You Are Exceptional - Skills and Perk Overhaul v1.19L

At the moment, I do not have any intentions to bring YAE into the NextGen Update.

NOTE

YAE just had a companion site launched for handling any patches that I do for the Skills System going forward. Right now it's small, but it may grow as my interest in other stuff does. Check it out: You Are Exceptional - Compatibility Patch Database.

FOREWORD

This project originally started as a personal patch for Be Exceptional, and quickly expanded to include elements from the other Skill System mods. Although, it eventually eventually reached a point where I had edited so many things for myself, that I thought I could release it for others, and began the process of streamlining my novice changes. However, I had never released a mod before (and prior to this experience, had never even made a patch), and in order to be organized with my release, I started over from scratch.

In doing this, I began to see a much greater potential for this system, and started to pour my personal knowledge of tabletop gaming into my work. I had never planned to work on this Project for more than a couple weeks (much less the 4 months it actually took), so I just merged the names of the two parent mods that had initially inspired me, with plans to change it later. However, after months of using the "yae" abbreviation in my programming, the You Are Exceptional name just kind of stuck, and here we are.

As of first creating this webpage, I have spent just over 550+ hours designing and working on this mod. This was definitely a gigantic task for my first release, and hopefully others will think it was worth the time I invested. I've been playing and modding Bethesda games for decades, and I have always wanted to create my own mod for one of them. I guess you could say this was on my bucket list.

WHAT IS "YOU ARE EXCEPTIONAL"?

As stated previously, it's a spiritual successor to other Skill System mods, but over development has evolved so much beyond that. Instead of just using the vanilla Perks and adding upon that, ALL Perks from the base game have been manipulated in some way, while several hundred more Perks have been added, which are basically broken down into roughly 220+ "Perklines"; i.e. Perk Trees (altogether, probably totaling over several hundred). Some of the vanilla Perks were changed completely or broken up into smaller pieces across multiple Skills, while others were left alone, but given an improved description. More have been busted since Fallout 4's initial release, and were mostly fixed by the Unofficial Patch, but I took it a step further and repaired a few things