This is always an interesting subject to me. What is your preferred ranged weapon? Do you like leaving your enemies full of holes? In pieces? As a smoking pile of ash? Why do you prefer this over the others? Which will you choose in Fallout 4?

I never use energy and explosives I never have on me I usally have shotgun and anti material rifle

I generally have four weapons on my characters.

1 - A melee weapon of some kind (combat knife or one of the ones in the RSA weapon pack). These are especially useful for when you run out of ammo or

2 - A Glock (preferably the .357 or .45 version.. I forget the model numbers). Whichever one I have has been fitted with a silencer for up close and personal work.

3 - A .308 sub machine gun. (I like the ones from the RSA pack..)

4 - M50 or Anti Material Rifle. Great for when things just need to go BOOM...

I've used the energy weapons in some games but it just doesnt feel the same when you look at a bad guy full or holes or missing limbs and when you are looking at a pile of goo.... Not to mention locating the bodies so you can loot them is a bit more difficult when you are looking for goo...

There's so many cool mods for guns (Millenia, RSA, etc.) that it's hard to use anything else.

I prefer pineapples and mines to cover my ass as I get in close enough to use my preferred SMGs and shotguns.

I mostly use guns that shoots bullets rather than lasers because its really satisfying to hear the sound of a gunshot and the rechambering of another round. The only time i would use energy weapons is when it looks really cool :p

I choose the guns,for the pistol and assault rifle, exiest the ammunition exploiove

Laser generally. Side arm, main, and an unarmed/melee weapon for when crap gets real

Energy weapons have the possibility for disintegration, and I love that. So i have to go with them, despite what Vader told Boba Fett  

Explosives combined with sneak can be deadly if used right - wait for the enemies to crowd up then lob explosives (specially with sneak crit dmg) till they get close enough then make them chase you into your own minefield.

I felt the energy weapons the New Vegas were pretty underpowered compared to guns. The plasma rifle was pretty straight up useless outside of VATS due to its slow rate of fire. Plus the projectile speed was horrendous even with weapon mods installed. I remember trying to shoot enemies with it, but always miss because the enemy moved like an inch to the left or right and the projectile would buzz right past them.

Guns, primarily. To me, there is nothing like hearing the report of a weapon. No other sound compares.

On the other hand, Energy Weapons with EVE mod are dang cool; especially plasma. Mix it in with the appropriate perk(s) and have a literal blast watching enemies melt into a pile goo.

PewPew, Rifle (nonenergy), Machete, mines, grenade rifle. I never use machine guns or fire based usually.

Nothing like shrapnel from Gauss Rifle barrel in enemy face

I'll always follow Energy weapons, guns felt cheap to me.

It is so hard to vote one of those three. I love turning people into a pile of goo or doing insane AoE with explosives and guns have such good sound.
However I do wish that doing damage was more similar to the way rage does it. With the momentum physics type movement. So when you shoot an enemy somewhere the force is delivered there. On a positive not it seems like that is sorta the case in Fallout 4 from what i've seen. If so my vote goes to guns. Nothing beats kneecapping an enemy with a ridiculous shotgun.

Probably explosives cause I can blow stuff up or laser weapons cause I like their design.

sci fi laser guns all the way !

i generally dislike all energy weapons i dont like the sounds , the looks or the kill effects i use to actually try remove them from my game using the GECK lol

for me its always been the guns and explosives that did it for me (just c4, grenades and dynamite mostly) i really liked the run down feel of the weapons in fallout gave that more immersive feel to me and sorta reminded me of mad max walking the wasteland with a sawn-off shotgun

FoVet20 wrote:

i generally dislike all energy weapons i dont like the sounds , the looks or the kill effects i use to actually try remove them from my game using the GECK lol

for me its always been the guns and explosives that did it for me (just c4,  grenades and dynamite mostly) i really liked the run down feel of the weapons in fallout gave that more immersive feel to me  and sorta reminded me of mad max walking the wasteland with a sawn-off shotgun

i totally agree mate, but id say i prefer using guns over explosives, blowing people up gets old fast i find and isnt great indoors