Discussion The Fallout SPECIAL blackpill

[Deleted member 23656]

SPECIAL

SPECIAL is the ruleset that powers all Fallout games. The name "SPECIAL" is an acronym standing for the primary statistics in the system: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. Characters in SPECIAL are defined through: Primary statistics Derived statistics...

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If you played fallout you will know what I'm talking about. Please note I'm not referring to the latest watered down games that any moron can beat.

Special are your character attribute scores. You assign them at the start and you cannot change them. There are a few late game modifications but for most part they are set.

Special affects which areas you gain skill points in. It also affects how other characters interact with you.

Basically in fallout, if you don't put enough points in the right attributes, the game becomes a lot harder to play because that itself affects your character build.

So if you are low on strength but are in an area where you have only have melee weapons, then youre fucked. You do low damage and cannot access special melee skillsm

If you have good charisma, you can convince people to give you benefits. You can even skip the hard or annoying parts of the game.

If you have low intelligence, characters do not wanna talk to you period. This kills off even main quest options making it difficult to finish the game. You can be level 20 but if the main quest giver tells you to fuck off then what can you do?

My point is people say genetics is just one of the things given to you and the rest is up to yourself. I say that's bullshit. Even something like SPECIAL completely changes your character build and gaming experience.

And they want to tell us genetics isn't everything?

 

[KingOfRome]

Well aren't you the greyest greycel that ever greycelled.

 

[Musophobia]

High effort blackpill mining tbh

 

[FlamingCel]

Brutal attributes pill

 

[crestfallencel]

Need a fucking genetics bobblehead

 

[Iwanttolive]

High effort blackpill mining tbh

 

[Deleted member 5712]

Brutal attributes pill

 

[Deleted member 23656]

It's all over for pipboycels

 

[Deleted member 15737]

I’m stuck on level 1 with low Intelligence and Charisma points. (Assuming charisma factors in your looks)

 

[Acherontia_Styx]

You might just be the most autistic cel I've seen I quite a while but I like you

SPECIAL

SPECIAL is the ruleset that powers all Fallout games. The name "SPECIAL" is an acronym standing for the primary statistics in the system: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. Characters in SPECIAL are defined through: Primary statistics Derived statistics...

fallout.fandom.com

If you played fallout you will know what I'm talking about. Please note I'm not referring to the latest watered down games that any moron can beat.

Special are your character attribute scores. You assign them at the start and you cannot change them. There are a few late game modifications but for most part they are set.

Special affects which areas you gain skill points in. It also affects how other characters interact with you.

Basically in fallout, if you don't put enough points in the right attributes, the game becomes a lot harder to play because that itself affects your character build.

So if you are low on strength but are in an area where you have only have melee weapons, then youre fucked. You do low damage and cannot access special melee skillsm

If you have good charisma, you can convince people to give you benefits. You can even skip the hard or annoying parts of the game.

If you have low intelligence, characters do not wanna talk to you period. This kills off even main quest options making it difficult to finish the game. You can be level 20 but if the main quest giver tells you to fuck off then what can you do?

My point is people say genetics is just one of the things given to you and the rest is up to yourself. I say that's bullshit. Even something like SPECIAL completely changes your character build and gaming experience.

And they want to tell us genetics isn't everything?

 

[Deleted member 23656]

I’m stuck on level 1 with low Intelligence and Charisma points. (Assuming charisma factors in your looks)

Its over. Not just for you but for all of humanity who were resting their hopes on you.

No wonder there are almost no ugly looking MCs to save the world.

 

[TheReaper]

i think that SPECIAL is pretty unbalanced because INT is definitely the most important stat.(influencing the number of skill points per level up and dialogue options).
a low strength character, for example, can compensate his weakness by becoming ultra skilled in unarmed or melee thanks to all the bonus skill points given by 10 INT(purposely ignoring the fact that there are a lot poeple in the game who can raise the unarmed skill).
basically INT is inversely proportional to the difficulty of the game.
and anyway fallout 1 and 2 are broken because you can use drugs to temporarily change your stats in order to access the perks you want or modify the amount of skill points.
being a "high iq crackhead" is the best way to succeed in the world of fallout.