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For a cross-game overview of this perk, see Better Criticals. |
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“With the Better Criticals perk, you gain a 50% damage bonus every time a critical hit is scored on an opponent.”— In-game description
Better Criticals is a perk in Fallout: New Vegas.
Effects[]
Taking this perk grants a 50% bonus to critical hit damage.
Notes[]
- Due to the way in which critical hits are determined, any weapon that produces multiple independent projectiles per shot, such as shotguns, will individually check each hit for a critical when firing outside of V.A.T.S., resulting in the full bonus critical damage for each success.
- Critical hits are automatic in sneak mode; as a result, point blank sneak attacks with a weapon with a high critical multiplier will inflict X times the critical damage rating of the weapon, where X is the number of individual projectiles fired.
- Since critical damage bonuses stack multiplicatively, taking this perk and Just Lucky I'm Alive allows for a combined +125% to critical hit damage.
- If one of the baby deathclaws is killed before the mother deathclaw at Quarry Junction, she will enter an "enraged" state which causes her to gain this perk, along with Adamantium Skeleton and a "Psycho" perk that grants her a 1.25x damage bonus similar to using the eponymous chem.
