Movement Speed determines how fast your character can move from one hex to the next.
The value displayed on your in-game character page ("C" by default), "Run Speed," is your true movement speed % (relative to base), called "effective speed" in the tables. It shows the combined effect of all the movement speed modifiers that currently affect you. The default base value is 100, but various movement speed bonuses make it possible to increase it all the way up to 250, which is 2.5x the speed your character could move at in the original Fallout games.
Movement Speed
Bonus (Total)
|
Effective Speed %
(shown on character sheet)
|
| 0%
|
100
|
| 10%
|
111
|
| 20%
|
125
|
| 30%
|
142
|
| 40%
|
166
|
| 50%
|
200
|
| 60%
|
250
|
|
Movement Speed
Penalty (Total)
|
Effective Speed %
(shown on character sheet)
|
| 0%
|
100
|
| -20%
|
83
|
| -50%
|
67
|
| -100%
|
50
|
| -200%
|
33
|
| -300%
|
25
|
| -400%
|
20 (immobilized)
|
|
|
Movement speed modifiers
- Picking a class modifies your base movement speed according to its role:
- Tanks start at 80%;
- Semi-tanks start at 90%;
- Specialists and Shooters start at 100%;
- Damage Dealers start at 110%;
- Sneakers start at 120%.
- Relic implants allow you to change your role, which adjusts all of your stats accordingly, including your base movement speed.
- If you have a weapon equipped, your movement speed bonuses are halved and their combined effect capped at 20%.
- Without a weapon, you get full movement speed bonuses, capped at 50%.
- The Speedboy perk synergy increases both movement speed bonus caps by 10%, to 30% and 60% respectively.
- Carrying more than your weight limit progressively slows you down until, around 400 kg above your carry weight capacity, you're no longer able to move at all.
- Each point of Endurance reduces your movement speed bonus by 0.25%.
- Changing weapons sets your movement speed bonus to 0% for 60 seconds.
- The Slow effect can significantly reduce your movement speed based on the number of stacks.
- The Bonus Movement armor perk can increase your movement speed by up to 16% (or 26% if you're a Hubologist). Firegecko Armor and Combat Robe's first perk is guaranteed to be Bonus Movement.
- Wearing Firegecko Armor gives you a 20% movement speed bonus when you're out of combat.
- The Bonus Move level perk increases your movement speed by 10%.
- The Bonus HtH Speed perk synergy gives you a movement speed bonus of 10% unconditionally and an additional +0.3% movement speed bonus for every 1% of character size above 100%.
- Jet grants you a 10% movement speed bonus if you're unarmed or using a melee weapon.
- "Deathclaw blessing" gained from killing the T3 Danger Zone boss gives you a 5% movement speed bonus for 24 hours.
- The Healer perk gives you a 10% movement speed bonus when your health drops below 50%.
- The Agile Sprinter T2 War Event stat gives you a 5% movement speed bonus.
- The Hit and Run perk allows you to run at double your normal speed for a short period under certain conditions.
- The Tiger Module combat implant's tier 2 effect gives you a 10% movement speed bonus.
- The "Extra Movement" (AP TB) T1 War Event stat gives you a 5% movement speed bonus.
- The Bruiser trait significantly reduces your movement speed.
The underlying variable
Under the hood, the game uses an internal value called the Run Time Stat (ST_RUN_TIME) to calculate movement. Lower Run Time Stat = faster movement (the less time it takes you to run from A to B, the faster you are). Its base value is 200, which corresponds to the effective speed of 100%.
Movement Speed
Bonus (Total)
|
Effective Speed
|
Run Time Stat
(ST_RUN_TIME)
|
| 0%
|
100%
|
200
|
| 5%
|
105%
|
190
|
| 10%
|
111%
|
180
|
| 15%
|
118%
|
170
|
| 20%
|
125%
|
160
|
| 30%
|
143%
|
140
|
| 40%
|
167%
|
120
|
| 50%
|
200%
|
100
|
| 60%
|
250%
|
80
|
|
Movement Speed
Penalty (Total)
|
Effective Speed
|
Run Time Stat
(ST_RUN_TIME)
|
| 0%
|
100%
|
200
|
| -50%
|
67%
|
300
|
| -100%
|
50%
|
400
|
| -150%
|
40%
|
500
|
| -200%
|
33%
|
600
|
| -250%
|
29%
|
700
|
| -300%
|
25%
|
800
|
| -350%
|
22%
|
900
|
| -400%
|
20% (immobilized)
|
1000
|
|
Run Time Stat = 200 - 2 x Movement Speed Bonus- Every 0.5 kg over your weight limit increases your Run Time Stat by 1, which decreases your movement speed bonus by 0.5 percentage points. Movement becomes impossible when your Run Time Stat reaches 1000 (Effective Speed ≈ 20%).
- Endurance increases the Run Time Stat by 0.5 per point. This results in a decrease of 0.25 percentage points in movement speed bonus.
Effective Speed = 20000/ST_RUN_TIME- Each percentage point of movement speed bonus reduces your Run Time Stat by 2, which yields progressively larger gains to your effective movement speed; conversely, you lose less and less effective movement speed with every consecutive movement speed penalty.
