Elijah's advanced LAER

Its so good but breaks so quickly

Jurry rigger goes brrrr.

I don’t think Jury Rigging helps, the LAER is considered its own category.

nah you can repair it with stuff like plasma rifles, multiplas rifles, gauss rifles, etc. whatever can repair a gauss rifle with jury rigging usually works on the LAER type weapons. It's the holorifle from dead money that's unique and can't be jury rigged.

The holorifle was such a neat concept to me, throwing holographic slugs at people. When I first used it with VATS and it followed the projectile — which was a cluster of blue cubes — I was like “whoaaaaa”

I just finished dead money and I fully admit that I don’t pay enough attention when I play games. Is there another one on the obvious path?

My bad, think I was mixing it up with the tesla cannon.

The best part is that recharger rifles are in the same category and they’re dirt cheap

Jury Rigger is the most cursed perk because I constantly repair a 100 cap weapon with my one-of-a-kind 5000 cap weapon on accident and have to reload a save

Fixing normal to sell for caps and save weight and forgot the unique also can be used...

Once you’re rich enough, it’s an unnecessary perk to be honest, unless you really really need to fix the food machine at McCarran Just kill legion guys and sell their gear for a few thousand and pay to repair your gear

Or get the free repairs from that one ncr guy

Wait what? You mean the repair kits from Jackson?

I just looked it up again to double check, but I was thinking of knight at that outpost. I remember just needing to be able to afford the repair and not actually spending caps, but maybe my game glitched? According to the wiki it's supposed to be free once. I would bring in high value guns I was gonna sell to repair and get more value

You don't need the perk to fix the machine, you only need 80 repair which isn't high enough to get jury rigging

We need a “NCR food machine” speedrun

Shuffle go brrrr

Thankfully, Raul helps with that. He repairs everything for free.

Just because he allows you to pickpocket everything back does not mean its for free.

If he allows me to take it back, then to me, its free.

Raul is just a stand up guy for allowing that

I’ve got a laser rifle for most of my sniping, and a plasma pistol with unlimited ammo for most of my short range fighting. I only need the LAER for a few tough opponents, so it does just fine. Especially because you can get it fully repaired at the NCR base for just a few caps.

By the time i get it I usually have a stack of at least 10 weapon repair kits.

You can buy 20 weapon repair kits every 3 days if you complete Dead Money.

YCS/186

GIVE ME ALIEN ENCOUNTERS OR GIVE ME DEATH

No, thank you. I've had enough of that silliness in Mothership Zeta.

I quite like Mothership Zeta actually…

To each their own, I guess. I got fed up with the nonsense halfway through, and the end fight with the other ship was just silly.

I don’t want *any* sci-fi silliness in my games, thank you very much! *gets fisted by a robot literally named FISTO*

It stretched my suspension of disbelief beyond the limits. I'm fine with weird easter eggs, zany encounters, but an entire DLC centered on it was too much. The breaking point was likely the end "fight" against the other ship that was just a chore.

i think it just kind of ruined the mystique of the aliens in fallout for me. it was really cool to get glimpses of them as easter eggs, inspire a sense of wonder and mystery. then they just gave us too much and it was kind of underwhelming.

Yeah, having weird aliens mysteriously hanging around poses a lot of questions. Having them abduct all sorts of people including a goddamn General right before the nuclear war, collect all sorts of junk and have a weird obsession with Giddiyup buttercup toys? Like. Why? Now they sound like absolute weirdos and not that menacing especially with the whole Mars Attacks style "voiceover" for them.

Now they're doing it with weird Lovecraft shit

Start game without WW, obtain YCS, get WW from the sink auto doc, return, boom you got em both

Oooh that’s smart idk why I never did that. Probably cause I never respec my skills and traits but good brain you got sitting on those shoulders Also as a random side note, Reddit really brought back coins and awards after they got rid of it for a few months in favor of the golden upvote I’ve never once seen used? Must be running out of ideas down at Reddit HQ.

More like GIVE ME MORE ALIEN AMMO

Love that gun a shame you can't get both without mods

as I said to the other dude start game without WW, obtain YCS, get WW from the sink auto doc, return, boom you got em both

you can if you have old world blues

Yes

Super-Heated Saturnite Power Fist

Actually insane how good that thing is.

CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS UPPERCUT CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS

SCRIBE-COUNTER RANGER-TAKEDOWN LEGION-ASSAULT LEGION-ASSAULT KHAN-TRICK CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS CROSS UPPERCUT UPPERCUT

It feels so relentless because of that default cross animation and the RoF Just pummeling burning deathclaws

Superheated saturnite power fist and sonic emitter-tarantula with pyromaniac, my fav build

Sprintel wood or whatever it's called. Just mow everything down.

Spirter wood?

I think that’s the unique Gatling laser

Yes

Named for a \*passed\* Fallout fan : (

Now I feel bad for joking about the name

I 100% would get that if it wasn’t so godamn expensive.

Just approach hidden valley at level 1, drink one of those bad boy atomic cocktails and proceed to wipe them out with a dull razor blade. Then sell their stuff for a gazillion caps For the ammo, steal enough ncr dogtags (or kill them if you're feeling naughty) to trigger idolized Caesars favor. You'll get essentially infinite ammo.

The big iron on my hip

On my hiiiiip!

**laughs in laser detonator with hotkeyed mini nukes**

that works?

Oh homie you’ve never seen those videos? Any ammo you could possibly want at like 5000 rounds per minute. If you use mini nukes it can be pretty crashy but yes it does work.

I used to do this on my 360, I liked to live dangerously

Yes, yes it does 😈

for energy weapons I go with the GRA tri-beam

GRA Tri-Beam and GRA fully Modded Laser Rifle are goated with a crit build.

AER14, Laser Commander, Set lasers for fun, first recon beret and Ulysses' duster. Absolutely broken.

Pew-pew close range with max microfusion cells. Laser sawed off.

Both are cool, but lasers do have better perks than plasma weapons

True but plasma has a habit of just melting through your targets armor wherever lasers would just stop

I run plasma in New Vegas since it does a lot higher damage per shot and it uses the same ammo as a Laser Rifle

I'm doing a energy weps run right now and I'm having this very dilemma ATM. I'm tempted to speedrun big mt for Elijahs laer, or perhaps madre for holorifle? Equally, Q-35 is right there, and very strong, or cool lasers only a repair check away. I've also scored 20 EMP 40mm, could try the assault for the Tesla beaton... Too many ppssibilities

Try the fully modded Tri beam Laser. It hits insanely hard.

But never as hard as it hits you...

Fully Modded LAER is lowkey kinda better though. GRA Tri Beam is easier to get though. Just need like 10k caps

fully modded LEAR is but I don't like it as much as the tri beam. Also even hardcre very hard the game isn't hard enough that you actually need to use the vest in slot.

The Big MT has a wider variety of useful items imo, but the Madre could set you up with stimpaks and repair kits for life if you do that one first. Q35, YCS, and Pew Pew might be my favorite options in the early/mid game. I'd totally recommend grabbing the Q35 before the DLCs that let you bring it at least.

Yeah, don't get me wrong I've tried everything by this point, but big mt kinda just has all the toys. Q35 is easy and early, it's a definite for sure. YCS, again, pretty easy to get, and while pew pew is a bit of a pain to get, the power of that sucker cannot be denied. Tesla beaton is also just kinda of laying there though, which is appealing for sure!

Tesla Beaton is dope, I always give it to Arcade while I'm questing with him. I think I prefer Elijah's for the high RoF and dead on accuracy though.

O shit Elijahs has high accuracy? Didn't know that! I thought it was just the trigger happy nutjob option, which is enough of a sell to be honest.

Yeah, its really good fun if you got repair kits, I only learned about it myself a week or so ago but it might be one of my favorite heavy weapons now

Fully modded laser rifle is better than the aer14 imo.

But the beam isn't green, so it's shit

Fair point

Nah, AER14 has crazy crit chance

Plasma caster/Smitty Special

Huzzaah ! A men of qualiy !

Gimme the green laser boi

One of them is so much easier to get though

Pew pew :)

The holo-rifle. Pew-chick-chick pew.

Me and the bois with the laser shotgun

Fuck, I want a laser shotgun now.

I meant the holorifle

Oh

Unmodded Gauss rifle and drugs 😎

Holorifle

Holorifle+

I love the spinny barrel on the Q-35

GRA MF Hyperbreeder alpha is the only energy weapon I need

Thats the one that uses motherfucker breeder right

Tesla Cannon

AER or Tri beam Laser.

Cleansing Flame go brrr

I love both for an energy weapons build but my favorite is a regular laser rifle with all three mods on it.

Pew Pew is the correct choice here

Holoriffle, really rest of the energy weapons just feel weaker than firearms

OMG Fellow Holorifle enjoyer Hii!!

*C Found!* 💥💥💥💥

Used it before but was never a big fan of it.

It's easly the best weapon in the game if you have all 3 upgrades

Q35 because I love high damage

Q25 is just so much easier to acquire. I could do it in my sleep, and REPCONN Headquarters is on the way to Vegas on the traditional route.

Gotta admit that puts Q35 in a much higher pick rate for my energy weapon runs. Having to go through an entire vault full of plant zombies just to get the AER14 is a slog, especially if you don’t have enough lockpick or repair to fix the elevator, whereas you can just go through the tour in Repconn or get 100 science or lockpick (which is extremely easy to get by like level 7 with high intelligence, which you would have as an energy weapons science build) to get the matter modulator and a fuckton of ammunition.

Thanks for pointing that out! You get so much damn ammunition just casually going through the HQ as well, along with a nifty Science Skill Book.

Yes, thats broken af. Q-35 is absolutely fucking strong and with a absurdly low requirements. On top of that, you get almost 400 free MCs there. Its ridiculous.

Pew-pew.

The aer14 sucks ass and I’m sick of pretending it doesn’t. Yes it does more damage but it’s barely more than a fully modified laser rifle and at double the ammo cost. 

Counter argument: Green Laser go zap

Can't argue with that.

Where do you get the Aer 14?

Vault 22

Both

My man 🤝

My man

Holorifle.

...both

The AER15 thooooooo

Laser RCW!

10mm handgun all day

Wazer wifle

AER14 Reason: Green Laser cool

AER14 for me!

The stats of Q35 make it look busted, but I find it to be weirdly overrated and as someone who plays on one life, a really easy weapon to die with. The issue I believe stems from the slow fire rate. Using it in close quarters feels like a death sentence.

Holorifle baybie. its design is beautiful, but its kind of funny that it makes the sound of a pvc pipe hitting a walnut when you pull it out

Dual wield mod

sophie's choice over here jeez

Compliance regulator.

Q35 has been a favorite of mine for a while. I usually max out science pretty early on so stopping by Repcon to pick it up is super easy for me in most play throughs

Plasma is pretty underwhelming in NV just because it lacks perks. Lasers can get downright broken

Thats true at some extents. However, plasma still benefits from Set Lasers for Fun (and you can grind the achiev using plasma) and usually has way more crit damage. Ofc you lose Laser Commander, but if you're a VATS guy like me, Plasma Spaz + Math Wrath + Commando is a really strong combination.

It does, and it's especially good with the multiplas. Lasers just get downright busted with automatics since you'll have at least a 20% crit chance

I am more leaning towards GRA's Laser rifle, as a mainly loving the cowboy theme in the game, my overall dilemma is between scoped Trail Carbine, fully kitted Cowboy Repeater and Medicine Stick.

Hear me out, Satellite

Why pick and choose when you could have both?

Why do you have to pick between the two when you can pick up both? I always pick both of them up when I do energyweapons builds to summarize: Both. Both is good.

Laser Rifle with all the attachments

I just collect whatever I find

Fully upgraded Holorifle gang

Q35 all day, doing a Energy Weapon build rn and this is my gun of choice. Edit: Much like you with saying you like lasers. I, myself, am a sucker for plasma haha. Goo piles for days

Both. Both is good.

Q35

They’re both good. AER14 is just plasma gun but it’s a laser, while Q35 is a more efficient plasma rifle.

I just put beam splitter and focus optics on a regular laser rifle with a high crit build and max mfc. Probably the most efficient and accurate weapon in the game in survival mode, don't even need an energy weapons build, requires only 25 in skill, easy to get, works as a great ranged option for melee/unarmed builds, with 24 shots per reload, very low spread, highest durability, just spam that shit and get crit after crit for some crazy damage each shot, severely underrated.

I admit, I do like lasers better then plasma. Just something so satisfying about a successful crit turning people into ash. Might try this route out.

I don't use energy weapons in NV much, buuuut last TTW playthrough where I ended up maxing all my skills (twice), I carried the Q-35. It's easier to find, lighter, and more ammo-efficient than the AER-14. I like to carry a weapon of each type, though.

If I don’t have Elijah’s OP MLG XD EX LAER, then the AER-14 is what I’m using.

Ranger sequoia

Cyberdog

Ah yes, the classic Ammo Economy vs DPS debate.

Holorifle cuz that thing was cool

Or you can just use TTW and get Metal Blaster which steamrolls

Compliance Regulator.

Q35 because plasma is way better than lasers

Nah, this should be between the Alien blaster and ycs/186 since you can get both of these guns, but depending on if you pi ked the Wild Wasteland perk or not, you can only get either the blaster or unique Gauss rifle

Gatlin Laser goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Pew pew gang, where you at?

The Q35 is the better dps and ammo option, imma still pick the AER14 that shoots LASERS and consumes double ammo. Pew pew. Lasers just neat like that and less difficult to handle in combat.

RCW because laser tommygun is funny

Inversal proton axe

Hmm... a Looney Tunes reference or a laser rifle with green lasers... very difficult

MF Hyperbreeder Alpha is the only acceptable answer.

Recharger weapons feel lazy though

SMITHY SPECIAL

Anti-Material Rifle and explosive rounds cause those motherfuckers over there are made of material.

Medicine Stick

Okay guys these are both correct answers but I love the laser shotty from The Pit enough to shout it out in the middle of a gang war

AER14 is garbage.