I'm replaying Fallout Tactics as I never got a chance to finish it before.

Does anyone know if there's any value in having your skill %age above 100%? The manual indicates that whether or not a skill is over 100% there will always be a 5% chance of failure. Well, doing the math on this tells me that the skill is effectively capped at 95%, with a 5% chance of failure, and any skill points devoted to improving it above this will be wasted effectively.

Is this interpretation correct?

Based on my previous experience with Fallout 1, Fallout 2 and FT:BOS, what I know is that having a range weapon skill (small gun, big guns, etc) higher than 100% means that you can have better acurracy for targeted shot over longer distances.

Not sure about other skills though.

There are modifiers, such as target's AC and penality for distance and part of body you're targeting, so you won't always have 95% hit chance, or chance of success when using other skills even if your skill is 95%. So yeah, you'd probably want to keep increasing skills. (just as you'd like to get your attack bonus above 19 in DnD even if a natural 1 on d20 roll always would be a miss (no idea if there is such a rule))

[ 07-18-2004, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: Gnarf ]