Are all the energy weapons radiation weapons?

[CJ]

About to get nuclear phycist but plasma rifle and gattling laser used to be categorized as energy weapon. Are all the energy weapons considered radiation weapons now?

[Denverino]

No nuclear physacist affects the radiation gun only other energy weapons come under the rifle, pistol, automatic weapons and heavy weapons perks.

[CJ]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Denver201:

No nuclear physacist affects the radiation gun only other energy weapons come under the rifle, pistol, automatic weapons and heavy weapons perks.

Is there any way to see exactly what category each Weapon comes under?

[Denverino]

Początkowo opublikowane przez cj31387:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Denver201:

No nuclear physacist affects the radiation gun only other energy weapons come under the rifle, pistol, automatic weapons and heavy weapons perks.

Is there any way to see exactly what category each Weapon comes under?

No but any automatic weapon is under commando perk any single fire weapon excluding pistols comes under the rifleman perk and single fire pistols are under the gunslinger perk the heavy weapons perk affects stuff like the minigun and fat man I think there is a melee perk too but I havent actually checked since I never use melee. Also shotguns are affected by rifleman and commando which one affects them depends on wether it's an automatic shotgun or not hope this helps clear it up a bit for you.

[Winger]

Radiation weapons are gamma pistols (children of atom use and drop these), lorenzo's artifact gun and zeta gun. There are legendary weapons with "irradiated" modifier which do radiation damage but I don't know if they are affected by the nuclear physicist perk.

That perk is really terrible to spend a point on, unless you are doing it for the fusion core longevity bonus. Radiation guns only do damage to human opponents.

For the rest, gatling, missile launcher, fatman, flamer and minigun are affected by heavy gunner perk, and the rest are affected by either commando, rifleman or gunslinger; depending on the firing mechanism (automatic or not) and the stock (rifle or pistol).

Note that you can modify plasma and laser weapons' stocks to convert pistols to rifles or vice versa. This way you can get them to benefit from your perks.

The old energy weapons, small guns, big guns categories exist only in magazine perks now, which are almost irrelevant.

[CJ]

Does a automatic 10mm count as commando perk? I have 2 in commando perk and it doesnt seem to do much damage.

[Denverino]

Początkowo opublikowane przez cj31387:

Does a automatic 10mm count as commando perk? I have 2 in commando perk and it doesnt seem to do much damage.

Yeah commando apparently affects ALL automatic firing weapons but I havent tried it myself since auto pistols are terrible.

[Moridin]

Początkowo opublikowane przez BöBö:

Radiation weapons are gamma pistols (children of atom use and drop these), lorenzo's artifact gun and zeta gun. There are legendary weapons with "irradiated" modifier which do radiation damage but I don't know if they are affected by the nuclear physicist perk.

That perk is really terrible to spend a point on, unless you are doing it for the fusion core longevity bonus. Radiation guns only do damage to human opponents.

For the rest, gatling, missile launcher, fatman, flamer and minigun are affected by heavy gunner perk, and the rest are affected by either commando, rifleman or gunslinger; depending on the firing mechanism (automatic or not) and the stock (rifle or pistol).

Note that you can modify plasma and laser weapons' stocks to convert pistols to rifles or vice versa. This way you can get them to benefit from your perks.

The old energy weapons, small guns, big guns categories exist only in magazine perks now, which are almost irrelevant.

I can confirm that the Nuclear Physicist perk affects Irradiated Weapons. I got an Irradiated Minigun and the added effect went from 50 to 75.

[Smilodon]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Winger86:

Radiation guns only do damage to human opponents.

Why did I get a legendary gamma gun with +50% damage to super mutants? Is the legendary affix random? Edit: And it definitely damaged them, but very little. I searched for radiation weapons (when I came across this) to find out why my gamma gun with about 250 dmg, +50% dmg to SM did significantly less than my 30% AP 10mil at 93 damage against a SM.

That character's level 71 and still using the 10mil pistol she found when she was like 20, and she is by far my deadliest character, bitchslapping the ♥♥♥♥ out of a Legendary Savage Deathclaw on very hard with a pistol and no power armor (I do have to try to keep my distance tho) xD.