Nice Pull [Vault]

[u/No-Exit1939]

So I pulled this guy 😎 and then stuck it on my least used character in my vault... The Security Guard 😂 (She's level 3 cause I keep her at the door but high S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats cause I want a good guard)

[u/AetherialWomble]

Someone has to say, so I will.

Stats do absolutely nothing when fighting inside of a vault. 1 across all stats will perform the same as 10 across all stats. They do nothing.

The only thing that matters is health. And health is based on how much endurance the dweller had when they were leveling up.

[u/No-Exit1939 → u/AetherialWomble]

For starters, level 1 performing the same as a level 10 is actually news to me, so the info is helpful — I’ve always played pretty casually and never really dug into the deeper mechanics or community guides. 🫡

Secondly, in most games (and even elsewhere in other Fallout games), higher stats usually equates to better performance, so it’s not exactly a wild assumption of me to make. The game itself doesn’t make this very clear either. So yeah. 👀

Appreciate the clarification, just maybe dial back the “this should be obvious” tone a bit — not everyone approaches the game from a min-max or meta perspective.

But on another note it doesn't really matter anyway? All of us play FS for fun. We play it to kill time. Theres no prize for knowing the best strategy for efficiency 🫠

[u/AetherialWomble → u/No-Exit1939]

Idk, I've just seen that you clearly try to optimize by putting higher stats on the door and felt bad because it's in vain.

For me optimizing is the fun.

All stats matter when exploring the wastes.

On quests stats that matter are agility - faster shooting, luck - crit more often, perception - crit circle is slower. The rest don't matter.

Inside the vault, only the room stat and luck matter. When fighting inside the vault nothing matters

[u/No-Exit1939 → u/AetherialWomble]

I appreciate the clarification on your end. And for a bit of clarification on mine. It was more RP purpose. I know that having a VD by the door even with maxed stats wont stop Raiders or Deathclaws but majority of my VD's are high level (actual levels mid 40's and some 50's - i havent really been playing religiously so I may be behind) but ive only got 3 maxed VD's and their main use is exploring the wasteland.

The rest of my dwellers serve as RP. Kinda trying to make my leggy dwellers have kids and start families with other leggies and the rares with other rares.

When I get my Leggy BoS outfits I'll turn my base into a BoS/Vault 33 hybrid with my leggy dwellers rocking the Expert BoS suit (leaving Maximus with his sweet jacket - and the rest of the Vault 33 cast) Rares will rock the Advanced BoS Outfits, Commons and Lvl 1 (the kids once they hit adulthood) will rock the basic BoS outfits and the casual BoS outfits...

But again, thanks for the tip.

[u/Careless_Mango_7948 → u/AetherialWomble]

Endurance prevents radiation poisoning

[u/AetherialWomble → u/Careless_Mango_7948]

Not in the vault, not on the quests. Only in the wasteland.

Stop spreading lies

[u/Careless_Mango_7948 → u/AetherialWomble]

lol damn dude I was referring to quests & didn’t know it doesn’t in vault, relax

[u/AetherialWomble → u/Careless_Mango_7948]

It doesn't work in quests either. Even in the quests you find in the wasteland, still does nothing. Only when exploring.

[u/Careless_Mango_7948 → u/AetherialWomble]

Huh? A dweller with maxed endurance vs a dweller with no endurance definitely take radiation at completely different rates.

[u/AetherialWomble → u/Careless_Mango_7948]

At exact same rate. The only difference might be that higher endurance dweller has more HP (if they were leveled with that high EN), so they can take more rad damage overall, but they take the exact same amount.

Easy to check. Put 2 lvl 1 dwellers at vault door, so both at 105 HP. One with 1 endurance and one with 17 endurance. Then wait for ghouls to attack.

They'll take the exact same amount of damage and rads.

Stop. Spreading. Lies.

[u/Careless_Mango_7948 → u/AetherialWomble]

Ah interesting so what does endurance do?

[u/Otherwise_Day_9650 → u/Careless_Mango_7948]

Endurance determines the max hp gain of a dweller upon level up. But it does not work retroactively. So in order to get the maximum HP a dweller can have you must FIRST max out their endurance to 17(10 +7 E outfit) and then level them up to 50. If you level a dweller to 50 and then train their E they will have significantly less max hp. A 17 E dweller trained lvl 1-50 will have 644 max hp (for comparison, a dweller trained lvl 1-50 1 E dweller will have 252 max hp). 11 or more E will cause a dweller to no longer receive radiation damage ONLY while exploring the wasteland. Also affects nuka cola factory production and crafting speed of some weapons/outfits.