Help me understand the weapons in FO4

I had completely forgotten about the silly weapon that expelled radiation in bursts. Considering its output as a weapon the best you could really do with it is make your enemy very sick over time, which won't stop them from killing you.

Who thought this was a good idea? "I know! lets make a gun to make everyone shot by it feel like garbage!" The only reason why a weapon like this exists in this game is because BGS retconned how radiation works in the first place.

Its almost as if they had completely forgot that radiation takes time to kill....

Also BGS why did you feel the need to revamp how radiation works?
 
Finally, a place to sound my complaints!
While I never liked Energy weapons to begin with, I'd love to see logic-influenced improvements in the future to help with the appeal of such weaponry.
If I were to suggest anything, a simple idea would be to turn Laser guns into long-range flamethrowers, burning away in concentrated focus with a percentage-based magazine system, with heavier weapons converting more Cells into smaller percentages when loaded, a complete reprograming of the weapons would be a delight.
(I have no comments for Plasma though)
 
Eugh.

Remember when radiation actually had stages in fallout?...Instead of just lowering your max HP until you ingest something to wash it out?...

I remember...

Hell, remember when radiation wasn't all over the place? So it actually was threatening when the glow would kill you in a few minutes?
 
Hassknecht said:
Eh, wouldn't want to bring physics into this. The lasers in Fallout are usually red, and there are no real high power lasers in that wavelength. Especially not gas lasers (only Krypton and He-Ne lasers are red gas lasers). HeNe lasers are notoriously ineffecient, it's impossible to make them high powered. The only high power gas lasers are CO and CO2 lasers, and those emit at ~2.6µm and 10.6µm respectively, way in the infrared spectrum.
And even then it's mostly pointless to eject the gain medium after every shot, it can be cooled and recycled unless you want to carry a bottle of purified laser gas next to your heavy batteries :D
Weaponised red lasers would either be diode lasers or the hilariously inefficient ruby laser (which is probably what they were going for, the classic "lasers are red!" trope, which is actually quite untrue. I work with lasers and design laser systems, and of the dozens of laser systems that we have in our company I don't think we have a single red laser except laser pointers and maybe an HeNe laser for calibration or something).
If anything, the recoil could come from the rapidly heated and ionised air directly in front of the "muzzle", expanding and pushing back against the gun. But it wouldn't a lot of recoil.
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Noted, will be poking you on laser-related matters for my own fiction, hope you don't mind ;)
 
Saocao said:
Finally, a place to sound my complaints!
While I never liked Energy weapons to begin with, I'd love to see logic-influenced improvements in the future to help with the appeal of such weaponry.
If I were to suggest anything, a simple idea would be to turn Laser guns into long-range flamethrowers, burning away in concentrated focus with a percentage-based magazine system, with heavier weapons converting more Cells into smaller percentages when loaded, a complete reprograming of the weapons would be a delight.
(I have no comments for Plasma though)
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I will have to disagree.
Flamethrowers usually use some kind of liquid fuel (for example Napalm) and usually that liquid fuel contains gasoline or other oil derivative. Since the resource war happened because there was not much oil left in the world(the USA even stop using helicopters, tanks and airplanes because it run out of fuel for them) and armies all over the world were developing energy weapons (laser and plasma) because it would use energy ammo instead of relying on the old wasteful ammunition. I don't see them having enough fuel for making so many "long-range flamethrowers" when the laser weapons were purposefully made to save resources and were a priority of weapon research by the USA.
 
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