Hey Guys! I was wondering, what are all of your favorite holdout weapons? The must be usable without 60 sneak skill. Have fun, and feel freee to discuss on this thread :biggrin:

"Have fun, and feel freee to discuss on this thread"

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Well it's down to about six weapons, all of which are crap. .22 for most characters, because it's the only gun, and knife for melee.

By the way, it's 50 Sneak, not 60.

Throwing Kinfe or Lucky, depends if you want to be quite or not.

Police Pistol from DM. Nuff said :gun:

Love and Hate, with some silver sting applied.

Knuckles, Knives or thrown weapons as holdouts.
Not really needed however, just walk in and say.
"take my guns!, take my guns!! over my freedom lovin buttocks!!!!". then shoot everyone in a suit with a weapon.
It's a carthartic experience, and saves time too.

best weapon? Your pipboy 3000.

Courier:"Hit Me!"
Dealer: "22! You bust sir."
Courier: " AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH" *Foams at Mouth*
Courier: *Whacks dealer upside the head* YES! I DID Bust. I BUSTED YOUR [censored] HEAD!

wtf lol?

Wow....was the snide remark REALLY necessary?

I give Valerie "Love and Hate", she pretty much takes everyone out for me

I like Maria & or Mysterious Magnum. Lucky is good early on in the game but sort of becomes useless when you get Mysterious Magnum with SWC handload.

I'll have to check, but I'm sure I snuck in my fully modded 10mm. Such a sweet weapon.

One of my favorites....particularly because of being silenced. I also like Lucky. Cool looking and a very good critical hit chance.

All of my playthroughs so far I have at least 50 sneak when I get up to entering casinos, but I wonder if "Maria", the unique 9mm Browning handgun can be snuck in at lower then 50 sneak. Above a 50 I always manage to get it into a casino if I have it anyway.

The mysterious magnum is the best holdout weapon !

Figaro

Knuckle sandwiches are my specialty.

I once went psycho on benny' crew with a straight razor.
No experience with figaro, however it must be a beast with an operatic name like that.

Curse you Martyr! Stop making sig worthy posts. :swear:

Police pistol

Another vote for the "Love and Hate" spiked knuckles. Good damage, fast attack speed, takes advantage of all the awesome unarmed-related perks, and doesnt require 50 sneak to get it into casinos. I always pick it up when i play an unarmed character.

No cause if you build your character for criticals (high luck , perks like finesse , better crits , built to destroy etc ) , Lucky has a Much higher critical chance than the Mysterious magnum (even without Perks , Lucky has more than double critical chances ) .

Also at closer ranges , Lucky use less AP in VATS and for medium range , it is clearly more accurate than the Mysterious Magnum as it has almost twice less spread .

I love the Mysterious Magnum , it deals a lot of damage with SWC ammo , it's excellent in 1vs1 , but i still prefer Lucky for all round use , it's also lighter and cheaper to maintain

Uh, I may be wrong, but I think I have just noticed that there is no holdout weapon for Energy weapon users??

They really do hate energy weapons over there at Obsidian.

EWs have the Laser Pistol, Plasma Pistol, and Pew-Pew for holdout weapons. All three of these require 50+ sneak to do so, though. Not really that bad, considering the only conventional gun thats a holdout weapon below 50 sneak is the .22 silenced pistol, which IME, is worthless.

Complete list of holdouts (tested by me, today * indicates unique version included):

Sneak <50
Brass Knuckles
Knife
Silenced .22 Pistol
Spiked Knuckles*
Straight Razor*
Switchblade
Throwing knife

Sneak >50
All of the above
.357 Magnum*
.44 Magnum*
10mm Pistol*
9mm Pistol*
c-4
Combat Knife*
Cleaver*
Dynamite/long fuse dynamite
All grenades
Hatchet
Laser Pistol*
Lead Pipe*
Plasma Pistol
Power Fist
Ripper
Sawed-off Shotgun (NOT Boomer)
Tire Iron
Police Baton

I had all in game files weapons in my inventory and set my sneak w/the console. When I first went in with 50, the Police Baton was not there, only after I went in with 100 sneak. But then I set it back to 50 and it showed up. :confused: Also, note that regular sawed off shotgun went through, but Boomer did not, in spite of the wiki listing. Went into the Tops.

-Gunny out.