That would be great if they added that hand cannon! It would fire the 12.7mm but they could also introduce the .50 AE round as surplus/alternate-caliber ammunition (like the .38 special or .223) or simply make it an added bonus you learn to handload yourself either if you have the Handloader perk or something you're taught by an NPC in the expansion.

I think it's highly likely Obsidian will add the DE eventually, seeing as it certainly exists in Fallout 2...

I guess I just don't understand this. 12.7mm in FO:NV = .50AE. The ONLY reason Josh didn't name it .50 auto or some such is that he didn't want to confuse folks and keep it simple.


See above. 12.7mm = .50AE. FO1/2 DEs are in .44, so if your rationale for adding it is correct, then that same rationale says they will add it in .44 mag.

-Gunny out.

I don't see what is confusing you, I was replying to a fella's response that the 12.7MM pistol = Desert Eagle :/

But the rationale that says the DE has to be .44 Magnum is invalidated with consideration of the 12.7MM pistol being 14MM in the original Fallout.

But it doesn't really bother me either way, though the fully realized dream would be a Desert Eagle introduced as a .50 Caliber so that it could in theory be possible to have more damage than the Mysterious Magnum.

I believe he is confused because you said the 12.7mm pistol is not comparable to the Desert Eagle, but they fire the same caliber so they would in fact be comparable.

Bit of bad choice of words on my part I suppose, what I mean is that the 12.7MM pistol is not a satisfactory substitute for a Desert Eagle. Just cos it fires a .50 caliber round doesn't mean it's gonna fill the hunger for an icon pistol. Besides, the Desert Eagle would most likely be a bit more powerful and undoubtedly more accurate, and it would be more familiar for a larger crowd.

Based on?

-Gunny out.

If you're not the size of Yao Ming, good luck shooting a Deagle accurately. A friend of mine bought one in .50AE, I put about a 100 rounds or so through it over the couple years he had it. They're huge, if you don't have huge hands, you cannot get a comfortable grip on it. And it kicks like a mule. Sometimes it threw expended brass straight back into your face. And the ammo is hideously expensive. It does make watermelons explode violently when you hit them, though. For what a Deagle costs you could afford a SIG P220 in .45 ACP, some magazines, and enough .45ACP ammo to get the practice you need to be deadly with it. Deagles look cool, but nobody takes them into real combat.

It uses the .50 round as does the Desert Eagle and they both share the same magazine capacity so yes they are perfectly comparable. The 1911 uses a completely different round than the Browning HP and has an entirely different capacity so that comparison is irrelevant from both a realism and balancing standpoint.

Yeah anybody arguing practicality in favor of the Desert Eagle probably shouldn't be taken seriously...Like you said, a SIG P220 would be much better. It doesn't matter how big and shiny your gun is if you can't do anything with it other than 'look cool'.

The Eagle just looks like Thor's johnson, that's a good enough reason to give it a bit less spread or some more damage.

Heh... that reminds me, one time on a military forum, I came across a thread by a guy who was trying to convince people that the Army should replace their SAWs with AA12s loaded with slugs.... Thread was like 40 pages long.... :brokencomputer:

instead of adding the .50 magnum version, they could always add a desert eagle .357, or .44, both alot easier to handle, and probably fire quicker. however, it'd be super-cool if they'd let us have the .50 BMG handgun, that was pictured in a post here earlier.

.50BMG handgun? :blink: I bet even a Behemoth couldn't fire one without losing an arm :lmao:

http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/airborne_combat_engineer/2005/01/the_maadi_griff.html

http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com/airborne_combat_engineer/2005/01/the_thunder_50_.html

...And, once again, i've been proven wrong :blush:

Someone please mod the Thunder into the game!

.50 MG pistol would be epic.

The actual performance of the handgun, the Desert Eagle can sling it's lead out pretty accuracy over a great distance for a handgun. 1" grouping at 25 yards is bound to be better than 1.1 spread.

And I'm assuming that the DE should be more powerful than the Mysterious Magnum because the .50 AE round is more powerful than the .44 Magnum




I don't have extremely huge hands and the Desert Eagle fits them just fine, and I'm no Yao Ming, and I wouldn't contribute the ability to control recoil to height I'd say hand/arm strength and experience would be a better attribute.

I'm not going to talk about price because we're talking about implementing a gun into a video game, actual price is irrelevant.



If you dislike a Desert Eagle, why not just leave the thread instead of posting passive posts? Lets get realistic here, a Sig P220 wouldn't hold a light to a Desert Eagle in terms of stopping power and penetration, despite what you might think the DE is an accurate and powerful weapon that was designed to be an alternative to revolvers for hunting. Being that a DE .50 AE would be able to bring down a bear, and a SIG P220 not nearly as effective at same my money would go on a Desert Eagle.

silly you hunting bears with a hand gun :rolleyes: J/K

I would like that better if it didnt have the Scope and extended mags. Its a classic in its own form.

It would be best to use the gun in .44 or .50 calibers, there are three pistols that use the .357 Magnum round already. If it's possible it would be pretty cool to implement the Desert Eagle as .357 Magnum and use mods to upgrade the gun to .44 Magnum and or .50 calibers.

Or have the standard model as .44 Magnum and the unique variant a .50 caliber.

they say it's easy to handle, because of the muzzle design. however, that may be an exageration.

Those are optional, it comes without the extra parts. And that is how i use it too.

Oh. Well now that you put it that way, it make perfect sense.

You're welcome for the links.

-Gunny out.

I like the floral design, maybe the developers should contact the people who made this model and use it as a unique weapon lol.

Don't you be facetious with me Gunny. I could just say "cuz its a vidyogame!!1" and be done with it :biggrin: