Thanks for any experience or advice you can offer. If worst comes to worst I'll simply stick to what I know and wait for the 'Tag!' perk before switching over or not use them at all, though that seems like a bit of a shame.

I either find them all at once, at which point I'm already halfway through the game and therefore have invested in other things, or there's just no ammo available for the limited selection I do find. but any similar development from the other weapon categories seems to be noticeably absent. I appreciate the development of Small Guns - 9mm available early on, better weapons as you go, etc. I can understand how some of the more advanced weaponry would be quite overpowered early on, but Small Guns can frequently take a character all the way from Klamath to the endgame while the others cannot. from the beginning and somehow make it work? The Gauss Rifle offers a lot of damage even without the most cruel perks in place, while the Gauss Pistol can be fired for 2 AP with Fast Shot and Bonus Rate of Fire with the Sniper perk and 10-12. Both of them have a very long range and good armour penetration. My question is: do any of you choose Big Guns, Energy Guns, Throwing etc. Gauss weapons represent the merging of the burst and sniping paths for Small Guns. Depending on what you are using the other guns might be OK. The restoration mod changes ammo a bit so the other guns vary. The Gauss and Caseless SMG are limited ammo late game gun options. seems to be the first place where you can realistically attain a decent supply of them). So yeah of small arms a.223 and P90c are decent guns.

at some point in my character's development I typically wait until I have the 'Tag!' perk and then I'll throw it on the new weapon skill of choice as those types of guns and their respective ammo become more available (Navarro etc. I have completed numerous runs with Small Guns, Unarmed or Melee Weapons as my primary skill but have not found a full run viable whatsoever for some of the others. Hi - I've been playing FO1 and 2 for several years now (haven't played any of the other titles yet) and while I love the games to death, one thing has always presented itself as quite a difficulty for me the Big Guns and other less 'universal' combat skills that seem to be highly situational.

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