** Ditto its SpiritualSuccessor. What ''Fallout'' player has ''ever'' found much of a use for Traps[[hottip:*:None of the traps you encounter are very damaging, so running past them and taking damage is better than wasting skill points]], Throwing[[hottip:*:While very effective at the beginning of ''Fallout 2'', when you don't have a decent gun for a while, there are ''very'' few throwing weapons beyond the (sharpened) spear that you can use more than once, and grenades aren't nearly as powerful as rocket launchers, plasma guns, or high-level bullet guns, all of which use different skills]], First Aid[[hottip:*: It has some narrative uses, but requires the use of a first aid kit, and you're just better off with stimpaks, which don't require a skill check at all and are much more readily available]], Doctor[[hottip:*: Like First Aid, but for crippling wounds, requiring the even more rare doctor's bag, and capable of healing ''less'' hit points than a similarly leveled First Aid skill]], or Outdoorsman[[hottip:*: This skill increases the rate at which you find favorable random encounters, and decreases the rate at which you find bad random encounters. It literally has no other effect, not even narrative skill checks, in either game]]? The viability of investing points into some skills, such as Science, Repair, and (in the sequel) Unarmed is undermined by the many books and teachers in the games that make it easy to boost a skill to 100% without investing a point into it. Many of the Perks are also infamous as pretty useless.

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** Ditto its SpiritualSuccessor. What ''Fallout'' player has ''ever'' found much of a use for Traps[[hottip:*:None of the traps you encounter are very damaging, so running past them and taking damage is better than wasting skill points]], Throwing[[hottip:*:While very effective at the beginning of ''Fallout 2'', when you don't have a decent gun for a while, there are ''very'' few throwing weapons beyond the (sharpened) spear that you can use more than once, and grenades aren't nearly as powerful as rocket launchers, plasma guns, or high-level bullet guns, all of which use different skills]], or Outdoorsman[[hottip:*: This skill increases the rate at which you find favorable random encounters, and decreases the rate at which you find bad random encounters. It literally has no other effect, not even narrative skill checks, in either game]]? The viability of investing points into some skills, such as Science, Repair, and (in the sequel) Unarmed is undermined by the many books and teachers in the games that make it easy to boost a skill to 100% without investing a point into it. Many of the Perks are also infamous as pretty useless.

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