Hello everyone, first time poster here.
I have been playing Fallout new vegas a lot and have finally got my hands on one of my favourite Fallout 3 weapons, the Gatling laser!

Yes build to destroy go to the weapon multiplier if im not mistaken, i forgot is a GL build:P, i always aim for the optimized energy build (just in case i get bored of the gatling laser) thats why i recommended but don't forget set laser for fun (challenge) the flat 4% make a huge difference for a rapid fire weapon also pew pew, tri beam and the modded laser rifle are extremely deadly with. Laser Commander is a perk in Fallout New Vegas with the base ID 00165789. Its benefits include: +15% damage with any laser weapon +10% extra probability of critically hitting with any laser weapon.

Unfortunately I've tried it on a number of different enemies and have found that compared to Fallout 3's GL it is surprisingly underpowered. With New Vegas' Damage threshold system on armor, a fully repaired GL with 100 points in energy weapons and the +3 damage mod firing max-charged shots is hopeless against any heavily armored targets like Deathclaws, Super Mutants and BoS Paladins as their high DT almost completely neutralizes the damage. I've literally shot all 240 ammo at a single Paladin and inflicted only minor damage.
Obsidian also seem to have boosted the fire rate of the Gatling laser by 10 shots per second, increasing the DPS but also increasing the ammo consumption. Those 10 extra shots per second don't help one jot against armor and make it good only for killing a few unarmored enemies before all your ammo is exhausted.
I don't have the better criticals or laser commander perks yet, but I suspect that laser commander wouldn't makes much of a difference since +10% damage translates into only 1 or 2 extra points. I'm not sure if better criticals would make much difference since I don't understand the crit damage calculations and I can't tell how frequently the gatling laser currently crits.
Any suggestions? Am I using it wrong? Would those perks help?

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