Why is the Gama Gun so good agasint the Player but so ♥♥♥♥ agasint Raiders

[Ciaran Zagami]

not Children of Atom. Not Ghouls or Super Mutants but just generic Raiders can soak up so many ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rads its insane

[Mobius942]

if ur playing on a higher difficulty...thats why. VH for example = 2x more dmg from enemies, player dmg output 0.5X. pretty sure the amount of rads is affected by this.

[Xyzzy]

Do Jack Cabot quest, free Lorenzo from his cell and he gives you an endless supply of Mysterious Serum; removes 10 rads per second for 3600 seconds (an hour). Laugh at gamma ray guns.

[Vinnie Mack]

do your perks support using the weapon effectively? Maybe the armor had lead lining or something.

[Darkaiser]

Gamma weapons are great with Nuclear Physicist. Even better if you can couple the Legendary thing that does radiation damage coupled with normal damage. Terrible for bots and Ghouls but great for Humans.

[Gordoinc]

Try carrying an enviro suit to put on if you run up against something with a gamma gun. Stacking on rad resistant chems and/or food helps too and of course power armour, basically if you can get your rad resistance to 1000+ gamma guns do very little to you. Though it may still be useful to have some rad away or other rad removal concoction + healing, if you get a bit overwhelmed.

As for you using the weapon, except for humans, almost everything is either significantly rad resistant or simply immune. Even high level humuns typically wear lead lined armour and/or various degree of rad resistant outfits. So you are right, it is pathetic. I think ghouls are actually healed by it, I have not tested this though, I am sure someone here can tell us.

Once you get the Lorenzo gun,which actually has a unique mod (Legendary?). Put this on a good legendary gamma gun you find and you will have a gamma gun that does semi decent physical damage as well.
I have it on a ledgendary wounding gamma gun, fully upgraded and in the hands of a settler. Works pretty well with the whole 'unlimited ammo for NPC's' thing.

[Shahadem]

Solar Powered is your friend. Or just bring Danse along.

[Stanky_Taco]

Gamma guns are only good aginst some humans without radiation armor.

Children of atom, and some of the gunnes have lead linned armor, or they have a perk aginst taking rads.

Go to far harbor, and do the clense, and you will not suffer a much from radiation. Also there are 2 perks for radiation. One actually heals you when you get shot by a gamma gun. The other makes you more and more immune to the gamma gun.

[bigdale]

The radium rifles from Far Harbor are a good compromise. They do good standard damage and with a few points in nuclear physicist they do good radiation damage at the same time. That way you can use the same weapon against mixed enemies.