- Fallout New Vegas Starting Skills For Kids
- Fallout New Vegas Starting Skills 2017
- Fallout New Vegas Starting Abilities
- Fallout New Vegas All Skills
- Fallout New Vegas Skill Points
- Combat skills do occasionally get used in dialogue skill checks, though not nearly as frequently. As opposed to past Fallout games, New Vegas uses a score-based skill check in place of a probability-based skill check. That is, your skills meet a minimum value, or they do not - chance plays no part.
- The first in a series of articles, the Fallout New Vegas Perks for Beginners walks you through Traits as well as the perks that you will have access to during the first few levels. Although you are starting out, many of these will help you out during your entire career.
With a starting strength of 5, you can get to 6 with the implant, 8 with the Old World Blues spine perk, and essentially 10 with weapon handling. That being said, strength does add 0.5 damage PER HIT to melee weapons, so if you're doing a melee build (especially with a fast weapon) then Strength can increase your DPS quite alot.
Tag skills are the player character's specializations. At the start of every Fallout game, the player chooses three Tag skills which will be their specialties throughout the game. The Tag!perk allows you to pick an additional, fourth tag skill later in the game.
In Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, tagged skills increase at double the rate of an untagged skill (i.e. One skill point translates to a 2% increase in the skill). In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas however, a tagged skill only gives an initial 15 point boost.
Tag skills are a vital part of the Fallout universe because they essentially dictate what type of character you will play. A fighter will tag combat skills whereas a diplomat may choose speech, barter and science. A well-rounded character usually includes at least one diplomatic and one combat skill.
- 1Tag skill bonuses
Tag skill bonuses
Tagging skills also provides an immediate benefit to your starting equipment in Fallout, Fallout Tactics, and Fallout: New Vegas.
Fallout starting equipment
- 1x Colt 6520 10mm pistol
- 48x 10mm JHP
- 1x knife
- 2x flares
- 4x stimpaks
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Doctor:
First Aid:
Outdoorsman:
Repair:
Science:
Small Guns:
Steal or Lockpick:
Unarmed:
Throwing:
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Fallout Tactics starting equipment
- 1x MP5 H&K
- 48x 9mm ball
- 1x Happy pie
- 1x Classic Nuka-Cola
- 1x stimpak
- 1x Midwest Brotherhood leather armor
In Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics, tagged skills increase at double the rate of an untagged skill (i.e. One skill point translates to a 2% increase in the skill). In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas however, a tagged skill only gives an initial 15 point boost.
Tag skills are a vital part of the Fallout universe because they essentially dictate what type of character you will play. A fighter will tag combat skills whereas a diplomat may choose speech, barter and science. A well-rounded character usually includes at least one diplomatic and one combat skill.
- 1Tag skill bonuses
Tag skill bonuses
Tagging skills also provides an immediate benefit to your starting equipment in Fallout, Fallout Tactics, and Fallout: New Vegas.
Fallout starting equipment
- 1x Colt 6520 10mm pistol
- 48x 10mm JHP
- 1x knife
- 2x flares
- 4x stimpaks
Tag Bonuses |
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Doctor:
First Aid:
Outdoorsman:
Repair:
Science:
Small Guns:
Steal or Lockpick:
Unarmed:
Throwing:
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Fallout Tactics starting equipment
- 1x MP5 H&K
- 48x 9mm ball
- 1x Happy pie
- 1x Classic Nuka-Cola
- 1x stimpak
- 1x Midwest Brotherhood leather armor
Tag Bonuses |
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Barter:
Big Guns:
Doctor:
Energy Weapons:
First Aid:
Gambling:
Lockpick:
Melee Weapons:
Outdoorsman:
Pilot:
Repair:
Science:
Small Guns:
Sneak:
Steal:
Throwing:
Traps:
Unarmed:
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Fallout: New Vegas starting equipment
- 1x Vault 21 jumpsuit
- 1x 9mm pistol
- 30x 9mm rounds
- 4x stimpaks
- 18x caps
- 6x bobby pins
Fallout New Vegas Starting Skills For Kids
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Explosives:
Energy weapons:
Guns:
Lockpick:
Melee Weapons: Unarmed: |
Behind the scenes
- Interestingly, early builds of Fallout 3 retained the 2-for-1 advancement feature of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics, but it seems that it was scrapped later on.[1]
References
- ↑Fallout 3 preview from CVG: 'On top of these lie your skills (the numbers you can raise each time you level up, making you better at bartering, small guns, medicine, repair and the like), three of which you can specialise in and gain double the advance when it's gratz-time.'
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This page lists all skills in Fallout: New Vegas. |
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- 4Improving skills
Fallout New Vegas Starting Skills 2017
Background
Fallout: New Vegas shares a similar skill set to its predecessor, Fallout 3, but with several differences. Thirteen skills still remain, but the combat skills have been revised. Small Guns and Big Guns having been combined into the Guns skill, which now covers all conventional firearms with bullet projectiles. Weapons using explosive ordnance (missile and grenade launchers, for instance) are covered by Explosives. New throwing weapons, such as the throwing spear, have been added and are categorized as Melee Weapons. The Survival skill, which is similar to Outdoorsman, was re-added. It allows the player to craft a number various items, such as food, stimpaks, and poisons to augment the effectiveness of weapons.
As opposed to in Fallout 3, skills other than Speech have an effect on dialogue choices. The player must have a certain amount in the particular skill or else the dialogue option cannot be passed. In the case where a player's associated skill level is too low, a dialogue option (highlighted in red) is presented that will fail the skill check, and will not grant a speech success. Unlike Fallout 3, where the same dialogue option is presented regardless of your success or failure, a check that will fail uses a humorously unconvincing response, while a passable check uses a well-thought out argument, thus reflecting the nature of the check.
Unlike in Fallout 3, there are not enough skill points in the base game to max out every skill, even when accounting for every perk and skill book/magazine. Without add-ons installed, it is only possible to achieve a functional maximum in roughly ten skills by using skill magazines and the Comprehension perk for a temporary boost to 100 from a base level of 80.
Fallout New Vegas Starting Abilities
To offset the necessity of a minimum value for a certain skill, Fallout: New Vegas introduces skill magazines, which provide a large but temporary boost to their associated skill (+10 or +20 with Comprehension). By using one prior to conversation, a check can be passed that might otherwise be failed. They can also be used to boost skill with weapons temporarily or gain access to crafting recipes beyond the player's current skill. Like skill books, magazines are consumed once used, and more need to be collected to maintain the effect.
Formula
The initial value of each skill is a base value of two, plus an amount depending on a character's value in the relevant attribute, plus a bonus determined by their Luck attribute, rounded up.
Example: A starting Endurance of five and a starting Luck of five will give you an initial Unarmed skill of 15.
Later changes to the SPECIAL stat have a similar influence on the respective skill.
During character creation, the player will tag three skills, instantly adding 15 points to each one. When leveling up, the character will distribute ten skill points plus a number equal to half their Intelligence, totaling 15 at maximum IN. The Educated perk grants two additional skill points per level if chosen. Assuming the player has an Intelligence of ten from level 1 and takes the Educated perk at level 4, a maximum of 487 skill points can be distributed without any DLC. Each DLC raises the level cap by 5, thus adding a possible maximum of 5 x 15 = 75 points (or 5 x 17 = 85 points with Educated) to the total available.
Skill Points available with a starting INT of 10 and with/without Educated:
Base game : 487 / 435
One add-on : 572 / 510
Two add-ons : 657 / 585
Three add-ons: 742 / 660
Four add-ons : 827 / 735
It can be seen from the above figures that the Educated perk confers an advantage relative to the number of add-ons/levels, so that a player with three DLCs and Educated actually has more skill points to distribute than a player with four DLCs but without Educated.
List of skills
Skill | Description | Associated stat | Associated skillmag | Associated skillbook |
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Barter | Proficiency at trading and haggling. Also used to negotiate better quest rewards. | Charisma | Salesman Weekly | Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor |
Energy Weapons | Proficiency at using energy-based weapons. | Perception | Future Weapons Today | Nikola Tesla and You |
Explosives | Proficiency at using explosive weaponry, disarming mines, and crafting explosives. | Perception | Patriot's Cookbook | Duck and Cover! |
Guns | Proficiency at using weapons that fire standard ammunition. | Agility | Milsurp Review | Guns and Bullets |
Lockpick | Proficiency at picking locks. | Perception | Locksmith's Reader | Tumblers Today |
Medicine | Proficiency at using medical tools, drugs, and crafting medical supplies excluding chems. | Intelligence | Today's Physician | D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine |
Melee Weapons | Proficiency at using melee weapons. | Strength | Tæles of Chivalrie | Grognak the Barbarian |
Repair | Proficiency at repairing items and crafting items and ammunition. | Intelligence | Fixin' Things | Dean's Electronics |
Science | Proficiency at hacking terminals, recycling energy ammunition at workbenches, crafting chems, and many dialog checks. | Intelligence | Programmer's Digest | Big Book of Science |
Sneak | Proficiency at remaining undetected and stealing. | Agility | ¡La Fantoma! | Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual |
Speech | Proficiency at persuading others. Also used to negotiate for better quest rewards and to talk your way out of combat, convincing people to give up vital information and succeeding in multiple speech checks. | Charisma | Meeting People | Lying, Congressional Style |
Survival | Proficiency at cooking and surviving in the wastes. | Endurance | Lad's Life | The Wasteland Survival Guide |
Unarmed | Proficiency at unarmed fighting. | Endurance | Boxing Times | Pugilism Illustrated |
Fallout New Vegas All Skills
Improving skills
Temporary
Fallout New Vegas Skill Points
- Skill magazines will raise the particular skill by 10, or 20 if the Comprehension perk is chosen.
- Certain armor or clothing can raise certain skills when worn.
- Taking chems can augment S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats, and thus raise the coinciding skill by a small amount.
Permanently
- Reading any skill book will raise that particular skill by 3, or 4 if the Comprehension perk is chosen.
- Certain perks can raise skills permanently.
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