Laser Commander Required Character Level: 22 Required Attributes/Skills: Energy Weapons 90 From the humble laser pistol to the mighty Gatling laser, you do plus 15 percent damage and have plus 10 percent chance to critically hit with any laser weapon. The laser commander perk makes you a master of energy weapons. As you go through the increasingly devastating stages of radiation sickness, you will regenerate more and more health. Rad Child Required Character Level: 4 Required Attributes/Skills: Survival 70 You truly are a rad child.

Radiation poisoning isn't a problem for a rad child. Since weapons and armor weigh quite a bit, this will come in handy for those travelers out there that like to loot everything they see. Expanding my repair options means I don't have to find the exact weapon or armor to repair something. Often, I'll pick up every weapon I can find. So this skill will reward you for this by making the repair skill even more useful.

Tess Treadwell: If you pick up jury rigging, you're already halfway to level, and the repair skill is obviously important to you because you've almost maxed it out. How does it work? Nobody knows…except you. Fix a trail carbine with a hunting rifle, a plasma defender with a laser pistol, or even power armor with metal armor. Jury Rigging Required Character Level: 14 Required Attributes/Skills: Repair 90 You possess the amazing ability to repair any item using a roughly similar item. Jury rigging will let you fix just about anything…with just about anything. I also love revolvers (one of my favorite Fallout: New Vegas weapons is one of the revolvers), and 25 percent is no bonus to sneeze at. Tess Treadwell: Cowboy is my favorite because, well…cowboys are awesome. The cowboy perk makes you more skillful with a gunslinger's arsenal.Ĭowboy Required Character Level: 8 Required Attributes/Skills: Guns 45, Melee 45 You do 25 percent more damage when using any revolver, lever-action firearm, dynamite, knife, or hatchet.

New Vegas will be released next week, but you can see the game's new perks, along with explanations from associate producer Tess Treadwell, lead producer Larry Liberty, and tech producer Jason Fader, right here.

Along with the new story, new characters, and new quests, New Vegas will offer new perks-powerful attributes your character can pick and choose after gaining a few experience levels that improve your performance with the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System (VATS), grant you bonus action points (AP) in combat, and more. But New Vegas will, as the name suggests, take the adventure to Sin City, where the glitzy neon signs light up even the postapocalyptic wasteland. Fallout: New Vegas will be a new stand-alone game powered by the Fallout 3 engine and developed by California-based Obsidian Entertainment-a studio that's home to several of the developers of the original Fallout and Fallout 2.

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