What weapon to use in Old World Blues?

[charlie]

All my weapons are useless against every mob. I'm also struggling to discover any stimpaks. Help is appreciated

[hghwolf]

Well... what are you using ? What level are you ? What skills do you have ?

General advice :

Chemistry sets can be used to make 5 stimpaks.

You can make stimpacks pretty easily from stuff gathered in the Big MT and then refined by the Sink appliances.

Lots and lots of enemies in the Big MT are robotic, so the sonic gun, the proton axe and similar are very useful.

DPH is more important than DPS.

[charlie]

I'm level 19 and I have 100 in guns.

[hghwolf]

Which means you probably have an AM Rifle. Why are you having trouble again ?

Anything with high damage per shot is good. If you have Shotgun Surgeon and Coin Shot or equivalent, that will work well too if you have Dinner Bell or a normal Hunting Shotgun. ALSITD works well too.

[Sparky96JW]

I always try and get the pulse gun before going to big mountian. It is a lifesaver against the million robots there haha. it takes 2-3 shots usually (Depending on your energy weapons skill anyway)
Though its rather difficult to aquire, it is very useful and worth your time to get anyways.

[Sparky96JW]

Początkowo opublikowane przez hghwolf, the poster you deserve:

. ALSITD works well too.

What is that?

[Mauno]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Sparkey96:

Początkowo opublikowane przez hghwolf, the poster you deserve:

. ALSITD works well too.

What is that?

A Light Shining in Darkness.

Joshua Graham's .45 pistol.

[CapsLockRAGE]

A light in shining darkness. Anyways, honestly, Even with a 45. auto handgun or a sniper rifle you should be fine. By little yangtze there's even a named sniper, Christines COS sniper, I use it through the remainder of the game. You can one shot a lot of the robots from sneak with it

[Vessmir]

Go with melee weapon. Those 'anti-robot axes' are verry powerfull and ammo will never be a problem

[Pritsky]

I say use any high powered weapon and no trouble shall befall you. (I use the Gauss rifle, Alien Blaster, Anti Material rifle, and the sawed-off shotgun most of the time.)

[Brainarius]

Use the Dog Gun on full auto, take animal friend so the nightstalkers ignore you, prioritise getting the sonic emitter and use your highest DAM weapon. Sneak as much as possible. Before I went in, I carried all the weapons and armour I had to store in the Sink while there (I have Long Haul) so I had full choice of my regular arms and armour

[A'Skunda]

Incidiary rounds or other High damage weapons.

[kaffekoppen]

The way I see it, the challenges in OWB are:
1. The scorpions have insane HP and take a lot of ammo to down.
2. The nightstalkers do crazy damage.

For 1, I use my big hitters. Medicine Stick, AMR, Holorifle, YCS/186, that kind of thing. Even for a guns character, the proton axes and the antenna you can find in there are actually quite good if ammo is an issue.

For 2, I go for weapons with consistently high damage per second. The Survivalist's rifle is one such weapon. The SMGs are great too here. I'm sure the dog guns are good too, but they never seemed as good to me as the weapons I just mentioned.

You say you are running low on health, so a really good perk to solve that problem would be Them's Good Eatin'. That perk will solve your health problems... permanently. It'll also bring in crazy amounts of money.

Finally, I want to mention that if you really want to exploit the heck out of the game, Christine's sniper rifle is silenced. What that means is that you can keep sneak critting any enemy that hasn't seen you for massive damage. Even if you shoot them, they don't go into combat with you.

[[BSG] The Rabid Duck]

As others have said, head over to Little Yangtze and get the COS rifle which will handle all of your long range damage.

[Prince of Ravens]

I always go in with That Gun for my small arms and I go straight for Christine's CoS Rifle once I am in OWB.
It has been argued back and forth that the CoS (if you are a Luck/Crit build) is far superior to the AM. If you are strolling around with a luck of less than maybe 6 or 7...the AM may be a better option...more frontal damage and less dependent on a Crit.

If you are playing in HC mode....NEVER go AM...the weight of the ammo alone is just unefficient. I carry 200 5.56 handloads and 200 .308 handloads at all times...everytime I get back to base, I make sure to restock or dump off to rebalnce to 200 rounds per.

[theSlamer]

Proton axe as it is incredibally powerfull and abundant. The lobotomites are real easy to kill and half have the axe so you can repare each axe. I had about 3 axe's at the end which were fully repeaired from others