

The additional perk ranks require your character to be a higher level. Gunslinger has ranks that up the range of pistols, add a chance to disarm enemies, and even instant limb crippling shots. takes 25 per cent more damage regardless of weapon) allows more damage the more targets you select, increasing to instant Critical Shots. The idea is each of these perks is a mini-perk tree, with multiple ranks that also do new things.įor example, the Agility 10 Gun Fu perk (your second target in V.A.T.S. "The higher the SPECIAL requirement, the more focused or exotic the perk was for that playstyle," Bethesda said. This system sounds like it would create balance issues, but Bethesda said it had put a lot of effort into balancing the perks among each other, regardless of the SPECIAL rank required. So, if you leave the Vault with a 10 in Charism, you can select the Intimidation Perk, which lets you manipulate human enemies into doing your bidding, from early in the game. You can select any perk up to the rank of your SPECIAL. It's there on the right.Įach SPECIAL has a perk assigned for each rank of the SPECIAL, from one to 10. When you level up you select a perk from a new perk chart found within the game. Every physical pre-order copy of Fallout 4 comes with a perk poster "We've balanced the game to keep the content and challenge going for higher levels," Bethesda said. Meanwhile, Fallout 4 does not have a level cap, whereas Fallout 3 has an initial level cap of 20. So, you will get more opportunities, especially early on, to level up and select a perk. It's unlike Skyrim, Bethesda Game Studios' fantasy open-world RPG, which uses a skill-based system from levelling.īut, levelling speed in Fallout 4 is "closer to Skyrim", Bethesda said, and not as slow as Fallout 3. However, the game lets you change them when exiting the Vault into the Wasteland, "after you've played a little", the developers said in a post on .Īs in Fallout 3, Fallout 4 has experience point-based levelling. This is similar to how Fallout games have worked in the past, but in Fallout 4 you pick your SPECIALS early, before the bombs fall. You have 28 points to assign, which means you can start with a 10 in one SPECIAL if you neglect others. (As an aside, Bethesda has been releasing videos focusing on each of the SPECIALs over the last few weeks.) The first choice you make, early in the game, is the starting value from one to 10 of your seven SPECIALs: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck. Fallout 4's character system makes important changes to the way perks work in the game.Īs in previous entries in the post-apocalyptic open world role-playing game, Fallout 4 uses seven SPECIAL stats and associated perks.
