
These points are used to unlock Perks that will teach you stronger, more specialized skills, and you will choose where to distribute them throughout the following seven stat categories: Through combat, crafting, base building, and other activities throughout the Wasteland, you will earn experience points. is Fallout's acronym for the physical and mental stats that determine your different attributes.

You can also change your face with a surgeon's help later in the game.

You can allocate as many or as little points as you want into each category.Īfter this beginning sequence, you will get another chance to change your name and redistribute stat points. This is also where you'll allocate your first 21 points into the seven stat categories, called S.P.E.C.I.A.L. You can choose the gender, body build, skin color, and other visual traits of your future Wastelander, as well as sculpt all facial features.


But even after half a year of news bites and a trickle of leaked info, you have no idea what you're getting into mechanically. You know it takes place after nuclear war has devastated the world, and you know you're playing as the sole survivor of Vault 111. You've just booted up Fallout 4 for the first time, and as the opening sequence music swells, the thought suddenly hits you: this is your first Fallout game.
