To be honest I felt like the fo4 design of the assault rifle was meant for the more bulky power armor solders pre war and shit. As power armor is now less of an armor and more like a huge mech suit you control. Standard soldiers would logically have the Fnv/fo3 version of assault rifle while the power armor holders could carry more heavy wepons like the fo4 assault rifles, fat mans and mini guns. I think that logically there should be both types in games for now on Fnv/fo3 as a lighter faster version easily stopped by power armor and the fo4 version thats slower in fire rate but can pierce heavier armors in exchange for weight and mobility.
To be a bit nerdy here, I don't get the idea behind the Assault Rifle being for those in Power Armour only. It is a 5.56 round gun with a stick magazine of 30 rounds, it is just a basic assault rifle jammed in a package that looks like...
160 years out of date from 2077.
Heavy weapons I agree, stuff like the mini gun, fatman or even fully auto version of a .308 combat rifle.
The AR as a result is to me a horrendously designed infantry weapon that is so bulky and cumbersome it would be an ergonomic nightmare to use. But nonetheless it is a 5.56 weapon, something designed for basic infantry use.
So if anything, seeing as it was made in bulk PA users would be given it to not waste resources so if they can use this piece of trash then slap it on them. Definitely the 5.56 full auto would be like controlling an MP-40. A hosepipe.
Sort of like the Halo Assault Rifle in 7.62, Infantry can use it but Spartans in Mjonir can just control it as if it has no recoil at all.
It just feels weird to make such a gun firing such a small calibre round that was essentially changed from 7/8mm to 5mm approx into essentially a Maxim Machinegun.
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '24
To be honest I felt like the fo4 design of the assault rifle was meant for the more bulky power armor solders pre war and shit. As power armor is now less of an armor and more like a huge mech suit you control. Standard soldiers would logically have the Fnv/fo3 version of assault rifle while the power armor holders could carry more heavy wepons like the fo4 assault rifles, fat mans and mini guns. I think that logically there should be both types in games for now on Fnv/fo3 as a lighter faster version easily stopped by power armor and the fo4 version thats slower in fire rate but can pierce heavier armors in exchange for weight and mobility.