The Misfit Weapons of Fallout: Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2023
- It was bound to happen, with the number and variety of weapons in the Fallout series, some would defy any sort of classification, so welcome to the video of misfit weapons. Lets go over these weapons, expose any interesting lore and try and find their real world inspirations.
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I used to think that pipe weapons were unrealistic, then that one guy in Japan assassinated the former PM with what was basically a pipe weapon so what do I know
Look up the Luty 9mm smg. You can buy a book to make them but will end up on a watch list
@@thecopperowl8386 on a more serious note, isnt that the gun favoured by Australian and New Zealand biker gangs, bwcause of how easy it is to stamp sheet metal together into a crude, blowback, automatic weapon? Or is it just something similar
@@noodlepotreal I believe it's the same. It's also popular with South American gangs
i remember seeing an image of an improvised .50 BMG gun built by brazillian gang members to use against armoured cars
3/4 inch black iron pipe can handle the pressure of a 3" magnum 12 gauge. But its a shotgun shell and that's considered a low pressure cartridge.
I think it makes enough sense for the dart gun to weigh half as much as the junk needed to make it, just means you only used half of the components that make up the junk.
Nah it still wouldn't make sense given the dart gun model. The entire paint gun, which weighs five, is retained. The entire toy car is also present.
Even if we assumed that most of the weight in the surgical tubing and poison gland have been removed, the dart gun should still weigh 6 units for the combined paint gun and toy car.
@@darkkyoko7565 y'all thinking to hard
@@darkkyoko7565 weight might also factor in how well you can carry it, like the individual pieces of junk are awkward but the gun is more sleak and pocketable?
@@bigearl1624 why you pushing being complacent with stupidity? 🥴🤪
@@darkkyoko7565 Well, if you have essentially what's a bunch of functionally raw material- you only use what you need.
Think about the wood used to make a house- how much of the twigs, bark and branches you gonna use for a cabbin?
Better yet, think about Billet CNC machines.
A 1m² hunk of whateverthefuck will weigh 1 number going in and 1 number going out and will vary depending on what's carved from it.
The crutch isn't for the weapon, it's for your character so they can still get around after pulling a wooden stock out of their ass
That actually made me lol
Good one lmao
Maybe the crutch was used in the piping?
The Fo4 railway rifle choochoo noise was so cute to my ears.
I think that the flares scaring off abominations is a reference to some Monster movies like Peter Jackson's King Kong or Alien. As in King Kong,a flare was used to scare off giant insects during the pit sequence. And in Alien,they used flamethrowers to try and scare off the xenomorph.
Edit: I know that it's a very big trope,I'm just saying it could be a direct reference to these kind of movies.
It's always reminded me of Pitch Black, personally. I think you're onto something there.
The are subterranean creatures they would not be used to any light and if they have eyes it would really hurt for them to see any light let alone a flare shot right next to them
@@mogo5055 that's still a cool gameplay concept too it's almost like the opposite of how you can distract infected in day with lights
Or it's a common sense thing 🤣
its just a trope that is far older than either of those properties. Beasts and the dark are scared of fire and we use it as a tool to succeed. Mastering fire, we have mastered the beasts, showing our supremacy. And also, wild animals do shy away from open flames.
Oddly enough, you don't need a perfectly straight barrel for the projectile to fly out of the end. Makes sense since it'll go the path of least resistance. And if the barrel is thick enough to just bounce the projectile if it hits the side a bit. Kinda like how if you throw a punch and someone hits your arm to the side, it'll deviate off path a bit.
Source: That time Demolition Ranch fired rifles with bent barrels. Including one barrel bent at a 90 or 180 degree angle. Yes, back towards the operator.
I can't remember the name (Edited:"Krummlauf" is the name) but the Germans during ww2 developed barrels that had 30,(I think 45),60,and 90 degree angles to allow shooting around corners and mounted on tanks to kill any climbers or nicknamed "pest" and sometimes "roaches". They discovered around 100 to 200 rounds could be fired before the barrel breaks but also discovered most bullets would chip the barrel and caused a spaling like effect and damaged the bullet normally.
@Devin G Its an STG-44 variant named "Krummlauf"
And mithbusters did it too
@@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNamesso a shotgun
I believe that the H&H nail gun has like a fire selector or something on it to explain how it would be used pre-war
More like just modified to cycle continuously.
Just take out the trigger disconnect, done, full auto pre-war nail gun.
Why would anyone switch their nail gun to full auto
@@parentaladvisory113 you ever had to put together a shed in under an hour?
@@DoctorProph3tno one has
Time to re-binge the radking fallout weapon videos
I've recently discovered him I won't lie and I've been hooked on these videos
Coincidental that you mentioned: "Finding Meaning when there is None" because I think the Developers are quite aware that fans and players will make their own meanings to things even if they didn't intend on it.
Mostly this is due to Santiago, the artist Robobrain at Vault 118 in Far Harbor, as he says that it is remarkable that people find meaning in his art where none was intended, if you choose and pass the speech check when discussing his "Kitten with a Toy Rocket" painting, as he didn't put much effort in it and shipped it off as a commercial product that later became his most sold piece.
Interesting idea!
Just a shame that the developers are also quite aware that players will also make their own, Fixes. To things if they never intended to.
I like the idea of Santiago in far harbor and new Vegas being related, also that the mysterious stranger being a strong early/prototype cursor of the institute. My question is what is “the school” and “the principle” from honest hearts? Is it that vault that produced clone kids for a super human program? Is it the institute as well? Is it aliens? Maybe it’s something we never saw and died off? Maybe it's maybelline
Emil as a Robobrain. "Glad you liked it but I put 0 effort into it, thanks for filling in the gaps for me."
@@kingofthegrill The more you think about it, the more it feel like the writer is taking a piss on the fan base.
According to ingame notes, the Vertibird signal flare emits a smoke which is laden with some kind of electromagnetic tracer element. This will be picked up by sensors, and allow the 'Bird to find the location.
This seems like a really complicated system, particularly considering the availability of "Distress Pulsers", the portable distress radio beacons used by the BoS.
It would make more sense to me if summoning a Vertibird was done by throwing a "grenade" form of Distress Pulsers. In terms of game mechanics, it could have the exact same effect.
If a visual indicator is wanted, a red, blinking light is pretty much as useful as a pillar of smoke, and might even have less impact on game performance.
Tbh it is just the tech that is overly complicated but once you have it , it is safe and simple. Alot of random wastelanders could call a vertibird if you use just regular flares, grenades, etc. A distress beacon would be obvious and if a enemy finds it could easily come up with a plan using it aswell as let the enemy know you are working with advanced technology. What the brotherhood has is covert and distinct to their alert systems. The crazy part is the tech kinda actually exists. I work in construction and Spray materials on surfaces. Their are spray pistols that actually magnetize the material to help it attract to surfaces. It's pretty much like everyother spray pistol the difference is the magnetize one cost like 10k starting price
@@aaronblacke6425 Thank you for responding, I didn't know about that kind of advanced spray painting technology.
I would still argue that the "tracer smoke" is more complicated than the distress pulser, though.
The distress pulser is a known technology, already in widespread use by BoS teams as shown in a particular quest in the game. They could be made resistant to tampering by requiring a code, or even biometrics, to operate.
To have a _smoke flare_ emit a traceable electromagnetic signal that can be picked up far enough away that a Vertibird can be sent to its location... that's just redundant, not to mention just as sensitive to tampering as a distress pulser, if not more so.
And yes, I know I'm talking about "realism" in a game that features super mutants, but I think the "magical smoke flare" is less consistent with the worldbuilding.
There's a really good mod that swaps your stack of Vertibird Signal flares for a single reusable Distress Pulser
If anything, I'd like to imagine that the vertibird grenade is a two-in-one item, with the "EM frequency" or whatever being for long range uses only, given sophisticated equipment in Fallout can take up entire rooms if not thought out enough, and the smoke is a short-range visual indicator for pilots when they come into view.
Because being given orders via radio about a long-range frequency, and basically flying blind the *entire* way isn't the most efficient. It's better to signal, the grenade autobroadcasts a particular quadrant, then pilots nav the last few thousand feet, especially if you end up calling for a ride in a city like Boston.
Agree with your last point about critique vs hate. It seems that many people have forgotten that you can like something, but still be able to point out its flaws or that you can hate something but still be able to point out its positives.
I like the pipe guns, they're obviously based off the Luty and various homemade stuff, but them being weaker makes no sense. I would like a mod where they do the same damage as their counter parts, but are less accurate and break down and jam more often. They should also be more common as to show how bad things are, and would make regular guns more valuable.
This is an interesting video that is related to that. They rebalanced fo4 to do damage based on ammo type instead, plus a bunch of other stuff. ruclips.net/video/zEmqmWUetfc/видео.html
@@thornescapes7707 grabbed some for my survival run, night and day differe.
that's the problem of Fallout 4, they completely removed the durability system altogether. Otherwise the implementation of the pipe guns wouldn't be so jarring. A weapon that deals good damage with the ammo you have, but its accuracy is abysmal and durability even more so. which would force the player into investing time and effort on better weapons as to not have to rely on those ever again.
@@combinecommando001 Glad somebody said it. Litterally just including the durability/repair system would fix SO MANY of the flaws in Fallout 4's sanbox! Weapons, crafting, and settlements alike.
@@combinecommando001 That's an awesome solution. Love it.
I think its interesting that the Railway Rifle is in the shelter of the Meyers family, perhaps it was a tool to weld stuff together for their shelter?
Railspike pneumatic gun 🤔
I thought that also since it's basically a nailGun
@@Matt-md5yt That was used to secure rails and railroad ties together.
@@Matt-md5yt more of a rivet gun then nail gun
To quote TheRussianbadger "The Wasteland is full of scary shit that breaks your limbs and takes your health away." Deathclaws are the epitome of that statement.
for the artillery check the generator at the castle make sure the tower is turned on theres a switch on the side and if that doesnt work check your time scale if its set really slow then the artillery wont fire for hours
It's hard to believe that Supermutants give much thought to their group survival considering there is usually one in the group with a mini-nuke tucked under their right arm. One well placed shot and you take out the whole group. I've never understood why there are so many Suiciders. Or why there are any at all considering, as you said, they can't reproduce easily.
shoot the head, loot the nuke
I wondered if they're mutants who remember something of their former selves and find life as a supermutant traumatic, but I never found any in game evidence for it.
The Institute had been producing tons of super mutants for some reason and only stopped relatively recently. They can't reproduce on their own and will die out eventually, but there are still a lot of them left from when they were being made.
@@screamingcactus1753 Yet there's always like a thousand of them in Boston.
I always assumed they were basically mutants who were heavily disliked by the others and as such are forced to do it.
The Pipe Guns reminds me of a few things.
The first is that making homemade weapons is not technically illegal here in the United States, but it is State dependent and you do have to register the weapon with the ATF.
The other is something my cousin encountered while he was in Afghanistan in 2017-2018, known as Khyber Pass copies, which were homemade copies of real guns like the M1911 and other guns.
Kaiber pass is a magical place
We used to make pipe shotguns and pop bombs when we were kids
In regards to the dart gun, I feel it’s worth noting that Scorpions are notorious for their whole “The smaller they are, the more venom they’ll inject you with” deal.
If that still applies, then I suppose it’s possible that the massive Scorpions of the wasteland mainly just stab you with their stingers and only inject a minuscule amount of venom that if concentrated as much as it is in the dart gun would be mildly paralytic.
I disagree here Radscorpins usually have a poison effect or something like it when attacked and seems to be strong enough to kill our player so a mild paralytic would be understating it
I've noticed that in NV, a young Cazador or Scorpion does more venom damage than a giant one.
Love the videos man!
Supper Soaker - Your stomach has acid that technically soaks whatever ends up in there. Hydrochloric, so the ammo makes sense as well.
The Supper Soaker just skips the whole eating step. 🤙
This is the best explanation.
That is what acid does, dissolves almost anything.
I love the aesthetic of the pipe weapons, I just wish they could stay competitive at higher levels. Or if more guns had a jury-rigged look. That's one thing I appreciated about Far Cry New Dawn, and that was only like 20 years after a nuclear war.
Thanks for the mention, RadKing! Always looking forward to your content.
a legendary wounding pipe SMG is quite neat. the effect does DMG over time and stacks, so the higher the rpm, the more DMG you get from the effect and not the shots
The finned barrel helps them stay competitive. Be creative with the legendary prefixes and available mods.
Hint: it can attain the longest range available for a ballistic damage weapon, second only to the laser gun.
I love the concept, but the execution definately falls short for me.
Can we just take a second to discuss this Death Claw shrugging off 5 or 6 missiles?
Thats just how the wasteland makes em
he forgot to level up -explosives- big guns
side note: why is there an explosives skill in f3 if it boosts jack shit
@@sludgedweller Explosives in 3 boosts grenades and also increases the amount of time it takes for mines to detonate after being activated.
@@screamingcactus1753 using grenades as a main weapon is basically handicapping yourself considering how a stack of grenades can eventually weigh more than a rifle and are much less versatile, not to mention possible supply issues. nv treated explosives well, fortunately.
@@sludgedweller imo Explosives, Unarmed and Energy Weapons were all lacking in 3 and NV made them the best skills in the game.
Decided to head to bed after working a late shift and playing games after, super happy to see a new radking video to listen to as I doze off… and then re watch again later so I can get my whole fix
it’s been eight years since Fallout 4 released??? i was in like fifth grade when it came it out and now i’m in college lol
great video as always, always appreciate your stuff popping up in my subscription feed!
when you brought up the Laser Detonator from Lonesome Road, i was really really hoping you would bring up the ammo swap glitch... basically: through a specific sequence of hotkeying ammo and swapping between weapons, there is a way to make the detonator shoot (almost) any other ammo type, all while keeping the laser detonator's fire rate + unlimited ammo. ive seen people using Explosive .50 cal, Big Boy Mini Nukes, Hive Missiles, etc.. its absolutely insane. would actually be hilarious to see in the b/g of one of ur vids lol
For the long rod used to cock the dart gun, can speak for the older spray guns, but in basic terms, for the modern spray guns, that rod is used to open or restrict the amount of paint coming out of the nozzle. Now thats for the gravity fed guns where the paint can sits on the top, may be different for the suction based one seen in game, haven't used the suction based one so my experience is limited
Having worked with nailguns I can say they area able to reach hilarious rates of fire. Granted those are usually propelled by air pressure, which FONV one obviously isn't.
You could basically hook one up into a pressure tank, jam down the safety which you'd press against the wood you were nailing and let it fly.
Lmao right, pneumatic nail guns. U can get it just right so it fires crazy fast (almost like a bump stock, is the only way I can compare it to)
Just have to clear jams every now and again 😉
The quote from the border defenders could be a reference to the “lumberjack song” from Monty python.
An unbeliever: "You can't make firearms with pipes"!
Me (A child of Atom): "It just works"
*Atom
@@Boone69 I must pray for his forgiveness
Germany to the UK during World War 2
@@regularcasanova7137 Atom forgives you
@@dd11111 Every country to every other country, really.
The Sherman really just looks like a plain old M4, but with the applique "cheek" and driver/bow gunner armor pieces. The M4A3 redesigned the hull and hatches to remove the need to cover those awkward weak spots. And as for the gun, it's definitely the 75mm, even though the 76 could also fire HE ammunition. but the 76 would have a longer barrel and likely a different turret.
Tank person here! The Sherman is a mix of M4, M4A2, and M4A4 variants, not a M4A3, the M4 the first iteration of the tank with A# meaning a alteration was made. Although sometimes I might be wrong as the Sherman variants are numerous.
The amount of minutiae in figuring out what variant of sherman it is means it’s literally a dice roll on what variant the Sherman is, it’s almost not worth our time even trying because lord knows the developers didn’t put that much thought into it
I believe it's just a straight m4a4 it looks the exact same, excluding the spotlights and exhaust looking part
Absolutely love the railway rifle, it's been my favourite gun since I stumbled on it in fo3. It's my main weapon in fo76 as well- with the assault modification of course. I was spiking mole miners while watching this!
I’ve got a 2SE and an AAE in FO76...I love them; they hit like trucks... and ammo is super cheap...!
the laser detonator likely shoots out a laser that messed up the internal components of a warhead causing it to heat itself up and eventually detonate the explosive meant to send the fissile material supercriical but due to half life or just improper detonation or general deterioration the fissile material is only enough to radiate the surrounding area
It seems clear that the idea of _Lonesome Road,_ effective or not, is that you _are_ setting off some sort of "pocket nuke" warhead and repeating the great sin of the Old World. Key to that DLC is how, unlike the three other DLCs for _New Vegas,_ you can just turn around and go back to the Mojave the way you came in. You have to choose to walk the Road, and to walk it, you have to nuke it. That leads, or _tries_ to lead, to the decision at its end.
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.308 and .50cal are still in pipe weapons. Its in the bolt action pipeguns. But they did make getting the plans for it a real pain.
for the nailer the high fire rate makes some sense in theory, it has nothing to eject so it can save time since it has no need to make sure the spent case is clear and due to not using combustion (im assuming it is pneumatic) it wouldn't need to worry about over heating, so in theory it could be Jerry rigged to be full auto and rather rapid at that also assuming it works similar to a real life nail gun some minor jerry rigging would be needed to disable the safety any way, though i dont have a nail gun lying around im willing to destroy or id be tempted to see it i could make such a thing work but till someone does it's only in theory.
I see what your going for, but how would the weapon operate without first pressurising?
Oddly, the nail guns operated by cartriges/blanks (although they're not really blanks.) Have a higher fire rate as you don't have to wait a few seconds/minutes for the air compressor to recharge the air resovoir.
I bloody loved pipe weapons. In my first playthrough, I got through like 80% of the campaign because of common the ammo was.
I suspect Radking has some real world firearm experience. Keep the great content coming. With all the things bad in the world content like this lifts us all up.
The neat part of the pipe weapon silencer is that is a 100% accurate makeshift suppressor. There are adapters for the AR15 that allow for this.
The real question is where are they getting oil filters on fusion powered vehicles? Do they operate just like an internal combustion engine in that regard?
I was goint to make a comment about "if only they could have made the rest of the makeshift weapons functionally accurate."
But that is a very good point. Where DO they get those filters from?!
21:37 *_"Chill out! It was just a prank, bro!"_*
I would just like to remind everyone that in the segment before, RadKing implied the reason the gun was refilled when unequipping was that the sole survivor is urinating in it.
🤔Can't quite put my finger on why they get mad...
The acid soaker seems like it's model should have also been a thirst zapper. Or acid should have been a mod for it.
Have you ever thought of doing a lore video on the children of atom? Covering their history and beliefs and speculating how they may develop as a faction and interact with other factions.
Please feed my special interest Radiation Daddy
Probally 1 of my favorite underused weird guns in FO76 is probally the Syringer. I don't know much about it but the fact it has some extremly good buff/debuff mods
We used to mess around with the bloatfly one to great effect 😂 I think there's a video or two on it on YT
fun fact about about the laser detonator: it isn't actually a detonator in the code, if you use the ammo swap glitch to equip it with projectile type ammo like explosive 50 bmg, missiles, rockets, or mini nukes, it will not only always critically hit, but it also vaporizes enemies into blue ash, which implies that it actually shares a lot of its code with the alien blaster gun
I have an agility- stealth sniper build. I only ever use vats to shoot. On top of The Stranger just helping me "solo" harder bosses, because he can grab aggro. Which is neat since i play alone mostly. I only Swap to another build - my Heavy build with Power Armor and Minigun when i do a raid or go into a Nuke Zone. Fallout 76 is seriouesly so fucking good. its GREAT alone with minimal gripes. And only gets so much funnier with a friend. even tho most games are fun with a friend, this one really makes it easier to enjoy the wasteland with.
I think them being slowed down by the venom is the idea. Essentially that they are sick from being poisoned and therefore are no longer able to catch you. Less that it specifically affects the legs
I think the sherman tank is an A4 judging by the hatches, but it’s interesting that it has the mud guards on. Most in US service had them removed, but the British kept them on.
im dreading the day you run out of weapons to analyse in these videos, i love watching these videos. I watch them multiple times and fall asleep to them almost every day
Railway rifle definitely pins things to walls in fallout 76. Really glitchy though, just this morning I pinned a deathclaw to a hill some 50 m behind it. Very glitchy, he stretched the whole way then slingshot over.
I have a pipe revolver sniper rifle, and a pipe pistol that have an ammo clip thingy that could hold 48 ronds. #radking. I love your videos.
Maybe the supper soaker is a reference to the hydrochloric acid, which we have some in our stomachs. So in a pinch you could try to regurgitate last night's supper and launch it at your enemies
It's a shame that you can't modify the flare guns to become grenade launchers, since many were given that exact modification in modern history. Especially in New Vegas, where there's 25mm grenades, which fits the caliber used by the Leucht close enough. You could also have a stock as a modification, since they had one too. It seems like wasted potential.
They probably changed the name of the Super-Soaker because the term is trademarked
For as bad as the pipe weapons are after the early game, i think they're the perfect weapon for someone who just started. You get three different kinds and each can be built a specific way, allowing players to find out what kind of gun fits them better. So once they find better weapons, they know that they prefer automatics or pistols or single-shot rifles etc. My only real complaint is that there was no pipe shotgun (that made it into the game) nor some kind of melee equivalent like a makeshift club you can craft into multiple lengths or something.
It is very useful for automatic gun build early game
Eh I tended to carry a fully kitted out one around for dealing with trash mobs when I didn't want to waste better ammo.
@@volentimeh My go to for that when I wasn't using energy weapons was an automatic beam splitter laser pistol
The problem is they are so shit an upgraded pipe weapon is still not as good as other stock weapons, pipe weapons would have had a roll if weapon durability was around and they were the cheap weapons easy to keep repaired while better weapons are like Elijah's LAER and are objectively stronger, but they need more maintenance
@@calebbarnhouse496 their low performance is why they're good for early game before you can get proper weapons.
W video you never disappoint with the Fallout weapons coverage
Handmade drum magazines... Now that's a wonder.
People don't realize how difficult it is to get a magazine works.
I feel like the thirst zapper or whatever you call it is the "Nuka World Limited edition Nuka Blaster"
Like yeah you get the normal one with every box
But you get the cherry one if you come to -Disn- Nuka world
Don't forget the good old disclaimer on the box "colours and styles may vary"
I love your channel rad king. I like listening while playing modded fallout 4 vr.
Thank you, Sacred Radking for this great list of random guns.
Hey, the dart gun was surprisingly helpful, sneak attack a deathclaw and bam, slowclaw!
Edit: okay good, he made sure to show the deathclaw thing, thanks RadKing!
I will say this about pipe weapons:
I hated using them because there was never a reason to intentionally downgrade myself to a worse weapon. Lore-wise, however, I think they're a fine addition to Fallout and they make sense as makeshift weapons cobbled together by people desperately trying to survive the nuclear apocalypse.
Basically: I didn't use 'em, but I totally get why they're there.
If F4 had a durability system they could be great. Make them do full damage, just with horrible spread and durability.
Watching the clip of him trying to kill those deathclaws with the rocket launcher was so painful and frustrating oh my god.
Also the camera in FNV that Michael Angelo gives you; when you point it at people, they get angry like you are pointing a gun at them.
I love not participating in a channel for a good time then coming back so I can binge all the great videos all at once. Thank you sir.
Awesome as always
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"neat and useless"
yeah because it makes it so much harder to hide the bodies and or make them look like they're making out
Haven't been here in a while but I gotta say, I'm loving that new intro
One other interesting fact about the H&H Nailgun is that the nails themselves have an Enemy DT -5 effect, which you may have mentioned and I may have missed.
I love stealth sniping with the dart gun. It requires patience, but I find it hilarious.
I love how Nuka Break showed the main character using VATS. Am I the only one worried the Fallout TV series won't be as good as Nuka Break? I know the series didn't have a high production value and i think it was made my film students, but even these days it kinda slaps
I was hoping you'd mention the mini nuke glitch with the deninator. It's a fun time that'll lag your system.
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Radking causally implying the Sole Survivor refills the Thirst Zapper with their piss
Praise Atom the dart gun! I know it says its an old paint gun, but if you look at a caulking gun it clearly looks to be one of those instead. The long rod is used to push the silicon caulking from the back, and I can see it being re-used to launch darts.
The caulking gun would also make good guide rails for the dart. My guess is one is part of the dart gun but Bethesda thought the paint gun was a more necessary part and needing a caulking gun and a paint gun in the recipe would be confusing. Players would have been like "what I need two tool guns to make one weapon?"
@@jmdesertadventures803 yeah absolutely. Another limiting factor could be Bethesda didnt want to include yet another junk item onto the Fallout 3 engine as well. No need to model, render, and place caulk guns in the wasteland.
@Shizonrhu in reality, the real trick would be getting the trigger to release the push rod instead of the release lever on the back.
@@jmdesertadventures803 I bet thats what the surgical tubing is for. The trigger is probs attatched to the lever and the round disc on the front of the rod. I know my old slingshot had some power behind it after we re-stringed it with those tubes.
@Shizonrhu sure go attach a slingshot to a caulking gun and pull the trigger to fire it. The rod slides free with no pressure on the trigger, but when you pull it, the trigger binds on the rod and forces it forward to squeeze the tube. Like I said the trick would be getting the trigger to bind until you pull it, then the rod slides free. I agree that the caulking gun would work I'm just hoping by drawing out the comments I might get ideas for one in IRL. (EDIT) You could modify the trigger to just let the rod slide free anyway and make a sear to grab the disk on the front of the rod.
"Will glow, with Atoms blessing" ... goddamn~ the in character narration is top notch :)
Good take on 76 at the end there. After pre ordering it, going through the fallout - heh, and then dropping the game for years, I actually went back to it in July and am still playing it. It finally feels as it should of been on release, there are still many parts I can complain about but now its playable and scratches my fallout and looting itch while also seeing other people go about in the world so it feels less dead
"The Phantom Darter" may also be a reference to "The Phantom Blooper," a novel by Gustav Hasford. It's the sequel to the book "The Short Timers" which was the basis for Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).
Not sure if this has been brought up on your channel before, but a Literature of Fallout (i.e. in-game books, mags, etc.) vid would be cool.
I'd like to second this idea, it's good.
My buddy and I are big into firearms, and we built a pipe gun. Of course, the hardest part is the receiver, which we just used a rifle’s receiver and made the pipe gun around it.
A couple things to note: a pipe “rifle” is a contradiction in terms, essentially, as the pipe has no rifling. It’s essentially a smooth bore musket. Our pipe gun was chambered in .32, and was ridiculously inaccurate. It also had a very short shelf life, particularly the pipe. While we used steel rigid pipe, the heat and gas from firing (as well as the bullet striking the pipe interior laterally) warped the pipe to an unsafe degree after only 10 shots. Even before this, escaping gas and heat made wearing gloves and safety glasses mandatory.
The bullet has no twist, and because the pipe is not machined to perfect diameter, the bullet was “rattling” down the pipe. Imagine throwing a tennis ball down a pipe that is just a bit larger than the ball. We initially shot for 20 yards, and you could hit RoP right on one shot and completely miss bottom left the next. Additionally, we lost so much speed in the pipe that the bullet would sometimes fail to puncture the 1/2 plywood the target was on. The pipe also was so light that keeping the firearm level was challenging and irritating, making aiming take longer. Not good if you’re relying on this weapon for personal defense.
Pipe weapons like this are next to useless at any kind of range. They could perhaps be useful in CQC, where aim doesn’t matter.
This comment was a genuinely interesting read, thanks holmes :)
Most nail guns today are pneumatic run on air pressure.
But if you disabled the safeties you can shoot nails.
As for the h&h nail gun I would guess they're using a tiny railgun system that just magnetically launches nails
The dart gun is one of my favorite weapons, it came in so clutch when I wandered into the deathclaw sanctuary on my first FO3 playthrough
Spore plants were a bane in Fallout 2. Not because they are dangerous or anything, but when you encounter group of them fighting human NPC, NPC tend to pick up those damn spikes and throw them back and as result these fights were going on forever. Oh, and about flares in F2. There's one madlad on RUclips, who weaponized flares to beat the game. Flares take absurdly low AP to throw and that guy used aimed shots to throw flares directly to Enclave soldiers' heads to knock them out. He proceeded then to disarm those poor fools. Turns out power armor won't save your dome from a well placed flare.
The FO3 Railway rifle components can also all be found in one of the Metro tunnels in DC. OXhorn actually used the rifle during his video series on the Fallout 3 Metro where he made a completely new character to explore the tunnels
Actually there is another flare type in 76 that calls in a Vertibot for air support. You have to capture one of the public workshops with a Vertibot pad.
My most current save of FO4 is my first dedicated automatic weapon build, and the automatic pipe weapons were great for early game use since the ammo was plentiful and they were able to be fully customized quick and easily. Also managed to find a pipe auto pistol in one of the bags in sanctuary too so I was able to start right off with it
Imagine going around the Commonwealth in T-51 with minutemen paint, a fully upgraded laser musket, Preston Garvey, and Radio Freedom on. Every settlement has an artillery piece, a whole grid of military force. See a super mutant behemoth, the blue smoke goes up, the red flares go up, and you hear minutemen confirm they have eyes on the smoke before dropping an explosive payload on the target, while six minutemen show up with laser muskets, unleashing a firing line on the surrounding super mutants.
The railway rifle is one of my favorite weapons in all of Fallout. I got one recently in Fallout 76 and found plans to turn it automatic and it shoots way faster than expected
I paused the video at the 36 minute mark to comment on the "bayonet" for the railway rifle in fallout 4. If you were to muzzle strike somebody with that, you would definitely rock their shit pretty hard, especially if you could sharpen the edges of that drill bit more. Other than that, another excellent video as always
It also fits in better with the IRL purpose of a bayonet: Less of a truly dangerous weapon, and more of a psychological weapon.
the dart reminds me of the Roman Plumbata (which looks like a heavy weighted Broadheaded Lawn Dart that was used in ancient warfare. I have used the dart gun in stealth mode to one-shot raiders
I haven’t watched any of your other videos, but it would be a travesty if you didn’t mention the grenade rewarded for completing “here be monsters” in fallout 4. The one that signals the submarine to launch an actual, non-mini nuke.
16:46 the funny thing is hydrochloride acid wouldn't menlt thru the plastic anyways so the ceramic was pointless
atom guided me to radking and i’ve never been more grateful
The dart gun is so right it blows my mind.
Ok, so I have used and understood paint sprayers for the last 20 years. You have got a lot of things right about them but also a few things wrong. You might be surprised by the bits you didn't understand.
Yes they use compressed air... For paint. Since this isn't for paint the power now comes from the surgical tubing.
But the "cocking rod" is the best bit. That rod is present on today's sprayers, it's used to fine tune the area and flow of the spray. With a slight modification I can see this completely working!
I have no idea how the scorpion poison gets on the darts though... That's a mystery
In the next video, you should cover the Camera you can get in Fallout New Vegas by the Michael Angelo quest, btw the vid was great
Taking pictures of the war memorial is always funny
‘It’s not a railway rifle, it’s a wailway wifle’-Matt
14:48 The Sherman variant shown in the game is the original M4 model. It is the only variant of the welded Shermans that had the protruding portions for the driver and co-driver because it’s upper glacis was inclined at 55 degrees compared to 45 degrees for later models which removed the need for the protruding portions on the front plate.
Bit of an unpopular opinion but I actually really like the pipe guns. Outside of the magazine having no way of working it's actually very realistic and if I had the time I'd love to make one
Oh I think most people like the concept of home made post-war weapons.
Just that they are failed by the execution, what with the clipping issues and total lack of beliveability.
@@dd11111 lack believability? My man the only problem with them is the magazines
@@shoelessbandit1581 People have been making simpler, cheaper (parts wise), and cooler looking pipe guns since WW2. 4/76's pipe guns are overdone and superfluous for the role they claim to serve, which makes them less believable since the concept of a pipe weapon is all about economy and lack of access to processes. If you've got limited tools and resources, you're going to keep things simpler as opposed to cobble junk together in a barely functional way. If the designs were more restricted they would be more fitting of the established world of Fallout imo.
Check this thing out as an example of something that would look right at home: i.pinimg.com/564x/06/99/85/069985e2aafaec977ec32dd6e3856cb4.jpg
Dude you staying at like 25% health shooting darts at deathclaws absolutely drove me ducking crazy, HEAL YOURSELF AAAHHHHHH
Idk why but I want a brotherhood or enclave armorer to explain vehicles, armor,and weapons for more militaristic groups that do the same kind of role play and vids like yours
30:00 ~ when your talking about the rate of fire of a nailgun, the fun part is either the PC or workers must have modified these nailguns, because a standard nailgun has a trigger plate on the front as well as the trigger on the grip. The rate of fire is actually accurate, because the nail is *usually* only triggered to be fired by pressing it against the board while pulling the trigger, which is done in a swift stamping motion, and if the trigger plate is held down or modified, nothing is stopping the nailgun from dumping its nails as fast as nailgun-ly possible.
this is awesome
"Which is kind of neat and useless, my favorite combo"
hahaha I love those little details too
I’m so glad the local gangs didn’t find the project cobalt notes. If they found out how to weaponize nuka cola quantum with squirt guns, they’d have tried to find the recipe and dominated.
Also, HUGE FAN of the railway rifle lol