For the male player character equivalent perk, see Confirmed Bachelor. |
“In combat, you do +10% damage against female opponents. Outside of combat, you'll sometimes have access to unique dialogue options when dealing with the same sex.”— Fallout: New Vegas game files
Cherchez La Femme is a female character perk in Fallout: New Vegas.
Effects
This perk gives females an additional +10% damage bonus on other female targets, and more dialogue options with certain female characters.
Unique dialogue options
- The Omerta receptionist in Gomorrah can be convinced to talk about the Family during the fourth part of the quest The House Always Wins.
- A courier who also has high Charisma can flirt with Corporal Betsy in Camp McCarran.
- Joana can be slept with for free in Gomorrah.
- Dazzle will halve her price for sex to 50 caps in Gomorrah.
- Generic prostitutes can be convinced to talk about Cachino for the quest Wild Card: Side Bets.
- Sweetie will hand over the key to Saint James' room for free.
- Cass's comments on not liking "soft men" can be replied to, claiming that they are "rarely a problem". Cass will respond by nervously saying that when she's drunk, she doesn't care who she shares a bed with.
- Christine can be calmed down more easily in the Dead Money add-on and asked about her past.
- Light Switch 02 in the Old World Blues add-on has unique dialog and can eventually be seduced.
- Some dialog options with Dala, one of the think tanks in Old World Blues.
- Your brain can be flirted with in Old World Blues.
Behind the scenes
"Cherchez La Femme" is a French idiom which translates literally as "search for the woman" and can be understood best as meaning when a man has a problem, there is surely a woman at the source.