There’s a balance to everything, and red dots do a great job of maintaining that balance. It doesn’t matter if you can hit the guy shooting at you from 500 yards away if it means you lose track of the guy trying to stab you from five feet. It will allow you to get rounds on target quickly and accurately, but most important it will allow you to keep your situational awareness.

For most engagements you’ll ever possibly find yourself, a red dot is sufficient. The same concept applies to firearms in the real world. I think you can see where I’m going with this, and why this is on a gun blog and not a gaming blog. For most combat in the Commonwealth I’ve found that this is more than enough even for longer distance engagements, and the lack of magnification means that I can keep an eye on what’s going on around me while trying to take down that pesky Super Mutant. My go-to guns are a combat rifle and combat shotgun, both fitted with simple red dot sights. Needless to say things did not end well.įallout 4’s generous draw distance (on my nice gaming PC, at least) means that the scoped weapons are indeed useful, but that doesn’t mean that I whip them out at every opportunity. For example, my focus on clearing the rooftop with my scoped rifle meant that I was completely oblivious to the three Forged coming at me with flamers on the ground. That’s a good use of the tech, but it can also be a bit dangerous. 50 cal hunting rifle and pick off the Forged on the roof with ease. When assaulting the Saugus Ironworks, I was able to whip out my suppressed. There are moments were a scoped weapon makes sense. For some guns it makes sense to have a bit more magnification, but wanderers should be wary of throwing scopes on everything. Just about every gun in this game can be scoped, from a 44 magnum handgun to a proper sniper rifle.

Fallout 4 10mm rifle