and then swim and i can get to the airport and i don't know whether this is possible but i want to give it a go dammit so here we go old north church is right round the corner over there so this is the path i'm going to be following for the sake of easy navigation so what we need to do clear out a couple of radio camps between yes here and there and we should be a-okay okay i've walked the entire path from old north church to here which given i'm moving at this bloody speed does not take long and by the way this does affect jumping too because jumping is yeah massively affected by your speed it's all about momentum so when you're actually traveling at this speed yeah you can just jump the distance from there to here in a single bound no trouble whatsoever so yes indeed the path is clear though various bits of it are going to represent our problems we'll get to that in a second as you kill kellogg first but but i know what you're thinking john you can't just sprint all the way from here back into town what about action points yes if you're particularly eagle-eyed you may have noticed that during large parts of this video yeah my ap hasn't been going down while i've been sprinting like at all and taking advantage of a not particularly well-known mechanic in this game which is that sprinting is a function of two stats i mentioned this at the beginning agility and endurance agility impacts how many ap you've got you spend those on sprinting endurance impacts how many ap you spend per second at sprinting now that's lovely and you kind of assume by default the agility was the most important one no it's really bloody weird actually because the endurance calculation is a straight line it's not a curve meaning over a certain level of endurance and the number is a 21 endurance at that point sprinting is free and if you're wondering how to get to 21 that's pretty bloody easy actually so say you yeah start off with a 10 is your basic 11 for alma under armour something like the uh what's it called the green top the army thing there is one in the base gamer uh that gives uh endurance bobble head up to 12 the scav magazine from nuka world that is a nice easy three up to 15 and then if you don't have any other bonuses from say legendary gear or whatever just keep popping drugs all i just keep popping drugs so psycho buff and buff tats will do you just fine because yeah drugs in this game are weird so buff out plus psycho leads to psycho buff which is endurance plus three and buff out plus mentats leads to endurance plus three together with a perception and strength so you think you wouldn't be able to stack those because you're getting the benefit of buff out twice but no all that matters is whichever drug comes first in the name so psycho buff is officially just a variant of psycho whereas buff tats that's a variant of buff out so i can have both of them for endurance plus three then endurance plus three again for plus six really really easily and you can just make those from right at the start of the game and just in case anybody gets in my way yes i've also taken some pain trainer because i don't want to be stopping and shooting anybody stupid enough to stand in my way i just need them to get the flip out of the way so i've taken pain train two and indeed over there rarely seen nuclear physicists just so my fusion claws are basically not a problem all right kellogg's dead and yes just in case you didn't understand quite how fast we are right now i'm just going to move while inside just to give you a good impression because genuinely it looks like i'm kind of you know cheating when i'm moving at this speed it's just it's just ridiculous but it's all absolutely fine as long as i don't actually have to you know navigate any tight corridors we'll be okay but we'll be going outside in just a second all right it's the moment right now we're going up to the roof and haven't tested this by the way the only testing i did was i tested how long it takes for a vertibird to travel between sanctuary hills and the museum of freedom in concord once it's already airborne are you discounting the amount of time it takes to uh take off and land that was about 30 seconds if you do it on fault sprinting all the way it takes about 50 55 seconds now that would suggest to me that if i add 65 percent onto my speed i am broadly the same speed as a vertibird so it's possible it's just possible i don't know i've never tried to do this before and well okay i might have done in the past but previously i wasn't bloody this fast all right here we go here we go here we go right over to here terminal and open the door right now and don't look don't look just go just go just go just go just go we're going over to here you see that's what i wanted to not happen and now we start sprinting okay so there we go there's people of the commonwealth etc etc don't care follow the road as far as possible random events might just you know spawn in on the road while we're going who bloody knows doesn't matter as long as it's not a cliff we should be a-okay this should be bringing me in the right direction if something sees me it kind of doesn't matter so and i kind of want to lino turn around but i mean we're almost back at the at the dam or already which is i mean i know i'm stuck on long i'm still going to look i'm stuck in a log okay just just get over here do i give myself a look round in a second because honestly this is going pretty bloody well oh we're miles out of it we're talking miles out of it we're destroying it right now oh this is this is amazing there's a different vertibird who's spawned in randomly just by the fact you really kind of shouldn't have done yet okay hang on hang on hi hey we're destroying them okay stop stop stop stop i need a new marker i need to get to uh yeah here need to get to here oh come on guys you're too bloody slow let's just get back over to the road bypassing a chaos junction we're going to do it because yes now it's a lovely day we've made it to the riverfront so i mean now i'm curious if i make it that okay john don't get cocky you've got to at some point take the armor off and yeah you need to do a bit of a loop round whereas they're going straight as the crow flies so just straight through over to here and at some point they might accelerate someone shooting at me but i don't care i suspect they can eat my talking dust so okay this is this is dumb it feels like i'm driving a car rather than walking a character right now this is this is just absolutely beautiful so okay just the same at classic route we have walked many times before i've taken out these uh raiders already i'm seeing shadows that might just be the clock moving an hour i'm not sure i'm not seeing anything over head i'm just going to give myself some little glances while we're going okay just keep on keeping on know we're going this way aren't we yes yes we are okay just oh no that's that's a that's the overpass that's fine at some point we need to abandon this okay stop we're coming up on the corner so i need a new marker over here just so i know i'm going in the right direction right now note sprint sprint sprint and here we go here we go here we go here we go here we go here we go here we go just passed by all of this over the top and no come on come on come on come on we're almost there we're going to beat the pred winner to the airport as soon as we get to this corner okay dump the armor go go go go where's the prydron where's the cocky print winner are we are we doing okay i don't know where the print one is is it even is david still there it might be behind a building i'm not sure go go just go at this point i'm traveling just as fast again but we've done it easy it's not even been a race i am so far the fastest man in boston i have just cocking destroyed destroyed the bridgewinds path to boston airport this is just embarrassing in fact this this is weird okay the brotherhood are here and um i'm not supposed to be here because where's the do we know where the pritwood is have i um brotherhood you're nothing so the airports here and the print win the pretty oh there it is i know it's still coming up it's still coming up it's still coming up okay i beat it yeah it is still there it's just coming in right now let's just get you know nice and up high and yes the ability to get up to it doesn't exist right now but it actually genuinely doesn't despawn or anything and okay well here's something i bet most of you never seen before actually getting to watch the print winner arriving so we've actually beaten the predwin to the airport wasn't really supposed to be here i'm actually a member of the brotherhood of steel i'm not sure i've actually done a dancer's quest but i know it's it was drifting a second to go is that the real prison by the way or is it going to be replaced by a different model in a second because yeah that's that's a pretty one all right i mean it looks like it's the real predator no it's oh hang on it just oh no it has been replaced by a different print away now and now there's two print wins and the other one is it's turning to merge the two periwins are now turning to merge into each other this is what happens when a mummy predator and a daddy pretty winner love each other very much and want to make a vertibird this is where all the vertibirds come from and there we go and the fate pride winner is the one that provided the lights and now well i can't get up there yet well maybe the yeah vertebra to get up there doesn't spawn in until such time as you're a member of the brotherhood but well we've done it oh that's marvelous that's that's absolutely coking marvellous so i've always wondered what happens if you beat the pride winner to the airport because you can't fast travel if you just teleport there with fast travel then yeah it just despawns and respawns you don't get to see that but okay um there's just two pro twins then the original print winner does a turd but there's a different one waiting for us and the game clearly does not expect you to be able to actually get to here in time because yeah otherwise it wouldn't allow the merging to be seen but okay there we go that's a dumb experiment that was all i wanted to do today i was just curious whether you could outrun the pride winner the answer is not just yes but ludicrously ludicrously yes oh this is this is the best day ever so you can outrun the print pradwin i am the fastest man in boston i can outrun brother technology on foot though okay technically i did it with power armor which was developed by the us army which became the brotherhood so oh plot twist okay i was only able to beat the brotherhood by using brotherhood tools so okay fair enough there was a bit of a twist at the end there but but this is this is marvellous and on top of that i've never seen anyone mention the uh bug movement speed bonuses appear to not be applied in third person but they are in first and i've never seen anybody mention this before there you go that's just a little extra bonus fallout 4 video i don't know why i made this i just felt like it okay don't you worry by the way this isn't replacing your live once that's still coming up tomorrow you just get a fallout double bill this weekend you're lucky lucky bastard so hopefully you join me tomorrow for a bit more high stakes fallout 4 because tomorrow i make a bit of um a bit of a mistake so okay hopefully you join me for that but in the meantime i've been john so it's been many a true nerd and this has been fallout 4 i don't even know but apparently there's two proteins and they have a baby together it's marvelous thank you very much and goodbye if we just hide the bodies nobody needs to know about this yes my stupid stupid plan has worked it turns out i'm a genius the giant rad scorpion is not gone oh hang on there's more yet though i'm still being very shocked guys where's the ncr nobody needs to know

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Length: 30min 36sec (1836 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 23 2021