I might be wrong.I admit that, but I think the LMG is a more practical weapon. In real life I believe that multi-barrel Miniguns are used for suppression fire (as the SAW/LMG is) and even cutting through dense vegetation. It is also lighter and looks cooler.that last part is just my thoughts on it but ya know.

The LMG on the other hand (a weapon I can't separate from the real world Squad Assault Weapon) fires rapidly, has a great upgrade MOD to increase the ammo cap, and does decent damage per shot. The only saving grace they have, in my opinion at least is that they have a huge ammo box. The take for ever to spin up and then don't even deal great damage per shot. In FO3 they were so over rated that I might have used one twice to date. To me the assault rifle in fallout for is literally an LMG, no exaggeration, it takes many inspirations from LMGS like the Lewis gun, while the fallout 3 one was the G3 which I liked a lot more and felt much more like an assault rifle than the one in fallout 4, and then there’s the various different assault rifle style guns in new Vegas like.

They seem very very similar, and I'm having a hard time deciding which to play with.

Which do you prefer? Both eat through ammo like it's nothing, but I got a surplus of caps to spend and just found the Avenger and a fully repaired LMG.

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