How to trigger more melee kill animations in V.A.T.S?

[Mozart]

99% of time my melee attacks in vats just do regular boring animations

[wtiger27]

You mean the same animation, never any different ones? I think it depends on if you have the Perks which gives you the chance for body parts to fly off the enemy and on occasion, knock their heads off. I know I get different animations when that happens and I have those perks.

[Zekiran]

Yeah there's a variety of perks to look into for critical stuff. That one that uses the baseball BONK is hilarious.

[Mozart]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

You mean the same animation, never any different ones? I think it depends on if you have the Perks which gives you the chance for body parts to fly off the enemy and on occasion, knock their heads off. I know I get different animations when that happens and I have those perks.

I have this perk but it dosen't do much for me. If i play my melee build, specially in 3rd person, i do those diferent kill animations all the time, but in V.A.T.S it never happens

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Mozart:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

You mean the same animation, never any different ones? I think it depends on if you have the Perks which gives you the chance for body parts to fly off the enemy and on occasion, knock their heads off. I know I get different animations when that happens and I have those perks.

I have this perk but it dosen't do much for me. If i play my melee build, specially in 3rd person, i do those diferent kill animations all the time, but in V.A.T.S it never happens

Can't help you then. It works for me. And I rarely do melee attacks in third person.

[Liquid Inc]

Without mods, you need specific weapon types to see the different animations. You can also take.. uhh, now which drug was it... Fury, i think? That lets you do more melee crits... Though that might be a mod of mine that is doing that (Since i play with fair few of them)

You won't see the "choke hold", if your not using a weapon classed as Hand to Hand, like knuckles, or your bare fist... And they don't have access to other Melee kill moves.

You also need to make sure you actually kill them in your V.A.T.S attacks, so dosing on Psycho + Bufftats might help there as well. You can also use Whiskey for the +2 Strength buff too.