Just wondering what people put as their hotkeyed items, or what few weapons do you use and carry around the most like a loadout?

I have my scoped hunting rifle, ranger sequoia, and Maria all hotkeyed. Theses are the 3 weapons I use the most as well and they all serve a different purpose, since I'm a sniper character its obvious what I use the scoped hunting rifle for, I save my trusty sidearm Maria for close quarter situations and the Ranger sequoia is just my anti deathclaw hand cannon. B)

Left, RCW.
Down, Holorifle.

That is all.

Left, GMG.
Down, Missile Launcher.
Right, Frag Grenades.

That is all.

Left, Assault Carbine.
Down, Trail Carbine.

That is all.

Left, Punchy.

That is all.

Right, .

That is all.

EW.
Explo.
Guns.
Unarmed.
Pacifist.

Since I'm using a new character right now my loadout isn't all that impressive yet.

I have a 10mm pistol, service rifle, single shotgun, tire iron, and some dynamite. Oh and a 9mm submachine gun is hotkeyed as well. Not an impressive weapon list but hey I gotta level up and get me some better weapons.

1. Stimpaks.
3. Whatever gun I am using.
8. Purified Water.

I like to keep it simple.

Up: Ammo Change
Up-Right: 12.7mm SMG+
Right: SWC .45-70 Hunting Revolver
Down-Right: Machete Gladius
Down: 12 Gauge Riot Shotgun firing Slg.
Down-Left: 40mm Grenade Launcher
Left: SWC .44 Trail Carbine+
Up-Left: JSP .308 Hunting Rifle+++

I also carry a 12.7mm Pistol+ for silent assassination.

I like to travel light and I'm playing hardcoe so for most of the game my loadout has been All-American (hotkey 1) and Ratslayer (hotkey 3) because they both use 5.56mm ammo.

Ratslayer's night scope makes it perfect for traveling the wasteland and All-American can take care of anything indoors. However, now that I maxed out my Explosives skill and Demolition Expert perk I'm going to start carrying Thump-Thump for a little crowd control.

-JJ

Up: Ammo Change
Up-right: 10mm SMG or Vance's 9mm SMG
Right: Scoped Hunting Rifle or This Machine
Down-right: Grenades (varies depending on situation)
Down: Riot Shotgun or Cowboy Repeater or Brush Gun
Down-left: Sniper Rifle w/suppressor
Left: 10mm Pistol w/silencer or 9mm Pistol or That Gun
Up-left: 12.7mm Pistol w/silencer or 12.7mm SMG w/silencer

It may not seem like it, but I'm fairly consistent on how I hot key.
It's more along the lines of type of weapon, I guess. :shrug:

1. The main weapon
3. The melee/unarmed weapon
4. Stimpaks
5, 6, 7. Random weapons or chems
8. Water

Well, on my average/usual character (guns/rifles) it goes like this:

1 - dominant healing aid of whatever sort I'm using for that chr
3 - light pistol, silenced soon as I can (occasionally use so as not to waste rifle ammo)
4 - best rifle type weapon I currently have (extreme dominant use)
5 - reserved in case I feel a need to carry an unarmed like knuckles for some reason
6 - RadAway
7 - Anti-Venom
8 - Rad-X or Atomic C-tail

At this point I absolutely can't stand bringing up the PipBoy in mid-fight. If it can't be done with my hotkeys I'll be re-loading, because I died.

1.Main weapon, usually a long range rifle.
3.Secondary weapon, usually a short-medium range rifle (dinner bell, all-american, this machine etc...)
4.Pest control weapon, for enemies that are way below my level, uses dirt-cheap ammo, easy to repair.
5.Heavy-hitter, which is Anti-Material rifle, for though guys.
(sometimes) 6.Grenades, for clustered low DT enemies.

Left- This machine .308 JSP
Left up-binocular
Right up-detonator
Right- 9mm +P
Right down-c4
Down-combat knife
Left down-puls granades

For my cowboy scout who travels with Cass.

trail carbine scoped
Ranger seqioua
water
big horner steak
whiskey
some kind of mine

I like to hot key consumables so I don't have to go in and out of the pip boy menu

1. Modded laser/AER14 (don't have it yet)
2. nothing (Blast Obsidian for making this non assignable. What moron... :blink: oops, sorry :stare:
3. Riot Shotgun (mag)
4. Anti-Material (Inc)
5. YCS/186 (mc)
6. Gattling Laser (mc)
7. Grenade Machinegun (he)
8. Tesla-Beaton Prototype (mc)

I don't use hotkeys, I probably should but I never knew how so I just haven't done it.

1. Pistol. Knife.
2. Ammo change.
3. Rifle. Two hander.
4. Shotgun or plasma variant. Back up high damage melee.
5. Maybe a full automatic, smg / rifle, a DP melee weapon or empty depends on role and load out.
6. ....
7. ....
8. .....

I used to put stims or chems on eight, but now I either don't use them or not in active combat.

Lucky, Maria, Mysterious Magnum, Hunting Shotgun, Hunting Rifle w/ scope, Cowboy Repeater, Ratslayer. These weapons are always in my hotkey slots and I use them all in different situations. I love the 3 handguns I have, and use them the most, along with the Ratslayer. I have 8 luck, and wear the 1st Recon Beret, so I have a good chance to get criticals with these guns. I can usually sit out with the Ratslayer and annihilate groups of enemies before coming in with my pistola and mopping up. Also, the hunting shotgun in close quarters has been a lifesaver.

...I didn't know you could put items on the hotkeys...

the more you know

Haha, I'm the opposite. I started putting RadAway on hotkey after Vault34 because it was too bloody annoying opening pipboy every couple minutes to take another one. Searchlight the other area I use that hotkey a lot...otherwise not much need for it. The healing key I rarely use in combat, but I do like it just in case. Mostly tho, either I'm dead before I could move a finger to the 1 key (ala deathclaw gets in 1-2 punch) or in my panic I forget I can press the 1 key.

For PC users, open the Pip Boy items menu, hold down the numerical button you want to assign an item to then left-click on the item. 1-8 are valid numbers excluding 2 which is reserved for alternate ammo.

-JJ

1- Sniper weapon- Varmint rifle, Sniper Rifle, scoped Trail Carbine or AMR, depending on game stage, combat environment and opponents.

2- Ammo change

3- High-power panic gun for close range, usually a shotgun, sometimes an automatic.

4) Fly swatter/night vision- Ratslayer or a silenced Varmint rifle, for dealing with low-level pests without degrading the condition of expensive weapons. You don't use an AMR on a Bloat Fly, usually,

5) Antivenom, just in case

6) Stimpack

I am considering putting utility apparel (Naughty Nightwear, Benny's Suit, Vault jumpsuit with +Lockpick and +Repair, Wasteland Surgeon Outfit with+ Medicine) on hotkeys, to save myself the hassle.

1- Stimpak
2- Ammo
3- Silenced weapon <-- pretty useless for me
4- Sniping weapon
5- Shotgun <-- can be good versus creatures, but it doesn't get much use, either
6- 223 pistol <-- I have a mod that makes it svck less, but it's still mainly for nostalgia and a side arm
7- Main weapon
8- SMG <-- useless, too

Now that I think about it, I can reduce it to 1-3 guns without much trouble. Hmmm.

I never thought about rad away haha thanks for the tip :tops: .
Tbh I don't find it as annoying getting rad effected now, the last character I played was a med head so I had high medicene and a advanced rad suit with me ( well on ED-E ).
So I found with the two combined I barely took any rads, not even the 1 per sec that was flashed on the screen..
Truely, on a less medical character the bar rises quickly even on 1 per sec, but on this character it was closer to 1 for every 3 - 10 seconds.

The healing though I'm the same as you, either you survive or die quickly against foes that stims would help with.
So I just roll with the punches, it lends some drama though.
In primm my med character endurence 3 level 6'ish no sneak got swarmed by 6 convicts took down 3 lost a ton of health.
Took down two more left on under one bar of health the last ganger started taking pot shots from the door of the room I took shelter in.
The character leaped up pumping the 9mm like crazy, and some how took the convict down while he managed to miss all three of his shots.

I am too lazy to figure out how to set hotkeys, so I just have a gun and shoot stuff before it can kill me. I do enter the pip-boy to apply antivenom so I do not die to bugs though.

Top - Ammo Change

Top Right - Shotgun Weapon/Close Range Melee

Right - Shotgun Weapon/Close Range Gun/Close Range Melee

Bottom Right - Automatic Weapon

Bottom - Stimpak

Bottom Left - Heavy Weapon

Left - All Purpose Weapon

Top Left - Sniper Weapon



I only carry a few weapons at a time, and i place the weapon in the slot based on the weapon type. I give my characters a certain amount of "weapon points" in my head, then allot weapon points to the weapons i have, meaning i must limit my weapon loadout. for instance, if my char has been given 5 points, he could equip a missile launcher, which is worth 3 points, and a marksman carbine, 2 points, and that is all

Same here, I dont like having 20 different weapons in my inventory, I like to keep it simple with just a mian weapon plus a sidearm as if it were real life. But I cant decide between Maria and the Ranger Sequoia for my sidearm so I carry both, one strapped to each leg I guess