A more horizontal 'progression' will instead make upgrades more or less useful based upon your character build, meaning that two very different characters may use the same base weapon, with wildly different configurations so as to make for a weapon that is better tailored to their playstyle,' the update says. Many upgrades in Fallout 4 were simply better than the ones preceding it in the upgrade tree, which lends itself well to the more generalist play style that Fallout 4 embraces, but in a game like Fallout: New Vegas where character builds are far more important, such a balancing scheme would quickly render many weapons useless for some character builds, or would leave them quickly outclassed by weapons that may not entirely make sense for a given character but are simply better to use. Our goal with the upgrade system is to push for a more horizontal upgrade progression in F4NV than found with the weapon upgrades in Fallout 4. Sparkman, The Haves and the Haves Less, THE AMERICAN LAWYER, May 2012. Legendary weapons come with random bonuses applied to them and are only dropped by legendary enemies. For a list of legendary effects for weapons, see Legendary weapon effects.

'Much like Fallout 4, most weapons in F4NV will have upgrades that can be applied to them. The degree of spread somewhat corresponds to the width of the crosshairs. But the new system will be much more like the most recent title than that of the Mojave desert.

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