what exactly does the 'pack mule'-perk do ?

[Garrett33]

yes i investigated a bit and still don't get it.

the description says something like
'lets you carry 3 more items before starting to slow down.'

what ?! - did they mean stacks of items ?

I mean - after an hour you have hundreds of items and dozens of stacks.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

In the inventory screen by default half of the space you have is marked as "encumbered" which means you can put SOMETHING in that space and as long as that space is occupied you slow down slightly. Pack mule removed the encubered status from some of those spaces permanently but its not ideal because there are clothing and armor mods that will do the same thing but don't require perk points.

[Shurenai]

When you're looking at your inventory, you see how there are 3 rows of gray squares, and then 2 rows of what look like locked slots? Pack mule 'unlocks' those 'locked' slots making them into the same gray squares as the upper three rows.

You get slowed down when your total number of unique slot occupations exceeds your number of gray squares, regardless of where the items are positioned in the inventory. If you have 30 gray squares and 31 gray items (even if half of those items are in the 'locked' slots), then you will be slowed down.

In short, Pack Mule gives you 3 more inventory slots to fill before you would be slowed down.

[Master Queef]

Worthless skill, Just use pocket mods

[Garrett33]

tyvm