I wanted to beef up the perks for a playthrough with 1:3 perk ratio (1 perk every third level) and had a go at modding.
Nexus: http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=44485
These are the changes I made
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¤ Complete
-< Incomplete (Needs work/research)
£ Fine as it is.
-R Removed
M> Merged (
¤ lvl15 Action Boy/Girl
1 rank, 45 AP
¤ lvl15 Adamantium Skeleton
1 rank 70% limb reduction 5 DT
¤ lvl9 Animal Friend
1 rank
£ lvl15 Better Criticals
£ lvl3 Black Widow
¤ lvl9 Bloody Mess -
+15% damage
M> lvl3 Cannibal -
-75karma +75hp -60food (humans)
-75karma +200 health -200 food (super mutants)
-75karma +50hp -50food +80rads (ghouls)
¤ lvl15 Center Of Mass
+25% dam, +80%knockdown @ torso
¤ lvl12 Chemist
x3 drug duration +10 Science +10 medicine
¤ lvl15 Chem Resistant
-85% adict chance.
¤ lvl3 Cherchez Le Femme
¤ lvl12 Commando
+20% damage in VATS (Might only be towards torso, please give feedback.)
M> lvl6 Comprehension
Merged with Retention
-R Computer Whiz
M> lvl18 Robotics Expert
+25% damage, turn off robots, hack a locked terminal, small bonus towards hacking.
-R Concentrated Fire - Merge maybe? For now it's removed.
£ lvl3 Confirmed Bachelor
£ lvl9 Cowboy
¤ lvl6 Demolitions Expert
50% damage (still 3 ranks)
£ lvl27 Nerves Of Steel
-< lvl21 Rad Absorption (Merge? I have no idea if it should be changed or not.)
¤ lvl6 Educated
4 skill points per level (previously all it did was add 58sp at most, I thought it was kinda "meh" so I upped it. Completely up to you when you want to take it, if you don't want as many skill points don't take it or take it later at higher levels.)
¤ lvl3 Entomologist
You can now eat insects cannibal style.
£ lvl21 Explorer
¤ lvl12 Fast Metabolism
+40% health from stimpaks.
£ lvl6 Ferocious Loyalty
£ lvl12 Finesse
£ lvl6 Fortune Finder
¤ lvl6 Friend Of THe Night
+25 health, +3 critical%, +2 regen (Only during night time)
¤ lvl21 Grim Reapers Sprint
+35 AP for kill
¤ lvl6 Gunslinger
+10damage, +3crit%, +10critdmg, +10reload -10spread.
£ lvl6 Handloader
¤ lvl3 Heave Ho
+150% damage for throwing melee
¤ lvl9 Here And Now
¤ lvl12 Hit The Deck
35DT against explosives.
¤ lvl3 Hunter
(Includes Abominations now)
¤ lvl18 Infiltrator
+20 Sneak +10 Lockpick and ability to repick locks.
£ lvl3 Intense Training
¤ lvl27 Jury Rigging changed to lvl 27
¤ lvl3 Lady Killer
¤ lvl24 Laser Commander
¤ lvl6 Lead Belly
0% radiation intake from food and water
£ lvl12 Life Giver
¤ lvl3 Light Step lvl 12 >> lvl 3
¤ lvl9 Living Anatomy
¤ lvl12 Long Haul
+15 carry weight
¤ lvl9 Math Wrath
25% less AP cost
¤ lvl15 Meltdown
+35% damage for Plasma
£ lvl9 Miss Fortune
¤ lvl9 Mister Sandman
250exp for sandman kills
£ lvl9 Mysterious Stranger
£ lvl9 Nerd Rage
£ lvl12 Night Person
£ lvl24 Ninja
¤ lvl21 Nuka Chemist
Nuka Cola's receive better effects.
£ lvl9 Pack Rat
-R Paralyzing Palm
¤ lvl18 Piercing Strike
Merged with ParalyzingPalm.
¤ lvl9 Plasma Spaz
+25% attack/reload speed for plasma weapons
£ lvl15 Purifier
¤ lvl12 Pyromaniac
Requires 50 explosives !OR! 50 EW
¤ lvl6 Quick Draw - Renamed into "The Quick & The Dead"
+50 equp speed, +25 reload speed.
¤ lvl6 Rad Child
Lesser radiation sickness effects and very slightly higher regeneration.
¤ lvl6 Rad Resistance
+40% rad resist
-R Rapid Reload (Merged with Quick Draw.)
£ lvl3 Run N Gun - lvl 3
£ lvl6 Scrounger
£ lvl6 Shotgun Surgeon
¤ lvl12 Silent Running
+15% sneak speed.
¤ lvl24 Slayer
+10% critical chance
¤ lvl30 Sniper
+50% critical damage, +5% critical chance, +15% regular damage
¤ lvl30 Solar Powered
Increased the regeneration speed.
¤ lvl30 Splash Damage
+80% explosive radius
¤ lvl 24 Spray And Pray -
80% less damage dealt to companions
£ lvl9 Strong Back
¤ lvl9 Super Slam
Requires Melee !OR! Unarmed
¤ lvl3 Swift Learner
1 rank +30% exp gain
£ lvl6 Terrifying Prescence
¤ lvl18 Tag!
2 tag choices.
¤ lvl30 The Professional
+80% critical -10% spread +20% reload
¤ lvl6 Toughness
+6 DT overall, +5 DT against unarmed/melee attacks and no knockdowns
¤ lvl3 Travel Light - +1 Agility with Light armor or less.
¤ lvl12 Unstoppable Force
Unarmed, Strength !OR! Melee
¤ lvl3 Vigilant Recycler
Requires only 50 Science
£ lvl15 Weapon Handling
¤ Complete
-< Incomplete (Needs work/research)
£ Fine as it is.
-R Removed
M> Merged (
¤ lvl15 Action Boy/Girl
1 rank, 45 AP
¤ lvl15 Adamantium Skeleton
1 rank 70% limb reduction 5 DT
¤ lvl9 Animal Friend
1 rank
£ lvl15 Better Criticals
£ lvl3 Black Widow
¤ lvl9 Bloody Mess -
+15% damage
M> lvl3 Cannibal -
-75karma +75hp -60food (humans)
-75karma +200 health -200 food (super mutants)
-75karma +50hp -50food +80rads (ghouls)
¤ lvl15 Center Of Mass
+25% dam, +80%knockdown @ torso
¤ lvl12 Chemist
x3 drug duration +10 Science +10 medicine
¤ lvl15 Chem Resistant
-85% adict chance.
¤ lvl3 Cherchez Le Femme
¤ lvl12 Commando
+20% damage in VATS (Might only be towards torso, please give feedback.)
M> lvl6 Comprehension
Merged with Retention
-R Computer Whiz
M> lvl18 Robotics Expert
+25% damage, turn off robots, hack a locked terminal, small bonus towards hacking.
-R Concentrated Fire - Merge maybe? For now it's removed.
£ lvl3 Confirmed Bachelor
£ lvl9 Cowboy
¤ lvl6 Demolitions Expert
50% damage (still 3 ranks)
£ lvl27 Nerves Of Steel
-< lvl21 Rad Absorption (Merge? I have no idea if it should be changed or not.)
¤ lvl6 Educated
4 skill points per level (previously all it did was add 58sp at most, I thought it was kinda "meh" so I upped it. Completely up to you when you want to take it, if you don't want as many skill points don't take it or take it later at higher levels.)
¤ lvl3 Entomologist
You can now eat insects cannibal style.
£ lvl21 Explorer
¤ lvl12 Fast Metabolism
+40% health from stimpaks.
£ lvl6 Ferocious Loyalty
£ lvl12 Finesse
£ lvl6 Fortune Finder
¤ lvl6 Friend Of THe Night
+25 health, +3 critical%, +2 regen (Only during night time)
¤ lvl21 Grim Reapers Sprint
+35 AP for kill
¤ lvl6 Gunslinger
+10damage, +3crit%, +10critdmg, +10reload -10spread.
£ lvl6 Handloader
¤ lvl3 Heave Ho
+150% damage for throwing melee
¤ lvl9 Here And Now
¤ lvl12 Hit The Deck
35DT against explosives.
¤ lvl3 Hunter
(Includes Abominations now)
¤ lvl18 Infiltrator
+20 Sneak +10 Lockpick and ability to repick locks.
£ lvl3 Intense Training
¤ lvl27 Jury Rigging changed to lvl 27
¤ lvl3 Lady Killer
¤ lvl24 Laser Commander
¤ lvl6 Lead Belly
0% radiation intake from food and water
£ lvl12 Life Giver
¤ lvl3 Light Step lvl 12 >> lvl 3
¤ lvl9 Living Anatomy
¤ lvl12 Long Haul
+15 carry weight
¤ lvl9 Math Wrath
25% less AP cost
¤ lvl15 Meltdown
+35% damage for Plasma
£ lvl9 Miss Fortune
¤ lvl9 Mister Sandman
250exp for sandman kills
£ lvl9 Mysterious Stranger
£ lvl9 Nerd Rage
£ lvl12 Night Person
£ lvl24 Ninja
¤ lvl21 Nuka Chemist
Nuka Cola's receive better effects.
£ lvl9 Pack Rat
-R Paralyzing Palm
¤ lvl18 Piercing Strike
Merged with ParalyzingPalm.
¤ lvl9 Plasma Spaz
+25% attack/reload speed for plasma weapons
£ lvl15 Purifier
¤ lvl12 Pyromaniac
Requires 50 explosives !OR! 50 EW
¤ lvl6 Quick Draw - Renamed into "The Quick & The Dead"
+50 equp speed, +25 reload speed.
¤ lvl6 Rad Child
Lesser radiation sickness effects and very slightly higher regeneration.
¤ lvl6 Rad Resistance
+40% rad resist
-R Rapid Reload (Merged with Quick Draw.)
£ lvl3 Run N Gun - lvl 3
£ lvl6 Scrounger
£ lvl6 Shotgun Surgeon
¤ lvl12 Silent Running
+15% sneak speed.
¤ lvl24 Slayer
+10% critical chance
¤ lvl30 Sniper
+50% critical damage, +5% critical chance, +15% regular damage
¤ lvl30 Solar Powered
Increased the regeneration speed.
¤ lvl30 Splash Damage
+80% explosive radius
¤ lvl 24 Spray And Pray -
80% less damage dealt to companions
£ lvl9 Strong Back
¤ lvl9 Super Slam
Requires Melee !OR! Unarmed
¤ lvl3 Swift Learner
1 rank +30% exp gain
£ lvl6 Terrifying Prescence
¤ lvl18 Tag!
2 tag choices.
¤ lvl30 The Professional
+80% critical -10% spread +20% reload
¤ lvl6 Toughness
+6 DT overall, +5 DT against unarmed/melee attacks and no knockdowns
¤ lvl3 Travel Light - +1 Agility with Light armor or less.
¤ lvl12 Unstoppable Force
Unarmed, Strength !OR! Melee
¤ lvl3 Vigilant Recycler
Requires only 50 Science
£ lvl15 Weapon Handling
Some I decided were so crap that they had to merged with others.
One or two I removed.
And the rest I beefed up with other effects to make them more useful.
Like Friend Of The Night.
Frankly, it's complete [censored]. I wouldn't even take it with a 2:1 perk ratio.
But this time it's beefed up to live up to it's name.
I know it's still slightly WiP.
I'd appreciate feedback on the perk changes and possible bugs and glitches.
I think Commando might only apply it's +damage to chests but I'm not sure.
A big reason why I did this is because in Fallout 1 and 2 a perk really mattered. If I took pathfinder then I really moved faster, if I took Stonewall then I wouldn't get knocked down as much (and just about every enemy can knock you down as compared to Vegas where only a select number can do that.), if I took Lifegiver then I really gained a big boost to gained hit points per level.
I missed that.
So I wanted perks now to actually feel like I could notice their effects, that when I pick a perk, I'll notice it's effects and see that it was a good thing I chose it.
This mod is strictly for the vanilla perks. (sorry)
I'll start working on the DLC perks later when I get them for PC and beef some of them up too.
And sadly, this means all other perk mods will still have "meh" perks.
Not going to edit those, that's up to those mods' creators to do.
Oh and uh, installation is done by copy pasting the file into the data folder.
Uninstallation is done by removing that file.
Credits go to me.
It's v1.0.
Anything I missed?
Ayeah, it might not be compatible with other mods that change vanilla perks.
Old World Blues' perk changes, I didn't change Them's Good Eatin' or GRX because those are really really really really good perks.
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¤ Atomic!
Increased the radiation = action point regen from
200~400 = 1.10x action point regen speed
401~600 = 1.20x action point regen speed
601~800 = 1.33x action point regen speed
801~999 = 1.50x action point regen speed
Into
200~400 = 1.40x action point regen speed
401~600 = 1.60x action point regen speed
601~800 = 1.85x action point regen speed
801~999 = 2.50x action point regen speed
¤ Mile In Their Shoes
Changed the Nighstalker Squeezin's effects to:
Poison Resistance +100%
+70hp/5sec
+25Sneak
They also have a longer effect time. (Poison 11min, Sneak 10min, Perception 12min)
£ Them's Good Eating
£ Implant GRX
Increased the radiation = action point regen from
200~400 = 1.10x action point regen speed
401~600 = 1.20x action point regen speed
601~800 = 1.33x action point regen speed
801~999 = 1.50x action point regen speed
Into
200~400 = 1.40x action point regen speed
401~600 = 1.60x action point regen speed
601~800 = 1.85x action point regen speed
801~999 = 2.50x action point regen speed
¤ Mile In Their Shoes
Changed the Nighstalker Squeezin's effects to:
Poison Resistance +100%
+70hp/5sec
+25Sneak
They also have a longer effect time. (Poison 11min, Sneak 10min, Perception 12min)
£ Them's Good Eating
£ Implant GRX