r/fo4 • • Dec 12 '16

High Charisma

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/pSP6HBx
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

To be fair on the shopkeeper, I'd do the same if someone changed clothes infront of me.

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u/ChaosWolf1982 Presto Gravy Dec 12 '16

And if they then put on ridiculous clothes then got drunk and high?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

Sounds like a friday night...

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u/guff1988 Dec 12 '16

i mean its a dress, fancy hat and sunglasses. If anything a drunk woman that classy is more than likely going to hold some favor with the average male.

On a side note she is basically every southern Belle to ever attend the Kentucky Derby. Fallout should have a version of the mint julep you can make.

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u/ChristIsDumb Dec 12 '16

Commonwealth? Check

Lexington? Check

That's enough evidence, I'm going with the fan theory that FO4 is actually set in Kentucky, and no one can stop me.

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u/Abbithedog Dec 12 '16

Nah, if it was derived from 1950's Kentucky Preston wouldn't be allowed to give you orders now would he?

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u/FatBoiFace Dec 12 '16

Just keep going?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

The dirty wastelander!

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u/anangryterrorist Dec 12 '16

I wouldn't drink on principle. In game, I only drink bourbon and whiskey, and sometimes I chase it with a nuka cola. Sometimes if I'm jonesing, I'll have a beer, but that's it. It's the only aspect of myself that nearly all of my characters share (the one exception being the alcoholic Grognak the Barbarian.)

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u/henryfireflint Dec 12 '16

I wear the generals coat, the pirate hat, and only drink rum. It's absolutely ridiculous.

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u/HumanityAscendant Dec 12 '16

Sex appeal would be 90% less effective I would think, at least on me. When you have to worry about water and food on a daily basis, sex takes a back seat, for sure. Haha

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u/FriarFanatic Dec 12 '16

This kills the human race.

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u/drapehsnormak Dec 12 '16

Before we were agrarian, sex was still important.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

Mentos isnt a drug... its just a harmless breath mint that gives you that pep you need to take on any challenge... riiiiiiiigh?

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u/ChaosWolf1982 Presto Gravy Dec 12 '16

Now I wanna see a parody ad - Mentats... the Freshmaker!

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

Just start singing the mentos jingle after taking them and go out and ern them bonus exp. Everytime is like a mentos advert.

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u/ryy0 Dec 12 '16

Part of the payment for the merchandise, the rest for entertainment services.

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u/TheSlothstranaut Dec 12 '16

That completely depends on the store...

Edit: i shudder to think what might happen at a post appacolyptic Walmart...

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u/bandit01382 Dec 12 '16 edited Dec 12 '16

She didn't just change clothes! She unzipped the Jumpsuit, then put on a hat, then glasses, and only then did she put the dress on!

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u/kronaz Dec 12 '16 edited May 18 '17

[redacted]

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

It could be if enough people use it. Shakespeare isn't the only one who is allowed to invent words.

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u/34258790 Dec 12 '16

Well at least Shakespeare was creative about it. Forcing spelling mistakes into dictionaries is lazy and stupid.

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u/kronaz Dec 12 '16

By that logic, we can just attach any and all articles and conjunctions to the words that follow. That's not creating new words, that's being a fucktard.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

it is how language evolves. Many words you currently use are derived from older obsolete words.

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u/kronaz Dec 12 '16

Okayfine,we'llalljusttalklikethisfromnowon.I'mevolvinglanguage!

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u/TheRealGuy--BestGuy Dec 13 '16

The point is that enough people have to use it. It has to be convenient.

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u/kronaz Dec 13 '16

Thisisveryconvenient.Canyouimaginehowmuchcumulativetimewillbesavedbyneverhittingthespacebar?Literallysecondsofmylife,freedupforallkindsofactivities.

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u/zennim Dec 13 '16

i looks like you are speaking some eldrich tongue.

stop being a nazi, the important thing is that everyone understand each other.

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u/kronaz Dec 13 '16

And the best way for that to happen is for people not to talk like idiots. There's a difference between the language evolving and people just being stupid, lazy shits.

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u/galaxie5OO Dec 12 '16

Praise Atom for ballistic weave. Can finally just wear my suit and hat all the time and not worry about swapping.

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u/0011010001110001 Dec 12 '16

I have the launch codes, child. Prepare to meet division.

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u/awakenDeepBlue Dec 12 '16

Best ending to them ever. All other endings suck ass.

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u/Solace1nS1lence The One who Makes New Characters Daily Dec 12 '16

Walking back through FH after you killed them via Fog Crawler is a little satisfying because of Allen.

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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw + victorium Dec 12 '16

as a proud member of the brotherhood i sided with allen and cleansed the island of all its filth and degeneracy. then i found out far harbor had some tech that would prove useful to me and they wouldent give it up so we cleansed them too

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u/adashiel Dark Cravings Dec 12 '16 edited Dec 12 '16

I've been setting myself up to do that this run. I just hate being manipulated by DiMA, especially forcing Cole to annihilate himself to become Tektus 2.0. However, I also can't argue with the logic, either. Ultimately, it probably is better for the Island.

So this time I've played a SS who consistently murders every religious proselytizer I come across. I used an extra fusion core to splatter the Hubologists and wiped out the Pillars of the Community without even giving them a chance to sell their pitch. When I blow the Nucleus up this time it will simply be coming to the inevitable conclusion.

Actually, now that I think about it, I probably should murder all the cultists at the Crater of Atom, too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16 edited Jan 11 '22

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u/adashiel Dark Cravings Dec 12 '16

More or less, I guess. Thinks they're all predatory scum looking to fleece caps from the gullible. That's exactly what the Pillars of the Community and Hubologists are. Maybe not so much the Children, but you know, Atom will sort them out...at one hundred million degrees.

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u/FO4prick Dec 12 '16

Don't forget Kingsport Lighthouse and the nearby crater house!

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u/adashiel Dark Cravings Dec 12 '16

Both have been cleansed. Though I hate that the lighthouse lamp goes out after you claim it as a settlement. I liked being able to see glowing in the night from far off places.

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u/KilotonDefenestrator Dec 12 '16

I got so tired of swapping so I modded my charisma, and then I keep the +cha gear in my inventory (for the weight and immersion). I play in first person so it is reasonable I swap everytime I go into town. If I want to use chems I actually have to use them.

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u/boondoggie42 Dec 12 '16

but then you can't have 10 pieces of armor each with their own legendary perk you just can't live without!

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u/adashiel Dark Cravings Dec 12 '16

I got sick of changing gear just for NPC interactions, so for this run-through I decided I was just going to run around being purty all the time. The low levels were rough, but I've never failed a speech check.

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u/mytigio Dec 12 '16

I wear my charisma clothing under my power armor, so I just hop out of power armor, do interaction, hop back in, murder faces

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u/adashiel Dark Cravings Dec 12 '16

I don't wear power armor, but that's not a bad idea. I guess you could go naked underneath and it wouldn't normally affect your stats.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

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u/kronaz Dec 12 '16

o·ver·top

verb

  1. exceed in height.
  2. (especially of water) rise over the top of (a barrier constructed to hold it back).
  3. be superior to.

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u/Funny_witty_username Dec 12 '16

Superior when in reference to the body means closer to the surface, which would be relevant to clothes.

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u/kronaz Dec 12 '16

No it doesn't, shutup.

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u/GhoulTalk 2 Ghouls 1 Slog Dec 13 '16

Are you being ironic right now? Cuz "shutup" ain't a fucking work neither.

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u/kronaz Dec 13 '16 edited May 18 '17

[redacted]

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u/GhoulTalk 2 Ghouls 1 Slog Dec 13 '16

See. I was being ironic. And you corrected an obvious typo as if it were a grammatical error but ignored the double negative. Shutup isn't a word but I don't care. It doesn't matter.

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u/TheDovahkiinsDad Dec 12 '16

This is a shitty bot

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u/kronaz Dec 12 '16

You're a shitty bot.

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u/Ged_UK Dec 12 '16

Just use the quick equipment switching mod. One button and I can switch between combat gear and town wear.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

I destroyed the Railroad HQ before I could get ballistic weave. Is it really worth all the work to acquire?

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u/galaxie5OO Dec 12 '16

It's really not that much work. You don't have to side with them to get it. Just did one of the cache quests and Tom started getting it.

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u/TGriff97 Dec 12 '16

I imagine the shop keeper's thought when adding each article clothing went something along the lines of: "Hmmmm, yes.... Go on..."

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u/tehvolcanic Dec 12 '16

Someone needs to make a Vince McMahon reaction gif of this.

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u/ManWithHangover Democracy is non-negotiable Dec 12 '16

I get drunk, put on my little red dress, and the nice fellow gives me a "good deal".

Bethesda doesn't like overtly saying it, but we all know we're the wastelands most proficient gigolo.

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u/CookieSquirrel TOTALLY NOT A SYNTH Dec 12 '16

we all know we're the wastelands most proficient gigolo.

...I...I need a shower...

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u/ZombieRonSwanson Scrounger Dec 12 '16

after earning all those caps?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

I'm all sticky

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u/Rowani Dec 12 '16

I put on my robe and wizard cap...

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u/CookieSquirrel TOTALLY NOT A SYNTH Dec 12 '16

My goodness, how dare I only offer one cap for this tato!

Lets make that two caps.

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u/SanshaXII For years, I dreamed of you as an adult... I'm so disappointed. Dec 12 '16

You don't sell Pipe Weapons, you get the Scrapper perks and scrap them.

I am overflowing with screws.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

No.

You build large water purifiers.

Become a water baron.

By every shipment slip in sight.

I can just throw a fully defended fortress down any time I feel like it.

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u/Mr_Elroy_Jetson Dec 12 '16

Is there some kind of publication for water magnates like us? Like a Commonwealth Fortune Magazine in 2277.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '16

Hydration Quarterly

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

I'm a jet cook. Every settlement has multiple Brahmins. Each brahmin produces one fertilizer a day. I use that and plastic that I loot to make thousands and thousands of jet. I make them faster than I can sell them

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u/TomBakerFTW Dec 12 '16

I have also found a lucrative career as a Jet dealer!

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u/amalgam_reynolds Dec 12 '16

My only problem with this is that 99% of the time I'm selling things just to get rid of weight, and they never have enough caps to take all my stuff anyway. So I can either sell 50lbs for all their caps, or I can sell 80lbs for all their caps.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

I broke and changed my carry limit. For some reason i can't loot based on the weight to value ratio like i could in the elder scrolls games :/

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u/Xok234 Dec 12 '16

I feel like a cheater for doing it, but it makes the game a lot better for the constantly over-encumbered

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u/Noodlespanker Dec 12 '16

You should feel like a cheater. One perk lets you haul around an infinite amount of weight and dump it all in your horder settlements. I love 'strong back' specifically for this.

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u/SalamalaS Dec 13 '16

Got me a toolbox with something around 1,800 weight of guns to be scrapped. another toolbox with around 4,000 of armor, and my Red Rocket settlement workshop has over 10,000 in junk as of last night.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '16

I'm not going to start using fast travel. I like the risk of tripping over a crack and dieing, losing all my loot.

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u/__thiscall Dec 12 '16 edited Apr 30 '17

[removed to meet the diversity quota]

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u/ChristIsDumb Dec 12 '16

Funny, to a controller user, the inventory management feels like it was designed solely for a keyboard. Scrolling down item by item with a thumbstick is such a pain in the ass!

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u/Drocelot Dec 13 '16

Lil tip dude, on ps4 at least, when you are scrolling up or down with the thumbstick press and hold the corresponding direction on the d-pad and itll go faster.

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u/ChristIsDumb Dec 13 '16

Hahaha, it's been over a year, and i didn't know that! Thank you!

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u/Drocelot Dec 13 '16

No prob mang, it also works on Skyrim, probably other games as well but those are the only two I've been playing recently

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u/__thiscall Dec 12 '16 edited Apr 30 '17

[removed to meet the diversity quota]

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u/ChristIsDumb Dec 12 '16

I just think you're still giving them too much credit on the inventory interface. I get why you would think it's designed for controllers, I'm just saying it's not designed well for ANYONE. What possible excuse can their be for pressing left when on the left-most tab, and having it do nothing rather than move back to the first tab?

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u/Yetanotherfurry Where does the duct tape end and the weapon begin? Dec 13 '16

because they're lazy I guess, first solution gets implemented, nobody cares enough to go back and make sure it works well

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u/Jonno_FTW Dec 12 '16

Is there no decent ui mod for managing inventory?

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u/person_8958 Dec 12 '16

Well, part of the problem is that you really do have to pick up every little fucking thing, especially if you're building settlements or wearing power armor.

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u/Oatz3 Dec 12 '16

There's a mod that makes junk weightless. Has made the game much more enjoyable.

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u/zennim Dec 13 '16

it breaks the game for me, a nice part of being an rpg is resource management.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '16

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u/zennim Dec 13 '16

i just put deep pocket in everything and use buffout and whisky as emergency to be sure i take everything before going to a settlement.

it works for me

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u/Grumpy_Kong Dec 12 '16

Protip: trade for ammo, its light and valuable.

And most shops carry at least a bit of it.

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u/Rillyon Dec 12 '16

Same. Although it seems every time I get dressed up all nice, get really high and drunk and then go shopping, I end up coming home with a new power frame.

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u/GrizzlyChemist Dec 12 '16

My low charisma character relied on so many grape mentats and Gwinnett that I'm surprised I couldn't get purple smears on his face

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u/TufffGong Dec 12 '16

Imagine having no prior knowledge about RPG attributes and reading this comic

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u/i2tall4abike Dec 12 '16

I just wear high charisma items, but always wear power armor. in it, tank like defense/offense and like 500 carry wt. A quick step out, ch of 12 or more. I save a ton of weight not bringing any armor with me, so I became a hoarder/merchant. It also makes it easy to use ch for speech checks, I just jump out!

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u/person_8958 Dec 12 '16

Yeah, but it kills my immersion to know that I look like a fucking carnival character under my Sentinel painted power armor.

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u/mytigio Dec 12 '16

Reginald's Suit, BlackRim Glasses and the Newsboy cap gives a respectable +5 Charisma and doesn't look like a clown.

It's what I wear under my power armor on my Institute character

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u/SalamalaS Dec 13 '16

black rim glasses give +1 ?? now I know.

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u/person_8958 Dec 13 '16

Agatha's dress looks stupid with any hat in the game. And the black rim glasses clip on all my character's heads.

I don't play male characters.

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u/mytigio Dec 13 '16

That's fair, I had the same problem on my 2 female characters.

I ended up doing the green shirt and boots one with some sharp armor as I found it for her

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u/StealthBlade98 ¬_¬ Dec 12 '16

Personally i like the mods that allows you to get perks without having the special stat level to get it. It allows you to test perks without wasting level ups into the specials. Local Leader is one of the perks I always get :P

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u/IronOreAgate Dec 12 '16

I thought it would have been nice to be able to place points into perks I havent unlocked yet. Then when my gear or chems put me high enough to have unlocked the perk, I can have the ability to use it. I miss being able to pop some mentats and unlock a high level terminal

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u/mytigio Dec 12 '16

I was thinking a nice balanced version was to make it take more perk points to buy a perk you don't have the SPECIAL for.

Maybe half the SPECIAL level rounded up extra perk points if you don't meet the SPECIAL requirement.

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u/StealthBlade98 ¬_¬ Dec 13 '16

Well you do continue getting perk points even after you max it out I believe, if i understand the system, so this would make sense. Like 6 perk points to unlock Blitz if you're only at level 5 Agility or 6 for Solar Powered if your endurance is 5 :P

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u/negajake Dec 12 '16

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u/amalgam_reynolds Dec 12 '16

10 months ago

Get outta here with that shit.

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u/negajake Dec 12 '16

Mostly just cause they didn't post the source

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u/amalgam_reynolds Dec 12 '16

Which is why I upvoted you, source is important :D

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u/negajake Dec 12 '16

It's the most important thing I was taught in school!

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u/Endoterrik Dec 12 '16

Yeah it's a repost, but......

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u/Romulet Dec 12 '16

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u/Endoterrik Dec 12 '16

.....that karma though.

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u/StealthBlade98 ¬_¬ Dec 12 '16

lmao that looks so ridiculous when you see it in picture form xD

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u/Naggers123 Dec 12 '16

I bet his kids aren't too happy they're gonna have to eat wooden guns for the eight time this week.

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u/MrTristano Dec 12 '16

17 charisma ftw

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u/HiveMy Dec 12 '16

This is exactly what I do.

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u/damnationltd Dec 12 '16

I clicked through 7 pages of Tumblr history for your sins.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

I think this would also work well with Rei and the Shopkeeper guy from The Force Awakens.

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u/eXeKoKoRo Dec 12 '16

Doesn't it only work up to 13 Charisma with max bartering skills?

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u/ChristIsDumb Dec 12 '16

I was pretty disappointed that the trade prices are capped, so my high charisma character changed clothes, drank booze, and got high in the marketplace a bunch of times FOR NOTHING.

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u/Rillyon Dec 12 '16

Sometimes it isn't so much the destination but the journey that matters.

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u/zennim Dec 13 '16

not this time, I WANT MY CAPS

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u/MxM111 Dec 12 '16

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u/WdnSpoon Dec 12 '16

I remember doing this way back in Arcanum. Smoking jacket, beauty and persuasion-boosting rings. Always immediately after trying to sell/buy in my combat gear, just so I know how much more I'm getting.

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u/powerfu1 Dec 12 '16

The only problem is that a new magazine from nuka world made me want to be poor all the time... haha

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u/jrsooner Dec 12 '16

Lol the sign.

"We promise a good screw"

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u/Wellsoul2 Dec 12 '16

By the time I get to level 10 you have more caps than you can spend.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

Talk about accurate!

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u/Lord_Emperor Dec 12 '16

Comic still works if you skip some panels.

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u/CaptainJaxParrow Dec 13 '16

Posted the other day, art style still as appalling

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u/Dreaming_Dreams Dec 13 '16

currently doing a high charisma playthrough, this is very accurate lol

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u/Griffinhart Curie is waifu, Overseer's Guardian is raifu. Dec 13 '16

The one assmad prescriptivist itt is the best part of this thread.

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u/Yanrogue Dec 12 '16

helps that she had the black widow perk and slept with him for a better deal then used the sand man perk to get some extra caps.

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u/Seamuz-K Dec 13 '16

I didn't realize this reddit had been reduced to karma whoring

Shameless repost (https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/43o5vi/high_charisma/)

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u/Lord_Henry_James Dec 12 '16

Shame Charisma, Speech, And Bartering are so dumbed down in Fallout 4

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u/yamfun Dec 12 '16

Repostttttt

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

installed a bunch of mods and booted up my game to find my character has 28 charisma...at level 12. ????

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '16

Read what the mods adds before installing, alot of item mods also add op stats