Male vs female charisma perks

[Fatum]

My first play of the game I did a female character but now that I got a feel for the game I'm going to start over and not waste points and resources I'm checking everything out. Lol, so I was thinking going male this time to see how different it was. I'm at work plotting my build and I got to the perk in charisma where you do more damage to the opposite sex. It occurred to me, aside from tnt occasional raider chick I have hardly noticed any female "bad guy " npcs, except maybe some of the synths had more feminine voices than others?

It's not the only thing I'll consider when deciding but it does seem that perk is way more useful to a female character. Granted it's only 5% early on but that can help on harder difficulties. Not sure what I'll play on.

[Deku Scrub]

Yeah, that was a thing with Fallout 3 as well.

Female characters were statistically better because of the Black Widow perk because a majority of the enemies in the game are male.

Fallout New Vegas fixed that by having a perk that gave Males more damage to males, and females more damage to females.

Not sure why Bethesda didn't just take that perk and make it a higher rank of Black Widow/Lady Killer.

[dogg]

It also helps a bit when you get a dialog skill check (yellow/orange/red text) and you're talking to the correct gender npc.
It's arguably useful imo :)

[Fatum]

Yeah, it's a small concern considering once I get my points going I will mostly be 1 shoting my targets. (I love me some snipers) or at least severely hurting them. The only thing 5% would help with would be things like deathclaws that take a beating, and I'm sure that perk doesn't work with them anyway.

[GoreTiger]

The perk also works when persuading the opposite sex as well in speech checks.



And there are a few Female Baddies out there, Just most of them you don't stop and have a convo with , You just run into them and kill.

[ButtonFairy]

I haven't gotten far in the game, I started over twice because of a few screw ups. What I noticed was it's easier to end conflict as a female character since the bad guys are mostly males.