Old glory isn't a flagpole, it's actually the staff of the Congress. Long ago it was an actual weapon used against unruly assembly members, but these days it mostly functions as a talking stick on the rare occasion they actually use it. Also, weapons with randoms women's names like Annabelle and Esther are references to the US military tradition of giving your weapon a woman's name (or in more recent times, a man's if you're gay or a female.) The tradition goes back further than our country's history into obscurity and is most prevalent in the Marines and army

The holorifle is technically a heavily modified grenade rifle. That ‘useless’ durability upgrade, when applied at max durability, actually makes it so much more durable it’s actually Unbreakable The Q-35 also has a detail you didn’t mention. It consumes less ammo per shot than the standard plasma rifle, meaning it’s lower base damage is also offset by its ammo efficiency

That Gun not being in Fallout 4 is a damned shame. It could have been a legendary weapon that does 30% more damage to synths. My number is a bit arbitrary, but it should be a great weapon to have, but not overpowered either.

Unarmed Weapons 0:37 Cram Opener 1:44 Dr. Klein’s Glove 2:52 Dr. Mobius’ Glove 3:47 Embrace of the Mantis King 5:04 Fist of Rawr 6:19 Golden Gloves 7:22 Greased Lightning 8:41 Love and Hate 9:40 Paladin Toaster 10:58 Pushy 11:46 Recompense of the Fallen 12:49 Salt Upon Wound’s Power Fist 14:00 She’s Embrace 15:51 Two-Step Goodbye Melee Weapons 16:59 Blade of the East 18:15 Blood Nap 19:20 Broad Machete 20:19 Chance’s Knife 22:07 Chopper 22:59 Figaro 24:02 Gehenna 25:30 Knock Knock 26:35 Liberator 27:55 Nephi’s Driver 28:53 Nuka-Breaker 30:46 Oh, Baby! 31:40 Old Glory 32:54 The Humble Cudgel 34:10 X-2 Antenna Guns 35:21 A Light Shining in Darkness 37:10 Abilene Kid BB Gun 39:14 All-American 40:44 Big Boomer 42:06 Bozar 43:12 Christine’s CoS Silencer Rifle 44:25 CZ57 Avenger 46:04 Dinner Bell 47:13 Gobi Campaign Sniper Rifle 48:31 La Longue Carabine 49:25 Li’l Devil 50:22 Lucky 51:17 Maria 52:22 Medicine Stick 53:46 Mysterious Magnum 55:01 Pacienca 56:00 Ratslayer 57:07 Sleepytyme 58:34 Sturdy Caravan Shotgun 59:21 Survivalist’s Rifle 1:01:09 That Gun 1:02:09 This Machine 1:03:27 Vance’s 9MM SMG 1:04:54 Weathered 10MM Pistol Energy Weapons 1:05:57 AER14 Prototype 1:08:01 Alien Blaster 1:08:53 Cleansing Flamer 1:10:02 Compliance Regulator 1:11:17 Elijah’s Tesla Cannon 1:12:33 Euclid’s C-Finder 1:13:51 Holorifle 1:15:21 MF Hyperbreeder Alpha 1:16:39 Missing Laser Pistol 1:17:53 Pew Pew 1:19:00 Pulse Gun 1:19:55 Q-35 Matter Modulator 1:21:08 Sprtel-Wood 9700 1:22:19 Tesla Beaton Prototype 1:23:14 The Smitty Special 1:24:44 Van Graff Plasma/Laser Rifle 1:25:40 YCS/186 Explosives 1:27:04 Esther 1:28:17 Great Bear Grenade Rifle 1:29:01 Red Victory Grenade Rifle 1:30:02 Mercenary Grenade Rifle 1:30:41 Thump Thump 1:31:24 Mercy 1:32:25 Annabelle 1:33:17 Holy Frag Grenade Even though there is technically a chance for more than one in the Mojave to spawn… I still think the Ranger Sequoia should be considered unique. I only recently found one for the first time in my current play-through Edit: Just remembered that the Codac R9000 is also technically a unique weapon despite only being a functional camera

"Oh, Baby!" is a reference to the fact that you're now carrying the best melee weapon in the game.

26:53 Also if you do the ncr version of the quest, you can just loot Liberator from Dead Sea's corpse

A little extra detail about the engravings on the Survivalists Carbine, the fact that it is chambered in 12.7mm (which is .50cal) and is called a "Checkpoint Carbine" suggests it was used mainly to stop vehicles at border crossings/checkpoints, similar to how .50cal rifles are used in the real world. Just a nice little detail to explain why it is chambered in such an unusual caliber, I guess :D

The big boomer is a reference to Mel Gibsons character Mad Max, as it is carried by Old lady Gibson, and Mad Max carried the sawed off shotgun, and big boomer is a common phrase and mountain in Australia

A Light Shining in Darkness is the reason why I always go high in the gun skills in NV. There’s so many unique and fun ballistic weapons in the game

Hands down one of the best FO lore channels on earth you should be proud as hell of these vids bro. We appreciate the hell out of them

Im so glad you went this in depth with all of the weapons, not even just the guns but ALL weapons!

Cleansing flame does refer to purifying something with fire, but that on itself it's a reference to cleansing a wound with a hot/burning object in order to cauterize the wound to prevent infection. Also, Bloodnap sounds better than Dirtnap for a knife/dagger as you won't be sleeping in the dirt but rather in a pool of your own blood. Stab stab.

It would be cool for recompense of the fallen stats to change if it’s used to kill Aurelius

Pushy might be a reference to Fallout 2, which introduced a mechanic to push neutral NPCs out of your way if their random idle pathing managed to stick you in a corner. In the first game you had to either load a previous save or start making dead bodies.

I think the regular machetes are actually modified lawn mower blades

Woah I never knew wolf horn ranch used to be Ulysses’s home. There is always something to learn about this game

The amount of detail and time it takes to make a video like this is insane! Awesome job

1:04:37 As far as Thompson-esque weapons in the game we have the honorable mention of the .45 Auto SMG which was in Honest Hearts, _but_ in the base game we have the absolutely-a-Thompson-copy Laser RWC, the Silenced .22 SMG (an AM180 which was styled after the Thompson), and we have the Automatic Rifle which is a BAR _which Clyde used_ and would've been fitting as knock-off Bonnie and Clyde's weapon.

Im pretty sure the standard "Machete" is made out of an old lawnmower blade instead of a paper cutter, but yeah, great breakdown. Knock-knock ftw!

The straight razor called "Figaro" does not have metallic grip panels, but pearl. Thus was a common upgrade to the visual esthetics of many different tools and weapons with revolvers being a primary example.

No Super Mutant Masters were harmed in the making of this video

I just realized the Nephi's iron is a left handed golf club. I imagine that would be a rare post apocalyptic weapon indeed. Also, its weird that he is called driver Nephi when he carries an iron instead of a driver.

I always thought that Two Step Goodbye was a reference to the 2 step viper. In which that was as far as you were expected to get before you die👀 But nonetheless, great video as always N_orte👍

The Gobi Campaign rifle is probably also the one Boone used to kill his wife, given its location.

You're wrong about Dinner Bell, with Shotgun Surgeon as a perk it's a great weapon to take advantage of since it probably has the highest effective range for a shotgun other than the single shot one. Some weapons really shine in conjunction with certain perks

Given the game's habit of naming quests after songs, Two-Step Goodbye could also be a reference to dancing. The Texas Two-Step is a simple partner dance that's well-suited to most of the country-western music in the game. In the same vein, Little Devil could be named for Neil Sedaka's song by the same name. "There'll be no more running around, you've met your Waterloo, hey little devil, I'm gonna make an angel out of you.:

The Cleansing Flame makes me think of the Purifying Flame upgrade from Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wraith. It upgrades all flame weapons with a more powerful blue flame. It could be a reference to that?

I remember playing Day Z with a dude back in the day (like 2010 oof) He always called the Shotgun the "Dinner Bell" because you shoot it once and all the zombies in the area come around for a meal. I always assumed it was from something but I never looked into it, especially because the FNV shotgun had the same name. Hopefully that can maybe help your search.

The Avenger might also be a reference to the GAU-8 rotary cannon found on the A-10. The GAU-8 is also called the Avenger Though the caliber doesn't match, it's still a fun thing to consider Edit: that's not how you say "paciencia" lol

I think the Two-Step is in reference to country two step dance. Being a western-esq game it fits.

The “Two-step” in 2step goodbye is probably a reference to line dancing. The two-step is a dance.

My understanding was that only the “driver” part of Nephis name came from his weapon, the Driver part from the fact that it’s a golf club

Big boomer itself isn't a reference but how you get it is. You loot it off of old lady gibson who is named after mel Gibson who famously played max in the mad max movies,and max's signature weapon in the movies is a sawed off shotgun. Hope you enjoyed the fact👍

The unique weapon list from Fallout 3 is my favorite of yours. This right here is just icing on the cake. The little footnotes about all the weapons are much appreciated. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this.

"It's kind of a weird effect" describes basically everything in the Big MT

I think Lucky might be a reference to the Lucky 38, since .38 special can be loaded into 357. Great video btw!

Recompense of the fallen also seems to be a bit of a joke at the expense of the dead. You find it in a legion headquarters tossed into a desk. It seems like the legion mocking the NCR

So bear thing about the Gobi campaign sniper is that it is most likely the gun Boone used to kill his wife. It's found in a snipers nest above the slave trader in cottonwood cove where Boone says he shot his wife.

1:14:52 the durability mod is actually bugged and incredibly useful as if at 100% condition with the upgrade it will not loose condition from regular microfusion cells

Fun fact about Ratslayer: If you have the Wild Wasteland perk the Giant Rats in the cave you get the gun will become Rodents of Unusual Size a funny reference

the use of energy cells and shot gun shells on fist weapons works fine, the game supports it, energy cells will count down and give you the effect of the fired rounds, the only thing that doesn't work about it is you can apply a mini nuke to fists as well. It is a glitch but it works with in the games code flawlessly

radio raheem doesnt have on brass knuckles in do the right thing, its a 4 finger ring

I love medicine stick! Great iron sights compared to its normal variant

There is actually a death claw gauntlet, however, it can only be acquired through the use of console commands. The death claw gauntlet is notable for having a 5 time critical hit multiplier making it the one of two weapons with said critical hit multiplier with the other being the the rat slayer. Edit: Made some spelling and grammar corrections.

The Rat Slayer is quite good due to its availability. You can acquire it for free at the start of the game if you know it exists. Early on, you are likely going to have a Varmint Rifle and maybe a Cowboy Repeater as the rifles available to you. The Rat Slayer not only provides a significant upgrade to the standard Varmint Rifle, but it's also scoped and suppressed, which is uncommon among rifles in the game in general. This allows you to acquire an excellent early to mid game Sneak weapon, which is when a long range suppressed weapon is extremely useful in compensating for lower Sneak and no Sneak perks. Others have mentioned the much better options in the base game for a gun that could be used to reference Bonnie and Clyde, instead of the 9mm SMG. I want to point out further that the M3 Grease Gun that the 9mm SMG is based on should actually fire .45 ACP, like the M1 Thompson, but they didn't add that ammunition until Honest Hearts when they added a gun based on the M1 Thompson. The Vicky and Vance gun is just a mess of a reference. The Q35 Modulator is most useful early, because it only consumes 1 MF cell per shot instead of the 2 a standard Plasma Rifle consumes. MF cells are rather hard to accumulate early on and Laser Rifles don't pack enough punch without perks and stats to boost them.

Weathered doesn't mean worn in this case. Weathering refers to the chemical composition of these steels, allowing them to exhibit increased resistance to atmospheric corrosion compared to other steels. (wikipedia)

I like to think the Medecine Stick is also an euphemism for "permanently anesthetizing a patient"

You can use the ammo glitch on melee weapons so you can equip mini nuke ammo and do one shot punches

It's great you post this while I'm doing a run I can only use unique weapons and armor and have to find every single unique item

Actually the machetes in nv are not paper cutters but lawnmower blades

Recompense of the fallen seems more like a sarcastic name, given how it is found by, and probably made and named by the Legion. It's like a double down on the NCR's sacrifice. The buy dog tags of dead NCR soldiers, and probably made the weapon to humilliate more NCR by killing them with the names of their past-tense members. It makes more sense that it gains power by killing NCR, not the other way around.

two step is a type of dance

39:00 Or maybe the Red Ryder BB gun is a reference to the actual Red Ryder Carbine BB gun, since the Red Ryder BB gun came out almost 50years before A Christmas Story was released. And because basically every kid from the 1940s to 2000s will never forget seeing that long thin box in wrapping paper under the Christmas tree. As a kid most of my best friends were girls and they also got a Red Ryder, no doll houses for those badass little girls, 20+ years later most of them are either Soldiers or Marines now and still my closest friends. There's a reason why A Christmas Story used the Red Ryder, I don't know anyone who didn't get a Red Ryder BB gun and yes, everyone who had a Red Ryder at least once got hit with a ricocheting BB, usually to the face or neck but the Red Ryder shot BB's at a very low velocity so it wasn't dangerous is just stung. Hell, we used run around the woods playing war shooting each other but we always wore safety glasses.

Hey Norte have you ever tried steath killing just the Alien captain. If you havent your next playthrough try it. Just remember it has to be a Stealth kill of the captain only.

The “Abilene kids BB gun’s”unique effect is also a reference to “a Christmas story” with you’ll shoot your eye out kid which is a line from the movie

Damn, b-roll of each weapon being found or the parts of the surrounding quest being completed would've made this video the greatest FONV unique weapon video in existence. I get that it would've made the editing and recording process so much more time consuming though lol, so I get it. It's still a great video with a plethora of info!

Great video, I applaud all the work that went into this! Mild nitpick is there are a bunch of words you mispronounced like "nanometer", "picometer", "paciencia", etc..

My favorite unique item has always been Love and Hate. I get it every play through and use it frequently

N_orte, you are aware that the 45 auto submachine gun is the tommy gun right? They basically just had to re-work the laser rcw and the 45 sub into the tommy

50:08 For the name of Li'l Devil, I'd guess it comes from the iron sights on the top, resembling little horns.

nice video, i love the new vegas uniques, i have a suggestion for a video idea, can you make a lore video explaining how bad pre-war america was? robots taking over jobs, food shortages, nationalism and propaganda etc.., i think it honestly would be nice to see a video talking specifically about the state the country was in pre-war and how it would be like for a normal citizen to live in such a place.

Esther is named like that because of military tradition. Like the landmine that bounces up "Bouncing Betty".

Me and my brother have been re playing this game since it first came OUT ❤ WE HAD THE COMIC BOOK AND CARAVAN Cards and i will never stop playing this game

Love your content and I hate to be “that guy” but New vegas does have a Tommy gun, it’s the .45 sun machine gun from Honest Hearts.

Everybody knows you dont complete "Bleed Me Dry" for the Dinner Bell, its just an added bonus.

The Ratslayer may be a reference to the Crosman Ratcatcher series of bolt-action air rifles, which all come by default dressed in black polymer and scopes. Being air rifles, they're also much quieter than explosive firearms. It's a common first "gun" in the UK, since firearms are much more heavily restricted, and presumably other areas with restrictive gun laws.

Here's the thing about Fallout. I hate this whole "I want better graphics" type gaming now. The beautiful gritty feel FNV graphics gave us was the best. Example of FNV deathclaws vs F4 deathclaws. FNV deathclaws gave me jumpscares. F4 Deathclaws looked too polished. It would be nice to have a Fallout New Vegas 2 with the option of old and new graphics. This game can't be beat imo. Great video btw

You missed that Dinner Bell has a perk attached to the shotgun, "And Stay Back"

Dirt nap refers to a nap in the dirt - a person being dead underground. blood nap therefore means a nap in blood - a person laying stabbed dead in a pool of their own blood

Medicine stick is worth every penny in my eyes, just gotta take a trip to the Madre and it's all yours

I’ve always thought of the Humble Cudgel as a nod to Dead Island. One of the legendary Cudgels is known as the Humble Cudgel. The Cudgels in Dead Island aren’t pipes however

I know it's not a big deal, but the way you pronounced nanometer and picometer imploded my brain

This is why new vegas is the goat. Unique weapons everywhere, makes you exolore everywhere.

The holy hand grenade is also a reference to a fallout2 random encounter where some people are looking for it

Funny enough, you can get chance knife early game by lockpicking the safe in goodspring schoolhouse and buying a shovel from chet, you can sneak through the cazador with the stealthboy from the safe

Everyone needs to say “geeze Louise! at least once a day!

The machete is made out of a lawnmower blade not a paper cutter

whether intentional or not it's very funny that the last 1/3 of the video is marked as the survivalist's rifle makes it seem like he spent 30 minutes talking about the survivalist lore

On the point of the "Big Boomer", in the US the National Firearms Act of 1934 considers all firearms under 16 inches a pistol. If the "Big Boomer" is under 16 inches it would therefore be a pistol. As well, the word "Boomer" might be related to "boom stick" which is common slang for a shotgun, particularly a side-by-side double barrel. Also, a quick side note, the 357 in 357 Magnum is always pronounced "three fifty-seven" when referring to the bullet caliber. Really good video, really enjoyed it.

Its definitely two step goodbye because you take two steps and explode. Like the 5 point palm exploding heart technique

The story of Randall Clark genuinely made me tear up the first time I really paid attention to it. The writing is done incredibly well, and finding it all out thru terminals throughout Zion was satisfying. The Survivalist Rifle is a cherry on top of a great, incredibly sorrowful story.

You can also get the Liberator by killing Dead Sea while taking I believe Nipton with the NCR, could be wrong though. But I got it by killing him. Edit: Spelling

Man I LOVE these unique weapons videos. Thank you!

Yeah see the funny thing about bozar in new vegas is that it WAS supposed to be a sniper rifle, the tag "the ultimate sniper rifle of choice" wasnt misleading...if it was a sniper rifle but something happened in new vegas's code that glitched the gun to be a light machine gun

I think you missed Elijah's advanced LAER. Unless its not a unique

my only idea for the big boomer would be that it’s a reference to the boom stick from evil dead but it’s a bit of a stretch

I always thought the “Humble Cudgel” was an homage to the Humble Bundle store, but maybe the dates don’t quite line up? Both FNV and the first bundle launched in late 2010, but FNV was apparently first…

Its awesome that almost every unique weapon has a story to tell

"oh baby" might be a Babe Ruth reference. It's the only thing that comes to mind. You basically hit home runs with it.

Sadly Lil Devil is glitched in New Vegas and doesn't actually count as a holdout weapon, even with 50+ in your sneak skill. There are mods that fix this issue though The sturdy caravan shotgun also isn't affected by any of the shotgun perks due to a coding error.

Dinner bell is a reference to the saying "having your dinner bell rung" meaning you got hit and your ears are ringing

"New Vegas doesn't have any sort of Tommy Gun look-alike" it does tho! just not in the base game, the .45 Auto smg was introduced in Honest Hearts

I have been playing since day 1 on pc and since 2013 on Xbox. I've only been ALLOWED access to KNOCK-KNOCK ONCE!

NV has so many unique weapons, there's no way you can't run across one within an hour of starting a game, no matter which way you go from Goodsprings. I actually think there's too many, compared to the amount of base normal weapons in the game, but I've handily fixed this with mods. Classic fallout Weapons Re-Mastered, and the AWO collection of firearms are the ones I prefer, with a few other odd individual weapon mods. Also, the Red Ryder is a common BB Gun sold in the US, and are fairly cheap, retailing between 20$ and 50$ USD. I had one as a kid, my dad had one, my grandpa even had one too. it's not a reference to "A Christmas Story", as there are limited edition Red Ryders released every few years or so, even an adult sized one. I actually have all of the family's Red Ryders, my grandpa's in real rough shape, my dad's in worse shape, and mine which is beat to crap but still works, including my 'adult'-sized one, I've wanted to keep them in my gun safe, but funnily enough, I don't have room in there for them, so I keep them in the closet, sometimes displaying them on my wall next to some real stuff.

Easiest way to get cram opener is to shoot the truck when he's punching the dummy

An additional interpretation of “A Light Shining in the Darkness” is a literal representation of how it might be seen from a distance; flashes of muzzle fire in a dark cave.

The big boomer is the shotgun that is also another reference with Miss Gibson to a person yelling this is my BOOMSTICK

Isnt the weathered 10mm supposed to be the one sent with the fo1 protagonist

Another example of "greased lighting" in common usage is it's use as the name for a b58 hustler that set several speed records. It's at the SAC museum in Ashland NE

I know literally all of this, yet i sat here and listened to all of it anyway lol….god damn fallout. Thought Figaro had a pearl handle