Big Guns

Big Guns is a skill in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and Fallout Tactics.
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==Overview==
===Big Guns===
Determines combat effectiveness with any weapon categorized as a "Big Gun".
==Notes==
In Fallout: New Vegas, the skill was merged with Small Guns into the more general Guns skill, similar to how it was planned for the canceled Van Buren, which would have merged the skills into the Firearms skill.
==Behind the scenes==
Combining Big Guns and Small Guns was a largely uncontested change among the Fallout: New Vegas development team, though Feargus Urquhart and Chris Parker dissented. Game director Joshua Sawyer assured them that it would be fine.Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream Part 3 (reference starts at 45:17)Joshua Sawyer: "'Was combining Small Guns and Big Guns back together an uncontested change?' The only people who contested it were Feargus Urquhart and Chris Parker. Nobody else contested it. And I was like, 'It's fine.' [laughter] They're like, 'I think it's gonna do this-' I'm like, 'Nah. Nah.' That was my feedback, like 'Nah, it's fine.'" Previously, Sawyer had attempted to design low-level Big Guns for the early game so that everyone could get what they wanted, including items such as rivet guns, but found that it felt forced and did not work well. As such, the team simply merged Small Guns and Big Guns and redistributed the latter.Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream Part 3 (reference starts at 46:13)Joshua Sawyer: "Yeah, Big Guns, like at first, I tried to... design low-level Big Guns. So the goal in combining them was that I just wanted there to be more stuff available at the beginning of the game for everybody to use. And it was just really difficult, it felt very forced. Yeah, 'low-level Big Guns?' It just didn't work very well. I was making up like industrial things like rivet guns and stuff like that. I'm like, 'Ehhh, I dunno.' And once I just said, 'No, there's just Guns' and I split up all the weapons that were previously in Big Guns. Is it a missile launcher? Then it's Explosives. Is it a minigun? Then it's in Guns. Is it a laser Gatling gun? Then it's in Energy Weapons. And that was fine."
===Developer quotes===
==References==
Category:Skills
Category:Big Guns