Author Topic: The official UV FO3 SPOILERS thread - you've been warned (Read 118882 times)

Hoopy Frood · « **Reply #240 on:** January 21, 2009, 08:13:44 PM »

Quote from: Shard on January 21, 2009, 05:23:15 PM

Ahhh, but I am doing *both* m'lad! +14% critical chance, mmmmmm mmmmm

No stat can have any mechanical effect based on that stat exceed 10.

In other words, since the finesse perk raises your luck by 5 when calcualting criticals, it still can't raise it higher than 10 for that. So a luck of 4 = 4% crit chance; a luck of 4 + finesse = +9% crit chance. A luck of 5 + finesse = 10% crit chance. A luck of 6 + finesse = 10% crit chance. A luck of 7 + finesse = 10% crit chance, etc.

Now other things not tied to luck that raise your crit chance (e.g. some in-game acquired perks) will fully stack with finesse, luck, and each other. But you can never exceed 10% on finesse and luck alone.

Shard · « **Reply #241 on:** January 21, 2009, 08:41:05 PM »

You'd think I'd be disappointed but that just means I have another two stat points to work with.

Sylvee Bee · « **Reply #242 on:** January 22, 2009, 01:48:26 AM »

fricken fire ants.

Doombot · « **Reply #243 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:01:03 AM »

Quote from: Sylvee Bee on January 22, 2009, 01:48:26 AM

fricken fire ants.

Dogmeat loves to attack ants. Dogmeat makes me use up all of my Stimpacks. Dogmeat stays at my house in Megaton now.

Bubonic · « **Reply #244 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:10:52 AM »

Quote from: Loveshack on January 20, 2009, 01:00:49 AM

Poor Harold! Actually, he's kind of an asshole in this one. I suppose it's to make what you do to him easier on the player, but sheesh! Three games in and this is the sendoff he gets?!

I found that having a different actor voice him made him easier to deal with. Charles Adler is the only real Harold.

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Dogmeat loves to attack ants. Dogmeat makes me use up all of my Stimpacks. Dogmeat stays at my house in Megaton now.

Roger that!

Brugdor · « **Reply #245 on:** January 22, 2009, 10:11:20 AM »

Quote from: Sylvee Bee on January 22, 2009, 01:48:26 AM

fricken fire ants.

Dealin with em ain't no picnic that's for sure.

Shard · « **Reply #246 on:** January 22, 2009, 12:56:54 PM »

Quick question that I need to know before I start my bitchy, self interested unarmed chick character.

I've planned out my perk list so I don't have any room for flexibility so I need to know before I create her (hopefully somebody is online now because I want to make her in a few minutes, heh)

You need 6 luck to get the better criticals perk

If I start with 4 base luck at character creation, get a permanent +1 from the bobblehead and then use/carry around the lucky 8-ball, will I qualify for the perk? Or do I need to start with base 5 (6 with bobblehead)?

Shard · « **Reply #247 on:** January 22, 2009, 01:40:44 PM »

Bah! I'm obviously more inclined to believe the people here, but now some people on another message board are telling me that Finesse does in fact stack with luck. Feh

Petrarch · « **Reply #248 on:** January 22, 2009, 01:48:07 PM »

As best as I can remember, when you come to select perks, the select screen ignores bonuses and checks against your base value for their requirements.

Hoopy Frood · « **Reply #249 on:** January 22, 2009, 02:13:03 PM »

Quote from: Petrarch on January 22, 2009, 01:48:07 PM

As best as I can remember, when you come to select perks, the select screen ignores bonuses and checks against your base value for their requirements.

That's the way I understand it as well.

So the bobbleheads, because they actually adjust your stat, will count for requirements. Once picked up, you can immediately drop them if you want. The display case is just a nice place to put them.

Any boosting equipment, though, won't help. And neither will drugs.

Shard · « **Reply #250 on:** January 22, 2009, 04:14:58 PM »

I suppose it doesn't matter now anyway, as I made the character, but just so you know you two guys are being heavily outweighed on another message board about the whole finesse thing. How positive are you that finesse won't stack with luck?

Petrarch · « **Reply #251 on:** January 22, 2009, 07:16:46 PM »

The wording of it saying it's the same as 5 extra points of luck made me think it simply scaled up your luck stat in rolls, but now I think about it, it does make more sense to see it as being an extra 5% on top of that.

I don't have a save file but there'd probably be some way to take it apart in the GECK to prove it for sure.

Loveshack · « **Reply #252 on:** January 23, 2009, 09:46:16 AM »

Quote from: Doombot on January 22, 2009, 02:01:03 AM

Dogmeat loves to attack ants. Dogmeat makes me use up all of my Stimpacks. Dogmeat stays at my house in Megaton now.

Dogmeat continues his trend of being a borderline useless NPC, but it's nice to see that Bethesda stayed true to the original games and required us to stash Dogmeat behind a locked door everywhere we visit if we want him to stay alive. If I could have an NPC stand in the middle of a narrow bridge where I can't get around them or shoot me repeatedly in the back, that'd be cool.

Hoopy Frood · « **Reply #253 on:** January 23, 2009, 07:22:31 PM »

Dogmeats main problem is that he's not smart enough to do called shots.

"No dogmeat. When you meet a mirelurk aim for its face! Its face!"

Of course, dogemeat did find the nuka cola quantum bottle for me that one time. I could see it, but couldn't figure out how to get to it after looting all other stuff in the area. So I told him to fetch me some food. And sure enough, he brought me the quantum.

Brugdor · « **Reply #254 on:** January 23, 2009, 07:55:40 PM »

Quote from: Hoopy Frood on January 23, 2009, 07:22:31 PM

"No dogmeat. When you meet a mirelurk aim for its face! Its face!"

Hehe, first thing I thought of upon reading that was, "Go for the eyes, Boo! The eyes!"

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