Forum:Railway rifle the best small weapon?

I am looking at the DPS for all the weapons and I see that the Railway Rifle has 60 DPS. This makes it the best weapons compared to a lot of unique weapons such as xunlong, sydney, etc. The only weapon that seems to be better would be the blackhauck (I don't count the unique sniper rifle, that is not a all round usable weapon)?

Also it seems it's best even compared to the energy weapons with the exception of the 2 unique weapons Firelance and Alien Blaster.

So is the Railway Rifle pretty much the win weapon with the exception of the 3 weapons?

(PLEASE DON'T TALK ABOUT ANY SPOILERS IN YOUR REPLY).

The blackhawk is quite strong, but most big guns are stronger than the railway rifle. Laser Gatling, Minigun, Missile Launcher and fatman beat the railway rifle.

Also the Xuanlong assault rifle could ebe called better as it does nearly the same damage and has rapid fire. --I-am-a-panda 07:54, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

There are 11 small guns that have equal (Ol' Painless) or better Damage Per Action Point than the Railway Rifle's 1.20 points. The Terrible Shotgun does 2.96! LVTDUDE 01:14, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

The Railway Rifle's DPS value is bizarre and definitely seems inaccurate. I've actually used it, and many non-unique items kill MUCH faster (Combat Shotgun, Chinese Assault Rifle, and Sniper Rifle, just to name a few). Plus, the Railway Rifle is the single most likely item to crash your game, and its ammo is rare and hard to find (since it doesn't spawn in ammo crates, and I'm pretty sure no merchants ever sell it). The stats on its brother, the Rock-It Launcher, are also incredibly inaccurate- there's no way in hell I'm dealing twice as much damage per second with Old Junky as I am with a Gatling Laser. No way, no how. Oh, and DPS stats on the Energy Weapons are also way off- you can easily fire 3 shots a second with a Plasma Rifle, meaning the DPS should be 130+, not 42. All-in-all, the DPS on the weapons page is a very unreliable stat to base anything off of unless you're strictly comparing automatic weapons (in which case the DPS should be spot on). In the end, if you're looking for the best guns on the block, I'm a big fan of the Plasma Rifles (especialy A3-21's), Vengeance (most powerful weapon in the game, imo, but it degrades quickly and is hard to repair), Combat Shotguns (the regular kind, not the unique kind), and Sniper Rifles (Reservist's Rifle if you use a lot of VATS, non-unique if you don't). Sniper Rifles in particular are incredibly underrated- with 10 luck and finesse, you'll critical 90% of the time in VATS (100% if you also got the Snide Survival Guru perk), which means 160 damage per headshot. I can take out Deathclaws with a single 3-shot VATS sequence. They go great with Grim Reaper's Sprint. Some Sort 07:19, 28 February 2009 (UTC)