For those who have the game, how does only getting a perk every second level feel? Do you end up significantly underpowered compared to fallout 3?

As I recall it was the same there? It'd be a bit much to get perks every level.

Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.
 
Get off my lawn!

I feel it's a step back in the level of fun. Choosing perks is fun, why limit it to every second level? "Oh, the game might get too easy" ... or too fun? blurgh :P

I just installed a mod that gives you a perk every level. It will allow me to see much more of the perks on my first playthrough. On hardcore mode I will play it as it was intended. I don't consider it to be a cheat.

Pretty sure the earlier fallout games only had perks every other level too. I don't mind it, Fallout 3 saw my character basically being a badass all the damn time in every damn way. Now I have to approach situations in a certain way, I'm playing a sniper type guy, I should'nt be able to unlock, hack and smoothtalk my way through everything.

I think this is better. It makes choosing a perk more important and because you'll end up with fewer, they seem more defining for your character.

In Fallout and Fallout 2 you got perks ever three levels. It was too easy to make a character good at everything in FO 3 so I like getting perks every two levels.

Yeah, I prefer it. I never replayed Fallout 3 but I prooobably will with New Vegas.

So basically we may only choose 15 perks at the end level. That's 5 under compared to Fallout 3 and 15 under the DLC. But at the same time they added like alomst double the perks. I dont understand this really, but i guess it makes you're character more balanced, but i didn't feel OP in Fallout 3 tho.

I feel like I'm gaining levels faster than I was in Fallout 3, so I don't notice the perk thing as much.  I'm sure we can probably put good money on the fact that the level cap will get a boost in future DLC.  I think that goes without saying.  Only being able to pick 15 perks, versus 20, really makes you have to plan accordingly and pick ones that matter.  Maybe you'll think twice about picking that "Blood and Guts" perk if it means you won't be able to carry extra crap in your pack?

Yeah WTF is up with that? I guess it makes your perk choices all the more important but it kinda annoys me and I feel like I'm missing out on so much. The fact that I'll end up with only 15 perks on a full-levelled character out of 88 according to the wiki is kinda like....wtf 0_0

Still quicker than the older fallouts when it was once every 3 levels

Sounds lame to me. 

" In Fallout and Fallout 2 you got perks ever three levels. It was too easy to make a character good at everything in FO 3 so I like getting perks every two levels. "

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

I think they changed it mostly for balancing purposes. Getting a perk every  level for thirty levels kinda broke Fallout 3.

It's an improvement overall, but it sucked having to wait until level 6 to use skill books!
 
I went level 2 -Intense Training, level 4 -Educated, and level 6 -Comprehension.

I accept that one every level right up to level thirty made you a little overpowered, but so much of the fun is in picking them. Perks are what make fallout SPECIAL, so to speak, and it seems like obsidian bursting in and telling us that we can't have as many seems old school in a way that we've moved past since the old fallout games. I don't have the game yet so I don't know how it actually affects the gameplay, but it seems like you could at least give us a perk each level until level 10 or so. Also, does the fact that completing challenges can give you extra perks make up for the perk suppression?

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

Black Isle used to do it this way, so it's no surprise that the Black Isle guys did it that way again. 
 
I'm not heartbroken about not being a god at level 20. Being able to 1-shot even the toughest super mutants with Lincolns Repeater really took the challenge of the RPG out.

If you don't like it just go to falloutnexus.com and download a simple mod that changes it back to a perk every level.

" @Designer0 said:

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

This!  Damn teenagers with their music television and their skateboards. "

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

I waltzed around Fallout 3 like a robo demon and destroyed everything in my path with a plethora of weapons. Now I have to specialize in a handful of things and consider how I'm going to build my play style. This is the way it should be.

Eh, it's not a big deal. I guess it's a way to make your perk choices mean more, instead of just letting you take everything at once.

" @Designer0 said:

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

This!  Damn teenagers with their music television and their skateboards. "

I like this more.  A few times in Fallout 3 I would just grab a perk because I didn't know what else to pick.  Now I need to carefully consider my decision because the perks have a much greater statistical significance than they did in Fallout 3.

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

" I feel it's a step back in the level of fun. Choosing perks is fun, why limit it to every second level? "Oh, the game might get too easy" ... or too fun? blurgh :P "

If I am not mistaken, the default level cap in New Vegas is 30 (unless I misread the achievements). I'll hazard a guess and say that they made it to be every two levels to not have the player end up like an over-powered behemoth by the end of the leveling tree, but I could be wrong.

" @Designer0 said:

" Back when i was young, we only got a perk every 3 levels.  Get off my lawn! "

This!  Damn teenagers with their music television and their skateboards. "

there's only like 10 useful perks in this game anyway.

I miss Fallout 3's game breaking awesomeness. My character was a power armored god walking the wasteland with his alien technology  no one could dare oppose him.

I feel seriously underpowered.  With the removal of Bobblehead type items, perks every other level, and SUPER rare skill books its hard to do anything in the vein of character stats progression.

" I waltzed around Fallout 3 like a robo demon and destroyed everything in my path with a plethora of weapons. Now I have to specialize in a handful of things and consider how I'm going to build my play style. This is the way it should be. "

I am glad, by the time i was level 20 in fallout 3 i was an unstoppable killing machine. I dont like feeling overpowered like that, right now i am a level 7 in new vegas and it took  me about 20 mins to kill 2 giant rad scorpions and a normal rad scorpion. To me that challenge makes the game so much more interesting and fun. I wont even tell how long it took me to kill a single death claw.

That's how it was in Fallout 2, so if anything, it's a return to form.

PC. "Perk Every Level" Mod. Awesome

The Perks function much like the Feats of Dungeons & Dragons.  Sure, there are classes that allow you to get feats on a regular basis while leveling up, but it's more rewarding to build a character by planning ahead and taking the feats you want for the character you desire to play.  It's not as interesting when you get a new one every level.

" @ShadowSkill11: Back when I was young, MTV only had music videos, Real World, and Beavis and Butthead. Today's MTV lineup makes me weep. "

" I feel seriously underpowered.  With the removal of Bobblehead type items, perks every other level, and SUPER rare skill books its hard to do anything in the vein of character stats progression. "

Makes getting Bloody Mess more of an issue though, since you get half the perks in a playthrough you'd want to make sure you got the most utilitarian ones. 

" Makes getting Bloody Mess more of an issue though, since you get half the perks in a playthrough you'd want to make sure you got the most utilitarian ones.  "

I know this was how the old fallout's handled perks, but that doesn't make it right.

" I know this was how the old fallout's handled perks, but that doesn't make it right. "

" @Hailinel: The point is, compared to fallout 3, getting fewer perks seems like it would be less fun. The old fallout games don't enter into it. "