44 Magnum Revolver, Useless

[danconnors]

I upgraded it to 60 points damage per shot. I just met 3 ferocious mongrels and went through over 30 rounds killing the damn things. Hey, 44's are supposed to be dagerous, but this one's shooting spitwads.

[SeñorKungPowFurBurgerLicker]

theres a mod that ya can get that gets your weapons alot better hit rate etc its called more heavy weapons

[ghpstage]

Weapon damage depends most heavily on perks and parts.
I just a quickly test on one of my characters. With max gunslinger, bloody mess 3, lone wanderer 3 at night i'm getting 253 DAM with a .44 with an advanced receiver, and thats without a legendary bonus effect or adrenaline buffs.

Enemies then have HP pools that change drastically with their levels.

It also sounds like you may have missed a good portion of those rounds.

[danconnors]

Hey, punk, this is the world's most powerful handgun. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, here you go; eat this........Stand by while I use this speed loader.......Munching, crunching sounds.......

[sdack]

Is this the .44 in the vanilla game or a mod? Because the one in the vanilla game is fine.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888083255
(Edit: apparently the 7-year old screenshot has dissolved)

You only need to get your perks up, stay undetected and aim for the head.

I've got another one, Exterminator's with 50% against Mirelurks, and it lets me one-shot Mirelurk Queens.

And at Red Rocket Station and in Hangman's Alley do I have 12 settlers all with .44. They have obliterated every attack within the first minute.

[Kameraden]

.44 Magnium is one of the best medium range weapons in the game to be honest.

The only handgun which competes is the Unique 10mm Pistol the Deliver, which makes up with pure Rate of Fire vs Alpha damage. .44 Magnium among other variants including the DLC Nuka World Western Revolver have very high alpha damage, with better effective range than a 10mm Pistol or the Deliver. So in all respects they're just epic. lol

[Kameraden]

Originally posted by RESET:

I am guessing most of you are low levels. When you get well into the hundreds the .44 does become useless because of how slow it is with a tiny clip.

".44 Magnium is one of the best medium range weapons in the game to be honest. " Ah there goes that ONE OF THE BEST wording. That never says much about anything. How vague...

Well I play on survival mode, in which even a player using a 10mm pistol can go all the way to end game if they know what they're doing. .44 Magnium is a very good weapon, definitely for how light it is when compared to other weapons with that much Alpha damage.

I sometimes roll with a fully upgraded .44 Magnium just for the fun of doing so. I normally do not have to carry any other weapons what so ever when I do as with around 170+ range and with higher Alpha than an OP weapon like the Handmade Rifle, I can snipe, VATs, and free aim most enemies at utter will. Oddly just nothing more entertaining than taking down half a dozen baddies in a VATs attack taking them down 1 shot each, wild west style with that nice VATs cinematic feel. lol

[wellser06]

Screw that .44 lol

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=788041580

[Zulu]

Originally posted by RESET:

I am guessing most of you are low levels. When you get well into the hundreds the .44 does become useless because of how slow it is with a tiny clip.

".44 Magnium is one of the best medium range weapons in the game to be honest. " Ah there goes that ONE OF THE BEST wording. That never says much about anything. How vague...

It really doesn't though. The .44 and the Western Revolver still work great on higher levels, especially in Survival mode.

[Zulu]

Originally posted by wellser06:

Screw that .44 lol

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=788041580

I have Atom's Judgement and it deals insane damage. The Radiation damage is 2k+ and the Ballistic is like 500 or so; crazy damage but those new bats can get pretty strong to, but the Throatslitter is probably the best melee weapon around.

[Brandybuck]

Useless. Just useless.

[Xyzzy]

Try 'The Gainer' same gun but with unique incendiary burning. Find it near Finch Farm.

[Stardustfire]

i use gunslinger build in my momentry survival with the legendary .44 u find near Finch Farm at the other side of the water (extra fire dmg) . it not like with my rifleman build and a gauss where i onehit all and everything, no matter how big, but its still a solid one or 2 hit kill vs most enemys with a .44. compared to a 10mm (i not even name pipepistols, they are superuseless) or any other pistol exept the western a .44 is a monster when it comes to dmg per shot.

[NIKFS]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

i use gunslinger build in my momentry survival with the legendary .44 u find near Finch Farm at the other side of the water (extra fire dmg) . it not like with my rifleman build and a gauss where i onehit all and everything, no matter how big, but its still a solid one or 2 hit kill vs most enemys with a .44. compared to a 10mm (i not even name pipepistols, they are superuseless) or any other pistol exept the western a .44 is a monster when it comes to dmg per shot.

actually pipepistols are funny to use if automatic and explosive legendary effect, a cheap way to dispose of critters

[Black Ram]

One of the things that makes it even more useless, is the "barrel rolling" when you take it out.

[StingingVelvet]

Pistols can be amazing in this game but mainly either in stealth with a silencer, or with rapid shooting speed. Revolvers aren't really good for either. When I did a pistol run I pretty much only used Deacon's silenced pistol, and I slaughtered everything.