Your favorite Fallout 3 weapon

[MrBrightside919]

I'm quite fond of the plasma related weapons...

...too bad you can only get them near the end of the game

 

[Shynobee]

for me its a tough tie between nuka grenades, the shishkebab, and the AG31 plasma rifle.

The AG31 plasma rifle is the upgraded plasma rifle that you get from Harkness and with a high enough energy weapons skill can kill just about anything in one hit.

 

[Flour]

I thought it was an instant one-hit kill?

And I would have thought bringing dogmeat was a bad idea because he's weak to radiation (which the ship has a lot of around it), so he's likely to die....

The weapon has huge damage and will almost always get a critical hit, if you're playing on normal, it's a waste of ammo on anything but the Behemoths.
It's base damage is 100, a critical adds another 100 damage and it should always get a critical hit.

I've never found a lot of radiation around the crashed spaceship, maybe 5rads/sec when standing in the water around it and 1rad/sec in a large area around the ship. I could be wrong since I never really bothered with the weapon. Only getting it to get all weapons(excluding the Firelance) after I've completed the parts of the main quest I want.(while checking the GECK, the radiation has a maximum of 6rads/sec and that's when you're standing in the crashed ship)

(the ammo there, and the ammo you get from the encounter, about 200 total, is all the ammo in the game without any DLC or mods)

Actually, There's more. I found about 100 Alien Power Cells under a military truck that was in a huge crater. There's supposedly 2 or 3 more places that you can find them.

The great thing of having the game on the computer, is access to the GECK(construction set) and the ability to see where anything is located.

The two fixed places for ammo are the crashed ship and that crashed truck.

Spoiler: There is also this random encounter script that drops some ammo and the Firelance, this brings the total amount of Alien Power Cells to 420 if you can find them all.(10 shots per cell, 42 cells total)

scn FFEU08FallingObjectSCRIPT

float timer
short runTimer
short doOnce

begin gamemode
if doOnce == 0
placeatme FFEU08SmokeTrail
set doOnce to 1
endif

if getDisabled == 0 && doOnce == 1
set doOnce to 2
set runTimer to 1
set timer to .1
; place everything
FFEU08Marker2.placeatme AmmoAlienPowerCell 6
FFEU08Marker3.placeatme AmmoAlienPowerCell 6
FFEU08Marker4.placeatme AmmoAlienPowerCell 6
FFEU08Marker5.placeatme AmmoAlienPowerCell 6
FFEU08Marker2.placeatme WeapUniqueFirelance
endif

if runTimer == 1
if timer > 0
set timer to timer - GetSecondsPassed
else
set runTimer to 2
damageObject 50
endif
endif
end

 

[LewsTherin]

The Gatling Laser, a Chinese Officer Sword, and a .44. All you'll ever need. Oh, and a power fist.

 

[Kinguendo]

The FISTO! followed by the Railway Rifle... Both for comedy value.

 

[thebestaround21]

Ol' Painless and the PLasma rifle from the Android and the shotgun for long range-ish weapons and for melee the Super Sledge or Junder Plunkett's Valid Points.

 

[phatty500]

This thread has been done, and i have counted using the *cough* search bar *cough* exactly 9 times, NINE TIMES!

Yea! You have a fact! What should we do with it?

I feel like its justified that we do the thread at least once everytime a new DLC comes out.

cut

 

[Crazyshak48]

I have not yet played Broken Steel (so I may have to post an update to this) but my absolute favorite is the Burnmaster (the unique flamer). I'm a dedicated pyromaniac, so I use this against anything and everything (especially when I'm indoors). My other favorites are Lincoln's Repeater, the Blackhawk (the unique Scoped .44 Magnum), and the Vengeance Gatling laser.

 

[Ayrav]

Occam's Razor and Blackhawk for any regular mob, Bottle-cap mines for the behemoths. I didn't even touch another weapon through the whole game, most of my kills where done with the knife though. Nothing better then sneaking though the ruins of DC and knifing everyone, never gets old. Obviously I had to tweak all the melee weapons to accurately reflect their damage in the real world. Damn Bethesda for discounting someone would actually want to use a melee weapon.

Also, is it weird that I recreated my girlfriend in the game and tried to play through as though I where her? It made the game insanely immersive for me, she thought it was creepy.

 

[DCMan]

I am going to have to say the Railway Rifle. That thing is so freaking sweet. I love how it makes the train whistle sound after every shot. while it is a slow weapon, VATS makes it deadly at close range, usually allowing me to stick someone's head to anything close enough.

 

[Georg8]

Lincoln's Repeater.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

The scoped magnum and the simple revolver.

i'm with this guy. magnums for the win.

 

[You_have_a_name]

the best wepon is vengeance
but my favourite weapon is ol painless

 

[Kajt]

My favourite Fallout 3 weapon is Blackhawk. It's an upgrade from the Scoped 44. Magnum.
It does 55 DMG/Shot and 100 DPS.

 

[xxginsuxx]

Heres my list:

1. Tesla cannon(FTW)

2.Ol' Painless

3.A3-21's Plasma Rifle

4.The Man Opener

5.Gauss Rifle

6.Lever-Action Rifle

7.The Infiltrator

8.Jingwei's shocksword

9.Alien Blaster

10.Gatling Lazer

11.Fat Man

 

[zacaron]

plain old hunting rifle, nothing more fun then shooting at the residents of megaton watching them run down the ramps just following them with the iron sites before putting them out of there misery

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

the nailboard. I always keep one with me in case someone pisses me off

 

[Judgedread]

I loved Lincoln's Repeater it was an awesome rifle which did tons of damage and had 15 shots a clip and could be repaired with regular Hunting Rifles. Its only downside was that it required magnum ammo rather then rifle ammo.

Edit: It did 52 damage per shot and had 0.00 bullet spread.