Best unarmed weapons?

[Fuhrer]

So, like anyone who decided to go the unarmed route, I've been extremely disappointed in the weapon variety. Near as I can tell, boxing gloves are the worst despite being rare, knuckles are a minor step up and relatively common, and powerfists/deathclaw gauntlets are both at the tippy top and insanely rare. To add to the disappointment, powerfists are better than gauntlets while being nearly identical to begin with.

Is there anything else? Anything at all? Or is it really a complete dead end so early on?

[Rogue]

Unless I am mistaken I am pretty sure Swan always drops a powerfist and it is totally possible to kill him early.

[Rei]

The gauntlet you get from killing Swan, forgot the name, is very good. Also you get a Deathclaw gauntlet from a quest in the museum of witchcraft if you bring the egg back to the nest and (before putting the egg in the nest) look at the area next to the nest, there lies one gauntlet

[Fuhrer]

Originally posted by Seeri:

Unless I am mistaken I am pretty sure Swan always drops a powerfist and it is totally possible to kill him early.

That's... completely irrelevant to my question, but thanks anyways.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

That's... completely irrelevant to my question, but thanks anyways.

Sounded to me like you were complaining about the quality of the weapons you can get (especially early). A guaranteed weapon of the rare variety that is obtainable early sort of nullifies that, no?

[weltall_elite]

Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way of unarmed. weapons in the game. There's like four base weapons. Two are next to useless. The other two are very rare (or one of a kind).

[Fuhrer]

Originally posted by Seeri:

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

That's... completely irrelevant to my question, but thanks anyways.

Sounded to me like you were complaining about the quality of the weapons you can get (especially early). A guaranteed weapon of the rare variety that is obtainable early sort of nullifies that, no?

I'm already aware that powerfists exist, which is why I mentioned them in the first place. I've been using that very weapon for quite awhile now. My question was if there was anything else.

[weltall_elite]

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

Originally posted by Seeri:

Sounded to me like you were complaining about the quality of the weapons you can get (especially early). A guaranteed weapon of the rare variety that is obtainable early sort of nullifies that, no?

I'm already aware that powerfists exist, which is why I mentioned them in the first place. I've been using that very weapon for quite awhile now. My question was if there was anything else.

Besides that and the Deathclaw Guantlet? Not really. There's a legendary version of the Power fist that's worth getting.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

I'm already aware that powerfists exist, which is why I mentioned them in the first place. I've been using that very weapon for quite awhile now. My question was if there was anything else.

But you also said that it is "insanely rare", if there's a guaranteed one it doesn't matter how rare the rest are.

[Bjorn]

you can upgrade the arms of your power armor with mods for unarmed extra dmg :3

[Soulfly205]

seems like melee/unarmed in general was an after thought. Beth seems to want the game to be shooter based. It's a shame because obsidian did really well in NV by allowing melee/unarmed to be incredibly viable. Not to mention the power fist variants were badass, the super sledges, were, well, super, and you got to use a car bumper sized sword.

Grognar's axe is pretty lame.

[Mr.Hmm]

I went Unarmed route
I picked the power first from Swan
I used full combat(fully modded) armor + soldier fatigues(think that's the name but i could be wrong) and maxed out STR + took the unarmed + big leagues perk.
I took the defensive perks in Endurance and the Lone wanderer perk in Charisma.
And lastly I leveled Agility and took the perk that gives you a chance for more critical hits.

I went and attacked everything, nearly everything got 1 hitted (aside from Deathclaws/PA) if not 3 hits.

Long Story Short, Unarmed is very strong but I wouldnt recommend it for very early gameplay. I would build the early gameplay with the perks needing for unarmed while using Guns to kill until you get the power first and decent armor to survive the bullets when you are going close to kill the npcs.

EDIT: Also there are 2 Legendary Quaranted Unarmed weapons (1 is from Swan[Power First] and the second is from the Deathclaw near the Museum of Witchcraft)

[Uzi [OTG]]

Well, it has to be said, same was case with FO3 and FONV as I recall. Not nearly
as much variety with melee weapons.

So, it appears they chose for this aspect of game to just pass forward what
was before.

Your only hope, I'm afraid , is to hope in some months after the toolset is out,
that talented modders can increase variety here.
I too am planning a melee focus character but put it off for later as I had a feeling
they would be too lazy to dress that side of game up. Guess I guessed correctly

[ImHelping]

OP, I pity you in advance for how many people are going to respond to you with "LOL, with my LEGENDARY-" in response to the fact you will have a massive stockpile of melee weapons ranging from bats to electrified security batons before you have found more than 6 brass knuckles in average gameplay.

Unarmed CAN be real strong, but like going Gunslinger, you need to focus on it and be lucky/fore knowledged enougg to have it's better toys and higher ranks in it's perks ASAP.

Otherwise, when comparing plain old average accessibility and not relying on legendary traits, Melee is much more user friendly to ease yourself into.

[Fuhrer]

Originally posted by Seeri:

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

I'm already aware that powerfists exist, which is why I mentioned them in the first place. I've been using that very weapon for quite awhile now. My question was if there was anything else.

But you also said that it is "insanely rare", if there's a guaranteed one it doesn't matter how rare the rest are.

Which could not possibly be any less relevant to the point.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

Which could not possibly be any less relevant to the point.

This may be shocking to learn but when you ask 4 questions in one post and make a bunch of statements people may respond to a variety of things, if you don't want people commenting on those things then don't include them in the first place.