Hey guys,
I'm pretty new to FO76, having only played FO4 previously. I'm currently Level 42, and I'm a bit stuck with what weapon to go with. I like using Power Armour so I tend to use heavy guns, anything else looks puny in the hands of a dude in massive Power Armour! I've recently been using the Gatling Laser which I'm enjoying (and it looks cool) - but I've seen some mention of it not being that great an option so I don't want to invest in mods etc if it's less viable long term. There doesn't seem to be a consensus best option from what I can tell by googling etc, so was after some advice, help appreciated!
Weapon advice needed!
Re: Weapon advice needed!
welcome to the site btw!
Heavy weapons its all about the DPS, damage per second. I have an vampires ultracite gat laser, and I honestly don't use it any more now that I have a few other decent vampire weapons, mainly my gat plasma, and when I'm doing my commando build, my gat 10mm smg...
... something like an explosive .50, or a gat plasma would be better than the gat laser tbh. All you can do is compare the damage x fire rate to give you an estimated DPS. Figure in reload times as well. So a quad will not require reloading as often.
steer clear of Instigating, or other leg. effects that only affect the first (or last) shot. For a heavy or repeating weapon its useless. Go with a Furious instead.
For now just run it until you find something better. That's all you can really do anyway. Good Luck!
Heavy weapons its all about the DPS, damage per second. I have an vampires ultracite gat laser, and I honestly don't use it any more now that I have a few other decent vampire weapons, mainly my gat plasma, and when I'm doing my commando build, my gat 10mm smg...
... something like an explosive .50, or a gat plasma would be better than the gat laser tbh. All you can do is compare the damage x fire rate to give you an estimated DPS. Figure in reload times as well. So a quad will not require reloading as often.
steer clear of Instigating, or other leg. effects that only affect the first (or last) shot. For a heavy or repeating weapon its useless. Go with a Furious instead.
For now just run it until you find something better. That's all you can really do anyway. Good Luck!
Re: Weapon advice needed!
First day here, long time player.
The highest possible legitimate DPS for a heavy weapon (tested and documented on youtube by AngryTurtle) is the flamer. Specifically a 2 (or 3 star) Bloodied Flamer. The first star being bloodied (obviously). The second star attribute you would be looking for is 25% faster fire rate. The third star doesn't matter as much, but 90% reduced weight is always nice. Of couse this would require you to play a bloodied PA build to take advantage of it. When set up correctly, this thing MELTS everything.
The mods you would want to put on it are as follows:
Huge tank
Napalmer
Long barrel
Vaporization nozzel
Unfortunately, the vaporization nozzel suffers from a bug that gives it a crippling issue with range. Anytime you log on or swap to a different server, you would need to go to a weapon bench and change the long barrel to a short barrel and then back again. This fixes the flamer for the session.
The highest possible legitimate DPS for a heavy weapon (tested and documented on youtube by AngryTurtle) is the flamer. Specifically a 2 (or 3 star) Bloodied Flamer. The first star being bloodied (obviously). The second star attribute you would be looking for is 25% faster fire rate. The third star doesn't matter as much, but 90% reduced weight is always nice. Of couse this would require you to play a bloodied PA build to take advantage of it. When set up correctly, this thing MELTS everything.
The mods you would want to put on it are as follows:
Huge tank
Napalmer
Long barrel
Vaporization nozzel
Unfortunately, the vaporization nozzel suffers from a bug that gives it a crippling issue with range. Anytime you log on or swap to a different server, you would need to go to a weapon bench and change the long barrel to a short barrel and then back again. This fixes the flamer for the session.