Do the plasma gun stats seem really messed up to anyone else?

With the sniper plasma, both accuracy and range claim to be really high, much higher than my sniper rifle. But testing this in vats it does not seem to hold true. Especially with head and limb shots. When hip firing the plasma rifle it often is off target.. especially if you are aiming downwards. In one instance, targeting a mine in vats showed a 95% chance of hitting it.. the plasma rifle missed every time.

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When looking at the stats in modding the plasma gun.., Sniper, Splitter and Short Barrel all show a fire rate of 33. However, with my AP of 165.. with sniper I get 3 shots, splitter I get 2 shots and short barrel I get 5 shots. So they obviously do not all have a fire rate of 33.

Using a scope with it is horrible. It wobbles all over the place... unlike the .50. I thought maybe it had to do with weight but the .50 weighs twice as much as the plasma... sooo that doesn't make sense either.

I had a spell where I used that one that the Brotherhood tool gives you, Righteous Indignation or whatever it's called . . . I tricked it out and renamed it "Presario." I found that to be fairly effective . . . but then that is a laser not a plasma, eh? Mainly I just used it to get a feel for the laser weapons. I've always been a shotgun and sniper rifle type . . .

I do have a plasma I have modded up though. I'll play with that a bit and see what I think. I'll be playing with it as a CQB weapon (well, "close" in the sense of "under 150m") not with a scope though.

I have some sort of legenday .50 caliber that I use as a sniper rifle and I honestly suspect my .308 pipe rifle was more effective

So far the best version of it for me seems to be a short barrel, reflex sighted rifle. Plenty of damage output and a lot of shots in vats. It's a good close to mid range weapon.. so I can use my sniper rifle for sniping and the plasma rifle for a carry around while running stupidly through the city.

I've only used the sniper mod on it but use it as just a normal rifle with a reflex scope for the sake of damage. Pretty lame there isn't just a long barrel mod for it like for laser weapons.

I feel there is just a lack of modification for it altogether and plasma weapons got shafted again.

I noticed there is a "flame thrower" mod for the plasma weapon though. That sounds alluring

I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed how bodies of those unfortunate enough to have died by immolation have that distinctive "charcoal briquet" look?

Pretty hardcoe . . .