Can someone explain skill speech checks?

[TheGlitterJojo]

I need to know what skills to focus on to get the most out of speech checks, particularly in the first town where there are so many, right before that battle. I'm having issues passing them.

[Simple Man]

You don't have to pass them, theres multiple ways of doing that one quest. Still for speech checks most will be Barter, Speech and i believe Science. Pete wants you to be knowledgeable in explosives, and trudy has both sneak and speech checks.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Speech

Scroll down to Fallout New Vegas, all speech checks ingame are listed. Find pattern, focus character. Id suggest you make your character on what you want to use, and who you want to be (i.e. an Intelligence 1 character has different dialogue options compared to an Int 10 one, there is many a change in the game depending on what you pick), but you do whatever ya thinks best.

[TheGlitterJojo]

Thanks! That helps immensely. I already had my special picked out, I just wasn't sure about tag skills and wasn't entirely certain how skill speech checks worked. Not having a percentage chance, is a little off-putting when you're not used to it.

[Simple Man]

If "percentage chance" is a reference to fallout 4s system, then yes, this is in stark contrast.

You'll need to make choices, and likely won't be good at everything.

[TheGlitterJojo]

Fallout 3 had the same percetage chance setup. I'll get used to it, just kept trying to pass the ones in the beginning before that fight in the first town is all. Anyone have any specific tag skills they recommend? Looks like for checks it's speech, barter, and science?

[Haxel Haze]

Originally posted by AlabamaAngyl:

Fallout 3 had the same percetage chance setup. I'll get used to it, just kept trying to pass the ones in the beginning before that fight in the first town is all. Anyone have any specific tag skills they recommend? Looks like for checks it's speech, barter, and science?

There are checks for just about every skill, if not all of them
I personally recommend tagging speech OR barter (depending on your experience in the game), lockpick to get some good loot early on, and repair (for making Weapon repair kits to repair high value weapons and sell for ridiculous profit) OR whatever best fits your character.

[Simple Man]

The only skills that never get used during checks, are unarmed and melee weapons. Everything else will be called upon, at one point or another.

And having just noticed that previous link solely addressed actual speech, you can look into each skill to have their own checks list. http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_skills

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Barter
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Science

And so on and so forth.

[TheGlitterJojo]

Oh nice, that's what I was looking for, but couldn't find. Thanks, that will help me pick out the ones that are important to me. Awesome sauce!