Both are extremely effective on direct hits, but still potent even if a direct hit is not scored. Missile and Fat Man projectiles (not the explosion) have a large base DAM. Missile Launcher / Fat Man - Now have much better zoom FoV and good accuracy.40mm Grenades - Significantly higher DAM on the explosion.25mm Grenades - Slightly increased DAM on the explosion.Frag and Plasma Grenades DAM increased.La Longue Carabine spread has been significantly lowered. Cowboy Repeater Custom Action RoF increase has been reduced. Lever-Action Rifles - Cowboy Repeater, Trail Carbine, Brush Gun - RoF has been slightly reduced, AP costs have been significantly increased, and spread has been slightly increased.308 JSP - DAM mult reduced from x1.5 to x1.3. This affects the Assault Carbine, Minigun, and CZ57 Avenger. 5mm Ammo - Base ammo has 10 points of DT bypass.
22 Pistol, SMG - Crit DAM and Crit Chance significantly increased. Service Rifle - DAM slightly lowered, firing animation changed to the one used by Marksman Carbine, RoF dramatically increased.
That Gun - That Gun is now a slow-firing hand cannon that does huge DAM firing 5.56mm out of a short barrel.Gobi has increased DAM and much higher Crit DAM over the Sniper Rifle. Sniper Rifle, Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle - Sniper Rifle and Gobi now have a higher RoF and lower AP cost.Anti-Materiel Rifle's Crit DAM has been raised from 80 to 110 to make it more viable when compared to the Gobi. Hunting Rifle RoF increased, Crit Chance set to x2. Hunting Rifle, Anti-Materiel Rifle - Hunting Rifle and AMR now have the lowest spread of all rifles.Spread for many shotguns has been lowered. Magnum buckshot has a x1.3 DAM mod and a small amount of DT bypass. This slightly incentivizes using buckshot over slugs when enemy armor is not an issue. Shotguns - Buckshot has received a x1.2 inherent DAM mod.Automatic Guns - SMGs, the Assault Carbine, and the LMG are more accurate across the board.
Here are the full patch notes, as detailed on Steam: A comprehensive new patch for Bethesda's action RPG sequel Fallout: New Vegas has just gone live for PC users, with consoles to follow shortly.Īs promised earlier this month, update 1.3 rebalances a number of weapons and "contains optimisations and stability improvements".Īccording to a post on the game's official site, the patch is expected to hit consoles "by the end of the week."