8/11/2019 New Vegas Perk Every Level Mod
So on New Vegas I used to have a mod called 'Perk Every Level' which (who knew) let you get a perk every level. Worked all the time.
Now, with a fresh install of TTW and FO3 and NV, I am trying to slowly get some mods back. For some reason, this mod won't work. Every level it gives me a perk, but the perk just doesn't apply. Like, this last level I picked 'Nerd Rage' which should have bumped my strength to 10, but instead it just sat in my perk menu, and did nothing. I am still at 8 strength. I don't really get it.
Does any one else have this mod and know whats wrong with my game/mod?
EDIT: Nevermind, I am just stupid and don't read all of perk descriptions. Carry on
The Falloutseries has been around for a long time. With all of the changes that have been made in modern games, some things have been kept the same up until the most recent installment. One mechanic that players can get involved with is perks. Many fans consider Fallout: New Vegas to be the best 3D game in the series, so we thought we would take a look at the perks available in that game. Below is a list of the best and the worst perks that can be found in Fallout: New Vegas.
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10 Best: Shotgun Surgeon
Many players will stay away from shotguns, especially early on in the game as they don't feel they take down enemies as quickly as other weapons. However, by picking this perk, shotguns will immediately become more valuable. When this perk is activated, a player using a shotgun will ignore ten points of their target's damage threshold. This works for any ammo used with the shotgun. Shotguns become hugely powerful in a build that uses this perk, especially from the beginning of the game.
9 Worst: Wild Wasteland
Fallout has always been known for its odd humor and style, something that fans have come to love. This perk adds in various Easter Eggs and strange encounters to the game for players to enjoy. While it can be fun to have these moments, many players feel that it is a waste of a perk.
If the developers wanted these to be a part of the core game, they should've just implemented them as standard, leaving the player a chance to pick the perks that will actually help them in-game.
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8 Best: Strong Back
As the player ventures throughout the wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas, they will find various items they can pick up. From weapons to chems and everything in between, they're going to need a lot of room to carry around everything they want. This perk is a great one to activate from the beginning of the game, as it gives the player the ability to carry an extra 50 pounds of equipment. Anyone that has been caught short and become encumbered while foraging for valuables will know how powerful this perk can be.
7 Worst: Fortune Finder
This perk allows the player to find more bottle caps while searching for the precious currency in the wasteland. While this sounds like a good perk at first, many players will find that they never run out or struggle for caps without it. Those who have played the game more than once know that it is much better to pick a perk that will effect combat or travel over this one. Not the absolute worst perk, but definitely one of the worst out there.
6 Best: Silent Running
One of the most annoying things about trying to play as a stealthy character in Fallout: New Vegas is how slow the character moves when crouched. This perk is for those players that want to stay sneaky. Not only does the player gain +10 sneak, but they no longer have to worry about running when trying to get a sneak attack on an enemy. By crouch running through a building and wearing the Chinese Stealth Armor, the player is virtually invisible to any NPCs. This gives them the chance to get Sneak Attack Criticals on every enemy in sight.
5 Worst: Rad Resistance
Traveling through a post-apocalyptic wasteland can be a dangerous thing, so it's no surprise that players are going to want to be as careful as possible. This perk reduces the amount of radiation exposure inflicted upon the player.
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Anyone that has played through Fallout: New Vegas will know that this is an incredibly situational issue. This means they can just use chems instead to get through a heavily irradiated area and not have to waste their perk on this one.
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4 Best: Educated
This is one of the absolute best perks available to the player, and they should activate it as soon as they can. This perk increases the number of skill points the player receives per level by two. Overall, the number of extra skill points received in the game will be higher the earlier this perk is activated. Seriously, every single player of this game, no matter what their build, should be looking out for this one as soon as they boot up the game.
3 Worst: Here And Now
The concept of leveling being a positive concept in a video game no matter what has been drilled into our brains from a young age. It may feel counter-intuitive, but this perk isn't something a player should be activating. Yes, it gives the character a new level, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a complete waste. There are far better perks out there, so just wait until the levels come naturally and use up the precious perk points on something worthwhile and long-term.
2 Best: Jury Rigging
One of the things that many players forget to keep an eye on when they're traveling through the wasteland is the degradation of the weapons. It will often sneak up on them, which is why it's important to have a high repair ability. This perk is great to have, as it means that they can repair a weapon with another from the same category, rather than from the same type. This will ensure that they're never caught short in the middle of a battle.
1 Worst: Nerd Rage
Anybody that has played any of the Fallout games will know that it's not usual for a player to keep their health low. When they find themselves close to dying, they will ensure that they use a stimpak or a similar item to get it back up. This perk only kicks in once the player character goes below 20% health, meaning that it's unlikely to ever activate, and when it does, the player will quickly lose any benefits by healing themselves.
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A survival guide to the Mojave wasteland. Covers character creation, gameplay mechanics, modding and more.
SPECIAL Stats
After waking up on Doc Mitchell’s bed and customizing your Courier’s appearance, the Doc tells you to use the Vit-o-Matic Vigor Tester across the room.
This is where the most important part of the character creation takes place: the SPECIAL stats. These stats can only be raised in very specific circumstances later in the game, so a well-thought-out build is very important in the beginning. You only get 40 points to distribute between the seven stats.
The stats and what they do, right here:
Stat/Effects:
Each SPECIAL point adds +2 to all the related Skills. Luck adds 1 point to every skill per 2 Luck levels.
All the stats have at least a few dialogue checks throughout the game, and many perks have SPECIAL stat requirements, something I will cover later on.
Now, the beauty of New Vegas lies in its massive flexibility in character builds. Any possible SPECIAL combination can finish the game, no problems. But as always, some people want an optimized build, to give them a little edge in the Wasteland.
My personal favorite build, regardless of skill choices is:
Stat/Level:
Strength 6 allows you to, with Weapon Handling, meet the Strength requirement for most weapons in the game, only the impractical, heaviest weapons excluded.
Perception of 6 allows you to pick all the useful Perception-related perks and gives a nice compass detection range.
Endurance at 7 allows you to pick 7 implants later in the game and leaves you with a nice 235 hit points. By purchasing an Endurance implant, and reaching 8 E, you will be able to take any Endurance-related perk in the game, including the excellent Implant GRX from Big MT.
Charisma. Now, I don’t like this stat at all. The only real use it has is the companion nerve system. Each point in Charisma adds 5% to your companions’ DT and Damage, up to a maximum of 50% in each at a C level of 10. I don’t feel like its worth investing any points in this, except for RP reasons, in which case this whole section is irrelevant.
Intelligence. Possibly the best stat in the game. I set it to 7 or 8, depending on how high I want my Luck to be. Governs skill point gains, which is an extremely important thing. I like to be able to level up 3 or 4 skills up to the 90’s really fast, and this is where Intelligence helps. The skill point gains also help offset the loss in Speech and Barter levels due to the low Charisma level.
Agility, 7. Again, allows you to pick any related perk, except Tunnel Runner, which requires an Agility of 8. And yet again, this is easy to “fix” by purchasing an implant, as Tunnel Runner is a mid- to late-game perk with its level requirement of 26.
Luck. With 5 Luck, you won’t be winning much in the Casinos, but by purchasing the Naughty Nightwear from Freeside’s lovely general store, you can reach a level of 6. A Luck level of 6 allows you to regularly win at Blackjack in the Vegas casinos, if you know the very basics of the game. A downside to a even numbered Luck level is that you won’t gain any more skill points than with the number below it.
Skills & Tagging
Doc Mitchell’s interview starts with you picking your Tag skills. You have to pick three skills for tagging.
Tagging only increases the skill level by 15, so picking your tag skills isn’t something you have to think about for hours, but its still a good idea to pick three skills you want to focus on once you get out of the Doc’s house.
I’ll be listing all the skills and what they do here.
Non-Combat skills:
Skill/Effects/Associated stat:
Combat skills:
Skill/Effects/Associated stat:
Now, the important part. What should you tag?
Tagging at least one weapon skill is a good idea, just pick one that suits your SPECIAL build, or one that sounds interesting. Guns is the easy choice: they are easy to come by and have great variety. You should never pick more than one weapon skill to start with, but specializing in a second one later on is a good idea.
For the other two tag skills, there are certain skill pairs you probably shouldn’t pick:
And the final two. These aren’t a pair like the ones above: they work well with almost any combination of skills.
With the SPECIAL build, I listed in the second section, I usually pick a weapon skill, repair and speech or barter. This combination makes for a smooth-talking Courier, making a profit selling repaired items, while still being a capable fighter.
Remember, any SPECIAL, skill and perk build is perfectly viable and capable of finishing the game, these tips are just basic guidelines for a nice experience straight from Goodsprings.
Traits
Traits are an optional part of the SPECIAL system. They are perks you choose in Doc Mitchell’s house after a brief interview. You can choose one, two or skip them entirely.
The traits are an excellent way of customizing your character, as they offer some advantages with minor disadvantages. A roleplayer’s dream, hm?
I’ll be going through every single trait in the game in this section, starting with the pre-OWB traits.
Wild Wasteland, adds about 50 Easter eggs to the game, found throughout the Mojave and the DLC areas. Contains Monty Python references that alone make the trait absolutely worth picking. Downside is, you can’t get one of the most powerful Energy Weapons in the game, as that is replaced with another strong, but highly impractical Energy Weapon.
Trigger Discipline. Makes your shots 20% more accurate, at the cost of -20% fire rate. This trait, in combination with perks like Sniper and Commando make you incredibly accurate in VATS. Note: This trait is actually quite terrible for sniper characters, as a 20% accuracy increase to a gun with pinpoint accuracy doesn’t actually do much at all.
If you’re planning to use automatic weapons like the minigun, LMG, any SMG, etc., this trait is an excellent choice. You’ll hit more often, and won’t waste as much ammo doing so.
Also increases AP costs for all weapons in VATS. (Includes Melee, Unarmed, and Explosives in addition to EW and Guns, for some reason.)
Fast Shot. Reduces accuracy by 20%, but increases fire rate by 20%. Now, contrary to what you might think, this trait is great for sniper characters. Take the Anti-Materiel Rifle for example. It has a spread of 0,015. A 20% increase in the spread leads to a spread of 0,018. Such a small change is completely unnoticeable, but a 20% increase in fire rate with the slow-firing long-range weapons is very useful.
Also slightly reduces AP costs with Energy Weapons and Guns in VATS.
About Fast Shot and Trigger Discipline. Never take both. Ever. The way the game calculates percentages is a bit silly, and taking both would result in a 4% decrease in accuracy and 4% decrease in fire rate.
Small Frame. Increases Agility by 1, but increases limb damage by 25%. Think of it as a free SPECIAL point at character creation. You can leave your Agility 1 point short at the Vit-o-Matic, spend that point somewhere else and counteract that by picking Small Frame. A 25% increase in Limb Damage is not very noticeable, as you’ll most often get crippled by mines or traps, and they cripple a Courier with a regular frame as well.
Kamikaze. Adds 10 Action Points, but reduces your Damage Threshold by 2. With VATS being nerfed after Fallout 3, this trait is probably not worth it. DT is a fairly important stat, and you really don’t want to trade any of it away.
Heavy Handed. Unarmed and Melee attacks deal 20% more damage, but Critical Hit damage is cut by 60%. This trait is ideal for close quarters characters that don’t rely on Sneak or Luck crits. Weapons with low critical chance, but high damage are optimal for a Heavy Handed Courier.
Loose Cannon. Increases throwing speed and action point cost by 30%, but cuts throwing range by 25%. Not particularly exciting or character-changing. Works for all thrown weapons from spears to grenades.
Built to Destroy. 3% increased critical chance with all weapons, but they degrade 15% faster. Again, not particularly exciting. If you’re planning to focus on Repair, this trait can be quite nice. You’ll have to repair your equipment more often, but you’ll get luckier in combat and won’t have to use as much ammo because your opponent’s head exploded.
Four Eyes. +2 Perception when wearing glasses, -1 when not. Lowers your base perception, so with a Vit-O-Matic set Perception of 6, all perks will treat is as a 5. There’s a pair of eyeglasses on Doc Mitchell’s desk in the room you wake up in, if you’re feeling like a thieving bastard.
Good Natured. +5 to Barter, Medicine, Repair, Science and Speech. -5 to Energy Weapons, Explosives, Guns, Melee Weapons, and Unarmed. One of my personal favourites. Counters my usual 1 Charisma quite nicely, and the lower weapon skills aren’t really a big issue, as they should be leveled more as a side skill anyway. Extremely good trait, when coupled with OWB’s finest trait, Skilled.
And now the traits added by the DLC, Old World Blues.
So, what would I recommend?
Wild Wasteland, Skilled, Good Natured, Small Frame and Fast Shot. From my experience, those are the definite best traits for almost any kind of character.
Now, if you do want to play something more exotic, do think about the rest. They’re all perfectly viable and fun.
Gameplay Mechanics
Item statistics:
Weapons
Armor: mostly the same as weapons, but I’ll cover the few special things with armour here.
Clothing, Light, Medium or Heavy: armor type.
Hacking
Excellent guide to the hacking minigame here. Most of the steps detailed can be skipped, because you have effectively unlimited attempts: simply back out of the terminal when you have one attempt left. When you activate the terminal again, you’re back at 3 attempts. Hacking Terminals Guide.
Hardcore Mode
HC mode is a new FNV feature, inspired by some Fallout 3 mods. In short, it makes the game a bit more realistic and significantly more challenging at times. I suggest everyone to give it a shot: the changes it makes are surprisingly fun.
A detailed list of all gameplay changes:
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On HC mode, food items have a -FOD effect and water has a -H2O effect. For some bizarre reason, Nuka-Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla have a +H2O effect, and will dehydrate you, instead of doing what drinks like that actually do. In the modding section below (some time in the future), I’m going to cover a few essential mods. One of those “fixes” dehydration effects on some drink items.
Perks, overview
Perks are essentially traits with only positive effects and level, skill or stat requirements.
Perks allow for an insane level of specialization. For example, a Guns characters can pick from several perks that make certain weapon types incredibly powerful: Cowboy increases damage with lever-action weapons and revolvers, Grunt increases damage with military weapons, etc. Same goes for all the other weapon skills.
New Vegas has a massive selection of about a hundred perks, but because you gain one Perk every two levels, you only get 25, with a level cap of 50.
Because of the low amount of Perks you can pick, choosing the right ones is very important if you want to build a fun and effective Courier.
Perks are also awarded as rewards for completing Challenges and certain Quests. Most of these give minor bonuses like 5% more damage against insects, but some give new Unarmed special attacks like the Scribe Counter.
In the next few sections, I will be covering every single perk in the game by listing their effects, skill and stat requirements, and my personal opinion on them. I’ll cover the Perks in level requirement order, but note that you can pick a lower level perk at a higher level too, so don’t worry if you see more than one interesting perk in a specific level section.
Perks from the DLC will not be separated or marked, as I assume most people own the Ultimate Edition.
CTRL-F for easy access to my thoughts on whatever perk you might be considering for your Courier.
Perks, level 2
Waste of a perk slot, as faster leveling in a singleplayer game is absolutely pointless. You’ll have more than enough quests to do and things to shoot to reach the level cap even with the -10% XP from the Skilled trait. You should never take this.
Only useful if you’re going for a crit build and will be using lots of True Police Stories magazines. Other than that, not very good as magazines are mostly used to pass skill checks, hack terminals and pick locks, and the game pauses during all those activities. Extra time for the effect doesn’t help at all.
You should never have to take this perk, assuming you built your SPECIAL build properly in the first place. Gaining SPECIAL points later in the game without wasting a perk slot is possible by purchasing implants from a certain medical clinic, finishing Lonesome Road and gaining certain perks from Old World Blues. Intense Training should only be used for fixing a poorly built SPECIAL.
Doesn’t work on mutated insects or abominations like the Nightstalkers. You won’t find yourself fighting Bighorners, Mole Rats or other regular animals all that often. The normal animals have fairly low health anyway, so a normal sneak critical should kill them in one hit even without this perk.
Essential for Explosives characters, as the longer throwing distance reduces chances of accidentally blowing up your own face, and faster moving projectiles are always useful. Work for non-explosive thrown weapons too, like spears and tomahawks. Surprisingly, also affects Grenade Launchers and other Explosives weapons that are not exactly thrown. All in all, an excellent perk for an Explosives or throwing weapon character.
Highly useful for Explosives characters, but the steep Guns skill requirement might be a bit of a problem. Also a good choice if you’re going to use guns covered by the Cowboy perk, as they usually reload each shot separately.
I’m not sure why anyone would ever take this perk. The game is bright enough at night and this just makes the game look ugly as hell. And if you really need low-light vision, pop a Cateye pill.
Pretty good perks. A 10% damage increase can be quite noticeable and there are quite a few women you’ll be shooting at during the game. Also open some amusing dialogue options with certain characters.
A solid perk for a character that wouldn’t benefit much from the other level 2 perks. Most of your human opponents will be male, so a 10% damage increase won’t hurt ( you, at least. ). Just like the two above this, these too open some funny dialogue choices and Black Widow allows you to totally humiliate a certain Chairman.
Except it doesn’t. It’s bugged and doesn’t do anything because of a small mistake in tagging which weapon class is supposed to be affected. If it did work, it still wouldn’t be a very good perk, as the game only classifies very few armours as metal armour.
You get one bullet or shell for 1 Scrap Metal, 5 Tin Cans, and the appropriate casing or hull. Pretty good perk, but probably not the best thing to pick at level 2. I personally think the level 6 perk, Hand Loader is far better than this, as it allows you to craft special ammo, instead of the normal boring ammo.
One of my favourite perks in the game. I’m a Light Armour guy, and this perk is damn good for those Couriers looking to wear mostly the lighter gear. Goes damn well with Joshua’s armour later in the game.
Snack foods include most pre-War food items, so picking this perk allows for very cheap, fairly effective healing. Diya tamil movie ringtone download. I personally prefer Survival crafting foods, but for those who grab all the pre-War food anyway, this is a good choice.
So, best first perks? Light Touch, Old World Gourmet, Rapid Reload, Heave Ho!, or one of 10% damage increase perks.
Perks, level 4
Each corpse heals about 25 health. After feasting on 25 corpses, you gain a special perk ‘Dine and Dash’, that allows you to harvest human flesh from the corpses for eating later. Excellent perk on Hardcore, as you can just nom away at the corpses of your fallen enemies, instead of carrying a hundred stinking Brahmin steaks in your pack.
There’s also a hidden challenge for consuming four major faction leaders, but I’ll let you figure that out yourself, you cannibal bastard.
Not especially useful, as you’ll get more than enough skill points, assuming you have a fairly high Intelligence. The total skill point gain from this perk is only 64, or 72 if you abuse the Honest Hearts cave loot. Not much for the time it takes to find all the books.
This does, however, allow you to leave many skills at 80 and rely on the magazines to pass certain 100 skill checks. Highly useful if you’re playing at a lower level cap than 50.
Comes up to a total of 92 extra skill points if you pick it at level 4. Great perk for leveling a few skills really fast, and in general a far better choice than the perk above this. If you want to pick this, pick it at a low level, to maximize the amount of extra skill points.
Works against cazadors, scorpions, ants, mantes, and bloatflies. Great perk for taking out cazadors and giant radscorpions. Cazadors are incredibly annoying to kill because of their insane speed, so a 50% damage increase really helps, you can easily cripple their wings with a shot or two. Radscorpions on the other hand are already slow, but have very high DT, so again, a 50% increase in damage helps a lot. Highly recommended if you ever have trouble killing these nasty enemies.
Great perk for Melee and Unarmed Couriers, as health regeneration is always helpful when a Gecko is eating your face. New Vegas has very few areas with radiation, so when you find one, try to remember where it is so you can come back later to stand around and get to the Deadly rad poisoning level. (+800 rads, but be careful, as 1000 rads kills you instantly) The health regen effect does not affect specific limb health, so make sure you still carry Doctor’s Bags ( or Stimpaks on coward-mode :3 )
All in all, a great perk for those of use who love revolvers and pistols of all types. Allows you to take advantage of the higher movement speed when using one-handed weapons. Note that it requires either Guns or Energy Weapons, not both, like most perks.
Another good perk for us Light Armour users, as it increases the biggest advantage Light Armour has over the other two classes. Affects overall movement speed, not only run speed like the Perk description says.
Just about all level 4 Perks, except Comprehension are worth picking if they suit your plans. My personal favourites are Educated and Run n’ Gun.
Perks, level 6
The damage increase is pretty small, and the exploding corpses can make looting a bit tricky, especially when murdering crowds of enemies. Not a very impressive perk, although looting power armour from an eyeball you find is always funny.
An obvious choice for Couriers specializing in Explosives. Affects grenades, mines, grenade and rocket launchers: anything that not only kills your enemy, but moves them to an entirely different plane of existence. Pick this if you regularly blow♥♥♥♥♥♥up.
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DR is a flat reduction in damage, instead of the threshold system used by Damage. Threshold. That means your companions will take exactly 50% less damage when you’re at under half health. Not particularly useful, as most of the time you should be using some healing items if you drop so low on health. The high Charisma requirement makes this Perk makes this perk horrible and not worth even thinking about.
Not a specific percentage increase, but always at least doubles the amount of bottle caps. Not worth grabbing, as you’ll be swimming in caps simply by scavenging buildings you come across and selling all the loot you collect on your exciting adventures.
With the major nerfs to VATS in New Vegas, any VATS-related perk, except maybe the Sniper perk, are probably not worth taking. VATS is only really useful at very short ranges and spotting targets. At short ranges, you’ll hit the 95% hit chance cap anyway, so perks like this won’t really help.
This is an excellent, perhaps even essential Perk for Gun-users who also focus on Repair. All the special ammo types have increased damage, in addition to other special effects like armor-piercing or smaller spread. Some also increase the durability hit per shot, so be prepared to repair your guns more often. Shouldn’t be a problem at 70 Repair, but still an important thing to remember.
I personally always pick this perk when playing a Guns-orientated Courier. A great way to make plenty of these special ammo types is simply breaking down the regular ammo types and using the components to craft the more powerful, new ones.
Not a useful perk at all. You won’t be drinking much irradiated water anyway, and Rad-X and Rad-Away are very common meds in the Mojave. Don’t take this.
Essential perk if you’re planning to use shotguns. -10 DT allows you to punch through just about any armour, even with regular buckshot. Not much to say here. Take it if you like shotguns.
Despite what the in-game description says, it affects all critical hits, not just sneak crits.
Another great perk for us revolver and pistol users. Works extremely well with weapons that have a higher critical chance, like Lucky. Again, not much to say, other than that it’s a damn good perk if you like using the weapons it covers.
One of the better perks in the game, especially if you like using Heavy Armour. +6 DT with a power armour makes you a god of bullet eating. Pretty much nothing will ever deal full damage to you, except deathclaws.
Works really well with Light Armour as well, as it negates the lower DT you gain from the lighter gear. Great when combined with the Light Armour perks I covered earlier.
Great perk if you’re using lots of Energy Weapons, as their ammo is quite costly. Being able to recycle more consistently is a great way to save bottle caps. Also allows you to craft Optimized cells if you’re running the GRA DLC. Think of this perk as the Hand Loader of Energy Weapons. Excellent perk, and totally worth picking.
Basically adds new explosive weapons, 3 new grenades, 3 new mines, and a new time bomb. All these are crafted using either other, weaker explosives or regular trash items like scrap electronics or sensor modules. Take this perk if you want more variety when blowing up everyone.
Perks, level 8
Another perk that only affects VATS, and as such not a very useful perk. Skip this, and pick something that affects combat as a whole.
One of my favorite perks, and an essential one if you’re planning to use mostly revolvers and lever-action weapons. The Melee Weapons skill requirement is a bit steep for Gun users, but it should be fairly easy to reach with a high Intelligence. Excellent perk, as a 25% damage increase really makes guns like Lucky and the Brush Gun shine.
Helps with figuring out when to use special ammo, and the slight damage increase is pretty nice. Not hugely useful, but if you’ve invested so many points in Medicine at such a low level, you’re probably aiming for this perk.
A damn good perk, especially on Hardcore mode. Essentially allows you to carry twice as much ammo, food, and drinks. Also useful on noob-mode, especially if you’re a really thorough scavenger, grabbing everything with you. High Barter requirement, but you should be leveling up Barter anyway, as it is one of the better skills in the game.
I’m not exactly sure what the point of this perk is. Only use I can really come up with is using multiple single-shot weapons to avoid long reloads, or something like that? I don’t know, don’t pick this.
Not a good perk, as it’s been over 200 years since the Great War, and the Mojave area wasn’t even hit by many bombs. There really isn’t a lot of radiation to resist, and there are many much better perks available. Avoid this one.
You’ll find about twice as much ammo in containers with this perk. Not worth taking, as it has the same problem Fortune Finder at level 6 has: you’ll be swimming in ammo and bottle caps after a while, and before that, you’ll still find more than enough bullets for the early game weapons.
Essential for anyone thinking about specializing in Unarmed or Melee, as you’ll always be taking some hits at such short range, and a DT increase of 5 is pretty significant. Grab this if you often find yourself toe-to-toe with nasties.
Pretty good perk for just about any type of Courier. Take this if you feel you need more carrying capacity, simple as that. Modest stat requirements make it an easy perk to get for pretty much anyone.
The exact chances of a knockdown are 15% for Unarmed or one-handed Melee and 30% for two-handed Melee weapons. Great perk if you prefer Unarmed or Melee, as knocking down your enemies obviously renders them unable to fight back, giving you time to murder the crap out of them. Doesn’t work on Rippers and Chainsaws, for obvious reasons.
Adds a grand total of 16 new dialogue options throughout the game. Some of these options are quite humorous and usually lead to combat, the character running away or giving you certain quest items. Only pick this if you really, really want to experience these few dialogue options.
Great perk if you want to use the weapons[www.falloutwiki.com] it covers. Excellent alternative to Cowboy, for Couriers who want to use Guns, but not necessarily the cowboy-style ones.
Allows you to fully heal yourself at campfires. On Hardcore, it only heals the basic HP pool, but doesn’t restore limb condition, and doesn’t give the Well Rested bonus of 10% more experience.
Not hugely useful, as most groups this covers have pretty low health and DT anyway, so a 15% damage increase isn’t very noticeable. It also adds two dialogue options, both found during the Honest Hearts DLC
A pretty good survivability perk, makes radscorpions and other such nasty creatures cry. Eating insects instantly restores 12 HP and reduces hunger by 12 points when playing on Hardcore mode.
Perks, level 10
No, just no. Never ever take this perk. You’re giving up a perk slot without actually gaining anything. No.
Insanely high Charisma requirement pretty much removes any chance of ever taking this perk, unless your SPECIAL build is silly and has more than 1 Charisma. Ignoring the ridiculous Charisma requirement, it’s a pretty nice perk, especially in Big MT, as that place is crawling with Nightstalkers.
Essential for high-Luck crit-focused Couriers. Takes into account critical chance multipliers on some guns, like Lucky, leading to an incredibly high crit chance and body parts everywhere. Great perk, and because of the lack of any skill or stat requirement, it is a great choice for any build.
She has a 10% chance of appearing per VATS sequence. The effects of her appearing are a bit complex, so I won’t be covering them here. Instead, try clicking this[www.falloutwiki.com] link, for the entire list of possible effects and the conditions in which they occur.
He too has a 10% chance of appearing per VATS sequence. He has a special .44 magnum revolver that deals a nice 18002 points of damage, and obviously kills any enemy with one shot.
I don’t really like this or Miss Fortune at all, as a 10% chance of something cool happening isn’t exactly impressive. That, and the fact that I usually build my characters pretty well makes both the Stranger and Miss Fortune a bit pointless.
You pretty much never have to kill sleeping people in New Vegas, so I don’t think this perk is worth grabbing.
In case you do, however, you will gain a bit of extra experience each time you use the perk’s special Murder action. This is done by sneaking up to a sleeping person, interacting him and picking Murder, instead of Pickpocket.
A good safety net perk for Melee or Unarmed Couriers, even if it’s not the intended use implied by the name and icon. Pretty much makes you a god for a moment, before healing back up. I’m not a huge fan of this perk, but I can see how it could be useful to some.
This is possibly the best VATS-focused perk out there, but still only a marginally useful perk in general, because of how weak VATS is in New Vegas. If you really want to improve your VATS, take this perk. (For a specific plasma-build, get this, Plasma Spaz, Ain’t Like That Now and Fast Shot: a total of 70% reduced AP costs for plasma weapons.)
Only really gives +4 to the I and P -based skills, slightly longer compass range and an easier time with a few dialogue checks. The effects are even worse if you have more than 8 points in either stat. The stat boost from this does NOT affect the amount of skill points you gain when leveling up and does NOT allow you to reach stat requirements for perks you couldn’t get during daytime. Not a good perk.
Pick this over Math Wrath if you use plasma weapons exclusively, or if you’re going for the very specific plasma-VATS build I mentioned in the Math Wrath entry.
Essential perk for those shotgun-loving Couriers. Note that the chance is calculated on a per-pellet basis, so buckshot is the best ammo type to use with this perk.
Great perk for Couriers who ♥♥♥♥♥♥off either the Legion or the NCR early on in the game. Also helps a lot in a few specific quests late in the main storyline.
Perks, level 12
Pretty good perk if you rely on Medicine for your healing needs. Makes Stimpaks almost compete with Survival foods. Significantly better on Hardcore mode, as it increases the amount of healing per second, instead of making the heal effect actually last longer. On babymode, you can simply slap on more Stimpaks instead of taking this perk.
Fnv Perk Every Level
Pretty much Cannibal, rank 2. Not especially useful, as you won’t really be fighting all that many super mutants or feral ghouls throughout the game, and the effects of actually eating one are pretty small at 50HP, 5 Rads and a small Karma penalty.
Yes. Useful for just about any Courier, and especially so for those specializing in Explosives, as this also protects you from your own bombs. Makes using grenade launchers and such far safer, especially indoors.
Nope, not worth it. 30HP isn’t much, and absolutely not worth a perk slot.
Great perk if you’re a very thorough scavenger, as it allows you to carry a billion pounds of “useful” loot to your stash without taking forever doing so. Normal Couriers are better off getting perks like Strong Back or Pack Rat.
Essential for any Unarmed (and Melee, despite the high Unarmed requirement) Couriers. Very few enemies in the game have more than 15DT, so this perk basically allows you to cut through any armoured enemies like they were naked Freeside junkies. Simply put, an excellent perk.
If you want to use fire-based weapons like the Shishkebab or Flamer, you really need this perk. Curiously, while it requires only Explosives skill, most weapons affected by it are covered by Energy Weapons, Melee, and Unarmed. Also makes the Anti-Materiel Rifle with incendiary ammo pretty much godlike.
A 25% damage increase is pretty big, especially considering the high DT some robots have (Big MT robo-scorpions, hnnghn) Disabling robots can be a bit tricky, but doing so renders them “unconscious” and grants a small XP boost. Great perk for anyone, especially if you’re planning to play through the OWB DLC.
Great perk if you use sneak at all. The walk speed while sneaking is insanely slow, so any speed boost is always nice. Essential for sneaky Unarmed or Melee Couriers who have to close the distance as fast as possible while still staying hidden.
This is the only VATS perk I personally even consider taking, even though Math Wrath is definitely better for heavy VATS use. For those who rarely use VATS, being able to accurately score headshots is a useful ability.
Another essential perk for Explosives-users. Make sure you get Hit the Deck with this, or you will die. Makes weaker explosives like Dynamite viable later in the game, which allows you to blow more stuff up cheaper! Great.
Makes you an unstoppable force, surprisingly. You can pretty much just mash mouse1 in close combat with this perk, and everyone dies. Not much else to say. Take this if you use Melee or Unarmed.
Excellent perk if you like using heavy weapons like missile launchers or miniguns. If you really, really like the weapons covered by this perk, take it. Otherwise, nah, not worth it.
I guess it could be pretty useful if you want to go Deathclaw-hunting, but even then, I think simply shooting them with a big gun in the head would be a better tactic than going to VATS range to aim at their legs.
Not worth it. Increases your compass range a bit when still in sneak mode, but other than that, pretty much useless.
Perks, levels 14 & 16
Level 14:
Great perk for pretty much anyone, because at some point you will get shot at, blown up, cut by machetes, etc. Less limb damage helps conserve Doctor’s Bags and Hydra (or stimpaks on lolmode), makes combat easier because you won’t get the crippled penalties as often.
Increases damage with all weapons types, despite only requiring a high Guns skill. Has the same problems as all the other VATS perks, and is probably not worth your time.
This is a bit buggy, and not only affects chem effects like the in-game description says, but actually doubles the duration of every single consumable item effect. This includes chems (both positive and negative effects), skill books, stimpaks, food, etc. For once, a bug that actually makes something extremely strong. Great perk, especially for the massive buff to Survival.
Simply the best perk in the game. Allows you to repair your fancy Anti-Materiel Rifle with cheap Varmint Rifles, Single Shotguns, etc. Makes repair incredibly flexible and highly profitable. You’ll never have to worry about repairing your weapons or armour again: just pick up some cheap low tier stuff and repair your awesome gear with those.
Useful for every Courier ever, even those who avoid combat, as repairing high tier items with low tier items is incredibly profitable.
Floor-based traps include mines, pressure plates, bear traps, and trip wires. A pretty good perk, as New Vegas has several heavily trapped areas. Especially useful in Sierra Madre, as that place is absolutely full of bear traps, trip wires, and mines.
This perk covers all mutants ( and Mr. House, wat. ). You will be fighting quite a lot of them throughout the game, and extra damage at melee range is always nice, especially against Deathclaws, Tunnelers and Ghost People.
Level 16:
Again, a VATS perk, not worth it. If you really want to spam low-AP cost weapons in VATS, consider taking this. If not, don’t even think about it.
An excellent perk for anyone. With this, you can absolutely destroy anything, especially with sneak crits. 50% more damage with crits is a huge boost for any weapon type, so if your P and L are high enough, take this perk.
Not a very good perk, considering how easy it is to get rid of addiction: small payment at doctors, of free at the Sink.
The damage dealt by the explosion depends on the damage of the weapon that killed the target, so if you use low-damage weapons like the Laser Pistol or Flamer, this is probably not worth taking. With a Gauss Rifle, the explosions are devastating. Works well indoors and against weak, swarming enemies. Note, however, that the explosions will also damage you as well, assuming you’re standing too close. This is a pretty big downside, and should be taken into account when considering this perk.
No. Don’t take this. One perk slot for 15 skill points is a ridiculously bad deal, especially when compared to Educated, which grants a total of 92 points if picked at level 4.
Basically allows you to use heavy weapons efficiently even at a lower Strength. Pretty useful, especially if you started with a low Strength of 4-6.
Perks, levels 18 & 20
Level 18:
Absolutely pointless, as you should never fail at hacking. If you can’t find the correct password, just cancel out from the hacking interface, open it up again and it resets the whole thing.
Every shot increases the hit chance by a mere 5%, so this perk isn’t really good, even for those who use VATS all the time. Only useful if you use low AP price weapons.
Just as pointless as Computer Whiz. You should really never use the force lock feature, unless you have a 100% chance of success. Skip this, not worth it.
Excellent perk for Unarmed Couriers. 30 seconds gives lots of time to either beat the crap out of you target’s friends of the target himself. A 30% chance is a pretty good one, especially considering the fast “fire rate” of unarmed weapons. Only works on Unarmed weapons, unlike some perks that apply to both Unarmed and Melee.
Not very useful, as it only gives a slight AP bonus, slightly longer compass range and tiny skill boosts to Perception and Agility skills. If you really have nothing better to pick, this can be an okay choice. Note that many outdoor areas like the Strip, McCarran, and Freeside are not actually considered outdoor areas, and rather handled as indoor cells.
Level 20:
No point to grabbing this. Just explore the Wastes yourself.
Massively nerfed from its Fallout 3 counterpart. Not a very good perk at all, as 20AP isn’t much, and with many weapons, not enough for even more shot. Not worth it.
The ultimate sneaky Melee / Unarmed Courier perk. One of the best perks for close combat Couriers. Despite requiring Melee Weapons skill, the bonuses apply to Unarmed too. The critical chance part of this perk isn’t very good, as it multiplies crit chance by 1,15 instead of applying a flat 15%. No matter, though, as the 25% increase in sneak crit damage is what makes this perk shine.
Highly situational and probably not worth a perk slot. The health regeneration is very minor and +2 Strength isn’t very useful either.
An interesting perk, only really useful for Melee and Unarmed Couriers. Works well with the Small Frame trait, as it allows you to gain the damage bonuses easier. If you often find yourself with crippled limbs and want to turn that to a benefit, pick this.
Good perk if you’ve picked other radiation-based perks, if not, probably not worth taking. An interesting tactic pointed out by Littlepip that hugely benefits from this perk would be finding irradiated puddles of water, waste barrels, etc., standing near them to gain the 1rad/sec and the benefits associated with being irradiated. Highly situational, but seems like a fun little trick.
The AP regeneration thresholds:
Radiation level/AP regeneration bonus:
200-399 – x1,1.
400-599 – x1,2. 600-799 – x1,33. 800-999 – x1,5.
Not worth it, as the squeezin’ isn’t a very good food item to begin with: some of the components heal more than the final product itself!
Excellent Survival perk, especially on Hardcore mode. The food items are pretty good on their own, but both can be upgraded with cheap ingredients on a campfire, resulting in a dependable, efficient way of keeping your Courier healthy.
The products found on corpses are extremely valuable: think red paste has a value of 125 caps and blood sausage is a nice 175 caps. The refined products are even more valuable, at 250 caps per jar of thick red paste and 350 caps per black blood sausage. Highly profitable, as about 50% of all corpses will have one of these items.
Perks, levels 22 to 28
Level 22:
Excellent perk if laser weapons are your thing. Affects all laser weapons, the LAERs and the Pulse Guns. Allows you to reach a nice 52% critical chance with all crit bonuses that affect these weapons.
All the special recipes have slightly better HP/s effects, in addition to the extra effects listed below.
Special Cola/Special effects:
These special Colas are pretty good, but you can find more than enough of Quartz and Victory by simply exploring the Wastes.
Only useful if specializing in Explosives and playing on Hardcore. Other than that, absolutely pointless.
I’m not entirely sure what they were thinking when they came up with this. Not useful at all. You won’t find yourself irradiated that often, and when you do, you can just pop a RadAway.
Damaged books are automatically turned into blank magazines, which can be turned into a copy of any skill magazine in your inventory when using a workbench. If you regularly rely on magazines to reach 100 in any skill, this could probably be pretty useful. Another use would be for easy access to True Police Stories magazines, which are extremely useful for Couriers specializing in critical strikes.
Level 24:
An incredible, must-have perk for anyone using Unarmed or Melee Weapons, and especially useful for those using slow, two-handed weapons. For some reason, doesn’t affect AP costs in VATS, but does affect swing speed while in VATS.
Level 26:
One of the better VATS-based perks, but faces the same problem as the others: VATS simply isn’t very useful in New Vegas. Only pick this if you use VATS very often.
At level 26, gives a +26% experience boost. Totally useless, as NV is a singleplayer RPG and leveling speed doesn’t matter at all. Also, at level 26, you should have a few skills at very high levels, so any experience boost is especially pointless.
Highly useful for all sneaky Couriers, and works very well with the other Light Armour perks from earlier levels.
Level 28:
Pointless. The rate at which radiation decreases is horribly slow and you’d be better off just taking some RadAway if you’re badly irradiated.
Well Rested gives a 12-hour 10% experience gain boost. So yeah, not a good perk at all.
Perks, levels 30 to 50
Level 30:
At rank 1, you get 5 doses that last 2 seconds each, and at rank 2, 10 doses at 3 seconds each. These are found under the Aid section in your inventory. Turbo is one of the best drugs in the game, and a non-addictive version is even better! Extremely strong when combined with the Chemist perk and Logan’s Loophole trait.
Basically Strong Back rank 2. Pick it if you really need even more inventory capacity. Allows you to reach a massive 400 lbs when coupled with Strong Back, Hoarder, and a certain duster.
Level 36:
What, why? No.
Level 40:
Yeah, the perk is bugged and only adds 0,25% to your critical chance, instead of 25% like the in-game tooltip says. The other part adds an 85% chance of finding a fission battery, 2 pieces of scrap metal, two sensor modules and three pieces of scrap electronics in addition to default loot on destroyed robots. Not hugely useful, especially with the bugged crit chance.
Level 50:
Just pick it at level 50 if you’ve somehow managed to reach Evil karma. I’ve personally never went under Neutral, even after stealing everything on my path…
Pick it if you’re Neutral at level 50. The crit damage boost is massive and makes your sneak crits absolutely devastating. The Luck bonus is highly situational, and as such not a huge deal. Crit immunity isn’t hugely useful either, but does reduce overall damage taken.
The worst karma-based perk, but still worth picking if you’re Good or Very Good by level 50. 10% damage increase is pretty good, but the previous perk’s crit damage boost is much more useful. 10HP per 100 karma points would be pretty useful if the perk didn’t also reset karma to 0. The maximum amount of extra health you can gain from this perk is 100.
Perks done, freakin’ finally! Comment if you have any weird build ideas that could benefit from perks I didn’t cover in detail.
Special Unarmed perks
Contains spoilers!
Skip this if you want to find out where to get these special attacks yourself.
Ranger Takedown
While moving backwards and attacking at the same time, you perform a special attack that knocks down your target. Highly useful in just about any situation, as a knocked down enemy is almost guaranteed to be a dead enemy within a few seconds.
You gain this special perk either by passing a 30 Speech check when talking with Ranger Andy in Novac, or by completing the unmarked quest “Andy and Charlie”, in which you have to investigate the Ranger Station Charlie and report your findings to Ranger Andy.
Legion Assault
While moving forward and performing a power attack (hold down the attack key), you perform a higher damage jump attack.
This perk is gained by passing a 50 Unarmed skill check when talking with Lucius in Caesar’s Tent. Also requires a reputation of ‘Liked’ or above with the Legion.
Scribe Counter
A counter-attack, performed by attacking right after blocking an enemy attack. Often instantly cripples the enemy’s torso, assuming you have a high-quality Unarmed weapon.
Gained by giving Veronica Santangelo a dress. Formal war or White Glove Society attire, to be specific. This can be quite buggy, so if you didn’t receive the perk after giving her a dress, try reloading a save and doing it again.
Khan Trick
When performing a power attack while moving left or right, you throw sand at your enemies, stunning them. Requires you to stand on either dirt or sand, so won’t work in underground bunkers with metal floor! Also, only works on humans.
This special attack is gained by completing the quest Aba Daba Honeymoon for the Great Khans.
Mods, the Nexus and installation
A mod or modification is the alteration of the program code of a video game in order to make it operate in a manner different to its original version.
Where to get mods?
This section of the guide will focus on how to use the Nexus. I have no experience with Fallout Planet myself, so I won’t be covering it in detail.
To download files larger than 2Mb in size from the Nexus, you will have to register an account on the site. The registration process has caused quite a lot of confusion after the Nexus administration introduced the premium and supporter system.
During the registration process, you’ll encounter a page that has a list of different subscription plans.
This part has lead some people to believe that you have to pay to use the Nexus. If you don’t want to pay a monthly subscription, simply leave all the options unticked and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Simply clicking on “Create Account” (Click on the screenshot to enlarge.) lets you continue the registration process without paying anything.
How to get mods?
The absolute easiest way of getting mods into your copy of New Vegas is to first download the Nexus Mod Manager (Click on the picture to enlarge, again) Simply run the installer and you’re done.
Now, how to download the actual mods? I’ll be using Millenia’s excellent AK-74[newvegas.nexusmods.com] mod as an example in this section, but the steps apply for almost all mods.
Under the “Files” tab, you’ll find a list of downloadable… files. Nowadays, most files have the green “Download with Manager” option available.
Clicking on it downloads the file directly through the Nexus Mod Manager, which also installs the mod for you. Much more convenient than the old manual installation method.
If a mod you’re looking at doesn’t have a manager download option, you will have to download and install it manually. Any good mod should include a Readme file with installation instructions. Simply follow those and you should be fine.
After downloading, you can find the mod in a list in the Nexus Mod Manager’s “Mods” tab.
To install it, all you have to do is double-click on it. (Blue row in the screenshot.) Uninstalling is exactly as easy, simply double-click on the mod, wait for the manager to do its thing and you’re done.
Mod recommendations!
Highly work-in-progress. Please leave a comment, if you think your favorite mod should be on this list.
Stability & Performance
Gameplay
Essentially a “director’s cut” mod for the game, made by the lead designer, Joshua Sawyer. Absolutely essential for me, and I would recommend this mod for anyone. It fixes a bunch of silly oversights, makes the game a bit more challenging and makes some balance changes. Compatible with most mods, requires all DLC and starting a new game after installation.
The major changes are:
Jsawyer version: 50 + (End * 10) + ((Level – 1) * 5) Example: 50+(5*10)+((1-1)*5) = 100 HP
vs. Vanilla version: 100 + (End * 20) + ((Level – 1) * 5) Example: 100+(5*20)+((1-1)*5) = 200 HP
This means that a Courier with 5E only has 100HP with Sawyer’s mod, versus 200 in Vanilla. Note that the same formula is used by all humans in the game: everyone dies faster. Reduces the often bullet sponge-y feel of the combat, without making weapon skill irrelevant like some ‘increased damage’ mods.
Graphics
The very best high res landscape texture pack for the game. Three different packs available: Large, Medium and Small. Both Large and Medium absolutely require the 4GB fix listed above (at some point.)
This pack retextures the following:
The Console
The in-game console can be used to do pretty much anything from god mode to spawning items to fixing quest script errors. There’s an absolutely insane amount of commands you can use; far too many for me to list here.
Someone else had the time and energy to do that, though. Windows 7 32-bit download. The Console Guide.
This guide includes just about every useful command available.
Common Technical Problems
Crash while in-game?
Troubleshooting steps:
The process takes a while, and most likely results in “1 file failed to validate and will be reacquired.” message. This is normal, and nothing to worry about. If there are more files missing, that’s most likely causing crashes, but Steam will automatically redownload the missing files, and fix the issue.
Disable “Save on Rest”, “Save on Wait” and “Save on Travel” under the Gameplay settings screen. If you do this, make sure you remember to save manually more often, as you won’t have any autosaves to fall to, in case of death, crash to desktop, wrong conversation option, etc.
For example, you shouldn’t use two mods that add a beard for Veronica. While this example wouldn’t cause crashes, its still good practice to avoid mods with very similar features.
Mouse Acceleration?
An annoying feature, left in the game from the console version, and no way to disable it in-game.
Well, there are ways to disable it through modifying an .ini file. Go to “Steamsteamappscommonfallout new vegas”, located in your Steam’s installation folder.
Open up “Fallout_Default.ini” in your text editor of choice. Notepad works fine.
Search for “[controls]” in the file, and paste the following under it.
fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0
fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0
fForegroundMouseBase=0
fForegroundMouseMult=0
Then exit and save the file. After that, you have to set the file to ‘read only’. You do this by right-clicking the file in the folder, picking the Properties option. The ‘read only’ box should be found in the bottom of the default tab. Place a tick on it, and hit OK.
Mouse acceleration should now be gone, and you can finally enjoy proper, accurate mouse controls.
Mismatching head and body skin colors?
Another .ini fix, but this time the file is FALLOUT.INI, found under “C:Users<your Windows username>DocumentsMy GamesFalloutNV”. Open it up in your text editor of choice, and search for the line:
bLoadFaceGenHeadEGTFiles=0
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and change the 0 to 1, so it looks like:
bLoadFaceGenHeadEGTFiles=1
Now all the skin colors should match. This won’t fix the obvious seam in every NPC’s neck, that’s a problem with the engine itself and how it generates heads. There are some mods that make it less noticeable, but its always going to be there.
Unfortunately there are so many technical issues left in this game, I can’t cover every single one of them. These were just the most common ones I’ve seen complaints about, but feel free to contact me if you’d want me to add something more. I will be covering general bugs and stability fixes in a ‘Mods’ section later on.
In general, if you’re having problems with the graphics not loading properly, a black screen, etc. its highly likely your GPU drivers are outdated, and an update is in order.
Extra stuff, WIP
Some mostly useless, but interesting information.
Carry weight is calculated with the formula:
150 + ( Strength x 10)
A character with 5 Strength would then have a respectable 200 lbs carry weight.
Skill points per level are calculated with:
10 + ( Intelligence / 2 )
If your Intelligence level is an odd number, the extra 0,5 points carry over to the next level, and you will alternate between two amounts each level.
A Courier with 5 intelligence would then gain 12,5 points per level, so he will alternate between 12 points and 13 points.
Hit points are determined with:
95 + ( Endurance x 20 ) + ( Your character’s level x 5 )
A level 1 Courier with 5 Endurance would then have 200 hit points.
Action points for VATS are calculated with:
65 + ( 3 x Agility )
A 5 Agility Courier would then have 80 actions points. Note that regenerating action points to max takes 16,66 seconds, regardless of the Agility-gained value. Perks that add action points will also add to the regeneration time.
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Cheat Codes
While playing the game, press ~ to display the console window. Then, type one of the following codes and press [Enter] to activate the corresponding cheat function:
Use one of the following values with the 'player.additem [item code] [number]' code:
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Easy experience
This glitch requires a 25 Speech skill level. Go to Camp McCarran, and talk to Angela Williams in the science lab. Choose the 'I have some questions for you.' option followed by the 'What's your role here?' option. After she answers, choose the 'What do you think of Dr. Hildren?' option. After she answers, choose '[Speech 25] He seemed focused on results. Maybe not so much on people.' You will get 28 experience points each time you do this, and it can be repeated as many times as desired.
This glitch requires a 30 Speech skill level and neutral or friendly with NCR. Go to Camp McCarran, and talk to Sergeant Bitter-Root. You should be able to find him in one of the tents. Ask him about his name, and then there will be an option for a 30 Speech skill level attempt. You can keep saying 'Bitter-Root. You have an unusual name.', and each time you say it, you can do the Speech attempt again. Simply say 'Bitter-Root. You have an unusual name.', do the Speech attempt, ask to talk about something else, and then repeat the process as many times as desired.
This glitch requires a 30 Speech skill level or the 'Confirmed Bachelor' perk and friendly with NCR. Go to HELIOS One, and the woman should automatically talk to you. Once she allows you access to HELIOS One, you should be able to start the 'That Lucky Old Sun' mission. Proceed with the mission, and talk to Fantastic and Ignacio Rivas. While talking to Rivas, make sure you get him to reveal that he is a Follower of the Apocalypse by using Speech or Confirmed Bachelor, and agree with his ideals about peace or say you are neutral. Do the mission regularly until you get to the point where you activate the Mainframe Terminal. Configure the Power Grid to '5. Full Region (Emergency Output Level)'. Finish the mission by hitting the Reflector Control Panel outside on top of the tower. Go back to Ignacio Rivas, and choose the 'I overloaded the plant. No one...' option. That option will never disappear. Keep selecting that option to get 350 XP, 3 Stimpacks, and 2 Doctor's Bags.
If your Speech skill level is 50 or higher, you can persuade Old Ben to offer his escort services to the local bar. You will get 61 XP each time you complete this Speech Challenge. If you follow him back to the bar afterwards and wait until he sits down, you can speak to him again and repeat the same Speech Challenge as many times as desired. You can find Old Ben sitting by a fire close to The King headquarters in Freeside.
This glitch requires a high Speech skill level and 8 Intelligence skill level. Go to the Camp McCarran Terminal building inside Camp McCarran. Talk to the guy at the far end of the building, in the left corner. He is the leader and gives you multiple quests. Accept the interrogation quest, then go meet the woman upstairs to start the quest. When you get in the room to talk to Sirus, pick the 'Intelligence' option first, the 'Speech' option next, and then the 'Intelligence' option. Any of the three 'Intelligence' options work. Then, select the 'Speech' option (which should now be grayed out), and cycle through the 'Intelligence' options. You will get 50 XP every time you cycle through the options.
Go to Vault 11, and you will get a quest to find out what happened there. Once you get the overseer's passcode and enter it into her computer, you will be led to the 'sacrificial chamber'. Use a Stealthboy to get past everyone, and when the walls on the left open (as you walk in), go into the door and access the computer mainframe. You will be given three options, 'Override' and 'Download' for two conversations. Select the second download to get 500 XP. Do not exit the mainframe. Just keep selecting that option to get 500 XP each time. Repeat this as many times as desired.
This glitch requires a 35 Barter skill level. Go to Cottonwood Cove (in the southeast corner of the map alongside the river). You will meet a man named Aurelius of Phoenix (he sometimes wanders out of the camp). Speak to him, and choose to barter with his camp for ammunition and supplies. Select this option will get you 35 XP. Keep selecting that option to get 35 XP each time. Repeat this as many times as desired.
This glitch requires a 35 Medicine skill level. Once you gain access to the main strip, find Victor outside the Lucky 38 Casino. He will tell you that Mr. House wants to meet you. Follow him inside, and go up the elevator. Speak with Mr. House (the giant television face that looks like Howard Hughes). Find the dialogue choice pertaining to needing to ask him a few questions. Then, ask 'Who exactly are you, Mr. House?', and choose 'You appear to be a computer, not a man'. Next, select the Medicine skill check response, 'The lifespan you're claiming is impossible, except for ghouls and super mutants.' You will then get 35 XP (or 39 XP if you have the Swift Learner perk). You can repeat this as many times as desired.
This glitch requires a 50 Barter skill level. In 'The House Always Wins, I' quest, when you meet Mr. House for the first time, he will ask you to get his chip. When he tells you the deal is 1,000 caps, refuse it. Keep refusing his offers after bartering until he tells you to come back. After you talk to him again, select the following choices: 'Tell me your terms again?', 'The chip is worth far more than that', then 'Still not interested', and repeat as many times as desired.
Gamble in a casino, and play roulette. You will get 100 XP no matter if you win or lose.
Infinite caps
Go to the town of Primm, and successfully complete the 'My Kind Of Town' quest to get them a new sheriff. Wait 3 to 7 in game days for the Vikki and Vance Casino to open again in Primm. Then, go to the Vikki and Vance Casino, and either win as many chips as possible from gambling or exchange as many caps for chips as possible. Go to the cash register to trade the chips in for caps. You will get the equivalent for the chips in caps, but you will still retain all your chips. Simply keep trading in the chips for caps to get as many caps as desired. Note: This glitch was done on an unpatched version of the game.
Go to a weapons and/or armor merchant, and see if they have two of the same weapon or armor for sale. If you can afford it, get the overall most expensive item at the lowest condition. For instance, if they have two Raider Sadist Armors at 45% and 76$, but also has two Flamers at 20% and 8%, then choose the Flamers. Purchase the cheapest of the two items, and then immediately sell it back to the merchant. Buy it again, and sell it back to them again. Usually the second, but sometimes the third time, you buy the same item from them, and it will appear in your inventory at 100% condition. Sell it back to them, and it will reappear in their inventory at the original low % condition. Buy it again, and it will appear at 100% condition. Repeat this until they have no more caps. If you wait three days after they run out of caps, they will have new stock and approximately 650 caps. The longer you wait, the more robust their inventory will be and the more caps they will have. Note: This glitch can cause the game to freeze. It is recommended you save your game often when doing this just in case the game freezes.
Successfully complete the 'Wang Dang Automatic Tango' quest to find Fisto, a Sexbot. Then, go to Silver Rush Casino, and talk with Fisto next to the roulette table. He will offer his services. Choose the 'No thanks' response to get 10 caps. You can keep selecting this answer as many times as desired to get 10 caps each time.
Play the 'I Put A Spell On You' quest (you start the 'I Put A Spell On You' quest through the Caesar's legion quest line), and complete up to the part where you blow up the monorail and have to go talk to Colonel Hsu. Note: Make sure you have successfully blackmailed Private Crenshaw first. You will have the option to tell him who blew up the monorail. After you tell him who it was, you will have to provide proof. Tell him Private Crenshaw had explosives and plans for the operation bearing Caesar's emblem. He will award you 100 caps. You can keep doing this to get 100 caps each time. -From: SummerSinner
Easy caps
If you lose in any of the gambling games and then reload your saved game, the game will force you to wait 30 seconds to prevent you from cheating. However, there is a way around it. When you are at the slot machines, do not exit slot machine mode to reload your game when you lose. Instead, once the wheel stops spinning and your results are shown, pause the game and reload your saved game. As long as you do not exit slot machine mode before reloading, you will not be forced to wait 30 seconds after reloading. To make easy money, try the slot machine at its maximum of 200 tokens. Never try more than twice at a time. If you lose both spins, just reload your saved game. If you win one of the two times, save your game and continue. Note: This glitch was done on an unpatched version of the game.
In Guardian Peak, you will meet an NCR soldier who is wounded. Through some Speech checks, you can get him to give you his gun for escorting him out of the cave that he is in. When you get to the entrance of the cave with him in tow, he will speak, and you can keep asking him for his rifle, which he will give you along with ammunition. Note: This is best done after getting the perk that allows for over encumbered fast travel.
Free repairs
The following glitch allows you to repair all items to the player's current repair level without using any caps. You first must have the Confirmed Bachelor perk and enough caps to cover the repair cost of the item. When you arrive at the Mohave Outpost to get the pardon for the new sheriff of Primm, during the conversation with Major Knight, a Confirmed Bachelor speech option is available. Select it, and whenever you do repairs through him, the item will get repaired to your repair level, but no caps will be deducted from your inventory. This can be very useful when combined with any of the 'Infinite caps' glitches, and results in your player having all items at 100% condition (even items like the Fat Man, where replacement parts are difficult to find).
Infinite magazines
Go to Old Mormon Fort in Freeside. Find Julie Farkes inside the Fort. Choose the dialogue option to help them get medical supplies. Go through the dialogue options to hear one that tells you that she just got a shipment of magazines. Then, choose the 'I have some medical supplies to drop off' option. There will then be three options; choose the 'Rad-Away' option, as it is the easiest one of the three to find. You only need to leave one thing if you do not care about fame. Every time you give them something, you will gain more fame. After you give them the supplies, choose the 'I'd like to buy medical supplies' option. There are a few aid supplies there that you can get if desired, but they will not regenerate. In the supply list, you can find the magazines. Buy any desired magazines, and then exit. You can then choose the option to give med supplies again. This time you do not need to give them anything; simply choose the 'Never mind' option. Go back to 'Buy medical supplies', and you can repeat the process for more magazines. You repeat this as many times as desired as long as you choose to drop off supplies first. You can even come back to do it again at a later time. You can get the following magazines: Fix-in' Things (Repair +10), Lad's Life (Survival +10), Meeting People (Speech +10), Programmer's Digest (Science +10), Salesman Weekly (Barter +10), and Today's Physician (Medical -10).
Easy kills
Purchase or find the Anti-Material Rifle. Then, equip it with incendiary rounds. Target an enemy or enemies with it in VATS, then close VATS. You will not use any ammunition, but they will still be on fire and lose health. You will not aggro enemies or friendlies. Also, you will not lose Karma or Reputation with each kill. This glitch is very useful if you need to kill a NCR/Legion that has a weapon or item on them. Note: This glitch was done on an unpatched version of the game.
Easy stealing
Find a place to hide that is out of the line of sight of all surrounding NPC's, and save the game. Then, pick up an item by pressing [Z], and drag it to your hiding spot. Once it says you are 'hidden', press [E] to add it to your inventory. If you lose any Karma, reload your saved game, and try again. A good place to do this trick at is Gloria Van Graff's energy weapons shop in Silver Rush, Freeside. You can do this with any of the items on the counter, and there is a hiding spot on the back side of the room.
Easy Speech
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This glitch requires a 20 Speech skill level. Talk to the 10 of Spades in Camp McCarren. You may first need to find out about Corporal Betsy's trauma. Start a dialogue with him, and select 'I heard about what happened to Corporal Betsy', then 'Tell me what happened'. The next options will be the Speech Check or 'If you were unconscious, how could you have done anything?' Do the Speech Check, and then the other option will be the only one available except 'Never mind'. After you select the unconscious option, the Speech Check will be available again, but grayed out. However, you can still keep pressing [E], and they will alternate. Even though the Speech Check is grayed out, it still counts as a pass.
Easy Hacking, Speech, and Stealing bonuses
Save the game before starting a dialogue with a Speech bonus, hacking a computer, lock picking, or pick pocketing. Then, simply reload the game if you fail the challenge.
Easy hacking
To always hack successfully, go to the terminal, and save the game. Then, start the sequence. If you fail, just reload your saved game, and try again until you do it successfully.
Only use three attempts during a hack, so you leave yourself with one to back out. Then, go back to the attempts screen, and you will have four more chances. Repeat this as many times as desired. -From: Brett Grimes
If you move your cursor throughout the symbols, sometimes you will highlight a group of symbols that you can enter as the password. They usually start with '(', '<', '[', or '{', have different characters in the middle, and end with the same symbol that it started with, except in reverse, such as ')', '>', ']', or '}'. This will completely refill your password attempts, or delete 'dud' words. -From: Brett Grimes
Repairing weapons for free
Sell any weapon that is broken to the Gun Runners. You will receive 0 caps. Accept the sale, and then buy it back for 0 caps. It will be fully repaired for free. -From: Chris Greffe
Killing people without getting bad karma
Find a large object that you can push or pick up. Drop it next to a standing NPC that is not leaning against a wall, doing push-ups, or sitting. Run against the object, and it will damage the NPC without them becoming hostile or you losing reputation. Repeat this until the target is dead. Note: You may take some damage, and the object might fly away.
Getting better items
Find a vendor that has two of the same items, but different quality. If you buy the cheaper quality item, you will still get the higher quality item.
Skipping directly to the strip
In Camp McCarran, you can gain entry to the monorail that goes directly to the strip. Take the long way around, and stay as close to the vending machines as possible. Follow the wall around the back way. Make sure the other soldier has his back to you. Crouch and sneak up to this soldier. You may hear the phrase indicating that if you get any closer, they will have to shoot you. However, as long as you remain hidden, it should only flash 'Detected' briefly a few times. As soon as you are close enough to the door, you can go through it and take a monorail directly to the strip. This may require a few attempts. Be careful when returning to the monorail from the strip, as you will probably be shot. However, as soon as you enter the monorail, it resets, and you can again ride it back to the strip again. By using this glitch, you can bypass many annoyances and quests, and skip directly to meeting Mr. House and finding the person who shot you.
Stealing all 37 gold bars ('Dead Money' DLC)
Note: This trick requires a few C4 and a Detonator. In the final part of the 'Dead Money' downloadable content, you will enter a vault with 37 gold bars weighing 35 pounds each. Each gold bar is worth 10,539 caps. You are not supposed to be able to take them all; however, this glitch allows you to take all 37 gold bars. Enter the vault, and the door will lock behind you. Take everything in the room that you want including the 36 gold bars on the table to your right and the gold bar on the Overseers desk. Deactivate the security system, and activate the computer on the desk. Then, only read 'Vera', and do not access the file that shows up after you read it. Elijah will appear on the monitor; convince him to meet you in the vault. When the conversation ends, the door will unlock. Leave the room immediately, and walk to the far right stairway. A blue force field will appear blocking your path; lay the C4 at the bottom of those stairs, and then press your body against the blue force field in the doorway. When Elijah finishes speaking, he should switch places with you. Make sure he is on or very near your C4. Detonate the C4, and then leave the way you came. You should now have all 37 gold bars worth a total of 389,943 caps.
Chinese Stealth Armor location
Enter the offices in Hoover Dam, and find the room with radiation signs around it. In that room are barrels of goo. To the left is a stack of crates. One of the crates contains the armor. There are two sets, so you can make repairs.
Desert Ranger Combat Armor location ('Honest Hearts' DLC)
The Desert Ranger Combat Armor is in Zion, Stone Bones Cave in Sorrows Camp in the 'Honest Hearts' bonus downloadable content. It is the best non-power armor in the game, and has no faction connections.
Spacesuit location
Go to the REPCONN rocket factory where the 'Come Fly With Me' mission takes place. Go to the basement where Chris goes when they are about to launch the rocket and asks for spare parts. In this room to the left side as you enter is a shelf with an orange suit and a helmet that resembles a fish bowl. Pick them up. When you wear them, they look like something from a 1960's comic book. The Spacesuit gives a good amount of RAD resistance, but has a low DT and breaks easily.
Unique weapon locations
Search the indicated locations to find all unique weapons:
The following unique weapons require the 'Honest Hearts' bonus downloadable content:
Search the indicated locations to find all eight companions. Successfully complete the listed task(s) to recruit the corresponding companion. Note: You can only have one human as a companion at a time. If you recruit a new human companion, you will need to tell them to go to the Lucky 38 Casino so you can swap with him or her later.
Arcade Israel Gannon
Location: Arcade Gannon is a member of the Followers Of The Apocalypse with a mysterious past, and can be found in the Old Mormon Fort.
Perk: Better Healing allows you to regain 20% more health from all sources such as Stimpaks, Doctor's Bags, food, etc.
Upgrade: Hoover Dam help or Tesla Armor as a gift when you complete the quest.
Cass
Location: Cass (a.k.a. Rose of Sharon Cassidy) is a caravan merchant and the daughter of John Cassidy, and can be found at the Mojava Outpost inside the Mojava Outpost Barracks sitting at the bar drinking. You must complete the 'Heartache By The Number' quest to start the process of being able to recruit her. You must then complete the 'You Can Depend On Me' quest from Alice McLafferty. Note: Additional quests may come up during these quests depending on the choices you make and how you are playing the game.
Perk: Whiskey Rose gives you and Cass a higher damage level when you both drink whiskey. You will also not suffer intelligence loss from consuming alcohol and ignoring the effects of alcohol addiction.
Upgrade: Hand Of Vengeance or Calm Heart. The Hand Of Vengeance allows Cass to do 15% additional damage with all guns, and to have better skills with guns. The Calm Heart gives Cass +50 HP, and makes her survive longer during combat.
Craig Boone
Location: Craig Boone is a very talented ex-NCR sniper with a grudge against Caesar's Legion, and can be found inside the Dino's mouth guarding the town of Novac after 9 p.m. You must complete the 'One For My Baby' quest that he gives you when you talk to him in order to be able to recruit him as a companion. He offers a lot of help if you play in Hardcore mode. He pairs really well with either ED-E or Rex.
Perk: Spotter automatically marks hostile targets in the area, which can help at night in case you do not spot an enemy or to differentiate between a friend or an enemy.
Upgrade 1: 1st Recon Beret, which gives you +1 Perception and +5% Critical Chance. You will get this after completing the first quest with Craig Boone.
Upgrade 2: 1st Recon Survival Armor or 1st Recon Assault Armor. The only difference between both armors is cosmetic. You will get this after completing the second quest with Craig Boone.
ED-E
Location: ED-E is a prototype eyebot designed for combat and reconnaissance operations, and can be found in Primm.
Perk: Enhanced Sensors allow you to detect enemies at an increased range, and enemies will appear on the compass and can be targeted in VATS even while cloaked. This works even better if you use this in conjunction with the Spotter perk from Craig Boone.
Upgrade: Enhanced armor or weapons when you complete the quest.
Lily Bowen
Location: Lily Bowen is a friendly nightkin and former member of the Master's army, and can be found in Jacobstown.
Perk: Stealth Girl improves the duration of Stealth Boys by 200%, and all Sneak Attack Critical Hits do an additional 10% damage.
Upgrade: Dialogue about medicine after psychotic breaks or administer medicine in varying amounts to affect the frequency of psychotic breaks and combat damage.
Raul Tejada
Location: Raul Tejada is a ghoul mechanic and former gunslinger held hostage by Tabitha, the mad leader of the State of Utobitha, and can be found in Black Mountain.
Perk: Regular Maintenance slows down the decreasing condition of weapons and armor. It basically lengthens the amount of time you have with a weapon or armor. This can also counteract the negative effects of the Build to Destroy trait.
Upgrade: Vaquero or Full Maintenance. Vaquero gives an increased combat ability. Full Maintenance slows down the decreasing condition of weapons and armor by 75%.
Rex
Location: Rex is a cyberdog belonging to The King, and can be found inside The King's School Of Impersonation in Freeside. You will either need to pay 500 caps or have a 60 Speech skill level to get past Pacer who is guarding the door. You will get the 500 caps back when you talk to The King inside. You must complete the 'G.I. Blues' quest given from The King before you get the 'Nothin' But A Hound Dog' quest from him, which is how you will be able to recruit Rex. It takes approximately 40 minutes to complete both of these quests.
Perk: Search and Mark allows you to find unequipped chems, firearms, and ammunition within a short distance as well as other items such as hidden safes and hollow rocks while you are using the binoculars.
Veronica Santangelo
Location: Veronica Santangelo is a disillusioned Brotherhood Scribe, and can be found in the 188 Trading Post.
Perk: Scribe Assistant allows you to craft workbench items through Veronica's dialogue. She is basically a portable workbench. She also benefits in close combat skills when you complete the quest.
Search the indicated locations to find all skill books:
Tales Of A Junktown Jerky Vendor (Barter)
Nikola Tesla And You (Energy Weapons)
Duck And Cover! (Explosives)
Guns And Bullets (Guns)
Pugilism Illustrated (Hand-to-Hand)
Tumblers Today (Lockpick)
D.C. Journal Of Internal Medicine (Medicine)
Grognak The Barbarian (Melee Weapons)
Dean's Electronics (Repair)
Big Book Of Science (Science)
Chinese Army: Spec. Ops Training Manual (Sneak)
Lying, Congressional Style (Speech)
Wasteland Survival Guide (Survival)
Search the indicated locations to find all Hollow Rocks, which contain ammunition and equipment stashes:
Search the indicated locations to find all seven Snow Globes:
The following Snow Globe requires the 'Honest Hearts' bonus downloadable content:
Search the indicated locations to find all Caravan Cards and people to play the card game against:
The 'That Gun' unique weapon resembles Deckard's Gun from Blade Runner.
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull reference
Go south on the road out of Goodsprings. After about 100 yards, you will find a refrigerator at the base of a hill. There is a skeleton wearing a fedora inside.
Star Wars reference
Go to the town of Nipton. Walk to the right of the town hall's front entrance to find a burned out building, with a pair of burned corpses in front. The view resembles the scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker finds the bodies of his Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen.
Easy 'Artful Pocketer' achievement
This trick can be done before or after you have completed the quests in Nipton. Inside the Nipton General Store is an NPC named 'Boxcar'. Since the Legion has broken his legs, he cannot chase after you when you pick his pocket, nor will he fight back. You can repeatedly enter and exit out of the general store if caught and place items in Boxcar's inventory, then steal them back until you have gotten the 'Artful Pocketer' achievement. If you do not want infamy with the Powder Gangers, create a new saved game before using this trick.
Easy 'Outstanding Orator' achievement
When you have a Speech 40 skill level, go to Camp Golf, by Lake Las Vegas. Accept the quest from the sergeant. Agree to O'Hanran's method, and convince everyone, with Mags being the last. After convincing Mags to play nice, accept her method, and go to the gun range. Help them with their guns (45 skill level required), and wait for them to start walking back to their tent. Talk to Razz, and ask about squadmates. The speech challenge should still be there. You can easily get the 'Outstanding Orator' achievement, as well as experience points in increments of 40. When you are done, talk to the sergeant to complete the quest or talk to O'Hanran and ask about the squad. Note: You have the option of helping them with explosives after the guns.
Steam achievements
Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding achievement. To view your achievements and stats in Steam, select 'Community', 'My profile', 'View all my games', then the game and view stats.
The following achievements require the 'Dead Money' bonus downloadable content:
The following achievements require the 'Honest Hearts' bonus downloadable content:
The following achievements require the 'Old World Blues' bonus downloadable content:
The following achievements require the 'Lonesome Road' bonus downloadable content:
The following achievements require the 'Gun Runners Arsenal' bonus downloadable content:
This is most likely due to the fact that PN lets you change the amount of perks available and apparently makes XFO's 2 perks/level mod break - it acts like its going to give you a 2nd perk but just exits out of the leveling screen when you click on continue without bringing up the perk selection menu. Is there any chance that someone would be willing to make a newer, updated mod that works along with PN? I've gotten so used to getting 2 perks at every level that playing with less is kind of boring and feels limiting. Comments are closed.
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