
AP is more directly impacted by a variety of things, including your weight, and your equipped weapon. The higher your agility, the higher the weapon hit chances, and the more AP you have, the more shots you can fire off. constantly, you want to favor your agility stat and AP maximization. as your player character is about to take a nasty hit, allowing a fair amount of the damage to absorb into V.A.T.S. The damage reduction can be hard to make use of, due to the game moving in slow motion, but a quick hand can open V.A.T.S. You will also receive a 90% damage resistance, as with previous games. You can perform the same shots in real time, V.A.T.S. This can make for an easy way to dispatch of a group of enemies. As another example, you can target a grenade or explosive, either on an enemies belt or as it is being thrown. The ghoul might still be at half health, but with the leg gone, the fight becomes a lot easier. For example, a good shot to a ghouls leg will blow it straight off. This can be especially helpful at times where you wish to hit a specific part on the enemy for strategical reason. You should also keep in mind that guns tend to allow targeting specific parts of the enemy, where as melee and thrown weapons will only let you target the enemy. You can see how much damage your current weapon will land on the target, which gives you a good feel for enemy resistances to specific target areas, or from specific weapons. You can see your exact chances of landing a critical head shot. This allows you to tactically plan out your attack.

Each body part will display the percentage chance to hit, and when highlighted, will reflect the approximate damage you would cause on the enemies health bar.

During this time, you can choose specific body parts, on specific enemies.

In V.A.T.S., Fallout 4 drops into slow motion. is to provide a turn-based approach to combat. Specific Perks that provide benefits when particular actions are performed in V.A.T.S., both to improve your combat ability, and include additional function. These benefits include Critical Hits, Threat Detection, and the aesthetic Cinematic Combat. However, there are many other benefits to using VATS, both intentional and unintentional. Primarily, this gives you the benefit of a Turn-Based Strategy Approach. A main influence in including VATS was the ability to play Fallout 3 with out any skill in first person shooters, which hardcore fans may not necessarily have had. The original games were entirely turn based, which differs greatly from the current generation of first person shooter titles that Bethesda make. The Vault- Tec Assisted Targetting System first appeared in Fallout 3, and was both inspired and adapted from the combat mechanics of the original Fallout and Fallout 2.
