A patch I made for my own game, that I thought I should probably upload after the time I've put into it.

Overhauls Perks, Skills, Traits and Ingestibles from these mods to interact well with one another:

• Be Exceptional
• You Are SPECIAL
• Humble Perks
• Better Locational Damage
• Mojave/Wasteland Imports
• Start Me Up
• VAFS
  

Additional minor patches for:

• Combined Arms
• Damn Apocalypse
  

• Real Throwing Weapons
• Player Comments and Headtracking
  

Ideally all plugins should be used, but you can choose individual ones if you'd like. All of them are flagged as ESL.


Plugins:

Alex - Perks Overhaul

This is mostly just a master for changes used in the other patches, but it also includes the following changes:

• Locksmith Skill - Now increases lockpick sweetspot as well as allowing higher lock levels to be picked.
• Strong Back 4 - Description now mentions it prevents leg damage when overencumbered in Survival.
• Added Cowboy Perk: Increased damage and accuracy on Lever Action Rifle and Revolver.
  

    
    
Alex - Perks Overhaul - YAS

• Added YAS Perks to Be Exceptional level up screen.
• Removed YAS level up screen.
• Removed YAS tagged skills screen (BE still allows you to tag skills).
• Added or changed skill and levels requirements on most perks to use BE skills instead.
• Turned Trader at Heart into Pillar of the Community rank 3.
• Removed Rapid Reload.
• Quick Hands now improves reloading speed at every rank, on top of the VATS and AP bonuses rank 2 and 3 provide.
  

Note 1: The Trait select screen will pop up after a little while of moving to the selected location in Start Me Up, or after finishing Out Of Time.
Note 2: When picking the Gifted trait, YAS still allows you to select 2 more.

Alex - Perks Overhaul - Humble Perks (Requires You Are SPECIAL)

• Survival Skill now improves with Endurance.
• Survival Skill now increases healing from food.
• Changed several perks to be unlocked at higher levels, most where unlocked at level 0.
• Added other skill and SPECIAL requirement to most perks, from needing only Survival.
• Removed HP's Parkour Enthusiast/Master in favor of You Are Special's Acrobatic.
• Removed YAS's Sharpshooter, in favor of HP's Sharpshooter.
• Fixed some perks to display correctly in the level up screen when checking all ranks.
• Added HP's Survival Skill requirements to a few BE and YAS perks.
  

Alex - Perks Overhaul - BLD
Carried over changes to perks from Be Exceptional when using Skills instead.

• Changed Medicine skill to buff stimpaks correctly when using Better Locational Damage.
  

• Quick Hands works outside of combat again.
  

• Perks changed back to their Be Exceptional version:
  

• Action Boy/Action Girl
• Ninja
• Aquaboy/Aquagirl
  

• Perks using Better Perks - Enhanced versions:
  

• Chem Resistant (added rank 2 back)
• Night Person
• Lone Wanderer (added rank 4 back)
• Steady Aim
  

Alex - Perks Overhaul - WI

• Changed most skill magazines to increase their respective skill temporarily.
• Added HP's Thoughtful Reader effect to all skill magazines (They give 20XP instead of 100XP).
• Added Comprehension perk (double skill gains from magazines) as rank 2 of Thoughtful Reader.
• Kept Be Exceptional changes in certain perks, to make sure they aren't overridden.
• Steady slightly increases accuracy.
• Added Cowboy Perk effect to certain WI weapons.
  

Alex - Perks Overhaul - Start Me Up (Requires You Are SPECIAL)

• Added SMU Traits to YAS traits list.
  

Note 1: The Trait select screen will pop up after a little while of moving to the selected location in Start Me Up.
Note 2: Don't pick any traits in the Start Me Up menu.


Alex - Perks Overhaul - VAFS
Alex - Perks Overhaul - YAS - VAFS
Alex - Perks Overhaul - Humble Perks - VAFS

• VAFS patches for Be Exceptional, You Are SPECIAL and Humble Perks.
  

Optional Changes:

Alex - Perks Overhaul - Optional - Slower Leveling
With skills on top of perks the need to level up as often is lessened.

• Level up slowed down by about 80%.
  

Alex - Perks Overhaul - Optional - Skill Points Rebalanced
Even with skills on top of perks, the player still needs to level up SPECIAL pretty often, so skill points per level are reduced:
    

• Base skill points per level reduced to 8 from 10.
• Intelligence increases skill points per level by 1 every 2 INT points, instead of 1 to 1.
• Educated perk increases skill points by 2 instead of 4.
• Tagged skill increases by 12 instead of 15.    
  

Alex - Perks Overhaul - Optional Changes
My own personal changes to different perks. I use these on my own playthroughs.

• Carried over Barter changes from Damn Apocalypse.
• Changes Unbreakable to Master Locksmith, it now just increases lockpick sweetspot instead of making bobby pins unbreakable.
• Removed rank 3 and 4 from Fortune Finder and Scrounger, instead adding rank 4 effects to rank 2, but unlocking them at a much higher level.
• Removed HP's Special Tactics and Recon Unit, since I use mods that fix companions sneaking by default.
• Added 10% XP gain bonus to Lone Wanderer rank 4.
  

Alex - Perks Overhaul - Optional - Clothing(Requires Far Harbor, Nuka World and Humble Perks)

• Added skill bonuses to some pieces of clothing and armor.
  

Optional Addon:
Alex - Weapons Accuracy - Overhaul
With Better Locational Damage I felt that investing in weapon skills wasn't very useful, since weapons do much more damage, one shot most enemies with easily acquired weapons, and you have incredible accuracy without spending a single point in any weapon skill.

• Accuracy is drastically reduced at low skill levels, but improves a lot at higher skill levels.
• Accuracy increase is lessened for Heavy Weapons skill, but Strength now buffs that as well.
• Wasteland Import's Steady increases accuracy much more.
• The Vertibird Minigun has not been nerfed, or you might get stuck in the obligatory turret sections if you didn't level up Heavy Weapons.
• The Personal Vertibird mod uses its own Minigun, which will be affected by the nerf.
• Includes option for normal and hard difficulty.
  

Note : Admittedly, this one still needs a bit of tuning, certain guns that don't have accuracy modifications from the weapons workbench will still be a bit too inaccurate at level 100, and some weapons from other mods are missing the necessary keywords to get the buff from skills (although I have only noticed this on the Ake Volk, there might be others).

Additional Minor Patches:

• Tales of the Commonwealth
• Combined Arms
• Player Comments
• Real Throwing Weapons
  

Classic Perks does not need a patch.


You should order these plugins like this:

1. Any mods you are using.
2. Alex - Perks Overhaul.esp
3. Alex - Perks Overhaul - YAS.esp
4. Any other Alex - Perks Overhaul patch
5. Any other Alex - Perks Overhaul - Optional plugin

6. Alex - Weapons Accuracy - Overhaul
7. Alex - Weapons Accuracy - Overhaul - <Chosen Difficulty>

Feedback is very appreciated.

My other mods:

AID Overhaul: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/67344
Glass Bottle Overhaul: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/67372