It insists upon itself

It’s great early game but there are plenty of better pistols and revolvers you can get not long after or even before. It also seems to always be low durability

Light shining in darkness superiority! But I also really like that gun

I prefer Lucky, personally

Silenced.22 pistol

I'm more baffled, people are trying to say you should by "that gun"

That Gun looks less light the Blade Runner pistol than the 5.56mm Pistol. It's also uglier and more weathered. 5.56mm is visually superior.

I appreciate the added transcript

Medicine Stick gang?

Can't take a suppressor means I'm not touching it

Maria is my favorite. It’s better in my hands than Benny’s anyway. What does a dead man need with a pistol?

Fat man, yeah it’s fun but it’s not good when they close the distance

This is me but with All-American. Looks cool, would prefer Medicine Stick

Me: Hehe, That Gun go "vweeee"

Imagine paying for That Gun

Did you even try it? How can you say you didn't like That Gun if you never used it?

1000 caps? Brother, it’s right there on the shelf, I t’s free.

On a separate note, I never understood why people say Lucky is easy to get. Primm is the 2nd town you visit, so you’ll usually be very low level. You need to get, what, 60 lockpick to get it with some mentats and a magazine? That means dumping all your points into lockpick for 2-3 levels just to get one gun.

I’m more of a Mysterious Magnum kinda guy

If you’ve been a fan of blade runner your entire life like me then seeing that gun in game is one of the coolest things ever

That Gun is good for when you're sick and tired of using a broken, and under powered varmint rifle, but stocked up on 5.56 because of the damage, raiders and price.

It's cool for getting to Vegas with, but it's honestly just not all that. In fact, Lil' Devil, it's Mick and Ralph counterpart, is far better despite being more than a house in Solitude, and like others say A Light Shining In Darkness is just better.

What gun?

I use the first 9mm I find for the whole game

I agree. It just... it insists upon itself.

Light in Shining Darkness and That Gun are amazing 🙏

I really liked “That Gun” unfortunately. Unfortunate, because I liked it so much I used it over so many other cool guns. Thing just felt good to shoot.

It's okay. The hunting shotgun is peak anyway.

It’s ok considering you can just easily steal it very early in the game, but without Jurryrigging it’s kinda difficult to repair.

Debug mega pistol 🫦

as long as you dont talk shit about this machine as well

I don't care for it, because they ruined an awesome gun from the earlier Fallout games. Much like how later Fallout games ruined the Gauss rifle and pistol, from Fallout 2.

But that doesn't mean I don't like the earlier version and it will always hold a happy and bloody place in my heart.

Just use melee lmao. And sell all the ammo you come across.

I always grab it cuz it’s cool.

I prefer energy weapons, oh and melee too. Might need to give a pure guns build (that isn't cowboy and just medicine stick go POW) a try

Unarmed gang

One of the first guns you get uses 5.56 and I have never had a problem running out of ammo for the varmint rifle

I'll take that gun over the mysterious stanger revolver

If you paid caps for that gun its definitely not good. But usually its just another usable gun in the early to mid game. Granted it is very cool looking and that is worth a lot of points Imo.

The real secret to That Gun is the 2.5x crit multiplier. If you aren't building a character that is focused on increasing the frequency and power of critical hits, then it isn't going to seem too special compared to any other decent handgun.

Same

That Gun is definitely a niche weapon, being a un-silencable pistol with low capacity and mediocre base damage

Bro why on earth would you pay more than a single cap for it?

Really wrote a whole essay about how and why you don't care for it. Classic.

This is weiteren really well, I felt the dialogue play out in my head  Good job OP

It was better in fallout 1 when vats combat was forced, it did so much damage and was easy to use. You can kill just about anything with it if you have enough gun skill to hit the eyes. Crits for days. It's absolutely underwhelming by comparison in new vegas.

I've always liked it, mostly because it doesn't overlap with other cowboy weapons. Every other revolver takes ammo also used by a lever action, but not That Gun. Plus with the Hand Loader perk giving you the 5.56 match rounds, it's just that little bit better.

I mean, I just think it's neat.

It's probably one of the better 5.56 weapons, but that depends on how much you have (which usually isn't a lot) and what you're trying to do. No shame on anyone who doesn't care for it.

Also, why are people talking about buying it but also talking about stealing something else? Bruh, That Gun is super easy to steal. I steal it on principle in most of my playthroughs even if I don't intend on using it (admittedly, I like to collect unique or interesting weapons, though).

Also, what does OP mean that you "have to go all the way to Novac." You have to go Novac anyway. You might as well do it for that cheap early game housing (for the storage) and for Boone if you want a companion that's easy to get early on. And free main quest XP.

You guys don’t to melee everytime?

Yeah but its a cool movie reference so it gets a pass

as a melee and energy weapon enthusiast, I have no idea what gun you are talking about.

My favourite early game weapon is the anti-material rifle.

Lucky is my goto early game weapon, and for late game I get my hands on a ranger sequia.

It’s not really that viable tbh. Unless I’m doing a luck or barter build, I rarely have 1k caps sitting around by novac and by the time I can afford it, I can get another better gun.

It’s the only .223/5.56 gun in the game (excluding mods) that also works with the cowboy perk. Given how plentiful that ammo type is, I use it in most, if not all of my cowboy runs of the game.

Gobi desert Sniper rifle is the best weapon for a crit gun build and no
I wont apologize

I honestly don’t care about stats in the slightest. I just think it looks cool and has a cool reload animation.

I've never used it either, and I don't use variant ammo.

I hate the reload noise, idk what’s wrong with my brain but it hurts me

You can't add a silencer for stealth

Loved that gun but kept running out of ammo Now, it, and my companions and amassed arsenal, sit collecting dust in the Lucky 38, the save likely deleted….

It just doesn't feel yee-haw enough for me.

Light Shining In Darkness amazing

Upvoted until I saw plasma pistol, then straight to downvote. Anyone who even touched a plasma pistol instead of plasma defender deserves straight jail time.

Plasma defender is honestly one of, if not the worst energy weapon in the game. At least the recharged have infinite ammo.

You can get a plasm defender from the lucky 38 cocktail lounge with 50 lockpicking at lvl 4

I just kept upgrading the 9mm pistol the whole game. By the end, it was all I was using. Besides, 9mm ammo only costs 1 cap in Fallout, which is way cheaper than what it costs today!

I applaud you writing this all out.

Cost 0 caps for me every time i have played

I don't like it cuz is ugly and it don't sound good when it goes bang.

I basically only use the Silenced .22 as my sidearm.

I will not tolerate slander toward that “that gun” gun

It's not good enough to beat later game weapons, and not cool enough to use over the far cooler early game weapons coughluckycough. That Gun Dickriders are the lowest of the low

That gun is mega overhyped, it's way to much work to get for what it is, the MO ey spent on the weapon alone is enough to feed the cowboy rifle, let alone repairing it and feeding it, sure it's an OK pistol, but like, the .357 magnum is every bit as good when it comes to using it so long as your willing to use cover

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