What's your favorite weapon out of the entire Fallout series?

My beloved

Say what you want about NV, but the gun game was on point.

I just punch everyone in the balls.

hits like a truck

perfectly fits the setting

very statisfying shooting and reloading animations

Definitely. I think remember reading a interview that Josh Sawyer is a real gun nut and that he didn't like how Fallout 3 handle firearm design. He seemed to kind of know his stuff, at least more so than the average Bethesda dev when it comes to firearms

also works with the cowboy perk

The perfect balance between excessive yet refined.

I'm curious but how important is the strength requirements for firearms? Is it a big noticeable difference? Can skill make up for the strength requirement penalty?

Is it an accuracy penalty, but much less significant than other sources of it.

It is* and no, skill is a separate check and won't do anything about lacking in STR.

Trying to use a hunting rifle without 5 strength tanks the shit out of the accuracy. Worse when you consider that the base irons are all fucked up.

I remember the strength requirement being a lot more rough in F1 and 2 because I think you get a 20% per point under the requirement. I just glad they added it back in New Vegas. New Vegas definitely tried fixing up the attributes to have more of a meaningful impact instead of F3 lackluster attempt.

i think that's because being below the strength requirement is a subtraction for each point under the requirement.
So like with an 8 str weapon, 6 str will have more of a debuff than 7 str

Guns like this and the FN FAL are so based

Definitely the gun that sees the most usage every playthrough

turbo plasma rifle + aiming for the eyes
you do the math

I know ARs are a basic bitch option in most people's eyes but I really appreciate them being a staple of New Vegas especially considering the NCR/Legion conflict being a reflection on both the Vietnam War and GWOT at the same time, makes sense to mimic some of the real life weaponry
The funny part is the guy is a bigger guntist than most fags here despite being someone I would describe as a communist (and not in a McCarthyist/neocon way where anyone who doesn't want to privatise every bit of government owned infrastructure and send a gorillion dollars to Israel is an evil gommie, but someone who genuinely holds Marxist beliefs on the way our economic system should be restructured to)
battle rifles are very cool, yeah.
For me as far as the main 4 go, favourite to least favourite

G3

AR-10

M14

FAL

This. Except it doesn't feel as useful or as used as it does in F2 for some reason

THAT GUN!

Love me some energy weapons

Do you use any fist weapons? Or just pure unarmed? Isn't that ridiculously hard in some Fallout games? F1 and F3 don't really like to accommodate for pure unarmed users. I honestly think Fallout 2 had the best unarmed system because you could either go with using Power Fists or purely unarmed and learn a bunch of special fighting punches and kicks that do high critical damage

That's because the early/mid-game workhorses in Fallout 2 are the .44 magnum and P90

Turbo Plasma Rifle plus the high agility and the higher rate of fire perk. You'll shred through most combat encounters

I hate the laser mini gun in the 3D fallouts. It seemed weak compared to Fallout 1 and 2's laser gatling which just cuts enemies in half. It felt like how an energy laser weapon should function

the gatling laser really wasn't very good in the 2d games because most armors had a stupid high laser resistance for no reason

Fallout 1

Small arms easy mode

Fallout 2

Unarmed combat easy mode

Fallout 3

Energy weapons easy mode

Fallout New Vegas

Small arms easy mode

a modified combat rifle from fo4

they will never bring back the laser tommy gun in future games

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They're different models.

Fallout 1 is about 100 years after the bombs fall.

Fallout's 2-4 are 200+ years.

I like plasma rifles just because they look cool, but I don't use them as much as other normal rifles

I have a real soft spot for fallout4’s .50 cal bolt action pipe pistol with silencer.

beth esda won't bring back weapons unless they can make it ugly as fuck.

erased the Wattz laser weapons from canon

changed the plasma caster from a military weapon made by an arms manufacturer into some industrial tool

Both F1 and F2 look like gun heaven, but there are a lot of skills, both melee and unarmed, that can just completely disable enemies as long as you can reach them in a single turn. The Super Sledge itself has a perk that lets you just knock several enemies down per turn.

Pure Unarmed is a little harder, but it's doable if you roll the right starting stats and also know where to get the good armor. There are skills that disable enemies for a turn, criticals that basically break any limb in a single hit and you can disarm anything that's not carrying a rocket launcher.

I have a soft spot for the sillier melee weapons, like the pneumatic power fist with rebar, or the coup stick with .45 shells making the horse's mane.

Surprised they never had this in F1 or F2. Seems like a no brainer

I just really like the implication of being the flamethrower guy
Incendiary explosives for big things, Flamer for everything else

I know that it wouldn't work in real life and that most people don't like it, but the fo3 combat shogun is kino... I love the huge drummag and how forward its location is.