Roy's Hardcore Challenge

[RoyBatty]

No, not allowed.

[EnderDragonFire]

Can I use Senterpat's perk overhaul mod? Not his more perks conversion, just the one that re-balances vanilla perks. 

If you have not used the mod, here is the description of what it does:

[collapsed title=Description] Modified Perks

All text entries have been modified to reflect changes.  

***Perks that boost skills***

These perks gave boosts to skills, which is pointless in a game like TTW where the max level is 50.  

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  Daddy's Boy/Girl Just like dear old Dad, you've devoted your time to intellectual pursuits. You gain an additional 5 points to both the Science and Medicine skills. -Changed to +5% health from healing items.  


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  Little Leaguer Years as the Vault little league MVP have honed your hitting and throwing. With every rank, you gain 5 points of Melee Weapons skill and 5 points of Explosives skill. -Changed to +4% melee damage and throw weapons 10% faster and farther.  


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  Gun Nut You're obsessed with using and maintaining a wide variety of conventional firearms. With each rank of the Gun Nut perk, you gain an additional 5 points to the Small Guns and Repair skills. -Changed to 5% reduced gun spread and 5% reduced item damage. *Spread will only apply to weapons using the Guns skill, the item damage mod will will affect any item, armor or weapon.  


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  Cyborg You've made permanent enhancements to your body! The Cyborg perk instantly adds +10% to your Damage, Poison, and Radiation Resistances, and 10 points to the Energy Weapons skill. -Changed +10 Energy Weapons to 5% Energy weapon damage.  


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  Scoundrel Take the Scoundrel perk, and you can use your wily charms to influence people -- each rank raises your Speech and Barter skills by 5 points. -Changed to 5% improved bartering.  


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  Thief With each rank of the Thief perk, you gain an immediate bonus of 5 points to both the Sneak and Lockpick skills. -Changed to 15% movespeed while sneaking  


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  Impartial Meditation -  With the Impartial Mediation perk, you gain an extra 30 points to Speech... so long as you maintain a Neutral Karma level. -Changed to +15% improved bartering prices.  


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  Covert Ops You've recovered all the hidden intel from Operation:Anchorage. Good work, soldier! (+3 Science, Small Guns and Lockpick) -Changed to +3% weapon damage.   


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  Survival Expert - Changes the +2/4/6 Med/Science and +2/4/6 Sneak/Speech bonuses to +3%/6%/9% Health from healing items and 4%/8%/12% sneak speed.  

***Changes to "Useless" Perks***    

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  Alertness You've learned to keep your senses alert to any danger. When crouched and not moving you gain a +2 to your Perception attribute to help you find enemies before they find you. -Removed +2 perception, will now grant you enhanced sensors.  


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  Hunter  In combat, you do +75% Critical Damage against animals and mutated animals. -Added +15% critical chance, reduced critical damage to 40%, also will now affect mutated insects and abominations.  


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  Computer Whiz Fail a hack attempt and get locked out of a computer? Not if you're a Computer Whiz! With this perk, you can attempt to re-hack any computer you were previously locked out of. -Changed to bypass hacking at the cost of 25 action points, skill requirement changed from 70 to 100.  


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  Infiltrator With Infiltrator, if a lock is broken, and can't normally be picked again, you can attempt to pick it again one more time. This includes locks previously broken by a "Force Lock" attempt. -Changed to bypass lockpicking at the cost of a bobby pin, skill requirement changed from 70 to 100.  

***Misc Changes to Other Vanilla Perks***  

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  Intense Training - Removed completely, replaced with 7 perks that will each raise a special by 1. Level req. has also been raised to 10.  *Intense training was changed because a) it made it so it doesn't matter what specials you started with and b) level 2 was too early a requirement


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    Lifegiver - Reinstated 2 additional ranks that were cut, reduced each rank from 30 to 25.  


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  Child at Heart - Though not available in default NV there are still a number of dialogue options for it. Will work with or w/o this mod.   In Shining Armor - Was completely broken due to a faulty condition, also the +2 dt from eyewear wasn't attached. Fixed. Also added some items that should have been on the formlist.  


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  Wild Wasteland - Is automatically granted to the player. I've also removed the message and sound that play. Now the Mojave just has a few quirky encounters like FO3.  


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  Grunt - 25% damage was a bit OP, has been nerfed to 10%, and additionally reloads the listed guns 10% faster, the combat knife attacks 15% faster.      

New Traits

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  Vault Dweller - A sheltered life in the vault has granted you with a sturdy physique (+50 life) However, you have little resistance to the dangers of the wastes. (-75 Radiation Resistance, -75 Poison Resistance.)    

Disabled Perks

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  Here and Now


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  Lessons Learned


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  Swift Learner

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[TJ]

Just FYI: PANZER allows unlimited traits.

[KeltecRFB]

[quote=TJ]

Just FYI: PANZER allows unlimited traits.

[/quote]

Because regardless of how many you get, you are still going to bleed ... lol.

[EnderDragonFire]

I imagine that taking all the traits would put you in an early grave, some of them have serious drawbackes, espeically combines. And some directly counteract each other. 

[RoyBatty]

Senterpat's Perk Rebalance is OK.

Don't take more than two traits please. I prefer NO traits myself except WW.

 

 

[EnderDragonFire]

Not off to a promising start at all... Very Hard with PANZER is a diff rent game entirely. I barely made it out of the vault alive, and was immediately set upon by a Yao Gui, Talon Mercs, and... and... An Albino Radscoripion. 

I did find my first awop areas and stumble upon some rather strange looking ammunition. Tiny and blue and very very valuable. 

[RoyBatty]

Sounds like you've already had a good time. Good Luck, you're gonna need it. :D

 

[Puppettron]

keep logging though, that's the fun part.

[KeltecRFB]

And there is nothing dishonorable about running or what the SEALS labeled as "Tactical Retreat" ...