Stoppie_October: Going back and adding more unique mods to weapons that only really have “gun when you get it” and “gun but better” mods is definitely a welcome change and I hope they do the same for the gauss pistol/ alien disintegrator/ V63 laser carbine and other weapons where you would only use one setup.

robloxepicadventures: The sniper mod should do 10x more damage

SirRoderickThunderbottom: i have a gut feeling the signal dish receiver doing rad damage is future proofing for an eventual re-work of Rad damage as a status effect to enemies

zubrhero5270: "Choice" in this game is like...

You can use anything on this rack... Except that one, and that one, and that one...

Wrongrealities: Currently on the live game, my plasma caster has over 400 range and hits like a truck. If I had a choice, I would never trade it for that pts pos. Thank you for all of your excellent content.

TheRealChipHazard: 10 PER SHOT with sniper barrel is just brutal. This is cool, but they’re totally killing the efficiency of it. Why?

Spooky_Spookerson: Just straight up ruined sniper caster.

R3AP9: Why tf are they touching my plasma caster just leave it as it is

dantebond8124: Another day of Bethesda using a dart board for decision making.

officedullard8722: I hate the whole 'more than 1 ammo used per shot' thing.

jernejkurincic9050: Sniper barrel was there even before, but has almost zero influence. Scope seems weird for a heavy weapon.

The argument against plasma weapons generally stays low projectile speed, making them useless for longer ranges.

derpderpington9191: I use a bloodied plasma caster with sniper barrel on a full vats build and I really hope they don’t change it to 10 ammo per shot, it would completely ruin my favorite weapon/build..

thongus_: the automatic barrel reminds me a lot of the unique plasma caster from new vegas. really cool!

TheRealChipHazard: So with sniper barrel not only is it using 10 ammo per shot, it’s essentially only a 7 round magazine now too. Again, why nerf sniper barrel to this degree?

peteblackbourne514: where will we get the new mods from??

walterbison: I've been using the Plasma Caster on my main character for years, it's my favorite gun in the game.

I HATE these changes. There are no good options for me. I don't want to run automatic, I like using reverse onslaught as I currently do. I can't use my sniper barrel anymore because they turned it into an ammo-hungry glorified black powder rifle for cowardly players who use stealth. Shotgun? No, it's not a freaking shotgun. If I wanted to use shotguns, I wouldn't use a Plasma Caster. So that leaves standard and Signal Dish and both are weaker than the current sniper barrel on the live servers.

Bethesda needs to stop F'ing around with things that don't need fixing. This is BS.

zaldash9: These changes are pretty bad. They are making it an automatic heavy energy weapon but we already have the gatling plasma and it can at least make use of bullet storm. This used to be a hard hitting heavy and now its just not got much of a use case. These changes are very short sighted at best but honestly i think they are killing the weapon with this nonsense.

Chondro83: What happens if you put a "last shot" or "two shot" mode on the caster with the sniper barrel?

owenhermann6332: they should revert the sniper barrel change.. otherwise, cool stuff

matias-f15: i hate that they will make you use ten ammo por one shot with the sniper barrel i hope they dont emplemente it in the final version beacuase it would be shitty

beastabuelos6421: The automatic and shotgun are cool. The rest need another look. For people who want a single shot, non shotgun plasma caster, their options are the base barrel, which is the weakest, the signal dish, which is only a little stronger and takes 2 ammo, or the sniper, which is just terribly designed as it is now. Buff the standard barrel, make signal dish stronger and take its ammo cost to 1. Make the sniper barrel cost 2. Good to go after that

loryt690: now is usable again

lukexxl: I was waiting for auto plasma caster

leehelck4606: they're making the only heavy sniper weapon useless. why am i not surprised.

nerf. nerf never changes.

JamesC117: Are they going to ruin my rev onslaught plasma caster build?? Sigh looks like I will be looking for another build

Dexter_Solid: I would say the shotgun one is about the speed I kill the guardian right now with my plasma caster build, maybe a little slower. The automatic is definitely an improvement however.

deadeyez0132: I like how they beefed this up, since it is only available after completing a very long questline and then needing to earn points over rral life time to earn the right to unlock it.

Dec 28 2025

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