Of course strength affects your carry weight, and endurance increases your max hp. What are other direct effects that come from SPECIAL points?
Fallout – What effects do SPECIAL points have on their own
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There are 78 permanent SPECIAL points in Fallout 4.
- You start off with 28 points.
- You can find a You're SPECIAL! book in your Sanctuary home for another point.
- Can only increase a maxed stat if a debuff like alcohol is used to temporarily lower one of your maxed stats
- You can train all your SPECIAL stats up to 10, so that's 42 remaining points.
- Additional Bobbleheads (for each specific SPECIAL stat) can be found, 7 points.
You can max out your character with 10 in each SPECIAL trait provided every time you level up you simply choose the appropriate training to increase your stats (as opposed to choosing perks).
Remember, there's no level cap, so you can keep on levelling and start getting other perks later.
So you start off with 28, but you can easily improve all of them to 70, should you choose to only train those perks starting at Level 2.
This means 70 - 28 = 42. Meaning the earliest you could max out all your stats is getting to Level 43, while every time you level up putting points in the stat you want to increase, provided you also don't find any bobbleheads along your way.
Additionally, some perks grant permanent increases in stats at specific times of the day or at a certain HP level, so those are technically also "permanent".
This seems to vary from item to item. From my testing so far, I've concluded the following:
- Arm piece will add +5
- Chest piece will add +10
- Leg piece will add +5
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Strength - Determines carry weight and raises melee damage. Each point of Strength increases your carry capacity by 10 and give you a 10% bonus to unarmed/melee attacks
Perception - Directly affects lock picking and pick pocketing success, and VATS accuracy
Endurance - Determines Hit points and the rate AP decrease when sprinting. It's used to determine both your Base HP (80 + Endurance * 5) and HP per level ( 2.5 + 1/2 Endurance), and is calculated retroactively.
Charisma - Affects success rate of persuasion attempts and buy/sell prices, and the maximum number of settlers in settlements.
Intelligence - Determines how much experience you get. Every point gives you a 3% bonus.
Agility - Determines your max AP and affects ability to sneak. Each point gives you 10 AP.
Luck - Affects the recharge rate of the critical meter
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