The feeling of the hunting rifle in f3 was awesome.

One of my favorite guns for trash and raiders.

Never liked it in nv, the sweet feeling was gone.

I felt the same way about NV's Combat Shotgun. Shotgun ammo was rare to find unless you made it yourself, and it didn't have the same "apply it directly to your forehead, MFer" feel FO3's did. I was disappoint.

Personally I like bolt weapons because it adds a extra demand to be good, any Joe and there mom can win a firefight with a auto weapon, but it takes skill to master the rhythm of a bolt weapon, especially if ya unscrew the scope and get on close.

Meh, it's whatever gets the job done. I'm an RPer in these games. Not so much concerned on my gamer skill, but using the tools I have on hand to my advantage with mild personal preference. If I like handguns, but am out of ammo, I'll rock an SMG in a pinch if the heat gets too hot. And I hate SMGs

Well good thing I rp a character who also likes the challenge ;3

More power to you.

My angle is just living to see another day in a wild west I'm not accustomed to. I'm the fish out of water, the rest of the waseland is the alpha predator. The Desire for Challenge comes when he has tempered himself, and accepted the Wasteland and it's dangers.

Yaah, moddable hunting rifle ftw!

And now I'm mortally afraid of Raider Psychos! Geezuz...

I just hope it's a bit more improved and a far more viable choice mid to late game compared to the offering we had in 3, even ol'painless was underwhelming especially on the higher difficulties.

If it's improved, which I think it will be due to them focusing on customization on a moderate-ish sounding quota of weapons then I'll probably use it quite a lot until I start dabbling with energy weapons later.

I'm excited that there is now different classes of Raiders. Should make for more interesting encounters.

Your not a filthy energy peasant my good man, we are the energy weapon master race!

Really excited to see the hunting rifle being so moddable. Just makes me more excited for so much depth in the weapon mods

Nice, used this all the time in both f3 and fnv. My big hope is for scopes; that we can choose different optics for the same gun. I think it was the trail rifle scopes optics that I hated and kept me using the scoped hunting rifle.

Awww...I'm kinda saddened by the fact it's no longer the beat up wooden hunting rifle i've come to know though I'm sure we'll get an option for wood enthusiasts. Plus it better use .308, the .32 version from FO3 was pretty useless.

http://i.imgur.com/AvQ1CVg.jpg

Alright thats pretty great. +1

Rail guns, [censored] yeah!

I really like the Gauss rifle - because it knocks things down.

And while they're knocked down they can't shoot, stab, incinerate, plasma, bite, claw, fold, spindle, mutilate or any of the other hundred bad things I've had done to me.

And usually about the time they're starting to get back up I've reloaded.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

The Hunting Rifle with .32 ammo in FO3 was fine. It is used by many players as their standard gun for the entire game (for all prey except the toughest). Super Mutants and Raiders also use it throughout. It certainly doesn't need to be .308 ammo when there is the sniper rifle for that.

Regardless this is not a gun smithing RPG, so it doesn't matter what details are offered in the art, especially since this is a fictional universe with many different sci-fi standards than our world.

I actualy used the Cristine's COS rifle for most of the time, probaly because i left for OWB before Hunting Rifles became common in the Mojave wasteland level wise. I did switch alot between it, and the AMR for more heavily armored targets, like combat droids and Super Mutants. (PS: and Deathclaws)

Not to be a negative Nancy, but I am hoping it also isn't demonstrating that armor critters use will scale with you. Think Oblivion bandits wearing daedric or etc.

Hmm, the Hunting Rifle was ok earlier in the games but I always tended toward the Sniper Rifle or M72 Gauss Rifle. When the Gauss Rifle became an energy weapon I pretty much stopped using it. I found that the M72 Gauss Rifle was the best weapon for stopping any armoured enemy in FO2 and it had a huge range.

Agreed. Throw a scope on that rifle (and the extra mag clip) and that rifle was gold. Easy to repair, light, and deadly against any human (and most ghouls). The only time I broke out the anti-material was for Deathclaws and big mutants. The other staple in my gear was the Hunting Shotgun. Nothing, except the Riot Shotgun, is better for close range killing.

I hope all 3 weapons are available n game.

The Hunting Rifle is pretty much the best weapon in both games. The .32 in Fallout 3 is acquired early on, and will serve as a faithful companion throughout the entire game. Its ammo is common, and with the bolt-action you conserve so much ammo by being tempered by cycling the bolt as opposed to spraying with automatic weapons. The only time it loses its lustre is when you come up against broken steel enemies in vanilla, but then I find that to be such a bad move that I got a nerf off the nexus that makes them a lot more sane.

The .308 in New Vegas I think may be the best weapon in any game. Notice that I said, "best", and not "most powerful". The bolt-action once again makes it supremely balanced, sure you could go with the survivalist rifle and completely trivialize combat, but the hunting rifle makes combat actually fun by adding challenge. Once again the bolt-action makes you give thought to each shot, and combine that with the .308 being common once you pass the linear training wheels act 1 of the game and you've got a weapon that comes down to your skill in using it, not feeding it with .45-70s or 12.7mm rounds to make it do your fighting for you.

If Fallout 4 is anything like the previous games, the hunitng rifle will be one of the best weapons around. Maybe it wont melt your enemies like a Brush Gun or that androids unique plasma rifle, but it makes combat the most fun.

Thats getting into the gameplay/mechanics terms of why the hunting rifle is one of my favourites, not even mentioning the whole roleplay brains of the bolt-action being outdated in the real world but extremely good for the apocalpytic world, alongside just how much style ti has compared to the latest plasma rifle from the old world or the automatic assault rifles I would usually prefer in straight FPS games.

It had a box mag go in the bottom of the receiver. Where there was no hole for it.

Considering that power armor doesn't look to be armor anymore but more of a humanoid-shaped vehicle with its own set of tiers, I'm sure it won't be a problem. I'm betting that power armored raiders have crappy armor plates if they're salvageable at all, and odds are that you have to trash the power armor to kill the wearer anyway.

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