plasma core issues

[I'm not weird everyone else is]

so m primary weapon is Gatling plasma its not the best weapon but i really like how it handles and sounds so i use it. it uses plasma cores. often times ill have zero go craft a bunch and they'll start out with having a power of only about 300 and i use them till their out i dont reload when they've got little charge yet once i get to the end of my storage ill end up loading cores with only 6 or 12 rounds in them so they started out with only 6 rounds in them.

is this a bug or how crafting them is supposed to work

also when googling how many shots one core could get off different sites said different things some said 100 others 250 but i could swear i had a couple cores at 500 same as fusion cores.

[I'm not weird everyone else is]

Originally posted by m142:

Originally posted by im not werid everyone else is:

dont think you understand what this is im talking about making fresh cores with copper plastic and nuclear material and they start out not fully charged and also of varying charges

It's simply not posible.
For core in less than 100% condition it would reqiure negative inteligence
Only found cores can be used up or those reloaded after few shots.

the whole point of this thread was to find out if it was a bug or not and several other people have had similar experiences to me there for it is either a bug or built into the game if what you have stated is true then it would be a bug not having crafted cores at 100%

[uni790]

While I don't use the cored weapons enough to notice this, any time I run an automatic rifle of any kind it always goes to it's automatic reload(you know my clip is empty time to reload bit) with 5-8 shots still in the clip, I can see how that would be exceptionally annoying with the cores though, I would guess that's what's happening with your plasma cores.

[Arcanix]

Yeah you have 15 - 100%, 10 - 50% and 150 - 1-10%.

[Bobby Digital™]

Originally posted by Arcanix:

Wouldnt mind being able to make 100% cores out of the 5% ones at a tinker station.

you can do that if you turn them into prime plasma cores or fusion cores

[Arcanix]

Originally posted by Bobby Digital™:

Originally posted by Arcanix:

Wouldnt mind being able to make 100% cores out of the 5% ones at a tinker station.

you can do that if you turn them into prime plasma cores or fusion cores

Oo nice.

[SlowHand178]

I have the Vampire Gatling Plasma and I love it....When I aim , no matter how many ghouls or whatever are coming at me my health stays at 100%.
But I agree the plasma cores really lose power over time.

[Vayde Knyght]

Plasma cores have 250 shots for the plasma gatling at 100% charge.
Crafted plasma cores always start at 100% charge.
The perk that doubles the use from fusion cores does not work for plasma cores.

However, reloading has some strange buggy behaviors in this game, which are more noticable with larger ammo count weapons. The three varieties of gatling and the minigun often auto-reload after even just a few shots, which in the plasma (or laser, but less problematic with fusion cores if you use power armor) gatling's case would leave a partially used core, which often leads to having a myriad of 5-15% cores sitting in your inventory.

The reloading bugs DO happen with other guns, though. You haven't lived until you've loaded all your .50 musketball into a black powder rifle and fired it until it broke at a single enemy over the course of about a half-second.

[insert food here]

The reason you are seeing what you are seeing is based on how the Gat plasma handles ammo. Your cores you crafted would have been at 100% or more when you crafted them. You can check in your pipboy next time you craft some. The reason you are seeing cores loaded with only 6 or 12 shots left is that by that time, after using the gun and the way it handles ammo, these are the highest charge cores you have left.

This is a long standing bug with the Gatling plasma. Been happening ever since I started using them around 18 months ago. My current character is not a heavy gun build but from the sound of it nothing has changed.

The ammo mechanics are just plain complicated for this gun. The gun will always prefer to load the highest charged core you have and will show the shots available based on the highest charged core but, when you fire it will actually be depleting shots from any of your cores and likely not the one loaded to provide the ammo count. Yes, really.

It is not meant to reload until that current shot counter reaches zero, but we all know how well that works. I found that when the gun stopped firing at anything other that zero shots left and it tried to reload, that performing the gun bashing action would cancel the reload and allow you to keep firing. Not sure if this still works.

What it feels like to me is that even though the ammo count displayed is for a full or high charge core it is actually depleting lowest charge cores first. When one of these is fully used the gun can stop, at what feels like a random moment, as it has used the ammo for that core even if the shot counter still says otherwise.

Guns firing and wanting to reload before the counter reaches zero also happen to the Gat Lasers and they likely have a similar issue as they use cores as well. It also happens on my fixers and handmades from time to time, so it isn't exclusive to the Gat plasma.

[I'm not weird everyone else is]

Originally posted by insert food here:

The reason you are seeing what you are seeing is based on how the Gat plasma handles ammo. Your cores you crafted would have been at 100% or more when you crafted them. You can check in your pipboy next time you craft some. The reason you are seeing cores loaded with only 6 or 12 shots left is that by that time, after using the gun and the way it handles ammo, these are the highest charge cores you have left.

This is a long standing bug with the Gatling plasma. Been happening ever since I started using them around 18 months ago. My current character is not a heavy gun build but from the sound of it nothing has changed.

The ammo mechanics are just plain complicated for this gun. The gun will always prefer to load the highest charged core you have and will show the shots available based on the highest charged core but, when you fire it will actually be depleting shots from any of your cores and likely not the one loaded to provide the ammo count. Yes, really.

It is not meant to reload until that current shot counter reaches zero, but we all know how well that works. I found that when the gun stopped firing at anything other that zero shots left and it tried to reload, that performing the gun bashing action would cancel the reload and allow you to keep firing. Not sure if this still works.

What it feels like to me is that even though the ammo count displayed is for a full or high charge core it is actually depleting lowest charge cores first. When one of these is fully used the gun can stop, at what feels like a random moment, as it has used the ammo for that core even if the shot counter still says otherwise.

Guns firing and wanting to reload before the counter reaches zero also happen to the Gat Lasers and they likely have a similar issue as they use cores as well. It also happens on my fixers and handmades from time to time, so it isn't exclusive to the Gat plasma.

i know about how it always reloads the highest charge was a real issue in fallout 4 if your wearing power armour killed me several times but im not re loading once my cores reach 4 or 7 i just dont reload till i have to and thier almost all crafted i do take cores when i find them naturally of course (side not why are wendigos caring plasma cores seems a bit odd) but they would have been crafted at not max charge im gonna try buying some cores seem if their at 100% you know test if its the crafting or the ammo itself

[Bobby Digital™]

maybe it's about time they fix this, eh?

[I'm not weird everyone else is]

Originally posted by Bobby Digital™:

maybe it's about time they fix this, eh?

where did you find a picture of a bear with a extensive amount of fruit in front of it

[Bobby Digital™]

it was a YT thumbnail from this guys channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkrgkknS5QxxYJV1QGwEXcw, he takes care of a bear that he found as a cub that was all by himself near an airport in Russia

[insert food here]

Next time you craft some plasma cores open your pipboy and look at them. They will all be charged properly. You are assuming that the cores with low ammo count that you see later are like that from the moment you crafted them, this is not the case.

The only reason you are looking later and seeing cores with only a few shots in them is due to the way the gatling plasma will deplete other cores and not the one that is shown to be loaded, as I already explained. No bug with crafting at all.

I have been crafting my own cores and using gat plasma for a long time. I see the same thing as you are describing and it is due to the reasons I said. Now if you have a bug with plasma cores specific to your character, that I cannot say, but I have never seen or heard of something like that.

[I'm not weird everyone else is]

Originally posted by Bobby Digital™:

it was a YT thumbnail from this guys channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkrgkknS5QxxYJV1QGwEXcw, he takes care of a bear that he found as a cub that was all by himself near an airport in Russia

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