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“Keep your distance long and your kill-count high. Attacks with non-automatic rifles do 20% more damage.”— Rank 1 description
Rifleman is a perk in Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Fallout: The Roleplaying Game. This perk affects both energy and ballistic weapons.
Contents
Fallout 4
“Keep your distance long and kill count high. Though this only requires a Perception of 2, increasing this to a much greater degree allows you to spot and remove foes at a greater range, which is what these weapons are designed to do. Be certain you know which weapons nonautomatic rifles are; the Weapons chapter lists them all.”— Fallout 4 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide description
Effects
| Rank | Requirements | Description | Form ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PER 2 | Keep your distance long and your kill-count high. Attacks with non-automatic rifles do 20% more damage. | 0004A0B6 |
| 2 | PER 2, LVL 9 | Attacks with non-automatic rifles do 40% more damage and ignore 15% of a target's armor. | 0004A0B7 |
| 3 | PER 2, LVL 18 | Attacks with non-automatic rifles do 60% more damage and ignore 20% of a target's armor. | 0004A0B8 |
| 4 | PER 2, LVL 31 | Attacks with non-automatic rifles do 80% more damage and ignore 25% of a target's armor. They also have a slight chance of crippling a limb. | 0006FA20 |
| 5 | PER 2, LVL 46 | Attacks with non-automatic rifles do double damage and ignore 30% of a target's armor. They also have a slightly higher chance of crippling a limb. | 00065E52 |
Rank 4 gives a 6% chance to cripple the limb you hit. Rank 5 increases this to an 8% chance. In addition, if Nuka-world is installed, Rifleman now becomes a crafting perk, mainly required for the non-automatic variant of the handmade rifle.
Affected weapons
Whether or not eligible weapons receives a bonus from this perk depends on the mods attached. A non-automatic receiver must be in place. For weapons that are pistols/revolvers in their basic state, a full size shoulder supported stock/grip must be in place (the automatic name generation must label the weapon a rifle, shotgun or scattergun, and not a pistol).
Damage total
Since the actual damage dealt is affected by damage-to-armor ratio, we can analyze how both damage increase and armor reduction affects real damage.
The following calculation assumes no criticals (which scale differently than how sneak attack multiplier scales):
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These equations assume that the resultant damage-to-armor ratio doesn't exceed 6.45 (that the resulting damage of the weapon is at most 6.45 times the resulting armor value of the enemy).
| Rifleman LVL | Damage X | Armor X | Ignored Armor Damage X |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.000 |
| 1 | 1.20 | 1.00 | 1.283 |
| 2 | 1.40 | 0.85 | 1.681 |
| 3 | 1.60 | 0.80 | 2.062 |
| 4 | 1.80 | 0.75 | 2.480 |
| 5 | 2.00 | 0.70 | 2.937 |
Note: "X" represents the multiplier of this component.
Fallout 76
“Keep your distance long and your kill-count high.”
Effects
| Rank | Description | Form ID |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your non-automatic rifles now do 10% more damage. | 0004A0B6 |
| 2 | Your non-automatic rifles now do 15% more damage. | 0004A0B7 |
| 3 | Your non-automatic rifles now do 20% more damage. | 0004A0B8 |
Modifies weapons
Rifleman affects all semi-automatic rifles and their unique variants. A semi-automatic receiver must be attached¹. For weapons that are pistols in their basic state, a rifle stock/grip must be attached.
- ¹ Exception: The flamer barrel modification for the plasma gun is automatic, but counts a semi-automatic rifle for Rifleman.
See also
Fallout: The Roleplaying Game
- When making a ranged attack with any two-handed weapon with a Fire Rate of 2 or lower (except heavy weapons), add +1d6 to the weapon’s damage per rank.
- At rank 2, add the Piercing 1 damage effect, or add +1 to the rating of any Piercing X damage effect the weapon already had.
- Each time you take this perk, the level requirement increases by 4.
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