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So watching one of the leaked videos (I know! my will is weak, my hype train is off the rails!!!) the one thing I noticed, is that the laser rifle actually had a sense of power and oomph to every shot, whereas before is was just pew pew pew with no real feedback or recoil which was the biggest reason I didn't care for them.

Seeing the Laser Rifle in action makes me more than a little excited to try out the new energy weapons and have them actually feel like weapons instead of laser pointers that do damage.

Anyone else think the change is a good one or do you prefer the low recoil/sound of Fo3 and NV energy weapons?

Yea i love the new sounds it makes it sound like getting hit by the lazer rifle hurts now

It also LOOKS like getting hit by the laser rifle hurts now too. It was doing some hefty damage to those super mutants.

Funny. First thing I noticed with the laser rifle was the lack of a rear sight. So silly.

Yeah it looked, sounded, and felt much more like a gun. I inherently don't like energy weapons since they screw with my whole sneaky-sniper build, but I could see myself building a high perception, high endurance laser tank.

He's got to be playing on easy....

THey did some hefty dmg to dogmeat poor guy he was wimpering and trying to stand up i was like noooooooo help poor dogmeat!!!!!!!!

With the new crafting system you can build a plasma or laser sniper rifle.

Oh beleive me I WILL

Ah, but can we finally make silenced energy weapons? I hope so...

Really? I didn't like the new sounds at all, sounded more like a 9mm than a laser rifle to me. Looks much more impactful though.

I dunno. It looked like they were going for more of a guttersnipe sight. The improved sights will probably be more reminiscent of traditional rifle sights.

I liked that in the videos released by Bethesda, the laser weapons seemed like they were fully automatic (or at least they could be modded to be). I never saw a fully automatic laser weapon other than the Gatling Laser in previous fallout installments.

I also noticed the awesome laser sounds OP. Glad you posted this.

Yeah, with the new crafting system, you take a base weapon, and can modify it to be what you want. Take a laser pistol, and turn in into a full auto shotgun, or a sniper rifle, or whatever.