The Laser Weapons of Fallout Part 1
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2021
- Once again we are looking at the weapons of Fallout, this time with a focus (ha) on laser weapons. We will explore the lore, design inspirations, easter eggs, cut content and some real world facts relating to our favorite ash making weapons in the Fallout series. This is part one, with part two coming out in the near future.
Maybe the reason why there's huge handguards on the energy weapons is due to them being intended for powered armor usage? Just a thought.
I think that’s definitely a possibility. Probably wasn’t a bad idea to have some sort of insulating glove with the early laser pistols
@@Rad_King in our world, the huge handguards and trigger rings are for winter wear gloves or gloved wear in general, so bigger handguards for the Power Armour troops is a good thing.
Excellent thinking, a perfect combination with a miniaturized fusion powerplant.
That's a really good theory. Plus I believe they were being rolled out around the Battle of Anchorage. So it could work well with thick gloves necessary for winter fighting in Alaska, Canada, and cold parts of China.
Also a other reason to get form-fitting gloves if you can. Know your glove size and train because your trigger pull does change when wearing gloves.
I have a theory. Recharger weapons were made for space travel. Firstly, what little paint is left and the way they're designed makes it seem like they weren't produced by the normal companies that make and deal with energy weapons and looks more like something like Poseidon energy or REPCON would make. Secondly if you look where these weapons are most common and where they can be found. The Bright Brotherhood use a lot of them or did and they inhabit the REPCON launch site. Also look where you get the MF Hyper Breeder Alpha. You don't get it from the Van Grafs or Brotherhood who y'know, deal a lot with energy weapons. It would also make sense for the idea too because then you wouldn't need to take up room on the rockets with spare ammo since they recharge themselves. You alao wouldn't need to waste room on resupply rockets with more ammo. Just a thought
That makes a lot of sense!
My thought on Recharger weapons is they weren't exclusively meant for one thing, the pistols would have been perfect for space use but the rifles seem to be a rather weak weapon, like their power output was limited for civilians. The same tech one is just purposely weaker
@@fallout0624 i think that the rifle was the gen 1 of recharger weapons and the pistol was the gen 2 that come with better components in smaller shape
Gun sellers also wouldn't want to sell energy weapons that charge themselves... they like having repeat business.
I agree however that the recharger weapons would be used for space travel. They don't need to hit as hard because weight is a premium in spacetravel, therefore armor is likely thinner up there... and a single hole can kill someone on EVA, or cause a base to begin shutting down. Additionally, it could be a safety feature if some space cowboy gets trigger happy in his own base, or if there's interior fighting (prevents overpenetration).
@@fallout0624 I refer you to the person who just commented
10:23 Pro tip: gold is extremely malleable, plus it's also very heavy. (that thing they do in movies, where they bite on a gold coin to see if it's actually gold or not is actually legit. gold will bend from a moderate bite.) the reason as to why gold is a bad option for the gun is because it would add a ton of unnecessary weight to the gun, and one decent drop or hit to the gun will irreparably damage the focusing crystals. titanium, while it can corrode, is pretty tough, and would be able to keep the gun from getting fucked up when getting hit. If i were to use a metal for it though, i'd choose tungsten. tungsten is much stronger than titanium, and it has the highest melting point of any metal.
Also titanium would probably survive the blast, while gold is liable to melt.
Lore also states part of why the aer9 stayed in service is because it was more durable which the titanium over gold would support that.
A possible reason for using gold was the resource scarcity and massive upswing of inflation in the world of Fallout. Gold may have been more likely due to it being more abundant than the others, but that's just my thoughts.
Yeah but tungsten tetra- nvm I was thinking of the Osmiom
I wish Bethesda would bring back the Watts laser weapons.
Same, I would love to see a lot of OG fallout weapons in the newer fallouts.
The RCW is my favorite weapon in the whole series. It's a laser tommy gun! You can't get much cooler than that!
I mean yeah its cool looking but as a weapon its quite shitty
@@couriersix4905 It unfortunately is not. Doesn't detract from my liking it, though. I wish it would come back and be actually good. Such a cool concept and design, wasting away with the others.
@@vahlok1426 actually I've been using overcharged ammo with my RCW and it's actually been destroying people, it may do only 5 damage per bullet, but fire rate makes that 5 danage add up FAST, anything that isn't heavily armored literally gets shredded
I prefer the plasma defender and holo rifle myself.
4:49 You're the first american I've ever heard pronouncing "Heckler und Koch" properly, props, my guy.
Haha thanks, sometimes I get lucky and pronounce something right. I lived in Germany for a couple years and a few things stuck.
@@Rad_King it's definitely something you hear instantly as a native speaker, sounded indistinguishable!
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@@Rad_King ziemlich gutes Video vom Inhalt her, super Aussprache hast du zudem, hört man nicht oft! Audio könnte einen Tick besser sein aber ansonsten rein gar nichts auszusetzen. Bin ein großer Fan von Fallout und der Lore und mich freut es mega dass ich deinen Channel gefunden hab!
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Video suggestion #2: the Missiles/Rockets of Fallout. Basically and analysis of things like the Repconn rockets or that big rocket in the air and space museum in Fo3, as well as any other space or ballistic missiles
Great suggestion, I’ll put that on the list
The magneto-laser makes sense to me, an Electro-Magnetic field that focuses the laser beam more.
I never see anyone talk about how similar in appearance the original Wattz laser pistol is to Corbin Dallas' gun in The Fifth Element (1997).
10:25 The way I imagine it, gold melts easily and Titanium does not. Of course the focus crystals focus would probably change as it heated, the housing wouldn't potentially melt and become permanently deformed, so once it cooled down the focusing crystal and its housing should return to its original shape.
You should do plasma or the other energy weapons when you're done with part two...please:)
Oh don’t worry my friend. It’s on the docket.
@@Rad_King I can't wait to see plasma weapons
@@Rad_King yay!
Now this is the episode I've been waiting for.
The Watts 2000 laser rifle has a distinct shape of a Browning Auto-5, note the Humpback that both browning auto 5 and the watts 2000 laser rifle. They also look, similar length barrel, and stock shape. You should definitely look at the shape of both guns at all angles, its insane
Many guns from energy weapons from fallout are nearly identical to real world guns.
Many of the inspiration of the guns came from the serials from the 1930s, such as Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon (available on CZcams) these chunky, syfy, futuristic weapons, made the whole game far my interesting.
Good eye my guy, I think you’re right.
@@Rad_King thanks Rad, you definitely need more subs
the Wattz 2000 Laser rifle could have been a early game weapon compared to the other laser options since it is for civilian use, same with most of the other guns.
and THEN the makeshift guns and something like PALuty's SMG over the pipe guns would make more sense.
@@drivanradosivic1357 thats true, also how many people in the wasteland understand the technology of energy weapons?
@@atompunk5575 well, the Laser Musket is a thing, so something even simpler then the Wattz 2000 could happen if we go Laser Musket
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Thanks! I’ll be posting more regularly now
with the lightning gun, it sounds like a turn of the phrase "first comes the lightning, then the thunder" with the first shot priming the target surrounding them in an explosive cloud, then blowing it up with a slightly slower shot
I've got a crack pot theory about the Wattz 2000 Laser Rifle Scope:
Seeing as you mentioned its electronic with evidence being the two power cables; What if the Scope is actually *A Camera?* A lens on the front of the Scope, that records a magnified image. And a screen on the back of the Scope that plays back the recording. Hence the two power wires. The connection between the Recroding Lense and the Screen are in the internals of the Scope.
There's a mod that's add it to fallout 4 and the model there supports that theory even though it's a mod
It'd be pretty cool if you did the Gauss and rail weapons too. (After this videos part 2 ofc)
That’ll be part of a different energy weapon video. We have plasma and then different energy weapons like the Tesla cannon that don’t fall neatly into one category. So I’ll do a catch-all energy weapon episode in the future.
@@Rad_King Ok, awesome man! Can't wait
of these the Laser RCW was really fun in new vegas but other guns just outshined it IMO
can't go wrong with the gatling lasers and the Aer's are great when starting out
I loved the look of the RCW, it was fun to role play as a Futuristic rat pack gangster with that thing.
Yeah it was really a disappointment the RCW isn't stronger. The moment I saw it I fell in love with the idea of a high tech mobster character.. but those dreams faded fast when I couldn't kill anything beyond a Fiend with it lmao
About the Recharger weapons in New Vegas
I think I remember reading somewhere that the Recharger rifle is more of a proof of concept prototype whereas the pistol models used more advanced technology derived from the rifle, essentially just scaling it down to the size of a handgun
Then again I could be completely wrong and misremembering so take this with a grain of salt
I would honestly be cool with that explanation. That would also mean the rifle was the first to be made, perhaps a prototype or proof of concept.
@@Rad_King That's pretty much what happened actually. The rifle was the first model produced with the pistol coming out as an improvement. fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Recharger_rifle
You and Synonymous are the best Fallout lore channels hands down, keep up the brilliant work 👍
Great vid, only thing is, while extremely rare the laser pistol and rifle are in fo1. The pistol is a reward for the rescue the B.o.s initiate. Rifles are on super mutant officers like harry
I’m glad this game is still talked about even many years later still the best game ever to exist.
always happy to see the channel growing
I have never been happier to subscribe to a channel. You really have some quality content!
Thanks, I have some plans to up the production quality and refine my approach, so definitely stick around.
You put so much work into these videos man
Yay your back
Going to be posting more regularly now.
You’re a god
I know how much tedium goes into these videos
It’s so much appreciated
Glad the algorithm led me to this channel. Love the in depth content
Thanks, I’m glad you’re here! I have a lot of content planned so stick around.
I was in the kitchen and I was like “I forgot something” I stared baking an egg and yelled out loud “RADKING!” As I remember I forgot to watch your video
Love your vids man, nice chil vibe to them and you put a lot of effort in
I’m glad you like them. I’ve definitely been called chill a few times in my life.
Radking, you should do a video on the various statues in the fallout games, specifically the golden muses in Fallout 3 and the stone faces present in the same game. I’ve always thought they were intriguing and very gothic in nature, and I would love to see you do a deep dive on them.
Hey nice I haven’t thought of this before. It’s on the list now :)
@@Rad_King awesome!
I’ve been waiting for this :)
I’m here at 31k subs. You gonna grow more my friend ❤️🙏🏾 love the content keep up the great work
Exactly what i needed
It is theoretically possible the Wattz pistol was misnamed a "Laser" when it was actually a Particle beam weapon since such weapons could use magnetic fields to guide and focus it's emissions, although that would be getting close to the Plasma weapons in terms of the tech involved.
I'd say the guards are to reinforce the frame of the weapons and to make sure that you can shoot them with thick, probably lead lined gloves.
I definitely think that is possible. If not lead lined then insulated perhaps from heat.
The different sets of armor would be a cool topic to cover, like who they were used by and their origins
We all know metal armor was just cosplaying armor originally, explains why it would be in the Sierra Madre.
I like to think the original Fallout 1 Wattz 2000 laser rifle doesn't have a scope, but instead the device the cables go to is an charge indicator similar to the fallout 4 guass rifle's charge indicator
The (Rad) King is back! Also, the way you thought that the lighting gun would have worked was pretty cool
Good to be back!
Love your vids man they remind me of old oxhorn or thanapple
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The Lightning Gun seems to have a somewhat similar working mechanism to the Agunea subweapon from Castlevania game. Agunea first shoots out a non-damaging, laser-like projectile. If it hits, the player can hold down the button to send out a series of electric arc that rapidly shocks the enemies.
The eight ppl that disliked never had fun with guns in their playthroughs
Perhaps the sunbeam rifle uses an endoscope in its muzzle to guide its lasers, meaning that you just have to point it in your target's general direction and the precise aiming is done for you.
Starts with a thing I have never heard of unlike other fallout youtubers
I won’t lie this video is great to know where I kind of wish you would include attachments and upgrades
You should do armor next
For sure, it’s in my list. Going to have to break it up though, there is a lot of armor in the game
😆 I watched your chems video, you REALLY needed that mic 😂
u should totally do the metro and similar games to that I think it would suit ur channel very well :)
Hey, nice video. The recharger rifle is actually an older version of the recharger pistol, which is a more cutting-edge prototype, I assume that is the reason for the power difference.
My favourite kind of weapons 💗
Same, I always have one or more on my character!
Mind adding captions, at least for the names of these guns, into the video? It would make it way easier for people who don't have english as their first language.
Oh, and also love this type of content and love you for making it, thank you!
Definitely an underrated channel. You deserve a lot more subs
Man I just wanted to tell you how great your English has gotten you you said colloquially better than I can and I'm a native English speaker so great job
Thanks, I have only been learning since I was 0 years old. 😬
Just kidding, I really am a native English speaker, but maybe my time outside the US has effected how I speak more than I thought.
@@Rad_King oh your earlier videos didn't sound that great... Also maybe work on the pauses. That has to do more with writing than speaking but I did want to inform you there are a lot of pauses also I still can't pronounce that word
Edit: OMG!!! I just watched the video like 3 or 4 days ago I watched an entirely different person that sounded almost exactly like you that wasn't a native English speaker and couldn't pronounce behemoth OH MY GOD I need to say two things sorry it's second of all that guy had a really similar voice to yours like almost like you had the exact same voice I think you have a doppelganger from a different country.
Hahaha though I did want to tell you you have gotten way better at speaking
As a Fallout universe crackhead since FO1...i love these kind of vids. Bethesda may have took a bit of a steaming dump on FO lore, but i still like it.
That 80s toy gun looks dope
Discussing the Sunbeam Laser Rifle - the cables you mentioned may be video signal cables, with the scope actually serving as a boresight device, giving a perfect on-target image.
This is a sound idea because laser doesn't "drop" like a normal bullet, which would necessitate a sighting device that shows an exact impact point. How any video camera would deal with refraction through beam focusing lenses is beyond me, though.
We don't actually know at which ranges Fallout laser weapon beams lose cohesion, but the beams are visible and red (wavelength between 620 nm and 699 nm). Thus, their range would be much more limited than what is shown in the game, with beams superheating the atmosphere and speeding up diffusion, so a scope of any kind would be completely superfluous.
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I think my favorite directed energy weapon is the LAER. The electrolaser works like what you said: laser-induced plasma channel, it creates a channel of least resistance for the current to flow through the air, by the laser; the laser's electromagnetic field harvests electrons, from air, creating the pathway for the current (from LiveScience, June 22, 12'). The Picatinny Arsenal (US Army R&D) is one group who have demonstrated it back in 2012.
Came because I was bored at night, stayed due to the content I found
I am enjoying your videos. Also, “It’s hog killing time!”
I always prefer old-school firepower, especially with the beautiful selection of brass you get in NV. But they are quite satisfying, especially framers and laser miniguns..but that fully customized tri beam with the special rounds is really something special
But if you want a great playthrough, you gotta pu some points on explosives or melee
I just realised that solar gun in EPA is a clever bit of satire:
1) Agency that is supposed to protect the environment creates a weapon using their energy generating technology
2)It can evaporate a human being, but at least it runs on "clean" energy.
Nothing beats laser rifle with beam splitter, laser commander and high critical chance. Can legit mow down death claws
The lightning gun ?
Forget about gas, (well... mostly. We'll get back to that) what is happening is: the laser is being used to create a channel of ionized gas, what gas? The gas yer breathing dude! Air!
Yeah... and what can travel through air when it's in an ionized state? Thats right! Electricity! So basically, its allowing your high voltage, high amp power source in your gun to stike a massive arc via an ion trail between the gun and the target.
The energy damage plus explosive damage makes sense - a high voltage arc with superheat the air around it, causing a shockwave. At a distance, you hear it as thunder... but at contact range? It is concussive force.
The tri-beam laser has the most incredible weapon technology ever seen: plot armor-penetration!
Love the design of the original laser rifle.
I know it would be a lot more work but you should really show in-game footage of the things you’re talking about when possible instead of just general gameplay. It makes the visual part of your videos kind of pointless aside from a few pictures. I do enjoy your content, just giving you some constructive criticism. Keep up the good work.
I remember being able to reload the solar scorcher at night and/or in cabes once I hade nightvision perks...
The Lazer rifle from Fallout 2, the "scope" is the fuel cell, I'm pretty sure cause the upgraded version, you can tell
6:14 im pretty sure its called a minigun because its the scaled down version of a bigger weapon. The smaller round is because its a smaller gun
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Thanks, I do my best with my shoestring budget!
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Nice
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Can't wait for part two, simply to see what you have to say about the ugly weak institute guns
I would say the laser pistol's "hand guard" isn't actually intended as a hand guard as such but structural frame work which is matched by the laser rifle.
In a normal gun, the projectile's course would be corrected and hit off target in line with the misaligned barrel.
It would be essential that the laser barrel is soundly secure in place as the laser beam is directional, the weapon would not only be completely ineffective, but even self destructive if the barrel was not in line with the laser; at worst the barrel would explode melting polymers, metals and electronic components in potentially all directions, and the laser beam may be reflected / refracted into random directions.
10:18 man you sure do like that tumbleweed
8:09 specifically the original series phaser as the design changed in later shows.
4:13 I believe that would be some sort of output display, such as energy level or battery level if powered by such. Just a real quick thought on that, I highly doubt its a scope since there is not outlet visible to gather a view from.
6:50 small point i wanted to add regarding the solar scorcher gun, it looks like it has the foto electric cells on the dome shapped end in the back since that has a Fresnel lens to focus the light source into the foto electric cells although thats just speculation based on the image shown, and the two wires going into the upper part indicate that the upper part is the battery with the lights being posibly a charge indicator, furthermore it would make sense to have the fotoelectric cell on the back of the gun since when a weapon is holstered that is the exposed part facing the sun.
One idea for the odd scope on the Laser Rifle is that the system is like an SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. The operator can actually see down the barrel/focusing optics until the trigger mechanism changes it to firing mode. As to the magneto-laser pistol, well if its using an ionized gas instead as a lasing medium instead of solid state crystals - being able to contain it at a higher temperature/energy state plasma with magnets would be helpful. (At leas in a techno-babel fashion, I know there are gas core lasers, but plasma is another matter.)
You should do a video on all the power armours in fallout
Obligatory reference, maybe, but, I'M A FIRIN MAH LAYZORZ BWAAAAAAAGH!!!!!
4:00 those wires are probably going to an energy cell to power the weapon, there's several other powered weapons in the series that use top-mounted cells. First to come to mind is the pulse gun in F:NV, where you can quite easily see a cell mount with 2 wires on either side coming from the mount.
Imagine if the hand guard for the laser pistol in fallout 3 and NV was a underfolder stock.
Note that interplay also developed a lot of star trek PC games during the same time.
The MF breeder reminds me of a betavoltaic cell that basically uses a beta emitter as a battery that’s conveyed into electricity and used to trickle charge a battery which could be used to power a laser
If I recall correctly, the recharger rifle was a prototype, and the recharger pistol was the finished product. So it was likely large because it needed to be. they hadn't figured things out yet.
maybe the watts 1000 was meant to be used in power armour, so the handguard would make sense.
and the Watts rifle not having a scope could also be plausible, since power armour is equipped with VATS capabilities
edit: actually this applies to a lot of prewar laser weapons now that I think about it, even the laser rifle has an exceptionally long trigger guard
So what category are you gonna put the Holorifle in?
(Also looking forward to your review on all of the Gauss guns)
Lol at the tumbleweed
maybe the guns that have handguards have it so they can be used while wearing power armor, since a power armor user would have bulky hands.
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The PPSH is apparently beloved by everyone who works on Fallout games. It looks very similar to the combat rifle and shotgun, in addition to the Wattz.
I had that 80s laser gun, I've never seen it anywhere else
To the recharger guns:
1/2 Capacity for ×0.33 recharge interval is a pretty good trade, just not made for mass action
The old ray guns you showed look like old pneumatic drills with extra frills attached
My dad worked at the epa building, he was their head steam engineer.
Recently did a run with a Power Armor + Energy weapon character. Laser RCW became my got to for most situations late game, high DPS/crit chance with Set Lasers For Fun and Better Criticals at max Luck is OP as fuck tbh. Not to mention if you switch to max charge ammo...
I'd like to think that the scope of the Watts laser rifle feeds directly into the lenses in the barrel for 100% accurate aim (pretty much like a camera). Could be digital video feed or analog mirrors+fiber optics, but either way It would need a shutter system to dampen at the moment of fire so you don't... y'know redirect a laser directly back into your own eyes.
maybe the cable of the rifle were to give stereography to the scope, and when upgraded, the other cables could be for infrared or light enhancement optics posed on the bottom
Certainly possible. Only reason I lean toward it being where the micro fusion cells are is the upgrade is specifically meant to recycle some energy and increase the ammo capacity so it makes sense the area with the micro fusion cells would be the area that would look different.
The recharger pistol Barrel kind of reminds me of a Dalek eye stock