LogFAQs > #962701327

Yeah, the ballistic weapon designs are...not great. Energy weapons aren't anything to write home about either. The only one that kicks ass in form and function is the Gatling Laser, and that's hampered by A) being rare as hell, and B) clogging up your inventory with half-spent Fusion Cores every time you reload. And the melee and unarmed selection was just depressing. On one hand, I can appreciate that they took a more scrapped-together approach to weapon design, but on the other, I'd much rather be using a sleek FO3 / NV-era Super Sledge than FO4's busted-ass model. The DLC at least gave melee a couple juicy new options, but holy cow was unarmed left out in the cold in this game. And don't even get me started on Pipe weapons, I'd rather run out of ammo and fight with my bare fists than use those at any point in the game.

Once I downloaded the excellent Wattz Laser Rifle mod, It quickly became apparent that for the vast majority of my playtime I'd all but thumbed my nose entirely to vanilla weapons and was just using three variants of the same mod weapon (a sniper Wattz for long-range combat, the unique Enclave Wattz with plamsa shots for mid-range, and an Institute Wattz w/ beam splitter for close-range).