I'm a sniper chick all the way. Except in a few rare situations, you can't pry that thing from my greedy little hands. I love snipers in all gun games, just like I like magic in all sword & sorcery games. Early on I loved the cowboy repeater, and I think I might like some of the revolvers (I loved revolvers in Borderlands) but by the time I was going to really check those out w/a new character I was hit with the reload/freeze bug. So I'm waiting on a patch for that.

Melee wise, I enjoy OhBaby & Pushy a lot and the chainsaw is very fun.

Seriously? No one here is going to give the Chainsaw the love it deserves? I couldn't get enough of this weapon when I picked it up off motor runners dead body. Which in now two of my play through's is my starting point to kill all the fiends in vault 3. The first time was with a melee build, so I used his chainsaw to kill everyone else. Seemed like the right thing to do.

the knock knock

Spiked knuckles. I particularly enjoyed smuggling them into a casino before a certain someone told me I couldn't kill him with "some hold-out weapon I might have smuggled in". I then preceded to kill everybody in the building :hubbahubba:

DKS 501 .308 with the Suppressor and CF kits and .308 JFP ammo. Many Deathclaws' hands and Wasteland Omelettes were gathered from the quarry that day... >:)

My favorite of all time is probably this machine. Nothing's better then killing irradiated creatures with a weapon from WWII

Service Rifle/Hunting Shotgun with a Machete as a melee

My favorites are the modded Sniper Rifle, Hunting Shotgun and either Lucky or the Mysterious Magnum. Too bad they're nerfing the sniper rifle so it's as useless against Deathclaws as everything else.

If you like the .44 magnum, try to get the Mysterious Stranger's gun. It's sweet and plays Clint Eastwood spaghetti western music every time you unholster it. :celebration:


With that, I have to go with the aforementioned Mysterious Magnum and the melee weapon, Oh Baby. The golf club is pretty funny too.

For my Laser nerd the Pew-Pew, Plasma Defender and Q 34 Matter Modulator were all working their charms.


I went melee on the second and love Pushy (unique displacer) and the Ballistic fist. This character is a beast, and also ended up with 96 in guns (lvl 28) so I can whip out a Marksmen/All-American and pop off before things get close and then bust their heads with unarmed or melee. I grabbed a chainsaw and a thermic lance, but they haven't struck my fancy as much as the unarmed weapons. There's something awkwardly gratifying about killing someone with no Karma loss and feeling free to take their belongings.

Without hurting my NCR rep I just got some desert ranger armor and I'm having fun waling around with one of their Sequoia's on my hip. And then of course punching the crap out of things.

The All-American and Assault Carbine, plus the 9 other unique weapons I have.

favorite rifle: this machine
favorite shotgun: Dinner Bell
Favorite sidearm: Mysterious Magnum
Favorite energy wep: Y86 Gauss Rifle
Favorite explosive: Grenade Launcher
Favorite Melee: Knock Knock
Favorite Unarmed: Ballistic Fist

Melee: I like the baseball bat, it's not new but going round the NV areas ( freeside, northside ..etc ).
I toggle third person on walk around with the idea of kneecapping punks that owe a debt or step out of line.

Guns: Any really, the 9mm is a fun one, as are any of the shotguns.

Energy and personnal favourite: Laser RCW, it's a laser, thompson machine gun for fritz sake, and an accurate full auto rifle with some amazingly powerfull ammo options.

Explosives: not really keen, but dynomite is fun to muck around with.

Unarmed: no clue yet.

Light Machine Gun and Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle, those weapons never failed me.

I dont have this game yet, and it will be a while before I do, I think I have the minimum specs, except for a dual core processor, and I can run Fallout 3, but I dont think it will be enough for NV, am I right?

Anyways, I have been reading the wiki, and I thought that my favorites would be a the All-American, This Machine, Trail Carbine, Brush Gun, and Hunting Shotgun. But reading through the posts here I have not seen anyone mention the Brush Gun. It looks good on paper, with great damage, especially with Cowboy perk, but no one here seems to list it as a favorite. And only a few mention the Trail Carbine. So my question is this...is there something wrong with these guns that I wouldnt find until I actually played the game? They look nice, I just am curious as to why other people do not seem as anthusiastic about them?

This Machine, definitely.

LMG and Sniper Rifle

Service Rifle

GUNS: For most work, I'm pretty partial to the Cowboy Repeater, but I've only played through the game a few times. When I begin the final assault on the Legion, I switch to the Assault Carbine with armor-piercing rounds.

ENERGY WEAPONS: Never had EW as my primary weapons of choice. I did heavily use an Incinerator for targets with a high DT, the flames did what the attacks themselves did not. Took down all of House's penthouse securitrons that way. Of course, they weren't upgraded...
I rather liked the Plasma Defender that my favorite companion Arcade made heavy use of.

MELEE: Knock-knock, pretty much, and I don't mean the Lamplighter. I wasn't a heavy melee user, though, so I gave it to Arcade too after paying a whole lotta caps to get it repaired. He pretty much killed everything with one hit after that.

UNARMED: Ballistic Fist. Wish I could've gotten it earlier.

EXPLOSIVES: No opinion. Never found enough cherry bombs to make a Bottlecap Mine

The Anti MAterial rifle( come on, whats not to love about a 50 caliber sniper rifle)

guass riffle (maximum range and damage)

assualt carbine

light machine gun

This Machine is by far my favorite. I also like the unique minigun but it eats up rounds way too fast and only holds 120 to begin with.

i would say that the lever-action shotgun is the best

Sniper rifle with suppressor and CF frame, and the Brush Gun
I don't really like any of the Unique items, they don't seem to be any better than the non-unique version. <_<

I really enjoy using Chances Knife, Matter Modulator, Mystery Magnum, Machetes are fun, and the Bladed Gauntlets are nice as well, haven't really gotten into explosives to enjoy them, that's for another story.

Fully modded sniper rifle with HP ammo.