What weapons would you guys like to see in F5?

Post-nuclear weapon designs that aren't retarded pipe rifles. Moreso stuff like Metro 2033's weapons roster.

"Anti-Power Armor" weapons in the vein of anti-tank rifles.

 

Well New Vegas introduced the Thermic lance and the bladed gauntlet (and many others unarmed weapons). Agreed on more Energy weapons though.
I want a realistic and strong flamethrower, acid granades (?), Gas granades, maybe small deployable robots and uhm I always wondered what would happen if the messed around anti-gravity and radiation concepts.

 

I have my on lore of what happened in the Warsaw Pact, in my mind mind some countries leaves the Warsaw to join China, so they make there own weapons which are modern versions of ww2 era weapons.

 

A “super spear” would be pretty cool, although the thermic lance pretty much fills the same role. How about a jackhammer with a blade attached to the end? That could do some damage, although I’d imagine it would need a strength requirement of like 10. Not exactly “super” in the vaguely-described kinetic-energy sense that the super sledge and power fist possess though. It could be an “automatic” melee weapon, like the chainsaw/ripper/thermic lance in New Vegas.

 

What about a jackhammer gauntlet? It's either on the side like in Doom or it's on the knuckles, but either way I think that'd be cool.

Power boots? In the original games you could kick, I think they should find a way to bring that back and add martial arts that use kicks.

A laser fist, first that shoots lasers.

Energy fist/knuckles, energy unarmed.

Grappling hook, you could use it like a lead in Minecraft, yes, that game, but also do cool stuff.

Finger launcher, launches fingers.

Wolverine claws

Detached power armor fist

Not a weapon, but I would love more unarmed styles like in the classics, but unlike the classics I wouldn't have it tied to strength or unarmed. Like if you become a heavy weight champion you can punch in a different way, if you become a martial artist then you can chop or kick better. I'd also like to rename unarmed to HtH/FtF or brawling like in Wasteland, or something else, because you still get weapons for unarmed builds.

 

For an energy shotgun you could go for something pulp sci-fi esque.

A shortwave microwave gun that basically cooks anything within its short cone of damage.

Or something similar to the Needler from Halo or the Hunters from Half-Life, a scattershot of needle like fletchettes that explode in energy damage and turn the enemy into pulpy chunks

 

Cowbell.

 

Another thing I'd really like is akimbo for pistols and certain smgs. Also what if we could wield shields or double Power fist/mele weapons?

 

There's already an energy shotgun and smg.
The energy shotguns are the tri-beam laser and multiplas rifle.
The energy smg is the laser RCW.

 

I think what I'd like to see is more of a focus on conventional weaponry with energy weapons becoming a very very rare and an extremly dangerous weapon. Plasma rifles should be limited to faction leaders/bosses and dungeon reward chests at the end of abandoned military bases that are really hard.

Also, carrying a plasma rifle on your back should be an attention grabber in-game. Friends and settlers are fasinated while foes will be more likely to either steer clear, or take potshots from afar. Maybe somewill even try to hunt you down for it.

Would be neat if the games AI changed behaviour based on weapons amd armor equipped. New Vegas already got this ball rolling so it should be possible.

The ability to switch between full auto, burst and single shot would also be nice. Going prone too.

Maybe give Eloin's staff the ability to ward off animals if you equip it with a science mod and stab it into the ground at the entrance of a cave, or while you make your stand in the open?

 

Always struck me as cringe

 

I never had any problem with them.

After all, even Fallout 1 had real world weapons. A few specifically:

• Mauser
• Desert Eagle
• Red Ryder BB Gun

And quite a lot in general, which still exist in the real world:

• Brass Knuckles
• Cattle Prod
• Tonfa (ingame "Club")
• Combat Knife
• Crowbar
• Knife
• Sledgehammer
• Throwing Knife
• Assault Rifle
• Hunting Rifle
• Combat Shotgun
  
• Shotgun
• Minigun
• Rocket Launcher
• Molotov Cocktail
• Frag Grenades
• Dynamite
• Plastic Explosives

All of those exist in the real world, and most of those look pretty much the same as the game ones.

And there's also quite a few weapons in the game that were manufactured by real world Gun Manufactories in Fallout 1. Here's those manufacturers:

• Winchester
• Mauser
  
• Colt
  
• Glock
  
• SIG Sauer
  
• Heckler & Koch

 

Two energy weapons that work by triggering fusion reactions inside the bodies of its targets or shooting glowing particles that are actually micro-singularities that tear matter from their bonds as they pass through. And there is the melee variant as well. OWB style arsenal that not even Bethesda M.Zeta dlc can match.

I always like the idea of energy weapon as the upper tier of ordinary stuff instead of being separate equipment with skill on its own. So like Van Buren.

 

I thought it was strange how they were mixed with unlabeled weapons. The mix of common and proper nouns doesn't sit right with me. It seemed strange to have a gun just called "assault rifle" or "hunting rifle" and named guns like the FAL and M60.
They should either commit to making every gun name a proper noun, or making every gun name a common noun with proper nouns reserved for unique weapons.
To do this they could give the fake weapons an official name, or they should have replaced the names for the real life weapons with common nouns instead of using proper nouns (for example changing the name "H&K CAWS" to "auto shotgun").