Do we even really need Charisma in the game? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:38 am

Luck gives you your base chance for getting a critical hit. This is one of the most important ways of increasing your damage output in the game for most builds. You will be much weaker without this.

Charisma is said to influence the amount of damage and damage threshold for your companions. I still have yet to see hard numbers for this, so it is hard to determine value, but I could see wanting to give Boone the maximum damage output possible. On hardcoe, due to the incredibly stupid AI behavior when indoors + companion death, I don't use companions - for me, Charisma is the best dump stat on hardcoe.

» Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:43 am

10 luck + Slots in the Tops Casino + Better Casinos Mod + Casino Unbanner Mod = 3 million legit caps in the space of an hour.

[censored] yeah.

Legit in the sense that you've modded the game twice to get what you want...

» Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:56 am

I will repeat myself and as I did so http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1129556-boone/page__p__16560093__fromsearch__1&#entry16560093 breaking down what CHR does:

Companion nerve boosts the level of your companions Armor and Damage, it is set by your S.P.E.C.I.A.L Charisma as such:

Charisma:
1: A/D +5%
2: A/D + 10%
3: A/D + 15%
4: A/D + 20%
5: A/D + 25%
6: A/D + 30%
7: A/D + 35%
8: A/D + 40%
9: A/D + 45%
10: A/D + 50%

The thread explains it much more explicitly, so please have a look there.

Reno

» Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:37 am

CH seems useless in this game. I should've just poured points into Intel and then raised speech since like others have stated the companions are overpowered and I don't want them around.

Raul isn't and I play in Normal hardcoe Mode with 8 Charisma.
He is complete [censored] against cazadors, deathclaws, lakelurks, super mutants and giant radscorpions.