Am I missing something

[CTHOMP]

I'm thinking of finally picking up fallout 4 because it is so cheap, however, I'm confused with special.

Having only 21 points to spread out seems far less than you get in previous titles. At best you only get 4 points in each stat.

I want you say in fallout 3 or new Vegas you received more starting points, maybe you could start with 5s in everything or maybe even 6s?

Why is your character nerfed so much in f4?

I mean,I guess you can mod the game to give you better starting points. Just curious.

[Castyles]

Because it's easier to level up.

[Sep]

There is several item you can collect to increase stats such as bobblehead and You're SPECIAL! book.

Rather than having too little point, you are having too much point. Once you hit around level 25-30, depends on how you build.. the game feel immensely easy unless you play at survival difficulty.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by CTHOMP:

Why is your character nerfed so much in f4?

They're not nerfed. It's a different game with different balance. SPECIAL stats & perks don't work exactly the same as they did in FO3.

Leveling is different, too. FO3 had a max of 20 or 30 with DLC. My current FO4 character is around lv 79-81, and between bobbleheads & levelups has most stats in the 7-8 range.

[Knightmage Bael]

You can get a mod which sets base SPECIAL. Depending on which variant you chose it'll give you enough for 5 in every one, or only a few, or enough to be god-like, haha.

However, in those other games you only had 50 levels or what-not depending on the game and DLC you have. In FO4 they go perk-happy, and have so many perks that limiting you to level 50 would severely hamper your ability to either build settlements, interact with people, craft well, or fight well.

Even though there's no technical limit to your level (there is a point where overflow happens and the game crashes but that's somewhere upwards of 65,000 or whatever) - you max out everything by level 286 or something like that.

I personally wouldn't recommend going over level 200. I'd keep it no higher than 150, either. By that point combat is just more annoying than fun.

[Chaosium]

Makes more sense that if you want to be super specialized with 10 in one stat, you'll necessarily be weaker in other fields because you're not superman or some lame anime hero like in new vegan or whatever the name was

[EolSunder]

considering you can go from level 1 to level 16ish just in the first town, not a big deal.

[CTHOMP]

Thanks. I didn't know there was no level cap.

Sounds like best bet is to start with 10 or at least high intelligence so you can level quicker and get your other special stats caught up.

[Iron Knights]

You end up maxing SPECIALs anyways then you work on the perks. It's not as bad as it looks at first (Deathclaw at level 5-6). If you want more levels, build every settlement to the fullest, mod many weapons and armors, all of them get you experience.

[Zekiran]

You will find that it's much more organic, if you balance yourself because important perks like lockpick and hacking require higher and different stats. It's a remarkably flexible system. And you can certainly use either mods or simple console commands to alter them outright, but i would always recommend for the first-time player, to just play normal first. No reason not to see it as they created it for us, first, before deciding how to change it to your liking.