Not to mention the added bonus of lighting enemies on fire who might happen to survive the first shot, with incendiary rounds. Of course, that would require Bethesda to re-introduce ammunition types in addition to the typical "'it go boom,' we've checked the box."

Yeah...I know...unlikely. It might actually be fun.

It might actually be incredible awesome and missed... ...

"entering service" is generally very vastly different from "development date"

the m16 rifle (the Ar platform style assault rifle that you said doesnt fit a 50s theme) was designed in 1956, didnt enter service with the military till 1963ish almost a decade after development

very very different as it was a 50s rifle so there for would suit aesthetics as was developed in the 50s but if you take the entered service date, in the 60s, would seem its outside 50s tech

its not

Also keep in mind fallout has a few modern weapons including the freaking p90 (something I waiting for mods or DLC to add)

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/P90c

Also decided to wiki search grenade launchers

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Grenade_launchers

By the looks of things the only time grenade launchers made it in was in New Vegas, Though there are some in fallout tactics but If I remember right only half of thats story is canon. Still makes me want grenade launchers more as they seem under used in the games.

also keep in mind the year of the great war 2077 with heavy tech, guess what a grenade launcher is really simple. Even before grenade launchers there where hand canons which acted the same way. a device to lob explosives has always existed just is strange that games like fallout ignore them.

Also any to bit crazy can make something like a crossbow designed to fling large things like grenades and rocks (I know some one who did it... thankfully dummy grenades)

Tell me about. I miss something like the 25mm grenade APW.


Fat Man? No thanks. Also, why this thing exists, in the first place?


Missile launcher is ok, but is too heavy for my taste.

My favorite explosive projectile weapon in any game!! I would hoard 25mm HE rounds just waiting for the opportunity to get my hands on one. THE weapon to stop a Legion assassin squad dead in their tracks...smoking, high explosive, limbs flying in all directions, chaotic, rapid-fire-semi-auto death. If any of them survived a magazine dump, they were more than likely crawling.

There certainly was none of this 'I'm just going to sit in cover until you come and get me' nonsense. Another sorely missed weapon.

Bethesda's answer to the problem? Gigantic, one shot heavies with a relatively few available rounds, that are super cumbersome, and take up a quarter of your carry weight--with their sole design basis being how good they "look" while wearing power armor.

Yeah, I for one, never use service entry dates in discussions, because most weapons we discuss on these forums were in development in the 50's and earlier, and hence are completely applicable, and beyond any real argument for inclusion, or re-inclusion, into the universe. When you present that to the "Oh, the AR doesn't belong in FO" crowd, you get the typical response from those who don't want conversations burdened with facts. I ignore them reciprocally.

Not that it really matters, in all honestly. The most popular rifle in NV, the Antimateriel Rifle (based on the French Hecate II), was actually developed and fielded in the 80's and 90's (...and there are others). Last I heard New Vegas was still a "canon" game. So, even bringing in weapons that are post-timeline split is not unheard of.

I particularly prefer that they fill the game with supposedly improbable weapons to this universe than to be finding the same pipe guns over and over and over and over again.

FWIW, when I said the AR didn't fit the FO aesthetic, I actually meant aesthetic. It doesn't really matter if Gene Stoner had a prototype kicking around his offices in the mid 50's. The "Tupperware Gun" M-16/AR platform is undeniably part of the 60's Vietnam era, not the Pleasantville mid-50's.

thing is the fallout series has things like the p90 smg which are from the 90s. as well as other weapons that are more modern. Also 3 and 4 are the only ones that stick with the 50's [censored]. while for looks it is good it sort of is not fallout.

How then that they used so much Fallout 3 content.

Still Fallout 2 had lots of weapons who did not fit in the settings of 1950 retrofuture like G11 and P90

Note that the energy weapons fits well in that setting of that they imagined weapons in 100 year would be.

Which is the real shame.

NV was a wonderful game that brought the tone and atmosphere of Fallout 2 into the Fallout 3 universe. It was a great blending of the games.

Obsidian also fixed a number of gameplay and storytelling problems that were there in Fallout 3. I wasn't expecting Fallout 4 to be NV2, but I was hoping that perhaps Bethesda would look at New Vegas and learn from it and take some positive lessons from it's style to merge with their own when making Fallout 4.