Hmm, haven't been putting much thought into my character yet. However, the perks that interests me for use for my character would be:

2 - Lady Killer

4 - Educated

6 - Lead Belly or Bloody Mess

8 - Strong Back

10 - Animal Friend

12 - Long Haul or Robotics Expert

14 - Admantium Skeleton or possibly Jury Rigging

16 - Tag! or maybe Better Criticals.

18 - Computer Whiz, maybe? (the level 18 skills doesn't look too attractive to me, but...)

20 - Grim Reaper's Sprint or Solar Powered?

Those above 20 doesn't look that tempting to me, expect maybe Rad Absorption. I may also change muy mindf as my character develops. This list of mine is, however just a list of the perks that I may be interested in choosing for my character, but they're not the final choice by any means. Also, I'm likely to take Intense Training once or twice as well...

Overall I guess my character will be a sort of survivor/trader/smooth talker kind of character.

As long as its not faction controlled.

Wonder if if you can only get certain ones if you join certain sides and factions. :shrug:

Okay so they changed fire-based weapons to Energy Weapons.
Then how come Pyromaniac requires 60 Explosives?
Makes no sense to me.

Anyone catch that Nerd Rage now offers +15 to Damage Threshold? I sense a x2 Toughness / Nerd Rage build in my future... shrugging off 21 damage + whatever power armor grants seems like it might make you pretty hard to finally put down.

Its a ninor faction that controls it.

Someone make a flash char planner like for F3 already. My mind can't wrap around this.

You wouldn't consider theoretical deductions for better playing experiences, well, hints? ^_^

My first build will be a sniper for the NCR.

S5 P8 E4 C3 I8 A8 L4 Traits- Trigger Discipline and Small frame.
Tags- Guns, sneak, lockpick.

I can't be bothered to write all the perks out but it will be ones like, Travel light, sniper, admanantium skeleton(to try make up for small frame trait), The Professional, silent running, friend of the night etc.

Afaik you can't get an implant to boost STR (kinda makes sense too, given that you can get a Power Armor and the Weapon Handling perk for +2 STR for purposes of... handling weapons.)

S5 P6 E5 C5 I7 A7 L6

Built to destroy - Wild Wasteland

Guns - Lockpick - Speech or Repair

2 Train INT
4 Educated
6 Train LCK
8 Commando
10 Scrounger
12 Finesse
14 Silent Running
16 Sniper
18 Chemist
20 Weapon Handling
22 Better Criticals
24 Laser Commander
26 Math Wrath / Nerves of Steel (if this perk got fixed)
28 Action Boy
30 Nuka Chemist

From what I understand you can only have one implant at I time, I may be mistaken though.

Juggernaut

DT: +6
DT vs melee and unarmed: +11
DT while at 20% health or less: +21
DT vs melee and unarmed while at 20% health or less: +26

S 8(9) P 4 E 8 C 4 I 6 A 7 L 3
Traits: Heavy Handed, Good Natured
Tag: Melee, Speech, Science
2: Intensive Training - Strength
4: Educated
6: Toughness
8: Super Slam
10: Nerd Rage
12: Unstoppable Force
14: Piercing Strike
16: Toughness
18: Stonewall
20: Adamantium Skeleton
22: Purifier
24: Slayer
26: Rad Child
28: Rad Absorption
30: GRS or pending

Can I get a link to this. I haven't heard anything about this. But if its true I'd like to know so that I can edit my build.

Implants are the only way to boost your SPECIAL points (or use Intense Training perk). They are done by a faction (Followers of the Apocalypse) for anywhere from a 1000 caps to tens of thousands (this is what the guide says). They include a +1 boost to Agility, Charisma, Endurance, Intelligence, Luck, Perception. There are two additional ones too. One boosts your Damage Threshold by +4 and another regenerates health.

I'm guessing the price will vary depending on the amount of implants already installed.

they nerfed grim reapers sprint

Traits:
Small Frame
Trigger Discipline

S:3
P:4
E:7
C:8
I:7
A:6
L:5

Perks:
Lvl 2 - (2)Rapid reload (AG 5, Guns 30)
Lvl 4 - (4)Travel light (Survival 45)
Lvl 6 - (6)Shotgun surgeon (Guns 45)
Lvl 8 - (6)Lead Belly(EN 5)
Lvl 10 - (10)Animal Friend#1 (CH 6, Survival 45)
Lvl 12 - (6)Ferocious Loyalty (CH 6)
Lvl 14 - (8)Strong back (ST 5, EN 5)
Lvl 16 - (8)Quick Draw (AG 5)
Lvl 18 - (8)Pack rat (IN 5, Barter 70)
Lvl 20 - (10)Animal Friend#2 (CH 6, Survival 45)
Lvl 22 - (22)Spray 'n Prey
Lvl 24 - (18)Computer whiz(IN 7, Science 70)
Lvl 26 - (26)Nerves of Steel (AG 7)
Lvl 28 - (28)Rad Absorption (EN 7)

You cant get strong back you dont have the strength for it.

I was messing around with what I would like for perks, and came to realize that for what I want, I'm very restricted to how I can distribute my special points. When I calculate what I would need, I'm only left with 10 points for Str, Chr, and Luck. Assuming I max out my Int at the start. I'm not sure what kind of effect having low Chr and Luck in New Vegas will have.

As long as you're rich, I'm sure they're just what you're looking for.

(2) Friend of the Night - I think its a great way to add a touch of reality to make it that we will have to adjust to lightning in this game. I will be superior in this regard.
(4) Cannibal - Better not come around my abandoned shack
(6) Lead Belly - Sometimes I might not have a corpse to gorge on so i need some thing to make the toilet water more palatable
(8) Terrifying Presence - With this I'm really gearing myself to be feared
(10) Animal Friend - I'll be the wild cannibal who doesn't have to worry about animals attacking
(12) Silent Running - Even better for me to sneak up on my drunken prey in the new vegas
(14) Animal Friend - Now I'll be the wild cannibal who has animals attacking with him (beware the desert!)
(16) Travel Light - ok going back to a level 4 perk at this point means that i can chase my victims down or outrun some crazy mutant on my tail
(18) Chemist - they say there are going to be new drugs in vegas? gotta double the pleasure with this one
(20) Ninja - Because i'm going to be real sneaky
(22) Solar Powered - to give me that extra bit of survivability in the wasteland
(24) Night Person - not many perks to choose from at this level, might as well go back and pick up this one... night or day i'll be vicious

i think i'll leave it at that for now... i think there are many more perks to be revealed. can we actually get a new perk every 2 levels... thats a lot of perks.

So apparently you have to have an unknown endurance score to get those medical implants. And knowing this game it's going to be a number above six. Well isn't that just FAN [censored] TASTIC? Thanks a lot, [censored]s. I was actually looking forward to playing this [censored] until now.

Calm down, all info points to there being a limit to the amount of implants you can get which is based on your endurance. Which is reasonable, if you are too frail, your body might not be able to handle the additions to it.

Kain: Guns, Lockpick, Science
Built to destroy, four eyes

S-9 (and an implant)
P-3 (6, FE gives +3 right?)
E-5 (6)
C-1 (too bad i cant go to 0, its so useless)
.I-9 (10)
A-7
L-6 (8)
Perks:
IT Luck
Educated
IT Intel
Comprehension
IT Luck
Cannibal
Fortune Finder
Strong Back
Tag! Repair
Night Person
Hard Loader
Jury Rigger
IT End
Unknown
Explorer

well here is my planned second character

THUD

S P E C I A L

8 1 9 3 1 9 9

Traits loose cannon wild wasteland

tagged skills melee unarmed survival
also train sneak
somewhat train repair

perks

2 hunter
4 lady killer
6 toughness
8 stonewall
10 toughness
12 piercing strike
14 purifier
16 strong back
18 finesse
20 ninja
22 super slam
24 slayer
26 nerves of steel
28
30

I think this will work out well.

wow, one INT? good luck leveling up those skills you mentioned.

admittedly I only spent a few min on the plan so far but ...

I only need 35 points or so in unarmed to reach the 70 needed by 12th level.. and ill have 110 plus points by then

I only need around 45 into melee by level 20 and around 60 into sneak to get ninja and by then ill have 190 plus minus the 35 I needed in unarmed so I have room to spare.. not alot but room

And finaly by 24 I need anouther 20 in unarrmed and will have gotten anouther 40 plus...

And before the end ill have gotten 290 plus skill points and only need around 150 ish to max my tagged skills so have plnety for sneak and a bit of repair with room left over for other stuff. And thats without any books.