Learn how the Barter skill impacts prices for buying and selling in Fallout: New Vegas. Discover its benefits, limitations, and strategic use for better deals and rewards.
Walkthrough
- 1The Barter skill affects the prices you get for buying and selling items.
- 2In general, the higher your Barter skill, the lower your prices on purchased items.
- 3The higher your Barter, the more Caps you’ll get when you sell things, and the less Caps items will cost when you buy them.
- 4Barter often acts as a Speech substitute, allowing you to haggle for better deals and rewards.
- 5Barter will not cover all your Speech checks (and vice versa).
- 6Repair may actually do better at saving you money.
- 7In Hardcore mode, you typically have to find things to sell to make Barter effective, which means exploring or hunting/killing enemies, which takes time, and hence, resources.
- 8It’s a fine skill if you have the points to spend, but it’s usually one that can be left for later.
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