Dear fellow wanderers,

In approximately an hour's time, I will have my very first Fallout game in my hands, and I am very, very excited to play it for the first time. I've played Skyrim a lot, but I find that the SPECIAL and perk system of FO4 is very overwhelming in the sense that I have no idea where to put my points at all or what perks to invest in first and strive to get in the future.

I would like a sniper build, but then again, I would hate to limit myself to sneaking around and sniping only. The rifles look very enticing as well. And on the other hand, how do I balance it with Charisma perks and Intelligence perks? Skyrim never had this issue, and in a sense was a lot more straightforward. It was choose a weapon you want and you can now play with it with it's skill tree. But now, I've got to factor in so many things, like lockpicking, hacking, crafting etc. In Skyrim, things like lock picking was never an issue because you could max it easily without using any 'points' by simply levelling up your lock picking skills by simply, lock picking.

Well, I guess this post is more of a sharing session, of my enthusiasm and yet slight apprehension of this game that I so look forward to finally diving into.

Although, if any veteran of the series has got a tip or two to share, I would very warmly welcome it.

Cheers, and have a good gaming experience!

Youtube has some builds. You might want to have a look at those.

I did, but they seemed way too specialized for me. Melee builds, sniper builds, etc.

Ahh golly. Excited nonetheless.

Wing it. This isn't like most games with "build" trees. The game is pretty forgiving noatter what perks and stats you pick (fallout 1 &2 notwithstanding)

Just...do.

Wing it. By all means. That's when these games are the most fun. When you try and map out a build, suddenly you're just going through the motions and it becomes a matter of crunch rather than discovery. Play how you want, and then tailor your skills and approach to fit that.

I usually pick stats and perks that are close to me in real life for my 1st chr, then I go from there. I found its more fun that way. Then for future chrs I'll go for special builds once I learn the perks, skills, stats, etc better.

As others said, wing it. Then you can start over with a different build. And do that again, and again, and again. It's why these games have so much replay value, and how people log hundreds of hours playing

I said this in another thread but I'll say it again here. Don't be afraid to start over. Jump into the game, mess around a bit.. get a feel for it, build up your character a bit. If you feel your doing a good job, continue on. If not..Start over. You probably will feel overwhelmed at times.. If that occurs, mess around. Fallout is fun game and there's lots of silly to be had.

Save often and save saves.