I wasn't sure if I was being helpful by shooting a 36 range shotgun at something hovering 1 km in the air while saying stuff like "ice to meet you" and "chill out"
I try to be a team player on SBQ. Hit it with 4 different syringers and then switch to CS. Once it’s frozen in place I’ll switch to my main cremator, assuming it isn’t dead yet
Cold Shoulder is a game changer for a shotgunner. I can two or three shot a high level spawn (without VATS - with a VATS crit it’s even crazier) and I’m now netting more shotgun shells than I use, and by a long shot, too.
Yeah, same same. In fact, if you do a shotgun specific build you can one-shot most regular enemies up to level 75 at least, and I find contextual drops average 8-14 shells, so you're never running out.
Before Cold Shoulder I was using Crowd Control and was seeing a modest increase in in the ammo I had. Then I got the Pepper Shaker and 2000 shells went down to 300 really quickly. But with Cold Shoulder yeah, 1-3 rounds to kill and then loot like 15 or 18 off the body.
Which is so strange, because it was SO scarce at launch. I’d be forever scrounging plastic to make them, and have to switch to a backup weapon when I ran out (thank you trusty laser pistol!).
Some of us (well, me) have never recovered and I still hoard every scrap of plastic I can to craft them, even though I now have about 20,000 in my ammo stash.
I just started playing back inApril and have just hit 70. It’s gotten easier and easier as I’ve played because you guys have smoothed out all the rough edges. All the builds and mechanics have been worked out and the devs have balanced quite a bit towards speedy play. When the player base of an mmo has been with a game for years, play becomes more about efficiency, quality of life and community. You old guys used to have to work for it.
Oh yeah lol. Before the special machine was introduced, builds were basically locked in. Hence multiple characters. As well as the chance to have extra camp slots.
Before cold shoulder came out, I was having fun with Crowd Control and Pepper Shaker (with shotgun shells). I still switch to them for a bit of variety - yesterday I rerolled a daily I didn’t want to do and got an Epic - Kill 5 supermutants with a heavy weapon. So I was all ‘well time to hit General’s Steakhouse with the Pepper Shaker then, and amused myself no end. I have a stealth build so whirling it up from stealth while they complain about the ‘filthy sneak’ is pretty funny.
Cold shoulder is so unfair against most things and that is A okay 👌
I used to be afraid of sheepsquatch but now I just delete their kneecaps so they can't move around 🥴
Cold shoulder + enforcer perk = handicapped helpless mirelurk king that can’t sonic shout at you anymore. Then it’s time to break out the heated metal vampire swing speed bat that I have named “Old Bay”.
Scrapping black powder rifles might be quicker than server hopping the Grafton vendor tbh. Same thing happened when I was trying to find a T-51b left arm to finish my set. Farmed Watoga for hours on end and then ended up getting a plan on like my fifth treasure map.
Who needs range when you can run mach speed at an enemy, jump, and vats into their face?
Or my favourite: Using vats through windows to teleport inside where the enemy is
Same, I've always kept a Gauss rifle in my rotation but quad took it to another level. I can practically solo a scorchbeast without having to reload at all.
I rolled an Instigating Plasma Caster last week and it really hits hard. Today I rolled an AA Plasma Caster with faster reload, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. Reload time is long and ammo capacity is limited on the Plasma Caster. Eventually I'd like to roll and try a quad.
There are tesla bracers for power armour. It adds something like 45 unarmed damage and you can put them on both arms giving you +90. I one punch most things with just a few food buffs
Have lvl 50 Anti-armor Explosive with 250 dmg protection during reload. Refer to it as my “Fun Gun” that I use in lower level areas.
Also have a lvl 50 Perfect Storm that I bring out occasionally too.
I’ve heard the 10mm SMG is getting a boost when the Skyline Valley drops. Anyone heard anything about that or have any info?
I haven't heard anything about the regular 10mm SMG getting changes, but there will be a unique one called the Anchorage Ace dropping with a reflex sight and suppressor on it.
I’m only lvl 105, but I bought a Fixer when I hit 50, I rolled a 3⭐️ vampire and mained it until yesterday when I got a Holy Fire. I’ll be switching between the two now. The holy fire is just insanely good.
I have a B/E/25 Crusader Pistol that I love, and Circuit Breaker feels really fun and unique. I use those or a Cold shoulder build when I get bored of commando
It's definitely nowhere close to a fixer, but I can solo expeditions, dailies, and most events with it easily, and that's enough to freshen things up for me. If they just moved pistol cards to perception, even, it would help it out a lot.
yeah pistol cards to perception for sure, and honestly just lump semi-auto and auto pistol cards into one broad pistol card so I can take an assortment of pistols without needing to split my cards down the middle.
Yesssss, I saw someone blasting scorched with this last year when I came back after a few years and started frantically googling "fallout 76 fireworks launcher". I love using it at easy events like Fasnacht.
Playing my nonexplosive Heavy build, I‘ve been running around with a -90% weight Harpoon Gun equipped. It is so much fun! It can one-shot most humanoid creatures close range. Pair it with the [Seasoned Survivor](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Seasoned_survivor_outfit) and the [Sentry Helmet](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Sentry_bot_helmet_(Fallout_76)) for the perfect wasteland gimp outfit!
Cold shoulder. I'll run around knee-cappin everything. Yao guai look so helpless when they sit down unable to move with no legs, or assaultrons dragging them selves along the floor is funny too.
Cold shoulder shotgun, it does ridiculous damage to almost all enemies especially with shotgun perk builds, I used to be terrified of wendigos or other cryptids but now I throw snowballs at them up close & drop them in seconds
Vats Sniper here. I really enjoy my lever action rifle and my Doctor's Orders sniper rifle. Docs Orders has they bonus to crippling limbs. If it's big, I cripple it, then kill it from afar. Otherwise, popping off those crit headshots for trash mobs.
I just discovered Enclave Auto Rifle and Enclave Flamer as the perfect balance between Railway and Holy Fire. It's like the Railway and Holy Fire had two children that were *almost* like them... but can do both.
The Enclave Auto Rifle hits HARD like the Railway and the Enclave Flamer burns hard like the Holy Fire. But both use the same ammo (plasma) and both benefit from Commando perks. No need to swap builds.
Ultracite Gatling Laser is by far my favorite weapon since I started using Heavy Guns. I know there's more powerful alternatives but there's something about the GL that i just really love.
And the cherry on top? It's ammo is fusion cores and I NEVER run out of those. Just wish it didn't break so fast.
Yes charging. Charging barrels just have a weird (but fun) interaction with FFR. The first few bursts are ultra fast, then it slows down and hit hards. Completely changes the weapon.
I am using an AA ultracite plasma caster as my every day driver weapon when not in events and it just owns in VATS. Love plasma caster all the way back to FO1 days when I would snipe enemies in the eyes in my hardened power armor lol
B/ffr LMG. Ik ppl say quad is better, BUT, the thing eats ammo enough as it is, if I had quad I'd be spraying ammo all over the place wasting it, plus it would take more shots to kill since q does less dam per bullet
The elders mark with a good roll on it. It's the only gun I've used where people messaged me asking what rolls are on my "fixer" that's making me kill things so fast
Cremator and cold shoulder are my personal favorite loadiut. The fixer//railway are a bit to expensive to acquire especially a good one. But that just my personal opinion.
Recently started playing this game and now at lvl 60 I love running power armor togheter with a 50 call. Mine doesn’t have the best perks but god it looks so cool with the power armor and spreading democracy.
Besides that I love running my silenced handmade with tropical thunder (or something like that) skin.
I see why everyone has hype for the other guns but honestly I just been having fun with a good old Ari handmade and the sub machine gun called The perfect Storm. I'm also an Ari commando build so it works good enough for me. I'm not one shotting enemies by any means but I'm not using more than a clip on any of them either.
Gatling gun is low key op. There is a 2 shot glitch which is similar to old aim and shoot glitch, not as fast, but makes the gun my daily driver. Plasma caster is my plasma caster is my boss killer.
Holy Fire is life. Also found a Bloodied 50crit 50drwr Prime Gauss Rifle in a vendor for 1k. Easily 1-2 shot kills all day without vats, it’s explosive which is also what I want to run, still looking for my Bloodied Explosive 3rd perk doesn’t matter as much but I’d like breaks slower Handmade. I use all my scrip on modules trying to reroll one and I haven’t had luck. 60+ rerolls on the one I have alone. I hate the railway rifle fire sound. Legit makes my ears hurt.
I play mainly PC now, but on my PS character I found a V/E/FF Gatling Gun, it's my el Dorado on PC now, I feel unstoppable while I'm used it, sure there are stronger guns, sure there are faster ones without FF, but damn those booms get my blood going
I’m running junkies sniper build. My load out is 10mm pistol, fixer (non auto), .50cal sniper rifle.
I love my 10mm pistol, on my first roll I got it to be junkies, weapon speed and reload speed. I modified it to have the max fire rate and reload speed, it’s basically an automatic lol
Gunthers Big Iron is probably one of my favorite weapons in the game, is it good? No not really. Is it aesthetically pleasing and fits exactly into my ideal gunslinger look? Absolutely.
The reload is super slow even with the added speed buffs and the damage is worse than the Western revolver but man it's just so cool and I love the reload animation visually.
Flamer is by far the most fun and effective gun I've used to date, 1 shot a group of any enemy from any range as long as they're not bosses or some legendary enemies and yet still somehow great fun and much better than holding space in Vats and holding left click until everything dies.
Also flamer gives a couple of seconds for others to get hits so everyone gets loot rather than being just another selfish Railway rifle or Fixer guy who only wants loot for themselves.
I have been running slug buster with the flamer barrel. It melts everything including its durability. It’s not too bad to repair though. Now if it was a plasma flamer with vampire though that would be even spicier.
Furious, explosive The Dragon. If I don’t one-shot an enemy, the second shot does the trick. I’m a melee kinda gal, so it’s a fun change of pace from melting everything with my flaming chainsaw.
Been enjoying my quantum thirst zapper. It's bloodied 50 limb damage 250 resistance while reloading. Been hella fun not sure what it's worth but I love it
I know this weapon is probably pretty meta, especially considering how easy it is to obtain, but Foundation’s Vengeance is so fun that it got me to commit to a bloodied build for once. The gun is a monster and by doing pubs I get all of my ammo back and then some. It feels so powerful to hold a minigun and full blast a sbq, an earle, or legions of enemies without breaking a sweat.
Bloodied EPF with perfect mods is so, so, so satisfying. Absolute melter. Had fun with my BE25 fixer but ended up trading that for a demon mask as the fixer gets a little boring.
looks like nobody uses the enclave plasma rifle.. should I not be grinding for this thing?
I use an executioners auto axe with 25% damage while still and reduced ap cost. Just tried switching to an AA chainsaw with power attack.. modded up, and it pales in comparison.
I use a quad Tesla rifle on switch for tagging, along with my syringer.
I run a overeaters xo1, don't use blocker, and I never die. I don't understand the love for vamps, I already sell a ton of stims per day. I think I want furious, power attack, and less ap... But I'm currently trying to roll a bloodied plasma caster.
I had a quad alien disentegrator drop today with 25 ap reduction middle star was trash, put an auto reciever on it amd started linking. Surprisingly fun.
I've been arming all new players recently with nuka shanks, chems, and cultist outfits. I just find it funny seeing people run at massive creatures with shanks in the name of our savior mothman
I really like the bloodied handmade, as a beginner bloodied build, with only two pieces of unyielding SS (it feels so pointless to grind for the other three ffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu) I have to say the handmade is very good, and I don’t even use stealth! I’m sure if I did though it’d be bangin, but when I say beginner I mean I’m level 237 and I used to main the plasma minigun and plasma caster in my T-65 up until right after Minerva came and sold me the discounted SS pieces. So yeah this is very new for me but dang it’s just so good dude!
My main weapons are grognaks axe (faster swing, anti armor, +1 str), a light machine gun and a gatling (both faster fire rate + anti armor). The LMG *shreds* and the gatling is just really fun and ammo efficient.
I've yet it get a super good fixer, but I have a a quad, better vats acc one I use sometimes when I feel like going vats mode.
Kabloom rerolled. Vamp/explosive/+Dr while reloading.
But tbh explosive shotgun w grenadier is the *only* way I can tag things reliably for exp with everyone spawn camping jamboree and eviction...
i have a handmade that takes 3 AP per shot in vats, and mixed with focus fire, gun-fu, grim reaper’s sprint, and of course ground pounder, commando, and tank killer….
cannon fodder destroyer
Love taking the Ultracite Laser Rifle for a run with typical wasteland enemies, never gets old turning them into green ash and picking up that nuclear material
Railway rifle and fixer have been the top guns in this game forever it feels like. Every time I try something different I just get annoyed by how weak everything that isn’t those two feels.
Alien disintegrator, it’s way more fun than I expected, I put the poison receiver on and it does loads of damage, feels like the rifle version of the DoT of the cremator. Really wish it had the holo sights it had in fallout 3 though.
Lol..
**Perfect Storm!**
The 10mm SMG from Cold Case. No stars. But I put ultracite ammo on it and I run around like a fucking wakadoodle now.
It still kills everything. But it's great running around with something other than my Fixer, RR & Tesla.
The Last Word .50 cal + auto grenade launcher. Last Word has AA and ffr. Combined with stabilized, it shreds most creatures.
Auto grenade is good crowd control
It's still meta adjacent but I really enjoy enclave flamer rifles and auto rifles.
Heavies have a bit more variety for me. Plasma caster, holy fire too. I have a ugl around too... and sometimes I bust out the gauss mini even though it's performance is a bit sad compared to other high end heavies.
cold shoulder shotgun its somthing about cryo effects and having more then a 2 round mag on a dobbel barrel xD
Love using my cold shoulder on scorchbeast queen event!
And I love when someone uses Cold Shoulder on SBQ.
Hi! It’s me! I love giving SBQ the Cold Shoulder!
I give the queen the cold shoulder after I ~~roofy~~ endangerol her 😉
And me last night and today lol 😂
I wasn't sure if I was being helpful by shooting a 36 range shotgun at something hovering 1 km in the air while saying stuff like "ice to meet you" and "chill out"
I try to be a team player on SBQ. Hit it with 4 different syringers and then switch to CS. Once it’s frozen in place I’ll switch to my main cremator, assuming it isn’t dead yet
I use it constantly! Always happy to lend a frozen hand.
I do too. I feel like I’m contributing. Even if I can’t melt everything around me like everyone else, I can keep her on the ground, dammit.
Cold Shoulder is a game changer for a shotgunner. I can two or three shot a high level spawn (without VATS - with a VATS crit it’s even crazier) and I’m now netting more shotgun shells than I use, and by a long shot, too.
Yeah, same same. In fact, if you do a shotgun specific build you can one-shot most regular enemies up to level 75 at least, and I find contextual drops average 8-14 shells, so you're never running out.
Shotguns seem to return more ammo than anything else. I consistently get the ammo I expelled plus on most kills.
Plasma caster gives crazy returns. I started with a couple hundred ultracite rounds and ended up with over 5k in a few days.
Before Cold Shoulder I was using Crowd Control and was seeing a modest increase in in the ammo I had. Then I got the Pepper Shaker and 2000 shells went down to 300 really quickly. But with Cold Shoulder yeah, 1-3 rounds to kill and then loot like 15 or 18 off the body.
lol I just mentioned using Crowd Control and Pepper Shaker. High 5 Vaultie.
Which is so strange, because it was SO scarce at launch. I’d be forever scrounging plastic to make them, and have to switch to a backup weapon when I ran out (thank you trusty laser pistol!). Some of us (well, me) have never recovered and I still hoard every scrap of plastic I can to craft them, even though I now have about 20,000 in my ammo stash.
I just started playing back inApril and have just hit 70. It’s gotten easier and easier as I’ve played because you guys have smoothed out all the rough edges. All the builds and mechanics have been worked out and the devs have balanced quite a bit towards speedy play. When the player base of an mmo has been with a game for years, play becomes more about efficiency, quality of life and community. You old guys used to have to work for it.
Oh yeah lol. Before the special machine was introduced, builds were basically locked in. Hence multiple characters. As well as the chance to have extra camp slots.
I maxed out my ammo converter with all the extra shotgun ammo I had!
Before cold shoulder came out, I was having fun with Crowd Control and Pepper Shaker (with shotgun shells). I still switch to them for a bit of variety - yesterday I rerolled a daily I didn’t want to do and got an Epic - Kill 5 supermutants with a heavy weapon. So I was all ‘well time to hit General’s Steakhouse with the Pepper Shaker then, and amused myself no end. I have a stealth build so whirling it up from stealth while they complain about the ‘filthy sneak’ is pretty funny.
Cold shoulder is so unfair against most things and that is A okay 👌 I used to be afraid of sheepsquatch but now I just delete their kneecaps so they can't move around 🥴
I used to be a menace like you. Than I took a cold shoulder to the knee. -sheepsquatch
Haha shotgun go brr. -Me
Then enemy go brr.
Chilly chilly brr 🥶 lol
Only reason I carry peppershaker. Nothing like crippling a horde of ghouls.
I used to avoid the SB queen event, but now I show up with the cold shoulder and hold her still.
thats what i love about Cold Shoulder.. that honestly carries the SBQ event lol no more flying
My melee character thanks you. You freeze her, I'll stand right under her with an auto axe, we got this.
I love doing a stealth/shotty build with the stealth suit and cold shoulder. It's like if the stealth archer met the Doomslayer.
Cold shoulder + enforcer perk = handicapped helpless mirelurk king that can’t sonic shout at you anymore. Then it’s time to break out the heated metal vampire swing speed bat that I have named “Old Bay”.
If you take the reload perk, you get even more than that and it's amazing.
Black powder rifle, especially when I do line in the sand
I’m having fun with a furious, explosive The Dragon. I can’t find the bayonet anywhere, though. I had one and I sold it :/
LMAO. Furious is a hilariously stupid effect on that gun.
*furiously pouring gunpowder*
I think if you learn it or get the box mod for the standard black powder rifle it should carry onto the dragon too?
Scrapping black powder rifles might be quicker than server hopping the Grafton vendor tbh. Same thing happened when I was trying to find a T-51b left arm to finish my set. Farmed Watoga for hours on end and then ended up getting a plan on like my fifth treasure map.
Are you on pc? I can craft some with bayonets for you to scrap so you can learn the mod.
I have an op bpr if you’re on Xbox and want it for free :)
I have a Bloodied Explosive one that I’ve been sitting on. I’ve never used it, but am tempted to with LoS now.
Power Fist. With the right setup it does everything! AoE! Heals (self or others)! Comedy! Satisfying CA-CHUK sound! ~~Range!~~
Is that from Heated Coils and Hack and Slash with Friendly Fire? How does it heal you?
Vampires for self heals.
Who needs range when you can run mach speed at an enemy, jump, and vats into their face? Or my favourite: Using vats through windows to teleport inside where the enemy is
Two-shot The Dragon in my civil war Era outfit and top hat (Union of course)
Woah I bet that hits like a TRUCK. That reload though
Two shot only adds 1 extra pellet instead of 4. So two shot dragon kinda sucks.
I have the mod that doubles the damage if the target is full health, forget what the name is. That thing is my health-bar deleter.
Instigating I think!
I have a two shot & a vampire that both have good 2 & 3 * stuff so I just run them both 🤣🤣🤣 in that order.
I really dig the Gauss Rifle. It's the sound. reeEEEEEE CHONK -1000HP
just rolled a quad and it has changed my life.
Same, I've always kept a Gauss rifle in my rotation but quad took it to another level. I can practically solo a scorchbeast without having to reload at all.
Been playing with an instigating one on my bloodied build. So satisfying
I just got the final word from beckett and man oh man does it slap things around for me
I gave up on Final Word when I got a Vamp 50 cal. Final Word was a great 50 cal, but I just love the Vamp effect.
Hell I might just roll for one and try it out. I think I have the .50 cal plans but if not I know a train station vendor sells it
I rolled an Instigating Plasma Caster last week and it really hits hard. Today I rolled an AA Plasma Caster with faster reload, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. Reload time is long and ammo capacity is limited on the Plasma Caster. Eventually I'd like to roll and try a quad.
I love my instigating, it's my backup gun regardless of build because it just hits hard and prints ammo.
I rolled an AA/15/15 plasma caster after seeing a guy literally one shot the twins in boardwalk and I’m sooooooo dang excited to rebuild for it.
I've been trying to roll for an Instigating, 50 Vat hit chance, 90wr for ages.
I have a quad plasma caster (ultracite)… its life changing in Vats. 80 rounds before reload!!!
I would love to roll a quad!
As someone who is still learning, what does AA stand for?
Anti armor
Gatling Gun with AA and Speedy legendaries, plus the faster reciever, its a beast
Big fan of gat guns, my wife and I both run them we have a TSE/RW and my wife uses a VE/RW they pair up great with our chainsaws
50 scorched & explosive on mine, it's great for SBQ & honestly anything else but I like my vampire 50 for regular carry.
Two shot explosive prime is mine, absolutely eats scorchbeasts. Also ammo is never an issue with my gat, just wish people would buy the spare ammo.
Use ammo converter.
Whats aa? Anti armor?
I am trying to roll explosive // AA on my Gat but RNG hates me
Aa gat with explosive is my 'tap everything and never run out off ammo' go to.
Huge fan of Handmades and Lever-Actions... But I mostly just sneak up and punch stuff with a Power Fist
Wish they made a fist weapon for power armor.
There are tesla bracers for power armour. It adds something like 45 unarmed damage and you can put them on both arms giving you +90. I one punch most things with just a few food buffs
The Dragon. I kinda feel it should have the Benny Hill theme play while being chased around whilst reloading.
Wasteland Yakety Sax
10mm SMG
I have one with %90 armor penetration. It’s my sleeper for pvp.
I think mine is Anti-armor plus whatever mods.
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Have lvl 50 Anti-armor Explosive with 250 dmg protection during reload. Refer to it as my “Fun Gun” that I use in lower level areas. Also have a lvl 50 Perfect Storm that I bring out occasionally too. I’ve heard the 10mm SMG is getting a boost when the Skyline Valley drops. Anyone heard anything about that or have any info?
I dunno. Can check people who get on the pts and see if anyone has videos up yet. Angry Turtle is pretty good.
I haven't heard anything about the regular 10mm SMG getting changes, but there will be a unique one called the Anchorage Ace dropping with a reflex sight and suppressor on it.
Regular bows, cold shoulder and…..Gunther’s big iron pistol lol
the red dead redemption build
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly looked to folks around him, didn't have too much to saaayyyyyyy
Melee is life! Warglaive main and auto axe for fun.
My melee character uses a fast light 1H weapon called The Invader. It’s really fun. Got it in an alien bundle. I think it’s a knife or something.
I’m only lvl 105, but I bought a Fixer when I hit 50, I rolled a 3⭐️ vampire and mained it until yesterday when I got a Holy Fire. I’ll be switching between the two now. The holy fire is just insanely good.
AA/40% swing speed/1 Strength Ogua Gauntlet. It's just fun to hit enemies really fast with this thing.
Pepper shaker turning everything into quadriplegics is peak satisfaction.
Handmade is worth it too. More damage per bullet than fixer. Although no built in effects. Plus it looks sick too lots of skims for it
I'm waiting for Screaming Eagle skins to be available again. I'm not a big fan of AKs look on it (mine is Furious + last bullet 100% DMG + 50% VATS)
Vampire. Bashing. Shredder. Minigun. Say goodbye to dying.
Got one. Love it.
I have a B/E/25 Crusader Pistol that I love, and Circuit Breaker feels really fun and unique. I use those or a Cold shoulder build when I get bored of commando
see i want to love the crusader pistol but with no magazine increasing mods or automatic reciever options it just doesn't hit the points i want it to
It's definitely nowhere close to a fixer, but I can solo expeditions, dailies, and most events with it easily, and that's enough to freshen things up for me. If they just moved pistol cards to perception, even, it would help it out a lot.
yeah pistol cards to perception for sure, and honestly just lump semi-auto and auto pistol cards into one broad pistol card so I can take an assortment of pistols without needing to split my cards down the middle.
Grand. Finale.
I love it but it breaks after 3 expeditions. So annoying but hey at least I have a reason to use that pile of if repair packs.
Do you use the perks to double weapon condition when you repair it?
Yesssss, I saw someone blasting scorched with this last year when I came back after a few years and started frantically googling "fallout 76 fireworks launcher". I love using it at easy events like Fasnacht.
I keep wanting to try this one. Will have to keep my eyes peeled for it.
Sometimes drop from the mole rat titan event.
Gamma gun,
Playing my nonexplosive Heavy build, I‘ve been running around with a -90% weight Harpoon Gun equipped. It is so much fun! It can one-shot most humanoid creatures close range. Pair it with the [Seasoned Survivor](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Seasoned_survivor_outfit) and the [Sentry Helmet](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Sentry_bot_helmet_(Fallout_76)) for the perfect wasteland gimp outfit!
Cold shoulder. I'll run around knee-cappin everything. Yao guai look so helpless when they sit down unable to move with no legs, or assaultrons dragging them selves along the floor is funny too.
I carry a Ultracite Gatling gun and Holy Fire
I got a quad explosive Gatling that I just turned prime. It’s pretty sweet. Perfect to run bunker with and destroy mainframes.
I use a bloodied auto alien disentigrator with 50% faster fire rate when I want to have some fun. Mows down enemies, but BOY does it go through ammo.
Flamer plasma rifle just melts E V E R Y T H I N G with commando etc. And the Gatling gun is so fun too, you'll never run out of ammo
Cold shoulder shotgun, it does ridiculous damage to almost all enemies especially with shotgun perk builds, I used to be terrified of wendigos or other cryptids but now I throw snowballs at them up close & drop them in seconds
Whacker smacker. Unga bunga The daily of cripple a supermutants head was hilarious
Vats Sniper here. I really enjoy my lever action rifle and my Doctor's Orders sniper rifle. Docs Orders has they bonus to crippling limbs. If it's big, I cripple it, then kill it from afar. Otherwise, popping off those crit headshots for trash mobs.
Holy fire baby! It’s so nice. It isn’t the absolute best but man I find it to be the absolute best “jack of all trades” gun.
Western revolver and the laser pistol
I still prefer the Handmade. I'm attempting to make a good Railway but I've used a Quad in the past and the Handmade just has so little recoil.
Been having a lot of fun with the crank Gatling. It is not meta, I HAVE the meta weapons. But hear me out: chunka chunka chunka chunk
Lmao I've been using Final Word because there's something about being in power armor with a 50 cal machine gun that tickles my fancy
I just discovered Enclave Auto Rifle and Enclave Flamer as the perfect balance between Railway and Holy Fire. It's like the Railway and Holy Fire had two children that were *almost* like them... but can do both. The Enclave Auto Rifle hits HARD like the Railway and the Enclave Flamer burns hard like the Holy Fire. But both use the same ammo (plasma) and both benefit from Commando perks. No need to swap builds.
Ultracite Gatling Laser is by far my favorite weapon since I started using Heavy Guns. I know there's more powerful alternatives but there's something about the GL that i just really love. And the cherry on top? It's ammo is fusion cores and I NEVER run out of those. Just wish it didn't break so fast.
Get you one with faster fire rate on the second star and slap charging barrels on that bad boy. You'll love it even more.
Really? Charging over the full auto? Hmm I had more success on the other and was never lucky enough to get faster fire rate
Yes charging. Charging barrels just have a weird (but fun) interaction with FFR. The first few bursts are ultra fast, then it slows down and hit hards. Completely changes the weapon.
I am using an AA ultracite plasma caster as my every day driver weapon when not in events and it just owns in VATS. Love plasma caster all the way back to FO1 days when I would snipe enemies in the eyes in my hardened power armor lol
B/ffr LMG. Ik ppl say quad is better, BUT, the thing eats ammo enough as it is, if I had quad I'd be spraying ammo all over the place wasting it, plus it would take more shots to kill since q does less dam per bullet
Laser rifles with the science and commando perks are fun.
Laser Gatlings are fun, but man, they break faster than any other weapon I use.
Quad/50c/+1Agility 10mm Auto Pistol. I feel like John Wick with it
I do like to use the minigun and gatling laser but only with PA because they're heavy weapons 😅
Melee mostly but my current backup is a triple barrel two shot missile launcher since I have grenadier and demo maxed out.
Gauss rifle with silencer.
The elders mark with a good roll on it. It's the only gun I've used where people messaged me asking what rolls are on my "fixer" that's making me kill things so fast
Quad harpoon vat vat is mental.
Fun or funny? I use a quad single action revolver.
The Holy Fire. It's range and damage are great, add in friendly fire and its extremely useful pretty much everywhere
Cremator and cold shoulder are my personal favorite loadiut. The fixer//railway are a bit to expensive to acquire especially a good one. But that just my personal opinion.
I love my speedy gattling gun He may not be meta, he may not be amazing, but he's got me through so much I can't put him down.
The mg42 is cool, I like using it.
I’ve preferred handmades over the fixer. I just feel I can better control the recoil. Maybe that’s just my imagination.
Cold shoulder, I started with it , now I’m lvl 130 and still using it
Enclave Auto Pistol
Nuka launcher
Recently started playing this game and now at lvl 60 I love running power armor togheter with a 50 call. Mine doesn’t have the best perks but god it looks so cool with the power armor and spreading democracy. Besides that I love running my silenced handmade with tropical thunder (or something like that) skin.
Rescue Beckett and do his questline. You’ll get an AA .50 cal that I wanna say also has a faster fire rate. Called “Final Word”
.50 cal, I just love walking around in PA with a heavy weapon.
4 variants of the holy fire a vamp and an instigating cremator with the gauss minigun for funsies
I use the adrenal syringe and then cold shoulder for the big bosses. Makes me feel like the ultimate support character
I have a lever action that I love and use all the time.
vampire gatling laser was long time my main, I was basically immortal and didn't need any ammo... then I found the magic of Cremator... muhehehehe
Vampire weapons, I love tanking bosses. Vampire flamer, gatling, plasma gatling, or creamator just grab aggro and hold it forver.
50% crit 25% ap ultracite laser gun. As good if in not better than a handmade and is a crit machine.
I see why everyone has hype for the other guns but honestly I just been having fun with a good old Ari handmade and the sub machine gun called The perfect Storm. I'm also an Ari commando build so it works good enough for me. I'm not one shotting enemies by any means but I'm not using more than a clip on any of them either.
Gatling gun is low key op. There is a 2 shot glitch which is similar to old aim and shoot glitch, not as fast, but makes the gun my daily driver. Plasma caster is my plasma caster is my boss killer.
Holy Fire is life. Also found a Bloodied 50crit 50drwr Prime Gauss Rifle in a vendor for 1k. Easily 1-2 shot kills all day without vats, it’s explosive which is also what I want to run, still looking for my Bloodied Explosive 3rd perk doesn’t matter as much but I’d like breaks slower Handmade. I use all my scrip on modules trying to reroll one and I haven’t had luck. 60+ rerolls on the one I have alone. I hate the railway rifle fire sound. Legit makes my ears hurt.
I renamed my Junkie Explosive Pipe Rifle "pipe is life" and the game changed it to "PIPE IS LIFE"
I play mainly PC now, but on my PS character I found a V/E/FF Gatling Gun, it's my el Dorado on PC now, I feel unstoppable while I'm used it, sure there are stronger guns, sure there are faster ones without FF, but damn those booms get my blood going
Using a bloody ffr vats Gatling Plasma with a 34 luck vats crit power armor build. Basically great dps and immortality
I’m running junkies sniper build. My load out is 10mm pistol, fixer (non auto), .50cal sniper rifle. I love my 10mm pistol, on my first roll I got it to be junkies, weapon speed and reload speed. I modified it to have the max fire rate and reload speed, it’s basically an automatic lol
Gunthers Big Iron is probably one of my favorite weapons in the game, is it good? No not really. Is it aesthetically pleasing and fits exactly into my ideal gunslinger look? Absolutely. The reload is super slow even with the added speed buffs and the damage is worse than the Western revolver but man it's just so cool and I love the reload animation visually.
Flamer is by far the most fun and effective gun I've used to date, 1 shot a group of any enemy from any range as long as they're not bosses or some legendary enemies and yet still somehow great fun and much better than holding space in Vats and holding left click until everything dies. Also flamer gives a couple of seconds for others to get hits so everyone gets loot rather than being just another selfish Railway rifle or Fixer guy who only wants loot for themselves.
I have been running slug buster with the flamer barrel. It melts everything including its durability. It’s not too bad to repair though. Now if it was a plasma flamer with vampire though that would be even spicier.
Black Powder Pistol. It’s so fun to use with instigating and tear off the heads of lower-level enemies with a single tap
Furious, explosive The Dragon. If I don’t one-shot an enemy, the second shot does the trick. I’m a melee kinda gal, so it’s a fun change of pace from melting everything with my flaming chainsaw.
Been enjoying my quantum thirst zapper. It's bloodied 50 limb damage 250 resistance while reloading. Been hella fun not sure what it's worth but I love it
I know this weapon is probably pretty meta, especially considering how easy it is to obtain, but Foundation’s Vengeance is so fun that it got me to commit to a bloodied build for once. The gun is a monster and by doing pubs I get all of my ammo back and then some. It feels so powerful to hold a minigun and full blast a sbq, an earle, or legions of enemies without breaking a sweat.
Bloodied EPF with perfect mods is so, so, so satisfying. Absolute melter. Had fun with my BE25 fixer but ended up trading that for a demon mask as the fixer gets a little boring.
looks like nobody uses the enclave plasma rifle.. should I not be grinding for this thing? I use an executioners auto axe with 25% damage while still and reduced ap cost. Just tried switching to an AA chainsaw with power attack.. modded up, and it pales in comparison. I use a quad Tesla rifle on switch for tagging, along with my syringer. I run a overeaters xo1, don't use blocker, and I never die. I don't understand the love for vamps, I already sell a ton of stims per day. I think I want furious, power attack, and less ap... But I'm currently trying to roll a bloodied plasma caster.
No ones running it because they’re also grinding for it 😂. Idk if that’s true but it was a funny thought I had.
I had a quad alien disentegrator drop today with 25 ap reduction middle star was trash, put an auto reciever on it amd started linking. Surprisingly fun.
I've been arming all new players recently with nuka shanks, chems, and cultist outfits. I just find it funny seeing people run at massive creatures with shanks in the name of our savior mothman
I really like the bloodied handmade, as a beginner bloodied build, with only two pieces of unyielding SS (it feels so pointless to grind for the other three ffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu) I have to say the handmade is very good, and I don’t even use stealth! I’m sure if I did though it’d be bangin, but when I say beginner I mean I’m level 237 and I used to main the plasma minigun and plasma caster in my T-65 up until right after Minerva came and sold me the discounted SS pieces. So yeah this is very new for me but dang it’s just so good dude!
The Ogua gauntlet. Reverse bloodied, high speed on a funny skull is nice.totally a gun
2 Shot Exploding Bullet Automatic Handmade with Reload speed and Hip-fire 25%dmg
I use cold shoulder to cripple them and after that make them beg for mercy under my AA50BASH shredder. Bwahahaha. It's shredding time.
I got a vampiric quad .44 magnum. It's not particularly good, the idea of a revolver with 32 bullets just makes me giggle.
My main weapons are grognaks axe (faster swing, anti armor, +1 str), a light machine gun and a gatling (both faster fire rate + anti armor). The LMG *shreds* and the gatling is just really fun and ammo efficient. I've yet it get a super good fixer, but I have a a quad, better vats acc one I use sometimes when I feel like going vats mode.
Kabloom rerolled. Vamp/explosive/+Dr while reloading. But tbh explosive shotgun w grenadier is the *only* way I can tag things reliably for exp with everyone spawn camping jamboree and eviction...
I’ve been farming scorched queens for that prime hunting rifle receiver
i have a handmade that takes 3 AP per shot in vats, and mixed with focus fire, gun-fu, grim reaper’s sprint, and of course ground pounder, commando, and tank killer…. cannon fodder destroyer
Love taking the Ultracite Laser Rifle for a run with typical wasteland enemies, never gets old turning them into green ash and picking up that nuclear material
Railway rifle and fixer have been the top guns in this game forever it feels like. Every time I try something different I just get annoyed by how weak everything that isn’t those two feels.
Alien disintegrator, it’s way more fun than I expected, I put the poison receiver on and it does loads of damage, feels like the rifle version of the DoT of the cremator. Really wish it had the holo sights it had in fallout 3 though.
Lever action is always fun, I just wished the game was better balanced so all builds were viable later game. Capping points at level 50 is so bogus
Lol.. **Perfect Storm!** The 10mm SMG from Cold Case. No stars. But I put ultracite ammo on it and I run around like a fucking wakadoodle now. It still kills everything. But it's great running around with something other than my Fixer, RR & Tesla.
Flamers. Holy Fire In particular. I didn't even knew they were good. I just wanted to play as Pyro tf2.
The Last Word .50 cal + auto grenade launcher. Last Word has AA and ffr. Combined with stabilized, it shreds most creatures. Auto grenade is good crowd control
i quite prefer running around with my nuka shank and deathclaw guantlet, if im not running melee im taking my cold shoulder and guass shotgun
I love me my Cold Shoulder.
Quad explosive 25 lvc railway is just rediculous. it's the closest I've come to the Legacy dps.
It's still meta adjacent but I really enjoy enclave flamer rifles and auto rifles. Heavies have a bit more variety for me. Plasma caster, holy fire too. I have a ugl around too... and sometimes I bust out the gauss mini even though it's performance is a bit sad compared to other high end heavies.
Auto Pipe Rifle, don’t care if it’s weak, it’s just wonderful to me
Erandol syringer. That -25 damage resistance is awesome.
Just started using this the other day. This is something that everyone should be using on boss fights.