Methinks Nerd Rage will have better and better effects as you add ranks onto it - it seems like the SPECIAL10 perks aren't as baller and amazing as their level 20/30 equivalents in Fallout 3, but that they do become pretty amazing after you fill out the later ranks in them.

I love these videos. They manage to give a sense of personaliy to the stats, making it even harder to make a choice for my character.

It all depends on interpretation of that video. If that perk ends while combat is still going on.. I am not sure how useful it would be. Then again, the guy murdered a great host of enemies with his hands...

edit: I wonder if strength is going to effect recoil on weapons. From that video they showed a high int character creating a shotgun and not having control over it...

Vehicles are confirmed to not be in, and the purpose of VANS was confirmed in Bethesda's last blog post about the character and perks system.

It really is a misleading perk, though. People who don't follow Bethesda's pipeline as religiously might be disappointed.

The Medic perk in the video is different from the one on the chart. I wonder why they changed it.

With Robotics Expert all of your mechanical troubles will vanish.

A lot of the artwork has changed - the Strength video showed him crafting a combat shotgun instead of a mace on the perk chart, and the Endurance video showed Vault Boy in a puddle instead of an above-ground pool. I think it's just a timeline thing - these videos were likely made months in advance, before the artwork and organization of the perk chart was finalized. If you compare some of the early blurry shots of the perk chart to the full one we have now, you'll see that a lot of perks have been rearranged. Like Ninja and Lone Wanderer, among others.

Cool! We can run around wearing our dunce caps! And paddle ball for a weapon.

I love these SPECIAL videos, I'm so glad they're doing them. They've got the cheesy "1950s civil defense" film feel down to a T.

Radioactive quadruple barrel shotgun confirmed

Do you think the Fat Man is a high-tech weapon covered by the Science! perk?

No. It's a Big Gun.

(A BFG might fit in, though...)

But hold on, there aren't any crafting specific perks for Big Guns, are there? A Fat Man and its modifications could very well fall under Science! or Gun Nut... or maybe even Demolition Expert, if that's a crafting perk.

One day, man shall harness the power of the giant ants, using them for transportation, mining, defense, and sustenance.

Most likely a minigun would fall under gun nut, while a fatman would fall under science.

This is why I want to know what Strength 5 does.

I sincerely hope that this is true. If they put Nerd Rage into the Int 10 slot and didn't substantially improve/change it, I'm going to quite disheartened.

Fatman will probably fall under Explosives.

Making drugs...uh, I cannot avoid comparing it with how annoying it is to do while the entire Washington police force is trying to kill you (in Payday 2).

They may have finally given us the ability to heal other people. It was always so stupid that I could make a weapon restore hit points in the GECK but we never had a way to heal NPCs.

Yeah, even in Skyrim, when you had the ability to heal NPC's it didn't do anything. I'd run into the soldier camps and heal those injured people in the tent but they just laid there groaning... They were just faking injury to get out of fighting I guess. For some reason I completely expected them to get up and say "thank you" and then I'd get a little xp for being a nice guy.

Watching the vid, I got my first real pang of excitement for FO4 when he hacks the terminal and the cave door opens! Not sure why this triggered it instead of actual gameplay

Tell me their will not be ground vehicles, that V.A.N.S. will just be a navigation system (GPS). That car though, that is a car with a vault boy driving or riding on top of it. Toy cartoony car or not, it is a vehicle.

Navigate through the wasteland with "technological ease" does fall under GPS, but that dang car though. Bethesda is that one company that will actually not spoil their entire game before it is released, you never know what surprises they are holding back from the players. I mean a humvee, I might be ok with, I loved the vehicles in Fallout Tactics, I mean it worked in that game in my opinion.

I just don't see a 4 wheel full sized ground vehicle being in the game, that would be a disaster, you'd get it stuck on everything and you can forget about trying drive through the city area.