What were they thinking?

Didn't they have Prototypes of modernish Assault Rifles by the end of WWI? Why the fuck would they have what looks like an even bulkier M1917 with a stock, as the "Assault Rifle" of the 2070s military?

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I give it a pass just because the other FO4 guns are worse, especially the combat rifle and shotgun

Bulky, overdesigned equipment is part of the retro future aesthetic.

They even joke about it in-universe with the oversized espresso machines.

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>what were they thinking?
>we can't code any animations for gripping or reloading since we stole the better animations mod for fallout 3
>we ran out of ideas
>just stick the random car part junk model in the gun

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I thought it looked cool, but I also know nothing about guns. The pipe guns are fucking shit though.

Better than those Futurama laser rifles.

>See trailer for FO4
>Say it looks like Skyrim with guns
>Yea Forums calls me a troll
>See gameplay for FO4
>Say it looks like Skyrim with guns
>Yea Forums calls me a nigger
>FO4 releases
>It’s an even worse Skyrim with shitty guns
>Yea Forums calls me a niggerfaggot for not appreciating the “underrated settlement building minigame”

You’re all fucking niggers and I hate all of you. I’m glad 76 killed finally killed the walking corpse that was the Fallout franchise

>The name is the only problem.
Being semi auto by default is also a problem. I'd argue the caliber is a problem too, it should be at least .308, with the option to upgrade to .50

good luck!

The settlement building minigame was a shitty mod from New Vegas. Bethesda is entirely incapable of creating anything mechanically new. Like ladders. Or a window.

>Have a nice sexy G3 clone as the AR
>replace it with a monstrosity

"We need a gun that looks good in our power armor's hands."
That was pretty much it.

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Name one machine designed by a first world nation after 1925 that still used water cooling.

what kind of bizzaro Yea Forums were you on while these things happened because I remember the vast majority of Yea Forums thinking these games would be shit with only a few diehard retarded fans believing otherwise

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Power armor cores and robot building are also New Vegas mods

Drink alcohol.

but why would download any shit unless it's bug fixes or lets you repair guns with tin cans?

Nice joke bet T.Howard would be proud

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based

The best part about pipe guns is that actual homemade guns look nothing like them, and look like real guns.

Probably because their design philosophy was clearly "let's take a normal gun and imagine its components were random shit" rather than "let's take junk and make it into guns"

This gun also offends my gun autism

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I actually kind of like the look of the pipe pistol, but making them as prevalent as they were was a big mistake, especially when they made them have a disgusting orange color.

That ain't no Lewis LMG
That's a fucking abomination
Like everything Bethesda shits out
It's hard to fuck up swords but they still manage it

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Sort of but not exactly. The pipe weapons in Fallout occupy a weird middle ground that doesn't exist in real life. They're too complex to look as shitty as they do. Except maybe the pipe revolver.

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Them being so common makes 0 sense from lore too considering you're in the US and there's literally a billion guns in the nation.

What's wrong with this?

Lel my grandfathers turned those guys into meat paste back in Bosnia.

Those machine guns are pre-war, before de mutual assured destruction, the regular US weaponry was 10mm pistol, standard R-91 assault rifle and minor variants or prototypes. It's fit well as an outdated gun.

They didn't want to pay to license real guns probably.

>no ejection port
>no charging handle
>supposed to work like the P90 but accepts standard 5.45 >clips that have no turntable

>Fallout 1
Hey, wouldn't it be cool to have some of the things have a sort of retro-futuristic look to them?

Fallout4
>Hey, wouldn't it be cool if EVERYTHING looked like the bastard child of retro-futuristic and the Great War?

It's just TOO sexy. There has to be some upper limit on sexiness, otherwise it'd be chaos out there. It's important to have standards.

it's this

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I think this gun looks like a vacuum cleaner from 1953.

"hey this is a cool gun"

i think its the compromise they had to work with because of that stupid upgrade system

their pipe weapons are basically just jury-rigged broken weapons
maybe if they were named junker weapons or something, it wouldve been fine for some firearms autists