Fallout 76: Shattered Grounds - The New Handmade. Junkies Explosive in 2024? 

I used to wonder why tubers would use the handmade over the fixer, then I started using mine. Then I saw why. The no recoil compared to the fixer was awesome. Fixer is great for vats only. Handmade is great for vats and manual aim.

Server damage register has been a huge issue for me lately. I can empty an entire magazine and not do any damage sometimes.

I found this for about 1k cap in someone's vending machine last week. Seems solid for a Junkie's build. Not that I would ever do drugs.

I love the explosive effect because of how it sounds, but I was noticing that it seemed to miss a lot more with grenadier on at level 2 then without any grenadier on at all. Even just on super mutants walking towards me. I kept it off for peace of mind even though I assumed it was just me missing the numbers. Interesting to see that it is indeed a collision check issue with the server. Unfortunate that the crackle sound is not worth the headache of potential issues

The Nuka-Cola Dark build still works for full health to get the crit every other(ish) shot. Does require a bit of perk investment, but as I run pistols (10mm) I find it necessary for bosses. I do love Junkies, and wish they would make it more appealing. I keep trying it but ultimately always wind up back with AA or Quad.

Been a Junkies Explosive handmade pvp build for years. I keep buying these from camps for a couple hundred caps 😅

Thanks for the review. I’ve also noticed the inefficiency with explosive weapons on beefy enemies especially on full events/servers. I still carry it for my everyday, running around enemies as it is effective on weak, numerous enemies. But i also have my AA,FFR for the beefier enemies at events. Being that the main star is junkies makes it scrip for me overall. Again, appreciate your insight on all of them!

I think it’s super lame that they give us these new weapons and they can’t even be re rolled, thanks for the scrip Bethesda

Unique weapons should be that, unique, have characteristics that others don't have, like Ticket to Revenge being double ammo or Anchorage Ace being silenced. This is just like any other mediocre roll handmade.

My char is 6 years old and still a junkie, might be worth having a look at it 😂

I personaly use a antiarmour explosive handmade, that can shred near anything with 20 rounds. The increased detection sucks, but with full covert scout armour it isn't that great of a deal. The damage thing I personly nether noticed and the explo damage is little as you said. But for hitting multipe enemys it is great.

I just wish we could use the paint on different Handmades, looks great, I would love to use this paint on my current VATS build

I'll probably main this for my free aim commando just because the skin is cool. This game is too easy for me to care about optimizing

I remember a time when I wanted explosive weapons exclusively. They changed (Slight Nerf) the way explosive damage calculates a couple years ago didn't they?

I love the skin, wish it could be applied on other handmades.

Scrip with a fancy name.

My junkie buikd is half heath sometime under with the mutation for low heath and couple unyielding armor to boost the negative from themselves back up

Having sneak damage will also give you a boost. I run railway and fixer stealth build and it’s fun

Good for my full health 😎 full health getting love this year

They need to make ALL named guns a standard 3 stars, and available for reroll to add 3 more stars. They have 6 stars on each gun when you look at them in inventory, why are they only ever 3 stars???

I do not like 25 faster fire rate on a laggy public server...not at all. Pretty much a wasted star in my experience especially if you throw in gun-fu. I can fire off 3-5shots just on the target switch that hit absolutely nothing. On a public server I would rather have 50hits hit chance if I am shooting with any real range or 50 crit damage if right in front of the enemy.

tbh with 25ffr the shots arent registered too, i even feel like its worse, the servers ..

Special skin, reduced weight, poor damage? It'd a wall decoration.

Yeah I’ve had the same experience with my two shot explosive pump action shotgun sine the massive nerf it got back in the day now 60% of the time the explosive dame doesn’t get registered as damage.

My go to addictions are Alcohol Dadyo Daytriper Medx Mentats I feel they are the mildest

Does this issue with explosive second star have the same detrimental impact when you use the weapon outside of VATS? I just rolled a quad explosive LMG and would be so sad...

I think most of these new weapons would've been better of being dropped as awesome new skins for better rolls

Whats to-go punch? 3:10 it’s below psycho addiction in your effects list

Server lag with registering hits has been a problem for a while. Think maybe its time for Bethesda to seriously think about cutting max players per server to 20 instead of 24. Its only getting worse.

I wish they would just do 7 percent per addiction for 60 percent bonus

Hey turtle what’s your opinion on vanguard or aristocrat for power armour and normal armour I’ve seen no videos comparing the 2

Wonder what will be the Weapon of choice for 2024… and of the new weapons

I had a TSE Minigun drop recently that i was excited to use but it turned out to be completely ineffective in an event. Haven't used it since. I wonder if the server lag was to blame.

Aristocrats is superior to junkies. No negatives. Same damage buff

Very strange that they make great weapons like the Red Terror, Ticket to Revenge, and the new unique energy weapons, but then add literal scrip to the unique rewards

I just feel bad for all the times we had to grind for a decent handmade

Damage registration is major problem for me while I´m carrying automatic railway rifle with Quad and FF,sad unfortunetlly.Server register I think maybe every 2nd shot,still very good damage

I have a junkies build, a nice addition to my arsenal

With the new quiver backpack skins out and so many people (including me) picking up the bow because of that, does anyone know what's the best legendary effect to get on a bow? I'm finding Instigating and Bloody are great. Haven't been able to get an anti-armor to compare that yet.

Great guide. Ty

Glad to see this video. I have been wondering about this gun and was going to test it. Now I’m just going to scrip it.

Thanks, Turtle. I have been collecting weapons but have no space left, so I'm deleting poor weapons I never use. I'll scrip this one!

I've got a quad weapon speed fixer how much roughly in the vendor please?

But if u use unyielding armor then can it counter the benifits?

The explosive second star effect needs a buff as it is useless on any weapon and it's better to have a different effect in every situation.

thats a pretty darn good build, and ya know what turtle, you are pretty damn good at this. I just wanted to say that I have a furiouse cannibal build using that Ticket TO revenege that does 1000 to 8000 per shot. Maybe ya might wanna take a look at that again. Does even more that more perks I stack behind the rifle.

how do u get the mods to show specific values like that? is it a mod?

My fixer is 2 shot explosive with 250dr reloading.

Been a junkie in FO76 for 350 levels Junkies explosive stealth commando is definitely fun , it does decent damage at MID game. But you MUST build your build around it. Like being addicted to alcohol , use those perks , be drunk, no negative effect. Same with other addictions, some you just take the penalty for it. There are better options afcourse . (And yes anti armor is still better, but it definitely gets the job done) I personally dislike the aristocrats perk since you can’t spend your caps like you wish, buying a rare plan then will set you back on caps and damage Running a quad explosive fixer now in bloodied stealth build , almost never get detected being bloody . But with the server not registering is something to think about thanks 🙏 for that

Mhm I'll stick to my Aristocrat's handmade for now. Keeping the caps in reserve rather than taking the Junkies penalties.

They knew what they were doing when they made it weightless. It's a build specific gun that has bad rolls. Either scrip or put on display

Is the base damage higher than normal handmades?

Full health junkie build works well without mods my go to weapon

WTB summarized lazy commando build

Ehh, I'm messing with it to hold me over. I'm level 94 on this commando character, still trying to get a roll on a handmade.

If you use Chem Resistant 2, you won't get addicted to more than your 5 addictions.

Junkies should be the opposite of bloodied up to 90% damage.

Thank you 👍

You lost 15lbs of weight with those addictions. Junkies hasnt made sense in a long time

As soon as i saw junkies i tuned this out.

Once upon a time the drum mag used to hold 80 but then came bethy and now its a dumb mag.

What armour Legendary's are you using for full health?

I find the 5.56 ammo to be very very hard to find

Wall decoration at best 😂

JE heavy weapons are a lazy way to deal some good dps

I have bloodied handmade and it's damage lower than this rifle I don't know why. I'm in bloodied build and have no addictions.

Explosive bullets make junk items scatter around, if you are like me looting everything, explosive legendary guns would probably not be your best friend

sadness 😥

you only get the negatives when you are withdrawn/no drugs..its junkies you need a hit!!!! also alcohol i thought was a better choice especial for crits you can go nuka dark

hi Turtle, can you test sentinel armor set? From my own testing its broken. when it's not working it seems to bypass all resistances and you'll receive alot more damage. on average my sentinel set performs worst thn my regular non sentinel armor set

Now that I’m playing the game again, I decided to spec my character into semi automatic energy rifles. It seems I picked the wrong build, since everyone and their dog uses Commando to get incredible damage. 💀

the fact you cant reroll this is insane

More pathetic devs don’t really play the game they should hire turtle as an advisor

LOL SOLD ONE FOR 17777 caps

Is a Q50c15c worth it?

Personally, I am tired of reskin weapon that just have some random legendary effects and it's called a new gun? Cmon

i dont understand the point of adding unique scrip material

They should let us re-roll all these new weapons they added as they are they are all just script for me at least which is a shame as they look good.

This is only worth it if you want to display it.

But... This is just scrip with extra steps.

reg easter

So what you’re saying is Bethesda’s servers suck. 😂

Literally a joke that this can’t be rerolled. Waste of resources Bethesda tbh.

Scrip.

Should have just gave us a skin I'll never use junkies

First!

Second

What mission is this ?

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I have a vampires handmade + 25 fire rate -90 weight , it is much better than this , explosive is just jjank and junkies is meh at best , I prefer berserkers over junkies for full health .

REGEEESTIRRED

Unfortunate you cant reroll it.

Junkies is junk 😂😂😂😂 auto scrip 0:33

that's gonna be a no from me dogg

You forgot to mention the hidden AP reduction

Horrible gun. x.x wow think of all the debuffs you get from your addictions. This makes no sense. 😅

Such a shitty weapon lol

The vast majority of the new weapons are scrip