I used to think that pipe weapons were unrealistic, then that one guy in Japan assassinated the former PM with what was basically a pipe weapon so what do I know

I think it makes enough sense for the dart gun to weigh half as much as the junk needed to make it, just means you only used half of the components that make up the junk.

The crutch isn't for the weapon, it's for your character so they can still get around after pulling a wooden stock out of their ass

The Fo4 railway rifle choochoo noise was so cute to my ears.

I think that the flares scaring off abominations is a reference to some Monster movies like Peter Jackson's King Kong or Alien. As in King Kong,a flare was used to scare off giant insects during the pit sequence. And in Alien,they used flamethrowers to try and scare off the xenomorph. Edit: I know that it's a very big trope,I'm just saying it could be a direct reference to these kind of movies.

Oddly enough, you don't need a perfectly straight barrel for the projectile to fly out of the end. Makes sense since it'll go the path of least resistance. And if the barrel is thick enough to just bounce the projectile if it hits the side a bit. Kinda like how if you throw a punch and someone hits your arm to the side, it'll deviate off path a bit. Source: That time Demolition Ranch fired rifles with bent barrels. Including one barrel bent at a 90 or 180 degree angle. Yes, back towards the operator.

Coincidental that you mentioned: "Finding Meaning when there is None" because I think the Developers are quite aware that fans and players will make their own meanings to things even if they didn't intend on it. Mostly this is due to Santiago, the artist Robobrain at Vault 118 in Far Harbor, as he says that it is remarkable that people find meaning in his art where none was intended, if you choose and pass the speech check when discussing his "Kitten with a Toy Rocket" painting, as he didn't put much effort in it and shipped it off as a commercial product that later became his most sold piece.

Time to re-binge the radking fallout weapon videos

I believe that the H&H nail gun has like a fire selector or something on it to explain how it would be used pre-war

According to ingame notes, the Vertibird signal flare emits a smoke which is laden with some kind of electromagnetic tracer element. This will be picked up by sensors, and allow the 'Bird to find the location. This seems like a really complicated system, particularly considering the availability of "Distress Pulsers", the portable distress radio beacons used by the BoS. It would make more sense to me if summoning a Vertibird was done by throwing a "grenade" form of Distress Pulsers. In terms of game mechanics, it could have the exact same effect. If a visual indicator is wanted, a red, blinking light is pretty much as useful as a pillar of smoke, and might even have less impact on game performance.

Agree with your last point about critique vs hate. It seems that many people have forgotten that you can like something, but still be able to point out its flaws or that you can hate something but still be able to point out its positives.

I think its interesting that the Railway Rifle is in the shelter of the Meyers family, perhaps it was a tool to weld stuff together for their shelter?

for the artillery check the generator at the castle make sure the tower is turned on theres a switch on the side and if that doesnt work check your time scale if its set really slow then the artillery wont fire for hours

It's hard to believe that Supermutants give much thought to their group survival considering there is usually one in the group with a mini-nuke tucked under their right arm. One well placed shot and you take out the whole group. I've never understood why there are so many Suiciders. Or why there are any at all considering, as you said, they can't reproduce easily.

I like the pipe guns, they're obviously based off the Luty and various homemade stuff, but them being weaker makes no sense. I would like a mod where they do the same damage as their counter parts, but are less accurate and break down and jam more often. They should also be more common as to show how bad things are, and would make regular guns more valuable.

To quote TheRussianbadger "The Wasteland is full of scary shit that breaks your limbs and takes your health away." Deathclaws are the epitome of that statement.

The Pipe Guns reminds me of a few things. The first is that making homemade weapons is not technically illegal here in the United States, but it is State dependent and you do have to register the weapon with the ATF. The other is something my cousin encountered while he was in Afghanistan in 2017-2018, known as Khyber Pass copies, which were homemade copies of real guns like the M1911 and other guns.

In regards to the dart gun, I feel it’s worth noting that Scorpions are notorious for their whole “The smaller they are, the more venom they’ll inject you with” deal. If that still applies, then I suppose it’s possible that the massive Scorpions of the wasteland mainly just stab you with their stingers and only inject a minuscule amount of venom that if concentrated as much as it is in the dart gun would be mildly paralytic.

I love the aesthetic of the pipe weapons, I just wish they could stay competitive at higher levels. Or if more guns had a jury-rigged look. That's one thing I appreciated about Far Cry New Dawn, and that was only like 20 years after a nuclear war. Thanks for the mention, RadKing! Always looking forward to your content.

Can we just take a second to discuss this Death Claw shrugging off 5 or 6 missiles?

Love the videos man! Supper Soaker - Your stomach has acid that technically soaks whatever ends up in there. Hydrochloric, so the ammo makes sense as well. The Supper Soaker just skips the whole eating step. 🤙

Decided to head to bed after working a late shift and playing games after, super happy to see a new radking video to listen to as I doze off… and then re watch again later so I can get my whole fix

For the long rod used to cock the dart gun, can speak for the older spray guns, but in basic terms, for the modern spray guns, that rod is used to open or restrict the amount of paint coming out of the nozzle. Now thats for the gravity fed guns where the paint can sits on the top, may be different for the suction based one seen in game, haven't used the suction based one so my experience is limited

when you brought up the Laser Detonator from Lonesome Road, i was really really hoping you would bring up the ammo swap glitch... basically: through a specific sequence of hotkeying ammo and swapping between weapons, there is a way to make the detonator shoot (almost) any other ammo type, all while keeping the laser detonator's fire rate + unlimited ammo. ive seen people using Explosive .50 cal, Big Boy Mini Nukes, Hive Missiles, etc.. its absolutely insane. would actually be hilarious to see in the b/g of one of ur vids lol

Having worked with nailguns I can say they area able to reach hilarious rates of fire. Granted those are usually propelled by air pressure, which FONV one obviously isn't. You could basically hook one up into a pressure tank, jam down the safety which you'd press against the wood you were nailing and let it fly.

it’s been eight years since Fallout 4 released??? i was in like fifth grade when it came it out and now i’m in college lol great video as always, always appreciate your stuff popping up in my subscription feed!

The quote from the border defenders could be a reference to the “lumberjack song” from Monty python.

The Sherman really just looks like a plain old M4, but with the applique "cheek" and driver/bow gunner armor pieces. The M4A3 redesigned the hull and hatches to remove the need to cover those awkward weak spots. And as for the gun, it's definitely the 75mm, even though the 76 could also fire HE ammunition. but the 76 would have a longer barrel and likely a different turret.

5:30 .308 and .50cal are still in pipe weapons. Its in the bolt action pipeguns. But they did make getting the plans for it a real pain.

I bloody loved pipe weapons. In my first playthrough, I got through like 80% of the campaign because of common the ammo was.

An unbeliever: "You can't make firearms with pipes"! Me (A child of Atom): "It just works"

fun fact about about the laser detonator: it isn't actually a detonator in the code, if you use the ammo swap glitch to equip it with projectile type ammo like explosive 50 bmg, missiles, rockets, or mini nukes, it will not only always critically hit, but it also vaporizes enemies into blue ash, which implies that it actually shares a lot of its code with the alien blaster gun

for the nailer the high fire rate makes some sense in theory, it has nothing to eject so it can save time since it has no need to make sure the spent case is clear and due to not using combustion (im assuming it is pneumatic) it wouldn't need to worry about over heating, so in theory it could be Jerry rigged to be full auto and rather rapid at that also assuming it works similar to a real life nail gun some minor jerry rigging would be needed to disable the safety any way, though i dont have a nail gun lying around im willing to destroy or id be tempted to see it i could make such a thing work but till someone does it's only in theory.

21:37 *_"Chill out! It was just a prank, bro!"_* I would just like to remind everyone that in the segment before, RadKing implied the reason the gun was refilled when unequipping was that the sole survivor is urinating in it. 🤔Can't quite put my finger on why they get mad...

The neat part of the pipe weapon silencer is that is a 100% accurate makeshift suppressor. There are adapters for the AR15 that allow for this. The real question is where are they getting oil filters on fusion powered vehicles? Do they operate just like an internal combustion engine in that regard?

Absolutely love the railway rifle, it's been my favourite gun since I stumbled on it in fo3. It's my main weapon in fo76 as well- with the assault modification of course. I was spiking mole miners while watching this!

the laser detonator likely shoots out a laser that messed up the internal components of a warhead causing it to heat itself up and eventually detonate the explosive meant to send the fissile material supercriical but due to half life or just improper detonation or general deterioration the fissile material is only enough to radiate the surrounding area

Probally 1 of my favorite underused weird guns in FO76 is probally the Syringer. I don't know much about it but the fact it has some extremly good buff/debuff mods

I have an agility- stealth sniper build. I only ever use vats to shoot. On top of The Stranger just helping me "solo" harder bosses, because he can grab aggro. Which is neat since i play alone mostly. I only Swap to another build - my Heavy build with Power Armor and Minigun when i do a raid or go into a Nuke Zone. Fallout 76 is seriouesly so fucking good. its GREAT alone with minimal gripes. And only gets so much funnier with a friend. even tho most games are fun with a friend, this one really makes it easier to enjoy the wasteland with.

19:50 "neat and useless" yeah because it makes it so much harder to hide the bodies and or make them look like they're making out

Railway rifle definitely pins things to walls in fallout 76. Really glitchy though, just this morning I pinned a deathclaw to a hill some 50 m behind it. Very glitchy, he stretched the whole way then slingshot over.

It's a shame that you can't modify the flare guns to become grenade launchers, since many were given that exact modification in modern history. Especially in New Vegas, where there's 25mm grenades, which fits the caliber used by the Leucht close enough. You could also have a stock as a modification, since they had one too. It seems like wasted potential.

I think the sherman tank is an A4 judging by the hatches, but it’s interesting that it has the mud guards on. Most in US service had them removed, but the British kept them on.

Tank person here! The Sherman is a mix of M4, M4A2, and M4A4 variants, not a M4A3, the M4 the first iteration of the tank with A# meaning a alteration was made. Although sometimes I might be wrong as the Sherman variants are numerous.

I think them being slowed down by the venom is the idea. Essentially that they are sick from being poisoned and therefore are no longer able to catch you. Less that it specifically affects the legs

Have you ever thought of doing a lore video on the children of atom? Covering their history and beliefs and speculating how they may develop as a faction and interact with other factions. Please feed my special interest Radiation Daddy

Maybe the supper soaker is a reference to the hydrochloric acid, which we have some in our stomachs. So in a pinch you could try to regurgitate last night's supper and launch it at your enemies

For as bad as the pipe weapons are after the early game, i think they're the perfect weapon for someone who just started. You get three different kinds and each can be built a specific way, allowing players to find out what kind of gun fits them better. So once they find better weapons, they know that they prefer automatics or pistols or single-shot rifles etc. My only real complaint is that there was no pipe shotgun (that made it into the game) nor some kind of melee equivalent like a makeshift club you can craft into multiple lengths or something.

The acid soaker seems like it's model should have also been a thirst zapper. Or acid should have been a mod for it.

Handmade drum magazines... Now that's a wonder. People don't realize how difficult it is to get a magazine works.

I feel like the thirst zapper or whatever you call it is the "Nuka World Limited edition Nuka Blaster" Like yeah you get the normal one with every box But you get the cherry one if you come to -Disn- Nuka world

I suspect Radking has some real world firearm experience. Keep the great content coming. With all the things bad in the world content like this lifts us all up.

I will say this about pipe weapons: I hated using them because there was never a reason to intentionally downgrade myself to a worse weapon. Lore-wise, however, I think they're a fine addition to Fallout and they make sense as makeshift weapons cobbled together by people desperately trying to survive the nuclear apocalypse. Basically: I didn't use 'em, but I totally get why they're there.

They probably changed the name of the Super-Soaker because the term is trademarked

"The Phantom Darter" may also be a reference to "The Phantom Blooper," a novel by Gustav Hasford. It's the sequel to the book "The Short Timers" which was the basis for Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987).

One other interesting fact about the H&H Nailgun is that the nails themselves have an Enemy DT -5 effect, which you may have mentioned and I may have missed.

im dreading the day you run out of weapons to analyse in these videos, i love watching these videos. I watch them multiple times and fall asleep to them almost every day

Praise Atom the dart gun! I know it says its an old paint gun, but if you look at a caulking gun it clearly looks to be one of those instead. The long rod is used to push the silicon caulking from the back, and I can see it being re-used to launch darts.

My buddy and I are big into firearms, and we built a pipe gun. Of course, the hardest part is the receiver, which we just used a rifle’s receiver and made the pipe gun around it. A couple things to note: a pipe “rifle” is a contradiction in terms, essentially, as the pipe has no rifling. It’s essentially a smooth bore musket. Our pipe gun was chambered in .32, and was ridiculously inaccurate. It also had a very short shelf life, particularly the pipe. While we used steel rigid pipe, the heat and gas from firing (as well as the bullet striking the pipe interior laterally) warped the pipe to an unsafe degree after only 10 shots. Even before this, escaping gas and heat made wearing gloves and safety glasses mandatory. The bullet has no twist, and because the pipe is not machined to perfect diameter, the bullet was “rattling” down the pipe. Imagine throwing a tennis ball down a pipe that is just a bit larger than the ball. We initially shot for 20 yards, and you could hit RoP right on one shot and completely miss bottom left the next. Additionally, we lost so much speed in the pipe that the bullet would sometimes fail to puncture the 1/2 plywood the target was on. The pipe also was so light that keeping the firearm level was challenging and irritating, making aiming take longer. Not good if you’re relying on this weapon for personal defense. Pipe weapons like this are next to useless at any kind of range. They could perhaps be useful in CQC, where aim doesn’t matter.

16:46 the funny thing is hydrochloride acid wouldn't menlt thru the plastic anyways so the ceramic was pointless

Most nail guns today are pneumatic run on air pressure. But if you disabled the safeties you can shoot nails. As for the h&h nail gun I would guess they're using a tiny railgun system that just magnetically launches nails

Also the camera in FNV that Michael Angelo gives you; when you point it at people, they get angry like you are pointing a gun at them.

Watching the clip of him trying to kill those deathclaws with the rocket launcher was so painful and frustrating oh my god.

Hey, the dart gun was surprisingly helpful, sneak attack a deathclaw and bam, slowclaw! Edit: okay good, he made sure to show the deathclaw thing, thanks RadKing!

21:14-21:29 Radking causally implying the Sole Survivor refills the Thirst Zapper with their piss

Spore plants were a bane in Fallout 2. Not because they are dangerous or anything, but when you encounter group of them fighting human NPC, NPC tend to pick up those damn spikes and throw them back and as result these fights were going on forever. Oh, and about flares in F2. There's one madlad on KZfaq, who weaponized flares to beat the game. Flares take absurdly low AP to throw and that guy used aimed shots to throw flares directly to Enclave soldiers' heads to knock them out. He proceeded then to disarm those poor fools. Turns out power armor won't save your dome from a well placed flare.

W video you never disappoint with the Fallout weapons coverage

I was hoping you'd mention the mini nuke glitch with the deninator. It's a fun time that'll lag your system.

‘It’s not a railway rifle, it’s a wailway wifle’-Matt

Not sure if this has been brought up on your channel before, but a Literature of Fallout (i.e. in-game books, mags, etc.) vid would be cool.

The FO3 Railway rifle components can also all be found in one of the Metro tunnels in DC. OXhorn actually used the rifle during his video series on the Fallout 3 Metro where he made a completely new character to explore the tunnels

14:48 The Sherman variant shown in the game is the original M4 model. It is the only variant of the welded Shermans that had the protruding portions for the driver and co-driver because it’s upper glacis was inclined at 55 degrees compared to 45 degrees for later models which removed the need for the protruding portions on the front plate.

I love stealth sniping with the dart gun. It requires patience, but I find it hilarious.

I have a pipe revolver sniper rifle, and a pipe pistol that have an ammo clip thingy that could hold 48 ronds. #radking. I love your videos.

I love your channel rad king. I like listening while playing modded fallout 4 vr.

"Will glow, with Atoms blessing" ... goddamn~ the in character narration is top notch :)

Thank you, Sacred Radking for this great list of random guns.

the dart reminds me of the Roman Plumbata (which looks like a heavy weighted Broadheaded Lawn Dart that was used in ancient warfare. I have used the dart gun in stealth mode to one-shot raiders

I haven’t watched any of your other videos, but it would be a travesty if you didn’t mention the grenade rewarded for completing “here be monsters” in fallout 4. The one that signals the submarine to launch an actual, non-mini nuke.

Good take on 76 at the end there. After pre ordering it, going through the fallout - heh, and then dropping the game for years, I actually went back to it in July and am still playing it. It finally feels as it should of been on release, there are still many parts I can complain about but now its playable and scratches my fallout and looting itch while also seeing other people go about in the world so it feels less dead

30:00 ~ when your talking about the rate of fire of a nailgun, the fun part is either the PC or workers must have modified these nailguns, because a standard nailgun has a trigger plate on the front as well as the trigger on the grip. The rate of fire is actually accurate, because the nail is *usually* only triggered to be fired by pressing it against the board while pulling the trigger, which is done in a swift stamping motion, and if the trigger plate is held down or modified, nothing is stopping the nailgun from dumping its nails as fast as nailgun-ly possible.

Actually there is another flare type in 76 that calls in a Vertibot for air support. You have to capture one of the public workshops with a Vertibot pad.

I love how Nuka Break showed the main character using VATS. Am I the only one worried the Fallout TV series won't be as good as Nuka Break? I know the series didn't have a high production value and i think it was made my film students, but even these days it kinda slaps

The dart gun is one of my favorite weapons, it came in so clutch when I wandered into the deathclaw sanctuary on my first FO3 playthrough

The dart gun is so right it blows my mind. Ok, so I have used and understood paint sprayers for the last 20 years. You have got a lot of things right about them but also a few things wrong. You might be surprised by the bits you didn't understand. Yes they use compressed air... For paint. Since this isn't for paint the power now comes from the surgical tubing. But the "cocking rod" is the best bit. That rod is present on today's sprayers, it's used to fine tune the area and flow of the spray. With a slight modification I can see this completely working! I have no idea how the scorpion poison gets on the darts though... That's a mystery

Haven't been here in a while but I gotta say, I'm loving that new intro

The railway rifle is one of my favorite weapons in all of Fallout. I got one recently in Fallout 76 and found plans to turn it automatic and it shoots way faster than expected

My most current save of FO4 is my first dedicated automatic weapon build, and the automatic pipe weapons were great for early game use since the ammo was plentiful and they were able to be fully customized quick and easily. Also managed to find a pipe auto pistol in one of the bags in sanctuary too so I was able to start right off with it

Awesome as always

Imagine going around the Commonwealth in T-51 with minutemen paint, a fully upgraded laser musket, Preston Garvey, and Radio Freedom on. Every settlement has an artillery piece, a whole grid of military force. See a super mutant behemoth, the blue smoke goes up, the red flares go up, and you hear minutemen confirm they have eyes on the smoke before dropping an explosive payload on the target, while six minutemen show up with laser muskets, unleashing a firing line on the surrounding super mutants.

I love not participating in a channel for a good time then coming back so I can binge all the great videos all at once. Thank you sir.

I paused the video at the 36 minute mark to comment on the "bayonet" for the railway rifle in fallout 4. If you were to muzzle strike somebody with that, you would definitely rock their shit pretty hard, especially if you could sharpen the edges of that drill bit more. Other than that, another excellent video as always

"Which is kind of neat and useless, my favorite combo" hahaha I love those little details too

26:46 I tried to discuss this with a friend of mine. But he had non of it. The half-life of the conventional explosive on the old bombs had reached its time before the events of FO3 or NV. So blowing off the old explosive would cause a close to fission reaction, but wouldn't give you that big boom it would've had in its heyday.

My theory for the pipe guns is with the great war going on the us government and/or some organization released psa's teaching the public how to make them possibly that article in the magazine was about making them based off of a design common in Detroit pre war so then after the bombs dropped the survivors made pipe weapons and/or taught their descendants how to make them resulting in them being extremely common in the wasteland with plenty of scrap

The M4 sherman featured is an amalgamation of different Sherman’s, but it’s an early M4 box hull. You can tell by the hatch bulges with appliqué plates attached to them, as well as the appliqué plates along the side near the ammo stowage. The turret is an early cast turret, you can also tell by the appliqué attached to the side of the turret where the inside needed to be shaved down for mounting the gun sights and elevation controls. The cannon is definitely a M3 75mm gun. The it also features the early-mid war 3 piece transmission housings. It also has the track skirts of a late war box hull, most crews actually cut those off anyways since they had a propensity for getting brush jammed up there. It also actually appears to have the bolt face/water splash protector, a small flap of metal on the transmission housing which protected the bolts that held it in place, helping to keep bullets from shearing off the bolt heads. It had the unintended effect of helping to keep some water splash from running right up the hull and into the drivers face. Basically, she’s an early war M4 box hull, with the early cast 75 turret, and she’s in a mid-late war configuration. From context clues like her appliqué armor on the turret, we can surmise that she was never seriously damaged in combat, so she never saw repair and refit, which usually when a sherman needed to go back in for heavy repairs they’d often receive upgrades. Basically, she was an early sherman who survived through the whole war

In the next video, you should cover the Camera you can get in Fallout New Vegas by the Michael Angelo quest, btw the vid was great

Dude you staying at like 25% health shooting darts at deathclaws absolutely drove me ducking crazy, HEAL YOURSELF AAAHHHHHH

As you said, about the paint gun nozzle, I have always held that the cooking handle is a manual pump so every time you cock the weapon and push the plunger forward after the dart is seated the projectile is coated by the spray of venom.

I can't stop saying "the piss gun" after the thirst zapper joke XD