Derived statistic Melee damage
	Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics modifies Amount of bonus damage a character does in hand-to-hand combat Fallout 3 modifies Amount of bonus damage a character does with Melee Weapons Fallout: New Vegas modifies Amount of bonus damage a character does with Melee Weapons J.E. Sawyer's Fallout RPG modifies Amount of bonus damage a character does in hand-to-hand combat Van Buren modifies Amount of bonus damage a character does in hand-to-hand combat

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Melee Damage is a derived statistic in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout Tactics.

Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics

This skill modifies the amount of bonus damage your character does in hand-to-hand combat.

• Minimum value can be no less than 1.
• Average characters will have a melee damage of 1.
• The Heavy Handed trait increases melee damage by 4 points.
• The Bonus HtH Damage perk increases melee damage by 2 per rank.
• The Slayer perk upgrades every melee hit into critical hits, radically increasing melee damage.

Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas

In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, Melee Damage (only) affects damage done with Melee Weapons. There is a separate statistic for hand-to-hand combat called Unarmed Damage.

Example: A starting Strength of 5.

Notes

• Melee and Unarmed attacks in V.A.T.S. do twice as much normal damage, but this doubling is done before strength is added.
• Power attacks in real-time combat also double normal damage.

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