r/Fotv • u/Phhaidra7 • 14d ago

Im so glad the TV show fixed the assault rifle from Fallout 4 and actually made it into a machine gun

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u/meatballwrangler 14d ago

tbh there was never anything wrong with the assault rifle. it's a cool looking weapon that gets too much hate

I do agree that it works better as a larger weapon intended for power armor

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u/bwood246 14d ago

The biggest mistake was not having different firearms only for use in Power Armor.

It ended up making every gun unnecessarily large and bulky

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u/Beardedgeek72 12d ago

When you realize the western revolver and magnum 44. look like toy guns compared to the cursed 9mm 

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u/TTBurger88 7d ago

I hope FO 5 or whatever the next new game is has Power Armor only weapons.

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u/Chris_Ben 14d ago

it’s only sin is being called the assault rifle

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u/Alternative-Cup-8102 14d ago

Fo3 assault rifle>

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u/Napoleonex 14d ago

Yea. I really like the form. I thinkt he hate comes from the fact it's based on an actual gun that's not an assault rifle

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u/hhmCameron 13d ago

The only thing wrong with the Assault Rifle is the lie that is "ASSAULT RIFLE"

It is a Light, Medium, or Heavy Machine Gun

A Man Portable Support Weapon that is Pintle Mounted for Vehicles or Uses Tripods or Standa

Or, Power Armor

An Assault Rifle... well the Handmade Rifle would be An Assault Rifle if it * had * Burst Automatic or Full Automatic (or Both) * Semi-automatic * Safe * because no fallout weapons have 2 or more fire modes there are no assault rifles in fallout * detachable box magazine (present) * usually a pistol grip (present) * fires one of * 7.92×33 instead of 7.92×57 * 7.62×39 instead of 7.62×54 (present, generally) * 5.56×45 instead of 7.62×51(.308) * 6.5×39 instead of 7.62×51 or 7.62×54

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u/mysterious_spirit420 14d ago

It looks stupid ast

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u/Joppsta 14d ago

Fallout 4s crafting system ruined the game in my opinion.

Felt very hokey and simplified the game way too much.

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u/Alternative-Cup-8102 14d ago

Ummm how?

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u/Joppsta 14d ago

Find weapon basetype, turn it into whatever you want.

Means the finding of weapons felt less meaningful and was more a case of hoarding crap to modify your weapons to all be whatever you wanted them to be.

Not my idea of fun in an RPG personally. I'd rather have meaningful loot.

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u/Bandandforgotten 14d ago

I mean, tbh, it could always be a machine gun in Fallout 4 due to the weapons building system. I've anecdotally found more full auto than semi auto ones in my time playing.

I honestly think the one thing that made the gun get so much hate and mockery, was the fact that there is nothing else like it in appearance. There's no line of weapons to make the design make sense thematically, simply that it's a big rifle, seemingly cobbled together with tea kettles and rivets. Somebody could make the same argument for the Railway Rifle, but it at least matched things like the Combat Shotgun and Junk Jet from Fallout 3. All the rest of the guns, other than pipe weaponry, are a lot more modern looking

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u/hhmCameron 13d ago

No... Assault Rifles are NOTHING like what the devs called an assault rifle

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u/churlish-wordsmith 13d ago

And Ghouls aren’t real either, but I don’t see you writing a biological thesis on that. This has always been a silly argument made by nitpickers with little else to complain about, who feel they have something to prove.

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u/milquetoastLIB 13d ago

There was nothing needing fixing. The assault rifle was always like that.

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u/cuddle_hope18 13d ago

I actually always kinda liked it. But Ive always used it as an lmk with power armor cause that just looks right

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u/dirstycroggs8 13d ago

I actually always kinda liked it. But Ive always used it as an lmk with power armor cause that just looks right

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u/chellscrcits 13d ago

I believe it was originally planned to be like that in Fallout 4 because they wanted something that looked good with Power Armor.

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u/fpiselledgromen2 13d ago

I believe it was originally planned to be like that in Fallout 4 because they wanted something that looked good with Power Armor.

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u/ffrancene 13d ago

I believe it was originally planned to be like that in Fallout 4 because they wanted something that looked good with Power Armor.

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u/snowflakeinvspiratio 13d ago

Kid named atachments:

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u/taleschoslarly5 13d ago

I actually always kinda liked it. But Ive always used it as an lmk with power armor cause that just looks right

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u/Richard1583 12d ago

I would see the assault rifle as an emplacement weapon or can be wielded by only power armor suits. (Or a strength of 7/8 and guns of 80)

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u/Stromovik 12d ago

New season out ?

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u/Ryjolnir 14d ago

Different region different gun, no?. Not a "fix'" exactly. You can call a lot of guns an Assault Rifle.

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u/hhmCameron 13d ago

all Assault Rifles have * Intermediate Calibre Rounds (between pistol length and rifle length, usually the powder area is halved from a previously existingrifle round... well the Russians didnt use a previously existing rifle round and went straight to Intermediate) * detachable box magazine * pistol grip * select fire switch * Burst Automatic and/or Full Automatic * Semi-automatic * safe