


You can also max your SPECIAL stats and skills by level 30. Weapons also have durability, meaning you can only fire them a certain number of times before they need to be repaired. There are several changes in this game from previous Fallout games. For those choosing to detonate the bomb in Megaton, you'll need to get the strength bobblehead, then wait till after taking the perk to get Ant Might from Dr. The Pyromaniac specializes in weapons that deal fire damage, making a unique damage build.Īll characters can max their stats if they get the Almost Perfect perk at level 30 and then collect the bobbleheads. Same with the pyromaniac as their primary weapons deal very little critical damage, have very low chance for critical hits, or cannot deal critical damage at all. Low Critical builds focus on high damage per second instead of criticals due to their weapons having very low chance, very low critical damage, or cannot deal critical hits at all, so they will mainly be using machine gun type weapons, though other weapons they use can deal better critical damage and hits, but they don't need high luck. Assassins attack in stealth to inflict sneak attack critical hits which are always inflicted as long as you are hidden. Full Frontal Assault builds focus on getting as high a chance of critical hits through equipment, perks, high luck, and the usage of VATS if they choose to use it.

All builds if properly done can max all skills due to skill points and skill books. The Full Frontal Assault and Low Critical Full Frontal Assault builds attack primarily out of stealth, wheras the assassin attacks from stealth, though there are times when they will have to fight out of it so they should also be built for it. I have come up with four builds that each follow a different playstyle. Right now I have yet to get the hang of Fallout Tactics, so I'll be skipping that game for now. So this thread will be used to give advice for other newbies, similar to another thread I made for making characters in Fallout 1 and 2. I finally feel like I know how to make a great character in Fallout 3.
