Level:13
Armor:Combat Armor, Reinforced; Space Helmet (looks ridiculous, but you can't say no to a DT of 4) DT: 21
Main Weapon:9mm SMG(light bolt for an amazing 113 dps)
Long Range Weapon: Sniper Rifle
Melee: Chopper (40 dps)

Fully modded 10mm.
Scoped Trail Carbine.
Modded Grenade rifle.
Silenced Sniper Rifle.
Love & Hate.
Modded Hunting Shotgun.
Chance's Knife.
A wide assortment of explosives.
Hand Loader Perk.

Plan on dropping Sniper (Carbine will be sniping weapon) when Brush Gun becomes available; Thump-Thump will replace Grenade Rifle. Unless something interesting comes up in a future DLC, this will be my end-game loadout. It's not showy, and I know I could get more powerful weapons, but all I need.

AER14
Q3
Recharger Pistol
Holorifle+++

Rarely use the holorifle though.

OT (Sorry, OP!) -- How's the EW character doing? I haven't played one since the patch... is it fun?

Yup, the start is slow but picks up a after Nipton, the only problem is keeping the weapons supplied since a lot of them requires more than one EC/MFC/ECP for each shot.
Like, if I shoot a clip of the AER14 with MCMFC then I waste a total of 120 MFC.
It's important to place the shots right.

But yeah, Energy Weapons still feel like an underdog when compared to Guns. (Which doesn't make a damn lick of sense to me but whatever...)
So it's kinda fun but not "as" fun as it could be.

Thanks, Sir/Madam!
I guess Criticals are still important, too? They saved my butt on my EW character.

On Topic:
My EW character finished like this:

Fully Modded Laser Rifle
Pew-Pew
Thump-Thump
Pulse Gun
Assorted Explosives.
Laser Commander Perk.
Meltdown Perk -- greatly regretted getting this.

That's it. The dude traveled light. Gotta say, the fully Modded Laser is surprisingly effective if you have a decent Skill Level and Critical Hit chance.

9MM Pistol, and a Broad Machete with a Pre-war Suit and Hat.

That's all I have.

Fully modded hunting shotgun with all ammo types
Followers coat
First recon beret

fire axe and 100 melee is all I ever need.

Weapons and armor. And Boone.

lvl 35
chinese stealth armor with boones beret he gives you which i think looks awesome with the outfit, also with the rebreather best out fit ever. wish had better dt tho but its my favorite repairing svcks
all american
maria
mysterious magnum
pulse gun (never really use)
tesla proto type

i went for the special weapons

:ninja:

I carry all of the uniques! Which ones do I use? I don't remember. I haven't played any games since spring break began. Beach time! But I do remember my loadout from when I role-played an American solider. I used the service rifle, sniper rifle, 9mm Pistol, combat knife, and later on I replace the Service Rifle with the All-American and picked up an LMG.

Fully modded 10mm pistol - a stealthy holdout weapon
12.77mm Machine Gun
Brush Gun - for top-tier nasties
Dinner Bell - for cazador hunting
Lucky - for indoors low-level enemies
Maria
Mysterious Magnum
Ratslayer - for outdoors low-level enemies
Sniper Rifle w/silencer - well duh
Trail Carbine w/scope - my bread-and-butter weapon
Vance's 9mm Submachine Gun
Various explosives

I never really use either machine gun, Maria or the Mysterious Magnum though, and I'm not really sure why I bother lugging them about with me tbh. Still, Cowboy + Trail Carbine = all kinds of awesomeness.

lvl 35
Automatic Rifle+
Riot Shotgun
Sniper Rifle+
Assassin Suit
1st Recon Beret
Sunglasses

Currently in Sierra Madre/Dead Money so I have:

Armor: Assassin's Suit, SM Security Helmet
Weapons: Primarily use the Police Pistol with JFP Hand Loads but I keep the "BAR" Auto Rifle+ (w/ JSP rounds), the Holorifle+++, Bear Trap Fist+ and Knife Spear Clean handy on my d-pad shortcuts just for the hell of it.

Once I get out, I'll probably go back to my T-51B/Recon Helm/Authority Glasses for my armor.

For my weapons, I'll probably add the BAR+ to pair up with the Sniper Rifle+++ since they use the same ammo.
I use The Brush Gun with SWC Hand loads for the endgame when you have to fight off waves since It's decent in and out of VATS
The 10mm Pistol+++ is my preferred Holdout weapon so I always have that hotkeyed as my sidearm.

I did almost the entire DLC with the bear trap fist. The ghosties soak up too much ammo, I think I killed maybe three things with guns, one being Elijah.

AER14 Prototype (fully modded, thanks to a mod)
YCS/186
Assassin Suit

But you get infinite ammo? Well, more or less.

Not if you're an Energy Weapons user.

If I shoot em' it takes quite a while. If I punch em' it's over fast. I don't like the guns in Fallout anyway. It gets old shooting stuff over and over when In Stalker a single well placed shot with a nice gun is all you need.

I'm playing Fallout 3 again and it's a pain, the guns generally svck.

fully modded sniper
pushy
automatic rifle
police pistol
armor wise:
vera's dress (male version it appears)
lucky shades
pre-war hat (am level 27 and am useing this stuff O.o)
and 602 stims

Nothing wrong with that, combat armor is boring as [censored].

true..when you got atleast 100 stims D.T doesent matter plus i want to look like a oldschool mobster

Armored vault 21 suit. (If playing from my cousin's PC)
Slave scarf
Lucky Shades (+3 Per with four eyes!)
Tons of powder charges.(Great for pantsing due to their small explosive spread.)
Weathered 10mm pistol.
This Machine (This has Courier 6 written all over it) I wish they had regular Battle rifles...sigh...
Holo Rifle (I LOVE it!!!!!!) Pump action with scope, like a shotgun and sniper rifle with fancy aesthetics. <3<3<3 :wub: God I feel like a fan girl or something. This scares me!
3 Holy Hand Grenades. (I save these for special marks. (Probably Graham, Ulysses, and ?)
Chance's Knife for more personal kills.

When I haven't got the holorifle and This Machine, I go for a fully modded Hunting rifle for my beginning gameplay. Please let the hunting rifle scope be in the next game. Obsidian did it right with this rifle. (Could have a bit more damage though )

I usually don't use this many emoticons.

is it even a glitch that lucky shades give 3 to peception