The SurvivalStartingStats file is no longer available so if you have it, keep it for those characters. It is mostly the same as Starting Stats Husband but there are a couple of different perks. You can rename any of the files to include the character names to help you keep track of different character builds. You will receive the "Missing Content" message when loading a save made with the previous file name, but everything should carry over fine.
The main file has been replaced with two files, Starting Stats Husband and Starting Stats Wife, which both include 49 SPECIAL Points and the Starting Perks listed on the front page. If you load these files with previously made characters they will only add the perks. If you create a new character and want fewer SPECIAL points, load a different SPECIAL file after the main file when you create the character; you will not need the second SPECIAL file after you create the character and save the game but you'll still need the main file for that character for the perks.
I created additional backstory for the Wife so that I could keep her total perks even with the Husband's, so the wife has a few perks to reflect college experience such as Aqua Girl 1 (synchronized swimming) and Party Girl 1 (Law School). For the rest of her perks I drew strongly from the Charisma perks to recreate the dominating interpersonal skills of a courtroom lawyer.
It's a shame this doesn't work right anymore and the uploader isn't supporting it anymore. The starting SPECIAL score boost works but the perks that are supposed to be activated aren't active. Ah well. At least there's the starting SPECIAL score boost. itssomethingmeme.jpg
Not sure if modders (this) is still active, But Is it compatible this mod with LevelupMenuEx by Neanka and Be Exceptional - Skill and Perk Overhaul by rcoll?
This is an interesting idea for more variety and customization at the beginning of the game, which I feel is lacking. I don't want to sound like I'm demanding things so apologies if this sounds wrong. ;)
I'm wondering about a version where a gendered starting bonus perk pack also comes potentially with a penalty? For instance, Nora might be educated, but might very well have never fired a gun in her life; it's plausible then that her accuracy or reload speed would be very poor, especially with automatic weapons, at least until a gun perk was later taken. The vanilla version of Nora, who is supposedly no more than a lawyer and mother, is a gun-toting, veritable killing machine upon encountering the raiders outside the Museum, especially with vats or a player who is good at FPS games. I mean, sure, you're _supposed_ to be able to beat those raiders, but a vanilla-game lawyer shredding them like Rambo is really something.
I'm not sure what Nate would be plausibly bad at as a soldier, but I but there's something he wouldn't likely be able to do very at first-ish level that the game lets him do. unless I'm reading wrong, it appears that these characters, with the mod's bonus gendered perks, will be stronger and more competent than they already are (even with no perks the vanilla incredibly multi-talented, already talented (if not experts) at shooting, crafting, leading, etc.)
Naturally... since Nora graduated from the Institute and is a lawyer and must have a high intelligence charisma ....... and Nate was in the army and has the experience of combat and the high perception and strength
possibly the 10th new character for me an all but 2 have no perks assigned. the special points are fine. a few of them had the perks before leaving the vault and lost them soon after. the last 2 guys didn't get that far. i've tried load order changes and originally that helped. nothing will get it done. love this work, and really want it to work, just need help please
Hmm If I Think About It Its Lore-Friendly, Because You Get The Background [If You Play As The Husband] That You Used To Be In The Military But In The Game You Don't Get The Milatry(isch) Perks. So This Mod Is Realistic By Adding Them How It's Supposed To Be
just wondering if you would consider adding a vr which gives the girl the boys perks and vice versa or a vr that gives both sets of perks no matter the sex
While that was possible in previous Fallout games, my understanding is that the sex-specific perks can now only be applied to their matching gender. It may be easy to remove that specific tag from each variation of Aqua Girl/Boy so that each perk could be applied to either sex, but then the perk chart would need additional display options to show both the Aqua Girl and Aqua Boy perks at the same time. Same for Lady Killer/the other sex version of Lady Killer. Right now only one of those two perks displays in the perk chart based on which sex the character is, I don't know how to make an additional spot so the player could take both of those perks at the same time.
I have the season pass and all DLCs active. I'm using the wife starting stats and it worked fine when I created a new game. I'm not sure what went wrong when you tried it, did you start a new character? I did notice in FO4Edit that using both the wife starting stats file and a tag file had the tag file perks overwriting the starting stats file perks as it came after in the load order so would need to be patched to use both sets of perks, but I think that is probably something the author knows about. Otherwise I've experienced no problems.
Would be nice to have at least one tag that adds intimidation from the start so you could try peaceful approach without being forced to become most charismatic person in the whole world from the beginning. It would work nice with infiltrator skills like sneak.
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The main file has been replaced with two files, Starting Stats Husband and Starting Stats Wife, which both include 49 SPECIAL Points and the Starting Perks listed on the front page. If you load these files with previously made characters they will only add the perks. If you create a new character and want fewer SPECIAL points, load a different SPECIAL file after the main file when you create the character; you will not need the second SPECIAL file after you create the character and save the game but you'll still need the main file for that character for the perks.
I created additional backstory for the Wife so that I could keep her total perks even with the Husband's, so the wife has a few perks to reflect college experience such as Aqua Girl 1 (synchronized swimming) and Party Girl 1 (Law School). For the rest of her perks I drew strongly from the Charisma perks to recreate the dominating interpersonal skills of a courtroom lawyer.
I don't want to sound like I'm demanding things so apologies if this sounds wrong. ;)
I'm wondering about a version where a gendered starting bonus perk pack also comes potentially with a penalty? For instance, Nora might be educated, but might very well have never fired a gun in her life; it's plausible then that her accuracy or reload speed would be very poor, especially with automatic weapons, at least until a gun perk was later taken. The vanilla version of Nora, who is supposedly no more than a lawyer and mother, is a gun-toting, veritable killing machine upon encountering the raiders outside the Museum, especially with vats or a player who is good at FPS games. I mean, sure, you're _supposed_ to be able to beat those raiders, but a vanilla-game lawyer shredding them like Rambo is really something.
I'm not sure what Nate would be plausibly bad at as a soldier, but I but there's something he wouldn't likely be able to do very at first-ish level that the game lets him do.
unless I'm reading wrong, it appears that these characters, with the mod's bonus gendered perks, will be stronger and more competent than they already are (even with no perks the vanilla incredibly multi-talented, already talented (if not experts) at shooting, crafting, leading, etc.)
But In The Game You Don't Get The Milatry(isch) Perks. So This Mod Is Realistic By Adding Them How It's Supposed To Be