How do I make fists viable

[Teflon Shawn]

I've tried dumping agility/athletics but I can't gather enough speed to juke, anyone manage to make this possible?

[Danny]

Like you're going make fists super good against a guy in metal armour...

Well you could try strength and power stike. XD

[Tuidjy]

You can make fists as viable as they would be in real life.

If you are really good, and have chamber blocking down to a T, you will be able to handle anyone who wears leather or worse, and who is not very skilled with his weapon. Against a weapon master in articulated plate? You'll do wonders.

[White Knight]

Juke? Simmer down Chuck Norris, punching dudes in armour who are trying to kill you makes about as much sense as picking a fight with a moving pick-up truck.

Here's my advice, put your shirt back on and stop saying things like "juke".

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[ULTRA]

Just start as a nomad and then pour 100% of your points into strength, ironflesh, power strike, and power draw. Better invest as much as you can into weapon master (1 or 2 I guess) also. You'll need the nomad background, weapon master and power draw to level up at a reasonable pace (using horse archery). Besides that, punch/kick strength seems to rely entirely on your strength as far as I can tell. It'd be nice to have extra agility and athletics to stay mobile but realistically speaking, if you have to fight more than one guy at once or are going up against someone who's loaded down heavily enough to outmaneuver then you're probably going to lose anyway because the game has a decently realistic estimation of proportional speed. Don't try fighting multiple armed men with your fists in real life either, lol

[AWACS]

You'll need a massive point investment if you want it to be 'viable.'

I mean, you could probably just cheat and edit the files, but you shouldn't expect it to become worth using within a normal playthrough unless you have already grinded the hell out of the game.

But anyone wearing any sort of decent protection will probably just ignore you as you sadly can't just choke them or anything and you will do very little damage.