Top 12 Worst Perks Guide in Fallout 4 (WORST IN THE GAME! POST-NUKA WORLD)  

Lockpicking --> "New and useful loot" I open a master safe at level 98 and all I get is 17 caps, some ammo, a fancy hairbrush, and a pipe pistol.

Aquaboy is good for survival mode. Turns rivers into your personal highway.

"Toughness is a bad perk, the reason is that moving target is better" later "Moving target is a terrible perk, it's the third worst in the game"

"Dogmeat doesn't seem to mind cannibalism." Dogmeat doesn't mind any action. Such a good boy! 🐕

Funny story, I actually used cannibalism to max out my relationship with strong.

Toughness isn't a huge boost but it's still worth having if your not a baby who hides in power armor all day

He's so in love with power armor

"Wanna make a stealth build? - use the power armour stealth upgrade" "Meele build? - Focus on power armour for strength and unarmed bonus" "Tank? - Just power armour you scrub!" "Wanna make ANY build independent of power armour? - why even bother, you're playing FO4 wrong..." That's the vibe that I get here, lol

Nerd rage saved me so many times when I don't pay attention to my health which happens a lot

the biggest problem with this list is u always think in terms of power armor and most people i know hate the power armor in fallout 4

9:59 sums up this video in one sentence.

"don't take cannibal because companions dislike it" Screw companions, they're annoying, and automatron robots don't have opinions!

Aquaboy/girl perk is one of those perks that looks crap on paper but really comes in handy once you have it. I can't tell you how many times swimming across a body of water without dying of rad poisoning came in handy

"Unarmed build is bad cause it doesnt let me cower in power armor the entire game"

Drinking game time ! Everytime he says power armor take a shot!

But without the Rad Resistance perk how else am I going to fulfill my dreams of frolicking through the Glowing Sea in my underwear with a shotgun.

OKAY WE GET IT, YOU USE POWERARMOR!

Well in my opinion, it's worth wasting a perk point in aqua boy/girl just not to hear the radiation meter going crazy when going through a pond on walking in semi flooded area. There is a lot of things to find under water if you really want to explore and im sure that having to loose a lot of hp going in and getting annoyed by the sound may irritate you. Maybe not the most useful perk in term of gameplay but one of the best in term of sanity keeping

Ok being serious Aqua boy/ aqua girl is one of the most useful perk in survival mode since fusion cores weigh 4 pounds you can’t hold that many fusion cores at the start The cannibal perk is every useful for people playing the game without a hud or getting strongs affinity up Nerd rage is more of a clutch perk with if combined with Chem resistant and chemist can make you overpowered with the right gun Now stop making bad claims and go help another settlement

VPG: don’t use toughness or refractor, use moving target instead. Also VPG: nah, moving target is sh*te Me: Ok what the actual frick

Some doors can only be opened with a terminal. Sure, it doesn't happen often, but when it does happen i wish i leveled up my hacker perk more.

"Picking a lock is so much easier and is a lot more mindless than hacking a terminal" Couldn't it be argued that that's a bad thing?

You seem totally unable to imagine a playstyle that isn't your own. Only a few of these are on the mark

Since FO4 has no level cap, I'd argue it really doesn't matter, since you can get all perks if you really wanted to.

I use Aquaboy so I don't drown in my power armor

I think you misunderstand the point of "Nerd Rage" The benefits of Nerd Rage should only be used as a pick-me-up in a battle where you get slaughtered, its helps edge it out a little

I like how he complained about Moving Target when in the footage he’s taking little to no damage from the raiders using Assault Rifles and the turret constantly shooting him

"I'm bad at hacking so it's a bad perk". Totally unbiased and objective.

Iron fist is a must for me on power armor builds. No ammo? No problem, just punch the living hell out of the enemies with powered tesla fists.

the amount of time I hack a terminal and all it dose is open the safe I lock-picked

We can all agree that the second point of Aqua is pretty pointless, but the first is a perfect convenience perk. No health chipping from entering water and total immunity to drowning, which allows you to leisurely explore the underwater terrain and find any bodies that fell in the water or submerged containers. In the defense of Hacker, many safes are also unlocked by terminals, and this can actually be used for easy XP if you keep resealing an electronic safe and lockpicking it. There are also some places with security doors that can't be lockpicked and need to be opened via terminal. I do agree that Toughness and Refractor aren't nearly powerful enough to justify the investment, but they have some advantages you might not have thought of. Firstly, Fallout 4 actually has a weird defense system. To put it simply, your armor value has breakpoints where incoming damage may be nearly ignored, somewhat negated, or able to pass through nearly unhindered. Having a slightly higher "threshold" means that you can possibly cripple certain weapons and attacks without needing your armor to pick up the slack. Secondly, this is a permanently available, completely weightless form of defense. The Hazmat suit has 1000 RAD RES, but no defense otherwise, which can be countered slightly with these perks. PS- Not everyone wants to go around hiding in power armour, we can, but it's so strong that it sucks a lot of the challenge out of playing.

"Skip Night Person and just get Demolitions Expert" Stealth builds: Am I a joke to you?

After watching several of your videos, I have concluded that all of your titles should include "in my heavily biased opinion". All of your points make sense as long as you first make the correct assumptions about the way someone plays the game. Several times you stated things along the lines of "such and such sucks because of power armor" or "just use power armor". I played through this game multiple times with different builds, and very rarely did any of my characters rely on power armor. In the first fight with a Deathclaw, sure. A couple of them used it to cross The Glowing Sea. That's about it. Another time you said instead of this perk you should take these two perks so you can just take as many drugs as you want. Never personally liked to rely on anything that you can run out of (except Stim Packs and Radaway of course).

terminal appear 70% less when I have found like 48 terminal that open doors and tell me lore about places

Nerd rage is actually pretty good. It's more of a last stand-type skill when you are close to death. It's fitted in the intelligence tree as well, so even the egghead characters can get some boost without having to invest in endurance etc. Saying you can just use chems is kinda odd to me, as they have their own drawbacks like taking up inventory, having to buy or make them, they are addictive without perks in the endurance tree and a lot of companions dislike them. That's not even counting the fact that you can stack nerd rage with said chems.

Wow, u are really biased for chems, V.A.T.S. And power armor

"...Fallout4 should be more like Skyrim" Oh God no

toughness and refractor are shit use moving Target in stead later in list moving Target is shit don't use it

Aqua boy is pretty useful as you can walk underwater with power armor on forever now... Won't have to worry about drowning

I swear, you play in the most, safe, boring, *OBJECTIVE* way possible. You've always gotta play by the M E T A. Personally, I could never play like that, its just soooo boring imo.

vinyl these lists are bad because you only think of the majority of the perks usages with power armor and that is all you use(in your gameplay) moving target on survival difficulty with a melee character is crucial to survivability as a melee character which leads to my next point of iron fist, iron fist can easily be one of the most broken perks in the game when you pair it with the luck critical banger and better criticals and blitz along with rooted and moving target again you only called it bad because you can't use power armor. maybe some people don't want to use power armor fuck also on survival with no power armor toughness is a necessity on certain builds to negate early game squichyness. guess you just play the game on normal difficulty though so.

I love how in half of his videos he doesn't like stuff because it's non compatibility with power armor. I mean obviously pose armor is good but that's a intellect build. Power armor is not a necessity ever not even on survival it's good but not needed at all. Especially if I want a luck build with idiot savant

Counterpoint to hacker is that nick only gets one attempt per terminal but cait can unlock any lock with as many tries as lock picks.

I think VANS is a pretty useful skill especially when you're in a giant factory or other really expansive buildings with different levels and elevators etc.. I love it because I rarely get lost now and I no longer have to run in circles trying to find the objective.

You forgot something pretty good with the cannibal perk in survival. Yes it makes you go straight from well-fed to hungry with no in-between, but it also takes twice as long to go hungry in the first place. It normally takes around 6 in-game hours to go hungry but it takes around 12 in-game hours with dark craving active.

I disagree with you on Nerd Rage. It is, in the words of Fudgemuppet, the ultimate safety net for a squishy smart character. Depending on your build, Nerd Rage can and will save your life. Their Scientist build makes great use of it throughout the game in general. When shit hits the fan and you're all out of chems or have a companion who doesn't like you using them, it will absolutely save your life. Even when it isn't as useful (late game) you always are aware that if some big dangerous enemy catches you off guard, you will likely live or kill it gloriously. If you don't ever use chems or plan on it, it is also useful. A high intelligence character may as well get the perk, as nothing BUT good can come of it.

I found rad resistance useful in Far Harbour, along with Ghoulified. I found it useful cause I’m terrible with knowing when to take Rad-X and would prefer ballistic and energy resistance over radiation and didn’t want to be slowed by power armor

Friend of the night is best for a sneak/sniper non-power armor build. It allows you to sneak around better at night in dark areas where you can see better with the night vision and if you're using an intelligent, perceptive sniper, you could top off perception and intelligence to 14+ at night with things like eyeglasses, maxing the SPECIAL stat to 10, then getting the bobblehead.

At #11, are you even trying to hack? Seriously look through the junk that looks like it means nothing but then if you see multiple characters of junk highlighted, select it and it resets tries/ removes duds.

I only grabbed lead belly in survival so I can have a constant source of food in the end game.

I actually use VANS regularly when lost in subways or factories

Early on in my game I used lockpocking/ hacking a lot, as my main source of resources was containers

Hacking isn't mindless, there are bracketed segments that you can select that will remove duds or reset your tries. Once you know how the hacking mini game works its incredibly easy to successfully hack every time without fail. Unlike locks which is a mindless mini game that is pure luck of the draw.

I believe that 'Iron Fist' has a secret benefit that the game never mentions, but I have noticed as an unarmed user. As you progress on the perk points you seem to unlock different kill animations such as neck breaks, power slams and stamps. They are some of the coolest animations in the game. They may not be uber powerful but if you have played for ages & don't want to do another 'power' build this is an enjoyable RPG way to go.

Moving Target comes in handy in survival since there's not fast travel. I've always maxed Strong back and am always over my carry weight, and so, always using AP for running. Level 3 moving target stacks well with level 5 strong back.

I disagree for newcommers in regards to VANS. Its useful when someone who never played a fallout game nor is that familiar with RPGs. When I first picked up Skyrim back in 2011 i needed clairvoyance so badly because it was my first time in a Bethesda game. Its useful for beginners but for people like us who have played these games a thousand times its a skip.

in my 3-day lvl 43 playthrough, where 95% of the time, I didn't use my power armor, and I just left it at the red rocket. Heck, I went with the minutemen, took over, and blew it up, didn't use armor. The only time when I did is in the glowing sea when I had to find the mutant scientist.

He is surprisingly bad at fallout, not that I don't like his content it is really good but how he plays the game is really bad and I am surprised he know this much about the game

For number 12, blitz perk allows you to become a spidermonke and close any gap so you don't need resistances. While nerd rage is bad, it's not that bad because it's a panic button not a tool. For moving target, melee builds benefit a ton because you can close the gap easier

Nerd rage is a really good failsafe for almost any build and if you are a low endurance gunslinger like me it saves you all the time

Aqua boy/ Aqua girl is a great perk In survival. Whenever you get the chance make hangmans alley your home base. You can use the river to get to a ton of places, and it's in the middle of the map so you'll be around everything. It's right next to diamond city so it's easy to restock. Being In sanctuary to use as a main base is not the best idea since its in the top left corner of the map.

I disagree with the place of moving target, if you a doing a melee build it can be quite useful

A single point on Aquaboy early on in survival difficulty makes a massive difference for travel safety and speed, it's one of the best perks at the start of the game where you can be oneshot by a random strong enemy or grenade when you're just trying to reach The Castle for example.

Lead belly is awesome. It completely removed rad damage from eating food, meaning I can eat whatever I want in combat and get healed without getting rads

2 perk points to VANS with the 2nd giving +2 PER. Or just you know, boosting PER by those same 2 points

When it's your first playthrough of fallout and the first perk you got was V.A.N.S. feelsbadman.

I love toughness for the fact it is numerical cause it means i can use shit defence gear that looks amazing and still have okay defense

Hacking is mindless as hell! Especially at higher levels. I've found taking more levels of Hacler reduces the choices you have in the terminal. Add that with the Science bobblehead to give a total of 5 chances, all you have to do is pick the first four, go through and click all the (), , {}, and [] to either delete enough to make it obvious or replenish all your tries and you're through. If anything, hacking should be made more difficult

I'm sorry did you just say that to the Fallout 4 Terrain was EVEN

I have rad resistant so I can wear plain armor and still be resistant to reads in far harbor :)

Moving target is considerable, especially with toughness stacked on top. My reasoning is because it is obviously a perk made for Run & Gun builds as well as tactical retreation. For example, if you have a shotgun you will want to get up close to use it. So by running up to the target (while taking reduced damage) you can successfully and safely land a crippling blow by giving them a face full of buckshot.

Aqua boy/girl perks are actually pretty useful on survival mode first by remove rad damage from water second by giving you the ability to breath under water the reason these two abilities are so useful in survival mode is the fact that their is a river just past the corvega assembly plant that leads all the way over to a ton of important locations like diamond city, good neighbor, and the old north church so whenever I am playing a character that doesn't use power armor I pick up this perk because it gives me access to what is effectively an in game high way system which is super useful for getting around in survival mode

Aqua boy is a must have in HC survival, always one of my first picks

I think hacker is a great perk, only because I use lone wonderer with dog meat

This video should be renamed "12 perks to avoid if you're a power armor addict like me"

Well done, I find your videos really good, it allso really helps my experience with fallout.. Keep up the good work

So fucking sick and tired of people saying Aquaboy/girl is a bad perk when it is not. It is highly useful. One of the added advantages is you can basically sell 99% of the Rad Aways you come across. They are worth a lot and you only need a few for the odd time you do soak up a lot of rads. This lowers carry weight by a bit. You also won't need to lug around junk like hazmat suits and change in and out of them(besides, they don't 100% protect from rads anyways). You don't need to waste a few moments changing in and out of the suit and back into your normal armor. Which decreases your carry weight again, allowing you to pick up more guns and junk to sell. The LESS stuff you leave the house with, the more stuff you can pick up on your questing. As someone who wants to pick up as much as I can, not only to get the supplies to build my settlements, but also to sell to vendors for caps, I want as little crap on me as possible when I leave my settlement. Usually only my normal armor set and a weapon or 2 and some stimpacks(cause they are weightless anyways). Not carrying radaways and rad suits around may only increase cap/scrap production slightly, but over the course of 3+ real world days of in game time it adds up to basically another perk in "Strong Back". It is basically what rank 5 of Strong Back should have been at the end of the day, long term. That's not even mentioning how nice it is to escape into water and swim away from enemies you simply don't want to fight while they look for a way to safely cross the water, you are already on the other side of it out of harms way. Rank 2 is perfect for stealth and survival builds as well. And when you get to Far Harbor, having both ranks of Aquaboy/girl is basically a MUST. On top of all that it is saves time. I already spend a lot of hours playing this game. Wasting even a few moments changing in and out of armor when it isn't to change to an upgraded armor piece is not something I want to do. I can be out there questing, getting supplies and finishing the game instead. It may only save a few moments at the end of the day, but the saying "time is money" exists for a freaking reason. To me, there is no reason not to get it early in your play through. The sooner you get it the better as it just adds up after while. The only build I can see not caring about it is stupid Power Armor builds. I hate power armor so freaking much in Fallout 4 and rather save my fusion cores for when I get a gattling gun late in the game. I do collect them cause, hello, cool stuff to display and save and sell excess of, but I don't use them. Even if you don't build the settlements, it is still useful, cause all the stuff you collect can be sold for caps to buy ammo, stimpacks, cool legendaries, whatever. So even if you are someone who doesn't care about the settlement building mini game, it is still highly useful. For me, I'd rather just spend the extra carryweight in lugging a few junk items back to my settlement, then lugging around a hazmat suit and radaways permanately in my inventory/ And as someone who doesn't use chems(once again, id rather just sell them for even MORE caps), and finding food to cook to increase carryweight is actually quite hard in my experience, every little bit helps. And none of this is even mentioning exploration. Exploration and being encouraged to explore the world of Fallout 4 is an important and cool and fun part of the game. This perk makes it easier.

Instead of getting rad resistance, just get Ghoulish, radiation heals you then.

Aquaboy/Girl is great for exploration, and revealing certain locations early game that would be unsafe to walk to. For example, the museum of witchcraft, the airport, and some of the swamp areas. I had revealed these locations at level 2, but i couldn't survive going into them until a fair bit later... Each of these places you discover using aquaboy nets experience, combine that with night person and go for a midnight swim, and you'll gain levels very fast.

The only perk I'll Defend is aqua person. Running won't always work in some situations.

Nerd rage is awsome at early game,when you come in to contact with higher level enemy. Saved my life countless times. Gives you that stat increase and slows time when you need it the most.

when youre playing survival you live below twenty percent health. its like the fallout poverty line

Any time I am going into a fight in survival mode (very heavy int character. She has like 4 endurance) I always pop both psycho and Med-X. If things are REALLY bad I’ll pop a jet too. Don’t want to get addicted tho. The worst part is that I have so many other perks I need to invest in that I can’t really put perks into chem resistance. When I make intelligent characters I always imagine them having the best gear on the field, so I have to put the next 10 or so levels in things like science, scrapper, and Armorer that it’s really a game of mental gymnastics to figure out the best way to apply my perk points. (Doesn’t help that these are the least flashy perks in the game making it feel like I did nothing with the level up.)

3rd rank of Night Person seems like one of the stupidest perks in the game. It could have gone with +4 Perception and Intelligence, then might have been worth it for those trying to max out those stats. But +30HP at night? You need to be level 37 to get it. Health = 80 + (END * 5) + [(2.5 + (END/2)) * (Level-1)] So 1 Endurance at level 37 and a perk to use. H=85+(2.5+0.5)*36=85+108=193HP Use that perk to +1 Endurance H=90+(3.5*36)=90+126=216 so a point in Endurance will give you +23HP not just at night. Plus that number will go up with level, using that equation E1 at level 38=196 E2 at level 38 would be 219.5 (though it will be 219 no 0.5) So the higher the level the bigger the difference. At level 50 E11 you'll have 232, E2, 261.5. Level 51, E1= 235 E2=265. So after level 51, every perk point you put into endurance will boost your HP by >30 permanently. And will go up more every time you level. And if that wasn't enough every time you put a point in Endurance you unlock new perks. So before getting rank 3 of Night Person. You're level 37, is your Endurance 10? If not put a point into Endurance, it will give you +23Hp now, after level 51 your HP will be more with +1E than it would be with Night Person 3 and i will be at all times, not just night. Along with all the other benefits of raising Endurance. Level 37, 10 Endurance, Do you have the first rank of Solar Powered? +2E and +2Strength during the day. That's +46HP along with all the benefits of +E and +S. (Though only at day time.) Level 37, 10E, Solar Powered. If I still wanted my HP to be the end all and be all I'd probably start putting points into Life Giver. +20Hp all the time. Well, thats obviously an average of +20HP. Night Person 3 30 50% f the time, 0 the rest, average of +15HP. Plus at the third rank of Life Giver you regain health. With 10 Endurance, Solar Powered Rank 1 and Life Giver, is rank 3 of Night Person really worth anything? I'd say Rank 2 of Solar Powered for a start would be a better investment, No HP boost but passive radiation healing during the day. If Night Person 3 did anything in addition, like boosting perception and intelligence like the previous ranks a point could be argued for it. But as it is...

3:57 Hey, more Intelligence is always a good thing! Especially when you're building settlements or making chems, when you're likely to rack up literally hundreds of little XP gains in only a few minutes! More XP means more levels! More levels means more perks!

I have to use animal friend because my sister LOVES animals and so I don't want to risk her screaming at me.

Legend says the real reason he hates Hacker is because you can’t hack while in Power Armor…

My thing for Hacking the terminals, select the 1st 3, esc if unsuccessful, and then, wash rinse repeat till successful! This way, you get 3 chances without getting locked out. Another note, don't waste the perk point on the not getting locked out of terminals unless your at max level!

Video begins at 0:00, you're welcome

V.A.N.S. Saved my life when doing a hudless Survival mode playthrough. Like without it, I wouldn't have gotten anything done lmao

Nerd rage has a tremendous cost investment for something that doesn't work for 80% of your health in a game where you will be stacked with armor and HP by lvl 50. 2 perks in V.A.N.S could have just been 2 Intense Training perks in Perception with no level requirment or DLC required.

For number 10, this perk's usefulness really depends on how much time you spend at night, which I spend a lot of time at night, so for me, the night person is definitely worth it

"im too dumb to use hacking minigame" what is this? :D

The whole Perk Game changes if you enter Survival Mode i find Aquaboy very useful in survival because radaway has a really bad side effect.

Very late to this, but most of these perks shouldn't be avoided at all. Not just because most of them are actually very useful for lots of people, but because most of them don't even give you any disadvantage. Sure, they may not provide the best buffs, but it's not like you have to choose between one or the other. All perks provide useful effects.

It does not matter because you have no level cap

I've found no problem with nerd rage and it stops death really easily

For the QnA, I have a few questions. A.Why did you start RU-vid? B.How old are you? C.Who are your inspirations?

Take a shot every time he says "power armor"

I love cannibalism. You can eat like 70% of the things you kill and no longer need to keep food on you. Pretty good perk if using Lone Wanderer.