Science

Science is a Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, and Fallout 3 skill.

Covers a variety of hi-technology skills, such as computers, biology, physics and geology.

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics
Initial Level: Starting Science skill is equal to 25% + (2% x Intelligence). This formula would mean average characters will have a 35% Science skill (25% + (2 x 5)), with the minimum value being 27% and the maximum 45%.

Fallout 3
Science allows you to hack terminals using the minigame. A specific level of skill is required, ala Oblivion, to attempt a hack on a terminal. Very Easy requires 15, while Easy requires 25, average requires 50. Hard 75 and very hard 100. You get four tries in the minigame to guess-select the right code word and you can exit out and restart the hack at any time before the final fourth guess. Number of passwords is affected by your science skill (at 75 Science, for example, you will have only 8 passwords on Very Easy terminal)(needs confirmation).

Hacking minigame
To get to the hacking mini game as fast as possible, you can click the startup pages to immediately skip to the next one.

Smart approach: In the garble of unreadable letters there are a bunch of words of the same length. Read them all once. You will notice a lot of words look alike. Take the word with the most lookalikes and click on it to enter it. Now, it will show you how many letters of the password you guessed are correct.

-You could be lucky, and have guessed correctly right away.

-Or, only one or two letters are incorrect: click another password that's only one or two letters different.

-Or, otherwise, just click another password that is totally not like the password chosen before.

Now, notice again the number of correct letters. You have two more guesses left. Go from top till bottom and check which of the passwords could be it. Mostly, only one will fit the bill. Choose that one. If two fit, double check then just guess.

If you did not guess the password in three times, you risk locking the terminal if you guess wrong the fourth time. Take the chance if you feel sure enough, or just exit the terminal and try again with a fresh given set of passwords.

Once you know what it's all about, it will be relatively easy. It is not unlike the Mastermind board game.

Random choices approach: A totally different approach would be, to quickly guess three times, exit, and just try again till you guessed it right. With about 21 passwords to choose from, it takes on average seven times three wild guesses to get it right once. This can be done really fast.

Additionally:  You can click on matching brackets (i.e., even with other characters between) to remove a dud password or (rarely) reset the attempts to zero. The brackets must be of the same type and on the same line. For example, in, selecting the first   will highlight everything up to the.

you can find an hacking assitant tool at hacking assistant

Another hacking assist tool can be found in HACK-BOY at

Tips
Its important to understand exactly how the hacking minigame works. When selecting a word to guess, the computer will tell you "x/y correct" where X is the number of correct letters, and y is the total number of letters in the word. What most people don't realize right away is that X applies to how many letters are in the word and in their proper place. Just because the word has an "A" in it doesn't mean that "Happy" is 1/5 correct. The A also has to be in the right place.

With this information, it is very useful to consider prefix's and suffix's when playing the hacking minigame. If the correct answer was "Happening", then any word ending in "ing" would automatically be 3/9 correct. So, if you see any word ending in "ing" that shows up with LESS than 3/X correct, then you know the correct answer does not end in "ing".

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