Rifleman perk and laser rifles?

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

So in the old fallouts there was a seperate energy weapons and small guns. Iv taken the rifleman perk cos i like single shot stuff but does that apply to single shot laser rifles aswell?

Iv had a look through the perk chart but couldnt spot anything specifically for laser weapons, just got a syndicate rifle from that helping the brotherhood at the police station quest :)

[Simple Man]

It does yea. Any rifle, or semi, will receive riflemen bonus. Shotguns get it too.

You can see the damage going up per each perk you put in.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Cheers man, that makes life easier than the old system :)

[caesar_andy]

Not really.

The Damage-Boost is applied to Balastic weapons and energy-weapons aswell. But the Armor-Penetration of the Perk only affects Armor, not energy Resistance. Because of this, in higher ranks, balistic weapons will benefit a lot more from this perk than laser and plasma rifles.

The Pistol-Perk suffers from the same problem.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

True, i noticed most armour pieces have a lesser energy resistance than balistic though so maybe its to balance that. Like the baslistic stuff needs a lil extra kick because that resistance is a lot highter. Not seen any sets beyond early/mid game yet though that might change :)