Prerelease Game Settings

During Fallout 3's development, not all the game setting values stayed the same between initial engine implementation and final release, so I scoured through the GECK with no esm loaded to find all the different gameplay settings. Some of these might be leftovers from during Oblivion's development cycle, but I tried my best to not include anything from that game's prerelease.

Prerelease Changes:

• Player and NPC weapon spread doubled at low skill.

• Running now increases weapon spread by +100%.

• NPC weapon spread penalty reduced from 15x to 5x.

• VATS player damage reduction increased from 90% to 100%.

• VATS weapon degradation rate reduced from 5x to 2x.

• VATS weapon spread mult increased from 0. 5x to 1x.

• AP regen reduced from +4/s to +1/s.

• Karma for killing evil NPCs reduced from +100 to +1.

• Carry Capacity per Strength increased from 10 to 25.

• Melee Damage bonus per Strength adjusted from to

• Base Health reduced from to .

• Levelup Health increased from +10 to +20.

• Heal Rate per Endurance reduced by 80%.

• Skill Rate adjusted from to

• Tag Skill bonus reduced from +15 to +10.

• Skill base values are varied:

• Speech = 4

• Lockpick = 3

• Small Guns = 7

• Energy Weapons = 0

• Melee Weapons = 12

• Repair = 3

• Unarmed = 15

• Sneak = 4

• Medicine = 4

• Barter = 3

• Big Guns = 0

• Explosives = 3

• Science = 4

• Unarmed Damage bonus increased from to , increasing the max Unarmed damage bonus from 5. 5 to 17!

• Medicine potency at max skill reduced from 3x to 1. 5x.

• Speech check auto-succeed threshold reduced from 90% to 80%.

• Barter values adjusted ever so slightly.

• Bartering broken equipment will still yield at least 25% of its max value.

• Repairing items at vendors no longer costs double the missing item value.

• Player and Vendors can only repair items up to 90% condition at max Repair.

• Player and NPC DR cap increased from 85 to 90 (Poison and Rad Resistance still cap at 85).

• Armor breaks 42% faster.

• Weapons break significantly slower.

• Weapon condition effects fire rate more severely, and increases weapon spread.

• Player and NPC movement speed increased by 10%.

• Radiation accumulates from non-water sources at 1/100th rate... prerelease values are weird.

• Radiation accumulates from swimming in water sources increased from 10% to 50%.