Fallout 76 PTS: Energy Explosive Weapons are Comming Back Soon. PTS New Update.

It's good that Beth make the explosive effect useable but not too OP. Plasma Caster is interesting, we can turn it to a cannon with no more slow projectile. And I wish to revive my love Quad Explosive Harpoon Gun.

I just wanna see a buff for The Dragon. It should be able to one shot like any non boss enemy if you're specced for it. its my favorite weapon, i love the one shot on kill play style.

I like the fact that Bethesda is clearly working with this game, doing improvements and updates. They haven't abandoned it, something like that can not be said for example from RDR 2, Rockstars have completely abandoned that game. Even with that bad start, this game is getting way more love than maybe the best game ever made (RDR2). This energy weapons explosive update is just one example, they could have easily skipped it entirely after removing legacy weapons, but no, they made it anyway. Lets hope that Bethesda do the same with Starfield and doesn't abandon that game.

To be fair if this was done when they "fixed" (removed) legacy weapons it would been nice, but i guess it's still good to see they actually fixed them after all (better later than never i guess lol), and it seems like it is still usable but not crazy OP which is good. It would be amazing to see that different Explosive animations (like that kinda "electric" looking explosive on Gatling laser) on other elemental type weapons too like mini Poison / fire / cryo explosions, but idk if this gonna happen. But anyway seems nice so far, it's not broken like it was but its nice to have it as an option if you want to test / try different stuff out.👍

What about harpoon? WHAT ABOUT HARPOON!

Now we need unyielding pa

So legacies are back but the bugs that made them so powerful are fixed now? Sounds fair even if it took them more than 5 years to fix the weapons.

I tried a BE25 Enclave Plasma Rifle with severe beta wave tuner. It was so awesome. It actually felt legacy powerful (whispers). I tried a two shot explosive quantum thirst zapper, the critical hits showed in the negative numbers and did no damage at all. (Also quad doesn't work for thirst zapper).

Faster fire rate and more damage while aiming seem to be the directin to go for end-game bosses once the combat rebalance is implemented. Be curious to see how well crits will now do against the end game bosses.

Don't think explosion legendary effect will ever be better than faster fire rate for any weapons, but it's nice for aoe tagging.

For the flamer it should have a "firework" effect instead like an actual projectile

A explosive energy weapon, such as a flamer, should have the same range as a normal flamer, just like the shoguns. I think that is the way to make things balance.

The problem with explosive gatling plasma in the past was not the explosive effect... dont be mistaking... it was the fact that the explosive damage on the effect was bugged as hell. So what they did was just balance the damage output of the explosions.

What is the projectile travel time of a gatling plasma with explosive vs non-explosive? I know that was one of the benefits of the legacy version since it didnt have the longer travel time of the standard projectile.

Caviat: they will be meh

apparently quad can be on dragons in the pts at the moment that is what i heard somebody mentioned

I remember when legacies were just running around rampant. Untamed and unforgiving and mostly uncaring. The idea that we can have it back at a fraction of the power is a fun idea to me. I'll be happy to add explosive energy weapons to my collection once again because this time they're Fair.

Honestly, they should have let it alone. Could have added maybe explosive effect for ballistic and a equivalent burning effect to energy.

How does it work with beam splitter on gatling plasma?

I love that this adds variety to the loot pool, it's good that damage is on par with ballistic explosives. TSE still one of the most fun combos, hopefully it works the same.