Upgrading the receiver affects a gun’s damage and rate of fire, and, in some cases, accuracy and critical shot damage. Remember that although you’ll instinctively want to stack high damage sometimes that’s not always the best choice when you’re choosing between mid-level modifications: a sniper might want to keep more range, for example.

The exceptions are energy weapons which have a couple of slightly different slots, although we’ve got your back and covered them with the other mods below. Fallout 4’s Guns Gun weapon mods in Fallout 4Īlmost all the guns you’ll pick up will share the same mod slots, so we’ve broken down how these change a gun’s stats when you’re tinkering with them. We’re not going to dignify this entry with an explanation of what “weight” means. Increasing your accuracy score can drastically improve your chance to hit in VATS, and will give you more focused aim when you’re using your gun in the wild. This, obviously, affects how likely you are to hit something you’re aiming at, even if it’s the side of a barn. If you increase your gun’s range then it will have better accuracy at distance both in and out of VATS. If you’re a bit of a pansy and you don’t like getting in too close then go for range.This is how far your gun can effectively fire a bullet, so rifles, for example, will have a higher starting range than pistols.

Bosses that telegraph their attacks really obviously? Slow fire rate, mate. Slower melee weapons tend to do more damage but you can leave yourself open while you’re hefting it. This is how quickly you can get off shots or swing your weapon – melee weapons have a speed of Fast, Medium or Slow. You like that? Go play some World of Warcraft and get back to us. That’s some nice RPG knowledge right there. A slow, heavy sledgehammer might still have a higher DPS than a small pipe pistol because even though the pistol is faster the sledgehammer has a higher damage per hit. A subcategory of this is DPS, or how much damage the weapon can deal every second, which is affected by your fire rate as well as the base damage score. Damage refers to the damage per single shot/hit of your weapon. What weapon stats mean in Fallout 4 Fallout 4 Weapon Damage We spent an unholy amount of time at the weapons bench getting this info. Modifying weapons in Fallout 4 is an essential but complex part of the game, so to make it (hopefully) less complex we’ve explained how weapon stats work, how mods change those stats, and what you need to build them.

Fallout 4 gun mods