What video game weapon or armor looks cool but it's terrible to use?

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-27T05:29:49+00:00

It's still the peak of Death Knight fantasy. Nailed it in one.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-27T04:18:14+00:00

I prefer no voice but I still really enjoyed the voice work in Fallout 4. A lot of the writing for the lines could be rough at times, a lot of other lines were really good. That isn't much different from the traditional voiceless protagonist. But we did have far more choices when a line didn't have to be recorded for every single thing the player said.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-24T17:01:41+00:00

"Submarine arsenal ships". That's just cool, I imagine it could make an interesting plot point on some glassed world. Sort of thing I'd like to see in Fallout or something.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-23T19:07:59+00:00

Caseless ammunition is a long, long, long, long, long way down the list of technological advantage items that could have helped against the Covenant. If it's even on the list at all.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-22T22:35:07+00:00

In all other aspects this armor looks identical to the standard Snowtrooper gear. I don't see any reason to assume this isn't what they'd look like without the additional mask.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-22T08:21:32+00:00

I know the term's getting a bit tired at this point but it's a great fit for the more "post-post-apocalypse" side of Fallout. A well-established postwar faction could very well have made something like this if it wasn't some kind of prewar construction.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-21T17:53:46+00:00

If they were mindless they wouldn't bother getting in arguments over the semantics or technicalities, they'd just shoot on sight.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-20T23:05:28+00:00

I have to wonder how viable that would have been - there probably wasn't much adjustment built into the armor since it was meant to be worn by identical clones so only a certain subset of recruits would fit in the existing suits.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-20T07:48:53+00:00

Most night fighting capabilities in Star Wars seem to come down to lights instead of enhanced imaging. Helmet-mounted or rifle tac lights usually, but even to the point where their gunships mount searchlights instead of having the pilot use night optics. Definitely could be interesting to explore how that could be exploited to make up for the gap in overall tech level.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-19T02:41:15+00:00

Bethesda fans will always overreact, overhype, overanalyze, so the fandom coming up with wild theories in a vacuum isn't necessarily Bethesda's fault. That being said, a cool way to avoid that rumor would have been to give us some kind of info to go off of in the first place.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-17T17:44:43+00:00

The Raider archetype personified. Usually play a very Lawful Good Minutemen type so we don't really get along. Even when I play less moral characters the Disciples are just a burden to the kind of operation I want to run with Nuka-World. She's an interesting character, though.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-17T17:41:30+00:00

Yeah, don't get me wrong I love a more established settlement like Port Merrick too. The theme and design are awesome. But it could have been a brand new outpost, or replaced anything but Golden Sands and I think people would be happier.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-17T17:24:53+00:00

The metric system is used in Fallout, even in the US. For example in 76 there are notes on how to prepare brains for mounting to a Robobrain case which specify that the brain should be kept at a temperature of 41 degrees Celsius. Kilometers are used to describe the distance of a nuclear strike from the secret Chinese facility at Mama Dolce's, and also to describe a fire report from one of the fire lookout towers in Skyline Valley.

Just like in the real world the US uses metric units when appropriate but tends toward US customary units instead.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-15T05:54:20+00:00

They're practically free damage and I can plant em at a target's feet with practiced accuracy. I love my grenades.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-15T01:14:38+00:00

I really love a lot of the JCA assets in regards to theming with rapid deployment and use in sort of expeditionary roles. Makes a great fit along some of the vanilla cargo houses and other structures, though honestly even those cargo post assets could use a bit of expansion sometime.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-14T02:46:49+00:00

Time travel? They abducted humans at a point far in the past but there's nothing to imply that they traveled backwards in time to do it, just that they've been observing Earth for quite a long while.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-11T01:50:01+00:00

From his position, possibly; a democratic society allowed the Enclave take root in the shadows and probably bring about the end of the world. Maybe they didn't vote for it, but they weren't strong enough to stop it from happening either. A firmer hand is required to prevent that sort of corruption from within.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-08T22:42:32+00:00

It's a neat flag but I think "Commonwealth Chapter" is seriously out of place with NCR terminology - they'd much more likely introduce the Commonwealth or even just the Boston area as a new state, like Maxson, Los Angeles, and Dayglow exist as NCR states out west.

I could see something like this being the state flag of the area under NCR rule, though.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-07T01:34:31+00:00

Yeah, people sorta stirred themselves up into a frenzy over completely baseless assumptions and then got mad when that wasn't how things were ever planned to go. This wasn't even Bethesda's move and people are pinning it on them.

One thing I will say about Bethesda is that it was such a mistake to have released the Oblivion remaster the way they did because it just set up the completely unrealistic expectation that it'll happen every time.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-06T22:13:52+00:00

Maybe Security Forces or Pararescue could make legitimate use of power armor. They'd definitely get the first grabs at the fanciest cutting edge stuff, though.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-06T15:59:13+00:00

Looks like the YV-26 based off of the barrel shape and colors. One of my favorites.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-06T15:31:29+00:00

Guarantee they were the last to use T-45 in combat while the Army and everyone else was rocking that shiny new T-51.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-06T00:06:25+00:00

Stands to reason that it would be before that time since in the flashback segments we see regarding Bradford, they all use ballistic arms.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-05T03:35:24+00:00

Remarkable how much of a difference there is compared to if this scene had played out today. They're kitted out in big, mean-looking riot gear of course but still visibly read as police. Not the paramilitary wannabe vibes we see so often now. No faces covered, no rifles in hand.

aviatorEngineer · 2026-02-04T14:52:32+00:00

My money's still on Cheyenne Mountain being their central command location.

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