How different are Male & Female ?

[Cowboy Curtis]

Haven't played this yet, but from what I understand you either play as a mother or a father.

Does this impact the game's tone much; Is there a gender that fits the story better for those who have played both? And what about the voice acting?

[Scout Pisser Offer]

Females are probably very marginally better, purely because Lady Killer is worse than Black Widow.

[Miss Me]

Female mods are usually easier to find, but there are a good pool of male mods out there now.

[Shellbie]

Courtenay Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voFH907DKXE

[Claybot]

The dialog that you hear when playing the female character is far more intresting than what you will hear when playing the male

[Ambitious Dreamsickle]

its a matter of preference

[Crystal Sharrd]

I think the male makes more sense if you like to use power armor, given his military experience.

[MortVent]

In some ways it's personal preference. I play as male and female, the female is good if you plan to snag black widow to maximize your damage output (very useful for sniper, gunslinger, or melee builds). The male character really doesn't have any numbers related benefit, the lady killer perk is useful but even with the changes most enemies are male.

[Be-bop]

I could depend on what companions your are going to choose, and if you plan to romance them, and that can go either way. Some companions are more help and suited for your charector build.
That said, I don't think in gameplay it really matters and boils down to what you'd rather look at in third person.

[jonnan.west]

Though notably there are more female raiders than there used to be, yeah the only min/max bonus is Black Widow vs Lady Killer. Whatever you think of voicing the sole survivor from a writing/rp standpoint, both characters are voiced very well.

[greyhound]

I like the title of the thread:
"How different are Male & Female ?"

Well... its usually that male has penis.. and female vagina.

If I am not mistaken:)

[Yhwach]

The game is designed in a way where your gender doesn't matter in the end except for the comments you get on it.
There's hardly any use of the getsex commands unless it's used in the main story, or plot essential characters.

[Zee_]

For visuals only in a modded game, females have many more customisation options available to them.

As far as gameplay goes, the only difference is a single perk, ladykiller is for men (bonus damage against females and bonuses to speech when dealing with females, and Black Widow for females (bonus damage against men as bonus speech checks when dealing with men). Black Widow is considered to be the better fo the two because there are so many more male raiders and NPCs than there are females. But these perks aren't gamechangers so... whatever.

Just play whatever you want. The sex of the protagonist isn't all that important in the grand scheme of things. I play one or the other depending on whose voice I'd rather hear for a few hours.

[Cowboy Curtis]

Yeah, I guess I was asking from a narrative / rp perspective. Didn't know how to word it.

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Cowboy Curtis:

Yeah, I guess I was asking from a narrative / rp perspective. Didn't know how to word it.

If that's what you're talking about then there's still hardly a difference, certain "plot" essential characters such as ones that belong to a certain faction will address you differently and emotionaly but then reverts to the same shared dialogue across both sexes.
Titles, Insults, and certain changed dialogue is the jist of it.

[lucaZERO|YT]

I know this is old but i found out that when i played male and female on 2 ps4 when youre male a lot of enemys like raiders and gunners will be male but when youre female you get a lot of females but its a nice touch atleast but picking female is pretty smart becouse a lot of bosses are male kellogh synth courses bos-max father (nuka world:overboss cage guy with face paint) far harbor:leader of the atom