Robotics Expert
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Robotics Expert is a Fallout 3 Perk.
With the Robotics Expert perk, you do an additional 25% damage to any robot. But, even better, sneaking up on a hostile robot undetected and activating it will put that robot into a permanent shutdown state.
[edit] Notes
- You can disable a Sentry Bot even if it has spotted you.
- Deactivating a robot will award no experience and will prevent the robot from being accepted as a target in V.A.T.S.. However, the unit can still take damage and destroying one will give the same experience and loot as normal. Every attack on a deactivated robot while sneaking will register as a sneak attack critical regardless of the player's location or level.
- Turrets can be deactivated using this perk, as long as they don't spot you.
- When you disable a Sentry Bot, it will continually repeat its "shutdown" animation.
- In Raven Rock, you can deactivate any of President Eden's eye intercoms. This has no real benefit, but it's still quite amusing.
- This perk is incredibly useful on Very Hard. If you are wearing Chinese Stealth Armor and have the Silent Running perk, raiding robot-filled places such as the National Guard Depot and Fort Constantine becomes a breeze.
[edit] Robots you can disable
- Sentry Bots
- Robobrains
- Protectrons
- Chimeras
- Mr. Handys
- Mr. Gutsys
- Automated Turrets
- Eye Intercoms
- Eyebots
- Support Drones
- Guardian Drones
- Sergeant RL-3
[edit] Additional dialogue
Additional dialogue options with certain robots. These often bypass speech checks.
- You can program Dean Dewey to let you pass.
- Disable Cerberus's combat inhibitor causing him to attack the ghouls in Underworld.
- Force Button Gwinnett to shut down, allowing you to grab the Declaration of Independence.
- Program (by voice command) Milo in the Nuka-Cola Plant to think you are an employee.
- Bypass the RobCo Facility section of The Wasteland Survival Guide quest while getting full credit for the job.
- Reprogram the mainframe in the Mobile Base Crawler to have the security robots attack the Enclave instead of you.
