Animal Friend: Animals are not a threat.Strong Back: Inventory capacity is hardly an issue, especially with a party member to use as a mule.Smooth Talker: Diplomat characters will have a good starting intelligence.Silent Death only affects the first attack made, while Silent Running is a convenience. Silent Death and Silent Running: Sneaking is poorly implemented and the perks follow the pattern.Save scumming is effectively mandatory for any sort of normal gameplay, rendering the perk null. Pickpocket: Failing at stealing causes everyone to turn permanently hostile regardless.Lifegiver: The impact is negligible due to the level cap and limited number of experience points available.Bonus HtH Damage and Bonus Ranged Damage: The bonus to max damage is too low to make a noticeable effect (short of using burst weapons).Tag!: Can be used on Energy Weapons late in the game.Quick Pockets: Improved access to inventory, but not as useful as the variant in Fallout 2.Dodger and Toughness: Protection is good.Slayer and Sniper: Ultimate combat perks that are usually not available in normal gameplay, due to the extremely high level requirement.More Criticals and Better Criticals: Good pairing in Fallout, as the top perks are only available in the end game, if at all.Bonus Rate of Fire/ Bonus HtH Attacks: Self-explanatory.Awareness: Essential for any sort of planning in combat.A quick breakdown of the usability of perks is as follows: Not all perks are equal due to the way the game is structured. For perks with multiple ranks the benefit listed should be interpreted as 'per rank.'

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