So what I can gather from this discussion and my use of it as one of my characters' "signature weapons" is bottom line the Bozar can do everything well, but nothing superiorly. It's a jack of all trades but a master of none.

To me, that AA-12 looks too clean for Fallout, I'd still take it over the jackhammer.

That's not the problem.

The problem is that the Anti-Materiel Rifle can deal an average of ~880 damage in a single sneak attack headshot, so there's no need to fire more than one round when sniping. Other sniper rifles do lower damage, but higher crit rate and faster firing rate; you lose out on the ability to one shot anything, but the firing rate and crit rate give you superior mid-range performance and don't quite demand a headshot from you. The Bozar? There's no reason to use it. A Sneak attack headshot crit from it will deal ~72 damage and the other bullets just do the basic 19. It's a poor sniper.

On the other hand, it's inferior to the LMG damage-wise. So you're basically gimping yourself for close-range by using it instead of the standard LMG.

Then there's always mid-range, but even there it's usefulness is questionable. Medicine Stick, K9000, Assault Carbine, All American, Survivalist's Rifle....ALL of those are good mid-range options, and even so, mid-range generally means you need a gun that's decent at both close- and long range; it's not so much a stand-alone range.


The result is you have a gun that specializes in absolutely nothing and gets out-classed by someone in absolutely everything.
The only real category remaining is "best all-around gun," for a hypothetical situation where you can only carry ONE rifle, perhaps for roleplaying purposes. I think General Masters said his successful DID playthrough was done relying almost exclusively on the LMG, so it's quite possible, but again, I dunno if the scope would be worth losing all the LMG's extra damage. The problem there is that the Survivalist's Rifle and Cowboy repeater/Trail Carbine/Brush Gun/Medicine Stick are absolutely beast candidates of that category, and you'd have to save up a large sum of money before you could even GET the Bozar. The Bozar's cheap ammunition is offset by it's incredible pricetag, aswell.

Well, i'm a guy that chooses his equipment based on how it looks rather than how it perfoms :hehe:

Which is why i've never used 9mm SMG or the Plasma Caster :blush:

OK. I'm with you on that. The plasma caster is fugly.

-Gunny

First not everyone sneaks around, or they have nerfed the heck out of sneak attack crits - like I did.

Seconds, nothing is stoping you from using both the Bozar and LMG. Can butcher any encounter with those two guns. Like Josh said - the Bozar is for straight up mag dump into a target. Not the most effiecient, but really caps are a non issue past level 10. Throw in the 25MM APW and you are king of the wastes. No sneaking either - run and gun.

The Cowboy weapons start to lose the effectiviness the instant you have to reload. The Survuvalist really struggles against high DT targets. The Bozar/LMG do not have that problem. High DT targets get AP rounds, low dt targets get HP rounds.

I never did like the Bozar. Horrible weapon in my opinion, running around with a LMG & a Sniper Rifle (both with hand load rounds) is far easier.

Looks FTW!

Indeed. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197988732882/screenshot/649870345922249927?tab=public :hehe: