AWKWARD ZOMBIE

My NV jargon's a bit rusty, AMR?

Le'see... the most evil thing I've ever done in New Vegas... Gather up all eight companions at the Lucky 8 just before the Hoover Dam battle, dismiss them so they become mortal, and go Columbine on the entire gang after completing all of their subquests. Why? Because that character's a douchebag that lives to take goodness away from others.

They died in fulfillment and terror.

You use it once and it does moderate damage, as much as a high-power explosive or something, and then if you want to use it again you have to drop whatever you're doing, go to Helios One, walk through the area, find the tower entrance, walk all the way up the tower, through multiple loading screens, and you recharge it, but only at a certain time of day.

I guess it would have been a nice little novelty to use at Hoover Dam, but I ended up using it in the Big MT on a group of like two or three goon enemies, and it left survivors.
also Ycobb posted in the sales thread about this, but new vegas (physical copy) is up for 4 buckaroos at newegg. i recommend buying it now and giving it to someone this holiday season!

First of all, it recharges by itself after a day. That whole song and dance you described is entirely unnecessary.

Second, the whole point of the weapon is its insanity. You're carrying the trigger to your personal orbital death laser. Sure, from a game perspective, there's plenty of more efficient options, but none of them are as AWESOME as firing this fucking laser.

oh wait really
goddammit if only i looked at the gun a second time

Still though, it ain't practical. I prefer frag grenades for roughly the same effect with more practical speed. The gun isn't really that cool considering that it's really just a laser firing at a guy. I've fired lots of lasers at guys!

Of course it's not practical. None of the really fun weapons are practical. I can't stop laughing when I'm beating the shit out of raiders with a fucking shovel. It's not practical, but it's fucking hilarious.

You can make mfc clusters

Anti-material rifle.

50 cal sniper rifle.

YOU F- I am using all my willpower not to cannibalize your genitalia. This is a post-War apocalypse game where vehicles are valued like dragons, and you found a TOY that controls your own personal deathray fired from a solar-powered satellite orbitting the planet. IN OUTER F*CKIN' SPACE. You have a toy gun that helps you pound sh*t with an orbital laser strike powered by the SUN!!! How is that not cool?!!

As much as I agree with you, it's in my personal opinion that it's much cooler then you got two guys walking together, and one of them just has his head explode.

I'm a fan of sneaky, silencer type gameplay mostly. It's a lot more satisfying to pick people off with long range shots that they never saw coming and such rather than up-close, large white flare booms.
Even so, I think a lot of the weapons in Lonesome Road are cooler. The Laser Detonator and the warhead setpieces lying around are a lot more satisfying to activate than the automatically guided doom laser. Not to mention the volley of rockets you can launch with Old Glory. Who needs flasy death lasers anyway?

I wouldn't see an orbital death ray coming

The ODR sucks because you'll probably hit yourself more often than not. But it's pretty fun using it to kill President Kimball on a legion play through. Does it work in the DLC? Maybe you could kill Rawr with it.

This will never cease to amuse me.

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(mute the left video)

Jesus, that gets downright horrifying towards the end.

guilt_trip.avi

I've seen Bethesda physics do that a few times, once with a super mutant. It still remains horrifying and I have no idea why it happens.