Missile Launcher is overpowered

[Brownstone]

It can gain damage bonus from 2 perks (Heavy Gunner, Demolition Expert)
Almost none of the enemies have explosive resistance.
It can be modded with a 4-barrel and can lock on targets.

Probably the best weapon in the game.

I have mine at 800+ damage... Kills almost everything easily.

EDIT: Not complaining, just wanted you to know.

[The_Pastmaster]

Yeah, but the ammunition is like 30 caps a pop so you COULD kill everything with it but I'd rather shoot crappy raiders with 2-3 bullets of 10mm ammo for 2 caps a pop. :P

[ImHelping]

Honestly I'm just happy the missile launcher isn't garbage. Even if you don't use "is this a bug?" double stacking Heavy gunner with Demo expert, or some legendary (My legendary launcher is quickdraw... so I still only get one vats shot, hah).

Especially when you are carrying around the FOURTY POUND quad barrel version.

I'm sure you probably have enough slave farms with dozens of shops built to keep you supplied with as much missile ammo as possible.

[Jedia Kyrol]

I've been having the...opposite result. Sneak headshot critted a super-mutant and it barely scratched him...Maybe it's a VATS glitch? Like when New Vegas first came out and dynamite damage didn't get applied unless thrown manually?

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Jedia Kyrol:

I've been having the...opposite result. Sneak headshot critted a super-mutant and it barely scratched him...Maybe it's a VATS glitch? Like when New Vegas first came out and dynamite damage didn't get applied unless thrown manually?

Enemy discrepency is the biggest difficulty in the game.

I cleared out Qunciy recently. It had three kinds of Gunners.
Ones I could basically one shot kill with all of my guns. (and legendary ones which weren't a problem).

A few in power armor, which didn't take undue effort.

Ones with military ranks in their names, which tanked about 20 fully upgraded plasma rifle shots to the face before dying.

If I could make a skin suit out of Gunners who got a promotion, I woud be invulnerable. I could slam a behemoth boulder with a mini nuketaped to it on my ♥♥♥♥ and not even flinch.

Toughest things I've seen outside of a behemoth or mirelurk queen, are Gunners with fancy (not legendary) ranks.

[Kira]

Originally posted by I'm Helping!:

Enemy discrepency is the biggest difficulty in the game.

Yup...
And if you get bad RNG and that big boss is legendary then its a real pain.

Originally posted by Mr. Bumblefoot:

It can gain damage bonus from 2 perks (Heavy Gunner, Demolition Expert)

Not sure if I need to say this or not, but the mini nukes also get both of these bonuses.
As a side note you can also stack nuclear physicist (science9) with anything, but radiantion weapons are pretty rare.

[Juzt_Lernin]

Spray and Pray and Partystarter with 4 barrels are the only 2 I use. Spray is insane, especially as you get the damage perks raised up.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Kira:

Originally posted by I'm Helping!:

Enemy discrepency is the biggest difficulty in the game.

Yup...
And if you get bad RNG and that big boss is legendary then its a real pain.

Military rank gunners are tougher than any legendary enemies I have fought, including them mutating back to full health right before they die the first time... except that one time.

The only legendary Gunner Commander I fought was in Vault 75. Oh my ***ing god.

"Okay,okay. get some distance and use the Fatman. ahahaha... hah... oh my god IT'S STILL ALIVE!"

[Scoob]

I've seen some weirdness with ranked enemies. I.e. I snipe headshot several times in a row at long range, get the "ching" sound and the message about sneak bonus pop up, yet the enemies health bar doesn't budge. Then I hit them again, their entire health bar vanishes and they die. It's almost like the game is lagging updating their health bar. I did wonder if it was somehow linked to area damage - i.e. damage to the head not affecting the overall health, but other foes don't work that way.

Scoob.

[Juzt_Lernin]

Originally posted by scoobierb5:

I've seen some weirdness with ranked enemies. I.e. I snipe headshot several times in a row at long range, get the "ching" sound and the message about sneak bonus pop up, yet the enemies health bar doesn't budge. Then I hit them again, their entire health bar vanishes and they die. It's almost like the game is lagging updating their health bar. I did wonder if it was somehow linked to area damage - i.e. damage to the head not affecting the overall health, but other foes don't work that way.

Scoob.

A lot of weird things on here. Found a spot where a deathclaw spawns on the roof. About 1 in 5 times, he will be a Legendary and drop a unique weapon. Kill him and you get 62 xp. Kill the Matriarch one that spawns, is much easier, and you get 104 xp?

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by scoobierb5:

I've seen some weirdness with ranked enemies. I.e. I snipe headshot several times in a row at long range, get the "ching" sound and the message about sneak bonus pop up, yet the enemies health bar doesn't budge. Then I hit them again, their entire health bar vanishes and they die. It's almost like the game is lagging updating their health bar. I did wonder if it was somehow linked to area damage - i.e. damage to the head not affecting the overall health, but other foes don't work that way.

Scoob.

Stuff like that is part of why I've sworn off sniper scopes.

Vault 75 was the last time I used my hunting rifle. When shooting at gunners 15 feet away from me down a hallway resulted in the first 3 shots just... not doing anything, and not alerting them either (I have no stealth perks and did not have a silencer), and the 4th shot doing about 1/10 their life bar in damage.

I get much better reliabiity with my tactical sight. I've one shot headshot things with my 10mm outside of stealth (no gunslinger talents) that just were mildly inconvenicned by my .50 hunting rifle (4 rifleman talents), from stealth, but with no stealth damage pop up.

I know a lot of people get great usage out of them in Fo4. But my luck with them has been just bonkers.

[Darlandra]

Can't be as overpowered as oversees guardion...that thing takes deathclaws down in just a couple bursts. I had to stop using it because it made the game too easy

[Khloros]

Missle laucher op? No, not even close, now the gattling laser and the gauss rifle. Thats op

Being able to do 400 damage in one very accurate shot, and do around 800 if its a sneak, thats op, not to mention that the last minute does an aditional 50% damage on a limb shot, IE anything but center mass.

[Ominous187]

you should see my legendary one. istigating missile launcher* does double the damage if traget has full hp.

[Rhia]

It's....a...... Rocket launcher, it Literally fires pods of explosives designed to damage armored vesicles. What do you want it to do, tickle?

it would kill everything in one hit and probabely everyone in a 20 foot radius and any walls nearby

Stop using the caps exploit or god mode.

What's your next topic? Fat Man is op?

[jman916]

Originally posted by Mr. Bumblefoot:

It can gain damage bonus from 2 perks (Heavy Gunner, Demolition Expert)
Almost none of the enemies have explosive resistance.
It can be modded with a 4-barrel and can lock on targets.

Probably the best weapon in the game.

I have mine at 650 damage... Kills almost everything easily.

In real life if i shoot you with a missle launcher am pretty sure it would kill you in one rocket.