Seldome Used Weapons

[Moraelin]

Hmm, underused...

 

Well, for a start, most ranged weapons in the game. I've been making a lot of swords and such for FO3 and NV, which probably tells you something about my play style. I've even used shuriken rather than a gun when playing a ninja character. It lets me nail Cook Cook or some Deathclaw from a safe-ish distance, without resorting to something as loud as a gun :P

 

Or lightsabers. I've been having more fun than I should, slicing people with a double-bladed red lightsaber, Darth Maul style :P

 

Well, that's about half the time or so.

 

And then comes, well, most of the ranged guns in the vanilla game. I guess a side-effect of being able to scratch my own itch, is that by now I have a lot of my own ranged weapons too, so I kinda end up using those more than the vanilla ones. Partly because I want to test them, and partly because most of them were scratching an itch I was actually having. Like, I want a streamline moderne design for a laser, I make one, then I use it happily ever after. I want to blow up people at a distance, I whip out me ol' pal, Vladimir, or as I came to call it lately, "the crazy Russian."

 

I guess though that even without being a modder, one can find enough weapons around here, to be able to play a dozen times over while still being able to claim with a straight face that the answer to "Seldom Used Weapons" is really "every single vanilla weapon." :P

Edited May 15, 2012 by Moraelin

[Ruadhan2300]

Previously I've stuck primarily with my own Compact Laser Pistol and Scarab Laser Rifle

 

I later moved on to shotguns and silenced handguns, my current loadout is a peculiar hodgepodge of energy weapons, shotguns and silenced weapons :P

I'm using the Honest Hearts .45 caliber handgun, with all weapon-mods (particularly the silencer) as a primary weapon, while also carrying a Psychic Blaster, Tesla rifle and Nuka Rifle

 

For weapons I don't tend to use much...explosives in general. not particularly because I have a problem with them, just that I don't find them weight/effectiveness balanced. too heavy for what I get.

I generally use my ownThe Paradox scoped/silenced 12ga shotgun as a sniper weapon as well as a delivery system for Frag 12 rounds.

That's more or less where my routine use of explosives ends. Though anyone who's looked closely at my mod-selection will realise I have a LOT of options there...(outside of the vanilla explosives, I also have Archimedes 1, Frag-12, The Lamprey mini missile launcher, at least three or four of the weapons in Mad Science, the Plasma Launcher and the Tesla Caster, And that's just the ones I've released)

 

The ones I REALLY don't use are Missile launchers and Fat-Man Nuclear catapults.

Too much firepower, not enough massed enemies to make it worth using the VERY rare ammo.

 

My favourite rarely used weapon though has to be the 25mm Grenade Machinegun.

An incredibly solid weapon, utterly crushes just about anything that isn't actually flying...but profoundly awkward to aim at distant targets reliably unless they're downhill from you.

I generally give it to companions, they've got the AI to handle it and that frees me from having to care about the huge ammo storage space I need for that :P

One of my more recent projects has been outfitting the Sentry Bots with 25mm GMgs....the results are less than stellar since the AI tends to sit around doing sod-all for no apparent reason rather than peppering me with enough grenades to blow all my arms and legs off...but when it does start shooting, it reliably kills whatever it's aiming at.

 

As for melee...outside of a few custom weapons I've made, I don't use melee much at all. Occasionally I use a powerfist of some sort, and I sometimes use a sword, but I don't recall ever even seeing the boxing gloves outside of my "find all the unique weapons" personal quest.