Top 10 Best Weapons In Fallout 3

[@noahhobson4521]

Honorable mention: the dart gun. No, it doesn't do tremendous amounts of damage, but instantly crippling the legs of anything you shoot can be extremely useful. It turns any melee enemy into a joke and is one of the few silent weapons in Fallout 3. It's also easy to make, with the hardest component to get being a radscorpion poison gland. Ammo for it is also way more common than it feels like it should be.

[@burntbiscuit7268]

I Took out the deathclaw sanctuary with the dart gun and a regular plasma rifle

[@chumbosaurio7099]

The best tool in the game

[@aydenacors676]

@@noahhobson4521 dart gun worked wonders on albino rad scorpions and deathclaws

[@LexZarov]

Kept Deathclaws and Ghoul Reavers slow and charming. Now i simply send Fawkes in to bait them all

[@Aaahrg]

I love the Metal Blaster, its the sole reason to go energy weapons build in Fallout 3 and do the Pit DLC first

[@ReapeeRon]

Yeah I love it too, it is so good!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

A3-21’s and novasurge are good too, and the alien pistol whose name I’m forgetting with the ridiculously low AP cost combined with Grim Reaper’s Sprint makes a great VATS weapon.

[@Xahmost]

I'm surprised that the Xuanlong isn't mentioned here. Its the best assault rifle, can be easily fixed with similar weapons, good rof and the 5.56 ammo is easily plentiful 👍🏻

[@Justanotherconsumer]

It’s OK, but it’s just OK. Best of the best of a fairly limited class of weapons isn’t much of a selling point.

[@LexZarov]

It only does a little more damage and also wears off pretty fast

[@mrbubbles7832]

Paulson’s revolver and Jack are both one of the best weapons. I would consider them both to be on the level of the combat shotgun.

[@LexZarov]

The Lincoln Repeater is pretty useless at Lvl 30 when u face only late game enemies. Its pretty fun against Rider groups or Ol Painless I think the two best weapons in the game when u have the DLCs and 100 Laser Weapon Skill the Alien Disintegrator rifle (very long item health and high damage) in Mothership Zeta and the Alien Blaster after u finish it for lategame enemies. Also the Gauss Rifle replaced my Sniper with its long durability

[@benjaminanderson3061]

I feel like Paulson's revolver should be on this list

[@toxicmilkshake97]

Should’ve taken over the reg combat shotty

[@silverjohn6037]

Reference the combat shotgun you can also get them (usually in bad repair) in assorted boobytraps around the Wasteland.

[@DonteDiMora]

Good list. I would argue the unbreakable sniper is better than Lincoln’s repeater and the unbreakable shotgun is better than the terrible shotgun (if we are including those 2). I would include Paulsons revolver because of the fire rate and crit chance. I would also have included protectron’s gaze just because it’s my favorite weapon for dealing with weak enemies. It’s the best of all the strong and cheap to operate weapons (Sydney’s SMG, ol’ painless, Xuanlong Assault Rifle, etc.). Also super easy to get. Definitely weaker than most of the weapons on this list but still super strong and super practical.

[@csgosniperelitepro]

MPLX Nova Surge would have been a good one to add to the list

[@Arutima]

Metal Blaster is very good in Fallout 3 and become obsene if you are playing Tales of Two Wastelands and you have all the New Vegas energy weapon perks

[@JimmyJoints]

I am happy the Metal Blaster is only requires you to get half the ingots, because I get it every playthrough lmao

[@chrisherzog1367]

Gatling Lasers in FO3/NV are so fun and they are (while strong still) noticeably less satisfying with the slower rate of fire

[@jod1653]

MPLX Novavsurge doesn't get a spot? iirc it is better compared to A3-21's Plasma Rifle but of course harder to get.

[@hliasliakopoulos9134]

Also Nova surge plasma pistol Gaus rifle Perforator Eugene Tri-beam rifle Jack the ripper Captains sidearm Protectors gaze Vicrory rifle The mauler

[@milyoppa7201]

all my years playing fallout amd i never knew you could block a yao guai attack😮

[@kommisarneckbone]

I find it atrocious that wild bills sidearm didn't make the cut

[@joolsmacgrools1288]

I like the weapon quite a bit but I wouldn't consider it top tier. It's very solid, though.

[@Spiyder11]

I was playing FO3 on mute for some reason and got my ass handed to me by a Heavy Incinerator. It scared the bejesus out of me because all of a sudden there was fire, and my character was dead in seconds 😂

[@maximus4765]

Bottlecap mines > Fatman. Lighter to carry, easier to get ammo for, just stack and whack.

[@MrGunner121]

fatman more fun tho

[@AnthonyParker-s6l]

Would the metal blaster benefit from shotgun perks and energy weapon perks?

[@UncookedOtamots]

Isn't Jack the best melee with a crit build? Dunno been ages since I last played FO3 but jack def carried me after finding it exploring

[@ReapeeRon]

It's pretty strong, but I don't know if it or the Auto Axes can do more DPS. Jack can crit but the axes have more base damage.

[@dikelover7036]

jack does more with the crit 100000%

[@villings]

that's a solid list

[@joolsmacgrools1288]

No Paulson's revolver? No Backwater rifle?! I say boo to you sir, and good day!

[@ADUSN]

Experimental MIRV was based

[@charlesjoseph9591]

Cool

[@gunprojects5398]

Really? The dart gun isn't number 1? The craftable weapon that only requires extremely common parts that can slow down literally any enemy? The weapon that makes death clause a non-factor? You put the combat shotgun and the Terrible shotgun in one video... did you not know that the only benefit of The terrible shotgun is it only does more crit multiplier only if every single pellet hits?

[@Spudlet7]

Did u get a hair cut???

[@ReapeeRon]

Yeah I cut my hair a few days ago.

[@thebusinessmn1114]

I'm gonna be honest. At some point while playing fallout 3 I was doing more damage with crits and base walloping with my bare hands over any gun or unarmed weapon. Maybe something glitches with my build near the end with "almost perfect" with overlapping or some stuff. This was every DLC on the hardest difficulty

[@ivandjordjevic712]

It is good weapons but with those game become boring 🙂

[@joolsmacgrools1288]

No Paulson's revolver? No Backwater rifle?! I say boo to you sir, and good day!