Effects of Luck

[Zes]

Luck affects many things, i read wiki and some text here and there... but there are still some uncertain things in my mind.

- Does it affect caps amount we loot? (without the perk)
- Does it affect junk amount of containers?
- Does it affect the qualiity of the junk we loot?
- Does it affect the quality of weapons/armors we loot?

In my playthroughs i already noticed some differences between low and high Luck, and some of them are confusing. It appears very high luck may cause some containers to be completely empty. I find some junk in them otherwise..

* So high luck prevents low level junks to be spawned too often? It's conservative? I mean instead of giving 10 wood + 5 steel worths of junks in 5 containers, it makes 4 of them empty and put more valuable thing into the 5th?

[legomike666]

some empty containers may fill if you leave the area for a little while

[Chaosium]

Luck has no impact on anything other than crits and perfectly preserved pie

[Zes]

Originally posted by Chaosium:

Luck has no impact on anything other than crits and perfectly preserved pie

Crits and Pie information is obvious.
But no verification for the rest. Everyone says something with no proof.

[Zes]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3030881216
Look what is writing up there "and your chances of finding better items"

[worm_master]

How about from a dude with near 1k800 H of experience? Luck can improve how much ammo/caps, you find in a container, but indirectly, it depends on which luck perk u take.

These are what "luck" actually governs, but these are separate to luck, u need say 5 luck for "Bloody Mess" perk.

Fortune Finder
Scrounger
Bloody Mess
Mysterious Stranger
Idiot Savant
Better Criticals
Critical Banker
Grim Reaper's Sprint
Four Leaf Clover
Ricochet

By better items it means "legendary items" but it barely has any effect on that at all except for the chance of encounter..(But some places have Gurrented legendary creatures every time.


REALLY the only thing luck affects is the recharge rate of "crit hits" for instance with a luck of 5 you'll need 8 hits to refill the "crit meter" the higher the luck, the less hits needed.

From personal experience i've never had more then a assault riffle from any random legendary encounter.

[Zes]

Caps: tied to Fortune Finder perk
Ammo: tied to Scrounger
Legendary drops: tied to difficulty and character level

but what about;
junk quality and quantity?
how many armor pieces you get and types?

Originally posted by worm_master:

By better items it means "legendary items" but it barely has any effect on that at all except for the chance of encounter..(But some places have Gurrented legendary creatures every time.

no, by better items we mean better items.. in quality and quantity. Lets say a Raider drops 2 leather armor pieces, 1 metal armor piece and 1 junk. with luck 2.. but might it be 3 metal armor pieces, 2 leather armor pieces and 3 junks with luck 6.. ??

I will have to try that, but that will require bunch or runs on the same a few places with different luck stats and i will have to make statistics.. unless someones come up with concrete information other than observations.. like some script code or alike.

[Stardustfire]

the encpounter chance of legendary creatures is not only tied to difficulty, but also Luck Level, so you can say the chance to get a Legendary (no matter how crappy it is) is bound to Luck to a degree....

[worm_master]

As far as i know, luck has NO effect what-so ever on what raiders drop that is decided by the RNG, I suppose... Yes, Luck only affects the frequency of encounters NOT the goods that drop from said legendary.

O preformed a test, I consoled in a Legendary Death Claw(referd to henceforth as LDC).

Any way I killed the LDC and checked out the items, then i respawend the LDC with the same level luck, the item changed from a knife to a gun, so i did it again, got another gun, of a different type.

Then I consoled my luck straight to 10, and repeated the experiment, same gear, same gear, same gear.. to be frank with a luck of 10, i expected a rocket launcher or a Gatling laser, i got none of em.

In summery luck is pretty worthless, by all means spend a few points to get "more caps and ammo" really after i get the 5% dam increase i leave luck alone entirely.