what's up guys GV 2017 here and I am
bringing you a new fallout 4 tips and
tricks video and today I'm going to show
you how to unlock and use the ballistic
weave armor mod which will modify some
of your armor pieces to give you the
highest resistance as possible without
being in power armor of course if you're
in power armor you're going to get
higher than this but this is the best
you can get outside of power armor so
you'll need to do plenty of side quests
for the railroad that's how you do this
essentially but fortunately you do not
have to side with them and none of your
actions and getting the ballistic weave
will adversely affect your standing with
another faction which is great news so
this means you can potentially do this
on every single playthrough no matter
who you plan to side with so without
further ado let's look at the quest
you'll need to complete first you'll
need to have met the railroad and that
requires you doing the road to freedom
quest which is pretty much just finding
them so you can go straight to the Old
North Church you don't have to actually
get this quest in order to meet the
railroad there's no requirement you know
in terms of the story for actually
meeting them so you can actually just go
straight from sanctuary to the Old North
Church which is on the northern edge of
kind of the central kind of island is
not really an island but you know what I
mean the central downtown area and punch
in kind of the railroad code and then
meet Desdemona and Deacon for the first
time once you've agreed to help the
railroad that sends you on a chain of
quests that you have to complete in
order to get the ballistic weave mod so
first off is trade craft and this is
with deacon it involves sense of course
and going into like a safehouse and
taking either an ambush route or a
sneaky route i recommend that you guys
take the sneaky route it's a lot easier
you also get to deliver when you're
doing this quest but it's pretty
self-explanatory i'm not really giving
you a walkthrough of the quests but once
you've done that you'll return back to
the railroad and they're actually going
to let you inside to the HQ and at that
point you want to talk to dr. Carrington
and that's the whole point of trade
Crouch was to get something for him so
your quest marker will lead you to him
inevitably and once you talk to him
he'll give you the quest Boston after
dark this will require you to do some
more errand running and you're going to
save a synth and escort them to a safe
house it doesn't take that terribly long
but a lot of this is errand running I
just want to let you guys know that in
it
so once you've done that you're going to
come back and then you're going to go
and talk to Pam which is the assault Ron
in the railroad HQ and then she'll give
you the quest Mercer safehouse where you
have to secure a safehouse for the
railroad and upon reading about this
quest
apparently it sends you to random
locations but I got sent to sunshine
tidings co-op which is south of
sanctuary and so that wasn't too much of
an issue you just have to clear the area
make some defenses for it and then go
back to Pam now once you've done that
she'll give you the final mission that
you have to do in order to unlock this
armor mod and that's jackpot
Medford Memorial Hospital and so for
this one you just have to go to a
hospital and find a dead drop which is
kind of like a hidden wall with you know
a chest and all that all you have to do
is literally hit the hidden wall and
then you can leave and there's some
super mutants still have to deal with at
that hospital but once you're done with
that you can return to Pam and the HQ
after turning in the jackpot you'll need
to go and find somebody named the
drummer boy who was inside of the HQ
he's not too hard to find he's got brown
hair he's a brunette and he's got kind
of this blue railroad getup and once you
talk to him he'll give you some kind of
random dialogue that says something
along the lines of go talk to Tinker Tom
he found something interesting in that
dia cache and so you'll need to find
Tinker Tom who's kind of around his
computer area but if it's nighttime
he'll be sleeping on the floor so just
keep that in mind if you can't find them
he might be sleeping somewhere so
talking to Tinker Tom is what you need
to do to unlock the ballistic weap armor
mod it's kind of confusing because
you'll need to have a certain dialogue
with him if you've never talked to him
before he'll have this random dialogue
with dr. Carrington or he'll say
something else the thing is you need him
to say something along the lines of wow
you found something really cool in that
dia cache and you know here it is and
it's the ballistic weave armor mod
however nothing in the game is going to
tell you that you have it you have to
listen to Tinker Tom and once he tells
you that it is unlocked and you can
assume that's unlocked after that point
overall I would say this process takes
about two to three hours especially if
you haven't discovered anything the
first tradecraft mission is quite
lengthy with deacon it could take 45
minutes to an hour just on its own and
then everything else is a lot of errand
running like I said and so it could take
you around three hours if you haven't
discovered anything and you're just
doing this from the beginning just
giving you guys a heads up once you've
had that conversation with Tinker tell
you can go to any weapon bench and
you'll have the ballistic weave armor
mod available so there are five ranks of
the ballistic weave and of course you'll
need different levels of armor to get to
them however it's great that the first
rank you actually don't need armor at
all so essentially you can do this early
in the game and you know as long as you
can handle all of the missions and all
the killing and whatnot and you can
still have plus thirty damage resistance
and energy resistance on you know
whichever piece of armor you're able to
put this on very early in the game so
you know don't be discouraged by the
fact that you need you know level thirty
nine to get the maximum amount of
ballistic weave which will give you a
hundred and ten damage resistance and
energy resistance you can still do this
early in the game and still get some
stuff out of it as well but you will
need that armor or perk and you know
subsequent ranks in order to unlock the
higher versions of the ballistic weave
armor in terms of materials required
you'll need three things you'll need
adhesive ballistic fiber and fiberglass
and I would say adhesive and fiberglass
are not too difficult to find they're
pretty abundant out in the world however
ballistic fiber is something you're
gonna have to you know actually go out
and get unless you get lucky and stumble
across it so you'll find ballistic fiber
in military items so military-grade
duct-tape military ammo bag a few other
things here and there but those are the
main things that you'll find ballistic
fiber from also you could just buy it
from shipment so cleo at good neighbor
Tegan on the prydwen and then of course
Lucas Miller the travelling trader you
can find them I believe at ten Pine
bluffs is one of the places he goes and
also Bunker Hill you can find it at all
of those they have shipments so you can
just buy them they are very expensive so
you know be prepared for that
additionally you can only put this on
certain items so you can't put this on
all of your armor so you can only put it
on certain hats one of them is the
battered fedora that's the one that I
always go for and the one that I used in
my stream on Twitch and also you can put
it on most of the Under Armour items not
like Under Armour you know like Nike and
Under Armour but the armor that goes
underneath your you know actual
protective armor so for example the
vault suit or you know some kind of
outfit that you can find out in the
world it will work on those and it's
very very useful on those items that's
pretty much the intended purpose of this
armor mod personally I think this is a
must-have for almost every single
playthrough if you're actually planning
to play with a character for more
then tend to you know 20 hours if you're
actually trying to do a lot get a lot
done go with a certain faction you can
get the ballistic we've no matter what
and so I think it's pretty much an
essential item in the game and that's
why I wanted to share it with you guys
so I'd like to know after watching this
video will you go out and get the
ballistic weave it does require a little
bit of a time you know commitment but
it's totally worth it in the end share
all of your thoughts in the comments
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