What do we know about implants? Are they the stat increasing equivilant of bobbleheads for FO:NV??? OR???

You get some for the attributes, some for damage threshold, and the maximum number you can carry is determined by your endurance. And they are provided by The Followers.

You get them from the Followers of the Apocalypse
They increase each SPECIAL stat, +4 Damage Treshold, or cause you to regenerate 1 HP every 10 seconds
You need an unknown quantity of money and an unknown quantity of Endurance to get each implant.

Increase each special stat... Like each stat of SPECIAL has its own implant? one for strength... one for intelegance etc?

If so, I'd like to get the intelegance one ASAP like in FO3 when you make the mad dash for the INT bobble in Rivet City.

Yeah, one for each I guess. Though you need to head both for that hospital and somewhere you can get 4000 bucks easily. Which is, if nothing has changed, what two busted banks at a casino are. Or two snowglobes.

Yea, that kinda $ will require some super clepto scaveging early on...? hopefully I can get a snow globe or two yea... I cant wait to get the CE strategy guide :banghead:

This Endurance threshold throws a big stick in my front wheel. I wonder if the +1 Endurance Implant lets you get more implants.

From where did you get 4,000 for the first implant?

the hp regen one (1hp/10 ingame sec) is 12k
the 4% dmg reduction one is 8k the rest are 4 k each...
no clue if barter has eny effect on prices
info from a stream

each implant had a end / x stat req <10 ex luck needed end<10 and luck <10

i hear the caps glitch still works, so if youre not against that kinda stuff you can do that for the money

Huh? I didn't get that. If your Endurance divided by eg. Strength is smaller than 10 you can get the Strength implant? Or can you only get an implant for a SPECIAL if that SPECIAL is lower or equal to your Endurance score?

That looks more like you can get more implants if your endurance is low, rather than more if your endurance is high. In some ways, this would make sense - high endurance would mean a powerful immune system, which would mean you'd reject implants a lot more easily than someone with a crappy immune system. But from a game mechanical point of view, that's just silly.

The Luck < 10 bit makes sense - you can't get an implant for a stat that's already at 10, since 10 is the max. This brings to mind a different theory on the whole 'End < 10' bit, too - maybe the Luck implant impacts both Luck and Endurance? *shrug*

Wait, what? That's ridiculous.

i just want one to bring ST to 10, dont really need more than that.

Yes, it is in fact ridiculous, Azula. I think it's more likely that the guy just remembered the details wrong or something, but how else would you explain "Probability Calculator: Increases Luck by 1. Requirements: End < 10, Luck < 10"? It'd be ridiculous if all implants increase Endurance and it'd be ridiculous if you needed low Endurance in order to get large numbers of implants, but I don't see any other way to work that out. It'd likewise be ridiculous if you couldn't get an implant that increases two stats just because one stat is already maxed.

There is no way in high heaven sawyer and gang would be so momumentaly dumb as to code it that way... so one has to assume it wasnt finished in the build the guide writer got. Most likely it was placeholder text while they decided on the most evily devious and cruel way to make us flail about in agony.

missunderstood the "/" .. read as a "and".

maybe i should rephrase that:
from what i got from that is that you could not increase a stat if your end was at 10 allready.
the req to increase a certain stat "x" was that END and the x should be both under 10

the guy in the stream didn't purchase eny implants so take eny info with a grain of salt.
and my bad for the bad phrasing. ^^

Oh, I thought implants were surgical and only for your female characters. My mistake. :shrug:

EDIT: Someone needs to sig this.

If my female character gets a Charisma implant and her briasts don't get bigger, I will take Obsidian to court for fraud.

my roommate needs to see this, she's all for charisma in D&D games applying to a characters looks only and loves to boast of her big briasts (in both real life and D&D...) she'd love this comment

The stat clearly states for Fallout that its both looks and charm combined.... but its completely reasonable to be dead drop beautiful, and only have a slightly above average personallity.. this stat is weird like that
...this is why i liked Arcanum so much, that game actually seperated the two. lol ...

but back on topic, i hope theres more implant options than that.
i remember the dermal implants, and phoenix implants other fallouts had (which, actually hurt your looks and hit charisma)
some cybernetic options with actual visuals would also be nice

I heard about them, but how does everyone know some of the specific details?

bits and pieces from the devs/trailers/leaked info
and guides

i think the info for most of it is highly limited tho,.. i refuse to believe there are no lvl 30 perks and so few traits

The geeks over at Gamefaqs have laid this all down now and you need 1 point of Endurance for each implant you plan on getting, but you can get the Endurance implant first for one extra.

So to sum up
You have to be on the good side of the Followers
You have to have several thousand dollars for the full package
You can only get all of the 9 implants if you have 9 Endurance, chems do not count.

Oops pow surprise OOOHHHH!

There goes my build out the window. Thanks for keeping us posted.

Hmm, might have to go with something like
S 6
P 4
E 8
C 1
I 9
A 7
L 5

after all. And tag Repair, Guns and Lockpick (or Science; though I hope Obsidian has done away with the silly computers next to almost all locked doors/safes, that was just lame).