Is the Gatling Gun still best All-Around Heavy Gun?

[jones292]

Hello All


After 10+ months away I've come back to playing and trying to catch up on builds, whats new, best, perks, buns, armor, etc...

Last year it seemed opinions on Heavy Guns ranged all over the place....Mini ok but chewed thru ammo....50 cal great and solid but ammo expensive....Laser great damage but too expensive with Fusion Cores...and Gatling Guns somehow even a plain-jane model were considered Best All-Around.....has that changed any?

I'm just seeing more and more in Power Armor wielding various Heavy Guns than before outside The Blast Zone so I've been looking to upgrade and re-do my Armor Build. Thanks...

[Nickrob2]

Best stealth heavy guns : anti-armour plasma caster, vampire flamer

Best single shot damage heavy guns : two shot grenade laucher, two shot broadsider

Best DPS : vampire accelerate barrel minigun, the laser ones

Honourable mentions : Final Word, Vampire LMG

God Aweful : Harpoon Gun, Gatling Gun (sorry!)

just my opinion - the flamer still rules

[msy]

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I keep my napalm flamethrower handy for enemies like that. Nothing can stand against it, even the scorched queen. The downside is that it is not a ranged weapon, need to get close. It is an AOE weapon and will take down several at once.

that's one I'd like to get ahold of!

If you have the plan to make a small flamer, you are half way there.

[Seithan]

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Best stealth heavy guns : anti-armour plasma caster, vampire flamer

Best single shot damage heavy guns : two shot grenade laucher, two shot broadsider

Best DPS : vampire accelerate barrel minigun, the laser ones

Honourable mentions : Final Word, Vampire LMG

God Aweful : Harpoon Gun, Gatling Gun (sorry!)

just my opinion - the flamer still rules

Taking everything into perspective and withholding nothing, Gatling Gun with the aimshot glitch, is one of the best guns in the game - bar none -, achieving Legacy level damage.

If they ever fix the glitch, sure, its down to a reliable firearm, but right now, it only compares with the famous Legacy Gattling Plasma...

Nothing beats that in combination with a T-65. The only real drawback is the lack of VATs to maximize kill counts, but being a heavy you get used to the fact pretty fast.

[Dr. Nim Saj]

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God Aweful : Harpoon Gun, Gatling Gun (sorry!)

disagreed (especially towards the GG), but i respect your opinion :P (very understandable)
this has to do with playstyles
i use medic GG for particular situations, usually close-combat-wise

[Halcyform]

There are two guns that trigger people when I use them in PvP situations as a heavy gun build.

The first is a TSE flamer.

The second is an explosive flachette harpoon gun.

While the TSE flamer simply melts people, the harpoon gun turns them into an instant red mist. No stealth or VATS required for a one shot kill.

[Mooman]

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this has to do with playstyles
i use medic GG for particular situations, usually close-combat-wise

Jasmin if you use a Medic GG can I suggest a change to Pepper Shaker.

The multi pellet will make the medic effect much stronger, heck it may even make the single barrel useful (16 pellets).

[Dr. Nim Saj]

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this has to do with playstyles
i use medic GG for particular situations, usually close-combat-wise

Jasmin if you use a Medic GG can I suggest a change to Pepper Shaker.

The multi pellet will make the medic effect much stronger, heck it may even make the single barrel useful (16 pellets).

you may
i can always use more pepper shakers :P
i only have one at this moment for my medic

[DtHouse]

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The gatling gun is probably the best for day to day use, due to it's ammo efficiency, but the other heavy weapons will put out more dps unless you're abusing the bug with aiming in first person. (which I do not recommend doing, bugthesda may eventually get around to fixing it/punishing people who abuse it)

i dont think they would punish players for it due to the fact its been known knowledge for some time now

Rolf they punished someone in all this years? Nope, they tried to "ban" the vendor dupe, but after 3-7 days all the players was back with the full stock of item, so no, they don't punish player whatever they do. They only punish honest player, since if you get hacked and get robbed of everything, you get a nice kick in the ass by bethesda support and nothing back. Still all this time and there is a lot of player with "legacy" (rolf xD) gun that don't even existed in the game, they was injected with external hack.

[vampire 2988]

anti-armor gatling gun

[SoulsVet]

Plasma Caster is one of the few heavy guns I like using in vats because it benefits so greatly from concentrated fire. Try using it in vats with cc to headshot a scorchbeast, it's very satisfying.
All purpose usefulness will still go to the gatling gun just because it's so ammo efficient and can be very good with the right legendary roll.

[Dr. Shenanigans]

Gatling gun is easily the most-efficient, as far as ammo to damage goes.

But I am having way too much fun with an anti-armor fatman. Good god. Maxed ordinance express allows you to carry 45 mini nukes if you managed your weight right.

I know it's not part of the ballistic HW family, But god, the blast radius, the absolute mayhem it causes. the deadly bloatfly swarms I've utterly-erased with it..

Too much fun.

[jones292]

Hello

I didn't want to start another "Heavy Gun Topic"...but yesterday I picked up a pretty decent stat LMG MG42. I've never really took one out since you very seldom see it mentioned or in builds......are these even worth keeping?......

.....Ammo is most expensive to craft,
.....High Fire-rate of over 150 vs Laser and Plasma Gatling and a little less than the insane Mini-Gun Fire-rate.
......And worse of all, has the fewest basically no real modes to do much with...basically a receiver

Pros...supposedly the highest DPS out there but seems the negatives outweigh the positives compared to other Heavy Gun Choices....I'm I wrong?

[Wade]

Is the Gatling Gun still best All-Around Heavy Gun? Sure it is. Ammo is so cheap and your fire rate is so slow that you can fire for a few hours or more non stop and you will not be out of ammo. I have currently more than 70k 5mm ammo and I don't know what to do with it.

But... LMG for me personally is the most fun, albeit very expensive to use and with very hard recoil. I am currently grinding for Quad Explosive LMG.

50 cal is OK too, it is very potent, but only 250 rounds that you empty very quickly.

[Seithan]

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There are two guns that trigger people when I use them in PvP situations as a heavy gun build.

The first is a TSE flamer.

The second is an explosive flachette harpoon gun.

While the TSE flamer simply melts people, the harpoon gun turns them into an instant red mist. No stealth or VATS required for a one shot kill.

There are so few Legacy weapons that are not heads and shoulders above everything else, it's just not news what you are saying. But thanx for the input.

[Hefutoxin]

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Gatling gun is easily the most-efficient, as far as ammo to damage goes.

But I am having way too much fun with an anti-armor fatman. Good god. Maxed ordinance express allows you to carry 45 mini nukes if you managed your weight right.

I know it's not part of the ballistic HW family, But god, the blast radius, the absolute mayhem it causes. the deadly bloatfly swarms I've utterly-erased with it..

Too much fun.

FYI, Two shot on any explosive launcher will fire two projectiles at full damage. So a Two Shot Fatman will literally do double damage. Add on the MIRV mod and you'll be hitting with 12 explosions per shot - basically carpet bombing an area.