What weapon makes you feel like a total badass when you use it?

I've been playing with A Light Shining In Darkness lately and that IS a pretty cool weapon. A character with 10 Agility, Rapid Reload and Fast Shot could be an absolute beast just with that gun alone. The only downside to that is the spread might be kinda bad. Dunno why but I just love the speed of that gun though. It's a shame my build is more suited for Lucky; Lucky's great in it's own rights (DEFINITELY prefer the easy-to-find .357 ammo to the ridiculous .45 auto that has to be bought and weighs a fair sum), but I do miss the rapid reload speed of Light.

EDIT: Also something else I wanna know is which weapon do you consider the most practical? If I told you you could only leave the house with one gun on hand and your goal was to pick a gun that could handle every situation, which would it be?

Whenever I use Oh, Baby! I feel like supreme ruler of the universe of badassness. The satisfying gore sound of the Legionnaire's skull popping as I blast his head into little pieces is oh so soothing.

The Police Pistol hands down is an epic gun. :disguise:

Light Shining in Darkness or .45 pistol without the silencer is the weapon makes me feel a badass in this game. Nothing like killing Vet Rangers, BOS Paladins, and Centurions using nothing but these pistols to take them down.

I always love a good shotgun. And Obsidian did especially well with it in New Vegas (buckshot, slugs, bean-bag rounds).
It makes me feel great. Not like a baddass, more like a professional. I'm actually hunting [censored] with a decent hunting shotgun.

Baddass is when I pump my veins sh[censored] full of Turbo, rip out that riot shotgun and just blast the dire-hell out of all them [censored]ers at Lakelurk Cove. Yeahhhhhh eat it!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

Switch to secondary.

BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!!



And the bastards still surround me. But it's okay as I have three minutes of turbo time! Yeah!

Fatman. As an Explosive/Heavy Weapons kind of character, this bad boy really lights the fire on any high level opponents, including masses of Deathclaws, making packs of them nothing but dust. Sure ammo is 'scarce' and you can only hold maybe 3-4 at max in hardcoe mode, but hey...it only takes one to end them all.

another fav that makes me want to yell out "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! WAAAAAAAHHH!!!" is The Avenger Minigun. Idk why people were complaining about it on the wikia, for it small capacity, when it downright murders everything in a blink of an eye. "it cant kill many things before reload" is a bunch of bull crap. I managed to murder 5 Deathclaws in a row with "Sasha" with armor piercing arounds and 100 guns, and with Trigger Discipline, Im sniping them from mountain tops as If im in a real chopper. LOL

finally....Mercy....nuff said.

Silenced 40. Auto.

I feel like the female version of James Bond...

Wanna add another question onto this:

Would you guys consider your "badass" weapon the most practical?

I mentioned Light, but really, why carry it? Yeah it's amazing DPS for a pistol, but there are weapons with superior DPS and range (the Survivalist's Rifle) that don't require an odd ammo type. (.45 Auto is a pain to find as it will never drop from anything or anyone: what you have in your pocket when you leave home is all you're getting)

I really enjoy that gun, but I think my Brush gun is still my most practical gun by far. Good damage per shot (Cowboy and Hand Loader ammo turns this into an AMR), good damage per second, good range and the only downside is the reload can be slow, though you CAN interrupt the reload process early if you want.

Practical - not always.


My character build needs chems to be baddass (especially turbo). Fortunately that OWB perk gives me limitless amounts of turbo but I need other chems to deal absorb the damage (I roll with light armour, hardcoe mode).

Without chems my girlie is dead and thus not baddass.

For practical?

Hmmmm...

Lucky, That Gun, my fully modded Laser rifle, or...no...the fully modded laser rifle. I LOVE IT! Especially because I feel like a better sniper then Boone when I turn someone to ash.

Hey, alive is alive.

I play Dead is Dead and I've had two "badass" characters die. One was an NCR playthrough, the other was Legion. The NCR playthrough was badass because he was experienced with every gun, had a build that made VATS useful, had INCREDIBLE offensive capabilities (AMR, Riot shotgun with shotgun surgeon and And Stay Back, Light with Grunt and hand loader ammo, Survivalist's Rifle) and reloaded quick as possible. Ended up dying because, ironically, a gun jammed while reloading.
The other, a Legionnaire, was an expert in unarmed and melee combat, but also had a hunting rifle for range. Anything that got within three feet of him? Dead. I also kicked the Turbo habit for this character, not using drugs or meds, relying only upon my own cunning and food items. This character felt badass because he was strong: my NCR character would be nothing without his guns or meds, but this character could survive without anything but his fists. I also had to really think and use every resource I had, and EVERY shot had to count. I think my accuracy was at it's highest while playing this character. Killed Chief Hanlon without a death, killed the President without failure, regularly killed NCR Ranger vets to steal their AMRs. But one day I had about 75-85% maximum health and an NCR ranger vet got a headshot crit with an AMR. Had he used Turbo, Med-x, Slasher or stimpacks, he could've survived that.

My only living character is my Courier Six, who has talents everywhere. Mysterious Stranger and Lady Luck following him, Paralyzing Palm but no Super Slam, Rapid Reload and Gunslinger but no other accuracy bonuses, Fast Shot and Heavy Handed, Cowboy and Hand Loader ammo, with the only two consistencys of him being that I have the vast majority of the Luck/Endurance perks. Compared to the others, this character can feel boring. He's a jack of all trades but king of none, and yet he's the one to survive.

That's sorta why I asked if everyone's badass weapon was also their most practical: My Courier Six may not feel like the most badass character when he uses a thrown-together strategy of Slasher + Turbo + Brush gun + Pushy + Stims + Bloatfly miniburgers rather than an absolutely devistating assault with just Light or a Ballistic fist alone, but by the end of the day he's the one that's still kicking.

Assault Carbine probably strikes the best balance of practicality vs. badassness. The ammo is found easily and in large quantities, damage output is fine (especially with Grunt), armor mitigation is excellent and requirements are low. If it could be fixed with Varmint rifles it'd be perfect.

A Single Shotgun. Awwww yeah. :disguise:

Hunting shotgun extended tube.

Christenes Sniper Rifle....

Goodbye heads....

Still love the Holorifle. It's a critical machine.