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[Flying Dice]

Oh, you're right, I forgot that he was dead when you got there. Probably because so many things tended to be dead when I left instead. 

[Wimopy]

Didn't see it posted, so...

New video which shows what the pipboy SPECIAL and Perk screens and the level up screen look like.

Here's what I pieced out:
List of perks seen in the video inside among other info (some guesswork, should be noticeable)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-SEEMINGLY, you can put perk points directly into SPECIALS. At least, that's what I get from the text under "[SPECIAL] Training]"
-Perks still have level requirements, but never for the first rank.
-Perks are animated now.
-You can check the next ranks of perks so you can know in advance the effects/requirements in advance on the level up screen.
-Locked perks are greyed out, available perks are transparent, unlocked/chosen perks are coloured
-I won't go into what each SPECIAL governs with its perks, but it looks like guns were split up into STR/PER/AGI (maybe more) and lockpicking is also under PER.
-I'm note sure about Gun Nut and Science! The latter definitely gives access to mods of the same rank as the perk. Gun Nut looks like it gives access to mods 1 rank higher, as the rank 3 star was not lit/flashing when it was selected. Not sure what to make of this.

Perks in the video (in order of appearance, mostly. All info is rank 1 unless otherwise written)
-Perk Name (SPECIAL, Level, Ranks): effect
-Better Criticals (LCK, L06, 3): +50% Critical Damage.
-Big Leagues (STR, L02, 5): +20% melee dmg.
-Commando (AGI, L02, 5): +20% automatic weapon dmg.
-Gun Nut [I wrote it later first, check below, sry)
-Rifleman (PER, L02, 5): +20% non-automatic rifle dmg
-Science! (INT, L06, 4): Access to base level and Rank 1 high-tech mods.
-Toughness (END, L01, 5): +10 DR

-Cap Collecter (CHA, L01, 3): Buy&Sell prices improved.
-Lady Killer (CHA, L02, 3): +5% Dmg to Women, Persuasion easier.
-Lone Wanderer (CHA, L03, 3): -15% Dmg Taken, +50 Carry Weight without companions only.
-Attack Dog (CHA, L04, 3): Dog can hold an enemy, giving you a better chance to hit in VATS.
-Animal Friend (CHA, L05, 3): Aim at an animal below your level for a chance to pacify it.
-Local Leader (CHA, L06, 2): Allows you to establish supply lines between your workshop settlements.
-Party Boy (CHA, L07, 3): Immune to addiction to alcohol
-Inspirational (CHA, L08, 3): Companion deals more damage. You are immune to companion friendly fire.
-Wasteland Whisperer (CHA, L09, 3): Aim at any Wasteland creature below your level to pacify it. [Radscorpions, Deathclaws, etc., it seems.]
-Intimidation (CHA, L10, 3): Aim at any Human below your level to pacify them. -> Rank 2, need level 23: When you pacify someone, you can incite them to attack [They fight on your side, I guess] -> RANK3, Need level 50: You can give commands to pacified targets.

-V.A.N.S. (INT, L01, 1): Displays path to closest target in V.A.T.S.
-Medic (INT, L02, 4): Stimpaks restore 40% of health, RadAway removes 40% of Radiation.
-Gun Nut (INT, L03, 4): Grants access to (Perk Rank+1? - See above) Rank gun mods. Rank 2 requires level 25.)

-Sneak (AGI, L03, 5): You are 20% harder to detect while sneaking (I'm guessing 20%/rank)

-Bloody Mess (LCK, L03, 4): +5% dmg, enemies sometimes explode into paste.

[Ghazkull]

Spoiler:  For Shadowlord (click to show/hide)

Heh thanks, i'll try and keep that in mind.

As for probably, at some point in the past few years i saw it written as propably and that somehow (rather annoyingly) stuck. Seriously, i have to make a concious effort each time to write it correctly, which, most of the time i don't.

But yea thanks anyway for the tips.

Hmpf, im rather miffed towards the whole settlement building staff. Sure its all nice bonus stuff, but while i usually am all for settlement building and so forth, i don't want to do that in Fallout. Fallout is for me the game where you can influence the wasteland but don't have to deal with actual organizational crap. I don't want to micromanage my fifteen little villages, i want to travel around and nuke small towns and do ridiculous moral choices that fuck up the entire surrounding area. Thats entirely more fun.

[Krevsin]

well, from what I gather it's completely optional so you're free to do whatever you want.

[Flying Dice]

-SEEMINGLY, you can put perk points directly into SPECIALS. At least, that's what I get from the text under "[SPECIAL] Training]"

Oh, hey! Not gonna say that I called it, but I totally called it. 

[Wimopy]

-SEEMINGLY, you can put perk points directly into SPECIALS. At least, that's what I get from the text under "[SPECIAL] Training]"

Oh, hey! Not gonna say that I called it, but I totally called it. 

It's a surprising change if you can get perfect stats. Though I wonder how many levels and perk points we'll have in total.
I'm guessing 1 perk per level and max level 50 from the perk level requirements.

Kinda makes you wonder how they'll implement DLCs - no level cap increase? Higher SPECIAL cap for more perks?
And how will perk mods work?

[GiglameshDespair]

You could increase stats with perks before... One of the first perks you have access to is putting another point in one of your apecials in FO3 and NV.

[Wimopy]

You could increase stats with perks before... One of the first perks you have access to is putting another point in one of your apecials in FO3 and NV.

But that was limited to 5 points, afaik. Can't see any such limits here. And now SPECIALs have a much greater role according to Bethesda, anyway.

[Shadowlord]

You could get perfect stats in FO3 if you had Broken Steel, though:

Quoth the wiki:

It is possible for the player to get all of their SPECIAL up to 10 without cheating if the player has Broken Steel. Once the player gets to level 30, if they choose the perk Almost Perfect, all of their SPECIAL lower than 9 will be raised to 9. If they then proceed to collect the 7 SPECIAL bobbleheads, each of which permanently increases the stat by 1, they will have maxed out their SPECIAL to 10 in each category. If the player obtains the 7 bobbleheads before they choose the Almost Perfect perk, they will only be able to get that category to 9 (unless it was at 10 before the perk).

Collecting the bobbleheads wasn't too difficult, IIRC, if you looked up where they were on the wiki. Basically you just needed to know NOT to collect them before level 30 unless you had the stat for that bobblehead at 10 already.

[ZebioLizard2]

You could get perfect stats in FO3 if you had Broken Steel, though:

Quoth the wiki:

It is possible for the player to get all of their SPECIAL up to 10 without cheating if the player has Broken Steel. Once the player gets to level 30, if they choose the perk Almost Perfect, all of their SPECIAL lower than 9 will be raised to 9. If they then proceed to collect the 7 SPECIAL bobbleheads, each of which permanently increases the stat by 1, they will have maxed out their SPECIAL to 10 in each category. If the player obtains the 7 bobbleheads before they choose the Almost Perfect perk, they will only be able to get that category to 9 (unless it was at 10 before the perk).

Collecting the bobbleheads wasn't too difficult, IIRC, if you looked up where they were on the wiki. Basically you just needed to know NOT to collect them before level 30 unless you had the stat for that bobblehead at 10 already.

Which tended to be Intelligence, so you could max out all the skills ingame.

[Putnam]

Fallout is for me the game where you can influence the wasteland

I mean, you can't in any meaningful way.

On the other hand, it's basically infeasible to do that in any meaningful way in a game that takes longer to play than, like, 8 hours.

telltale has no excuse

[notquitethere]

Collecting the bobbleheads wasn't too difficult, IIRC, if you looked up where they were on the wiki.

Anything's easy if you cheat, yes.

I mean, you can't in any meaningful way.

You can change the political fate of settlements and decide whether any given person you encounter will live or die... how is that not influencing the wasteland?

[pisskop]

oh hey, May end up buying this thing I didnt really know was out.  I live maybe 1 map length away from the zone

[KingofstarrySkies]

You can change the Mojave, at least politically, I guess? For better or worse.

[Teneb]

You can change the Mojave, at least politically, I guess? For better or worse.

For the most part, only in the post-game slideshow. the only real change in-game is the securitron update and wiping out certain outposts.