>>Heavy weapons are for people who are compensating for something.
>
>I don't play Fallout, but a couple we know do, and their shared
>philosophy is neither of these, but rather "be the best goddamn sniper
>in the world".

That can be fun too, though it's not a universally applicable strategy. I had a playthrough where I handled more or less the entire Fiends gang that way, shooting into the ruins west of McCarran Field at extreme range with the .50-caliber anti-materiel rifle until I ran out of red blips, then moving on to other matters. None of them ever had any idea what was going on or who was responsible. By the time I got around to descending into Vault 3, Motor-Runner must've been sitting there wondering where everybody went, because there had been no Fiends left alive above ground for at least a week by then. To complete the bounty mission from that one guy at McCarran, all I had to do was go in and find the corpses I needed; I'd already killed their owners days ago. :)

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