The Fat Man

[Arden]

...So, do you think that the Fat-Man more akin to a Davy Crockett in range and power would be acceptable? Or would that be overly powerful?

Yes, IF there has to be a nuclear weapon it should be something like the DC. But since that was a crew operated recoilless rifle the uses in game would be limited. More like a quest-related one shot experience than a portable nuke. Perhaps hearing rumours about it, then searching for and repairing it, then looking for a shell and hauling that to the gun and finally firing it at some SM or Talon camp.

 

[Yamu]

There was some speculation around the height of the atomic weapons boom that devices with a lower-than-tactical yield could be created with the use of Californium, which was supposed to have a far lower critical mass than the more commonly used fissionable elements. There was even talk of nuclear grenades. The technical difficulties and cost issues were never overcome, though, so there's really no info on how much smaller the explosion would have been. The idea for a fat man might have been serviceable on those grounds, but as has been said (most recently by Arden), they would have had to have taken the concept far more seriously and made the weapon much rarer (perhaps even unique) in order to have really pulled it off.

 

[BonusWaffle]

apparently with the still theoretical pure fusion nuclear technology you could create nuclear weapons small enough to be fired from a pistol.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

apparently with the still theoretical pure fusion nuclear technology you could create nuclear weapons small enough to be fired from a pistol.

I made that once with the GECK. It was silly.

 

[Makta]

apparently with the still theoretical pure fusion nuclear technology you could create nuclear weapons small enough to be fired from a pistol.

I made that once with the GECK. It was silly.

That sounds really silly.. Why not settle with a minigun!

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

apparently with the still theoretical pure fusion nuclear technology you could create nuclear weapons small enough to be fired from a pistol.

I made that once with the GECK. It was silly.

That sounds really silly.. Why not settle with a minigun!

I wasn't sure my computer would handle it

 

[Makta]

apparently with the still theoretical pure fusion nuclear technology you could create nuclear weapons small enough to be fired from a pistol.

I made that once with the GECK. It was silly.

That sounds really silly.. Why not settle with a minigun!

I wasn't sure my computer would handle it

A sniper then! That is what i call a tactical nuke

 

[NatureDruid]

As for the ammo, is there really that much of it? I never really look at what I pick up so I dunno if it's really that common.

There were about 72 mini-nukes in that wasteland.

 

[Hyddan92]

I don't think the fat man and the mini nukes was such a huge error in fallout NV, in fallout 3 though you actually got to much of it, as someone said beforeme; in both games it should be looked away somewere in a bunker or pre-war lab or something with only maybe maximum 10-15 mini nukes on the entire map.

And if the fat man is illogical? Yeah probably somewhat, altough it's probably technically possible to create such a weapon, and seeing as how those insane fucks before the war created a machine gun using the smell of a dog by using a dog brain attached to it, it sort of fits into the fallout universe.

But it should only be 1 or 2 fat mans in the entire map and not more then max around 10 mini nukes. They should be more powerful though, so you would be forced to use them from really long distances.

 

[berlin1945]

my biggest problem with the fat man is that it sucks. unless the enemy is standing five feet away from the blast, it does nothing. six feet away, the enemy just laughs and kills me. worthless.

 

[Atomic Postman]

On one hand, whilst it's fitting for the wacky Cold War shenanigans side of Fallout, I prefer nuclear weapons to be a thing of the distant past, gone for good but their effects still remaining. A lost horror that the people of the Wastes can only barely imagine.