fun fact, the survivalists rifle's ironsights are zeroed on the right front sight post, so even though they are bent, they are precise if you know where to hold

Fun fact, the service rifle that Ranger Jackson gives you in Mojave Outpost is actually the 2nd service rifle that a new player can come across. A curious, exploring Courier might find a little unmarked coyote cave just a little south of the entrance to The Divide, up on a hill. In there is a fallen NCR trooper, you can get an early service rifle before you even tackle Primm, a dog tag, and free NCR faction armor. Also I love the Survivalist's Rifle because it's a bit of intentional character building. The Survivalist noticed that his gun was a little off, so he bent the sight to where it's actual barrel was shooting at.

Survivalist's Rifle all the way. It's DRIPPING with character.

Ah the hunting rifle, felt like the workhorse gun of Fallout 3 and is still great in NV

The cool thing about guns in New Vegas is they're built around the ammunition rather than the other way around. That means when you find a new gun you get a good idea of how it is going to handle based on what it loads. And early game rounds like 5.56mm don't drop off and become useless because they find new life in later game weapons that will most often fire them at a quicker rate. Adding in the different types of each round it just makes guns in NV so much more interesting than other games.

Assault carbine user here: If you slap all three mods onto the gun and have the caps for all the 5mm ammo than you basically have a pocket minigun and it can shred through pretty much everything except deathclaws. (Pairs well with surplus ammo boxes if you have Jury-rigging)

Medicine Stick is easily my favorite weapon in the game. I love taking it into Honest Hearts especially since the white legs tend to always have brush guns to repair it

Ratslayer is fun because it's not that hard to get a 100% crit chance with it. One of my favorite rifles just for that. I think it has reduced weight because it is made of carbon fiber, instead of having wooden furniture. Hence the smooth, gray-black appearance.

The All American was my favorite gun to use. I had no idea it was in that ghoul infested vault. It was a great reward for clearing that place out

Ranger Andy has a Trail Carbine in a footlocker that needs 50 lockpick skill to unlock. You also should have mentioned its the weapon with *the* most durability in game. You could just repair it once and use it the entire game without breaking.

Always loved that Obsidian added real ammunition varieties, and a decent amount of them. Aside from military/etc sims you really don't see this. JHP's, JSP's, AP, API, Explosive, Match... It's just one of those things that put's New Vegas over the top (like on top of the rest of the 3D Fallout's) and FNV has a LOT of little things that give it character in this way. As someone that loves recreational shooting/hunting/etc IRL, it's just nice to see a game fairly accurately portray ammo variants (though different damage in different guns for the same round is a little video gamey, but I guess you could say they have different barrel lengths, so higher/lower velo's, though that's not really going to have too much effect on energy unless going from like a 5.5in .44mag to a 20in, for example. But I digress, lol) I almost always go for the Rat Slayer early, and because I have an 1895 Guide Gun that I adore, usually transition to the Brush Gun. Hard not to go for the Anti-Material Rifle at some point. I've never even tried energy weapons as I just love the gun system so much in this game. Great vid!

I love the Paciencia. It's pretty easy to snag early, and it will absolutely carry you to late game before it falls off. Along with That Gun, Novac can be a massive buff to early Guns builds.

A bonus to using the survivalists rifle with the 12.7mm round is that it uses pistol powder, not rifle powder. So crafting ammo with it does not affect the supplies needed for other rifle rounds.

Paciencia is pronounced "Pah-see-en-see-uh". Spanish doesn't have long and short vowels like English, so it actually makes things easier to pronouce lol. A-e-i-o-u is always "ah"-"eh"-"ee (like see)"-"oh"-"oo (like hoot)"

I love how you're supposed to find ratslayer, by doing a Freeside debt collecting quest for the Garret twins there's this one lady that says her caravan was ambushed which leads to the cave where the ratslayer is. Seemingly a dumb fetch quest, so people with a lot of speech can easily accidentally cheat themselves out of the opportunity to get it (the lore friendly way anyway, it'll be there no matter what).

Nice thing about the Medicine Stick is even without Jury Rigging if you're being hunted by Legion Assassins in mid-late game one of them usually has a Brush Gun so you'll have a steady supply of repair guns

The fact that normal 5mm rounds have -10 DT makes the Assault Carbine one of the best contingency weapons in the game, especially on Hardcore. Not to mention -25 DT for 5mm AP

The sights on the survivalist rifle are bent cause its worn out from years of being used by Randle Clark and it just makes me love the rifle even more

Paciencia is kinda slept on. It’s not too expensive, plus its AMR crit damage is just powerful. Honestly prefer this over the AMR or This Machine.

love watching new Fallout New Vegas videos, especially tier lists! great stuff!

I love the service rifle. Since the Mojave Outpost is so easy to get to and the quest that Ranger Jackson has is just so easy, I grab it early and it lasts me for most of the rest of the game for fighting enemies at medium range. For short range, I use That Gun since the shared ammo mean I can just carry one type of ammo which is a godsend in survival mode.

Christine's CoS Rifle all the way. I primarily run an Energy Weapons build, but that's the one ballistic gun I keep using come late game.

I never really got the survivalist rifle because I couldn’t find it 💀 but I’m glad that I did, and during my last play through I became emotionally attached to the gun because of the survivalists story.

You are right in your confusion about the Bozar. It was created for Fallout 2 with the description and looks suggesting a high caliber antimateriel rifle. But either by mistake or for the balance reasons they made it full auto, which resulted in the most powerful weapon in the game that kinda gained a cult status. Tldr it's from Fallout 2, was supposed to be an anti materiel rifle

Little correction: the Battle Rifle is not affected by the Grunt perk; perks from DLCs can't reference items from other DLCs due to load order issues.

I roll with the This Machine because of the "ping". The ping gives the feeling of accomplishment when you hear it while the enemy corpse is still collapsing to the ground.

The Bozar in C was the twist i was not expecting. On my last rifle focused character, i got it right after the casino round up. Any fight i was over loaded by enemies, the Boxar came out and ended things fast. Fun gun, tho i do see the point about the scope being odd. If youre into modding a see-through scope makes it S tier

LMG with all related perks + match rounds. My follow up weapon after deleting the first targets with a gauss

I always found it kinda funny that, in Fallout 3, the very first weapon you get was the BB gun as a birthday present, and that was the ONLY BB gun in the entire game, making it a unique item. And then Point Lookout made it a common weapon. Side note, I absolutely LOVE the Ratslayer and always use it, even in late game. Every new game I do, I bum rush for the Ratslayer. I don't understand why people hate on it. It's my favorite rifle, right behind Dead Money's Holorifle. Another side note, I always hated that New Vegas sniper had the same firing sound as the hunting rifle. Fallout 3 had its own firing sound.

Paciencia, Trail Carbine, and Medicine Stick are my guns for my current playthrough. The three shred everything.

The Automatic Rifle can be really good if you manage to find the vending machine code for 308 rounds in the sierra madre, it shreds through most enemies really quickly.

I'm recently going through New Vegas once again and I'm having a great time with Paciencia, probably my favourite weapon of the game. I'm really enjoying these videos and I agree with most of your takes ahah, my list would be very similar

The hunting rifle in fallout NV reminds of a old rifle my dad had that looks exactly like it, and even holds 3 rounds like paciencia

Man, what a great video montage, tier list is very more enjoyable with gameplay of the weapon you're talking about, I know it is a lot more work but please keep this format it's great. And great commentary as always, you really know New Vegas. MOAR

22:39 LMG gets bonuses from grunt, and when using AP rounds effectively becomes the firearm equivalent to a thermic lance

Another location you can get a Trail Carbine decently early in the game is in Novac. If you go into Ranger Andy’s Bungalow sitting on the shelf is a Footlocker with a Trail Carbine inside. I believe it has an average lock on it if memory serves me right.

10:43 Don't forget that the Trail Carbine has INSANELY high durability -- almost to the point where I wonder if the devs intended it. It's good to bring with you into Old World Blues because you'll find .44 everywhere, too. If you have a low repair skill, this will definitely be a good gun to have if you can't repair well or craft portable kits.

Come on now, you gotta say the name right, its LA LONG CARE BEAN.

Alright, that's just fucking spooky. I just watched your New Vegas pistol video, the first video of yours that I've ever seen. I enjoyed it and thought, and, since I commonly play sneaky bastard snipers in Fallout, thought "I wonder if he's made a rifle video". Ask and ye shall receive, I guess. Great work on the content

I remember my first build was a secret agent type build. Max Speech, Barter, Guns, Sneak, and lockpick. What's funny was I used one of the weakest guns and one of the strongest guns as my main two, being the 9mm/Maria as my sidearm and the anti-materiel rifle as my rifle. Idk, I found it to be kinda goofy, but they were and are my favorite guns. My next playthrough I'm planning on doing will be a cowboy luck build. Brushgun/Medicine Stick with Chance's Knife. Gonna get cowboy and grunt to boost Chance's Knife to extreme levels of damage.

Those who have used the Abilene kid BB gun, know that it is better than the anti material rifle (for normal enemies, not big targets) when the build is done right

Favorite for me is definitely the Medicine Stick, but the trail carbine and service rifle are great too. It’s hard to choose because across all categories FNV has a lot of good weapons. Side note: I’ve generally been able to get an LMG pretty early just by going near the big toxic waste pits between Primm and the Mojave Outpost.

Love that you are doing this video, however many years after this game came out. FONV is the gift that will never stop giving.

Love these lists, melee/unarmed tier list soon please 🙏🏽

Conventional rifles realy shine in New Vegas without some of the energy rifles present from 3. Ammo for them is everywhere

Funny enough, the Medicine Stick with the right perks can out DPS the Anti-Material Rifle, but I can see why people use Anti-Material Rifle with explosive round, best way to clear the Quarry tho.

The fully decked out hunting rifle is probably my favorite and definitely most used gun in the game. Ammo is easy to find, easy to repair, and can fit into just about any role.

If you've got the balls (and ammunition) for it. There is a guaranteed spawn for the lmg in the back of the quarry, behind the deathclaw queen.

Ratslayer is honestly very underrated imo by a majority of the FNV playerbase. 5.56, especially with good reloading, is really good at all except the really high end levels and with a good sneak crit rifle build, the Ratslayer is a fantastic stealth DMR, especially at night. It really gives you that roaming sniper feel and capability

12:00 Pah-sens-siah I love all of your vids man, I appreciate how indepth you take things and for the most part, I've agreed with all of your tier placements in this game and in The Killing Floor games. You're an absolute gem of a content creator, thank you so much for you're amazing perspective and just general personality!

Bozar is definitely underrated here. The thing about the Bozar is that it's kind of bad *until* you have Hand Loader. See...you never really want to use base 5.56 rounds with the Bozar. Once you are using Match rounds as your base round, and maintain a good stock of all of the different 5.56 ammo types, it is an all-in-one gun that has no trouble carrying you through the entire game, and unlike the marksman carbine, it is also really good when a big enemy is breathing on you. One of the big problems with the weapon's perception is that people see how you repair it and its description and expect it to be a combo of the LMG and a Hunting Rifle. It's actually more like a combo of the Marksman Carbine and 12.7 SMG. The shortcomings of that combination can be more than made up for by judiciously choosing your ammunition. My Bozar-only run was probably my easiest one-weapon-only run (I've done a lot of them...2nd place was the Silenced .22 Pistol...yes, really, but you have to stack every single crit and sneak perk in the game, and MUST also take the Trigger Discipline trait for the 22 run if you want to be doing well at midrange).

A fully modded GRA assault carbine is a force to be reckoned with.

Lots of great rifles in NV. Ratslayer is an early game favorite for the crits. All American is my go-to in Hard-Core mode, where it saves weight by functioning well in multiple roles.

i agree with most ratings, but to rate the assault carbine lower than the service riflte?? like you said, armor piercing is stupidly strong since the bullets have a -25 dt (10 from 5 mm, 15 from the armor piercing effect) and you only lose 5 % base damage per bullet (which is literally nothing with the low base dmg). this thing rips through lanius' 920 hp pool in like 2-3 mags even on very hard. the bos in power armor and joshua graham are literally the only enemies in the game that don't take full damage. this includes all creatures as well.

Can you believe there was no Mauser Rifle in this game ? .What a let down .

Fallout new Vegas deserves a remake

I love the Trail Carbine. That is my go-to. Ammo is admittedly hard to get early on but after Dead Money, which I do early, you can buy a shit load of it. By the end of the game, I had somehow gotten it to do 85 damage. Its such an underrated gun.

18:05 the long pause and stare at the pile of night-stalkers turning into a big mass of bodies was so funny to me

I love rat slayer so much, always run for it immediately

Good video!!! Could you do an ammo type tierlist? Would be cool

Ratslayer is S tier in my opinion because you can use it to do the jury rigging trick where you assassinate NCR troopers to repair their armor to full, then you use it to jury rig combat armor to make a profit. You will profit approximately 3k caps per repaired combat armor. Not to mention YOU can wear the repaired combat armor.

The survivalist rifle is a must have for all my play throughs. Plus I like collecting the father in the caves holotapes.

The abilene kid is absolutely amazing with a high luck stealth build

This Machine, Hunting Shotgun, and Ranger Sequoia all S tier in my book. Set up the hot keys like you're picking weapons in gears of war and its a fantastic loadout. Ya know, with the standard sniper and antimaterial rifle for range and overwhelming power. Absolute GOAT loadout

medicine stick with cowboy perk snd swc ammo absolutely cleaned house for me late game. what a beast of a gun

Christine's rifle and high sneak is just ridiculously OP

Thanks for the list; it's great work! How is the Medicine Stick lower than the Anti-Material Rifle? Anti-Material Rifle always struck me as a noob trap. It seems like people just look for the highest alpha damage weapon, then choose that. However, it's single shot; If you're going up against a lot of high tier enemies like the Deathclaws at Quarry Junction, or a pack of Cazadores, it's likely you'll get swarmed and killed. You see a lot of youtube videos of people rocking the Anti-Material Rifle where exactly that happens. However, with the cowboy perk, Medicine Stick does ~90% of the damage of the Anti-Material rifle, and has an eight round magazine. With hand loaded ammo, you're going to be one-shotting deathclaws with both weapons, except the former can gun down many more much more quickly. It has twice the DPS, and MUCH more burst with the initial 8 rounds before the reload. Medicine Stick is severely underrated compared to the Anti-Material Rifle.

Paciencia (pawsee en see ah) is a BEAST. As for the scope, the zoom is actually exactly the same AS a scope, except you don't lose your field of view. Plus .308 is extremely versatile, although for survival playthroughs, very heavy.

Paciencia having three rounds in the magazine is kinda neat because bolt action hunting rifles in magnum calibers often hold three rounds. (I know it's still .308 so its not a 1-1 but still it gives that feel)

the Battle Rifle/This Machine is awesome because you can get A LOT of AP .308 rounds from Contreras bc he sells them by the hundreds, so you can just hipfire to a bunch of enemies, and you're going to cut through them effortlessly like in a group of five you're going to nail three and just have to finish of the other two with a pistol.

Just some thoughts on the Survivalist Rifle. One of the best guns, it really hits like a truck! With JHP rounds (Characteristics: x1.65 damage, x2 DT) or Hollow Point, it can still be effective since the weapon's base damage is high enough to render the DT multiplier irrelevant. The Survivalist Rifle goes from 48 damage to 79, allowing it to keep up with the big boys of .308--but it also benefits from Grunt, for a total of 99, third overall behind the AMR and Medicine Stick. Also, really good accuracy once you get the hang of it and good dps. Also, good condition and free (since you find it in Sion Valley)

I love this channel because it is confusing the hell out of my youtube algorithm and making the release trailer for Fallout NV show up at the top of my recommends like its the hottest new release or something.

i cannot bring myself to use any rifle except the brush gun, it was one of my friend's favorite weapons, and the one he used the most on all of his runs after the brush hun, i would use the survivalist's rifle because the story behind it is amazing

I always steal the trail carbine in the weapons locker of ranger Andy’s bungalow. I feel terrible everytime but I NEED it 😂

Just started a new ncr ex-ranger playthrough, this is great

Did they ever fix the GRA assault carbine not being affected by grunt?

I’m at that point in the game where my courier is so OP that I have the most fun using the hunting rifle (decked -out of course) because it slows down combat and feels fun to use :P

Good tierlist. One small issue. Pingg!!! It's the battle rifle for me

I've always wondered why the Varmint Rifle didn't shoot .22, .556 seems like a big round for varmint

This Machine goes "ping", it is S+ tier and any other opinion is invalid.

best perk to have for the anti material rifle is splash damage imo. makes clearing out cottonwood cove super fun you dont even have to be accurate just hit the ground at their feet. youre basically dropping HE grenades at their feet, its so satisfying sending a squad of them airborn at once.

Survivalist rifle: S-Tier, it's the survivalist rifle Every other rifle: F-Tier, it's not the survivalist rifle

The survivalist rifle is my favorite just based on the story of it. I remember watching the Oxhorn vid on it the first time and being amazed

I love your content but damn you butchered Paciencia's name

Not gonna lie. Every time I play new vegas the cowboy repeater ends up being my favorite gun through a good chunk of the game. The gun just feels so good to use early on.

I think Christine's CoS rifle is better than the Gobi rifle. Yes Gobi does more damage on a crit, but it's not by that much because of its lower general damage. With better criticals, the Gobi does 168 damage, and Christine's does 155. But Christine's has a significantly higher crit multiplier. On a full crit build, you can have a constant 28% crit chance and 5% from light touch (doesn't get boosted by crit multiplier). So with Christine's that's 75% crit chance, and Gobi sits at 61%. That means that Christine's does 62 damage 25% of the time, and 155 damage 75% of the time. Gobi does 48 damage 39% of the time, and 168 damage 61% of the time. With some quick maths it means that in 100 shots, Christine does consistently more dps, due to the higher crit chance. Add to it that it's a silenced weapon which means that you can take out entire squads of enemies without even being shot at. Which also means you will be dealing sneak crits more than once per encounter, and I think the only benefit Gobi has over Christine is that it will do slightly more damage per shot on crits on heavy armour enemies. But since they are both good against armoured enemies anyway, that really doesn't matter much. Anything hit in the head other than a death claw will die in one shot as long as it is a crit, and Christine's hits crits more often. Making it a better weapon for consistency and ease of use.

The light machine gun is actually really useful if you pair it with armor piercing rounds. It’s high rate of fire with 5.56 AP just absolutely SHREDS deathclaws. I used it in the divide and it is a beast with AP. You do go through ammo quickly though. You can find one LMG in quarry junction.

The biggest upgrade I ever saw for the Service Rifle was a mod that turned the rifle from single-shot to three-round burst fire. Instantly made the NCR Troopers fearsome. With that, it was a lot more believable that the NCR was holding their positions across the Mojave, overstretched against so many threats and badly organized by design.

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All American all the way. My favorite by far. Hunting rifle is also really fun in FO3 i think

This machine with .308 armor piercing, Rauls perk and ED-E after lonesome road and you will never worry about breaking the gun even after firing 1000 rounds. Its my go to gun, the fast reload and the ping you hear make it for very satisfying gun play. I also always side with Contreras because he sells so much .308 armor piercing rounds you never run out.

Love the way the description is organized! Criminally underrated channel!

The explosive 50 cal rounds have a base explosive dmg that is unaffected by the explosive skill. Also the professional only applies to handguns

medicine stick is always my go to, i will go straight to gun runners to try and get it as soon as possible every playthrough

I’ll always lean towards the anti material rifle. It’s just so powerful.

Paciencia has the same zoom as the hunting rifle scope. So definitely S tier weapon for me. For sniping on a stealth or crit build, Paciencia and Christine's CoS rifle are the only 2 contenders for me and Paciencia is available WAY earlier in a natural playthrough. (Oh and the Gobi rifle, but again you need 100 Lockpicking to get that.) (Also I don't think Grunt affects Battle Rifle and This Machine)

Remember when Bethesda looked at the antimaterial rifle and said “let’s just make it a mod for the hunting rifle” s tier decision right there

Small fun fact: There's a trail carbine in the hard locked container in Ranger Andy's house in Novac, so that's another way you can get one early

Been using the survivalist rifle like crazy. Thanks for the video 🙏

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