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http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1516247-fallout-4-speculation-ideas-amd-suggestions-250/

The Fatman rifle should not have existed ~except in the same way as the howitzer in Fallout 2. In FO3, it should have been findable, but with no ammo at all. Later the PC may find a shell or have found the shell first, with no rifle.

The Fatman should have been a town killer like the megaton bomb.... I'd say that it should have replaced the megaton bomb, and that the effect they cooked up should have been for optional use on any location in the game, be it a town, or a junk pile, and have the ammo be at most two in the game.

As for the scarcity of conventional ammo... They are the ones that made it a shooter, yet it lacks the basic conventions to make a superior one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q6UQ2QlRH0

I would hope that future FO titles take this a bit more to heart if they have them and plan on continuing this shooter style. Prior to FO3, the Fallout series respected nuclear weapons; after FO3, the series doesn't seem to respect anything, and doesn't even take itself seriously; so how can we?

@Synthoras:

Dr Zimmer looks down on the rest of the Commonwealth. That doesn't mean there are no organizations. He calls it a 'war-ravaged quagmire of violence and despair'.

The very fact that it is referred to as 'The Commonwealth' makes some kind of overarching, unifying identity very plausible.