Dead Money Perks [Slight Spoilers]

Meh. Heavyweight is the only one I'm interested in.

You can only pick 2 perks from levels 30-35, yes?

They all seem pretty crap, I'll be using it as a chance to pick up some of the ones I missed at an earlier level.

You left out Light Touch.

Agl-6 Repair-45

Heavy armor just isnt your thing, so youve learned to customize your light armor for max benefit. While wearing light armor, you gain a +5% critical hit chance, and your enemies suffer a -25% critical hit chance.

Thats pretty freakin sweet right there. My stealth build utilizes travel light, so I move 10% faster. Stack this on top of it and this is an amazing perk.


The Professional isnt a new perk, I already had it on my stealth build.


I was a bit disappointed with the new perks, especially the lack of ones requiring the top end levels.


I settled on Heavyweight, because a lot of my favorite weapons are over 10 pounds, so cutting that in half is huge.

And Stay Back is pretty sweet. It has the chance when firing a shotgun to do a Gauss Rifle caliber knockback to the enemy, with the enemy still being alive when it happens. Ive already knocked a deathclaw down off a hill flying head over heels and he was still alive. Pretty cool. Its really a good time to reload your shotty when you get a knockdown.

Yep for sure the Professional has always been there. I know this because my stealth character normally clears out buildings/vaults with either a silenced 10mm or 12.7 mm pistol, and that perk allows you to boost the sneak crit damage with pistols and SMGs by like 20 or 25%. Its really a must have for stealth characters.

Not sure why you didnt see light touch. It shouldve been right up there near the top if you have at least 6 AGL and 45 repair. Otherwise its going to be in the grayed outs at the bottom of the list.

Yeah, I was pretty surprised to see no perks requiring level 30+ to take.

I guess they wanted to make it accessible to newer characters being made also, which I have no complaint with. Im digging the Light Touch, Heavyweight, and the And Stay Back perks.

The others are just kinda meh.

The biggest headscratcher for me was Hobbler. I dont know anyone that could find a reason to boost VATS accuracy to the legs, when accuracy to the head or bonus damage to the chest is available.


Junk rounds kinda annoyed me, but then it can serve a purpose for a survivalist RP character, so I guess its cool in that respect. For players that place the no-vendor if possible restriction on themselves, this makes gaining ammunition much easier.


In shining armor would be amazing for power armored characters, IF WE ACTUALLY FOUGHT ENEMIES THAT USED LASER WEAPONS! Holy crap. Bigtime fail, hopefully rectified in further DLC. The only Laser users Ive seen are the RCW carrying Fiends, and lets face it, if you need an extra +7DT against them to take them out, you should be playing something else. Like Hello Kitty Funtime Adventure or something.

The Legion, AND the NCR use conventional weapons. A lot of the Brotherhood employ Gauss rifles. There just really isnt that much in the game to command something like that. The Holograms in Dead Money would qualify, but guess what? You cant take your power armor to the SM.

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These perks are stupid imo.

Only thing I would consider getting is In Shining Armor.

Actually, Light Touch is pretty good. It brings total Crit chance up to 28%. Only the Ratslayer gets a 100% Crit chance (and 8% of that goes to waste), but every other weapon in the game still gets the increased Crit chance.

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Light Touch would be great if it didn't require wearing light armor. Have fun facing a Deathclaw with that, unless you can switch quickly enough into heavy armor.

I don't know. Deathclaws weren't much of a problem in Fallout 3. Have they changed significantly in New Vegas?