Critical Chance

Critical Chance is a derived statistic in Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel.

The chance to cause a critical hit in combat is increased by this amount. Initial Level: Starting critical chance is equal to your Luck. Average characters will have a 5% critical chance.


 * The Finesse trait increases the critical chance by 10%.
 * The More Criticals perk increases the critical chance by 5% per rank.

Fallout 3
Permanently increasing Critical Chance
 * Each point of Luck gives +1% Critical Chance.
 * The Ninja perk gives +15% Critical Chance, but only with Melee or Unarmed weapons.
 * The Finesse perk gives +5% Critical Chance.
 * The Survival Expert perk gives up to +3% Critical Chance.

The maximum amount of Critical Chance you can gain from perks and Luck in Fallout 3 is +18% for Ranged Weapons and +33% for Melee and Unarmed weapons.


 * ''Note: The Reservist's Rifle has a increase chance to critical strike added to its base chance, It is yet to be determind if this is the only weapon with a modified critical chance.

Шанс критического удара