Does anyone find the perk, The Hunter, useful or worth taking?? And does this perk work when fighting death claws??

No not really. It doesn't affect deathclaws, nightstalkers or (I think, uncomfirmed) cazadores But they're hardly a major threat (in terms of health, they just sneak up on you if you don't have ED-E). Geckos, again aren't really a threat imo but other people don't like them.

Basically, it's a pretty poor perk, good if you have trouble with geckos but other than that not worth it.

(Fairly sure it doesn't affect cazadores since they are insect based)

Deathclaws, Centaurs and Nightstalkers are classified as Abominations, not animals. Hunter perk will not affect them.

Hunter will work on Bighorners, Dogs, Coyotes, rats and geckos. I think that's the full list. It's pretty useless overall.

For a role yes it's usefull.
Early on in level and it is an early perk, it will make geckos of all breeds easier to kill.
In general and at higher levels not really much use.

In combat, you do +75% Critical Damage against animals and mutated animals. This is excellent when you're wanting to take out Coyotes, Geckos, and even Nightstalkers. A quick way to make some Caps is to slaughter Geckos, and tan their hides on a Campfire, and selling them for a good profit. Those were the strategy guide's words. and, yes Cazadores are mutated animals, not sure why Nightstalkers count, because they are, in fact, Abominations. (Nightstalkers are Coyotes and Rattlesnakes spliced together)

That's not what the Wiki says.

Guess it's time to bring the good old G.E.C.K into this. Looking at the Hunter perk, it seems that it applies it's damage based on creature type, obviously. It doesn't specific anything beyond that, so let's go on the assumption that it's all.

http://is.gd/Oq2EYG

Weird things are in the Animals section.. oh, and if you're wondering: Coyote's in the Dog section. So pretty much the Hunter perk is useful at higher levels, albeit against that one enemy type.

Edit: Of course, the only real way to test whether or not all of the creatures in said categories apply to Hunter is to do the good old Living Anatomy test with and without Hunter. I may do that sometime.

The perk is not relient on form lists, rather just creature type set on the condition page.

0 is animals.
1 is mutated animals.
The target is required to be one of these creature types for the 75% bonus to criticals.

Nightstalkers are abominations so neither 0 or 1, so should not be affected by the perk unless due to an oversight.

It's pretty much useless, I'd much rather take animal friend straight away if animals were a problem. The entomologist perk is however pure gold, especially against cazadores.

Pretty much correct. Makes Lakelurks easier to deal with. :celebration:

I wouldn't say Nightstalkers are an oversight. Otherwise, Deathclaws would be an oversight as well since they can be considered animals, in a sense. Plus, there's already a corresponding perk that deals with abominations, which is Purifier as well as the abominable challenge. So having Nightstalkers applied to Hunter as well would severely make them weak with all of the combined damage increases against them.

Thanks for the correction Skyline :tops: .
I did however mean that the nightstalkers would not be on the list unless by oversight.
Not that it was an oversight that they were not on the list and should have been... gaahh tongue twister.
A is for apples except excluding Aardvarks.
I really need to put more thought into what I write and how.

Ah. Then you sir would be correct as I explained.

As long as you correct misunderstandings about what you say, i.e. Layman's terms, then just keep typing the way you type; no need to change.

Speaking of which, anyone else surprised at how a tumbleweed is an animal?

:rofl: It is, is it not.
I just checked, and a some are radioactive as well..
Not to mention some of their sound fx in game tend to be wierd as well.

Thanks for that :foodndrink:, I could not change even if I tried.