still think EW are still underpowered

mostly what I'm getting at is that the sniper rifle (especially the unique) should not be WEAKER than a hunting rifle. if they wanted to change the dmg, do it with the .308 handlaod (that's what "overpowered" it). i dont have much trouble killing things as i have every firearm, just now its no use to use my silenced sniper even if i'm slasher'd/psycho'd and i liked carrying those around fit my profile nicely...mxrp is overpowerd now, over 250 dmg come on now lol. even if its about a challenge just hardcoe/very hard....

To bad there's no m1 grand in the game

I was puzzled about what they did with sniper rifles, although they were too powerful before. I'm too lazy to look in the GECK...do they critical more often than the hunting rifle?

Ppl use the excuse the sniper made the game so easy with the 100 crit build but i want some one to tell me who or what forced them to use the sniper as an assualt rifle?And if u perfer challenge why not gimp?.All this responses just annoy me in the fact it cements my belief ppl hate others doing something they consider in correct even if it doesnt harm no one .Grat thing of fallout 3 was the fact if u wanted to be a god u could and if u wanted to have a struggle Y O U could modify it to your needs aka gimp.I belive in the rite to choose how u want to do things as long as it doesnt harm others.If u think nerfing isnt bad who the hell got the idea of nerfing the alien blaster considering the rarity of ammo?I do hope that obsidian stops listening to these types of ppl and gives ppl a more liberal way to play the game.

agree to disagree were both in fault it seems lol.Tbh ill keep raising hell till they make the game more customizeable to ppls play style *jabs nerd* >_>

TBH I hate it when designers force me to self-gimp to get any challenge out of a game. If I didn't want a challenge I'd watch a movie or play a multi-player game against people that don't like challenge in their games. The main problem with this game engine is the way it's geared toward setting difficulty ONLY by adjusting damage ratios. It makes the difficulty settings fairly useless, so if they make it too easy people like me whine about needing to self-gimp, and if they make it harder people like you complain about not wanting a challenge. The way the difficulty settings work they can't satisfy both.


I was puzzled about what they did with sniper rifles, although they were too powerful before. I'm too lazy to look in the GECK...do they critical more often than the hunting rifle? If they do that kind of makes sense...they use the same ammo. The sniper rifle should be more accurate than the hunting rifle, but other than that I don't see much reason for it to be a lot more powerful. I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that Obsidian svcks at balancing, though. New Vegas's changes to balance and game mechanics, to me, make for a lot more entertaining game-play than the ridiculously "streamlined" (read: dumbed-down) mechanics from Fallout 3. :shrug: I guess Fallout 3 was "balanced" (in that any weapon you picked up made the game too easy...that's not a stellar balancing job either in my book), but everything somehow felt more generic and lacked in variety, which is inherently going to make it easier to "balance."


Fired? Really? Remind me never to work at your company. IMO the only time something should use more ammo is when it makes sense for the weapon to consume more energy. Since EW's don't use physical bullets I don't mind the idea of different weapons drawing more or less power from a fuel cell than others. Makes sense to me.

anyone else's sniper rifle do half the damage it used to a few days ago on xbox? i was pretty upset that my gobi scout and other sniper rifles now do less damage than a common hunting rifle and almost equivalent to the repeater. this is [censored], and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever....anyone else got this problem? it's a big one if u ask me...

Ppl use the excuse the sniper made the game so easy with the 100 crit build but i want some one to tell me who or what forced them to use the sniper as an assualt rifle?And if u perfer challenge why not gimp?.All this responses just annoy me in the fact it cements my belief ppl hate others doing something they consider in correct even if it doesnt harm no one .Grat thing of fallout 3 was the fact if u wanted to be a god u could and if u wanted to have a struggle Y O U could modify it to your needs aka gimp.I belive in the rite to choose how u want to do things as long as it doesnt harm others.If u think nerfing isnt bad who the hell got the idea of nerfing the alien blaster considering the rarity of ammo?I do hope that obsidian stops listening to these types of ppl and gives ppl a more liberal way to play the game.

Ycs aka guass rifle even in fallout 3 had major hit detection problems as in u could nail them in the head and it would go thru them/energy weapons are good but only on pc due to the goo and ashe pile glitch.And J.e Sawyer has said ouple times he plans to buff up explosives in future patch/fix other bugs*hopefully goo and ashe pile.

Coming soon, the T-51b will be nerfed cause IT HAZ DA HIH DT TRESHDOLD O NOES.

Sick of whiners saying "IF I DUNT LIEK IT, EES WRUNG WAI FICKS DIS UBSIDIN !"

Also, MOAR POWAH TO THE ENERGY WEPANS!!

There's still This Machine...