Fallout 4 cheats: console commands and how to use them

Here’s all the Fallout 4 cheats

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The wasteland is a dangerous place, andFallout4 cheats can help you stay alive in the world of glow-in-the-dark radroaches.

Whether you’re emerging into the bright sun of the world outside Vault 111 for the first time – late to the party – or you’re coming back to the nuclear wastes for a visit while waiting forFallout 5, it’s critical to have control over your game. With how complicatedFallout 4can be, from factions like the Brotherhood and the Minutemen to the complex settlement system, you’re sure to need a helping hand to untangle a mess you’ve made for yourself.

Or maybe you’re just a nuclear auteur who wants finesse over how your post-apocalyptic journey will go, making sure that you’ve got just enough Stimpacks for the next encounter, advancing time to the golden hour or going into free-cam mode for screenshots. No matter what the reason you cheat, we don’t judge your decisions, we’re just here to help you live out your dreams. Thankfully, those dreams can come true, since unlike cheating inFallout 76nobody is there to stop you. The rest is all between you and your Pip-Boy.

Fallout 4 cheats

Fallout 4 cheats: How to enter console commands

You won’t have to exercise any patience when getting your cheats going (unlike waiting for Bethesda to finally releaseStarfield, or even worse, realizing thatFallout 5 is probably years away).

Getting your Fallout 4 cheats going is as simple as opening the developer console. By default, all you’ve got to do is press the`(tilde) key, which is located in the top left of your keyboard, left of the1key.

That will pop open the developer console for you, and you can type in the command you want and hit enter to confirm it. If you’re attempting a command that requires you to target something, you can move your mouse over things in your field of view with the cursor to show the ID on the screen.

Fallout 4 cheats: universal cheats

These console commands will help you mess with the environment, NPCs, warp around the world, and even phase through the terrain like a spooky Fallout ghost.

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Fallout 4 cheats: player cheats

With these console commands you can really mess with your character, changing their looks on the fly, making them invincible, or even changing their level and perks.

Fallout 4 cheats: item cheats

Here to help out all your item needs, these cheats will let you spawn in items and objects, and we’ve even grabbed the ID’s for a few of the most fun or useful ones to help you conquer one of thebest RPGs.

And here are a few of the more common and useful item ID’s:

Fallout 4 cheats: faction and quest cheats

You’ll need to be extra careful with these console commands, since it can be easy to break quests, but using them can help fix bugs with your quests, or just mess with different factions to make them unlikely allies (or enemies!) for your own amusement.

And with that, you should be well armed to go forth into Fallout 4’s wastelands and conquer anything from the strongest rad roach to the most fierce of Bethesda’s bugs: broken quests.

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