Big Guns



Big Guns is a Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, and Fallout 3 skill. It determines your combat effectiveness with over-sized weapons such as Fat Man, Missile Launcher, Flamer, etc.

Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics
The strength requirements of most big guns, combined with the weight of the guns themselves and the large amounts ammo they require make investing into strength points at character creation a prudent choice for players planning to use these weapons as their mainstays. Most, if not all, big guns in Fallout are burst weapons exclusively, meaning that players cannot make targeted attacks with them. This makes taking the Fast Shot trait a much more viable option for big gun enthusiasts, as they enjoy the benefits of the trait without the drawback.

Initial Level:
 * Fallout: 10% + (1% x Agility). Average characters have a 15% skill.
 * Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics: 2% x Agility. Average characters have a 10% skill.

Fallout 3
S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Statistic: Endurance

Initial Level: Starting Big Guns skill is equal to 2 + (2 x Endurance) + Luck/2 (rounded up). Average starting characters (End 5, Lck 5) will have a Big Guns skill of 15%.

Weapons using this skill are specifically the Flamer, Gatling Laser, Minigun, Fat Man, Missile Launcher, Rock-it Launcher, Heavy Incinerator (Broken Steel only) and any unique variants of these weapons. As this skill increases, so does your accuracy and damage with all of these weapons, both in and out of V.A.T.S. mode.

If you're following the Main Quest you can pick up your very own Fat Man early on, and there are several Minigun- and Missile-Launcher-wielding super mutants who can be "persuaded" out of their hardware, preferably at range, under cover of darkness, and from behind.

In addition to assigning Skill Points at Level up, Big Guns can be permanently raised by taking the Size Matters Perk, finding the Big Guns bobblehead, and reading U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes. Big Guns can be temporarily raised by wearing clothing that enhances Endurance, or by wearing the Raider Blastmaster Helmet or Linden's Outcast Power Armor, each of which grant +5 to Big Guns. The Bombshell Armor, from The Pitt, grants an even greater bonus of +10.

It is also possible to get an infinite amount of U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes in the Bethesda Ruins. See the article Fallout 3 Notable Loot for details.

The perks Size Matters and Tag! both give the opportunity to raise Big Guns by 15, so with an endurance of 5 by level 16, you could have 45 Big Guns without having to level it, though you could simply use the glitch stated above to save you a few perks.

Although difficult to obtain and use in the initial stage of the game, big guns and their ammo become a deceptively self-sustaining resource after the early-middle stages (particularly the minigun, and to a lesser extent the flamer). At higher levels (&gt;50) of the Big Guns Skill, the minigun becomes very efficient in the midrange against armored and unarmored foes. Alternating with the flamer for short range/melee enemies and the missile for long range/sniper enemies gives you one weapon set for all occasions. Ammo is always a concern for these weapons (particularly when you experience a scavenging drought, such as fighting dedicated melee enemies) and should be supplemented whenever possible from shops and traveling merchants. Luckily, the 5mm is one of the most common forms of sold ammo. And selling all those unused small arms weapons will leave you with a lot of caps to burn.

Bugs

 * When wielding a big gun with 0 rounds, taking an amount of ammo greater than the weapon's clip size out of a container, then placing enough ammo back into the container to reduce the amount you have to less than the weapon's clip size (without leaving the items screen) will result in the weapon having a full clip, next to (the amount of ammo you have - the weapon's clip size), eg. if you leave 2 rounds in your inventory while wielding a Minigun (which has a clip size of 240), the ammo display will show 240/-239. You will be able to fire off all of the clip as if you had a full clip of ammo in your inventory. Each shot will deplete one unit of ammo in your inventory, but when you have no ammo left, you will still be able to fire. You can only empty one clip. This glitch works on ALL Energy Weapons and Big Guns, but not on Small Guns. This glitch can be performed with followers, so it is possible to carry one's whole ammo supply and use this glitch.

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