Robotics Expert (Fallout 3)

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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.

Notes

• Regardless of what the description states, you may still be able to run up to a robot, enter sneak mode and deactivate it regardless of being detected or not. The first patch seems to fix (but not completely eliminate) this bug.
• 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 Sneak level.
• Turrets can be deactivated using this perk, but only if you are using Stealth Boy.

Additional dialogue

Additional dialogue options with certain robots. These often bypass speech checks or give humorous results.

• You can program Dean Dewey not to attack you.
• 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 without a fight.
• Make Milo in the Nuka-Cola Plant think you are an employee.
• Fix Sawbones' faulty medical circuits so he won't accidentally damage you while attempting to heal your wounds.
• Bypass the RobCo Facility section of The Wasteland Survival Guide quest while getting full credit for the job.
• Talk to Sentry Bot. Friendly Bots will give you their standard dialogue. Enemy bots will do the same and then attack you.

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