Forum:V.A.T.S/Weapon condition

I read in the "V.A.T.S" page that using V.A.T.S does more damage to your weapon hence, firing more often in vats would result in your needing to do weapon repairs more often. However This fact isnt listed in the F3 Help screen, or game manual. Can anyone testifyf that this is true?

This is indeed quite true. In order to balance out the game, Bethesda added this effect to V.A.T.S in order to even things up a little. Obviously this makes the most sense for guns such as the 10mm pistol, which are single shot, but automatic weapons really do not degrade much faster because one they are quite innacurate so you really have the give the enemy a hail of bullets before the die and partially because V.A.T.S fires automatic weapons in controlled bursts. All in all, however, this is true, and serves to balance gameplay, in theory. Also, you could test this by doing a side by side comparison, or ask one of the many PC gamers on the Vault to do so and post an embedded video with a detailed comparison. Even though this is not listed in the game manual, it is true. SoProTheyGoWoah 00:40, April 2, 2010 (UTC)