The Hunt for the Best Energy Weapon in Fallout New Vegas

I use the Q35 with the explosive energy weapons perk (I forgot what it’s called) and it makes it so that crits make the target explode doing AOE as well, does good work for me

EDE can do weapon repairs so I just do that with the holorifle.

i must admit its scummy, but you can quicksave before entering the brewers bootlegging hut, and reload until the gaussrifle spawns in the cabinet

wouldnt the sprtel pull way ahead when dealing with targets with good dt?

fully modded LAER is pretty hard to beat

Dude I’ve put in 200 hours into fallout new Vegas and watch hundreds of play thru and weapons reviews how have I never heard of the compliance regulator

Anyway to just make better plasma rifle give them fire rate like it was on f3 :)

Sadly, never used YCS, as I always seem to fall into mainly using guns when I do an Energy Weapons playthrough...that and I always use wild wasteland, just something about Wild Wasteland makes me love it.

What mods are u using?

You can say the other downside of the holo rifle is actually playing dead money, eff that dlc

You can use a glitch to use any ammo with any weapon you wish. If you're fine with using this glitch, then the alien blaster is undoubtedly THE best energy weapon.

...unless you use the same glitch with, say, the laser designator and, perhaps, mini nukes. But... who would do such a thing?

Woe, anti material rifle explosive ammo sneak attack upon ye.

Another less talked about laser weapon is just the regular old laser rifle once you mod it. Idk if a lot of performance patches on pc fix this because I play on console, Bit the weapon mod that gives it a second projectile is bugged so that instead of lowering the damage of each laser it literally just doubles the damage of the weapon. Especially considering that the lasers are right on top of each other so you’re basically always hitting with both. It’s extremely strong

Bro was being held hostage to put complince regulator keeping him paralized until he calls it not cheese

The Alien blaster is that one weapon where I say it is a very high up on the power scale which make sense, but very lower low due to needing special ammo which is very scarce.

“If you had a way to beat the durability problem, it would be a very fine weapon.” Bro it’s literally a laser pistol. One of the most common weapons in the entire game. Buying one in full condition is like 150 caps without any barter skill

Pew Pew and the YCS/186 are my favorite energy weapons. The sheer amount of single shot damage make me happy.

You should make a steam guide for your weapon videos and the caps video

youre so wrong about q35.

You can get the alien blaster and ycs186 just pick different traits at big mt

How you got less than 1.5k subs? This channel is awesome. I love your editing style.

You forgot one of the strongest parts of the holorifle, the durability mod is broken giving it infinite durability.

The correct answer is the holorifle solely because it looks cool and is very satisfying

This list has made me want to give energy weapons a chance. I never did before

I got my pew pew in level 10, (""i did an Speedrun for get it"")

There is a glitch that lets you use bbs to shoot the alien blaster.

Mf hyperbreeder alpha and Tesla-Beaton prototype my beloveds

So, I'm kind of ammo stingy, and I don't like the new vegas thing of using more ammo per shot on more "powerful" weapons. It made me do the math, and per ammo spent, my napkin math told me I would do best seeking out the Holorifle. It uses one fusion cell per shot, with four in the barrel, and with the right mod, it never breaks. Combine this with the powerful and fast hologram poison DOT effect, and it's one of the most efficiently powerful weapons in the game. And this is all before you make a build for it. I like plasma spaz because melee enemies bunch up, and it'll proc off the poison.

In the REPCONN HQ i find 610 MF cells, like 30 was in the ammo boxes in one of the 3 locked doors, but all the ammo is on the first floor

Enjoyed the video, still surprised on what you can learn and find all these years later.

My personal favorite energy weapon in NV is the AER14 Prototype. It just looks so clean and is very reliable even into the late game. Only con is really the durability, but I run around with like thousands of caps on me at all times so I can just pay Major Knight to repair it when it gets low. Or buy a laser rifle from Chet to repair it.

I love how Elijah just took a China Lake, said "Hey, I can turn this into an energy weapon" and we got the Holorifle

My only issue with videos like this is how modded their games are. You cant make a review if mods are installed because its not how everyone would experience these weapons

Fun fact: you can shoot more than twice before reloading

bro over hyping that compliance regulator

You deserve more subs you have good content

I subbed, I want to see tomorow the melee/unarmed list.
Superheated Saturnite powerfist with pyromaniac by any chance?

Can we just agree that Elijah is a jerk but his weapons are top tier.

You actually came pretty close to the truth even though you barely did any testing by just playing through the game.Here's my testing results.Note:i used all relevant perks on a full crit build,best mods,damage chems and the best ammo on a standing still immortal deathclaw i spawned in firing for an entire minute,reloads included.Camaraderie perk boosts multi-shot weapons way too much as you will see.I didnt test ycs since my save file was on wild wasteland but i highly doubt it would rank very high since its damage uptime is very low.
DPS COMPARISON
Tribeam rifle-800 dps
Elijas LAER and LAER-750dps
Laser Rifle-580
Gatling Laser-550
SPRTLwood-500
AER14-450
Plasma caster-425
q35-350
elijahs tesla cannon-300
alien blaster-280
plasma defender-270
multiplas rifle -250
holorifle-240
smitty special-220
laser rcw-200
pewpew-190
heavy incinerator-40

Conclusion:Tribeam for general play,any LAER for higher than 20dt enemies and Gatling laser for emergencies.

The fact normal Laer ranked higher than HoloRifle is so sad of a video. It is literally the highest dot damage and direct source of impact damage compared to every other weapon. And with OC rounds and 25% damage buff weapon mod you can literally two tap most boss type enemies

"I don't care for wild wasteland"

It's treason then...

What about the laser Tommy Gun?

I loveeee the compliance regulator. Also, I still have fun in NV cause I don’t use it too often. My other favorite energy weapons are Pew Pew, AER 14 Prototype, Holorifle and Elijah’s LAER. In my opinion, I think the Tri-Beam is kinda mediocre, I guess it’s cause I prefer Unique Weapons. Also the science or lockpick to get the Q-35 is 100 not 50.

I can’t even use the Sprtel-Wood 9700 cause every time I fire it, it crashes my game. 💀💀💀

Old world blues auto doc can actually change your traits so you can get the ycs-186 and the alien blaster in the same run and just be ridiculously o.p.

I remember when i did an energy weapons run. The ycs to snipe and the tri-beam for everything else, and the scorched sierra power armor for style

plasma weapons are supposed to be used with vats, there is a perk that makes plasma weapons cost less AP

Should do a video on best armors and outfits

Any weapons you like to use that you think should have been on this list? Let me get your thoughts! Also let me know what type of weapons you’d love to see next in this… series? Yeah I guess it’s a series.