cannibal is pretty funny in context to fallout 3 imagine finding out your child's been out of the vault for a few days and they just started eating people
Just enslave the raiders. They respawn in a lota places and its 250 caps each for a "finders fee" i still use lawbringer to reset my good boy points from the raider enslaving but if ya dont care about karma id spend the perk on something else
An interesting thing to note with the Puppies! perk, it's added in Broken Steel. Broken Steel also changed how Dogmeat works so he scales with player level, but the scaling they gave him (and other creature type companions such as Fawkes and RL-3. Human type companions always scaled, but at a much more reasonable level) is just plain nuts. He's got a base health of 500, which he gains again for every level. Got a minimum level of 5, so he'll have a minimum of 2,500 health if you have Broken Steel installed, and 11,000 at the level 22 you can take the perk, and 15,000 at 30. Dogmeat is pretty much never going to die with Broken Steel installed unless you deliberately do so and absolutely work for it
Interesting note, I entered Fort Constantine and dogmeat randomly died sometime after I exited it…before that I had never seen dogmeats hp go below 90% it feels like
The presidential metro can be rough with bad luck on the hardest difficulty. I was finishing of some robots when 4 reavers and some other ghouls came in. Dogmeat survived with less than 5% hp left.
If memory serves Grim Reaper's Sprint was a last minute addition to the game. The devs had a competition in the Bethesda forums just before the game launched to design your own perk and this one was the winner. So literally no play testing to see how balanced/unbalanced it was;). Edited for spelling.
Grim Reaper's Sprint in FO3: Absolutely Busted. Getting full AP back on a VATS kill makes it so easy to spam and makes combat trivial. Grim Reaper's Sprint in New Vegas: Nerfed to oblivion. Getting 20 AP per VATS kill is not enough, and it is only marginally useful on low AP cost weapons like one handed pistols. They had to nerf it somehow but I feel like this was way too harsh. Grim Reaper's Sprint in FO4: The most balanced version, as it relies on a dice roll for each kill. The addition of refilling your Critical Meter is a welcome bonus and stacks well with Critical Banker and Four Leaf Clover.
Personally I'd place lawbringer over contractkiller, because it does unlock plunketts valid points, which you cannot get otherwise. Great content as usual!
@@cyh6092 I have the Epic Games version, it’s wildly unstable. I actually lost like 4 hours of progress due to a crash softlocking me and just gave up.
👀 I would like to see this format for "Tale of Two Wastelands" mod (FO3 and New Vegas into one game) for perks, since they changed how alot of the FO3 perks worked.
What Rad Tolerance should do is move ALL the radiation debuffs up a tier, i.e. level 1 rad poison has no effect, level 2 rad poison gives you the debuff of level 1, etc. This would make Rad Regeneration more useful, as you would only have to sacrifice 1 END to get regenerating limb health.
What could be a good idea is a tier list of enemies sorted by types like bugs, abominations, humans (could be by faction), animals, robots and go into details about their stats and threat level/ coolness.
13:29 Explosives and melee are a very good combo actually, most explosives work as a ranged option that usually leaves enemies crippled. But explosives are a no go at close range so when enemies do get up close you have melee on hand and the targets are already softened up.
22:52 one thing about the light step is that later on in the game, it doesn't cover the sensor traps (like the ones on bog doors) so you still have to be careful.
Child At Heart should be in F tier since it requires you to waste SPECIAL points on Charisma. And Animal Friend is even worse. 6 points in charisma to have mole rat bodyguards when Deathclaws are running around...
17:12 "If you don't care for the Nuka grenade". What? Are you serious? Deathclaws: 1 dart + some nuka grenades + fun! I get this every time and is an A tier for me.
It should be noted that some of these perks are bugged in the vanilla game with perks like ninja doing literally nothing, pyromaniac does not effect the burnmaster, and nuclear anomaly literally just kills yourself on anything higher than normal difficulty with only a chance to kill you.
Robotics Expert does allow you to skip one part of the Wasteland Survival Guide questline: instead of travelling all the way to the RobCo production facility near Tenpenny Towers, you can just tell Moira that you're an expert, so you might as well write that part for her.
Speaking of the Puppies! perk, I found Dogmeat at LV15, but for some Todd knows reason, no matter how tough the fight (even Mutant Behemoths), Dogmeat barely needs a single Stimpak. Why can't he [unalive]?! (Not that i want him to, I'm just perplexed to the point of frustration trying to understand)
Loving the Fallout 3 videos especially. I’ve been playing through it again the last week after doing a New Vegas run with my gf. I’m honestly kinda liking FO3 a little more at the moment at least. The exploration is better for sure, and atmosphere but everyone says that 😂
The atmosphere/exploration of 3 are excellent but man FNV was such a huge improvement in build/perk variety…Even on my first playthrough of 3 i was getting bored of how uninteresting the perk choices were, which was made worse since you get them every level. Going through DC and seeing a huge Enclave vs Mutant firefight makes up for it quite a bit tho
I've been loving all the fallout 3 vids. It's my favorite game of all time and this brings back so much nostalgia. It really feels like the good ol days of 2010 all over again.
honestly I always take swift learner, because most early game perks arent really worth it, and there are usually only a few perks that are necessary to whatever build im using, so it just kinda is always one of my first perks I get
Yeah the problem with pretty much all of the really early perks besides Lady Killer/Black Widow iis that they all become obsolete thanks to Skill Books with Comprehension or Educated and Almost Perfect. I just take Intense Training at Level 3 to make my initial character build a bit stronger for the earlygame. If Child at Heart was a Level 2 perk I'd probably take that one at Level 3 just to save myself some trouble savescumming Speech checks in Little Lamplight lmao.
I do wish that I had this list a few months ago when I non stoped played through Fallout 3. 30:59 Had the Firelance land ontop of a cliff, next to the powersubstation near Ravenrock. After having Dogmeat fail to find it, though, he did stop on the broken fence of the substation, directly below where the cliff holding the Firelance was. Had resorted to freecam as I though it went underground, when I wasn't able to find it after an hour of searching around the area, and down to the lower cliffside. Was a pain to climb up and reach the higer cliff to collect the Firelance.
I think the only time I took here and now was to get enough skill points for lockpicking/hacking something at the bottom of a dungeon I _really_ didnt feel like schlepping all the way back for twice
I usually get explorer still, not for the map reveal, but because it gives you unique dialogue opinions (I think in fallout 3, but for sure in NV) I like getting all the perks that give dialogue options.
@@ReapeeRon yeah I missed perk based dialogue in fallout 4, but I'm glad they brought it back in Starfield. Also do you think you'll ever do any Skyrim or Oblivion content? You've done Starfield and Fallout so I figured I'd ask if you plan on doing Elder Scrolls.
As much as i can agree with Explorer, i think it should have been a bit higher. Sure, you could use an online map, but it's really nice when you watch a RU-vid video and don't want to bring up a map. And also, i prefer it just because i prefer always knowing where i'm going instead of aimlessly walking around, which is bound to happen after you beat the game.
I find putting points and perks into sneak pretty unnecessary since stealth boys make you undetectable and are just better since enemies can still find you pretty easily even with max sneak and silen running
I'd be interested to see this broken down by level you can get the perk at, or at least factoring that in, since things like Swift Learner aren't great but it is competing against some real duds since anything that is just a few skill points is basically a waste of a perk so at level 2/3 you're only real choices are this, lady killer/black widow, and intense training. Intense training is good but not as useful in Fallout 3 since bobbleheads exist and the Broken Steel perks that set your special stats higher can help (though those come in a bit late to be relevant) and while black widow is pretty useful lady killer is far less consistently applicable. Bonus to XP gains is the only truly universally useful perk, and sure it's not great, leveling up a bit quicker can help you get to actually useful perks faster and has use for most of a playthrough since you likely won't hit the level cap that early
Pyromaniac is actually kinda worse than you think. There’s a select few fire weapons that do not work and are unfortunately most of the unique fire weapons
@@ReapeeRon Basically lol I had to take on the mothership DLC with no items and like a borderline stealth game. Because my buddy said that I wouldn't be able to access it. Just to find out that I absolutely could have taken my items with me lol I blame my low EXP gains on the fact I for some reason grabbed skilled as one of my starting perks in TTW.
Explorer was so much better back in 2008 when internet was less available and guides were less accessible, but it's definitely useless nowadays except for convenience
Really surprised to see you putting Infiltrator/Computer Whiz above Tag - the first two can be replaced by the escape key while Tag at least gives some benefit. Also for a low intelligence build you don't have quite the overload of skill points and could get more mileage out of it
Awesome video but I 100% disagree with Explorer being an F-Tier skill. It is easily AT LEAST B-Tier if not low A. That’s because if you’re doing a collection run it takes out a lot of the guess work of were certain locations are by showing you all the relevant ones nearby. Although I’m an “ancient” gamer that used the map and a player’s guide to find all the unique weapons on my initial play throughs. That was until I got the internet and was able to use weapon and armor guides (like the ones YOU make) to find unique weapons, so having Explorer expedited that process. It being level 20 isn’t even that big a deal because it buffs you out to get to the more challenging areas to get some of the best stuff. So yeah I use it EVERY playthrough of this and New Vegas. Either thanks for posting Fallout 3 content. It’s good to gather with fellow fans that are willing to even remotely acknowledge that Fallout 3 IS a good game, which is dangerous to say on the open internet these days. Or worse still saying ANYTHING good about Fallout 3 without mentioning the ultimate perfected greatness without flaws purity of New Vegas. Lol
I think almost perfect is too highly rated. Sure having all your stats raised to 9 is nice but saving all your bobbleheads til the very end of the game is kinda pointless at that point
Ninja is bugged in fallout 3 it improves your crit chance by a whopping 0%. odd how the nv version is also bugged in a similar but different way. The damage bonus to melee sneak attacks works just fine though.
Yes it looks cool. I think I played part of it in the past but never finished it. Right now I am trying out Fallout London and have been enjoying it a lot!
In my opinion it's Grim Reapers Sprint. That perk plus Lincolns lever action and you've won the game. No if's no but's, pass go collect 200$ You ain't never going to jail.
So this is probably going to get me roasted but... I think Almost Perfect is not that good of a perk. Hear me out, what do you actually get out of it? Since you need to be max level just to get it, you probably already have all the skills you want, if not just plain every skill maxed at 100. The only thing I can see this being useful for is for the bragging rights of having a perfect character.
SPECIAL speech checks. That was why I picked it when reaching level 30 while doing Zeta. Had still to get recruited by the brotherhood. I also did notice that debuffs to some ended up not affecting skills, so I guess it worked as a buffer for them as well.
Puppies belongs in F-tier. Companions in Fallout 3 are weak, shallow and bullshit compared to Fallout: New Vegas. I never had any inclination to use any of the companions in F3, and when I did use them, it seemed like they get in the way more than they help. They even steal your XP unless you download a mod. Any perk related to companions in F3 is automatically F-tier because companions themselves in F3 are all F-tier. There is literally zero point to having companions in F3 except as pack mules.
FO3 really just comes off as an unbalanced mess at times. I don't play it, mostly because I prefer the less chaotic and refined New Vegas but I do wish some aspects of both of these games were intermixed to make one great Fallout from this post-Interplay, pre-Fallout 4 era.
@@ReapeeRonWith a high luck VATS build it’s pretty consistent and if I remember correctly it synergizes with Grim Reaper’s Sprint so it’s like fallout 1 or 2 but it’s always your turn although I get that you ranked it that low because you aren’t a big VATS enjoyer.
This may have already been mentioned in the comments but lawbringer will be a top tier perk if you collect every unique as without it a certain knife (I forget the name) only spawns if you pick that perk so it becomes a must have perk.
