Generally inferior to the first two in terms of damage, easier and more practical to play though. Same for the Alien Blaster, which does more damage but at the expense of having a terrible range. Much the same setup as for minigun, only you can potentially fire it 6 times - a lot better than the F2 version. You can fire thrice in the first round of combat. There are lots of perk permutations in this build, but providing you have good luck, I think this tops it in terms of damage administration. Bonus ranged damage is very good here as well. However Fast Shot + Bonus Rate of Fire + Action Boy (2) + Sniper (with luck >7) + Better Criticals = carnage. Impractical, as it requires the Sniper perk - takes ages to get in Fallout. Minigun (and normally to a lesser extent, the Gattling Laser) Overall this can mean 12 instant critical hits, i.e. Actually, provided Agility is good, Bonus Move > Action Boy for this. Optional extras include: Better Criticals, (2) Action Boy(s) and (2) Bonus Move. Power Fist attacks cost 1 AP (the Super Sledgehammer is a better weapon damage wise, however I don't think Bonus HtH works on melee weapons and the knockback attribute gets annoying). Surprising? With an agility of 10, Fast Shot, Bonus HtH Attacks and eventually Slayer as essentials.

Based on a single weapon, what are the most effective late game builds in both games? This has been done before but not for a while (plus there seem to be a fair few foke fairly new to Fallout and Fallout 2).

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