Best Weapons To Use Against Frank Horrigan

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DwayneGAnd

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Recently I beat Fallout 2 with a small guns character who took fast shot and gifted traits. I had two endgame weapons used for different situations, the Gauss Pistol to conserve ammo for my other weapon, and the H & K G11E for tougher foes, taking both levels of Bonus Ranged Damage to increase its damage.

Sadly however, even both weapons failed to inflict impressive damage on Frank Horrigan, even with the sniper perk and 10 Luck. Even at close range, the H & K G11e inflicted unimpressive damage. Ultimately, I had to resort to using the presidential card to hack the turrets to take him down.

I've read online that there are three weapons that are capable of killing him in a single combat turn with the right perks without action point boosting drugs. One of them is the Bozar and another is the Vindicator Minigun, yet I can't find out what the third weapon is.

What are the best weapons to use against the end game boss to inflict as much damage as possible in a single attack? And does anyone know what that third weapon is?
 
This one time I had built this dude call fistymickfist an did stuff like bruiser and that othe stuff around punchin dude out I got so power that I Coould one punch guy and they do slidey slidey oblong the ground until they hit a wall.
 
Fun Fact,
You can layer the ground with explosives and leave them there before the fight. When you come back Frank will just be standing on them and you can just make him go boom.

I really enjoyed how they let you think outside the box on this one.
 
Einhanderc7 said:
Fun Fact,
You can layer the ground with explosives and leave them there before the fight. When you come back Frank will just be standing on them and you can just make him go boom.

I really enjoyed how they let you think outside the box on this one.
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Wait, does that include grenades?

Or just TNT/C4?
 
But in order to arm the explosives you have to walk up to them, right? Or do you shoot the explosives?
 
In a "fair" fight, I'd say the best and the easiest option is Vindicator Minigun, with crit. bonuses it can kill Horrigan in one turn. Or Two. Rate of fire is much higher than H&K G11.
 
0wing said:
In a "fair" fight, I'd say the best and the easiest option is Vindicator Minigun, with crit. bonuses it can kill Horrigan in one turn. Or Two. Rate of fire is much higher than H&K G11.
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Literally any gun can fuck up Horrigan.

Get sniper perk, aim for the eyes.

Bam, he can barely hit you.

Cripple his arms, now he can't shoot.

Cripple his legs, now he can't reach you.

Hit him in the groin, make him kneel, etc.
 
0wing said:
The question was about the most effective (and so, fastest) way of killing Frank. With literally-any-gun you'd poke him in the eyes for decades.
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You'd be surprised, even something as mundane as the humble plasma rifle downs him pretty easily.

Yet alone pulse rifle headshots and minigun crit salvos.
 
Hassknecht said:
But in order to arm the explosives you have to walk up to them, right? Or do you shoot the explosives?
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(If I remember correctly you can obtain a detonator somewhere) *Edit, the detonator I was thinking of isn't for that. however one could set a crazy long timer (3min) and plan the timing out which wouldn't be that difficult. Just do everything before you start the trigger to spawn Frank, then run back plant and time them and quickly take care of it. Come back talk to frank and KABOOM!

We need someone to try this! Anyone got a close enough save to give it a shot with a crap ton of Dynamite and Plastic?
 
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Einhanderc7 said:
(If I remember correctly you can obtain a detonator somewhere) *Edit, the detonator I was thinking of isn't for that. however one could set a crazy long timer (3min) and plan the timing out which wouldn't be that difficult. Just do everything before you start the trigger to spawn Frank, then run back plant and time them and quickly take care of it. Come back talk to frank and KABOOM!

We need someone to try this! Anyone got a close enough save to give it a shot with a crap ton of Dynamite and Plastic?
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You could always edit in dynamite and stuff.

Can you use super stimpacks on him?
 
I think I'm going to need to make some changes to my planned builds to include at least one weapon that can deal good damage to Frank Horrigan if I don't want to depend on just the turrets.
 
Pulse rifle (or plasma rifle) or gauss rifle should do the trick. Aimed shots to the eyes and you're golden. Although you might want to try and cripple just plasma gatling first.
 
DwayneGAnd said:
I've read online that there are three weapons that are capable of killing him in a single combat turn with the right perks without action point boosting drugs. One of them is the Bozar and another is the Vindicator Minigun, yet I can't find out what the third weapon is.
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The pipe rifle. Duh ;-)
 
YeeCop said:
The pipe rifle. Duh ;-)
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Very funny!

What if I've taken the fast shot perk and can't make targeted shots? Maybe the Bozar or Vindicator minigun.

I tried the Gauss Rifle in past playthroughs as a small guns only combat character, didn't do much good for critical damage.
 
Yeah, take the Bozar or Vindicator. Or maybe the laser gatling. It's not really all that complicated. Any end-game weapon will do.
 
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