best Unique weapon in game? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:59 am

Fallout New Vegas Best weapon poll

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:03 am

This machine and all american are my two favorite.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:45 am

It's YCS/186

» Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:48 pm

just from the top of my head,you forgot:
- Vikki & Vance's 9mm submachinegun
- Mysterious Magnum (best revolver if you're not focussing on crits)
- Lucky (best revolver if you focus on crits
- Big Boomer
- Dinner Bell
- La Longue Carabine
- Paladin Toaster
- Pulse Gun
- All-American
- Chance's Knife
- Figaro
- Euclid's C-Finder
- Tesla-Beaton prototype
- a lot more weapons

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:16 am

Dinner Bell

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:34 am

The "best' depends on which weapons your character is good with. One who is good with melee than explosives will do much more with Oh Baby! than with Mercy.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:44 am

YCS really.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:30 am

If by 'best' you mean most powerful in the end-game, then I'd pick the Ranger Sequoia. But in terms of what's most generally useful throughout a whole playthrough, I'd pick Ratslayer or Lucky.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:37 am

The Ranger Seqouia is not really a unique weapon.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:28 am

The Ranger Seqouia is not really a unique weapon.

Isn't it? Oh, I thought Hanlon's was the only one, my mistake. Well, in that case it's gotta be the Gobi for the end-game I guess.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:26 pm

No, they periodically spawn on veteran rangers.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:56 am

I voted Ratslayer as it will always holds a special spot in my heart. You are missing A LOT of options!

» Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:41 pm

This Machine kills everything. Including fascists! (Orion Moreno)

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:25 pm

They ruined the Gobi in the last patch. The YCS-186 is great....a very powerful unique Gauss rifle.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:12 am

Dude, Oh Baby! wrecks. I killed the legendary deathclaw with it, in one hit! But if i had a second choice it would be Annabelle, which is by far the best explosive gun in the game.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:26 am

Why are at least half of them missing from the poll?

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:29 am

Q-35 modulator and this machine are my favorite.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:07 am

"This Machine" loaded with JSP ammo > All

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:42 am

Pew Pew. It would feel like cheating if it hadnt been for the ammo cost.
Now its just great.

But honestly absolut fav is still the silenced sniperrifle.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:19 am

Abilene Kid LE BB Gun. Seriously. I had no idea that thing was so powerful with critical hits.With Finesse and Better Criticals I'm one-shotting most enemies with it now, plus it's considered a silenced weapon. Wish I had got it on my first playthrough.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:01 pm

Poll is racist!
Way too many weapons have been excluded!

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:52 am

guys, girls, and whoever you are ( if your not a man or woman i really do not want to know......) i could not put everything on here. You do not have to be racist.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:16 am

Dinner Bell and All American get my vote. It would have probably been the Gobi before the patch but now it just feels weak.

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:36 am

I like the golden gloves, but mainly for the purpose of knocking them down before I shoot out their legs with the Mysterious Magnum. So just pretend that I picked one, k?

» Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:37 am

Well, the most awesome unique weapon in the game (like the Disintegrator and Plasma Rifle always crit in the Vanilla game and the Mysterious Stranger's .44 magnum in FO3) is a weapon that is not available in the game. It was introduced by the Dead Money DLC and is a tester's resource.

It's called the http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Faderator It is a modification of the Gauss Rifle and appears to come with the Meltdown perk. It is fully automatic and and has endless ammo (you must have at least one round in your inventory.)

It fires multiple rounds per shot but uses only one cell, It has a magazine capacity of 255 and reloads without animation so that it is imperceptible. Its critical bonus is 60 (per round) and crit chance is x2

With a base damage of 40 per multifunction cell it's easy to see how the damage escalates. The Wiki calculates it this way: 120/shot = 20,160/second or 56 shots of 3 rounds per second. (The CZ57 Avenger and Gatling Laser have 30 shots/second.) For a real world comparison see the M61 Vulcan (A2) at over 100 (20mm) rounds per second or the Phalanx (Anti-ship, aircraft, missile) which fires the same round at 75 rounds per second.)