this is a new perk called unstoppable force that will be in New Vegas.



So I'm wondering, is this just extra damage through blocks or extra damage all of the time. I am making a melee character so it would be nice to know because extra damage only through blocks doesn't sound as useful as other perks while extra damage all of the time sounds much more useful than other perks.

Don't have the game, but I believe it's saying that enemies will not be able to effectively block your melee attacks, which sounds pretty useful if you're intending for melee or unarmed to be your main ways of inflicting damage. Compare with Piercing Strike, available at the same level, which allows you to do more damage through enemy armor... doubt Unstoppable Force would be a large amount of additional damage all the time with Piercing Strike right there.

Yeah that was my main problem. Deciding between piercing strike and unstoppable force, but I just caught the through blocks part and wasn't sure how this would effect the skill. I will probably go with piercing strike for sure now.

This perk sounds cool

Not to spam my builds everywhere... but, ummm... here's a melee / damage threshold build I've posted before.

Juggernaut
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

It sounds pretty useless since it would only be useful against enemies who can block, which are pretty much melee weapon wielders.

ya all it does is keep the damage mitigation for blocking from as drasticaly lowering your damage as before.. but only melee enemies can block and even they dont often do so.

Grim Reaper Sprint is nerfed now.

Level 20, and restores only 20 AP on kills in VATS.