Gave the Gauss rifle to Gannon, since I'm playing guns, and he is awesome! He must have a secret scope mod for it, 'cause he is shooting radscorps that I needed to crouch and zoom in with my AMR to be able to see! He is a dead on shot! I'm level 30, and I'd had him with me for a while, so he is likely high level/ability. I think he is even better than Boone

He did manage to break it and drop it once, but luckily I caught it, picked it up and had it repaired. Now, after every battle I check it out to make sure he still has it. He does go thru a lot of ammo though

Well, yeah, Arcade + 100 in Energy + most powerful variant of energy weapon in the game is going to = kick ass. The only problem is if you're like me and grab him very early in the game, there's no way you're going to keep him stocked in ammo to be able to use it constantly all the time, throughout (well at least I never can). Unlike Boone and .308's. :whistle:

Arcade is awesome with the right energy weapons tho. All the human companions are awesome with the right gear for their strengths.

Yeah, but I think he is better than Boone with the Gobi, and obviously better than Veronica with her melee weapons when it comes to Giant Radscorps and Deathclaws

When he runs out of ammo for Gauss, Arcade fires up the incinerator, which he also shoots really long range - I didn't actually know that a heavy incinerator could shoot that far

That reminds me of a bug. Do companions never retrieve drained batteries and spent brass?

Oh? I've never tried the Gobi on Arcade.

I have tried the unique Gauss with Boone. He kicks [censored] with it too...about 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time he wildly misses. LOL

Nope - kinda svcks, but it's not really a bug, just a design choice that the players don't like much

I tried giving a Gauss rifle to Cass and I'm pretty sure she hit me with it when we were fighting in close quarters

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