We all know about the .223 Autoloader, and no doubt, many of us have loved and cherished this weapon in all of it's previous incarnations throughout the series. I was very excited when I learned that it would be making an official return to the game in FONV. However, the method of it's return I found to be a little lackluster for a weapon that is quite legendary among Fallout players.

To start, it no longer has it's own difficult quest associated with it. You simply travel to X, visit the store and purchase it. Admittedly this was how it was obtained in Fallout 2, but the loss of the quest and the significance that the reward carried with it is somewhat lost. Furthermore, with the exclusion of .223 in favor of 5.56 as an ammo type in the game, the name of .223 Autoloader was no longer really appropriate.
For some reason, the developers chose to use the name 'That Gun' as this was a name that was dubbed the .223 Autoloader by another player somewhere, at some time in the history of Fallout fandom. Never heard of it before this release myself, and the name is just, lacking.

I think a simple title like, 'The Autoloader' would have sufficed for the name.

What are your thoughts? Do you have a better name in mind, or are you happy with it's current renaming?

I found that "that gun" to be a rather interesting for a name think of it as.

Im going to kill you with "that gun". "That gun" is awesome and its so general so strangly joyfull. :gun:

THE Gun



Maybe.

Dat Gun. :disguise:








(sorry)

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Harrison's Special

How is That Gun not an epic title for a weapon? It conveys uniqueness and refers to itself in third person.

that useless gun

While The AncientSlugThrower has always viewed self reference in the third person as cruise control for epic, AST would also like to entertain some other options. Not to mention the loss of a perfectly good name from two previous games, I just don't know why they didn't call it The Autoloader.

pretty much, the guns terrible. Debating on even getting it with my noir private eye role play. if I didn't it would leave just the Mysterious 44 and maria has his only weapons beside his fists.

It's a pistol chambered for rifle ammunition. 5.56 NATO ammo and .223 ammo are compatible, so you could still call it a .223 Pistol and it'd be pretty much accurate, though you might confused people. Easier just to call it a 5.56 Pistol or Rifle Pistol.

.223 Pistol

The Replicant's Doom

i really wish they had made the gun a little better, it was so kickass in fallout 2, but its kind of mediocre in this game, i haven't even bothered to use it since i have much better guns, i mostly use the gobi campaign scout rifle