The range displayed in your pipboy is the maximum range of your weapon and shooting from beyond maximum range will reduce your damage by 50%.

All weapons also have a minimum range and shooting from inside that range will do full damage.

Between minimum and maximum range the damage will scale from 100% to 50% linear to the distance.

You can measure your range in shack foundations:

• ( Range / 12.0 ) is pretty much the distance in number of shack foundations attached to each other in a straight line.


• tested by shooting at mama murphy sitting at the end of a long "road" of shack foundations: http://i.imgur.com/AsBiFxI.png


• how to mod damage reduction: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/3452490-fo4edit/?p=35311245

Interesting! Thanks for this.

You know, I always wondered what was up with the range listen on a weapon, because I can do pretty consistent headshots with a reflex sight on a pistol from just as far as a short-mid scope on a rifle. Now it makes sense. Thanks.

IM happy you shot at mama murphy. I would have chose Marcy myself lol.

But from a certain range it does 0% damage as well, right? Sometimes when using a sniper rifle it seems I cant hit no matter how much I try. The enemies render but my bullets dont