Leveling up with less perks : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:04 am

I like the new perk/skill system. This new system encourages replays because it encourages a variety of customized characters. I'm playing a cowboy this playthrough, and next perhaps a starship trooper, or a tanky streetfighter. I also like the challenge of planning the character out. To me, that is half the fun of rpgs.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:05 am

When I took educated I guess I misunderstood the perk.

To my understanding it was supposed to give me 2 more skill points every level but I now understand that It only increases it by 2. I thought it would work like: lvl 15- you get 15 skill points F/Ex and then if you had educated you would get 17 at lvl 16 and at lvl 17 you would get 19.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:36 am

When I took educated I guess I misunderstood the perk.

To my understanding it was supposed to give me 2 more skill points every level but I now understand that It only increases it by 2. I thought it would work like: lvl 15- you get 15 skill points F/Ex and then if you had educated you would get 17 at lvl 16 and at lvl 17 you would get 19.

That would be very very very over powered.
lvl 4 -13 skill points (not educated)
lvl 5 - 15 sp (educated from now on)
lvl 6 - 17
lvl 7 - 19
lvl 8 - 21
lvl 9 - 23
lvl 10 - 25
lvl 11 - 27
lvl 12 - 29
lvl 13 - 31
lvl 14 - 33
lvl 15 - 35
lvl 16 - 37
lvl 17 - 39
lvl 18 - 41
lvl 19 - 43
lvl 20 - 45
lvl 21 - 47
lvl 22 - 49
lvl 23 - 51
lvl 24 - 53
lvl 25 - 55
lvl 26 - 57
lvl 27 - 59
lvl 28 - 61
lvl 29 - 63
lvl 30 - 65

Combined this makes up to 1053 skill points.
Just a little bit overpowered.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:54 pm

The whole point of perks in the first 2 fallouts were to specialize your character.... if you want a mindless game where you can do everything you should stick to fps and adventure titles. Do people not understand what role-playing means?

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:58 am

The whole point of perks in the first 2 fallouts were to specialize your character.... if you want a mindless game where you can do everything you should stick to fps and adventure titles. Do people not understand what role-playing means?

Black and white evil and good system where you get to lvl 999 in the end and get Monstrosous Doom Sword +99 in Strength and +999 in attack?

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:47 am

The whole point of perks in the first 2 fallouts were to specialize your character.... if you want a mindless game where you can do everything you should stick to fps and adventure titles. Do people not understand what role-playing means?

It's sentiments like this that make me resent the community surrounding RPGs.

RPGs allow each player to play it their way. If I want a godlike character, I can get one. If you want a realistic character, you can get one. In the end we still get to role play how we both want. You get your frustrating STALKER-esque build and I get my god-like jack of all trades build. In the end we're both roleplaying. Role-playing doesn't mean you have to have a realistic character that has to run crying back to the doctor every time he bumps into a mutated fly. It gives you the option to if you want, but it also allows others to have a character so bad ass they make Chuck Norris look like a pansy. THAT is the reason I play them. I can still be a badass mofo if I want to, but at the same time I don't have to be.

Well, that and the only place I can find a good story until EP3 releases is in RPGs.

Perhaps it is you who doesn't get it? At any rate stop looking down on people who want to role-play a badass. Not all of us want a realistic idea of how we'd do in post apocalyptia, and if we ever get masochistic there's always STALKER.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:59 am

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34707

Done.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:54 am

Unlike FO3 where you could become "godlike" in FNV at level 30 you are still a human being, and deathclaws are still the greatest non-human hunter in the land. An expert hunter IRL can still be killed by a lion. But where a lion will die with a headshot, imagine that we had genetically engineered a badass predator. Something designed to hunt humans and survive a lot of punishment. That's a deathclaw. Unless you get lucky, or come in with some crazy weaponry/ammo, they are likely to whip your ass.

Except even if Deathclaws existed irl, 1 bullet from a hunting rifle would most likely slow them down so much so that the the next 2 shots would kill/down them for good. Hunting accidents are like 90% a person gets shot. Animal attacks rarely happens and when it does, its usually a Bear involved not a Lion or a Tiger.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:10 am

Why is it that when i level up i get the usual choice of picking my skill points but only get the choice of perks every two levels.. also why when it says 'Adding a skill point to intelligence will allow you to add more skill points when leveling up' When infact it gives me either 15 - 16 - 17 skill points each time... Is it me or does this game just generally feel like a step down from fallout 3 ...?

As was said... INt increase brings a fractional skill point increase.

... I kind of want it to be every 3 levels, honestly.

Same here.

The whole point of perks in the first 2 fallouts were to specialize your character.... if you want a mindless game where you can do everything you should stick to fps and adventure titles. Do people not understand what role-playing means?

IMO that is FO3 & NV :shrug:

What does Role-Playing mean? ~Serious question... there are a dozen answers floating around; to which one do you ascribe?
*(PM; as its off topic.)

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:06 pm

I liked getting 1 perk every 2 lvls until later in the game but I used the mod someone linked above to change that. I think the devs should make perks per how many lvls an pick-able option before you start the game, so each person can decide what they want no matter if it's every lvl, every 2nd, 3rd, 10th or none....just my 2 caps

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