sudden weapon damage drop [SOLVED]

[the-scrin]

as the title suggests some bizzare reason all my weapons damage dropped by 50%

is it a buggy perk (it happened since i took blacksmith 3)? or game breaking bug?

[Serpoman]

what mods you using?

[ghpstage]

There are many conditional buffs from things like adrenaline and United We Stand. Through them damage can vary enormously in a short timeframe.

[bigdale]

If you are playing survival always check your weapon damage in the morning after you wake up because your up to 50% damage boost will be gone. Also any effects from drugs will have expired. It sounds like you are playing melee so things that buff your STR also buff damage.

[the-scrin]

im only on hard difficulty with no mods

[Mr.MilkMann]

If you recently acquired Big Leagues 5, it will show the base damage of your melee weapons due to a glitch. I think it still does double the base damage, but it shows it as base damage when in the pip-boy.

[the-scrin]

nope i dont have that perk yet the change happened when i aquired blacksmith 3

doesnt matter about day or night for that matter

[That Guy]

sure you dont have a weapon with the nocturnal prefix?

[the-scrin]

ok i found out what was causing the issue it was a legendary prefix called berserker ... the less armor you have the more damage you deal so walking around in my power armor meant the melee weapon damage was down and all i needed to do was to re equip my other weapons and their normal damage returned (i think it was just a numbers bug for berserker affecting my ranged weapons as they were dealing normal damage)

[ghpstage]

Not really a bug, more a quirk of the game mechanics.

Legendaries like beserkers, bloodied and nocturnal apply modifiers to character damage, causing all of your weapons to be stronger while it is equipped.
Obviously when you pull out a different main weapon you lose the effect so displayed values return to normal. Where it gets weird is that it boosts your thrown weapons too and they can be used with your legendary equipped.

The only bug is that explosive damage values don't update to include this, and many other buffs too.

[The Incredible Sulk]

My damage for my guns have dropped drastically. Most have dropped to one digit. Such as my Deliverer. It now has a damage of 6. What happened to my game?

[Serpoman]

List your mods! :)

[Karma]

the only time i noticed a drop in my damage stats was when i maxxed out the Black Widow perk. Havent had an issues aside from that.

[wizee]

Me too, on next gen Xbox my 10MM pistol does like 5 damage. I know you made this reply years ago but I’m having the issue. Did you ever fix it?

[sdack]

Might simply depend on the region you are in. In the area around Sanctuary are opponents weak and easy to kill. The further south you go the harder opponents become.

Also, changing the difficulty level affects how much damage one deals.