There were some questions on the weapon in this pic being a grenade launcher or not, especially after PSM3 put a minigun description next to it. J.E. Sawyer confirmed that the Big Gun is a grenade launcher:<blockquote>It's actually the grenade machine gun. Sorry for the mixup.</blockquote>And in case of any doubt, he confirmed that weapon modifying will be in the game here.
The grenade launcher is a grenade launcher
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el_jefe_of_ny
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What is the comparison??
Yeah, that grenade launcher is pretty neat. An automatic one is mounted to a vehicle. You cannot carry an automatic grenade launcher. A bullet weighs a few grams. A grenade is super heavy compared. To launch it requires a lot of pop. Rifle fired uses a bullet for this. Auto's go very far and are rapid. You cant fire an auto grenade launcher from standing. It wouldnt do anything besides waste like 1000+ dollars a trigger pull.
Yeah, that grenade launcher is pretty neat. An automatic one is mounted to a vehicle. You cannot carry an automatic grenade launcher. A bullet weighs a few grams. A grenade is super heavy compared. To launch it requires a lot of pop. Rifle fired uses a bullet for this. Auto's go very far and are rapid. You cant fire an auto grenade launcher from standing. It wouldnt do anything besides waste like 1000+ dollars a trigger pull.
aenemic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
el_jefe_of_ny said:
you can't carry a minigun and shoot it from the hip but no one's had any problems with that so far.
I really don't mind this weapon, except for the fact that it doesn't look like a grenade launcher in that pic. might just be a bad pic though.
I don't like it not because it seems unrealistic for me, but it might just be ovepowered. Well, making a weapon like this that won't slaughter everything it hits save for few heavily armored enemies seems like a retarded idea. That and since it's shown so early in media, I bet it will be available early on in-game.
el_jefe_of_ny
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Hm. Yeah a mini gun would cause one's arm to rip off.
I like the design of the auto grenade launcher. It looks home-brew. With 50 lbs of the launcher mechanism behind it, you can actually shoot this sucker straight. That's a lot of metal the dude is holding there. at least 30+ lbs would keep an auto feeding launcher doing pretty decent.
Now, the L4D2 launcher could not be fired in quick succuession, nor could it be fired accurately into a crowd. Those launchers are for lobbing with a big arc. The way it fires in L4D2 is similar to how it would fire in real life.
The barrel for the fallout grenade launcher is a bit narrow. It must be using the thin canister looking types and not the L4D2 type. This means it's a higher velocity, lower weight grenade. This would be super expensive in a world of bottlecaps
I like the design of the auto grenade launcher. It looks home-brew. With 50 lbs of the launcher mechanism behind it, you can actually shoot this sucker straight. That's a lot of metal the dude is holding there. at least 30+ lbs would keep an auto feeding launcher doing pretty decent.
Now, the L4D2 launcher could not be fired in quick succuession, nor could it be fired accurately into a crowd. Those launchers are for lobbing with a big arc. The way it fires in L4D2 is similar to how it would fire in real life.
The barrel for the fallout grenade launcher is a bit narrow. It must be using the thin canister looking types and not the L4D2 type. This means it's a higher velocity, lower weight grenade. This would be super expensive in a world of bottlecaps
Well guess that clears that up. I assumed at start, it was some energy weapon. Since Enclave wasn't around,means no advanced plasma tech. Thus the weapon in pic and why it used so many power cells. But since its a GL, gee guess it nice: But it made me wonder wasn't the future in energy weapons, since most of energy weapons could bypass armor while fragment explosives could be absorbed by PAs?
mocnijogurt
First time out of the vault
minigun - cool
rocket machine gun - fail
Hellion
Antediluvian Lurker
Wait until someone modifies this weapon and turns it into a Mini-Nuke Machine Gun 
Professor Danger!
Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
Hellion said:Wait until someone modifies this weapon and turns it into a Mini-Nuke Machine Gun
They should modify a hand gun like that.
I find the grenade luncher they have shown pretty ugly and generic.
I wish they would have tried at least to look for a more "realistic" design. Even when its a real weapon it looks much cooler then what they have designed.
I wish they would have tried at least to look for a more "realistic" design. Even when its a real weapon it looks much cooler then what they have designed.
honestly I like the idea of grenade lunchers. The one shown is just pretty ugly in my eyes.
AskWazzup
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
With nuclear handheld guns, nuclear exploding cars and nuclear bombs all around, i think a granade machine gun insn't that big of an issue in itself. I sure hope that it will replace the Fatman, because i just couldn't bare to look at this game if that damn weapon is still there.... This also raises the question, which probably doesn't belong here, but i'm still too curious - will the damn "old rusty car explodes in a violent nuclear mushroom cloud" effect be present in F:NW?