Lasers of Fallout Part 2
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- You asked for it, and you got it. Part two of the Laser Weapons of Fallout videos covers the rest of the Lasers in the series so far. I go over possible design inspirations, obscure lore and interesting facts.
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I believe that the Institute's laser weapons are weaker because of the situation they are in. Despite their status above ground, talking to several named scientists reveals that the Institute are struggling with certain resources, the main one being power. Their rifles may have been designed to value the cheapness to manufacture rather than being super strong.
This. It also doesn't make sense to give their non-courser synths more expensive weapons when they're basically cannon fodder to begin with.
Exactly I don’t think you can expect the institute to mass produce the same quality of rifle as the pre-war US
I think this is a perfectly reasonable explanation. I just have a hard time reconciling it with the fact that the whole surface is littered with superior weaponry and they can’t at least salvage weapons on the surface to be repurposed into institute tech. They even use the same ammo type (which may simply be due to game design).
@@Rad_King but then you would have to deal with the logistics of finding and carrying all of those weapons back to the Institute. And then there would be the maintenance of those weapons, which is probably more difficult than the Institute rifles. Not to mention that the synths operating on the surface (mainly the Gen 1 and 2's) are meant to be numerous and semi expendable, so to outfit them would require hundreds of them. Overall, it's much cheaper and easier to use their own rifles.
Given how the synths are used it may also be seen as a benefit that when they end up a little dead they do not scatter around superior weapons compared to what the normal person can use.
4:20 this is probably a reference to the 0 laser weapons skill requirement, meaning this guy probably had no idea how energy weapons worked and thought the gun used E cells instead of MF cells
Which maybe killed him?
@@duck6831 most likely
I love this. It’s my new head canon for this weapon.
I'm always intrigued by the tech of fallout, because it seems so possible, but then consider all the values, and then consider that actual "people" part of the design.
Initially that is what drew me in. It’s a world that seems so familiar but the deeper you dive the crazier it gets.
Search up styropyro he made a continuous wave laser pistol
The charred skeleton with the energy cells around it is environmental storytelling. It's meant to be interpreted as the previous owner of the skeleton having been killed by the spore carriers in the Vault because he went out to fight them without the appropriate ammo, hence the energy cells around the body when the weapon actually uses microfusion cells.
I have a theory about the scorched skeleton in vault 22 and that the person was trying to jam energy cells into the MFC port and the AER14 backfired
I think this is great! I hope this is what the developers were going for.
That's mine as well
God I fucking love environmental storytelling.
Sadly, it's more likely the developer just put the wrong ammo around the gun.
@@Idazmi7 I doubt thats the case man in Fallout 4 maybe but New Vegas was extremely well planned out hence why even in base game they literally hint at all the dlcs without even hinting that they would become dlcs and not just passing comment
How can anyone think that transistors were never invented in the fallout universe? You see them all the time. They just never moved past them until shortly before the resource wars startwd
In the lore it is stated that transistors were invented but not until much later than in our timeline.
It was a very pervasive early theory that was pretty understandable given the reliance on vacuum tubes and how heavily the timelines seem to diverge after World War II. However it’s been refuted by developers over and over again and transistors are referred to and shown in game.
Imma keep it real with you Troy I have no idea what a transistor is lol. But I just thought all fallout tech was purely radiation based until now, I didn’t really think lol
@@George-iq3gf If I'm not mistaken it's mostly the thingy that would have given color to TV's....don't quote me on this
@@George-iq3gf you cant make a computer out of radiation... transistors are the part of a processor that turn on and off to make it able to process. On and off correspond to 1 and 0 in binary code.
I always thought that the corpse with the prototype laser rifle was someone who was trying to load it with the energy cells, but might have died since they didn't know it was the wrong type of cells
Laser weapons are always my favorite to use cause of how accurate they are
I hate the look of them in 4 and 76 they are just too big
@@wafles_n_syrup2171 you mean the institute laser weapons? Cause the regular ones are normal size as they are in Nv or 3
I always liked the lasers too, no matter the build I will have at least one in my inventory!
@@Rad_King same Nv I fell in love with the gun runner arsenal mods for the laser rifle and fallout 4 is just a dream for gun nuts like me who love to customize weapons
@@SasoriZert well I play 4 and 76 on ps4 and the fov makes it huge I played all the other fallouts on pc
Laser Musket > Institute rifle also im pretty sure the fact that they are given to every synth and theyre made with plastic im pretty sure the institute rifles are just mass produced using strength in numbers to be effective
The fact that the Institute rifles do less damage than standard laser rifles along with some dialogue by Institute personnel themselves points towards this being the likely case.
Funny thing is I believe the Institute Weapon was actually subject to cut content.
The reason it's weaker is due to it originally being planned to use no ammo.
Dialogue with Paladin Danse during the Deeprange transmitter quest seems to hint to this as when you encounter the destroyed securitrions, he remarks there is no blood or spend ammunition casings.
Laser weapons still need to reload, and when used up, characters usually throw away the energy cells just as if they were casings of regular ballistic weapons.
It would also make sense in the regard that the Institute does not like leaving behind evidence of their presence.
Infinite ammo with reduced damage seems a fair trade to me.
Just a shame that it never seems to have made the final cut.
I do not remember Danse’s comment about this at all. I’m going to look more into this.
You can skip Fallout brotherhood of Steel, thats fine, we all did.
Roasted.
about the later versions of laser guns : their rectangular barrels look like an actual high power laser generator, that's why you don't find any similarity with a traditionnal gun ^^
I was never too keen about the energy weapons from fallout 4, the energy weapons in the early fallout games make more sense
New Vegas energy weapons on the other hand have the retro futuristic look and seem very plausible to make, and the science behind it make a reference of what the world was using for the time.
It would make a lot of sense for the motorcycles to have turbine engines, because they can consume many different liquids as a fuel, from gas and diesel, to literal vegetable oil, this would be useful due to traditional fuels being very expensive because of the resource wars.
My guess is that the LAER is a sort of 'Electrotaser' - wherein a laser is used as a plasma channel upon which an electric current can then 'ride' to it's target. Hence, Laser-Assisted Electric Rifle. Only instead of just delivering an incapacitating 'shock' the LAER is able to slice through robots as if they were made of cheese.. -paper
The Laser Musket was intended to be an ammo free weapon. Similar to the Recharger Pistol and Rifle from New Vegas. But the devs of Fo4 felt that it would be too overpowered as a sniper like weapon in the early game. So the adding of Fusion Cells was to make it a good weapon but not to reliant. Plus I think they said that couldn't get the engine to fire it without some kind of ammo to pull a power source from.
Edit: Fun Fact. The Laser Rifle/Pistol has recoil because the crystal array in the barrel is moving fast enough handle the beam. This action in barrel is the recoil we see and was meant to build up heat. This can be seen on the pistol models with the heat vents retracting when fired.
I suspected as much with the laser musket. Do you have a solid source on why the lasers have recoil?
@@Rad_King Nothing sourced by the devs or anything. But a few terminals in game and just a general knowledge of laser/lights. There's a terminal in one game that mentions that the crystal array is a moving delicate part and can't fixed by normal soldiers in the field. So by process it has to be what causes the recoil if it can throw a beam like it does.
I wasn’t aware of the bit about the crystal array being a moving part. I’ll have to do some research on that to see where it is in game.
@@Rad_King I'll have to look again but I think its in fo3. It talks about how the array is trick to repair. But simple pure made glass can replace it. Not sure what game but another story is that soldiers would fire their laser without the barrel shroud on (the green case) due to the amount of heat they would build up and then dunk the laser in water to cool it down to keep firing.
About the Minute Men's Laser Musket: it isn't just an old Musket stock attached to a Laser gun. It's actually an entire old bullet firing Musket (barrel, stock, & trigger) with a disassembled Laser gun's components duct taped to its barrel. That's why it has to have the crank and gear shaft to provide electricity to it.
the AER9 14 prototype is something I picked up while doing the vault 22 quest, and found it on accident, and it became my primary weapon until it broke (at the time I didn't know how to repair items), and when it came up in the video I remembered seeing the note on the back and not knowing what it meant, its interesting that it relates to color of the laser.
I do miss the tri-beam rifle, but I do like the weapon customization introduced in Fallout 4. I wish they did it something like this.
Laser pistol to Laser revolver to Laser SMG.
Laser rifle to Laser carbine to Laser sniper.
Tri-beam shotgun to Tri-beam assault rifle to Tri-beam automatic shotgun.
Or something like that... anything that separates the Laser pistol and Tri-beam rifle in to separate weapons.
I think this is great actually. Rather than having a “laser gun” be turned into anything, have family’s within the modification system. Just like you mentioned, pistols can be SMGs and vice versa.
Thanks, I was just spitballing, but it would allow the sidearms like pistols/ SMGs to be less bulky in appearance. As well as reduce ridiculous looking combinations like the sniper barrel with Sharpshooter grip. Also it would allow ammo's like the Energy cell for the pistol/SMG and Electron charge pack for the Tri-beam to return. Almost everything being microfusion cells is a little overpowered on the one hand, and a little limiting on the other hand.
@@jessebates2884 I absolutely loved your idea
@@Rad_King we can only hope that FL5 has that, it would certainly add a new level of challenge to the game.
@@danielm.595 It will probably be, after all it's confirmed that Starfield is using a new engine (the appropriately named creation engine 2), so they can introduce even more advanced customization in fallout 5 since its still several years away
In my opinion the minutemen should have gotten a quest after you set them back up at the castle to find andn
improve their equipment, like some scouts finding the location of a old military armory and having you secure it and it's filled with fatigues, combat armor the orginal R91 assualt rifle so the minutemen have the equipment to properly fight the threats of the wasteland
I don't like the idea of the minutemen using old worlds military fatigues tbh. It makes them look like the gunners instead of giving them a unique feel. Maybe a unique standardized minutemen uniform with a minutemen paint scheme similar to how the bos have their own paint scheme for their armor that let's them stand out from the gunners or better yet the minutemen get armored dusters and jackets similar to how the railroad have their own special armor.
@@mal1362you probably know about it, but you might wanna check out the militarized minutemen mod
The laser weapon in Fallout 4 is such an insane platform to tinker with: I remember clearing hordes of robot enemies during the Automatron questline with an automatic scattershot laser gun with the Troubleshooter legendary effect.
Yes transistors were invented in the fallout franchise just much later then in our own timeline, that’s why tubes are still present in the game as well as computers being pretty rudimentary, they’re still in the transitional phase equivalent to our timelines 70s to 80s.
Do you have a hard date for when lore states they were invented?
@@Rad_King i think the were invented in the 2030s i want to say 2032
@@rendan1351 that makes sense, just because somethings been invented doesn’t mean that it’ll be widely used immediately, it takes time to develop the technology to where it’s cheaper to produce on mass as well as convince the populous and manufacturers that the new technology is better. Thirty five to forty years before the Great War fits.
Will you be going over Tesla rifles and plasma weaponry also atomic shop items for weapons atleast are just cosmetic so it wouldn’t hurt your videos but I don’t think it would be necessary unless it looks like a weapon that was in a previous fallout game
Thanks for the feedback. Yes plasma weapons will be the next energy weapons group I do!
I always thougt that the isntitute guns's plasticness and low damage was due to them having to make do with the resouces they had at hand
I don't know how the Laser musket works too, but a redesign I was thinking of could work like a standard laser rifle except now you got crank every shot, powering it up and causing a heavier damage bolt to charge out. This would make it make more sense as you're using all of the charge from the battery instead of getting a charge from an unknown source.
my head lore was that the idea is that it was designed to be used without mf cells, hence being hand cranked and having the dynamo on the back
The tabs on the AER-14 are actually more likely pin jumpers, used to adjust the emitter frequency
The things on the Prototype Laser Rifle look much more like the fuses you get in cars than your electronic component.
The LAER is a laser weapon... sorta.
The wiki says
The name implies a function like modern attempts at making electrolasers which use lasers to create a conductive plasma conduit in the air and then discharge an electrical differential across the conduit. While practical devices do not yet exist, the concept has been proven, and the effect on the target is dependent upon the amount of energy delivered. At lower powers the effect would be much like a stun gun and higher energies being more like a bolt of lightning.
This means it does send a laser at targets. Plus, if it makes stable plasma beams for the electric attack to travel it must superheat the air quickly. If you hit someone with that, it will do damage, so the electricity might just add to the damage rather than be the main source.
I understood this to mean the laser was used to excite the gas to a plasma state, then send an electrical charge down the plasma “path”. Since plasma is electrically conductive it would follow the line plasma to the target, dealing electrical damage.
@@Rad_King
I understood this to mean it shoots a powerful laser that turns the air to plasma along the beam. It could act similarly to a laser rifle with a less focused beam to more efficiently heat the air, but the beam would still be dealing a large portion of the damage.
So it is shooting someone with a powerful, laser, and then sending electricity down the plasma beam made by the laser heating the air. To me, that sounds like the electricity is just enhancing the laser's damage the same way fire just adds on to the normal melee damage of the Shish kabob.
The symbol on the institute weapons appears similar to an introverted chemical weapons warning symbol, it is also visually similar to the flux capacitor from back to the future.
Idea for laser muskets: an attached electric motor mounted to the crankshaft powered by some sort of battery cell that degrades over time so you and press a button to close the circuit for the motor, causing it to crank the weapon and power it up reasonably, not just like 3 cranks (like you said that would provide little to no power) but idk. I'm high, its 3 am and I spend too much time taking stuff apart and putting it back together
Also with the laser musket, it would make more sence that were the glass cylinder to fold put like a old back door revolver reload system were you put the cells it would hold 12 in that case and would make it more encouraging to upgrade the power.:)
I am so glad that the algorhytm directed me to your channel. I have a Fallout itch non-stop, but i can re-play the games only so often before it loses its "magic"... your channel is a great cure for that.
I'm honestly surprised they didn't have regular muskets or other black powder type weapons in Fallout 4. I mean if they have Laser Muskets than why not something like pipe weapon muskets or like a Blunderbuss?
Or just a musket, like the black powder weapons in 76
Crossbows...
The warning radiation label on institute laser rifle has a symbol similar to UK warning labels for Lasers, just we would have the laser class rating as opposed to saying 'radiation' and it would normally be black graphics on white background, or maybe yellow.
Fallout 4 was the first fallout game I ever played. (I’m too young to have been alive when the first few came out and I didn’t have a console to play on until fallout 4.) The laser musket, due purely to nostalgia, is one of my favorite fallout weapons. It’s the first decent weapon I ever got my hands on when I accidentally found myself helping out the Minute Men.
A quote that would suit a char3cter, a ghoul if you will...
"A single action is worth a thousand words, your actions alone are what people will see you as."-
Maria Weber, 1914.
I once found an Institute laser rifle that had the wounding effect on it. That extra fire rate makes a massive difference.
Staggering is also pretty nice. I remember bullying radscorpions and deathclaws in the glowing sea with a staggering institute pistol.
I looked up those parts in the NCRCF yard and those do look like bus parts, but could not confirm it. I haven't even noticed so far, - if i wasn't trying to find one - but I could not find a single intact/good condition bus in the whole Mohave! The game was still on my old HDD, so i plugged it up, and did some footwork on the main map looking for bus wrecks, but even the ones were not in half were basically empty husks, with maybe the front wheels still attached to it. (+the game still crashes after 10-15 min, so it was not easy, but at least i could finally run the game on full graphics +ENB on my current PC). Strangely enough the concept art for the FO4 bus is mostly identical to the FO3 ones (2 front + 1 rear axle) , but in the game (FO4 + Vault 76) u can see 8 wheels under some buses, like the school bus, and some has the 6 wheel config!
Wow thanks for doing this work to confirm it, that’s pretty interesting that there are no intact buses in FNV. While you have your HDD plugged in you should probably do any other play through of FNV…just sayin.
Awsome as always! keep up the good work, I really love those extra lore videos, I even listen to them when going to sleep.
It's like the perfect audio book for everyone who is into fallout lore and loves some casual and correct and simultaneously deep lore that is worth knowing.
Many loves from the gigantic german Fallout Community!!!
Super great to hear! Is there anything you would like me to cover in the future?
Praise Atom: PART 2! Side note on the laser musket, I feel like I have seen a mod that removes it's ammo use.
That’s the way the musket should be IMO, thats a mod I would play with even on a mostly vanilla play through.
There's a recharger rifle mod too, if you want to get the same mechanics with a more techy feel than hand crank bodge job.
1:50 I believe those "tabs" are just fuses, it would make sense to have 2 for MOAR LAZOR. I have similar in my car fusebox. Good vid.
A fuse is certainly possible.
I love your videos man you do such a great job
Ahh, I was waiting on this one plus all the other energy weapon videos. They were always my favourite class of weapons in these games
Good, I’m glad I can deliver. The other energy weapons will come in time. It will probably get broken into plasma weapons and then all the miscellaneous energy weapons after that.
@@Rad_King I wish there were enough Gauss and Rail type weapons for just their own video, as those are my favourite type of sci-fi weapons, but there aren't, and so I'm fine with that. I can't wait for your next videos, and you always deliver King ☢️👑
The red tabs on the prototype laser rifle look like replaceable fuses and the freq x2 and freqx17 could just be the name of the pin they are connected to (so you don’t put the wrong fuse in the wrong pin)
My personal theory about the institute laser guns having lower damage per shot but higher fire rate is that the institute believed that the people who dwelled on the surface were too barbaric and uncivilized to develope any sort of body armor, thus making a higher frequency laser shot unnecessary and excessive
Doesnt really make sense the Institute does know what happens above ground so they would know about raiders and gunrunners using scrap armor or military armor
It's probably much cheaper to make since it's mostly made out of plastic.
I'll pitch in that perhaps their strategy was compensation for Gen 1 Synthetic having relatively poor accuracy, and preferring to equipment them with weapons suited to laying down higher volume of fire.
Love your videos! Keep up the awesome work! Much love
Thank you :)
I believe that unknown radation symbol is a back to the future reference.
Nice work, brother! I appreciate your diligence in putting these together. Hail to the King, baby!!
So glad you like them! You are why I do this.
The Salvaged Assaultron Head is referenced by an NPC (I think polly) that the neck could be twisted to activate it, potentially saying that power was sent to the head from the body, and fusion cells can power the beam externally, perhaps is why Bethesda chose Fusion Cells, this could also mean that Fusion Cells are used to power the Assaultron.
Always love vids about the tech lore of Fallout!
I vote for covering the atom shop stuff cause some of it is cool.
Thanks for the kind words and feedback!
Love your videos keep up the good work rad
I love these cool weapon videos keep it up!
Don’t worry, that’s the plan!
Pistols next? That will be a loooong one though.
He already did it
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Aye keep it homie, I like to see the consistent uploads
Better believe I’m keeping it up!
Awesome follow up, and I’m not just saying that! I was completely unaware of a fair few of the things you mentioned, specifically that the LAER was not a true laser weapon! I’m not the one in my friend group that will dive to the bottom of the Wiki in order to find said information, so I’m stoked to see this new information.
I’m also intrigued that the whole “transistor wasn’t invented” is still going around in the community, I’ve seen the same sentiment when it comes to the music of the Fallout universe. In fact, I think it’d make for a cool video to discuss why we haven’t seen a rise in things like rock and roll music and the like in the Fallout universe.
I’d be willing to look into that, could be interesting!
And I hope you know I’m just giving you a hard time 😀
@@Rad_King cool cool! Music has been one of the main reasons I play Fallout; I think it gives a tremendous amount of depth to the atmosphere; but the lack of progression from Bing Crosby, to Jimi Hendrix, to Led Zeppelin is quite jarring in my mind. Sure, musical licensing rights can be tricky to deal with, but surely Bethesda and Zenimax can cover that base.
And yes, I knew you were giving me a hard time 😂😂🤪🤪. I’ve said it before, I’m not someone who bashes on something just because it dares to go against tradition in most cases, barring some major exceptions. Glad you had a sense of humor about it; and hopefully you can find some stuff to scratch that particular itch 😅.
Very glad to see you're including brotherhood of steel content again
I love these videos, lots of info all in one spot. The only thing that bugs me is some of the editing choices. Example would be the discussion of laser colors, or even how some of the weapons handle differently, and the gameplay is of a caravan shotgun. It’s probably a massive time sink to have topic specific footage for every moment, but I feel gameplay of the archetype would make the video feel more complete.
Outside of gameplay mechanics I don't think the power difference between the institute and regular laser weapons matter much. You still have a searing beam of nuclear fusion powered light vaporizing your flesh either way. The institute rifle obviously contains way more plastic than the old world design. It's probably designed to be built easily molded and assembled by machines. Old world design looks like it requires more manpower to build and probably requires more maintenance. The Institute laser also looks more economical to replace than repair, like modern electronics.
The damage is still pitiful, even when comparing them to laser musket DPS it's not very good, the laser musket is really a better weapon because you spend less time getting shot at in the gunfight and more of it behind cover, which is a problem because one is the first energy weapon you can find in the 99 percent of playthroughs
Man I like the look of institute weapons, I wish the enclave was the main bad guy faction in fallout
Love the videos man, keep it up
The radiation sign on the institute laser rifles looks like a flux capacitor
Thank you and you are not the first to say this!
Those tabs on the laser prototype are definitely not transistors. The labeling next to them suggest they're push button switches like some old electronics had in the 70s. It sounds like they're switches to control the electrical frequency assuming it runs on AC power or perhaps change a PWM rate for a component on it.
While they could have been ratings for transistors the fact one says 2x and the one next to it has another lable of 17x implies they're different settings.
Another great video man!
Thanks Patton sir!
On the motorcycles not blowing up:
The cars in Fallout are all powered by Fusion or Fission batteries.
The Lone Wanderer motorcycle, which uses the nuclear propulsion jet engine, most likely runs off of Fusion Cores, but they are all drained. This could be due to damage, wear, or someone left it running until it died. If the cores still have juice, it still has more shielding than the regular vehicles so shooting it would really have a low chance at an explosion. The only place to fuel it is also right in front of the driver where a regular fission or fusion engine would fatally irradiate the driver. However the size for it is perfect for putting cores in and taking them out.
If u ever run out of ideas, why not look at the misc props of fallout, idk how much fun that would be just putting it out there (: love ur channel
Thank you! When you see the “trash” of Fallout you know I’ve finally run out of ideas. That won’t be for a while though so don’t worry.
@@Rad_King I mean some junk items are really interesting. So it would make a good video. Maybe on April 1st or something like that
love your vids!
Radking is pretty rad
How rad?
@@Rad_King Super rad.
When trying to identify a possible design inspiration for the institute laser rifle, i found this very similar-looking triple-decker bus which I think they might have based it off of
I don’t think you should mention atomic shop content unless it’s returning content from older games, where we know that its existence is likely canon.
Good comment, I’ll take it into consideration.
Transistors were created around 2070, a few years before the war. They didn't get a chance to get to the point where we have them today though.
Wasnt it closer tp the 2030s? No way so many basic tranzitor based compiters would be present if it was invented shortly before the war.
@@robertharris6092 Remember we made Transistors around the 60s/70s outselves and you know how advanced our tech is thanks to them. Nah Fallout universe had just created them which lead to more powerful laser weapons and the like but they weren't in widespread use yet.
The symbol on the institute lasers looks like the flux capacitor from Back to the Future
Todd in the studio making weapons like "yeah this looks like shit and no human could feasibly use this thing properly, drop it"
Lmao!
On that laser musket the part that rotates when you crank it resembles the armature of a car alternator, I'm guessing it's meant to be a generator.
You could argue that a higher rate of fire would be an optimal choice for synths, since they could (theoretically) have an integrated user-interface with Institute Laser Weapons that allow them to automatically and pre-emptively adjust for the recoil as they pull the trigger. It would be like a bipod of sorts, but it's the Synth's whole body and they would still be able to move around without sacrificing stability (assuming they don't actually leave the ground, of course). This goes doubly for Gen 1/2 Synths, which they can mass produce for relatively little resources, so instead weapons specializing in one-tapping everything, they go the Star Wars CIS route and opt for victory by volume of fire.
The rifle Good Intentions probably derives its name from the old adage _"The path to Hell is paved with good intentions."_ So I guess it's a joke name, one of the fistful of unique weapons in Fallout that pull their names from pithy phrases like that
Good Intentions is likely named after the old adage 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions'.
That is to say, that gun 'paves the road' to send people to hell.
YES! cover the atom shop content. (not endorsing that you buy the atoms either LOL)
The gun at 6:50 looks a lot like the BFG 9000 from The original Doom games. That might be why it has 9700 on it. Kinda a big leap but thought you’d think it was neat.
I noticed you really like putting all the information in, so here's a tidbit the reason why the advanced laser weapons are typically green is because green is the highest intensity light wave, maybe next to blue, can't remember
Looking at the institute rifles , and the institute in general gives me a whole cassette futurism vibe
my guess on the Laser Musket is that it was made from Laser Rifles of various states of disrepair, and with out the skills (or more likely parts) to properly repair them it was more economical to use what parts are good on a new frame than to try and salvage enough parts to use an actual AER-9. also ignoring the in game consumption of a MFC, chances are that crank is connected to a hand crank generator as is commonly found today on flashlights with a built in generator.
The Gatling Laser's of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas kinda remind me of a Maxim Gun design. Just without the water jacket for cooling. The one in Fallout 4 actually looks like what someone would think when thinking about a Gatling Laser although the bulky size would probably make Power Armor a necessity for stable usage meanwhile the Gatling Laser of Fallout 3 and New Vegas seem like they could be reasonably operated by standard soldiers not wearing Power Armor. The Fallout 3/New Vegas one also seems like it would be used by shocktroopers because of the quick start up of firing the gun unlike the one in Fallout 4 which seems like it would be more of a trench emplacement/defense weapon.
I think you are right, the strength requirements in earlier fallouts made it seem like they weren’t meant to be used unless you had power armor.
For some reason, the Fallout 4's gatling laser shoots extremly faster when you are crouched and in third lerson
Like really really fast
There are dozens of wooden musket mockups all over Concord and in a few other places in the Commonwealth
Love Your Vids 🤘
Thanks hero!
@@Rad_King no problem keep up the good work
i know its been a year, but my guess is the institute rifles "look", or design, is based off of industrial electronics in modern times. I have a control panel / switch box at my job that reminds me a lot of the institute rifle. You can google stuff like "Gewiss Rotary Isolator Switch" and "GEWISS GW66020 INTERLOCKED HORIZONTAL SOCKET-OUTLET". Other than that, it also kind of looks like the Singer 9900H sewing machine. My thought is that, the designers worked with a mood board that was made up of a bunch of references to modern, modular industrial innovations, specifically stuff relating to electronics. The white/gray plastic, with what seems like stiff rotary switches and connected modules, is exactly the type of stuff you see around factories these days in my own experience, the white plastic and bits and bobs being that way because the modular design of it all makes it easier for manufacturers to cater the rigging of machinery, specifically the electronics, to individual customers needs. Just a thought
I always figured the glowing glass bit on the laser musket was the same sort of holographic laser charging/amplifying thing that assaultron lasers use...
Yeah the laser Musket was a cool concept that was exicuted poorly. I think it would have been much more thematic if it was like the recharger rifle but took say 5 seconds to recharge between each shot but each shot dealt alot of damage. Maybe have a five shot capacity of recharger ammo and reloading the rifle was similar to muzzle loading and took a while to do too. Also just get rid of the dumb hand crank. This isnt a shitty camping flashlight.
Oh, the symbol on the Institute Laser Weapons is a reference to Back To the Future, as it shares the shape of the Flux Capacitor that the Time Machine has.
Man i love energy weapons so much
Me too. Let’s start a club.
I would say Fallout 4's plasma is the most versatile, because in addition to turning it from a pistol, to a rifle, to a sniper, shotgun, and machine gun, it can also be made into a plasma "thrower"
Oh yeah, another great video from RadKing
Glad to deliver 😊
and with the useful crank mod it makes use of the crank to charge of the laser musket up instead of using the fusion cells.
That radiation warning symbol on the institute laser might be a reference to the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future.
good intentions is a reference to
"the road/path to hell is paved with good intentions"
While haven't played Fallout 4, I have noticed something about it's Gauss rifle that I find interesting. The stock resembles that of the Soviet PK machine gun made by Mikhail Kalashnikov, the same guy who made the famous AK-47
One issue i have with the exploding cars, is that they wouldn't explode. The nuclear material they would most likely use is Uranium 235, which doesn't rapidly disperse it's yield like the uranium in weaponry. This is the same type of nuclear material in reactors at plants, which don't explode on criticality, but melt down. Plus, given the timeframe of 4, along with the combination of rust and neutrino damage, those fuel tanks containing the fuel would have long broken down and leaked their fuel out. Those cars, and possibly bikes, would be slightly but still dangerously irradiated by 2287.
This is not meant to excuse the laser muskets visual design as the concept are clearly states it was originally intended to be a elbowgrease powered weapon, but I've got a small pet theory about the laser musket and fusion cells to rationalize how the mechanic turned out. The theory goes that fusion cells need an input voltage in order to operate the micro scale fusion reactor inside, essentially amplifying whatever is fed in. For safety reasons this has to be a source other than the fusion cell itself as the risk of a run away feedback loop is to great. For the laser musket this input voltage is provided by a hand cranked dynamo like found on old phones or in modern emergency weather radios, while for military laser guns this is provided by a long life radioisotope battery such as a betacell or thermoelectric generator used in pace makers and space probes.
The support for this theory comes from the energy weapon forge from the contraptions DLC where you will find that laser guns need nuclear material to be fabricated, whereas the laser musket does not. This also explains quicks of fallout 4 like the fussion generators as the fusion cores are essentially a high power step up to run an even larger powersource/amplifier that also can't be allowed to power itself for fear of a feedback loop, and they remain functional in a low powered state as they still have the juice from that long life radioisotope battery to try to amplify(same story with power armor and how you can still barely walk around when the core runs dry instead of freezing up entirely.
can you do a video on power armour
Indeed I can and I will!
I know this is late and may have been covered, but the Laser Musket was originally designed to be like the recharge rifle and pistol where it didn't use ammunition, and was charged by the turn of the handle. What's cheaper than free ammo? Not user why it wasn't, but it is a great concept.
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The only stronger weapon would be the modded spoon from fallout 4