Summary
Survival mode inFallout 4introduces many new challenges to the game, including hunger and thirst management.Players must constantly search for clean water and foodto keep their strength up and avoid starvation, which is even more difficult than in other survival games given the radioactive contamination in pretty much everything. Finding clean resources, especially purified water, is a difficult task in the Commonwealth, and even more so in theFallout 4DLCarea, Nuka-World.
While players can construct water pipes and purifiers in settlements they claim in the base game,Nuka-World’s raider-infested theme parkoffers no such opportunity. This meansplayers must bring a large supply of purified water with them into the distant areaor scrounge up whatever bottles they can find lying around. However, there is one source of clean water in theNuka-WorldDLC that will make staving off thirst much easier.
Watery Red Herrings In Nuka-World Throw Players Off The Scent
Most Of Nuka-World Has Irradiated Water
While there are many sources of water in Nuka-World, nearly all of them only produce “dirty” or contaminated water. Drinking this causes players to take radiation damage, and runs the risk of giving them a disease, any one of which can cause a massive debuff until players find medicine. Every obvious water source in the abandoned amusement park, from puddles to pumps to the Nuka Cola River, is contaminated in this way.
As an extra insult, there is a water pump in the DLC that resembles the kind in the base game that produces purified water. But it is just set dressing in Dry Rock Gulch, and is not actually functioning. In actuality,the only fresh water source in the DLC is located in another part of the park, one that many players will go through never noticing this resource.
A Diamond In The Rough Can Be Found In The Galactic Zone
One of the park’s sub-areas, the Galactic Zone, is home to an attraction called Vault-Tec Among The Stars. Within the attraction is an employees-only room that containstwo functional sinks, both of which produce fresh, pure waterwhen activated. Players can drink directly from them, or fill bottles with purified water and store them elsewhere in the park.
These sinks may not be in Dry Rock Gulch, but they are still a veritable gold mine. Once players kill the enemies that surround the room, it is an easy-to-access station with an infinite water supply and a bed to save at. And with the near-infinite amount of empty Nuka-Cola bottles in the DLC area, players will have no shortage of bottles to store purified water in. Knowledge of this location can make asurvival mode playthroughin theFallout 4DLC much easier and more manageable.
Fallout 4
Bethesda’s action RPG Fallout 4 puts players into the vault suit of the Lone Survivor, a pre-war soldier from an alternate future cryogenically frozen inside Vault 111. After their infant son is kidnapped, they venture out into the irradiated wasteland of the Commonwealth to scour the ruins of Boston for any sign of him. In doing so, they encounter various factions and companions and use an array of skills and abilities to navigate the apocalyptic remnants of society.
