As I recall from FO3 and FONV, you did get the option to reset your skills. In FO3 it was when you left the Vault for the first time, and in FONV it was when you left the area immediately around Goodsprings. I'd assume that they'll have something similar, probably at the point the protagonist gets on the elevator to leave the Vault.

Fat lot of good that is, resetting stats that have barely been tested.

They did.

And it was nice in FONV, that it happened after you finished everything in Goodsprings.

Gave you time enough to get a little experience and see what you might want to change.

They might wait till you hit your house or even the garage depending on how much action happens in vault 111.

... last couple posts beat me to it while I was type'n.

Yes and no.. but mostly no.

I like the way New Vegas did it. It let you play a bit, do a few missions in Goodsprings. Making sure to have these missions show you various mechanics and how your build can affect the outcome. Like when your rounding up help before Joe Cobb attacks, it shows you examples of skill checks: Speech, sneak, explosives, barter, and medicine. Then once you have a feel for the game, as your leave Goodsprings it essentially asks: Did that play the way you expected? If not here's your chance to rebuild your character before you continue.

But I wouldn't really care for something mid-game to re-roll a character.. that's what the New Game option is for.

LOL calling Witcher 3 dumbed down.

I think, in the fallout universe, it'd be too much of an exploit.. especially if it was something you could gain access to over and over. Perhaps if it was a one shot deal and you could never do it again in the course of a single play through?.. I guess that could be ok. .. maybe?. Not really a big fan of it.

I've always been a pretty careful character planner so I've never really seen the need to respec a character. I was surprised it was an options in Witcher 3... such a limited goofy leveling system in the first place with absolutely no way of avoiding wasting points.

They could probably make it a perk called Amnesia which allows you to reset everything but permanently causes you to lose out on a perk point and you can only take it once.

It's pretty much a ritual of mine to remake my character a handful of times before I perfect them so I probably wouldn't bother with it but it couldn't hurt for people who want to use it.

I hope not but it'll probably be a thing.

I can see maybe something like the Karmic Re-balance perk- where you're spending that perk for a small amount of change on one aspect of a build.
But the ability to change skills/perks around willy-nilly would svck, IMO.
It would completely negate any incentive for building specific types of characters and most likely kill replay value.

It should be optional at the start of the game.

When you are a 100 hours in you can see some of the mistakes you've made, so of course I would want to change it, but that's not something I feel like I'm entitled to. If I can just change it later on those choices aren't nearly as important.

I don't like the idea, myself. Such systems reduce character traits to nothing more than loadouts. But, a respec option wouldn't impact my game one way or another. I've never felt compelled to use them in the past and I don't expect that to change.

He's talking about Fallout, not The Witcher...

Well, yeah - but the traditional "double-check your initial stats before exiting the tutorial" feature that we've had in Beth games before isn't quite the same thing as being able to re-spec later.

indeed. One allows for a convenient tutorial skip, the other pretty much breaks the game.

Yes, but the Witcher 3 had a respec potion. Haha


To me it doesn't matter if you can respec or not. I've never respeced in any game other than MMOs. I won't be respecing in Fallout 4 either if the option is there. If I want to try something else I just start a new character.

Hell no...Make a new character....

Beside using a mod to respec, there is always using a console command to make minor changes.

Like change out a perk that isn't working out for you.

Did that once for Meltdown.

I was getting killed by my own splash damage.

You sure about that? It was mentioned that other games do this. So his or her reply for other games doing this was "no more dumbing down". Since Witcher 3 does it, he means Witcher 3 is dumbed down as well for doing it.

If he didn't mean it, then he or she shouldn't be making one sentence comments then.