So I am one of those people who always have been a sort of a "completionist" in the past. In the way that I have wanted to do every quest, raise every stat, max every ability, find every collectible etc etc.

After reading about a different way to play though, more about a specific character and roleplay and not having to do it all with just one I have begun to slowly try to adapt to a new way of play that is more in line with this. I feel like I have still the "learning weels" on though with this way of playing and trying to feel my way forward and hoping it will "click" at some point. I have always been an "immersive gamer", turning off as much HUD, not fast travling etc so I feel that helps me a bit with this new roleplay approach, but I still need some help I think.

So. Where I am at now is that I first thought I would start off by going full throttle with both Roleplaying and Dead is Dead playstyle on survival difficulty I have found that I need to dial back a bit and just try to focus on Roleplay. While I love the tension of Dead is Dead I feel it hampers my ability to learn to Roleplay since you really have to play at your best to even survive for a while (especially on survivor difficulty). You need the best armor and weapon you can afford to survive and go really really slow. So if I for example wanted to play a sort of baseball bat wielding shirtless barbarian maniac type that would not really be possible with this setup unless you wanted to start over from scratch after an hour or two at best. I have gone through 4 DiD characters now, often dying at around level 8 or so, most frequently by explosives. My fifth character is still alive at level 8, but I don't expect that to last for very long

So, now I want to start over and focus more on trying to roleplay without having to just worry about not dying and having everything revolve around that, I want to keep the diff on survival though since I do like the challange, even though it will feel a lot softer to not have to start over from scratch on death. But I need help fleshing out my character a bit since I am so green on it. I have heard that the more defined the character is, the easier it will be to roleplay it. I have thought up a kind of character that I *think* I want to play though, some sort of extremely intelligent science geek guy.

I am thinking he could be loosly based on Walter White from Breaking Bad. A kind of a big goofy and harmless at first sight, but still extremely capable and sometimes self-interested man, but still with a good portion of empathy and goodwill against the right people.

As for stats to aim for and preferences I am aiming about:

Strength: 3

Perception: 10

Intelligence: 10

Carisma: 7

Endurance: 4

Agility: 4

Luck: 3

Prefered weapons: Explosives, Pistols, long range rifles,

Other: ?