In Fallout 4, the player starts with 1 skill point in every attribute and receives an additional 21 points to add to these attributes. The number of points in them directly affect what perks the player can take in a linear fashion. The total amount of starting points is 28, which is considerably lower than in previous games that gave you 40. For Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4, a GameFAQs message board topic titled '33 SPECIAL points.'

Skill points are points awarded to the player character when reaching a new level of experience.The player is then free to allocate the points to whatever skills they feel are in need of improvement.

Certain books, traits and perks give the player a skill point bonus for a specific skill as well.

• 1Fallout 3
• 2Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout 3

The number of attainable skill points (without books, and not including what your skills are at character creation or your tagged skills) is 428. Combined with the Comprehension perk and every Vault Boy Bobblehead, you can achieve a 100% stat in all 13 skills, though it might take some time searching the wasteland for everything.

The formula in Fallout 3 is 10+INT, so an INT of 10 would mean 20 points per level-up, making INT a very useful skill.

The Broken Steeladd-on raises the level cap to 30, and therefore adds a potential 230 extra skill points to the game, for a total of 658 to divide amongst all your skills.

Notes

• While your Pip-Boy says the maximum number of attainable skill points per skill is 100, it also factors in hypothetical skill points. In other words, if a player has 98 skill points for Explosives, and then obtains the respective bobblehead, the game engine reads the total skill points as 108. The extra points don't actually have any effect on the skill itself, or weapon damage in this case, but the 'hypothetical' points can counter-act negative effects from adorned clothing/armor, or from addictions. Since a player cannot add more points to a maxed skill via point distribution at level-ups, the only way to get the extra points is from reading skill books or collecting bobbleheads.
• It is actually possible to kill your game if you are not careful when assigning skill points, especially with Broken Steel. It is very possible to make a character that, when level 30, has 100 skill point assigned in all 13 skills, making it impossible to distribute any more, subsequentially keeping your character at the 'level up menu' permanently. The cause is using too many skill books, which boosts the skills too high.

Fallout: New Vegas

Skill points are earned when reaching a new level of experience. Intelligence is the determining factor on how many points you receive. Points =10 + (INT/2).

Note that 0.5's on odd intelligence level gains are saved for the next level.Example: You have 9 intelligence. First level up nets 14 points. You level again and net 15 points. In reality you gain 14.5 then 14.5, but obviously the game cannot allow you to increase a skill by 1/2.

Skill books will also permanently increase skills.

The perk Educated, available at level 4. Adds an extra 2 points per level up. This yields an extra 52 points if taken at level 4.(Addons increase level-cap, further increasing the benefit from taking the perk).

Maximum points

The maximum obtainable amount of skill points(without add-ons) is 489. This requires creating a character with 9 INT, taking the Educated perk at level 4, and getting the Intelligence Implant (requiring 4000 caps) before reaching level 2. An alternative is to just create a character with 10 INT. This is not recommended due to the availability of implants. Its worth noting that the difference of getting the implant sooner rather than later is of only a couple points. Getting the implant at level 9 will get you a total of 485 points. Even getting it at level 25 gets you a total of 477, only 12 short of the max. This is roughly equivalent to an extra level-up's worth of skill points if you had an average INT level.

See also

Fallout 4 is equipped with a powerful console that allows users to modify their character, and the game, during gameplay. The console allows users to cheat, but also gives people the chance to work around glitches in the game, and experiment with parts of Fallout 4 they otherwise would not have access to.

To open the console in Fallout 4, press ~

• 1Fallout 4 Character Cheats and Console Commands
• 2Generic Cheats and Console Commands

Fallout 4 Character Cheats and Console Commands

These are commands that modify your Fallout 4 character's SPECIAL stats, derived stats, perks, and skills.

S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

SPECIAL abilities are the primary statistic in Fallout 4. SPECIAL points increase your character's general attributes, and are used to calculate game events like hit chance, and persuasion chance. Modifying the SPECIAL attributes of your character will unlock new perks in Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. list

• Strength - Carry weight, melee and unarmed
• Perception - Awareness, VATS accuracy, lockpicking
• Endurance - Hit points, resistance
• Charisma - Persuasion, companions, money
• Intelligence - XP, gun mods, hacking
• Agility - Sneaking
• Luck - Crit chance, enemy mishap

S.P.E.C.I.A.L. console examples

• player.getav endurance
  • Show the players current endurance level
• player.modav charisma 5
  • Increase the player's charisma to 5
• player.modav agility -2
  • Remove 2 from the player's agility

Skills

I am unsure how this works in Fallout 4, so this section comes later... May include things like repair skill.

Derived Stats

Normally things like carry weight, fire resistance, and critical chance in Fallout 4 are calculated based on your player stats. These can also be modified individually for fine tuning of your character.

Fallout 4 Derived Stats

• criticalchance

Fallout 4 Perk Point Command

Derived Stats Examples

• player.getav criticalchance
  • Display the players critical chance
• player.modav fireresistance 20
  • Change the fire resistance to 20
• player.modav hitpoints -20
  • Lower players hitpoints by 20

Perks Commands

Perks are unique traits you can earn by levelling in the game. Perks can be unique abilies or enhancements to your stats. You can add single perks to your character using the console. I do not have a list of Fallout 4 perks.

Perks Command Examples

• player.addperk <perk id>
  • Add specific perk id to player
• player.removeperk <perk id>
  • Remove specific perk id from player

Generic Cheats and Console Commands

Fallout 4 Add Special Points Command

These are console commands that allow you to modify the game, the game world, graphics, and characters. These are console commands but many people will call them cheat codes.

Generic

• help - list all commands
• tgm - god mode
• tcl - no clipping (walk through walls)
• QQQ - fast quit game
• CloseAllMenus - force closes all menus
• Save <name> - save game with this name
• saq - save and quit

External Links

• PC Gamer, Cheat related commands - PC Gamer
• Gamepur, Cheat related commands - Gamepur