Buffout (Fallout)

Buffout is a consumable item in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel and Van Buren.
==Background==
Buffout is a highly advanced steroid that was popularized before the Great War by professional athletes and their clandestine use of the drug.Fallout 2 Official Strategies & Secrets, p. 66
==Characteristics==
Due to the wide SPECIAL stat increases Buffout provides, anyone can really take advantage of using Buffout simply to increase skills. However, the extra Strength or Endurance does not provide extra health.
Ironically, hand-to-hand focused fighters may see the least benefit, as while they gain a small damage bonus and a similar accuracy bonus, some ranged skills get disproportionate bonuses from Agility (both Throwing and Unarmed get +4% from each Agility).
Regardless, characters whose relevant skills are already high will have a greater benefit from using Buffout, as gaining even just 2 points in an untagged Melee or Unarmed skill at 150% is equivalent to 6 skill points. This is even greater for Small Guns or Throwing, especially if either is tagged. While Buffout will not transform a weak fighter into a fighting machine, a single or double dose can amplify an already skilled combatant.
===Fallout 2===
After Jet, Buffout is the next most common chem for much of the game. However, Buffout is still rather expensive and rare until the player reaches New Reno, or even San Francisco, so this says much more about Jet's prevalence than Buffout's.
==Locations==
===Fallout===
* Vance at the Hub sells this.
* Two in Demetre Romara's desk in Hub Downtown.
* One on the shelves in a locked room at the Children's hospital in the Hub.
* One in a locker on level three of the Glow.
* Dr. Lorri at Lost Hills carries two of these.
** One in the locker behind her.
* One in a bookcase in a room in the Cathedral.
* Two in a locker on level three of the Los Angeles Vault.
===Fallout 2===
* Sometimes found on Enclave soldiers.
* One on the workbench at the Modoc tannery.
* One in Angel-Eyes's safe in the mercenaries' cave.
* Two in the second from the right, locked back row locker in the Jungle Gym, Second Street.
* Two in one of the lockers in Shark Club's basement.
* Two on the ground on level four of the Sierra Army Depot.
* Two in a locker on level two of Mariposa Military Base.
* One in a locker in Navarro underground's armory.
* Sold by Cal in San Francisco.
===Fallout Tactics===
* It is found in a locked chest in Horus's lair.
===Van Buren===
It would have been sold by Anson.
==Gallery==
FO demo Buffout.png|Buffout in the Fallout Demo
;Fallout
Desk Romara CCC Hub.png|Hub Downtown
Leather armor Hub church.png|Hub hospital
Lockers The Glow level 3.png|The Glow, level 3
Meds Dr Lorri Lost Hills.png|Lorri
Meds The Cathedral.png|The Cathedral
Meds lockers LA Vault l3.png|Los Angeles Vault, level 3
;Fallout 2
Fo2 flare Mtannery.png|Modoc tannery
Fo2 Angel Eyes.png|Mercenaries' cave
Lockers Jungle Jim New Reno.jpg|Jungle Gym
Shark Club basement lockers.jpg|Shark Club's basement
Fo2 Psycho Buffout level 4 SAD .png|Sierra Army Depot, level 4
Fo2 lockers2 L2 MMB.png|Mariposa Military Base, level 2
Blue memory module locker.png|Navarro underground
==References==
Category:Fallout consumables
Category:Fallout 2 consumables
Category:Fallout Tactics consumables
Category:Van Buren consumables
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