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Animal Control (perk)

FO76 publicteam xpd.pngFor the Fallout 4 trophy/achievement, see Animal Control (achievement).
You handle animals really well when they are dead and gain a damage bonus against the living ones.— In-game description

Animal Control is a challenge perk in Fallout: New Vegas. It is gained automatically after killing a certain number of mutated animals.

Gameplay[edit]

This perk applies a small (3/6/10%) damage bonus against Mutated Animals.

Affected creatures[edit]

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Main article: Mutated Animal

Notes[edit]

  • This perk has three ranks; each rank provides an additional bonus and requires 50/100/150 animals to be killed to earn it.
  • Kills made by a companion do not count towards kills needed to earn this perk.

Bugs[edit]

  • PCPC Perk progress freezes at 20/50 animals.
    • Fixed as of patch 1.2.0.31x.
  • Xbox 360Xbox 360 When the 3rd rank of this perk is achieved, the pop-up message may give a ridiculous number (such as 3940517670000000000...) as the perk rank instead of 3.