During QuakeCon, Bethesda took the opportunity to introduce the perk system of Fallout 76 to fans. It is based on cards that you can freely equip and discard. How do players react? What perks are available?
Perks will be unlockable as cards in Fallout 76. Each of the cards you receive belongs to one of the overarching SPECIAL attributes.
What perks will there be? A final list is not yet available. However, already lists are circulating, compiled from known material by Reddit users. We have translated these for you.
Note: Some of the cards already have higher ranks. The effect they had on the previous ranks is not known.
All known Strength cards
- Bear Arms – Heavy weapons weigh 20% less (Rank 4)
- Expert Heavy Gunner – Your non-explosive heavy weapons deal 10% more damage (Rank 3)
- Gladiator – One-handed melee weapons receive a 10% damage bonus (Rank 3)
- Thru-Hiker – Weight of food and drink is reduced by 30% (Rank 3)
- Batteries Included – Energy weapon ammunition weighs 30% less (Rank 3)
- Bandolier – Ammunition from ballistic weapons weighs 90% less (Rank 3)
- Sturdy Frame – Armor has 25% less weight (Rank 2)
All known Perception cards
- Night Person – +1 Intelligence and +1 Perception between 6 PM and 6 AM (Rank 3)
- Green Thumb – 25% chance to double your yield when harvesting (Rank 4)
- Percepti-Bobble – If you are within range of a bobblehead, you will be guided in the right direction by an acoustic signal (Rank 1)
- Pannapictagraphist – An acoustic signal leads you to magazines (Rank 1)
- Refractor – +5 energy resistance (Rank 4)
All known Endurance cards
- Revenant – +25% damage for 2 minutes when a player revives you (Rank 2)
- Professional Drinker – Alcohol does not make you addicted (Rank 1)
- Aquagirl/-boy – No damage from radiation while swimming, and you can breathe underwater (Rank 1)
- Slow Metabolizer – Food satisfies you by +15% (Rank 3)
- Dromedary – Drinks reduce your thirst by +15% (Rank 3)
- Vaccinated – The chance of contracting a disease from a creature is reduced by 60% (Rank 3)
All known Charisma cards
- Bodyguards – +6 damage and energy resistance (Max. 18) for your group, not including yourself (Rank 4)
- Hard Bargain – Better buying and selling prices (Rank 3)
- Party Girl/Boy – Effects of alcohol are doubled (Rank 2)
- Inspirational – +5% experience points when you are in a team (Rank 3)
- Happy-Go-Lucky – Your luck increases by 2 when you are under the influence of alcohol (2)
- Quack Surgeon – Revives other players with alcohol (Rank 1)
- Spiritual Healer – Regenerates health points for 5 seconds after you revive a player (Rank 3)
- Happy Camper – Hunger and thirst are slowed by 40% when you are in the camp or team workshop
- Strange in Numbers – Positive mutations are 25% stronger when your teammates are also mutated (Rank 1)
- Lone Wanderer – When you are alone, you take 10% less damage and your AP regenerates 10% faster (Rank 3)
- Team Medic – Stimpaks also heal your teammates, but the effect is only half as strong (Rank 3)
- Bloodsucker – Blood packs now quench thirst, do not irradiate you and the healing effect is increased by 50%. (Rank 3)
- Squad Maneuver – Run 10% faster when you are in a team. (Rank unknown)
- Philanthropist – Slightly reduces your team’s hunger and thirst when you eat and drink (Rank unknown)
All known Intelligence cards
- Grease Monkey – Items from the workshop are 30% cheaper to repair (Rank 1)
- Exotic Weapons – You can now craft exotic Rank-1 weapon mods if you have the plans (Rank 2)
- Contractor – Items from the workshop cost 25% less materials (Rank 2)
- Master Hacker – Gain +1 for hacking skill; lockout times at terminals are reduced (Rank 1)
- First Aid – Stimpaks heal 10% more health (Rank 4)
- Science – You can craft energy weapons if you have the plans (Rank 2)
All known Agility cards
- Dodgy – Spend 30 AP to avoid 10% of all attacks (Rank 3)
- Marathoner – Sprints consume 20% less AP (Rank 3)
- Goat Legs – Fall damage is reduced by 80% (Rank 2)
All known Luck cards
- Mystery Meat – Stimpaks can create edible meat. High radiation increases the probability. (Rank 3)
- Starched Genes – You will never mutate from radiation and Radaway will not heal mutations. (Rank 2)
- Luck of the Draw – Your weapons have a 10% chance to restore stamina (Rank 3)
- Mysterious Stranger – A strange stranger appears more often when you use V.A.T.S (Rank 2, Max Rank is 3)
- Scrounger – 50% chance that you find extra ammunition in ammunition containers (Rank 4)
In the finished game, there will be significantly more perks and hundreds of combinations.
The comparison to Fallout 4 – What is different?
Clearly, Fallout 76 will offer significantly more perks: Currently, we do not know how many perks will make it into the final version of Fallout 76. However, comparing the numbers of the currently known cards with the perks from Fallout 4, it seems that there could be significantly more.
This is how the perks were structured in Fallout 4: In Fallout 4, there were 10 fixed perks for each of the SPECIAL attributes that you could level up. These were set as soon as you invested skill points in them.
Already over 14 Charisma perks have been shown, and there are likely still more. One can assume that the numbers will be balanced between the SPECIAL values. Thus, each attribute will likely receive about the same number of perk cards.
Advantage for Fallout 76 through the cards? The card system of Fallout 76 is, at least it seems, significantly more flexible and offers you more combinations. In addition, there will likely be a significantly wider range of abilities.
How the SPECIAL system works in conjunction with the perks can be read here.
Ammunition gets weight
One of the survival aspects: Ammunition will have weight and thus affect inventory management. This is evidenced by the perk Bandolier, which reduces the weight of ballistic ammunition by 90%.
In previous Fallout installments, ammunition always had no impact on your inventory, and players could hoard as much of it as they wanted.
This option already existed in Fallout 4: The survival mode of Fallout 4 already offered the possibility for hardcore players, and apparently this will also be carried over to Fallout 76. How difficult it will be to obtain ammunition remains to be seen.
By the time of the B.E.T.A of Fallout 76, we will know how this all plays out in practice. We are definitely looking forward to more perks.
