Have your preferences changed since Fallout 3 since the introduction of DPS etc?

They both svck now
Projectile weapons are the best, cept maybe the Gauss Rifle.

I wouldnt say they all svck. The Multiplas Rifle, Plasma Defender, and Tribeam laser rifle are all good and I use them. The plasma caster is good to I guess.

Plasma any good with the projectile speed weapon mod?

I'd say both... in the rubbish bin! Guns FTW!

The Multiplas Rifle looks decent though, but good luck repairing it from what I've seen

I liked Laser's before, and only used Plasma for fun; I found it too slow moving for any use other than VATS. Now, I've yet to use either of them, but I've got a 100% Plasma Rifle with Accelerated Velocity mod, a 100% Laser Rifle with scope, beam splitter, and (hopefully you can add 3 mods) the damage increasing mod.

But, the truth is, I've only used That Gun, and This Machine... Same ammo, the reload on the Machine is insanely fast and damage is superb on both. I have a cowboy repeater for backup, and a varmit rifle with night scope for those annoying head shots from 1 click. Truth is, I love the variety.

I don't use energy weapons much anymore, but i prefer the laser rifle, mainly because the plasma rifle makes all that annoying green dust and you have no idea where is your plasma ball going. the laser rifle has a nice laser scope attached and it can be a good sneak-critical instant kill weapon if you don't wanna waste your sniper rifle ammunition.

Plasma as soon it becomes available. I keep hearing Energy Weapons are nerfed in New Vegas, which is a bit bad since my EW character was the one i was planning to play first. Well, as long as they kill enemies they're good, i don't really care if guns do it faster :shrug:

There really needs to be a massive overhaul patch that rebalances all the weapons in the game. Right now it seems like its just my sniper rifle that does all the real work, while other guns just supply ammo for weaker mobs. The DT system is completely broken, since Radscorpions, deathclaws, supermutants and well armored soldiers (Basically everything with even the slightest chance of killing you) all take very little damage from the vast majority of weapons, but get instantly killed by AP sniper rounds. Deathclaws in particular are near impossible to take down without a sniper or a large number of crits from weaker weapons. Even low level mobs like geckos, ghouls and regular infantry are easier to deal with using a sniper than any other weapon.

Im not saying that DT should be scrapped, just that enemies should have a combination of DT and DR such that the higher DPS/ lower DAM weapons stand a fair chance of being used.

Guass guns fire projectiles. , they are just powered by energy cells rather than gunpowder

The Laser RCW is pretty bad-[censored] at 135 DPS
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Laser_RCW

Chews up EC Packs really quickly though
I love it when Fiends are packing this sort of heat.

Energy weapons are terrible, but if you must, laser fires fast but does crappy damage and plasma fires slower but hits like a truck. :goodjob:

Which is why I wasn't sure what line to place it in, first or second heh.