10 More Bad Weapons In Fallout New Vegas

[@dreamwanderer5791]

I like that a lot of this list can be summed up with "I genuinely forgot this existed even though I've come across hundreds."

[@regretgames5580]

I wish the Recharger Rifle was good, it's quite fun and looks pretty cool

[@thatgamerguy8441]

I made it work as a backup emergency weapon, as i constantly forget to stock on ammo. Otherwise, it really isn't the best weapon to choose.

[@dustinlouis5457]

I completely disagree it is niche but 100% viable my suggestion is take a low level character with a recharger rifle to Sloan go up the rock out cropping on the left till a deathclaw can’t get to you and take pot shots at every deathclaw you see and you will eventually kill them all any deathclaw a that flew out of range will return to there home after waiting an hour if you go out of your way to find situations like this it becomes an eventual win

[@thatgamerguy8441]

@@dustinlouis5457 Eh, it'll be a long fight. And it'd have to be a very good position, as in my experience, the death claws usually just dip and stay out of line of sight. One good spot to do this, however, is on the red crane in the middle of the quarry. If you parkor onto the roof, you'll be visible and have a generally good sightline, while being untouchable by any death claws

[@zachlewis9751]

I think devs really have a hard time making infinite recharging ammo weapons usable. The MF Hyperbreeder Alpha is a decent weapon and will do a lot of work.

[@Arkaskas1]

​@BIadeloresIt becomes better with Jsawyers mod, the creative director of new vegas which makes it a little better and enables you to get it very early, since early game energy weapons and ammo are hard to acquire.

[@galdersrontgorrth]

the recharger rifle is a good energy weapon early on since the laster pistol does like zero damage even right at the start (like 3 to 4 shots to kill a single bloat fly on very hard lol) and the energy cells are more needed for the plasma pistol in case you're fighting stronger targets (convict leader in primm etc).

[@micahbrunet5523]

Arc Welder is probably my least favorite weapon. It feels incredibly underwhelming for some reason

[@jbisthedj]

Its strangely boring to use

[@joshuakim5240]

It more or less exists solely to allow for low levels to do Lonesome Road via bypassing the first section's Sentry Bots. Aside from that one singular function, it's a garbage weapon overall.

[@noahhobson4521]

Pool cues are at least fairly light for something to keep as repair fodder for two handed melee weapons. Most of those weapons are pretty heavy. No one wants to be lugging around half a dozen rebar clubs to fix their super sledge.

[@Bad_Gazpacho]

With Jury Rigging pool cues become the best cornermen to your proper melee weapons.

[@kanrakucheese]

The weight is a big reason why I think these are intended to arm random hostiles without giving the player much of value in return.

[@ArcasCorricol]

never unhappy to find a stack of pool cues with jury rigging. they're worth their weight in gold

[@TsRAbyssers]

I did a Playthrough of using the Recharger rifle only a few months ago and honestly might be the worst thing i've done, The only upside was not having to spend caps on Ammo but that was it, i dont recommend putting yourself thru the torture

[@danielsurvivor1372]

Infinity Pistol from Borderlands series has same principle although it doesn't need to wait to recharge ammo, it's always shooting super weak bullets. Basically both weapons are supposed to be used on trash mobs, so tis on you using it vs end game xD

[@renegaderaven3777]

Lmao, it didn’t occur to me that Old Glory was a unique pool cue. That’s hilarious.

[@jeremiahthomas1385]

I know we are talking about bad weapons but when i play this game i like a 357 magnum revolver.

[@kanrakucheese]

I think machete may be meh on purpose *because* it’s the Legion’s main weapon, allowing it to be used freely on the "hoard" faction without making random legionaries too potent or give too much loot. Some other melee weapons on this might also have the intent of being used by random raiders/muggers for that reason. Morrowind *definitely* did this by giving minor opponents iron/nordic/netch leather/fur equipment that weighs a lot and sells for almost nothing when the player can afford a full set of in all ways superior chitin/bonemold/steel by just clearing the first cave.

[@jackpfefferkorn3734]

And then you get a Daedric Daikatana that doesn't fit with your mage build, but you can't sell it because it's price is so high no merchant can afford it.

[@kanrakucheese]

@@jackpfefferkorn3734 Which is a sane way to keep money, which is needed for training, from becoming too common. Unfortunately this falls apart once you realize trainers who are also vendors can indirectly be paid with expensive items, or that the random loot in bandit caves gets absurdly valuable after the first few levels, or that it doesn't actually require much mercantile to sell items for more than you paid for them), or that it's trivial to make potions from cheap ingredients that sell for far more than it costs to make them, or that soul gems sell for absurd amounts of money or... Basically, Morrowind had great ideas for economy, but squandered them all by having trivial ways to obtain mass amounts of money.

[@jackpfefferkorn3734]

@@kanrakucheese yeah, what I would end up doing was to use overpriced loot to fund the creation of enchanted items. I would spend all the money I had on a strong custom enchantment, then get my money back by selling valuable items to the enchanting vendor. It's important to save beforehand, though, because sometimes the money you paid for enchanting won't count towards their available money as a merchant.

[@jigthh]

I really like the theme of the machete. Unlike in other fallout games, fnv machete is very clearly made of scrap parts. It has some random tape and the blade is a lawnmower blade. Regretfully it pales in comparison to broad machete. Atleast there's liberator which is a bit better than ordinary machete which has the same look.

[@juanitoincognito5048]

On my first play though of this game I didn’t sneak in any guns or weapons in when I met Benny again and I was unarmed so I grabbed a pool cue from the table and barley managed to kill a goon with it and get his gun to save myself lol

[@ReapeeRon]

Awesome!

[@katherine9447]

I love lists where people exclude the "obvious choices" so I was really excited to see this. I also have zero complaints about any of the content of the actual video as it's your usual FNV style list videos and I think you do those a lot better than most other youtubers. If I could play devil's advocate on some of these (admittedly poor weapons)…. Special attacks can be used outside of VATS with melee weapons without hitting the 50 melee skill requirements and special attacks done outside of VATS will have the same effect as if done in VATS. The pool cue and the nail board both have a special attack which deals double damage which means that the pool cue will do 15 damage with a normal outside of VATS attack, 30 damage with a normal attack in VATS, and 60 damage with a special attack regardless if its done in (or out) of VATS. So the Nail Board can deal 100 damage outside of VATS with it's special attack. They're actually really deceiving weapons when it comes to how much damage they can actually deal. However, the Baseball Bat does have the same special attack, attacks faster, and can score critical hits so it's still a bunch better weapon despite being weaker than the nail board. The X-2 Antenna and Old Glory also have this special attack, by the way. Fatigue weapons are bad in New Vegas but the boxing gloves does deal 15 additional fatigue damage over the boxing tape. Once fatigue is drained, the boxing gloves also deal 10 additional damage a hit so it is the superior choice over the boxing tape is one is a masochist and wants to just use fatigue damaging weapons. Flashbangs are terrible even when compared to the rest of the terrible fatigue weapons. I don't know if its been patched but there was a glitch(?) where some robots would take fatigue damage as normal damage. Unsure if it still exists but it was a "feature" at one time. The arc welder is essentially the minigun version of the pulse gun. Its fairly good at taking down robots but it's terrible at anything else. I'm of the belief that the Marked Men use them because Obsidian was expecting most players to be using Power Armor and it does deal bonus damage against power armor. Finally, the recharger rifle has one of the highest rate of fires among energy weapons and is the only energy rifle that doesn't require any weapon skill. It's essentially a (very slightly) stronger laser pistol that doesn't use ammo. It's a really terrible weapon as far as energy weapons go (mainly due to weight and slow recharge) but it does negate 2 points of worth of DT so it's essentially as strong as the 9mm.

[@Buzterer]

Actually you can get 2 pool cues at Trudy's

[@Gigean23373]

Would love to see a video discussing some of the less-known unique variants of lower-tier/bad weapons and either comparing them to their generic companion or just ranking the uniques against each other

[@brantnuttall]

3:40 yes it is. it's horrible and heavy

[@eggy6815]

The weirdest part is that without jury rigging, you can repair the recharger rifle with laser rifles, but you can’t fix laser rifles with recharger rifles.

[@ReapeeRon]

That is true, and that is really weird.

[@derpydood]

In defense of the recharger weapons, they aren't great in general, but can be very amusing in the right situations. Example, I made an energy weapon focused character with whatever perks that helped. For whatever reason I went into Honest Hearts with a Recharger Rifle and the unique pistol(can't remember the name right now). Every other White Leg(and a shocking amount of critters) exploded into a ball of green, and usually took the poor saps standing nearby with them. Everywhere else though, not great.

[@ReapeeRon]

That is fair to say. They can be fun!

[@Steve-sw3vn]

If you haven’t done a FO3 or FO4 weapon list like this yet, those would definitely be fantastic. Hopefully you can jump on the starfield hype list, too. Making lists for that game would be watched. And if you’re not a Bethesda guy, maybe Outer Worlds?

[@leob.4962]

Following Nerbit, I beat the game only using the Recharger Rifle and beat it through the Caesar's Legion and that sucked.

[@youforget1000thingsaday]

I'll have no recharger rifle slander. That rifle saved my ass plenty of times.

[@brendancoulter5761]

recharger rifle saves you money on ammo, wich you will need because you will be spamming stims to keep yourself alive if you use it.

[@SaltyLobster]

Looking for bad weapons? Pretty much anything you can find in Dead Money is bad (except Holorifle ofc, but you get it in terrible condition and little ammo). That's why I always cheese that DLC with Fist of Rawr.

[@11Reaper9]

I’m all about caps in NV. I avoid most of these cause they aren’t worth anything much. Just the arc welder I keep around

[@I-AM-EL-ZOZO]

Recharger is actually a really good one for hardcore. Zero ammo weight. No need to worry about weight at all.

[@WarpedBlinds]

Maybe the Recharger Pistol, but the rifle is just a complete pain to use.

[@dragonyoshi1]

If u have companions or it's just a mole rat or low health enemy recharger weapons low damage doesn't matter too much it's an economy thing the caps you would spend on ammunition go into stimpak/healing item fund, bribery barter checks or munitions for a different weapon or a weapon itself like an expensive shiny 10k or 20k weapon. So I would argue that recharger weapons are not "Bad weapons" at all.

[@Treasure_hunter_21]

But what about cane?

[@chilchuck.]

lol the lead pipe is so bad that it not even in this video, like there is nothing to say about it and yet it still get added to fallout 4 and 76 and being a horrible and boring weapon

[@ReapeeRon]

I find the lead pipe to be okay. It's not bad in the early game.

[@chilchuck.]

@@ReapeeRon somehow i thought it deal as much damage as a switch blade since it often carried by freeside thugs, yep 22 damage ain't bad at all and it even come with a special attack yep not bad at all lol

[@StreakedSilver]

These are enjoyable, How have you been enjoying Starfield? Do you intend to make lists for that? And ..what do you feel about Loot Bugs being the potential cure for the RockPox?

[@aradan3913]

I dont think it's fair to put knife and machete here. Machete is a really good weapon, and knives are literally everywhere, camps, kitchens, any sort of enemy. They are just early game weapons, the knife is an extremly common one, and the machete is actually good (people usually understate how good limb cripple is in melee, basically a ~2 sec stun, and the machete makes them cripple multiple limbs easily) for the time in the game they fit. Saying chance's knife can be gotten early is like saying Lonesome road weapons or that machine are starter kit, pipes are uncommon, so are combat knives early; that's why i think it's unfair for those 2 to be in the list. Switchblade and the other weapons I dont mind, because they are kind of rare and bad compared to the wildly available knife. Specially since this have crit multipliers and this ealry you got terrible crit chances.

[@empirednw6624]

I kinda liked the ark welder

[@ДмитрийШуневич-с1к]

Hmmm, erm.. like...arc-welder is a tool .D Not a weapon ahah

[@Fujingadzillion]

Big iron is a equipped

[@brantnuttall]

these weapons suck! Nice list!

[@Fencer_Nowa]

Nah not recharger rifle slander smh but it is kinda ass sadly

[@tanookiman13]

First

[@kevino2435]

Let’s gooooo!!